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Introducing the Gratitude Circle at Willow Stream The Spas At Fairmont.
TORONTO -- There are circles we are grateful for in all times - a circle of friends or family - that come together to simply be in each other's company, share experiences or interests. They keep us connected and grounded to what is really important. Willow willow, common name for some members of the Salicaceae, a family of deciduous trees and shrubs of worldwide distribution, especially abundant from north temperate to arctic areas. Stream The Spas At Fairmont launches the Gratitude Circle, an initiative that allows spa goers the chance to make an impact in their communities while doing something healthy for themselves.
"Over the past year we've noticed an increase in 'circles' spending time together in our spas," explains Anne McCall Wilson, Vice President Spas, Fairmont Raffles Hotels Coordinates:
Raffles Hotel (Chinese: 莱佛士酒店) is a colonial-style hotel in Singapore, dating from 1887, and named after Singapore's International. "We decided that we wanted to show our gratitude for their choosing to spend their time with us and the Willow Stream Gratitude Circle was born."
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Of or being a drug that is not listed in the United States Pharmacopeia or the National Formulary. group of friends at their local Willow Stream Spa. They can register their book club, golf team or neighbourhood gardening group, or just their group of girlfriends. They then select a registered charity or not-for-profit to receive a percentage of spa sales every time they spa. Willow Stream then issues a charitable donation of 10% of their total spa bill (including treatments, retail and meals, excluding taxes and gratuities) to the charity of their choice, each quarter.
"We believe Willow Stream's Gratitude Circle provides guests with another way to get engaged in the community," says McCall Wilson. "And since Fairmont has a longstanding tradition of being an integral part of their communities, Willow Stream Gratitude Circles simply continue this tradition. Our goal is to have 100 circles registered by the end of the year. We'll keep everyone updated through group threads on our Facebook and Twitter A Web site and service that lets users send short text messages from their cellphones to a group of friends. Launched in 2006, Twitter (www.twitter.com) was designed for people to broadcast their current activities and thoughts. pages."
To register with Willow Stream's Gratitude Circle, guests can call their local Willow Stream spa or email email@example.com indicating their contact information, local spa preference, and a spa experience coordinator will follow up to complete the registration process.
Launched in 2001, Willow Stream A Fairmont Spa is the award-winning signature spa brand of Fairmont Hotels & Resorts. Willow Stream Spas guide their spa guests to find their energy. Willow Stream has ten locations - Fairmont Scottsdale (Arizona), The Fairmont Turnberry Isle Turnberry Isle is a luxury resort in the city of Aventura, Florida, which is near Miami. It features Robert Trent Jones golf courses, a spa, tennis facilities, an ocean club, and fine dining. Resort & Club (Florida), The Fairmont Banff Springs (Alberta, Canada), The Fairmont Empress (Victoria, British Columbia British Columbia, province (2001 pop. 3,907,738), 366,255 sq mi (948,600 sq km), including 6,976 sq mi (18,068 sq km) of water surface, W Canada. Geography
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I took the 27-inch iMac out of the box and immediately went to work on Fusion Drive testing. I started filling the drive with a 128KB sequential write pass (queue depth of 1). Using iStat Menus 4 to actively monitor the state of both drives I noticed that only the SSD was receiving this initial write pass. The SSD was being written to at 322MB/s with no activity on the HDD.
After 117GB of writes the HDD took over, at speeds of roughly 133 - 175MB/s to begin with.
The initial test just confirmed that Fusion Drive is indeed spanning the capacity of both drives. The first 117GB ended up on the SSD and the remaining 1TB of writes went directly to the HDD. It also gave me the first indication of priority: Fusion Drive will try to write to the SSD first, assuming there's sufficient free space (more on this later).
Next up, I wanted to test random IO as this is ultimately where SSDs trump hard drives in performance and typically where SSD caching or hybrid hard drives fall short. I first tried the worst case scenario, a random write test that would span all logical block addresses. Given that the total capacity of the Fusion Drive is 1.1TB, how this test was handled would tell me a lot about how Apple maps LBAs (Logical Block Addresses) between the two drives.
The results were interesting and not unexpected. Both the SSD and HDD saw write activity, with more IOs obviously hitting the hard drive (which consumes a larger percentage of all available LBAs). The average 4KB (QD16) random write performance was around 0.51MB/s, it was constrained by the hard drive portion of the Fusion Drive setup.
After stopping the random write task however, there was immediate moving of data between the HDD and SSD. Since the LBAs were chosen at random, it's possible that some (identical or just spatially similar) addresses were picked more than once and those blocks were immediately marked for promotion to the SSD. This was my first experience with the Fusion Drive actively moving data between drives.
A full span random write test is a bit unfair for a consumer SSD, much less a hybrid SSD/HDD setup with roughly an 1:8 ratio of LBAs. To get an idea of how good Fusion Drive is at dealing with random IO I constrained the random write test to the first 8GB of LBAs.
The resulting performance was quite different. For the first pass, average performance was roughly 7 - 9MB/s, with most of the IO hitting the SSD and a smaller portion hitting the hard drive. After the 3 minute test, I waited while the Fusion Drive moved data around, then repeated it. For the second run, total performance jumped up to 21.9MB/s with more of the IO being moved to the SSD although the hard drive was still seeing writes.
In the shot to the left, most random writes are hitting the SSD but some are still going to the HDD, after some moving of data and remapping of LBAs nearly all random writes go to the SSD and performance is much higher
On the third attempt, nearly all random writes went to the SSD with performance peaking at 98MB/s and dropping to a minimum of 35MB/s as the SSD got more fragmented. This told me that Apple seems to dynamically map LBAs to the SSD based on frequency of access, a very pro-active approach to ensuring high performance. Ultimately this is a big difference between standard SSD caches and what Fusion Drive appears to be doing. Most SSD caches seem to work based on frequency of read access, whereas Fusion Drive appears to (at least partially) take into account what LBAs are frequently targeted for writes and mapping those to the SSD.
Note that subsequent random write tests produced very different results. As I filled up the Fusion Drive with more data and applications (~80% full of real data and applications), I never saw random write performance reach these levels again. After each run I'd see short periods where data would move around, but random IO hit the Fusion Drive in around an 7:1 ratio of HDD to SSD accesses. Given the capacity difference between the drives, this ratio makes a lot of sense. If you have a workload that is composed of a lot of random writes that span all available space, Fusion Drive isn't for you. Given that most such workloads are confined to the enterprise space, that shouldn't really be a concern here.
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name99 - Friday, January 18, 2013 - link" I'm personally a much bigger fan of going all solid state and manually segmenting your large media files onto HDD arrays, but perhaps that's me being set in my ways (or just me being right, not sure which one)."
I don't want to complain, Anand, but your criticism is dumb. Like EVERYONE, as soon as it comes to iMacs and Mac Minis, reviewers seem to lose their minds and forget that USB3 exists.
If you want the config you want, the obvious solution is
- buy Fusion mac
- add USB3 SSD
- create a symlink from ~/Documents (or whatever it is you think you really want to be on SSD) to the USB3 SSD.
I do wish reviews spent less time on this nonsense, criticizing in a desperate attempt to find something to complain about, and spent more time on interesting technical issues. For example
- if one creates a 3rd party fusion device via CLI, does it actually engage in this smart transfer of data between SSD and HD? I've seen different claims on the net, and it's not clear to me, if one fuses two USB devices, how the kernel would know that one is SSD and the other is HD.
- can one boot off such a 3rd party fusion device? My instincts would be yes, because one can boot off AppleRAID devices, and this is a later generation of tech, but I've not seen this confirmed. It IS possible that, right now, the mac Mini and iMac have a special version of 10.8.2, and so certain functionalities will not be generally exposed until 10.8.3. If someone has access to an early 10.8.3 release I would, for example, like to see what happens if one takes an older mac mini, and fuses its internal HD with a USB SSD. Can we boot it? Do we get the same sort of data back-and-forth that is described here?
- where in the kernel are the hooks that decide to move data back and forth? If, for example, I create a JBOD of an SSD plus HD (using AppleRaid) I assume I will NOT get this sort of back and forth motion, just the usual Apple hotfile motion. But is that assumption wrong?
- how does Intel's equivalent tech work? In particular, is there actually any HW at all involved (doing what?) or is it just a Windows driver that happens to be written by Intel, and that happens to check you have a particular chipset, before it does all its driver work via the CPU? Reply
name99 - Friday, January 18, 2013 - link- can one boot off such a 3rd party fusion device? My instincts would be yes, because one can boot off AppleRAID devices, and this is a later generation of tech, but I've not seen this confirmed.
To clarify this point.
I know that 3rd party CLI-created fusion drives can boot (and we've seen a few descriptions of this in the comments). What is NOT clear to me is whether these 3rd party drives give the full fusion experience, in particular
- writes going first to the SSD and
- subsequent re-shuffling of data between SSD and HD to match usage patterns. Reply
gotnate - Saturday, January 19, 2013 - linkMy personal experience with a "home made" fusion setup in my 3+ year old MacBook Pro is that does seem to be the full fusion experience.
I happen to work from home on an iMac with a 240 GB SSD and a 3 TB hard drive that I manually manage. When I first installed my 1.24 GB fusion drive (1 TB HD + 240 GB SSD) I promptly filled up 500 GB. After that, I used the MBP as my primary workstation for a week on the road. On Monday, system performance was miserable. By Wednesday, my workflow was getting pretty snappy. On Saturday, I switched back to my iMac and was surprised to find that it felt a little slower than the MBP. I have been aching to convert the iMac to fusion drive ever since. Reply
hyrule4927 - Friday, January 18, 2013 - linkYou seem to be missing a mouse in that picture on the last page . . . Reply
lang999 - Friday, January 18, 2013 - linkAnother apple-INVENTION i bet they pantent it and sues western digital for copying em. Reply
CharonPDX - Friday, January 18, 2013 - link"About the only difference between how I manually organize my data and how Fusion Drive does it is I put my documents and AnandTech folder on my SSD by default. I don't do this just for performance, but more for reliability. My HDD is more likely to die than my SSD."
So Fusion Drive is essentially a RAID-0. If the spinning drive dies, the whole thing dies. So it doesn't matter how you organize the files. With this, you just let it do its thing and make sure to keep proper backups.
If one of my drives were to die, I'd replace it and restore from backup before doing anything else, anyway! Reply
lan8 - Friday, January 18, 2013 - linkUnder the "Putting Fusion Drive's Performance into Perspective" heading, in the sentence: "In trying to come up with a use case than spanned both drives I und a relatively simple one." I believe that odd word "und" is probably a typo of the word "found". Reply
mschira - Friday, January 18, 2013 - linkYea the biggest nuisance is the lack of 256GB SSD option - either standalone or fusioned.
Very very disappointing, and a bog step back from the older iMacs!
You think the they improve on their SSD choices, right?
You can't even get a 512 GB one - which is luxurious, but maybe justifiable.
768SSD is a pretty insane size and price,
M. Reply
thaidrez - Saturday, January 19, 2013 - linkThank you Anand for this very timely and thorough review. Like many people who have a 1 or 3 fusion drive on order from Apple, this was very eye opening or confirming. The reality is that when you stress a fusion drive, it's going to show it's colors in comparison to a 100% SSD solution. I agree that 256GB would have been more appropriate for the flash portion of this fusion solution. As far as my solution, if this helps anyone contemplating this choice. I have nearly 700GB of Media (music, photos, etc) currently spread between an external HDD and a 500GB HDD internally mounted and my 240GB SSD from OWC usually has 127GB of free space on it while hosting my OSX (2011 Mini). Looking closely at that 110+/-GB of OS "stuff", 62GB User, 28GB Applications, 6.3GB Private, 6.2GB Library, 5.5GB System, and then it tapers off from there into the MB range with use at 776 and then bin at 6.2. While I won't be able to tell exactly what is going onto the fusion or not... it seems to me that a lot of bigger files like iDevice backups, old emails, big apps I never use like iMovie and most of CS will probably be moved by Core Services over to the HDD leaving a lot of space on the flash side of the fusion disk. I can imagine that a good majority of "stuff in that 110GB of data does not really get used day to day. What about my Media? Do I really want a 2012 iMac that has a HDD in it? No! But I got the 3TB fusion because I would rather take the 900$ dollars and invest into a 1TB SSD Thunderbolt solution to keep my media on. Something I can keep if I sell the iMac or put onto my MBA or MBP. So I will take my 700GB of media, put it onto my external SSD and let my system, email, downloads, and day to day stuff run off the 3TB fusion. I also have a lot of storage that I used to keep on my old mac pro that I can now move off my NAS and put back onto my fusion, knowing I won't touch it but once every few months or so. So I can't see how using a 3TB fusion would be any different than having a 768GB given my configuration and storage plan. In fact, I see the fusion with a 1TB external SSD as a superior solution. Good luck to all Reply
Richard Fairbanks - Saturday, January 19, 2013 - linkThanks, Anand, for yet another timely article!
I do almost all my work in code (i.e. text) with few graphics. I want to ensure reliability in case of disk failure.
Thus I am considering getting a 2012 Mac mini, opening it up, and adding a 256GB Samsung 840 Pro, in addition to the default 1TB HDD. (The 256GB capacity would allow me a 25+% spare area.) This is my ideal configuration for many reasons.
If I partition the HDD to match the 256GB SSD (leaving ~750MB for random, non-critical data), is it possible to create a RAID 1 array between the SSD and the 256GB HDD partition? (Full backups are made daily.)
In theory, this would allow all the array reads to come from the SSD for fastest response, and still maintain a mirrored HDD that could be booted from should the SSD fail. (If only the HDD partition could be a ZEVO ZFS format! ;-) )
Thoughts? Thanks!! Reply


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Wolfe City, Texas
For population 25 years and over in Wolfe City:
For population 15 years and over in Wolfe City city:
139 residents are foreign born
Median real estate property taxes paid for housing units with mortgages in 2012: $1,175 (1.6%)
Nearest city with pop. 50,000+: McKinney, TX (35.0 miles , pop. 54,369).
Nearest city with pop. 200,000+: Plano, TX (44.8 miles , pop. 222,030).
Nearest city with pop. 1,000,000+: Dallas, TX (57.2 miles , pop. 1,188,580).
Nearest cities: Bailey, TX (2.7 miles ), Ladonia, TX (2.9 miles ), Celeste, TX (3.0 miles ), Leonard, TX (3.2 miles ), Neylandville, TX (3.5 miles) , Commerce, TX (3.6 miles ), Pecan Gap, TX (3.7 miles ), Windom, TX (3.8 miles ).
Latitude: 33.37 N, Longitude: 96.07 W
Area code: 903
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Crime rate in Wolfe City detailed stats: murders, rapes, robberies, assaults, burglaries, thefts, arson
Full-time law enforcement employees in 2012, including police officers: 3 (3 officers).
Unemployment by year (%)
Population change in the 1990s: +53 (+3.5%).
Work and jobs in Wolfe City: detailed stats about occupations, industries, unemployment, workers, commute
Average climate in Wolfe City, Texas
Based on data reported by over 4,000 weather stations
Tornado activity:
Wolfe City-area historical tornado activity is above Texas state average. It is 242% greater than the overall U.S. average.
On 5/23/1966, a category F3 (max. wind speeds 158-206 mph) tornado 0.8 miles away from the Wolfe City city center injured 5 people and caused between $5000 and $50,000 in damages.
On 4/2/1982, a category F4 (max. wind speeds 207-260 mph) tornado 32.0 miles away from the city center killed 10 people and injured 170 people and caused between $5,000,000 and $50,000,000 in damages.
Earthquake activity:Wolfe City-area historical earthquake activity is above Texas state average. It is 93% smaller than the overall U.S. average.
On 9/6/1997 at 23:38:00, a magnitude 4.5 (4.5 LG, 4.2 LG, Depth: 3.1 mi, Class: Light, Intensity: IV - V) earthquake occurred 91.8 miles away from the city center
On 5/31/1997 at 03:26:41, a magnitude 3.4 (3.4 LG, Depth: 3.1 mi, Class: Light, Intensity: II - III) earthquake occurred 14.2 miles away from Wolfe City center
On 10/20/2002 at 02:18:13, a magnitude 3.4 (3.4 LG, Depth: 3.1 mi) earthquake occurred 62.7 miles away from the city center
On 6/8/2004 at 00:15:09, a magnitude 3.5 (3.5 LG, Depth: 3.1 mi) earthquake occurred 90.6 miles away from the city center
On 10/31/2008 at 05:01:54, a magnitude 3.0 (3.0 LG, Depth: 3.1 mi) earthquake occurred 66.6 miles away from Wolfe City center
On 6/1/1995 at 04:49:29, a magnitude 3.0 (3.0 LG, Depth: 3.1 mi) earthquake occurred 74.1 miles away from the city center
Magnitude types: regional Lg-wave magnitude (LG)
Natural disasters:The number of natural disasters in Hunt County (11) is near the US average (12).
Major Disasters (Presidential) Declared: 4
Emergencies Declared: 6
Causes of natural disasters: Hurricanes: 4, Fires: 3, Floods: 2, Tornadoes: 2, Storms: 2, Winter Storm: 1, Other: 1 (Note: Some incidents may be assigned to more than one category).
Birthplace of: Marty Hopkins - Baseball player, Tom Lovelace - Baseball player.
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Nitrogen Dioxide (NO2) [ppb] level in 2010 was 4.26. This is significantly better than average. Closest monitor was 15.1 miles away from the city center.
Ozone [ppb] level in 2010 was 28.6. This is about average. Closest monitor was 15.1 miles away from the city center.
Percentage of residents living in poverty in 2012: 18.3%
(15.5% for White Non-Hispanic residents, 41.2% for Black residents, 8.8% for Hispanic or Latino residents, 0.0% for American Indian residents, 9.1% for other race residents, 0.0% for two or more races residents)
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Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
Detailed information about poverty and poor residents in Wolfe City, TX34 people in nursing facilities/skilled-nursing facilities in 2010
55 people in nursing homes in 2000
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Religion statistics for Wolfe City city (based on Hunt County data)Percentage of population affiliated with a religious congregations: 53.91%
Breakdown of population affiliated with a religious congregations
Tables represent county-level data.
Food Environment Statistics:
Number of grocery stores: 14
Number of supercenters and club stores: 2
Number of convenience stores (no gas): 13
Number of convenience stores (with gas): 34
Number of full-service restaurants: 37
Adult diabetes rate:
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9.88% of this county's 2006 resident taxpayers lived in other counties in 2005 ($34,584 average adjusted gross income)
0.15% of residents moved from foreign countries ($325 average AGI)
Top counties from which taxpayers relocated into this county between 2005 and 2006:
9.37% of this county's 2005 resident taxpayers moved to other counties in 2006 ($30,803 average adjusted gross income)
0.05% of residents moved to foreign countries ($115 average AGI)
Top counties to which taxpayers relocated from this county between 2005 and 2006:
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Wolfe City fatal accident list:
Jun 11, 2004 06:41 PM, Fm816, Vehicles: 1, Persons: 3, Pedestrians: 1, Fatalities: 1
Oct 17, 1996 09:54 AM, 11, Vehicles: 1, Persons: 1, Fatalities: 1
FCC Registered Amateur Radio Licenses: 17 (See the full list of FCC Registered Amateur Radio Licenses in Wolfe City)
Detailed HMDA statistics for the following Tracts: 9602.00
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You receive a NULL value when you use XQuery to retrieve the value of an XML element in SQL Server 2005
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Bug #: 20011171 (SQLBUDT)
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You receive a NULL value when use XQuery to retrieve the value of an XML element when the following conditions are true:
This problem occurs because the value of an XML element is processed as an inline value to the XML element when the XML element is declared as a complex type that has simple content and mixed content. Therefore, the data function cannot retrieve the typed value of the XML element. Typically, the value of the XML element is processed as the typed value of the child of the XML element.
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(http://support.microsoft.com/kb/913089/ )How to obtain the latest service pack for SQL Server 2005
To work around this problem, follow these steps:
Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in the Microsoft products that are listed in the "Applies to" section. This problem was first corrected in Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Service Pack 1.
For a complex type that has simple content, we do not recommend that you set the value of the mixed attribute of the complex type to true. The specification on the XML schema structures that is available on the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Web site also discusses this issue. For more information, see the "3.4.3" section and the "3.4.4" section in the following Web site:
Steps to reproduce the problem
Note In this output, <empty> indicates that nothing appears.
However, the output is expected to be similar to the following:
For more information about the data function for XQuery, visit the following Microsoft Developer Network (MSDN) Web site:
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Unlike the way things work in Washington, where if you want to spend more you simply borrow money from future generations, in Concord our legislators are required to pass a balanced budget. That means that legislators can't simply put off tough decisions; they need to look into the eyes of individuals, agency heads and special interests who want more money and say, "no," the same way a parent has to tell a child that the family can't afford to go to Disney World this year.
Equally important for the state's long-term fiscal health is the fact that this budget does not include the expansion of the Medicaid program under Obamacare. While advocates for bringing Obamacare to New Hampshire have talked about all the "free money" from the federal government — as if state taxpayers somehow are not also federal taxpayers — adding tens of thousands of new individuals onto government health care would invite many problems. Among those problems are the long-term implications to our state's financial health, the increase to private insurance that would ensue, and the dumping of many people from high-quality private insurance to substandard Medicaid, all of which make expansion a bad deal for the Granite State. Removing Obamacare Medicaid expansion from this budget was a critical victory for taxpayers and citizens across the state.
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Paradesi ("foreigner", "nomad"), the latest by noted Tamil filmmaker Bala, is a film that's not going to win any new converts for the director. Those who find his work to be representative of the best of Tamil cinema are going to come out nodding while those who question its merit, among whom I'm moved to classify myself, will find themselves shrugging. It's either the next logical step in the evolution of a personal vision or the result of a filmmaker becoming prisoner of his own image. Perhaps it's both. The title "Bala's Paradesi", two words that feed into each other, kicks off the opening credits, which consists of a series of monochrome sketches depicting a community of natives forced to pose for the artist. Locating Bala's film in the representative, visual tradition, the sequence also unwittingly bestows upon its author the role of a chronicler, a mute observer and of a person in and colluding with power. In the first shot, the camera cranes down quickly from a bird's eye view of a village down onto the ground, as though indicative of a world where God has fallen, before nimbly snaking in and out of the muddy alleys to give us a sense of life in this village. This is India a few years before independence, we are told, but the seemingly anachronistic village seems to be completely isolated from the happenings elsewhere in the country. We are introduced to the local announcer and workhorse Rasa (Atharva Murali), a quasi-outcast who falls in love with an upper caste girl – a union that gets rejected by the local council thanks to his profession, which primarily involves trumpeting news of death. To marry the girl, he tries to rise above his position and find a more honorable job outside the village. By turn of events, he, along with hundreds of others from the village, ends up as a bond labourer at a tea plantation estate owed by an undesignated Briton. Doomed fatalism and an affable mythic simplicity characterize this first half, which functions as a portrait of Man's dignity and the transformative power of love. More importantly, this section of the movie is studded with images of silhouetted bodies and huddled masses endlessly traversing through barren landscape. Human body and land – the two chief material elements of Paradesi, as much as DI-inflected brown and green are its two major chromatic elements – are in perpetual conversation in Bala's movie. The Marxist transformation of nature through physical labour and decimation of bodies by and for the sake of land are two actions that recur throughout. The second half of the film, which bears an aesthetic and thematic symmetry to the first, comes across as something of a heightened, contorted version of the former. At the tea estate, the classified community of the village is flattened, with slavery of one person, Rasa, transmogrifying into the slavery of an entire populace. This juxtaposition is becoming of Bala's film, which comprehends slavery less as a political phenomenon and more as a human condition. This stance enables Bala to wallow in his signature brand of miserablism, with its characteristically condescending camerawork and wailing soundtrack. For his film, slavery is a universal condition enforced upon one people by another with no room for resistance. It elides, on a conceptual level, the question that the plantation owner in Quentin Tarantino's new film asks: Why don't the slaves all rise up and kill the masters? (For a Hegelian examination of slavery, see Adoor Gopalakrishnan's Vidheyan (1993).) There's an unknowing yet eerie parallel between the idea of a group of lumpen workers surrendering their bodies to an all-powerful plantation owner on the promise of remuneration and the way Bala uses non-professionals and their bodies in his film. If Tarantino the filmmaker, like his bounty hunters and plantation owners, deals in corpses, Bala, like his many mythical villains, deals with human bodies, exotic and imperfect. (One shouldn't jump to the conclusion that Bala, like Tarantino, is incriminating himself here. The film itself is oblivious to the similarity and the parallel is curious, at best.) Of course, I could list all my fascinations and problems with the film, but I would only be repeating myself. Bala's method here, despite the film's CGI-finish and surface gloss, is at times reminiscent of Third Cinema films, both in its cut-and-dried ideology and roughhewn dramatic values – broad acting, blunt satire, authorial omniscience and a superficial mythic allegory that reveals its social criticism as much as it conceals it.
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Kadal (2013) (The Sea)
Mani Ratnam
The title of Mani Ratnam's latest feature, Kadal ("The Sea", 2013), conjures images of vastness, infinity and extremity. Like the sea monsters of many a folklore, it has a mythic ring to it, which is very apt considering the last half hour of the film takes place entirely in the realm of the abstract, the mythical and the elemental. There is a leap of faith that is to be made on the part of the viewer if one is to take Ratnam's film for what it is – a leap that corresponds to a risky gambit that the film makes towards its third act. It is a manoeuvre that catapults the film from a temperamentally placid, naturalistic portrait of stunted childhood and sea-side romance to a melodrama of heightened emotions and larger-than-life stakes. The jump is grating, sure, but those willing to hold on would see that Ratnam manages to find a more cogent articulation of the misplaced metaphysical arguments of Raavan (2010), especially because he thankfully divorces his tale from political topicality. At heart, Kadal works upon the classic temptation parable, wherein Thomas (Gautham Karthik) must choose between the ways of the Devil and God, which is tweaked here to posit the tainted nature of an Absolute Good or an Absolute Evil, the impossibility of a foundational morality. When, in the end, Bergmans (Arjun Sarja) laughs at Father Sam (Aravind Swamy) hanging upside down like Nolan's Joker – a universe cut from the same moral fabric as Ratnam's – we discover a deconstruction of the Good/Evil binary that is more thorough, pointed and pulsating than anything in Ratnam's previous film.
June 25, 2011
Split Psyches, Severed BodiesPosted by Just Another Film Buff under All Posts, Filmmakers, Kollywood | Tags: Anjathey, Chithiram Pesuthadi, Mysskin, Nandhalala, Yuddham Sei |
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— Mysskin's cinema is physical. The fight scenes in his films occupy the extreme ends of a spectrum. They are either divided into the simplest of images – where the cause and effect of an action occupy different shots and we rarely see two bodies in interaction – or are presented in their entirely, prioritizing spatial continuity over fragmentation and highlighting corporeality of an action over its meaning. The frames are chopped; characters' heads cut off. In his world of action, hands and feet are all that matter. (Severing body parts is not an unusual act in this universe). People don't have time for patient phone calls. They keep running, falling and scuffling. So does the camera, which crouches when they crouch, which lurches when they lurch, which sits back when they sit and which trembles from afar when they do. Mysskin is impatient with two shots and his restless, gently swaying camera converts these expository moments into a survey of the set, a documentation of an ensemble performance.
— These films are tightly plotted, very convoluted affairs; their solution always at an arm's length. Instead of the clutter clearing up, it keeps growing knottier and knottier until cutting through is the only way out. These resolutions, themselves, come across as cathartic experiences. Characters barely know the trajectories of others and how they interfere with their own. Like mice in a maze, they keep holding on to their version of truth until they get the view from above. It is this partial concealment/ignorance of information through which the movies attain tragic proportions. Mysskin's men make grave choices and often the wrong one. They try to vindicate themselves, only to hurt themselves over and over and descend deeper into guilt that is predicated on an equivalence that recognizes one's own condition in another. They suffer, and come out as better men. Their redemption is possible because they suffer. Mysskin's pictures, likewise, are at their best when under generic constraints. Mysskin is at his most liberated when tethered.
— The men and women in these films find themselves in similar situations time and time again. Despite all their actions and choices, they seem to come back to where they started from. It is of little surprise that much of the acting in these movies consists of repeated gestures and words. Be it pacing up and down a hall, where we see them oscillating about like a human pendulum, or fighting a gang of armed men, each of whom comes forward individually – like ascending notes in a motif – for a showdown, invoking comparison to both the martial arts and dance choreography. Likewise, we see them getting stuck in language loops – repeated words and phrases – until they attain a rhythm that reveals more than the words themselves do. This inclination for repetition informs Mysskin's aesthetic as well, with some loopy, shrill, Bernard Herrmann-esque score (at least one of his lead men recalls Scottie Ferguson) and a number of repeating compositions.
— Mysskin is one of the few filmmakers in the country who can take melodrama head on without falling back. He is not a minimalist trying to sap out the excess from it, but a director working on a grand canvas, blowing up the form. Much like John Ford, with whom he shares an affinity for the sky and the heroes who adorn it, Mysskin uses music to enrich the gravity of a situation than substituting for it, to multiply emotions rather than adding them; instinctive rather than instructive, expressionistic rather than expressive. Mysskin earns his violins. At times, the deployment is incongruous (and prescient) with what we are seeing, but, in retrospect, is overwhelming. Like Ford, he has this uncanny ability to elevate commonplace gestures and glances to mythical levels. A Western by Mysskin wouldn't really be a surprise, given how his own filmmaking instincts and themes derive from Westerns, by way of Samurai movies: codes of honor, responsibility towards one's men.
— Although God is never quite absent from the films' worlds, His silence becomes too threatening. There is a myriad of God's eye compositions that seem to witness all sorts of activities with equanimity, without judgment. It is perhaps the worlds themselves that have fallen and it is probably up to the people who live in it to sort it all out. Mysskin's camera that keeps descending from the sky onto the ground, then, signals a universe where man has to take up the responsibility of God, in His silence. This goes well along with Mysskin's deep-rooted distrust of institutionalized justice and his muddled yet ultimately silly plea for vigilantism. (He is much more comfortable and intriguing when dealing with metaphysical ideas than sociopolitical particulars). The men in his films never seem to be able to fit into rigid establishments and find law and justice to be concepts often diverging from each other.
(Filmography: Chithiram Pesuthadi (2006), Anjathey (2008), Nandhalala (2010), Yuddham Sei (2011))
February 19, 2011
Ellipsis #30Posted by Just Another Film Buff under All Posts, Ellipsis, Kollywood | Tags: Gowtham Vasudev Menon, Midnight Dogs, Nadunisi Naaygal, Sameera Reddy, Veera |
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Nadunisi Naaygal (2011)
Gowtham Vasudev Menon
Part rip-off, part tribute to Psycho (1960) – right from the plot to the up-down movements of objects and the camera – Gowtham Vasudev Menon's Nadunisi Naaygal ("Midnight Dogs") charts the activities of a soft-speaking serial killer, Veera, who lives with his (surrogate) surrogate mother in a mansion consisting of, well, three floors. Menon's film is nearly as much about transgression – of mores, of geographical boundaries, of industry idioms – as Hitchcock's picture was about deviation – of the narrative, of normalcy, of sexuality. Menon has said elsewhere that this is a film based on a true story, while it's actually a pseudo-horror based on the superficies of a pseudo-science (spare me the Oedipii and the Electras), where, unlike the finale of Psycho, it is the director who plays the shrink all along, deeming deviance as just a product of other deviant practices. (Naaygal has one of the ugliest directorial schemes of recent times, with subjective and objective reality clearly delineated by awkward POV patterns). Menon has also proclaimed that Nadunisi Naaygal is his middle-finger-to-all film. True. It is, in fact, the film in which he actually wants his audience to hate him, to consider him as an outlaw. (He succeeds by leaps and bounds: He's written a character that invites unanimous derision). Evidently, the director recognizes himself in the central character – a psychotic woman-slayer – which is only partly acknowledged by the employment of POV shots for both the filmmaker-killer and the audience-victims. (Tarantino nods abound, starting with the title). This is a refreshingly skewed perspective from and of a director who has been routinely killing off his lead women in his films. With Naaygal, like Veera, he almost denies that he had anything to do with his previous blockbusters at all. May be he'll deny later that he had nothing to do with Naaygal as well. May be this is a turning point in his career. May be it's the end of it. May be he hears those dogs howl at midnight.
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February 5, 2011
Ellipsis #28Posted by Just Another Film Buff under All Posts, Ellipsis, Kollywood | Tags: Cheran, Myskkin, Yuddham Sei |
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Yuddham Sei (2011)
Myshkin's fourth feature, Yuddham Sei ("Make War"), is a film in reverse. The Jake Gittes-like protagonist of the film JK (a tribute to philosopher Jiddu Krishnamurthy, from whose idea of the individual as the means of social change the film seems to take off from) maneuvers through an inverted world, as is literalized in the numerous garish-yet-impressive upside-down compositions. This is a place where everything revolves around missing persons (rather, missing parts of body), where deaths are the most commonplace of events and where people are more living than dead. JK is played by director Cheran – a casting choice that might be the wisest by Myshkin so far – whose very countenance points to a man whose eyes have been plucked out and soul sucked off through the sockets. An undead hero – not a cold professional as other movies of the genre might indicate – like Melville's last lead character, he sleepwalks through the narrative space, witnessing physical fragility with utmost equanimity, until his lost past resurrects him back to life, with all its emotional vulnerability and subjectivity. By presenting grotesque instances of violence before revealing them to be calculated acts of revenge against a much more diabolical scheme of things (the sort of emotional swing that Mani Ratnam's latest failed to achieve), Myshkin indulges in much what-is-justice kind of philosophizing – a la Irreversible (2002) without the flashy puckishness – calling into question the ways of the law (although he cops out by revealing the unjust elements to be merely aberrations in an otherwise healthy establishment). As if providing a corrective note to Anjathey (2008), which might have seemed like valorizing the police force – Myshkin keeps alienating his lead man from institutional justice, seemingly arguing for some abstract notion of individualized justice, even at the risk of glorifying violence. And yes, the legs are all there.
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December 4, 2010
Ellipsis #21Posted by Just Another Film Buff under All Posts, Ellipsis, Kollywood | Tags: Anjathey, Ashwath Ram, Myshkin, Nandalala |
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Nandalala (2010)
Tamil auteur Myshkin's third venture Nandalala (2010) has its opening credits rolling over an image that seems straight out of Solaris (1972): two weeds gently swayed by the water flowing over them. Likewise, in the film, Bhaskar (Myshkin) and Agilesh (Ashwath Ram) are two kindred fishes flowing upstream, possibly trying to undo their births into this brutal world, in search of their origin: their respective mothers. As is made explicit in a near-surreal night scene at the beginning, the fear of being abandoned – by mother, by the state and by God – forms the backbone of Myshkin's film. Walking along the margin of the highway like those reptilian critters we see, the duo comes across and strikes a rapport with a number of people almost all of whom live on the fringes of society. Bhaskar and Agilesh, themselves, are misfits who've broken away from the establishment – the asylum and the school. Those in the mainstream, on the other hand, are seen in the safety of their houses and cars. Paranoid, hateful, hypocritical and downright barbaric, they seem distrustful of everything that might distract them from their well laid plans. (That Myshkin casts himself in a starless film that he had to struggle to get funds for makes this a story of a marginalized filmmaker struggling with the industry as well). Social integration, however, is not what Nandalala aims for. For Myshkin, as is represented in the opening shot, it is the society that is constant flux around these central characters who find meaning in their relationship with each other rather than their position in the society. (The last scene is probably a little more cynical than it appears to be). Punctuated by Fordian skylines and generally jarring bird's eye view shots that desert the characters, Nandalala, over-scored, overacted, imprudently written and characteristically over-directed at times, nevertheless continues to refine and fortify Myshkin's cinema of physicality with its long shot filmmaking, chopped framing, brittle cutting and Mifune-esque performances.
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October 25, 2010
Ellipsis #15Posted by Just Another Film Buff under All Posts, Ellipsis, Kollywood | Tags: Aishwarya Rai, Chitti, Endhiran, Rajinikanth, Robot, shankar |
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Endhiran (2010) (Robot)
Shankar Shanmugam
Shankar's Endhiran (2010) is the sort of material that would have proven gold in the hands of a director like Bertolucci or Hitchcock. It has been over a decade and a half since 'Superstar' Rajinikanth started playing himself in his movies, maintaining a Brechtian relationship with his audience wherein the actor would slip in and out of the context of the films on whim. And Endhiran only seems like a logical consequence of that choice. Watching the film, it would be useful to remember that the Tamil film and television industry fetishizes the Rajini image to such an extent that all spin-offs from it – spoofs, impersonations, derivatives and pastiches – are celebrated endlessly. New age actors imitate and try to emulate him all the time, with some of them even proclaiming that they're the next 'Superstar'. It has, more or less, come to a point where the Rajini image has assumed an immortal life of its own while the man responsible for it has been deemed a faint echo. Given this postmodern, post-Rajinikanth situation the industry is in, much of the premise of Endhiran – a grouchy, ageing, eventually-envious scientist builds a nearly-invulnerable android modeled on his younger self, which goes berserk and multiplies itself to the point where the original (copy) loses its value – feels faintly autobiographical. An affront in every which way to the generally revered tenets of Hollywood storytelling (and science) predicated on plausibility, causality and relevance – as if the writer-director has taken all those Chuck Norris-based Rajinikanth jokes to heart – Endhiran might just be the harbinger of something that was always within the reach of this industry: Tamil camp!
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On Thursday, Beth Stern, the animal-advocate wife of Howard Stern, and David Diehl of the New York Giants, will host an opening for the Los Angeles-based artist Chris Collins, at Pop! International Galleries in SoHo. It is being billed as the "world's only exclusive bulldog exhibition."
Yes, Mr. Collins, paints exclusively bulldogs. "I won't paint anything else," he said. "Even if someone offered me an exorbitant amount of money."
A bulldog portrait by Chris Collins Helen Olds
Mr. Collins, 41 years old, started painting bulldogs six years ago, after things went sour in his business life. He had run a successful BMW BMW.XE +3.23% Bayerische Motoren Werke AG Germany: Xetra €90.33 +2.83 +3.23% Dec. 18, 2014 5:35 pm Volume (Delayed 15m) : 1.78M P/E Ratio 10.16 Market Cap €56.24 Billion Dividend Yield 2.88% Rev. per Employee €706,382 12/18/14 Ruble Pressures Auto Makers to... 12/15/14 Volvo to Shun Auto Shows 12/13/14 Jaguar's All-Too-Powerful XJL More quote details and news » dealership in Orange County, Calif., then purchased a Chrysler Dodge dealership as the economy was tanking. His partner embezzled cash; he went through a divorce; and his first bulldog, Rocky, died.
But he found solace in painting bulldogs. "I just started painting them like crazy, but never with the intention to sell them." When he moved into an office in downtown Los Angeles, he put a portrait he made of former President Bill Clinton (with the face of a bulldog) in the window. It "got a lot of inquiries," and, circuitously, led to the art show this week in Manhattan.
Some of Mr. Collins's portraits are of famous people, like Tiger Woods and Mr. Diehl. Mr. Collins, whose favorite artist is Banksy, said his goal with the bulldog portraits is "to make more people smile. They're nothing crazy." He doesn't expect to be able to quite his day job, working in the auto turnaround industry, but he said he won't ever paint anything else.
"I don't know what could ever become boring about them," he said.
—Marshall Heyman