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About Christian Bale
Born on Jan. 30, 1974 in Pembrokeshire, South Wales, Bale grew up in Portugal and various towns around England before finally settling in Bournemouth, Dorset, England. He was introduced to life in entertainment almost from the start - one grandfather was a vaudeville-style stand-up comic; the other grandfather was a stand-in for John Wayne on several films. His mother, Jane, was also in the business, working as a dancer and a circus performer. On the other hand, his father David was an entrepreneur, conservationist and animal rights activist who brought Young Bale to Save the Whale rallies. But it was Bale's older sister, Louise, who piqued his interest in acting - she started the craft when he was young; naturally, he followed her into it. Bale began his career a child actor, making his debut when he was nine years old in British television commercials, including one for Pac-Man cereal. He made the transition to stage and film, performing alongside Rowan Atkinson in a West End production of "The Nerd" (1984) and on the BBC miniseries "Heart of the Country" (1987). He also made his American debut with a supporting role in the two-part miniseries, "Anastasia: The Mystery of Anna" (NBC, 1986).
By the time he was 13, Bale was attending the Bournemouth School for Boys, though maintaining studies while also acting proved difficult. His entire life changed, however, when he was chosen by Steven Spielberg out of 4,000 hopefuls to play Jim Graham, a pampered upper-class British adolescent living in China, in "Empire of the Sun." Shouldering the bulk of the movie - no small task for one so young - Bale delivered a mature performance and was immediately hailed as the next Big Thing. Being thrust into the limelight - some even said he was the most talked about child actor since Mickey Rooney - had a starkly profound effect on Bale, who suddenly found himself retreating from press interviews and publicity events. The pressure of being a sudden celebrity proved to be too much, especially in light of "Empire of the Sun" doing mediocre business at the box office. Back at home, Bale was taken to task by a local newspaper for refusing an interview, while the boys at Bournemouth picked fights and mocked him. All he wanted to do was get away.
Soon after he was finished with "Empire of the Sun," his parents divorced, jading Bale on the concept of marriage. Meanwhile, he lost his desire to act, thanks to his time spent in the bright lights of celebrity. But the lure was ignited anew when Kenneth Branagh persuaded Bale to play a minor role opposite Falstaff (Robbie Coltrane) in the actor-director's excellent interpretation of Shakespeare's "Henry V" (1989). He next starred opposite Charlton Heston as Jim Hawkins in the competently made television adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson's "Treasure Island" (TNT, 1990). A couple of years later, Bale made the ill-fated decision to star in his first musical, "Newsies" (1992), a dreadful Disney concoction that told the true story of an 1899 strike by newspaper boys against publishing tycoon Joseph Pulitzer. Bale hated musicals and claimed to have had no idea how he became involved in one. Regardless, it became one of the few embarrassments of Bale's career.
Despite previous misgivings about being an actor, Bale had rededicated himself to the craft, though he did steadfastly - perhaps stubbornly - avoid publicity for his projects. He tried his hand again at musicals with "Swing Kids" (1993), playing a young lad in pre-war Nazi Germany who, along with his cohorts, is obsessed with American jazz while struggling to contend with rising fascism and impending war. Bale then played the lead role of Amled in "Royal Deceit" (1994), which was based on the 12th century chronicle by Saxo Grammaticus later adapted into Hamlet by William Shakespeare. But it was his turn as the wealthy and spirited Laurie, neighbor to the March sisters, in Gillian Armstrong's version of "Little Women" that allowed audiences to fully embrace him. Offering a charismatic and energetic male presence to the estrogen-filled proceedings, he found himself suddenly wearing the "heartthrob" label. Thanks to swooning females in the audience, Bale's career was revitalized after his relative ebb following "Empire of the Sun."
As the 1990s wound down, Bale continued to offer fascinating performances and began to move away from the adolescent characters from his earlier career. Attempting not to repeat himself, he played a mentally disabled youth in the uneven adaptation of Joseph Conrad's "The Secret Agent" (1996), which he followed with an appearance as a young swain in Jane Campion's "Portrait of a Lady" (1996). Undertaking his first bona fide adult role, he starred as a married man questioning his life choices in "Metroland" (1997), a bittersweet dramedy that required him to play the man at three stages in his life. He managed a similar feat in "Velvet Goldmine" (1998), doing double duty as a reporter investigating the mysterious disappearance of a former glam-rock star (Jonathan Rhys Meyers) while playing his younger incarnation who emulated the singer as a lad. Following a go as the stalwart Demetrius in "William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream" (1999), he delivered a strong performance as a slightly disabled youth in the fairy tale-like "All the Little Animals" (1999).
He next undertook what turned out to be his most challenging role, playing Wall Street stockbroker-cum-serial killer Patrick Bateman in "American Psycho." The adaptation of Bret Easton Ellis' novel sparked controversy before a single frame of film was exposed. Director Mary Harron had settled on Bale for the lead, but Lion's Gate wanted well-known names attached instead. At one point, Leonardo DiCaprio and director Oliver Stone were interested, but a budget that had ballooned to $40 million changed the studio's course. Eventually, Harron returned to the project and rehired Bale. Before filming began in Toronto, victims rights groups attempted to stop the city from issuing permits (the book allegedly served as an inspiration for a Canadian serial killer). Meanwhile, Bale faced a press that declared the role would be a line of demarcation in his career: either he would be seen as a brilliant actor or his career might never recover. But it was a risk Bale was willing to take - "[W]hat? I'm going to end up playing Laurie in 'Little Women' for the rest of my life?"
Perhaps as insurance, he portrayed Jesus in the biblical drama, "Mary, Mother of Jesus" (NBC, 1999), co-starring Pernilla August as Mary. Bale moved on to supporting roles in a pair of more conventional, low-performing films - John Singelton's remake of "Shaft" (2000) with Samuel L. Jackson and "Captain Corelli's Mandolin" (2001) starring Nicolas Cage. He scored a modest box office hit playing the dragon fighter Quinn in the fantasy adventure "Reign of Fire" (2002). Later that year, he appeared in the uninspired sci-fi parable "Equilibrium" (2002) which reunited him with "Metroland" costar Emily Watson. The film was released with little fanfare and to poor critical response. He fared better, however, in the intriguing - albeit not artistically successful - indie drama "Laurel Canyon" (2003), convincingly playing a Los Angeles-bred physician and the son of an iconoclastic rock producer (Frances McDormand) who returns to the affluent canyon community he has grown to look down upon with his fiancé (Kate Beckinsale). Bale's next film was the nightmarish thriller "The Machinist" (2004) by director Brad Anderson - the actor played a drill press operator who grows emaciated after not sleeping for a year. Bale insanely dropped a whopping 63 pounds - a third of his body weight - by downing whiskey and diet pills, a true testament to his dedication for authenticity.
Bale built his body back into shape and rocketed to international superstardom when he was tapped by director Christopher Nolan to star in "Batman Begins," a serious-minded reboot of the faded franchise that explored the origins of the Dark Knight in his earliest days. Bale was the most comic book-accurate Batman yet, convincingly playing both his fearsome crime-fighting alter ego, the foppish public persona of Bruce Wayne and the third conflicted personality behind both masks. Bale next had a supporting role in Terrance Malick's "The New World" (2005), a lyrical, but ultimately meandering look at the settlement at Jamestown, Virginia in 1607 and the ensuing love affair between Captain John Smith (Colin Farrell) and a young Native American girl, Pocahontas (Q'Orianka Kilcher). Bale played John Rolfe, a tobacconist who marries Pocahontas after the supposed death of Smith and brings her back to England where she's treated as a celebrity.
Bale next starred in "The Prestige" (2006), playing an obscure, but brilliant magician engaged in a game of one-upmanship with his flashier, more sophisticated rival (Hugh Jackman). Their rivalry starts off friendly enough, but a trick that g s horribly awry forces them to become bitter enemies, leading both down a path of a fierce competition that may ultimately end in death. Then in "Harsh Times" (2006), Bale was a Gulf War veteran struggling to cope with postwar life while hoping to become a policeman. His dream starts to slip away, however, when he joins his best friend (Freddy Rodriguez) on a violent rampage through South Central Los Angeles that eventually causes dire consequences. Meanwhile, Bale played Dieter Dengler in "Rescue Dawn" (2006), a true-life telling of the German-born pilot whose obsession with flying leads him to join the Air Force during Vietnam, only to be shot down during his first mission and captured by the Vietcong. Directed by famed lunatic Werner Herzog, "Rescue Dawn" put Bale through the wringer in the jungles of Thailand, where the actor endured harsh conditions, grueling takes and crew revolts - just another day at the office of a Herzog production.
In "3:10 to Yuma" (2007), an earnest attempt by Hollywood to revive the once-dead Western genre, Bale played a rancher fallen on hard times who agrees to escort a notorious criminal (Russell Crowe) to prison in order to earn money to support his family. But the criminal has other plans, tempting the rancher into releasing him in exchange for a share of hidden loot worth much more than he is being paid. Both Bale and co-star Crowe gave fine, nuanced performances that helped underscore a strong revisionist take on an old favorite by director James Mangold. For a change of pace, Bale joined several other top performers - including Richard Gere, Heath Ledger and Cate Blanchett - to appear as Bob Dylan at different stages of his career in "I'm Not There" (2007). Bale played the earnest folk artist who eventually was reborn as a Christian preacher.
Bale reprised the role of the Caped Crusader in "The Dark Knight" (2008), arguably the best Batman film of the franchise. Co-starring Heath Ledger in an Oscar-winning role - which he posthumously won, following his sudden death from an accidental overdose in January 2009 - "The Dark Knight" was hailed by critics as a crime thriller masterpiece on its way to becoming one of the top grossing movies of all time. While the film enjoyed enormous attention and success, Bale ran into personal troubles behind the scenes. Just days after "The Dark Knight" released in North America, the actor was arrested by London police for allegedly assaulting his mother, Jenny, and sister, Sharon. After Bale denied the allegations, the police dropped the charges due to lack of evidence. In February 2009, Bale was lambasted in public for an on-set, profanity-laced tirade against Shane Hurlbut, the cinematographer on the actor's next film, "Terminator Salvation" (2009). Allegedly, Hurlbut crossed Bale's line of sight several times while filming a scene, which prompted the actor to explode into a long, heated rant that director McG failed to mitigate. While the incident occurred in July 2008, the audio recording was released several months later - to both disgust and amusement (with some making audio remixes of the meltdown set to club beats). Though some celebrities came to his defense, Bale eventually apologized in public after initially remaining silent. Meanwhile, "Terminator" was released a few months later to scathing reviews, but a decent box office take in the midst of a competitive summer season.
Also that summer, Bale co-starred in "Public Enemies" (2009), director Michael Mann's compelling look at the criminal career of John Dillinger (Johnny Depp) and his notorious gang. Bale played FBI man Melvin Purvis, whose dogged pursuit of Dillinger led to the gangster's unceremonious death outside a Chicago movie theater. Meanwhile, Bale returned to artistic form with a much-lauded performance in "The Fighter" (2010), playing a former welterweight boxer and the crack cocaine-addicted half brother of "Irish" Micky Ward (Mark Wahlberg), a working-class fighter from Massachusetts who rose to fame for his dramatic fights with Arturo Gatti. Bale was widely praised by critics for his performance, which led to Golden Globe, Screen Actors Guild and Academy Award wins for Best Supporting Actor. From there, he traveled to China to star in Zhang Yimou's historical drama, "The Flowers of War" (2011), which was set during the Nanking Massacre of 1937. While filming, Bale brought a CNN crew to a remote village to visit Chen Guangcheng, a blind lawyer living under house arrest for openly opposing China's One Child Policy. Bale and his crew were physically barred from seeing Chen, resulting in a black eye for the actor after he was bullied and punched by unidentified security personnel.
Meanwhile, Bale reprised Bruce Wayne/Batman for Nolan's third and final installment, "The Dark Knight Rises" (2012), where the Caped Crusader battled Catwoman (Anne Hathaway) and leather-clad terrorist Bane (Tom Hardy), who is hell-bent on destroying Gotham City. Widely expected to eclipse its predecessors at the box office, "The Dark Knight Rises" was mired in tragedy when a lone gunman opened fire on a movie theater in Aurora, CO, killing 12 people and injuring 58 others. The mass shooting - one of the worst in U.S. history - prompted a flood of sympathy for the victims, with Nolan expressing his heartfelt shock while Warner Bros. pulled advertising, canceled promotional events and withheld box office totals. For his part, Bale released a statement that said his heart went out to the victims of the tragedy. Putting action to words, he went to Aurora just days after the horrific event to visit survivors at the Medical Center of Aurora, where he spent two-and-a-half hours with patients and posed for pictures with staff. He later went to a makeshift memorial at the theater, where he quietly paid his respects. Bale's visit was kept on the down-low and done on his own volition, though news outlets picked up the story once pictures hit the Internet.
|Sibi Blazic. Former personal assistant to Winona Ryder; married Jan. 29, 2000 in Las Vegas, NV
|Emmaline Bale. Born April 3, 2005 in Santa Monica, CA; mother, Sibi Blazic
|David Bale. Born c. 1939 in South Africa; divorced from Bale's mother; married Gloria Steinem Sept. 3, 2000; died Dec. 30, 2003 from brain lymphoma
|Jane Bale. Divorced from Bale's father
|Erin Bale. Older
|Louise Bale. Older
|Shannon Bale. Older
|Gloria Steinem. Married Christian's father David Bale on Sept. 3, 2000
|Bournemouth School for Boys, Dorset
Career Milestones
|Made third appearance as Bruce Wayne/Batman in Nolan's "The Dark Knight Rises"
|Starred in the Chinese historical drama "The Flowers of War"
|Nominated for the 2011 Academy Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role
|Nominated for the 2011 Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role
|Nominated for the 2011 Golden Globe Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture
|Nominated for the 2011 Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role ("The Fighter")
|Nominated for the 2011 Golden Globe Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture ("The Fighter")
|Cast as Dick 'Dickie' Eklund in David O. Russell's "The Fighter"
|Portrayed FBI agent Melvin Purvis in Michael Mann's 1930s gangland flick "Public Enemies"
|Played John Connor in "Terminator Salvation," the fourth film in the Terminator series; directed by McG
|Reprised role of Batman for the second installment of the Batman series "The Dark Knight"; again directed by Christopher Nolan
|Portrayed Bob Dylan at one distinct stage of his life in Todd Haynes' ensemble biopic "I'm Not There"
|Co-starred with Russell Crowe in "3:10 to Yuma," a Western directed by James Mangold
|Cast as an ex-Army Ranger recently discharged from the military in David Ayer's directorial debut "Harsh Times"
|Portrayed a Victorian stage magician in "The Prestige"; reunited with Michael Caine and director Christopher Nolan
|Portrayed English tobacco planter John Rolfe in Terrence Malick's "The New World"
|Teamed with director Christopher Nolan to play Bruce Wayne/Batman in "Batman Begins"
|Played a haunted insomniac factory worker in "The Machinist"
|Starred opposite Frances McDormand in "Laurel Canyon"
|Co-starred with Matthew McConaughey in "Reign of Fire"
|Reunited with Emily Watson in the futuristic thriller "Equilibrium"
|Cast as one leg of a romantic triangle in "Captain Corelli's Mandolin," co-starring Nicolas Cage and Penelope Cruz
|Played a villain in John Singleton's "Shaft"
|Portrayed Wall Street executive and serial killer Patrick Bateman in the screen adaptation of Bret Easton Ellis' "American Psycho"
|Cast as Jesus in the NBC movie "Mary, Mother of Jesus"
|Played Demetrius in Michael Hoffman's all-star remake of "William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream"
|Played the lead in Todd Haynes' tribute to glam rock "Velvet Goldmine"
|Landed first adult lead as Emily Watson's husband in "Metroland"
|Announced as the lead in the film version of "American Psycho" to be directed by Mary Harron; dropped when Lions Gate took on project and Leonardo DiCaprio was sought for the role; when DiCaprio opted to star in "The Beach," Bale and Harron rejoined the project
|Provided the voice of Thomas in Disney's animated "Pocahontas"
|Portrayed Laurie opposite Wynona Ryder's Jo March in Gillian Armstrong's remake of "Little Women"; role revitalized career
|Made screen singing debut in the Disney musical "Newsies"
|Played Jim Hawkins in the TNT movie "Treasure Island"
|Landed first starring role in a U.S. feature, the Steven Spielberg directed "Empire of the Sun"
|Feature film debut, "Mio in the Land of Faraway," a children's fantasy co-produced by USSR, Norway, and Sweden; not released in U.S. until after "Empire of the Sun"
|Made TV miniseries debut as a spoiled brat in the BBC's "Heart of the Country"
|Made American TV debut as Alexie in the two-part NBC movie "Anastasia: The Mystery of Anna"
|Appeared on several British TV commercials
|Made London stage debut in a West End production of the Larry Shue comedy "The Nerd," starring Rowan Atkinson
|Made acting debut in a commercial for Pac-Man cereal
|Raised in Oxfordshire and Dorset in England, Portugal, and California


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Maybe I had higher expectations for this guy when we got him from the New York Yankees for Aaron Boone. I thought he would developed into a number 1 or 2 type pitcher. Instead it looks like he is more of a 4 or 5 pitcher for a starting rotation.
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Noise pollution affects plants as well as animals - in a roundabout sort of way. Plants rely on animals to pollinate them and disperse their seeds, so if noise drives the animals away, plants also suffer (Proceedings of the Royal Society B, DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2012.0230).
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An acrylic garden gnome is travelling the world to highlight a quirk of our planet: weight depends on location. The Earth bulges, so an object at the pole is closer to the core, and weighs more, than if it was at the equator. German scale manufacturer Kern & Sohn has sent the gnome, Kern, to cities including Lima, Mumbai, Mexico City and Sydney, and the South Pole, his heaviest destination.
Volcano map for Io
The most volcanically active world in the solar system is now charted in full. The US Geological Survey created the global map of Jupiter's moon Io - home to the most violent and diverse collection of volcanoes ever observed - using images from the Voyager and Galileo spacecrafts. It will help researchers test models of how planets evolve under stress.
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This week, Hollywood director James Cameron hopes to head into Challenger Deep, the deepest known area of the deepest oceanic trench in the world. There has been only one previous crewed expedition to the bottom of the Mariana trench, in the 1960s.
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Does your nose control how much you eat? When fed custard with an intense smell, volunteers took mouthfuls that were 5 to 10 per cent smaller than those they took of odourless custard (Flavour, in press). The result may assist in the creation of foods that are more satiating and are therefore consumed in smaller quantities.
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Hawaii's special election to fill Rep. Neil Abercrombie's seat has been getting generous buzz for a week as Republican candidate Charles Djou has unexpectedly pulled even with possible Democrat challengers in Obama's home district. Abercrombie is running for governor.
The "National Democrats increasingly worried about special election in Hawaii" story made an appearance in national political headlines every day of last week as Djou held strong and Democrats became increasingly fractured on their candidate choice.
Djou will run in a three-way, winner-take-all contest against two well-known Democrats in an election conducted via mail-in ballot between May 2 and May 22. National Democrats are somewhat quietly putting their weight behind former Rep. Ed Case, but powerful local unions are backing state Sen. Colleen Hanabusa.
Labor unions are set to drop 2 mail pieces in support of Hanabusa this week, a source tells Hotline OnCall, aimed at convincing union workers that Case's record is out of step with labor's political goals. An AFL-CIO mailer and one from the Longshoreman's union highlight some issues on which Case stands against labor positions while touting Hanabusa's work on unions' behalf.
Hanabusa has backing from the HI teachers union, a powerful force in state politics. And the mailers are aimed at the district's 52K AFL-CIO members and 30K Working America members, according to union figures, a significant portion of the electorate.
According to internal polling leaked last week and linked above, Case runs better against Djou than Hanabusa.
The DCCC paid for an anti-Djou ad that subtly preferred Case over Hanabusa ("Hawaii needs a Congressman on our side."). Jim Geraghty notes that the Democratic Party's dirt-digging, as in the case of Scott Brown, has been rather underwhelming if this ad is any indication:
The DCCC is getting involved in Hawaii's special House election, except that the Republican candidate, Charles Djou, is about as menacing as a Care Bear. So their line of attack is . . . for signing a pledge not to raise taxes. Djou signed the Americans for Tax Reform's Taxpayer Protection Pledge, stating that he opposes any net reduction or elimination of deductions and credits, unless matched dollar-for-dollar by further reducing tax rates.
The DCCC contends Djou is "protecting tax breaks for companies that send jobs overseas." And every other company, and every other individual. You might as well argue he is protecting tax breaks for serial killers, too.
A dead heat, a split, unenthusiastic Democratic field, and an ineffective line of attack on Djou? National political reporters are lining up to ask their bosses to send them to Hawaii as we speak. Rough job, but someone's gotta do it.
It's not the first time this week that unions have publicly disagreed with Democratic allies. The SEIU started a third party in North Carolina as "part of an effort to make the Democratic Party more reliable on issues important to labor" and has field organizers gathering signatures to qualify it as a state party. It remains to be seen if it will field candidates or how viable they'll be, but it's worth noting while the media is gleefully reporting that the Tea Party will be a spoiler for Republican candidates.


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Here is my gorilla me so far, im not sure if im feeling the hair, if any of you have any good techniques please let me know asap I have to turn this in on Tuesday! thanks!
As far as the update I made eyes and teeth outta super sculpy and Iv pretty much finished blocking in all the forms, now I just gotta do all that darn hair and then define the shapes and add all the little detail.
here is how im doing the fur in little layers and then going over them with plastic and a sharp line tool
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Do Not Yawn!
This is the title of a section from the book "Vocal Wisdom" that was my main inspiration into vocal research. It is an organized collection of quotes from lessons with Giovanni Battista Lamperti. It is interesting that even in that time (1891-1893) there was the problem of people yawning to enlarge the voice.
From the book, "One can not yawn unless one succumbs to the desire and feels the co-ordinate sensation. One can not sing unless one feels the co-ordinate sensation, and succumbs to the desire. The gratification of singing is more sensuous than that of yawning. This 'pleasure' continues throughout a song. The satisfaction of yawning soon passes."
"However the sensation of singing and that of yawning are similar, in that both are all-stimulating, all-compelling, all-pervading. But yawning does not help one to sing, though it may make one realize the sensation of co-ordinate reaction."
"One can not yawn unless the desire is urgent. 'Do not sing unless you'd die if you didn't.' This was Lamperti's way of saying 'Singing is like yawning,' though he never intended one to yawn while singing."
"Many have misunderstood and tried to do both at the same time, hoping thereby to superinduce the feeling of an 'open throat.' Any arbitrary use of the throat, other than procuring a tone's pitch or a word's color, is detrimental to control of the voice. Do not yawn."
For me, the key thing to remember is the last Statement. Any arbitrary use of the throat is detrimental to the control of the voice. This includes any attempt to open the throat, make a bigger tone, emphasize with an artificial coup de glotte, (as opposed to an automatic one for the vowel) or anything that isn't the spontaneous articulation and formation of the vowel-tone.
If we consider this in relation to all of the advice to open the throat and round the sound and create color and darken the vowels and place the voice and lower the larynx… It is no wonder that there is so much confusion and disagreement.
It is one of my main claims on this blog that modern singers are doing things fundamentally different than the singers of older generations. This actually applies to both classical singing and non-classical styles. In most cases the voices were used more naturally. Now classical singers have gotten progressively more dark and swallowed and non-classical singers have gotten more forward and constricted.
Essentially these are just opposite ends of the same issue, imitating a sound instead of sincerely and truly saying something with the voice. When we do that the parts of the body involved in vocal production react by doing the things we try so hard to make happen with technique.
This free, reflexive behavior appears to be relaxed. But we absolutely cannot accomplish it by trying to be relaxed. It appears to be high placed as well as forward, but we will not realize that if we try to place the voice high or forward. The larynx has a relatively low position, but we don't have any involvement in the lowering of the larynx. The body is supporting the tone, but we have no feeling of deliberately "supporting".
The difference is accomplished by creating the conditions in the body where these things that "should" happen do as a natural result, not because we try to make them happen. Many of the recommendations we hear are descriptions of what the singer feels or what the listener observes. Which are results that can confirm that we are doing something correct.
But the key thing to understand is these directions don't tell us how to cause that desired result. So when I say things like, "don't place the tone", or "don't lower the larynx", that doesn't mean those things don't exist. They do exist, it is just that we can't make them exist by trying to do them. They happen as a result of the proper conditions being created in the body.
If I were to point out two specific characteristics that are different they would be 1)the dropping of the face/mouth/tongue, creating darker and heavier voices – and 2)the consistent and deliberate release of unvocalized breath as part of the tone. I encourage you to learn to identify these characteristics when you listen to singers.
Since there was such a positive response to the examples I used in the last post I would like to do more of that here. I'm just taking these right from YouTube. Where possible I'll have an example of a modern singer compared with a representation of what I'm talking about. As always, these are just examples of characteristics. There is no claim of perfection, or the best. Just different characteristics of vocal behavior.
There may be even better examples than what I include. I have made no effort to find the definitive example. Just the feeling that "this singer shows characteristics of what I'm talking about". It is possible that a singer may not even make a good impression. Just because there is some aspect that we can learn from doesn't mean that we have to like that singer. Likewise, just because we don't like a singer doesn't mean we can't still learn something. That is for each of you to decide. But if you can start to get an idea of what these singers were doing you might be able to do it better with your natural voice.
I'll make comments as we go along.
This is from the Met last Fall. The voice is quite dark, which to me is out of place especially for French opera. It is interesting to notice that she has pretty good lift in the face. But that is negated by her concept of singing back in the throat, which drops the tongue.
Unfortunately, this is audio only of Eleanor Steber in the same Faust aria. This is an interesting comparison because she has a significantly larger instrument, but she has much better success in expressing the light, joyful youth of the character at this point of the story.
Angela Gheorghiu – Pace, pace mio Dio – Not much to say about this. Just a good example of the low position of the tone that is so common, and how that contributes to the unvocalized breath.
Renata Tebaldi – Pace, pace mio Dio – I'm not the biggest Tebaldi fan, but I certainly respect what she does here. This is from a 1958 live performance in Naples. Just notice the completely different approach to the voice compared to the modern singers.
Anna Netrebko – Quel guardo il cavaliere – From the Met, 2010. Tone stuck in her throat.
Reri Grist – Quel guardo il cavaliere (in German) – German TV, 1972. A small voice that is being what it is. If she were trained now she would be taught to drop the tongue to make more color (artificial darkness). This is what a small light voice should sound like.
Marcelo Alvarez & Vladimir Stoyanov – Duet from La forza del destino – Paris, 2011. I've been listening to Verdi's Forza lately and I really like this duet. You don't have to watch the whole thing to make a comparison.
Franco Corelli & Ettore Bastianini – Duet from La forza del destino – Naples, 1958. Corelli has his problems, but his basic approach is still light-years ahead of what we hear today. And Bastianini is a great example of achieving the snarling baritone sound the correct way. Through the face rather than down the throat.
Jackie Evancho – Pie Jesu – 2012. I want to include some singers from outside of the actual opera world as well. I would consider these next few singers classical oriented pop singers. I want to point out that with these young singers I'm not critical of them directly. They are just doing what they have been guided and allowed to do with their voice. I'm more critical of the people guiding their development and the industry for not having the knowledge to recognize that it is poor singing. Or, perhaps they do and don't care because they can make a lot of money anyway.
Charlotte Church – Danny Boy
Sarah Brightman – Nessun dorma – This is the model for these young singers.
Deanna Durbin – Nessun dorma – 1943. Durbin was a well-trained soprano that made movies in the 1940s. She actually was sought by the Metroploitan Opera when she was a teenager before signing a studio contract.
Deanna Durbin – 16 years old, 1937. Not quite what we would want to hear on an actual opera stage. But a very good example of what a talented teenage soprano could sound like with good guidance. What I want people to notice is how she doesn't mess around with the natural production.
Of course I could go on and on, but this is sufficient for now. I hope that these examples help to open your hearing to the finer elements of the vocal sound and the minute differences that are possible. Gradually, as you get more exposure and practice at listening it becomes pretty obvious.
Again, I want to emphasize that I'm not talking about the quality of these singers as artists. I'm discussing the characteristics of their vocal production. Everyone is free to like what they want and do what they want. But for those who are interested in finding the truth of the vocal instrument, independent of style or opinion, then this is where to start.
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So Michael, in your response to Evandro, you were referring to the head resonance (nasal resonance, singing in the mask)? It is often emphasized that this kind of resonance should be present in every tone of the scale, even the lowest ones too.
I came across a description that we should always aim at singing "slimer and brighter".It is not only more efficient and easier to sing this way but, above all else, healthier.
I just asked about "darken" the sound because she sang heavier roles (Lucia, for example, a role which is rather demanding).
PS: Maybe I'm a boring listener, who wants to hear another Sutherland, Callas or Caballe in Lucia. KKKKK I think my problem is have heard Sutherland as Lucia, Elvira, Bolena etc and I expect similar performances (in terms of technique, I mean)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pt59eyLPiY4 Dessay singing Mad Scene (after surgery – the video says so kkkkkk)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RqIgGIpcLv0 Here you can watch Verdi's TRAVIATA, performed last year in March at Met, she sings with Mathew Polenzani. There are moments which seems to me she does some glottal attacks (I don't know if it is part of her interpretation). But watch it when you have time to do so and, if possible, give your impressions. Thanks a lot.
One last question (so many kkkk sorry). Do you think Natalie Dessay's vocal problems are due to her attempt to produce this "darker, heavier" sound you are describing? (I saw her Traviata at Met, and it seemed to me that her voice is not so good as it used to be – some notes were not so secure)
You made me look at Gheorghiu in a way that I hadn't seen before. The question for me is: how bad is this way of singing for the artists? Can it make a career shorter (in terms of vocal skills, I mean)?
Yeah, you did manage to explain it – when you mentioned the pharynx and its position I could easily figure out things you were talking about. Thanks a lot for the answer.
What I like most about this blog is the fact that we can escape from those naive compliments and reflect about singing technique. It's a blog where we can analyze artists, discuss their work and – why not saying it – improve our singing – since we understand some aspects we can use them to improve our own singing skills.
Hi, I'm from brazil and I've been visiting your blog quite often. Talking about this article, I have few questions. I guess I couldn't get your point here, mainly concerning the videos that you displayed in your text. I couldn't see the real problems you were pointing out, but Ana Netrebko, who is a singer that I really don't appreciate at all (though most people worship her rs). The point is that I was wondering if you could try to explain that again. For example – Angela Gheorghiu – I couldn't see the problem you are trying to make. You said "a good example of the low position of the tone that is so common, and how that contributes to the unvocalized breath." How does it contribute to the unvocalized breath ? And what's the problem with the other singer who was singing Marguerite? (I could see a difference between Marina Poplavskaya and Eleanor Steber – who was a great singer). But I feel I am not able to judge that first video (with Marina Poplavskaya) as inappropriate singing. Thanks a bunch – and congratulations on the blog, which is very interesting for those who are interested in understanding vocal phenomena.
So helpful Michael. I'm new. Thank you so much.
I'm studying the Lamperti book.
How about Rosa Ponselle and Caruso? Can you please give some feedback on them?
also, lip trills…I couldn't find anything re: this on your site.
What do they really do? the opera dept. at the university here uses them.
Many thanks for all of your love and expertise and I love Deanna too!
I guess Amelita Gali-Curci is included as great too?
Thank you so much.
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Vocal Wisdom is my singing and teaching BIBLE. My mom and I both use it (she has been using it for 20+ years) and our copies are both hanging on to their pages by a few seams. This is spot on! As a young singer currently throwing my hat into the performing world ring, I admire your boldness to go against the conventional, modern day teaching nonsense! It's a battle, it truly is. So comforting to know that there are others armed with truth to help bring about a revival of REAL singing!
"But for those who are interested in finding the truth of the vocal instrument, independent of style or opinion, then this is where to start." – such wisdom in that statement, and exactly what my own, very humble, attempt at teaching is all about. This was a great post. Thank you for including so many wonderful examples of your point. Your writing always gives me so much to think about! Bless you!
Great post Michael with many important details! I've been a fan of Deanna for quite a long time, and found her voice always interesting. The fullness and the easiness of her singing is stunning. The last and only interview after her career was given in 1983. when she said she still sings, but for friends and such. There are many writtings about Sister Mary Leo who was so inspired by Deanna's voice, that she became a singing teacher and trained all her pupils to sing like Deanna did. This is interesting, because some of them had great careers (like Kiri Te Kanawa) but almost none, at least how much I can hear, used their voices as naturally as Deanna. Now the next generation (there is a clip of Kiri Te Kanawa teaching a young soprano) seems to drift away from those ideals even further. I also find it interesting that the yawning idea happened even that long ago, I should read Lamperti again as well. But it does just confirm that bad singing and ideas were present even then, though they weren't mainstream. A Swedish soprano and teacher I mentioned before wrote 100 years ago that the aesthetic sense in the "modern" (of that day) audience is deformed. That they are so used to hear the unpure vowels that they consider them beautiful…I wonder what she would write today…
Would you believe that until the age of 16 I was thinking that something is wrong with me because I can't understand opera singers? Because someone told me as a child that you need to get educated in the field to learn to hear and understand them! So much about nature…
Also, Tebaldi…your comment is interesting Michael, I was also never her great fan, but I still can't seem to figure out why and sometimes feel guilty for that (I really really try hard every now and then to figure her out). Her tone, I find so fascinating sometimes (I have a CD of hers with great sound which I listen just for the purity and easiness of her tone), and I can't figure out why at the same time I don't like it as much as I do. It's as if her singing is so "raw", the voice is so extremely fast responsive and easy that I can't distinguish her singing from speech in a way, it's as if it is too easy sometimes (not sure if that is supposed to be good or bad) but at the same times seems extremely static, monumental and too consistent in this easiness. (I am aware it's opposite things, it's precisely what makes it difficult to describe) And I still can't figure out the function of her voice by listening. Maybe that is exactly what makes her so interesting to many! I find her voice enigmatic…
Good posts, Chris and Iris. Thanks! Indeed, "chiaroscuro" is often but easily bandied. It's a fine term we have borrowed from the world of art (pictorialism)/photography. But notice a basic Webster's definition: "pictorial representation in terms of light and shade WITHOUT REGARD TO COLOR." Michael's sample clips – the ones in B&W – gave us singers with more color in the voice than those in the clips in "living color." How ironic! Many (most?) of the more current singers are, at best, giving us "brownish-gray" SEPIA "tones", rather than artistically colored and enriched HUMAN language. The voice is not (IMO) a musical instrument in the conventional sense. Singing is a sublimation of speech (Fields) and is the "interpretation [elucidation?] of text BY MEANS OF 'musical tones' produced by the human voice." (Henderson) Even Henderson's "musical TONE" I do not construe to mean "tone" in the conventional sense. Rather, text is imbued with musical values by which words are communicated/expressed in a certain "tone of voice." Vocal color emerges – OR, the voice emerges colorfully – by virtue of the singer's reaction to the sum total (and more) of what he/she finds in the material chosen to perform. This goes well beyond a merely mechanical "playing" of the vocal "instrument", with emotion added. As for Iris' comment about university opera productions: RIGHT ON! We forget that we are teaching 18-21 year-olds (undergraduates) and that they are not the adults we may have sung with when we still had enough "chiaro" to shine on audiences ourselves. Lesson: Chiaroscuro minus chiaro = professional "o(b)scurity." -RB. Who's next?
Hi Michael,
Thank you so much for this article and for putting up these clips for comparison. I wish more students in music programs were taught more about singers such as eleanor Stebe and Reri Grist. Instead, I find many coloraturas today looking up to singers like Natalie Dessay (I don't say that out of disrespect for her artistry) and anna Netrebko. I think even now many people want bigger voices than they have because the bigger voices are often the ones who get to do roles like Cio-Cio San and Mimi. I guess many operatic productions put on by universities look for the heftier voices because it does make a bigger impression on audiences, not to mention the prima donna gets quite a bit of attention too.
I mean, if you're looking to draw more potential students to your music program, who's going to make a bigger splash, Mimi or Zerbinetta?
Excellent article, Michael. You've inspired me to dust off my copy of Vocal Wisdom and re-read! Aside from missing brightness and unnatural technique, another terrible thing about these drain-pipe classical singers is that they all sound the same to me – like they're being churned out of some bulgarian factory – the "hooty" quality of the production completely obscures the natural timbre of (what is supposed to be) a unique instrument. Regardless of the fach, they all sound like they are attempting to sing whilst choking on a chicken bone. I can't really hear anything uplifting in these voices, and that is quite sad because every single one of these singers has bucketloads of potential. Is it that these people all want to possess bigger voices than they do? To sing repertoire that is beyond them? Is it ego or money, or both? Or perhaps a flawed system that has lost sense of what a desirable sound is? Are opera buffs complaining about this, or have they all just adjusted their palates? :)
Even the person I played these clips to (after I asked her to put aside bias and really listen carefully) said that she could hear the people (who distorted their voices) were good singers, but it just wasn't beautiful and that all- important connection was missing – in fact, she described it as less like singing and more like not-unpleasant noise and words on pitch; and the very reason she doesn't really like opera. I can understand where she's coming from – even high notes sung like that are dull and lifeless. The word 'Chiaroscuro' gets bandied about a lot, but the more I listen to great singing the more I realise just how vital it is. I am beginning to think it's a lot more than just a balanced sound, it's almost like an acoustical passcode or key that unlocks the audiences' imagination and emotions. Perhaps it stems from our animal origins – genetic memory or instinct and all that. I've noticed that my cat is never fooled by people imitating a meow, even if it sounds quite realistic to my human ears – obviously he hears a lot more in a meow than I do. And I think people hear more in singing than they are consciously aware. I notice a lot of people describing singers' voices these days – big, powerful, raw etc., but they rarely seem to use the word 'beautiful' anymore.
I'd never heard Deanna Durbin before – what a talent. Certainly puts modern teen idols into perspective. I was interested and a little saddened to read that she retired from the public eye at 29 and never performed again. Instead, we got another 20 years of Judy Garland. Where's the justice in the world?
A teacher friend of mine – I've mentioned him to you; he lives in Minneapolis – once told me that, as a 19-year-old college student, he was told by his teacher that he had the "mature" voice of a 40-year-old. He thought he was being complimented – then he figured it out. Add 21 years to the present ages of Marina, Angela, Anna, Jackie, and Charlotte, and ask how they might sound when they really are 21 years older. Thanks for your blog!


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That report, given in May to both American and British health authorities, was alarming. Teenagers and younger children given Paxil were much more likely to become suicidal than those given placebos. In June, both the British and American authorities warned doctors against prescribing Paxil to youngsters. Worried that the problem could extend far beyond Paxil, the F.D.A. in July asked the makers of eight other antidepressants to submit data from their studies in youngsters.
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The silencing of Dr. Mosholder prompted outrage among critics of antidepressants and the ongoing investigation by Senator Grassley. It also has fostered skepticism about the Columbia study. Already, Internet postings are questioning the backgrounds of the Columbia researchers. One asks whether Kelly Posner, the lead investigator, has participated in trials financed by the drug industry.
In a group interview in a conference room in the New York State Psychiatric Institute, the researchers said they were unbiased.
Dr. Posner said that she had participated in some trials sponsored by drug makers but never as a principal investigator. All of the trials involved attention deficit disorder, not depression or suicide, she said.
Her three colleagues said that they had never taken part in a drug-company trial. And they said that their study, while hugely controversial, was relatively simple: figuring out the appropriate labels to place on the behaviors in the individual cases.
''We're just dealing with a lot of pieces of paper,'' Dr. Gould said. ''We're not dealing with people at all. And all the interesting questions happen once we give the data over to the F.D.A.,'' where the statistical analysis will occur.


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To put things into perspective, we all constantly come into contact with disease-causing bacteria and viruses, but mostly, we do not get sick. Our bodies largely have the ability to protect us, and I think it's important to remember that, especially during this time of the year when you hear so much about the H1N1 flu virus. Fear is one of our most powerful emotions, and it's well-known that the stress fear causes can hamper our immune systems. So I do not plan to worry myself sick, and neither should you!
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Can anybody remember the [i]old[/i] old B.net? You know, the one that had all the myth rankings and basically only had myth news? I can only just barely remember what it was like. :( It had a lot more white, I seem to recall... Care to join me in a spot of reminiscing anybody? - Reiginko
Deleted User4/14/2004 5:54:48 AM Permalink[quote][b]Posted by:[/b] Banshee Barron [quote]At least you didn't fall for the Halo 2 sponsors. Now that was funny![/quote] If you fell for that I feel sorry for you. ;-)[/quote] hey, don't flame me lol j/k
Banshee Barron4/14/2004 5:53:31 AM Permalink[quote]At least you didn't fall for the Halo 2 sponsors. Now that was funny![/quote] If you fell for that I feel sorry for you. ;-)
Deleted User4/14/2004 5:50:30 AM PermalinkI have a mac, but it's an original iBook and it sucks....can't even surf the net without having problems. It's a good thing I've this 2.8ghz P4 too. :D
Ghandi 24/14/2004 5:47:47 AM PermalinkIt's okay jharbst I didn't realize it was a joke until someone told me. You probably didn't notice/willfully ignored the Bungie Diskover card at the bottom, just like I did. At least you didn't fall for the Halo 2 sponsors. Now [i]that[/i] was funny!
Deleted User4/14/2004 5:43:07 AM PermalinkI didn't discover Bungie until Halo, but thats because I did'nt nor do I now have a MAC.
Deleted User4/14/2004 5:41:14 AM Permalink:O Dammit! I always wondered what happened to the Bungie.net Pro thing! I had no idea it was an April fools joke.....that sucks.
Sketch4/14/2004 5:36:30 AM PermalinkGotta love the net... =) [url=http://web.archive.org/web/19981212023431/http://www.bungie.net/]Bnet Dec. 1998[/url] [url=http://web.archive.org/web/19990423171421/http://www.bungie.net/]Bnet April 1999[/url] Admittedly I wasn't around back in those days either. I played Myth and enjoyed it, but didn't have a fancy schmancy internet connection available. You gotta admit that there is more Myth lovin on this site than there was last week.
Deleted User4/14/2004 5:12:01 AM PermalinkOh...Hmmm...ahhhhhh...oooh...memories. Yes. Wow. Mmmmmm. Rememberence. Indeed. Yes. Actually I lie. I never saw it. I dont deserve to be here. But if I had seen it, I'm sure I would have liked it a lot, enough to look back now at then and think what once was still is. Or something.
Ghandi 24/14/2004 4:59:13 AM PermalinkI only rember B.net from right around when I found out about Halo. I lurked for a long time and never had reason to join, but I would check on it every week or so. Then I joined about two months ago, and managed to post twice before my .Net passport got completely ****ed up and I couldn't log in until now. I remember falling for the B.net Pro April Fool's joke. Ah.. good times. I'm afraid I never knew the old old B.net. It's sad....


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Download of the Day: Foxit Reader 5.0.2.0718
Our Download of the Day today is Foxit Reader 5.0.2.0718.
Foxit Reader is a free PDF document viewer, with incredible small size, breezing-fast launch speed and rich feature set. Its core function is compatible with PDF Standard 1.7.
Incredibly small: The download size of Foxit Reader is just a fraction of Acrobat Reader 20 M size.
Breezing-fast: When you run Foxit Reader, it launches instantly without any delay. You are not forced to view an annoying splash window displaying company logo, author names, etc.
Annotation tool: Have you ever wished to annotate (or comment on) a PDF document when you are reading it? Foxit Reader allows you to draw graphics, highlight text, type text and make notes on a PDF document and then print out or save the annotated document.
Text converter: You may convert the whole PDF document into a simple text file.
High security and privacy: Foxit Reader highly respects the security and privacy of users and will never connect to the Internet without users' permission. While other PDF readers often silently connect to the Internet in the background. Foxit PDF Reader does not contain any spyware.
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Apple's OS X Lion downloaded 1 million times on launch day
Apple's OS X Lion was downloaded 1 million times yesterday. Apple made the announcement just as Microsoft announced their earnings results for the fiscal fourth quarter, another swipe of the claw from Apple. If every one of those million downloads were paid, that means Apple grossed $30 million yesterday just from Lion, within 24 hours. Phil Schiller, Apple's SVP of Worldwide Product Marketing said in a statement:
Lion is off to a great start, user reviews and industry reaction have been fantastic. Lion is a huge step forward, it's not only packed with innovative features but it's incredibly easy for users to update their Macs to the best OS we've ever made.
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Download of the Day: Thunderbird 6.0 Beta 1
Our Download of the Day today is Thunderbird 6.0 Beta 1.
Thunderbird is a great email client from the same people who brought you the Firefox browser.
Thunderbird gives you IMAP/POP support, a built-in RSS reader, support for HTML mail, powerful quick search, saved search folders, advanced message filtering, message grouping, labels, return receipts, smart address book LDAP address completion, import tools, and the ability to manage multiple e-mail and newsgroup accounts.
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Lightning fast search
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The latest version includes the following changes:
Changes in Version 2.0 Beta 2
* Reduced download size compared to Spybot-S&D 2.0 Beta 1.
* Faster installation procedure with a new option to preconfigure Spybot-S&D for a care free setup.
* Experimental plugin for Google Chrome.
* Experimental on-access scanner.
* Optional heuristic scans.
* Spybot-S&D's modules can now be directly opened from its tray icon.
* Fixed known uninstallation issues and tons of other bug fixes.
CyberLink YouCam 5, augmented reality webcam software
CyberLink have announced YouCam 5, the new version in their popular augmented reality webcam software. YouCam allows you to have a bunch of fun from its huge array of fun effects and gadgets but the new version includes some new enhanced features including; Face Login, Face-out, Fun new particle effects, frames and avatars, Everything HD! and also now allows the creation of video presentations.
Face Login allows you to access your PC and online sites such as Facebook and Amazon. The augmented reality portion of YouCam 5 allows you to interact with 3D objects through the webcam. It will create virtual objects into your hand, on your face or body during the webcam session. Also features have been improved such as 'Interactive Effects' which allows things like rose petals, snowflakes and confetti to fall down on you, don't want them there? A quick flick of your hand and they can be wiped away.
Download of the Day: Process Explorer 15.0
Our Download of the Day today is Process Explorer 15.0.
Process Explorer shows you information about which handles and DLLs processes have opened or loaded.
The Process Explorer display consists of two sub-windows. The top window always shows a list of the currently active processes, including the names of their owning accounts, whereas the information displayed in the bottom window depends on the mode that Process Explorer is in: if it is in handle mode you'll see the handles that the process selected in the top window has opened; if Process Explorer is in DLL mode you'll see the DLLs and memory-mapped files that the process has loaded. Process Explorer also has a powerful search capability that will quickly show you which processes have particular handles opened or DLLs loaded.
The unique capabilities of Process Explorer make it useful for tracking down DLL-version problems or handle leaks, and provide insight into the way Windows and applications work.
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Apple launching Mac OS X Lion tomorrow
Apple has finally confirmed that Max OS X Lion is coming tomorrow. The next-gen operating system from Apple was confirmed to launch tomorrow by CFO Peter Oppenheimer during the conference call in which he discussed Apple's gloriously profitable quarter. Lion which will be sold via the Mac App Store rather than retail or other channels is set to include more than 250 new features as well as a number of features designed to bring to the Mac some features popular on the iPad.
Be sure to let us know via Google+, Facebook or Twitter what you think of Lion. Convince me to upgrade my brand spanking new 17-inch MBP!
Download of the Day: TeraCopy 2.2
Our Download of the Day today is TeraCopy 2.2.
TeraCopy is a compact program designed to copy and move files at the maximum possible speed, providing the user a lot of features:
Copy files faster. TeraCopy uses dynamically adjusted buffers to reduce seek times. Asynchronous copy speeds up file transfer between two physical hard drives.
Pause and resume file transfers. Pause copy process at any time to free up system resources and continue with a single click.
Error recovery. In case of copy error, TeraCopy will try several times and in the worse case just skips the file, not terminating the entire transfer.
Interactive file list. TeraCopy shows failed file transfers and lets you fix the problem and recopy only problem files.
Shell integration. TeraCopy can completely replace Explorer copy and move functions, allowing you work with files as usual.
Full Unicode support.
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Steam update includes download speed increases, also teases DoTA2
Steam is about to update (and probably has for some) and includes some very nice tweaks which results in downloads being sped up considerably. The new tricks involve caching at the ISP level, more firewall-friendly protocols (downloads will be coming through HTTP) and probably the best feature; a system that gives incremental patch downloads instead of having to re-download big parts of the game if they become corrupt, etc.
Let's say an individual file on your hard drive was to be modified by a game update, your client would require to download the entire file. The new system supports delivering only the differences between the old and new files, meaning game updates are considerably smaller and much, much quicker. The new content system will also allow Valve to build several new features that users have asked to be included.
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Download of the Day: VLC Media Player 1.1.11
Our Download of the Day today is VLC Media Player 1.1.11.
VLC media player is a highly portable multimedia player for various audio and video formats as well as DVDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols without external codec or program.
It can also be used as a server to stream in unicast or multicast in IPv4 or IPv6 on a high-bandwidth network.
VLC can play:
MPEG-1, MPEG-2 and MPEG-4 / DivX files from a hard disk, a CD-ROM drive, and so on
DVDs, VCDs, and Audio CDs
From satellite cards (DVB-S)
Several types of network streams: UDP/RTP Unicast, UDP/RTP Multicast, HTTP, RTSP, MMS, etc.
From acquisition or encoding cards (on GNU/Linux and Windows only)
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uTorrent set to intro paid version dubbed uTorrent Plus
The team behind uTorrent is currently working on releasing a paid version of their BitTorrent client that enables users to convert videos and transfer files to external devices. Dubbed 'uTorrent Plus', the extended uTorrent client will be released to the public this coming fall. uTorrent's parent company BitTorrent Inc. hopes the Plus version will bring in some extra revenue, but considering the target audience, it is expected to 'suffer' from piracy too.
uTorrent has close to 100 million active users each and every month, making them the most-used BitTorrent client. The paid version of uTorrent will extend the functionality of the current program, one of the key features being the ability to convert videos and transfer files to external devices such as iPods and PSPs. Jordy Berson, Director of Product Management for uTorrent has said that no price has been set for uTorrent Plus right now.


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Voices of Experience: Mature Workers in the Future Workforce
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Wedged between staggering statistics and stagnant policies, employers faced with a growing labor shortage find themselves challenged to motivate and retain experienced workers who are eligible to retire. This report, a project of the Engaging Mature Workers Working Group, presents the results of the Board's Life Planning Survey, which explored the retirement intentions and perspectives of 1645 employees aged 50 and above.
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Kelly Monaco originated the highly anticipated role of Samantha McCall on ABC's General Hospital in October 2003. In the category of Outstanding Lead Actress, Kelly was an Emmy nominee for this role in 2006. Her television credits include co-hosting the 33rd Annual Daytime Emmy Awards as they were broadcast for the first time from Hollywood.
Kelly also starred in the first season of the ABC primetime summer mega-hit, Dancing with the Stars, where she won the dance championship. She had a three-and-a-half-year stint on the ABC Daytime drama Port Charles, garnering her first Daytime Emmy Nomination for Outstanding Supporting Actress in 2003.
Kelly's television debut occurred in 1997, when she landed a recurring role on Baywatch. While shooting Port Charles, she also guest starred opposite Charlie Sheen and Heather Locklear in a season finale of ABC's Spin City. In addition, she has appeared in the feature films Idle Hands, Mumford, BASEketball, and was most recently seen on Hallmark's movie Edge of the Garden.
Kelly headlined and opened the Las Vegas Peep Show performing in front of sold-out audiences. She was also featured in the Emmy-Award winning documentary Daytime Gives Back, Africa and allowed fans a peak into her private life on E!'s Dirty Soap.
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Total newb question... but here goes anyway.
I've been researching a bit and quickly finding that any topic on suspension quickly becomes a rabbit hole of technical information. I am trying to fully understand it all, I would like to get to the point where I can be very calculated in my suspension setup, but I'm still learning this bike and it's capabilities, while trying to have some fun.
I've been going by the manual and tuning the suspension for all three recommended settings, comfort, standard and sport (full load out). So I'm getting the feel for each... What I'm wondering is what are the best settings are for dirt?
Can I just set it to "comfort" and that will give me the most play and control for off-road? Or do I want something stiffer like the standard setting?
What I have always done on my bikes is to note the settings then go out and ride. If you find it is too soft and bottoms easily over small bumps, make it stiffer. Likewise, if it is too harsh on small bumps, try softening it up. Suspension is very personal so I don't believe that there is an exact answer to your question as we are all different, and terrain is different. Hard pack and rocks are one thing, sandy loam is another. I keep a screwdriver in my tank bag as I tend to change settings often.
I will say that a soft front end (spring rate) is a common complaint on the ADV. For my tastes, I had Superplush revalve both ends, and respring the front from a .48 spring rate to a .64 and then to a .70. I have heard some guys go to .74, depending upon the situation and the speed.
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Hey all, I'm looking for any dual sport riders that are interested in riding up to deadhorse. So far there are three of us going. We are going to be doing a lot of off highway riding (at least that's the plan) round trip will be around 4k miles. The trip is to begin in the first week of August. We will be taking two weeks to do it incase we want to further explore or chill out for an extra day. We'll be taking the ferry over from Kodiak and continuing on from homer. The three of us will be riding 250cc or smaller bikes but we're open to any dual sports!
Just hit me up on here if you're interested.
Here she is! Slowly getting her ready.
Man that looks like fun! If I did not have to work I would take you up on it. That's what adventure is all about!
It's gonna be a trip of a life time! Work can always wait!
I'll be heading to Deadhorse on 01AUG from NorCal. Is the CG housing?
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WASHINGTON -- The terrorist threat against the U.S. remains dangerous 10 years after the 9/11 Commission issued its first report -- only now the risk is greater online.
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