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Now that we've been shown a glimpse of the Start button's long-awaited return, only one mystery about Windows 8.1 remains: its release date. If Paul Thurrott (of the eponymous SuperSite for Windows) is to be believed, though, that mystery has already been solved. Here's what he tweeted on Friday:
What date will Windows 8.1 ship? 8/1. Duh. :)— Paul Thurrott (@thurrott) June 7, 2013
I thought this was a joke at first, but it doesn't seem to be. One of Thurrott's followers replied to the tweet, saying he was told of an October 18 release date by a "major tech company." Thurrott shot back: "I was told this from someone a little closer to the matter."
So, there you go. A preview build of Windows 8.1 is scheduled to go public on June 26, which means that if Thurrott is correct, the final release will follow barely over a month later. That won't leave a lot of time for bug reports and other feedback. Good thing Windows 8.1 is supposed to be a minor upgrade over Windows 8—and a free one at that. (Thanks to Neowin for the tip.)
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Future Olympic hopefuls chosen for US Sailing Development Team
by Dana Paxton on 21 Mar 2013
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Some 38 gifted sailors have been named to the 2013 US Sailing Development Team (USSDT), the pathway team supported by the U.S. Olympic Sailing Program and US Sailing's Olympic Sailing Committee (OSC). The USSDT was created in 2007 to help young athletes, who have been identified as future Olympic prospects, acquire the skills necessary to launch successful campaigns and compete at the Olympic level.
'The list of sailors on the 2013 Development Team includes many talented sailors,' said Josh Adams, Managing Director of U.S. Olympic Sailing (Essex, Mass.). 'Some are already training hard in Olympic class boats; and others are competing in Youth Worlds classes, excellent feeders into our system. All represent our future and are on a path for the 2020 and 2024 Olympic Games.'
Sailors were selected in the Olympic Class events at the 2013 ISAF Sailing World Cup Miami, and in the ISAF Youth World Championships events at the U.S. Youth Worlds Team Qualifier, both held in January.
The following athletes have been named to the 2013 Team:
(Men's and Women's Two Person Dinghy)
Nikki Medley (Fort Lauderdale, Fla.).
Lara Dallman-Weiss (Ham Lake, Minn.)
Wade Waddell* (Palm Beach, Fla.) – also I420 Boys
Henry Fernberger* (New York, N.Y.)
(Men's Two Person Dinghy High Performance)
Brad Funk (Miami, Fla.)
Erik Aakhus (Corona del Mar, Calif.)
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(Women's Two Person Dinghy High Performance)
Kristen Lane (Tiburon, Calif.)
Molly Carapiet (Belvedere, Calif.)
Christine Neville (Oakland, Calif.) – also Women's 470
Paris Henken (Coronado, Calif.)
(Men's One Person Dinghy Heavy)
Eric Lidecis (Huntington Beach, Calif.)
(One Person Dinghy)
Greg Martinez (Houston, Texas)
Laser Radial
(One Person Dinghy)
Claire Dennis (Saratoga, Calif.)
Addison Hackstaff* (St. Petersburg, Fla.)
Gary Prieto (Southold, N.Y.)
Haddon Hughes* (Houston, Texas)
Dana Rohde (Richmond Hill, Ga.)
RS:X Women
Marion Lepert* ** (Belmont, Calif.)
Margot Samson (Belleair, Fla.)
Charlotte Samson (Belleair, Fla.)
RS:X Men
Christopher Waldo (Clearwater, Fla.)
Maximo Nores* (Miami, Fla.)
Jonathan Rudich (Clearwater, Fla.)
I420 Girls
(Two Person Dinghy)
Megan Grapengeter-Rudnick (Darien, Conn.)
Haley Fox (Fort Lauderdale, Fla.)
Casey Klingler* (Larchmont, N.Y.)
Fiona Walsh* (Rye, N.Y.)
I420 Boys
(Two Person Dinghy)
Reinier Eenkema van Dijk (Rye, N.Y.)
Spencer McDonough (Greenwich, Conn.)
(Two Person Skiff)
Quinn Wilson (Ojai, Calif.)
Dane Wilson (Ojai, Calif.)
Nic Muller (Fort Pierce, Fla.)
Kai Friesecke (Fort Lauderdale, Fla.)
Ravi Parent* (Bradenton, Fla.)
Sam Armington* (Sarasota, Fla.)
Dave Hein (Rocky River, Ohio/Miami, Fla.)
Taylor Reiss (Panama City, Fla.)
Sarah Lihan (New York, N.Y.) – also Women's 470
*Denotes member of 2013 U.S. Youth Worlds Team
** Denotes member of 2013 US Sailing Team Sperry Top-Sider
In addition to receiving elite-level coaching, guidance and mentoring, members of the USSDT will benefit from joint training with US Sailing Team Sperry Top-Sider athletes and other top sailors from across the United States. Support provided to these athletes also includes shipping and logistical assistance, as well as access to the Performance Enhancement Team of physical therapists, trainers and nutritionists.
The US Sailing Development Team is led by Managing Director of U.S. Olympic Sailing Josh Adams (Essex, Mass.), Olympic Sailing Committee Chairman Ben Richardson (Gloucester, Mass.), High Performance Director Charlie McKee (Coronado, Calif.), Communications Director Dana Paxton (Newport, R.I.), Commercial Manager Katie Smith (Newport, R.I.), Olympic Manager Meredith Muller (Newport, R.I.) and Olympic Coordinator Will Ricketson (Newport, R.I.). In addition to McKee, the team is coached by Olympic Coach Romain Bonnaud (Miami, Fla.), Senior Olympic Coach Luther Carpenter (La Porte, Texas), and Olympic Coach Leandro Spina (Miami, Fla.).
For a list of the athletes, their hometowns, yacht club affiliations and schools, please visit the
USSDT page
on the US Sailing website.
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What is the best "how to" site to learn how to program for iPhone?
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The iPhone Developer Connection by Apple themselves. On the site you will find.
Also check out this iTunes U course (iTunes link) put out by Stanford that covers a look to good tips and items on iPhone Programming
Here is the course homepage at Stanford for the above course.
There is a very nice compilation here on SO:
Here is a well written article on "Cocoa is my girlfriend" that describes how to create a small iPhone app from scratch:
A good beginners article to learn Objective-C is Scott Stevensons "Learn Objective-C". (As it was written in the pre-iPhone era, it targets Mac software developers, but it is about basic language concepts - so it valid for both platforms)
The official iPhone developer portal has all the docs and some tutorials.
I had started out looking at this site: http://www.appsamuck.com/ Its been a while, not sure if they've updated it but about back in Feb 2009 it was very helpful to me.
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The Weird Idea That Brexit Would Be Good for London
Thursday's vote in England suggested Brexit was a referendum on the global elite; a rebuke of cosmopolitanism, globalization, and the postwar order. London, an island of strong Remain support, was marooned in a sea of Leave. Dispatches from the British hinterland confirmed the impression of Capital against Country. "In shorthand," Peter Mandler wrote in Dissent, "Britain's EU problem is a London problem."
In the immediate aftermath of the vote, it certainly seemed that wealthy London—a city of students, immigrants and tourists, corporate headquarters and creative industries doing business abroad, all thriving under the status quo—had been castigated by Britain. There was talk of banks relocating from the city to Dublin, Frankfurt, and Paris; anti-immigrant graffiti and attacks; and Londoners renouncing their country. As the U.K. voted to exit the established international system, London's position as the world's preeminent global city was diminished. The question was not whether London would suffer the consequences of Brexit, but how much it would suffer.
Easy to forget, amidst all this: Brexit's most famous advocate, Boris Johnson, is the bicycle-commuting, subway-riding former mayor of London, who claimed that a well-managed Brexit was the best possible solution for the city itself. "If you want our great capital to be genuinely open to the world—rather than locked in and diminished by a failing EU system," he wrote in The Evening Standard before the vote, "then go global, vote Leave, and take back control next week." Brexit as vote may have been an expression of anti-London sentiment, but Brexit as policy hasn't always been conceived that way.
Johnson and co. have long argued that London, the global metropolis, had more to lose from the bureaucratic tyranny of the European Union than from a well-managed departure.
The U.K.'s Credit Rating Was Just Downgraded. How Come Nobody Cares?
It's been a less-than-stellar day for the United Kingdom. Thanks to the Brexit vote, markets seem to be pummeling any company that so much as employs someone with a British accent. The pound kept falling. There was that football match. Meanwhile, both Standard & Poor's and Fitch downgraded the country's credit rating.
Much like England's defeat on the pitch Monday, the downgrades are mostly a blow to national pride, since actual investors don't really care much about what the agencies have to say when it comes to sovereign debt. Remember when S&P stripped the United States of its AAA credit rating? We probably deserved it after that whole debt-ceiling standoff, which temporarily called into question the full faith and credit of the U.S. Treasury. But Washington hasn't exactly had trouble borrowing money since. Likewise, in spite of warnings that downgrades were imminent, yields on 10-year British government bonds hit historic lows Monday. Britain may be about to blow a hole in its economy with this whole secession thing, but the markets still think lending to Her Majesty's Treasury is a safe bet in a scary world. Which makes sense. Britain controls its own currency, so even in the event of a severe, Brexit-fueled recession it shouldn't have any problem paying its debts. And though the pound sterling has lost a good bit of value since the referendum, it hasn't fallen enough to spark uncontrolled inflation, which could theoretically hurt bond investors.
The reason nobody feels especially concerned about whether large countries have a AA or AAA credit rating is that the agencies don't really have any special information or insight when it comes to sovereign credit. They're working with the same public data and news reports as the rest of us. Fitch can theoretically assign an analyst to look at the nitty-gritty details of a mortgage-backed security and come up with a valuable judgment on its likelihood of paying off. (In theory. In practice, as the financial crisis proved, their judgment isn't always that valuable.) With a whole country, though, they're pretty much licking their finger, putting it to the wind, and concluding, "Yeah, British politics look a little crazed right now." Just like everyone else who's been paying attention.
British Airways to Americans: Time to Put Those Strong Greenbacks to Use in London
In the long run, Brexit might not be great news for tourism in the United Kingdom.
More than 60 percent of inbound visitors to the U.K come from the European Union, and various E.U. initiatives—such as caps on cell phone roaming charges, or the European Health Insurance Card—have made it easy for the French, Germany and Italians to visit the E.U. (And for the Brits to flock to the Costa del Sol, of course.)
What's more, the hospitality industry in the U.K. is dependent on foreign labor. In London, nearly half of employees in the hospitality and food services sector are foreign-born. If the U.K. moves to roll back the E.U. agreement on the movement of foreign workers, Deloitte reports, U.K. hotels and restaurants could face higher employment costs—and might lose their investment they've made in training skilled foreign workers. That's to say nothing of the expected decline of general E.U. investment in the U.K., which accounts for 48 percent of the country's foreign direct investment.
In the shortterm however, the pound is low and it's time to go!
The Campaign Lie That's Coming Back to Haunt Brexit Supporters
During the lead-up to last week's Brexit vote, one of the Leave campaign's favorite talking points was that the United Kingdom could save £350 million that it currently pays each week in membership dues to the European Union, and instead spend that money on things like funding the National Health Service. It splashed the message across its website and advertisements, including the very first billboard it unveiled.
The campaign even emblazoned the argument on the side of a bus, which it used as a backdrop for appearances by pro-Brexit politicians like Boris Johnson. By June, 78 percent of the British said they were familiar with the £350 million per week stat.
There was a problem with that factoid, however: It was transparently untrue. Technically, the U.K. made a £19.1 billion gross payment to the EU budget in 2014, which works out to a bit more than £350 million weekly. But, thanks to Margaret Thatcher's hard-nosed negotiating in the 1980s, the country also gets a large rebate, worth about £4.9 billion, which never leaves Her Majesty's Treasury. The Brits also benefit from billions in assorted EU public sector subsidies. Count it all up, and the U.K.'s net contribution comes out to about £9.9 billion, just over half the total trumpeted by the Brexiteers. (The sum falls even further if you start factoring in things like the research dollars the EU provides to British universities.)
This has all left the "Leave" campaign in an awkward position since winning last Thursday's referendum, as supporters have found themselves trying to explain away the obvious fact that the British public, almost half of which believed the fake stat, was mislead. The trouble started with an appearance by U.K. Independence Party leader Nigel Farage on ITV, during which host Susanna Reid interrogated him over the issue:
Reid: The £350 million a week that we send to the EU, which we will no longer send to the EU, can you guarantee that's going to go to the NHS?
Farage: No I can't. And I would never have made that claim. And that was one of the mistakes I think the Leave campaign made.
Reid: Wait a moment. That was one of your adverts.
Farage: Well it wasn't one of my adverts.
Farage went on to remind audiences that he had been more or less "ostracized" from the official "Leave" campaign—thus, he wasn't responsible for the ads—and that the U.K. would still have a nice, £10 billion "featherbed" to spend on things like the NHS and schools. This failed to appease Reid, whose righteous indignation helped the moment go viral. Since then, pro-Brexit politicians like Ian Duncan Smith and Chris Grayling have tried to point out that, if you read the fine print, the Leave campaign only promised to spend part of the money saved on EU membership dues on the NHS. "The specific proposal put forward by the Leave campaign was in fact to spend £100 million a week of that on the NHS," Grayling told ITV. "I hope that aspiration will be met when we leave."*
He isn't lying. The Leave campaign released just such a plan. And some politicians were in fact quite careful about their language regarding the £350 million before the referendum. While the U.K. gets back much of its membership dues, they argued, leaving would allow the country to "take back control" of the money. Rather than promise new cash, they promised new power over where that cash would be spent.
Unfortunately, none of that really explains away all those ads leaving the distinct and obviously untrue impression that Brexit would mean almost £20 billion a year for the NHS. The British press has started calling the effort to undo that implication—which may have included scrubbing the stat from the Leave campaign website—"operation backtrack."
What's interesting about £350 million fabrication is just how inept it was. The Brexit campaign rested on a lot of half-truths and magical thinking, with its major supporters essentially arguing that, somehow or another, the U.K. would be able to withdraw from the European Union, then negotiate new trade deal giving it all the benefits of membership without any of the required sacrifices. But while that larger narrative might not have stood up to even the most casual interrogation, it's not immediately falsifiable, and doesn't necessarily make for easy gotcha moments on morning television the same way a faked stat does. Pointing to a pot of money that simply doesn't exist and claiming—or at least forcefully implying—that it will all go toward a beloved health system is the sort of easy-to-process lie that seems destined to blow up, eventually.
It's too bad the explosion didn't come before last week's vote.
*Correction, June 27, 2016: This post originally misquoted Grayling as saying the Leave campaign promised to spend only £100 a week.
Young People Just Got Brexited by Their Parents
Unless the whole United Kingdom lines up for Brexit confessionals—The Only Way Is Brexit, anyone?—we don't have much, beyond geographical voting data, to help us understand the souls who just delivered this momentous political upheaval.
But one demographic trend seems clear: The decision to leave the European Union was taken by the U.K.'s older citizens, against the protests of its younger ones. The old left Europe; the young will live without it.
As journalist Nicholas Barrett put it in a Financial Times comment that made the rounds on Twitter this morning, "We will never know the full extent of the lost opportunities, friendships, marriages and experiences we will be denied. Freedom of movement was taken away by our parents, uncles, and grandparents in a parting blow to a generation that was already drowning in the debts of our predecessors."
People Are Figuring Out Ways to Blame Obama for Brexit, Because of Course They Are
In a development that should surprise nobody, Donald Trump has found a way to blame President Obama for Thursday night's Brexit vote.
Or maybe blame is the wrong word. Trump is happy with the United Kingdom's decision to bail on the EU, after all. Rather, the Republican candidate seems to think the referendum result proves that Obama is both incompetent and globally despised. Back in April, you see, the president visited 10 Downing St. and delivered a speech urging the British to vote "Remain." "I was actually very surprised that President Obama were to come over here and he were to be so bold as to tell the people over here what to do," Trump said during a press conference Friday in Scotland, where he was visiting one of his golf courses. "If he had not said it, I think your result might have been different."
One could interpret this as a subtle dig at the British electorate. Given that Trump believes the U.K. made a wise choice Thursday night, he is implicitly suggesting that its people would have voted against their own best interests had Obama not clumsily intervened. Insulting as that idea may be, Trump isn't alone in believing it. Nigel Farage of the the far-right U.K. Independence Party has suggested pretty much the same thing. I'll leave it up to you whether this makes the theory that Brits cut off their noses in order to spite Obama's face more credible or less.
Interestingly, Trump isn't the only American who has tried to lay the Brexit vote at Obama's feet. Another theory comes to us from columnist and CNN talking head Josh Rogin:
Obama neglected Syria, allowed the crisis to spill over, driving migrants to Europe, pushing #Brexit over the edge.— Josh Rogin (@joshrogin) June 24, 2016
Let us leave aside any arguments about Obama's handling of Syria. Like Trump's, this hot take has the advantage of being unverifiable, given that there was no official exit polling Thursday night. Moreover, it sounds at least vaguely plausible: Immigration was a driving force behind the Brexit movement, and some politicians, like Farage, did try to fan fears about refugees. But Britain's concerns about migrants predate the Syrian crisis, and much of the discussion about immigration during the campaign focused not on Middle Easterners but on the arrival of central Europeans, like the Polish. When the "Leave" campaign wanted to tap into anxieties about Muslims, meanwhile, its go-to move was to fearmonger about Turkey's possible accession into the EU. Tempting as it is to blame Obama as the root of all the world's misfortune, Rogin needs to work a little harder to prove it here.
David Cameron Has Secured His Place as One of the Worst Prime Ministers Ever
David Cameron may be the worst prime minister in modern British history. That dishonor is typically bestowed upon Neville Chamberlain, who ceded Czechoslovakia to the Nazis in 1938 and will forever be bound to the word appeasement. But poor Neville's defenders can at least argue the man didn't have many better options, since Britain wasn't necessarily ready to take on Hitler's forces in a war, and the time gained by sacrificing the Czechs allowed it to arm up. On the other hand, Cameron's calamitous decision to allow a referendum on whether the U.K. should remain in the European Union—which unexpectedly ended in a vote to leave Thursday night—was a blunder entirely of his own making.
Cameron, who announced Friday that he will resign, did not want to leave the EU. For a long time, he didn't even truly want a referendum on the issue. He felt compelled, however, to appease his party's angry Eurosceptic faction in order to keep a firm hold on power. "At the 2015 general election Europe seldom featured in the top 10 of issues listed by voters among their principal concerns; Mr Cameron's problem was that for some of his MPs it was the main reason they went into politics," the Financial Times writes. And so Cameron promised to renegotiate the terms of Britain's membership in the EU, and then put the question of whether to remain to a popular vote. Some of his fellow Tories, like Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne, thought it was an absurd gamble.* But the prime minister assumed that the British people would choose to stay and that he could put to rest the idea of secession once and for all.
Instead, the Brexit campaign became an outlet for the angry nativism of England's aging working-class voters, impervious to fact or reasoned judgment. Now the world has to live with its consequences. And, as the terror in the markets and plunging value of the British pound should tell you, not many people outside England's obscure suburbs and villages think the effects will be worth cheering. The U.K. is about to sever itself from a massive trade bloc, calling into question its own economic future, all while creating the specter that energized anti-European parties in other countries will push for their own secessionist referenda. The far right in the Netherlands and France are already celebrating. Nobody knows what the future holds, of course, but Europe's tomorrow looks a lot bleaker than it did before this completely unnecessary vote.
Theoretically, Britain does not have to go through with this idiocy. The referendum is not legally binding. David Cameron doesn't have to push his country off a cliff, just because voters thought it might be fun.
But he seems determined to do so anyway. "The will of the British people is an instruction that must be delivered," he said during his resignation speech Friday. He might as well have quoted H.L. Mencken, who wrote, "Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard."
But then again, there's a reason developed democracies don't typically make world-historic decisions by referendum. Voters are fickle. They make decisions in the heat of the moment and change their minds quickly. Twitter has been filled on Friday with stories of regretful "Leave" voters waking to realize that they'd made a mistake, that they'd never believed Brexit would actually prevail. The final count in a single election can be influenced by freak accidents or the weather; on Thursday, storms flooded much of southeast England and turned London's evening commute into an unholy mess as trains were delayed and canceled, which surely cost the "Remain" side some votes. If the result of the Brexit goes poorly, there isn't necessarily anybody to hold accountable—a country can't vote itself out of office. That's all fine if the results of a popular vote are reversible, if you're deciding on whether to legalize marijuana or cap property taxes. But when they're not? Perhaps its better to leave the decision-making to the people elected to do so. You wouldn't put a war up to a popular up or down vote, since you can't unfire the first shot. The decision to leave Europe forevermore shouldn't have been any different.
You also have to ask: Whose will is being represented? The "Leave" campaign relied largely on the votes of aging English people—those younger than 50 generally preferred to remain in the EU. Of course, older people are typically more enthusiastic about voting. But should the rash decision-making of Britain's senior citizens really be the factor that decides whether a child born today will get to be a citizen of Europe, whether someone who graduates college in a couple years can work in 27 other countries, or just one?
According to Cameron, it should. Which is why historians will throttle him.
*Correction, June 24, 2016: This post originally misidentified George Osborne as the counselor of the exchequer. He is the chancellor of the exchequer.
The Brexit Just Gave Us Global Financial Turmoil, Just as "Remain" Supporters Warned
A political gambit dreamed up by David Cameron in a pizza place at Chicago-O'Hare Airport is producing one of the worst days in the history of financial markets.
A narrow victory for Brexit will see the United Kingdom out of the European Union, ending a fifty-year period characterized by progressive steps towards financial and political union on the continent.
Will Texas Law Trip up a $10 Billion High-Speed Rail Project?
In the heady days of his first term, President Obama dreamed of a series of high-speed rail lines in the US, and included $8 billion in the 2009 stimulus package for that purpose. Seven years later, GOP governors in Wisconsin, Ohio and Florida have all rejected the money. Only California seems poised to develop public high-speed rail, which won't be complete for more than a decade. Florida has a private passenger rail line under construction, but its 125 mph max speed does not hold up to global HSR standards.
The best hope for true high-speed rail in the United States is in Texas, between two cities where hardly anyone travels without a car.
The U.K. Voted "Leave," and We Are Truly in Uncharted Waters
And the Brexit campaign has won. Both the BBC and ITV have called the United Kingdom's referendum on whether to secede from the European Union in favor of the "Leave" campaign, defying early polls that suggested the country would choose to stay and sending financial markets into tumult.
We are truly in uncharted waters. No country has ever left the EU before. Already, some are questioning whether members of Parliament will even approve the vote since, as the BBC has noted, it is technically nonbinding. At the moment, however, most seem to be working from the assumption that the British government will honor the referendum's results and begin the process of withdrawing from the union. Investors have reacted harshly; the value of the pound has already collapsed by about 10 percent to lows not seen in more than 30 years. U.S. stock futures are falling fast.
In many ways, the vote broke down as expected, with Scotland and the districts in and around London voting to remain, and much of the rest of England voting to leave. Turnout, however, was generally higher in pro-Brexit districts, which seemed to make the difference. As is so often the case in Britain, and so many other parts of the developed world now, the cosmopolitan financial center found itself at odds with working-class districts that have fared poorly in a post-industrial economy. And this time those poorer, working-class cities and towns won out.
What will this mean for Europe? It's hard to say. For the first time in more than six decades, since France and Germany began a common market for coal and steel, the process of European integration has been thrown significantly into reverse. And it's thanks to a vote driven in large part by fears over immigration, as well as concerns about national sovereignty. Perhaps this referendum will force the EU to address the issues that have alienated so many working-class Europeans—but it's hard to imagine how they might. The eurozone has largely failed as a currency bloc during the post-financial crisis years because Europe hasn't been integrated enough. Now, the world's fifth-largest economy has declared that it was already integrated too much. And there's a palpable fear that Eurosceptic forces in other countries will follow the U.K.'s lead and demand their own referendums. Should Brussels push for an even closer union, as its technocrats would like, the backlash could come harder and faster.
Is this the beginning of the end for Europe? Not necessarily. But it's the end of a chapter—of an uninterrupted move to ever-closer union. And the world is frightened, because nobody knows what that means.


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Colombia defender Juan Zuniga has sent a message of support to Neymar amid criticism of the challenge which has ruled the Brazil talisman out of the rest of the World Cup.
Neymar suffered a fractured vertebra in a strong challenge from Zuniga near the end of Friday night's quarter-final clash in Fortaleza.
The right-back caught Neymar with a knee in his back that went unpunished during Brazil's 2-1 win and the Brazilian left the pitch on a stretcher and in tears.
FIFA's disciplinary committee is studying the challenge to decide on action against Zuniga, while Ronaldo, Brazil's former World Cup-winning striker, believes the Colombian intended to hurt Neymar.
Zuniga defended his challenge immediately after the match and on Saturday emphasised he had meant Neymar no harm.
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Zuniga said in an Instagram message.
'It resulted from a normal play and there was no bad intention, evil or recklessness from my part.
'I want to send a special salute to Neymar.
'I admire you, I respect you and I consider you one of the best players in the world.
'I hope you recover soon in order to continue to show us that in football there is a sport full of virtue and qualities, which I have put into practice since I was 12 years old and as a professional player.'
Zuniga also expressed gratitude to the Brazilian fans.
He said: 'To the Brazilian fans that have lost one of their players in the World Cup, I thank them for all the support they have given our national team in every game we have played here.'
The Colombia could yet find himself in hot water with FIFA, though.
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FIFA head of media Delia Fischer said: 'The disciplinary committee is analysing the matter. The spirit of fair play is very important and we want to avoid difficult things on the field of play.'
And Ronaldo branded the challenge 'aggressive' and 'violent'.
He told a news conference in Rio de Janeiro: 'The challenge was a very violent one - I believe there was an intention by the Colombian player to cause some harm.
'I don't think it was normal football play, I don't know whether he had planned this beforehand but I do believe it was very aggressive, very violent.'
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QPR manager Redknapp claimed in his recently-released autobiography that he sought out the then Swansea City boss to be his number two for England while still in his former post at Tottenham.
The scenario never came to fruition, however, as the Football Association opted for Roy Hodgson to replace Italian Fabio Capello instead in 2012.
And Liverpool manager Rodgers admits he would have thought about the offer had Redknapp been handed the reins, but denied he had already agreed to the proposal.
"My version was that April when I was manager at Swansea, Harry had asked me after the game when we played," he said.
"He pulled me aside and it was a unique conversation because he was obviously very confident - as was the nation - he was going to be offered the national team job.
"Here was a Premier League manager asking another Premier League manager to come and work with him at the European Championships.
"It was a quick conversation. I was aware he was very keen for me to team up with him if he was given the role.
"There was no decision either way. Out of the respect I have for Harry, I was going to consider it.
"He is a wonderful chemist, he knows what he wants from a team, knows the types of players and knows the exciting type of football and I think he wanted someone to come and implement those ideas.
"There was no answer yes or no, but I would have considered it for him.
"Obviously at the end of it all it was irrelevant as the job was given to Roy and he has done a brilliant job.
"I was really happy at Swansea. I had spoken to them about the possibility but it was something that after the appointment was made there were no further thoughts on it.
"I saw that if it was to happen it would be a unique opportunity to show British players could play football: they are technically and tactically very strong they just need that support and confidence to go and play that way."
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***SPOILERS*** Speeding along a lonely stretch of highway outside the
city limits of Vancouver Canada architect Vincent Eastman, Richard
Gere, reaches an intersection on the road as well as in his life as his
car swerves to avoid a stalled van and goes tumbling down an
embankment. Vincent's life goes flashing before his eyes as he as well
as us in the audience see the events over the last few years that lead
to what just happened to him.
Married to his boss' daughter Vincent went far in his father-in-laws building business but his marriage to Sally, Sharon Stone,had cooled off over the years. Being estranged from Sally yet working in the same office with her made life almost impossible for Vincent to take. Knowing that Sally was living with Richard, David Selby, and having Richard spend more time with his thirteen year old daughter Meaghan, Jennifer Morrison, then he did didn't make things better for him either.
Having an affair with magazine columnist Olivia Marshak, Lolita Davidovich, was also taking a toll on Vincent's life since he couldn't complain about Sally's affair with Richard which really disturbed Vincent to the point of almost being physically violent towards him. With a lot of thought and anguish Vincent painfully came to a final conclusion on what his decision on who to be with, Sally or Olivia, and puts it on paper.
Out in the country as Vincent was about to mail the letter to the women who he was going to spend the rest of his life with something strangely happened to him. Like a preordained vision that was conjured up for Vincent by destiny he saw who the woman in his life was to be and knew now what to do with his life and who to spend it with. Is was then that fate unexpectedly intervened and made it all right for everyone involved, Vincent Sally & Olivia, but sadly at the expense of Vincent's life.
Haunting eerie and original love story that, despite it's slow pace, will really move you like it did me and many of the reviewers on the IMDb in the end. Richard Gere is both sensitive and explosive as the emotionally drained Vincent who has to make up his mind, to keep from losing it, between Sally and Olivia but who has his decision made up for him by circumstances beyond and far out of his control.
Sharon Stone gives one of her best performances ever as Sally Eastman Vincent's estranged wife. Sally in the end somewhat realizes the truth about Vincent's feelings for her but, touchingly so, keeps it to herself as well as from Olivia. And Lolita Davidovich is both sexy and caring as Vincent's lover Olivia. Who unknown to Sally knows what Vincent really felt about her after he wrote, what turned out to be, his last will and testament which Sally quietly ripped up and threw down a storm drain as the movie ended.
As a consummate and long-time fan of Richard Gere's, this was a 'must have' for me and the acquisition was not a disappointment. As usual, Richard gave an excellent performance, for which I am never disappointed. Sharon Stone and Lolita Davidovich were great choices for the female characters and effectively displayed the contrast between the personalities of the women. This movie contained real aspects to a person's dilemma's in relationships...from a sterile, business 'association' with his first wife to a passionate and truly loving 'real-life' affair with the woman he met in a chance encounter. The drama of the accident was well done and suspenseful. In the end, the most touching aspect was that neither woman wished to hurt the other by disclosing what they each believed to be true - both were loved and wanted. I enjoyed it very much and it is a much-watched movie in my home with all actors performing excellently. I would recommend this to anyone who enjoys a love story which is true to real-life.
I'm not quite sure what this movie's about. I'm not saying that I suspect
that I missed some deep, subtle secret concealed within the narrative that
only a select few will ever grasp (this, I assume, is true of the alleged
comedy that I've missed in various 'comedic' films) -- rather, I'm just not
entirely sure that this film delivers what it might have had it had a more
coherent flow and some semblance of actually going anywhere. Not that that
sentence that I just penned is a great example of those qualities, but I
The movie features fine performances from all involved, including Lolia Davidovich and Sharon Stone and the pretty-much-always excellent Richard Gere. Gere's character is convincing and real, but perhaps a tad too real because he's a pretty wishy-washy fellow and his is not the most compelling of roles. Then again, neither is anyone else's, really. The two female leads get marginally more to wrap their skills around, but the whole is way less than the sum of its parts.
A 98-minute film, "Intersection" seems a lot longer and I found myself calculating time-elapsed and time-remaining at more than one point. Hardly a good sign. Sure, there are no Ramboesque explosions and car chases (though a high-speed driving theme is at the movie's heart) but I'm not the type of male who has to have that kind of thing to keep me engaged. A story might be nice, though. I mean, a story that hangs together. In the absence of much direction, and in the presence of multiple and confusing layers of flashback, the actors' great work is sabotaged. It just doesn't really seem to go anywhere.
When the film finished I felt the sentiment echoed in that old Peggy Lee song..."Is that all there is?" And I don't like Peggy Lee, darn it!
Intersection started with a disadvantage in that it's a remake of one
of my favorite films, Les Choses de la Vie. The original uses a
terrible car crash (one of the best ever filmed) as a starting point
for a series of flashbacks and reflections on the turning point in an
architects life, when the relationship that ended his marriage is in
danger of self-destructing because of his inability to make an effort.
But where the accident is that film's focal point, replayed in various
different ways as a kind of inescapable destiny, in Intersection it is
used almost as an afterthought to bring some resolution to a mundane
soap opera about an indecisive man torn between his career-conscious
wife and his more liberal lover (though I wonder if that may be
last-minute re-editing into a more linear structure to 'save' the film
since its original release date was pushed back).
It's not a case of not giving the film a chance - there have been interesting re-workings of European films by Hollywood before - or expecting a raunchfest because of Gere or Stone's presence. It's just that it's really not very good.
The result isn't exactly unwatchable, but it is overwritten, over scored and surprisingly uncinematic. Rydell gives the film plenty of gloss but few cinematic flourishes, concentrating on the seen-it-all-before romance in a way that seems more TV movie of the week than anything worth paying to see on the big screen. Sharon Stone is superb as the ex-wife and Davidovitch does well as the lover despite some unfortunate and unnecessary scenes towards the end that undermine her character to make Gere look good - which brings me to the film's major failing. Gere's character and performance. Gere can act and has done good work, but this is an especially shallow and by-the-numbers ego trip more than a performance. Aside from being the screen's most unconvincing architect (and that includes Woody Harrelson in Indecent Proposal), the smug, self, narcissistic performance here prevents us from ever caring about whether the character lives or dies. Even the film's one nearly successful scene at a post office when he can't decide whether to post an important letter is ultimately destroyed by his hammy grandstanding phone call at the end of it.
Not that the script is any help. Scenes are overwritten, achingly obvious and horribly predictable, with everything spelled out in broad strokes. Ultimately you're just left wandering from predictable scene to predictable scene with little interest. Slick, watchable, forgettable, the final insult is that the novel and Claude Sautet film this misfire is based on is only acknowledged at the very, very end of the credits when no-one is likely to spot it. That said, the filmmakers are probably grateful not to be associated with this one...
This unpopular film showcases wonderfully nuanced performances that flesh
out a simple story with an interesting twist. Multiple flashbacks (or
shifting timescape) delineate the story, making for a complex movie, but the
patient viewer is rewarded in the end.
Richard Gere, Sharon Stone, and Lolita Davidovich breathe life into the three corners of a love triangle. Stone is especially good as the calculating Sally, whose formidable personality holds together only at the fast pace of high-end social and professional success. Gere manifests the ambiguity of a man who must choose not only between women but between parts of his soul. Spirited Davidovich is very appealing as a vital woman deeply connected to fundamental contentedness and freedom.
Some philosophy is in order when considering this intimate, thoughtful film. It portrays various aspects of the human condition without embodying them. For instance, Richard Gere plays a man in the grip of profound indecision, but director Mark Rydell's hand is sure and his intent clear (`Whatever you're going to do, do it!'). The movie compresses the many small but meaningful moments that make up a lifetime into a taut montage of images flashing before the viewer's eyes, evoking the close link between life, time, and death. It shows how the simplest, smallest gesture can trigger an epiphany of profound meaning as someone struggles to find clarity in their life. Best of all, the movie illustrates how, even in tragedy, everyone can come away with something positive worth clinging to, whether it's a message on an answering machine, a hurtful letter undelivered, or a plunge into the depths of peace.
I thought this film was quite good, not slow or dull by any means. It's
as solid and entertaining as most "top rated" modern films of similar
genre. Maybe a bit too subtle for some people? There seems to be a
problem with shortening attention spans.
There is a well controlled air of the unknown through the whole thing. The rain-soaked scenery is compelling, the acting is realistic and the final sequence is powerfully done. You never quite know what's going to happen, which to me makes a good film.
Did it get bad press before it was even released? I think people sometimes go in with a bias that has no explanation. Theaters themselves can spoil movies by way of unruly viewers and other distractions. Just going to the wrong place on the wrong night can give a movie a bad rep. Get a big screen TV or projector and tune all that out.
Richard Gere stars in this American-made remake of the 1970 film Les Choses de la vie of French Director Claude Sautet based on the novel by Paul Guimard. This time around Mark Rydell, who enjoyed success with On Golden Pond, Cinderella Liberty, The Rose and The Reivers among others is the director. Sharone Stone, Lolita Davidavich and Martin Landau round out the cast but this is clearly a Richard Gere film. Although I'm generally not a fan of Gere he is excellent in this. This does have the feel of a European film and although I've never seen the original I would like to. I'd likely find it better as a whole. This is a good drama and although not a big movie it has a good look to it. I would give this a 7.0 on a scale of 10 for it's likable story and performance by Richard Gere,
This film is a vastly superior remake of a French film called "Les
Choses de La Vie" by Claude Sautet starring Michel Piccoli and Romy
Schneider. I had known the original film for many years because of its
theme music....which is absolutely magnificent, and composed by
Philippe Sarde. The film itself is really a load of slow, boring and
tedious crap ........a car accident is repeated in slow motion I don't
know how many times but enough to drive one mad on that score alone !
Also it was very repetitive and had little deep character development.
In short, its saving grace was its soundtrack !!!
Intersection, on the other hand, which I saw when it came out in Cinemas in France and subsequently bought on DVD has always been a great favorite of mine ! So much better than the Les Choses de La Vie that to compare the two is, quite frankly, a total waste of time. To be truthful, when I saw Intersection, I did not make the connection with Les Choses de La Vie, such was the greatness of Intersection compared to the banality of the other film ! It's only by reading about the film that I discovered this.
From what appears to be a relatively limited plot, we have magnificent performances from the three principal actors, especially the two ladies ! Of course the red-haired Olivia Marchak was an absolute beauty, but even Sharon Stone, whom I don't usually like in films, had something attractive about her ! Gere had a weak, cowardly and annoying character ( I don't like seeing people cheat on their wives ) but I must admit he played the part very well. I was especially subdued by Olivia, both by her physical beauty and here quasi-unflappable character in what could have been tense situations.
The final fifteen to twenty minutes of the film is the best part because ......you know it's going to happen .....but you don't want it to ......but it's destiny. I liked the bit about the letter he wrote to Olivia but never posted plus the message he left on Olivia's ansafone but where SHaron Stone came by accident into possession of the letter which was written but never posted. All that really got to me at the end and filled me with a strange emotion somewhere between happiness and sadness and is very difficult to describe. By this deft twist of the plot, each of the Ladies believed he loved ......her !! An excellent way to finish the film.
I have watched the film four or five times and each time I am filled with the same emotion .....so there must be something there !
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I'm not sure what it takes to be critical of a movie like this. Maybe it's inexperience in life. SPOILERS: Maybe if you've never lost a dear love and don't know what it feels like to have your knees buckle when told they are dead, you wouldn't appreciate the emotion and acting that is conveyed in this script. Also, I never considered this to be a boring movie at all. It's a love story. It had a three tissue ending, but I don't consider that to be a downfall. Richard Gere and Sharon Stone are great. I've seen this film three times now and still think it's a strong 9 out of 10! Don't avoid it because of the negative reviews here. Give it your own scrutiny.
The character development was so good that you could feel Vincent's conflicted emotion as he was torn between reconciling with his classy, ultra-conservative, society, professional wife Sally or starting a new life with the casual, free-spirited, fun-loving, girl-next-door Olivia. I had incorrectly guessed that the ending would be a predictably contrived cop-out, but found instead that it wrapped up all of the story lines in a creative, yet plausible way (for the movies) without any gimmicks or redirection.
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