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Unfortunately, I did not get to cover all of the Massachusetts Independent Film Festival. Still, the Boston Film Industry Examiner counts himself lucky to have been part of it at all. My account of Day 1 is linked here.
Day 3 took place at the Brattle in Cambridge. It is like the Somerville Theater where the first two days were held, an intimate and pleasant venue. Indeed, an idyllic spot in spite of being in Cantabrigia where parking is a blood sport.
Once one got by that atrocity, the films on offer were worth it. In this space, the Boston film Industry Examiner would like to highlight a few.
The festival continues showing strong documentaries. There are a lot of headaches to putting on a film festival in this country, but government suppression is not one of them. Director Yijun He brought her When You Can't See the Film. Indie filmmakers have to have courage in the Middle Kingdom, and they do.
A Chair Fit For an Angel is about an almost extinct sect that still has a hold on many imaginations. Though the founder of the Shakers was English, the denomination was a truly American phenomenon. That said, the impact in these latter days transcends continent and nationality. Francophone filmmaker Raymond St.Jean explores many threads. In Finland, he highlights the work of choreographer Tero Saarinen's Shaker influenced Borrowed Light dance piece. Musician Joel Cohen has drawn inspiration from the group. His commentary informs the film and he was present for the Q and A.
There were several foreign films, but too many to be fair to all. NUIT / BETON by Noe Weil is a psycho thriller about a drug dealer being squeezed by his supplier for monetary tardiness. The supplier is in control of his employee until he isn't. A lesson for sociopaths everywhere, don't use zip ties as handcuffs.
Okay, I admit, I was a little worried. MassIFF to truly be MassIFF had to show me some blood and gore and it was taking some time. Lance Marshall's The Demon Deep in Oklahoma took care of that. Katie is beset by a nocturnal fiend and brother Wes is there as an anchor through her nights of hell. Wes' friend Tommy arrives. Tommy upsets whatever fragile equilibrium exists.
The penultimate offering, director Pete Yagmin's Dark Roast was short and not too sweet. Dianna Porter plays death again. She is not the sensitive comforter of souls we saw in Devil May Care. In DR the lass is la- di-da, it's what she does. Her new boyfriend, played by Shaun Callaghan, has a problem with it, but not for long.
The final screening was all too poignant. Most of us have an early dream that is abandoned when it becomes obvious we aren't going to be Wayne Gretzky, to give an example.
Music is another matter. The dream can persist even when there is no economic hope. Director Frankie Frain's Having Fun Up There is the chronicle of that life. Jon Ryan as Mark is the guy. He is cursed by his accurate self-awareness. He knows that it is time, in the words of Lenny Bruce, to "grow up and sell out," but he won't or can't separate.
Maria Natapov, MasIFF's interviewer, co-stars as the train wreck of a girl friend. Hana Carpenter is Jon's biggest fan. Maybe if she had not seen value in our hero's work, it would have been easier to face reality.
As a supporter of local indie, I live in hope and prepare for disappointment. It is a reason to celebrate when something unique comes around. Having Fun Up There was a bittersweet pleasure. Everyone over 35 knows a Mark. I don't know if Team MassIFF had this in mind saving it for the last movie of the day, but it worked.
Having Fun Up There won for best writing (congratulations Frankie Frain and Geoff Tarulli) as well as Best New England Film.
The Boston Film Industry Examiner, much to his regret, had to miss the last day, including the after party at Tasty Burger just down the street.
Ah well, a year of anticipation until MassIFF 2015, and no parking problems to worry about till then.


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Here's What Copy and Paste Will Be Like on Windows Phone 7
If you're following the latest news in the Windows Phone 7 launch, chances are you have been told that copy and paste was not included in the original release but will be the main feature in a new update coming in early 2011, possibly as early as January. Up until yesterday, it was still a mystery as to how it would be implemented. Since this update is now being seeded to developers, a new video surfaced that shows the whole process.
And it does make complete sense in how you go about using the UI to perform a copy/paste function. Here are a few pics to show off the Metro UI with copy and paste, as well as the video, all courtesy PocketNow. Sadly we don't see any other features highlighted that could come in this update, if there are even any other features that are in the works. But this is a start, and we imagine that now this video is out, it won't be long before we see others that showcase other parts of the same update.
That is, if copy/paste isn't the only thing coming in the new update. Here's another shot showing off the copy function just in the same list as delete and forward. It just makes more sense that way, frankly.
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Hilzenrath [2] opened his February 28 article explaining that as Raines was about to step on board as Fannie Maes CEO in the summer of 1998, company officials alerted him to the mortgage brokers lackluster performance on Wall Street. At that time, earnings per share for 1998 would fall short of two important targets: the $3.21 that Wall Street was expecting and the $3.23 that would trigger maximum funding of management bonuses, so company managers massaged the books in order to deliver the maximum payout of $27.1 million in management bonuses.
The Post business reporter explained that As with many companies, Fannies reported profits were largely a function of complex estimates that could be squeezed or stretched. The catch-up which related to changes in the value of loans Fannie owned was among the most important of those figures.
Hilzenrath later noted a Jan. 8, 1999, meeting where the accounting practices were discussed by top executives, including Raines and Jamie S. Gorelick, who was then vice chairman of the company and who has also served in senior positions in the Clinton administration.
Yet Rainess tenure as Clintons Office of Management and Budget director and his numerous campaign contributions to liberal Democrats eluded Hilzenraths notice. According to the Federal Election Commission [3] Web site, both Raines and Gorelick donated regularly to liberal Democrats running for Congress.
The media went wild over Enrons accounting scandal, but Fannie Mae was not just another Enron. It was much larger, with a cozy relationship to the federal government. Fannie Mae will have to compensate for $11 billion in accounting errors. To put this in perspective, Enron overstated its earnings by $567 million: 5 percent of Fannie Maes fiasco, The Business & Media Institute noted in its April 2005 study.
Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were originally established as elements of the federal government, explained real estate writer Peter G. Miller in an article in the February 28 Realty Times [4]. Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are owned by private shareholders and yet have unique marketplace privileges stemming from their government days In practice, investors believe that because of their size and history, financial trouble for Fannie Mae would lead to a federal bailout.
Meanwhile, the media have continued to bail out Democratic supporters with ties to scandal.
To read BMIs 2005 study of Fannie Mae coverage, Government-Sponsored Enron, click here [5].


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'The Legend of Korra,' Season 1, Episode 5, 'The Spirit of Competition': TV Recap
The lead characters show a romantic side in "The Spirit of Competition," the newest episode of "The Legend of Korra."
The Fire Ferrets are advancing in the tournament and are working well together as a unit. But will love get in the way of teamwork?
Korra has feelings for Mako but doesn't really know how or if she should express them. She consults the children and wife of her airbending master, Tenzin, and they advise her to make her feelings known.
She does, and that doesn't turn out well. Mako says he doesn't feel the same way, and adds that he's with Asami now (but from the expression on his face, and the tone of his voice, we can sense that he's conflicted).
Bolin is the right man in the right place, and, in a touching and funny scene, he unselfconsciously spills his feelings about Korra, while praising her and giving her ego a needed boost. He's loads of laughs, she wants to have some distraction and amusement, so they go out have and have some fun, eating water tribe food, seeing the sites, and burping in polite company.
Mako confronts Korra and asks her to stop toying with his brother. But Korra sees that Mako's only upset because he really has feeling for her. She grabs her opportunity and kisses him, and he seems to kiss back. The only problem is that his brother Bolin was watching the whole time, and runs away crying. Yes, crying.
At the next match, leading into the final, the team is discombobulated. The brothers are knocked out, but, after a healthy dunking, reconcile. Korra manages to fight them into the finals, and all three Fire Ferrets find common ground again.
They'll have to be on their game for the pro-bending finals. They'll be up against an imposing team–and the defending champs.
With this episode, "The Legend of Korra," takes a step beyond "Avatar: The Last Airbender" in terms of emotional depth. There was some romance in the first series, but in "Korra," it's much more pronounced. These are teens, and teens fall in love–and sometimes that fall is fast and furious.
Still, I wonder if some of the tweens that loved the first "Avatar" will be bored or turned off by the romance in "Korra."
I actually found the romantic triangle between the brothers and Korra to be more real and heartfelt than, say, the barechested vampire-werewolf love of the "Twilight" films. The characters in "Korra" have all the awkwardness and openheartedness of youth, and they fumble for words and actions to express their feelings. By contrast, the sentiment in the "Twilight" movies can come across as over-the-top (the book version is more detailed and interesting).
I find myself looking forward to where "The Legend of Korra" will go next…and we didn't even deal with Amon this episode.
What do you think? Leave your thoughts in the comments.
Christoper John Farley is the Journal's senior editorial director for digital features. Follow him on Twitter at @cjfarley,


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With the features of "WWE 2K15" still unknown to the media and gamers alike, here's a few cool features that could make the game truly shine.
DLC Run-Ins: This has to be explained. The creation of the WWE Network has allowed fans to connect with stars they never knew existed. While the unannounced roster is sure to be larger than ever, why not have "surprise" characters just pop up in gameplay? What would be cooler than having to DL an update and then play an exhibition match, or even something more specific- and have someone new appear in the game to kick your rear?
Here's an example:
Let's just say you wrestle a match between retro Sting and old-school Hogan and Lex Luger hits the ring, just like he did for the first Monday Nitro? Little Easter eggs like that could recreate the unpredictability of pro wrestling better than any wrestling game ever has before.
Create Your Own Entrance Video: Using the PlayStation 4 camera or footage from the WWE Network, gamers can make their own entrance videos for their created stars. Just like the create-a-wrestler option has opened a slew of gameplay opportunities, this could too. Plus, it could be fun.
Incorporate Rare Titles: This would help with the nostalgia for the game, but could you imagine defending the old NWA three-man tag titles or the Florida Championship Wrestling 15-minute Iron Man title, online? Insane would be the right word.
Constant Updates: Just like the "NBA 2K" series is wonderfully updated, why can't 2K keep the titles and factions fresh, as well as the move sets? Sure, it would require more work, but why the hell not? A ticker revealing updates from RAW, Smackdown and NXT would be cool too.
"WWE 2K15" is set for a October 28 release in North America and will ship on October 31 internationally.
So what do you think of our gameplay suggestions? Sound off in the comments section below and let us know.


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Now that my kids are getting bigger I have been putting quite a bit of detail into their birthday parties.
Sheldon's 2nd birthday was in June 2011. Since Sheldon was able to walk all he wants to do is play with his TOOLS, BUILD things, and play CONSTRUCTION games. He walks around our house with his tools in his hand "fixing" everything, we had dents all over our walls to prove it. He wants to be just like Daddy :)
So of course we thought of incorporating his love for construction into his party. I hope you enjoy!
When each child arrived for "CLOCK IN" they were given a Construction hat with their name on it and a foam power tool. They had a choice from a chain saw, drill, circular saw, and impact wrench.
I bought the hard hats and foam power tools from Oriental Trading Company, and then I designed name tags and printed them on clear labels to attach to the hats.
We had two different activites for the kids to do.
One was put together and paint a dinosaur. My husband and dad spent hours design, cutting and sanding tiny little pieces of wood to make 20+ Dinos for the kids.
The other activity was a build a construction site sticker sheet. I got these from Oriental Trading Company and the kids had so much fun with them. The left over stickers they used to decorate their hats.
Each kid had their very own "Construction" lunch bag.
Lunch was a "Construction" style lunch which included a juice box, ham sandwich, bag of chips and an apple.
The cake and cupcakes my sister and I made. Inside the cake was chocolate and vanilla dyed yellow and Orange buttercream. The Cupcakes were cookies and cream since they looked like dirt :)
All around the house I had little things to do with construction. We used buckets to hold the chips and popcorn, pylons to hold balloons and sign. The signs around the house were "Dump Everything, Sheldon is turing Two", "Clock In", "Clock Out", "Lunch Break", "Dig", "Fix", "Work Zone", "Play Zone" etc.
I also made the invitations I didn't get a picture of the actual invite before I sent them out but I do have the computer design.


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SIM free HTC One SV with LTE available in the UK now
HTC's latest LTE-capable smartphone, the One SV, can be bought in the UK as of now.
Retailer Clove is offering the handset SIM-free, for £349.99 (about €431 or $567), allowing you to choose between two color versions: white and blue.
Apart from LTE, the HTC One SV features a 4.3 inch Super LCD2 display with 800 x 480 pixels and Gorilla Glass, Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich (hopefully upgradeable to Jelly Bean), HSPA, dual band Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n, GPS, NFC, Bluetooth 4.0, Beats Audio, 5MP rear camera, 1.6MP front-facing camera, 1.2GHz dual-core processor, 1GB of RAM, 8GB of internal memory, and MicroSD card support (up to 32GB). The handset measures 128 x 66.9 x 9.2 mm, weighs 122 grams, and comes with a 1,800 mAh battery.
Amazon UK will also offer the One SV (for the same price as Clove), but only starting January 7.
It remains to be seen if EE (which is providing LTE services in the UK since last year) will sell the One SV, too.
Starting this month, the One SV should be also available in Germany, Switzerland, and Austria.
Later this year, the HTC One SV will be reportedly released in the US by Boost Mobile, as one of the prepaid operator's first LTE devices. We'll let you know exactly when it happens.


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Feb. 24, 2013
STANFORD, Calif. - Bobby Zarubin's 11 strikeouts in 6.2 innings on the mound.
Zarubin (1-0) replaced Stanford starter Logan James, who faced 13 batters in the opening 2.0 innings and scattered four hits and three runs - two earned - with one walk.
Zarubin was effective with his splitter and surrendered one earned run on five hits before giving way to Sam Lindquist in the ninth. Lindquist induced the final Fresno State (1-4) out for the save.
Two of Stanford's 10 hits came from Austin Slater, including a second-inning solo home run to cut into Fresno State's lead, 3-1. The Bulldogs scored three runs with James on the mound in the first two innings.
Slater doubled down the leftfield line to start the fourth, Alex Blandino knocked an infield single and Lonnie Kauppila drove in a run to make it a 3-2 game in favor of the Bulldogs.
Three hits led to a pair of scores in the fourth as Stanford took the lead, 4-3. Justin Ringo doubled to left, advanced to second and scored on a wild pitch by Tyler Stirewalt. It was Stirewalt's first pitch after he replaced Tim Borst. Borst started for Fresno State and gave up six hits in 5.1 innings.
Tyler Linehan replaced Stirewalt later in the sixth only to see Wayne Taylor notch an RBI single.
Aaron Judge paced the Bulldogs with a 5-for-5 showing and three RBI. Judge homered in the seventh to tie the game at 4-4.
Taylor's second hit came in the eighth with a one-out RBI double to score Drew Jackson.
Diekroeger was 0-for-3 before stepping to the plate in the eighth and cranked his two-run shot to right to provide a few insurance runs for the Cardinal.
Brian Ragira, Slater and Ringo each improved their current hitting streak to four games. Ragira has reached base safely in each of this season's seven contests.
Slater now leads the Cardinal with four multi-hit games. The freshman went 6-for-12 with a .917 slugging pct. in the three-game series.
Stanford travels to St. Mary's for a non-conference baseball meeting set to start at 2 p.m. (PT) on Tuesday.


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Marvin H. Hall, 85, of Medina, passed away Sunday, February 3, 2013.
Marvin was a member of the Medina Seven Day Adventist Church. He also was a member of the Medina Moose Lodge #647, and one of the original charter members of the Medina Izaac Walton League. A complete obituary appeared in an earlier edition of The Medina Gazette.
A Memorial Service will be held on Friday, April 5, 2013, please note change in time to 12 Noon, at Waite and Son Funeral Home, 765 N. Court St., Medina. Pastor Chester Hitchcock will officiate. The family will also receive friends one hour prior to the service. Burial will be in the National Cemetery.
"Rest in Peace, Marvin"


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Hardin-Simmons' men's basketball team saw its seven-game winning streak against Howard Payne come to an end with an 85-80 loss on Saturday afternoon in American Southwest Conference action at the Brownwood Coliseum.
HSU jumped out to an early 19-8 lead and led by as many as 12 at 26-14 with 7:52 to play in the first half. However, HPU used a 16-4 run to take a 30-28 with 3:22 to play in the first half. The run was capped by a Donovan Ford 3-pointer. The Cowboys led 35-33 at halftime.
The Cowboys pushed its lead to 44-37 early in the second half before HPU started to chip away and the Jackets eventually took a 60-59 lead on a Brandon Gould layup with 9:28 to play.
Eric Taylor's 3-pointers gave HSU its final lead of the game at 72-71 with 2:53 to play. HPU then scored the next seven points and closed the game with five of six at the free throw line in the final 30 seconds. The game featured six ties and nine lead changes.
Howard Payne won the game with a huge difference at the free throw line. HPU made 26-of-37, while the Cowboys were just 10-of-18. HPU outscored HSU 23-10 in fast break points and had a 23-13 advantage in bench scoring.
Eric Taylor led the Cowboys with a career-best 31 points and Andy Spears had 15 points and 15 rebounds for his fifth double-double in the last six games. John Derr added 11 points and went over the 1,000-point mark for his career.
Christian Davis led the Yellow Jackets with 19 points. Brandon Gould added 14 points, eight assists, six rebounds and five steals and Ross Whittet added 11 points.
HSU is now 14-9 on the season and 11-6 in ASC action. HPU improved to 7-16 overall and 5-12 in ASC play. The Cowboys close the regular season next week at Texas Lutheran and Schreiner.
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main_set table has all the ids,
user_input table has all user entered ids.
I want result of ids that exist in user_input table. If nothing in user_input table then I want all the ids from main_input table.
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For going into winter... How much do you figure an 8 frame nuc should weigh?
For going into winter... How much do you figure an 8 frame nuc should weigh?
I would guestimate 40 pounds or maybe more. That should give 2 combs for brood and clustering with the other 6 for stores. Maybe 50 pounds. 6 frames stores should be 40 pounds, then the weight of the box and bottom and lids. I'd say 40 pounds as a minimum.
Live life with gusto, having no regrets, being thankful every day, and cherish each moment as it happens.
I always judge what the bees need by the size of the cluster. How many frames of bees are in the eight frame nuc? In my location I need at least a frame of capped stores outside the cluster for every frame of bees in the cluster just to not starve and I prefer two frames of capped stores so they have plenty to build up in the spring.
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>Excuse my ignorance , but can cluster size be determined by counting frames w/bees on the top bar?
Sort of. If you have three frames in an eight frame box that have bees half way across that's about 1 1/2 frames. But I can assume, since it's one box, that they don't go down much further. In an eight frame medium box that is in a four box hive, with bees on eight frames, I may not be able to make that assumption as they probably span more than one box. In the end it's an estimate, of course.
> Can this be done before cold weather arrives or will the cluster be a different size in cold weather?
It does contract more in cold weather. I'm usually looking at it in moderately cold, but not freezing weather and then try to make allowances for differences in temperature that day. The cluster gets tighter as it gets colder, but I'm just looking at when they start clustering, like in the 40s F or so.
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1. Sergio Romo is the closer for the San Francisco Giants — a fiery guy, who wears his heart on his sleeve.
2. He received a lot of attention for wearing an "I just look illegal," T-shirt during the team's championship parade last year as commentary on the hot topic of immigration.
Romo, whose father is the son of Mexican migrant farmworkers, was raised in the border town of Brawley, Calif.
You cannot tell who looks "illegal." No human being is illegal. Thank u, @SergioRomo54. #GoGiants @DefineAmerican— Jose Antonio Vargas (@joseiswriting)
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You cannot tell who looks "illegal." No human being is illegal. Thank u, @SergioRomo54. #GoGiants @DefineAmerican
4. Now he's teamed up with Three Twins Ice Cream for Sergio Romo's Mexican Chocolate: "It only tastes illegal."
5. The Three Twins Ice Cream Facebook page was hilarious about it.
In the comments, the company said that it doesn't think it'll be able to sell the ice cream at Giants games because it's not affiliated with the team. But both fans and ice cream aficionados alike were pumped about the flavor and the commentary.
- Ex-London mayor Boris Johnson has dramatically ruled himself out of the race to be the next Conservative UK prime minister.
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The introduction of a new generation of a model like the Ford Mustang may be exciting enough in its own right for enthusiasts, but that's just the tip of the proverbial iceberg, because you know that Ford itself as well as numerous aftermarket tuners will soon follow up with even more desirable versions. And few Mustang tuners carry quite the same clout of Saleen.
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War and Peace
by Leo Tolstoy
Analysis: Steaminess Rating
Exactly how steamy is this story?
OK, there isn't any full frontal here, but trust us, the book gets pretty explicit about the things people do for their sexual urges. But don't take our word for it. All you have to do is take one gander at the scene when Pierre can't stop thinking about Helene's naked body and what it would be like to get it on with her (Chapter 2.3.1). And then another gander at the way Anatole undresses Natasha with his eyes while she enjoys every second of it (Chapter 2.5.10). Now that is some seriously steamy stuff for the 19th century. Suffice it to say that this book assumes that it's talking to an audience of grownups who know a thing or two about what desire is like and how all-consuming it can be.


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- Final Fantasy XII - The Zodiac Age
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War is a grueling affair. We all know that. And some know it better than others. Those who don't know what war is like should never find out. But wars in video games are a different kind of experience altogether. War games are essentially the real thing - without the inconvenience of getting a chronic case of arthritis from crouching in the mud for three months in the pouring rain. When a development team goes about making any game, they realize that the game is supposed to be fun, and in order to make a fun war-simulation game, it must capture a sense of realism, but without all the nagging frustrations of real life operations. For instance, it's quite common in war to wait a lot. Instead of that enemy patrol appearing right on schedule (as it would in a video game) you would often have to wait for 2-3 hours, crouching in the mud ... in the pouring rain.
Most developers know that if you were playing a game that required you to wait around that long, you'd eventually say "ah, the hell with it" after about 30 minutes of sitting on your ass and doing nothing, so why is it that the Czech team of developers at Pterodon decided to experiment with this widely accepted premise?
Hailed as the most realistic military sim to date, Vietcong was supposed to "conquer your fears in the realistic environments of a lethal and vengeful war zone," and make you "stay alert or your next step could trigger one of over a dozen terrifying traps!" I realize that Vietnam was no picnic for the US troops. I realize also that the damned tunnel networks built by the Vietcong were about the nastiest places for a firefight in the world, but there's no point in making certain aspects of gameplay overly realistic, while some others are hampered by the inadequacies of a clunky 3D engine and the AI code. But we'll get to that later...
Vietcong is mission-based, and essentially, it is build around a very consistent game world that immerses the player in the sultry Vietnam jungles. You're not thrown headlong into the action the instant your chopper touches down. You'll get to know your base first and your comrades as well. The overall design of the game carries a very strong sentiment of American 'Nam movies and the developers have done an excellent job of easing the players into the game - making them feel like they're a part of the game world. Each of your squad members is an individual and not just another faceless trooper in a sense that you will relate to them in the later stages of the game, and feel as if you're truly a part of a team. Vietcong is a gritty and straightforward war game, and it isn't nearly as disjointed as the single-player campaigns in Delta Force: BHD or RS3: Raven Shield. The story is there, the characters are real, and the environments are lush and realistic. The maps are huge and feel very unrestricted, which adds a lot to the sense of player's in-game freedom. There are no GPS navigational systems or anything like that; you have your old-fashioned greasy map and compass to show you the way. In one of the first missions, I remember taking the wrong way and ending up in a village two miles away from the action. The beauty of it all was that there was actually a village there, and there was no invisible wall to stop me.
Besides doing an excellent job on making you feel a part of the game world, the team at Pterodon has managed to design some rather exciting missions as well. Well, some of them are anyway. The gameplay places heavy emphasis on team combat, as each of your team members belongs to a certain class (think Team Fortress, BF1942). You have the medic, engineer, radio man, point man, etc. Each of your team members is a specialist in their respective fields; they'll use common military tactics, and will be essential to clearing out certain areas in the game. The gameplay is at times very intense and dramatic - highly reminiscent of jungle warfare.
Adding even more realism and flare to the combat are the excellently balanced weapons. The unique properties of the rifles (M1 Garand and Carabine, Winchester 70, etc.) and the assault rifles (M-16 and Thomson M1), as well as their varying accuracy and recoil intensity will heavily influence the tactics you choose to employ during heavy fire fights. In designing the in-game arsenal the Czech team showed an amazing effort to piece together all the important information for both the US, and Russian guns used by the VC. The heavy machinegun, the Browning Caliber .50 for instance, they found in the British Royal Museum archives. Also, while they were on location in Vietnam, they had the opportunity to visit numerous army museums to further their research. The end result is one of the most balanced and most realistic arsenals I've ever tried in a video game.
Up to a point, the execution of Pterodon's design plan worked just fine. The player models are made to move realistically; they can crouch, go prone, and instead of simply vertically jumping over logs; like most computer models do; they will use their hands to swing their bodies over logs, like most people would do in real life (you achieve this by moving forward and holding down the 'jump' button a wee bit longer). Who knows, this could've been the best military shooter ever if the designers didn't eventually make some crucial mistakes, which damn-nearly ruined the whole experience for me.
For one, the team AI doesn't always work the way it's supposed to, and although the enemies are rather smart over distances, they are dumber than dirt when you rush them and get up close and personal. The team AI essentially works fine, but it also operates on some rather simple and fragile routines. For instance, your point man, Nhut, will always stop when it has a VC soldier in his sight; even though the soldier is very far away and is completely unaware of your presence. What this means is that your offensive, and consequently, chances of an ambush will be completely thwarted by your teammates who will just crouch there and be very alert of the enemy soldier - who is far away, and doesn't care about them. Now, this wouldn't be all bad, if the 'follow me' command; which is incorporated in the game; would work properly, but it doesn't. For some reason my teammates often didn't want to follow me even though there was clearly a need for us to move. All this is making the gameplay look scripted and it's in sharp contrast with the unrestricted feel of the maps, and the immersive nature of the game world. Not to mention that my poor comrades would often get stuck in enemy ditches and wouldn't know how to get out. They would simply hop in there like bunny rabbits until one of them hopped on the other one's head, consequently getting out, only to follow some imaginary route and end up in the very same ditch from which he finally hopped out.
In addition, the VC will flank, duck and look for cover, but they'll often let you come VERY close to them without ever noticing you, even when you rush them head on in broad daylight. On a few occasions, an enemy soldier was so busy firing at my teammates (who were far away), that he didn't pay any attention to the fact that I was in his field of view, running and pointing a really big gun at him. Now this is hardly what I'd call realistic combat.
On the other hand, while exhibiting all these AI flaws, Vietcong tries its best to bring to life some of the more frustrating experiences of the Vietnam conflict. For example, in one of the levels the player is left all alone to wander through VC tunnels, while there are booby traps and VC soldiers all over the place. If you're a claustrophobic person by any chance, I strongly recommend skipping this mission and letting someone else finish it for you. Yes, it was hell for the soldiers that were there, and I'm sure Pterodon designed this level with the best of intensions, but there is a fine line between enjoying the immersive and realistic atmosphere of a video game, and getting frustrated by some of the aspects of the Vietnam war that have no place in a video game.
The 3D engine is far from perfect. It offers very choppy frame rates (even on high-end machines) at the expense of some dated visuals. The models and textures look unappealing. The general art design is not that bad, it's just that the 3D code itself is highly unoptimized and dated. The game supposedly supports hardware TnL, but I didn't see any differences when it was turned on, nor is the game much different when you turn on the 32-bit textures (except for the fact that the average frame rate goes down considerably). Pterodon could've simply licensed the Quake 3 code and saved themselves some trouble, not to mention that the next-gen Unreal code would've been perfect for this game. The lush vegetation in the game looks spritey and plain, and to top it all off, you can't move through even the smallest of bushes. It's as if you ran into a concrete wall, and it seems you cannot kill enemy soldiers through them either. Besides just looking old, the game would unfortunately often crash to the desktop and even reset my PC, which hardly helps to enhance the gameplay experience.
The sounds and music, on the other hand, are very well done. The voice acting is not the most expressive I've ever heard, but it's passable. The musical soundtrack is superlative, as the game carries the tunes of one Jimi Hendrix.
To get back to what I was saying in the introduction. Pterodon certainly tried their best to make the most realistic military sim yet, and to a degree, they've succeeded in this. They've managed to make a consistent game world and suck the player into it. The fact remains, however, that including more mundane and frustrating elements of real world warfare is a double-edged blade, especially when some of the other technical elements of your game are not up to snuff - like the AI, or clunky engine. What is at times a fun and intense gameplay experience can easily turn into a rather frustrating, unfair and flawed one, and that is what often happens in Vietcong.
7.2 Good
Interesting concepts in realism, consistent game world, impressive realistic arsenal, most true-to-life war sim in quite some time, can't go wrong with Jimi;
Dated-looking and unoptimized 3D engine; inadequate AI, buggy software all around. Some weird design decisions.


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It's that time of year again when Cartoon Network releases another DVD of its hit animated shows featuring a grab bag of random episodes. Come July 29, the lucky Cartoon Network series is "Adventure Time" with its new compilation DVD "Princess Day." Featuring 16 episodes primarily based on the princesses of the Land Ooo like Princess Bubblegum and Lumpy Space Princess, "Adventure Time: Princess Day" has the suggested retail price of $19.82.
Unlike most Cartoon Network compilation DVDs that feature a grab bag of episodes that viewers usually have already seen, the "Adventure Time: Princess Day" DVD lets owners watch the "Princess Day" episode before it airs on Cartoon Network on July 31 (check local listings). "Princess Day" revolves around Lumpy Space Princess and Marceline working together for the first time to prank Breakfast Princess during a meeting of the Land of Ooo princesses. It's interesting seeing the mischievous work with the brat during the episode.
The rest of the "Adventure Time: Princess Day" DVD episodes mostly feature the other princesses in the hit series. Fans of "Adventure Time" will be delighted to know that the "Princess Day" DVD is the first chance to own the excellent Fionna & Cake special episode "Bad Little Boy" on DVD. A personal favorite episode is "Reign of Gunters" because no one can ever have enough of that penguin.
The grab bag of episodes will be hit & miss, but the chance to preview an episode before it airs on Cartoon Network, the chance to listen to Donald Glover sing as Marshall Lee, and Gunter almost taking over the world is more than enough of a reason to pick up the "Adventure Time: Princess Day" DVD.


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Women of Letters return to Sydney with a feast of female talent
Women of Letters is a monthly 'afternoon of literature and correspondence' which returns to Sydney this weekend. Sabine Brix spoke to its co-founder Michaela McGuire about celebrating the lost art of letter writing, the event's humble beginnings and the ongoing quest to secure Cate Blanchett as a guest.
When writers Marieke Hardy and Michaela McGuire attended the NSW National Young Writers' Festival in 2010, they got inspired - so much so that they decided to curate their own event to showcase the kind of female talent they had to travel interstate to see.
"While we were at the festival we encountered a lot of younger female writers that we'd never heard of - people like Anna Krien and Laura Jean McKay," McGuire notes.
"All these wonderful people that we thought - it was such a shame that we had to go to Newcastle to see them and they just lived in our hometown."
McGuire, an author and contributor to publications including the Monthly, and Hardy, a screenwriter and panellist on ABC television's The Book Club, met just months before the festival in Melbourne and quickly became friends - their idea eventually blossoming into the event.
"I think the initial concept was basically women and doing something in the pub and raising money for animals," McGuire says.
"It took a little time to touch on the letters concept but once we had that idea we didn't bother trying to think of anything else really, it just seemed like it would work."
Now in its fourth year, the concept has seen the event take over stages in Australia, America and Europe, with a monthly event in Melbourne. It pays homage to the art of letter writing by inviting a cross-section of prominent, and sometimes little-known, female musicians, writers, politicians and actors to pen a letter to a set theme.
[Image] Curators Michaela McGuire and Marieke Hardy. Photo: Supplied
In an age where rapid fire electronic communication is often the norm, the art of letter writing remains more of a considered process.
"You might have taken half an hour or had a glass of wine while you wrote it, or a cup of tea," McGuire remarks.
"I love that you can see that sort of evidence, if they [the writer] spill something on it or if their handwriting changes or if they were tired when they wrote it. You have to put a lot of thought in - emails are so everyday now they're not really special."
Thankfully the guests invited to Hardy and McGuire's events are the kind of funny, inspiring and intellectual individuals whose writing is thought-provoking. It's just that securing the talent takes time.
"A lot of it's about lining up people's diaries, especially with places like Brisbane and Sydney that we only get to a couple of times a year," McGuire says.
And it's fair to say that for some of the previous contributors - past events have featured Edie Falco, Amanda Palmer and Judith Lucy - white space in the diary is as rare as hen's teeth.
"Sometimes it takes three years to get someone onto our stage," McGuire admits.
And who is their most sought-after guest?
"Cate Blanchett," McGuire exclaims excitedly.
"Just because she's the one person that we can't get. And she's objectively great.
"We've been trying for so long, her managers hate us. So I don't think we'll stop the event until we get her."
Aside from the big names the event has drawn, part of its appeal lies in its ephemeral nature - the event is not recorded.
[Image] Women of Letters, May 2014 Photo: Sarah Walker
You can of course buy the books, (not every writer chooses to have their story published) but sometimes nothing beats being in the audience, especially during particularly emotive readings.
McGuire cites one of singer/songwriter Angie Hart's letters as one of the most memorable.
"She wrote a letter to the best decision she ever made and it was incredibly powerful. She spoke really frankly and really honestly about quite an abusive marriage she'd been in - physically and emotionally abusive.
"It was just one of those letters where you could hear a pin drop in that room.
"Her current lovely husband was on one side of the stage and she had another friend, waiting in the wings, on the other side in case she started crying or needed support. She made it the whole way through the letter.
"There was deathly silence the whole time and then the room just erupted. That kind of sticks with me."
Women of Letters featuring Myf Warhurst, Blanche D'Alpuget and Jill Dupleix is on at the Red Rattler on Sunday June 15. Tickets $20 with proceeds going to Edgar's Mission. Book here. Women of letters is currently available through Penguin books.
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Kids-friendly and kids-proof. Just a list of icons for programs that can be executed, everything else should be hidden or password-protected.
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larval objects in the VM
By John.Rose-Oracle on Oct 02, 2010
I want to talk about initialization of immutable data structures on the JVM. But first I want to note that, in good news for Latin lovers (and those with Latin homework), Google has made Latin translation available ad stupor mundi.
That has nothing to do with Java, but it reminds me of a Java design pattern that deserves to be unmasked and recognized: The larval stage. The idea (which will be instantly familiar to experienced programmers) is that every Java data structure goes through a construction phase during which it is incomplete, and at some point becomes mature enough to publish generally. This pattern is most readily seen in Java constructors themselves. The
this value during the execution of an object's constructor in general contains uninitialized fields. Until the constructor completes normally, the object may be regarded as in a larval stage, with its internal structure undergoing radical private changes. When the constructor completes, the object may be viewed, by contrast, as having entered a permanent adult stage. In that stage, the object is "ready for prime time" and may be exposed to untrusted code, published to other threads, etc.
This pattern is so important that we amended the 1.1 version of Java (here is an old link to my paper) to include the concept of blank finals to enable the adult stage of an object to be immutable. Later on, the JSR 133 Expert Group enhanced the Java memory model to guarantee that larval stages of immutable objects could not be made unintentionally visible to other threads. The result is that immutable Java objects (starting with
Integer and
String) can be easily defined and safely used even in massively multi-threaded systems. Especially on such systems, immutable data structures are of great importance, because they allow threads to communicate using the basic capabilities of the multi-processor memory system, without expensive synchronization operations. (This isn't the best imaginable way for processors to communicate, but it is the communication channel to which chip designers give the most attention. The Von Neumann haunting appears to be permanent.)
Something is missing, though. The support I just described applies only to objects which are able to enter the adult stage when their constructor completes. This means that the complete information content of an object must be supplied as arguments (or some other way) to the constructor. If an immutable object's contents are built up incrementally in a variable number of optional steps, the construction of the object is better expressed using a builder pattern. In this pattern, a builder object acts as a front-end or mask for the object under construction. The builder object has an API which accepts requests to add information content to a larval object (which may or may not actually exist yet), and is eventually asked to unveil the adult object. The first instance of this pattern in Java was the trusty StringBuffer, which collects
append requests and eventually produces the completed string in response to the
toString request. More recently, Google has made an admirable investment in builder-based APIs for immutable collections of various sorts.
Still, from my viewpoint as a JVM tinkerer, something else is missing. It seems to me that the most natural way to express the creation of an immutable object is what I see when I read the machine code for creating an
Integer or
String: First you allocate a blank object, then you fill it in, then you publish it. Just before you publish it, you take whatever steps needed to make sure everybody will agree on its contents. (This is sometimes called a fence, which is a subject of multiple posts.) After you publish the object, nobody changes it ever. (Well, in some cases, maybe there's an end to the epoch. But that is another story.) The only changes ever made to that block of memory are performed by the garbage collector, until (and unless) the block gets reused for another object.
In other words, using the larval/adult metaphor for this pattern, the object building process starts out with an incomplete larval object, which is masked behind (or cocooned within) a module (wish I could say monad here) that sets up the object, and when the object is mature, eventually hatches it out into the open as an adult. The organization of the code which sets up the object is not in general as simple as a constructor body.
In order to make this work better in more cases, I want to give the builder object fully privileged access to the object in its larval state. And I want to these full privileges to extend to the initialization of finals, a privilege which is currently given only to constructors. The increased flexibility means that the final fields will be initialized by multiple blocks of code. The blocks of code may even repeatedly initialize finals (as the underlying array in a
StringBuffer is subject to repeated extension or truncation). The blocks of code may be invoked by untrusted code (via the builder API, not directly). Eventually the builder declares that the object is done. Just before it publishes the object, it flushes all the writes. The flush sometimes appears as a memory fence operation in the machine code. This part is especially problematic, since the current Java and JVM specifications only guarantee correct flushing of writes for variables used to reach final fields. The guarantees for non-final fields and array elements are weaker, and the interactions are subtle.
What would this look like in an amended Java and JVM? Maybe non-public access to finals could be relaxed to allow writing, so that if a builder object has privileged access to do so, it can write the finals of a larval object. There would have to be an explicit "hatching" step, I think, to clearly mark the pre-publication point at which writing must stop and memory must be flushed. One or more new keywords could be used to indicate statically which finals are writable, which methods or classes can do the writing, and where the writing must stop. There is probably a way to express it all without keywords, too, or a combination of keywords ("volatile final", for for those looking to recoil from rebarbative syntax). The surface syntax is less important than the pattern. The pattern must prevent you from applying a larval operation to an adult operation, both in the language and in the JVM. That might be an innocent mistake, or a deliberate attack; in either case it must be provably impossible. The important thing to recognize is that there are separate larval and adult sets of operations (APIs) and only the larval ones are allowed to change finals.
But a static pattern cannot ensure such safety, unless we allow another new thing. That is some kind of type-state or changeable class, which expresses the transition from larval to adult stage. A direct and flexible way of making this distinction would be to allow a Java object to have two types over its lifetime, a larval type with an extended set of initialization operations, and an adult type. The type change operation from larva to adult would be a low-level JVM operation which would do several things:
- mark the object permanently as adult
- forbid all future attempts to invoke methods classified as larval
- forbid all future changes to finals
- flush all pending memory changes relevant to the object
In all cases to date, the de facto larval API has privileged elements, like the package-private
String constructor used by
StringBuffer. Most uses of the larval type-state I am suggesting would probably continue to be restricted to the internals of a specific module. Explicit larval objects would tend to allow builder objects to be simpler, since the builder could drop information into the larval object as soon as it is known, rather than (as at present) keep shadow copies until the constructor is finally invoked.
With better protection, based on type-state, it might be reasonable in some cases to make larval APIs public. For a large-scale example, a transactional database might support a public API for creating a larval view of a new version of the database, which would allow free mutation of the database contents. The adult form would be a read-only view of some other version.
In the small scale (which is more typical), when a Java API designer creates a tuple-like class for something like complex numbers, there are always conflicting impulses between making the structure immutable, so that it can be safely used across threads, or else making the structure mutable (and often with public fields), so that the objects can be used directly as scratch variables in a computation. If the choice is made for mutability, every object must be defensively copied before it handed to untrusted code. If the choice is made for immutability, a fresh object must be made for every intermediate value of a computation. Years ago, the tilt was towards mutability, probably under the assumption that objects were expensive to allocate. This tilt might be visible in the choice to make Java arrays only mutable, and in the mutability of the
Date class. (In the worst case there are mostly-immutable data structures, such as
java.lang.reflect.Method, which has one mutable bit.) For
Complex, there are mutable sketches floating around the net, but the Apache commons design is immutable. What I want to point out here is that, if we had type-state with control of mutability, programmers would get both from two stages of the same type: The larval form could have public mutable fields, useful as temporaries, while the adult form would be immutable and safe to throw around. Defensive copying would be rare to nonexistent, and failures to copy could be detected by checks on type-state.
All this begs the question of what type-state looks like in the JVM. That is a discussion for another day, but I will drop a hint, with another biological metaphor: If a class is a standard unit of taxonomy, what would we say if we had to suddenly distinguish objects of the same class? Well, we would have to invent a subsidary unit of taxonomy, such as the species. There are several potential uses of such a refined distinction: Storing the type parameters for reified generics, tracking life cycle invariants (as here with larva vs. adult), and optimizing prototype based languages. At the JVM level, all these things are an extra indirection between object and class, and could be formalized and made available to the library implementor.
A final word about terminology: The term "larva" comes from a Latin word which can mean a mask; a "larvatus" is something that is masked. Creepily, the word also refers to witches, skeletons, and (as with modern languages) worms. I suppose that if we invent larval data structures, the name will remind us to keep them well covered, at least until their little exoskeletons have hardened. More specifically, unfinished data structures should be carefully masked. Or, as an ancient Roman software engineer might have remarked, Collectio imperfectum larvatum sit.


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STANFORD, Calif. – Stanford men's golf was named to the 2013 All-Academic team and received President's Special Recognition status for having a team GPA of 3.50 or higher, as announced Wednesday by the Golf Coaches Association of America.
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6/20/10 update: Braveheart is a calm horse that can be pulled from pasture after months at a time and ride the same as the day you turned him out.
2/3/10 update: This winter has been the most brutal in Virginia that I can remember and I have lived here since 1981. Nonetheless, Braveheart has been here on our main farm and has benefitted from many trail rides, outings and bareback rides in the snow.
1/09/10 update: This horse has come along on a per ride basis more quickly than any that come to my mind... He is rock solid, balanced, sturdy, unflappable and has a great trot and canter.. Super candidate for a HUSBAND or GUEST HORSE. Also great for trail riding and for a larger rider who wants to do dressage.. With only 90 days under saddle we have already started brining him to sales appts as the horse that we start customers off with to help them to feel at ease and confident with the process of trying out new horses... A good honest horse!!
11/20/09 This is a QUIET, GENTLE, UNFLAPPABLE gelding. Already just about anyone can ride him. He will make a confidence building mount suitable for a timid mature rider. Nice horse!!
11/04/09 Took Braveheart trail riding at Lake Anna. He was perfect. Went right into the lake clamly and quietly. Has a very smooth trot AND canter, is nicely forward and responsive with great brakes. Jumped logs on the trail happily.


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Height: 5-8 Weight: 170 lbs.
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College: Notre Dame (school history)
Weighted Career AV (100-95-...): 3 (10660th overall since 1950)
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Send Advice For James Blake Here
KEY BISCAYNE — OK, what's to be done about James Blake's slump?
I thought with a few days off after Indian Wells and a chance to get back into his own bed in Tampa and practice with his buds at Saddlebrook, he'd arrive here loose and ready to let his game flow.
But it wasn't entirely there from the start Friday in his Sony Ericsson opener against Florent Serra. The hole Blake is in isn't that deep because there were points during this three-setter where he looked like the old J.B. — crackling forehands crosscourt with about an inch clearance over the net, 13 aces and several other unreturned serves.
Then, inexplicably, the errors. Rushed forehand approaches were a problem and, worse, his inability to handle the wide backhands. He's either not getting there quickly enough or not on balance because he popped up a boatload of weak backhands from the deep corner, leaving his experienced French opponent a number of opportunities to close on the net. It wasn't surprising Serra was coming in behind a lot of shots to J.B.'s left side.
Another thing missing are those great backhand service returns that were a stock-in-trade weapon for Blake last season. It doesn't look classic the way he takes the ball so far in front of himself, but it's effective, and when he's hitting that shot his confidence goes way up.
Which brings up the mysterious issue of confidence. In one-on-one sports, it's critical, and if you play the game you know how it affects your mental processes. You don't lose your stroke, but in the instant before you strike the ball, your brain sends a message to your arm that says, "You can't make this shot anymore." The only way Blake is going to banish that is to do what Rod Laver used to do when he wasn't hitting well. Hit bigger. Just keep whacking until the rhythm returns. And it will.
A few days ago, Davis Cup captain Patrick McEnroe made these observations: "I think it's more mental. I think he's getting a little bit negative when he's on the court. He's been arguing with the umpires (he didn't vs. Serra) and getting a little angry. He plays well when he's enjoying himself and getting the crowd into it and clapping for his opponent and gong for his shots while still playing smart."
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Preslie Reece would flow much better. Dellarae Paige sounds good too.
I dont care for Deaundra or Raylie though.
I dont care for Deaundra or Raylie though.
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All You, which specializes in offering cents-off coupons from advertisers, started with a 500,000 guarantee. The increase is its11th.
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I think that's exaggerating a bit
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here ...And that too with less touches because remember he wasn't the number 1 or number 2 option in Memphis. Lets see how he improves with being a lead player with the Raps.
Although LeBron has lit it up against him in the past but that's just Lebron. Today's game will tell the story!
I was lookin at LeBron's twitter page, and I noticed his profile pic....where he's sitting in his car with his 2 sons...then it got me thinkin, man it must be sick to have LeBron James as your dad. It's like having Superman + Santa Claus + Jesus all wrapped into one.
yep its the rich bastard life for them, never having to work or worry about anything.. (jealous)
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We should put Gray on Bosh. We all know he would rape him just like he raped Griffin last game.
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CBS ordered for 20th season of "The Amazing Race" that announcement was made on Thursday, 16 June 2011. The Emmy-winning show, "The Amazing Race" season 20 will be started in spring 2012 on Sunday at 8:00 pm. Previous to it, 19th season of this reality series will return in this fall on Sundays at 8:00-9:00 PM, ET/PT on the CBS Television Network. The Amazing Race Season 19 will start with new contestants of eleven teams that will be selected from previous editions.
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An American multiple Emmy Award-winning reality game show, The Amazing Race is back with its latest season 18 dubbed as the "Unfinished Business," which will premiere on Sunday, February 20 (8:00-9:00 PM, ET/PT) only on the CBS Television Network. Watch the familiar faces in this new season as it will be a second chance for the $1 million prize for all those 11 teams who did not won in seasons 12-17; however no teams returned from season 13.
Enjoy this Sunday by viewing the return of fan- favorite teams as it will capture your hearts on every stop of the game. Now the runners up are competing for the big one as all stars of Amazing Race 2011 will travel again around the planet in seek for that last envelop. Don't miss it to watch who will win in their second chance? Is it your favorite or else? Continue Reading »
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Former favorite racers from "The Amazing Race" will arrive again as cast of the next installment 'Amazing Race: Unfinished Business' for one more try of winning the $1 million prize. The adventure reality show, "The Amazing Race 18" has been planned to premiere on Sunday, February 20 at 8:00 to 9:00 PM, ET/PT on CBS.
A seven time Emmy Award winner, The Amazing Race 18 is hosted by Phil Keoghan who was nominated for the 2009 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Host. Bertram van Munster and Elise Doganieri are the creators of "The Amazing Race" show and Jerry Bruckheimer, Bertram Van Munster, Jonathan Littman and Elise Doganieri are the executive producers. Continue Reading »
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I Feel Like I'm in, Like, Sicily is next episode of Amazing Race 16. The Amazing Race is an American manifold Emmy Award-winning reality game show. This reality game show is a one-hour episode and two or four race teams are competitor of other teams around the world. Amazing Race is produced by Earthview Inc., Bertram van Munster and Elise Doganieri's production company along with Bruckheimer Television for CBS and Touchstone Television (technically making it partially a Disney show). Now Amazing Race 16 Episode 10 has been released.
In this Amazing Race the winner will be get $1,000,000 cash prize. There are 11 teams of 2 (12 in the third and fourth seasons) racing all over the world. The teams race in 13 legs traveling around the world. The final team to arrive at the pit stop is eliminated in the most legs. They compete in a final leg while 3 teams remain in the race. The Amazing Race Season 16 Episode 9 is "Dumb Did Us In". Episode 9 of this series was broadcasted at 8:00 p.m. on CBS. Continue Reading »
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The reality television show The Amazing Race's sixteenth chapter is the Amazing Race Season 16. Several teams of two, each with a pre-existing relationship are featured by the current season, the Amazing Race season 16 in a race around the world. The show's first episode was telecasted on 14th February 2010 at 8:00 p.m. EST/PST on CBS. And its next episodes will be telecasted soon on 21st February and 28th February. Read below full details of Amazing Race Season 16 Casts & Episode Guide.
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Oct. 19, 2011
Arizona (1-11-2, 1-4-1 Pac-12) at No. 7 UCLA (10-1-3, 3-1-2 Pac-12) Friday, Oct. 21 7:00 p.m. PT Westwood, Calif. Drake Stadium
Arizona (1-11-2, 1-4-1 Pac-12) at USC (4-11-0, 1-5-0 Pac-12) Sunday, Oct. 23 1:00 p.m. PT Los Angeles, Calif. McAlister Field
TUCSON, Ariz. -University of Arizona Wildcat women's soccer team will hit the road for the final time in the 2011 regular season to take on No. 7 UCLA and USC this weekend. The Wildcats will kick off against the Bruins on Friday, October 21 at 7 p.m. PT. On Sunday, October 23, the match at USC will kick off at 1 p.m. PT.
Last Time Out: Last week, the Wildcats (1-11-2, 1-4-1 Pac-12) hosted a solo match against California. Arizona was able to hold the Bears scoreless through the ninety minutes of regulation, but California scored in the first minute of the first overtime to take the victory. For the match, sophomore forward Jazmin Ponce had a team high of 4 shot attempts. Ponce's 26 shot attempts on the season are a Wildcat high. Sophomore Ana-Maria Montoya added another two shots in Arizona's 10 shot total.
Noting the Bruins: Last week, UCLA (10-1-3, 3-1-2 Pac-12) recorded its ninth shutout of the season by holding Washington States scoreless in a 0-0 draw in Pullman. The Bruins took a 29-8 advantage in shots for the match. Senior forward Sydney Leroux and freshman midfielder Sam Mewis recorded a team high five shot attempts apiece, and Leroux came close to giving the Bruins a win in the third minute of overtime, but her attempt deflected off the crossbar.
Noting the Trojans: Last week, USC (4-11-0, 1-5-0 Pac-12) earned its first Pac-12 Conference win with a 1-0 shutout over Washington in Seattle. Trojan sophomore forward Elizabeth Eddy scored the game-winner in the fifth minute, off a feed from senior midfilder Brittany Kerridge. The Huskies took a shot advantage of 12-8 over USC, and freshman goalkeeper Carley Pennington recorded a pair of saves for the match.
About the Cats: Arizona enters the 2011 season with eight returning starters and high expectations following a 5-13-2 campaign a season ago ... The Wildcats return players with 234 combined starts in their collegiate careers ... Forward Renae Cuellar, who scored six goals and had three assists in the first six games of 2010, returns after missing the final 14 matches due to a knee injury ... Senior goalkeeper Ashley Jett returns after playing every minute in goal over the course of the final 18 matches last season ... Several of the UA's seven freshmen could make their collegiate debuts this weekend.
Welcome to the Show: This season, eight newcomers have made their collegiate debuts at Arizona. LeeAndra Smith earned a start in her first career game against San Diego State, while Julia Glanz and Emily Lai made appearances as reserves. Glanz made her first collegiate start two days later against Pepperdine, and Desiree Bramlette saw her first action as a Wildcat off the bench against the Waves. Against Pepperdine, Lai and Glanz each registered their first shot attempts. At Brigham Young, Brie DeFelice came off the bench and recorded one on-goal shot attempt. Transfer Sarah NeSmith came off the bench for the first time during the Cats Classic match against Texas Tech. NeSmith earned her first start on the road at Pac-12 newcomer Colorado, where freshman Mykaylin Rosenquist came in as a reserve for the firs time. Rosenquist earned her first start as a Wildcat two days later at Utah. Freshman Candace Edwards made her Wildcat debut in the victory over Oregon, coming in as a reserve.
Head Coach Lisa Oyen: Lisa Oyen enters her second full season as head coach of the Arizona women's soccer program. In her two seasons at the helm, Oyen has provided stability to the program that is seeking its first winning season 2005. She has improved talent, depth and skill on the roster, and revitalized the Wildcats' recruiting efforts. Her 2010 team - her first full year in charge - was hit hard by injury and illness, but showed its toughness and resilience in a 5-13-2 campaign. Oyen served as a co-interim head coach for the final seven games of 2009, before being named the head coach after the season. She has a career coaching record of 6-19-2 counting all 27 games she has been a head coach or co-interim head coach. Prior to becoming a head coach, she served as an assistant at the school for seven seasons.
Filling up the Stat Sheet: Despite playing just six of 20 games, Cuellar posted team-leading figures in most of the major stat categories: goals (6), points (15) and shot percentage (.231). Cuellar didn't achieve the team lead in these categories by a small margin either; despite missing 14 games, her six goals doubled the number two goal-scorer on the squad, her 15 points were nine more than her closest competition and her .231 shot percentage was 55 points higher than the second highest percentage. Her one game-winning goal and three assists tied for the most on the team.
Jetting into the Record Books: Senior goalkeeper Ashley Jett recorded 104 saves in 2010, the most in the Pac-10. Arizona has had a rich history at her position; since 2001, seven UA goalkeepers have led the Pac-10 in saves. Her 104 saves are the second most in the conference since UA's Chelsea McIntyre stopped 109 shots on goal in 2006. For the 2011 season, Jett is second in the conference in saves with 64 and an average of 4.71 per game.
Up next, the Wildcats return to Murphey Field at Mulcahy Stadium to host two of their last three matches of the season, Washington and Washington State. Arizona will take on the Huskies on Friday, October 28 at 7 p.m. MST. Sunday, October 30, the Wildcats will kick off against Washington State at 11 a.m.
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Is Gold Starting to Trade Along With the Stock Market?
Przemyslaw Radomski, CFA
Maybe so this week, but it's not likely to continue.
It seems that everybody's hanging on the Fed's every word. Yesterday the
S&P 500 Index
(INDEXSP:.INX) climbed above the closing record of 1,669.16 reached May 21 and closed at its record high (1,675.02) as Ben Bernanke backed sustained monetary stimulus.
The index has advanced for six straight days, the longest winning streak since March 11, and is heading toward its biggest weekly gain since Jan. 4. In this way, the S&P 500 erased losses since Bernanke first suggested the Fed might curb stimulus this year.
Without a doubt, the US Federal Reserve stimulus has helped fuel a rally in financial markets which spread across stocks and bonds to oil and metals. Many investors have jumped to rallying stocks and dumped holdings in gold-linked exchange traded funds.
"The story in stocks for this year is about confidence replacing uncertainty and anxiety," Hank Smith, a chief investment officer at Radnor, said. "It's really more about an improvement in sentiment. That's being a big driver for equity returns and we are still a long ways away from worrying about there being too much optimism or exuberance."
Could these events trigger another rally? Will the S&P 500 index climb decisively above the May 21 top? Before we answer these questions, let's find out what happened during the last several days and check the current situation in stocks. Let's start with the long-term S&P 500 chart (charts courtesy of
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On the above chart we see that stocks moved back above the rising support line, which means that the breakdown below this line was invalidated. The recent decline was likely nothing more than another correction and the outlook is still bullish.
Now, let's check if the short-time outlook is also bullish.
During the past week, the S&P 500 Index has continued its rally. On Monday, we finally had a breakout above the declining resistance line based on the May and June tops. The following days brought further rallies. Another bullish factor was the breakout above the November-May upward trend line. The price climbed up over the area of the June 18 local top, and as we had previously mentioned, the S&P 500 index reached the May 21 closing record of 1,669.16 and closed at its record high yesterday. The next resistance level is at the May 22 high.
Let us move on to the financial sector, which often leads the general stock market, for more clues regarding the future moves of the S&P 500 -- we'll use the
Broker-Dealer Index
(INDEXNYSEGIS:XBD) as a proxy here.
In this week's Broker-Dealer index chart we see that the financials broke above the resistance level at 130. This could fuel further gains in the stock market. Please keep in mind that the financial sector used to lead the general stock market lower and higher so the bullish sign here is also a bullish confirmation for other stocks. However, the breakout has not been confirmed so far, so the situation improved just slightly.
The situation for stocks in the long and short term is quite bullish, and it seems that we could see further gains in the stock market.
Now that we know the current situation in the stock market and the financial sector, we can take a look at the Correlation Matrix. This is a tool my firm developed to analyze the impact of the currency markets and the general stock market upon the precious metals sector (namely, gold correlations and silver correlations).
The correlations between gold and the general stock market reminded us of a question regarding whether we felt gold was starting to trade along with the stock market. This may seem to be true this week, but we doubt this will last. The very short-term coefficients are basically non-existent, the short-term are positive but weak, and the medium-term ones are negative and stronger than the short-term positive ones. The situation overall is mixed, but the negative correlations prevail in our view. It seems that if stocks rally in the medium term (which is likely), this will probably have a negative impact on precious metals, not only on gold but also on silver and the mining stocks (note an analogous situation in the silver / S&P and
(INDEXNYSEGIS:HUI) / S&P rows).
Summing up, the situation in the general stock market improved this week. The short and long term outlook is quite bullish, and it seems that we could see further gains in the stock market. For those looking for bullish implications, it might seem that gold started to trade along with the stock market last week, but we doubt this will last. It seems that the impact that the stock market has on gold, silver and mining stocks is still bearish.
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Here is a recipe inspired by a great friend. The chewy cherries are a wonderful addition to a classic recipe. I chose to reconstitute my cherries in covering them in hot brandy, but plain hot water is the most common way. Holiday Hint; Double the batch and save some in your freezer for holiday company. (Be sure to freeze them quickly…they have a way of disappearing!)
White Chocolate Cherry Blondies
- 2 cup sifted flour
- 1 tsp baking powder
- 1/4 tsp baking soda
- 1/4 tsp salt
- 1 cup chopped sliced almonds
- 2/3 cup unsalted butter
- 2 cup packed brown sugar
- 2 eggs
- 1.5 TBSP vanilla extract
- 1 tsp almond extract
- 1 cup white chocolate chips
- 1.5 cups dried cherries, reconstituted in hot liquid for 5 minutes
- Directions:
Preheat oven to 350º. In medium bowl, sift flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt. Add chopped nuts, mix well and set aside. In mixer bowl, combine melted butter, brown sugar, vanilla and almond extract and mix well. Add eggs; mix well.
Next, add the flour mixture, a little at a time, being sure to scrap the bowl and mix until combined. Stir in white chocolate chips and cherries.
Spread batter into a 9x9x2-inch pan. Bake for 40-45 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in center comes out clean or with slightly fudgy-looking crumbs.
Serve warm with vanilla ice cream. (Optional)