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Nobody missed anything tonight from the Pacers.
Super Bowl XLI Champions
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UB, just because you're a Pacer fan first does not mean you can't enjoy a championship by the other team representing Indy. Go to the light my friend, it's goooooooooooooooooood.
You know how hippos are made out to be sweet and silly, like big cows, but are actually extremely dangerous and can kill you with stunning brutality? The Pacers are the NBA's hippos....Matt Moore CBS Sports....
I actually taped the parade and celebration last night.
Well, actually I left home around 6 and taped Heroes (which I still haven't watched) and saw the party.
A couple of notes - I thought it was fantastic that the players rode through town on floats. I think if it had been publicized that way ahead of time the numbers on the streets would have been much higher but it was great that they did that.
The ovation for Dungy surprised me - and made me feel great. I knew Colts fans (for the most part) appreciated him. I didn't know they loved him as much as Peyton. I think that surprised him a little too.
Would've liked to have seen the players do something spontaneous at the end - run around the field waving to the crowd or whatever. But it was fine the way it went. Nice to see a full dome.
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So I recently chucked my teerex into a pond, and even though it was unnecessary, it caused me to rethink and retool my whole setup. Just for reference, I throw distance drivers about 375, maybe 400 if everything is perfect, fairways up to 325, mids 290-300, putters 225-250. My lineup is as follows.
Trespass: Go to distance driver, long hyzers
Tern: Big long S-curves, also flex for long anhyzers
Shock: Fairway of choice for wind, tight skips around corners
Volt: Go to fairway for tunnels or just shorter open holes
Amp: Just like the tern, but 50 feet shorter
Hornet: Just like the shock, but shorter
Truth: straight mid for tunnels, or when I am unsure what to throw
Tangent: Hyzer flip for dead straight, flat release for a nice anhyzer that holds forever
Zone: Wind putter, upshots that require hard fade around trees
Anode: Go to putter for everything, favorite disc in the bag
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Park Yoo-chun's fiance Hwang Hana's surprising past
Apparently Park Yoo-chun is head over heels for Hwang Hana.
Channel A "Heard It Through The Grapevines" delivered news about Park Yoo-chun.
Park and Hwang met last spring through a friend. They haven't been seeing each other long.
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DETROIT - The first Pantry of Plenty food distribution event of February will take place on Tuesday.
According to the Arab American and Chaldean Council, the food will be distributed at ACC Youth Center from 10 to 11:30 a.m. The center is located at 62 West Seven Mile Road.
The ACC holds the event in partnership with the Forgotten Harvest twice per month. During Pantry of Plenty, the ACC says it distributes nearly 30,000 pounds of food to area residents in need.
Items include fresh fruit and vegetables, dairy products, meat and juices. Each event services about 350 families, meaning nearly 1,000 individuals benefit from the program, organizers said.
According to ACC, more than 2,500 families have enrolled in the program since December 2011.
Each family receives about 60 pounds of prepared and perishable foods per event, organizers said. The food distribution is open to all in need with low or moderate income. ID is required.
The "Pantry of Plenty" program runs entirely on in-kind donations. The ACC relies on the support of the community and corporate volunteers, organizers said.
Bob Ghannam, special projects coordinator of ACC, and Kimberly Hassan, the program advocate, will be at the event Tuesday.
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NEW YORK ( TheStreet) -- U.S. stock futures were pointing to a slightly higher open for Wall Street Monday after data showed an expansion of manufacturing in China in November. European shares rose while Asian stocks ended Monday's trading session mixed. Japan Nikkei 225 index rose 0.1% to close at 9,458.18. The Shanghai Composite Index fell 1% despite the first expansion in Chinese manufacturing in 13 months.
The economic calendar in the U.S. Monday includes the Institute of Supply Management's Purchasing Managers' Index for November at 10 a.m. EST and the construction spending report for October at 10 a.m.
U.S. stocks on Friday ended mostly flat, as investors watched signs of gridlock in talks on the so-called fiscal cliff. The Dow Jones Industrial Average added 3 points, or 0.02%, to finish at 13,025. The blue-chip index gained 0.12% for this week.
Delta Air Lines ( DAL) has reached out to Singapore Airlines ( SINGY) about purchasing the Asian carrier's 49% stake in Virgin Atlantic Airways, according to reports.
Bank of America ( BAC) is putting off plans to revamp its lineup of bank accounts, and thereby increase monthly fees for some checking accounts, the Journal reported.
November sales reports from automakers such as Ford ( F) and General Motors ( GM) are expected throughout the day Monday.
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We all do not value every aspect of Dhamma practices or doctrines equally. Nor do we all value or respect certain threads or posts or phrasing. But the author does and others (perhaps lurkers) do too. This probably has to do with us not being clones of each other.
I find it ugly to find such indifference or contempt for others' words expressed here.
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- Kearns (by far)
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Speaking only for myself :
- Kearns (by far)
- the Lizard
"I'm virtually free to do whatever I want, but I try to remember so is everybody else..." - Todd Snider
Greg Vaughn.
Go Gators!
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I don't know what the general Redszone consensus was regarding Ryan Wagner at the time, but I thought that guy was going to be a lights out closer.
Chris Denorfia was God's gift to AAAA players....(at least here - we'll see what happens in Oakland)
I'm embarrassed to admit this, but I got suckered in by Ricardo Aramboles!
I never did see the reason for all the infatuation with Denorfia. And I definitely am convinced all the irritation over losing Kearns and Lopez in "The Trade" was extremely overblown.
"I can still throw it in the 70s. And I can throw it in the 80s if I don't want to comb my hair for a week." - Bob Feller at age 66 when asked how hard he could throw.
Gookie Dawkins. Broke the shortstop chain. Damn.
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Small market fan... always hoping, but never expecting.
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Zach Ward. Waaay too much enthusiasm for an A-ball pitcher.
Some of these choices are interesting. I guess people interpret overrated differently, but that makes for good reading.
Thank you Walt and Bob for bringing winning baseball back to Cincy -- it was nice while it lasted..
Nov. 13, 2007: One of the greatest days in Reds history: John Allen gets the boot!
Far and away, it has to be Denorfia, for me anyway. I remember watching the guy and thinking, "This guy is no more than a number four outfielder." I expressed as much on the board and was soundly put down for my opinion. Time will tell (though he has to be at least twenty-six) , but I'll stick by my initial impression. He ran nice (but not superior) outfield routes, and everything else seemed to have a pretty average ceiling.
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Intel Core i5 3470 Review: HD 2500 Graphics Testedby Anand Lal Shimpi on May 31, 2012 12:00 AM EST
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Intel's HD 2500 & Quick Sync Performance
What makes the 3470 particularly interesting to look at is the fact that it features Intel's HD 2500 processor graphics. The main difference between the 2500 and 4000 is the number of compute units on-die:
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At 6 EUs, Intel's HD 2500 has the same number of compute resources as the previous generation HD 2000. In fact, Intel claims that performance should be around 10 - 20% faster than HD 2000 in 3D games. Given that Intel's HD 4000 is getting close to the minimum level of 3D performance we'd like to see from Intel, chances are the 2500 will not impress. We'll get to quantifying that shortly, but the good news is Quick Sync performance is retained:
The HD 2500 does a little better than our HD 4000 here, but that's just normal run to run variance. Quick Sync does rely heavily on the EU array for transcode work, but it looks like the workload itself isn't heavy enough to distinguish between the 6 EU HD 2500 and the 16 EU HD 4000. If your only need for Intel's processor graphics is for transcode work, the HD 2500 appears indistinguishable from the HD 4000.
The bad news is I can't say the same about its 3D graphics performance.
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BSMonitor - Thursday, May 31, 2012 - linkf they truly were interested in building the best APU. And by that, a knockout iGPU experience.
Where are the dual-core Core i7's with 30-40 EU's??
Or the AMD <whatevers> (not sure anymore what they call their APU) Phenom X2 CPU with 1200 Shaders??
When we are talking about a truly GPU intense application, a LOT of times single/dual core CPU is enough. Heck, if you were to take a dual-core Core 2, and stick it with a GeForce 670 or Radeon 7950.. You would see very similar numbers in terms of gaming performance to what's in the BENCH charts. ESP at the 1920x1080 and below.
Surely Intel can afford another die that aims a ton of transistors at just the GPU side of things. AMD, maybe. Why do we get from BOTH, their top end iGPU stuck with the most transistors dedicated to the CPU??
I find it hard to believe anyone shopping for an APU is hoping for amazing CPU performance to go with their average iGPU performance. That market would be the opposite. Sacrifice a few threads on the CPU side for amazing iGPU.
Am I missing something technically limiting?? Is that many GPU units overkill in terms of power/heat dissipation of the CPU socket?? Reply
tipoo - Thursday, May 31, 2012 - linkWell, their chips have to work in a certain set of thermal limits. Maybe at this point 1200 shader cores would not be possible on the same die as a quad core CPU for power consumption and heat reasons. I think Haswel will have 64 EUs though if the rumours are true. Reply
Roland00Address - Thursday, May 31, 2012 - linkThere is no point of a 1200 shaders apu due to memory bandwidth. You couldn't feed a beast of an apu with only dual channel 1600 mhz memory when that same memory limits the performance of llano and trinity compared to their gpu cousins which have the same calculation units and core clocks but the gpus perform significantly better. Reply
silverblue - Thursday, May 31, 2012 - linkPossibly, but at the moment, bandwidth is a surefire performance killer. Reply
BSMonitor - Thursday, May 31, 2012 - linkGood Points. But currently, Intel has Quad Channel DDR3-1600 up on the Socket 2011. I am sure AMD could get more bandwidth there too, if they step up the memory controller.
My overall point, is that neither is even trying for a low-medium transistor CPU and a high transistor GPU.
It's either Low-Medium CPU with Low-Medium GPU (disabled cores and what have you), or High End CPU with "High End" GPU.
There is no attempt at giving up CPU die space for more GPU transistors from either.. None. If you someone spends $$ on the High End of the CPU (Quad Core i7), the implementation of iGPU is not even close to worth using for that much CPU. Reply
Roland00Address - Thursday, May 31, 2012 - linkQuad Channel is not a "free upgrade" it requires much more traces on the motherboard as well as more pins on the cpu socket. This dramtically increases costs for the motherboard and the cpu. Both of those are going against what AMD is trying to do with their APUs which will be both laptop as well as desktop chips. They are trying to increase their margins on their chips not decrease them.
You have a large number OEMs only putting a single 4gb ddr3 stick in laptops and desktops (thus not achieving dual channel) in the current apus. You want think those same vendors are suddenly going to put 16gbs of memory on an apu (and it is going to be 16gbs since 2gb ddr3 sticks are being phased out via the memory manufactures.) Reply
tipoo - Thursday, May 31, 2012 - linkI'm curious why the HD4000 outperforms something like the 5450 by nearly double in Skyrim, yet falls behind in something like Portal or Civ, or even Minecraft? Is it immature drivers or something in the architecture itself? Reply
ShieTar - Thursday, May 31, 2012 - linkFor Minecraft, read the article and what it has to say about OpenGL.
For Portal or Civ, it might very well be related to Memory Bandwidth. The HD2500 can have 25.6 GB/s (with DDR3-1600), or even more. The 5450 generally comes with half as much (12.8 GB/s), or even a quarter of it since there are also 5450s with DDR2.
As a matter of fact, I remember reading several reports on how much the Llano-Graphics would improve with faster Memory, even beyond DDR3-1600. I havn't seen any tests on the impact of memory speed from Ivy Bridge or Trinity yet, but that would be interesting given their increased computing powers. Reply
silverblue - Thursday, May 31, 2012 - linkI'm sure it'll matter for both, more so for Trinity. I'm not sure we'll see much in the way of a comparison until the desktop Trinity appears, but for IB, I'm certainly waiting. Reply
tipoo - Thursday, May 31, 2012 - linkHaving half the memory bandwidth would lead to the reverse expectation, the 5450 is close to or even surpasses the HD4000 with twice the bandwidth in those games, yet the 4000 beats it by almost double in games like Skyrim, even the 2500 beats it there. Reply


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The Tampa Bay Rays have re-signed reliever Kyle Farnsworth to a one-year deal, according to multiple reports.
The contract will include a base salary of about $1.5 million and an additional $1.5 million in performance-based bonuses.
In 2011, Farnsworth enjoyed a career year as the Rays' closer. He went 5-1 with 25 saves and a 2.18 ERA, and he struck out 51 batters in 57 2/3 innings. However, he battled elbow discomfort in September and didn't pitch in the Rays' ALDS loss to the Texas Rangers.
He began 2012 on the disabled list and ended up pitching just 27 innings. The 36-year-old righty was 1-6 with a 4.00 ERA and 25 strikeouts.
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The house is a pleasant old farmhouse which has been converted to a Hostel. The area around Húsey is very spectacular and a "paradise" for nature lovers. Two large glacial rivers flow towards the sea through the wide plain around Húsey Farm. Húsey is a breeding ground for more than 30 different kinds of birds and here you will also find around 175 species of plants. Large numbers of seals travel quite some distance inland where they rest on the riverbanks and sandbanks. In springtime and autumn wild reindeers come close to the farm.
Horses are bred at Húsey, and the farm offers short and long treks, which makes it ideal for beginners as well.
"Seal Watching on Horseback", is a specific guided horse riding tour offered daily at 10.00 hrs and 17.00 hrs. This ride takes you to the best places for watching seals and you will also be able to see many different species of birds and find out quite a lot about the surrounding countryside. This tour can be booked in advance. See here for further information.
Our "Holidays with the Icelandic Horse" package includes a one-week stay at Húsey, with excursions on horseback being organised. You can also plan your day as you wish and the staff at Húsey will be pleased to advise you.
In addition we offer guided excursions on horseback for groups of riders.
Húsey is off the beaten tourist track, which is why you can enjoy almost complete peace and quiet and absorb the land and nature – relax in the cosy farm house and enjoy the spectacular view, try a fresh walk along the footpaths or a horseback to experience the landscape with its changing moods. At Húsey you will find that you are in close contact with nature.
In 2008, Soil Conservation Service of Iceland – (Landgræðsla ríkisins) awarded the hostel manager at Húsey, Örn Þorleifsson, a special award for his work towards land improvements including the prevention of land erosion by sowing specialised grasses in the area of Héraðsflói, and the production of an eduation programme for school children.
Húsey hostel has also been awarded with "The Rock" that is awarded to those individuals who over many years have been at the forefront of travel service in east Iceland. They are the rock which the tourist sector is built on and for many years have encouraged interest by foreign tourists to visit East Iceland. In 2012 "the Rock" was awarded to Húsey.
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George and Dewey – Humane Society Pets of the Week!
I got my cats a catnip ball about a year ago. It's small in size, but the cats will still lay next to it and treat it as though it's the best thing ever. I got an email from a friend last night that the pet store he works at has fresh catnip balls in stock and I'm thrilled! It's like Christmas morning for the cats when they're presented with fresh nip. Some pets don't have someone buying them fun toys, and that's where you come in.
The Humane Society shelters pets, gets them the care they need, gives them the love they're craving, and does their best to place them in permanent homes. Whether you're looking for a lazy dog who prefers a quiet walk to play, or a cat who chases toys, chances are the Humane Society will have your perfect match.
May I present our pets of the week. If you'd like to see them in person or get more information on these pets or any other pets that the Humane Society has, check them out online here or call 940-855-4941. They're located at 4360 Old Iowa Park Road in Wichita Falls.


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Vallejo Farmer's Market - The season's freshest fruits, vegetables, greens and nuts along with freshly caught seafood and fresh-cut flowers. Georgia and Marin Streets, Vallejo Info: (707) 557-6762. Every Saturday, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Transition Berkeley's Ohlone Greenway Crop Swap - Meet fellow urban gardeners to trade what you've got for what you need. Seeds and seedlings are welcome. Share flowers and herbs for good health. No offering is too small or too large. Share growing wisdom and eat real food. Jan. 7. Repeats each Mon. at 6:30 p.m. through Feb. 4 at Delaware and Sacramento Streets, Berkeley. Across from the North Berkeley BART stop.
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Redwood Empire Farmers' Market - Rain or shine, year round, check out great seafood, bread, granolas, jams, jellies, meat, greens, peppers, honey, walnuts, pomegranates, dried fruit, plant starts, flowers and holiday gift ideas. Bring your dull knifes and get them sharpened at O'Malley's Mobile Knife Sharpening while you shop. Free parking. Info: (707) 237-5340. Veterans Memorial Building, 1351 Maple Ave. Sonoma. Each Wed. beginning at 8:30 a.m.
The List at El Dorado Kitchen - A select list of half-priced wines are available every Wed. at the restaurant. Corkage fees are also waved each Wed. El Dorado Hotel, 405 1st St. W, Sonoma. FREE
Wine 101 - Local food and wine experts lead wine education and food pairings at SL Cellars, 9380 Sonoma Hwy. Sonoma. Info: (707) 833-5070. RSVP required. $25 - $35 per person. Jan. 4 at 5:30 p.m. Repeats first Friday of each month.
Locals Night at Oxbow Public Market - Locals know that Tues. nights at Oxbow include tons of discounts and deals, wine tasting and occasional live performances. The public market in downtown Napa is a food lover destination. Info: www.oxbowmarket.com. 644 1st St. Napa. Jan. 8 and every Tues. night through February from 6 to 8 p.m. FREE
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Bay Area Brew Festival - Drink, Eat and Play at San Francisco's premier beer festival. Returning for its fourth year, bringing back dozens of breweries, hundreds of beers, food trucks, dj, and of course, a photo booth. Admission includes unlimited beer samplings, with VIP attendees getting an extra hour of admission and specialty beers. $40 Gen. Adm. $50 VIP Info: www.bayareabrewfestival.com. Sat. Jan. 5 from 2 to 6 p.m.
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I know it is a bit off maybe what you were asking but i think it would be awesome if there was a way to essentially stop the subscription countdown and unsub yourself for a certain amount of time. Cause some people have periods of time where they cant play or are on vacation or something and if they spent money on say a year subscription then they loose that time. This way if i know im going to be gone for three weeks i can unsub myself for that time and then come back and start the countdown again. I know it might be hard to do but it was just a thought.


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'An epic production'
www.theclaycenter.org_____CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Musical theater fans in West Virginia might get only a brief opportunity to see the Broadway titan "Les Miserables."The Charleston Light Opera Guild opens the show this weekend as part of six performances at the Clay Center, but after that, it might be a long time before another production comes to the area.The Tony-winning show, which recently enjoyed an Oscar-winning turn as a major motion picture, is set to return to Broadway in the spring -- after a very short season where it's available for license to community theater companies.Director Nina Pasinetti said, "Anytime you're doing a production like this, you always say, 'Oh my goodness, you can't miss this one.'"But, she added, if ever there was a show people in Charleston shouldn't miss, this is it. Based on the novel by Victor Hugo, the musical tells the story of Jean Valjean, a brutish French peasant, convicted and imprisoned for stealing bread. When he's paroled after 19 years in prison, he struggles for redemption and to remain free from the clutches of Police Inspector Javert."Les Miserables" is one of the Broadway's longest-running and best-loved shows.In fact, the show has been so beloved and so popular that Pasinetti said she never thought she'd live to see a time when the rights to produce the play would be granted to community theater groups like the Charleston Light Opera Guild."A few years ago, high school groups could do a reduced version of 'Les Mis,'" she said, "but I was really kind of pessimistic that they were ever going to let anybody else try it."Just the same, Pasinetti said, the guild has long had a standing order that if "Les Miserables" did become available, it would pre-empt a planned show in favor of mounting a production.The group got its chance this year, but Pasinetti said the guild still couldn't have pulled it off without the support of four sponsors and a partnership with the Clay Center. "It's an epic story," she said. "It's an epic production."The cast includes 57 actors, plus an orchestra and stage crew."It's a huge company of people," Pasinetti said.But interest in the play was immense, she added. They had three times as many people as they expected come to audition, and casting was tricky."We actually couldn't cast some very talented people because we had to get the mixture of actors right to tell the story," she said. "We wanted to blend this to feel like an ensemble show."Among the principal actors are some of the best-known performers in local theater, including Ryan Hardiman as Jean Valjean, Chris Terpening as Inspector Javert and Emily Capece as Fantine."Alan and Laurie Pennington are the Thenardiers, kind of the comic relief in 'Les Mis,'" Pasinetti said. "You have to have some comic relief in a show as humongous as this one."The principal actors of "Les Miserables" are the stars who get to shine, but Pasinetti said the production requires a lot from the supporting actors, as well, many of whom appear in up to six different roles throughout the show.Aside from the gigantic cast, the Charleston Light Opera Guild is using sets, props and costumes from the Musical Theater of Wichita, with some additional costumes from Magic Makers, in Huntington.Preparations for the show have been arduous. Casting began shortly after the guild's last show, "Chicago," opened in early August.Rehearsals followed after "Chicago" closed, and Pasinetti said they spent five weeks working on music before really digging into the characters.Working so hard has been kind of an obsession."We really want to do the play justice," she said.Pasinetti said the play is a rare treat for audiences and the actors. After "Les Miserables" returns to Broadway, the rights for community theater groups to produce it will dry up again for who knows how long.Pasinetti said she doesn't think people should count on a Broadway tour coming through with the show anytime in the foreseeable future -- at least not the full-production, and maybe not even a stripped-down version."The last time there was a touring production, I think they only went places where they could settle in for a couple of weeks," she said. "I don't think West Virginia would get it.""Les Miserables," she said, is about second chances, but this might be Charleston's only chance to see this show."We really want Charleston to come out for this," she said. Reach Bill Lynch at email@example.com or 304-348-5195.


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Great Beers from Europe and the United States are Leading a Renaissance of the Brewmaster's Art
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For millions of beer lovers worldwide, Franklin's pronouncement is as close to an absolute dictum as has ever been made. But for most beer drinkers, beer is nothing more than a pale golden liquid pouring through a pop-top. They don't understand its mystery. They don't fathom that, in fact, the product of the brewer's art is one of the most complicated, and oldest, creations in the world.
Americans are just discovering the vast array of beers that are available, both in the world of imported beers and from the handiwork of American brewers on the cutting edge who are attempting to duplicate the styles of many foreign and traditional beers. Whereas there were fewer than 40 breweries left in the United States 20 years ago, today there are more than 800, with another one opening its doors almost every week.
But just what is beer? Before he even turns his eye to technique, a brewer must be familiar with water chemistry and choose among a dizzying array of malts, roasted grains and unmalted grains, dozens of varieties of hops and hundreds of strains of yeast. His goal is to capture some of the many combinations of wonderful and complex flavors, marvelous elixirs worthy of the finest food. His "style" will be determined by everything from the malt and hops used, to the mashing techniques, through the yeast strain, fer- mentation temperatures and the packaging. In the finished product,the style will come forth, often hinting of variations on the basic formula, and almost always making the beer more interesting.
Great beer begins with barley, the foundation of most beers. The barley seeds are sprouted during a steeping and drying process called malting. The barley, now referred to as malt, arrives at the brewhouse packed with natural enzymes. The brewing process starts by mixing crushed malt with hot water at very precise temperatures, becoming a mash. Over the course of an hour or two, the enzymes in the malt convert the malt starches into a sweet liquid called the wort. The malt sugars are rinsed away from the barley husks and the wort is collected in a kettle, where the essence of the hop is extracted by boiling. The flower of the tall, vigorous hop vine (the white sheep of the cannabis family), adds bitterness, flavor and aroma to beer. The hop is basically a spice, and is varietal like wine grapes. Without it, beer would be sweet, cloying and ultimately unsatisfying. The hopped wort is cooled and sent into a fermentation vessel where yeast is added and works its wonders, transforming homely sweet wort into glorious beer. Sound simple? In some ways, it is. But, like many simple things, it isn't.
When it comes to mastering all the tiny details, no one understands beer like the Germans. Whereas German car engineers supposedly have Fahrvergnugen, German brewers have Reinheitsgebot. The Reinheitsgebot, or Bavarian Purity Law, dates back to 1516, when it was decreed that beer could only be made from malted barley, hops and water. The Bavarians later added yeast to the list (when they discovered what it was) and made a special proviso for wheat beers.
German beer is famous for its purity of flavor. Whereas brewers in other countries often add cheap corn and rice to barley, German brewers have stayed the course. Most German beers are lagers, which distinguishes them from the other great family of beers, the ales. Ales, beers that ferment quickly at warm temperatures, derive from an older tradition, and are still the mainstay of England and Belgium.
Lagers burst onto the scene in the 1840s and quickly took the world by storm. Lagers are fermented by a different species of yeast than ales, and this yeast prefers cold fermentation temperatures. After the fermentation, the beer needs to be "lagered," or laid down, to age. This process results in smooth, straightforward malt and hop flavors, without the fruitiness that is characteristic of ales.
The lager yeast was discovered in the 1840s in the deep beer-aging caves of Czech Bohemia and was soon used to produce what is still the world's most popular beer style--pilsner. While the Germans later claimed it as their own and made it popular, pilsner had its start in what is now the Czech Republic.
When the people of Plzen first laid eyes on the beer named for their town, they were amazed. No one had ever seen beer like this before. New technology had allowed brewers to produce very pale malts, and the new lager yeast settled rapidly to the bottom of the fermenting vessel. As a result, rather than dark brown, the beer was deep gold in color and sparklingly clear. Happily, mechanized glass-making was taking hold throughout Europe, and glassware became affordable even to the growing middle class. What better to have in your glass than this spectacular new, clear, golden beer? Out went the clunky old opaque steins, and in rushed pilsner beer.
To this day, the original pilsner beer, Pilsner Urquell, still defines the style ("Urquell" means "original source"). Burnished gold in color and capped by a rocky, brilliantly white head, Pilsner Urquell delivers up front the sharp hop snap that makes this style of beer so refreshing. A medium-bodied palate full of bready grain flavor and a slight touch of sweetness balance out the bitterness. The aroma is redolent of Bohemia's famed Saaz hops, prized for their floral, perfume-like character. At a modest 5 percent alcohol by volume, this is a fine beer for everyday enjoyment.
Crisp and light, true pilsners are a perfect accompaniment to seafood, from scallops to cold-smoked salmon. The sharp hops cut though briny flavors while leaving the finest qualities of even delicate fish undisturbed. Once off its home turf, the pilsner style is less steady. There is an "international" pilsner style that is brewed around the world, but its pedigree is less impressive than the German-Czech style. These beers tend to be lighter in color and less bracingly hopped, both in the bitterness and aroma. Sometimes adjuncts--rice, corn and other grains excluded from German brewhouses--make their way into these beers, lightening their color and their characters. Many American "pilsners," a style that includes some of the world's best-selling brands, fall into this latter category. Many of these beers are marvels of technology and quality control, but often without the pronounced flavors of barley and hops.
German barley malt remains as unique as, say, Pinot Noir grapes in France's Burgundy region. As German beers, especially those of Bavaria, get deeper in color, the distinctive flavor of that malt becomes more apparent. The caramel and toffee tones start to step forward in the amber Oktoberfest Marzen-style beers, become more predominant in the soft, dark dunkel style and reach their full expression in the powerful doppelbocks. Bocks are strong lagers, and doppelbocks even more so. With an 8 percent (or higher) alcohol content, doppelbocks abandon all pretense of moderation, reveling in the deep toasty flavors of German malts.
From the pretty Bavarian town of Aying we get an excellent example of the doppelbock style, the aptly named Ayinger Celebrator (the names of doppelbocks have traditionally ended with the suffix "-ator" ever since the Paulaner brewery dubbed the first commercial doppelbock "Salvator" in the early 1800s.) Lagered for six months to achieve a silky smoothness, this nearly black beer sports a malt aroma reminiscent of a baking loaf of brown bread. The dark color is derived from heavily roasted malts, which add their own coffee-ish overtones. The bitterness is just enough to keep the sweet palate from becoming cloying, and the beer finishes long and clear, with a certain warmth signaling its high 8 percent alcohol content. Perfect with stews and wursts, doppelbocks are an excellent example of one Bavarian reference to beer--liquid bread.
Long before American megabrewers happened upon the silly marketing concept known as "ice beer," German brewers perfected the stunning pinnacle of the bock range--the eisbock. A doppelbock is lowered in temperature until some of its water is crystallized and harsh-tasting tannins precipitate. Then the ice is removed, concentrating the beer to about 10 percent alcohol by volume. The result is the Sauternes of the beer world. Kulmbacher's Reichelbräu Eisbock shows this style in its full glory, with both the aroma and the palate packed with malt, toffee, coffee and molasses character. The finish is smooth and miles long. An eisbock has no need of food--it wants a warm wood fire and a fine cigar.
Whereas in Kulmbach beer is subjected to ice, in Bamberg it is tempered with fire. From Bamberg comes an even more creative regional specialty, rauchbier ("smoked beer"). The malt used to make the beer is first smoked over a beechwood fire, which suffuses the beer with a smoky aroma and flavor. The reigning prince of this style is Aecht Schlenkerla Rauchbier Märzen (just "Schlenkerla" to friends). The smoke is in the forefront of the nose of this amber beer, which has an aroma rather like smoked German sausage with a slathering of barbecue sauce. The palate also shows some smoke, but standard malt flavors come through clearly, backed up by a snappy bitterness. In lesser rauchbiers, the smoke is allowed to overpower the beer, but Schlenkerla holds it all together. Smoked beer isn't for everyone, and I must admit that I was fairly dismayed when I first heard of it. Now it's the first thing I think of with a lot of Chinese dishes--the perfect replacement for smoked Lapsang teas.
When the rulers of Bavaria came up with the Reinheitsgebot, they left in one loophole--for themselves. Only the royal breweries were allowed to make beer from wheat, giving the aristocracy a lock on the wheat beer trade. The royal connection is long dissipated, but we are left with tasty reminders of why royalty might have wanted wheat beers to themselves.
Until recently, wheat beer (known in German as weizen, for wheat, or weisse, for white) had been dismissed as a light summer refresher or a style for stodgy old folks. Today, wheat beers are all the rage again and make up more than 30 percent of the Bavarian beer market. Not bad for a beer style that is probably about 800 years old, and is a throwback to Germany's ale-drinking days.
Wheat beers are made from a blend of malted wheat and barley in which the wheat predominates. The use of a high proportion of wheat produces a beer that is light-bodied yet full-flavored, with a slightly tart edge. Bavarian wheat beers are fermented with a special ale yeast strain that produces a wealth of spicy flavors and aromas associated with the style. These beers are highly carbonated, with a lightly hopped yet snappy palate, a huge creamy head produced by proteins in the wheat and a fruity, spicy, clovelike aroma that is more pronounced in some versions than others. Most of these beers undergo a final fermentation in the bottle (called "bottle-conditioning"), leaving the beer robust, flavorful and cloudy with yeast, in which case it is referred to as hefe-weizen (yeast-wheat).
Among the most refined examples of hefe-weizen is the renowned Schneider-Weisse of Kelheim, brewed by the Schneider family for six generations. Schneider-Weisse has a pleasantly aggressive pinpoint carbonation and a finely tuned aroma of cloves, banana bread, smoke and bubble gum. Expansive and grandly snappy on the palate, it complements everything from light salads to roasted chicken to spicy Thai food.
Schneider-Weisse's doppelbock-strength big brother from the same brewery is called Aventinus, and it has even deeper pleasures to offer. The aroma profile is similar to Schneider-Weisse, but the balance is tipped towards banana, with a hint of chocolate backing it up. The flavors burst on the palate, cruising in smoothly to a clean, warming, spicy finish.
Belgium raises the European brewer's art to its most rambunctious and creative levels. In many ways, Belgium is to beer what Cuba is to cigars; Belgian beers are not for everyone, but to the connoisseur they offer stunning complexity and unparalleled richness. Whereas the Germans stick to the tight script of the Reinheitsgebot, the Belgians throw the rule book out the window and do as they please. Brewing in Belgium is idiosyncratic and old-fashioned at the same time; Belgians brew ales in ancient styles, but no two beers are alike. Every brewery has its own flavor-producing yeast strains and even its own specially shaped glassware.
The most famous Belgian beers are those brewed by the Trappist order of monks within its monasteries. Of these, the best known is Chimay, brewed by the brothers of L'Abbaye de Notre-Dame de Scourmont. Of the three Chimay beers, the most prized is Chimay Bleu, or Grande Réserve. Chimay Bleu carries its 9 percent alcohol with grace, showing dark fruit, nutmeg and black pepper in the nose, with a hint of apple peel. The flavors follow through on a full-bodied, slightly sweet palate with an earthy, yeasty backdrop of raisins and chocolate. The hops take a back seat, serving only to provide a bracing balance. A stellar match with roasted duck, Chimay improves with cellaring, and some connoisseurs will not drink it until it is at least three years old. I rarely manage to wait that long.
At the other end of the Trappist ale spectrum is the ale produced by the brothers of Notre Dame D'Orval, simply named Orval. The distinctive bowling pin-shaped bottle contains a pale ale with a startling orangey color, capped by a rocky white head and an aroma of spicy hops and bright fruit. Sharp, focused hop bitterness gives way to a dry, spicy palate with a citrusy fruit finish. Hop bitterness and bready malt linger refreshingly on the palate. Another bottle beckons.
Some beers aspire to heavenly connections, bearing some relationship to an abbey, but are brewed by secular breweries. These are referred to as "abbey ales," and despite the fact that they are not divinely derived, some of them are very fine in their own right. The most popular styles are dobbel (also spelled dubbel) and tripel, the names referring obliquely to their alcohol contents of roughly 6 percent and 9 percent, respectively. The 500-year-old Roman Brewery of Oudenaarde produces the fine Roman Dobbelen, a nice example of the dobbel style. Deep reddish-brown, this beer is redolent of dark fruit, raisins, chocolate and a touch of coffee. The palate is slightly sweet and caramel-like, countered by a broad bitterness and finishing with a clean hop snap.
One tripel is the Affligem Tripel, a deep golden beer with an effusive white head and a perfume-like aroma, showing plenty of pear and a touch of anise and ripe cantaloupe melon. Yeasty, hoppy, fresh and spicy on the palate, the warmth of the alcohol gives the beer an almost spirit-like quality. A long, earthy, fruity finish rounds it off. This beer virtually begs for a pork loin roast, but will settle for pheasant or a free-range chicken.
Some Belgian beers defy categorization and simply become icons unto themselves. One such beer is the popular Duvel, brewed by the Moortgat family of Breendonk. Taking the opposite tack to the abbey breweries, the Moortgats appealed to a lower authority and named their beer after the Flemish word for the devil. Certainly, the beer is seductive and deceptive enough. The very pale yellow color masks a beer that contains more than 8 percent alcohol by volume. The beer is bottle-conditioned and virtually erupts into the glass, raising a massive stark white head. The nose is perfume-like, full of hops, pear, brandy and citrus. Light-bodied but flashy on the palate, the beer is full of spicy flavors backed by hay and a hint of tobacco. The palate signs off with a snap of hops and a spicy aftertaste warmed by alcohol. Brilliant with a wide variety of foods, Duvel is often referred to as the "Champagne of Belgium."
Certain styles of beer evolved to serve the same purpose as rustic table wines. Farmhouse beers were once abundant in the countrysides of Belgium and northern France. Some are still going strong. The Belgian farmhouse, or saison, style is best represented by the Dupont Brewery of Tourpes, which produces the fantastic Saison Dupont. You can still buy fresh eggs at the Dupont brewery, which is admirably close to its farming roots.
The beer is so full of live yeast that the bottle appears vaguely crusty on the inside. The bottle lets loose its cork with champagnelike vigor. Golden, churning, almost chunky and powerfully aromatic, this beer raises up a head so stiff one could float a quarter on it. A blast of apples, yeast, grapefruit and coriander forms an appetizing aroma. The beer is bracingly bitter up front, following through with a dry, sprightly, spicy palate. The finish is clean, dry and refreshing, with a lingering impression of fresh earth and cut hay. I'm still trying to find food that Saison Dupont doesn't go with. A nice garden on a summer's day, some lightly chilled Saison Dupont and a medium-bodied spicy cigar form the cornerstone of my idea of perfect leisure.
Most brewers go well out of their way to ensure that sour flavors do not appear in their beers. For some Belgian brewers, however, sourness is just another paint on the palette. The red ales of Flanders are often mouth-puckering in their sourness, a quality that is softened by aging in wood. Rodenbach Grand Cru is the granddad of these ales; the red color is derived partly from a long maturation in varnished oak vats three stories tall. Rodenbach Grand Cru shows a bit of its sourness even in the nose, but raisins, caramel and Madeira are also prevalent. The sourness hits the palate with a tart smack, but quickly reveals an interplay of oak tannins, bright fruit and rock candy, rolling through to leave a somewhat tannic oakiness in its wake. It is a terrific beer to serve with strong cheeses and gutsy salads.
The Payottenland region of Belgium is home to the lambic beers, the world's oldest commercially produced beer styles. Whereas other modern brewers carefully ensure that wild yeast is excluded from their brews, lambic brewers take the opposite route, flinging the windows open and inviting nature in. This is the way beer was fermented hundreds of years ago, when even the most accomplished brewers didn't know what yeast was, and all beers underwent "spontaneous fermentation" by wild yeast and bacteria. Try this in most places, and you'd probably end up with an unfortunate result, but the microflora in Payottenland produce some of the world's most complex beers.
Lambics are wheat beers of more conventional strength, but spontaneous fermentation and aging in wooden barrels give them fruity, funky aromas and sharp sour palates. Behind the sourness is a riot of earthy, toasty flavors and aromas, comparable to the finest blue cheeses. Lambics are often aged in wood for years, becoming quite assertive in character.
(In the United States, you are likely to find a version called "gueuze," which is a blend of old and young lambic beers; the blend softens the sour edge without sacrificing all the complexity of the older beer. Traditionally, lambic beers are bottle-conditioned and flintily dry, but many brewers have caved in to the public sweet tooth and added sugar to their beers.)
Frank Boon of Lembeek, in Payottenland, produces some of the finest traditional lambic beers available. His Boon Mariage Parfait is his best gueuze blend. Golden and spritzlike, Mariage Parfait has a fresh herbal nose, with an earthy background of wet wool and lemon peel. The palate is pleasantly sour with a focused tang, with a complex interplay of earth and fruit flavors. It finishes very dry and clean. It is the beer equivalent of a great Stilton cheese, which it complements nicely.
Long before anyone thought to put hops into their beer, they experimented with all sorts of ingredients, including fruit. These were lambic beers, and in Belgium, they still are. The most popular additions are raspberries (framboise) and sour cherries (kriek). When poorly made, these beers can be mere cartoons, but in the right hands they become works of art.
Lindemans Framboise belongs in the latter category, not least for its startling pinkish-red hue and light pink head. Whole raspberries are added to the lambic beer, leaving the wild yeasts to eat away the sugars and the fruit. When Lindemans Framboise is poured, the aroma of fresh raspberries--stems, stalks, leaves and all--wafts over the table. The palate follows through, delivering in full on its promise--sweet with a balancing sour edge and a complex earthy backdrop. It is ludicrously decadent with a slice of cheesecake.
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FIVE female health workers vaccinating children against polio have been shot dead in Pakistan in a series of attacks blamed on Islamist militants. Three of the victims were teenagers.
The deaths caused the Pakistani government to suspend vaccinations in two cities and dealt a fresh setback to an eradication campaign dogged by Taliban resistance in a country that is one of the disease's last global strongholds.
Four of the killings, which officials said were carried out by masked men on motorbikes, took place in Karachi on the second day of a drive to eradicate the disease from the country.
The fifth, of a 17-year-old schoolgirl administering the program with her sister, occurred in the violent western city of Peshawar.
Two male health workers were also injured by gunfire, officials said.
It was not clear who was behind the shootings but Taliban insurgents have repeatedly denounced the anti-polio campaign as a Western plot.
''Operations will be reviewed - and suspended where necessary,'' said Michael Coleman, a spokesman for the United Nations children's fund, UNICEF. ''We're concerned for the safety of front-line workers. They are the true heroes.''
Thousands of volunteers were taking part in a three-day government-led drive, supported by the World Health Organisation and UNICEF, to vaccinate tens of millions of children at risk from polio.
After a decades-long struggle the disease is now endemic in only three countries: Pakistan, Afghanistan and Nigeria. Relatives said several of the victims had received death threats in recent days.
Some Islamists and Muslim preachers in Pakistan and elsewhere say the polio vaccine is a Western plot to sterilise Muslims, to stop population growth.
Other religious leaders have taken part in campaigns aimed at debunking that myth.
Resistance is particularly strong in Pakistan, where there has been a severe backlash against immunisation for polio and other diseases since the CIA used a Pakistani doctor, Shakil Afridi, to set up a fake vaccination program as the agency closed in on the al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden in his hiding place in Abbottabad last year.
Women and girls are frequent targets of militants. A veteran Swedish worker for a non-governmental organisation that trained midwives was killed recently in the eastern city of Lahore.
Officials said the girl killed in Peshawar had received repeated threats that had forced her to move between houses of friends and relatives at least three times in recent days.
Statistics released in October showed an improvement in the polio situation in Pakistan, with 47 children paralysed by the disease compared with 154 cases in 2011.
However, in 2005 only 28 new cases were registered.
In neighbouring India, a mass vaccination campaign reduced cases from 741 in 2009 to a single case last year. A key factor was the support for the campaign by clerics from poor Muslim communities.


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The developer of La Habra Town Center has sold three of the shopping center's buildings for nearly $9 million.
The properties, at 1820, 1950 and 1970 W. Whittier Blvd., total 20,829 square feet. They were built in 2000.
The buildings were sold in two separate transactions. One building, occupied by Union Bank, sold for $3.6 million; the other properties, which include tenants Starbucks and Cold Stone Creamery, sold for $5.2 million.
Listing agent Dennis Vaccaro, a senior managing director with Irvine's Faris Lee Investments, said the market is heating up as a growing number of buyers feel like risk is subsiding. With a limited supply of newer properties, the La Habra buildings generated 10 offers, he said.
"Overall, there's a great deal of demand for commercial property," he said. "There's not a lot of nice product available in Orange County, so there was a lot of pent-up demand."
Vaccaro represented the seller along with Nicholas Coo, a senior managing director of Faris Lee. LH Property LLC, which bought the Union Bank property, was represented by David Sternberg of Roessler Investment Group. Elicelrena Group LLC, which acquired the shops, was represented by JK Group's Jason and Katie Min.
Aliso Viejo investor unloads hotels
Sunstone Hotel Investors Inc., a real estate investment trust in Aliso Viejo, had a busy end to January. The firm, which holds stakes in a number of high-end hotel chains, agreed to sell four hotels in Minnesota for $230 million. The announcement came as Sunstone attempted to raise about $300 million in an equity offering and redeem more than 7 million shares of preferred stock.
The four hotels included the 660-room Kahler Grand Hotel and 202-room Marriott Rochester. Sunstone said it expects to receive net proceeds of about $165 million after retiring outstanding debt on the properties.
The company also increased the size of a previously announced stock offering to 22 million shares from about 17 million. Shares were priced at $11.80. Sunstone said it hopes to use the cash in part to redeem preferred stock and make acquisitions.
Developers less optimistic about O.C. office market
Commercial developers are bullish on the Orange County office market, but that optimism is starting to fade, according to a new report.
Law firm Allen Matkins and the UCLA Anderson Forecast, which conduct biannual surveys of developers and financiers to gauge market sentiment, found a slight dip in respondents' attitudes toward Orange County's office market. In particular, the negative sentiment toward the county's high vacancy rate pulled down the overall index.
According to the report, developers are less optimistic in part because of expected interest rate changes that could stifle growth in the office market.
Still, the sentiment was the highest of all the markets in Southern California.
New York brokerage opens Irvine outpost
Coldwell Banker Commercial Alliance, a new commercial real estate brokerage headquartered in New York, has expanded to the West Coast with the opening of an office in Irvine.
The firm, an affiliate of brokerage Coldwell Banker Commercial, was founded in August to serve small businesses and private investors.
Michael Dorsey, a former senior vice president with Voit Real Estate Services, will run the Irvine office. The firm, which also has an office in Denver, plans to open locations in as many as 10 markets in the next year.
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Gee not reading too much into spring starts
PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. -- Last spring, right-hander Dillon Gee performed so poorly that he hit two batters and threw three wild pitches in a single game. By the end of the Grapefruit League schedule, his ERA was 5.87. And although he took that into the early part of the regular season, he recovered to enjoy the finest campaign of his career.
Because of that, he is not reading too much into the modest improvements he has displayed this spring. He gave up one run over 2 1/3 innings on Wednesday in his first Grapefruit League start, keeping him on track -- most likely -- to start the third game of the season.
"What I got from last spring is that it isn't going to foreshadow how the season's going to play out at all," Gee said. "Just because you feel good in Spring Training doesn't mean you'll feel good in the season. You try to get things ironed out here, but it's continual work."
Because Gee is more of a command pitcher than a power arm, that work revolves around repeating his mechanics and hitting specific spots within the strike zone. If he can do that consistently by the end of March, he knows, he will be ready for the regular season.
"As of right now, I feel good compared to where I was last year at this point," he said. "At least I'm throwing strikes right now. If I can throw strikes, I can go out there and compete no matter how I feel."
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Set in 1953, The Solid Gold Cadillac begins at the annual stockholders' meeting of General Products, a colossal manufacturing corporation. Just as the company directors are about to vote themselves large promotions and even larger raises, Laura Partridge, an older woman who owns a measly ten shares in the company stands up to question their actions. Flustered by the first person who ever dared to stand up to them and hoping to keep her quiet, the directors offer her a job in the company. As she takes to the position with a passion, financial indiscretions are exposed, office romance flourishes and the little old lady makes an impression on big corporate American they'll never forget. Written by legendary George S. Kaufman and Howard Teichmann, The Solid Gold Cadillac has delighted audiences since its hugely successful run in the 1950's on Broadway and in its film version, starring Judy Holliday; but with its themes of corporate greed and executive excess seemingly ripped from today's news headlines, never has the play been so amusing nor so relevant.


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The international categories of Australia's AACTA film and television awards are intended to showcase international cinema but in a surprise coup it was Australia's golden girl Cate Blanchett who walked away with the prize in her hand.
Blanchett took out the best international lead actress award for her performance in Blue Jasmine, Woody Allen's film about a wealthy Manhattan socialite who falls into poverty and homelessness.
"I'm Australian, so I guess it was a done deal," Blanchett said. "All I had to do was show up," she added, smiling.
British director Steve McQueen's adaptation of Solomon Northup's book 12 Years a Slave took out two awards: best international lead actor for Chiwetel Ejiofor and best international supporting actor for Michael Fassbender.
Two other films, the 3D science fiction thriller Gravity and David O. Russell's comedy/drama American Hustle, took out the four remaining awards.
Gravity, which starred Sandra Bullock and George Clooney, won best international film and best international director for Alfonso Cuaron. American Hustle won best international screenplay (Eric Warren Singer and David O. Russell) and best international supporting actress for Jennifer Lawrence.
The awards, in their third year, are intended to showcase international cinema.
They were created when the Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts (AACTA) was formed out of the old Australian Film Institute (AFI) in 2011. Though the annual AFI Awards had been handed out since 1958, the new body elected to launch with the "first annual AACTA Awards" that same year.
The large number of international categories has become something of a sore point for the local production community, as other slightly incompatible categories are shoe-horned together, such as TV comedy and light entertainment.
Los Angeles-based Australian actor and director Josh Lawson has been particularly vocal, describing it as "baffling and insulting for both categories".
Another point of friction is the fact that there is only one category for performance in a TV comedy, but there are four for TV dramas.
The winners of the international awards were announced at an invitation-only function held at the Sunset Marquis Hotel in Los Angeles. It was hosted by Oscar winning actor Geoffrey Rush, who also serves as the president of AACTA.
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Awards are given in almost 40 categories across a range of disciplines in film and television, including cinematography, composition, costume design, screen writing and acting.
Baz Luhrmann's The Great Gatsby and Kim Mordaunt's The Rocket led the film categories with 14 and 12 nominations respectively.
In the television categories, UKTV's critically acclaimed drama Top of the Lake leads with 12 nominations.
The international awards will be televised on Foxtel's Arena channel on Sunday. The winners of the Australian component of the awards will be announced at a lunch on January 28 and an evening gala on January 30, both to be held at the Star casino in Sydney.
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AACTA best international film: Gravity
AACTA best international director: Alfonso Cuaron, Gravity
AACTA best international screenplay: Eric Warren Singer and David O. Russell, American Hustle
AACTA best international lead actor: Chiwetel Ejiofor, 12 Years a Slave
AACTA best international lead actress: Cate Blanchett, Blue Jasmine
AACTA best international supporting actor: Michael Fassbender, 12 Years a Slave
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From September new laws will come into force requiring schools to support children with such conditions, but the charity Diabetes UK has urged people to have their say on the plans before they are finalised.
The charity's regional manager in the Midlands Peter Shorrick said the new law would only make a real difference if it was backed by strong guidance.
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What a game. That Danny Granger.... you won't like him when he's angry (unless he's on your team, in which case you love him).
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What a game. That Danny Granger.... you won't like him when he's angry (unless he's on your team, in which case you love him).
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Danny scored 36 points on 19 shots, incredible.
Do we have two All-Stars this year?
Great team win. Played tough defense. Great, aggressive offense. Very good play tonight. Let's keep it rolling against the defending champs!
Great win! I hope they can get enough rest to play well in Dallas, seems like Granger was getting tired at the end..
DG has to produce like that with Hill out.
That was the 08-09 Granger out there, only better. What a great win.
Not only do the Pacers play 15 of 22 on the road to start the season, they are playing teams with winning records in almost every game. The next three are all against teams with winning records and the four before New Jersey all had winning records.
No doubt. Two nights in a row of 40+ minutes will do that to you.
Get that man some rest. He's earned it.
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Massive win indeed and i will happily admit i was one of those before the game who was saying that i couldn't see a win for us.As i said in the match thread,Danny was out of this world and all of our starters had double digits in scoring.Very happy about that.Poor PG had to be benched early in the second half because of foul trouble but i honestly thought we would see him in the 4th.Anyway congrats to the players and the coaching staff for the win.
PS:Oh for all his sucking yesterday,did you see how well DC responded with tonight's performance?He was very good.
It's worse than that.
Danny was 2-8 for 7 points at the end of the first half. That means he scored 29 points in the second half, on 11 shots. It also means he went 7-11 in that timeframe.
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Paul George didn't play much, but you can see it. You can just see it. Once he realizes how easy he can get his shot like he did on that step back on Webster and the confidence to just do it .... goodness he's going to be hard to stop. One day he's going to be the guy you give the ball to and just get out of his way.
And for the record: I don't care what the Minny announcers say. That was an intentionally dirty play by Kevin Love.
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Danny's second half was unbelievable. He went 7-11 and 11-13 from the line for 29 points
Granger is awesome!
I'm glad George is becoming a good shooter now.
Learning shooting is very key in the league and as long as he has his jump shot, he will continue to improve by working on his handles and going to the paint.
He's on pace to be a 20+ ppg scorer if he continues to improve his attacking skills which he has all the tools.
Couple things:
-Did a great job of containing Kevin Love. He got his numbers, but his percentage wasn't that great and we didn't let him score when he needed to.
-Great games by our five starters, especially Danny, Roy, and Collison.
-We really need to upgrade our bench if Hill is going to be out for a while.. AJ, Lance, and Lou are just not volume enough scorers to stay competent against other benches. It's okay to have one or maybe two sometimes, but three is just too much. Keep Hansbrough and Dahntay while making moves to get a more cohesive unit.
-Dahntay is becoming a very good bench player. He's playing like the Dahntay of Denver, which is great.
-I love Danny.
With time, we are going to quit making those silly turnovers, especially in the first two quarters. When that happens, look out!
Great game by DG. Paul played well too in limited minutes.
I love the "new Dahntay Jones"
Tyler Please get more confident. He misses a lot of shots, a lot of times..that's not what's unusual. His lack of confidence is unusual.
I thought Lance and AJ both did what I was afraid/thought they might. Tried to do too much. At some point Price's shot will come back. And the game speed will adjust for them.
Roy played well tonight, I thought. As did David.
Nice to see DC bounce back too. It seems like he usually has a great third quarter.
I liked the effort from everyone.
Guys. We have something VERY special here. We're only going to get a lot better too.
All I have to say is Thank goodness for the Wolves not taking george..
Dude was our enforcer the first half. He kept us in the game. Second half frank must have chewed some serious ***. We responded great! To no surprise.. We have made great half time adjustments this whole season.
Danny is playing 08 esque. There is a fire that has been lighten. He is playing like the GRANGEROVER!
DC man wow what a game. Played some excellent D on Ricky Martin and didn't allow the easy passes. Got his offensive game going..
Kevin wanted to act like a tough guy but got his *** handed to him. And I am a huge UCLA Fan..
Great game. Now can we please make it 4 in a row now? we have been flirting with this for a while.
Nope, I appreciated having somebody check my math.
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