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>Look What I Can Do!>Who's fighting the dang Pace Bunny in 2013?
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Thumped the 2013 mile pace bunny today...took a run in 15" or fresh snow, 19F with 30mph north wind...but got 'er done.
I've done my best to live the right way. I get up every morning and go to work each day. (for now)
The Pace Bunny has never beaten me - am on-track to crack another 2K miles the last week of the year.
Run Bunny Run with feet that are free
Run Bunny Run you can't beat me
Run Bunny Run all in the wood
Run Bunny Run.....get me a cold f'ing beer!!!
One day at a time
I never even started chasing the bunny in 2013, but I am in training to catch him in 2014. 1000 miles is the plan.
I just put the Pace Bunny to bed for the year as I just made my 1,000 mile mark for the year. This has been my best year by far. I have a couple of weeks to decide what to do for 2014?
Ron's PRs 5K 24:14 (12/07/2013); Half Marathon 1:53:33 (5/26/2013)
Feeling the growl again
Well, my pace bunny was 3650 miles. I got the most debilitating injury of my running career in February. So it's never been close.
I will comfortably hit 2000 in about a week. There's always next year.
"If you want to be a bad a$s, then do what a bad a$s does. There's your pep talk for today. Go Run." -- Slo_Hand
I am spaniel - Crusher of Treadmills
I cheated and only added the pace bunny a couple of weeks ago when the 1500k "goal" was very easily within reach.
There, now I set myself up for breaking my leg before I get there.
So, we have 20.5 days to go.
Who's fighting the Pace Bunny?
Who's still worried about hitting their goals?
I set out 3 pace bunny goals in 2013.
I've hit 1 of them (running).
I've given up on 1 of them. (biking)
I'm fighting 1 of them. (swimming) I think it'll be New Year's Eve when I finish Pace Bunny goal #2.
So, we have 20.5 days to go.
Who's fighting the Pace Bunny?
Who's still worried about hitting their goals?
I set out 3 pace bunny goals in 2013.
I've hit 1 of them (running).
I've given up on 1 of them. (biking)
I'm fighting 1 of them. (swimming) I think it'll be New Year's Eve when I finish Pace Bunny goal #2.
Beat bunny #2 (swim) this afternoon. I set the bunny's December 31 last year and didn't modify.
I pretty much took the entire month of December off. Not overly motivated right now, and need to set my 2014 goals (total volume as well as races) and start preparing to do what I can do.
2013 was a great year!
2017 Goals:
#1: Do what I can do (200+ training days, 200+ aerobic hours).
#2: Race shape (1/2 marathon, 2 half Ironmans, marathon)
#3: Prepare for 2018
Latent Runner
Okay, I give, what the heck is a "Pace Bunny"?
After reading the various posts here, it seems to be some way of setting a goal for a year, and had I set one, initially it would have been for 1,200 miles, however, that would have been in doubt through the first six months of the year as I only managed 329 miles. In July I topped 200 miles in one month and started wondering if I could somehow beat my best year ever (700 miles back in 1979) by a cool 1,000 miles; I hit 1,704 today.
Fat old man PRs:
Just passed my 1367mi (26.2/wk) running pace bunny
Beat my bike bunny a while ago
Never set up a swim one, but that'll be a goal for next year.
Good Job Everyone!
You are 36.5 mi behind the pace bunny.
In other news, we're having rabbit for dinner today, to celebrate the new year!
Consistently Slow
I have bunny footprints all over my back. Ouch!
Run until the trail runs out.
The pain that hurts the worse is the imagined pain. One of the most difficult arts of racing is learning to ignore the imagined pain and just live with the present pain (which is always bearable.) - Jeff
And so it begins... "You are 5.5 miles behind the pace bunny"
The bunny beat me this time, but it won't happen again this year! I got lazy after my 50k, but then still had a chance to catch up the last few days, until I got hit with a stomach bug.
My running blog
Goals | sub-18 5k | sub-3 marathon 2:56:46!!


text: Ahn Ki-yung writes: > I've recently started a small tutorial for server > programming in concurrent Haskell. Very cool. Network programming is one of my interests, too, and unfortunately it is still very difficult to get started with that in Haskell. Thanks for putting all that effort into the page. It's very nice. Two comments: | acceptConnections sock = do | putStrLn "trying to accept" -- debug msg | conn@(h,host,port) <- accept sock | print conn -- debug msg | forkIO $ catch (talk conn `finally` hClose h) (\e -> print e) | acceptConnections sock | | talk conn@(h,_,_) = hGetLine h >>= hPutStrLn h >> hFlush h >> talk conn Note that the 'accept' call may throw an exception, too. If it does, it will take the whole server down because all IO threads terminate when 'main' terminates. This is probably not what you want. Also, I'd avoid using hGetLine when reading from a network socket, because the function doesn't implement any sort of timeout or maximum line length. Hence, an attacker can overflow your heap (and potentially crash the program) by sending you an appropriately long input line. Hope this helps. Peter

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SPENNYMOOR Town climbed into the top four of the ENL first division after a 3-2 win at Ashington, and manager Jason Ainsley put the victory down to his players' tremendous spirit.
Moors dug deep after going 2-1 down at one point to beat Ashington, who had outside title hopes and had defeated another title-chasing team, West Auckland, just four days before.
"It was a superb performance from us on a very difficult pitch for both teams, and I'm delighted with the three points and the effort from our players.
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"Some people thought we might have lost the game because we've lost games like that in the past, but we have a tremendous spirit in the dressing room which will play a massive part between now and the end of the season."
Moors took the lead after six minutes when Gavin Cogdon finished well from a Callum Griffiths pass, but Ashington levelled when Griffiths was penalised for a foul, and Andrew Johnson scored from the spot.
Ashington went 2-1 up just after half time with a 20- yarder from Sam Norris, but within a minute Moors were level through Liam Henderson from close range – his 24th league goal of the season.
The game could have gone either way after that, but Moors dug deep and scored the winner on 68 minutes when sub Andrew Stephenson headed home from a Keith Graydon corner.
West Auckland bounced back from their midweek defeat at Ashington by winning 2-0 at Sunderland RCA. West took an eighth minute lead thanks to a powerful drive from the edge of the box into the bottom corner by Brian Close, and they were thwarted from going further ahead before half time with three good saves by RCA keeper Jonathan Carmichael.
It was the same again in the second half with Carmichael again making two good stops, while Ross Wilkinson headed over the bar at the other end.
Richardson headed against the bar, before Carmichael failed to hold a shot by Robbie Briggs right at the end, and sub John Campbell scored.
West manager Peter Dixon said; "I think we should have scored more goals, but their keeper had a blinder."
Crook striker Kyle Davis scored a hat-trick for the second successive game, but still finished on the losing side by 4-3 at Consett.
Kenny Lindoe's team took a first minute lead through Michael Mackay after Crook keeper Jack Norton failed to hold Luke Sullivan's shot, then five minutes later Sullivan hit a second from a through ball. Kyle Davis pulled a goal back for Crook, and Lewis Teesdale missed a good chance for an equaliser.
Sullivan made it 3-1 to Consett at the start of the second half, but again Davis kept Crook in the game when he scored from a cross by sub Matthew Weirs.
But Mackay made it 4-2 with a shot on the turn, and Davis' hat-trick goal deep in stoppage time was just a consolation.
Davis also scored a hattrick last week in the 3-3 draw at Newton Aycliffe.
Guisborough strengthened their grip on a top six spot by beating Hebburn 3-0 at the King George with striker Danny Johnson taking his goals tally for the season to 32 in the league.
It took Guisborough until the 55th minute to break down a stubborn Hebburn defence when Paul Roddam opened the scoring. Danny Johnson then scored his 31st league goal of the season when he finished off a good move, and right at the end he grabbed a third.
Durham City nearly threw away a 3-0 lead against Penrith, but held on for a 3-2 win.
Ian Ward put Durham into an eighth minute lead from close range, and after 42 minutes Scott Fenwick made it 2-0, finishing off a good move from a cross by Josh Gray.
Fenwick then got a third when Max Stoker charged down a clearance by the Penrith keeper, and the ball rolled for him to tap in.
West Auckland defend a corner during their win at Sunderland RCA on Saturday
City continued to miss chances, and Penrith took advantage and pulled a goal back through Jordan Little from the penalty spot. Steven Rigg headed in another from a corner with two minutes left, but City held on.
Bottom club Billingham Town lost 5-0 at home to Bedlington, which means that they have failed to score in their last eight games, going all the way back to December 12. New signing David Abel put through his own goal in the opening minutes, and by half time Bedlington were 3-0 up with further goals by David Brown and Colin Morton. Dylan Williamson and Shaun McRoberts added further goals in the second half.
In the second division, Norton's promotion hopes appear to have been dashed after they lost to a late injury time goal at third-placed Seaham Red Star.
The home side led with a goal two minutes after half time by Lewis Wing when he finished off a good move from the edge of the box, but Norton equalised immediately after through Michael Jameson.
Just when it seemed as if Norton would collect a valuable point, they conceded the winner when Connor Winter headed a Lee Kerr free kick into the top corner.
Tow Law won their local derby at Willington by 2-1.
They scored two goals within the space of two minutes in the first half, Scott Thompson scored from close range and Dean Thexton lobbed the keeper. Aidan Goodey pulled a goal back in the second half.
Thornaby are now 11 points above the relegation zone thanks to a 4-2 home win over Stokesley who are fifth bottom.
Thornaby took the lead when Ricky Phillips scored from a rebound, and then they got the second through Ged Livingstone with a header.
Livingstone made it 3-0 with another header at the start of the second half, and after Greg Upton pulled a goal back, Livingstone completed his hat trick from a Curtis Edwards cross. Stokesley scored a late consolation, courtesy of an own goal by Ian Bishop.
In the Evo-Stik premier division, Whitby enjoyed a 3-0 win at Stocksbridge Park Steels. Graeme Armstrong and Craig Farrell (2) scored for them in the first half. Whitby are seventh, a point below the play offs.
Blyth had a 3-1 home win over Chorley after being a goal down after 20 minutes.
Dan Maguire, Neal Hooks and Danny Parker scored. Blyth are level on points with Whitby, but have a worse goal difference.


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1939 National Champions Honored at NAIA Banquet
April 28, 2009
On Tuesday, March 17, 2009 the 1939 national championship basketball team from Southwestern College was honored at the NAIA tournament tip-off banquet and awards ceremony at the Kansas City Convention Center Ballroom. Charles Grigsby '42, the final living member of the team, was honored during the ceremony.
Watch the video celebrating the 70th Anniversary of the 1939 Champions produced by Allegro Media for the NAIA below: (Flash 8 or higher required.)


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NFC Champ Preview
Brett Favre and the Green Bay Packers enjoy one of the best postseason home-field advantages in the NFL. The New York Giants, however, might not be intimidated by the frigid conditions at Lambeau Field because of their outstanding play on the road.
Oddsmakers from Bodog have made Green Bay -7 point spread favorites (View NFL Football odds) for Sunday's game, the over/under has been set at 40.5 total points (Game Matchup). Current public betting information shows that 60% of bets for this game have been placed on Green Bay -7 (View NFL Football bet percentages).
Favre looks to add another chapter to his legendary career and lead the Packers into their fifth Super Bowl on Sunday by winning the NFC championship game against the Giants, who are riding the longest single-season road win streak in league history.
For only the second time in his career, Favre will play an NFC title game at Lambeau Field. Green Bay beat Carolina at home in 1997 en route to its first Super Bowl victory in 29 years, and the only one of Favre's career.
"It's been 11 years, I think, since ... I have to kind of refresh my memory on it," Favre said. "Times have changed a bunch, I guess."
The Packers, who lost Favre's second Super Bowl appearance in 1998, are 13-2 all-time in playoff games on the "Frozen Tundra" of Lambeau Field.
"Home-field advantage is what we are focused on," Packers coach Mike McCarthy said. "I think it is an advantage for any football team. It is definitely going to be cold here Sunday."
It may not be an advantage against the Giants (12-6), who are truly on the road to the Super Bowl. Two playoff victories have run their streak of road wins to a league-record nine straight, dating to a season-opening loss at Dallas.
New York now looks to set another NFL mark by winning 10 road games in one season, breaking the record it shares with the 2005 Pittsburgh Steelers.
"I think it is just a matter of the grit, the determination, the character, the leadership, the toughness, and the mental toughness," Giants coach Tom Coughlin said. "In a lot of ways when we come out and we get booed, we are kind of interested in how high the volume of the boos are."
The Giants avenged two regular-season losses to the Cowboys with a 21-17 win at top-seeded Dallas last Sunday in the divisional round. New York is one win away from its fourth Super Bowl appearance and first in seven years.
"This is an opportunity that can make all the dreams that you have ever had since you're a little kid come true with a couple wins," New York receiver Amani Toomer said.
The fifth-seeded Giants' win also allowed the second-seeded Packers to host the NFC title game instead of traveling to Texas.
That Favre is getting another chance to reach the Super Bowl is a bit of a surprise, given his subpar play in 2005 and 2006. The Packers (14-3) had their only losing season with Favre in 2005, going 4-12, and appeared to be headed for another after going 4-8 to start the next season.
But Green Bay rallied to win its final four games, and although it missed the playoffs, the run was a factor in convincing the 38-year-old future Hall of Famer to return. It has certainly paid off as the three-time league MVP threw for 28 touchdowns and 4,155 yards - the third-highest total of his career.
"I don't want to sound like I'm totally surprised," said Favre about being one game away from another Super Bowl. "But I knew it could happen. The question was could I last."
Favre was extremely effective in last Saturday's 42-20 divisional victory over Seattle. He completed 18 of 23 passes for 173 yards and three touchdowns as the Packers bounced back after trailing 14-0.
That deficit was a product of two fumbles from running back Ryan Grant, who recovered to turn in the best rushing effort in Packers' playoff history. Grant ran for 201 yards and three touchdowns.
Grant is someone the Giants are very familiar with. Due to its glut of running backs, New York dealt Grant to the Packers for a sixth-round draft pick shortly before the season opener after he spent two years with the Giants on the practice squad.
"Ryan performed and played very well during the preseason," Coughlin said. "We had a position, as anybody who scouts or knows football can relate to, that had five or six NFL football players and that was one of them, that was the position for us."
Not surprisingly, Grant is still friends with many current and former Giants.
"I'm very close with a lot of guys on the team, close to Tiki (Barber)," Grant said. "I learned a lot from him, a sense of composure, professionalism and little things on the field."
There's also a friendship between Favre and New York defensive end Michael Strahan, who notably broke Mark Gastineau's NFL single-season record of 22 sacks when Favre laid down for him in a 34-25 Packers' win that closed the 2002 season.
Strahan, who hasn't sacked Favre in two meetings since that game, faced a similar decision to Favre about whether to retire after New York went 8-8 and lost to Philadelphia in the first round of the playoffs last season. The seven-time Pro Bowler held out of training camp before returning for his 15th season with New York as he searches for his first Super Bowl title.
With Favre on the other side, there's been less attention on much-maligned Giants quarterback Eli Manning. The top overall draft pick in 2004, Manning had his leadership skills criticized by Barber and his playmaking ability questioned during a season in which he tied for the NFL lead with 20 interceptions.
After losing his two previous playoff games, Manning has shined in New York's two wins with a total of four touchdown passes and no interceptions. He threw for two TDs and 163 yards in the win at Dallas last Sunday, just hours after brother Peyton and Indianapolis were eliminated by San Diego.
"I don't think I am doing anything different," Manning said. "I am just trying to take what the defense is giving me. It is just a matter of being in a good situation in the game."
The Manning family is expected to make the trip to Green Bay to see if Eli can reach the Super Bowl just one season after Peyton played in and won his first.
The weather, which calls for temperatures in single digits as well as snow flurries, could dictate the effectiveness of both teams' passing attacks.
"I think you prepare by practicing and getting ready for their defense," Manning insisted. "You don't worry about the weather. There is no point in being concerned about it."
Another factor affecting Green Bay's vaunted passing attack is the state of New York's depleted secondary.
The Giants played last Sunday without cornerbacks Sam Madison (abdominal) and Kevin Dockery (hip flexor), and their status for Sunday is uncertain. Rookie cornerback Aaron Ross left the Dallas game with a shoulder injury in the second half, but returned to practice Wednesday.
When the teams met in Week 2, Favre took advantage of a New York defense still adjusting to new coordinator Steve Spagnuolo by completing 29 of 38 passes for 286 yards and three touchdowns as Green Bay won 35-13 at Giants Stadium.
Both teams have undergone plenty of changes since that game, with the Giants' defense in particular showing major improvement and finishing with a league-high 53 sacks.
Also, Grant and New York running backs Brandon Jacobs and Ahmad Bradshaw did not have a single carry in that game. All three figure to be featured prominently in the cold, snowy conditions in the rematch. The Giants' tandem helped New York average 134.3 yards rushing in the regular season to rank fourth in the NFL.
The venerable franchises have met five times in the playoffs - all NFL championship games between 1938-62, with Green Bay winning the last four meetings. New York lost 37-0 in 1961 in its only postseason visit to Lambeau, then named City Stadium, and also lost 16-7 the next season at Yankee Stadium.
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WASHINGTON, Oct. 8 (UPI) -- The U.S. Defense Department said Tuesday it appointed a veteran House Armed Services Committee counsel to oversee the closure of the Guantanamo Bay prison.
Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel announced he appointed Paul Lewis to serve as special envoy for the closure of the military detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Lewis oversaw issues related to the prison when he served as a general counsel at the House Armed Services Committee.
He'll oversee the prison's closure and the transfer of prisoners to host countries. President Obama restated his commitment to closing the detention center during his September address to the U.N. General Assembly. The facility houses high-profile terrorist like Khalid Sheik Mohammed, the self-proclaimed mastermind of the Sept. 11, 2001, al-Qaida attacks on the United States.
Al-Qaida leader Abu Anas al-Liby was secured by U.S. forces in a raid in Libya last weekend. The Defense Department said he'd be brought to the United States, not the Guantanamo Bay prison, to face trial.
Hagel said Tuesday most Defense Department personnel returned to work this week though cash payments to the family members of service members killed in action were halted because of the partial government shutdown. Emergency funding for intelligence activities remains unavailable.
Bipartisan disputes over a budget deal forced a partial government shutdown last week. The U.S. government is expected to exceed its $16.7 trillion federal debt ceiling Oct. 17.


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Priority: Trivial
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Lucene Fields:New, Patch Available
This is a pair of command line utilities that provide information on the total number of occurrences of a term in a Lucene index. The first takes a field name, term, and index directory and outputs the document frequency for the term and the total number of occurrences of the term in the index (i.e. the sum of the tf of the term for each document). The second reads the index to determine the top N most frequent terms (by document frequency) and then outputs a list of those terms along with the document frequency and the total number of occurrences of the term. Both utilities are useful for estimating the size of the term's entry in the *prx files and consequent Disk I/O demands.
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Since many people will want to use branch 3.x instead of trunk, I back-ported the flex version to 3x ( patched against http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/lucene/dev/branches/branch_3x/lucene : 955141)
Mike, can this be committed to branch_3x?
Patch looks good Tom! I'll re-merge my small changes from the prior patch, add a CHANGES, and commit.
I don't think we need to upgrade to CL processing lib...
Rewrote argument processing so the default behavior is that of HighFreqTerms. The field and number of terms are now both optional with the default being all fields and 100 terms (same default as currrent HighFreqTerms). If a -t flag is used the totalTermFreq stats will be read,calculated, and displayed.
The bug surfaced when not specifying a field. Added test data with multiple fields and tests to check that correct results are returned with and without a field being specified. Fixed bug and new tests pass.
With the increasing number of options, I started thinking about more robust command line argument processing. I'm used to languages where there is a commonly used Getopt(s) library. There appear to be several for Java with different features, different levels of active development and different licenses. Is it worth the overhead of using one, and if so which one would be the best to use?
I tweaked the latest patch to mimic the current HighFreqTerms unless you give it a -t argument. However, while testing the argument parsing I found a bug I suspect I inserted into the patch a few versions ago. Am in the process of writing a unit test to exercise the bug and then will fix bug and post both tests and code.
Tom, I agree, we should make it optional to compute the totalTF, and probably default it to off? Can you tweak the latest patch to do this?
Hi Mike,
Thanks for all your help.
If we replace the current HighFreqTerms with the HighFreqTermsWithTF should there be a command line switch so that you could ask for the default behavior of the current HighFreqTerms? Or perhaps the default should be the current behavior and the switch should turn on the additional step of gathering and reporting on the totalTF for the terms.
I haven't bench-marked it but I'm wondering if getting the totalTF could take a significant additional amount of time for large indexes. When I ask for the top 10,000 terms using HighFreqTermsWithTF for our 500,000 document indexes it takes about 40 minutes to an hour. I'm guessing that most of that time is taken in the first step of getting the top 10,000 terms by docFreq, but still it seems that reading the data and calculating the totalTF for 10,000 terms might be a significant enough fraction of the total time that the option to skip that step might be useful.
I think we should just replace the current HighFreqTerms with the HighFreqTermsWithTF?
Patch looks good Tom!
I cleaned things up a bit – eg, you don't need to use the class members when interacting w/ the bulk DocsEnum API.
I think it's ready to go in!
Patch that includes unit tests and changes outlined in Mike's comment
Added unit tests. Made changes outlined by Mike. Still working on BulkRead.
Thanks for the updated patch Tom... feedback:
- Maybe do away with the "hack to allow tokens with whitespace"?
One should use quotes with their shell for this? (And eg the hack
doens't work with tokens that have 2 spaces).
- Can you rename things like total_tf --> totalTF (consistent w/
Lucene's standard code style)
- Maybe rename TermInfoWithTotalTF -> TermStats? (It also has
- Maybe rename TermInfoWithTotalTF.termFreq -> .totalTermFreq?
- Maybe rename .getTermFreqOrdered -> .sortByTotalTermFreq?
- You don't really need a priority queue to for the
getTermFreqOrdered case? Ie, instead, just fill in the
.totalTermFreq and then do a normal sort (make a
Comparator<TermStats> that sorts by the .totalTermFreq)
Still don't understand the bulk read API, but given that I have indexes with *frq files of 60GB I'd like to use it. Is there some documentation, code, or a test case I might look at ?
I just committed some small improvements to the javdadocs for this – can you look & see if it's understandable now?
Also, have a look at oal.search.TermScorer – it consumes the bulk API.
Revised patch updated everything to flex. Replaces all references to Term with BytesRef and field.
GetTermInfo now requires a field instead of default= ocr
removed unused String[] fields argument
GetTermInfo now uses shared code HighFreqTermsWithTF.getTotalTF(); to get total tf.
Removed GetTermInfo dependency on TermInfoWithTotalTF[] and inlined it into HighFreqTermsWithTF.
Still don't understand the bulk read API, but given that I have indexes with *frq files of 60GB I'd like to use it. Is there some documentation, code, or a test case I might look at ?
Patch looks good Tom – thanks for cutting over to flex. You could in fact use the bulk read API here; it'd be faster. But performance isn't a big deal here
Maybe you should require a field instead of defaulting to "ocr"?
Why does GetTermInfo.getTermInfo take a String[] fields (it's not used I think)?
Probably we should cutover to BytesRef here too, eg TermInfoWithTotalTF?
Maybe you could share the code between HighFreqTermsWithTF.getTermFreqOrdered & GetTermInfo.getTermInfo? (They both loop, summing up the .freq() of each doc to get the total term freq).
Small typo in javadoc thier -> their.
Updated the HighFreqTermsWithTF to use flex API.
I don't understand the flex API well enough yet to determine if I should have used DocsEnum.read/DocsEnum.getBulkResult() to do a bulk read instead of DocsEnum.nextDoc() and DocsEnum.freq()..
New patch includes a (pre-flex ) version of HighFreqTerms that finds the top N terms with the highest docFreq and looks up the total term frequency and outputs the list of terms sorted by highest term frequency (which approximates the largest entries in the *prx files). I'm not sure how to combine the GetTermInfo program, with either version of HighFreqTerms in a way that leads to sane command line arguments and argument processing. I suppose that HighFreqTerms could have a flag that turns on or off the inclusion of total term frequency.
Perhaps this should be combined with high freq terms tool ... could make a ton of this little guys, so prob best to consolidate them.
Programmatically indexing those docs is fine – most tests make a MockRAMDir, index a few docs into it, and test against that.
This tool looks useful, thanks Tom!
Note that with flex scoring (
LUCENE-2392) we are planning on storing this statistic (sum of tf for the term across all docs) in the terms dict, for fields that enable statistics. So when that lands, this tool can pull from that, or regenerate it if the field didn't store stats.
I think creating a small index with a couple of docs would be the way to go.
For an example of how this utility can be used please see: http://www.hathitrust.org/blogs/large-scale-search/slow-queries-and-common-words-part-1
Patch against recent trunk. Can someone please suggest an appropriate existing unit test to use as a model for creating a unit test for this? Would it be appropriate to include a small index file for testing or is it better to programatically create the index file?


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SEATTLE -- It hasn't mattered lately whether senior Randy Fasani or backup Chris Lewis takes the snaps for Stanford.
Fasani and Lewis played tag-team quarterback in an upset of Oregon two weeks ago. Lewis led the way last week in a shocking 38-28 win by Stanford (5-1, 4-1 Pac-10) over UCLA while Fasani was on the sideline with a sprained right knee.
It gave the Cardinal consecutive wins over top-five teams for the first time in school history.
No. 10 Stanford plays No. 11 Washington (6-1, 4-1 Pac-10) Saturday at Husky Stadium while No. 9 UCLA faces No. 16 Washington State in Pullman. Those games will help to clear up the clutter in the conference standings. All four teams have only one loss, along with No. 8 Oregon, which plays at home against Arizona State.
''It's huge,'' said Washington nose tackle Larry Tripplett, who will have to attempt to slow down Lewis. ''A lot's going to happen this weekend.''
Lewis, a redshirt sophomore, came in for Fasani in a 49-42 win over Oregon two weeks ago. In the two wins the last two Saturdays, he has completed 32 of 45 passes for 432 yards and five touchdowns.
Fasani is out again this week, giving Lewis another opportunity.
''I'm a different player than I was a year ago,'' the 6-foot-3, 215-pound Lewis said. ''I've had some tough games on the road under my belt, and I'm more mature.
''We know we're as good as anybody in the country. If we play the way we can, we know we'll win every time.''
Washington's Cody Pickett is just as confident. He will tell you he wants to throw the ball 40 times every game. He often gets that chance, too.
During one stretch in the first half of last weekend's 33-31 win over Arizona State, Pickett passed 13 straight times and on 15 of 16 snaps. He threw for 252 yards. The week before against Arizona, he passed 49 times for 455 yards.
''Whatever the defense gives us,'' Pickett said. ''We're going to try to take what's there.''
Backup Taylor Barton is a solid replacement who has stepped in and led the Huskies to victory when Pickett separated his throwing shoulder.
It would seem Lewis has the bigger task Saturday. Stanford, off to its best start since 1992, hasn't won in Seattle in 26 years, and Washington has a 12-game home winning streak -- the longest in the conference.
Washington finally got its running attack going in last week's victory over Arizona State, with Willie Hurst rushing for 185 yards. Still, Washington ranks eighth in the conference in rushing at 119.1 yards per game.
''As an offensive line, we feel the finger is pointed at us,'' tackle Khalif Barnes said. ''We had to come out and respond. Without a running game, you can't win games.''
But Stanford's veteran defense has shown it can stop the run. It's the best defensive unit in the Pac-10 against the run, allowing only 93 yards per game.
The Cardinal held UCLA star DeShaun Foster, the conference's leading rusher, to 77 yards on 21 carries. He came into the game as the nation's top rusher and is now fourth.
''It is a very well choreographed defensive unit that looks to stop you running the ball, force you to beat them by throwing, and then makes plays on the ball,'' Washington coach Rick Neuheisel said. ''There isn't a more opportunistic defense in the country.''
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During his 1984 and '85 tours with his stone-country band the International Harvesters, Neil Young taped 85 concerts – an Appalachian mountain's worth of music that, years later, he and pedal-steel guitarist and original Harvester Ben Keith whittled down from eight shows to twelve tracks on the new live album, A Treasure, released today (June 14th). When asked what he and Keith, who passed away last year, were looking for in that trove of twang and dirt-road idealism, Young is cheerfully forthright.
"We were looking for this," he says. "We were looking for a treasure. And we found it.
"I wanted to capture the spirit of this band playing together, the greatness of these musicians," Young continues, calling from Nashville two days after his Bonnaroo show with Buffalo Springfield. "I wanted to capture the interplay of real country music, being played by real country musicians.
The latest release in Young's Archive Series of previously unissued concert albums, A Treasure comes from the most contentious decade of Young's career, when he was careening through genres – including electronica and rockabilly – and was famously sued by his label at the time, Geffen, for not making classic-Young albums. Young recut parts of his 1985 country LP, Old Ways, made with the International Harvesters, after Geffen rejected the first version he handed in, deeming it uncommercial.
"I was told that no matter what I did, country radio would not play me," Young recalls, "mostly because of my songwriting. I'd put out things like 'Southern Man' and 'Alabama'" – Young's Seventies broadsides at reactionary Dixie conservatism – "so culturally, they drew the line.
"But while we were not accepted by country radio, we were accepted by country musicians," he adds with emphatic relish. "They all played 'Southern Man' with me. They didn't care. It wasn't about that."
The International Harvesters remain the most unique and misunderstood of his many touring bands: a large ensemble of studio and touring sidemen with top-shelf Nashville, Memphis and Cajun credentials, including R&B songwriter and pianist Spooner Oldham, the Grand Ol' Opry fiddler Rufus Thibodeaux and J.J. Cale drummer Karl Himmel. Bassist Tim Drummond, who was in the '84 lineup of the Harvesters, played with both James Brown and Conway Twitty before cutting his first sessions with Young for 1972's Harvest. And when Oldham wasn't available in '85, Young scored a rare coup, coaxing the prolific Nashville session pianist Hargus "Pig" Robbins out of the studio and on tour. "He hadn't been on the road that much, but he loved it," Young insists, still delighted. "He wanted to go. They all did."
Are You Ready for the Country?
Actually, A Treasure opens with a warm welcome: Young's September, 1984 performance with the Harvesters on the TV show, Nashville Now, singing the bouncy "Amber Jean," a Harvesters-show regular that never made it to Old Ways. The Treasure version of Old Ways' "Bound for Glory" was recorded a week and a half later at a honky tonk, Gilley's Rodeo Arena in Pasadena, California, run by the country singer Mickey Gilley. "I only played songs with the Harvesters that the band could do justice to," Young says of the set lists on those tours. "And a lot of those were pure country songs."
Some were custom-written for that venture. A Treasure includes two previously unissued tunes that Young left behind when he disbanded the Harvesters: "Let Your Fingers Do the Walking" and "Nothing is Perfect". But Young, a Canadian, grew up on the country radio beamed across the plains there, and he was already covering Don Gibson's "Oh Lonesome Me" on 1970's After the Goldrush. He first cut "It Might Have Been" with Crazy Horse at that time (that version was finally issued on Archives Vol. 1), but Young claims the Harvesters' take on A Treasure "is pure country, as pure as you could ever have."
In fact, the Harvesters were a nimble and catholic band that adapted, with enthusiasm and well as professional flair, to the pop and hard rock in Young's canon. A Treasure has a spin on Young's Buffalo Springfield ballad "Flying on the Ground Is Wrong" that would have fit nicely on one of Richie Furay's Poco albums. There are country-railroad sprints through "Motor City" and "Southern Pacific" from Re-ac-tor, Young's 1981 crusty-fuzz platter with Crazy Horse. And Thibodeaux gets extra blazing solo time in "Soul of a Woman." a stomp Young later took to the Bluenotes.
"Country and blues is almost the same thing," Young declares. "It's just the way it's played – the musicians, the use of the instruments. To me, the songs all fit. I didn't care." There is a quick chuckle on the line. "I had limited success in both directions, so it didn't matter to me."
Young looks back on his confounding series of deep-genre studies – 1982's synthesized Trans; the '83 Fifties dance party, Everybody's Rockin'; Old Ways; and his late-Eighties R&B orchestra the Bluenotes – with stubborn pride, defending the idiosyncratic purity of each detour. "If you're going to do something, you should do it all the way," he contends. "You have to have the right musicians, and you don't want them playing another way. You want them to play with you in a way that is right for them."
He cites one exception from the Harvesters period, an early '85 tour of Australia and New Zealand: "I toured with half of that band and half of Crazy Horse. And it didn't work that well. I realized I'd lost some of the authenticity, in trying to do too many things at once – exactly what I'd been trying to avoid." When Young hit the road again in the U.S. in the fall of '85, he was back with a full band of Harvesters. "I'd ended up with something that was not as satisfying, so I stayed with the extremes. Whether people understood it or not was secondary."
Back to the Garage
But there is a strong hint, at the end of A Treasure, that Young was already moving on: the previously unreleased "Grey Riders," from a New York show I saw in 1985. The song starts as a cowboy-ballad two-step, glazed with Thibodeaux's swampy sawing, but is soon riven by Young's Live Rust-style thundercracks of guitar distortion and near-feedback shriek. I also remember a 20-minute assault on "Down by the River" at that concert. ("That's a great version," Young affirms, assuring that "it will be out eventually.") By the fall of '86, Young was back out with Crazy Horse, the giant mock-amps and road-eyes from Rust Never Sleeps and no fiddles.
"It's still to be decided," Young says, when asked if A Treasure will end up in a a future Archives box. "It's a Volume 3 product." But Young believes the CD – which also comes on vinyl and as a CD/Blu-Ray package with rare live footage, some of it in fan-shot Super 8 – is a stand-alone triumph and vital to understanding his creative impulses at one of the toughest junctures of his career.
"At that point in my life, the people in control of who played the music on the radio, how it got out, were sure that I shouldn't be doing what I was doing," Young says with a curt lingering irritation. "But it didn't matter to me. I kept on doing it anyway. When you hear this record, that's the reason. Maybe now, 25 years later, it might float.
"But the thing is," he adds, "it doesn't matter if it floats. Because it floats for me and the musicians, for everybody that was a part of it."


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BLACKSBURG, Va. - Virginia Tech has reopened the section of the academic building where a student gunman killed 30 people nearly two years ago in the worst mass shooting in modern U.S. history.
The university held a ceremony Friday to mark the reopening of the west wing of the second floor of Norris Hall. The 4,300-square-foot area has been converted into six new rooms and laboratories and also will house the new Center for Peace Studies and Violence Prevention.
The Center will be led by Jerzy Nowak, former head of the Department of Horticulture. His wife, French instructor Jocelyne Couture-Nowak, died in the massacre. Nowak, who is to move into the building April 23, said working at the site could be difficult.
"My feelings are secondary," Nowak told The Roanoke Times. "You will always have moments of weakness. I mean, it is not like you can block it forever."
The center, whose staff consists of Nowak, two graduate assistants and a secretary, is organizing a violence prevention symposium for October 2010 with an affiliated student group.
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After Putin's Tears: Russia's Elections in Context
This weekend, as forecast, Vladimir Putin won an election that will return him to the Russian presidency. Putin appears to have both won a strong majority and engaged in electoral irregularities. The Obama administration joined observers in calling for investigation – even as Mitt Romney accused it of failing to do exactly that. Rhetoric aside, experts say that the surprises in Russia lie ahead – political and economic uncertainties are growing, and Putin's power may start to dwindle. Washington will continue to need a pragmatic policy that pursues common interests where they exist and calls out differences – on human rights, Syria or Iran – clearly.
Putin's election was no surprise—he's been the driving force in Russian politics since his first election in 2000, and, despite the flawed election process, retains significant support outside Russia's urban elites. As Alexander Nazaryan of the New York Daily News writes, "Putin returns to the presidency after having garnered about 60% of the vote in Russia's presidential elections, according to exit polls. This will be his third term in that office, which he relinquished in 2008 to president-in-name-only Dmitry Medvedev. As everyone well knew, Prime Minister Putin was pulling the strings all along, in classic Kremlin fashion. Now, he doesn't even have to pretend. Though he appeared at least slightly shaken by the protests that followed the brazenly rigged Dec. 4 parliamentary elections, Putin regained his form just in time for the presidential contest – and then some. Last Friday, he was already looking forward to running in the 2018 election: 'It would be normal, if things are going well, and people want it.' The Economist further explains, "And after the economic crisis of 2009 removed that anaesthetic [strong economic growth], the presidency of Dmitry Medvedev provided something of a placebo. With his tweets and iPad, he appealed to the most modern part of the middle class, promising liberalisation and institutional change, whereas Mr Putin continued to appeal to the traditionalists. What some Western observers mistook for true conflict between them was for the most part a carefully contrived balancing act." [Alexander Nazaryan, 3/4/12. Economist, 3/3/12]
Experts look for Putin's influence to wane as political, economic questions mount. The Economist explains, "Developments in the past few months have shown that Mr Putin cannot rule his country indefinitely. The beginning of the end of his reign has begun. Whether it is a good end or a bad one is up to him… Russia is changing. A richer and more vocal middle class has sprung up, one that recognises Russia as an ill-governed kleptocracy."
Andrew S. Weiss, director of the RAND Center for Russia and Eurasia, further explains in the Washington Post, "Putin's neo-czarist system has been sputtering for some time. Slower economic growth, crime, corruption and a bloated bureaucracy have led many Russians to say 'Dostali!' ('We are fed up!')… This treacherous political environment will force Putin to govern with real give and take, something he's hardly accustomed to. Some in Moscow's chattering class even suggest that he could be forced from office in the next year or two and that he needs to start grooming a successor who can help him exit with dignity — and with immunity from prosecution. That may be wishful thinking, but Putin is now fighting for his political life." Weiss adds, "the Russian economy is the real hostage. In 2011, revenue from oil and gas accounted for about half the federal budget, and raw materials made up more than 85 percent of exports. Thanks to a huge trade surplus, enormous currency reserves and an overvalued ruble, Russia's domestic industries have become uncompetitive against imports — a textbook case of what economists call 'Dutch disease.'" [Economist, 3/3/12. Andrew Weiss, 3/2/12]
Pragmatic U.S. policy works towards common interests, speaks out on differences; Putin's re-election doesn't change that. As Russia expert Samuel Charap explained last year: "Let's first be clear about what the reset is not. It is not a secret weapon to vaporize all those in the Russian security establishment who deeply distrust U.S. intentions and at times act on that mistrust. It is also not a reset of Russia's political system, some sort of magic wand for effecting instantaneous democratization. What it was, and remains, is an effort to work with Russia on key national security priorities where U.S. and Russian interests overlap, while not hesitating to push back on disagreements with the Kremlin at the same time. The idea is that engagement, by opening up channels of communication and diminishing antagonism, should — over time — allow Washington to at least influence problematic Russian behavior and open up more space in Russia's tightly orchestrated domestic politics… This diplomatic tactic is not new; it harks back to George Shultz, secretary of state under President Ronald Reagan, and his approach to the Soviet Union."
Weiss notes, "Putin has shown he's able to act pragmatically when it serves Russia's interest. Witness his strong support for Washington after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, Russian votes in the U.N. Security Council in 2009 and 2010 to tighten sanctions on Iran, the 2010 New START nuclear arms reduction treaty and the creation of a supply corridor across Russian territory for U.S. forces in Afghanistan. There are plenty of important issues on the agenda — nuclear nonproliferation, terrorism, the dangerous situation in Pakistan and the wobbly global economy — on which U.S. and Russian interests more or less converge. An experienced leader such as Putin, who prides himself on being cold-hearted and calculating, surely figured that out long ago." [Samuel Charap, 8/12/11. Andrew Weiss, 3/2/12]
As administration pushes Russia on vote irregularities, Syria, Iran, Mitt Romney's attack falls flat, fails to offer alternative. Yesterday, Mitt Romney went after the Obama administration's response to the Russian elections, saying, "Instead of stating that it 'congratulates the Russian people on the completion of the Presidential elections,' as the Obama Administration has done, it should have condemned the flagrant manipulation and media restrictions that marred this election."
The administration, which has spared little rhetoric in its efforts to shame Russia for continuing arms sales and blocking an Arab League plan to end killing in Syria, did call for investigation of irregularities in the very statement that Romney is criticizing. The statement reads, in part: "The United States endorses the preliminary report of the observer mission of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) and the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), and welcomes the many other assessments of the Russian presidential election by Russian election monitors. We note the statement by the head of delegation for PACE that the election had a clear winner with an absolute majority. We also note, however, the OSCE's concerns about the conditions under which the campaign was conducted, the partisan use of government resources, and procedural irregularities on election day, among other issues. We urge the Russian Government to conduct an independent, credible investigation of all reported electoral violations. As underscored in the OSCE report, we also note the new steps that the Central Election Commission took to increase transparency of the voting process since the parliamentary elections last December. We urge Russian authorities to build on these steps to ensure that the procedures for future elections will be more transparent." [Mitt Romney via TPM Live Wire, 3/6/12. Victoria Nuland, 3/5/12]
What We're Reading
EU Foreign Minister Catherine Ashton indicated that the group of global powers known as P5+1 is ready to resume talks with Iran over its nuclear program.
In closed-door meetings, Benjamin Netanyahu assured President Barack Obama that Israel has not made any decision on attacking Iran's nuclear sites.
The ruling Indian National Congress Party was defeated in a critical election in Uttar Pradesh, the country's largest state.
After thirty years of rapid growth, some sectors of the Chinese economy are starting to slow down.
Russia offered to re-establish diplomatic relations with Georgia, ties that had been cut off when the two nations went to war in 2008.
Vice President Joe Biden told Latin America leaders who are considering paving the way to legalize illicit drugs that the U.S. will not waver in its opposition to such a step.
During a two-day visit, China's special envoy to Syria is expected to urge Syrian officials to adopt a ceasefire.
Rifts are beginning to emerge in the Pakistani Taliban leadership.
Leaders in Libya's eastern city of Benghazi want semi-autonomy for the oil rich eastern region.
Turkish Airlines completed its first flight to Mogadishu marking the first time a commercial airliner has landed in the war torn Somali capital in more than 20 years.
Commentary of the Day
Doug Bandow asks why the U.S. is still in Afghanistan.
George Friedman concludes China may be rising but it is still far from solving its fundamental strategic problems and further yet from challenging the United States.
The Chicago Tribune's editorial board speculates on whether North Korea will hold up its end of the deal this time around.
George Grant does not believe that Libya is on its way to being a failed state.


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- The Movie Itself
- 2 Stars
- HD Video Quality
- 3.5 Stars
- HD Audio Quality
- 2.5 Stars
- Supplements
- 0 Stars
- High-Def Extras
- 0 Stars
- Bottom Line
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A Bridge Too Far
- Street Date:
- June 3rd, 2008
- Reviewed by:
- Peter Bracke
- Review Date: 1
- May 20th, 2008
- Movie Release Year:
- 1977
- Studio:
- MGM Home Entertainment
- Length:
- 176 Minutes
- MPAA Rating:
- Rated PG
- Release Country
- United States
The Movie Itself: Our Reviewer's Take
If I have one rule for war movies, it's that watching them shouldn't feel longer than actually living through the war itself. Maybe that's my problem with 'A Bridge Too Far,' a rather ponderous, self-indulgent, and didactic war flick that, despite its star-studded cast and high production values, feels about three years long, not three hours.
Adapted from Cornelius Ryan's best-selling 1974 novel of the same name, 'A Bridge Too Far' depicts the ill-fated offensive called "Operation Market Garden." In a game of one-upsmanship, British Field Marshal Montgomery attempted to top the success of America's General Patton, and spearheaded a strategy he hoped would end WWII. Utilizing over 35,00 Allied paratroopers dropped behind enemy lines in Holland, the operation was to barrel through the city of Arnhem and, bridge by bridge, finally capture Ruhr and bring the war to an end by Christmas of 1944.
The success was not to be, however, due to faulty intelligence and numerous blunders, including ignored reports of German activities in Holland. The result was a miscalculation that resulted in the British troops moving too quickly, and ill-prepared with supplies and artillery. In just nine days, "Operation Market Garden" completely collapsed, resulting in the loss of nearly 18,000 Allied troops.
Such a story seems ripe for a bold, tragic, and moving war film, but as directed by Richard Attenborough, 'A Bridge Too Far' is about as exciting as reading over a set of blueprints. Indeed, I found the first hour of the movie almost unbearable, as assorted famous actors spouted endless talk of troop maneuvers and planned offensives, with barely a whit of human drama. Certainly, the likes of Sean Connery, Robert Redford, James Caan, Edward Fox, Gene Hackman, Anthony Hopkins, Dirk Bogarde, and countless other famous faces (if nothing else, 'A Bridge Too Far' is like a role call of every half-recognizable actor who worked during the '70s) keeps the film barely watchable. With so much technical set-up, 'A Bridge Too Far' is hopelessly, dramatically inert.
What saves the film are a number of impressive setpieces that stand out like oases in the desert. Interweaved throughout the seemingly endless strategy discussions are effective glimpses of the front lines, and the toll that Operation Market Garden would take on both troops and civilians. Memorable is a sequence involving paratroopers being met by a group of crazed escapees from an mental institution, as well as some poignant moments with an older Dutch woman whose home will serve as a makeshift hospital. There is also the somewhat-famous moment when a group of wounded men band together to sing the famous hymn "Abide With Me." Unfortunately, there is little connective tissue between these segments -- let alone a clear central protagonist to center our perspective -- so the film is not only thematically fragmented but emotionally distant. It's more like a travelogue of patched together moments than it is a cohesive, effective narrative.
'A Bridge Too Far' does, however, succeed in one of the main aims that Attenborough long held for the film. As he claimed at the time of the film's original theatrical release, 'A Bridge Too Far' was meant to expose the futility and sheer destructiveness of war without stripping the soldiers of their bravery and humanity. The tapestry-like quality of the movie, and the sheer overwhelming number of characters, does lend a sense of immense spectacle and gravity to the carnage that many other, more myopic war movies lack. But watching 'A Bridge Too Far' is still an experience that, despite some stellar individual sequences, is muddled and overlong.
The Video: Sizing Up the Picture
Having never seen 'A Bridge Too Far' until this Blu-ray, I went in with no expectations. I was pleasantly surprised to find a rather fine-looking catalog remaster.
Presented in 1080p/MPEG-2 video, the film is framed accurately at 2.35:1. The source is in good shape, with a few blemishes and the occasional speckle, but otherwise wear and tear is at a minimum. The color palette is not a particularly strong one, but hues are at least solid and clean, and fleshtones generally accurate (only some use of print tinting and filters can give some scenes a bluish cast). The transfer is not particularly sharp, however, due to the soft-focus photography and frequent location fog/rain effects. I didn't find the lack of incredible depth that problematic, however, as the image is quite film-like and generally detailed. Sadly, I would have certainly preferred an AVC MPEG-4 encode, as this MPEG-2 suffers from a few instances of posterization and slight noise.
The Audio: Rating the Sound
MGM offers an English DTS-HD Lossless Master Audio 5.1 Surround track (48kHz/16-bit), which is decent in terms of fidelity but quite lacking in envelopment. (Optional English Dolby Digital 4.0 Surround, French Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround and Spanish 1.0 Mono dubs are also offered.)
Unfortunately, the volume balance issues on the DTS-MA mix are irritating. Dialogue is too quiet, with effects and particularly the score overbearing. I frequently had to amp up the volume during quiet scenes to compensate, then was blown out of my seat when the action kicked in. Otherwise, the source is clean, with dynamic range that is more robust than expected for a film from the late '70s. Low bass is also not bad considering the age of the elements. Surround use remains meager, however, with barely anything but slight score and effects bleed ever emanating from the rears. 'A Bridge Too Far' doesn't sound terrible, but it has some notable problems that keep it from being a particularly good show.
The Supplements: Digging Into the Good Stuff
'A Bridge Too Far' hits Blu-ray with next to no extras.
- Theatrical Trailer (HD) - Only the original theatrical trailer for 'A Bridge Too Far' is offered (in full HD), plus spots for three other MGM Blu-ray releases: 'Windtalkers,' 'Flyboys' and 'Platoon,' which has yet to be announced for Blu-ray.
HD Bonus Content: Any Exclusive Goodies in There?
There are no high-def exclusives.
Final Thoughts
'A Bridge Too Far' is Richard Attenborough's ambitious and star-studded WWII epic, which is well-staged and often epic, if a bit stodgy. It's still a fine war film for buffs of the genre, and this Blu-ray presents the film admirably. The transfer is quite sharp for a film of this vintage, though the audio suffers from some mismatched volume levels. The lack of extras makes this overpriced at 40 bucks, so it's probably a rental for all but diehard fans.
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- Blu-ray
- BD-50 Dual-Layer Disc
Video Resolution/Codec
- 1080p/MPEG-2
Aspect Ratio(s)
- 2.35:1
Audio Formats
- English DTS-HD Lossless Master Audio 5.1 Surround (48kHz/16-bit)
- English Dolby Digital 4.0 Surround (448kbps)
- French Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround (448kbps)
- Spanish Oolby Digital 1.0 Mono (224kbps)
- English SDH
- Spanish Subtitles
- Cantonese Subtitles
- Korean Subtitles
- Theatrical Trailer
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World Cup champion Japan will has made it into the women's Olympic soccer final after beating France 2-1 at Wembley Stadium.
Japan will be up against either Canada or the United States in the final on Thursday, the Globe and Mail reported.
It said Japan went into the match as the favorite, but World Cup semifinalist France had the better of the opening exchanges with Elodie Thomis and Marie-Laure Delie both looking dangerous down the flanks.
The San Francisco Chronicle reported Japan took what seemed like a commanding 2-0 lead after goals from striker Yuki Ogimi and Mizuho Sakaguchi either side of halftime.
But France nearly came back, as substitute Eugenie le Sommer scored in the 75th minute and won a penalty when she was brought down in the area just a minute later.
France attacked strongly for the last 10 minutes of the match, with le Sommer just missing an overhead kick that was saved. Ogimi then the hit the post in the 90th after breaking from the halfway line.
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- Release Date: 4/24/2007
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* Detention could open up old wounds in Hungary
* Suspect said to have ordered reprisals for 1956 uprising
* Case is long overdue, Terror museum director says
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* Detention could open up old wounds in Hungary
* Suspect said to have ordered reprisals for 1956 uprising
* Case is long overdue, Terror museum director says
(Adds comments, details)
By Sandor Peto and Krisztina Than
BUDAPEST, Sept 10 (Reuters) - Hungary on Monday detained a
former top Communist party official for his role in the bloody
suppression of an anti-Soviet uprising in 1956, the first time
that any of the Soviet-backed leaders of the time is brought to
justice in the country.
More than two decades after the fall of communism, the
prosecution of Bela Biszku, 90 - who has been detained on
suspicion of war crimes - could reopen old wounds in the central
European country which has still not fully faced up to this
tragic chapter of its history.
The ruling Fidesz party, led by fiercely anti-communist
Prime Minister Viktor Orban, pushed through a law last year
which stipulated that war crimes and crimes against humanity do
not lapse, opening the way to dealing with crimes committed
after the 1956 uprising.
On Monday Biszku was detained on suspicion of war crimes for
having directly supervised a Military Council that ordered the
shootings of civilians during protests in Budapest and in the
eastern Hungarian town of Salgotarjan in December 1956.
Hungary's uprising in 1956 was the first serious blow to the
Soviet bloc established after Soviet tanks drove out Nazi German
troops from Central Europe at the end of World War Two. Though
the uprising was crushed, its impact was lasting and it played a
role in the collapse of Soviet rule three decades later.
Large numbers of civilians were killed in the backlash
against the uprising, whose figurehead Imre Nagy was executed
for treason for establishing a government in defiance of
Moscow's rule over eastern Europe.
In Salgotarjan, 46 people were shot dead by Hungarian and
Soviet armed forces, the prosecutors said.
"Today ... prosecutors have detained and heard as a suspect
Bela Biszku, one of the key designers and one of those
responsible for the reprisals that followed the 1956 revolution
and uprising," Tibor Ibolya, acting Budapest chief prosecutor,
told a news conference.
He said Biszku had denied the accusations. He could face a
life sentence if found guilty.
Biszku came to public attention in 2010 when a documentary
film was aired on his role in the suppression of the uprising.
"This is a symbolic case that has been long overdue since
the regime change (collapse of communism)," said Maria Schmidt,
director of Budapest's House of Terror Museum, which is a
memorial to the victims of Nazi and communist terror regimes.
"It would have been more honest if he took responsibility
for his acts at least now, but nevertheless, Hungarian history
has already passed a judgment on him: Bela Biszku is one of
those key people responsible for the cruel retaliations,"
Schmidt said in an emailed reply to Reuters questions.
Biszku was named interior minister under Janos Kadar in the
Communist government set up after the uprising.
Prosecutors said they had applied to have him put under
house arrest.
Biszku said in an interview in 2010 that the fight for the
communist system in 1956 was a "just" struggle, and as interior
minister he had worked to restore public order.
"First of all I believe this was not a revolution, but a
counter-revolution," Biszku told Duna television in 2010.
"Biszku had serious responsibility in the retaliation that
followed the 1956 uprising," said Laszlo Eorsi, a historian
working at Budapest's Institute for the History of the 1956
Hungarian Revolution.
But Eorsi also said the timing of the detainment could serve
to distract public attention from other sensitive issues, like
tough credit talks with the IMF.
Prosecutors refused last year to launch criminal proceedings
against Biszku, saying whatever he had done was too far in the
But the ruling parliament majority pushed through a law last
year, in line with a convention adopted by the United Nations in
1968, which stipulated that war crimes and crimes against
humanity do not lapse.
"This is about those who took part in the retaliation
actively, as decision makers or in justice, who represented
charges or made severe rulings in show trials, including (those
which led to) executions," Gergely Gulyas, the government MP who
proposed the bill said at the time.
Egon Krenz, the last head of state of Communist Eastern
Germany was sentenced to six-and-a-half-year imprisonment for
Cold War crimes in 1997.
The persecution of former Communist officials continues,
more than two decades after the collapse of the Soviet bloc.
Early this year a Warsaw court handed Czeslaw Kiszczak,
interior minister in 1981, a two-year suspended sentence, while
former Communist dictator Wojciech Jaruzelski was excluded from
the same criminal case because of his poor
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Burial will follow in Portales Cemetery under the direction of Wheeler Mortuary of Portales.
He died Sunday, Nov. 3, 2002.
He was born March 6, 1915, in Henrietta, Okla. He married Irma Traughber on Jan. 9, 1939, in Portales. She died in March 1993. He moved to Post as a boy. In 1923, his family moved to the Bethel community west of Portales. He hauled milk for Plains Coop until 1947, when the family moved to Alaska. He hauled freight for Alaska Transfer until 1950, when he returned to Bethel. He farmed there until the early '80s.
He and his wife also operated Kountry Krafts Ceramic Shop west of Portales. He was a member of the Third and Kilgore Church of Christ.
He also was preceded in death by a daughter and a grandchild.
Survivors include three sons, Marlin of San Jon, N.M., Gary of King Salmon, Alaska, and Kenny of Tucumcari, N.M.; two daughters, Deati Tucker of Portales and Mary Wright of Roswell, N.M.; two brothers, David and Raymond, both of Portales; two sisters, Ruth Weems of Portales and Ruby Riley of Earth; and 14 grandchildren.
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PRONUNCIATION: VRAHN-yahn-kah TRANSLATION: A woman from the town of Vranje SOURCE: Dick Oakes learned this dance from Dick Crum who taught it to folk dancers in the United States in 1955. Dennis Boxell, Anatol Joukowsky, and Atanas Kolarovski also introduced dances by the same name. BACKGROUND: The dance comes from Vranje, a town in southern Serbia. The most popular tune for the dance is Šano Dušo, meaning "Shana, dear." It is also danced to the tunes Belo Lenče and Oj Ti Pile. The White bridge in Vranje is a symbol of the city and is called "most ljubavi" (lovers bridge) after the tale about the forbidden love between the Muslim girl Ajša and Christian Stojan that resulted in the father killing the couple. After that, he built the bridge where he had killed her and had the story written as an inscription in Ottoman Arabic. MUSIC: Folkdancer (45rpm) MH 45-3020 (Šano Dušo);
Folkraft (45rpm) 1493x45 (Šano Dušo);
XOPO (45rpm) X-314 (Šano Dušo);
Monitor (LP) MF 356, side 1, band 1 (Šano Dušo);
Festival (LP) FLP-1505 (Belo Lenče);
Festival (45rpm) FEP-101 (Belo Lenče);
Crum, Dick. "Vranjanka" (sheet music), Vranjanka and Other Jugoslav Songs and Dances, Hargail Music Press, New York, 1954.
Geisler, Richard. Sheet music, "Lark in the Morning Free Music Library," http://larkinam.com/LITMLibrary.html#Geisler.
FORMATION: Open cir of mixed M and W with hands joined and held up in modified "W" pos: hands extended fwd at shldr level with arms gently curved. METER/RHYTHM: 7/8, sometimes played strangely in 3/4), the slow-quick-quick rhythm (3-2-2=7) noted in dancer's counts below as 1,2,3. STEPS/STYLE: The body, leaning bwd slightly to conteract the extended arms, is relaxed, the flexing of the knees giving a languorous feeling to the shldrs and arms. MEAS MOVEMENT DESCRIPTION INTRODUCTION None. THE DANCE 1 Step R swd (ct 1), rise slightly on R as L is brought in front of R (ct 2); step L across in front of R (ct 3); 2 Step R swd with heel slightly turned out to R, body facing slightly L, and at same time flex R knee (ct 1); touch L ft slightly fwd to L and flex knees twice (cts 2,3); 3 Repeat action of meas 2 to L with opp ftwk; 4 Repeat action of meas 2; 5 Step L in place (ct 1); step on ball of R in back of L (ct 2); step L in place (ct 3). Repeat entire dance from beg.
Šano Dušo
/ Šano dušo, Šano mori, otvori mi vrata. /
Otvori mi, Šano, vrata, da ti dam dukata.
Oj le le le le le, izgore za tebe,
Izgore mi, Šano, srce za tebe.
/ Noć li hodi, divna Šano, ja si tuga vijem. /
Ubavinja tvoja, Šano, ne da mi da spijem.
/ Tvoje lice belo, Šano, sneg je sa planino. /
Tvoje čelo gidi, Šano, kako mesešine.
/ Ona usta tvoje, Šano, kako rujne zore. /
Ono oko, dušo moja, mene me izgore.
Šana, dear Šana, open the door for me.
Open for me, Šana and I will give you coins (engagement money).
Oh, la la la la, burning for you.
Burning, Šana, is my heart.
When night comes, marvelous Šana, I twist in sadness.
Your beauty, Šana, will not let me sleep.
Your fair face, Šana, is snow from the mountains.
Your forehead, Šana, is like moonlight. Chorus
That mouth of yours, Šana, like a deep red sunset.
That eye, my darling makes me burn


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Church of Scotland reiterates support baby ashes investigation
The Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland has offered her support to the ongoing investigation into the baby ashes scandal at an Edinburgh crematorium.
It emerged last year that the remains of stillborn babies and those that had died within days of birth had been secretly buried by staff at the council-run Mortonhall Crematorium in mass unmarked graves, without the parents' permission.
Officials had told parents that there would be nothing to scatter following the cremation of their children, although it is unclear why this lie was perpetuated.
Moderator, the Right Reverend Lorna Hood today met Dame Elish Angiolini QC, who is leading the inquiry into the scandal, in Edinburgh.
Dame Elish spoke of the sensitivity of the inquiry, noting that it has included visits to crematoria and parents, as well as hospital staff who had also been told that there were no remains following an infant cremation.
Mrs Hood was formerly a chaplain at the Royal Alexandria Hospital, where her work involved pastoral support of women and families who had lost babies during pregnancy or shortly after birth.
She has previously vowed that the Church of Scotland would do whatever it could to support families affected by the revelation.
She told Dame Elish today that she was interested in the results of the inquiry and expressed her ongoing support for the investigation. She said the Church of Scotland would "continue its interest in the issue".
"I hope that this inquiry, along with a separate investigation under Lord Bonomy, will shed more light on the unanswered questions: for society, how these things came to be, and for parents and family, where the remains of their loved ones lie," she said.
"I am grateful to Dame Elish ... for her work on this difficult issue. I assured her that the Church both locally and nationally would continue to endeavour to be of use, sensitive to issues and helping those involved to come to terms with the truth."


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Lamar, S.C., safety/wide receiver Michael Hamlin (6-foot-2, 190 pounds, 4.6-second 40-yard dash) entered into January with three visits set, and after taking his first one, a leader has emerged. He will take the other two, however, before making a final decision.
"I went to Clemson last weekend and it was good, pretty good," Hamlin stated. "I had a chance to meet the players and met all the coaches." He said one particular aspect of the visit really stood out to him.
"I would say the team as a whole unit," he said. "They were all pretty close, and I liked that. Clemson is now my top school." He was hosted by freshman linebacker Anthony Waters and rated the visit an eight.
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Hamlin will travel to North Carolina this weekend and then Duke on Jan. 23 before making his final decision.
"I am just looking at the atmosphere and how the people communicate," he commented. "I also want a place where the players get along well with each other."
Michael is rated the No. 43 safety in the nation by Rivals.com and is the No. 10 overall prospect in the state of South Carolina.


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You are mine.
Look up at the sky and count all those stars for me.
How many do you see?
You're gonna be standing there all night
Hopefully the moon'll burn your eyes out
Not so pretty anymore, huh?
But I,
I am beautiful.
Much more so than you, right?
You can't help but love me
It almost hurts you when you look at me
Even the simplest glance will hurt you
Your eyes can't be drawn away from me
You are mine, baby
I am yours
You're so beautiful
Like the brightest rainbow, or the softest feather
You cannot be matched, you cannot be beaten
In my eyes, everything you do
Oh, I wish I could do as perfect as you
If diamonds are a girls best friend
Their precious jewels, their world
Then you are my diamond
I am ugly
Horrible, disgusting
I can't possibly ever deserve you
But then again, I would never get the chance
To hold you, to love you
I am too flawed, too imperfect
Too fat, too poor, too under dressed
Too me
I am yours, honey
The Vain and The Insecure by hey-there-blue-eyesWatch
©2012-2017 hey-there-blue-eyes
The Vain, the unknowing ugly and The Insecure, the unknowing beauty.
*cuts self* KILL ME NOW
well done i like it! a lot!
This is so poignantly full of emotion. Very well written! (standing ovation)
I like. I really do.
Wow, this is awesome!
Love it!
Love it!


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Not long ago, retirement for many meant moving to Florida or Arizona. One worked hard, saved hard, and moved somewhere warm. However, as a new generation plans their retirement, not all retirees are flying south or completely fleeing from family. Money may not be the only factor in deciding to retire closer to home.
What is motivating seniors or those thinking about retirement to stay closer to home?
Chris Farrell, economics editor of Marketplace Monday, will join The Daily Circuit Tuesday to discuss stay-tirement. He did a piece on it for Marketplace:
Here's the thing: Jobs come largely from friends, colleagues and acquaintances. Workers spend years building their networks. And those networks are the key to a part-time consulting gig, a job at a local business or a place at a nonprofit organization.
So, come 65, a retirement move from the Twin Cities to Orlando, or Boston for Corpus Cristi, might sound alluring. But it will make that priceless community network suddenly worthless. And without the backstop to retirement that a network represents, the prospect of a long life after 65 looks a lot less comfortable.
Where are you going to retire? Comment on the blog.


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The Ayatollah needs a puppet he can rely on
An aide to Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran's Supreme Leader, claimed this week that despite recent problems, "we do not regret voting for Ahmadinejad" in the disputed 2009 presidential election.
It was a blatant falsehood. Mr Ahmadinejad's second term has been a nightmare from which the Supreme Leader is still trying to awake.
Iranians joke that their elections are the most perfect example of "one man, one vote" democracy to be found anywhere. The Supreme Leader selects his favoured candidate and the country falls into line.
But in June 2009, Mr Khamenei's public endorsement was not enough to secure a decisive victory for Mr Ahmadinejad. The regime hijacked the poll and then launched a savage crackdown on the protests that followed. Hundreds were killed and thousands…