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Paavo Jarvi, Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra. Telarc CD-80743.
A lot of Holst's music seems raucous to me, but his masterpiece, The Planets, remains one of the mainstays of the classical catalogue for good reason. These little tone poems, based on both the planetary bodies and the Greek gods, show infinite variety and imagination. With endless opportunities for a bravura performance and showcase sound, it's no wonder so many conductors and record companies choose to put it on disc.
While Paavo Jarvi's reading of The Planets is perhaps not in the same league as Adrian Boult's performance (EMI) interpretively or Andre Previn's recording (EMI) sonically, it's serviceable and has the advantage of ultrasmooth sonics and the coupling of Britten's Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra. One could do worse.
Jarvi starts out well with "Mars, the Bringer of War," taking its somewhat goofy march at a fairly healthy clip, yet keeping in mind the martial energy it must convey. Jarvi builds up a good head of steam that should satisfy most listeners. The calm of "Venus, the Bringer of Peace" makes an apt contrast, and Jarvi manages the transition nicely. "Mercury, the Winged Messenger" and "Jupiter, the Bringer of Jollity" could have used a touch more humor, but they're OK. "Saturn, the Bringer of Old Age" has always struck me as being the downer in the set, and nothing Jarvi does or doesn't do can change that. "Uranus, the Magician" is without a doubt the real barnburner among the segments of The Planets, and for the longest time I've used Previn's recording (EMI-Toshiba) as a demo piece. Unfortunately, Jarvi tends to rush the movement, substituting speed for excitement or intrigue. "Neptune, the Mystic" concludes on an appropriately tranquil note, disappearing quietly into the ether as it should.
Benjamin Britten wrote his Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra for a 1946 educational film that illustrated the sounds of various instruments in a symphony orchestra. Although Britten's own Decca recording has always been a personal favorite, Jarvi's makes a fine second choice. The conductor gives every instrument its proper due as well as making the Henry Purcell music on which it's based sound fresh and new.
As to the sonics, Telarc recorded the Holst in 2008 and the Britten in 2006, using essentially the same recording equipment, the same recording venue, and the same recording engineer, Michael Bishop. Yet they sound different. The Holst needs more bottom-end oomph, a more prominent bass than it gets here. The Britten, however, does have the needed bass; in fact, it reminds one of the kind of bass punch for which Telarc has always been famous. Both recordings maintain Telarc's well-known fullness and smoothness, although the Holst tends to get a little more congested than the Britten in its loudest passages. One can notice this most obviously in the first movement of the Holst. Otherwise, the sound of both works is quite easy on the ear, if a little less transparent than it could be.


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Along Upstate New York's Seaway Trail between Rochester and Oswego there exists an unusual landform found in only a few locations in North America. Known by geologists as a drumlin field, hundreds of elongate north south oriented hills shape the countryside. Near Fair Haven a number of these drumlins come to an abrupt end by the lake in a series of highly eroded steep bluffs. The best known of these cliffs of clay is Chimney Bluffs east of Sodus Bay, now a State Park. Its outstanding feature is a series of knife-edged ridges, spires and chimneys whose improbable shape attests to the durability of mere sun-dried clay. (A trail map and details are available in "Take A Hike – Family Walks in New York's Finger Lakes Region") However, several other bluffs with public access and hiking trails also show lesser, but still spectacular sculpting. Sitts and Scotts Bluffs east of Fair Haven and Port Bays respectively, present scenery nearly as interesting as the more often visited Chimney Bluffs. Another interesting badlands site is the located along the shore of the Sterling Nature Center just east of Fair Haven.
A visit to one of these sites will probably turn up something of interest at anytime of year though spring and fall are ideal times for hiking. Bugs are few, temperatures ideal for mild exertions, and you are likely to have miles of empty beach to yourself at any of these sites. These cliffs of clay are one of the most dynamic and changeable landforms in central New York. Signs of the clash between lake and clay are obvious and sometimes dramatic. Yet the bluffs are also surprisingly tough and tenacious. Their resistance to erosion results in vertical slopes and strange shapes.
As you walk along the foot of these clay cliffs, they loom above, austere and seemingly lifeless. Erosion proceeds rapidly, with up to three feet a year of land being carried away by water and wind. Outwashes of silt and clay form like miniature deltas at the foot of each gully carved by runoff. Sometimes a cliff is laced with dozens of shallow channels or rills, running down its face. Other times, several tons of clay has simply slumped off the main face in a big chunk, or you may see peculiar "caves" 4 or 5 feet deep formed by undercutting at the bluff's foot. Dead trees slide inexorably down the face to become driftwood on the beach below, and in early spring you may note a darker horizontal streak running along the cliff face showing the presence of ground water. Often you'll encounter a sizable rock, freshly dislodged from the clay that has then tumbled down onto the beach. Unlike the smooth water rounded beach stones, a rock that has recently washed out of the bluff still shows angles and corners. Sometimes you can even see scratches on its surface left by the passage of grit laden glacial ice over it 6,000 years ago. Though they look different with their water-rounded finish; the beach stones are identical to those from the bluff since the cliffs are the source of the beach. As you search for that ideal flat skipping stone, each rock tells its own story.
The beach tells a story too, one of storms and pounding waves cutting, shifting, sorting, and ceaselessly transporting sand, clay and rock. Waves carve away at the beach when they fall as breakers upon it. They also move the stones, flinging them forward and upward, then in subsequent storms with different water levels, moving them back out into the lake again. After a season of storms the beach shows a series of ridged berms, each one representing a past storm. The berms contain cobbles or small pebbles thrown up by the waves. The winter berm, formed by the season's biggest waves, is often the steepest and made up of the largest stones. The sorting of stones by size is very pronounced, and you may sometimes see several parallel berms of similar sized cobbles running along the beach. (These cobbles were used pre-Civil War as a building material. For details, see "Cobblestone Quest – Road Tours of New York's Historic Buildings.")
The contrast in geological time scales seen along the lake shore is also striking. The clay cliffs are the insides of drumlins, piles of glacial till dating back a few thousand years to the last ice age. Inside the drumlin are rocks representing tens or hundreds of millions of years of earth history? And the beach underfoot and the gullies, rills, slumps, and slides of the bluff represent hours, days or weeks worth of erosion and form one of the most ephemeral of all local landscapes.
There are a half dozen places between Oswego and Sodus Bay off the Seaway Trail with access and hiking on and by the beach. Lofty Scotts Bluff north of Wolcott at the end of a gravel drive that runs off Broadway Road features an impressive column of clay projecting twenty feet or more from its surrounding face. You'll also get a superb vista of the lake's shoreline curving away to the west on a clear day. A set of steps leads down to a long stretch of state owned beach backed by the Red Creek marsh area, offering excellent beach combing and bird watching opportunities. Chimney Bluffs, a State Park just east of Sodus Bay off Lake Bluff Road is certainly the best known cliff along this stretch of shoreline. And with reason. Its spectacular spires and ridges reach 150 foot above the lake. It, too, offers a number of hiking trails to explore beach and bluff.
A smaller state-owned bluff lies at the end of Dutch Street running north off Lummisville Road just west of Wolcott. Here several hiking trails meander through the woods or follow Beaver Creek just east of the bluff though hemlock groves. Though not as lofty as Scotts or Chimney Bluffs, this bluff still offers an attractive overlook of the lake.
Fair Haven State Park offers a view of privately owned Sitts Bluff just east of it, while a few miles further east, less spectacular, but more accessible McIntyre Bluff lies within the bounds of the Sterling Nature Center. The Nature Center is well worth a day's visit as its volunteers have laid out over 15 miles worth of trails (find a map in "Snow Trails – Cross-country Ski in Central & Western New York" and in ""Take A Hike – Family Walks in New York's Finger Lakes Region") through the varied terrain of 1,400 acres. The Nature Center also boasts nearly two miles of Lake Ontario beach to explore and hosts a series of programs throughout the summer and fall at its lakeside year-round headquarters facility. It is a comparatively new tourist attraction, having opened just a few seasons ago, but the volunteers and staff have done a splendid job trail building. Recently the Nature Center also built a launch site on Sterling Creek for canoes and car toppers. You can put in here and then float down the east branch to Lake Ontario (find a map in "Take a Paddle – Finger Lakes Quiet Water for Canoes and Kayaks").
The Fair Haven area boasts a half dozen private camp grounds as well as RV camping at the state park. Grants Vacation Park in Fair Haven absorbs some overflow from the nearby park and Holiday Harbor on Blind Sodus Bay offers waterfront views and access. Another waterfront RV park option is Shon's Boat Basin 1-(800) 524-9878, also offering waterfront cottages. This is also the home port of Silver Waters Sailing. We offer day trips on the lake that provide views of the shoreline cliffs east of Fair Haven aboard our 32-foot sloop. Call (315) 594-1906 for Silverwaters Sailing.
Editors note: Susan Peterson Gately is the author of "The Edge Walker's Guide To Lake Ontario Beach Combing" and several other books as well as a newsletter called the Lake Ontario Log. Find out more about both at her web site www.silverwaters.com.


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Captain Morgan Dark rum is a blend of five different rums from Jamaica, Guyana and Barbados. The blended rum mixture is distilled in a two part process using both pot stills and continuous stills and then aged for 2 to 7 years in charred oak barrels.
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I just couldn't drink it, I like my rums neat.
Ended up giving it away to a friend who used it as a mixer
Cheap rum for kids that only want to get drunk and throw up. This rum helps with the regurgitation burns on the way down and on the way up! Much better cheap choices. Thus is the thing my father warned me about he said spend a couple of extra dollars on a bottle you will save more than that on aspirin the next day. That describes this rum to a tee.
I know this isn't the best rum, but it is my favourite, refreshing drink with coke when in a normal bar.
Good for committing suicide, pleasing street bums or washing car rim's. Just don't bother otherwise.
Syrup and (over) burnt sugar on the nose. Quite alright, actually! Taste is rough, aftertaste horrible. Glad I bought a 5cl bottle...
What quite surprised how good this one was mixed. A good mixer rum at a cheap price.
Somebody wrote that is good mixer....in my opinion even for mixing is bad....
Only reviewing this because it needs to be improved or taken from pub shelves. Why do so many bars have this as their main dark rum option? I used to drink it in a tall glass three quarters full with coke. Didn't realise how sweet it was and didn't take notice of that sea foam froth it left behind. Stuff you drink in your 20s when you don't care. Wasn't long before I moved on from this to Jameson and coke, much better quality and taste for the same price. I'm turning into and OAP rum snob because of all these rum reviews and want for a finer rum, but besides that, it's fair comment that I won't drink this swill anymore. We're done Capn, it's over.
Rum with a dash of coke - plenty of ice - has depth and doesn't gave traces of vanilla through it like most others - when we talk rum we mean Captain Morgan
A good one with cola, I drink it if I want to mix.
schmeckt mann überall raus aus jedem gemixten drink hat so einen eigenen geschmack! pur geht gar nicht! ich mag ihn einfach nicht sorry..
To make this short - if you're just looking to get pissed drinking cheap crappy booze, go for it. But if you want to taste rum, don't bother. Industrial alcohol, sugar, colorant, and artificial flavors.
Captain Morgan is my rum of choice when I go out or travel. I prefer to drink CM with Sprite Zero and enjoy roughness of the rum when being social with friends and family.
It's not up to much but is probably one of the best known and first tried rums for most people. I dare say it switches off as many people as it turns on. It's like a fairly tasteless dark, alcoholic syrup with a burn. It's sweet in a cloying way, has a certain spice that is undistiguishable and bland. And strangely...it does taste ok in cola or Dr Pepper. That's about it. I find it hard to drink neat. It's way too rough and uninteresting.
Cred că e bun în prăjituri... Sau să speli ceva cola sau... Atât.
It's very good mixed with Coca-Cola, but not suitable for drinking it straight. To much taste of spirit, but I prefer this over the spiced one.
If you care about taste and smell in rums this is not the rum for your. Pointless rum.
Somebody once said: Rum doesn't have to be good, it just has to be plentiful. I suppose he meant this one.
Don't try pure, but it has definite qualities in coke or cocktails. I use it for cocktails that need a somewhat sweeter rum taste.
Okey for coctails. Its the rum when you want to go safe with a low price.
I think this was the first rum i ever tried. I remember it being nice with coke and a slice of lime and it would leave a foam around the glass as you drank it. Wouldnt spend my money on it now though, far better rums out there
Very spicy and strong after taste of not-so-good rum
Voor in een mix met Cola ia het oke rummetje. niets speciaals
Sweet and contains ethanol (bit too much distinguishable), so in all it's drinkable with cola, but far from being a good rum. If you desperately feel like having a Captain, the Golden Spiced will be a better choice.
Cheap rum, easy to drink with Pepsi without sugar.


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We want you to design two headers for our homepage, one for each sale, at http://www.lifeinteriors.com.au, replacing the current one that's advertising our Pyrmont showroom.
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To check pole length, the first thing to do is flip the pole upside-down (tip up) and hold it just beneath the basket with the grip touching the ground. The angle at your elbow should be 90 degrees – in other words, your forearm will be parallel with the ground.
If you don't have a pole to measure up with, take a tape measure while holding your arm at a right angle (as if holding a pole, forearm parallel with the ground, upper arm parallel with your torso) and measure the distance to the ground from the top of your hand (thumb).
It is not uncommon to go slightly shorter than normal however, particularly with bump/mogul/park skiers. Contemporary thought is that going with a slightly shorter pole helps get your weight forward and keeps you out of the backseat, especially helpful in steeper terrain. However, there is some debate over this so it is up to you to decide on your personal preference. If unsure, go standard size.
Generally, most grips will suit any hand size, with some being ergonomically moulded to fit and others being straight grips like on a BMX bike. Grips are generally scaled up for men's poles, and scaled down for women's and children's poles. If you are concerned with grips, coming into the shop is the best idea.
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Standard baskets are smaller and lighter, and prevent the pole sinking too far in most conditions. The lighter weight means the poles have a lower swing weight and are easier to control.
Powder baskets are of a large diameter and are designed to prevent (as much as possible) the pole sinking too far in deep snow. They tend to be slightly heavier, and so should only be used when necessary.
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United take on Romanian champions Cluj this evening knowing their opponents are likely to sit deep and attack quickly. It is a tactic that worked for Cluj in Braga a fortnight ago when they secured an historic away win even though their hosts enjoyed an overwhelming majority of possession.
And in an era Barcelona have dominated by retaining the ball for long periods, it seems the alternate theory is to let them have it, and Ferguson said: "Counter-attacking has become a very important part of European football. It is Cluj's main strength, as they showed against Braga."
He added: "Now it's done by four or five players, not one or two like 20 years ago. The positive nature of the counter-attack has made the Champions League much better."
And in order to combat it, Ferguson will demand his players are switched on from the first whistle, having grown tired of the slack starts which have scarred their season so far.
"When you consider the first half against Southampton, the first half at Liverpool and first half on Saturday, we have some work to do," he said.
"You have to be concerned losing goals the way we did. It's not planned but I think it will be the last."
On Saturday, stand-in skipper Patrice Evra said he believed the problem might be mental.
His manager does not think so. Instead, with so many key defenders, including Nemanja Vidic, injured, Ferguson is hoping the consistency of Rio Ferdinand's central defensive partnership with Jonny Evans will start to have a positive impact.
"After the first half on Saturday I had plenty of concerns," he said. "I hope it's an awareness thing because we faced this situation at the end of October last season, and from then on when Jonny and Rio played together consistently we played better."
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Showdown between Bennet, Romanoff this Tuesday
The two Democrats running for the U.S. Senate square off for the first time in a forum Tuesday sponsored by the Denver Young Democrats.
U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet, formerly the Denver schools chief, was appointed to the position in January 2009 by Gov. Bill Ritter, and is running for the seat. House Speaker Andrew Romanoff thought he should have been chosen and he's challenging Bennet.
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There are actually two ways to insert and link an Excel worksheet in Word. You can either copy and paste or go to Insert on the ribbon and choose Object.
Step 1: Select the area in your Excel spreadsheet that you want to include in Word and then press Ctrl + C to copy the contents.
Step 2: Now go to your Word document and press Ctrl + V to paste the contents into the Word file. In order to link, you have to click on the Paste Options button at the bottom right and choose Match Destination Table Style and Link to Excel.
Step 3: That's it, now your table will be linked to the original Excel file. Whenever you update the Excel file and reopen Word, it will ask you if you want to update the doc with the data from the linked files.
Step 4: Click Yes and your table will reflect the new values. If you have both files open at the same time, you'll see the changes live.
The second way to link an Excel spreadsheet to Word is by using the Insert menu.
Step 1: In Word 2007, click on the Insert ribbon and choose Object.
Step 2: Click on the Create from File tab and click on the Browse button to choose your file.
Step 3: Once you choose the file, you will see two check boxes at the right side. If you want to link the Excel spreadsheet, you need to check Link to file. If you want to embed the Excel spreadsheet, don't check it.
That's it! This does the same thing as the first method described. If you would like to embed the worksheet, don't check the box.
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David Flynn was CEO of storage technology vendor Fusion-io (FIO) until May of this year, when he stepped aside and left the reins to Shane Robison, who is currently leading the company through a transition.
Flynn is onto the next big thing, a startup called Primary Data, which hopes to surpass the efforts of Fusion-io, EMC (EMC), NetApp (NTAP), and a hosts of startups. Flynn was in the New York area today and was kind enough to come by the Barron's offices to talk.
Flynn has "no hard feelings" toward Fusion, and is still a shareholder. He clearly left at the board's behest, but he also observes with the smile that some of the changes going on at the company now are things he would like to have done himself but was not able to while there. In particular, Robison is placing a greater emphasis on selling gear through resellers, versus the company's traditional model of going direct. Fusion got big fast with a radical product for attaching NAND flash memory chips to servers to speed up data access. Early on, it had two very large customers, Apple (AAPL) and Facebook (FB), which used the technology to build their data centers.
While they were great customers to have, "They became a crutch" for the company, says Flynn, preventing Fusion from building its indirect sales channel. He's optimistic Robison is on track to fix things.
Without going into detail about all the ins and outs within Fusion at the time, Flynn reflects broadly about his time there, "It's interesting to see through the whole thing, how it evolves and how strengths can become weaknesses" in a business. "The lesson is that change is good, and that you have to follow the subtle hints. When there is a doubt, there is really no doubt."
But onward and upward. Flynn has just received a $50 million series B investment round from some of the biggest names in venture capital and enterprise technology.
Existing investor The Cedar Fund is joined by venture firms Accel Partners, with partner Ping Li, who is on the board of storage startup Nimble Storage (which just filed to go public), participating; Battery Ventures; Pelion Venture Partners, which funded Fusion-io and Riverbed Networks (RVBD); Lightspeed Venture Partners; and Wing Venture Partners, backed by former Accel partner Peter Wagner, who is also an investor in networking startup Cumulus Networks. A host of angel investors with start credentials include Jeff Rothschild, founder of storage software firm Veritas (which was bought by Symantec (SYMC)), now with Facebook, and whom Flynn describes as "the father of the Facebook engineering team"; Kai Li, founder of the storage software maker Data Domain 9which was bought by EMC in 2009); Diane Greene, who founded VMware (VMW), and Jayshree Ullal, CEO of networking startup Arista Networks.
Prior to this round, Primary Data was funded by Flynn and Rick White, his co-founder on Fusion-IO. They pooled their money and acquired a variety of startups in the last two years in the area of storage that they had observed first-hand while they were still at Fusion, including Tonian Systems, an Israeli company, and Tachyon Storage. (The Register's Chris Mellorwrote about the Tonian purchase back in August.)
Flynn won't go into detail about what the product will be, but he took me through his crash course on where storage is heading.
If one imagines X and Y axes, the Y axis representing increasing performance of storage products, and the X axis, increasing reliability and ease of management of storage, all storage equipment can be plotted on that matrix by those two coordinates, with the most desirable, as always in these graphs, up and to the right. The snapshot included in this post is from the whiteboard drawing Flynn drew during our conversation. Click on it to see a larger version.
In his worldview, plain-old disk drives fall somewhere near the origin, or zero point, of the matrix. They are not very reliable and not very high in performance. Storage arrays of the kind sold by EMC or NetApp, or by competitors such as Nimble, and Violin Memory (VMEM) (run by former Fusion CEO Don Basille), are more reliable and have faster performance. But they still have limitations given that they are stuck within islands of storage run over fibre channel, in Flynn's view.
Those products won't do, he says, given that "Storage is going through a transformationbecause of cloud and because of the performance of flash" in modern arrays, says Flynn. Much of the value, he insists, is being sucked out of the traditional array products. That in itself is not a novel argument: Nimble, and Coho Data and a host of other startups assert the same.
None of those companies quite have the right approach nor the right architecture, Flynn insists. Virtualization will be an important part of it, as it was important to the server world when VMware took off.
But it's not so much about virtualization of storage, per se, but rather data virtualization, given that the data is what one cares about.
"Data must live beyond the boundaries" of particular storage resources, he says, somewhat enigmatically.
"The data should be the focal point, not the storage that holds it," as Flynn poses the problem. "We need to manage data, not storage systems."
I expect Flynn will have more specific things to say in the new year.
In the meantime, he says he's gained confidence in his own abilities at management from the Fusion-io experience. He also expresses gratitude at having the backing of investors who seem to know what he's capable of and are on the same page with him. "It's nice to have a track record to operate with, and a little confidence in oneself, and also from the people around you."


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IN MAY, TOKYO BECAME HOME to the world's tallest freestanding broadcasting tower, the minaret-like Skytree, atop which people gather to look out over this vast, teeming metropolis. It's a collective hobby here, gazing out from on high, because of the peace, perhaps, the sense that one is removed from the crush of daily life.
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For this, you could forgive Tokyo a conservative streak, but it has gone the other way. Not by accident is Godzilla one of its most enduring cultural icons, a monster whose main talent is crushing landmarks underfoot. The city is constantly reinventing itself, doing away with the old. Every innovation seems only to herald the innovations that will inevitably render it obsolete.
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The year was 1981, not really auspicious. The place was Monroe, Ore., population about half a thousand, a village, really, approximately halfway between Eugene and Corvallis.
Experts said it shouldn't be done, couldn't be done. Nope, the viticulture expert/consultant scolded Craig and Claudia Broadley, explaining that they wouldn't be able to ripen grapes on this particular slope, this particular hillside in, of all places, Monroe, all the way down at the south end of the Willamette Valley.
Sure, some folks — David Lett at Eyrie, the Eraths, the Ponzis and others — were planting such "cool country" varietals as pinot noir, chardonnay and pinot gris, mostly in the hills at the upper end of the valley, around McMinnville, and getting really good wines.
But not here, not on this northeast-facing slope; it should be facing south, basking in what little sun reaches the soggy, sodden south valley, even though this particular stretch had the reputation of being in the "banana belt."
But Craig, then 35, and Claudia, 34, had spent ten years searching for just the right hillside, and Craig had carefully studied the slopes of France's Burgundy region, where the world's best pinot noir was grown and vinified. Craig also enrolled in enology and viticulture classes at UC-Davis, and he was convinced that this was the place.
Besides, the Broadleys were deep in the throes of several powerful passions: first, for each other, and they still make each other laugh a lot, still take care of each other and their growing family; second, they were firmly gripped by the back-to-the-land movement launched in the late '60s and '70s; and, lastly, they had become dedicated pinot-heads, for which there's no known cure, though the treatment — quaffs of good pinot noir — is not so horrible.
Too, they had just about reached the end of another passion — for books. In the early 1980s, Craig and Claudia were the principals in The Subterranean Company, wholesale booksellers. They mainly fronted for City Lights Books, owned and operated the by the poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti, publishing such luminaries of the era as Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, William Burroughs, the best of the Beats. Craig and Claudia kept their day jobs, kept moving books — from Monroe, a place where the Beats would be distinctly out of place, even now.
The Broadleys were bold, young city-slickers — urbane, sophisticated foodies hailing from Los Angeles, via Sacramento and, later, San Francisco, then, as now, home to some of the best dining on the West Coast: music, art, fashion, a vortex of the counterculture. Monroe was then, as now, a rather sleepy little burg (current pop. 680) surrounded by grass farms, its hillsides growing Christmas trees. The main restaurant was the Chat 'n Chew.
Of course, there were vineyards not too far south, along Territorial Road: Lee Smith had Forgeron in Elmira (it's now LaVelle and thriving); Doyle Hinman had started Hinman Vineyards (now Hinman/Silvan Ridge, also thriving) in 1979 just south of Veneta. And slightly north, in tiny Alpine, Dan and Christine Jepsen were trying to make Alpine Vineyards (est. 1980) a success, with cabernet sauvignon as their primary grape and wine. Not many folks were figuring that the south Willamette Valley promised a future of gold in wines.
Despite contrary advice, Craig and Claudia Broadley bought the hilly 15 acres just upslope from "downtown" Monroe. They needed help from Craig's parents, Leighton and Marcile Broadley, nice folks who owned a large company manufacturing glass electrodes in Santa Ana, Calif. With the 'rents' help, C&C began planting their "impossible" vineyard in 1982. Their 12-year-old son, Morgan, labored alongside these slickers-turned-farmers: "That first summer I got to be the water boy," Morgan says now, recalling the labor of hand-watering each skinny vine.
In those first years, Craig and Claudia had to live in Eugene — Craig: "We couldn't get financing for a home on a vineyard" — and Morgan did his schooling in the city, eventually graduating from South Eugene High School. They made their first harvest in '86, not a great year for Oregon but good for the Broadleys; they sold all their wine and got ready for the 1987 vintage.
Oregon winemakers spent most of 1987 apologizing for over-hyping the vintage, but the Broadleys made good wine, and persisted. In 1996, the widely read and respected Wine Spectator listed the Broadley 1994 Claudia's Choice Pinot Noir at #24 in their Top 100 Wines of the World, giving that bottling 94 points on their 100-point scale. And one French expert awarded the wine 97 points, a signal of extraordinary excellence. Success has followed success since then.
Now, 30 years later, "water boy" Morgan, 42, has stretched out to six feet, four inches, and has taken a much stronger role in Broadley Vineyards and wines. In 1996, he married the dynamic Jessica Waldren; lately, some of the Broadleys' best wines carry Jessica's name or the names of their two daughters, Olivia, 11, and Savanna, 9.
Morgan has learned winemaking mainly "from my pappy," though he's taken enology classes at OSU and UC-Davis. But a family trip to Burgundy in 2007 was a "phenomenal experience." Morgan had the chance to meet and talk wine with some of the region's best viniculturalists, and changes followed: "After 2007, we toned down the [use of new] oak" to make wines in which the "fruit is more obvious" and the wines ready to drink much sooner. A recent special issue of the Wine Spectator rated two Broadley 2009 bottlings at 91 points, excellent scores.
Recent vintages have not been easy. Morgan remembers "rain at harvest" for 2007, but some experts still rate that vintage as one of Broadley's best; 2008 "was a really late year," saved by a cool, dry fall; 2009 was "hot at harvest," producing "bigger, chunkier" wines, but also wines that tasters — and raters — loved.
The 2010 harvest, coming at the end of what locals dubbed "the summer that never was," developed slowly, becoming "very scary" and very late, the "latest year we had." The grapes hung on the vines, slowly ripening while harvesting crews waited anxiously for good weather.
They had to delay the harvest so long that flocks of migratory robins and starlings, so thick they looked like clouds, descended on the vineyards and feasted on the ripe fruit: "We lost 13 tons of grapes to the birds," Morgan recalls (see Battling Birds). But the harvest yielded the "best wines we made in the last 10 years," wines "more promising than the '08s."
Some of the 2010 wines are just coming into the market and are being met with considerable wine buzz. These might be the best ever. Meanwhile, the 2011 wines are resting in their barrels — but tasting very good, very Broadley.
After a brief flirtation with other varietals (e.g., Chardonnay), the Broadleys have specialized in pinot noir, possibly the world's most challenging grape to grow and wine to make. The Broadley pinot style has become distinctive and recognizable, noted for being firm, complex, with deep, intensely fresh fruit flavors that run the spectrum from ripe cherries to blackberries, wrapped in a warm cloak of oak. They also show a certain spiciness.
Altogether, Broadley pinots trip across the palate in layers of flavors, usually with a long, lingering finish. The wines also show levels of acidity that makes them particularly food-friendly; this is also a characteristic of the great pinot noirs from Burgundy.
In 1980, Craig Broadley went looking for what he then called a "tubular taste," a flavor profile close to what he'd encountered in great red Burgundies, "kinda like a snake going down your throat." Broadley's wines now seem to approach that profile, though Craig — and now Morgan — are their own sharpest critics; they never over-hype and are always looking for the next, better, wine.
In recent years, the Broadleys have contracted with other growers to exchange grapes. Most notable in those trades have been the grapes from the frequently honored Shea Estate Vineyard (Broadley 2009 Shea Pinot Noir, WS 91 pts.). They're also experimenting with other grapes, like Grenache and syrah. When the 2011 bottlings are released, the Broadley 2011 Grenache, we predict, will be a tippler's favorite.
Claudia and Craig now have a nice, modest house overlooking their vineyard. On a clear day, from their deck at about 600-feet elevation, they can see across the valley as far north as Mt. Hood, then the string of snow-capped Cascades, including Adams and Washington, south to the Three Sisters. Craig insists they can see Eugene (Claudia asks: "We can see to Eugene?" Craig replies: "Well, you can't see the people waving, but yes.")
It's a grand view. Just down the hill, they can also see the home of Morgan, Jessica, Olivia and Savanna. The Broadleys have made quite a home for their vines, their wines and their family.
These days, sleepy, bucolic Monroe is quickly gaining a name as prime country for vines and wines (see The Sun Also Rises). Vineyards sometimes replace tree farms on the hillsides. Of that new growth, Craig says, "I think it's great."
"The more wineries, the better," Morgan adds.
Broadley Vineyards is at 25158 Orchard Tract Rd. in Monroe; for more information, visit broadleyvineyards.com or call 541-847-5934.


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This blog is dedicated to my efforts to become a better swimmer. I have converted (not by choice) from running to swimming due to osteo-arthritis in my left knee. I miss running but understand I was lucky to run 7 Boston's, 7 Chicago's, 2 New York's, 2 Columbus, and 5 others (including Louisville/Tampa, ect.) and enjoy this great sport until age 51. I totally quit running and began swimming October of '06. Last fall I decided to try running with the kids running group I have at my school; it didn't seem to bother it so now I run (jog) once or twice a week. It really helps me when I am getting sick of swimming.
This Blog and Forum have proved to be a great place to learn about swimming and meet (cyber-style) some really dynamic people who share my interest in swimming. If I am not in the mood to swim I know I can hop on the Forum, giggle awhile then go enjoy a great swim.


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IHRA Summit SuperSeries final at Memphis
Drivers in Top, Mod, Jr. Dragster claim world championships
The real excitement behind the Summit SuperSeries program is that anyone, anywhere can win it.
Drivers from the contiguous United States, Canada and even as far away as Aruba, Alaska and Hawaii have the opportunity to race for a track championship and, with a little luck and a lot of skill, make it all the way from their local track to the big stage at the IHRA Summit Racing Equipment World Finals at Memphis International Raceway to compete for a world championship.
And that is exactly the tale told by Tim Lucas, Kevin Pollard and Justin Poindexter.
All three drivers won at their local tracks, advanced further at the Team Finals level and eventually found themselves walking in Memphis along with 48 other drivers going after a championship. With drivers from all across North America on hand to compete in Memphis, at the end of the day, those three drivers were left standing as the 2013 class of the IHRA Summit SuperSeries presented by AMSOIL as Lucas (Lillington, N.C.) took the title in Top ET, Pollard (Fincastle, Va.) claimed the Mod ET championship and Poindexter (Millington, Tenn.) won the Junior Dragster world championship.
"I told everyone that it would be a dream come true to come here and win this thing and to actually be standing here today, holding this trophy, I am at a loss for words," Lucas said. "There are a lot of bracket guys out there that would probably love to run the circuit, but the IHRA and Summit give those guys an awesome place to race. Summit has made a dream come true for a guy like me and I just want to thank them, IHRA and everyone that is involved with this program. It is unbelievable, it really is."
|Tim Lucas
After tearing up his primary car one week ago, Lucas traveled to Memphis in a car familiar to most that follow the IHRA circuit – Donald Webb's gorgeous Camaro. In that borrowed ride, Lucas went four huge rounds on Sunday culminating with a victory over another longtime bracket racer, Irving, Texas' Don Boulware. In a final with decades of experience between the two, it was actually Boulware who had the advantage on the tree with a perfect .000 reaction time to Lucas' .016, but Lucas battled back on the top end with a 10.132 on a 10.12 dial at 128.27 miles per hour while Boulware, in a very quick dragster, ran a 7.442 on a 7.41 dial at 175.82 mph in the runner-up effort.
Lucas also had wins over Chris Butcher, Eric Boyd and Brad Perkins to reach the finals.
"I was a lot more calm than I thought I would be going into the final," Lucas said. "I knew there was a lot on the line, but I tried to put that behind me and just focus on running my race which really helped me turn on that win light."
Representing Fayetteville Motorsports Park, Lucas reached the Summit SuperSeries championships via a win at the Division 9 Summit Team Finals, while Boulware used a runner-up finish in Division 4 representing Dallas Raceway to reach the big show.
With the win Lucas claims a $10,000 prize courtesy of Summit Racing Equipment, a brand new dragster built by Maddox Race Cars with a Trick Flow engine, a custom paint job by Imagine That Custom Paint and major components from Moser Engineering, Abruzzi Transmissions and Converters and many more, a championship trophy, diamond ring, a trip to Aruba and more.
In Mod ET Kevin Pollard survived a grueling day of competition against some of the best racers from across North America, culminating with a matchup with South Carolina native Jay Norris in the final. With more than $10,000 and the title of world champion on the line, Norris let up a tad too early to light the red bulb by -.029 allowing Pollard to take a leisurely Sunday drive and the Mod ET championship in the process.


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(1) Fertility
(2) Fertility Preference
(3) Other Proximate Determinants of Fertility
Extensive data on fertility and fertility preferences are available on STATcompiler. Compare among countries and analyze trends over time.
Information on current and total fertility is essential in monitoring population growth and developing policies and programs. Birth intervals are important because short intervals increase the risk of childhood mortality. A mother's age during childbearing – whether too young or too old – can increase the risk to the health of the mother and the child. Information on fertility preferences provides family planning programs with an understanding of the potential 'demand' for fertility control in a given population.
Data on fertility are collected in several ways. First, each woman is asked the number of sons and daughters who live with her, the number who live elsewhere, and the number who were born alive and later died. Next, a complete history of all the woman's births is obtained, including the name, sex, month and year of birth, age, and survival status for each of the births. For living children, a question is asked about whether the child was living in the household or away. For dead children, the age at death is recorded. Finally, information is collected on whether a woman was pregnant at the time of the survey.
To collect data on fertility preferences, women and men are asked a series of questions including their desire to have another child, the length of time they would like to wait before having another child, and what they would consider to be the ideal number of children.
Current Fertility
Fertility Preferences
Other Proximate Determinants of Fertility


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GREEN BAY, Wis. (AP) Alec Brown scored 19 points on 8-of-10 shooting, grabbed eight rebounds and Green Bay went on to defeat South Dakota 72-55 on Saturday night.
Green Bay (5-7) shot 56.5 percent from the field, making 26 of 46 attempts including six 3-pointers and was 14 of 20 from the free-throw line.
Brown scored Green Bay's first seven points to give the Phoenix a 7-2 lead early, but South Dakota (5-8) stormed back, going on a 15-4 run capped by a Brandon Bos jumper with 10:34 remaining in the first half to give the Coyotes a 17-11 lead.
The Phoenix took over from there, outscoring South Dakota 24-8 to take a 35-25 lead at half time and never trailed again.
Keifer Sykes and 17 points and eight assists while Sulton Muhammad had 10 points for the Phoenix. Trevor Gruis scored 18 points on 8-of-11 shooting to lead South Dakota.


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"On ne peut dépasser l'horreur de la bourgeoisie que par plus d'horreur encore." ("You can only overcome the horror of the bourgeoisie with more horror still.")
A culminating and transitional work, Godard's 1967 opus Weekend capped a near-decade in which this possibly greatest of French filmmakers had been madly prolific, making an average of about two experimental, searching, wildly diverse, restlessly intellectual sort-of-narrative features per year. (Reflecting their maker's ravenous appetite for cinema, these ranged far and wide, from the 1962 musical comedy Une Femme est une femme to the sci-fi of 1965's Alphaville to the road-trip romance Pierrot le fou and far beyond -- all recognizably Godard's, despite their rapacious, sardonic genre pillaging.) From the get-go, with his first feature, Breathless, Godard had questioned the most basic assumptions of cinema-as-storytelling, and a political radicalization that flowed in tandem with that highly informed, skeptical artistic temperament began to emerge more and more forthrightly in his films, with Weekend representing the place where an uneasy relationship between the director/former critic's worship of classical Hollywood cinema and his more and more urgently felt far-left politics finally, inevitably broke down. It was, ostensibly, to be Godard's last film to even pretend to have a summarizable story or need international co-production financing or movie-star actors to get made; it represents his no-love-lost, middle-finger-raised kiss-off to a kind of cinema and a means of making it indelibly stained by what Godard at this point bluntly saw as deplorable, irredeemable consumer capitalism. But instead of imploding or bogging down in ambivalence as it could have under the strain of such end-of-the-line contradictions, Weekend is a virtuosic display of the cinematic mastery and nonstop, skin-of-his-teeth inventiveness with which Godard had earned his international standing. It's easily the most harrowing, demanding film Godard had yet made, and incendiary (literally and metaphorically) to the nth degree, but even as they do their best to burn down the corrupt medium itself, the flames of Godard's enraged, denunciating inferno create some of the most beautiful, intense, ingenious, and accomplished images ever put to film.
The two figures (and, as in many if not most of Godard's films, they are better described as figures than as "characters") at the center of Weekend are a murderous pair of extremely shallow, hostile upper--middle-class marrieds, Roland Durand (Jean Yanne, This Man Must Die and his wife, Corinne (French comedy star Mireille Darc), both of whom are conducting affairs with others and each of whom plans to bump off the other and reap a huge inheritance just as soon as Corinne's wealthy mother dies. It's in the interests of carrying out plans to hasten this demise that the two speed off for the weekend road trip, on which they plan to pick up Corinne's mother for a ride to a clinic they don't mean for her to ever reach. But what they reap is the proverbial whirlwind caused by what Godard goes to great, brilliant lengths to illustrate is the society-wide, innately toxic dominance of their horrifically misanthropic, self-obsessed attitudes. One of the first things we see (in an extreme high-angle shot from Corinne's POV on her luxury apartment's balcony, as she flirts with her psychoanalyst lover and speaks of the hoped-for death of her mother and husband with in the same nonchalant tone she uses to mention the brawl below) is a car-related altercation. For Godard, the automobile does not signify anything liberating or pretty: After a semi-slapstick, cartoon-violent fender-bender and run-in with their equally nasty, vapid neighbors, Corinne and Roland honk and barge their way through the longest traffic jam ever (the film's most famous sequence, a conceptually and technically awesome tracking shot that seems endless in the best possible way as the camera glides gracefully by a parade-like travesty of all of modern society); ceaseless cries and screams, abandoned crashed cars, frantic vying to get ahead, those ceaseless horns, and the general fulmination of a car-addicted society loudly and destructively going nowhere fill the screen for a good 10 minutes. When Corinne and Roland predictably crash after running anything that gets in their way off the road, it creates a spectacularly hellish blaze (Corinne dramatically mourns her Hermès handbag), and from then on, abandoned cars, smashed beyond recognition or in flames, surrounded by dead motorists, are a common sight in the film -- a forebodingly transfixing, evocative symbol of a Western-world consumption-war-profit cycle that, depicted in this way, is ultimately as self-immolating as threatening to anything else.
Once they're carless, Roland and Corinne become a sort of quibbling Laurel and Hardy, bumbling toward what's sure to be a miserable end through this post-apocalyptic landscape littered with automobile husks and human corpses. They encounter specters of the past -- the French Revolutionary Saint-Juste (played, in one of two roles he has here, by Jean-Pierre Léaud (Masculin-Féminin, The 400 Blows); versions of Tom Thumb and Emily Brontë who, one of the film's copious, insouciant intertitles tells us, are being filtered through the lens of Lewis Carroll, making Roland and Corinne little Alices (though contemptuous, and with infinitely less sincere curiosity) -- and are on the whole surrounded by Mad-Hatter revolutionaries and cultural artifacts that, having nothing to do with a bottom line or a new purchase, puzzle and anger them. (Anyone familiar with Godard will recognize and appreciate the running, punning commentary provided by the intertitles; they're amusingly self-deprecating, too, with one cut-in announcing that we're watching "a film found in a rubbish pile"). The suddenly fantastic, anything-goes world around them is rife with political and cultural history and convulsive ideas, but the laughable, obnoxious Corinne and Roland are impervious. They stare, glum and blank, while two young men they've encountered, an Arab and an African, voice parallel scathing critiques of the exploitative, self-cannibalizing West; they mope and yawn their way through a sonically and visually superb, invigorating 360-degree pan that repeats itself several times as various figures from French life observe and listen as a theory-espousing pianist plays Mozart in a dusty farmhouse courtyard. By the time they've bullied, whined, and stolen their way to Corinne's mother's house and fulfilled their malignant plan, the entire world around the Durands has quite literally gone to hell, and in the end, they encounter and are kidnapped by a group of armed hippie-revolutionaries who fight deadly little guerrilla skirmishes with rival cells, ritualistically recite an 18th-century poem that beckons welcome oblivion from the abyss, and indulge, most disturbingly, in rape and cannibalism, knowing it's the end of the line and, accordingly, succumbing to sheer nihilism. The carnage is, mercifully, mostly implied in a relatively non-graphic way; none of the blood, trauma, or pain that we see is played as strictly "realistic." Yet it is truly harrowing, and it's difficult to tell whether it's despite or because of its self-conscious artifice that the film cuts so deep and troubles so profoundly.
Weekend is anti-realist, absurd, and irrational, but it engages intensely nonetheless, perhaps because it does, after all (and for all its snarling disrespect toward conventional plot/character development), make perfect aesthetic and significative sense, following a philosophical, political, and poetic trail on which the bread crumbs are real clues that do actually lead, one into the next, in a way that gives the film a certain connected wholeness (albeit in a way that would -- and this is part of the point -- have the literal-minded Roland and Corinne Durand tearing their hair out). Aesthetic wholeness does not at all equal a smooth surface here, however; Weekend proceeds down its path in fits and starts, neither ebbing or flowing, instead using those omnipresent, running-commentary intertitles, along with a jarring way of editing the image (by Agnès Guillemot, the New Wave's cutting-room stalwart) and the sound (with Antoine Duhamel's ominous, dirge-paced, decaying-carnival score popping in and out abruptly) to modulate and punctuate what we're seeing, for an experience that, while unfailingly conscientious (Godard's style and technique announce themselves at every turn, but they're never slick or gratuitous), is always fierce, alarming, unpredictable -- never soothing or complacent. The film does offer its own absurdist, pitch-blackly funny, rhyming symmetry, though: Two salient, bookending sections in particular have troubling echoes of one another and draw disturbing, pointed parallels, with the first, near the beginning, played out as an obviously exaggerated erotic tale told by Corinne to her lover; the second, near the end, depicting the abject horror of cannibalistic butchery; and both recognizably featuring a most unappetizing commingling of broken eggs and human flesh that has become, in one way or another, a consumable commodity. The film is not a gracious exit on Godard's part by any means, but it is a grand, unforgettable one; if you can't really tell whether the politicized, malcontented, conscience-stricken auteur means to go out in a blaze of glory or just wants to watch the whole damn thing burn down (it's probably both), it can unequivocally be said that this rancorous, whip-smart burnt bridge of a movie illuminates and sets one's mind alight as it combusts, and you can't take your eyes off of it.
It seems safe to say that the fantastic new transfer of Weekend presented on this Criterion Blu-ray edition (AVC/MPEG-4, 1080/24p, at its original 1.66:1 theatrical aspect ratio) makes the film look as authentically good and film-like as we'll ever see it on home video. Raoul Coutard's cinematography and its ways with interior and natural exterior light, the bold colors of clothes and cars and the pastoral greens, the marsh/woods browns in the film's nature shots, and the starkly primary colors of the copious intertitles look warm and clean, with all blacks solid and no edge enhancement, aliasing, or dirt/debris/scratches discernible at any point. A very healthy amount of the film's natural grain/celluloid texture is present, so it well and truly looks the way it should. What's more, a comparison of between the new edition and the prior New Yorker DVD release shows noticeably more of the picture around the edges (it must have seen slightly cropped before), so it's an improvement in that area, as well. Overall, a great transfer job on every front.
The disc's uncompressed monaural PCM soundtrack does a great job with the sound (always an important element in Godard's films); there may be some distortion in the louder music or screams/yells in the spoken sound, but these are very likely intentional, befitting the film's purposeful excesses, and in any case sound "normal" for a film of this vintage and in keeping with the dynamics of mono movie sound. Otherwise, no hisses, pops, or imbalance mar the aural experience of Weekend on offer here.
--"Revolutions per Second", an extremely fine 25-minute video essay by cinéaste and critic Kent Jones, on which he brings to bear all of his considerable knowledge and feeling about Godard in general, and Weekend in particular, to give us penetrating analysis, interpretation, and contextualization of the film. This is one of the best extras of its kind I've ever seen.
--A rich seam of chats with those involved in the film includes an interview with cinematographer Raoul Coutard from 2004 (18 min.) in which Godard's longtime DP discussed the fraught, turning-point period in Godard's career that corresponded to Weekend as well as the shoot itself, including some in-depth technical details and juicy anecdotes revealing how tempestuous Godard could be with his actors and crew; a brief, frank interview from French TV with stars Mireille Dark and Jean Yanne from 1968 (3 min.); and finally, an interview with assistant director Claude Miller from 2010 (25 min.), the most up-close-and-personal, revelatory, and detailed rundown of the bunch on what it was like to prepare and shoot Weekend with Godard.
--An eight-minute excerpt from a 1967 episode of the French TV series Seize millions de jeunes, shot by Godard's comrade in cinema, Philippe Garrel, features an incisive onscreen interview/commentary with another Godard colleague, Jean-Michel Barjol, and many scenes from the shoot that actually let us see the master at work, along with offering new perspectives of scenes from the film as we see from the POV of over Godard's shoulder as he directs them. A pricelessly privileged making-of peek.
--Both the film's original French theatrical trailer and original U.S. release theatrical trailer, the latter of which offers some great insight into how Godard was regarded/marketed in the U.S. at the height of his '60s popularity here.
--A heftier-than-usual (40+ pages), gorgeously designed insert booklet includes an essay on the film by critic/author Gary Indiana, the relevant excerpts from Alain Bergala's book Godard au travail: Les années 60, and a compulsively readable 1969 interview with Godard himself (conducted by Jonathan Cott) at the very peak of his radicalized, contrarian phase, dispensing bons mots and epigrams -- about Weekend, his body of work thus far, and the state of the world -- like candy.
Weekend is the culmination of the first, most popular act in New Wave pioneer Jean-Luc Godard's career, and it's a bridge-burner: Before kicking the door closed on commercial cinema, with its inescapable taint of capitalism, he was going to evoke the terminal, horrific destruction he was becoming convinced all bourgeois culture, including (most) cinema, represented. So he gives us a panoply of masterfully conceived, exhilaratingly original and well-executed sequences that ever more disquietingly depict a petty, inhumanly materialistic married couple's descent into the industrialized-consumerist hell of its own class's making; what all this bravura inventiveness adds up to is a cinematically ravishing, brilliant, and accomplished death knell for the very culture and system of production from which the medium emerged. The misadventures of the film's despicable, murderous bourgeois take them into both the past they've mindlessly demolished and the unbearable future they're creating, both out of human time (unlike the shrill, displeasing presences of the acquisitive couple, the elements of nature -- water, trees, fields, rock formations -- are displayed and scrutinized by Godard's camera lovingly) and deep into the dangerous, reckless, necessary revolutionary spirit of the film's precise late-'60s moment. It's a great film on its own terms -- an almost unbelievably bold, provocative, impassioned statement -- and a great summation of everything Godard had assayed and achieved up to that point; from the very beginning, Godard had strained the limits of what "storytelling" through movies could do, and Weekend is as digressive and fragmented as narrative cinema can get without breaking apart or breaking down (which does actually happen at the end of this film, in the famous "The End...of Cinema" closing title). Breathtaking and bracing, it's decidedly the death of the "early Godard," but it seems to go everywhere and contain everything at once without missing a beat. As such, and despite the resounding note of dismay and despair it strikes with such flair, Weekend is as full of life -- bursting with real, ultimate breathlessness -- as any film ever made. DVD Talk Collector Series.


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It Is All About BTC, LTC, ETH, ZEC mining as well as other alternative crypto currencies
When calculating what crypto coin to mine you need to take into account not only the hashrate you get, but also the power usage for the specific algorithm used by the coin. When talking about Nvidia GPUs the two most popular ones used by miners are GTX 750 Ti and GTX 970 and there is a reason behind that – they offer good price/performance ratio to be used in multi-GPU mining rigs. Sure you can always go for a GTX 980 Ti or even GTX Titan X, but these although more powerful are also significantly more expensive and do not provide so good price/performance ratio.
We have decided to do a quick check of the current situation with a Geforce GTX 970 video card from Gigabyte (WF3OC) and a GeForce GTX 980 Ti reference design GPU and see how they compare in a power and performance check. The results you see in the table above are achieved with the latest ccMiner 1.7.4 from Tpruvot and with the latest fork of ethminer wth CUDA support from Genoil. The video cards are not overclocked further than their factory settings (the Gigabyte GTX 970 is factory overclocked) and they are forced to run CUDA applications in P0 power state to maximize performance in Ethereum.
As you can see from the results aside from Ethereum the GTX 980 Ti is faster with not that much more power usage, however the price of the 980 Ti is roughly double the price of a single GTX 970 and with two 970s you are sure to beat the hashrate of a single 980 Ti. It is interesting to see that a GTX 980 Ti (reference board) can be slower than a GTX 970 GPU, but with a non-reference design you can actually get about 20-21 MHS in Ethereum due to the higher clocks. Still the GTX 980 Ti is most definetly not the right video card for mining Ethereum, if you want to stick to mining Ethereum's Ether coins with Nvidia you should go for the GTX 970 for sure as the best choice. Even though for Ethereum and other Dagger-Hashimoto altcoins AMD GPUs are still faster in terms of hashrate.