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Film Review: "Loopers: the Caddie's Long Walk"
LOOPERS: THE CADDIE'S LONG WALK
Narrated by: Bill Murray
Directed by: Jason Baffa
Rated: PG
One of my many jobs as a teenager in Tampa involved getting up early on Saturdays and walking the few blocks to the Palma Ceia Country Club. The earlier the better. There those of us that assembled would hang out around the clubhouse and ask arriving golfers if we could carry their bags. On a good morning, you could end up with $10 (including tip) for four hours work. That's right, I'll admit it. I was a looper.
Full of interesting golf history and some fun interviews, "Loopers: The Caddie's Long Walk" is an interesting take on what was once seen as a menial job that has blossomed into a handsome way to make a living for some. The film looks at golf, and it's caddies, in both Scotland (the birthplace of the game) and here in the states. We visit the world famous St. Andrews course, founded in 1552! That's right, golf has been around for over 400-years. The history of the caddie is also explored, running from the three basic caddie rules (Show Up, Keep Up, Shut Up) to the origins of the name looper (a round of 18 holes was called a loop). We also get a glimpse at some of the more famous caddies to ever carry a bag, including the caddies that worked at Augusta National, home of the Masters. I found it ironic that these young men were so vital to a golfer's success, yet theirs were the only black faces on the course until Lee Elder played there in 1975 (blacks were not allowed to join the club until 1991).
A particularly poignant sequence examines the relationship between golfer and caddie. Living as I do in Kansas City, I was happy to see local boy made good Tom Watson talk about the two-plus decades he spent with his caddie, Bruce Edwards. The men remained friends until Edwards passed away in 2004 from ALS. We also meet other well known caddies, like Steve Williams (Tiger Woods' ex-caddie) and Carl Jackson, who caddied for Ben Crenshaw in almost 40 tournaments in their partnership.
The film is narrated by former looper Bill Murray, who immortalized the caddie as Carl Spackler in "Caddyshack." Murray relates some of his own experiences as well as narrates, lending his particular sense of humor to the film.
With the beginning of summer upon us, before you head out to the course give "Loopers" a look. And watch out for those kids hanging out in front of the clubhouse!
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Blu-ray Review "Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk"
Actors: Joe Alwyn, Kristen Stewart, Chris Tucker, Garrett Hedlund, Makenzie Leigh
Directors: Ang Lee
Studio: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Film: 3 out of 5 stars
Blu-ray: 3.5 out of 5 stars
Extras: 2 out of 5 stars
Ang Lee's latest film, "Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk" was one that came and went so fast, but no one even noticed. Especially with a supporting cast including Co-starring Kristen Stewart, Chris Tucker, Garrett Hedlund, Vin Diesel and Steve Martin. I mean are you serious? This film was also the first 4K presentation of the film to be showed at 60 FPS…but watching it on Blu-ray you are missing most of the "experience". The 4K Ultra HD (with 3D) is where this film would shine more…but we did not receive that version to feature. If you can get your hands on that edition, it is worth watching one. Not anything that I would see again but I did enjoy the performances.
Official Premise: The story is told from the point of view of 19-year-old private Billy Lynn (Joe Alwyn) who, along with his fellow soldiers in Bravo Squad, becomes a hero after a harrowing battle in Iraq and is brought home temporarily for a victory tour. Through a sequence of flashbacks, the truth about what really happened is revealed – contrasting the realities of the war with America's distorted perceptions of heroism.
The standard Blu-ray's 1080p transfer with DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 surround track are still both impressive not faults there at all but when you look at the potential of this film it is like watching it on VHS tape. You missing a lot of the purposeful detail. The special features are not great either. There are a few deleted scenes and four featurettes included about the production. Again, the 4K Ultra HD disc has more content.
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Film Review "A Walk Among the Tombstones"
Starring: Liam Neeson, Dan Stevens, Brian 'Astro' Bradley
Directed By: Scott Frank
Our Score: 4 out of 5 stars
Liam Neeson has traded in his concussion inducing fists, action film one liners and torture tactics — at least for the time being — for his latest role in "A Walk Among the Tombstones". Many will be expecting another hit-man seeking revenge action flick, but Neeson shows some quiet restraint as Matthew, a former NYPD cop turned gumshoe. Instead of making grand leaps throughout Europe, Neeson strolls through the grim landscape of Brooklyn, that's seemingly trapped in a perpetual state of rain. It definitely atches Matthew's weathered face and grim outlook on life. These are the kind of roles I like Liam Neeson in.
Matthew lives a very minimalist life. It's shows because he doesn't have a computer or cell phone. But that's OK, it's 1999 in this movie, and there's still pay phones littered all around the area and people are freaking out over Y2K. He's recently been hired by Kenny (Stevens), a well to do drug dealer. He's kind of like the upper middle class in the drug dealing ring. He loves clean modern furniture and doesn't abuse his product. Kenny hopes Matthew can track down a duo of beasts, that kidnapped his wife, demanded a ransom, and then after receiving their pay day, delivered his wife back in multiple, small, neatly wrapped cocaine bags in the trunk of a car that you would suspect a drug dealer would drive.
These pair of monsters that Matthew is tracking down would make Hannibal Lecter drool with delight, but unlike Lecter, they lack charisma and charm. One appears to derive pleasure from sexual violence and watching his victims squirm while the other assailant simply appears to be in it for the money; sampling the pieces of his partner's blood lust. They're a real disgusting pair to watch at work. We come to find out they're hitting up drug dealers to satisfy both of their appetites and have a decent sized portfolio of potential victims. As the movie goes, so does their descent into darker wants and needs.
"Tombstones" is one of the best made thrillers in recent memory, leaving the motivations and deepest levels of depravity of the villains up in the air, creating a nauseating sense of suspense in the viewer's gut. The film takes a couple of moments to breathe with the introduction of TJ (Bradley), a homeless African-American child that looks up to Matthew. TJ feels like a speed bump in the pace when he's first introduced, but it becomes clear towards the latter half that his introduction was to provide Matthew with an outlet to voice his inner demons and find that sliver of hope in his personal pit of despair.
It's interesting watching the supposed good guy of the film quickly shrug off the protagonist role. While Matthew might not be personally invested in the crime, he's attached his own path of soulful enlightenment by how he reacts to each step towards solving the mystery and its eventual outcome. Neeson has no problem handling the weighty emotions of Matthew and if these are the kind of roles we can expect from Neeson in the future, count me in.
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Film Review "Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom"
Starring: Idris Elba, Naomie Harris
Directed by: Justin Chadwick
Distributed by The Weinstein Company
"Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom" is an inspiring, powerful and thought provoking film about the life of Nelson Mandela. Beginning with his boyhood in the fields in South Africa, to his rise as a lawyer in Johannesburg, his 27 years in prison on Robben Island and culminating in his release to become the first black president of South America.
Nelson Mandela (Idris Elba) was born in 1918 and after growing up and reaching manhood, he left his village in South Africa and became educated and a lawyer. His job was to protect the citizens of Johannesburg. Because of the city and, really, the country's huge racial boundaries, very similar to America's at that time he felt a greater need not just to protect the citizens in court but before either of them ever made it to court. As one man he is little; he cannot accomplish anything. But, with a group of followers that started small but became many, he was strong. Along with his wife Winnie (Naomie Harris) they orchestrate demonstrations throughout the city, again similar to the ones brought about during the U.S racial wars. They refused to ride segregated buses and would ride the trains for whites only. Rather than use fire hoses, as their American counterparts, as a means to restrain the demonstrations the government-run police would use bullets, killing men, women and children at will. When the government became violent the demonstrations became violent, with bombings and looting.
Eventually Mandela and his men are caught and prosecuted as terrorists against the government and given the penalty of death. Mandela's last words to the court were that racial equality was a dream he believed in — and one he would die for. To make a point the judge instead sentences Mandela and his compatriots to life in prison on Robben Island, South Africa's version of Alcatraz. Even here, without a newspaper or television, he fights for the rights of the prisoners. He works to get the prisoners pants (they currently wear shorts). Mandela knows that little wins will earn you respect no matter where you are. He is completely oblivious to the outside world, which for the first 15-20 years of his imprisonment are filled with more race wars, bombings and killings. His wife Winnie, the leader of the ANC (African National Congress — this wasn't really a political party it was more of a guerilla party for the rights of all men) has given up on trying to win the war for equality but is merely acting out in violence and hate.
Unaware of the changing climate in the outside world Mandela has no idea that a worldwide equal rights movement is happening… with him as the centerpiece for equality and freedom. When his daughter turns 16 it's the first time he has ever met her. She comes to visit him in prison and brings him a "Free Mandela" button. She explains to him that though they never met and he never met the millions around the world he is still looked to as a leader.
The rest of the movie is pretty much what we all know from our history lessons. Mandela was given a pardon by the newly appointed president of South Africa, FW De Klerk; before this he was "imprisoned" in a house with his family while he worked with De Klerk on human rights. Upon his release he was elected president, the first black president of South Africa and the rest is all history.
Though the film seems to be a little on the long side I only found a few scenes where it dragged. The message is so inspirational that I didn't really care that much that it dragged on. It's a great story of hope and the performances are fantastic. I saw Elba in "Pacific Rim" this summer and this performance made me completely forget about that movie. He does such a great job from his tone of voice to capturing Mandela's gait, nailing the performance.
Award voting season is coming upon us, and I expect Elba, Harris and the film to receive recognition for the great portrayal of the Mandela family and for educating the many people who see this as the behind the scenes story of Nelson Mandela and his walk to freedom.
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CD Review: Philip H. Anselmo & The Illegals "Walk Through the Exits"
Philip H. Anselmo & The Illegals
"Walk Through the Exits"
HouseCore Records
Producer: Philip Anselmo/Michael Thompson
Pantera/Down/Super Joint Ritual front man Phil Anselmo is back with his first ever solo project "Philip H. Anselmo & The Illegals. The group's debut CD titled "Walk Through the Exits" was just released via HouseCore Records and features 8 tracks produced by Anselmo and Michael Thomson.
Having been a huge Pantera fan since the group's first album I have always tried to keep up with Phil's various side projects since the group disbanded in 2003 however that has proved to be somewhat of a full time job. From Super joint Ritual and Down to various other off shoots you never seem to know when the chameleon like front man will appear. Upon hearing that he would be released his first solo album I was quite interested in hearing what he had to offer. After my first run through of the 8 tracks that make up "Walk Through the Exits" I was left extremely confused and a bit disappointed. Every song seemed to lack direction and structure leaving nothing but a chaotic mess of noise. That's not to say there were several riffs that started off great however those quickly disappeared in to the abyss of clutter. If I had to choose a favorite track off the album I would have to say that "Bedroom Destroyer" would be it. The song still was a bit of a cluster however I felt it had the most solid structure of the 8 tracks and was fairly accessible.
For those interested in something completely different and don't mind music that is a little more free form then the debut release from Philip H. Anselmo & The Illegals may be right up your alley. But for those looking to find something in the vein of Phil's previous work this might not be the best choice for you or someone looking for a new favorite group.
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3.) Betrayed
4.) Usurper's Bastard Rant
5.) Walk Through the Exits
6.) Bedroom Destroyer
7.) Bedridden
8.) Irrelevant Walls and Computer Screens
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Malcolm Mcdowell to Be Honored with Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame
WHO: Malcolm McDowell
Emcee: Hollywood Chamber of Commerce, President/CEO Leron Gubler
Guests will include Gary Oldman and Rob Zombie, plus Mark-Paul Gosselaar, Reed Diamond and Garcelle Beauvais from TNT's "Franklin & Bash" along with Mike Kaplan (director, Never Apologize)
WHAT: 2,465th Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in the Category of Motion Pictures
WHERE: 6714 Hollywood Boulevard , in front of The Pig n' Whistle British Pub
WHEN: Friday, March 16, 2012 at 11:30 a.m.
COMMENTS: The Hollywood Chamber of Commerce will honor actor Malcolm McDowell appropriately in front of the Pig n' Whistle British Pub at 6714 Hollywood Boulevard . He joins fellow British luminaries Emma Thompson and Colin Firth on the coveted Walk of Fame.
McDowell will shortly star in "The Monster Butler" to be produced by Dark House Films which will be released theatrically and then distributed by Warner Bros. Home Entertainment.
Additionally, on the evening of the star unveiling, and in honor of McDowell receiving his star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, The American Cinematheque is hosting an in-person tribute at the Egyptian Theatre showing his most iconic film, Stanley Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange (a beautifully restored presentation!), as well as Nicholas Meyer's blend of sci-fi, literary history and modern pop culture, Time After Time, in which McDowell stars as Victorian author H.G. Wells. There will be a Q&A between films with McDowell and Mary Steenburgen. The tribute continues through March 19 at the Aero Theater. For tickets and more info: http://bit.ly/ylpfLw
A Clockwork Orange 40th Anniversary Edition, O Lucky Man!, Time After Time and McDowell's Never Apologize are available on Blu-ray and DVD from Warner Home Video. For further info: http://bit.ly/whmVGw
MORE ABOUT MALCOLM McDOWELL
Malcolm McDowell is arguably among the most dynamic and inventive of world-class actors, yet also capable of immense charm, humor and poignancy. McDowell has created a gallery of iconic characters since catapulting to the screen as Mick Travis, the rebellious upperclassman in Lindsay Anderson's prize-winning sensation, If…
His place in movie history was subsequently secured when Stanley Kubrick cast the actor to play the gleefully amoral Alex in A Clockwork Orange; when McDowell himself conceived the idea for Mick Travis' further adventures in Anderson's Candide-like masterpiece, O Lucky Man!; and when he wooed Mary Steenburgen and defeated Jack the Ripper as the romantically-inquisitive H.G. Wells in Time After Time.
Those legendary roles have endured with legions of filmgoers while new fans have been won over by his tyrannical Soran (the destroyer of Capt. Kirk) in Star Trek: Generations; his Machiavellian Mr. Roarke in "Fantasy Island" and his comically-pompous professor Steve Pynchon in the critically-hailed CBS television series, "Pearl," starring opposite Rhea Perlman.
Other of McDowell's distinctive motion picture characterizations include Richard Lester's Royal Flash, Paul Schrader's Cat People, Rachel Talalay's Tank Girl, Joseph Losey's Figures in a Landscape, Bryan Forbes' The Raging Moon and the Chaplinesque studio boss in Blake Edwards' Sunset.
On television, McDowell had recurring appearances as Terence on the HBO hit series, "Entourage," as Linderman on NBC's "Heroes," Darren Vogel on "CSI: Miami," and Bret Stiles on the hit show, "The Mentalist." Malcolm currently stars in TNT's newest series, "Franklin & Bash".
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Q: Unable to figure out runtime error in below program I was solving ArithmaticII.I am getting correct output for the below input
Input:
4
1 + 1 * 2 =
29 / 5 =
103 * 103 * 5 =
50 * 40 * 250 + 791 =
Output:
4
5
53045
500791
I am getting correct output ,But when i am submitting my solution to spoj , I
am getting runtime error as SIGABRT ,Due to the overflow issue I am using stoll,When i tried to debug my program everything was seemed to be running fine .
Note->It may also contain spaces to improve readability.
This line looks suspicious to me because my programs stops(runtime error) when i doesn't provide
space in the input (1 * 1+2=)
terminate called after throwing an instance of 'std::invalid_argument'
  what():  stoll
Please help where I am doing wrong?
#include<iostream>
#include<string>
#include<sstream>
using namespace std;
int main() {
    int t;
    string str;
    cin >> t;

    while (t--) {

        ///using cin.ignore() as input as preceded by a single line
        cin.ignore();
        getline(cin, str, '\n');
        stringstream split(str);
        ///now use getline with specified delimeter to split string stream
        string intermediate;
        int flag = 0;
        long long int ans=1;
        while (getline(split, intermediate, ' ')) {
            if (intermediate == "=") {
                cout << ans<<"\n";
                break;

            }
            if (intermediate == "*") {
                flag = 1;
                continue;
            }
            else if (intermediate == "/") {
                flag = 2;
                continue;
            }
            else if (intermediate == "+") {
                flag = 3;
                continue;
            }
            else if(intermediate == "-"){
                flag = 4;
                continue;
            }
            if (flag == 1) {
                ans *= stoll(intermediate);
            }
            else if (flag == 2) {
                ans /= stoll(intermediate);
            }
            else if (flag == 3) {
                ans += stoll(intermediate);
            }
            else if (flag == 4) {
                ans -= stoll(intermediate);
            }
            else if (flag == 0) {
                ans = stoll(intermediate);
            }

        }
    }
}

A: Using exactly the input you posted above:
4

1 + 1 * 2 =

29 / 5 =

103 * 103 * 5 =

50 * 40 * 250 + 791 =

I'm able to reproduce your error:

terminate called after throwing an instance of 'std::invalid_argument'
   what():  stoll
  Aborted

I'll bet you removed the newlines in the sample input to simplify things--that's what it looks like from your code anyways. You're doing a getline and pulling exactly as many lines as you're told in the first input. That means you'll pull an empty line (intermediate will be an empty string) and you'll try to process it.
And what happens when you try to call stoll("")? The error you got!
You could try to check if you get an empty line and then continue, something like:
getline(cin, str, '\n');
if(str.empty()) {
    t++; //we didn't actually do anything, so increment t
    continue;
}
stringstream split(str);
...

Or, you could use the fact that the >> operator already stops when it hits whitespace (and eats all the whitespace it can to get to the next edible character). So instead of reading a line at a time, you could continue reading until you hit a = character.

A: cin >> t; does not eat the newline character after reading the number 4 from the input. As the program enters the loop cin.ignore() finishes the first line of the input and then getline(...) reads a blank line. You get an empty string which cannot be converted to an int.
Putting one more cin.ignore() after reading t fixes the runtime error.
You still have to handle the case when there are no spaces between the tokens. This requires rethinking the inner while loop:
long long int ans;
char op;
split >> ans;
while (split >> skipws >> op) {
    if (op == '=') {
        cout << ans << '\n';
        break;
    }
    long long int n;
    split >> n;
    if (op == '*')
        ans *= n;
    else if (op == '/')
        ans /= n;
    else if (op == '+')
        ans += n;
    else if(op == '-')
        ans -= n;
}

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The Caman Connection
Camanachd Cup Final in 1973 courtesy of the Donald MacKay Shinty Archive
The 2021 shinty season may well be delayed from its projected start this weekend, but a newly commissioned series of five reflective interviews with shinty legends will serve to whet everyone's appetite for what is to come this summer.
The Caman Connection has been commissioned by Shinty Memories Scotland and will launch this weekend on Saturday March 6. Former Scotland captain, musician and BBC presenter, Gary Innes takes each contributor back to some of their glory days and to start off, this weekend is talking to John "Squashie" MacFarlane, currently a resident of Tunbridge Wells, and notably a key member of Glasgow Mid Argylls' famous Camanachd Cup winning team in 1973. The five interviews will be broadcast consecutive weeks during March and into April.
In the first interview, Gary takes John on an hilarious trip down memory lane from his earliest experience of shinty in Argyll, in Taynuilt, Oban and beyond, culminating in his experience at Claggan Park when Mid Argyll won the Camanachd Cup for the only time in its history.
There are tales of the Bees Knees and trips to Alicante, and of the infamous Alister Forbes haircut on the evening the Camanachd Cup was won. John also reveals some of his own musical interests as he entertains Gary with his recollections of the past.
Gary said: "I have always loved blethering and listening to old stories and when you then add in my passion of shinty to the mix, it seemed like the perfect combination to merge them all together. It's already been hugely rewarding to work on The Caman Connection and to get a glimpse into the sport from the various areas and times from the people who lived it and were an integral part of their club's history has been wonderful. If you're a fan of shinty at all then I highly recommend you have a listen to some of these incredible stories from yesteryear.
The next two interviews to be broadcast will be with Kingussie legend Ian Ross and Kilmallie's Derek Fraser who was a member of Kilmallie's Camanachd Cup winning team in 1964. The identities of the other two interviews in the series will be revealed in due course
The Caman Connection interviews will be available on all podcast streaming services, including Spotify from midnight on Friday 5th and links will also be made available from Shinty Memories Scotland social channels.
David MacMaster, Chair of Shinty Memories Scotland said: "These interviews are important in a lot of ways. Firstly, they are archival in that they record the reflections of some great characters and important individuals in our sport. The interviews will be of interest to people who may or may not know the individuals and that they will also be important for archival use, as part of the record of the game in various areas. They will stand the test of time and we hope that we will be able to develop the series beyond the first five, depending on how resources become available."
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Ask the Rabbis is a forum that appears in each issue, provides a rare opportunity to read the opinions of rabbis from across the spectrum of Judaism. Its purpose is to illuminate the diversity within Jewish thinking and create a cross-denominational discussion that leads to deeper understanding.
What Does Judaism Say About Love?
Love is defined in Hebrew as ahavah, which is rooted in the Aramaic word hav and literally translates as "give." Rather than translate B'reisheet, the first words of the Torah, as "in the beginning," one can say "in the first gift." Creation originated in the Creator's will to give. We refer to the nature of this gifting as love because it involves not only giving of oneself, but also stepping back to enable the existence and flourishing of the other. God thus models what love entails: selfless gifting accompanied by withdrawal to enable the other to emerge. Therefore, the ancient rabbis defined authentic love as not contingent on any factor because if it is, and then that factor is gone, so is love. But romantic love does have contingencies. It requires compatibility and trust because it involves intimacy. The Talmud admonishes, "A man should never marry off his daughter but to the one whom she finds favorable." Is romantic love then a step down from altruistic love? Not at all. It is rather a step into the inner sanctum of love, a sampling of the World to Come, where love is not merely a state of grace but a state of bliss.
What is love? An emotion? Is it defined by what it is not? The opposite of hate? Like the theological challenge of defining God, does love defy being pinned down? Perhaps the most familiar references to love in our tradition come from two verses: "Love your neighbor as yourself," (Leviticus 19:18) and "You shall love your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your might," (Deuteronomy 6:5). I have always been intrigued by the idea that love could be mandated. I thought true love was voluntary, from the heart. Rashi, the 12th-century commentator, seems to have understood my problem. He distinguished between acting out of fear and acting out of love. Fear may induce basic obedience, but it won't build loyalty. Love, on the other hand, will be met with love and a readiness to give back even more in return.
For Rashi, "love your God" meant "performing commandments out of love." What matters is how we carry ourselves, how we treat others, how we act with loving intentions. The mandate isn't necessarily a mandate to love God. In fact, God doesn't even need to be part of the equation and is conspicuously absent in the instruction to love our neighbor as ourself.


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Pearl Jam MTV Unplugged
Astoria, New York 1992
Posted on October 24, 2014 July 30, 2017 by Wes Candela
What Up Yo.
Pearl Jam, I love them.
I've said it before.
I'll say it again.
Now, I post this because it wasn't until I saw this performance that I became a die hard fan.
The Pearl Jam MTV Unplugged performance…
It took a while because I'm stubborn, very stubborn.
And skeptical.
And cynical.
And at that age I wasn't open minded at all…not that I am now.
It takes me a while to get used to new things.
I need to get to know them inside and out.
Develop a personal connection.
It's all fucking intense to me.
All these people began to talk about them and I'm just fucking weary of popular "Fad" shit like that.
They were all talking about the mysterious lead singer and this new angst driven (I hate writing that) sound.
How they wouldn't do videos…
They would only release live performances of their singles.
Because the alt music scene was beginning to take hold, it was hard to know at first if they were for real or not.
I felt they were real.
But I wasn't sold on the rest of the stampede.
And I was weary about this "Pearl Jam".
Then I heard Pearl Jams Black.
It wasn't on the radio.
There wasnt a video for it.
I heard it when I heard the album for the first time all the way through.
Then soon after I heard Hunger Strike.
That was undoubtedly strong and made me want to scream my face off.
Someone then told me:
"You know that's Eddie Vedder, lead singer of Pearl Jam singing blacking vocals….and Chris Cornell from Soundgarden."
"It is? It's on "Ten"?"
"No, it's on this other album that they all got together and made called "Temple Of The Dog"
Quick side note:
Why the hell haven't the done a second Temple album?
Hearing that, I remember, was intriguing to me.
That these new bands, they were part of a community.
This was completely unlike any other popular music I'd been exposed to before.
I cracked.
Bought both albums.
I loved singing Hunger Strike.
My friend Cameron and I…
And we are talking real 1992 grunge living here, we were 18…
We would meet up at like 11 at night, smoke some weed and go to this parking garage by our house that emptied at 6pm.
We would both sit at opposite ends of this thing, sitting maybe 30 feet across from each other…
And we would sing our asses off, our voices echoing throughout this large empty cement garage.
At the time…
And you don't know this really unless you went through it as it was coming out…
But most of us didn't know what the fuck Eddie Vedder was talking about.
It's not that the lyrics were so hyper intelligent we couldn't grasp them.
It's that vocally, he would stretch out the words in the verses…
Elongate certain words, drag them out so long that you didn't know when one word ended and the next began.
That was fucking beautiful. Genius really.
The first time I truly "Heard" Release…I was alone in my apartment at 18 years old, and I started to cry.
I had listened before, but hadn't heard it.
It was a tough time and I started to think about my mom.
I started to think about my mom, hard.
It sounded like Eddie was talking about his father who had maybe passed away?
I didn't know at the time that was the case, but I could tell from the song…
He was screaming to someone on the other side.
I remember replaying that song over and over, tears streaming down my face, screaming to my mom.
I could sing that song to my mother and mean every word of it.
Every word.
And the connection was made.
Years later…
I'm 20 we're getting ready to go out one night Brother Jeff is excited.
"Pearl Jam MTV Unplugged is on tonight we should watch it before we go out."
"Pearl Jam did an episode of MTV Unplugged? I didn't know that?"
He looked at me stunned.
Before the Internet.
Before DVR's.
Unless somebody had a VCR tape of it, you had to wait until it aired.
Brother Sunthar,
Brother Mike
Brother Jeff were all going out into Huntington Village to raise hell that night…
(Brother Boom? Brother Sal?)
Jeff insisted we wait.
"Dude, you have to see this. This is what made me fall in love with the band. "Black". You have to see them do "Black". And "Porch". "
Now a few years had passed since Ten came out.
Vs. (Five Against One) exploded, brother Shaun bought it for me for my 19th birthday also with a live bootleg disc "Covering Themselves"…
Which was a mishmash of life covers Pearl Jam had done in 1992 and 1993.
Fucking killer.
Vitalogy had just come out, The war has just begun with Ticketmaster.
The alternative music scene was fucking everywhere and great music was exploding from all directions.
Another side note:
Where is the "Dazed and Confused" for the 1990's?
We were at his friend Luke's house, and Luke and Dana lived in this awesome loft in Huntington Village, so we waited, drank red wine.
Then it came on.
I remember watching in awe.
The energy was pumping off the screen as they played Alive, Jeremy, State Of Love And Trust.
I had never seen Eddie perform live, and I had never watched him for longer than four minutes in a video…
And here they were…
Stripped down, pure, raw…
Over the course of the next hour, Pearl Jam became my favorite band.
And that's the way it is been since.
Then they start to play "Black".
Eddie plays with one of the verses
"I take a walk outside…And I'm surrounded by….Some kids that play!"
His face starts to change as the song progresses. He is singing to somebody. He is singing right to them. This is a true story. This guy had his heart torn out. He climbed a mountain and he is screaming, professing his love for her in front of the world.
Yes he is performing.
But you simply cannot fake the earnestness in his eyes.
"I know someday you'll have a beautiful life. I know you'll be a star…in somebody else's sky…but why?
He took this beautiful, haunting song took the next level…
I believe he forgot where he was.
And as the song began to close, Eddie starts to scream…
"WE BELONG…"
"WE BELONG TOGETHER…."
I was done.
Changed my fucking life
I simply didn't know you could do that.
I had never seen or heard anything like it. I had never felt anything like that.
He sits and is visibly shaken. He is jacked.
He needs a moment to shake off the pain and continue with the set
And then he marches into a song that I never cared for until that night.
"I just wanna say…One, Two, Three, Four…
Porch.
While Black was filled with the pure emotion of loss and defeat, Porch was rebellion.
The sheer intensity of the performance was staggering.
Bythe time the song finished and we left for the night, I was a changed man.
I don't know if you're going to get from this what I did.
I actually doubt it.
But some of you will. It altered my life and I share it with you.
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Motorcycle Types Adventure / Dual-Sport Aprilia: GP and SBK Racing History
Aprilia: GP and SBK Racing History
Aprilia Racing History
Although Aprilia may be a relatively new name to many motorcycle enthusiasts in America, the company has earned a heady and impressive presence on the world stage of racing ever since the Italian brand garnered their first significant victory in 1987.
The ensuing twenty-three years have seen Aprilia victorious in a number of disciplines, from 125cc and 250cc MotoGP road racing motorcycles, to 1000cc superbikes, revolutionary V-twin motocross and supermotard racebikes, to trials and Dakar, culminating with the introduction of the V-4 powered RSV4 Superbike.
In a dramatic challenge to the seemingly omnipotent Japanese of 1985, Aprilia first entered the 250cc MotoGP Motorcycle World Championship. Their bike had an aluminum perimeter frame with a mono-shock and pro lever suspension and was saddled with a two-cylinder Rotax engine.
Rider Loris Reggiani took the machine to two podium finishes in its first season. Aprilia engineers continued to refine the 250cc GP machine, culminating with the brand's first Motorcycle Grand Prix win, which came in August, 1987 at the Misano Circuit.
In 1988 April entered the 125cc class where their machines immediately proved their worth. Podium finishes were amassed but the world title eluded the Italian company. A fully redesigned 250cc GP motorcycle, the RS250V, was given birth in 1991 and quickly earned the top spot on the podium in the hands of Frankie Chili (at Assen) and Reggiani (at Paul Ricard).
The 1991, 1992, and 1993 seasons saw the ascension of Aprilia on the world stage, with Alex Gramigni winning Aprilia their first world title in the 125cc class in 1992 and the amazingly talented and smooth, Max Biaggi, bringing them their first 250cc World Title in 1994-Aprilia also wins the 125cc title that year with rider Kazuto Sakata. Biaggi would repeat his championship ways in the 250 class for Aprilia in 1995 and 1996, earning three consecutive motorcycle-racing championships.
Enter Valentino Rossi. 1997 sees the emergence of the future king of MotoGP with his first 125cc title riding an Aprilia. He does it in convincing fashion, winning eleven victories in the fifteen race series. In 1998 Aprilia enjoys a nearly perfect year in the 250 class, winning thirteen of fourteen races, with Loris Capirossi winning the title. Aprilia wins the coveted manufacturer's title that year as well.
In 1999, Valentino Rossi, after just one season in the 250cc class, wins the title in convincing manner, taking nine victories. Cadres of Aprilia motorcycles follow, earning two manufacturer's titles (125 and 250).
That same year Aprilia makes its debut in World SBK with the V-twin RSV Mille, marking the manufacturer's official entry into four-stroke competition. In 2000, with a proper full team effort, Troy Corser takes five wins and four pole positions in the machines first official year in WSBK. Meanwhile in 125cc, Roberto Locatelli takes the 125cc crown, marking Aprilias fifteenth world motorcycle-racing title.
In 2002 Aprilia wins the 125 and 250 world titles with riders Marco Melandri (250) and Arnaud Vincent (125), as well as the manufactuer titles in both classes. This year also sees the unveiling of the impressive three-cylinder RS Cube in MotoGP. 2003; Aprilia takes home the 250 title as well as manufacturer crowns in 125 and 250.
In 2004 the Piaggio Group acquired Aprilia, which mark two years of reorganization with a new focus on off-road. Aprilia's new V-twin takes Jerome Giraudo to a world title in the S2 Supermoto category.
2006 sees Jorge Lorenzo take the 250 title and Alvaro Bautista win the 125cc class. That year also sees Aprilia add two more Supermotard titles to their ever-expanding trophy case. In 2007 Lorenzo repeats with the 250 GP title while Gabor Talmacsi takes the 125 GP title.
Following two manufacturer titles in 2008 for the 125 and 250 class, Aprilia launches their most ambitious project to date; 2009 and the introduction of the formidable RSV4 Superbike, intended to take on the world in WSBK.
Former Aprilia pilot, Max Biaggi, is reunited with the manufacturer to go after the title. That same year Aprilia wins the 125 GP Championship with Julian Simon Simon, as well as earning stage wins in the grueling Dakar Rally with their 450 off-road motorcycle.
The years of racing culminates in 2010 with Max Biaggi putting on a masterful display of talent aboard the equally impressive RSV4 to win the highly coveted and challenging World Superbike Championship.
He becomes the first Italian to win the title in the series' 22-year history, garnering yet another division of race dominance. Since its entry into international motorcycle racing in 1985 Aprilia has earned an amazing 45 world championships. One can only wonder what 2011 might yield.
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Q: My dataset is unbalanced and has missing values, when does this become a problem? I'm writing a thesis on data and variable specification sensitivity pertaining to economic growth. I have panel data with 39 countries ranging from 1981-2012, however, lots of countries had important variables missing for numerous years, I decided to drop some countries, but others still have some missing observations. The country Switzerland, for example, only has 6 years of data, whereas over half the sample has 23. What is the best way to approach this? Should I drop countries with low amount of periods? should I interpolate? Is this not an issue? I am planning on doing a fixed effects regression and a generalized methods of moments.
Also, how problematic are missing values for control variables?


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Assange says he will accept arrest if UN panel rules against him
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WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange will leave the Ecuadorian embassy in London, where he took refuge in June 2012 to avoid extradition to Sweden, and accept arrest on Feb. 5 if a UN panel investigating his case rules against him, he said in a statement.
Assange, 44, is wanted in Sweden for questioning over allegations of rape in 2010 which the Australian denies.
"Should the U.N. announce tomorrow that I have lost my case against the United Kingdom and Sweden, I shall exit the embassy at noon on Friday to accept arrest by British police as there is no meaningful prospect of further appeal," Assange said in the statement posted on the Wikileaks Twitter account.
"However, should I prevail and the state parties be found to have acted unlawfully, I expect the immediate return of my passport and the termination of further attempts to arrest me."
Assange fears Sweden will extradite him to the United States, where he could be put on trial over WikiLeaks' publication of classified military and diplomatic documents, one of the largest information leaks in U.S. history.
The U.N. Working Group on Arbitrary Detention is currently considering a request for relief by Assange, who argued in a submission that his time in the embassy constituted arbitrary detention.
Assange argued that he had been deprived of his fundamental liberties, including lack of access to sunlight or fresh air, adequate medical facilities, as well as legal and procedural insecurity.
Assange made international headlines in early 2010 when WikiLeaks published classified U.S. military video showing a 2007 attack by Apache helicopters that killed a dozen people in Baghdad, including two Reuters news staff.
Later that year, the group released over 90,000 secret documents detailing the U.S.-led military campaign in Afghanistan, followed by almost 400,000 internal U.S. military reports detailing operations in Iraq.
Those disclosures were followed by the release of more than 250,000 classified cables from U.S. embassies. It would go on to add almost three million more diplomatic cables dating back to 1973.
Since his confinement, WikiLeaks has continued to publish documents on topics such as the Trans-Pacific Partnership, one of the world's biggest multinational trade deals, which was signed by 12 member nations on Feb. 4 in New Zealand.
A spokesman for Assange could not immediately be reached for comment.
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Find Military pay charts archived by the Defense Finance Accounting and Service (DFAS). Seeing how much service members were paid in the past gives us a small glimpse of what our economy was previously like. It's interesting to see how the military pay today compares to what service members made in the past. Basic pay is the primary compensation amount offered to United States Armed Forces members. The pay rates are raised annually to accommodate the increased cost of living and are managed by the Department of Defense. Some military members may earn more depending on various allowances and special pay amounts they may be eligible for. Below is a chart showing how much basic pay military members were paid throughout the years.
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Theresa May buys time with apology to Tory MPs over election 'mess'
Beleaguered PM is 'contrite and genuine' in crunch meeting with 1922 Committee, promising to build consensus on Brexit
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May en route to the meeting with the 1922 Committee. 'There was none of the Maybot,' said one MP in attendance. Photograph: Will Oliver/EPA
A contrite Theresa May bought herself time with Conservatives MPs by apologising for failing to secure an overall majority, while cabinet sources indicated that the prime minister would pursue a more conciliatory approach on Brexit to shore up her leadership.
May addressed a packed session of her party's backbench 1922 Committee on Tuesday with what was described as an "upfront mea culpa". She declared: "I got us into this mess, and I'm going to get us out of it."
Senior insiders added that one of the ideas actively being considered to win backing across parliament was "not to major" on the controversial "no deal is better than a bad deal" position taken by May before the election.
Theresa May survives meeting of 1922 Committee of Tory MPs – politics live
Also under consideration is whether to exclude overseas students from the immigration numbers and even possibly to abandon the target to reduce immigration to the "tens of thousands". Although nothing has been agreed, any softening of the position on immigration could maximise the chance of a closer economic relationship with the EU.
May also admitted that the manifesto promise to make people pay more for their social care had been a mistake and said there would be no weakening of LGBT rights as the Tories attempted to secure an electoral pact on Tuesday with the socially conservative Democratic Unionist party.
The prime minister said more would be done to reach out to young voters and those working in the public sector. "She was contrite and genuine, but not on her knees," said one senior MP who attended the meeting, adding that May had shown a warmer side. "There was none of the Maybot," the person added, claiming that any talk of a leadership challenge had been silenced, for now at least.
Speaking after the meeting, MPs made clear that the prime minister had bought herself time – with hopes that she could make it to the end of Brexit talks in two years.
A cabinet member admitted that work was under way on how to achieve a deal with the EU27 that could pass through a much more finely balanced parliament, involving seeking areas of compromise with other parties. Reports in the Telegraph and Evening Standard claimed that secret talks had already begun between cabinet ministers and some Labour MPs.
Any shift in tone will be seen as a coup for advocates of a soft Brexit, although those who campaigned to leave the EU are also offering their support to the prime minister.
Ruth Davidson, the Conservative leader in Scotland, who has won more influence after the party took 13 seats in Scotland, said she was pushing for an "open Brexit" with maximum economic access after a private meeting with May in Downing Street. Davidson added that the party needed to reach out: "I do think that there can be changes in the offer of Brexit as we go forward."
Downing Street is also preparing to put forward a skeleton version of a Queen's speech, as the parliamentary mathematics threatens to bring domestic policymaking to a halt unless the Tories reach out to opposition parties.
The annual list of legislation, which may be delayed from 19 June, will have two big-ticket items of Brexit and counter-terrorism policy, but see most of the domestic agenda ditched, according to one source. May's plans for a sweeping shakeup of education including new grammar schools could be boiled down to a few pilots, they said.
However, despite jitters within the party and suggestions that May's days are numbered, her performance in front of the 1922 Committee appeared to reduce anger about the shock result. After the vote stripped the Conservatives of their majority and plunged the government into instability and the need for coalition talks with the DUP, Heidi Allen, the MP for South Cambridgeshire, said the prime minister would be gone within six months.
However, after the 1922 meeting, Allen – who has fought her own party over disability benefit cuts and tough positioning on Brexit – said: "I saw an incredibly humble woman who knows what she has to do, and that is be who she is and not what this job had turned her into. She has lost her armadillo shell and we have got a leader back."
Anne-Marie Trevelyan, the Conservative MP for Berwick-upon-Tweed, who has been an outspoken proponent of Brexit, said: "It was very positive to hear her take very firm responsibility for not being able to crystallise some of the seats we'd hoped to win. I felt she had very deeply considered over the weekend whether she should continue and … came to us to say: 'I will continue for as long as you want me to do so.' And I think that's exactly what we all hoped she would say."
MPs said there was a tacit acceptance of the need to build a better consensus. "A broader backing for Brexit has to be built and I think she recognises that," one former minister said. "She was clear she was responsible. She agreed on the need to listen to all the wings of the party on Brexit."
One remainer on the left of the party was teary-eyed as they expressed their renewed support for the prime minister, while a hardline Brexiter agreed, describing her as "very, very humble" and saying: "She has bought herself time. She showed a side of her that was very appealing. A warmer side."
At the centre of the debate were concerns about the manifesto. MPs admitted that it had been a disaster with voters, particularly the so-called "dementia tax" and the decision to press ahead with school funding cuts. "Public sector workers felt very strongly about austerity," a former cabinet minister said. "We have to offer a message of aspiration, which is a very Conservative word."
Jeremy Corbyn's massive gains with public sector workers appear to have driven anti-austerity into the centre of political debate, even among Conservatives. May acknowledged several warnings from MPs who described meeting people who said they could not vote Tory because of cuts to hospitals, schools or failure to increase public sector wages in real terms.
Anna Soubry told the Guardian it had been an issue she repeatedly encountered on the doorstep. Writing in a local newsletter, she added: "We need a kinder Conservatism that recognises the very real concerns about reduced school budgets, a shortfall in NHS and social care funding, and that some of our most valued public servants such as nurses, have had their wages cut."
Others argued that it was OK for the Tories to keep their position but that they had failed to make the economic argument during the campaign. Soubry said it was outrageous that the chancellor, Philip Hammond, had not been given a bigger role in the campaign.
Several MPs told May they had had difficulties rebutting questions over school funding on doorsteps and in local hustings. May said that Justine Greening would address the concerns, and sources stressed that the education secretary had been making the case for better funding for schools for some time.
Tories banged on the tables for about 30 seconds as May arrived for the crunch meeting in a roasting hot room packed with members of the House of Lords as well as MPs. May took questions, but one MP described them as more like "speeches".
There was no appetite for a leadership election, the MP said. "That's the last thing the country needs. She said she would serve us as long as we want her, and that she's been a party servant since she was 12 years old, stuffing envelopes."
MPs were pleased that the prime minister had removed her joint chiefs of staff, Fiona Hill and Nick Timothy, as she pointed instead to her new top aide, the former Tory MP Gavin Barwell, and the chief whip, Gavin Williamson. One MP said that the party had faith in the "two Gavins".
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Discussion in 'iMac' started by Willstone525, Jul 18, 2013.
I aim to go well above these specs as I want to be playing the game on ultra settings for a good few years but this is what I am unsure of. My main questions a to do with upgrades on the base model, this has the i5 3.2 ghz quad processor, 8gb ram, 1tb sata drive and nvidia GeForce 675mx 1gb.
1)do I need the i7 upgrade (3.4ghz with hyper threading)?
2)do I need the 2gb 680mx graphics card?
3)will the fusion drive really help when occasionally loading up bigger items?
With all of these questions they relate to being able to have a good 4/5 year life on the mac running ultra/high settings on wow and being able to generally run fast with day to day tasks with the prospect of using other games in the future.
I'm confused, to clarify you only intend to play WoW and just that?
680m. Future the hell out of that suka! And once you feel how fast it is you probably will branch out to other games as well which are much more demanding than WoW.
Fusion drive is a buy, i7 you don't need.
Yeah just world of Warcraft however in the future I may go to some other games as well. So I want to future proof it for at least 4 years.
this is your 3rd post on the same subject in a few days - were the extensive answers in your first post not good enough info?
Previous ones have been similar but I still felt very uncertain about it so just felt I should post one completely informative about my queries.
You can't completely future-proof anything for 4 years, especially when it comes to gaming. Have you seen Watch Dogs for example? That is a "next-gen" PC game that will struggle to run on the fastest iMac available today and you want to try and future proof a purchase for 4 years?!
And lets say Apple release OS 11 or whatever in 1-2 years and it allowed touch (for example) then every single non touch-screen Mac or MacBook suddenly becomes gimped.
I understand that but for a game like world of Warcraft. It's not the most demanding game so you can get a rough ideas surely?
On WoW, maybe, but you don't need anything close to a max'd out iMac to play WoW on ultra settings. Games that actually require newer hardware, no way. You'll be lucky to get 3 years out of it for newer games.
I'd bet a PC like that will probably play WoW about as well as a max'd out iMac.
1) No. HT is never helpful in games, and you won't miss the few points in speed. Games are GPU-limited, not CPU-limited, almost exclusively.
2) Need? No, not for WoW. But it's a great upgrade at a small price, and will let you run WoW at max settings for a couple years while the 675mx would probably run at something closer to "high" than "max".
3) It's difficult to measure, but Fusion will definitely help in launch time and in loading assets to paint on the screen.
Definately buy the 680MX for gaming.
Fusion drive possibly, but with the reliability of flash drives being an issue over time, it might be better to go for a 1GB internal HD and get an external flash drive.
Personally I've not bought any flash drives yet, I'm waiting until the technology is a bit more mature, but I'll probably go external with a thunderbolt interface.
I tend to only play Planetside 2 these days as my time is limited and I can get 40+ fps on high and it looks absolutely gorgeous.
Fusion drive doesn't work in Bootcamp, as the SSD part will only be utilized for the OSX partition. i5 CPU, 8gb ram, 680MX are the recommended/minimum specs for gaming on an iMac (an expensive alternative for gaming).
All the more reason for not getting a fusion drive at the moment considering that most if not all gaming is windows based.
Fusion drives doesn't work in Bootcamp, as the SSD part will only be utilized for the OSX partition. i5 CPU, 8gb ram, 680MX is the recommended spces. If you have money to burn go for i7 CPU, but it's not necessary for gaming.
Where are you getting this? The spinning HDD is the most likely component of a computer to fail. Flash drives have higher reliability than spinners.
I support the claim that if one plans to spend a great deal of time doing windows gaming, the fusion drive is not the best choice for them. I'd recommend a full-SSD solution in that case.
I dispute the claim that "most if not all gaming is windows based". There are a ton of Mac games out there; there is a large and increasing number of games that see simultaneously Mac & PC release; cross-platform multiplayer is an option in Steam and Blizzard games. While I will go into Windows on occasion for Windows-only titles like the Total War franchise, I spend just as much time playing games like Civ and recently Diablo and WoW in OS X. The joy and convenience in staying in OS X is worth the small (and ever-shrinking) performance hit.
If you plan to play wow in a raiding eviroment, max out the graphic card. Wow is pretty intensive specially in 25man raids. I dont know if it will run the game flawlesly in ultra.
I would wait to see if new imacs are around the corner, but a gaming PC is going to cost half, and play games way better. Maybe get the entry level imac and a PC.
Many people in this forum say wow runs good beacause is an old game, and that's not true, or they play in a recreational level.
I just ordered a fusion based iMac with the 650m GPU and 16GB of RAM. The first thing I'm going to do is load Starcraft II and Diablo III and Portal 2 and Civilization 5, and see if it plays smoothly at native resolution with a few of the more important graphics settings turned up. If it plays smooth (at least 60fps), I'll keep it, if not, it's being returned so I can wait for the next gen iMacs.
So you're saying that all the information readily available talking about flash drives erroring after just a few months use is just propaganda put out by HD manufacturers, interesting.
Like it or not a mature tech. like a mechanical HD is still more reliable than current flashdrives. It will improve obviously as the demand is there, but I for one wouldn't rely just on a FD as primary storage; We had a designer's fusion drive go down in a brand new Mac and it cost us thousands to sort out.
Sorry, but you're wrong here as well, apart from the lack of titles on native Mac OS there is a performance hit on titles that are cross-platform, WoW for instance. Aside from the fps hit, windows games utilising DirectX/latest drivers look and perform much better in a windows environment.
Maybe if Apple stopped being so conservative with their drivers and adopted a decent version of OpenGL then things might be different, but there you are we are where we are.
Flash is quite mature.. it was appearing in MP3 players before the the iPod came out, and came about quite a bit before then.
The only negative I'd heard on Flash is that if you attempt to "defrag" it you'll lessen its life considerably.
the 680MX is the real deal. I dont even think WoW ever go below 40 fps with this card in 99% of situations, with maxed out settings and resolution - antialiasing included.


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Putin Prioritizes Tsirkon Hypersonic Missiles For The Russian Navy
Analysis 5 December 2019
This week (December 2), while opening a series of meetings in Sochi on military development and the further enhancement of Russia's Armed Forces, President Vladimir Putin set down the main tasks for the modernization of the Russian navy—the Military-Maritime Fleet (Voyenno-Morskoy Flot—VMF).
Putin explained that special attention must be paid to arming warships and submarines with Tsirkon hypersonic cruise missiles, which, in his view, will help to ensure strategic stability. Reportedly, the Tsirkon 3M22 will be procured for use on Project 22350 frigates and Project 1155 anti-submarine warfare ships. The large anti-submarine warships will be modernized and fitted with universal launchers, allowing them to fire both Kalibr and Tsirkon cruise missiles.
According to Admiral (retired) Valentin Selivanov, the former chief of the VMF Main Staff, "The combat capabilities of these ships will increase many times over." The Kalibr-type cruise missiles, and even more so the Tsirkon, could be used against an aircraft carrier strike group. In addition, these new weapons will also make it possible to strike important ground targets, such as enemy headquarters, airfields and important communications centers in coastal areas (Izvestia, December 3).
Putin uses these gatherings in Sochi every six months to meet with the leadership of the military and the defense industrial complex (Oboronnyi Promyshennyi Kompleks—OPK), frequently issuing multiple instructions. This latest multi-day series of meetings looked at the priorities for military development in Russia to 2030. "Based on the results of previous meetings, several hundred instructions were given in this format. But it is not the quantity that matters but how they are carried out. It is satisfactory overall—70 percent fulfilled.
This suggests that our meetings in Sochi of this kind are in demand and very effective. Why is this happening? Because you and I know that if something is not done, after half a year you will have to answer why it is not done and what needs to be done to fix the situation," Putin reminded his audience.
After outlining naval development and recent activities and deployments for the VMF, Putin turned to the theme of how important high-precision strike systems will be for the surface ships and submarines. "In the coming years, it is necessary to actively increase the combat capabilities of the fleet. In many respects, this depends on the planned admission of navigational frigates and submarines modified for the use of Tsirkon hypersonic missiles. This weapon becomes extremely important for maintaining strategic stability," he explained (Vesti.ru, December 2).
Putin's interest in pushing for more advances in high-precision strike capability across the Russian Armed Forces has long been known. Additionally, his controversial address to the Federal Assembly on March 1, 2018, set out a vision for introducing several new hypersonic missile systems, including hypersonic-glide weapons and sub-sea versions. The question is why is Putin returning to this theme now, and what are his reasons for stressing the Tsirkon cruise missile in particular?
Clearly, there are features of this still-in-design system that are appealing for the political-military leadership, and Putin wants some marked progress from the OPK toward future procurement of such an advanced system (Izvestia, December 3).
One Moscow-based Russian military specialist highlights the fact that these are being designed to hit mobile targets. Rustem Klupov describes this new weapon: "A ship grouping is a moving target. To destroy such moving targets, the new-generation Tsirkon missiles were created. These anti-ship missiles can hit both single and group ship targets. The amount of explosives in each of the missiles is enough to send a middle-class cruiser to the bottom with just one Tsirkon.
Tsirkons have a hypersonic speed, which allows them to overcome both the far and near air-defense zones of ship groupings. In the creation of such missiles, we have gone far ahead, seriously breaking away from the Americans. They now have no such class of missiles" (Moskovsky Komsomolets, December 3).
An underlying reason for Putin's interest in hypersonic systems such as the Tsirkon is the linkage to strategic deterrence. These can be used against carrier groups, surface ships and ground targets. Reportedly, the Tsirkon will be able to reach Mach 8 and strike targets at up to 500 kilometers. This would essentially make it impossible to intercept them since Mach 2.5 is the limit for most modern air-defense systems (Izvestia, December 3).
Earlier reports on the possible specifications and capabilities of the Tsirkon 3M22 suggested speeds of up to 2,648 meters per second (Mach 7.7), covering 160 km in one minute. The project commenced in 2011, and during a test in April 2017, the Tsirkon had allegedly achieved the Mach 8 breakthrough. Further development and testing seemed earmarked to occur in 2018–2020, with a planned introduction by 2025 at the latest.
It may also be that the testing phase since the April 2017 "breakthrough" has proved more challenging, and Putin wants to pressure the OPK to complete this design and testing phase in order for procurement targets to be met (Nezavisimoye Voyennoye Obozreniye, April 21, 2017). The prototype Tsirkon system and missile complex have been in development under the Special Machine Building Design Bureau (Konstruktorskoye Byuro Spetsialnogo Mashinostroyeniya—KBSM), a subsidiary of Almaz-Antey.
It was originally planned to use these on the refitted Petr Velikiy and the Admiral Nakhimov heavy cruiser ships as well as the new Husky-class and Yasen-M submarines. The launch tubes for these naval assets are also compatible with Oniks and Kalibr anti-ship and sea-launched cruise missiles (SLCM), respectively; and it now appears that the Tsirkon will be procured for additional naval platforms (Ekspert, April 15, 2017).
The Tsirkon 3M22 hypersonic cruise missile system remains locked in its testing phase, and various estimates suggest its procurement may take place between 2022 and 2025. It will enter service in the VMF. Putin singling out the Tsirkon in particular implies that the political-military leadership is assigning strategic priority to this system.
But all this also comes at a time when the reporting on Tsirkon testing had subsided. Thus, the president's prioritization of the system, with its numerous advertised advantages, appears to reflect his own challenge to the OPK to deliver.
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Accident at Shirdi
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A padyatra turned into a tragedy for a 25 year-old Jogeshwari resident, who was hit by a moving vehicle at Vavim near Shirdi, on Thursday
A padyatra turned into a tragedy for a 25 year-old Jogeshwari resident, who was hit by a moving vehicle at
Vavim near Shirdi, on Thursday. Geetesh Khandekar, who was accompanied by other Nityanand Sai followers was just a day away from Shirdi when he was hit by a Scorpio.
Khandekar was immediately rushed to the nearest hospital at Sinnar and then shifted to Nashik hospital after which his family had him admitted to KEM Hospital where he is still in the ICU.
Vavi police have confiscated the Scorpio. Police constable B Mali said, "The driver of the Scorpio fled after the accident. Investigations revealed that it belonged to a Mumbai resident and was given on hire." The vehicle was occupied by three persons heading to Shirdi and the accident occurred when the car tried to overtake a bus.
Meanwhile doctors at KEM Hospital revealed, "We cannot comment about the patient's progress right now. He is suffering from a head injury and is in a critical condition. Treatment is on and we have kept him on the ventilator."
Eknath Khandekar, the victim's uncle said, "Every year Geetesh undertakes a padyatra to Shirdi. We never thought anything of this sort would occur. "
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