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Tiger Woods hits to the sixth green during the final round of the Bridgestone Invitational golf tournament Sunday, Aug. 4, 2013 at Firestone Country Club in Akron, Ohio. (AP Photo/Mark Duncan)
Tiger Woods hits to the sixth green during the final round of the Bridgestone Invitational golf tournament Sunday, Aug. 4, 2013 at Firestone Country Club in Akron, Ohio. (AP Photo/Mark Duncan)
Tiger Woods, lower left, waits to approach the third green during the final round of the Bridgestone Invitational golf tournament Sunday, Aug. 4, 2013 at Firestone Country Club in Akron, Ohio. (AP Photo/Mark Duncan)
Tiger Woods looks over his putt on the seventh hole during the final round of the Bridgestone Invitational golf tournament Sunday, Aug. 4, 2013 at Firestone Country Club in Akron, Ohio. (AP Photo/Mark Duncan)
Keegan Bradley watches his tee shot on the second hole during the final round of the Bridgestone Invitational golf tournament Sunday, Aug. 4, 2013 at Firestone Country Club in Akron, Ohio. (AP Photo/Mark Duncan)
Phil Mickelson, left, talks with his caddie Jim Mackay on the fourth tee during the final round of the Bridgestone Invitational golf tournament Sunday, Aug. 4, 2013 at Firestone Country Club in Akron, Ohio. (AP Photo/Mark Duncan)
AKRON, Ohio (AP) ? Tiger Woods played safe and smart with a big lead, parring 16 holes in an even-par 70 Sunday to coast to a seven-shot victory at the Bridgestone Invitational for his eighth win at the event ? matching the PGA Tour record he shares for victories in a single tournament.
After a second-round 61 in which he flirted with 59, Woods ended up at 15-under 265 to easily beat defending champ Keegan Bradley and Henrik Stenson.
Woods' mastery at Firestone Country Club allowed him to again match Sam Snead's PGA Tour record for wins in an event. Snead won the Greater Greensboro Open eight times. Earlier this year, Woods won at Bay Hill for the eighth time.
As if he weren't already the favorite next week in the PGA Championship at Oak Hill, the lopsided victory reinforced it.
No one ever got within six shots all day of the world's No. 1.
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By Greg Risling, The Associated Press
LOS ANGELES -- College filmmakers were using fake guns to shoot a robbery scene at a suburban Los Angeles coffee shop when eight police officers showed up with guns drawn and no idea it was just a movie.
"Drop the gun! Drop it! Drop it!" one officer yells on an audio recording police were carrying.
One of the actors immediately let go of his fake assault rifle. But another held onto his replica handgun, forcing officers to make a life-or-death choice.
An officer knocked the gun from the actor's hand and handcuffed him, drawing a peaceful climax to what could have been something far worse.
"One of the officers made the decision that had the man moved, he would have been killed," said Glendora police Capt. Tim Staab. "It was just milliseconds from a tragedy."
"I can't think of a situation more dangerous than having a gun in your hand with cops responding. It was much closer than we ever want to get close to,? he added.
Attempts to reach the film's director were unsuccessful. The students declined to tell police what college they were from.
The officers responded to the shop after receiving a 911 call from a woman who reported seeing an armed, masked gunman inside Classic Coffee in Glendora.
Police said there was nothing to indicate a short movie was being shot. No one was outside to warn customers, there were no signs, and no permit had been pulled.
When officers arrived, there was no question in their mind that a robbery was occurring, Staab said.
It's rare "to go into a coffee shop and see someone carrying an AR-15 rifle and wearing a mask," he said.
Under normal filming protocols, weapons carried by the actors have orange markings to indicate they are replicas. But the markings on the guns used by the students had been covered by a black pen, presumably to make the weapons look more realistic.
Staab said one of the masked men, apparently startled by the real-life response, held the fake gun by his side, pointed toward the ground. When he didn't drop it, Staab said, an officer did something unusual ? he stripped it from the man's hand and sent the gun falling to the floor.
After the man was handcuffed, the officer is heard on the audiotape asking what was going on. Somebody says a film was being made.
"You are shooting a short film?" the officer asks. "In a store with a man with a gun?"
The students were allowed to keep the fake weapons and weren't facing any charges. They were given a lecture by officers about the dangers they created and went on their way.
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Informative, earnest, but less than briskly paced.
"Blackfish" makes a compelling case that the cruelty of life in captivity is the cause for a rash of fatal attacks by orcas on their trainers, aggressive behavior that no so-called killer whale ever has exhibited in the wild.
Its ultimate message is clear: Killer whales belong with their families in their natural habitat, not performing for audiences. After listening to this film's many impassioned voices, it's hard to argue.
It not only delivers astonishing, suspenseful footage that makes it a legitimate thriller, but also serves up thoughtful meditations about using wild animals for our own entertainment.
It's hard to imagine anyone coming out of this movie and not swearing off the next vacation trip to Orlando, San Antonio or San Diego.
Unfortunately, this feels like a ten-minute news segment blown up to theatrical proportions.
An engrossing look at animal behavior.
It is gripping and thought-provoking.
As enlightening and passionate as the picture is, Cowperthwaite fails to summon the type of comprehensive journalism this type of story deserves.
The one save-the-whales movie to see when you only have time for one.
There aren't too many animal-rights documentaries that could be described as "metal," but Blackfish, one part horror movie and one part nature film, fits the bill and then some.
Cowperthwaite juxtaposes to devastating effect official PR spin with news reports and eye-witness accounts of marine park tragedies.
[An] impressive, often gripping documentary ...
Engrossing when offers alarming CSI-type forensic analysis into the death of a whale trainer [but] the narrow focus on SeaWorld raises more questions that aren't considered.
Through interviews with whale scientists and several former Sea World trainers, [Cowperthwaite] paints a disturbing picture of the profit-minded climate of deceit that prevailed at the company.
Puts 'killer whales' into wildlife and humanitarian perspective while giving you all of the dangerous action sequences you could possible want. Free Willy, it ain't.
Blackfish marries biography, activism and psycho thriller into a pleasing cinematic shape, starting with a single whale and the trainers who worked with him.
Some of the archive footage is exceedingly harrowing, but the case against commercially condoned cruelty is made without sensationalism, and few will be able to watch this without a growing sense of outrage.
Cruelty begets cruelty and whales don't belong in the circus.
It is never less than gripping, and devastatingly undermines the notion of performing whales as wholesome family entertainment.
Damning and disturbing viewing.
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Actress Lindsay Lohan will guest host the Aug. 5 episode of "Chelsea Lately."
Look out, Chelsea Handler! Lindsay Lohan might be coming for your job.
A vibrant-looking Lohan, fresh off a 90-day court-ordered stint in rehab, filled in for Handler as host of "Chelsea Lately" on Thursday. Although the episode isn't scheduled to air until Aug. 5, from the sneak peek clips provided, it looks like LiLo took the opportunity to poke fun at herself ? and fellow actress Kristen Stewart ? during her guest spot.
During the episode's round-table discussion, Lohan garnered laughs from the crowd and other hosts when, while?reporting on a story?that One Direction member Harry Styles is possibly bisexual and dating a DJ named Nick, she deadpanned, "I've been there!" (Lohan dated DJ Samantha Ronson in 2008.)?
Lohan also used the opportunity to take a jab at Stewart, who recently made headlines for cursing out a group of paparazzi photographers.?
"I'm just excited that Kristen Stewart, you know, finally showed some emotion,"?Lohan said?of the famously indifferent "Twilight" actress.
Her joke garnered a roar of laughter from the audience, and even prompted comedian Fortune Feimster, who was part of the round table, to suggest that her comment may start an alley fight between the troubled actress and the "Twilight" star.
"No, I love her. I'm a Kristen Stewart fan," Lohan insisted before continuing to poke fun at the actress' 2012 cheating scandal with "Snow White" director Rupert Sanders.
Lohan hosts Chelsea Lately on Aug. 5 at 11 p.m. on E!
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?Part of our brand,? explains the sonorous French voice on the phone, ?is coming from the fact we do very few things. Porsche is the most successful car company in the world from the business standpoint, but they do very few models? we take the same approach in the board game business.?
Yes, board games. Joint US-French publisher Days of Wonder are keen to tell me of a dramatic development in the sleepy burg of board games. They say their flagship title, family train game Ticket to Ride, has overtaken Settlers of Catan in sales. If they?re right, that?s huge.
Catan is a quaint German game where players compete to develop a hopelessly cramped island. Fretting and plotting over hands of resource cards, players compete to snatch territory from one another, negotiate, and thread together their holdings to lay claim to the hotly contested Longest Road. It?s basically Sim City in an elevator. It?s also irreducibly pleasant, its flimsy rules equal parts simple, rewarding and clever.
More importantly, in board games, quaint sells. Catan is the bashful possessor of more than one hundred sequels, expansions, spin-offs and tie-ins. It also had a key role in the reinvigoration of the US board game scene in the mid-90s, when Americans encountered such staggering revelations as board games with colour manuals and themes that didn?t include (1) guns or (2) laser guns.
Like Catan, it?s a subtle blend of empire development and passive aggression, and pleasant without being daring. Talking to Days of Wonder, I wanted to discover what guided a company that could dethrone Catan. As it turned out from a quick chat with founder Eric Hautemont, the company?s Porsche-like attitude of releasing a 0-1 games a year was just the start.
?From a brand standpoint, we sat down really early on and thought about what are the key things that would distinguish a Days of Wonder game. At the time ? think back to 2001, 2002, board games were not that attractive. They were kind of thrown together, people were doing their own graphics, their friends were doing design? We wanted to really emphasise both the componentry in the game and also the illustrations.
?Our first big-box game, Mystery of the Abbey ? one little thing that we added was this little bell, to call people to mass which happens after so many turns. That little bell, which probably cost six or seven cents, people raved about it. Because it wasn?t necessary, you could have just said ?okay, everyone all go to Mass,? but it was that little added touch that helped move the storyline along.?
Since then, it?s become inarguable that Days of Wonder make the nicest physical objects. In an industry of plastic miniatures that arrive knock-kneed and wielding bent swords, of comedically useless box inlays, of tokens that literally blacken your hands, the competition might not be fierce, but Days of Wonder games still offer a tidy kind of luxury. Colourful art and a wealth of injection-moulded plastic, tucked tightly into a rigid inlay.
What?s more telling, though, is Eric?s mention of brands. The board game scene is commendably quick to adopt new settings and ideas, to invent and reinvent in a spin cycle of cardboard and creativity. But from a financial standpoint, it?s basically terrible at developing and maintaining brands and universes. Again, competition might be lax, but Days of Wonder has displayed a unique gift for making customers into fans.
?It is easier to sell a cardboard edition of Ticket to Ride at 50 bucks,? Eric explains, ?than it is to sell a digital version of Ticket to Ride at 7 bucks. It?s more difficult if you want to sell lots of copies quickly, but the cardboard business is where you can achieve? successes that will last a lifetime, or several lifetimes, but you need to be willing to go slow.?
Eric explains that in its early years, Days of Wonder had a page on their site allowing people to submit designs. Several years and countless playtesting sessions later, they noticed something funny. They?d never actually accepted a single one.
It?s a sad truth echoed by the wash of mediocre board games that, long since funded, are now emerging from Kickstarter. Board games are hard, and talent is rare. ?I said screw it,? says Eric.
?The current policy we have is to tell designers I?m sorry, we?re not taking any open submissions?. But if you?re really good and you have great design, you should be able to find someone who knows us, and who is going to convince us.?
In other words, Days of Wonder?s policy is now to close and bolt the doors, and see what comes in the window. A decision that led to 2009 smash hit Small World. Never in board gaming has a game of crushing and deeply personal area control been so cute.
?and still more curiously, a decision that?s the polar opposite of Fantasy Flight, the other biggest name in board gaming. As gregarious as Days of Wonder are aloof, they?re currently possessing the licenses for Star Wars, Warhammer, Lord of the Rings, Star Wars, Lovecraft, three of their own universes and any classic system they can get their hands on, often putting out a release each week. ?They only have the licenses for a short while,? he explains, ?And they make the most of them.?
I can hear Eric?s smile down the phone as he talks about how he couldn?t possibly talk any more about them. It?s evident that he?s happy with his one game each year, and his own company?s policy of never passing 20 employees. A cool French tortoise to Fantasy Flight?s American hare.
?I saw an interesting chart of the sales of records in the US. If you look at vinyls, the sales of vinyls in 2012 were 10 times what they were in 1995, and they were 3.5 times what they were in 2003. But what?s interesting is I think we see the same thing on the board game side. The more the big companies push to an all-digital world, the more what we do stands out as special and unique, and that?s just one example.?
Days of Wonder recently announced their newest title, the Indiana Jones-flavoured Relic Runners, will be released later this year, and ? surprise! ? it looks absolutely gorgeous.
No need to put your pre-order down just yet, though. The company?s 2011 release of the underwhelming Cargo Noir proved that if they are the Porsche of game designs, they?re just as capable of releasing models. If Eric curious about what distinguishes a Days of Wonder game? Let?s hope it doesn?t become style over substance.
Source: http://www.kotaku.com.au/2013/08/the-porsche-of-the-board-game-world/
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JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Pressured by Washington, worried about its international standing and perturbed by Middle East turmoil, Israel had many reasons to return to peace talks with the Palestinians this week after a three year hiatus.
On the surface, Israelis saw little reason to jump back into negotiations. The status quo in the occupied Palestinian territories was holding and the question of the so-called peace process had largely fallen off the domestic political agenda.
But Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu may have realized he could not take the rap for cold shouldering U.S. efforts to revive the talks, and recognized that turbulent regional dynamics made it worthwhile to engage with the Palestinians once more.
"Resuming the diplomatic process at this time is important for the state of Israel both in order to try to end the conflict and given the complex reality in our region, especially the security challenges from Syria and Iran," Netanyahu told his cabinet on Sunday before it sanctioned the resumption of talks.
The last round of U.S.-brokered negotiations collapsed barely after they began in 2010 in a row over continued Jewish settlement building in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem on land the Palestinians want for their future state.
Although Netanyahu continues to reject Palestinian demands that he halt the construction, he has agreed to release 104 Arab prisoners as a goodwill gesture, drawing heavy criticism from rightist allies who say it will encourage terrorism.
The fact he made such a politically sensitive concession suggests he was put under enormous pressure by U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, who visited the region six times in just five months to try to revive the long-moribund peace process.
"No one wanted to lose the blame game, so that's why we went to Washington," said Amos Yadlin, a former Israeli military intelligence chief who now heads the Institute for National Security Studies.
The same is true for Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, and that pressure could also produce progress: "Whoever botches the Americans' plans will have a price to pay," one Israeli official told Reuters on condition of anonymity.
CHAOS
However, U.S. arm-twisting alone does not fully explain Netanyahu's decision to head back to the negotiating table. Turmoil in the region also played an important role.
In the three years since the last failed effort, the Arab world has been turned upside down by uprisings that have transformed the Middle East.
With the outcome of the rebellion still unclear, notably in neighboring Syria and Egypt, many Israeli politicians have urged Netanyahu to do nothing and wait for the storm to pass, which appeared to be his preferred strategy until now.
But Itamar Rabinovich, a former Israeli ambassador to Washington, said the prime minister could not pretend that Israel was not a part of the Middle East and had to try to bring some calm and order to the chaos.
"Middle East instability has a complex, contradictory role. It is more difficult to make territorial concessions, but on the other hand, in a region that is undergoing such significant changes, Israel wants to be a player," he said.
"To do that it has to negotiate with the Palestinians."
Since the onset of the Arab world's popular revolts in late 2010, uncertainty has become almost the only thing Israel can rely on, bringing it short-term gains and long-term concerns.
Israel signed a peace treaty with Egypt three decades ago and had maintained a stable cold war with Syria for even longer, but the turmoil has hit both those big Arab nations hard.
Although Israeli officials have kept quiet about the latest upheavals in Egypt, there is no doubt they are relieved to see the return to prominence of the army in Cairo and the downfall of Islamist President Mohamed Mursi - which in turn undermines Israel's enemy Hamas, the militant group that rules Gaza.
Likewise the civil war in Syria means Israel has been able to sit back and watch the erosion of a once powerful foe.
However, the chaos has also allowed jihadi gunmen to build a presence along two previously dormant fronts and has sowed seeds of potential trouble in Jordan, the only Arab state to have signed a peace accord with Israel besides Egypt.
Against this backdrop, Yossi Beilin, an Israeli architect of the 1993 Oslo Accords with the Palestinians, said the time was right to try to end the decades-old Palestinian conflict.
"When around us you see all these crises, we might create with the Palestinians and the Jordanians and hopefully in the future with the Egyptians a group of peaceful countries which understand the importance of peace and cooperation and have an impact on the whole region," Beilin said.
IRAN
European Union diplomats have echoed this sentiment, and the 28-nation-bloc added to the pressure on Netanyahu to return to talks by announcing this month that it would bar financial aid to Israeli groups operating in the occupied territories - putting Israel on guard that its patience was running out.
"In the past few months the price of continuing the status quo has become much clearer to Netanyahu and in his third term he may be thinking of his legacy," said the former ambassador and peace negotiator Rabinovich.
When it comes to establishing a legacy, Netanyahu's allies say his primary focus has always been tackling Iran's atomic program. As he himself told his cabinet on Sunday, worries over Iran played directly into his Palestinian decision-making.
The Israeli leader has said for years that Iran is planning to build a nuclear bomb and warned that this represents an existential threat to the Jewish state.
Despite Tehran's denials, Netanyahu believes time is running out to deal with the issue. Israeli leaders have repeatedly said Washington must take the lead in halting Iran - either through military means, economic sanctions or diplomacy.
In this context, analysts said Israel could not risk rousing Washington's ire by spurning Kerry's extraordinary efforts.
"Netanyahu has Iran on his horizon and has made a very calculated move in order to guarantee some American support on more concrete, assertive steps in the Iranian matter," said Uzi Rabi, head of the Moshe Dayan Centre for Middle East Studies.
(Additional reporting by Dan Williams and Nidal al-Mughrabi in Gaza; Editing by Crispian Balmer; Editing by Peter Graff)
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