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Listed below are some examples of the research being carried out by the nearly 600 Stony Brook faculty and students at Brookhaven Lab. If you are interested in having your research listed on our website, please contact Laura Lyons.
Steven Skiena, Dept. of Computer Science
I have had two substantive projects with BNL, and numerous other contacts. In the mid-1990's, we worked with Bill Studier and John Dunn on an effort to sequence the bacterium which causes Lyme Disease (borrelia Burgdorferi). My then-student Ting Chen (now a professor at USC) and I developed the sequence assembler program used in the project, which jump started my involvement in bioinformatics.
More recently, we have worked on an interesting metagenomics project with Niels van der Lelie. Here my then student Dimitris Papamichail (now a professor at the Univ. of Miami) and I worked to classify bacterial DNA sequences extracted from soil samples to determine changes in species distributions under high and low CO2 concentrations.
Prof. Thomas Robertazzi, Professor, Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering
For the past six years Prof. Thomas Robertazzi of Stony Brook's Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering has collaborated with Dr. Dantong Yu of BNL's Computational Science Center on scheduling algorithms and performance prediction for grid systems. Grids are distributed networks of large scale computer resources applied to large scale computational problems. Such computational resources include supercomputers, cluster computers, mass storage systems and remote experimental equipment. The computing power of grids is applied to outstanding large scale computing problems in science and end engineering. Work by Yu and Robertazzi has resulted in tractable mathematical means of scheduling and evaluating the performance of grid systems. Other work with Dantong Yu, Dimitrios Katramatos and Kunal Shroff has involved scheduling for BNL's high speed networking Terapaths project led by Dr. Yu. This latter project received a best paper award from the Internet 2009 conference.
Robert C. Liebermann, Department of Geosciences and Mineral Physics Institute
Brookhaven affiliation: National Synchrotron Light Source [NSLS]
Distinguished Service Professor and President of COMPRES [COnsortium for Materials Properties Research in Earth Sciences].
Research at BNL
A. Research in sound velocities at high pressures and temperatures
Over the past 20 years, our research group has pioneered the development of ultrasonic techniques to measure sound velocities of mantle minerals at high pressures and temperatures in multi-anvil, high-pressure devices. These experiments can now be performed at simultaneous conditions of 25 GPa [250,000 atmospheres] of pressure and 2000K of temperature.
Most of these sound velocity experiments are now conducted at the Brookhaven and Argonne National Laboratories in conjunction with synchrotron X-radiation to interrogate the structure and densities of specimens under high P & T.
These projects are conducted in collaboration with Professor Baosheng Li of the Mineral Physics Institute.
Details of these experimental techniques may be found at:
B. Role of COMPRES at the NSLS of BNL
COMPRES supports the operation of high-pressure facilities at the superconducting wiggler beamline at X17C and the ultraviolet beamline at U2A.
Details of these operations may be found at:
Miguel Garcia-Diaz, Pharmacological Sciences
Phone: (631) 444-3054
Fax: (631) 444-3218
e-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com
X-ray crystallography of protein-nucleic acid complexes.
Nucleic acids are constantly subject to endogenous and environmental insults. The resulting DNA damage may be encountered by the protein machinery of several fundamental cellular processing pathways, including replication, transcription and DNA repair. These events can potentially lead to mutagenesis, which underlies the etiology of sporadic diseases such as cancer. In addition, subtle defects in the protein machinery that synthesizes and processes nucleic acids can be inherited and are the cause of a large number of genetic pathologies with a broad spectrum of symptoms, ranging from mental retardation to light sensitivity. Our laboratory takes advantage of the NSLS protein crystallography beamlines at Brookhaven National Laboratory to determine the structure of different protein-nucleic acid complexes to understand the molecular details of different nucleic acid processing pathways. This information is then used to characterize how these pathways are affected by DNA damage and other environmental exposures, and ultimately to understand how alterations in normal nucleic acid biology can result in human disease.
Collaborative project between:
Andrew Tucci (SBU Undergraduate Student), Peter Thanos (BNL-Medical, faculty),Brenda Anderson (SBU-Psychology, faculty), John Robinson (SBU, Psychology, faculty)and Nora Volkow (BNL & NIDA, faculty)
Our Biopsychology facebook page is below:
Empirical studies on addicts and in animals suggest a dysfunction of the dopamine system. Lower levels of dopamine d2 receptors (D2R) have been proposed to increase addiction and drug abuse vulnerability. In contrast, physical exercise increasesdopamine and D2R density. The possibility that exercise upregulates the system integral in reinforcement leads us to hypothesize that exercise reduces the vulnerability to drug abuse. We have found that exercise training in male rats reduces cocaine seeking. These findings are consistent with the hypothesis that exercise, by increasing dopaminergic transmission, serves to reduce cocaine seeking and cocaine self-administration through its actions ondopaminergic transmission and D2R. We are currently conducting carefully controlled studies with sensitive behavioral and neuroimagingmeasures (in-vitro D2R autoradiography and in-vivo brain activity using microPET) in rats to evaluate whether chronic exercise can reduce the risk for drug abuse, increase D2R receptor density, and alter brain activity during cocaine exposure.
Tad Koga, Chemical and Molecular Engineering Program, Faculty
"The Use of Supercritical Carbon Dioxide for Environmentally Green Polymer Surface Processing"
My group focuses on the development of new "green" process environments for polymer surface using supercritical carbon dioxide (scCO2). At temperatures and pressures above the critical point values, one-component fluids can have densities and solvent properties approaching those of the corresponding liquid. Fluids in this regime are defined as "supercritical fluids". In particular, scCO2 is appealing because it is inexpensive, nontoxic, and environmentally benign and has an easily accessible critical temperature and pressure. The goals of our research are (i) to understand the novel phenomena (swelling, plasticization, phase separation and crystallization) induced at the polymer/scCO2 interface on the nanometer scale and (ii) to utilize the fundamental understandings for nanofabrication of functional polymer surfaces to be used as biogas membranes, solar cells, low-k films, conductive nanowires. In order to characterize the nanometer structures, my group has been integrating a variety of surface-sensitive X-ray scattering techniques at the x10A&B beamlines of NSLS. The successful achievement of the collaborative research would profoundly impact the fields of environmentally green technology for polymer surface processing. The research is currently supported by a National Science Foundation CAREER award (2009-2014).
Anna Konova
Graduate Student, Biopsychology
Department of Psychology
Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY 11794-2500
In collaboration with,
Neuropsychoimaging Group
Medical Department
Brookhaven National Laboratory
Bldg 490, Upton, NY 11793-5000
The neurpsychoimaging group at BNL conducts translational research in the study of addiction. Having access to the unlimited resources (first class scientists, facilities, technology, computer systems) at Brookhaven allows us to explore many different avenues and perspectives. So to accomplish this, we use a multi-modal approach, combining data from physiological measures such as functional magnetic resonance (fMRI), electroencephalogram recordings (EEG), positron emission tomography (PET), neuropsychological and behavioral testing, clinical interviewing, and genetic assays. The particular focus is on cocaine dependence, as it serves as one of the best models dopamine dysfunction, and consequently addiction. The goal of translational approaches in the study of psychological conditions is to extend basic scientific findings to the general understanding of the disease and development of appropriate drug and social-psychological treatments. Current/ongoing work includes research [questions] related to the following: reward processing, emotional response to salient stimuli, structural abnormalities, dopamine function, genetic contribution, co-morbidity, aggression, etc.
For more information, please visit: http://www.bnl.gov/neuropsychology/
Prasad Kerkar1, Kristine Horvat2, Keith Jones3, Devinder Mahajan4
1Graduate Student, Material Science and Engineering Department, Stony Brook University; 2Undergraduate Researcher, Chemical and Molecular Engineering, Stony Brook University; 3Environmental Sciences Department, Brookhaven National Laboratory; 4Joint Appointment, Chemical and Molecular Engineering, Stony Brook University and Energy Sciences & Technology Department, Brookhaven National Laboratory.
Imaging time-resolved methane hydrate growth in porous media using X-ray computed microtomography
Methane hydrates are clathrates in which water molecules form a cage to encapsulate methane molecules under conditions of low temperatures (< 5oC) and high pressures (> 5 MPa). Gas hydrates are known to occur worldwide in locations such as the permafrost regions of Siberia, the Mackenzie Delta, and the North Slope of Alaska though abundant but mostly dispersed hydrates are beneath the ocean floor, making these a potential source of methane to supplant our gas supply. The structural properties of methane hydrates can greatly affect the elastic properties of their host, the hydrate-bearing matrix. An understanding of the sediment-hydrate interaction is of importance to quantify changes that may accompany changes in the seafloor's elastic properties in the event of a rapid release of methane. We are developing the use of synchrotron x-ray computed microtomography (CMT) technique at NSLS / BNL in the study of gas hydrate behavior. Our recently reported study (Kerkar et al., 2009. Appl. Phy. Lett. 95 024102) was aimed at understanding a surrogate THF-Hydrate system. The individual tomogram data collected at Beamline X-2B was reconstructed to produce 2-D and 3-D images. One such 3-D image after 78 hours (FIG. 1) show relative hydrate saturation and suggests, for the first time, that the hydrates formation is patchy and follows pore-filling growth. A follow-up study of methane hydrate growth in porous media is now nearing completion (Kerkar et al, manuscript in preparation, 2009) that may help understand the implication of sudden methane release in predicting seafloor stability and impact on climate change.
Gary V. Lopez
Department of Chemistry at Stony Brook University / Department of Chemistry at BNL
Graduate Student
Advisor: Dr. Trevor Sears
Our group at Stony Brook University focuses on developing techniques that involve lasers to study molecules. These techniques are applied to prototype molecular systems in order to understand their structure and dynamics in the gas phase. Using high resolution photoelectron methods like the resonance enhanced multiphoton ionization (REMPI), we study the vibrational structure of the first excited states (S1) and cation ground state (D0) of aromatic molecules like phenylacetylene and fluorene. The slow electron velocity mapping (SEVM) technique helps us to study their photoelectron angular distributions. Theoretical methods using electronic structure and vibronic interaction programs are been developed to predict the vibrational structure of an electronic transition. We are involved in comparing our experimental spectra with those we calculated in an effort to validate our theoretical results. Our group is also working on implementing a new technology developed in 2005 by T. Hänsch, J. Hall and co-workers. Using this new technology known as the optical femtosecond frequency comb, we are trying to measure with high accuracy and precision the frequency lines of the 1.5 m bands of acetylene trying to exceed the best measurement of these lines to date which are to about 1012 accuracy. Once we have successfully characterized the 1.5 μm region of acetylene we will be able to use our technique to probe other molecules such as phenylacetylene and PbF.
Dr. Sears' Website
Dr. Johnson's Website
Nobel Prize in Physics 2005
Baosheng Li, Mineral Physics Institute, Research Professor
Research at X17B2, NSLS BNL
My research utilizes the large volume high pressure apparatus installed on this super wiggler beamline for studying structure and physical properties of solids and liquids up to 200 kbar in pressure and 2000K in temperature. X17B2 is the beamline where I led a team and pioneered the techniques for sound velocity measurements at high pressure and temperature. The most significant impact of such measurements is that we can measure the velocity of Earth minerals and compare with that of the Earth derived from Earthquake studies to constrain the mineralogical composition of the deep interior. Funding from DOE/NNSA has also enabled applications of such measurements on metals, ceramics, BMG for understanding their behavior under extreme conditions, from atomic structure to bulk properties.
Research at X17B3, X17C, U2A, NSLS BNL
Projects conducted on these beamlines involve the use of diamond anvil cell at pressures as high as those in the core of the planet Earth. Examples include probing iron and its alloys at high pressures to investigate the likelihood of minor elements in the core (Ph.D Thesis, Matthew Whitaker, 2009), discovering and exploring the structural behavior of new energy materials (thermoelectric, piezoelectric, etc.) at high pressures. The optical transparency of the diamond allows for other spectroscopic investigations in addition to X-ray, such as inferred, and Raman spectroscopes at U2A.
Details of these experimental techniques may be found at:
Andrew Tucci, Stony Brook University Psychology Major '11, BNL Medical Dept. Bldg. 490
Thanos Lab. Research Associate
Since September 2008 I have been working on the effects of exercise and addiction under Dr. Peter Thanos' mentoring at Brookhaven National Laboratory. My first completed experimented was titled "The Effects of Chronic Adolescent Forced Exercise on Cocaine Conditioned Place Preference in Male and Female Lewis Rats". This experiment lasted 16 consecutive weeks and examined how treadmill exercise will affect female and male adolescent rats' preference for cocaine. In mid October I presented this experiment as a poster at the 2009 Society for Neuroscience Conference in Chicago. My abstract was selected as a "Hot Topic" and was one of a few to be published into the media books as a lay language article. Following SFN I was invited to present at the inauguration of the new President of Stony Brook University, Dr. Stanley Samuel. I had the privilege to meet the President and present my poster and findings. I love doing addiction research at Brookhaven. In recent months exercise has been pushed to the forefront of addiction research and the work we are doing at my lab will continue to open eyes in the neuroscience and addiction research communities.
Stefan Judex, PhD, BME Department at SBU and Lisa Miller, PhD, Synchrotron Light Source at BNL
The strength of bone is a product of the quantity and quality of the tissue. In this work, we propose that the compromise in bone strength that cannot be fully explained by a decrease in bone quantity is propagated by inherent defects in the material, resulting in an increased susceptibility to fracture. Similarly, antiresorptive (e.g., bisphosphonates) and anabolic (e.g., PTH) treatments for musculoskeletal diseases may influence both the quantity and quality of the bone matrix, and thus can ultimately improve (or compromise) bone's ability to resist load, but the manner in which this is achieved remains unclear. The underlying hypothesis of this work is that subtle modulation of bone's matrix properties, as manifested in chemical composition (e.g., mineral/matrix ratio, calcium/phosphorus ratio, collagen structure, crystallinity) and/or structure will markedly influence the quality of bone, and will result in direct effects on bone structural behavior under mechanical load (e.g., bone stiffness, strength, resilience, toughness). Using a unique combination of state of the art chemical, mechanical, morphological, and histological assays at both BNL and SBU, the primary aim of this study is to identify the principal matrix and architectural factors that define bone quality. These relations will be derived from the rat skeleton defined through aging as well as in situations when the remodeling balance is altered (withdrawal of estrogen) and treated with anti-catabolic or anabolic treatments. These conditions will establish a large range of microscopic and macroscopic tissue properties which will be quantified by in situ synchrotron infrared microspectroscopy and small-angle x-ray scattering to determine chemical properties, synchrotron nano-CT and micro-CT to determine the structure, and nano-indentation and macroscopic mechanical testing regimes to determine mechanical properties. Taken together, these systematic studies present a unique opportunity to first identify and then test precise interrelationships between biochemical, mechanical, and structural factors during aging, hormonal imbalances, and anti-catabolic/anabolic treatment at different hierarchical levels. Identification of these potential chemical targets will provide critical information for improved diagnostic, prophylactic, and therapeutic means of addressing bone quality defects induced by aging, disease, and treatment.
Vasso Alexandratos (former Stony Brook graduate student) Dept. of Geosciences,
Dept. contact: Richard J. Reeder
Vasso (Bessy) Alexandratos came to Stony Brook with a passion for the environment. It turned out to be no small wonder when she decided to pursue research to identify how contaminants such as arsenic can be removed from water supplies using relatively simple and cost-effective means. It had been known that one of the common dissolved forms of arsenic, AsO43-, has an affinity for reacting with calcium carbonate, which is an abundant mineral found in limestone. What wasn't known, however, was how the arsenic reacted with calcium carbonate and whether the process could be effective in removing this contaminant from sources of drinking water. Bessy wanted to solve these problems and joined Prof. Richard Reeder's environmental geochemistry group that was taking advantage of the unique X-ray spectroscopy facilities at the National Synchrotron Light Source at Brookhaven National Laboratory. Bessy used a technique called X-ray absorption fine structure spectroscopy to identify how dissolved AsO43- reacted with calcium carbonate. She performed experiments in the geochemistry lab at Stony Brook and analyzed the reaction products at the National Synchrotron Light Source. Bessy learned that this form of arsenic sorbs strongly to the surface of the calcium carbonate in a way that effectively removes it from the water and retains it at the surface, even when the chemistry of the water changes. Bessy published her research in a leading geochemistry journal, and won praise for having one of the journal's most highly viewed papers.
Lingling Wu, Graduate Student in Applied Mathematics and Statistics
Working with Prof. Roman Samulyak, a scientist in Computational Science Center of BNL.
Our recent research project is "structure of plasma liners for plasma jets induced magneto inertial fusion", started from September 2009. We use BNL bluegene supercomputer to simulate a 3 dimensional formation evolution of plasma liners for plasma jets. These plasma jets are highly supersonic with Mach number 60. M144 uniformly distributed jets are studied, mainly focus on detached process and the oblique shock waves during merging process. Our code solve time dependent hydrodynamic Partial differential equations in parallel way with c language.
The most important result is the prediction of the average Mach number reduction and description of liner structure and properties, including density, pressure, temperature etc. We also compare the convergence by increasing mesh resolution. The
biggest parallel processes number for our research is 16384 with 3d 1024^3 grid, and the code runs smoothly. The visualization cluster of BNL bluegene also help us a lot in data analysis part.
I am happy to have this chance to show my appreciation to BNL. My advisor update some newest research information in:
Meng Li, Graduate student in Materials Science department
Working with Dr. Radoslav Adzic, a senior scientist in Chemistry Department, Brookhaven National Laboratory.
Electrocatalysts for Ethanol-Powered Fuel Cells
Nowadays human beings are facing energy crisis because we running out fossil fuels. Fuel cells could convert the chemical energy of various fuels, such as hydrogen, methanol, ethanol, etc., directly to electrical energy; and hence have been widely recognized as an excellent alternative energy source. The high cost and low efficiency of current existing electrocatalysts now have hindered commercializing fuel cells. Our group is dedicated to develop electrocatalysts for both anode reaction (including methanol and ethanol oxidation) and cathode reaction (oxygen reduction reaction) in fuel cells.
My own research is about the electrocatalysts for ethanol oxidation reaction. Ethanol is an ideal fuel for fuel cell applications, and the major hurdle is the molecule's slow, inefficient oxidation. Specifically, the suitable electrocatalyst should be able to break carbon-carbon bond in the ethanol molecule. We synthesized a ternary PtRhSnO2/C electrocatalyst by depositing platinum and rhodium nanoparticles on tindioxide nanoparticles on a high-surface-area carbon support. This electrocatalyst effectively splits the C-C bond in ethanol at room temperature in acid solutions, so facilitating its oxidation predominantly to CO2 at low potentials. The origin of the enhanced activity was identified through a combination of experimental methods, employing electrochemical techniques, in situ X-ray absorption spectroscopy, in situ infrared spectroscopy, transmission electron microscope, and density functional theory calculations.
These studies reveal that the high catalytic activity results from the synergy between all three constituents and these findings may open up new possibilities for studies of C-C bond splitting in variety of important reactions.
Minghua Zhang, Professor and Director, Institute for Terrestrial and Planetary Atmospheres, Associate Dean, School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences
Project 1 Title: Nested Modeling of Regional Climate Change under Global Warming
I am collaborating with BNL scientists Drs. Wuyin Lin and Andrew Vogelmann to study regional climate change as a result of increasing greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. Current global climate models cannot resolve or poorly represent many energetic atmospheric systems, such as convection and hurricanes, because the grid sizes are on the order of a hundred kilometers. Due to limitation of computer powers, it is still unfeasible to refine the resolutions of global climate models to several kilometers in the foreseeable future. With funding from the US Department of Energy, we are studying methods of nesting high-resolution mesoscale models inside global models, with two-way interactions, in critical regions over the globe to carry out climate change simulations. This will enable us to better represent convection and to more accurately infer characteristics of climate change that are specific to regions of interests. We use the NY BlueGene supercomputer for this research.
Project 2 Title: Study and Verification of Fast Physics in Climate Models
I am collaborating with Dr. Yangang Liu and a group of scientists at BNL, GFDL/Princeton University, JPL/Caltech, and GISS/NASA to evaluate and improve physical processes in climate models on time scales of days or shorter. These processes include cloud nucleation, particle growth through condensation and collision, radiative transfer, turbulence, cloud macrophysics, and atmospheric convective transports of moisture, heat and momentum. We use measurements from the DOE Atmospheric Radiation Measurement Program and the various NASA satellite missions to constrain our models and to find better ways to describe them in climate models.
BNL scientists: Alla Zelenyuk and Dan Imre (formerly at BNL Environmental Sciences Department, now at PNL) Stony Brook PhD students: Hyunjung Lee, EunJu (Julia) Nam, Yiping Han, Peter Imrich (sequential involvement since project start in 2002)
Stony Brook faculty: Klaus Mueller (Computer Science Department)
ClusterSculptor: Software for Expert-Steered Classification of Single Particle Mass Spectra
To take full advantage of the vast amount of highly detailed data acquired by single particle mass spectrometers it is required that the data be organized according to some rules that have the potential to be insightful. Most commonly cluster analysis methods are used to classify the individual particle mass spectra on the basis of their similarity. Cluster analysis is a powerful strategy for the exploration of high-dimensional data in the absence of a-priori hypotheses or data classification models. However, more often than not, the examination of the data clustering results reveals that many clusters contain particles of different types and that many particles of one type end up in a number of separate clusters. Our experience with cluster analysis shows that we have a vast amount of non-compiled knowledge and intuition that if brought to bear in this effort has the potential to greatly improve it. ClusterSculptor is a software package designed to provide a comprehensive and intuitive visual framework to aid scientists introduce their vast knowledge into the data classification process. ClusterSculptor offers a wide variety of tools that are necessary for a high-dimensional, expert-driven activity we call cluster sculpting. ClusterSculptor is designed to be coupled to SpectraMiner, our data mining and visualization software package. The data are first visualized with SpectraMiner and identified problems are exported to ClusterSculptor, where the user steers the reclassification and recombination of clusters of tens of thousands of particle mass spectra in real-time. The resulting sculpted clusters can be then imported back into SpectraMiner.
Related Publications:
Abhay Deshpande, Associate Professor, Dept. of Physics & Astronomy, Stony Brook University
Sr. Fellow & Dep. Group Leader (Experiments), RIKEN BNL Research Center, Brookhaven National Laboratory
Almost fifty years have passed since the discovery, that protons and neutrons, the nucleons, are made up of quarks and gluons. Yet, we understand neither the origin of their mass fully nor the constitution of their spin. Quarks contribute less than 1% of their mass, and less than a third of its spin. Scientists believe the gluons self-interactions generate the mass, but there is no intuition for the spin contribution from the quarks and gluons and their internal dynamics. A world-wide effort to understand the internal spin structure of the nucleons (i.e. to solve the Spin Puzzle/Crisis) was initiated in 1990s employing polarized high energy scattering of electrons and muon beams off stationary nucleons (polarized Deep Inelastic Scattering, pDIS). A complementary (& novel) technique of high-energy polarized proton-proton scattering using the polarized proton beams of the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) at Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) was realized in 2001.
Prof. Abhay Deshpande and his group use the polarized RHIC and the PHENIX detector (seen in the background in the picture above) at BNL to study the internal spin structure of the proton. In recent past, the group has led the measurements of the gluons contribution to the proton spin using collisions at 200 GeV center-of-mass. Recently a significant increase in the center-of-mass (500 GeV) of the RHIC was achieved to look deeper in to the proton and to measure the anti-quark & quark polarizations contribution to the nucleon spin. Novel aspects of transverse spin dynamics of the quarks discovered at RHIC recently will also be part of the spin studies in near future.
Prof. Abhay Deshpande was one of the early proposers of the future Electron Ion Collider (EIC) in which a high energy polarized electrons would collide with a high-energy polarized proton & nuclei and enable an unprecedented study of Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD) through precise investigations of role of the gluons in nucleons and nuclei. One of the two proposals of this future facility, eRHIC at BNL, utilizes the existing RHIC beams and a new polarized electron beam facility to be built next to it.


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Ryan Seacrest Is Buying Ellen Degeneres' $49 Million Estate
Seen here licking up the dollar signs that regularly blow out of Pimp Mama Kris' ass at Ellen K's Hollywood Walk of Fame ceremony last week, Ryan Seacrest is moving out of his Hobbit cottage and into a gigantic ass estate that's almost bigger than his home village of Hobbiton in the Shire. Both the Hollywood Reporter and TMZ say that Ryan is now the proud owner of Ellen Degeneres' $49 million compound. It's the estate that the Kuntrashians and American Idol bought!
TMZ is hearing that Ryan is paying only a couple million dollars below asking, but a different source tells THR that Joel McHale's littlest arch rival is paying far from asking. It doesn't matter if Ryan paid with a giant pot of gold or with an adorable leprechaun jig, he's still calling three acres in Beverly Hills "home." On the three acres is a 9,200-square-foot mansion, a 3-bedroom house, 2 guest houses and a pool that Ryan may drown in if he forgets to wear his water wings. Ellen bought the place in 2007 for $29 million and spent five years and several million dollars building the other properties on the estate. Ellen listed it a year ago for $60 million but later reduced that shit to $49 million. Real estate agent Kurt Rappaport worked out the deal for both Ellen AND Ryan, so if you're related to him now is the time to ask for a loan you won't pay back.
This is a big estate for such a tiny man boy, but Ryan needs the room! The goats he sacrifices to Lucifer to keep the Kuntrashians on top of the whore chain will stay in one house, his beards will stay in another and he and his relatives will use the third house to make the delicious Fudge Stripe cookies we all love. But seriously, screw Ryan for this. Ryan infected humanity with the oozing, pus-filled ass wart that is the Kuntrashians and this is how he's punished? With a multi-million dollar palace? I hope that every time he shuts his tiny eyelids in that place, Ray J's boomerang dick haunts his dreams. Actually, I don't think he'd mind that...
Here's a few pictures of Ryan's new leprechaun kingdom and a few more from Ellen K's Walk of Fame ceremony. It's been a long minute since I've seen Ellen K. When did she become a mash-up of every Real Housewife of Orange County?
Night Crumbs
What fuckery hath Time Magazine wrought? Yes, that's Jason Biggs, and no, I don't know why either. - SOW
NeNe Leakes goes from choking out Kim Zolciak to verbally choking out Ellen Barkin - Towleroad
I don't mind Casper Smart's sunglasses, but that's probably because I think there's something adorable about babies wearing glasses - Lainey Gossip
I do not condone hacking, but I do condone making William Levy's fuck tapes acceptable to my parts - Celebitchy
Mena Suvari's ex-husband is trying real hard to get into the Gold Digging Hall of Fame - The Superficial
Charlize Theron in InStyle - (site NSFW) Drunken Stepfather
Why did my brain have to tell my eyes that this isn't Callista Gingrich - Hollywood Tuna
And I'd still put my mouth on every single one of them - The Berry
Popping babies brought the sexy out of MiserAlba - Popoholic
Michael Ass Bender's on-screen piss stream might have gained him a fan in Kim Kardashian, but it lost him an Oscar - ICYDK
The LOOK: All of this is - OMG Blog
Freddie Prinze Jr. actually spotted out in the wild - Popsugar
PedoBear's second cousin? - Cityrag
RiRi delivers some fucked up CleoCATra glamour - Just Jared
Yoga turtle Russell Simmons defends RiRi's honor - Crunk + Disorderly
Isabel Lucas at some festival - Hollywood Rag
Katherine Heigl and her husband named their daughter Adalaide. Seriously. - I'm Not Obsessed
You have to be a new kind of dumb to bring out your cell phone in front of noted phone thief and lady beater Chris Brown - Celebslam
Open Post: Hosted By Whatever's Between This Reporter's Legs
Who doesn't fiddle with their crotch at their desk? Sometimes fiddling with your crotch is the only thing that gets you through the work day. I'm sure you're fiddling with your crotch right now. Sara Eisen of Bloomberg TV knows what we're tall talking about, but unfortunately for her the camera person didn't tell her to cease fiddling before he put crotch on live TV! A bunch of people saw London, saw France, saw whatever the hell was blocking Sara's underpants. No, seriously, what is that?
The smart and reasonable people out there will try to convince me that Sara's got a wireless mic pack or something up her skirt. But since I am neither smart nor reasonable, I cannot be convinced that Bloomberg TV knows how to party and that's really a giant black strap-on under Sara's skirt. Giuliana Rancic better start looking for a new job, because Ryan Seacrest has just found his new co-host on E! News.
Tommy Is All Natural, Thankyouverymuch
You see Tommy Girl making the rock 'n roll sign, but I see Tommy making the salad tosser sign. Well, I can't help it that I see a tiny butt crack when Tommy puts his ring and middle finger together.
To sell his new movie Cock of Ages, Tommy worked his weave and flexed his cum gutters for W Magazine (click here to see all the piping hot heterosexualness) and also gave an interview to Playboy. (When Tommy says he reads Playboy for the articles, nobody accuses of him of lie-telling.) In the interview with Playboy, Tommy talks about never tucking his face, acting the fool in interviews and sending his lawyers after gossiping bitches. Tommy actually sounds like his head is on earth with the rest of us and not floating up in Xenu's kingdom, and that tells me that Scientology's doctors must have invented a "vitamin" that temporarily sedates the crazy in a bitch. Here's a few choice quotes from Tommy's tea time with Playboy:
On how he maintains his beauty at the age of 49: "I honestly have no idea. [laughs] I work. I'm always with family. I train, go without sleep. I just go hard."
On if a plastic surgeon's scalpel has ever touched his face: "I haven't, and I never would."
On how 30-year-old Tommy is different from almost 50-year-old Tommy: "I've always had the same values. Family for me has always been important. When I shoot, everybody comes. When Kate's shooting, I'm there with her and the kids. We're always together. I'm always around my mother and sisters. I always wanted to be a father, a husband. And I've always had a work ethic. I've had paying jobs since I was about eight years old—cutting grass, raking leaves, paper routes, selling Easter cards and Christmas cards."
On how Def Leppard was amazed by his voice when he sang one of their songs for them (prepare your eyes for rolling): "Well, the lead singer, Joe Elliott, points at me and goes, 'Fuck you! Fuck you!' Then I saw big smiles on their faces, and I realized I'd gotten their stamp. It was a very cool moment. It was important they knew I was honoring their music and not making fun of them."
On jumping on Oprah's couch and spewing crazy shit about Brooke Shields' postpartum depression: "I agree with you, and I never meant it that way. When I go back and look at it, I find myself thinking, I don't feel that way. I get how it came across, but I don't feel that way, and I never have. Telling people how to live their lives? I saw how that came across and how pieces were edited."
On if he's keeping his mouth shut about Scientology: "What's interesting is, if I don't talk about my religion, if I say I'm not discussing it or different humanitarian things I'm working on, they're like, 'He's avoiding it.' If I do talk about it, it becomes, 'Oh, he's proselytizing.' Reviewing the whole thing and how things can be edited and misinterpreted, I decided, You know what? Here's the deal. I take responsibility for what happened, but everyone now knows that if I am dealing with humanitarian things, I will talk about that. When I'm promoting a film, I'm not going to get caught up in anything else, and that includes all my personal things."
On if he ever thought the couch jumping and anti-anti-depressant rantings would screw up his career: "No, I really didn't. But it was important to me to take responsibility, take a hard look and decide where I go from here. That time was interesting. It was that moment when the internet had really spun out. It was a learning experience for all of us, how these things go. All you can do is learn and say, "This is the way it's going to go from now on. Here is the line."
On why he's sued over shit written about him or his family: "They know I mean it, that if I have to, I will sue. You start with a letter saying, 'Okay, you know it's not true. Apologize.' There is a point with a lot of things when you just go, You know what? I don't want to waste my time with this. I'm busy. I'd rather spend this time with my kids and my wife, at home or on our movies, creating a life together. If you have kids, it is the most important thing to create good times.
On how he recently uploaded a screenwriting program into his Stepford Beard's hard drive: "She is an extraordinary person, and if you spent five minutes with her, you'd see it. Everything she does, she does with this beautiful creativity. When she becomes interested in something, she doesn't talk about it, she does it. One week I said to her, 'You've been up in the middle of the night. Is everything okay?' She smiled and then threw this thing on my desk and said, 'I wrote this script.' She wanted to try it, and she did. She wanted to try designing clothes, and now her line is wonderful and, to me, an example of how she just creates beautiful things in her life. She has a voice and warmth as an artist, as a mother. She's funny and charming, and when she walks into the room, I just feel better. I'm a romantic. I like doing things like creating romantic dinners, and she enjoys that. I don't know what to say—I'm just happy, and I have been since the moment I met her. What we have is very special."
Sort of kind of sane, right? That said, I don't know if I buy that the thetans on his face aren't weighed down with plastic, but then again regular facials in the Scientology men's sauna probably does wonders for the skin. And why didn't I ever notice that Tommy's tongue looks like a peen with a swollen tip?
John Doe #2 Will Go Away For $250K
As expected, John Doe #1 dropped his $2 million sexual harassment lawsuit against John Travolta after his lawyer broke up with him. John Doe #1 might file the lawsuit again if he gets another lawyer, but I'm not sure that's going to happen since he's probably too busy counting the stack of money he magically found in an E.T. duffel bag stashed in the bushes outside of the Scientology Center. Speaking of settlements, John Doe #2 isn't being shy about asking for one. John Doe #2's lawyer, the same one who dropped John Doe #1, tells Radar that his client will happily settle with John Travolta for a rock bottom price of $250,000. Just like John Doe #1, John Doe #2 is suing Travolta for $2 million. Bitch is giving Travolta a steal!
John Doe #2's lawyer Okorie Okorocha says that his client doesn't really went to relive the gross memory of being groped by Travolta in that suite in Atlanta and wants to be done with all of this:
"My client will settle for $250k to make this go away quickly and without having any further action being taken in this case. My client wants his life back and for that to happen at this point we would be willing to accept a settlement. I have been speaking with Marty Singer about establishing the ground rules for arbitration/mediation in this case. We haven't agreed on anything yet, or which private judge will hear the case. I want it to be one judge, Marty Singer would like more than one judge. These are sticking points that we can work out if this case doesn't settle. I haven't discussed any settlement figures with Marty yet but I anticipate we will be having those discussions very soon.
Look my client is a very tall man, weighs about 300 pounds and is also a personal trainer so a private judge could absolutely look at him and wonder how much in damages he really suffered. If this could settle quickly, well, obviously, that would be the best result for all parties involved."
This might make John Doe #2 look like a con artist with a shady lawyer who appreciates the art of swindling a trick, but maybe he doesn't want to sit there and go into detail about how John's anus lips kept wiggling for his finger like a worm's mouth looking for a snack. Maybe he doesn't want another set of scars on his brain. Whatever the case may be, John Travolta is probably going to come out on top after all of this. And yes, that is the first time and only time I will ever describe John Travolta as being on top.
Attention All Oompa Loompa Humpers: Linda Hogan Is Back On The Market!
The pile of ground horse meat that is the sanctity of marriage is slightly twitching with life today, because Tan Mom's complexion idol Linda Hogan has decided to slip off the engagement ring given to her by her boy toy look-alike of four years Charlie Hill. After whoring themselves out for some spotlight time and a quick check on Vh1's "Couples Therapy," the ghost of Lindsay Lohan's future looks and Nick Hogan's ex-best friend decided to stop bumping jerkyfied genitals for good. Linda's lawyer issued this statement to Fox 411's PopTarts that completely shoots down the theory that a couple that peroxides together, stays together.
"There was a lot of therapy involved, and the couple realized they needed to do their own thing. The realization came this weekend. But it was a mutual decision, and a whole new chapter for both of them."
Every chapter in Linda Hogan's life was written by Stephen King and the next one will be no exception and that's the only reason why I'm posting this shit. Linda Hogan will terrorize again! So if you're the parent of a bleached blond teenage son whose favorite meal is an overcooked Hillshire Farms kielbasa with fried hash browns on top, then immediately chain one of his arms to the water heater. If the police find out and try to arrest you for false imprisonment, just look them in the eye and simply say, "Linda Hogan is single again." The next sound you'll hear is the police handcuffing your son's other arm to the water heater. It's that serious!
Micaela Schäfer Does It Again
At the Men in Black 3 premiere in Berlin yesterday, Will Smith, Josh Brolin and Nicole ScherMINGEr all received a lesson in sophistication and style when Germany's high priestess of class Micaela Schäfer floated onto the red carpet wearing a stunning couture ensemble exclusively made by your old shitty VHS player that ate almost every tape. Micaela, who was diagnosed with elegant-itis which causes beauties to overheat if they wear actual clothes, showed us all that it doesn't take much to look like the epitome of a lady. All you need is a dog chain collar from Petco, black panties, an 80s belt from the Salvation Army, barf from a VHS tape, a pair of camera-ready nipples and zero amounts of shame.
Yes, it's true that after the premiere, janitors mistook Micaela for a shredded trash bag that was ransacked by raccoons and threw her into a dump truck, but I'm sure she looked absolutely gorgeous as she climbed out of the landfill.
Obligatory Title: Jay-Z's Got 99 Problems, But Gay Marriage Ain't One
Personally, the only rapper I want to hear from when it comes to the topic of gay marriage is Chris "Daddy Mac" Smith from Kris Kross, but in the meantime I guess we'll listen to what Jay-Z has to say about this. During a talk with CNN's Poppy Harlow (Side Note: I wish my name was Poppy Harlow.) about stuff, Jay-Z was asked if he's Yay-Z or Nay-Z for marriage being legal for everyone. Jay-Z co-signed what Obama had to say:
"I've always thought it as something that was still holding the country back. What people do in their own homes is their business and you can choose to love whoever you love. That's their business. It's no different than discriminating against blacks. It's discrimination plain and simple."
Jay-Z also said that it really doesn't matter if Obama's support costs him some votes, because it was the right thing to do as a human being.
Because I am pretty much a professional nitpicker, my irises took a few steps to the side at the word "choose" and moved all the way to the side at the word "in their own homes." This is rich coming from a multi-millionaire who owns 45 mansions across the world including an estate covered with iridescent dolphin tears on an island in Antarctica that you can only get to by hovercraft yacht. Excuse you, Jay-Z, but some people live with their parents, siblings and/or roommates and can't do their business in their own homes. Some have to do it in the dark part of an empty subway train, the last stall in the men's room of a bar, the last row in a movie theater playing LOL, between parked cars, a random apartment building room, etc... etc... So what I'm getting from this is that Jay-Z is pro gay marriage, but anti-public fucking..... and anti-homelessness. I see how it is.
And I can't wait for Newsweek to declare Jay-Z as "Gay-Z" on their cover.
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James Peterson, our new fist-pumping champion of the world! New Jersey is already hanging its head today, because it's always hungover and it's Jersey, but today it's hanging its head extra lower in shame. Because New Jersey has been shown up by a fist pumper from Ohio. OHIO!
The unemployed electrician wanted to make his own special mark on the world and so he did it by fisting the imaginary b-hole in the air for 16 hours straight. Our new fist pumping king started prostate punching his way to making his fist pumping dreams come true at a pub in Akron (DUH!) at 11am on Friday morning. James asked a professional videographer to record every fist pump he pumped while walking around the University of Akron for the next 16 hours. James pumped out his last fist pump at 3am at the same pub he started. James is so serious about his fist pumping craft that he super glued his fist together. As King Fist Pump leaned to his right side since his right bicep is now 5 pounds heavier than his left one, he bragged about his achievement to Ohio.com:
"I have set the qualifications for this record and every minute that I do this is a new record. My fist is super-glued together to ensure I maintain perfect fist formation. I used to hang light fixtures, so I am used to having my hands above my head.
James plans to send all of the evidence of his fist pumping world record to Guinness.
So James sort of looks like a humanized peen with eyes, is really serious about maintaining fist formation and can fist for hours on end without taking a break.... If it is your dream to break the world record for the most continuous John Travolta jokes made in the comment section of one blog post, now is your chance!
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Petrova - SS. Peter and Paul
Folk festival
The traditional Labin's fest celebrates the Saints Peter and Paul Day. Ever since ancient times, the longest days of the year were ideal for organizing fair (known as 'samanj' in the local dialect) where people used to sell homemade products from Labin area and other parts of Istria, and successful trade was always concluded with a toast of wine and entertainment.
This year, visitors to 'Petrova' on the main square in Old Town will enjoy the performance by a popular folk band Šćike from Kršan and a singer Serđo Valić. Grand opening and Labin Art Republic is scheduled after midnight. Homemade Istrian products will be sold on stalls along with to the presentation of Istrian olive oil.
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- Brtonigla
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- Pula
- Medulin
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- Barban
- Fažana
- Ližnjan
- Marčana
- Vodnjan
- Labin
- Rabac
- Kršan
- Raša
- Funtana
- Vrsar
- Pazin
- Buzet
- Grožnjan
- Hum
- Motovun
- Oprtalj
- Roč
- Svetvinčenat
- Višnjan
- Vižinada
- Žminj
- Rovinj
- Bale
- Kanfanar
- Poreč
- Kaštelir Labinci
- Tar
- Vabriga
Istria is indeed a feast for the eyes. Its streams flow to the sea through deep valleys and gullies which bring to mind the ancient local myths about giants.
Umag/Novigrad - where holidays go active
Umag, Buje and Novigrad create the gateway to the magic land called Istria. You can enjoy some 50 km of beautiful beaches.
Poreč - a touch of eternity
If you are looking for activity, remarkable experiences and rich cultural heritage, Poreč with its 100 years of experience in hospitality...
Vrsar / Funtana - more than a holiday
In your search of the perfect vacation, be sure to visit Vrsar and Funtana. These two small fishing settlements situated between Poreč and Lim canal
Rovinj - Fall in love all over again...
On the beautiful west coast of Istria, just underneath the Lim canal is the most romantic place in the Mediterranean!
Labin / Rabac - a touch of art
Where the green hills meet the sea, where nature and heritage become one, you will find Labin and Rabac - paradise for artists.
Central Istria - the unspoiled beauty
The dreamlike nature, almost mythical landscapes and gorgeous mediaeval towns of central Istria will awake within you the primeval and deep...
Pula / Medulin - moments in time
Welcome to the 3000 years of history! The history of Pula starts with the myth of the Argonauts and the search for the Golden Fleece.


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I LOVE HER!!! Omg I wanna snorgle that little face soooooo bad!!!
But she kinda reminds me of one of the biggest disappointments of my life: HOUSE HIPPOS
Man I want house hippos... I never got over that ad haha
How precious and adoreable!!!! I would love to have one to cuddle and I know my "boys" would love him to death. Glad to see at least this little cutie isn't extinct yet.
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Epson Home Cinema 1080 and Pro Cinema 1080 Projector Reviews: Summary, Pros, Cons
Epson Home Pro Cinema 1080
Image Quality
General Performance
Summary, Pros, Cons
Let's start with the Home Cinema 1080, since that's the only one I actually got to play with. I am impressed. Of the three 1080p LCD projectors, this is my new favorite. The Panasonic may have a pixel structure that is for all practical purposes invisible, and has some great features built in for optimizing its performance, and the Mitsubishi, does give the feeling of being slightly sharper, whether or not it resolves any more detail, plus the Mitsubishi is super quiet. The Epson is the noisiest of the three, by the way.
Still, the Home Cinema 1080 has a killer list of strengths, the most significant are:
It's brighter than the competition.
It's the most flexible (although not by much compared to the other 2 LCD models).
It's out of the box colors are pretty impressive, as is black level performance.
It's got a great warranty, and support program.
And, if that weren't enough - it costs less than any other 1080p projector at the time of this writing (4/07).
I should also mention the other two under $5000 1080p projectors. The first is the Sony Pearl - the VPL-VW50. This 3 chip LCOS (SXRD as Sony calls it), has the edge in black levels without any doubt, but is one of the least bright projectors in the group. I'd give the SonyVPL-VW50 the edge in "film-like" characteristics, and is probably the better choice for those seeking a perfect image under $5000. I found my test Sony to be pretty sharp, despite previous experiences at trade shows where I always suspected it was a bit too soft. That said, the Sony I tested, and the Epson are about even in sharpness.
The Optoma HD81, by comparison, has just dropped from about $7999 to $4299, so with discounts is still a chunk more than the Epson. The HD81 is also one of those very film like projectors, and is exceptionally strong on rich dark colors, a trait it shares with the Epson. The Epson is going to be more suitable for most folks, with it's easy room placement - the Optoma lacks lens shift, and has only a 1.2:1 zoom, so mostly it's for ceiling mount only. The outboard processor of the Optoma HD81 is a strength, in addition fo Gennum's reputation for excellent processing, the Optoma simplfies wiring with only two cables needing to run from all of your equipment to the projector (a money saver), and compared to any projector without outboard processing, an amazing amount of input switching. (3 HDMI inputs, and that's just the start). Potential Optoma buyers will figure out who they are, the Epson will have much more appeal to typical users.
I'll just say this about the Epson versus the JVC. Don't go there! The Epson is roughly half the price, and a great value. The JVC is just the best projector around (short of those really high priced 3 chip DLP 1080p projectors - and who knows... it may match them in everything but brightness). The difference in black levels, as shown, is dramatic, so the JVC is a step up. The Epson can muster out a lot more lumens in it's brightnest mode, and has some other nice touches, but I watched these two side by side for more than an hour... It's like a top college sports team, compared to a top pro team. Hey, the JVC is commanding almost twice the price. Which ever of these two you choose, you will get your money's worth!
Pro Cinema 1080 - Ok this is basically the same projector but it lives in a different world, so it's time to talk about all of that.
Epson has decided to market two lines of similar projectors. They have a good reason, but whether that matters to you or not, we shall see. The high volume market for projectors is mostly internet based, which, is strongest on projectors under $2000. On the other hand, there are literally thousands and thousands of local "install" dealers - many of them referred to as CEDIA dealers (the CEDIA organization dealers all do installation, often have a staff of people who are trained and certified, and most of them either have a professional calibrator on staff, or work closely with one. They also are generally allergic to any real discounting. As a result, local dealers tend to avoid carrying any projector that can easily be obtained online at heavy discount prices. Think I'm kidding, in most major cities (in the US) you can't even find a place to get a demo of the most popular home theater projectors from Optoma, Panasonic, etc. So here comes Epson - on he lower end, the Cinema 400, and now the Home Cinema 1080, both Ok for online and "big box" houses (like Best Buy, Circuit City, etc.)
Then there is the Pro Cinema 810 (720p resolution) and the new Pro Cinema 1080.
The first thing these two have, is longer warranties. Next, they are both ISF certified. That is, they provide all the necessary functions for a professional calibration (which by the way improves performance significantly beyond what my basic grayscale adjustments do. That also means that there are separate "Day" and Night modes (with without ambient light, so the projector can really be optimized for your exact room conditions (normal ISF calibration is done in your finished room, so wall and ceiling colors/brightness, screen surface, etc. are all part of a pro calibration, and what a difference it makes. A last thought for those of you starting to see why many buy from high quality local dealers. I've been writing reviews of home theater projectors for three years now, and am fairly competent with my testing equipment.
But, I am planning to have my projector professionally calibrated by someone who's skills are definitely a magnitude beyond mine. I know what a difference it can make.
OK, I digress (as usual). Back to the Pro Cinema 1080. The outboard processing, the ISF capabilities that the local dealers that sell it, offer, let those not afraid to spend more, take the basic engine of the Cinema 1080 to a different level of performance. The Pro Cinema 1080 calibrated by a professional may still not be able to match the black levels and shadow detail of the JVC RS1, but, it will close the gap.
Many people looking for a front projection home theater system, are looking for a quality local dealer that knows their stuff, and can provide you with everything you need, from projector to audio equipment, wiring and installation, even calibration. If you also want to get the maximum performance out of all the equipment you buy, and have a local dealer on hand, should a problem occur, then the Epson Pro Cinema 1080, starts looking very attractive, even though its about $1500 more than the Home Cinema. (officially $2000, but you get that spare lamp and a ceiling mount). And, don't forget that extra year warranty.
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By the way, some local dealers will install projectors you buy elsewhere, but, don't you worry, if they are doing your room, they will almost certainly recoup most of the savings you made shopping online. It's logical, and it's fair. Also, if you buy your projector elsewhere, and there are issues with it, the local dealer, who primarily works on an hourly basis, is going to be charging you for all the extra time, working with the defective product. When you buy the equipment directly from them, their obligation is to check everything out in advance, so if, say a projector is defective, they would be expected to replace it, without charging you for the lost time. Ultimately you make the call.
OK, time to summarize - remember, we only tested the Home version, but, from a technical standpoint, the two projectors have the same "engine", so even though they have different menus, and some other differences, from a performance standpoint they should be close to identical.
Epson Cinema 1080 Pros
- Lowest Cost 1080p projector (Home version)
- Brightest1080p projector (both versions) under $10K (so far) in brightest mode
- Very good brightness in "best mode"
- Very good black level performance
- Very good warranty (2 years) for the Home Cinema version (includes overnight replacement program
- Industry best warranty for the Pro Cinema version: 3 years with overnight replacement program
- Lots of user savable settings (both)
- Very good color out of the box (but best modes should have color temp set for 6500K, instead of defaults)
- ISF Certified, and support for ISF Day Night modes (Pro Cinema 1080 only)
- Tremendous placement flexibility (both models), including 2.1:1 zoom lens, and vertical (with lots of range) and horizontal lens shift
- Good remote control
- Very good menu system
- First affordable 1080p projector to support HDMI 1.3, which means more color depth, and more shades of colors for smooth images, noticeable in skin textures, sky color, etc.
- Support for 1080p 24fps
- Excellent price performance (Home version)
- Better than average physical appearance (generally - a good looking projector)
- 12 volt screen trigger
Epson Cinema 1080 Cons
- Noisy when lamp is in full power mode (note no noisier than a couple other "loud" 1080p projectors
- If ceiling mounted, projector must be unmounted to replace lamp
- Only one HDMI input
- Although sharpness is definitely acceptable, room for improvement compared to competition.
Epson Cinema 1080 Typical Capabilities
- Sharpness is about average for 1080p projectors
- Audible noise about average in low power lamp mode
- Good shadow detail
- Pixel structure - not as good as Panasonic PT-AE1000U or LCOS projectors (Sony and JVC), but good enough that pixels are not normally visible at normal seating distance
- Relies on dynamic iris to enhance black levels - great on really dark images, but on scenes with a mix of dark and bright areas, only slightly better than average performance (of the 1080p projectors, all of which have at least very good black levels, overall)
- Price/performance for the Pro Cinema 1080
- No light leakage issues
- Average lamp life
- Average array of inputs
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Epson Home Cinema 1080 and Pro Cinema 1080 Summary:
There is no question that the Home Cinema 1080 is an excellent value. It is not just the least expensive 1080p projector on the market (as of 4/07), but a better than average performer, despite the low, sub $3000 selling price.
The Pro Cinema 1080, although significantly more expensive, represents an equivalent value, if you are shopping for 1080p projectors from local, installation oriented home theater companies.
All in all, Epson provides a very good product, and backs both with great warranties, and, not forgetting Epson has a great reputation for supporting customers after the sale.
With the Home Cinema 1080's sub $3000 selling price, 1080p projectors have just reached a new level of affordability. Perhaps more to the point, the Epson is not just 1080p resolution, but an impressive performer as well. It will pose a challenge for many, in that those looking to spend more like $2000, will now have to think hard about whether it makes sense for them to find a way to find the extra dollars and go for a really nice 1080p projector.
The final word, is simply this. Between the three low cost LCD 1080p projectors, and taking price into consideration, I would have to pick the Epson as my first choice. I realize that the Panasonic and Mitsubishi each have some strengths that the Epson can't match, but Epson has more than enough of their own strengths to make it a great choice.
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ECHR launches new Internet site
The European Court of Human Rights has today launched its newly-designed Internet site (www.echr.coe.int). The website of the Court has been revamped in order to give users better access to a wider range of information relating to the organisation of the Court, its activities and case-law. New features include an enhanced search option, dynamic news feeds and more comprehensive information on the Court and the Registry.
The website will be regularly updated and items will be added or developed over the next few months.
Hearing concerning Serbia
The Court will be holding a hearing in the case of Vučković and Others v. Serbia. The case concerns the payment of war per diems to all reservists who served in the Yugoslav Army during the NATO's intervention in Serbia between March and June 1999.Vučković and Others v. Serbia (no. 17153/11) Country profile - Serbia
Chamber judgments
Judgment concerning Ukraine
30/04/2013In the Case Tymoshenko v. Ukraine which concerned complaints relating to the detention of the former Ukrainian Prime Minister Yuliya Tymoshenko, the Court found violations of Article 5 of the Convention and a violation of Article 18 of the Convention taken together with Article 5.
Judgment delivery - 30 April 2013
Press release (Ukrainian Version)
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Judgment concerning Russia
30/04/2013The Court found violations by Russia on account of the secret and unlawful transfer of a man to Tajikistan notwithstanding the interim measures issued by the Court and temporary asylum granted to him in Russia. The Court also considered the pattern of similar repeated incidents in the recent past and indicated a number of remedial measures to be taken for implementation of the judgment concerning notably protection against such abuses and effective investigation of every such incident.
Grand Chamber
Judgment concerning the United Kingdom
22/04/2013In the case of Animal Defenders International v. the United Kingdom, the Court found no violation of the Convention. The case concerned the complaint by a NGO that it has been denied the possibility to advertise on TV or radio.
Inadmissibility decisions
14/05/2013The Court has declared inadmissible the case of Hasan Uzun v. Turkey, for non-exhaustion of domestic remedies. It found that the Turkish Parliament had entrusted the Constitutional Court with powers that enabled it to provide, in principle, direct and speedy redress for violations of the rights and freedoms protected by the Convention.
President's news
Meeting with the European Committee of Social Rights
17/05/2013On 13 May 2013, President Spielmann participated to the 264th session of the European Committee of Social Rights (ECSR) in Strasbourg.
Speech (in French only)
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Visit by the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands
16/05/2013On 16 May 2013, Frans Timmermans, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands, visited the Court and was received by President Spielmann. Johannes Silvis, the judge elected in respect of the Netherlands and Roderick Liddell, Director of Common Services, also attended the meeting.
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Visit by the Minister of Human and Minority Rights Protection of Montenegro
14/05/2013On 14 May 2013, Suad Numanović, Minister of Human and Minority Rights Protection of Montenegro, visited the Court and was received by President Spielmann. Nebojša Vučinić, the judge elected in respect of Montenegro and Michael O'Boyle, Deputy Registrar, also attended the meeting.
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Protocol No. 15
16/05/2013On 16 May 2013, President Spielmann took part in the 123rd session of the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe in Strasbourg.
Speech (only in French)
During the session, Protocol No. 15 to the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms Protocol No. 15 to the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms has been adopted by the Committee of Ministers. It will be opened for signature by member States on 24 June 2013.
Forthcoming judgments
14 & 8 judgments
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Judgments concerning Russia
Judgment concerning Albania
Judgments concerning Germany & Ukraine
Garnaga v. Ukraine
N.K.M. v. Hungary
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2009 release. When Madlib followed J Dilla's now-classic Donuts with an instrumental concept-album of his own, a series was born. Beat Konducta, the alias he often scribbled on the beat CDs he handed to friends and potential collaborators, left the realm of the unknown and entered the record-buying public's conscious as Madlib's latest nom de plume. Beat Konducta Vol. 5-6: Dil Cosby & Dil Withers is a 42-track tribute to the late J Dilla. Madlib and J. Rocc lovingly remember their friend and reflect on his boundless influence. As was the case with Donuts and in keeping with the Beat Konducta's all-embracing musical bent, this album does not settle into one groove for too long. The result is a transfixing, sometimes jarring, and always soulful homage to the man Madlib crowned King Of The Beats.
Album Reviews:
Spin (p.81) - "Madlib has his won way of mourning, so he stocks the 42-track odyssey with swaggering soul loops, herb anthems, and Rasta poetry."
CMJ - "VOL. 5: DIL COSBY SUITE starts off with thick, syrupy soul that's markedly reverent and somber."
Pitchfork (Website) - "As an elegy, a payment of a gratefully acknowledged artistic debt and an expansion of one man's sound, the fifth and sixth volumes of Madlib's BEAT KONDUCTA series are a stirring culmination of everything Dilla did to affect Madlib as a musician."
Album Notes
Since J Dilla's DONUTS served as the inspiration for Madlib's own instrumental BEAT KONDUCTA series, it's only fitting that the Oxnard indie hip-hop hero dedicate one to his fallen friend and sometime partner. Originally released as two vinyl-only installments (DIL COSBY SUITE and DIL WITHERS SUITE), BEAT KONDUCTA VOL. 5 & 6 appears in CD form on Stones Throw. Mixed by DJ J. Rocc of the World Famous Beatjunkies, BEAT KONDUCTA VOL. 5 & 6 is a bittersweet crate-diggin' journey made up of 42 short beat snippets (never more than a minute or two) that is as much Madlib as it is Dilla.
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A tasteful selection of red and white wines for a perfect parring with your meal.
Tropical notes & flavors of peaches and pears.
Crisp acidity and long finish, with pear and toasty butterscotch oak flavors and a cream structure.
Apple, honeysuckle and vanilla flavors. This wine has a round finish that lingers nicely.
This wine is crisp and concentrated with fresh aromas and flavors of melon and citrus. Enjoy with a shellfish, seafood and spicy foods.
Pineapple, peach and mango. Crisp, well balanced style that is typical of Washington State Riesling.
Tony Terlato introduced Americans to Santa Margherita Pinot Grigio in 1979, and it quickly became one of America's favorite premium wines.
Floral and apple aromas with a hint of spice. Light and dry with refreshing citrus flavor.
Sweet aromas of pears, melon, and tropical fruits are accented with a pleasant floral note.
Flavors of pineapple and stone fruit with a hint of herbaceousness.
Rich, dark berry flavors from small grape clusters with a hint of chocolate on the finish.
Dry and medium-bodied, with cherry fruit flavor.
Black fruits, blueberry licorice with hint of vanilla and cedar.
Full cherry and blackberry flavors with a hint of oak
Dark plum flavors feature a touch of smoked meat and earth.
Cedary oak, fresh herb flavors and tart structure grip the finish.
Ripe blueberry, black cherry and plum balanced by rich creamy vanilla leading to a smooth finish.
60% Shiraz, 40% Cabernet. Fruit flavors of strawberry, raspberry, and loganberry. Rich, full-bodied flavor.
Cabernet, Merlot & Zinfandel Blend. Soft, pleasing red; ripe fruit flavors in a playful, crowd-pleasing style.
Raspberries, strawberries and flowers with a silky smooth finish, with notes of blackberry and spice. Zinfandel, Merlot and Cabernet blend makes this an outstanding fruit forward wine.
Full bodied with ripe black cherry fruit and tart, intensely rich flavor.


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The Humane Society of Cherokee County, Oklahoma (HSCC) is a non-profit 501(c) 3 organization of volunteers who are dedicated to reducing, if not eliminating, pet overpopulation, abuse and neglect within our county. We operate a no-kill shelter supported by donations, fund-raising projects, memberships and grants. We are not affiliated with, nor subsidized by, any animal welfare or animal rights organization. We do not recieve funds from any federal, state, county or city government. We are a total volunteer organization.
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Some of our many activities are rescue, shelter, foster, spay and neuter, Resale Shop, adoptions including adoptathons and transports, and public events to raise money and awareness plus online including website and Facebook.
Each year HSCC handles more than 4,000 calls and emails; cares for 150 - 175 dogs and cats at any time; adopts and transfers over 550 animals; and is responsible for altering and helping to alter some 500 rescues and owned pets.
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ILLUSTRATION for MULTIPLES IN BITS OF 8 ZINE, 2012
Inspired by the Spyro series of games, "The Treasure Hunters" was created to be a part of a zine curated (and contributed to!) by Jimmy Giegerich.
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First, Hurricane Sandy hit. Then, President Obama mentioned global warming in his acceptance speech. Now, 2012 looks likely to be the hottest year on record.
In the last three weeks, public interest in global warming has undergone a remarkable revival. Already, environmentalists are renewing calls on Obama to reject a controversial Canadian oil pipeline and to put strict greenhouse gas emission standards in place.
When it comes to proposed energy policies for the U. S. , one place the environmentalists, their political and media allies do not want you to look is Europe.
As far as wind energy tax credits, In Denmark, its heavily subsidized wind industry accounts for the public's paying astronomical electric bills - the highest in Europe. Meanwhile, green power mandates have pushed Germany's electricity prices to the second highest in Europe (32 cents per kWh, compared to an average of 10 cents in the U.S.) - putting countless jobs at risk and leaving German households staring at another big rate hike next year.
Ironically, in Europe, opposition to fracking (and nuclear power) is causing Germany and other central EU countries to build 10,600 megawatts of new coal-fired electrical power plants during the next four years.
As long as we have this far left President in office there is never going to be Bi- Partisian support for anything. This man is arrogant thinks he is god and is determined to turn this country into a socialistic society. I do not under stand why the Libs do not see this. Global warming is a bunch of crap. It is being invented to allow the likes of AL GORE to make a bunch of money. Also a sneaky way of increasing taxes. All you LIBS had better pay attention to what is going on you are being lied to. This administration are a bunch oif LIARS!


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No. 24 Clemson edges UNCG, 6-5
CLEMSON, SC – UNC Greensboro held a ninth-inning lead over No. 24 Clemson, but one out away from a Spartan victory, a wild play gave the Tigers a 6-5 win.
Unlike Tuesday's game where Clemson raced out to an 11-0 lead before UNCG rallied to put the tying run on in the ninth, Wednesday's match-up between the Spartans (8-5) and Tigers (9-4) started out in the hands of UNCG. A left field single by shortstop Matt Gaski brought catcher Adam Deleo in from second to give the Spartans a 1-0 lead.
Ricky Orton opened up the fourth inning with a home run to give UNCG a 2-0 lead, but Clemson responded with an unearned run in the bottom half of the inning.
UNCG's second home run of the game put them ahead, 4-1, in the fifth. Designated hitter Greg Feltes cranked his fourth home run of the season over the centerfield fence to score third baseman Ray Quinones.
Quinones gave the Spartans a 5-1 lead two innings later. He led off the seventh inning with a double to right center. A sacrifice bunt down the third base line by Tim Carrier put the New York native on third base. Gaski then followed with his second RBI of the game on a single through the right side to bring in Quinones and put the Spartans up, 5-1.
But Clemson rallied late. A solo home run by the Tigers' John Nestor in the bottom of the eighth inning cut the Spartan lead down to three. Another solo to lead off the ninth by Ben Paulsen cut the lead to 5-3.
Clemson then won it on a wild play. With two outs and the bases loaded, Stan Widmann smacked a two-run single to left to tie the game. As the second runner hit the plate, there was a collision and the throw in from left sailed to the backstop. That allowed Alex Lee to race home just ahead of a relay from the backstop and score all the way from first with the game-winner.
At the plate, UNCG was led by Matt Gaski, Ricky Orton, and Ray Quinones who all went 2-for-4. Gaski added two RBI, Orton a run and an RBI, and Quinones two runs. Three Clemson batters were 1-for-3.
The Tiger's Matt Zoltak (2-0) after coming to the mound in the ninth. UNCG Rob Gilliam (1-3) took the tough-luck loss.
The Spartans are back at home Saturday afternoon for the first game of a three-game series against Princeton. First pitch for game one is set for 1pm. Sunday's game will start at 1pm with a 6pm start to follow on Monday.
For more news on UNCG baseball, ticket prices, a complete season schedule, and all other Spartan athletic information log onto www.UNCGSpartans.com.
UNC Greensboro 5, No. 24 Clemson 6 (Mar 12, 2008 at Clemson,
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Pitchers: UNC Greensboro – Gibbs; Shelton (4); McCall (7);
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Clemson – Gullickson; Sarratt (5); Mitchell (7); Zoltak
Win – Matt Zoltak (2-0
Save – None
Loss – Rob Gilliam (1-3)


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Hi Cosmo, Thanks for speedy reply. I will send you a receipt in email with our schedule.
Thanks & have a great weekend
Hi Cosmo,
We have a call for on online show here at Crafthaus for work.
"Enlighten Me" http://crafthaus.ning.com/group/crafthausexhibition/forum/topics/open-call-enlighten-me
A show at Crafthaus has the potential of reaching a broad audience & all shows are online permanently.
Please feel free to pass the link to other artists they do not have to be Crafthaus members to submit & there is no fee.
Hi Cosmo,
You're welcome! It's nice to be friends on Crafthaus and I think you are very talented. Best wishes, Sandra.
Hi Cosmo,
I'm curating an online exhibition called "Piece Progressions" and would love for you to be a part of it. I think your materials and final pieces would add something really unique. You can see details of the exhibition here: http://crafthaus.ning.com/group/crafthausexhibition/forum/topics/call-for-entries-piece?xg_source=msg_mes_network
If you have any questions feel free to contact me; it would be great to have you as part of the exhibition!
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Our nuclear programmes are completely transparent. But we are ready to show greater transparency and make clear for the whole world that the steps of the Islamic Republic of Iran are completely within international frameworks. The sanctions are unfair, the Iranian people are suffering, and our (nuclear) activities are legal. These sanctions are illegal and only benefit Israel.
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