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Anthony Bourdain Talks Brooklynization, Cinespiration And Making Daring Television
Gothamist: Whose idea was it to get you and Albert Maysles together to talk? They contacted us! I was enormously flattered. I'm a huge film wonk, as is everybody on my crew, so it means a lot to us. When Albert Maysles calls up, that's the pope calling as far as we're concerned, so we're very excited that he would even know who we are, much less acknowledge us in this way. It feels good.
A lot of Maysles's most famous work—Grey Gardens especially—really captures the weirdness of the early '70s, which was around the time you started your own career cooking in New York City. How did his work have an impact on you when you were younger? Well, I come from a family where film was really big. My parents were both serious film fans, and I probably saw most of the Janus film collection by the time I was twelve. My dad would come home with a film projector—he worked at Wilby's. Treasure of Sierra Madre I must have seen that by the time I was six.
I think he couldn't bear his sons not having seen any Kubrick. He couldn't wait. He took us out to see Dr. Strangelove a little too soon after the Cuban missile crisis for my taste, and probably at a younger age than most parenting organizations would recommend.
But film was a big deal, and the names Pennebaker and Maysles were names that we heard around the house. If there was a new Maysles brothers film out my dad would be recommending it. So these were names that meant something at the time. I saw Grey Gardens, I saw Salesmen, though it's been many years. Gimme Shelter of course. Those things mattered.
What are you expecting, or hoping, the audience might take away from the conversation? Well any chance to highlight the technical aspects of how we tell stories on TV, I'm very proud of. I'm proud of the cinematographers and editors and post-production and colorists that work on the show. Our show is very different than a lot of the other travel shows for a number of reasons, and I think principally the sort of hand-crafted attention paid to things like color balances, individual editing styles, always pushing it with equipment, and sort of the language of sound of each individual episode—we talk about that a lot. We work really, really hard at it. And to be recognized for those things actually feels, in an unqualified way, good. To be recognized for that, by people who do it for a living, that's the good stuff.
Parts Unknown definitely feels like a different show from what you've done in the past. Was there ever a conscious decision between you and the production team, or with CNN, to focus a little less on food and a little bit more on the people and places themselves? I think we just felt freer to wander in any place that interested us. We go in looking at the food, but we're freer to wander away from anything resembling a format. These are personal essays.
Let's put it this way: CNN has allowed us to be smarter. To either tighten the focus on one person's story or one small area of one city or widen that focus to the whole history of a country. To be either completely food-centric like the coming Lyon show, or barely food-focused at all like the Congo episode. They made it very clear from the beginning that they were open to an hour of any story we wanted to tell, anywhere we wanted to tell them. And we felt very strongly that with CNN standing behind us, as they have solidly since the very beginning, that we had a lot to live up to. We didn't want to just turn out the same show. We've tried very hard to up our game every week.
And we've handed them some very difficult material. We never would have been able to do Libya on another network. The DRC? No way. And I think the Japan show—with all the hentai culture—that was some difficult fucking material we handed down and they didn't blink. I mean, no, they blinked. They blinked a lot. But in the end they stood by us and let us go with it.
And that makes a lot of sense. Each episode is a very direct, and I would say very focused, statement.It's the conversation we have most often when we're sitting around, me and the cinematographers and producers. We're constantly pushing each other on what's the most fucked up thing we can do. What can we do that we've never done before? We've been talking about shooting on 16 millimeter if we ever get the chance, and at some point we're looking for the opportunity to tell an entire story backwards, like Memento.
If I fall in love with a film or a director, I'm often the guy to come in and say "Look, Wong Kar-wai! We have to rip off that style, we have to get that look." It doesn't matter if only one tiny percentile of our audience has ever seen these films we're referencing. We're free to be inspired by films that we love.
You wrote after airing the Detroit episode that "One only need to look at New York's Lower East Side or Meat District to see what's possibly coming down the pike for Detroit when it inevitably 'recovers'." Do you still think that? Do you see aspects of what Detroit's going through as reminiscent of Manhattan?Well what will happen with Detroit I don't know, and how long will it take, that I also don't know. But I'm pretty sure that as it's quote-unquote rehabilitated in bits and pieces that it is more likely than not that the people who have been sticking it out there all along are not going to be living in those neighborhoods.
I mean the Lower East Side went from a drug supermarket to an expensive neighborhood. I think it's something that we always have to be wary of. It's a subject of discussion in New Orleans, for instance. The influence of money and investment and hipness and artisanal coffee bars—that means that more often than not that original residents who have been hanging on are pushed out.
Do you buy into the notion, then, that artists and loft-dwellers are going to refab parts of Detroit as a kind of cheaper Brooklyn redux? It's always part of a continuum. First come the artists, and then following the artists will be designers and the hip, wildly expensive boutiques, and then a couple of restaurants and then you've got a different neighborhood. I'm not even necessarily saying that's bad. But that's generally the way it is whether you're talking about East Berlin or the Lower East Side.
The final episode of No Reservations featured Brooklyn. Could you ever picture a Parts Unknown episode that centers on New York City? I'm looking at the Bronx now. There's been very little attention paid there. Other than Arthur Avenue there's been very little attention paid to the Bronx as a borough. Queens is already pretty well acknowledged, at least, as a foodie paradise because of all the great Chinese and Korean places. That alone is enough to make it a kind of powerhouse of gastronomy.
And Brooklyn, you know, arguably we're looking at the Brooklynization of the world at this point. Everywhere you go, whether you're in Australia or England or Paris even, they're referencing Brooklyn in some way. But the Bronx, I think that would be a really interesting challenge. A full hour in the Bronx really appeals to me.
You said last month "people who cannot afford to eat at Le Bernardin eat at Le Bernardin" and that young food lovers are saving up to eat at restaurants that are way beyond their price range. Do chefs think about this kind of younger, less reverent dining population? How is it changing the status quo? I think it's improved the status quo. Le Bernardin completely redesigned the interior of the restaurant with this new customer very much in mind, looking to make things a little more comfortable and welcoming to a new client and yet keep the old ones happy. I think this is something that, particularly on the fine dining end, people are aware of and they're grateful for it. It's sort of awesome!
There's no doubt about it that people in their 20s, people who used to spend their disposable income on cocaine or clubs or records or films or concerts, they're not doing those things as much. They're thinking about food and restaurants as an entertainment or cultural form, and I think that's great. I think that the more people that know about food, care about food, appreciate food, the better for chefs and the better for the world.
Sushi's New Vanguard
By JEFF GORDINIER
NY Times: October 29, 2013
If you're expecting all the whispery delicacy of a haiku at New York Sushi Ko on the Lower East Side, you may be a tad taken aback when John Daley grabs the blowtorch.
A lot of sushi chefs have a blowtorch. They generally use it to give the surface of a piece of fish a fast, scorched-and-liquefied sheen of extra flavor. But Mr. Daley, who has the words rice and fish tattooed on his knuckles, does something else. First he places some tuna into a wire strainer. Then he ignites the flame and keeps it relentlessly fixed on the fish until it has almost melted away.
Piscine fat drips into a plate beneath the strainer and becomes a rich, clear-as-water sauce for a bulbous mound of rice and minced tuna. And the chewy nub of fish left at the bottom of the strainer? He drops that on top like an oceanic bacon bit. "Tuna chicharrón," he likes to say.
"I told my master I was doing that and he said, 'No, you can't do that,' " the chef, 34, said from behind the counter on a recent evening. Mr. Daley, who has a cinematic ear for dialogue, wryly reminded his master that New York Sushi Ko is his restaurant, so he can do what he wants.
It's the sort of response that you might hear all over New York City. At various spots downtown, including Sushi Nakazawa and Sushi Dojo, fish-and-rice specialists in their 20s and 30s have been slipping out of the apprenticeship phase and making their mark. Their presentation may be more traditional than Mr. Daley's, but they share a desire to run sushi bars that seem more like Tokyo hangouts than Buddhist temples. Rigidity and austerity are out. Change and conviviality are in.
For the last 10 years or so, any serious discussion of sushi artistry in Manhattan has been dominated by a handful of established and expensive favorites at the top echelon, including Masa in the Time Warner Center, Sushi Yasuda on the East Side, Kurumazushi in Midtown and 15 East near Union Square, where the man whom Mr. Daley refers to as his master, Masato Shimizu, holds court. You will find partisans who love the complex flavors that elevate each bite at Sushi Seki and Ichimura at Brushstroke, and those who stay true to the old-guard citadel of Hatsuhana, and those who cherish the intimacy of spots like Jewel Bako and Ushiwakamaru.
Over the last few months, though, it has become clear that there's a new crew to consider. Most prominent among the young guns is Daisuke Nakazawa, who so far has been best known to an American audience as that guy in the documentary "Jiro Dreams of Sushi" whose tortured quest to learn how to make perfect tamagoyaki, the delicately sweet omelet that arrives toward the end of a meal at Sukiyabashi Jiro in Tokyo, pushed him to the brink of tears.
Mr. Nakazawa, a 35-year-old father of four, spent 11 years studying the art of sushi as an apprentice to Jiro Ono, the octogenarian master whom some regard as the greatest sushi craftsman alive. Mr. Nakazawa's personal style is looser than his master's, but his adherence to tradition runs deep. After more than a decade of training with Mr. Ono, Mr. Nakazawa was told he was now considered a shokunin: a craftsman skilled enough to hang out his own sushi shingle someday. "Jiro said it was the time," he said through an interpreter, on a recent afternoon downtown. "But I was not ready."
Deeply unsettled by the earthquake and tsunami that savaged Japan in 2011, Mr. Nakazawa moved his family to Seattle and got a job at Shiro's, a sushi mainstay on the Pacific Coast. That's where the New York restaurateur Alessandro Borgognone tracked him down in 2012. Mr. Borgognone and his wife watched "Jiro Dreams of Sushi" one night; mesmerized, the restaurateur, who is associated with Patricia's in the Bronx, became determined to import one of the key players from Sukiyabashi Jiro to New York City. Knowing he would never be able to entice either Mr. Ono or his son, he decided to zero in on the sweet-omelet dude.
Mr. Borgognone found Mr. Nakazawa on Facebook. He wrote a letter to the shokunin, using Google's translator to convert the words to Japanese, and sent it into the blue. Eventually the Facebook message led to an exchange, then to Mr. Nakazawa's first trip to New York and then to dreams of opening a world-class sushi mecca in the West Village.
The way the chef sees it, the success of Sushi Nakazawa depends on his being a stickler about every element of the preparation: the provenance of the seaweed, the temperature of the sea urchin, the type of rice.
But in spite of his fastidiousness, Mr. Nakazawa is no scold. Visitors to his sushi bar are met with a smile and a talk-show host's knack for one-liners. In casual conversation, he'll even admit to having an appetite for populist variations on his craft. "Oh, I like spicy tuna rolls!" he said the other day. "To eat. Never to make." Capitalizing on his approachability is part of the restaurant's mission. Dinner at Sukiyabashi Jiro in Tokyo can resemble an expensive version of speed-dating: You sit down at the counter, bites are placed in front of you in rapid succession and your long-awaited encounter with the world's most exquisite sushi comes to a close in about the same amount of time you would spend with a burrito at Chipotle.
That probably wouldn't fly with New Yorkers who are paying upward of $150 a person in exchange for a transcendent night. "You've got to bring him to a New York state of mind," Mr. Borgognone said. "It can't be a 20-minute experience. People don't want to feel like they're getting robbed."
If Sushi Nakazawa comes across as a friendlier-than-expected temple, Sushi Dojo in the East Village cultivates the spirit of an impromptu cocktail party. Born in France and raised in Florida, David Bouhadana doesn't have a background that you would normally expect from a sushi chef. "I'm a French-Moroccan Sephardic Jew," he said. About a decade ago, he showed up to work as a waiter at a sushi restaurant in Florida when the owner suddenly pointed to him and told him to start prepping meals.
"I did a terrible job that night," Mr. Bouhadana said. He scattered rice everywhere and deep-fried the shrimp without batter. The owner gave him $20 and firmly instructed him never to return. Mr. Bouhadana came back anyway (he was becoming obsessed) and wound up training for about 10 years with masters in Japan, Los Angeles and New York. He is 27.
Maybe as a pre-emptive strike against anyone who would question his youth, Mr. Bouhadana chose dojo, the Japanese word that often signifies a place of study, as the name of the restaurant that he runs as part of a trio with fellow chefs Hiromi Suzuki and Makoto Yoshizawa. But after school is more like the operative philosophy.
Sushi Dojo is the sort of place where the customary glass of beer that a diner buys for the chef can evolve into a frosty carafe of sake from another customer a few seats away. Stoic silence is not Mr. Bouhadana's style; his banter with customers is as quick as his knife work. "I guess everyone's just tired of the grumpy old chef," Mr. Bouhadana said. He added: "I always say, 'Serious sushi, but not serious people.' "
In some ways, the ones who seem the least traditional in the sushi world could be seen as the most traditional of all. "The sushi bar as we know it didn't really exist before the 1950s," said Sasha Issenberg, the author of a 2007 book "The Sushi Economy." In spite of all the "pageantry" and "hushed introspection" that we associate with it now, he said, "Sushi was a fast food in Japan in the 19th century before it was a fancy sit-down food."
At New York Sushi Ko, where the man with the "Night of the Hunter"-ish ink can be found blowtorching tuna and tenderizing octopus to a booming soundtrack of reggae and hip-hop, Mr. Daley insists that his rock 'n' roll insouciance shouldn't be interpreted as a lack of discipline. "Sushi to me is the zenith," he said. "It's pristine. It's the one punch, one kill. It's the karate of foods."
He considers himself bound to classic Japanese methods. "I'm just messing with their form," he said. "Their presentation. I'm not messing with their flavors. There's no truffle oil here."
That said, his nickname at 15 East was Punk, and there are probably good reasons for that. It's clear that when it comes to some of the fussiness that has begun to characterize the contemporary sushi bar, Mr. Daley doesn't mind firing up the blowtorch.
"We've been seeing things the same way for 200 years," he said. "I'm getting bored with it. It's 2013, man. It's New York. It's the Lower East Side."
Can a $400 Blender Change Your Life?
By: Catherine Price, Slate
When you first buy a Vitamix 5200, the so-called Ferrari of blenders, two thoughts are likely to pass through your mind. The first is "Did I really just spend more than $400 on a blender?" And the second is "This machine is going to change my life."
At least those are the thoughts I had after I bought my Vitamix at a nutrition-related conference several weeks ago. I hadn't planned to make this purchase; I'd merely followed some colleagues to the Vitamix demonstration stand, where a fast-talking young man with a headset and an impressive dexterity with Dixie cups was offering samples to an enthusiastic crowd. I watched as he liquefied a pineapple. I witnessed him puree an entire clove of garlic, unpeeled. I tried a sample of a green smoothie, then a tortilla soup, then a blended cappuccino. Before I knew what had happened, I'd taken out my credit card. The damage? $429.89—and that was with a discount.
As I crossed the exhibition hall, the Vitamix's enormous box knocking against my shins, I began to question what I'd just done.
That's when I heard a voice call out to me.
"You won't regret a penny!" the voice cried in a thick Jamaican accent. "You won't regret one cent!"
I turned to find an older woman waggling a finger at me, a huge smile on her face. This woman had no connection to the Vitamix booth; she just felt so passionately about her own machine that, upon viewing mine, she couldn't help but shout.
"I love my Vit-a-mix," she continued, enunciating each syllable, before launching into a highly complimentary review of the company's return and repair policy. "I love it so much, I would recommend it to the dead!"
It was a strong, if odd, endorsement. And as I walked away, her words ringing in my ears, my anxiety over its price quickly morphed into something else: excitement.
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The Vitamix is technically a blender. But calling it that seems like an insult: In quality and workmanship, the two just do not compare.
I can say this because in 2012, Cook's Illustrated did compare them, in a feature titled "Blenders"—an America's Test Kitchen smackdown among nine machines, including the Vitamix, the KitchenAid 5-Speed Blender, and the stealthy-sounding Ninja Professional. The testers put the blenders through round after round of milkshakes. They crushed ice. They blended margaritas. To separate the weak from the strong, they also made a month's worth of daily smoothies with what they deemed the ultimate vegetable challenge: raw kale. It was a task that "proved the downfall of a number of machines."
Cook's Illustrated explains that there are several factors that contribute to a blender's effectiveness. One, unsurprisingly, is motor strength; at 1,380 watts (about 2 horsepower), the Vitamix 5200 had more than twice the strength of its main challenger in the Cook's Illustrated roundup. Another is the shape of the jar: The Vitamix's curved bottom helps create a vortex that pulls food more efficiently through the blades. And the last factor is the blades themselves: The closer they come to the edge of the jar and the better staggered their angles, the more effective they are at catching bits of food in their orbit. (It also doesn't hurt that the 5200's blades can rotate at up to 240 mph.)
With these three factors working in its favor, the Vitamix 5200 excelled at all of the kitchen testers' tasks. Cook's Illustrated concluded that the 5200, the "darling of restaurant chefs," is a "test kitchen stalwart [that] proved that there's virtually nothing it can't handle." While "its performance comes at a steep price," the article continued, "its exceptional durability (not to mention seven-year warranty) makes it cheaper in the long run than a less expensive blender that needs continual replacing."
I was so inspired by Cook's Illustrated's praise—not to mention the 301-page recipe binder that came in the Vitamix box—that I decided to create my own version of the kale challenge. If the Vitamix really were a life-changing kitchen appliance, then how would my own life change if I spent the next five days eating only food I'd prepared in it? Would I finish the experiment as a raw foodist? Or would I stay up nights dreaming of steak? To find out, I stocked my freezer with frozen fruits and vegetables, and bought some smoothie basics: yogurt, bananas, and milk. The plan wasn't just to Vitamix. I wanted to Vitamax.
As this experiment might already make obvious, the Vitamix was a novelty to me; I'd first heard of the brand only last Thanksgiving, when a family friend told me she was designing a special place just for it in her kitchen renovation. ("You're designing your kitchen around a blender?" I'd asked. "It's not just a blender," she shot back.) Since then I'd stumbled upon a Vitamix demonstration in Whole Foods and had overheard people praising its powers at my gym. The buzz made me think the company must be relatively new.
But I've since learned that the Vitamix company actually has been around since 1921, when a man named William Grover "Papa" Barnard began a career as a traveling salesman for modern kitchen appliances. Barnard was introduced to his first blender in 1937 and—according to company lore—"immediately saw the value of blending to quickly and easily prepare healthy foods that taste delicious." A relative christened Barnard's blender line "Vitamix," based on vita, the Latin word for "life," and the family presumably never used their teeth again.
Barnard brought his blender to a mass audience in 1949 when he created one of America's first television infomercials, an odd, 25-minute demonstration that includes recipes for bread crumbs, potato pancakes, laxative spinach drinks, and a smoothie containing both raw eggs and their shells ("We'll drink it just like malted milk!" Papa exclaims). In 1969 the company launched the forefather of my 5200: the Vitamix 3600, which was souped up with enough strength to turn ice into slush, knead dough, and grind grains. The company—which is still family-owned today—continued tweaking its machinery to improve its strength and durability, and recently launched the 7500, a slightly quieter and sleeker version of the 5200 that has a list price of $529.
I understood why some might shell out extra for a quieter model when I turned my Vitamix on for the first time: It sounded like I'd started a chain saw in my kitchen. During one of my inaugural smoothie attempts, the air from the motor's fan actually began to push it across my kitchen counter.
Intimidated, I decided to start my experiment with some "easy" recipes from the Vitamix cookbook (yes, the recipes go up to "advanced"): a garden cocktail, a spinach and strawberry smoothie, a strawberry and spinach lassi, a peach and banana shake. They were indeed easy—unlike my previous blender, which required constant stopping and restarting to coax the chunks of food into the blades, the Vitamix devoured whatever I put into it. (And unlike a juicer, which extracts liquid and leaves valuable roughage behind, the Vitamix turns everything into drinkable form, including fiber.)
At lunch and dinner, I supplemented my smoothies with Vitamixed soups that I'd learned about from my machine's accompanying DVD, a half-hour guided tutorial led by a woman who welcomed me to the "family" in front of a countertop display of fresh vegetables. ("This is definitely much more than a machine," she said. "It's a complete lifestyle.") As I worked my way through tortilla soup, kale and leek, and—my favorite—broccoli and cheese, I also experimented with a Vitamix-condoned, if somewhat terrifying, shortcut: using the Vitamix to heat up soups as you make them. (Its blades rotate so quickly and produce so much friction that if you leave it running for six minutes, the liquid will get hot enough to produce steam.)
I made hummus in the Vitamix; I ground almond butter. I blended watermelon lemonade for a barbecue. I chopped vegetables (on lower speeds, the Vitamix can also work as a food processor). As I gained confidence, I began straying from the official Vitamix recipe book, tossing in any piece of partially wilted produce that happened to be in my fridge. Extra zucchini? Throw it in the Vitamix. Droopy chard? Blend away! I began to use the Vitamix almost like a garbage disposal, the main difference being that I drank what it produced.
When the Vitamix company commissioned a consulting firm to do an online market segmentation study in 2009, it found that of 393 Vitamix owners polled, each person had recommended the Vitamix to 13.4 other people. Holly Hacker, Vitamix's director of direct sales and customer experience, says this number was so high that the researchers insisted on double-checking the data. At first I doubted the number myself, but within three days of ownership I had made smoothies for my in-laws and husband, endorsed the machine to my office manager, raved about it to friends, and invited my parents over specifically for a Vitamix-themed lunch. When my mother, a former nurse, refused my blueberry-kale smoothie on the grounds that it looked like bile, I felt as if she were rejecting my new boyfriend. Eager to gain her approval, I whipped up some strawberry sorbet instead.
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In 2010 the company put together a book called Gratitude, a collection of stories and Vitamix testimonials in honor of its 90th anniversary. In addition to an odd hodgepodge of celebrity endorsements (including Jason Mraz, Gabrielle Reece, and an executive producer of the Lord of the Rings trilogy), the book is filled with touching personal stories of regular Vitamix users who claimed the machines had changed their lives.
There's the couple who met when the man invited over his co-worker—and now wife—for a pizza whose ingredients he'd prepped in his Vitamix ("Every time we see a Vitamix demonstration, Craig and I both get sentimental"), the woman who had nursed her sick hound back to health with Vitamix-blended raw chicken ("Even my dog loves Vitamix"), and the mother who claims that if her house were to catch fire, she would "grab [her] family members and [her] Vitamix on the way out." Another woman referred to her Vitamix as a "God-sent gift."
And if this just sounds like marketing fluff, I suggest doing a Twitter search for Vitamix. (Or, for that matter, scanning the official Vitamix Facebook page, which has more than 93,000 "likes.") "They are not paying me to say this, but I LOVE my Vitamix blender," tweeted one user. "Making a Vitamix smoothie from just picked berries from my garden makes me so happy, I'm dancing in the kitchen!" wrote another.
People tweet about hugging their Vitamixes. They post their favorite recipes (sample title: "Cucumber Joy"), and share photographs of bright green smoothies. And it's not just vegan, yoga-loving women, either. "I talk about my Vitamix blender the way Jay-Z talks about watches," tweeted one male Vitamix fan. Another man, after claiming to have Vitamixed his vodka, boasted that he had "just dominated a pair of bananas"—the smoothie version of pounding your chest.
Why the Vitamania? Part of people's enthusiasm likely has to do with the pleasure of using such a well-built machine. (Four million households in the United States have Vitamixes, but the company's repair department has only four employees.) Prep and cleanup are easy, and there's something satisfyingly science-project-y about trying to blend everything in sight. But perhaps the Vitamix's greatest appeal lies in its ability to perform nutritional magic. We all know we should be eating more vegetables, but we prefer to drink smoothies. The Vitamix allows us to do both: What starts as an obligation gets blended into a treat.
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On day five, I finally broke my Vitamix streak with a plate of lamb shawarma—an event that gave me a chance to reflect on what had happened to me over the previous days. The strangest thing, I decided, was not the array of frozen produce that had ended up in my usually empty freezer (from kale to mango to fire-roasted corn). It wasn't the fact that I had forced a spinach-pineapple-ginger smoothie on my brother-in-law, or that I'd bought a special pair of noise-reducing earmuffs to use while blending (a Vitamix on high is typically in the 84-decibel range, which puts it somewhere between a passing motorcycle and a loud vacuum cleaner), or that I'd proposed—in all seriousness—that my husband and I take the Vitamix with us on vacation.
The strangest thing was that by the fifth day, by which point I had consumed at least 20 Vitamixed smoothies and soups—and by which point my husbandrevealed that I'd served him so many blended liquids that he had dreamt about my Vitamix—I was not desperate for the experiment to end. Instead, I woke up feeing excited about what smoothie I would have for breakfast. Rather than feel deprived during the experiment, I felt strangely satiated; any time I got hungry, I just made myself another drink. (Perhaps because of this, I also did not lose any weight—it turns out that turning solids into liquids does not evaporate their calories.)
It's now been more than a month since that woman shouted her Vitamix endorsement to me across the exhibit hall floor; I feel so liberated from conventional food and beverage preparations that if I saw someone carrying a Vitamix box, I'd probably also feel the need to chime in. My diet of green liquids is making me feel not just healthy, but virtuous, as if reducing my food to tiny pieces somehow makes me a morally superior version of myself—and if that sounds ridiculous, I challenge you to take a sip of my ginger-spinach-pineapple concoction and tell me you haven't been changed. I recognize that I may at some point max out on Vitamix—today's frozen-kale-on-fresh-kale blend pushed the limit of what a banana can camouflage. But in the meantime, if my house catches fire, I know which appliance I'm grabbing on the way out.


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This little cigar got me into the hobby and I always have at least a few tins on hand. Some say the BL line is too strong for new smokers, but this is the standard cigar I give to friends to try. It always gets great reviews. It's got the rich, full, chocolatey flavor of its bigger siblings without the intimidating size, time commitment, and accumulating strength.Jive Turkey in Corvallis, OR June 1, 2012
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While I have had some great cigars and have a sense of what a good smoking experience should be, I am in no way one of these jargon-happy aficionados. I just like a good smoke from time to time. Ok, so my stand-by is a Sancho Panza double maduro alicante. Wanting to deviate from my routine, I picked up a Partagas Magnifico. As the price was double my usual cigar, and because the salesperson hyped it a bit, I had fairly high expectations. It lit well enough (soft flame), burned well enough, but I found the flavor a bit one-dimensional. I decided not to be critical until I finished it, after all, maybe the second half would take me to a new and completely different place. Not so much. After a slow, somewhat tedious (read: golf ball through a straw), and relatively flat smoke... it died. Just died. I was in mid smoke and suddenly I realized I was pulling on cooling ash. Then a slight crack up the side. I actually tried to relight it, which tasted terrible, ruined my whole experience, and I ended up throwing basically half a cigar (5-6" maybe) away. On my porch, with my dogs, iced black Americano in front of me, sun shining, nothing to do but enjoy this thing... and it died. Very disappointing.Dennola4 in New Orleans June 1, 2012
"Excellent!"Partagas Black Label Gigante
Not a rookie smoke, this thing packs a punch, but in a good way! Tons of flavor, gigante burns beautifully, awesome aroma. And at these prices, you are getting a real gem.MM in Chicago May 18, 2012
"wooo !! strong...but good"Partagas Black Label Clasico
" a man must know his limitations " bought in the three pack sampler its been a while sence i smoked a partagas, and i grabed the black label first....little too strong these days for me, but nice aroma, well built and great looking gar, talk about a slow burn...man you need two days to smoke this thing..but hey, great cigar for someone who likes em strongrussell in brigantine,nj January 27, 2012
"Great cigar to age in the humidor"Previous Next
I tried a new box of these and like some of the other reviewers had some too strong nicotine issues as well.Got another box as a gift (actually bartered some work for it-will work for cigars)and aged em in the humidor for a year or so.Definitely took the nicotine edge off and yeilded a superb enjoyable mellow smoke now...Troy N in Houston November 12, 2011

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GEORGE: Can I offer you a ride, ma'am?
ZOE: Thank you, but I have a strong policy against strangers chopping me up into a million pieces.
BEST OF TV (2011 EDITION) | 10 Favourite New Shows » Hart of Dixie"See the New Yorker in the Chanel jacket, that doesn't quite fit in? That's me, Dr Zoe Hart. Yesterday I took a cab to my job at one of Manhattan's best hospitals; today, I'm on a bus in the middle of nowhere."
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"Well, if you consider purgatory to be a place where neighbors take care of each other and every third Tuesday demands a parade. You can call it what you want, but I call it home."
"So I decided to move to New York, and I loved it in the city. But I woke up dreaming about the sunset, and having sand beneath my feet."
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ITT Exelis To Provide ADS-B Data Processing For Aireon
ITT Exelis has been awarded a $42 million contract from the Aireon venture to provide automatic dependent surveillance-broadcast (ADS-B) data processing and distribution for its satellite-based air traffic surveillance system. Aireon, a joint venture of Iridium Communications and Nav Canada, will provide aircraft position reports to subscribing air navigation service providers (ANSPs) using hosted ADS-B payloads on the Iridium Next constellation of satellites. ITT Exelis (here at Chalet C4) will design and build the data processing and distribution platform and will operate and maintain the system for 15 years from first launch. "We are truly excited to become a core partner in building Aireon's revolutionary air traffic management capability," said Pamela Drew, president of Exelis Information Systems. "Our commercial business model, which delivers ground-based air traffic surveillance as a service to the FAA, serves as the foundation for Aireon's innovative delivery method to ANSPs and airlines worldwide."
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John O'Shea is excited by the possibility of United becoming the first team to retain the Champions League trophy and insists the Reds are ready for the tests ahead.
United face Aalborg in Denmark tonight looking for a first win of this season's European campaign following the goalless draw at home to Villarreal two weeks ago.
When asked at Monday's pre-match press conference what it would mean to the club to repeat the success of Moscow, O'Shea said: "It'd be very special. It's a major challenge but facing up to that and responding is what this club is all about.
"As the manager always says, if we're still in the competition after the group stages, that's when it really kicks in and when we feel we're in with a great chance. If you're playing well and get luck at the right time, it's yours for the taking and we have to be confident with the squad we have."
While some have tagged Aalborg as minnows and expect United to win comfortably, O'Shea is wary of complacency, especially after the Danes' opening-game draw at Celtic.
"The result they got against Celtic was a real eye-opener for us," the Irishman added. "We saw how competitive and compact they were so we're going to have to use our experience in keeping the ball away from home, show some composure and try to quieten down the crowd, because it'll be a great atmosphere."


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Ka-Ching: Making Money Online
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What's that? You don't want your children growing up with images of violence on television? Are these the same children who are taught to duck and cover if firefights occur outside their schools? Because I am pretty sure that if those kids end up with a slightly warped world view it will not be the fault of a video game or fake violence in their media. It will be the fault of the people who couldn't control the violence that was plaguing the city with REAL violence and REAL death.
Once upon a time there was a console known as the 'N64'. This system was one of the most powerful of its time, named for its 64-bit CPU. This allowed the creation of three dimensional games. Many legendary franchises made the leap to 3D. Mario led the charge with Mario 64, a wildly successful game that many others after tried to emulate. Then in 1999, a new game came out. The Legend of Zelda made the leap to the new dimension, no longer content with the top-down perspective of its older games. This new game featured a huge world, fantastical enemies, a relatively gripping story, a targeting mechanic (which was a huge innovation for the time), clever puzzles, and also tons of hidden secrets.
Blendo Games released a little gem towards the beginning of 2010. This gem was called Flotilla and featured space pirate chickens, bounty hunting rhinos, and smuggler kittens. The premise is simple: you are a space captain and have a terminal illness that limits your life to the next few months. Of course, the only logical thing to do in that situation is to go on a grand space adventure and become a tactical master of space combat. At the outset you have only two simple ships. But as the adventure progresses, you will most likely end up with others: beam frigates, destroyers, carriers, etc.
If you haven't heard 'Mario Kart Love Song' by the amazingly talented Sam Hart, you will be kicking yourself for not hearing it sooner. It is a love song that uses different Mario Kart scenarios as illustrations of the singer's love. It's quirky and fun....So, here it is for you to enjoy!
As a young lad I got pooped on by a bird, kicked some chickens, found a magic music box, and watched my sister die and got shot out of a window. After being nursed to health by a creepy old woman and growing up, I embarked on a journey of revenge with my faithful dog that I had saved as a child. I quested to the ends of the earth and back, bringing good and peace to all (except for the occasional 'accidents' involving the really annoying citizens). Eventually meeting other heroes like myself, we banded together and prevented Armaggedon (see below).
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Video Games: The Invisible Art Form
Game over. This is the message that millions upon millions of people across the globe are familiar with. However, the source of this widely known phrase is often looked upon with scorn. This social stigma is very widespread and almost completely unaddressed. This is due to the confusion surrounding the subject of video games as an art form. Many people in our society view gaming as nothing more than an entertaining, but ultimately worthless, diversion. However, the case can be made that not only can video games be art, but that they can have meaningful importance and thus be worthwhile. This is supported once you strip away the social stereotype of the common video game player, examine the history of the arts, and look into the definitions of art; also known as art theories. Those who are negatively disposed towards the position of video games as art need to go out and play a video game or not be so quick to dismiss video games as wastes of time and cheap thrills. This is important because the video game industry is growing in popularity and gaining acceptance in our culture. Along with that newfound popularity, there comes greater impact in our culture.


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Hardware Efficient Mean Shift Clustering Algorithm Implementation on FPGA
It is terribly essential to perform image process, as a result of it provides very important steps for various visual perception and trailing applications. Image segmentation victimization mean shift clump is most generally recognized together of the foremost grid computing task in image process and principally suffers from poor quantifiable...
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Emerging Trends in Embedded Processors
In this paper, the authors provide a brief introduction to embedded systems, including their main components and application areas. An embedded processors is simply a processors that has been \"Embedded\" into a device. Embedded systems are important part of human life. For illustration, one cannot visualize life without mobile phones...
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Novel Architecture of 17 Bit Address RISC CPU with Pipelining Technique Using Xilinx in VLSI Technology
In this paper, the authors describe the design of a 17 bit 4 stage pipelined Reduced Instruction Set Computer (RISC) processor using Verilog HDL in Xilinx. The processor implements the Harvard memory architecture, so the instruction and data memory spaces are both physically and logically separate. There is 5 bit...
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Specialized Hardware Architecture for Smartphones
The processor architecture of conventional processor is not suitable for Smartphone as conventional processor consumes very high energy. The authors need some specialized processor architecture to work with energy starved \"Smartphones\". Smartphone's provides them the capability of a typical computer with absolute mobility and small form factor. But the hardware,...
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Smartphone's Hardware Architectures and Their Issues
A Smartphone is a mobile phone built on a mobile computing platform, with more advanced computing ability and connectivity than a feature phone. The initial Smartphone were devices which mainly combined the functions of a Personal Digital Assistant (PDA) and a mobile phone or a camera phone. Today's models also...
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The Design and Implementation of Convolution into FPGA
The authors present original approach to the design and implementation of the convolution in this paper. This paper presents a direct method of reducing convolution processing time using hardware computing and implementations of discrete linear convolution of two finite length sequences (NXN). This implementation method is realized by simplifying the...
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A Survey of Benchmarking Techniques for Network Performance
Ethernet implemented on PCI is now the dominant LAN technology in the world. Which is used for communication between computers, networks and industrial applications etc., the protocol is implemented on hardware platforms, operating systems and Ethernet cable. The benchmark testing comprises nodes and data sources, for data exchange among nodes,...
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Design and FPGA Implementation of 100Gbit/s Scrambler Architectures for OTN Protocol
In this paper, the authors describe design and FPGA (Field Programmable Gate Array) implementation of two scrambler architectures, with applications in 100Gbit/s Optical Transport Network (OTN) systems. And comparing these two scrambler architectures using some parameters like resource utilization and performance. The scrambler architectures are modeled using Verilog HDL to...
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Design of Radio-Channel Quality Based Routing Protocol for Multi-hop Mobile Ad-hoc Networks Required
Mobile ad-hoc network is the gathering of mobile nodes that interact with other node without any pre installed infrastructure or integrated control system. A mobile node can work as host as well as router but due to dynamic nature of nodes, routing is very laborious. But now-a-days due to MANET's...
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Implementation of BCH Code (n, k) Encoder and Decoder for Multiple Error Correction Control
In recent years, there has been an increasing demand for digital transmission and storage systems. This demand has been accelerated by the rapid development and availability of VLSI technology and digital processing. It is frequently the case that a digital system must be fully reliable, as a single error may...
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Design and Implementation of an On-chip Multistage Network Topology for System On-Chip
In this paper the authors present the silicon-proven design of a novel on-chip network to support guaranteed traffic permutation in multiprocessor system-on-chip applications. The proposed network employs a pipelined circuit-switching approach combined with a dynamic path-setup scheme under a multistage network topology. The dynamic path-setup scheme enables runtime path arrangement...
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Design and implementation of IP Core Based Architecture of Telecommand System on chip (SoC) on FPGA
The emerging developments in semiconductor technology have made possible to design entire system onto a single chip, commonly known as System-on-Chip (SoC). As the complexity of the remotely located physical devices increases, the requirement for a greater telecommanding capability and efficiency arises. This is achieved by embedding pre-designed functions into...
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A New Way to Convert Analog to Digital and Digital to Analog Data Using Successive Approximation
All the electronic and telecommunication channels use the analog to digital conversion and digital to analog conversion. There is no device existing or existing device may not be able to make the conversion properly or smoothly or correctly or fast. There is also no strategy exist to convert analog to...
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Uncover Cache Password Recovery by using Software Tools
Uncover cache password recovery concept is based on phishing technique. This paper is based on the people thoughts & literature survey. Phishing is the act of attempting to acquire information such as user names, passwords, & credit card details. It is basically carried out by email spoofing or instant messaging....
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Real-Time Implementation of the Pixel Purity Index Algorithm for Endmember Identification on GPUs
Spectral unmixing amounts to automatically finding the signatures of pure spectral components (called endmembers in the hyperspectral imaging literature) and their associated abundance fractions in each pixel of the hyperspectral image. Many algorithms have been proposed to automatically find spectral endmembers in hyperspectral data sets. Perhaps one of the most...
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A New Digital Repository for Hyperspectral Imagery With Unmixing-Based Retrieval Functionality Implemented on GPUs
Over the last few years, hyperspectral image data have been collected for a large number of locations over the world, using a variety of instruments for the earth observation. In addition, several new hyperspectral missions will become operational in the near future. Despite the increasing availability and large volume of...
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Estimation and Reduction of Delay in Deep Submicron FPGA using LUT
With the advancement of future technologies, there is a need of high speed or high performance logic style with low cost. FPGA has the advantage of low cost but need some improvements in the performance in terms of speed. This paper is to propose a high speed deep submicron FPGA...
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A Novel Infrared Controlled Home Energy Management System using ZigBee Technology
In this paper the authors describes more capable home energy management system to reduce power consumption in home area. They consider the room easily controllable with an IR remote control of a home device. The room has automatic standby power cut-off outlets, a light, and a Zigbee hub. The Zigbee...
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GPPE: A GPU-Based Parallel Processing Environment for Large Scale Concurrent Data Streams
With extensive use of wireless sensor network is drawing increasing attention to the research on data-driven processing but it is a challenge to construct a system of concurrent processing for Large-Scale Data Streams (LCDS), a typical model of data-driven process. As Graphic Processing Unit (GPU) has good characteristics of SPMD...
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The Design of Wireless Sensor Network Gateway based on ZigBee and GPRS
In this paper, the authors propose a design of wireless sensor network gateways based on ARM to solve the poor performance of the network, and low efficiency of communication, which is caused by the poor computing capacity and limited bandwidth in Wireless Sensor Network (WSN). The paper introduces the composition...
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Performance Evaluation of Fast Smith-Waterman Algorithm for Sequence Database Searches Using CUDA GPU-Based Parallel Computing
In bioinformatics, one of the gold-standard algorithms to compute the optimal similarity score between sequences in a sequence database searches is Smith-Waterman algorithm that uses dynamic programming. This algorithm has a quadratic time complexity which requires a long computation time for large-sized data. In this issue, parallel computing is essential...
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Design and Static Analysis of Micro Hydro Kaplan Turbine Blade
Vital efforts are needed all over the world to develop micro hydro kaplan turbine used to generate electricity for domestic purpose. Due to increase of electricity tariff in last few years small hydro turbine plants become effective. Since the runner of a micro turbine plant is quite small, it has...
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ARM Based Smart Power Saving System for Home Automation
Intrinsically in home and office appliances like light and fan are controlled manually, which leads to power wastage. Even though there is no usage then also left ON and even when the appliances are in use their operation is not controlled by environmental conditions like temperature variations and daylight. By...
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Design And Implementation Of A Microcontroller-Based Keycard
The advent of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) has improved organizations' approach to achieving security. In this paper, a microcontroller-based security door system is proposed to automate and computerize keycard for access control in both private and public offices in an organization. The system is designed to serve the purpose...
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Industrial Wireless Monitoring and Control Using Zig-Bee Technology
In this paper the authors provide real time industrial monitoring and control system using zig-bee wireless technology. The motivation of real time monitoring and control is to monitor the environment parameter like temperature, gas leakage and pressure. The related sensor sense environment parameter and transmit parameter to monitoring room using...
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Parallel AES Encryption with Modified Mix-columns For Many Core Processor Arrays
AES is an encryption algorithm which can be easily implemented on fine grain many core systems. It is a symmetric algorithm and takes a 128 bit data block as input and performs four rounds of transformations to generate output cipher-text. The asynchronous array of simple processors is an example of...
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16 Bit Carry Select Adder with Low Power and Area
Carry select adder is a fast adder, which uses multiple narrow adders and results fast wide adders. Carry select adders have great scope by reducing area, power consumption and delay. The simple and efficient gate level modification helps to reduce the area and power of CSLA. In this paper the...
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A Study on Causes and Effects of Link Failures in TCP/IP Network
In recent years the Internet has been transformed from a special purpose network to a ubiquitous platform for a wide range of everyday communication services. It is observed that link failures occur as part of everyday operation, and the majority of them are short-lived (less than 10 minutes). This paper...
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High Performance Computing With Clouds
Many computational problems in science and engineering require the most powerful computers available today. The widespread deployment of multicore and many core architectures has highlighted the need to exploit parallel computing techniques. Research in High Performance Computing (HPC) spans algorithms, software, tools and applications that exploit modern HPC platforms ranging...
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Cloud Computing and Mobile Computing Concept: A Review
Mobile devices are becoming the universal interface to online services and cloud computing applications. Since mobile phones have limited computing power and battery life, there is a potential to migrate computation intensive application components to external computing resources. By using the cloud computing, the processing power of any devices can...
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Implementing Parameterized Dynamic Load Balancing Algorithm Using CPU and Memory
In today's world, more or less, every activity belongs to internet. The increase of e-commerce has leads many businesses to carry out the most of their day-to-day business online transaction on data. As a result of the popularity of the web, providers of web sites and storage space providers want...
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A Single-Phase Ac-Dc Converter with Improved Efficiency Using Atmega8 Microcontroller
In this paper the authors proposed an AC-DC semi-bridgeless boost converter with 180 degree phase shift and less number of switches. The simplified current sensing method is applied in the converter to predict the inductor. The proposed converter has the advantageous features such as high efficiency at light loads and...
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K-Means on GPU: A Review
Graphics Processors Units (GPUs) have developed very rapidly in recent years. K-means is the most popular clustering algorithm in data mining. The size of various data sets has increased tremendously day by day. The general - purpose applications are implemented on GPU using Compute Unified Device Architecture (CUDA). Cost effectiveness...
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Design of an Application Specific Microcontroller
In embedded system design, there are four prime factors that determines the performance and quality of any embedded system i.e. cost, size, speed and power consumption. This paper is concerned with the designing of an application specific microcontroller that can be implemented on any FPGA. A SuC is a collection...
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USB Driver Embedded Controller Using Embedded C
USB driver controller stands for USB host. Function of host is to identify USB client. USB O-T-G (ON-THE-GO) allows two USB devices to talk each other without requiring services of PC's. All the same OTG appears to be a type of network which interconnected nodes share resources amongst each other...
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Low Power Magnitude Comparator Circuit Design
Now-a-days, low power design has become a critical need of technologies due to high demand of portable devices. The magnitude comparator is one of the fundamental arithmetic components of digital system with many applications such as: Digital Signal Processors (DSP) for data processing, encryption devices and microprocessor for decoding instruction....
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GPU Implementation of Parallel Support Vector Machine Algorithm with Applications to Intruder Detection
The network anomaly detection technology based on Support Vector Machine (SVM) can efficiently detect unknown attacks or variants of known attacks; however, it cannot be used for detection of large-scale intrusion scenarios due to the demand of computational time. The Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) has the characteristics of multi-threads and...
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Optimizing Data Distribution for Loops on Embedded Multicore with Scratch-Pad Memory
Software-controlled Scratch-Pad Memory (SPM) is a desirable candidate for on-chip memory units in embedded multi-core systems due to its advantages of small die area and low power consumption. In particular, data placement on SPMs can be explicitly controlled by software. Therefore, the technique of data distribution on SPMs for multi-core...
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Modified Microstrip Antenna with Defected Ground
In this paper a novel rectangular microstrip antenna is presented. Proposed design is employing a modified structure of microstrip antenna with Defected Ground Structure (DGS) to perform over a large return loss. In this paper, a new technique is introduced to provide 46dB return loss with satisfactory gain, directivity and...
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Design of Data Acquisition System for a Base Transceiver System Room Using ARM Processor
In this paper the authors design a system for reducing the wastage of electricity in BTS room and also to handle the scarcity of electricity which causing serious dislocation in all spheres of life. Here they are using a free cooling unit which Provides a ventilation system and its main...
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Analyzing Schedulability of Energy-oriented Distributed Real-time Embedded Software
As computer systems become increasingly inter-networked, most of critical systems are Distributed Real-time Embedded (DRE) system. A challenging problem faced by researchers and developers of DRE system is devising and implementing an effective method that can analyze requirements in varying operational conditions. In this paper, the authors analyze the requirements...
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Automatic Driving System Based on Embedded Microcontroller Using Human Skill Models
In the previous work, the authors proposed an efficient method to abstract human skill based on HHARX model, and successfully applied the obtained human skill models in an automatic driving system of a radio-controlled vehicle based on PC. This paper proposes a method to reconstruct the driving system based on...
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An Efficient Buffer Scheme for Flash-based Databases
Most embedded database systems are built on a two-level memory hierarchy, a RAM buffer on top of flash memory. Both kinds of memories have limited capacity, thus, how to efficiently utilize them is critical for embedded systems with resource restrictions. Different from magnetic hard disk, flash memory has speed asymmetry...
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Design of LED Display Control System Based on AT89C52 Single Chip Microcomputer
This paper introduces display design process about hardware and software based on AT89C52 single chip microcomputer. The authors use a simple external circuit to control the display screen, which size is 32?192. The display screen also can display the size of the six 32?32 dot matrix Chinese characters by a...
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Bezel Swipe: Conflict-Free Scrolling and Multiple Selection on Mobile Touch Screen Devices
Zooming user interfaces are increasingly popular on mobile devices with touch screens. Swiping and pinching finger gestures anywhere on the screen manipulate the displayed portion of a page, and taps open objects within the page. This makes navigation easy but limits other manipulations of objects that would be supported naturally...
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Avoiding the Top 5 Vulnerability Management Mistakes
This guide will outline the top five mistakes around vulnerability management and how to avoid them to protect critical IT assets and improve your security posture, while reducing costs.
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Diagnosis Support of Embedded Systems Based on Virtualization
In this paper, a runtime diagnosis infrastructure is presented for embedded systems. Different from existing methods of tracing system logs offline, the research focuses on analyzing system kernel data structures from runtime memory against predefined constraints periodically. The prototype system is developed based on a system virtualization layer, above on...
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How do I... Hunt down hard disk resource hogs?
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Employing Wavelength Diversity to Improve SOA Gain Uniformity
In this paper, the authors propose a wavelength diversity technique for the Semiconductor Optical Amplifier (SOA) to improve the gain uniformity for ultra-high speed optical routers. In such routers, fast SOA gain recovery is required to ensure the minimum gain standard deviation and thus leading to reduction in the system...
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The Effect of the Input Energy on the SOA Gain With Non-Uniform Biasing
This paper investigates the effect of input optical pulse energy on the total gain of the Semiconductor Optical Amplifier (SOA) injected with a non-uniform bias current. For ultra-high data rate applications it is essential that the SOA has a fast gain recovery response, thus resulting in maximum SOA gain and...
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Save Green and Go Green With Thin Clients
During these tough economic times, companies are looking for ways to save. This and the corporate push for greener technology have influenced the surge in thin client deployment. This paper explains further how cost savings can be found by replacing PCs with thin clients and how this technology helps companies...
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Execution Times and Execution Jitter Analysis of Real-Time Tasks Under Fixed-Priority Pre-Emptive Scheduling
In this paper, the authors present worst-case and best-case execution times and (absolute) execution jitter analysis of independent, periodically activated, hard real-time tasks that are executed on a single processor under Fixed-Priority Pre-emptive Scheduling (FPPS), arbitrary phasing, (absolute) activation jitter, and deadlines at most equal to (worst-case) periods minus activation...
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Realtime & Embedded System Testing for Biomedical Applications
With realtime and embedded systems the authors propose a software testing approach to build a testing architecture for biomedical applications, it can check the reliability based on the failure data observed during software testing and can be applied to make the use of test task more flexible. The reliability of...
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The Study of Mathematical Expression Recognition and the Embedded System Design
Mathematical expression recognition is an important problem about pattern recognition, because mathematical expression is an essential part of scientific literature. This paper focused on two aspects, first of all, About the recognition of on-line handwritten mathematical expressions, this paper elaborates the structural analysis strategy from the perspective of the general...
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A Novel Operating System on Chip With Information Security Support for Embedded System
System-On-Chip (SOC) has provided more powerful functions for embedded systems. ScratchPad Memory (SPM), which is software-controlled on-chip memory, is used in embedded systems to reduce the speed gap between the processors and the memory and the power consumption of memory. ChipOS, a novel operating system on chip with information security...
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Design and Program Multi-processor Platform for High-performance Embedded Processing
Modern embedded markets call for high density computing ability, making it is difficult to use just one microprocessor to meet function requirements of high-performance embedded systems. Multiple processors, including general-purpose embedded microprocessors, Digital Signal Processors (DSPs), ASICs and FPGA hardware accelerators, are often used in these embedded systems. Not all...
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Scheduling Real-Time Embedded Systems Based on TCPNIA
TCPNIA (Timed Colored Petri Nets with Inhibitor Arcs, TCPNIA) is a model for specifying real-time embedded systems. It integrates features of colored Petri nets, timed Petri nets and inhibitor arcs. The methods for modeling modules of systems using TCPNIA are proposed. A depth-first scheduling algorithm for TCPNIA is proposed. The...
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A Method to Analyze Energy Consumption of Distributed Real-Time Embedded Software
In this paper, the authors analyze the requirements of DRE software and construct the corresponding energy consumption model, which is divided into fork module and leaf module based on its characteristics, and an energy consumption schema with time constrains is proposed for DRE software. The concept of critical task is...
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An Efficient Adiabatic Circuit Design Approach for Low Power Applications
An alternative and efficient design for static adiabatic logic gates based on the GFCAL adiabatic family is proposed. The GFCAL circuit proposed earlier had made use of diodes for controlling the charging or discharging of the output node. A method is proposed to replace the diodes and thus make the...
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The IP Soft-Core Design pf ADC and PLD Verification
Analog to Digital Converters (ADC) are important components of the Input /Output system in a Large-Scale Integrated Circuit, And the applied value is very high. Such as wireless communications, medical imaging, portable test equipment, video equipment, radar and guide, portable instrumentation, etc. In this paper, by researching and explorating the...
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Dodge the challenges of a dual-head display setup with Fedora 10
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Manipulate monitor displays easily with the xrandr extension
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Send mail with eSMTP for a simple, single-user system
Programs like Sendmail or Postfix work great for multi-user systems or servers, but this setup may be more complex than you need for a single-user desktop system. Vincent Danen introduces you to eSMTP, which is a more lightweight mail solution, but that also allows per-user configuration files, making it useful...
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Set up Dropbox on a GUI-less Linux server
Vincent Danen simplifies the steps to setting up Dropbox to work even with a GUI-less Linux computer. Dropbox allows you to synchronize files across multiple machines.
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Advanced List Scheduling Heuristic for Task Scheduling With Communication Contention for Parallel Embedded Systems
Modern embedded systems tend to use multiple cores or processors for processing parallel applications. This paper indeed aims at task scheduling with communication contention for parallel embedded systems and proposes three advanced techniques to improve the list scheduling heuristic. Five groups of node levels (two existing groups and three new...
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Battery and Power Consumption of Pocket PCs
Due to the increased functionality in today's portable devices, battery life and energy consumption continue to be a major concern for both designers and users. Unfortunately battery technology is not keeping pace with the energy requirements of these devices and therefore energy-efficient hardware design techniques, software optimization, energy management, and...
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Fault and Error Containment of Gateways in Distributed Real-Time Systems
The composition of large embedded computer systems out of heterogenous clusters requires gateways that resolve property mismatches between networks with different communication protocols and diverse computational models. At the same time, fault and error containment mechanisms are needed in order to prevent common mode failures that could be induced by...
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A Flexible and Parameterized Architecture for Multicore Microcontroller
This paper presents the concept and preliminary tests in FPGA of a specific architecture for a flexible multicore microcontroller. It is aimed to intermediate complexity embedded applications. A previous exact characterize of the microcontroller model and its target applications is a costly-time task, and it depends mostly on experience of...
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How do I check how different fonts and styles look without recoding?
Choosing the proper font and font style for you Web site can make or break a site's over-all design. Tweaking fonts can take some time unless you employ an amazingly helpful tool like FontFriend. This download is also available as an entry in the TechRepublic Microsoft Windows Blog.
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How do I use Prey to help recover a stolen laptop?
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How do I install extensions in Open Office 3.1?
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Edison provides a simple means of controlling and monitoring the energy used by your personal computer. Jack Wallen explains how to use it.
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How do I use Zback as an easy portable backup system?
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Published by Singing Dragon
Part of the Discovering Holistic Health series
Paperback: £9.99 / $15.95
2013, 197mm x 130mm / 7.75in x 5in, 128pp
Reiki is an ancient Japanese healing system based on channelling spiritual energy through the hands. Taught through initiation, it is extremely effective for treating many health and emotional problems, and brings a profound sense of relaxation and peace.
This concise introduction covers the history and spiritual principles of Reiki, how it is taught and practiced and what to expect from a Reiki treatment. The author explains how Reiki can be used in healing in everyday life and how to find a Reiki teacher. Interesting and informative case vignettes are included throughout.
Written in an engaging style, this book is ideal for anyone considering Reiki treatment, or simply interested in finding out more about this healing system. Students and practitioners of Reiki will also find it to be a useful reference, and a perfect introduction to recommend to clients.
This is a Singing Dragon title.
Find out more about Singing Dragon.
Everyday Qigong Practice
Richard Bertschinger
Managing Depression with Qigong
Frances Gaik
Ba Duan Jin: Eight-Section Qigong Exercises
Compiled by The Chinese Health Qigong Association
A Step-by-Step ABA Curriculum for Young Learners with Autism Spectrum Disorders (Age 3-10)
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okay i updated the video alot better has me talking and more detail then the lastone i did
just download and run and as the title says its for diff sounds for contacts and unknown-pri callers profile
download links below
if this was help in anyway please comment and let me know, also if u have any ? just ask me
well i think the layout should be changed and i did a layout for it should look good and fit nice
click image below to see it/download and preview of what it looks like below
hopefully they switch it cause would look better
NEW - just a white background
download/save link - http://fc05.deviantart.com/fs44/f/20...cityhacker.png
Updated 05-21-2009 at 09:59 PM by 461009
well here is a updated video its better and has me talking to u can understand better
here is the post with all the symbols
here is the video just download and run it
Also if u email this email email@example.com from your phone the symbols will be sent to your phone
Updated 06-17-2009 at 08:05 PM by 461009
Here Is My Review/How To Use The Program
dont mind my voice i have a speech problem and i only did the parts of the program that people would use cause the other stuff does not really matter, as it says in the video also i will be doing a nice text version of this
Updated 05-19-2009 at 05:42 PM by 461009
well that app there is pretty nice does a few good features as listed below
1. Vibrate when outgoing call was connect.
2. Set the vibrate time by yourself.
3. Get a voice notify when call was disconnect by other side.
4. User can set the voice volume.
5. You can quickly create new calendar when calling was disconnect.
6. Friendly, easy to use software designed by people for people.
well this video shows u its short and fast cause it does not take much to cut a mp3 down to 30sec, u select the part like u see in the video and cut it out by hitting delete once its highlighted do it again at a diff point and then the part that is left u listen to and see if u cut it right and got what u want and then save it and move it on to your blackberry
this is done with goldwave if u click the icon below will take u to download links and the one below that is the video
Updated 05-19-2009 at 08:20 PM by 461009
(changed video links)
well my b-day is coming up, goin to be 21 on the 29th how fun lol not proly just drink and chill with my girl or go out not to sure, do the drinkin game of 21 shots lol with some moonshine .... so ya soon to be happy b-day to me
Updated 05-07-2009 at 05:10 PM by 461009
well i was lookin around and come across beyond160
and i tell ya this app is wonderfull i dont have to go back and start a all new text, splits them up and sends them in order i tell ya this is a must have for people who are on telus or another carrier and dont have mms ...
this program is a 10/10 so head over to
and get it
well here is step by step to get it working
1.go to the speaker and click the trackball
2.scroll down to advanced
3.pick the profile u are running i have loud so highlight loud
4.hit the bb button with the blackberry logo on it to the left of the trackball and go to edit
5. click on sms/phone/email accounts does not matter what one cause u will need to do it for the ones u have berrybuzz taking over and look for repeat notification and switch it from
Well here is my review on 3 programs all from bellshare.
Which are Berrypopup, berrybuzz, berryweather.


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Colleges and universities are adopting virtualization to improve data center efficiency, consolidate servers, save money, and reduce energy consumption. Here you'll find articles showcasing institutions that are moving to virtualized computing environments, along with news stories covering the latest technology developments.
VMware rolled out the centerpiece of its virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) strategy this week with the release of VMware View 3.
VMware has released an update to Fusion, its desktop virtualization solution for Mac OS X. The latest release, version 2.0.1, which began shipping Friday, includes a number of resolved issues, performance enhancements, and other improvements, as well as compatibility updates for the latest Apple MacBook and MacBook Pro systems.
Parallels has released Parallels Desktop 4.0, an update to the company's desktop virtualization solution for Mac OS X. The new version adds more than 50 new features, including support for DirectX 9.0 and significant performance improvements.
An IDC study released Thursday depicted a slowing worldwide market for virtualized servers. However, Microsoft and interoperability may heat things up again in 2009.
Citrix took another step forward in its quest to push the envelope for virtualization interoperability by releasing a technology preview of Project Kensho, the company's multi-hypervisor toolkit that allows ISVs and IT managers to develop portable virtual machine (VM) appliances.
Migration to virtualization won't be the quick transition that some technology evangelists have predicted, according to recent surveys by two IT security companies. Nor is virtualization as secure as many might want it to be.
In an announcement at VMworld last week, VMware unveiled plans to deliver a portfolio of solutions intended to turn virtualized desktops into "universal clients." The initiative, dubbed vClient, begins with a series of products called VMware View.
At this year's VMworld, HP announced a series of new offerings designed to help organizations simplify the implementation and management of VMware-based virtual environments.
After announcing a four-fold increase in its VMware Academic Program over the last 12 months, virtualization giant Vmware unveiled a new Web site dedicated to virtualization researchers and academics. GoVirtual.org is an online resource intended to help support the growing interest in virtualization among the global academic community.
VMware has released VMware Fusion 2.0, a major update to the desktop virtualization solution for Mac OS X that has been in public beta since back in July. The new version, a free upgrade for users of VMware Fusion 1.x, focuses on expanded support for Mac hardware configurations, including additional graphics capabilities, as well as networking, security, storage, and application sharing improvements.
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| Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point | May 23, 2013
Don Kingrey, a pilot with Air USA, a private contractor company which provides aviation training support for the military, prepares to take off on a flight in support of joint terminal attack control training from Cherry Point May 16. (Photo by Cpl. Scott L. Tomaszycki)
Two contracted jets prepare for a flight from Cherry Point May 16. The jets are privately owned and operated by Air USA, a company which helps train U.S. military aviation personnel. (Photo by Cpl. Scott L. Tomaszycki)


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Students & Staff Election Participation
Early voting for Washoe County residents comes to TMCC, and a candidate forum helped students become informed.
IT strives to supervise, manage and maintain all of TMCC's enterprise computer network in support of faculty, staff, and students.
IT takes seriously the responsibility of keeping your messages and files confidential. The network you use has extensive system security; however, much depends upon you, the user of these systems, to keep your accounts secure. Every year thousands of computers are illegally accessed because of weak passwords.
When creating a network password, please do not:
See Also: IT Frequently Asked Questions
Saving your files to the TMCC network is simple, smart and secure. Faculty and staff may back up data from their local hard drive to a disk or flash drive; however, if your hard drive fails and the disk or flash drive where you saved your data fails, there is no way to recover your data.
The TMCC network is the preferred location for storing TMCC-related data (class material, budget data, etc.). Not only is data on the network backed up on a daily basis (except weekends), but it can also be accessed from remotely.
Once an individual logs into the network, they gain access to the following network resources:
After starting your computer, a network login screen will appear on your computer. Enter your user name and network password to access the network resources described above. To ensure network security, network access passwords are required to be unique, more than 8 characters, and changed every 90 days. If the 'Log on to:' field is blank, click on the 'down arrow' on the right of the field and select "TMCCADMN".
Once logged into the network, you will have access to the following network drives by default:
Early voting for Washoe County residents comes to TMCC, and a candidate forum helped students become informed.
The shade structure that a TMCC professor envisioned is completed after his death.
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At a time when the nation's infrastructure faces a growing threat from
cyber-attacks, maritime and homeland security officials say they are making
significant progress in protecting the nation's ports, which handle more
than 2 billion metric tons of cargo annually and are critical to the global
"It's finally picking up speed," said Randy Parsons, director of security
at the Port of Long Beach, during the Port Security Operations Conference &
Expo held Nov. 19-21 at the Hilton Long Beach & Executive Meeting Center.
"A lot of time and effort have been put into this by the private sector, as
well as the government agencies -- the FBI in particular and the U.S.
Secret Service. I've seen a major shift in just the last 12 months."
Parsons said cyber-attacks pose a growing threat to the nation's
infrastructure, including its ports.
"All we have to look at is the 6 o'clock news about every night to see some
damage hackers have done around the country," Parsons observed. "I think
we've seen plenty of evidence that the capability exists and that puts a
challenge on all the partners at the port to assess the protections we
have, identify our gaps and then come up with mitigation strategies."
Doug Albrecht, director of information management at the Port of Long
Beach, said the port blocks about 9 million attacks monthly on its network.
But it only takes one successful intrusion to potentially do damage, he
"There is an annual hackers' convention in Las Vegas called DEF CON to
break into real companies and real networks," Albrecht said. "The best tool
they could use is the telephone. They can profile you from LinkedIn,
Twitter and Facebook and when they call you and ask you the question about
your bank account or password, they know a lot of information about you and
you can be easily tricked."
To combat this threat, port officials teach workers how to recognize these
and other methods hackers use to break into the highly-secure networks of
ports and other critical infrastructure in the nation.
A lot is at stake. A cyber-attack that successfully shuts down the ports of
Los Angeles and Long Beach would cause $1 billion a day in losses to the
national economy, Parsons said.
"The cyber risk has not been adequately addressed in the maritime security
model," said Michael O'Brien, the port facilities officer at the Port of
Oakland. "That needs to be addressed. I think there is some room to grow
with the cyber-security threat and become more systematic about it."
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ten eyck
We do go there, me and her,
when no light meets the ground.
There we swing from rusty chains,
before we fool around.
On a bench, by a lake,
lust has come and gone.
We burn a fire and watch the sky,
while the half-light wraps around.
And I am brightest where she casts,
her shadow on the ground.
On a bench, by a lake,
lust has come and gone.
Half-undone we did at least,
in yellow light on grassy ground.
Then and there, with a silent shout,
into the sleepless sound.
On a bench, by a lake,
We have come and gone.