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About Toloache-Midtown
Welcome to Toloache (pronounced toh-lo-AH-tchay), chef-owner Julian Medina's contemporary Mexican bistro located in the heart of the Theater District. Toloache is named after a flowering plant famed in Mexico for its use in love potions. We hope that when you dine with us you too will fall under the spell of chef Medina's creative cooking, which incorporates seasonal and natural ingredients and more than a dozen types of chilies. Our festive, two-story space features a guacamole and ceviche bar, a wood-burning oven, and an exceptional tequila list, along with elegant decorative elements imported from Mexico. We looking forward to seeing you soon.
Dining Style:
Casual Dining
Mexican, Contemporary Mexican
Hours of Operation:
Lunch: Monday - Friday: 11:30am - 3:00pm
Brunch 11:30am - 3:00pm
Dinner: Sunday + Monday: 3:00 pm - 10:00 pm
Tuesday - Thursday: 3:00pm - 11:00pm,
Friday - Saturday: 3:00pm - Midnight. (Bar open to 12:30am)
Cross Street:
Between Broadway and 8th Avenue
Dress Code:
Business Casual
Price Range:
$30 and under
Payment Options
AMEX, Discover, MasterCard, Visa
Phone Number:
(212) 581-1818
Parking Details:
There is a Quik Park public lot at 1633 Broadway, next door to the restaurant. To contact the lot with questions, please call 212-445-0011.
Public Transit:
Take the C or E Trains to 50th St.; the 1 Train to 50th St.; and the N, R, or W Trains to 49th St.
Executive Chef:
Julian Medina
Bar Dining, Bar/Lounge, Beer, Counter Seating, Delivery, Full Bar, Non-Smoking Restaurant, Personal wines welcome, Personal wines welcome (corkage fee applies), Takeout, Weekend Brunch, Wheelchair Access, Wine
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Went with high expectations, the food wa ...
Went with high expectations, the food was good, was just expecting more flavor for some reason. Otherwise the presentation was great and service was good. Maybe it was because it was during restaurant week, I don't know, not tempted to come back.
Food excellent, service great, our waite ...
Food excellent, service great, our waiter was very friendly and attentive. The menu is in Spanish so we didn't realize it was ala carte, we wish we had gotten some Spanish rice. However our food had excellent flavor, but very small portions. Being New York I expected to pay, but our entree and a drink each, tax and tip and I was out $90 and we were both still hungry.
Food is authentic and tasty. The prices ...
Food is authentic and tasty. The prices however are high when compared to the size of the portions. The guacamole is really fit only for one person as opposed to a sharing item. The entrees are good but the taco dishes only include 2 small tacos. So based in flavor presentation and ambience I would have given this restaurant a rating slightly above 4 but given small portions and high prices I lowered it to a 3.25.
Very enjoyable, the tacos were a little ...
Very enjoyable, the tacos were a little small but if you had chips and guacamole first it would be perfect. The service was very professional--what you expect in NYC. The ambiance was great--could even have a conversation in spite of the music.
Awful from start to finish. The waiter ...
Awful from start to finish. The waiter was pushy. The food was overpriced for tiny portions. And beware of food allergies as they don't specify key ingredients on menu items. One of the worst dining experiences I've had after 3 years of living in New York City. Never again.
The place was really good, well kept, cl ...
The place was really good, well kept, clean, attentive and friendly staff. The food was really good. I tried the ceviche peruano and it was indeed to closest thing to Peruvian ceviche you could have found at a non-peruvian restaurant. I also had the short rib tacos and they were delicious, I just found the portions could have been a little bit more generous. We went there for lunch before an early show and we were glad we came on the early side because it got busy really quick. The pace of the meal was perfect for the occasion. The cocktails were really good too, but, again, they could have been a little bit more generous with their portions.
Great affordable spot close to Times Squ ...
Great affordable spot close to Times Square. Not cheap, but not pricey... Reasonable, especially for Times Square. The margaritas are EXCELLENT! This can be a good date spot b/c all the tables are cozy, but it's not quiet. Not crazy noisy, but not "intimate" for conversation. Will go back.
The ceriche was outstanding as well as t ...
The ceriche was outstanding as well as the guacamole and brussel sprouts. The wait staff was professional and courteous.
The restaurant is very small and overcrowed; you can hardly get to your table. Felt we were being rushed.
Incredible food very great staff OK marg ...
Incredible food very great staff OK margaritas energetic young vibe but much too noisy if you are with someone who you really like to talk to Will definitely try the other location Upper east side to get a quitter atmosphere just because the food isso incredible
Excellent gem of a restaurant in the har ...
Excellent gem of a restaurant in the hard to find good restaurant area around the theatre district. Yes it's technically a Mexican r stair any but the menu had a splendid diversity of finely prepared dishes....this ain't your dads ole chips and salsa!
Great spot for a drink or meal in the th ...
Great spot for a drink or meal in the theater district. Fantastic cocktails but very expensive.
The wait staff is obviously very experienced at pacing a meal for Broadway theater goers yet they were outgoing and knowledgeable.
Fish tacos and the bacalao were beyond delicious. Everyone was in the restaurant was having a great time. Vibrant place, highly recommended.
My husband and I picked Toloache because ...
My husband and I picked Toloache because of its proximity to our hotel and the theater district. WOW it was positively delicious! The chipotle salsa alone is worth going for. Stay for the tacos, all of them, and treat yourself to the chocoflan. You won't regret it! We've found our go-to midtown restaurant.
When we arrived our table was ready. Sin ...
When we arrived our table was ready. Since we were 2 adults and 3 kids they sat is in a table for four which we were not comfortable with because it was tight so they accommodated us to a larger table which was very nice. The restaurant is a bit tight so tables are very close to each other so it may not be the place I would choose for a romantic date night and the noise level is moderate, Latin music playing in the background is a nice touch. The server immediately attended us, was very helpful with menu recommendations being it was our first time at the restaurant. My husband and I had margaritas which were delicious, made with natural lime, a splash of oj and as per his request, Patron Anejo...DELICIOUS! We had guacamole and chips to share for appetizer. It was definitely house made with chunks of fresh avocado, diced onion and tomato. The steak tacos were very good, filled with tender well seasoned steak. The chicken enchiladas were also very very good...a bit spicy for those who may be a sensitive to that...but we loved them. I ordered a pork dish..can't remember the name but it had crunchy skin on top and tender pork underneath. Next time we visit New York, we will definitely be returning to Toloache.
In from out of town so we dined out mult ...
In from out of town so we dined out multiple times each day for the 5 days we were there. Good bohemian Mexican food. Brisket tacos were a definite yes. Service was outstanding and staff was all very accommodating and friendly. Smaller portions but enough.
Literally saw our server once, when she ...
Literally saw our server once, when she took our order.
Asked for side of rice and beans which finally came after we asked for again. Had to ask for refill on chip basket 3 times before we got it. The boy filling our water glasses was the hit of the night - saw him several times, without asking!
Manager comped us a dessert, which we really didn't want. Would have appreciated something else taken off the bill.
Came highly recommended -not sure why.
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I felt right at home and my advisor and financial aid and deans helped so much.
Most everyone treats everyone the same as anyone else.
Greek Life:
Lots of opportunities with Greek life on our campus.
Health & Safety:
Campus safety services do a great job keeping up with everything and making sure we are all safe.
Campus Food:
Always a great variety and fantastic food! The chef does a great job preparing and cooking the foods!
Guys & Girls:
Lost everyone knows how to dress properly and looks like they enjoy life. Everyone at samford is usually very nice and open to anyone.
Without the scholarships I received, I would not be at samford. Samford is really good at giving out scholarships to help with school.
There is an audition process and acceptance policy. Basically you have to have talent and then the teachers help you after that.
I live being in the School of the Arts at Samford. The professors are great and willing to help all the time.
The football team is really doing a great job this year and hopefully will do much better next year.
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Student life is great! Living on campus really helps with getting to know people, and the food court and caf are outstanding.
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The campus is beautiful and not very modern. I live that! It is voted the most beautiful campus in Alabama.
Professors are really easy to get along with, and classes are challenging, but with the professors help, you can totally get through a class!
Being a music major is tough, but it's my passion, so I'm gonna be great at it no matter how tough it is!
Local Area:
I live living in Birmingham. There is always something to do and be involved with. Especially churches.
Off-Campus Housing:
I live on campus, but from what I hear, the off-campus living is great!
The rules against drugs and alcohol on our campus is a great thing! Samford does not put up with it. Samford police keep us safe and sound.
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Nice rooms/ buildings! Love Samford Housing!
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There are many different places around Birmingham to eat and hangout! The places are usually fair in their prices and have a great variety.
There is a bus system within Birmingham but it's not of much use to students and not always very safe. Everything a student needs is right across the street from campus, except the campus is right off a major road that you would need a car to cross. There is an airport in Birmingham that accomodates most domestic flights several times a day, though, and I fly in and out of it very often. Never had any problems getting where I need to with it.
Local Area:
Birmingham is a really fun and vibrant city. There's always a lot going on and the people are usually very friendly. It's got every grocery store you can think of except (Wal-Mart, Target, Publix, Whole Foods, World Market). It's got three big malls and shopping areas: the Brookwood mall, the Summit and the Galleria. They've all got great shops and restaurants. The Summit is probably the more expensive option but has the best restaurants and unusual shops, and the Galleria is more affordable and has a big food court. The Alabama Ballet is based in Birmingham and puts on great shows, there's also a museum of art that has everything from modern art to ancient Japanese art, as well as seasonal expositions. There are several parks you can go to walk around and get some fresh air, though some are parts of town you may want to avoid.Generally it's understood that the downtown area and the south side are unsafe neighborhoods, and you should always steer clear of Finley Boulevard and the neighborhood around it. While the campus is safe, the city can be pretty dangerous if you're not in the right place.
Financial aid is always a pain, it seems like, but it went fairly smoothly with Samford. I have enough scholarships and government grants to cover 3/4 of the total cost of attendance, not including loans. The school offers work study opportunities but the pay is not usually applied to tuition, they think it's a good way for students to have some spending money every month, but it is possible for you to apply it to tuition and other costs. One tip that definitely helped me out a lot is that Samford offers the possibility of making what they call a financial appeal to the Office of Financial Aid. You basically fill out a form explaining why you can't afford what the school is asking you to pay based on the financial aid they have given you. There's also a form to fill out to compare the scholarships that Samford has offered you to the scholarships other universities have offered you, as a way of asking them to increase the amount of any academic or leadership scholarship. Also, you should definitely apply for their leadership scholarship, even if you think you haven't done much leadership or extracurricular activities. Just make a resumé. You could get $2,000 for it and every little bit helps.
Alabama is usually very hot in the summer, and very humid. With thunder storms here and there. The campus closes every now and then in the morning due to tornado alerts, which are frequent in Alabama in spring and summer. If it's raining on campus, you really need rubber rainboats, otherwise your shoes and pants may get soaked or muddy. A lot of the campus is green, and built on a hill, so rain water runs right through it. Otherwise in most any weather the campus remains beautiful. Fortunately, buildings where your classes are will never be more than 10 minutes away from your dorm so you won't risk getting soaked in the rain if you have an umbrella, and it's a very pleasant walk.
This is a Christian school, after all, so certain things need to respected. As long as you don't violate drinking, drug or visitation policies you'll be fine. Basically, no drinking if you're under 21 and if you are, not on campus. No drugs ever. And no students of the opposite sex in your dorm after certain hours (from 10pm to midnight depending on the day of the week).
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Welcome to SportsNation! On Tuesday, NFL draft prospect, and former LSU Tiger, Patrick Peterson stops by to chat some football.
Peterson, the third overall prospect in the draft, according to Scouts Inc., was the top defensive back in college football in 2010, earning two national awards (Thorpe and Bednarik) as well as being a consensus All-America selection. He picked off four passes, returned two punts for touchdowns, while amassing 135 tackles.
Mel Kiper Jr. and the guys at Scouts Inc. rank Peterson as the best cornerback in the draft. Scouts Inc. also likes his durability and his profile says that he is an "above-average athlete, confident in his abilities and plays with a swagger."
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Buzzmaster (12:51 PM)
2011 NFL draft prospect Patrick Peterson will be here at the top of the hour to take your questions!
Buzzmaster (12:58 PM)
Patrick is here!
Gabe Hauari (Richmond, VA)
Hey Patrick, I'm a huge fan. What are the chances you improve your 40 time at your Pro Day?
Patrick Peterson (12:59 PM)
First, I'm not running at my pro day. I think I can run faster, but I don't want to jeopardize my career by going out there and pulling something. But I think I can run faster.
Forrest (Indianapolis)
When you play Madden, do you prefer to play with a team that is already good, or do you prefer to take a mediocre team and make them great?
Patrick Peterson (12:59 PM)
I don't play Madden. I love NCAA Football. That's my favorite game. I play with Ohio State, but I love to play as myself.
Trever (Denver)
Would you like to be a return man in the NFL?
Patrick Peterson (1:00 PM)
I would love to try my hand at the return game, because that's something that I always did and I would love to try it at the next level as well.
Nathan (Kentucky)
Hey Patrick, what have you been hearing about where you might fall in the Draft in April?
Patrick Peterson (1:01 PM)
I try to stay away from all of the mock drafts and the different boards. There's only one team that can fall in love with me and take me. I just want to take it one day at a time. When the draft comes, the whole world will know where I'm at.
Nathan (Temecula)
Hi Patrick, What did you think of your combine and what do you wish to accomplish on your pro day?
Patrick Peterson (1:02 PM)
I think I did pretty well at my combine. I don't see anything else I need to accomplish. There's always room for improvement, but I don't think I have to go to my pro day and participate in it as if it were a combine.
Tyler (Athens, GA)
Patrick Who has been the toughest receiver you have ever had to cover? Just guessing maybe AJ Green. GO DAWGS!!!!!
Patrick Peterson (1:03 PM)
He's good. But I can't say who is the best. A lot of those guys have different qualities. They're top of the line. They'll go early, but both of those top guys have their own talents.
Brad (Shreveport, La)
What is your favorite thing about Tiger Stadium.
Patrick Peterson (1:03 PM)
When we run out. Taking the field for the last time. The crowd erupting. It was a wonderful feeling. The Alabama game this year might be the most memorable thing in my three years.
Nathan (Missouri)
Congratulations on a great combine performance! What are you looking forward to the most in the NFL?
Patrick Peterson (1:04 PM)
Getting my first interception. Hopefully I can take it back to the house or something like that. That would be huge.
andrew (seattle)
Is your brother going to be as good as you at LSU?
Patrick Peterson (1:05 PM)
Maybe. Who knows. He's not in college yet, but he's taking strides to being better than his big brother. Just continue to do things that he's doing. I wish him the best of luck. We'll have to find out after his next 3-4 years. We're not competitive as to who's better. WE just want to be successful.
Forrest (Indianapolis)
Have you been in contact with any current or former NFL players regarding what sort of adjustments you'll need to make when making the transition from college to the pros? If so, what advice have they given you?
Patrick Peterson (1:06 PM)
I have family members that are in the NFL right now. I've been in contact with Revis. I'm trying to get in contact with Deion. Charles Woodson texts me a little bit. Champ Bailey. Those guys are the top of the line. I'm learning from the best defensive backs that are in the NFL and were in the NFL. I'm getting a lot of mentoring and advice from those guys.
Jacob (Louisiana)
Hey Patrick, I went to the Cotton Bowl and saw a great game. What do you think LSU will do next year? They have to replace some great talent like yourself!
Patrick Peterson (1:07 PM)
I believe those guys will be in good hands. I know the secondary especially will be in good hands. I believe coach Miles is bringing a ferocious team back. These guys know how to win. They've been in a lot of tough situations. They know how to finish and what it takes. They'll do perfectly fine.
Nick (Cali)
Have you changed anything in your trainning and preparation because of the possibilty of a the NFL having a lockout next year?
Patrick Peterson (1:08 PM)
I didn't change anything. I continue to do the things that got me to this point in my athletic career. The only thing that I can say that I want to change is to become more of a student. Learn more about how the NFL guys study film, how they handle themselves prior to game preparation.
Matt (Pittsburgh)
Patrick, which NFL DB do you resemble your game around?
Patrick Peterson (1:09 PM)
Oh yeah. I believe my game resembles Charles Woodson. He can be a safety, nickel back, LB. That's the type of player that I want to be. I want to be a guy that can be accountable to anything on the field. I'm into playing whatever position they need me to be. Just like Jim Thorpe, the trophy that I won. He was an all around athlete.
EJ (Halifax)
What was going through your mind when you decided to strike the Heisman pose on that touchdown against West Virginia?
Patrick Peterson (1:10 PM)
Actually that something that came up. There was a lot of talk that I could be entering myself in the Heisman race. I never thought about doing it or I wasn't prepared to do it. It just came out of the blue. I scored and I couldn't think of a TD celebration, so I just hit it.
Dave (MD)
When you ran your 40 yard dash, why did you push off your left foot instead of your right and also what part of the body do you personally look at for receivers....some corners look at the hips while others their numbers.
Patrick Peterson (1:12 PM)
My left leg is strong my right leg, but my right is my most dominant. You want to generate the most power. And it depends on the coverage I'm in. I look at the waist to mid thigh in man. If I'm off man, it's mainly the hips. In zone, I just try to control them and put them where I want them to be.
Joshua (Loveland, CO)
Hey Patrick, how would it feel to line up opposite Champ Bailey and help get him a ring? Out of all the landing spots, seems like a pretty good one with a Hall of Famer
Patrick Peterson (1:13 PM)
That would be wonderful to go there and help a veteran get over the hump and get a championship. Champ has been in the game a long time and he's thirsty to win a championship. I would be more than happy to line up beside him and achieve that goal that he wants and that I want as well.
JP (Columbus, OH)
Patrick, what can't you do? I bet you can top 49 reps on the bench if you really wanted to!
Patrick Peterson (1:14 PM)
Thank you, first of all. It's a lot I can't do. I can't play soccer. I guess it's just in me to be a competitor in each and everything I do. But there is a lot I can't do.
Patrick Peterson (1:14 PM)
Thanks for the questions! Stay tuned for the Patrick Peterson era on Sundays.
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The problem with them doing that is that gamers don't back them. Even if gamers do back them the Gaming Press demonizes Koei Tecmo and they are left in a really bad situation. This is what happens when gamers allow the Gaming Press to do whatever they want based off of the agenda's of people on a witch hunt.
Until we as the core gamers get this situation under control in the West you can expect more and more situations like this one.
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VR will be censored on the Sony platform. If only in the form of just not getting certain games to the West that the East gets. Do you really think that Tekken Dating simulator or however it is called is coming to the West.
Thankfully Sony doesn't region lock there games so you can import them that way. But what is the odds of an English version being released of it. Hopefully the Asian version will include English voices or subtitles.
Star Craft has its own built in install base. They can release this game against any title and be just fine. The same way CoD is fine being released at this point. Some games dont have to worry about release date and this is one of them.
I imagine that Cloud is just a test case. If Cloud does well, I don't see why we wouldnt see a whole lot of other FF characters.
Cloud and Midgar are iconic, so its no surprise that this was the first character they went with.
I have been playing Rise of the Tomb Raider on the 360, because I dont own a Xbox One, and I have been really please with it. I can't imagine the Xbox One version not being better so I dont see any issues with the Xbox One constraining the game.
If anything, the fact that this is another game that is on last gen consoles and current gen is the problem. If this was just a current gen console game they could have gone all out with it. Even so, there is nothing to really com...
No large breasts, but maybe you she will write another attempted rape scene into the game and then pretend its not an attempted rape.
Its no longer about making Laura sexy, its about making her a mass murder like Nathan Drake. Oh and occasionally she does stuff with Tombs...
Also, disregard all the orgasming she does whenever she gets stabbed with something, which seems to happen repeatedly nowadays. Also, disregard the attempted rape that happened in the first remake written by this writer. Also, disregard the fact that the other game was basically torture porn.
Yep, Laura is a strong, ind...
Any PC game that doesnt look better than its console counterpart is a grievous example of lazy developers delivering a lackluster port to PC. For goodness sake, if the game doesnt run better on my $1000 computer compared to my $400 console there is a serious issue.
At the same rate, its not an accomplishment to say a game that is on both console and PC looks better on PC. The game had better look better on my PC and it better run at a higher frame-rate as well.
CoD is currently set in the future and its far removed from reality. Heck, the same is true of Battlefield. Those games may use realistic weapons, for the most part, but they arent direct simulations of real life events anymore.
Plus, when they where people did complain about how it portrayed events and how it was insulting. Remember how big of a controversy the mission No Russian was?
Actually the Japanese version of Ground Zeros had a lot more conversations where Big Boss speaks. In fact, there is a whole backstory that is left out of the Western version of Ground Zeros, which is pretty important. Its where Big Boss and Miller are talking about the past. Yes, Big Boss actually say quite a bit in that discussion.
This isnt in the Western version at all. Check it out on Youtube. I have been told that Big Boss speaks more in the Japanese versionof TPP as wel...
Because Kojima is a big 24 fan, so he decided to throw tons of money at Keifer Sutherland (money that could have been used to complete the game). What did he get for all of that money, a character that barely says anything outside of the tapes and even in the tapes he barely speaks. Apparently, Kojima preferred hanging out with Sutherland over giving long time fans what they wanted.
To be clear, while I think its unfortunate that Hayter was replaced the real disaster was how...
The game might be intriguing, but honestly if No Man's Sky hadn't release so much gameplay footage I wouldnt have any faith in it. There are far to many kickstarters that fail or are outright scams for me to blindly trust these guys. Plus, the whole procedurally generated Universe isn't unique to No Man's Sky. That has been done for a while now.
What makes me excited for No Man's Sky is everything I have seen and how clear it is that the developers are so ...
I dont care about Polygon either, but this site was all over Life is Strange praising it like crazy. However, now they say its bad. I don't think you can just dismiss that as a "oh it's Polygon."
I dont understand all the negative reviews for this game. I have been playing it on PC and loving it.
The folks at Bethesda really know how to get you hyped up for a game. Can't wait for November 10.
The music alone moves me. I can't wait for this game. I am buying a WiiU primarily to play this game on December 4. I hope Nintendo does a bundle in the U.S. for it.
There is a difference between being a female gamer on Twitch and being a female streamer on Twitch that is selling sex. Far to many of the female streamers on Twitch are only selling sex by showing off their breast or body in very revealing clothes or behaving in such a manner that make them come off as little damsels in need of protection.
This isn't something that is done in a cautious manner either, these females that engage in this behavior are blatant as hell about i...
Some of the most beloved games of old had strong female leads. This happened long before these idiots started their little witch hunt. it saddens me to see an article this stupid coming from Game Informer.


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NEWPORT BEACH, CA—More investors are flocking to the hotel sector than ever before, for a number of reasons. As GlobeSt.com reported exclusively earlier this week, Lone Oak Fund has provided financing for three separate California hotel properties, including the purchase of Newport Beachwalk Hotel here. GlobeSt.com caught up with the firm's Alexa Mizrahi to discuss what's behind all the trading activity and some of the new acquisition strategies buyers are using to acquire hotels.
GlobeSt.com: There have been a lot of hotel trades in California recently. What's behind all the activity?
Mizrahi: We've seen an increase in demand for loans on hotel properties, both acquisitions and refinances. On the acquisition side, the demand is coming from local and foreign investors, and it's due to lack of inventory in multifamily properties and other investment avenues. Being in California, there's a lot of demand for hotel stays. Also, there's an opportunity here to really gain yield. On the multifamily and non-owner-occupied properties, cap rates are compressed so low, and the lack of inventory is moving investors to other areas to search for yield. Hospitality is one of the large areas for that.
GlobeSt.com: What new acquisition strategies are buyers using to acquire these hotels?
Mizrahi: One of the main strategies they're using is a fast close. Borrowers can take advantage of acquisition opportunities by having a 10-day close of escrow or a more-competitive purchase offer. They can have an edge by using our bridge-loan financing options rather than a conventional loan. High price and speed to complete the transaction are key. If there is more than one offer, the buyer who can close quickly typically wins over the buyer with conventional financing who has to go through many channels before the loan is approved. Also, borrowers like that our financing offers no pre-payment penalty. They might use us for the acquisition and in a few months take out an SBA loan or conventional loan at no penalty to them.
Banks can't compete with us in terms of speed. To compete with banks in terms of leverage, we allow for junior financing behind us. Working with us on the Newport Beachwalk Hotel purchase, the borrower was able to finance 80% with three different lenders, and all three loans were closed in less than two weeks.
It's speed, but also service. When you're dealing with a larger bank or SBA lender, you're dealing with a pyramid of reviewers. But here, the principals who make the final decision work directly with the borrower. We offer a quick response, and the borrower is working directly with the loan committee.
GlobeSt.com: What other refinancing trends are you noticing in the hotel sector?
Mizrahi: The refinances tend to be owner/operators trying to pay off existing debt and position the property for a conventional loan and SBA takeout. They come to us to pay off existing mortgages, upgrades to the properties, tax liens or debt to clean up the properties, and they're driven by low rates. Investors who focused on traditional sectors in the past have migrated to hospitality. It's also appealing to investors abroad as an asset type with which they feel comfortable. A lot of demand is being driven by international investors who definitely see opportunities in our hotel market.


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Modern apartment in Hamburg (deich_4)
Maksimum Konuk Sayısı5
Yatak odası2
Boyut55 metrekare
Floor No.4
- Aile / Çocuk dostu
- Mutfak
- Çamaşır makinesi / Kurutma makinesi
- İnternet/Kablosuz ağ
- Havlu
|Deichstrasse, 20459 Hamburg, Almanya
|Mülkiyet türü
|Referans kodu
|Acceptance rate
|Response time
|A few hours
|Calendar updated
Close by there is a well-stocked supermarket, lots of nice restaurants, bistros and cafes which are suitable to all tastes and pockets. Parking is possible on request."
This nice apartment is very bright and well equipped. With 50 m² this 2-room apartment is big enough for up to 4 people. It's newly renovated and comfortably furnished with good quality parquet flooring. It has a sleeping area with a big double bed, a TV and a design couch. The nice living room is equipped with a big flat-screen TV and another design couch for 2 more people to sleep on. The kitchen has a fridge, coffee maker, water kettle and a stove. The new bathroom adds to the comfort of this nice apartment. There is also WiFi internet access available.
A deposit of 500 € is payable before arrival. The amount may like to be blocked on the credit card. Please tell us your credit card details.
Your full address and mobile-phone number is mandatory for the booking!
Additional tourist tax per person per night depending on rent (to be paid at arrival):
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100 Euro___________________________________ 2 Euro,
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The host was very accommodating, and available for key pick up and everything i might need. The area is close to the city center, so there are some bad apples around but also a nice area close by, so pretty much take it since you can just get anywhere from there since public transport is so close. would totally recommend.
Апартаменты находятся недалеко от метро, и продуктовых магазинов.
Район тихий. Номер очень простой. Стиральной машины нет. Постоянно есть запахи приготовления пищи.
The apartments are located close to the U-Bahn S-bahn, and grocery stores.
The area is quiet. The room is very simple. No washing machine. There is always a smell of cooking.
Nice and clean, without a glitch in the organization.
Had a horrible experience staying in this place. Firstly, check in is only available after 3pm but the office closes at 5pm. The toilet flush and wifi was not working at all when my friends and I arrived and we tried calling all the provided numbers but none could be reached. We had to just sit and wait for over an hour for the housekeeping lady. However, as soon as the office was reached they provided us with keys to another apartment which enabled us to use the wifi and toilet. But overall the place is old and not cosy at all.
This accommodation has a great costs to value ratio. We enjoyed our stay. Good and helpful service. One issue that really needs some work: the WiFi is horrible and unreliable.
Great value for money. Big and very clean apartment.
Had a nice and COLD weekend, frosty and wind, appartment easy to find: Unfortunately did the heating in the large bedroom not Work, so snuggle under the covers made it instead.
The appartment was very clean. Super close to a s-Bahn stop with lines to both the city center and the airport. The basic necessities. Perfect for our needs and very cheap.
The apartment is really nice and is located centrally (There is some noise from the railway). Modern, nice and clean. Communication with Carmen was unproblematic. I can recommend the apartment.
Nice apartment, all clean coming with towels and sheet.
Neighbours were a bit loud & no internet though
- Kalite güvenceli konaklama
- Her ev sahibi telefonla doğrulanmıştır
- SSL şifrelemesi ile güvenli ödeme


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Impala: Another Google Inspired Platform Enters The Mainstream Data World
Amazon Web Services has added support for Impala, the Google inspired query tool developed by big data startup Cloudera. It provides real-time, parallel processing for large amounts of data. With Impala, a developer can load new or access existing data to run their queries using an SQL-like language on AWS Elastic MapReduce clusters. Its faster, more accessible and shows the increasing use… Read More
Runscope Offers New Service To Test Live API Calls For Improving The Quality Of Mobile Apps
Runscope, which develops tools that monitor API traffic, has launched a new automated API and backend service testing tool to improve the quality of mobile apps. The new Runscope Radar service, launched at the AWS re:Invent conference in Las Vegas, is designed to alleviate the concerns that come with changing backend APIs. It allows app maintainers to verify that their backend services are… Read More
Amazon Kinesis, A New AWS Service To Process Real-Time Streams
Amazon is offering a new service called Kinesis that streams data in real-time with the ability to process thousands of data streams on a per second basis. The service, designed for real-time apps, allows developers to pull any amount of data, from any number of sources, scaling up and down as needed. Kinesis can create any number of streams across multiple availability zones. The… Read More
Amazon Launches Its Fastest EC2 Instance Type Yet
Amazon today announced its fastest EC2 instance type yet. The improved C3 instance type, Amazon CTO Werner Vogels noted in the announcement at the company's re:Invent developer conference today, represents the highest process performance on EC2 yet. The C3 instances join the new storage- and I/O-optimized I2 instances the company also announced today. These instances, Amazon argues… Read More
Short Shorts And Long Buses: Amazon Cloud Competitors Look A Bit Foolish At AWS Conference
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is obviously making it very difficult for competitors in the public cloud market. That could not have been made more clear than how IBM and Rackspace are choosing how to make their presence felt this week at AWS re:Invent. For the past week, IBM has been getting trashed for its anti-Amazon ads that declare their superiority to AWS. The ads are a sad reflection… Read More
Amazon's New AppStream Service Lets Mobile Developers Stream Their Games And Apps From The Cloud To Any Device
Amazon today announced a new service for mobile developers at its re:Invent developer conference in Las Vegas today. Amazon AppStream, which uses the company's recently launched g2 EC2 instances, allows developers to easily stream their applications in high definition from the cloud to any mobile devices. Amazon is specifically marketing this for mobile developers, but there's… Read More
AWS Launches CloudTrail, A New Logging API For Governance, Compliance And Troubleshooting
Amazon today unveiled CloudTrail, a new user visibility and resource-tracking service as part of its Amazon Web Services. This service, it seems, will complement Amazon CloudWatch, which provides monitoring services for AWS cloud resources for governance and compliance. With CloudTrail, developers get an event feed for all of their resources on AWS. This means they can immediately detect… Read More
Amazon DynamoDB Serves Trillions Of Requests Per Month While Counterpart SimpleDB Is No Longer A Listed Product On AWS
An Amazon executive said today at AWS re:Invent that NoSQL database DynamoDB now serves trillions of requests per month to its users. The news is in contrast to SimpleDB, another AWS NoSQL database, which is no longer listed on AWS product page, a sign that the world's largest cloud service is phasing it out in favor of its newer counterpart. Read More
Skytap Now Ports To The Amazon Cloud
Cloud automation company Skytap has launched advanced integration capabilities with Amazon Web Services (AWS) that allow customers to develop and test on Skytap Cloud workloads that mirror AWS production environments. The company provides a platform that has until now been used for VMware-based environments. Companies export their virtual machines to Skytap and then provision accordingly. Read More
Stackdriver Adds Automation Tools And Endpoint Checks To Its AWS Monitoring Solution
Stackdriver, a monitoring service for Amazon Web Services, is adding a number of policy-driven automation features to its platform today. Instead of just getting alerts when there are issues, users can now also decided how to fix these without having to manually start and stop servers. In addition, Stackdriver is also today launched the ability to monitor endpoints like websites and… Read More
Garantia Has The Advantage Over AWS When It Comes To Redis, The Popular NoSQL Database
Last week, Garantia Data raised $9 million in a Series A round led by Bain Capital and Carmel Ventures. The company had previously raised $3.8 million in seed funding to fund its managed service for deploying and scaling Redis, the popular NoSQL in-memory database. The funding comes as Garantia prepares for AWS re:Invent, the conference in Las Vegas this week for the most powerful cloud… Read More
BitNami Launches MongoDB Stack To Develop Apps As Demand Scales For AWS-Based Services
BitNami has added a MongoDB stack for developers to build web apps on the popular NoSQL database. The stack, available next week, allows developer to deploy and manage either on-premise, through Amazon Web Services (AWS) or Windows Azure. The Y combinator alum's new stack will come integrated with Node.js and available for free from the BitNami app store as a native installer or… Read More
Amazon Launches New EC2 GPU Instances For High-Performance 3D Graphics In The Cloud
Amazon today launched a new type of instance for its EC2 cloud computing platform that is specifically designed for applications that require 3D graphics capabilities. When you think about cloud computing, high-performance 3D graphics are probably not the first thing that comes to mind, but given how much compute power that 3D visualizations and streaming graphics-intensive applications… Read More
AWS Updates Big Data Analytics Platform With New Support For Hadoop And Its Ecosystem
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has updated its Elastic Map Reduce platform with a new version of Hadoop and updated support for its data analytics ecosystem. Elastic Map Reduce is AWS platform for processing large amounts of data. But unlike many providers, AWS offers a hosted service. The challenge for AWS is to keep Hadoop and its accompanying ecosystem updated and in pace with the latest… Read More
The Cloud Washers Will Lose
There are two camps in the cloud world. There are the cloud washers, which are the ones who put a cloud sticker on everything. They say, "Oh, yes, it's a private cloud for big data." Then they throw in a few dozen other buzz words for the new look on their legacy technology. The other camp, the cloud services providers, enable customers to innovate in less time than it… Read More


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Lenovo's PHAB2 Family Features Project Tango-Powered PHAB2 Pro
Subject: Mobile | June 9, 2016 - 02:30 PM | Sebastian Peak
Tagged: Snapdragon 652, smartphone, project tango, phablet, PHAB2, Lenovo, augmented reality, AR
Lenovo has unveiled the PHAB2 family at their Lenovo Tech World event today, featuring the PHAB2 Pro, a phablet-sized mobile device powered by Google's Project Tango (now simply Google Tango) augmented-reality technology.
Lenovo PHAB2 Pro (Image credit: Lenovo)
"Unlike any other phone, the PHAB2 Pro, powered by Tango technology – a set of sensors and software from Google that senses and maps its surroundings – makes a host of cutting-edge smartphone augmented reality (AR) experiences possible. For example, using AR apps, students can place true-to-scale virtual dinosaurs in their classrooms and enhance their learning through AR data overlays that appear while they walk around the creatures. AR gaming experiences let you play virtual dominos on your kitchen table, raise a digital pet in your bedroom and fight back swarms of aliens invading your house.
With Tango technology PHAB2 Pro can even begin to change the way people think about mapping indoor spaces to create new experiences like future augmented reality museum tours via the GuidiGO app. With Tango, PHAB2 Pro offers unprecedented experiences on a smartphone that will continually learn and improve."
The large phablet devices are full smartphones, not just small tablets, and the three models offer widely varying specs with significant improvements in each successive model. We'll begin by looking at the base configuration.
Lenovo PHAB2
The PHAB2 (Image credit: Lenovo)
- Display: 6.4-inch HD (1280x720) IPS
- Processor: MediaTek MTK 8735 Quad-Core Processor
- Memory: 3 GB
- Storage: 32 GB (expandable up to 128 GB via microSD)
- Sound: Triple Array Microphone with
- Active Noise-Cancellation; Dolby Atmos + Dolby Audio Capture 5.1
- Camera:
- Rear: 13 MP PDAF Fast-Focus
- Front: 5 MP 85° Wide Angle
- Battery: 4050 mAh
Next up is the PHAB2 Plus, which improves on the base model's display, SoC, and particularly the cameras:
"The PHAB2 Plus comes with two 13MP rear cameras that have instant focus, fast f1.8 lenses and the same professional-grade Futjitsu Milbeaut image signal processor that powers the Leica camera."
Lenovo PHAB2 Plus
The PHAB2 Plus (Image credit: Lenovo)
- Display: 6.4-inch FHD (1920x1080) IPS
- Processor: MediaTek MTK 8783 Octa-Core Processor
- Memory: 3 GB
- Storage: 32 GB (expandable up to 128 GB via microSD)
- Sound: Triple Array Microphone with Active Noise-Cancellation; Dolby Atmos + Dolby Audio Capture 5.1
- Cameras:
- Rear: 13 MP Dual Camera Milbeaut ISP, F2.0 Aperture, 1.34 Big Pixel, Laser Focus with PDAF Light Supplement
- Front: 8 MP Fixed-Focus, F2.2 Aperture, 1.4 μm Big Pixel, Light Supplement
- Battery: 4050 mAh
Next up we have the PHAB2 Pro, the flagship of the lineup, which moves to a Qualcomm Snapdragon SoC from the MediaTek chips in the first two phones, and offers a higher screen resolution and (most importantly for this launch) Google Tango support - the first product equipped with this AR technology.
Lenovo PHAB2 Pro
The PHAB2 Pro (Image credit: Lenovo)
- Display: 6.4-inch QHD (2560x1440) IPS Assertive Display
- Processor: Qualcomm Snapdragon 652 Processor Built for Tango
- Memory: 4 GB
- Storage: 64 GB (expandable up to 128 GB via microSD)
- Sound: Triple Array Microphone with Active Noise-Cancellation; Dolby Atmos + Dolby Audio Capture 5.1
- Cameras:
- Rear: 16 MP PDAF Fast-Focus, Depth Sensor for Tango, Motion Tracking Sensor for Tango
- Front: 8 MP Fixed-Focus, F2.2 Aperture, 1.4 μm Big Pixel
- Battery: 4050 mAh
There will be a retail presence in the U.S. for the PHAB2 Pro, with Best Buy confirmed as an outlet for the Google Tango device. Additionally, in a move that is perplexing at first, the PHAB2 Pro will be featured for sale in Lowe's home improvement stores. (Wait, what?) A move which actually makes sense once you've read Lenovo's press release:
"Homeowners can also now use their PHAB2 Pro to remodel their homes by visualizing real home furnishings in their living rooms and kitchens. Home improvement company Lowe's is one of the first partners to develop a Tango-enabled application, Lowe's Vision. The app empowers customers by leveraging Tango technology to measure spaces and visualize how products like appliances and décor, or materials like countertops or backsplash tile, will all look and fit together in a room. With Lowe's Vision, customers will be able to control a new generation of augmented reality tools with a mere tap of the finger."
As to pricing, the base PHAB2 has an MSRP of $199, the PHAB2 Plus moves up to $299, and the PHAB2 Pro will be $499. Availability set for September of this year.
Podcast #403 - Fractal Define S, Corsair Lapdog, Pascal dropping 3+4 way SLI game support, EVGA SLI HB's, and more!
Subject: General Tech | June 9, 2016 - 02:21 PM | Allyn Malventano
Tagged: Wit.nes, video, technology, SSD 750 M.2, sli, podcast, GTX 1080, gtx 1070, GP104 laptop, Fractal Nano S, fan speed fix, EVGA SLI HB, Corsair SF
PC Perspective Podcast #403 - 06/09/2016
Join us this week as we discuss the Fractal Define S, Corsair Lapdog, Pascal dropping 3+4 way SLI game support, EVGA SLI HB's, and more!
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Hosts: Allyn Malventano, Jeremy Hellstrom, Josh Walrath, and Sebastian Peak
Week in Review:
News items of interest:
0:33:02 MSI announces 4 custom GTX 1070s
This is actually in the Mirror's Edge Driver!
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OCZ and NVMe all up in the RD ... 400
Subject: Storage | June 9, 2016 - 01:30 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
Tagged: ocz, NVMe, RD400, M.2 2280
With all the new drives on the market it would be interesting to see The Tech Report try to kill another stack of SSDs. With the spread of NVMe drives they could take the OCZ RD400 they just reviewed and a number of others and see if they can't write them to death. It would likely be a bit more work, these drives are more resilient and the amount of data they can move in a short time would certainly require a change in methodology. The Intel 750 and Samsung 950 Pro would be obvious choices as most other SSDs simply would not be able to keep up. Al has a collection as well, maybe a joint effort to kill as many PCIe SSDs as possible?
"Toshiba is bringing the OCZ brand into the NVMe SSD market with its RD400. We put the drive through its paces to see how it stacks up with Intel's 750 Series and Samsung's 950 Pro drives."
Here are some more Storage reviews from around the web:
- Techman SSD XC100 Series NVMe @ The SSD Review
- SanDisk X400 @ The SSD Review
- Angelbird Wings PX1 SSD Adapter @ techPowerUp
- QNAP TBS-453A 4-Bay M.2 SSD NASbook @ techPowerUp
- Seagate Enterprise Capacity 8TB HDD Review @ OCC
- Seagate Personal Cloud Pro (2-Bay) 4TB NAS Review @ NikKTech
- Patriot SuperSonic Rage 2 256GB USB 3.1 Gen 1 Flash Drive Review @ NikKTech
Criminy, that's a nasty one! Near invisible infections via BITS
Subject: General Tech | June 9, 2016 - 12:41 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
Tagged: microsoft, BITS, security
BITS, the Microsoft Background Intelligent Transfer Service used for pushing out OS updates among other things can be turned to the dark side in a rather nasty way. When cleaning up an infect network, security professionals stumbled upon a nasty discovery, a compromised machine with no sign of an infection vector except in the BITS database. The malware came in through the usual channel but once installed it used a BITS task to clean up any traces of the installation from temp files and the registry and then delete itself, leaving an infected machine with almost no traces of where the infection came from or is residing. The Register offers advice on how to check suspicious machines in their story.
"While working on a customer clean-up project, SecureWorks staff found that attackers had created self-contained BITS tasks that didn't appear in the registries of affected machines, and their footprints were limited to entries on the BITS database."
Here is some more Tech News from around the web:
- Microsoft's mobile device management meltdown @ The Register
- Broadcom sues Sony over MPEG, wireless etc patents in PlayStation 4 @ The Register
- BlackBerry Hands Over User Data To Help Police 'Kick Ass,' Insider Says @ Slashdot
- Microsoft clones Trello, smuggles it into Office @ The Register
- Ubuntu 16.10 To Be Powered By Linux Kernel 4.8 @ Slashdot
- Google co-founder Larry Page probably has secret flying car factories @ The Inquirer
ASUS Plans a 27-Inch, 144Hz, 4K, IPS Gaming Monitor
Subject: Displays | June 9, 2016 - 02:55 AM | Scott Michaud
Tagged: asus, 4k 144hz, ips
Well this will be an impressive set of features some day. People have been asking for high-refresh, 4K panels with good colors for quite a while. It was almost a running joke in some of our comments. Apparently, ASUS took it seriously, and they are looking to release a 144Hz, 4K, IPS Gaming monitor, and they had a prototype on the show floor at Computex 2016.
Image Credit: VR-Zone
Okay then. That checks off just about every box on the enthusiast wishlist, except maybe OLED (depending on whether the specific enthusiast loves its contrast or fears it color accuracy). Also, it is unclear whether they will support the FreeSync or G-Sync, but either could happen -- or both! Or neither.
We won't know until they make an official announcement... again, some day.
Samsung Announces Galaxy S7 Active
Subject: Mobile | June 9, 2016 - 02:20 AM | Scott Michaud
Tagged: Samsung, galaxy, galaxy s7, ruggedized
The Samsung Galaxy S7 launched a couple of months ago. While it wasn't too bad from a durability standpoint, I have heard people complain that their screen fractured from a seemingly low-risk fall. Over time, it seemed like they were somewhat fluke examples because it kind-of fell off the radar. Still, if you want the specifications of a Galaxy S7, and you want to extra reliability without placing it inside a case, Samsung has added a version of the phone in their Active line.
Image Credit: AT&T
AT&T doesn't list pricing and they only state "coming soon" for availability. They do mention that the battery will get a significant bump in capacity, though. The original Galaxy S7 and Galaxy S7 Edge phones have a 3,000 mAh and a 3,700 mAh battery, respectively, but the Galaxy S7 Active is larger: 4,000 mAh. Critics like the battery life of the original S7, many claiming that it lasts a whole, heavy-use day for them, but an extra 33% is nothing to sneer at.
If only it comes to Canada, too...
Microsoft Open-Sources Their WebGL Implementation
Subject: General Tech | June 9, 2016 - 01:42 AM | Scott Michaud
Tagged: webgl, microsoft
Websites can use WebGL to share 3D objects in an interactive way, have interesting backgrounds and decorations, or even render a video game.
This is not an open-source build of Microsoft Edge, though. It doesn't have the project files to actually be built into something useful. Microsoft intends for it to be reference, at least for now they say. If you are interested in using or contributing to this project for some reason, their GitHub readme file asks you to contact them. As for me? I just think it's neat.
Mozilla Will Begin Electrolysis with Firefox 48
Subject: General Tech | June 9, 2016 - 01:08 AM | Scott Michaud
Tagged: mozilla, firefox
This roll-out won't necessarily be immediate, though. You can install Firefox 48 and, only some weeks later, get Electrolysis turned on retroactively. They are starting with about 1% of eligible users, which will ramp up to all eligible users over time or even be disabled if alarm bells start to ring.
Speaking of eligible users, there are quite a few conditions that will prevent you from getting Electrolysis. Namely, if you use extensions (it's unclear if they're talking about all extensions, or just ones that use certain APIs) then you will be kept on single-process. They don't specify why, but it could very well be the situation that I mentioned in the first paragraph.
Firefox 48 is scheduled to be released in six weeks (the first week of August).
GOG.com Commences Their Summer Sale
Subject: General Tech | June 9, 2016 - 12:32 AM | Scott Michaud
Tagged: GOG, pc gaming
GOG.com has begun their Summer Sale, as of June 8th, and it has some fairly deep discounts in it. First, if you sign in to their GOG Galaxy client, they will gift you a free copy of System Shock 2. Second, The Witcher III is 50% off again, or you can get the game and all of its DLC for the price of the base game (which ends up working out to 33% off).
The top seller is the Homeworld Remastered Collection, which has been reduced to $17.49 USD (50%-off). You can also get either The SOLUS Project, which released this week, or The Witness for 15% off. Then we get to some of the game bundles, like all of the Tropicos or a bunch of Bullfrog titles for 80% off. You know how these digital game sales work.
They are also doing an XP system. If you buy games, check in, or do a few other actions, you can accumulate points that will unlock a handful of free games. The three that they're offering me are Spelunky, Gabriel Knight, and Dreamfall Chapters. I'm not sure if it's the same for everyone, though.
Subject: Graphics Cards | June 8, 2016 - 09:45 PM | Scott Michaud
That wasn't even capslock. That was pure shift key.
A little after Computex, GIGABYTE announced their GTX 1080 XTREME GAMING graphics card, which should be their flagship of the GeForce GTX 1080 line. It is a three-fan design, although the center fan overlaps with the two edge ones. It will also accept two, eight-pin PCIe power connectors, which gives a theoretical maximum draw of 375W.
Also, taking a cue from EVGA's recent VR-Edition 980 Ti, GIGABYTE includes a I/O front panel for cases with an extra 5.25" bay. This contains two HDMI ports and two USB 3.0 ports to allow users to quickly connect VR headsets to and from their PC. When connected, it disables two DisplayPort outputs on the card, routing them to the front-panel's HDMI instead. I'm not exactly clear on why you would need two HDMI connections in the front, but okay.
They are also releasing their own SLI HB connector, which they claim will support speeds up to 1080 MHz. The SLI HB standard, from NVIDIA, clocks up to 650 MHz. We assume that this is a typo on GIGABYTE's part (having 1080 on the brain for some reason...) but we've contacted NVIDIA to see what's up.
Currently no pricing or availability information. It comes with a three year warranty that can be upgraded to a four-year warranty by registering your product and signing up to their "XTREME GAMING Club".
GeForce GTX 1080 and 1070 3-Way and 4-Way SLI will not be enabled for games
Subject: Graphics Cards | June 8, 2016 - 08:44 PM | Ryan Shrout
Tagged: sli, pascal, nvidia, GTX 1080, GP104, geforce, 4-way sli, 3-way sli
IMPORTANT UPDATE: After writing this story, but before publication, we went to NVIDIA for comment. As we were getting ready to publish, the company updated me with a shift in its stance on multi-GPU configurations. NVIDIA will no longer require an "enthusiast key" to enable SLI on more than two GPUs. However, NVIDIA will also only be enabling 3-Way and 4-Way SLI for a select few applications. More details are at the bottom of the story!
You'll likely recall that during our initial review of the GeForce GTX 1080 Founders Edition graphics card, we mentioned that NVIDIA was going to be moving people towards the idea that "only 2-Way SLI will be supported" and promoted. There would still be a path for users that wanted 3 and 4 GPU configurations anyway, and it would be called the Enthusiast Key.
As it turns out, after returning from an AMD event focused on its upcoming Polaris GPUs, I happen to have amassed a total of four GeForce GTX 1080 cards.
Courtesy of some friends at EVGA and two readers that were awesome enough to let me open up their brand new hardware for a day or so, I was able to go through the 3-Way and 4-Way SLI configuration process. Once all four were installed, and I must point out how great it is that each card only required a single 8-pin power connector, I installed the latest NVIDIA driver I had on hand, 368.19.
Knowing about the need for the Enthusiast Key, and also knowing that I did not yet have one and that the website that was supposed to be live to enable me to get one is still not live, I thought I might have stumbled upon some magic. The driver appeared to let me enable SLI anyway.
Enthusiasts will note however that the green marker under the four GPUs with the "SLI" text is clearly only pointing at two of the GTX 1080s, leaving the remaining two...unused. Crap.
At this point, if you have purchased more than two GeForce GTX 1080 cards are simply out of luck and are waiting on NVIDIA to make good on it's promise to allow for 3-Way and 4-Way configurations via the Enthusiast Key. Or some other way. It's way too late now to simply say "we aren't supporting it at all."
While I wait...what is there for a gamer with four GeForce GTX 1080 cards to do? Well, you could run Ashes of the Singularity. It's multi-GPU mode uses MDA mode, which means the game engine itself accesses each GPU on its own, without the need for the driver to handle anything regarding GPU load balancing. Unfortunately, Ashes only supports two GPUs today.
Well...you could run an OpenCL based benchmark like LuxMark that access all the GPUs independently as well.
I did so, and the result is an impressive score of 17,127!!
How does that compare to some other products?
The four GTX 1080 cards produce a score that is 2.57x the result provided by the AMD Radeon Pro Duo and 2.29x the score of SLI GeForce GTX 980 Ti cards. Nice!
So there you go! We are just as eager to get our hands on the ability to test 3-Way and 4-Way SLI with new Pascal GPUs as some of the most extreme and dedicated enthusiasts out there are. With any luck, NVIDIA will finally figure out a way to allow it - no matter how it finally takes place.
IMPORTANT UPDATE: Before going to press with this story I asked NVIDIA for comment directly: when was the community finally going to get the Enthusiast Key website to unlock 3-Way and 4-Way SLI for those people crazy enough to have purchased that many GTX 1080s? The answer was quite surprising: NVIDIA is backing away from the idea of an "Enthusiast Key" and will no longer require it for enabling 3-Way and 4-Way SLI.
Here is the official NVIDIA statement given to PC Perspective on the subject:
With the GeForce 10-series we're investing heavily in 2-way SLI with our new High Bandwidth bridge (which doubles the SLI bandwidth for faster, smoother gaming at ultra-high resolutions and refresh rates) and NVIDIA Game Ready Driver SLI profiles. To ensure the best possible gaming experience on our GeForce 10-series GPUs, we're focusing our efforts on 2-way SLI only and will continue to include 2-way SLI profiles in our Game Ready Drivers.
DX12 and NVIDIA VR Works SLI technology also allows developers to directly implement and control multi-GPU support within their games. If a developer chooses to use these technologies then their game will not need SLI profiles. Some developers may also decide to support more than 2 GPUs in their games. We continue to work with all developers creating games and VR applications that take advantage of 2 or more GPUs to make sure they'll work great on GeForce 10-series GPUs.
For our overclocking community, our Game Ready Drivers will also include SLI profiles for 3- and 4-way configurations for specific OC applications only, including Fire Strike, Unigine and Catzilla.
NVIDIA clearly wants to reiterate that only 2-Way SLI will get the attention that we have come to expect from the GeForce driver dev team. As DX12 and Vulkan next-generation APIs become more prolific, the game developers will still have the ability to directly access more than two GeForce GTX 10-series GPUs, though I expect that be a very narrow window of games simply due to development costs and time.
NVIDIA will enable support for three and four card configurations in future drivers (without a key) for specific overclocking/benchmarking tools only, as a way to make sure the GeForce brand doesn't fall off the 3DMark charts. Only those specific applications will be able operate in the 3-Way and 4-Way SLI configurations that you have come to know. There are no profiles to change manually and even the rare games that might have "just worked" with three or four GPUs will not take advantage of more than two GTX 10-series cards. It's fair to say at this point that except for the benchmarking crowd, NVIDIA 3-Way and 4-Way SLI is over.
We expect the "benchmark only" mode of 3-Way and 4-Way SLI to be ready for consumers with the next "Game Ready" driver release. If you happened to get your hands on more than two GTX 1080s but aren't into benchmarking, then find those receipts and send a couple back.
So there you have it. Honestly, this is what I was expecting from NVIDIA with the initial launch of Pascal and the GeForce GTX 1080/1070 and I was surprised when I first heard about the idea of the "enthusiast key." It took a bit longer than expected, and NVIDIA will get more flak for the iterated dismissal of this very niche, but still pretty cool, technology. In the end, this won't have much impact on the company's bottom line as the quantity of users that were buying 3+ GTX GPUs for a single system was understandably small.
NVIDIA Announces an E3 #GameReady Giveaway
Subject: Graphics Cards | June 8, 2016 - 06:26 PM | Scott Michaud
Tagged: nvidia, giveaway, e3 2016, E3
Update, June 8th @ 8:15pm: Just to clarify, this giveaway is not affiliated with PC Perspective. We just found it on Twitter and thought that our readers might like to have a chance at free hardware.
Fairly simple bit of news for this one. NVIDIA has announced that they will be giving away $100,000 of prizes to people who message @NVIDIA and use the #GameReady hashtag, on either Twitter or Instagram, during one of five E3 keynotes.
Sunday (June 12th, 2016):
- EA at 1PM PDT / 4PM EDT / 8PM GMT
- Bethesda at 7PM PDT / 10PM EDT / 2AM GMT (Monday)
Monday (June 13th, 2016):
- Microsoft at 9:30AM PDT / 12:30PM EDT / 4:30PM GMT
- PC Gaming Show at 12PM PDT / 3PM EDT / 7PM GMT
- Ubisoft at 1PM PDT / 4PM EDT / 8PM GMT
Interestingly, Sony was not listed on their rundown. Sure, they rarely have anything relevant to PC gamers, but it's still an amusing omission none-the-less.
According to their Terms and Conditions, the sweepstakes is open to a large portion of the world. They will be giving away fifty GTX 1080s, "up to" thirty $500 Steam Gift Cards, and "an ultimate PC battlestation"??? I'm not sure what that is, but it sounds like Mark Hamill will be trying to destroy it a few times.
E3 starts this weekend! Stay tuned for coverage. (You can also sleep, eat, and do laundry, though.)
Gigabyte's Z170X-UD3 for the middle of the road enthusiast
Subject: Motherboards | June 8, 2016 - 06:17 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
Tagged: gigabyte, Z170X-UD3, Intel Z170
At $150 Gigabyte's Z170X-UD3 is within the budget of many system builders but the question remains as to the value you get for that money. The Tech Report delved into this topic in their recent review and the prognosis is good, especially if you can find it on sale for $120 like they did. They did find the firmware somewhat limiting, though some of us do like the Classic Mode UEFI the fan speed control is quite limited. Gigabyte did address that with their System Information Viewer utility for Windows which does allow for fine control and when asked Gigabyte did suggest they may address this in a new UEFI update. With three PCIe 3.0 x16 slots, USB 3.1 and a pair of M.2 ports you do not suffer for connectivity and the overclocking potential is certainly acceptable for this price point. Check out their full review here.
"Gigabyte's Z170X-UD3 is a mid-range motherboard that gives builders everything the Z170 chipset has to offer and more. We take an in-depth look at this board to see whether it lives up to the promise of its impressive spec sheet."
Here are some more Motherboard articles from around the web:
- MSI X99A Gaming Pro Carbon @ [H]ard|OCP
- MSI X99A Gaming Pro Carbon Motherboard Review @ Hardware Canucks
- ASUS ROG STRIX X99 @ Kitguru
- ASUS STRIX X99 @ Kitguru
Battlefield 1; faster bullets and slower truncheons
Subject: General Tech | June 8, 2016 - 04:18 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
Tagged: gaming, battlefield 1
It won't just be flamethrowers and HMG emplacements in Battlefield 1, you can expect shotguns, sniper rifles, submachine guns, LMGs and semi-automatic along with a variety of melee weapons to inflict pain with. According to the information Rock, Paper, SHOTGUN garnered from the Q&A sessions that the developer hosted, bullet velocity will also be increased; not in a CoD way but to travel at speeds somewhat closer to reality. There will also be tools for snipping barbed wire and possibly to damage light vehicles if the inference is correct ... and not referring to a horse. Follow the link for an extremely short video of two weapons in action.
"The weapons of Battlefield 1 are a bit more specialized," Schimek said. "To get the most out of them, you have to be aware of their strengths and weaknesses, and use the right one in the right situation."
Here is some more Tech News from around the web:
- Total War WARHAMMER DirectX 12 PC GFX & CPU scaling performance @ Guru of 3D
- Hack The Planet: Watch Dogs 2 Coming November 15th @ Rock, Paper, SHOTGUN
- Watch Dogs 2 Announcement Announced, Teaser Teased @ Rock, Paper, SHOTGUN
- Dota 2 Vulkan vs. OpenGL Performance Redux @ Phoronix
- 12-Way NVIDIA GeForce Comparison For F1 2015 On Linux @ Phoronix
- eus Ex: Mankind Divided And This Mess We're In @ Rock, Paper, SHOTGUN
- Wot I Think: Overwatch @ Rock, Paper, SHOTGUN
- RPS Verdict: Overwatch @ Rock, Paper, SHOTGUN
- Mirror's Edge Catalyst @ Kotaku
- Saints Row developer Volition announces Agents of Mayhem @ HEXUS
- Deus Ex Mankind Divided: Gameplay Footage, New Project Reveals From 4.30pm @ Rock, Paper, SHOTGUN
- There Is Only War: Playing Total Warhammer As The Chaos Warriors @ Rock, Paper, SHOTGUN
Hacking Android into an iPhone; sort of
Subject: General Tech | June 8, 2016 - 01:44 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
Tagged: hack, iphone, Android
It is more of a bootloader, in that a custom 3D printed iPhone case hides a device based around LG Nexus 5 which plugs into the iPhone and allows you to launch Marshmallow 6.0.1 on your iPhone. Once you unplug the lighting cable connection between the iPhone and the case your phone reverts to iOS, thus avoiding having to flash the protected innards of the phone. The interface is described as somewhat laggy but it has a functional USB port, HDMI out and room for a microSD card. This is the same fellow who managed to get Win95 running on an Apple Watch so we may read more about his rule breaking modifications at The Inquirer.
"ANDROID RUNNING on an iPhone? Really? It's true. Sort of. The latest episode in our ongoing series of things running on other things is a doozy, the Holy Grail."
Here is some more Tech News from around the web:
- AMD "Summit Ridge" Desktop Processor @ Tech ARP
- From iWarp to Knight's Landing: James Reinders leaves Intel @ The Register
- Why does an Android keyboard need to see your camera and log files – and why does it phone home to China? @ The Register
- Juniper: Yes, IPv6 ping-of-death hits Junos OS, too @ The Register
James Reinders Leaving Intel and What It Means
Subject: Processors | June 8, 2016 - 08:17 AM | Scott Michaud
Tagged: Xeon Phi, Intel, gpgpu
Intel's recent restructure had a much broader impact than I originally believed. Beyond the large number of employees who will lose their jobs, we're even seeing it affect other areas of the industry. Typically, ASUS releases their ZenPhone line with x86 processors, which I assumed was based on big subsidies from Intel to push their instruction set into new product categories. This year, ASUS chose the ARM-based Qualcomm Snapdragon, which seemed to me like Intel decided to stop the bleeding.
That brings us to today's news. After over 27 years at Intel, James Reinders accepted the company's early retirement offer, scheduled for his 10001st day with the company, and step down from his position as Intel's High Performance Computing Director. He worked on the Larabee and Xeon Phi initiatives, and published several books on parallelism.
According to his letter, it sounds like his retirement offer was part of a company-wide package, and not targeting his division specifically. That would sort-of make sense, because Intel is focusing on cloud and IoT. Xeon Phi is an area that Intel is battling NVIDIA for high-performance servers, and I would expect that it has potential for cloud-based applications. Then again, as I say that, AWS only has a handful of GPU instances, and they are running fairly old hardware at that, so maybe the demand isn't there yet.
E3 Demos Versus Released Games
Subject: General Tech | June 8, 2016 - 07:39 AM | Scott Michaud
Tagged: E3
With E3 coming up, JohnGR pointed out a video in the comments of one of our E3 trailer posts that compares Ubisoft's demos with their released games. I tend to be relatively forgiving of these issues, personally, but the video is quite well done from an editing standpoint. It has quite a few moments of dry irony, especially with the contrast between the demo's busy audio sequences and the game section's silence.
We'll be seeing a lot of demos over the next handful of days. It's good to keep in mind that they are promotional snippets, either video or playable, that represent what the developer or publisher wants their game to be viewed as. Sometimes, it's just an overly optimistic view of what they can accomplish.
NVIDIA Releases GeForce 368.39 Drivers for Mirror's Edge
Subject: Graphics Cards | June 8, 2016 - 02:11 AM | Scott Michaud
Tagged: nvidia, graphics drivers
NVIDIA has released a new graphics driver, in line with EA's new title, Mirror's Edge: Catalyst. Version 368.39 is another of their WHQL-certified, Game Ready-branded drivers that integrates all of their tweaks to improve the game's performance, including an updated SLI profile. It also includes performance tweaks for Insomniac's Oculus-exclusive VR title, Edge of Nowhere, which released on June 6th.
Beyond performance enhancements for specific titles, the driver also includes new features and fixes to known bugs. On the feature side of things, a handful of OpenGL extensions were added to support new features in Pascal. Extensions allow hardware vendors to add features without the Khronos Group needing to officially support it in the standard (although many turn multi-vendor and eventually end up in a later core specification). In this case, NVIDIA has added Single Pass Stereo to increase VR performance, Lens Matched Shading to also increase VR performance, Improved Conservative Rasterization to reduce the chance that a pixel fragment will be missed during rasterization of degenerate or otherwise odd geometry, and Double Precision Atomic Operations to increase reliability when doing GPU-compute on 64-bit, double-precision values in OpenGL.
On Windows 10, seven bugs were fixed in 368.39, and two of those were fairly high profile. First, the GTX 1080 Founders Edition fan speed revving issue has been fixed, as NVIDIA mentioned a few days ago. Second, performance issues (stuttering) in Total War: WARHAMMER were fixed. They also fixed an issue where Metal Gear Solid V would fail to launch (white screen).
The new drivers are available on GeForce Experience or their website.
Mirror's Edge: Catalyst DRM Rumors Are Wrong
Subject: General Tech | June 7, 2016 - 08:42 PM | Scott Michaud
Tagged: ea, dice, DRM, origin
GamersNexus wrote a piece that claimed Mirror's Edge: Catalyst has DRM that limits the number of hardware changes to four. According to an email from EA's press contact, it turns out that GamersNexus' article is not accurate. According to EA PR, if Origin detects five activations in a single day, the user will need to wait until 24 hours after their first activation to attempt again.
So you can change your hardware as many times as you want over the life of the game, just not more than four times in a single day, on a single account at least.
Image Credit: GamersNexus
This message didn't seem to say what they were implying it did. Turns out, it doesn't.
I decided to ask EA when I read the error message that GamersNexus posted -- the article's interpretation didn't seem right. The wording was as follows: "Too many computers have accessed this account's version of Mirror's Edge(TM) Catalyst recently. Please try again later." It seemed very odd to me that the wording "recently" and "Please try again later" would be attached to a permanent bricking of the game.
Again, it turns out that this is not the case, unless our press contact was not up to date about this specific title. As much as I dislike DRM, being a proponent of art preservation and archival, this part of Mirror's Edge's DRM should not affect the vast majority of users. This is something that should only affect people who are literally benchmarking a half-dozen (or so) graphics cards.
In short, it sounds like this is a non-issue after all.
GeForce GTX 1080s Are Available at Newegg Canada
Subject: Graphics Cards | June 7, 2016 - 08:07 PM | Scott Michaud
Tagged: zotac, pascal, nvidia, GTX 1080, GP104, asus
Update @ 10:30pm, June 7th: Annnnnnnnd it's gone.
Update @ 9:45pm, June 7th: ASUS is now out-of-stock, so I crossed out the relevant links. ZOTAC is still around for now.
Update @ 8:45pm, June 7th: Turns out that it's also available on Newegg US. In fact, it's possible that both sites share from the same stock pool, at least for the
US ASUS and US ZOTAC cards, given that Newegg Canada says it ships them from the US.
A couple of GeForce GTX 1080s are available at Newegg Canada at the moment. Both models, one from
ASUS and one from ZOTAC, are listed at $909. This seems high, but it's actually the current US-to-Canada exchange rate from the $699 MSRP. If you were interested in the Founders Edition cards, then you have a brief moment to pick one up.
That said, it's looking like the custom-cooled versions might be a better bet. The EVGA dual-fan GAMING SC ACX 3.0 version is listed at $824.99 CDN (~$635 USD) and, from what we've seen so far, seems to be quite a bit cooler than the Founders Edition (albeit we haven't tested sound levels yet). Those should be coming out fairly soon, and will apparently lean on the cheaper side of the Founders Edition fence.
But, if you don't care, go go go go go.
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This is an easy, delicious and comforting soup. You can use a can of sauerkraut, drained and well rinsed, in place of the cabbage if you wish. Also, get the broth mixture going and then add the sliced and diced veggies right into the pot as you prepare them. Pumpernickel bread is great with this.
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- 1 quart beef broth
- 1 cup beer
- 1 (14 1/2 ounce) can diced tomatoes
- 1 bay leaf
- 1 small head of cabbage, shredded
- 1 large baking potato
- 1 large onion, thinly sliced
- 1 large carrot, cut into 1-inch slices
- 8 ounces kielbasa or 8 ounces smoked turkey sausage, cut into 1/2-inch dice
- 1⁄2 teaspoon thyme
- 1⁄4 teaspoon caraway seed
- 1⁄2 teaspoon salt (optional)
- 1⁄4 teaspoon fresh ground pepper
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- Heat to a boil; reduce heat to medium. Partially cover the pot. Cook till the potato and carrot are tender, about 15 minutes. Add salt, if needed, and pepper.
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This was good and easy. Used the rest of the cabbage that I had for stuffed cabbage rolls. I used canned broth and used the whole can rather than just the 1 qt. and used the whole bottle of beer. It was great, husband said this recipe is a keeper.
Delish...I did saute the onions and keilbasa with a little garlic first, then added the remaining ingredients. Good hearty soup. Will definitely be making this again. Thank you for sharing this recipe. :)
Excellent! Pretty much a full meal in a soup. I used light smoked turkey sausage. After reading the recipe intro, I liked the idea of using sauerkraut, so I used both..... a 1/2 head of cabbage and a small can of sauerkraut. Thanx for sharing. I'll make this again.


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