text:
Blog Archives
Sully Baseball Daily Podcast – June 3, 2014
Why do obscene real estate prices in the Bay Area and Donald Sterling's situation and the lease for the Raiders make me think of the Steinbrenner kids and the A's?
It is all clear in today's episode of The Sully Baseball Daily Podcast.
Kyle Seager, Justin Masterson, Jordy Mercer, Clayton Kershaw, Xander Bogaerts, John Lackey and Seth Smith all added to their totals for Who Owns Baseball
Read the rest of this entry
The Yanks Are In Desperation Mode + Need Cashman To Be A Riverboat Gambler!
Like us on Facebook here
Follow @mlbreportsMonday July.01/2013
By Chuck Booth (Lead Baseball Analyst/Website Owner): Follow @chuckbooth3024
It wasn't always a rosy picture for the New York Yankee fanbase after the 1982 season. In 1985, I became a fan of the team and Don Mattingly when I saw them smoke the Toronto Blue Jays like 22 – 0 or something on a Nationally televised game.
My dad was a huge Thurman Munson fan – and told me the legend of the Yankees when I started being able to hear. I even caught like his hero in little leaguie. Sometimes you pick up your love for the team based on your dad.
We still both love them to this day. I was there for 11 years of struggling from 1985 – 1995. Even when the club cashed in their 1st World Series in 1996, to me while it was cool, it would have been so much better had 'Donnie Baseball' been part of the ride.
The Bronx Bombers ripping off 3 more titles from 1998 – 2000 – and then another in 2009, have made me happy to be a fan. It is not just the playoffs that I have savored. This team has averaged 94 – 95 wins for the last 20 seasons.
The Yankees would be lucky to be in the 2013 ALCS like 2012
New York Yankees Payroll In 2013 And Contracts Going Fwd Updated Mar.4/2013
Like us on Facebook here
Follow @mlbreportsMonday, March.04/2013
Chuck Booth (Lead Baseball Analyst/Website Owner): Follow @chuckbooth3024
I am not like a lot of people thinking that there should be a full-scale blow-up of the Yankees current roster this year (past that I am acknowledging this will happen.) They are old and 2013 will not make them younger. However, there are some small tweaks that the team could do in order to make the payroll make sense. 1st priority was to sign Ichiro Suzuki.
The Japanese Superstar was not and Yankees obliged to let him play RF in New York. Adios to outgoing Nick Swisher. He was much too pricey and Yankee fans have to be sick at his lack of production in his playoff career. Swisher commanded a nice 4 or 5 year deal in the 56 – 70 Million Dollar Range from the Indians – and was not a fit into the Yankees current payroll structure.
The Yankees were initially looking to spend just a little over 178 Million Dollars in 2013, but that didn't happen. At a 40% penalty (for every dollar spent over the 178 Million Mark) for abusing the Luxury Tax Threshold, the team will need to have made financial considerations in moving forward each time they sign another new player. Curtis Granderson and Robinson Cano are on the last year of their contracts. Mark Teixeira, CC Sabathia and A-Rod still have multiple years left in their contracts.
I would immediately move Alex Rodriguez to a permanent DH (when he returns to the lineup) – and play Kevin Youkilis at 3B for all of 2013.
To the Readers on our Payroll Breakdowns: Keep in mind these are all just estimates as we are all not forensic payroll accountants. For a better look at how Payrolls work in the MLB please check out this article here.
Derek Jeter Highlights:
The New York Yankees Hitting Roster In 2013: State Of The Union Part 1
Like us on Facebook here
Follow @mlbreportsWednesday, February.13, 2013
Chuck Booth (Yankees Correspondent/Website Owner): Follow @chuckbooth3024
The Yankees had a precarious winter after failing miserably in the ALCS, (AKA the last time the country saw them play on Television) – when the team was decimated by the Detroit Tigers in a sweep. So what has happened since? A lot of status quo: Re-signing Mariano Rivera, Andy Pettitte, Ichiro Suzuki and Hiroki Kuroda, while saying good-bye to Raul Ibanez (SEA), Andruw Jones (FA), Nick Swisher (CLE), Eric Chavez (ARI), Russell Martin (PIT), Derek Lowe (FA), Steve Pearce (BAL), Casey McGehee (FA), Freddy Garcia (FA) and Rafael Soriano (WSH). All they really added back was former arch-nemesis Kevin Youkilis (CWS) and Travis Hafner (CLE). The team is sitting around 215 Million Dollars at Payroll right now, yet they have are heading into the 2013 campaign with Catchers that are of limited experience.
For the first time in years, the club will need to see some internal progress from their farm system to help the big club. With A-ROD out with his hip injury, plus the Miami fiasco, can you really count on the prima-donna to play at all this season? Derek Jeter is coming off a brutal ankle injury that occurred in the aforementioned Post Season Series vs the Tigers . The club is also hoping that 'MO' Rivera can find it within himself to make it through another year as a 43 Year Old. Just like The ALL-Time Saves Leader, this team is aging fast. Robinson Cano and Curtis Granderson are Free Agents after 2013 is over. Brian Cashman is also going to take advantage of the reset option f the Luxury Tax loophole in 2014.
This means that when the Luxury Tax goes from 178 Million to 189 Million next year, that the club can stop paying its 40% annual penalty if they can get under for just one season. The Yankees will be sure to blow up the Payroll from 2015 and beyond that, it is just to not start the new luxury lax at the maximum penalty. Had the Luxury Tax not moved from its current spot, the Yankees would always pay the 40% penalty (even if they decided to skip one year).
Yankees Highlights 2012: Mature Lyrics So Parental Guidance is Advised:


text:
Elasticsearch 1.0.0 released
Elasticsearch released version 1.0.0 of its self-titled, open-source analytics tool. Elasticsearch is a distributed search engine which allows for real-time data analysis in big-data environments. The new version comes with various functional enhancements and changes to the API to make Elasticsearch more intuitive and powerful to use.
On Lucene.Net: Becoming a Top-level Apache Project and Its Future
Lucene.Net, a C# port of the Lucene text search index library, has graduated the Incubator and has become a top-level Apache project. This article contains an interview with Prescott Nasser on the future of the project and Solr.Net.
LinkedIn Engineering Releases SenseiDB 1.0.0
LinkedIn engineering releases SenseiDB 1.0.0, a NoSQL database focused on high update rates and complex semi-structured search queries, already used in production by LinkedIn in its search related pages (e.g. People/Company search)
Apache Tika 1.0 Allows Easy Text Extraction for Java
InfoQ interviewed Chris Mattman from Apache Tika, a text extraction and detection library, in the occasion of the 1.0 release and the publication of the "Tika in Action" book.
Lucene 3.5 and Solr 3.5 - Substantial RAM Reduction, SearcherManager, Deep Paging Support
The Lucene PMC (Project Management Committee) has announced the availability of Apache Lucene 3.5.0 and Apache Solr 3.5.0. Lucene is a high-performance, full-featured text search library. Solr is a standalone search server that uses Lucene at its core for indexing and search.
Neo4j: Java-based NoSQL Graph Database
After several years of development, the developers from NeoTechnology have released version 1.0 of Neo4j, a Java-based graph database which follows the property graph datamodel. InfoQ spoke with NeoTechnology COO Peter Neubauer to learn more about the current Neo4j release and what it offers to developers.
Apache Lucene 2.9 Released
The Apache Software Foundation has released Lucene 2.9, the last minor release before 3.0. Amongst other features version 2.9 includes a number of performance improvements, and adds near real-time searching, native support for numeric range queries, and geospatial aware searching.
Lucid Imagination Releases Performance Monitoring Utility for Apache Lucene
Developers working with Apache Search engine Lucene typically rely on using a code profiler, debugging the source code, or manually instrumenting the Lucene code to track down performance variations with their Lucene implementation. LucidGaze, a free product from Lucid Imagination, offers an alternative. InfoQ takes a look at the product and talks to Lucid Imagination to find out more.
Apache Solr: Extensible, Clustered Search Server Built on Lucene
The Apache Solr project, an open source enterprise search server based on Apache Lucene, recently released version 1.3. InfoQ spoke with Solr creator Yonik Seeley to learn more about this release, and also about what capabilities Solr offers to end users.
Apache Lucene and Lucene.Net – Full Text Search Servers
Ten years ago, relying on open source projects was unimaginable in most Windows shops. These days, .NET programmers are awakening to the world of enterprise class software developed and proven on the Java platform. Today we look at the popular Full Text search engines, Apache Lucene and Lucene.Net.
Compass 2.0: Simplification, integration, and performance improvements
The Compass project, an open source project based on Lucene which aims to simplify the integration of search into Java applications, recently released version 2.0. InfoQ spoke with Compass founder Shay Banon to learn more about this release and about what Compass provides to the Java community.
Lucene 2.3: Large indexing performance improvements, new machine-learning project
The Apache Lucene project, a high-performance full-featured text search engine library written entirely in Java, released version 2.3 today. InfoQ spoke with committer and Project Management Committee (PMC) member Grant Ingersoll to learn more about this release and the future plans for Lucene.
Lucene Oracle Integration Looks to Surpass Oracle Text
New work to enhancement LUCENE-724 by Marcelo Ochoa allows for better integration of Lucene as a domain index from within the Oracle database. The updates allow greater flexibility than using Oracle Text.
OpenJPA 1.0: Enterprise O/R Mapping with full JPA 1.0 compliance
Apache OpenJPA, an open-source implementation of the Java Persistence API (JPA), recently released version 1.0.0. InfoQ spoke with OpenJPA project lead Patrick Linskey to learn more about this release.
Lucene 2.2: Payloads, Function queries, and more speed
Lucene Java 2.2 is now available. Lucene is a high-performance, full-featured text search engine library written entirely in Java. There are several new features in this version, and InfoQ spoke with Grant Ingersoll, a committer and Project Management Committee (PMC) member for the Lucene project, to learn more about this release.

subset: commoncrawl


text:
NYC Connected Communities, Supervised Lab , TechConnect: Open Lab - One on One Computer Help
Are you having trouble with your email? Don't know how to cut and paste? Need help creating a resume and applying for jobs online? Bring technology questions and get one-on-one assistance! Help provided by a NYC Connected Communities instructor using NYPL laptops.
More Info
- Audience: Adults, 50+, Adults
Keep Up With NYPL Events
Subscribe to our newsletters:
Programs for educators:


text:
The perfect bag for toting around your daily needs, the Truckette has been our best-selling bag for years. Made with sturdy, water-resistant waxed canvas, fully lined, and featuring 5 pockets to sort all of your stuff, this is the bag that you will find yourself using every day, no matter the weather. Our 'Flora' flap design features delicate bunches of red flowers on a charcoal grey flap.
There's a reason this is our most popular bag - for starters, it's a great size. Not too big, not too small. You can fit your essentials and have some room to spare for a scarf, book, or water bottle. The comfortable strap easily slides on your shoulder and with so many colors & flap designs to choose from, you can express your personal style with your choice. And with its' water-resistant fabrics, you can go about your day no matter the weather.


text:
AMD revenues, profits down, but still in the black Well, AMD has some good news and some bad news in its freshly released quarterly results announcement. The good news: AMD didn't lose any... Type: News story Tags: CPUs Graphics |
104 |
Apple hires Trinity platform architect John Bruno One of the brains behind AMD's Trinity APU has a new job—and no,... Type: News story Tags: CPUs Mac |
64 |
Intel posts modest revenue growth If Gartner's latest estimates are any indication, the PC market isn't faring... Type: News story Tags: CPUs |
32 |
GeForce GTX 660 Ti rumored for August release If you want a decent graphics card based on Nvidia's latest Kepler GPU microarchitecture, you're going to have to spend at least $400 on a... Type: News story Tags: Graphics |
51 |
Report: AMD to reveal Jaguar details in August Tablets are the hot new thing. Research firm IDC says over 100 million slates will sell this year, and that number is expected... Type: News story Tags: CPUs Mobile computing |
29 |
Deal of the week: Cheap storage for Steam's Summer Sale Valve's Steam Summer Sale is in full swing, giving us a good starting point for this week's deals post. There are a few... Type: News story Tags: CPUs Storage Gaming |
28 |
AMD cuts Radeon HD 7870, 7950, 7970 pricing Nothing like official price cuts to wrap up the week. AMD tells us... Type: News story Tags: Graphics |
71 |
IHS: All-in-one PCs growing faster than desktops It's no secret that PC shipments are stagnating. Gartner says last quarter was the "seventh consecutive quarter of flat to single-digit growth" for the... Type: News story Tags: Systems |
28 |
$99 mini PC has Android 4.0, HDMI, USB Android isn't just for tablets and smartphones. The Google OS has made... Type: News story Tags: Systems |
37 |
Gartner: PC shipments shrunk by 0.1% last quarter These aren't the best times for the PC industry. Gartner has posted preliminary numbers for this year's second quarter, and it looks like PC... Type: News story Tags: Systems |
69 |
Triple-screen gaming on today's graphics cards Thanks to falling LCD prices, multi-monitor gaming is more attainable than ever before. We take a closer look at AMD Eyefinity and Nvidia... Type: Feature article Tags: Graphics Displays Gaming |
110 |
AMD: Second-quarter revenue will fall short of estimates Here's the latest in AMD's ever-growing string of misfortunes. After posting a $590 million loss last quarter, AMD proudly announced that its revenue would... Type: News story Tags: CPUs Graphics |
83 |
Deal of the week: Cheap storage and CPUs, plus an ultraportable SSD prices have plummeted over the past year. No wonder solid-state drives have been regular fixtures in our weekly deals posts. There are plenty... Type: News story Tags: CPUs Storage Mobile computing |
12 |
GeForce 304.79 beta drivers add TXAA, fix bugs Howdy, GeForce users! Hope you've got time for another driver installation. It's only taken two weeks, but Nvidia has already posted some new beta drivers to... Type: News story Tags: Graphics |
14 |
TR's Summer 2012 system guide We've freshened up our four usual configs for the summer, and we've added a whole new build, as well: the Next-Gen Console, a Mini-ITX rig... Type: Feature article Tags: Systems |
154 |
New Catalyst drivers improve security, performance When AMD announced plans to slow down its driver release cadence in late May, I didn't expect to see the company release not... Type: News story Tags: Graphics |
14 |
Nvidia posts WHQL-certified drivers for Windows 8 WHQL-certified drivers for a pre-release operating system? You bet. Nvidia has posted its latest batch of GeForce drivers for the Windows 8 Release Preview,... Type: News story Tags: Graphics |
9 |
Review: Nvidia's GeForce GT 640 graphics card With the GeForce GT 640, Nvidia has slimmed down its Kepler architecture into a budget graphics card with a $100 price tag. Join us... Type: Feature article Tags: Graphics |
92 |
Gigabyte has two A320 boards for bread-and-butter Ryzen builds | 16 |
Well, so much for Common Courtesy Day... | +29 |


text:
1. Meet Liz and Angela. They've been together 6+ years and have an 11-month-old son.
Like many, they worry about being good parents. And despite having opposite personalities, they meet in the middle.
They had to get officially married in Boston because it's not legal in Maryland.
They just want to know that their family is protected like everyone else's in the state.
2. Meet Annie and Meredith. They've been together for 10+ years.
Because it's not legal to get married in Maine, they had a commitment ceremony.
They hope to "replace" their certificate of support with an official marriage license.
For them, "this is it." They want to spend the rest of their lives together.
3. Meet Jim and Steve. They've been together for 37+ years.
They always interrupt each other and always finish each other's sentences.
They moved into a new house together in Maine and in many ways feel like a young couple again.
But they are worried about retirement and healthcare. They want to make sure they have access to each other in a time of need.
4. Meet Theresa and Justine. They've been together 10+ years.
They have two energetic daughters, which means every day it's "full steam ahead."
But even after all this time together, they still take each other's breath away.
For them, to get married in Minnesota means they can introduce each other as "wife."
5. Meet Michael and Jamil. They've been together 5+ years.
They challenge each other every day but feed off each other's energy.
They share custody of their 7-year-old daughter, Madison.
And while they are a "married" couple of three years, it's not legally recognized in Minnesota.
6. Meet Marika and Regina. They've been together 12+ years.
They had to hire a lawyer to ensure both parents had rights to their daughter, June.
They are frustrated they cannot cover each other on their health insurance.
At the end of the day, all they want is to be treated like any "normal couple" in Minnesota.
7. Meet Jamie and Eric. They've been together 10+ years and have four boys.
In each other, they've found people they want as a lifetime partner and people they want to raise a family with.
Their kids are too young to realize their family isn't treated equally in the state of Washington.
They hope their sons' generation will be the first that "don't have to ever remember that."
8. Meet Debbie and Anna. They've been together 12+ years.
They are grateful to have each other in their lives.
And they feel that their family is very much a part of the Washington community.
But what they don't want is their sons to ever question that they are different than anyone else.
Each story was captured on film by Chase Whiteside and Erick Stoll in partnership with TheFour.com in a four-part series called, Marriage For All Families. Their goal was to demonstrate the everyday "challenges, responsibilities and aspirations" these families experience just like most families across the nation.
Watch each of the video versions of the stories told above:
These four states will vote on the marriage rights for same-sex couples on November 6th. Learn how to get involved here.
- Trump may have initially blamed Democrats for Friday's failed health care bill, but it took only 2 days for him to start blaming Republicans, too.
- A vandal allegedly smashed glass and threw a bible into a Colorado mosque on Sunday morning.
- South Korean prosecutors have reportedly asked a judge to issue an arrest warrant for former President Park Geun-hye.
- And Muslims in Birmingham told BuzzFeed News what it's like in the city that finds itself under the spotlight because of the murderous actions of London attacker Khalid Masood.


text:
Missouri House Saves Metro Despite Opposition
Jefferson City, MO- The Missouri House
of Represetatives approved House Bill 22 Monday night, giving St. Louis' Metro $12 million in
funding. This came despite opposition
from the Governor and Democratic House leaders.
"We are now one
crucial step closer to restoring funding for Metro," said Speaker of the House,
Ron Richard. "With the possibility of
many of the closed routes re-opening, we can look forward to rebuilding our
state's workforce and improving public safety."
Voted down on Thursday, the Missouri House worked in a bipartisian effort
to turn the bill around. After a stunning 82-68 defeat, the Missouri House
reversed course on House Bill 22, passing it 117-42.
"This funding
will help restore service to many St. Louis residents who
rely on Metro," said Representative Jamilah Nasheed D – St. Louis. "Now
Governor Nixon must step up to the plate and join the House in supporting this
crucial funding. I encourage him to end
his silence on such an important issue and work closely with the Senate to
secure passage of the bill," Nasheed added.
The Governor has
denied several requests from both sides of the isle to join them in their
support of Metro funding. His silence
has threatened jobs for the working poor and disabled those who rely on the
transportation system.
Richard finished
by saying, "We are hopeful that the Governor will take a stand on this issue and
urge our friends in the Senate to follow our lead and pass House Bill 22 so that
we can begin the road to economic recovery and improve the lives of hard-working
Missouri citizens." he added.
The legislative package will alleviate cuts made
March 30 after voters in St. Louis
County failed to approve a sales tax
increase last November. The bill now goes to the Senate.


text:
Alternative Title:
Learn about this topic in these articles:
applications of plasma
...of which is a circular field parallel to the axis of the plasma. In addition, a number of turbulent plasma processes must be controlled to keep the system stable. In 1991 a machine called the JET (
Joint European Torus) was able to generate 1.7 million watts of fusion power for almost 2 seconds after researchers injected titrium into the JET's magnetically confined plasma. It was the first...
tokamak facility
...Performances closest to the level of a practical fusion reactor have been attained in three flagship experiments in Europe, Japan, and the United States. These large tokamak facilities are the
Joint European Torus (JET), a multinational western European venture operated in England; the Tokamak-60 (JT-60) of the Japan Atomic Energy Research Institute; and the Tokamak Fusion Test Reactor...


text:
Download the latest version of S3 Inc. 928 PCI drivers according to your computer's operating system. All downloads available on this website have been scanned by the latest anti-virus software and are guaranteed to be virus and malware-free.
Browse the list of top S3 Inc. 928 PCI drivers below to find the driver that meets your specifications. To see more matches from our driver database, use our customized search engine to search for all S3 Inc. 928 PCI drivers. Let us know if you do not find the driver you need.
To download, select the best match for your device and then click the Download button. Need help? You can get help and discuss drivers on our free driver forum. If all else fails, you can request the driver and we will find it for you.
S3 Inc. 928 PCI Driver Update UtilitySupported OS: Windows 10, Windows 8.1, Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows XPFile Version: Version 3.6.7 File Size: 2.2 MB File Name: DriverNavigator_Setup.exeDownload >> |
S3 Trio 32/64 PCI 732/764 DriverS3Supported OS: Win 95, Win 3.11File Size: 1.5 MB File Name: S3_to95.ZIPDownload >> 1,017 Downloads Submitted Apr 19, 2004 by Marc Chick (DG Member):"Original Disks (2) - Dos tru to Win 95* - Expert colour chip - Used also to fix refresh on 86C732 running 98SE* - *See text in zip" |
968 DriverCorecoSource: Manufacturer Website (Official Download)Supported OS: Win 95 File Size: 105.0 KB File Name: 968win95.zipDownload >> 5 Downloads Submitted Dec 14, 2006 by Kesavan (DG Staff Member):"968 - Driver File" |
ultd9100 DriverCorecoSource: Manufacturer Website (Official Download)File Size: 170.5 KB File Name: ultd9100.zipDownload >> 8 Downloads Submitted Dec 14, 2006 by Kesavan (DG Staff Member):"ultd9100 - Driver File" |


text:
Kershaw Limited Edition Random Leek 3" Assisted Opening 14C28N Steel Blade - KS1660TSW
Part Number: | KS1660TSW |
Manufacturer: | Kershaw Knives |
The Leek series includes some of our most popular knives. And no wonder. Kershaw's Leeks offer Ken Onion's distinctive design as well as the SpeedSafe ambidextrous assisted opening system. With SpeedSafe, the user can smoothly and easily deploy the blade with one hand, either left or right. Leeks come in a variety of handle styles, some with technologically advanced coatings for enhanced performance. For example, the bead-blasted stainless steel handle offers strength and beauty. A handle with black Tungsten DLC coating produces a Leek with a non-reflective surface. For lightweight and a one-of-a-kind look, choose our "smoked" double-anodized aluminum finish in two colors. Or choose our Pink Leek with it's fashionable pink anodized aluminum handle, the Rainbow Leek with its titanium oxide coating that produces a highly scratch resistant, brilliant, rainbow finish. Also new in 2007 is our Random Leek with a modified Tanto blade for cutting power and chromium nitride coating for hardness and corrosion resistance. For ease of carrying, all Leeks include a reversible/removable pocket clip.
This knife will mark the first appearance of our new proprietary steel 14C28N. Our 14C28N is made by Sandvik Steel out of Sweden, and will have similar performance characteristics of 13C26 but will have /much improved corrosion resistance/. The hardness of the steel will fall into the 59-60 Rc category.
This Random Leek will sport a Stonewashed finish and will come in plain edge only. It will incorporate the standard Leek Frame Lock.
Limited Edition - Only 1,000 pieces made.
- Steel: Sandvik 14C28N stainless-steel
- Handle: 410 stainless-steel
- Blade Length: 3 in. (7.5 cm)
- Closed Length: 4 in. (10.3 cm)
- Weight: 3.1 oz.
- Made in the USA
- SpeedSafe
- Frame Lock
- Thumb Stud
- Pocket Clip
Developed by Chris Reeve, it functions like a liner lock but the lock is comprised of one of the handle scales. It's an extremely strong and easy to manipulate lock.
Stainless Steel knife handles provide strength and durability and look and feel great.
This product is USA born and raised.


text:
That's really nice. Great idea!
Remember the first time I posted a recipe for Hasselback potatoes? Not having seen them before, I was pleasantly surprised: they looked gorgeous and were tasty to boot. And super simple. The crunchy exterior, the soft inside combined with the seasonings was great.
I wanted to try my hand at a more deluxe version this time. So not only did I fill the slices, alternately, with bacon and tomato, seasoned them with a hint of basil and topped them with Parmesan, but I actually baked them in a skillet that I filled halfway with garlicky chicken broth. Just for the heck of it.
The result was awesome! Soft and crunchy at the same time but in a more caramelized way, if that makes sense? If it doesn't make sense, you're just gonna have to try them yourself. You won't be disappointed, I promise!
6 medium potatoes
5 bacon strips
1 tomato
1 large garlic clove
2 tbsp butter
chicken broth
dried basil
Preheat your oven to 350F (175C).
Cut the bacon slices in 4 and thinly slice the tomatoes. Cut those slices in half.
Grate as much Parmesan as you like. I kept it around 2oz or so.
And while you're at it, grate the garlic as well.
Peel and wash the potatoes. I've used 2 potatoes per person.
Allow yourself a little artistic freedom! I like this shot.
Place the potato on a spoon with the flat side down.
In case you're wondering why I'm using a metal spoon that will ruin my knife.
Here's what happened to my one and only wooden spoon. That juvenile delinquent!
Cut the potatoes across at about 1 cm intervals. Season the potatoes with salt and pepper. Try to get some between the slices as well.
Alternately put bacon and tomato between the slices.
Sprinkle them with a hint of dried basil. Not too much, just a hint.
Add the garlic before the butter gets really hot. We want to flavor the butter without burning the garlic. Cook for a minute.
Quickly add the potatoes to the skillet. Mine was a bit crowded.
Pour in enough chicken stock to cover the potatoes between 1/3 to halfway.
Top the potatoes with the grated Parmesan.
Transfer the skillet to the oven and bake at 350F (175C) for 35 to 40 minutes. Until the potatoes are tender and the cheese is golden brown. The liquid will cook down and the starch will turn it into a thick sauce sticking to the potatoes. Yummy.
Delicious! Even prettier than the original Hasselback potatoes and a really exciting flavor and difference in structure! We ate them as a side dish but I'm sure they'd work as an appetizer as well.
Thinking of variations. Might just give them a shot with onion confit, fresh sage and sharp cheddar!
Hasselback – the sequel | |
Ingredients |
5 bacon strips 1 tomato 1 large garlic clove 2 tbsp butter chicken broth parmesan dried basil pepper salt |
Directions |
Cut the bacon slices in 4 and thinly slice the tomatoes. Cut those slices in half. Grate the Parmesan and garlic. Peel and wash the potatoes. Place the potatoes, flatside down, on a wooden spoon. Cut the potatoes across at about 1 cm intervals. Season the potatoes with salt and pepper. Try to get some between the slices as well. Alternately put bacon and tomato between the potato slices and sprinkle them with a hint of dried basil. Heat the butter but add the garlic before the butter gets really hot. Cook for 30 seconds, then transfer the potatoes to the skillet. Pour in enough chicken stock to cover the potatoes 1/3 to max halfway. Bring the liquid to a boil and top the potatoes with the grated Parmesan. Transfer the skillet to the oven and bake at 350F (175C) for 35 to 40 minutes. Until the potatoes are tender and the cheese is golden brown. The liquid will cook down while the starch in the potatoes will turn it into a thick sauce sticking to the potatoes. |
Meal type: | side dish or appetizer |
Servings: | 3 |
Copyright: | © kayotickitchen.com |
That's really nice. Great idea!
Mmmmmm, this looks super! Bacon truly makes everything better.
Your first potato recipe was great on it's own, and now these?? Thank you!
ditto on what katrina said
Het staat op het menu voor vanavond, het lijkt me heerlijk!
Dankjewel en ik laat nog weten hoe het smaakte.
Looks delicious!
perfect! i like your recipes and potatoes make me feel calm and happy!
what else can i ask for?!
OHMIGOSH .. yes, this is definitely being done in the next couple of days! I printed and kept the first hasselback recipe but never tried it for whatever reason (I don't even know why!). But this one grabs me even more.
Tell me though, what size skillet is that?
These are delicious looking – and oh, so – simple yet refined! Perfect for a Sunday afternoon meal – and for inviting people over for. I always feel overwhelmed when having guests — but your recipes have really helped with that! Have I told you how your sausage/red onion recipe is my go-to recipe time and again?! Thank you so much for your lovely blog, and humour! The wooden spoon is SO cute now! :D
Het heeft meer dan een uur in de oven gestaan en het was net…gaar.
De volgende keer doe ik er iets minder bouillon in, want het was nog behoorlijk vloeibaar.
Met dit in gedachten is het zeker voor herhaling vatbaar want het smaakte zeer goed :]]
Oh my! We love your original recipe. I must try this one, too. Since we have tomato allergies in our family, I think I'll try it with slivers of roasted red pepper in place of the tomatoes.
I have to agree with Marisa; bacon does make everything better.
Ooooh I like the ideas you used to improve them! I've tried making hasselback potatoes before and the next time I make them I thought of covering them in some sort of cheese sauce like with scalloped potatoes. But I'll definitely have to hide some bacon in between :)
Definitely some great ideas!
Your first recipe was great but this took it to a whole new level! Great photos.
KAY…pssst…what size skillet is this!? I only have a teeny 8″ one that I use for cobblers and cornbread, but can't do much more with it. I want to get one, but before I do, I want to make sure it's the size I keep "seeing" in recipes everywhere lately! THANKS!
Those look amazing and what a wonderfully simple dish to make! Love it! O and great idea to grate the garlic too. I have the same grater and have simply never thought to use it for grating garlic, but it does make perfect sense!
Curious about what the texture of the bacon was like. I have an aversion to limp bacon.
I love what your son did to the spoon! Hilarious. I need to touch base with my sisters and see if we can sneak these into our Thanksgiving menu (yes, I'm already thinking about that almost daily . . .)
First of all, your blog rules… been a long time fan but a first time replier. Secondly, your pictures are always fabulous. Thirdly, I've tried loads of recipes from your site and have never been disappointed, on the contrary.
This recipe, however, wasn't all that impressive. But that's just our opinion. I made enough for DH, DS and myself to have two each but we all reluctantly finished the first one.
BUT!…. I don't believe in throwing away food so the next day I sliced the potatoes and fried them up (bacon and tomato included) and these were the BEST! Onze meest favoriete gebakken aardappeltjes ooit.
Keep up the great work ;-)
Ik heb het gisteren gemaakt….heerlijk! Dank je!
This looks amazing I recently found your site and I have made menu plans for the next 2 weeks with your recipes. Thank you so much for step by step pictures and instructions for beginners like myself.
RSS feed for comments on this post. TrackBack URL


text:
I won't go into a review of either of these phones, or post pictures, as that has all been done before, and I'm just too lazy a sod to bother. Instead I though it important for people to realize the potential of these phones, their chameleon nature, just by swapping tips. So I decided to start a new thread as I don't believe this has been touched on before for these phones. And yes, I do understand the importance of ear tip fit, and how even different compositions of ear tips can alter the sound sig (I've written before on the topic). The difference here is that different tips transformed these modest, seemingly ordinary phones to a very happy place.
So here my story begins.......
I purchased the M9 as earlier reports suggested it and the highly regarded M6 shared the same drivers. As I posted earlier on a different thread, I was a bit disappointed in what, to my ears, was a bass heavy sound signature. Not my cup of tea, especially as such imbalance can rob the other end, the high freqs, of their presence. But at this price, no biggie. It was still better than I expected. However I found myself reaching for the Apple earbuds for just going out because although they were lacking in the tactile cues we relate with as 'Hi-Fidelity', they had a flatter freq response.
After contacting MEElectron regarding the M9 phones, the kind people there sent me different tips. Charge for the tips. Zero. Time to respond to my email. A few minutes.
A world of difference! Much more neural and defined from the previous sound sig which was rather bass dominant to the point of detracting from the rest of the freq response, and the music. Or at least this is my opinion, and my preference for a sound sig. But I was amazed the range one can get just by swapping tips. These can go from extreme bass machines to a darned flat response. In the mood for Hip-Hop with some juicy bass you'd be bumping from your Chevy Impala? Or perhaps rather a sensual violin concerto? Just switch tips. Crazy.
I was on such a roll with this nice company, I thought I'd try the M6. Again, the very kind folks at MEElec provided additional tips for my preferred freq balance. And again a winner. And as 'joker' mentions, a slightly cleaner sound sig, and slightly more extended high freqs in the M6 than the M9, but still fun phones. Please see others reviews on these phones for a more in depth description.
There is currently a difference in the new M9 and M6 drivers. The fit is also different. The M9 has a shorter and stouter nozzle the the tips fit on. The M6 is longer and thinner. As such, the M6 fits further into the ear.
If you think of bass loading, the smaller space of an IEM that fits deeply into the ear canal vs one that seals at the outer edge (tri-flange v donut tips, for example) would have less air to move, thus less bass, yet likely better highs. This was the case here, even though the drivers were not identical.
So the M6 trumps the M9? Well, not exactly. The M6 does sit further in my ear, and my ears are more sensitive to those tips over time. The M9, far less so. Also, fitting the M6 takes more effort. The may be easy to detach if you need to speak with someone, or check if you're crossing a busy street, but the M9's are far more convenient to just pop in and out as you're walking around. Chances are if you're popping them in and out, listening is not critical. I dare say the sound sigs are quite similar, as one might expect from MEElec signature, but then again, that depends entirely on the tips you use.
In all, I'm happy I own both the M6 and the M9. And even though the M6 sound is slightly better to my ears, I use the M9's more frequently. Different shades of flavor for different moods and purposes. Very pleased owning both.
Better yet is the Customer Service, which is second to none. You'd think these were $300 headphones instead of $30, and even then I doubt you'd get the rapid response I got from the nice people at MEElec. Thanks for all the help Joe and Simon. A great philosophy to build up a good customer base- keep them happy, and they shall return. I wish this company success as a model to the industry.
NOTE: MEElec is currently having a sale on the M6. Now it is truly a 'steal'.


text:
Montreal Tennis
This is a group for tennis players of all levels to meet other players in and around Montreal. Everyone welcome. Join and introduce yourself below.See More
Started this discussion. Last reply by PATRICIA Apr 1, 2008. 2 Replies 0 Likes
Mehdi has not received any gifts yet
© 2017 Created by Mark / The Mayor. Powered by


text:
just trying to look at the 3d and get it to look right was pretty much the entire experience of it...
it never reaches the point of looking like reality, and looks less real than 2d...
the main thing is, nothing in the extreme foreground ever looked in focus...
the only way things ever looked like they popped out of the screen would be if i focused on something that seemed to be in the middle ground, and things could pop out that i wasn't looking directly at...
i don't think 3d ever looks like the true 3-dimensions of the real world, i think at best it looks like a very big hologram...
December 18, 2009
How is that 3-D working out for you?
83 comments:
- Skyler said...
i didn't realize it was a 3D movie. It hasn't worked in fifty years, why would anyone think it would suddenly work now?
- vbspurs said...
I'm possibly going with the parental units tomorrow to go watch Avatar in the world's best cinemahouse: Boca Raton's Muvico Palace "Premier", an adult-only section within a regular movie theatre, where you can dine on champagne and burgers in your seat, if you want. But that's just for starters. If you're anywhere within sniffing distance of this modern cinema palace one day, GO.
And of course, I will report on Althouse if I agree with Chris or not.
Victoria - 12/18/09, 8:09 PM
- Flexo said...
Everyday film and video can have a pretty good three-dimensional effect if done properly.
I've even seen old episodes of the Twilight Zone -- the ones that they did on old videotape, rather than film, and some of the images there just right out of the screen. I think that it is probably due to a slight black outline to each of the figures.
If you go to the Sistine Chapel and look up at some of the paintings, they too will jump out at you. Or, rather, it looks like they are going to drop down on you. It's all very stunning. And that was done 500 years ago. - 12/18/09, 8:15 PM
- Heather said...
I can't speak for "Avatar," but My Bloody Valentine looks great in 3D.
- JohnAnnArbor said...
Was he off to the side of the theater? That can mess up some such systems.
- Chris Althouse Cohen said...
I was near the back of the theatre about halfway between the center-most seat and the farthest-right seat. If the 3D only works if you're dead center, then that's enough reason to be against it. I also found that you can destroy the 3D effect by tilting your head. It also made a huge difference what in the shot I was focusing on. It was an IMAX theatre, and I've read that 3D might actually work better on smaller screens. I wish I had known that earlier.
The 3D effect worked pretty well whenever things were supposed to be farther away, not coming towards me. Big, deep shots worked pretty well. But I think there are too many variables, and I don't see the real benefit. 2D looks better. Maybe I should see it on a smaller screen. - 12/18/09, 8:45 PM
- ricpic said...
In a review I read the reviewer said he was on the verge of 3-D induced nausea watching this film.
- TRO said...
Hmm, talk like this does not bode well for the film. I'm a big Sci Fi film fan and love modern special effects but between the bad reviews on the 3D and the whole "bad American corporation/military vibe" the film supposedly gives off I have decided I will wait for the DVD. My sons may go see it, but even they don't seem all that excited.
I'm betting on a big bust on this one. - 12/18/09, 9:03 PM
- Ralph L said...
The Ralph is angry. Angry about Capitalization. It's getting on his Nerves. Could you youngsters please just write like a Normal Person?
- victoria said...
I understand that some people were throwing up at the movie because of the 3D. Watch a couple of 3d cartoons in preparation. It takes a while to get adjusted to the 3d, then you hardly remember that you have the glasses on. Saw 3 3d cartoons with my grandson and they were fine after a while. Calme, calme.
Vicki from Pasadena - 12/18/09, 9:09 PM
- radar said...
I just got back from the theater. Medium size screen and I sat in the middle. The 3-D worked for me in the sense that it added to the experience without being distracting.
I found the CGI effects better than any I've seen especially the humanoid Na'vi. CGI "humans" are notoriously difficult to render as real humans are really quite good at detecting mistakes (google "uncanny valley"). Not sure if the techniques would work as well with human humanoids as opposed to giant blue feline humanoids with tails.
As most revewiers have pointed out, don't go to Avatar expecting an interesting story or complex character development. The imagery is outstanding though. - 12/18/09, 9:09 PM
- Kensington said...
Does the America-hating left-wing tripe pop right off the screen, too, or does it just sort of sit there?
- Eric said...
I understand that some people were throwing up at the movie because of the 3D.
I already have problems with those swooping shots and the deliberately shaky reality-TV style directors seem so enamored with in the last few years.
Needless to say, I'll pass. - 12/18/09, 9:21 PM
- Chip Ahoy said...
You too can recreate the joys of 3-d photography with your own little camera. Yes! It's true.
Here's how. Stand steady and carefully frame your subject. Without changing anything, step sideways and take another shot. Present the two images, slightly different, side by side.
View the image by allowing your eyes to go slightly out of focus by relaxing them. Some people, control freaks all, have difficulty doing this. It requires letting go. In my own case, I relax focus until three apparently identical images appear from the two, actually, the one in the middle is a combination of both, and it appears to be in startling three dimensions.
I imagine an alternative method would be to have a few drinks.
Here are some photos I saw one night while looking up some arcane detail concerning the Amduat when I was led to the discussion board on egyptiandreams.com where a member posted this set of images. Try them out for yourself and be amazed that a regular bloke did this with a regular camera. TRY THEM, I said. - 12/18/09, 9:32 PM
- radar said...
Avatar's antagonist is the same sort of evil militarized-corporation as in the Alien franchise but I didn't get an explicit 'American' vibe to the evil corporation.
I found the action scenes in Avatar much easier to follow than the sort of thing found in Transformers or last summer's Star Trek. - 12/18/09, 9:42 PM
- The Crack Emcee said...
While I tend to agree with Chris (I saw it last night) I think he missed what Cameron was trying to do, which was get away from the 1950's version of a 3D experience ("things popping out at you") and merely make a visual experience with more depth. Unfortunately for Cameron, while he succeeded at that task, he also made a film that becomes no better than 2D once you adjust to it. Honestly, Avatar is boring.
It's biggest crime, though, is just being dumb. I mean, there the humans are, in the year 2154, and characters are spouting lines from the days of the Iraq War? And even though "Jake" is living on this space ship - a space ship! - with all this cool futuristic stuff (avatars, holograms, weightlessness, etc.) "Jake" says we have nothing to offer the Na'vi but "lite beer and blue jeans"? Shit, the movie's whole ugly conflict could've been avoided if somebody would've just invited a few of the lanky Smurfs over to see their crib! There's no way I could see a human in 2154 being overly impressed by the Na'vi's world - or world view - which, being NewAge, is just riddled with hypocrisy, inconsistencies, and (of course) nonsense. (For once, I'll spare y'all - and, yes, you're welcome.)
I've got a question for Chris:
Dude, it's 2154. We've gotten to the point where we can travel light years away from home, operate gigantic ecto-skeletons, fix inoperable limbs - and even inhabit other bodies. So is it even remotely plausible that the only way we can figure out to get at a precious ore below "the spirit tree" is to BLAST THE LIVING HELL OUT OF THE DAMN THING?
If it's true that James Cameron thought about this story for more than a decade, this NewAge "King of the World" has more muddle-headed issues with reality than all of his movie's bad guys rolled into one.
Avatar is one stupid, stupid movie. - 12/18/09, 9:42 PM
- john said...
Geologists are very good at looking at stereo pairs that same way and seeing landform patterns in 3D.
Of course, being geologists we also have a hard time letting go. - 12/18/09, 9:47 PM
- Harsh Pencil said...
Haven't seen Avatar, but I saw UP both in 3D in the theatre and at my home theatre setup (90" screen, LCD projector on ceiling). UP was much better in 3D. Most of the time, my home setup is great. So, for instance, for a movie like The Dark Knight, which I saw in 2D Imax and also at home, I thought home was fine. But UP really suffered not being in 3D. The initial scenes of the house taking off and moving through the city were absolutely magical in 3D and not so magical at home.
WV: ingsi. Name of the indigenous people in the next Dances with Smurfs movie. - 12/18/09, 9:52 PM
- Chris Althouse Cohen said...
Crack Emcee: The shots that had a lot of depth did look great to me. Right at the beginning, there's a scene where it looks down a long hallway-ish room and it did seem like you were looking into the room. Also, near the end when you see the big group of people chanting, the depth of that shot looked very good. But there were many times throughout the movie when it seemed clear that you were supposed to feel like things were popping out (like those flying jellyfish, or every time something was clearly in the foreground). Also, it was just irritating to look at, didn't look like a normal image. Was uncomfortable the way staring at a hologram for three hours would be uncomfortable.
- Lem said...
Now that you people are telling me the 3d is fubar, I'm getting curious and I'm going to go see it for myself tomorrow.
- Paul Snively said...
Re: people throwing up at 3D visuals...
Having worked in the computer game biz, I garnered a fair amount of direct experience with this. It turns out that approximately 15% of the population cannot play first-person perspective 3D games due to experiencing motion sickness.
We actually know why this is, and what's interesting about it is that it's the same phenomenon as morning sickness! Morning sickness is an increased sensitivity to alkaloid toxins that are present in everything we eat, but not in doses that are harmful to adults. The symptoms of consumption of these toxins are a kind of dizziness, as if your eyes and inner ears were telling you two different things. Which is, of course, exactly what happens with motion sickness, and in 3D games in particular: your eyes are telling you that you are moving, and rapidly, while your inner ears are (correctly) telling you that no such thing is happening. - 12/18/09, 10:06 PM
- vbspurs said...
Radar wrote:
(google "uncanny valley")
I did so, thanks for the tip! That does explain why I too was creeped out by The Polar Express (especially the dead-looking little boy).
The part in the Wiki article that is most unnerving, though, is when that a related phenomenon is "Capgras Syndrome". Briefly:
"The Capgras delusion (or Capgras syndrome) is a disorder in which a person holds a delusional belief that a friend, spouse, parent or other close family member, has been replaced by an identical-looking impostor."
Yikes. - 12/18/09, 10:09 PM
- Lem said...
I'm near sighted .. thats why I use glasses .. will I have to wear the 3d glasses on top of my glasses?
I hope I need a glass of beer after.
I dont smoke ;) - 12/18/09, 10:10 PM
- vbspurs said...
Paul Snively wrote:
I garnered a fair amount of direct experience with this. It turns out that approximately 15% of the population cannot play first-person perspective 3D games due to experiencing motion sickness.
When the Wolfenstein 3D game app came out on the iPhone, I instantly bought it. It was the first FPS (and perhaps only one I recall) I ever played when young. I never once experienced motion sickness on my old computer back in the 90s...but almost immediately did when playing it on the iPhone. Strange.
wv: stomade. Gatorade to soothe a motion sick tummy. - 12/18/09, 10:12 PM
- vbspurs said...
Avatar is one stupid, stupid movie.
Oh, thank God.
But then so was Cameron's Titanic, though the latter had a certain charm and chemistry between the principals.
For me, Avatar sounds like a 3 hour-long version of the Jar-Jar Binks fiasco in the recent Star Wars movies. I'm sure that's not the case, but it SOUNDS like it. - 12/18/09, 10:15 PM
- ET1492 said...
The secret to watching a modern 3-D film without getting a headache is focusing on what the filmmakers want you to focus on. You can't scan the screen for details, or else things will look fuzzy.
I haven't seen Avatar, but I have seen Beowulf and Coraline in 3-D and it took me about 20 minutes during both films to get with the flow. - 12/18/09, 10:15 PM
- Lem said...
But then so was Cameron's Titanic..
The ending of Titanic let me nauseous. - 12/18/09, 10:19 PM
- vbspurs said...
The ending of Titanic let me nauseous.
Frankly, I stayed until the end only because I wanted to see that tin can go into the water. And it didn't disappoint. - 12/18/09, 10:22 PM
- Lem said...
..the Jar-Jar Binks fiasco in the recent Star Wars movies.
Althouse linked to the best review of Episode I The Phantom Menace ever produced by man.
Its hilarious. - 12/18/09, 10:26 PM
- Tyrone Slothrop said...
I saw a 3-D documentary about California reefs at an Imax about ten years ago and it was awesome. It really felt like you were underwater with the fish. I remember in particular one scene where there was a fish that you could barely see about a hundred feet away and it really looked like it was a hundred feet away.
- Tyrone Slothrop said...
I totally agree about Titanic sucking the big one. I looked forward to that movie so much, and then when it turned out to be about two post-modern teens prancing around naked I wanted my money back.
In common with the Ben Affleck-afflicted Pearl Harbor, Titanic took a story about historical events that were much bigger than any possible love story, and completely ruined it. - 12/18/09, 10:36 PM
- Skyler said...
It seems to me that the most important part of a movie is now also the cheapest and technologically easiest. Writing a good script is no harder to do now than it was 70 years ago but it seems that to too many movie makers and producers, they seem to think the plot and the script are just something to connect the CGI concepts.
There haven't been many good movies in a long time. - 12/18/09, 10:42 PM
- The Crack Emcee said...
"For me, Avatar sounds like a 3 hour-long version of the Jar-Jar Binks fiasco in the recent Star Wars movies. I'm sure that's not the case, but it SOUNDS like it."
Naw, it's not THAT bad - it's brain-dead but not completely revolting. It's just not in same league, cultural impact-wise or intellectually, as the original Star Wars or The Matrix. It's just more of your typical NewAge Hollywood mind-mush with a better back story (time, money, tech, etc.) - 12/18/09, 10:58 PM
- Chris Althouse Cohen said...
ET1492 said...
The secret to watching a modern 3-D film without getting a headache is focusing on what the filmmakers want you to focus on. You can't scan the screen for details, or else things will look fuzzy.
This is a really important point, and it's exactly what I realized late into the movie! I think the 3-D effect depends on the viewer having their eyes focused in the way that they think you will focus your eyes. About four-fifths of the way through the movie, I decided to test out this theory. I began to focus only on the things that appeared to be in the middle-ground (which was probably, in effect, a way of focusing on the movie screen rather than attempting to focus on positions in front of or behind the screen, where certain objects appeared to be). Once I did that, the 3-D effect worked pretty well.
There are three major problems I have with this, though:
1) What's the point of having certain things pop out of the screen if you're not able to look at them directly?
2) Being able to look around at all parts of the image is a pretty crucial part of how I watch movies. Maybe a lot of people just look at the key subject of each shot, or look dead center at the frame, but that's not a very good way to watch movies. I certainly don't want to be forced by James Cameron to watch movies like that.
3) It really adds to my feeling that the 3-D effect relies on too many factors that can be affected by the viewer. I should be able to watch the movie in my way and not have to sit in a particular spot with my head in a particular position and my eyes focused in a particular way in order to enjoy it, and I shouldn't need an instruction manual on how to make the effect work. It makes watching 2-D seem much more viewer-friendly. - 12/18/09, 11:08 PM
- The Crack Emcee said...
"There haven't been many good movies in a long time."
Not true. There's lots of great movies released every day, but they rarely get the big roll-out, like this. I knew I was taking a risk seeing this thing - at lowering my standards, big time - because, usually, I avoid conventional American film entertainment like the plague, but I rarely see bad films when I stick to my guns.
I love 'em. - 12/18/09, 11:11 PM
- Cheryl said...
I haven't seen Avatar yet, but did see the Charlie Rose interview with James Cameron last night. While I don't remember the exact wording, Cameron explicitly said that his purpose in using the 3-D wasn't to "throw things out at the audience." I think in the earlier days of 3-D, it was about the effect--doing things just of the fun of the medium. These newer films are using this more sophisticated form of 3-D to bring a new dimension, literally, to film. To draw us in and give us an experience that we can't get in our expensive home theaters. You know, to keep our collective butts in those expensive seats.
- JohnAnnArbor said...
What kind of 3D? Does it use polarizing glasses? Or the heavier, shutter-based glasses?
- JohnAnnArbor said...
3D still pictures are a lot of fun. 3D slides projected on a screen, or seen in a viewer (think big viewmaster) can really make you feel like you're in the scene.
- Kensington said...
How good do your eyes have to be to appreciate the 3D here?
I have an eye condition wherein the vision in my right eye is considerably worse than the vision in my left eye.
Will the technology of this be lost on me? - 12/18/09, 11:45 PM
- BJM said...
Yes, he said much the same in Wired:
"The conventional method relies on a series of cumbersome mathematical formulas designed to preserve the "screen plane," the surface on which the movie appears. In 2-D that's the screen itself, but in 3-D it's an imaginary point somewhere in front of you. "The viewer doesn't think there's a screen plane," Cameron explains. "There's only a perceptual window, and that perceptual window exists somewhere around arm's length from us. That's why I say everything that's ever been written about stereography is completely wrong."
To Cameron, eliminating the screen plane is crucial. "The screen plane has always been this subconscious barrier," says Jon Landau, his longtime producer. By removing it, Cameron hopes to create an all-encompassing cinematic experience. That's the ultimate goal, the reason for the virtual camera and the simulcam, the hi-def head rigs, the 3-D camera system: total immersion. "
That certainly sounds like what Chris experienced. We've going to see it in Imax Sunday afternoon.
Corporate greed and/or mankind's technological hubris was the main theme of Titanic and all of Cameron's flicks so I'm not exactly shocked to hear he hits the meme again. - 12/18/09, 11:55 PM
- vbspurs said...
I want to see two films this weekend, but immediately I know the SJP/Hugh Grant vehicle, "Did You Hear About the Morgans?", won't be one of them.
The review by Michael Phillips of the Chicago Trib is hilarious though.
"It's not just the sound of crickets you hear watching this movie. It's the sound of dead crickets." - 12/19/09, 12:39 AM
- vbspurs said...
I have an eye condition wherein the vision in my right eye is considerably worse than the vision in my left eye.
Sounds like my dad, after his radio frequency ablation surgery for his neuralgia. I would give you a heads up about that, Kensington, if you can wait until he watches it this weekend. Otherwise, I'd say skip it because it can be dizzying. - 12/19/09, 12:41 AM
- blake said...
Agreed with Crack, there are many good movies released, but you have to be selective. (Don't see crap, unless you like crap. :))
Sometimes the best movies are foreign, sometimes they're low budget, and sometimes, yes, they're big budget blockbusters. - 12/19/09, 12:41 AM
- blake said...
I have amblyopia, so 3D has never worked for me very well. (Though a sort of masochistic streak had me see every 3D movie released in the '80s.)
I've avoided it this time. - 12/19/09, 12:43 AM
- vbspurs said...
Dark Knight was one of the best movies I've ever seen, Blake, so you're right there.
- chickenlittle said...
The only thing that sucked about Titanic was di Craprio.
I speak as a Titanic trivia aficionado. - 12/19/09, 12:45 AM
- Kensington said...
I would really appreciate that, Victoria, thank you. I hope your dad enjoys himself.
My eye thing is called kerataconus, and so far it's only really compromised my right eye. With any luck, that will continue. - 12/19/09, 12:46 AM
- blake said...
Cameron's anti-business streak is somewhat amusing. He created Digital Domain so that his movies could have special effects at the level he wanted, and then he wanted to have the company have a credit on one of his movies (Titanic?) but the unions wouldn't let him.
I guess that wouldn't make you pro-business, but it'd make me anti-union. - 12/19/09, 12:48 AM
- vbspurs said...
I speak as a Titanic trivia aficionado.
Oh, I once went to a forum populated by such trivia fans. I recall a very intricate and knowledgeable exchange about attar of roses (I wanted to buy the perfume or soaps used by the passengers, as found on the bottom of the sea).
Titanic trivia freaks are a-ok by me. Except their penchant for Celine Dion, obviously. :) - 12/19/09, 12:54 AM
- vbspurs said...
Kensington, I've heard of that condition before (it could well be what dad has!).
@JohnAnnArbor: They've been using the polarising version for all the recent 3D flicks, so I am betting it's that for Avatar. In fact, as I type, I have a pair just in front of me -- a memento of that excellent 3D film, My Bloody Valentine (mentioned by another commenter).
@CrackEmcee: Your 9:42 comment is full of yummy goodness. Me likes the way you write. - 12/19/09, 12:59 AM
- LoafingOaf said...
vbspurs: an adult-only section within a regular movie theatre, where you can dine on champagne and burgers in your seat
And how much do they charge you for that? Seems better to just go to a dollar theater and smuggle all the booze and food you want in with you. :)
Although, actually, when I drink booze during a movie at a theater, I tend to have to pee at a key moment of the movie. So, probably better to watch it on DVD where you have a pause button. :)
Oh wait, this is 3D to prevent us from waiting till it's out on DVD. Okay, okay, I'll go see it at a theater soon. *salute*
I take it from this thread that it may be best to avoid the IMAX experience, though? - 12/19/09, 1:12 AM
- chickenlittle said...
I got hooked when my grandmother first gave me a copy of Link ca. 1970 or so.
I loved the Cameron movie for the historical photo detail, the best of which I suppose was the confirmation of Jack Thayer Jr's then disputed "theory" that she broke in two.
It happened, and the proof is on the sea floor. - 12/19/09, 1:12 AM
- chuck b. said...
The 3-D was fine, but the movie itself is incredibly awful. It was awful in the first minute, and it went downhill from there for nearly three hours. It was Phantom Menace awful.
I only saw it because my dad wanted to see it, and it's his birthday. So I took him. (My dad is 12-years-old. Spend $100M on special effects and he's the first in line.) - 12/19/09, 1:15 AM
- vbspurs said...
Muvico's Palace "Premier" experience is double the price of a regular ticket downstairs, not including the 75 cents booking fee (you get to choose your actual seats, just like we do in Britain). So that's a hefty 19.75.
But since everyone who enters has to be over 21 because of the access to booze (they have a restaurant, where you can have a more conventional night dining out), one of the Sundries' commenters said that they would happily pay that much just for the chance of getting rid of the annoying tweenies on their cell phones, all around. Each balcony has about 60 "premier" love seats, so you're cocooned in luxury from start to finish.
If I write too much about it, please forgive me. It's just that I love that place.
@Chickenlittle: Cool! Thanks for the book tip. That one I may be able to find in my local library. :) - 12/19/09, 1:28 AM
- Ralph L said...
Hugh Grant has lost his pretty boy looks. SJP could do with a few more oats in her feedbag.
- chickenlittle said...
I guess he was a Jack Thayer III not a :jr". Link. But if you you read his account in that book (rushed to publication in 1912) you'll learn that he was the sole proponent (at the time) of the true nature of the sinking. - 12/19/09, 1:58 AM
- Ralph L said...
Chicken, my grandmother had a copy of that book, too, that I read in the 70's. She was 14 in 1912. Little did they know that much bigger disasters were about to hit.
- Ironclad said...
I saw Avatar in a mini-Imax theater in Charlotte, NC. (not one of the Imax downtown - a converted movie screen type). The 3D did not detract from the movie, but it did not add all that much either - there were no "jaw dropping" effects or anything like that for me in the movie. But in general, the whole experience was good.
More to the point - there were ads for 2 cartoons that will be in 3D before the movie - a Disney and a Shrek. The 3D in both of the preview trailers is jarring, like the old movies when a rock came out of the screen at you. Having a sudden 2D to 3D transition to give depth would make me ill after a while in a movie. So, Avatar was better in that sense - the 3D never "left" and was just part of the whole experience. - 12/19/09, 6:51 AM
- Florida said...
"Avatar's antagonist is the same sort of evil militarized-corporation as in the Alien franchise but I didn't get an explicit 'American' vibe to the evil corporation."
Hmmm. They force the natives to speak English. Evil Marines abound. References to Jarhead.
It's clear James Cameron is after the international audience.
I did not see the 3D version because I wanted first to focus on the story itself. And the reviews are dead on ... the story is secondary to everything else about this film. You could almost watch it with the sound off as the sound track by James Horner is totally forgettable also.
The plot is a doltish remake of Dances With Wolves (soldier goes native) ... only without the character development.
There is zero chemistry between the lead male and female actresses (yes, do Google"uncanny valley"). But even from a character development angle there just is no reason for a lot of the things they do. No reason for them to be in love. (He even kills her father). Imagine for a moment that Lt. Dunbar were to burn down Kicking Bird's tent with Kicking Bird inside it. Do we really think that Stands With A Fist would then fall in love with Lt. Dunbar?
Um, no.
She'd murder him.
Before the lead female even meets the lead male she helps him because "you have a big heart." It's just totally not believable storytelling and the character development is really for shit.
There are good reasons to see the film ... it's an amazing piece of art if you don't focus much on the stupid story and the anti-American crapola Cameron only put in there to get an Oscar nomination.
Cameron isn't stupid ... the Academy of Motion Pictures has said in no uncertain terms that pro-American films will not win Oscars. Cameron needs to make the half-billion budget back on this film or he'll never work again, and if that means bashing his country so be it. He'll bash America for a buck.
The commenter above who suggested that there's no direct American association obviously missed the part where the protagonist announces that he is a US Marine. Moron.
The only thing this movie has going for it really is the planet it's on ... knowing that it doesn't really exist, but that artists created everything about it. It's amazing what they can do with a computer.
But as storytelling - it sucks.
Not a good movie. Buy the DVD after it goes into the discount bin at Wal-Mart. - 12/19/09, 8:04 AM
- Jon said...
Crack said: Dude, it's 2154. We've gotten to the point where we can travel light years away from home, operate gigantic ecto-skeletons, fix inoperable limbs - and even inhabit other bodies. So is it even remotely plausible that the only way we can figure out to get at a precious ore below "the spirit tree" is to BLAST THE LIVING HELL OUT OF THE DAMN THING?
Not to mention- with all the planets, moons, and asteroids out there which are lifeless hunks of rock- what are the odds that this precious ore can only be found on a life-bearing world with native inhabitants? And right under their "Spirit Tree", at that? - 12/19/09, 8:42 AM
- Rick Lee said...
This from Internet mogul Jason Calacanis:
"The story, performances and characters are not bad or good–they are typical. The visuals, at least in 3D, are exceptional to the point at which I would say I've never seen anything like them in a film. In fact it feels otherworldly… Like hyper reality if that makes sense. There are moments, many of them, where you forget you are in a theater and feel like you're running in the tree tops or flying on the back of a large bird. I had vertigo and heart racing fear of falling at times.
It is a must see, but not for the story part. The story is terrorism, coming of age, 9/11, odd-love rehash you've seen 1,000x. It doesn't get in the way of the real story: ground-breaking visuals that transport you to another place. Avatar makes a Pixar movie look like an Atari 2600 game. " - 12/19/09, 10:49 AM
- vbspurs said...
SJP could do with a few more oats in her feedbag.
LOL, Ralph! - 12/19/09, 11:43 AM
- Peg C. said...
I can't work up any enthusiasm for the actors, though some visuals sound very cool. However, I had to close my eyes for the entirety of "Soarin'" at Epcot, which had been strongly recommended to us as a great virtual reality ride, because all the soaring and swooping makes me sick. I'm passing on this one! I actually hope it bombs. This is a simply obscene amount of $$ to produce a movie. I'd like to see the investors take a bath.
- amba said...
Yes. Titanic SUCKED.
- Chris Althouse Cohen said...
By the way, Titanic is one of my favorite movies.
- Bill said...
- This comment has been removed by the author.
- kathleen said...
what is it with you people? 3d imax is the best thing ever. I would watch anything in 3d imax.
- Eric said...
The 3d was alright by me. It was my first 3d movie ever in a theater, and I wear glasses to see distances, I sat in the back center. There were moments where the 3d glasses started slipping down my nose making the scene become less focused, I just pushed them back up and the scene focused.
That said, regarding the story. Yeah, plotholes galore. Cameron was the one who gave us that wonderful line from out of Sigourney Weaver "I say we take off and nuke the entire site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure." in Aliens? Musta forgot that in his old age?
Plus, not that it is a bad thing, but there are so many romantic fantasy moments. Bonding with special horses! Bonding with special flying horses! Bonding with special dragons!!1! Mother tree bonds you with teh hoel wurld!11!
It was pretty to look at and I will see it again soon, regardless. But not for the story. - 12/19/09, 4:58 PM
- XWL said...
This movie was every seventies blacklight poster come to life.
- Freeman Hunt said...
I thought I had problems with the 3D because I was wearing the 3D glasses over my glasses. Guess that wasn't the problem.
- Freeman Hunt said...
I did notice, in some shots, that Cameron was framing in three dimensions. That was interesting. Changes the art a bit.
- jeff said...
I just got back from seeing it in 2D. The thing lasts about 17 hours and I spent most of it looking at the background. Absolutely amazing visual. As everyone else states, its Dances with Blue Humanoids. The unobtainium retails for 20 million dollars a kilogram which I'm guessing after 150 years of Obamaflation, would be equivalent of a buck fifty seven, so I wonder at the economics of mining so far from earth. For the true surround sound experience, try to get 3 adults and 4 kids under 5 to sit behind you, jabber all thru the movie and kick the back of the seats.
- Kensington said...
Ooh, Freeman, that's another question I had. How does this work for people wearing glasses. Are the 3D glasses large enough to fit comfortably around normal glasses?
- M. Report said...
How about those 3 Ds ?
The previews had more obvious 3D
effects than the movie, except
for the titles, which were set
forward of the screen; Once the action started, they faded into
the background, as Cameron wanted.
Wearing the 3D glasses over eye-
glasses worked for me only because
my frames are small, and close to
my face.
True, it was not a story for those
with, ah, _sophisticated_ tastes;
There was not a polymorphous
perversity in sight, either physical or psychological;
The story stayed within the norms
of human, and Na'vi, experience,
and contained a double deception:
Cameron catered to Anti-American
prejudice with stereotypes which
were not valid; The Na'vi are not
Gaians; Their planet actually has
a Group Mind which manifests in
crisis. The Terrans are not greedy
Capitalists, but a dying planet's
last grasp at a critical natural
resource; even then, they retain
a minority carrier of conscience
which restrains their rapacity.
As to you pseudo-physicist second
guessers; Unobtainium is not that
stable; Hit it with a meteor, or
even high explosives, and it is
reduced to worthless dross. It is
also Pandora's power plant; It is
no accident that the Home Tree grew
over a major deposit.
The closest cavalry-and-Indians
story is a book called "The Indians
Won" wherein Indian troops back
from the Civil War teach the tribes
the White Man's way of war.
The closest here-and-now story is
the current one in which the US
can win in Afghanistan by siding
with the Tribal Khans rather than
the Mayor of Kabul. - 12/19/09, 9:12 PM
- Freeman Hunt said...
It seemed to me that they tried to strike a balance between making the glasses too bulky for people without glasses and making them too streamlined for people with glasses. I think they did a pretty good job, but it isn't glitch free. The 3-D glasses work best up high, close to your eyes. I had to keep smashing both pairs of glasses into my face whenever I noticed things getting blurrier. That's sounds worse than it actually was. I would say that the longer your nose is, the better you'll fare with having to wear the two pairs of glasses.
Tip: If you have more than one pair of glasses, I would wear the smallest pair in the theater with the 3-D glasses. - 12/19/09, 9:19 PM
- Freeman Hunt said...
Light spoilers, don't read if you don't like that.
I thought the political angle wasn't pushed too heavily until about the 2:15 or 2:20 mark. Then it went all out with the political metaphors, which were very muddled.
Cameron really took the wind out of the final action sequence. You're supposed to be rooting for one side, but Cameron only set up two people on the other side as being bad, yet you're supposed to be excited as you watch a bunch of people you don't really have anything against get killed. It's weird. - 12/19/09, 9:26 PM
- Seneca the Younger said...
Okay, I think the summary here is "you're either going to like it or not."
Me, I liked it. A lot. I suspect a lot of the complaints about the 3D not working are examples of it working; Cameron avoided all the cliche "broom pokes out from the screen" shots, and used the 3D subtly; for various historical reasons, I'm very aware of the difference, and as a sometimes screenwriter I was watching the technical details very carefully ... until I was sucked in.
The truth is, I would have been happy with a National Geographic "Welcome to Pandora" travelogue, as I thought the planets was beautiful. I did think that they should have stopped messing with Unobtanium, and started mining the upsidasium that made the floating mountains float.
And I may be a "right wingers" but I'm also a Choctaw indian, and I was pleased to see the Injuns win. - 12/19/09, 10:24 PM
- SMSgt Mac said...
The film lived down to it's previews. Tech and effects are no substitute for plot and characters.
I predict: 1. 'great weekend', 2. 'no legs', and eventually it will be referred to as 3. Cameron's 'AvIshtar'
...but maybe that's just me. - 12/19/09, 10:38 PM
- rosi said...
As everyone else states, its Dances with Blue Humanoids
Smurfs. They're jumbo smurfs. - 12/20/09, 3:38 AM
- Fred4Pres said...
Gabriel Malor at Ace says Avatar does not suck as bad as Ed Morrisey says.
- John Lynch said...
I liked Aliens. That was a great movie, period, and the marines were the good guys.
- davis,br said...
I had no problems at an Imax theatre, row 6 center on Sunday. The screen was huge, and I had to pretty much scrunch down in the seat and look upwards throughout the movie.
Tonight I took it in about "halfway up" in a Cinemark venue, again center, and I had no problems "looking around" at what interested me.
I've never seen a 3D film before (nor been to an Imax).
(Hell, I've been to a movie exactly twice in the past five years ...yeah, for the two Avatar performances.)
As far as the film itself goes: I'm a VRWC type conservative, and an AGW skeptic (denialist, really: due to the bad science) ...and - oddly enough, given all the public angst from my side of the political divide over the percieved "politics" of the film - I thought the film was jolly good fun.
...and I'll probably see it a few more times afatg.
...and recommend it highly, for a diverting evening. - 12/22/09, 2:43 AM
- mavzoley said...


text:
Keepsakes? Keep 'em
CHICAGO — Cindi Copeland can't bear the thought of parting with the cedar hope chest her grandmother received as an engagement gift in the 1930s. She even held on to the $100 moth-insurance certificate, which expired more than 75 years ago.
She cherishes the Blue Garland china her mother acquired with grocery stamps, though it has never made its way from the china cabinet to the dining room table. And she's just as fond of the nearly 1,000 slides from her grandfather's vacation in Europe a half-century ago.


text:
Award-winning Carlyon Bay Camping Park
Enjoying the very best of Cornwall
Book Online
Account Log In
2017 Tariff
About Us
Park Map
Park Tour
Contact Us
Find Us
Access Statement
The Country Kitchen
Why have all the hassle of cooking or going out in the car to eat?
You can 'Eat in' or 'Take Away' at our own
'Country Kitchen'
centrally situated in the Courtyard by the pool
The menu includes
Vegetarian and Healthy Eating options, together with 'Specials'
which will typically include firm favourites such as
Lasagne, Curry
etc. using locally sourced ingredients.
This comment from one of our regular families gave this response which was typical of our visitors that we canvassed:
"After a day on the beach a leisurely meal, a bit of free entertainment which doesn't go on too late sounds like my idea of a great holiday"
Whats's On at Carlyon Bay
About the Bay
Places to Visit
What's on
Places to Eat
Carlyon Bay Caravan and Camping Park, Cypress Avenue, Carlyon Bay, St. Austell, Cornwall, PL25 3RE
Telephone: +44 (0)1726 812735 • Fax: +44 (0) 1726 815496 • Email:
Designed and created by


text: io9 Book Club is in session! Let's talk about Mira Grant's Feed.Annalee Newitz6/01/11 1:55pmFiled to: Io9 book clubBooksfeedMira grant105EditPromoteShare to KinjaToggle Conversation toolsGo to permalink Welcome to the monthly meeting of the io9 Book Club. In May we read Mira Grant's novel Feed. Jump into comments to get started talking about it! Advertisement For those unfamiliar with the io9 book club, here's how it works: You read the book. We create a special book club post on io9 when the meeting is in session. That would be the post you're reading right now. Then everybody talks about the book in comments for a few days, starting right now.We're hoping Mira Grant will drop by and speak to us about the novel on Monday. I'll post a call for questions for her later this week — keep an eye out for it! Advertisement So, what did you think of the book?Want to get a headstart on next month's book? June's pick is Hannu Rajaniemi's The Quantum Thief. We'll meet to talk about it on June 28.Reply105 repliesLeave a reply


text:
Wednesday, September 7, 2011
Revision Is This Part II
My legs ache from the steep incline and I can barely put one foot in front of the other. I stagger to the top of the peak and let the wind brush a cool breeze against my cheeks. The air smells sweet like honeysuckle. A valley spreads below me in a patchwork quilt, and I realize it's filled with tulips, daisies and tiny white flowers.
And there, just in the distance, stands the finish line, its crimson flags whipping against an icy blue sky.
Energy bursts through me and I take off in a sprint down the hill. The wind pushes against me now, tearing at my clothes, but I'm so caught up in my downward momentum that I don't care. I'm practically flying.
I hit level ground. It's rocky and weeds twist their way over the path, but my eyes focus on the finish line. Fire burns my lungs, a searing pain. It spreads through my whole body and yet I've never felt more alive than I do right now.
And then I cross the finish line. I lift my arms in victory, and I scream and shout. Someone presses a thin, cold disc into my sweaty hand.
My medal.
The blisters are forgotten, the cuts and bruises have vanished, and the doubts have been left in the dust because I've finished the race.
And nothing can take that victory from me.I've nearly made it. I'm almost there!
15 comments:
- Stina Lindenblatt said...
This is a hilarious post. I've never thought of revisions this way, but it's true. Though I usually don't need a shower once I'm though with them. But a massage would be nice. :)
- September 7, 2011 at 8:14 AM
- Tony Van Helsing said...
Beautifully written.
- September 7, 2011 at 8:34 AM
- Marcia said...
Yes, revision is exactly this!
- September 7, 2011 at 10:06 AM
- Angelina C. Hansen said...
Go, Christina! Go!
- September 7, 2011 at 10:47 AM
- Christina Farley said...
I guess since I like to run, I can see lots of simularities! And some of my best writing ideas actually come when I'm writing!
- September 7, 2011 at 7:31 PM
- Kim Kasch said...
Keep on going! You're almost there!
- September 7, 2011 at 11:18 PM
- Victoria Dixon said...
Yes, yes you are. :D Congratulations again! Do Koreans celebrate the Moon Festival this month? If so, have a great one!
- September 9, 2011 at 9:26 AM
- Misha said...
Hehehehe nicely put. Revision definitely can start off painfully before we get into it. The last bit is the best. :-)
- September 9, 2011 at 10:30 AM
- The Golden Eagle said...
I'm breathing hard with exhaustion just from reading this entry. :) LOL.
- September 9, 2011 at 1:51 PM
- Bish Denham said...
We get blisters on our fingers!
- September 9, 2011 at 5:40 PM
- Janet Johnson said...
Best feeling ever, isn't it? Love the comparison!
- September 9, 2011 at 8:09 PM
- Christina Farley said...
Victoria- yes it is! Chusok! I need to do a blog post on it soon.
Misha- I know. It's so rewarding at the end, isn't it?
Golden Eye- Love it
Yes Bish! Blisters on fingers! - September 9, 2011 at 8:50 PM
- Medeia Sharif said...
This is so true. I slogged through revisions and edits lately. It was grueling, but so worth it at the end.
- September 16, 2011 at 1:18 AM
- Jaye Robin Brown said...
Okay - this is hilarious and so true. I personally wish Pink Pajama Girl would come visit me :0)
- September 29, 2011 at 8:57 AM
- Ruth said...
You have summed it up wonderfully!
- October 1, 2011 at 10:36 PM


text:
Fatal Shooting in Miami
Published June 28th, 2012
Loading Video...
Miami police are investigating a shooting on June 26 that killed two people, including a man recently acquitted of murder under Florida's stand-your-ground law.
A bullet aimed for someone else instantly killed Greyston Garcia as well as a 16 year old boy who lived nearby.
Garcia was acquitted in March under the stand-your-ground law for killing Pedro Roteta after Roteta broke into Garcia's truck.
Police have not yet made any arrests in the shooting.
Related Stories
- Argument Over Texting Leads To Fatal Shooting Inside Movie Theater
- Fatal Police Shooting
- Miami Shootings
- Deputy Involved in Fatal Shooting
- Man Guilty in Fatal Marion County Home Invasion Shooting
- Two Killed in Miami Dade Garage Collaspe
- Dock Fatality
- Deputy Fatally Shot-Suspect
- Mother Charged with Fatal Stabbing of Son
- Vandals Trash More Than 40 Cars in Miami


text:
ATIs CEO believes that discrete graphics are here to stay and notebook and integrated graphics won't make it disappear. This is good news for all of you who like to play games as the super expensive cards are here to stay.
The shipment percentages in certain market segments will change but they change all the time. The overall discrete market was always at 100 million GPUs and Dave recons that this won't change in the future.
The other issue is who actually sells more from this 100 million but integrated market won't take that much of a share. We believe that DAAMIT counts discrete mobile chips in this number.
We also need discrete and high end graphics for GP GPU and AMD is really warmed about this.
Published in
Discrete graphics stay
Computex 07: Similar share


text:
Re: Function
In article <4letbt$esv at dragonfly.wolfram.com>, Roberto Diego <roberto at medusa.es> wrote: > Could you please give me some advice? > > I4m trying to find a function that works on a list like {a1, a2, a3, > a4, ..., an} and returns a list like {a2/a1, a3/a2, a4/a3, ... an/an-1}. Try, Thread[Divide[Rest[ls],Take[ls,Length[ls]-1]]] where ls is your original list {a1,...}. -- Louis M. Pecora pecora at zoltar.nrl.navy.mil /* My views and opinions are not those of the U.S. Navy. If you want those, you have to start a war. */ ==== [MESSAGE SEPARATOR] ====


text:
UN invitation of Iran threatens Syria peace talks
By PATRICK J. MCDONNELL | Los Angeles Times (MCT) | Published: January 20, 2014
BEIRUT — A furor has erupted about the United Nations' decision on Sunday to invite Iran — a staunch backer of Syrian President Bashar Assad — to a long-anticipated Syrian peace conference scheduled to begin Wednesday in Switzerland.
The main U.S.-backed exiled opposition umbrella group, the Syrian National Coalition, has threatened to withdraw from the talks unless the invitation to Iran was retracted. The United States has also objected to Iran's prospective participation.
The threat of a pullout from the opposition bloc came less than 48 hours after the deeply divided coalition voted on Saturday to attend the conference. That decision came despite objections from many opposition factions who view the process as a betrayal of the uprising against Assad's government.
The so-called Geneva II conference is slated to be the first face-to-face meeting under international auspices between the Syrian government and the opposition during almost three years of conflict.
The Obama administration, which had long resisted Tehran's participation in the conference, said Sunday that the invitation to Iran "must be rescinded" if Iran does not "fully and publicly" accept an underlying principle: That the goal of the Switzerland talks is to establish a transitional government in Syria by "mutual consent" of both parties.
"This is something Iran has never done publicly and something we have long made clear is required," Jen Psaki, a State Department spokeswoman, said in a statement issued in Washington.
The United States and Russia are the principal organizers of the Geneva conference, set to start Wednesday in the Swiss city of Montreux. Moscow is a major supporter of the Assad government, while Washington backs the Syrian opposition and has called for Assad to step down.
The conference is a follow-up to a U.N.-convened summit in 2012 during which participating nations outlined a road map for peace in Syria, including the creation of a transitional government by "mutual consent" of both sides. But various nations disagree about what those terms mean, a dispute that is at the core of the controversy about Iran's possible participation.
The United States and its allies contend that the Geneva peace process ultimately requires the removal from power of Assad, whose family has ruled Syria for more than 40 years. The Syrian government and its Russian ally assert that Assad's removal from office is not guaranteed. That fundamental issue remains unresolved as the Geneva II gathering is set to begin.
On Sunday, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon unveiled the invitation to Iran and said Iran's foreign minister, Javad Zarif, had pledged to play "a positive and constructive" role in the conference.
"Foreign Minister Zarif and I agree that the goal of the negotiations is to establish, by mutual consent, a transitional governing body with full executive powers," Ban said in a statement issued in New York.
The U.N. and Russia have long argued that Iran, a key player in the Syrian crisis, should be invited to the talks.
The United States and the Syrian opposition accuse Tehran of arming and providing extensive military aid to the Syrian government, while encouraging Iran's ally, Lebanese-based Hezbollah, to send militiamen to Syria to fight alongside Assad's forces. Iran has acknowledged providing training and other aid to Syria, but has provided few specifics.
Iran regards Syria as a vital ally and has called the uprising in Syria a foreign-backed effort to break Tehran's alliance with Damascus and Hezbollah.
Outside nations are participating in the largely ceremonial Montreux session on Wednesday to show "solidarity" with the peace process, the U.N secretary-general said, stressing that Montreux was not a venue for negotiations. Actual talks between the Syrian government and its opponents are slated to begin two days later in Geneva, under the guidance of Lakhdar Brahimi, the U.N. and Arab League's peace envoy for Syria.
Iran's regional arch-rival, Saudi Arabia, a key financial and military backer of Syrian rebels battling to oust Assad's government, has been invited to the Geneva II conference. Other regional nations backing the rebels, including Turkey, are also among the more than 30 countries invited to the talks.
President Barack Obama addresses the United Nations General Assembly in New York, N.Y., on Sept. 24, 2013. President Obama spoke of the difficult history between Iran and the U.S. but mentioned his belief in a resolution to the issue of Iran's nuclear program.


text:
Track List
Album Remarks & Appraisals:
The Jazztet is one of the finest post bop groups in modern jazz today comprised of Osland (flute), Dailey (keyboard), Cecil (bass)and Willmarth and Deatherage (drums). They have their own musical personality and sound unlike any other jazz group. They exclusively perform the compositions and arrangements of Dailey throughout The Mendoza Line.
Expedition Audio Recommended
It's difficult to categorize Dailey's thirteen pieces as being in any one particular style, but they would be accessible to most modern mainstream jazz listeners and are executed par excellence.... The funky swing music style urges spirited playing from all the musicians and I'm sure you will have a blast listening to them jam.... ... read more ...
There are currently no reviews, be the first one!Also Purchased
Kansas: Freaks of Nature
Havergal Brian: Symphonies Nos. 22, 23 and 24; English Suite No. 1 / New Russia State SO, Walker
Shostakovich: Symphony No. 7 'Leningrad' / Royal Liverpool PO, Petrenko
Fernando Ortega: The Shadow of Your Wings: Hymns and Sacred Songs
Big Band Sounds: Big Band Sounds: Swing Era 1941-1942
Glenn Miller: The Essential Glenn Miller [Bluebird/Legacy]
Various Artists: Thanksgiving: A Windham Hill Collection


text:
Proteins with unstable 3-D structures help the microscopic animals withstand drying.
The patent application behind a controversial Italian treatment for neurodegenerative disease may contain duplicated images.
The patent application behind a controversial Italian treatment for neurodegenerative disease may contain duplicated images.
Paul Ehrlich came up with an explanation for cellular interactions based on receptors, earning a Nobel Prize and the title "Father of Modern Immunology"—only to have his theory forgotten.
On the gene patent decision; a high-res human brain model; bats' influence on moths mating calls; toxicants threaten brain health; platelet-driven immunity
The scientific community and the impact of the Myriad Genetics Supreme Court decision
The cell fragments play a role in the body's first line of defense against bacterial infection, helping white blood cells grab blood-borne bacteria in the liver.
The researchers who first identified a novel coronavirus say they have shared the virus freely.
Malaria parasites transmitted via mosquitoes elicit a more effective immune response and cause less severe infection than those directly injected into red blood cells.
The activity of one type of immune cell helps regrow the limbs of amputated salamanders.
A new class of immune cell could protect against type 1 diabetes by suppressing other immune cells.
The justices unanimously upheld Monsanto's patent rights on Roundup Ready seeds.


text:
Items Tagged with 'AIA GR'
Architects change name by design
Hotel, marketing firm, design lab and tree house win association awards.
The local chapter of the American Institute of Architects revived a few bylaws and changed its name this year. Instead of being known as AIA Grand Valley, the organization is now known as AIA Grand Rapids.
Read More


text:
Wednesday, July 11, 2012
Legos and Magna Tiles: Small World Play
6 comments:
My kiddos always combine toys and rarely use a single toy for its actual purpose! They make me laugh doing that, the animals will walk through the Lincoln Log town to eat Lego people then the younger one will drive in the RC Hummer to knock over the T-Rex or rhino. Haha! So much fun to watch kids play.
ReplyDeleteI <3 Magna Tiles - we use them in our classroom and it is always a joy to watch their buildings evolve from the time they are 3 to 5 years old. It is an amazing, open-ended toy that children of all ages truly enjoy (at least 3+). I love the idea of combining the Legos, my class uses little animals and people, but haven't ventured to the Legos, I may have to introduce that during small group time next year....
New comments are not allowed.