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As cities densify and the global population increases, much has been made of reclaiming physical spaces: but how does one reclaim a place that is bound up in tragedy, whether that tragedy was natural or man-made? On March 3rd and 4th, Parsons the New School for Design will host a symposium... View full entry
the world's prisons are home to an estimated 10 million people globally and this number is rising. The world's prison population has gone up 10% since 2004, and in some countries, such as Indonesia, the increase has been as high as 183% [...]
Architecture sends a silent message to everyone walking into any place. It tells you what to expect and where the limits of behaviour are. Prisons are the same.
— the Guardian
In my view, design is crucial to creating an environment in which prisoners can live and not become institutionalised. This means providing spaces for staying in contact with families, work, education, and playing sport.For more on carceral architectures, follow these links:Rikers Island is an... View full entry
Though many scholars focusing on penitentiaries suspect that staff-prisoner relations are molded by institutional architecture, little empirical work has been completed on the topic. Now, a new study led by Beijersbergen and published in Crime & Delinquency has concluded that building styles, floor plans, and other design features do indeed have a significant impact on the way Dutch prisoners perceive their relationships with prison staff. — psmag.com
"ADPSP is asking the AIA to change their Code of Ethics to prohibit the design of spaces intended for executions and prolonged solitary confinement, as in 'supermax' prisons. This comes from the AIA's current code, which calls on members to 'uphold human rights in all their professional endeavors'—but includes no enforceable rules to provide discipline" - Raphael Sperry — Metropolis Magazine
Martin C. Pedersen interviewed San Francisco-based architect Raphael Sperry, ADPSP's (Architects / Designers / Planners for Social Responsibility) to get an update on ADPSP's ongoing effort to encourage architects from entering into the business of designing spaces "for killing, torture, and... View full entry
The new Court of Justice building in Hasselt, Belgium designed by a team comprising, Berlin-based J. MAYER H. Architects and local firms a2o-architecten andLensºass architecten, officially swung its doors open to the public on September 13th. Donna Sink felt "This looks SO BEAUTIFUL! I saw it from the Hasselt train station last March and it literally took my breath away - it makes a great statement on the skyline. To see the interiors and details are so well considered makes me happy".
John Southern penned a review of (a book I have been wanting to read, since I first saw a blurb for it a few weeks ago) Joe Day's "Corrections and Collections: Architectures for Art and Crime" (2013, Routledge). Therein he concluded "Joe Day makes it clear that we are... View full entry
And just as prisons in the U.S. are now designed to look not just secure and largely windowless but so nondescript that they practically disappear, architecture firms often coat their prison-design work in several layers of euphemism.
Prisons and jails become "correctional facilities." On the website of the large corporate firm HOK Architects, which designed the 1997 Twin Towers Correctional Facility in downtown L.A., they are tucked into a broader portfolio of "justice buildings."
— latimes.com
A hunger strike in California state prisons calls for an end to indefinite solitary confinement in Security Housing Units, known as SHUs. Raphael Sperry has challenged fellow architects to ban the design of SHUs. Beverly Prior responds, reflecting on a career designing for incarceration. Joe Day sees societal values mirrored in the growth of both American prisons and museums. — kcrw.com
Previously: Building A Better Prison View full entry
After two centuries of incremental growth, the number of correctional facilities and museums in the United States tripled, from roughly 600 prisons and 6,000 museums in 1975 to more than 1,800 prisons and 18,000 museums by 2005. — Places Journal
As unprecedented hunger strikes continue at Guantánamo Bay and in California federal prisons, two recent features on Places explore the politics and aesthetics of prison design. In an essay adapted from his book Corrections and Collections, Joe Day compares the proliferation of American... View full entry
It might not seem like an architect's area of expertise to reform inhumane prison conditions. But like attorneys, journalists and doctors, architects have a code of professional ethics. They're required to "uphold human rights in all of their professional endeavors."
Architect Raphael Sperry says that prisons designed for prolonged solitary confinement violate the human rights of the inmates, and that he and other architects are ethically bound to do something about it.
— thestory.org
Previously on Archinect: Design Against Prisons The Architecture of Juvenile Detention in America Prison Architect and the moral dilemmas of a prison simulator View full entry
"Part of the research I did for that game is I went around to Alcatraz in San Francisco because I wanted to have a level where you break into a prison," Chris Delay, one of Introversion's co-founders said in an interview.
"I started working on how to simulate a prison and how it was going to work. It was then that it occurred to me that building a prison was quite good fun, and that it shouldn't be, but it is."
— business.financialpost.com
The off-screen protagonist of Herman's House, Herman Wallace, already has a dwelling for his body: a 6-foot-by-8-foot cell at the Louisiana State Penitentiary, aka Angola. But the documentary's on-screen protagonist, Jackie Sumell, wants him also to have a place for his soul: a dream house for a man who desperately needs dreams. — npr.org
At one time, the dorm housed as many as 40 or 50 prisoners packed together like sardines, according to Caperton. The plan is to convert the space into two or three one-bedroom apartments, which is a considerably more comfortable arrangement than the last residents of the building had. Caperton says that in the 1980s and '90s Lorton Prison had a reputation for being dangerously overcrowded. — wamu.org
in professional practice, there's a tendency to lose track of the initial spark that drew us to the profession and fall into a routine of designing similar projects for a familiar client type without thinking too deeply about it. It's hard to make any money in the profession without a certain amount of repetition and standardization. So when a project comes along that challenges your values, that would be a good time to reconnect with the reasons you got into your profession in the first place. — thepolisblog.org
polis has published an interview with Raphael Sperry, former president of ADPSR, and founder of the Alternatives to Incarceration / Prison Design Boycott Campaign. View full entry
On any given night in the U.S., there are approximately 60,500 youth confined in juvenile correctional facilities or other residential programs. Photographer Richard Ross has spent the past five years criss-crossing the country photographing the architecture, cells, classrooms and inhabitants of these detention sites. — wired.com
499.SUMMIT is a conceptual proposal for a futuristic high-rise urban penitentiary in Jersey City which seeks to challenge the conventions of traditional prison design. The project, a collaborative effort by grad students Andreas Tjeldflaat and Gregory Knobloch, was part of the PennDesign studio FUTURE PRISON DESIGN. — bustler.net


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Jim Stuard's Comments: Much like the Elkhorn 8' rod, this one is definitely NOT a close-in rod. I was easily catching fish at 60' and not having any trouble getting them to the boat. What TFO lacks in fit and finish (it epitomizes 'spartan' in rod design), it makes up for in a wide cross section of functionality in their rods. The Professional emphasizes fast action. If the Professional were a car, it would be all American muscle. Terrible in tight but watch out on the straightaway. This would probably be best suited as a high stick nymph rod for small water or busting dries out 60' on a spring creek to spooky fish. It fits a niche of the fly fishing market, but there was nothing delicate about it.
Joe Cornwall's Comments: Not to make an issue of it, but these rods really need a rod tube as standard equipment. Even a cheap plastic tube will have a useful life of a few years and protect the rod. They are optional, of course, but that moves the price point up when you start adding aftermarket options, and this rod is a real contender as one of the great all-arounders in the sub-$150 category. Definitely on the fast side, this rod didn't like a DT2, but woke up with a WF3. I think a DT3 is really where it wants to be. The BP UL reel was just about right, you can even get away with a bit more than the 2.4 ounce empty weight of the White River Classic and still get excellent balance. The rod itself comes alive if you push it, but inside of 20' it had very little feel. Roll casting was unremarkable. The rod completes the roll-cast with more than a little competence, it's not a champ but it's certainly not a slouch. The carbon matrix reel seat is attractive and the cork is of good quality, but with enough filler to let you know you're in budget territory. All told, this is a guide's rod, and a damned fine one. Fish it hard till it wears out and then get another. Fish it as a 3wt and you'll be delighted. This is the rod I'd keep in my Jeep for exploring those little creeks I always ride over but have no idea what I'm going to do once I'm on them. I can handle anything from high-sticking to small streamers to a dry/dropper rig in all the appropriate tiny sizes with this TFO. Recommended!
Jeremy Kurtz's Comments: This rod is on the faster side, action wise. It has a hefty butt section and it can really blow out some line. Hitting 50-feet was easy. It wasn't as short range friendly as some of the other rods tested though. I think it responds better with a 3wt line. The rod roll casts pretty well, and it can handle larger flies and larger fish with ease. The blank is a matte black, the seat is up-locking aluminum with a carbon fiber insert. Guides are standard snakes. The cork is A grade.
Paul Feldman's Comments: Like most (all?) Temple Fork rods, this rod came packaged in a cheap rod bag with no tube. This is a medium action rod that cast very well. As I said on an earlier rod, the 8-foot length gives it an advantage in casting (double hauling) a surprisingly long line for a 2-weight. It roll casts well and seems to have adequate strength in the butt for fighting fish. In general, this is quite a nice rod, considering the price, including an extra $20 for a case.
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Superfine sugar | 2 1⁄2 Pound | |
Egg white | 1 | |
Cornstarch | 1 Tablespoon |
Place sugar and egg white in a bowl and rub between your palms until evenly moist and mixed.
Dust each mold inside with cornstarch, tapping out excess.
Pack sugar firmly into molds, level off bottoms, and invert on wax paper; carefully lift off molds.
Repeat until all sugar is molded.
Let bells dry 1-2 hours until hard about 1/4" in from the outside.
With a small spoon or spoon handle, scoop out soft insides, leaving shells 1/8 "-1/4" thick.
Cover scooped-out sugar with damp cloth and use for molding more bells.
Let bells dry overnight at room temperature.
Pipe icing around edges, if you like, to give a more finished look.
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Calorie counts will vary considerably according to how much each sugar bell is hollowed out and how lavishly it is decorated with royal icing.
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Saturated Fat 0 g0%
Trans Fat 0 g
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Total Carbohydrates 287 g95.6%
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Sugars 283.3 g
Protein 0.8 g1.6%
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Calcium 0.3% Iron 0.29%
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The University of Scranton men's tennis team is picked to
finish second in the Landmark Conference, according to a preseason
poll released by the conference office on Wednesday afternoon.
The Royals, who went 8-5 and lost in the Landmark Conference championship last season, received one first-place vote and tallied 52 points in the poll, which was conducted among the conference's eight head coaches. Five-time defending Landmark Conference champion Drew, which has won 12 straight conference championships overall, was chosen first after receiving seven first-place votes and 70 points.
Catholic was chosen third with 38 points, followed by Juniata (28), Susquehanna (25), Moravian (23), Goucher (12) and Merchant Marine Academy (8).
Scranton, led by seventh-year head coach Keith Hetsko, returns seven players from last year's squad that went 6-1 against Landmark Conference foes during the regular season. Senior Tim McGurrin (Clarks Summit, Pa./Scranton Preparatory) was a first-team all-conference selection in both singles and doubles last year. Fellow senior Bennett Kelley (Pennington, N.J./Hopewell Valley Central) was first-team in doubles, while senior Mike Pannone (Maplewood, N.J./Seton Hall Preparatory) was a second-team choice in doubles.
The Royals also welcome back junior David Teres (Lebanon, N.J./North Hunterdon), who was Landmark Conference Rookie of the Year and earned first-team honors in singles and doubles in 2011. He sat out the 2012 season while studying overseas.
Scranton opens its spring season on Saturday, March 16, against Landmark Conference foe Juniata College at noon in Huntingdon, Pa.
The Landmark Conference men's tennis preseason poll:
Rank | Institution (first-place votes) | Points |
1. | Drew (7) | 70 |
2. | Scranton | 52 |
3. | Catholic | 38 |
4. | Juniata | 28 |
5. | Susquehanna | 25 |
6. | Moravian | 23 |
7. | Goucher | 12 |
8. | Merchant Marine Academy | 8 |


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Want to see Arnold Schwarzenegger and his corporate cronies flip-flop faster than John Kerry at a gay marriage rally? Want to know what is REALLY behind Prop. 75?
What is good for the goose is good for the gander, right? If the Governator thinks Prop. 75 is such a good idea for unions, ask him whether he supports applying the same principle to corporations, too. Proposition 75, at its core, is designed to hurt the clout of the unions and strengthen the corporate hand, so Arnold and his supporters are hypocrites who will not back this proposal, even though it is the fair thing to do.
Prop. 75 wants to impose internal requirements on the unions to take majority votes of their members before they take political action. Contentious matters internal to the union will become expensive, time consuming, and wasteful. The unions will be hamstrung, frozen in place, and unable to act –when that is precisely what they need to do in certain scenarios.
Whether Prop. 75 passes or fails, the best answer is to begin an all out push in California to impose the same requirement on corporations that Schwarzenegger and his corporate cronies are now trying to push onto unions.
It is time to take dirty money out of California politics. There is no disconnect between union activities and the best interests of its members that requires majority votes every time the union wants to act. There is a simple solution. If union members don't like what the union is doing and don't think the union is acting in their best interest, they are free to leave the union and join up with any employer they want. They are free to join Wal-Mart if they feel that is who will look out for their best interests.
The real problem in California is the influence of corporations, not the strength of the unions. There is a real disconnect between corporate interests and the interests of the people of California. Imagine this, a large multi-national corporation throws millions of dollars into a political campaign to abolish personal bankruptcy for Californians who have hit on hard times — not caring that most of the bankruptcies are caused by catastrophic illness and a lack of affordable healthcare. At the very same time the very same company is pumping millions of dollars into political campaigns designed to weaken the health care for California's workers.
Do you think the shareholders of that corporation (a large portion of which is made up of union members) should be able to take a vote too, before the company uses their money to fund a campaign designed to harm their interests? Unions are already working to qualify an initiative that would bar corporations from making political donations without prior shareholder approval. As major corporate shareholders, union pension funds could use that power to blunt the political influence of big business in California. Turnabout is fair play.
There is no problem between the interests of union members and leaders that requires a multi-million dollar ballot fight to interfere with the freedom of the union. There is a HUGE problem with corporate money, unchecked, being used to promote politics that hurts ordinary Californians. When these corporations are owned by shareholders and union members you are darn right these corporations should be required to receive approval from their members before throwing millions into harmful political campaigns.
I wont hold my breath waiting for Arnold to do what is right and fair. Luckily the unions aren't waiting either but are already starting to take action.
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On July 1st, 1924, the entire European community of Kinshasa and Léopoldville turned out at the end of Ave. Militaire (See Mar. 12, 2011) near the port to inaugurate a monument commemorating three aviators killed three years' previously when their flying boat crashed. Beginning in April 1920, Belgian pilots and support crews had been trying to establish the Ligne Aérienne Roi Albert (LARA) to link Kinshasa and Stanleyville and provide a fortnightly service to connect with regular arrivals of ships from Belgium at the port of Boma.
A Levy-Lepen flying boat on the river side |
Monument des Aviateurs |
Monument des Aviateurs viewed from Ave. Astrid (Lumpungu) |
The monument, a stone obelisk topped with a bronze statue of a stylized flyer, was the work of Belgian sculptor, Arsène Matton. Matton had significant experience in Congo, having made a trip to the colony in 1911 at the behest of the Colonial Ministy to collect samples of "representative" ethnic types for a set of 4 allegorical statues commissioned for the main rotunda of the new Colonial museum in Tervuren. He set up an atelier in Kinshasa and in September was taking photos and making plaster castings of the family of one of the Congolese port supervisors. Afterwards, the man's wife refused to return, as (she said) she did not want to be placed on a pedestal like the Stanley Monument in old Léopoldville (See Feb. 20, 2011). At that time, the main port was still where the Chanic shipyards are located today and the structure in question was the first monument erected in Léopoldville, created in 1898 in cement by a Swedish Captain in the Force Publique, von Ingesberg, to commemorate the arrival of the railway from Matadi.
Monument de Liberte with Leopold II bust at the base |
Two other monuments, both bronze busts, were placed in prominent locations in Kinshasa at the beginning of the 1920s. These were the work of royal favorite Thomas de Vincotte. A bust of Léopold II by Vincotte was placed on Place Léopold II (See Feb. 3, 2012). Another to King Albert 1er was inaugurated at the beginning of the 1920s on the Place de la Poste. It appears to predate the Monument des Aviateurs as period photographs do not show the latter in the background of the Albert statue. Vincotte's bust presents Albert in his role as defender of Belgium against the German invasion in 1914, wearing his helmet and an expression of determined calm before the onslaught. This same bust appeared on pedestals in Matadi and Jadotville (Likasi) in Katanga. It appears that the Albert bust was relocated after the main monument was erected in front of the Gare Centrale in 1939 (See Aug. 28, 2011) but the Léopold II bust remained on Place Léopold until the colonial statues were taken down in 1971. The Léopold II bronze is in storage at the National Museum in Kinshasa.
Leopold II statue on Place Leopold |
Bust of Leopold II at the National Museum in Kinshasa |
Inauguration of the Albert 1er statue on Ave. Militaire (Aviateurs) |
Albert 1er statue -- Monument des Aviateurs was later erected at the end of the street |
Vincotte also obtained a commission for the Monument to the Pioneers of the Belgian Congo in Brussels in 1921 and later an equestrian statue of Léopold II; inaugurated in Brussels in 1926 and in Léopoldville by King Albert in 1928 (See Sep. 12, 2011). After Léopold's statue was removed in 1971 and consigned to the public works garage in Kingabwa, the site in front of the first Parliament remained vacant until 2001 when the late President Kabila's mausoleum was placed there and a statue erected on the first anniversary of his assassination in January 2002.
Leopold II statue at inauguration |
L.D. Kabila monument and mausoleum in front of the President's Offices |
Paul Panda Farnana |
Another monument, "Monument du Souvenir", was inaugurated in July 1927 at the intersection of Avenues Lippens and Valcke in Kalina. This war memorial was the result of the effort by Mfumu Paul Panda Farnana, considered to be the first Congolese nationalist. Panda Farnana was born the son of a chief near Moanda on the coast in 1888. At 12, he was taken to Belgium by Lieutenant Derscheid, one of the first Belgian explorers of Katanga. He enrolled in the Athenée de Bruxelles, excelled and eventually received a post-secondary degree in agronomy. He returned to Congo in 1909 and was assigned to the Botanical Gardens at Eala at Coquilhatville (Mbandaka). Later, he was named Chef de District ad interim of his home region of Bas-Fleuve. On leave in Belgium in August 1914, Panda volunteered in the Belgian Army for the defense of Namur. Captured by the Germans, he spent the remaining four years of the war as a prisoner.
After the war, Panda became involved in the Panafrican movement in Europe, a collaborator of W.E.B. Dubois and others. In January 1923, he wrote to Maj. Vervloet, an influential ex-colonial, advocating for a monument to the unknown Congolese soldier, to be dedicated either on Armistice Day or September 19, the date in 1916 of the Belgian Congo victory over the Germans at Tabora in contemporary Tanzania. Panda's efforts paid off and sculptor Jacques Marin was commissioned for the memorial (See July 5, 2011). General Charles Tombeur, ennobled the previous December and allowed to add "de Tabora" to his name, inaugurated the monument. One of Marin's last commissions was a bust of General Tombeur, erected in Brussels in 1951 after his death in 1950 (Tombeur died in 1947).
Monument du Souvenir |
Monument du Souvenir -- note steam roller on Ave. Lippens (R) |
Monument du Souvenir at the National Museum |
La Pleureuse |
The statue became the site of regular visits by senior Belgian and other officials, including King Baudouin in 1955, who came to pay homage to the heroes of Belgian colonial military effort in two world wars. In 1971, the statue was removed and later replaced with a moving bronze statue of a weeping Congolese woman, "La Pleureuse", by Wuma Mbambila Ndombasi. Wuma studied at the Academie des Beaux Arts.
"La Pleureuse" in front of the Supreme Court |
- Dillien, André. 2010. "LARA:ligne aérienne Roi Albert", VTB-Magazine, Juillet-Septembre 2010.
- Mudimbe, V.Y. 1980. La Dépendance de l'Afrique et les moyens d'y remédier: Africa's dependence and the remedies, Agence de coopération culturelle et technique.
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NVIDIA Releases Beta Drivers Specified for Battlefield 3
by Kristian Vättö on September 26, 2011 10:05 AM ESTNVIDIA has released beta drivers which have been coded with Battlefield 3 in mind. The drivers are named as GeForce R285.38 and are available immediately from NVIDIA's site. Supported products range from as old as the GeForce 6 series to the latest GeForce 500 series.
The release comes at a good time since the open beta of Battlefield 3 will be available on Thursday 29th (27th if you pre-ordered through Origin). NVIDIA claims up to a 38% performance increase in Battlefield 3, as well as overall stability improvements. The beta drivers add better support for SLI configurations in a few other games too, such as Diablo III and Saints Row: The Third.
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Pessimism - Monday, September 26, 2011 - link
Hardware manufacturers shouldn't be rewriting drivers for a specific title. The game developer should be coding the game properly to use the hardware, just like every other existing title. This just tells me the game is a horribly written mess just like Crysis was, and if you run a Radeon you can forget about decent performance. Reply -
danielkza - Monday, September 26, 2011 - link
Or DICE actually worked with NVIDIA and AMD so they can improve their drivers for some of the features and techniques they plan on using.
www.slideshare.net/DICEStudio/directx-11-rendering-in-battlefield-3 Reply -
retrospooty - Monday, September 26, 2011 - link
"The game developer should be coding the game properly to use the hardware"
This is beta, that is a keyword. This is Beta test of battlefield 3, and beta drivers from Nvidia. If youy arent interested in such things down download either. Wait for the official releases. Reply -
A5 - Monday, September 26, 2011 - link
AMD is releasing beta drivers too, so I don't really know what your point is. Reply -
SlyNine - Monday, September 26, 2011 - link
False Dichotomy, They are not mutually exclusive.
It takes both to best optimize ANY game. Your comment is baseless. Reply -
SlyNine - Monday, September 26, 2011 - link
posted to soon.
There are those, and many other things that need to be tweaked for the optimum gaming experience. Reply -
Pessimism - Monday, September 26, 2011 - link
My point is that this represents an unnatural reversal of the development process.
A video card is a part. It has an established spec of what exactly it can do, how quickly, and how to tell it do do those things
A game is a product, which requires that part to run. Ergo, the game must be designed to the published specification of the video card. The video card manufacturer is under zero obligation to modify the specification of their product for a specific publisher's game. Why should a game developer expect that a hardware manufacturer will cater to their unwillingness or inability to use their product?
If a game publisher discovers, hey, this API is garbage, and function X does not provide the performance or behavior outlined in your hardware specification, please correct it, that is a different story. Reply -
SlyNine - Monday, September 26, 2011 - link
Yea, if that's what's going on here.
But are you saying the only way to tweak a driver is to lower the integrity of the image and/or challenge the integrity of the way the image is drawn/ processed.
I'm not much of a programmer, So I'd be speculating if I said it was one way or another. But it seems to me their are simply more efficient ways that a driver can do things. Code that can be written more efficiently without sacrificing the end result.
But isn't this really an old arugment, even if thats what they did we both know that ATI/AMD and Nvidia have done this for years. Reply -
SlyNine - Monday, September 26, 2011 - link
" Conversely,
If a game publisher discovers, hey, this API is garbage, and function X does not provide the performance or behavior outlined in your hardware specification, please correct it, that is a different story. ."
And now I read the rest of your post lol, sorry for not reading it all to start with.
Ok, so your point isn't "baseless ", but I just got off a graveyard shift and my mind is swiss anyways. But I think this is much "apu" over nothing.
Otho I will say I agree that certian tweaks need to have the ability to be shut off. Reply -
pewter77 - Monday, September 26, 2011 - link
The thing is that games are not coded for specific Video Cards, they are coded on DirectX in mind, which means that there might be changes in the game engine that don't work well with a certain card. Hence the need for optimization by the video card companies. Not to mention bugs in the drivers, and sli/crossfire profiles are different for every game. Unfortunately all game engines are not the same and use hardware differently which means, the card company is required to release drivers that optimize the engine for all their cards and their architecture. Reply


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Perhaps one of the most powerful aspects of cinema is its ability to not only project and perpetuate stereotypes, but also to challenge and even break them. In fall 2016, students in Prof. Maryse Fauvel's course FREN 393 "Representations of Paris in cinema: stereotypes and beyond", studied French cinema that moves beyond these stereotypes. Eight of the students enrolled… Read More
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Martha Wainwright's Summer UK Spree, 10 to 24 August (marthawainwright.com)


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Until last year, Jose Henriquez was just a drill master working deep in the bowels of the Atacama desert, in one of Chile's infamous copper mines. The 56-year-old, a quiet veteran of his industry, had spent more than 30 years in squalid conditions below ground.
On 5 August last year, his life changed. An explosion in the San Jose Mine near Copiapo trapped Mr Henriquez and 32 of his fellow workers. For the next 70 days they became the focus of hopes and prayers from around the world. From a life of benighted obscurity, Mr Henriquez became a household name, beamed into well-wishers' homes via television screens around the globe. He became an icon, holding trapped men together during one the most ambitious and dramatic underground rescues in history.
The emotional toll of their 69-day ordeal revealed much about the miners' characters. Mr Henriquez was soon the group's unofficial "pastor", conducting daily prayer sessions and bolstering spirits through some of the darkest moments.
On 14 October he was reunited with his wife at the surface of the mine, the 24th man to be rescued. A year on from the explosion, he speaks exclusively to The Independent on Sunday.
"As a miner, you become used to accidents. You sometimes even come close to death. But what transpired a year ago was more than that: it united five continents in prayer and fasting, and irrevocably changed the direction of my life.
The incident itself happened so quickly that I still remember the moment it sunk in that we were actually facing death. Hope of a rescue had begun to wear thin and I had to accept that there was actually no escape. The group had started goading each other with jokes of cannibalism, which started off as humorous but gradually took on a darker significance. Some certainly did consider it, but I doubt it would ever actually have come to that.
When you're in groups, there are always those who are positive and upbeat and those who will succumb to adversity. But during those times what truly united us was prayer. Praying every single day was a vital support for us. It kept us together as a team, while faith and trust kept us alive. If there is someone who deserves the credit for our fate, it is Jesus, for he does not need doors to get into rooms and can be everywhere at the same time. It is not the miners that are the heroes in this story – it is the sheer will of God that kept us alive and pervaded over the most audacious rescue mission.
I consider myself very lucky, because the accident gave me a sense of spiritual purpose. But it has also been very difficult. My age and health make it hard for me to find work now, and I have been unable to return to the mine since the accident. Many of the others have moved further afield.
Despite everything that happened, we are yet to receive any kind of compensation from the San Esteban Mining Company. A whole year has passed now and we have heard absolutely nothing. Very little seems to have been done to investigate the lack of safety that led to the accident, while the owners and administrators have refused to accept their responsibility.
There was talk of the government giving a pension to those who are too old to work at the mine, but none of that has happened.
Our only real hope was that there might be a film or a book but, despite a lot of talk and news reports, none of this has been confirmed with me, and it's hard to see anything changing. So far there has been much talk and excitement, but nothing in terms of money or royalties. Luckily, I've always been disciplined at saving. My wife and I have a small business and that's how we make ends meet. It doesn't give us much, just enough to survive, which is more important now than ever. But money is getting scarcer. There's only our lawsuit; we are still waiting to see what will happen with that. But, like many of the other promises, it hasn't amounted to anything.
I haven't seen many of my fellow miners this year and have instead relied on trips with the church to spread the word of God. That's my new mission. I have already visited Europe, Ireland and America to give my testimony. This week, I will be in the US talking to pastors and will be in Washington for the opening of an exhibition that will tell others of the fate that we have endured.
I hope that one day all of thisfinally passes so that we can start a meaningful life again, to go back to work or to find an alternative way to make a living.
My message to the world is to look for the Lord. He is a God who is wonderful and alive and real; he answers prayers of those in anguish, pain and need; and he heals the wounded. Wherever I'm called, and wherever I find myself, I will spread the same message."
Translation by Ernesto Priego
Tales of the 33: Mixed fortunes for the men who spent 69 days underground
Jose Henriquez, 56, is one of the 33 miners who spent 69 days trapped in darkness under 700,000 tons of rock in Chile's Atacama desert. For 17 days the group was cut off from the outside world, relying on rations intended to last 10 men just 48 hours. What followed was one of most audacious rescue missions, bankrolled by the Chilean government.
Nearly half of the Chilean miners have asked to be allowed to retire early on state pensions. Fourteen of the 33 men, including Luis Urzua, the shift supervisor who helped maintain morale with his rigorous routines, have been unable to overcome the physical and psychological effects of their ordeal. At least 31 of the 33 are suing the government for negligence, saying there was a lack of security at the site, and demanding $540,000 each in compensation.
Mario Sepulveda, 41, whose enigmatic personality made him an affable front man, often giving viewers a far rosier version of events than those suggested by footage of some of his more emaciated colleagues, has become a motivational speaker.
Edison Pena, regarded as one of the fittest miners, astonished the world when he ran the New York marathon less than a month after the rescue. He is now an Elvis impersonator with one documentary portraying him as a drunk, with a failing marriage. Ariel Ticona, 30, whose wife gave birth to a baby girl, has also struggled.
Claudio Yanez, 34, got engaged in the mine when his girlfriend proposed to him in a note sent down the shaft. They are now married.
Yonni Barrios, 50, was dubbed "Dr House" after tending to his colleagues' medical needs while underground. On his rescue, he was offered $100,000 to be the face of an extramarital affairs website but only on condition that he stayed married to the wife who is now divorcing him. His wife learnt of his mistress when the two met at a vigil for him. Mr Barrios has since been reportedly diagnosed with silicosis of the lung.
After the rescue effort, only 26 per cent of Chile's population disapproved of President Sebastian Pinera's administration. His disapproval rating has now reached 60 per cent, according the latest polls.
The 33 miners have sold the rights to their story to Mike Medavoy, the Hollywood producer of films such Black Swan. The San Esteban Mining Company remains under bankruptcy protection and its assets have been sold off to help resolve debts and pay severance to the miners.
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So relieved to read you'd headed back to South America and not towards Asia - didn't know your itinerary. We were worried. We love reading about your travels. It all sounds wonderful...you are our hero!
South over the Andes
Trip Start
Nov 13, 2010
Trip End
Jul 20, 2011
Where I stayed
Made our way to the Guesthouse in Guayaquil where we had stayed a few weeks prior. There we met my Dutch friend Andrea who had arrived in Quito about a week earlier. We stayed the night and caught a mini bus ($12) for the 3 hour journey south to Cuenca.
Carolyn was able to finalize all her flights to Brazil before we left for the islands and she only had a day and a half to spend in Cuenca before having to get back to Guayaquil to catch her flight out. We had heard great things about Cuenca and she really wanted to see it, even if it was just going to be a really quick look and see. The minibus saved us a couple of hours over the regular bus and allowed the luxury we had become accustomed to! Easy to get soft while cruising!!!!.
The drive, up and thru the Andes, was beautiful. Cuenca is at 8200 feet - these mountains are high with lush wide valleys between. We wound back and forth through the mountains like a bat out of hell - Ecuadorian driving is fast and very aggressive and often very stupid. I think they have one of the highest fatality rates from traffic accidents in the world and I can see why. Buses are the primary mode of transport and they overtake on double solids and take crazy chances with poor equipment. Our van was in good condition so that was a relief - still every vehicle drives like they are in a race.
We saw Llamas grazing and lots of really expensive looking dude ranches, acreages and tidy small mountain towns along the way. About 60 km outside of Cuenca we entered Cajas National Park. Very beautiful and renowned by birders. of course with our very recent Galapagos bird experience, we were able to yell 'bird' more easily than we had the week before.
Arriving in Cueunca around 3 pm, we checked in and the three of us headed out on the town - Saturday and then Saturday night in the big city.. First impressions confirmed what we had heard - it really is a beautiful colonial city. Clean, organized, booming, as is most of Ecuador, and really very walkable. But cold. The nights are quite chilly - we are in the Andes, and even more chilly for us considering the sweltering heat we had just left in the Galapagos. Daytime is perfect - bright blue sky and warm from 10 to 4, night is cold and there is no heating. Deja vu to Mexico!!!!
Sunday morning Carolyn and I took the local bus up to a couple of villages where we heard they had Sunday markets. This time we were back on the regular bus - 60 cent, 45 minute ride to Gauyaceo and then another 25 cents up to Chordeleg. Charming villages - picture postcard types with everyone in their traditional clothing and everyone in Ecuadorian hats. They wear the traditional hat - handwoven and the indigenous people then shellac them to make them solid. Very interesting clothing choices - it seems impractical - the hat does not cover anything or protect their faces or ears from the sun, it doesn't provide shade like the Vietnamese cone hats - I think they are just for dress up and as impractical as the stupid Police hat.I was always in trouble for not wearing!!!
Sunday morning we decided to take the local bus to some nearby villages where they had Sunday markets.
We had a great day - met some lovely expats who have been living up in the valley for a few years - they were kind enough to give us the lowdown on Ecuadorian living in the south. Rents are very very cheap - you can get a nice house for $250 month...yes, $250 a month. and it is beautiful. Housing is super cheap but I think the cost of living - food and clothing and all that other stuff, is not. Pretty close to prices at home.
Carolyn and I meet the nicest people on the bus and Sunday was the same. Of course we standout - especially Carolyn because the Ecuadorians are all around 5 foot 3 or 4.....I'm normal here!!!! OK, that might be stretching it!
We had no idea where to get off so I kept showing my little piece of paper ( like in China) to people and wait to be adopted. Sure enough an older man with a .little English (he had worked in New York) adopted us and our 'problem to be solved' and made sure we got off the bus and on to the next one without any problems.
All in all a great day.
Monday morning Carolyn packed up and started her travel day from hell. 24 hours straight travelling. 3 hours back to Guayaquil through the mountains, wait for her flight to Lima, Peru. Fly to Lima, 3 hour layover, fly to Rio, 5 hour layover, fly to Brasilia and start her pampered, live by the pool with staff peeling her grapes and spritzing cool water. She has had many Rotary exchange students over the years and is going to the home of her student from last year - Marco, who lives in Brasilia, Brazil. He is an amazing young man and his mom is also really really nice. Marco spent the year going to high school in Calgary so mom came back and forth a few times. They have a house with a pool and staff so Carolyn will be well looked after.. She needs the rest so it will be good - she wants to spend a lot more time travelling in the near future. Work - it does seem to get in the way often!. I was going to join her in Brazil but it was so difficult to arrange the visa for Brazil that I gave up. The restrictions Brazil has put on their visas if you do it from your home country is more arduous than any of the other many visas I have acquired. Now I hear it is really easy to get one from the Brazilian embassy In Peru....maybe????? I do like grapes and pools!!!.
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If Gaza Falls...
By Sara Roy
January 01, 2009 "LRB" --- - Israel's siege of Gaza began on 5 November, the day after an Israeli attack inside the strip, no doubt designed finally to undermine the truce between Israel and Hamas established last June. Although both sides had violated the agreement before, this incursion was on a different scale. Hamas responded by firing rockets into Israel and the violence has not abated since then. Israel's siege has two fundamental goals. One is to ensure that the Palestinians there are seen merely as a humanitarian problem, beggars who have no political identity and therefore can have no political claims. The second is to foist Gaza onto Egypt. That is why the Israelis tolerate the hundreds of tunnels between Gaza and Egypt around which an informal but increasingly regulated commercial sector has begun to form. The overwhelming majority of Gazans are impoverished and officially 49.1 per cent are unemployed. In fact the prospect of steady employment is rapidly disappearing for the majority of the population.
On 5 November the Israeli government sealed all the ways into and out of Gaza. Food, medicine, fuel, parts for water and sanitation systems, fertiliser, plastic sheeting, phones, paper, glue, shoes and even teacups are no longer getting through in sufficient quantities or at all. According to Oxfam only 137 trucks of food were allowed into Gaza in November. This means that an average of 4.6 trucks per day entered the strip compared to an average of 123 in October this year and 564 in December 2005. The two main food providers in Gaza are the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) and the World Food Programme (WFP). UNRWA alone feeds approximately 750,000 people in Gaza, and requires 15 trucks of food daily to do so. Between 5 November and 30 November, only 23 trucks arrived, around 6 per cent of the total needed; during the week of 30 November it received 12 trucks, or 11 per cent of what was required. There were three days in November when UNRWA ran out of food, with the result that on each of these days 20,000 people were unable to receive their scheduled supply. According to John Ging, the director of UNRWA in Gaza, most of the people who get food aid are entirely dependent on it. On 18 December UNRWA suspended all food distribution for both emergency and regular programmes because of the blockade.
The WFP has had similar problems, sending only 35 trucks out of the 190 it had scheduled to cover Gazans' needs until the start of February (six more were allowed in between 30 November and 6 December). Not only that: the WFP has to pay to store food that isn't being sent to Gaza. This cost $215,000 in November alone. If the siege continues, the WFP will have to pay an extra $150,000 for storage in December, money that will be used not to support Palestinians but to benefit Israeli business.
The majority of commercial bakeries in Gaza - 30 out of 47 - have had to close because they have run out of cooking gas. People are using any fuel they can find to cook with. As the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) has made clear, cooking-gas canisters are necessary for generating the warmth to incubate broiler chicks. Shortages of gas and animal feed have forced commercial producers to smother hundreds of thousands of chicks. By April, according to the FAO, there will be no poultry there at all: 70 per cent of Gazans rely on chicken as a major source of protein.
Banks, suffering from Israeli restrictions on the transfer of banknotes into the territory were forced to close on 4 December. A sign on the door of one read: 'Due to the decision of the Palestinian Finance Authority, the bank will be closed today Thursday, 4.12.2008, because of the unavailability of cash money, and the bank will be reopened once the cash money is available.'
The World Bank has warned that Gaza's banking system could collapse if these restrictions continue. All cash for work programmes has been stopped and on 19 November UNRWA suspended its cash assistance programme to the most needy. It also ceased production of textbooks because there is no paper, ink or glue in Gaza. This will affect 200,000 students returning to school in the new year. On 11 December, the Israeli defence minister, Ehud Barak, sent $25 million following an appeal from the Palestinian prime minister, Salaam Fayad, the first infusion of its kind since October. It won't even cover a month's salary for Gaza's 77,000 civil servants.
On 13 November production at Gaza's only power station was suspended and the turbines shut down because it had run out of industrial diesel. This in turn caused the two turbine batteries to run down, and they failed to start up again when fuel was received some ten days later. About a hundred spare parts ordered for the turbines have been sitting in the port of Ashdod in Israel for the last eight months, waiting for the Israeli authorities to let them through customs. Now Israel has started to auction these parts because they have been in customs for more than 45 days. The proceeds are being held in Israeli accounts.
During the week of 30 November, 394,000 litres of industrial diesel were allowed in for the power plant: approximately 18 per cent of the weekly minimum that Israel is legally obliged to allow in. It was enough for one turbine to run for two days before the plant was shut down again. The Gaza Electricity Distribution Company said that most of the Gaza Strip will be without electricity for between four and 12 hours a day. At any given time during these outages, over 65,000 people have no electricity.
No other diesel fuel (for standby generators and transport) was delivered during that week, no petrol (which has been kept out since early November) or cooking gas. Gaza's hospitals are apparently relying on diesel and gas smuggled from Egypt via the tunnels; these supplies are said to be administered and taxed by Hamas. Even so, two of Gaza's hospitals have been out of cooking gas since the week of 23 November.
Adding to the problems caused by the siege are those created by the political divisions between the Palestinian Authority in the West Bank and the Hamas Authority in Gaza. For example, Gaza's Coastal Municipalities Water Utility (CMWU), which is not controlled by Hamas, is supposed to receive funds from the World Bank via the Palestinian Water Authority (PWA) in Ramallah to pay for fuel to run the pumps for Gaza's sewage system. Since June, the PWA has refused to hand over those funds, perhaps because it feels that a functioning sewage system would benefit Hamas. I don't know whether the World Bank has attempted to intervene, but meanwhile UNRWA is providing the fuel, although they have no budget for it. The CMWU has also asked Israel's permission to import 200 tons of chlorine, but by the end of November it had received only 18 tons - enough for one week of chlorinated water. By mid-December Gaza City and the north of Gaza had access to water only six hours every three days.
According to the World Health Organisation, the political divisions between Gaza and the West Bank are also having a serious impact on drug stocks in Gaza. The West Bank Ministry of Health (MOH) is responsible for procuring and delivering most of the pharmaceuticals and medical disposables used in Gaza. But stocks are at dangerously low levels. Throughout November the MOH West Bank was turning shipments away because it had no warehouse space, yet it wasn't sending supplies on to Gaza in adequate quantities. During the week of 30 November, one truck carrying drugs and medical supplies from the MOH in Ramallah entered Gaza, the first delivery since early September.
The breakdown of an entire society is happening in front of us, but there is little international response beyond UN warnings which are ignored. The European Union announced recently that it wanted to strengthen its relationship with Israel while the Israeli leadership openly calls for a large-scale invasion of the Gaza Strip and continues its economic stranglehold over the territory with, it appears, the not-so-tacit support of the Palestinian Authority in Ramallah - which has been co-operating with Israel on a number of measures. On 19 December Hamas officially ended its truce with Israel, which Israel said it wanted to renew, because of Israel's failure to ease the blockade.
How can keeping food and medicine from the people of Gaza protect the people of Israel? How can the impoverishment and suffering of Gaza's children - more than 50 per cent of the population - benefit anyone? International law as well as human decency demands their protection. If Gaza falls, the West Bank will be next.
Sara Roy teaches at Harvard's Center for Middle Eastern Studies and is the author of Failing Peace: Gaza and the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict.


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In the wardrobe a couple of seasons ago, brown became "the new black"; has a similar fashion trend swept the horticultural world?
Both the style and the content of our gardens have always been subject to changing influences. Plant-hunters and the designers of the great estates, made their mark. Gardeners acquired plants from the New World; rushed to buy tulips in the 17th century; plundered elements of the cottage garden. And, in the Eighties of this century there was a surge of enthusiasm for conifers and heathers, promoted by Bloom's nursery to complement the circular beds they advocated.
Creating a new plant variety is, of course, a far more time-consuming process than changing a skirt length. Perfecting new breeds doesn't happen overnight, and building up enough stock to make them commercially viable can take up to 10 years. So the garden centres have to think several years ahead to make sure their growers will be able to satisfy the predicted demand.
Plant buyers in all the big chains stress the constant need to find something different and distinctive. If a new plant is to prove popular, it has to have an improved scent, or be more resistant to disease; smaller varieties also sell well, as we garden in smaller and smaller spaces. Many new breeds are put up for inspection at the big trade shows, but often the buying doesn't take place until later. Buyers take photographs and make notes, but unless they believe they have a sure-fire winner they are likely to sound out opinion among colleagues first, and make the buying decisions later.
The larger chains - such as B&Q - which has 260 outlets across the country, can have a huge influence on supply. Most of their regular growers have many plants in their trial grounds, which may never be offered to the garden centres. But if a buyer asks for something, and it already happens to be on trial, its progress can suddenly be advanced.
However, it is the smaller nurseries that tend to do more to encourage research, sometimes by getting together in groups to try to influence growers. Frosts Nurseries buy the hardy stock for their three branches from 80 suppliers in different parts of Britain and continental Europe. These suppliers grow almost exclusively for them, and so Frosts themselves are able to dictate what is grown. They can also encourage the development of new lines they feel would be popular. David Brakefield, in charge of buying hardy plants, is particularly keen to see a new variety of viburnum - winter-flowering, scented, and evergreen. His horticultural training tells him it is feasible; buying trends show that it would sell well; now he has to try to persuade his growers to invest money in the research.
Fashion is probably best described as what the consumer wants - a delicate balance between what is seen to be available, either in nurseries or through magazines and television, and the requirements of a changing lifestyle, with smaller gardens and less time to spend in them. But we are also more aware that the attractiveness of our surroundings can be enhanced; a balcony or a passageway doesn't need to be bare. So the trend is towards plants with immediate impact. Building a garden over several years is a dying art.
Buyers are divided on how they assess what influences our tastes. Ian Howell of B & Q is under no misapprehensions about the influence of television. When a little-known plant, liriope, was featured in a TV garden design programme several years ago, demand tripled overnight, but, as it is difficult to grow, it was three years before demand was met.
Ian Howell believes it is the big gardening shows, such as Chelsea, that most influence the colours we choose. Jan Habets, of Plant Publicity Holland, who promotes Dutch nursery products across Europe, thinks that the many magazines on sale are far more important - and not necessarily just the gardening ones. He believes many of us regard a garden as little more than another room to furnish, and, given the chance, we want to continue the colour of the carpet out into the tubs on the terrace. Marks & Spencer, whose influence on horticultural trends is limited but significant, is currently taking colour co-ordination a stage further. Confident that we shall all be wearing lilac next spring, M&S has been selling a series of bulb kits to match.
Back in the more mainstream garden centres, they tend to dismiss the idea that we buy plants according to any colour scheme. They say our buying habits show that we want colour, not co-ordination. In the past few years we have favoured pastels, but this last summer we have been looking for hot colours; maybe this was an attempt to compensate for the lack of heat from the sun.
Of course, there are ways of starting your own fashion. If a plant catches your eye, or if you remember a specimen from the past and want to get hold of it, the Royal Horticultural Society's annual publication, The Plant Finder, gives tens of thousands of plant varieties and advice about where to find them. You can then split them up, or take cuttings to give to your friends, and start a trend, albeit a localised one.
Or you may want to get ahead of the trend. Insider tips for next summer include a hydrangea called "Hanabe" - "firework" - with double flowers in white with a touch of pink, against a very dark leaf. And look out, too, for a new variety of Petunia surfinia, called `Limelight'. The leaves have creamy variegations, and the flowers are bright pink. Like it or loathe it, the people who can influence our taste have picked it out for us. You have been warned.
`The Plant Finder 1998/99' published by Dorling Kindersley, at pounds 12.99, is available from most garden centres and big book shops, or direct from the RHS on 01483 211113
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DuckDuckGo, the privacy-focused "search engine that doesn't track you," saw its usage skyrocket in the wake of Edward Snowden's NSA revelations, but that privacy came at a price: While Google and Bing prettied up their design with card-like interfaces and graphical, inline information about everything from music videos to old presidents, DuckDuckGo's interface has remained straightforward and full of basic text links, reminiscent of the Google of old.
No more.
Wednesday, CEO Gabriel Weinberg introduced a sweeping and beautiful redesign for DuckDuckGo, complete with contextual information you've come to expect from modern search engines. The overhauled engine can now return videos, images, definitions, local places, and Knowledge Graph-like bursts of basic biographical information--dubbed "instant answers"--when you search for topics, all via an attractive image-driven carousel at the top of the results.
Text links have also been subtly tweaked, with a more uniform look and a flatter, cleaner aesthetic. The home page also looks slightly different, and has new buttons at the bottom.
Sure, there isn't much here that you won't find in Google or Bing, but the revamp finally makes DuckDuckGo competitive with those two on more than privacy alone. I dig it.
DuckDuckGo hopes to make the redesign the default interface within the next month, but it's been launched in beta form so that everyday searchers can provide the company with feedback. Check it out at next.duckduckgo.com, or via these sample queries suggested by Gabriel, which show the new features in action:
- https://next.duckduckgo.com/?q=thai+in+san+francisco
- https://next.duckduckgo.com/?q=green+day+videos
- https://next.duckduckgo.com/?q=thailand+beach+images
- https://next.duckduckgo.com/?q=define+superlative
Since this is a beta, expect to run into some bugs. Occasionally, links to the new categories – images, videos, etc – wouldn't work for me, and Gabriel says that neither the new instant answers nor the settings page are in final form yet. Internet Explorer 8 users may also run into some visual issues, though the beta should be fully functional nonetheless.


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"floo·zie \ˈflü-zē\: a usually young woman of loose morals." Thus a Food Floozie is not a woman who can be seduced by virtually any man, but rather a woman who can be seduced by virtually any food (other than sushi).
Friday, December 28, 2012
Frugal Floozie Friday - The Northside Grill
Jeremy and I enjoyed a great breakfast at The Northside Grill this week, thus making it today's Frugal Floozie Friday feature. Tremendously friendly service, a festive atmosphere, and great food made it a wonderful place to visit!
I debated many options, as always, from the classic dish of an egg with hash browns and a biscuit to an assortment of side dishes to splitting a sandwich. But I settled upon two items, for a bit of variety: fried eggs served "over easy" plus a warm bear claw proudly made in-house. Generously filled with walnuts and fragrant with cinnamon, the pastry was perfect with my vanilla-flavored coffee. It was a tremendous value at only $2.29.
The eggs - costing a mere $1.25 each, ordered a la carte - were perfectly cooked, and were a nice complement to the sweet treat.
Jeremy, as usual, was much more decisive than I was and readily settled upon the short stack of buttermilk pancakes for $4.39. This was an enormous serving that fully covered the plate, and I can't even imagine being able to finish a full portion! Tender and light, with just a hint of tartness in contrast to the syrup, Jeremy told me he can't remember the last time he enjoyed a plate of pancakes so much.
Another option, had we not been there for breakfast, would have been the Brownie Sundae "topped with ice cream, chocolate syrup, whipped cream, walnuts and a cherry. Enough for two!" At $5.75, this would readily have met our per person budgetary requirement.
From an assortment of side dishes to pastries, from muffins to soups and chilis, and even plate-sized single pancakes or servings of French toast, there are many frugal options to choose from at The Northside Grill. That you also get a warm welcome, free coffee refills, and the comfort of a neighborhood hang-out only makes the deals that much better.
The Northside Grill
1015 Broadway
Ann Arbor, Michigan 48105
Open 7 days a week from 7 a.m. - 3 p.m.
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3 comments:
- Jean | Delightful Repast said...
Well, I *should* stick to the eggs, but I would have had a hard time turning down a bear claw made in-house! And pancakes ...
- December 28, 2012 at 9:46 AM
- Kathy Shea Mormino said...
Hello, new follower here and I'd like to invite you to join me at my weekly Clever Chicks Blog Hop:
I hope you can make it!
Kathy Shea Mormino
The Chicken Chick
- December 29, 2012 at 10:35 AM
- Chris said...
Those are huge pancakes! (or small plates, ha ha)
- December 30, 2012 at 9:40 AM
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