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Clearly, Tom Goes to the Mayor is an acquired taste, even for diehard Adult Swim/alternative animation fans, but for those whose sense of humor veers towards the surreal, the show is very funny, even hilarious at times. And it doesn't hurt that the guest cast includes such solid comic talent as Jack Black, Sarah Silverman, David Cross, Patton Oswalt, Fred Willard, Paul Reubens, and Jeff Garlin, as well as actors like Jeff Goldblum, Edward Herrmann, and even Dustin Diamond of Saved By The Bell infamy. All 30 episodes of the show's first and second (and by all accounts, final, as the creators have begun another series) seasons are included in this three-disc set; extras include very amusing commentary by Heidecker and Wareheim on every episode, tongue-in-cheek featurettes on how the show is put together, the celebrity guests, and executive producer Bob (Mr. Show) Odenkirk's contributions to the show, deleted scenes, original promo spots, and best of all, the three original web cartoons that inspired the series. -- Paul Gaita
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Anyone know of any good homestyle Italian, especially chicken parm in the Ft. Lauderdale, Pompano, Boca Raton area of FL?
My all-time favorite chicken parmesean is at Il Mulino on Sunrise Blvd. in Fort Lauderdale near the Galleria, next to Canyon. It is a nice, somewhat casual environment but the chicken parm cannot be beat, in my opinion, by other more formal restaurants. My whole family loves this dish there....Other dishes are great there too. For more upscale dining, I love Casa de Angelo; it is also on Sunrise. Everything served there is wonderful, as is the service. Chicken parm is not on the menu there but they will gladly make it (or anything) for you.
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Thank you. Have you ever eaten at Restaurante del Sol on Sample Rd.in Pompano?
The best, most authentic chicken parmesan I've had since moving from New Jersey 3 years ago is absolutely Runway 84. Now, I am not the biggest fan of the whole restaurant, but damn that chicken parm is good.
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How to Make the Electric Pickle Experiment/in Education, electroluminescence, JimOnLight University, Just Plain AWESOME., Science of Light /by Jim
A long-desired experiment in many Intro-to-Lighting lectures, the famed Electric Pickle Experiment is something that many older lighting teachers have shown to their classes over the years. Ever seen this done?
Also, this:
And one more, for posterity — what's hilarious at the end of this video is the comment "I wonder what other fruits will glow?" followed by the hot dog…
The Electric Pickle is an interesting experiment that literally burns out the idea of a non-ohmic resistor. Think light emitting diode — dependent on voltage in order to work. What happens in the Electric Pickle Experiment is that once a voltage (120V) is placed across the pickle, there are Sodium anodes (Na+, electron expelling) and Chloride cathodes (Cl-, electron grabbing) that are excited to outside orbital levels of the atom. Just like a sodium vapor lamp, once the electric field charges the pickle, sodium atoms let go of an electron, causing a photon to be released once the haul tail back to lower energy levels in the atom. The result? Pickle light!
HERE'S A BOLD TYPE WARNING: 120V to GROUND CAN KILL YOU DEADER THAN WHITNEY HOUSTON. IT'S SERIOUS. YOU PERFORM THESE STEPS AT YOUR OWN RISK, NONE OF THIS IS MY FAULT IF YOU SCREW UP. YOUR ERRORS IN THIS EXPERIMENT CAN CAUSE YOU DEATH OR SERIOUS BODILY HARM, AND EVEN HARM OR DEATH TO THOSE AROUND YOU.
- The most salty pickles are the ones that work the beat for this experiment.
- MAKE SURE that you're working with some kind of circuit-breaking device in line, like a 15A power strip or a custom-built breaker system in line for this experiment.
- KEEP THE STUDENTS and OTHER OBSERVERS AWAY FROM THE EQUIPMENT!!!!!!!!! If possible, get some kind of a blast shield or Plexiglas panel between the pickle and the observers.
- Get some air to the place you'll be doing the Electric Pickle Experiment, this thing stinks like none other, seriously.
- REFRAIN from EATING THE COOKED PICKLE! It tastes like roasted refried shit!
- two (2) large nails
- some kind of circuit breaking device in line with your "pickle circuit"
- a length (let's say 3 feet for posterity) of 12 gauge, INSULATED 2-conductor lamp cable or a white insulated and black insulated 12 gauge lead
- obviously, a male Edison plug (which is a redundant statement, five extra credit points for WHY)
- a glass container that is JUST larger than the pickles you're using
- two 20A alligator clamps WITH RUBBER SAFETY SHIELDS on them
- install your lamp cable or single lead runs into the Edison plug
- install the alligator clamps to the other ends of the lamp cable or single leads — ONE CLAMP PER LEAD!
- insert a nail into either side of the pickle
- place the pickle onto the glass jar, allowing the nails to rest on the glass jar, suspending the pickle
NOTE: MAKE SURE THE NAILS AREN'T TOUCHING INSIDE THE PICKLE, but that they are SOLIDLY MOUNTED in the pickle
- plug your circuit breaking device into the power source with the DEVICE IN THE OFF POSITION
- attach the alligator clamps to the nails, one per nail, to complete the circuit once the pickle is plugged in
- CHECK AGAIN to MAKE SURE NO ONE IS IN ANY KIND OF CONTACT WITH THE EQUIPMENT!
- Have someone standing by at the light switch in the room
- Plug in the pickle in to the power, then switch the breaker ON
- shut off the room lights, observe the pickle light!
Lots of care and caution need to go into this experiment. Why? Because I said so, and because this is putting 120V, 15-20A through a PICKLE. It's DANGEROUS!
Items of Note:
- You can use a dimmer or rheostat to achieve this experiment successfully, too — just make sure you kill the power when the pickle quits doing its light bulb trick.
- Make SURE you have some air to your room, this is a stinky experiment!
- Once you have done the experiment, make sure that you either remove the "pickle probe" from student pervue for safety. You never know, even in University settings. Hide that thing.
- If the pickle weren't already green, you'd be seeing light in the 588-590nm wavelength range. Crazy, huh?
Now BE CAREFUL!
BONUS NERDERY: Here's Vladimir Bulovic to tell the world about how OLEDs and the glowing pickle have SO many things in common!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, William Kennedy Laurie Dickson!/in Education, happy birthday, Industrial, Light and Music, Old to New, research, Research and Development /by Jim
What the what?! That's William Kennedy Laurie Dickson, the guy who invented the Kinetoscope, among other completely awesome stuff! Today is Billy Boy's birthday! Happy Birthday, William Kennedy Laurie Dickson!
Dickson was one of Edison's "muckers," the guys who did all of Edison's work for him. What a d-bag he was, that Edison!
Check out the Happy Birthday, William Kennedy Laurie Dickson Official Birthday Post!
Oh My God, It's July — and JimOnLight is Back!/2 Comments/in Education, Jim's Travels, JimOnLight.com, Jobs! Gigs!, Lighting Life /by Jim
Hi everyone! Oh, how I have missed you.
I've been on the hunt for a new job, and I am very proud to say that after almost five months of hell, I have been offered the most perfect job for a great lighting company in south Florida.
Perhaps even better news than that is that I accepted the position, and I start August 15! I'm keeping the company under wraps for now, mostly because I am continuing my lifelong research and writing obsession with light and the lighting industries through JimOnLight, and I want to maintain my integrity as a researcher and writer. But let me just say this — a position has been created for me that I am honored to accept, and I am excited to get back to work — this time for a company and a boss who will treat me like a human being. How exciting is THAT?!
My experiences over the last almost five months have been intense to the point of Albert Camus' worst nightmares – doors that I thought would be wide open I found locked tighter than Fort Knox, while other doors that I assumed would be deadbolted swung wide open and welcomed my big bald head with open arms. If there is anything I have learned from this experience since March is that you never really know who your real friends are, even those you've supported at every turn, until you need a friend in return. It's literally made me change my entire philosophy of life and work. On one hand I'm pretty thrilled to change philosophy, but on the other hand I'm pretty bummed to see that the majority of the people for whom I've done lots of work were just as quick to turn their backs as someone I never met before. Ce la vie.
One thing is definite for all of you out there still in the situation I just got lucky enough to slide out of — you have to hold onto hope, you have to hold tight, and you have to beat the pavement in order to make something happen. Finding a job in this economy is no small feat, and it's no small victory once you've found a way out of the mire. Let me be the first to tell you that sometimes the shit can get dark. It is hard to exist when you have no money. It's hard to get by when all of the laws are written to help those who can help themselves but live on the system, I know this for a fact.
I've had lots of time to think about what to say to help those lighting industry folks who are down and out, and are losing hope:
- Get used to the fact that your life needs to be different (read that as cheaper) until you get steady money coming in again. Life's not over, it's just stalled out a bit.
- HANG IN THERE. This crap will change if you keep doing what you're doing, which hopefully is making the calls to everyone and anyone you know, letting them know that you're looking for something.
- JOB SEARCH RESOURCES — Check it out, nothing hurts when you're without a job!
- Tune up that resume — put a call on Facebook to some of us out there, any number of us would be more than happy to help a fellow industry member by taking two minutes to look over your resume.
- Do you have a savings account? GET ONE. Are you sticking a decent portion of your take-home after bills in that savings account? If you answered anything other than "you bet your bottom dollar I am," START SAVING. Save ANYTHING YOU CAN. it will help down the line.
- Expect some percentage of rejection and disappointment. Sorry folks, but it's true. When you send out resumes and portfolios en masse, you're going to experience a good portion of "no, sorry" responses. It happens. It just means that its time to get out there and keep pushing.
- If you have family, see what they can do for you. You might need to suck it up and move home for a bit (hey, I did it, I can never thank my Dad enough for what he's done for my wife and I, he literally saved us) until you can get back on your feet.
- If you have friends, see if they can help you out. Suck it up if you're destitute, your pride isn't doing anything but screwing you up.
- If you have "habits," like drinking or smoking, guess what? YOU CAN'T AFFORD IT RIGHT NOW. You also can't afford to be eating out all the time, either — it's time to get used to bologna and ramen for a bit. The stuff isn't all that bad, believe me. It's way better than fucking starving.
- If you have a wife, girlfriend, boyfriend, husband, whatever — MAKE TIME TO SPEND WITH THEM. QUALITY time. Spend time with them where you're not looking at your phone searching for jobs, and get used to dumping the shit out of your brain so that you can also be a good partner. I cannot stress this to you enough — being unemployed and broke is EXPONENTIALLY WORSE when you have to fight all the time with your loved one. Also, it costs nothing to walk around the park holding hands and talking about things.
- I said this before, but HANG IN THERE! This WILL get better. It might take a month, two months, or twelve months. It does happen. It just might be a while. It was for me, anyway.
If you need a pick-me-up, drop me a line. I'd be glad to do what I can for you. I have great jokes. Sometimes all it takes is a smile on your face to greatly improve your day when you're out of work.
HOG 4 TRAINING VIDEOS!/in Accessories, Concert Production, Consoles, Education, High End Systems, Industry News, Industry Professionals, Just Plain AWESOME., Lighting Control, Lighting Design /by Jim
High End Systems has released a series of training videos for the new Hog 4!
From a press release at High End Systems:
Following the extremely successful HOG4 launch and due to incredibly high demand, High End Systems is today releasing a series of Hog4 training videos.
In tandem with the large number of worldwide training classes undertaken both by High End Systems and it's extensive distributor network, the initial 12 videos will allow everyone to learn how to use a Hog.
The videos have been split into easy to watch segments meaning that beginners as well as experienced users will benefit from them. They are also in a logical order allowing for the user to move from one element of the Hog software to another with ease. The 12 videos means that users who only need to look at a specific area of the console may do this with ease.
"The addition of these videos to our already extensive training program is testament to our commitment to offer education at multiple levels" says Jeff Pelzl, VP, Technical and Marketing Services "and we are committed to ensuring that everyone has access to Hog training."
"We realized that not everyone is able to attend training classes and also that users want the ability to brush up on certain areas of the platform' says Chris Ferrante, Director of Product Management "so we partnered with Colin Wood of Pre Production Services and now have a brilliant suite of training videos"
These videos can be seen at the following location: http://www.highend.com/support/training/Hog4Training/index.asp
As well as launching this suite of videos, High End Systems has recently launched version 1.2 for the Hog4 platform adding a host of new features including Command Keys, which continues the aggressive release schedule embarked upon on the platform's launch.
The videos:
Lesson 1: Starting a New Show
Lesson 2: Default Layout of a New Show
Lesson 3: An Introduction to Patching
Lesson 4: Basic Programming
Lesson 5: Cue Playback
Lesson 6: Using Palettes
Lesson 7: Basic Cue Timing and Editing
Lesson 8: Tracking
Lesson 9: User Kinds
Lesson 10: Command Keys
Lesson 11: Multi-Console Setup
Lesson 12: Configuring Art-Net
I hope to see more of these from MORE console manufacturers in the near future!!!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, NIKOLA TESLA! You Were A BADASS!/1 Comment/in Amazing Visuals, Education, Electrical Safety, electricity, happy birthday, History, Industry News, Industry Professionals, Old to New, Pioneers /by Jim
Who is THAT?! Wait, is that — is that Nikola Tesla?! HAPPY BIRTHDAY, Nikola Tesla!
Well, it's birthday time for one of the most prolific inventory of humanity — Nikola Tesla's 207th birthday is today (10 July 1856 – 7 January 1943)! If he was still alive, I would definitely suggest we have a Tweet-up and buy that man a round! A man who thought all human beings should have free energy, believed in the power of peace, and created more useful inventions than most people alive today — Nikola Tesla is one historical badass. He also got legally fornicated by Thomas Edison, which is another post altogether, but still managed to do unbelievable work on alternating current electricity.
We here at JimOnLight want to share your amazingness with the world:
The History of Nikola Tesla – a Short Story from Jeremiah Warren on Vimeo.
Also — from The Oatmeal — MAD PROPS to our man Nikola Tesla! I cross-post this with every positive intention possible:
We celebrate your life here at JimOnLight.com — and here's a toast to hoping someone makes your dreams of free energy generating devices and perpetual motion systems a reality!
Until next year… HAPPY BIRTHDAY, NIKOLA TESLA!
Passing Through from Olafur Haraldsson on Vimeo.
Tesla's obituary:
Thanks to The Oatmeal, Wikipedia, The Daily Kos, EEP, and Brad DeLong!
Light, Lighting, and Electricity Facts and Chicks!/in Education, Facts About Light, Just Plain AWESOME. /by Jim
I did this once before, but since then there have been a hell of a lot more facts posted. Now the funniest thing for this post is… we expect more women than men to read it!
It is my pleasure to introduce some of the great Facts and Chicks' Facts and Chicks — Light, Lighting, and Electricity Edition!
(PS: Ladies and Men, if you want men to look at with facts on them, let me know where they are! We are equal opportunity expoloitationists for the sake of science!)
Getting to Know the LED Ellipsoidal Generation – A JimOnLight Series Introduction/3 Comments/in Education, Environmentally Friendly Design, Equipment, Fixtures, Industry Professionals, Innovation, JimOnLight.com, LEDs, Lighting and The Economy, Lighting Design, Lighting Discussion, Lighting Manufacturing, Luminaire Design /by Jim
I've done a lot of shows in my career so far. I'm lucky as hell, don't get me wrong – but because of it, I feel like I have a real "bond" with incandescent and high-intensity discharge lamps (HIDs) that we use in this industry. It's almost creepy sometimes – in my head, I know how a good ol' no-color Source Four looks in a dark theatre. I know how an Altman 360Q looks in a theatre sitting next to it, too – and how it looks sitting with a Shakespeare, also uncorrected, next to a Source Four. As I close my eyes to write this, I can see how an old Strand 30-degree feels inside of a theatre or outside during an outdoor performance, and how a tried-and-true PAR64 can burns so beautifully bright and amber when it's going through red shift during a nice slow fade-up during a song in an arena. Even awesome old Kliegl 6×8's have a good beam still, as long as the optics are changed from those miserable step lenses!
As a side note, I listened to Vesa Honkonen tell a story when I was attending graduate study in Sweden about "trusting" the light from a certain type of reflector, and how that trust cost him time and money on a project. So as a bit of an aside, with every statement is an equal anti-statement!
I have gotten to know the fixtures in our industry very well because I've been fortunate to use them in a real variety of performance situations and installations. When you get to know something like an ellipsoidal fixture with an incandescent lamp in it and you use it over and over and over again, you get to trust the fixture. I can say with ease that I trust the light that comes from the business end of a Source Four; at the same time, I trust the light that comes out of an Altman 360Q as well, whether it has an HX601 lamp in it or an old FEL lamp. As a designer, as an artist — I know what that light from an incandescent lamp in one of the "typical" variety of ellipsoidals is going to do for me in a scene on actors of any skin tone, or on a presenter during, or on film and video, and whether it has a chunk of R26 or L181HT in it. I know that kind of light. I trust that light.
In the world we live in now, incandescent lamps are slowly becoming forcefully shunned by a growing portion of the lighting industries as a whole (and politicians, sadly), with LED replacements becoming the forced norm by pretty much all of the companies that at one time were pushing an incandescent based fixture. These companies are all now driving quickly on the road of a really good trend: to produce a fixture that provides the same kind of light or better than that of an incandescent lamp based fixture with a lot less power consumption and without losing any light quality. Sounds easy enough, right?
There is a strange, edgy, "new car smell" feeling towards the new strains of LED fixtures making their births into the industry. We are inundated with them at the trade shows in our business, just like we were with the incandescent conventionals. Manufacturers, this is perfectly acceptable, and I think that it's one of your biggest assets in this industry. It's your job to make us trust your fixtures, through hands-on videos and "shoot-outs" between incandescent and LED fixtures out there. My informal surveying of conference attendees over the last three years has seen many responses like "TOO MANY LEDS" and "If I see another crappy wannabe LED fixture at another trade show, I'm going to die." Believe it or not, this is a really good thing — it provides an opportunity for the exceptional equipment to rise to the top of the Diode Ocean, as I like to call it. Lately, these exceptions are overcoming their inferior rivals, much to my happiness.
Users, we have a job to do, too — we have to give the manufacturers the chance to trust LED light. We have to learn how it is different than its incandescent counterparts. We've had all of these decades to learn how to work with incandescent light (and HID light too, for what it's worth), and we know it. We trust it, and we love it. But why is that? It's because it's what we know, and it really is that simple. Once we give the LED ellipsoidal generation a chance, you know we're going to trust that too. This isn't to say that LEDs are done developing, this obviously isn't true. But I am noticing some unbelievably incredible advances in LED engines and output technology lately, especially after LDI in October 2012, and I have to say that I am finally ready to learn to trust LED conventional ellipsoidals. It's hard not to at this point to see that LED ellipsoidals are becoming the obvious choice, with the color temperature tuning we see now and the low power requirement that they provide — and to argue against energy consumption and power conservation is just not in my DNA.
Over the next 2 weeks I'm going to be comparing the LED conventional ellipsoidals we see in Entertainment to their incandescent counterparts over the next month, starting with ETC's new Source Four LED line first, followed by Robert Juliat's Zep and Tibo ranges, then moving on to the RevEAL Profile from Prism Projection, and so on. In the mean time, let's take a look at the characteristics I'll be examining that I find important to applying trust, at least on paper – you can argue that there are more to see, but for the sake of argument, let's start with:
- Cost Comparison:
What kinds of costs are we looking at over the course of an LED Ellipsoidal lifetime? How different is it, really?
- Light Output, or Perceived Brightness:
How does it compare to a comparable incandescent conventional?
- Spectral Analysis:
What is the white light in the beam comprised of with respect to wavelength?
- Power Consumption:
When you put an LED ellipsoidal up against an incandescent lamp at 575W, how does it perform?
- Weight:
I have to stick these in a truck and on a truss at some point, so what is the difference I need to know?
- Controllable Properties:
Obviously I have only a few with an incandescent fixture, so what comes stock in an LED ellipsoidal that makes a difference?
Let's go on this journey together. When we work on something together as an industry, we get to make it how we want it to be, and manufacturers listen. Once we started to get involved with the ways that incandescent lamps were developed and lighting designers started demanding better control over design and engineering of incandescent lamps, they improved. All we have to do now is learn what the LED Ellipsoidal generation can do for us, and we can really make a difference.
Green is A Number – A Creative Stage Lighting Webinar/1 Comment/in Education, Environmentally Friendly Design, green, Just Plain AWESOME., Webinars /by Jim
I just found this on the Creative Stage Lighting Blog, and this is about an hour and 20 minutes' worth of your time that will come in handy in the future. From Kevin Loretto's Creative Stage Lighting Blog (bolding is mine for emphasis):
How do you measure the environmental impact of a light fixture? There are many ways to look at it, starting with the light output compared to the energy input. But that's just the beginning. Take a quick trip through the green valley of sustainable lighting including best practices for lessening the environmental impact of your lighting designs.
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Richard Cadena is the author of several books for the production professional, including Electricity for the Entertainment Electrician & Technician, Automated Lighting: The Art and Science of Moving Light, Lighting Design for Modern Houses of Worship, Focus on Lighting Technology. He is a 24 year veteran of the entertainment lighting industry and he has a background in electronics and electrical engineering.
His work experience includes stints with two of the world's largest automated lighting manufacturers and he has designed lighting systems for tours, theatre, and permanent installations. He is also the technical editor for PLASA Media, an Authorized WYSIWYG Trainer, and freelance lighting designer. He is proficient in WYSIWYG, LD Assistant, and Vectorworks and he teaches classes in lighting, electricity, and control systems. His training seminars and webinars are renowned for their humor and creativity and are among the most popular in the industry.
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Developed by BMW's in-house motorsport division, the E30 M3 was, is, and always will be one heck of a great car, writes Nishant Mehta
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- With a Paul Rosche tuned 2.3-litre motor, an agile chassis and top-of-the-line anti-lock brakes, the E30 M3 was, and still is, one of the greatest cars of all time.
You may be forgiven for thinking the foremost function of the BMW M division is to make you, me, and every petrolhead around the globe drool over that iconic badge. OK, that isn't its main function, but it certainly has that affect.
There aren't many factory tuners that have taken the performance of a regular production series model to the levels created by Munich's M department.
Upgrading the E30 3 Series is a painstakingly difficult process, especially when you consider how good the regular cars already are.
But through massaged engines, sporttuned suspensions and other performance goodies — not to mention extensive cosmetic enhancements — the boffins continually manage to upgrade an A grade car to an A+.
And you have to be a real tough guy to drive a manual dog-leg gearbox homologation special such as an E30 M3 — one of the best M cars ever.
Its excellent track-honed handling and linear engine performance make it one of the most renowned cars in the M series.
Using the standard 3 Series platform as a basis, the M3 really got enthusiasts' blood pumping. And it still does. To think it was built 26 years ago…
The first M3 rolled off the production line in 1986. Five thousand were produced, strictly for racing homologation purposes. They all featured flared wheel arches, a tall rear wing, stiffened suspension and a Formula 1-derived 195 horsepower four-cylinder engine.
People really began to sit up and take note of the M3 when it competed in the World Touring Car Championship. It collected wins in its debut season, ahead of seasoned competitors such as Mercedes, Ford and Volvo. It won the European Touring Car Championship several times, and the DTM (German Touring Car Championship) twice.
Buying one back then would have made for a sound investment, as today, even with many thousands of kilometres on the clock, they can set you back at least Dh90,000.
Being the original in a long line of the greatest sports coupés ever made gives the E30 M3 the bragging rights over most machines.
It made all our fantasies come to life, and caused us to have some surreal dreams too. In short, it's where all the M magic began…
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Covent Garden is home to some of the finest restaurants in London. From succulent steaks at Hawksmoor Seven Dials to a superior French affair at Balthazar, spoil yourself and visit one of the top tables in the area. Do you agree with the choices? Use the comments box below or tweet your suggestions.
Lima Floral
- Rated as: 5/5
- Price band: 3/4
Turning up at a smart destination restaurant with a large suitcase is always going to be awkward. What's more awkward is not being able to find the front door. I'm not sure who was more surprised, us or the kitchen porters, when we marched, suitcase in tow, through the kitchen door of Central, currently the hottest restaurant in Lima, Peru. Central is so discreet it doesn't even bother with a sign. But its dishes are the opposite, with plate after plate dazzling its mixed
- 14 Garrick Street, WC2E 9BJ
- Meal for two with drinks and service: around...
- Rated as: 4/5
- Price band: 3/4
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Fusion maestro Peter Gordon (of the Providores & Tapa Room) co-owns this handily located, stylish all-dayer. He oversees an exciting and well-executed menu that runs from breakfast to dinner, with missteps a rarity. Turkish eggs (poached eggs with yoghurt, hot chilli butter and flatbread) – a favourite from the Tapa Room – makes a welcome appearance on brunch and breakfast menus. Lunch features weighty sandwiches (steak on focaccia with caramelised onion, mustard cream
- 32-34 Monmouth Street, WC2H 9HA
- 2 Courses £18.95 3 Courses £21.95
Hawksmoor Seven Dials
- Rated as: 4/5
- Price band: 3/4
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This former fruit warehouse is now Carnivore Central in Will Beckett and Huw Gott's confidently expanding empire, and the bar a place of pilgrimage in its own right for cocktail geeks. Winner of Time Out's Best New Restaurant award in 2011, the discreet-fronted basement location is elevated to a high-end destination with a characterful interior of reclaimed materials and the fan-boys' zeal for premium meats and other taste sensations. The bad news is, with a similar
- 11 Langley Street, WC2H 9JJ
- Main courses £15-£30. Set meal (noon-3pm,...
- Rated as: 4/5
- Price band: 3/4
In early 2013, Keith McNally's much-anticipated NYC import Balthazar finally opened, and London got to see what this Manhattan interpretation of a French brasserie was actually like. The response was positive, and for weeks afterwards it was hard to get a table. Chef Robert Reid has tinkered little with the nostalgic transatlantic menu, and we loved signature dishes such as the onion soup (grilled gruyère lid on thick country bread, immersed in a rich and sweet chicken
- 4-6 Russell Street, WC2E 7BN
- Main courses £13-£37
Moti Mahal
- Rated as: 4/5
- Price band: 3/4
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Class, poise, judgement: these words might well be embossed on Moti Mahal's burnished copper bar, beside the serried ranks of expensive whiskies. This London outpost of Delhi's celebrated restaurant group is geared to international business diners and priced accordingly. Weighty linen tablecloths, polished wooden flooring, an ambient soundtrack and a spotless open kitchen (viewed behind a curvaceous glass partition) lend gravitas to the ground-floor dining room – as do
- 45 Great Queen Street, WC2B 5AA
- Main courses £9-£25. Set 'tiffin lunch' £16...
- Rated as: 4/5
- Price band: 3/4
This Covent Garden fixture reopened in spring 2013 after a major refurbishment of its grand, imposing premises (Grade II-listed and formerly a casino). Everything we ate during our weekday lunch was excellent: two starters from the carte and a couple of dishes from the set lunch. Two clichés of London's American restaurant scene, caesar salad and crab cakes, were flawlessly executed. From the set lunch, beef carpaccio was top-notch yet almost overshadowed by a main of
- 18 Wellington Street, WC2E 7DD
- Both Main courses £17.95-£68 Set meal...
- Rated as: 4/5
- Price band: 3/4
Who's to blame for the no-reservations trend, which leaves us queuing for an hour or more to get into a restaurant? Some might point the finger at places such as Polpo in Soho, Burger & Lobster in Mayfair or Meat Liquor in Marylebone. But the first restaurant that gave a mandatory wait with dinner was Barrafina in Soho, which opened in 2007. And that hour-long queue for proper Spanish tapas is still there. So is this second branch of Barrafina worth the seven-year wait?
- 10 Adelaide Street, WC2N 4HZ
- Meal for two with wine and service: around £90.
Les Deux Salons
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- Price band: 3/4
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One of the trio of restaurants from powerhouse pairing Anthony Demetre and Will Smith (the others are Arbutus and Wild Honey), French brasserie Les Deux Salons comes with certain expectations. It certainly looks the part, the building rescued from its former incarnation as a Pitcher & Piano and turned into two sumptuous floors of gleaming black and white parquet, dark wood and deep leather banquettes. The menu isn't afraid to stray beyond the traditional brasserie remit, with
- 40-42 William IV Street, WC2N 4DD
- Main courses £8.50-£30 Set dinner £9.95 2...
- Rated as: 3/5
- Price band: 3/4
Rules may look as though nothing has changed for 50 years (or more, the restaurant was established in 1798), but this old-stager hasn't made it this far without adapting to the times. Together with the dark wood and red colour scheme, patterned carpet, caricatures and old paintings are modern touches. Witness the Kate Middleton cocktail (Sipsmith gin, Pinky vodka, Lillet aperitif wine and crystallised violets and rose petals).A menu of classics, with an emphasis on game, runs
- 35 Maiden Lane, WC2E 7LB
- Main courses £17.95-£34.50
- Rated as: 3/5
- Price band: 3/4
Best-known for their macarons and other confections, the Paris-based Ladurée has opened a branch in Covent Garden Piazza. This is their third in London, the flagship being a remarkable café inside Harrods. While this latest Ladurée doesn't have the same wow factor, the location is hard to beat, opposite the Apple store and with outdoor tables on the cobbled piazza. Be warned though that you'll be assailed by street performers, as their main stage is right next door.
- Covent Garden Market, WC2E 8RF
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Good value Decent TV and passable breakfast
Noisy room. Thin walls transmit elevator and corridor noise. Basic hotel furniture
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Hot tub boarded up. WiFi didn't work
Location was good and pretty central
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prompt and courteous resolution to a coffee maker that did not work - follow up call to see if the replacement was satisfactory
The room was very clean
Included wifi
Facilities are sketchy at best, staff is somewhat responsive, included complimentary breakfast didn't live up to expectations. For the money, not a good value. Spend a little more and stay somewhere a lot nicer.
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Last week I attended a day of the UX Week conference and was lucky enough to listen to a talk from Bernhard Seefeld and Elizabeth Windram from the Google Maps team. During their talk they mentioned something that perked my interest. It didn't sound like the same old, same old when I hear people talk about user experience.
They design for the power user.
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Looks pretty sweet. I'll be installing it later today/tonight, but from the demo, I'm impressed. Every once in a while I step back and think about everything that my iPhone can do and I'm amazed. The little device is far and away the best gizmo I've ever owned. Period.
The future is here. Still no word on my jet pack order though. I'm blaming UPS.
The way they designed the unlock is fantastic and I like some of the stuff they did with the status bar at the top. None of the other features really wowed me, but it's good stuff and I love seeing the innovation.
Hosted versions of jQuery, Prototype, Scriptaculous, MooTools, and Dojo javascript libraries. Let Google handle the caching and bandwidth issues for you.
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Great tips on all aspects of UX design from the guys down the street at Google here in Seattle. I agree with a lot that's said, but I lean towards removing all color instead of making things look unfinished to keep the focus on interactions.
Antitrust laws exist mainly to "prohibit agreements or practices that restrict free trade and competition between business entities."
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These laws, specifically the Sherman Act, are likely what's keeping you and me from having to buy our milk from Standard Oil, which is great, but with software it can be tricky. Microsoft stepped over the line a bit for sure, but it's not always so blatant. What constitutes a "product"? Where does one piece of software end and the other begin? What should be part of the operating system and what shouldn't? For the most part I think software companies are doing it right. Applications are focused around particular tasks: listening to music, getting your email, browsing the web, editing photos, etc., and the operating system or "the web" is there to facilitate that. It's the links that make these individual applications really shine and that's where this gets sticky.
Jacob Kaplan-Moss has created some awesome new template tags for Google Charts. Don't miss the example page.
It's no iPhone user interface but this new gallery set looks a lot better then almost all the the other mobile phone user interfaces out there. I'm glad to see the competition.
I'm not a big user of the google application suite, but I poked around with this implementation and it looks like a great implementation for those that do.
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What a sad fate for animals that have lived for years in captivity and helped
advance human knowledge about the world around us. It's a shame that when
some other form of life is no longer useful to people, or it becomes
inconvenient to keep it around or find an alternate home for it, it just gets
And it isn't true that the Federal government can't afford to finance this research center anymore, or at least pay for some humane way to resettle these desert tortoises. A small portion of the money we've poured into Pakistan and Egypt would make a good start.
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If the animals are sick and can pass the sickness on to healthy animals, then perhaps they should be euthanized, but if they are only judged to weak to survive in the wild, then maybe they should be released and allowed to at least try to survive
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Why can't they be sent to zoos or even pet stores if they are healthy?
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@RedShirtMIT - Most zoos already have tortoises and while some could accommodate more, most zoos are struggling right now too, since many of them are also publicly funded. As for sending them to pet stores, tortoises can live to be well over 100 years old. Most people aren't will to put in that kind of commitment to a pet (especially one that they can't really do much with...)
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To "Shawnm750" the other option is to release them back into the wild. As the article points out, the tortoises that are brought to the facility are wild and already know how to survive. How expensive would it be to FedEx a box of the critters off to a national park somewhere and allow them to continue on their lives?
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Beggars, Brides, and Bards: The Political Philosophy of Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew
Date: August 2011
Creator: Murphy, Stephanie Miranda
Description: To do justice to Shakespeare's comprehensive moral and political thought this paper seeks to discover what we can learn from the political philosophy of his largely neglected comedy, Taming of the Shrew. Not only does this endeavor provide a valuable forgotten link within the critical analyses of the theorists, but it also corrects the various misinterpretations of the play among contemporary critics. I argue that the play surveys various key themes that are rooted in classical political philosophy – such as education, the problems of anger, and the dynamic between nature and convention – and takes into consideration how they apply to modern man. Shakespeare borrows Plato's idea that eroticism is central to education and explicitly references Ovid's love books to reexamine our conceptions about one's formation of character, the proper standards for judging the ideal mate, and the effects of these issues on the stability of the community. I also submit an innovative explanation of the relation between the induction and the main plot. Taken together they exhibit a critique of the role of the poet and his art in modern civil society.
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The Dichotomy of Congressional Approval
Date: August 2010
Creator: Moti, Danish Saleem
Description: This thesis seeks to understand how political awareness affects what information one uses to indicate their approval or disapproval of Congress and its members. More concisely, do more and less aware individuals rely on the same pieces of political information to mold their opinions of Congress? The second question of concern is what role does media consumption play in informing survey respondents about Congress. Third, I consider how survey respondents use cues like the condition of the economy and presidential job performance to help formulate their opinion of Congress Finally, by applying the Congressional approval literature to incumbent level approval, I seek to advance the theory and literature on what motivates the approval of incumbents.
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Discovery of Resources and Conflict in the Interstate System, 1816-2001
Date: May 2010
Creator: Clark, Bradley
Description: This study tests a theory detailing the increased likelihood of conflict following an initial resource discovery in the discovering nation and its region. A survey of prior literature shows a multitude of prior research concerning resources and nations' willingness to initiate conflict over those resources, but this prior research lacks any study concerning the effects of the discovery of resources on interstate conflict. The theory discusses the increased likelihood of conflict in the discovering nation as both target and initiator. It further looks at the increased chance of conflict in the discoverer's region due to security dilemmas and proxy wars. The results show strong support for the theory, suggesting nations making new resource discoveries must take extra care to avoid conflict.
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Electoral System Effects On Anti-muslim Sentiments In Western Europe
Date: December 2011
Creator: Saleemi, Asmara
Description: The purpose of this thesis is to answer the question, why is there a variation in anti-Muslim sentiments across Western Europe? There is existing literature on individual and country-level variable s to explain why prejudice exists, but this research examines the impact of political institutions on anti-Muslim sentiments. Based on new institutionalism theory, electoral systems can shape public attitudes by providing far-right parties a platform to put their concerns on the agenda, and these parties promote anti-Muslim popular sentiments. The results of this analysis support this argument in that the larger the average district magnitude in a country, the greater the anti-Muslim sentiments. The findings also show that an increase in far-right party vote-share also covaries with an increase in anti-Muslim sentiments.
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The Enemy of My Enemy: International Alliances Against Transnational Terrorist Organizations
Date: December 2010
Creator: Berthume, Joshua Guy
Description: A dearth of pre-existing research in the field prompted this thesis on whether traditional econometric analyses of war deterrent alliances are applicable to modern alliances for counter terror purposes. Apparent foundational and contextual differences between the two types of alliances and the costs and benefits member nations derive from each lead the author to theorize that factors contributing to the formation of each alliance are fundamentally similar. Multiple types of statistical models are used to measure variables from the Correlates of War and Polity datasets combined with custom variables in a new dataset concerning major transnational terrorist attacks and the resultant alliances in testing the effect of traditionally contributing formation factors on alliances against terrorism. The results indicate that some contributing factors are similar, extant analysis tools have utility and that further investigation is justified.
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Europeanization and the Rise of Extremist Parties
Date: December 2011
Creator: Dague, Jennifer Lee
Description: The research question addressed by this study is: what is the relationship between Europeanization and the rise of extremist parties? In particular I examine the impact of Europeanization on the rise of extreme right parties in Europe from 1984 to 2006. Europeanization in this paper is defined as a process whereby the transformation of governance at the European level and European integration as a whole has caused distinctive changes in domestic politics. This process of Europeanization is one part of a structure of opportunities for extremist parties (which also include social, economic, and electoral factors). Although this study finds that Europeanization does not have a statistically significant effect it is still an important factor when examining domestic political phenomenon in Europe.
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Explanation for the Variation of Women's Rights Among Moderate Muslim Countries
Date: May 2012
Creator: Sortor, Angela E.
Description: Due to the actions of radicals and extremists, many in the West have come to view Islam as a religion of gender inequality that perpetuates the severe oppression of women. However, there is actually great variation in women's rights across Muslim countries. This thesis presents a theoretical framework seeking to explain this variation, by examining differences in family law. The theory supposes that variation can be explained by the strategic actions of political leaders. From this theory, I hypothesize that the variations in women's rights come from the variation in family law, which in large, are due to the existence of groups threatening the power of the political leaders, and the leader's subsequent understanding of this threat. Using a most similar systems research design, I examine 4 moderate Muslim countries, Turkey, Tunisia, Morocco, and Egypt. Through case study research, I find limited support for the above hypothesis.
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Federalism and Civil Conflict: the Missing Link?
Date: August 2012
Creator: Lancaster, Ross
Description: This thesis investigates federalism and civil conflict. Past work linking federalism and civil conflict has investigated the factors that pacify or aggravate conflict, but most such studies have examined the effect of decentralization on conflict onset, as opposed to the form federalism takes (such as congruent vs incongruent forms, for example). I collect data on civil conflict, the institutional characteristics of federalist states and fiscal decentralization. My theoretical expectations are that federations who treat federal subjects differently than others, most commonly in an ethnically based manner, are likely to experience greater levels of conflict incidence and more severe conflict. I find support for these expectations, suggesting more ethnically based federations are a detriment to peace preservation. I close with case studies that outline three different paths federations have taken with regards to their federal subunits.
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Newspaper Ownership Structure and the Quality of Local Political News Coverage
Date: May 2012
Creator: Clark, Karla Christine Marie
Description: This research sought to ascertain how newspaper ownership structures influence the quality of local political news coverage. More specifically, do independently owned newspapers tend to produce larger quantities of quality local political reporting than do corporately owned and publicly traded newspapers? In the thesis, I develop an understanding of "quality" news coverage as being coverage that is thematic, or providing interpretive analysis and supplying contextual information. Additionally, I tackle the question of quality news coverage from three angles: whether or not independently owned newspapers provide more quality local political news stories per edition than corporately owned papers; whether or not the percentage of quality local political news stories of total political news stories within an edition is higher for independently owned or corporately owned newspapers; and whether or not the percentage of total political news stories of total news stories is higher for independently owned or corporately owned newspapers.
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No Greater Error: Negotiated Agreements and Their Effects on the Conclusion of Interstate War
Date: December 2012
Creator: Kendall, David F.
Description: Negotiated settlements, formal treaties to unilateral cease-fires, are often accepted to be the preferable method to end war. When negotiated agreements are used in the normal business of international politics they can be potentially helpful devices; however, when they are relied upon for a nation's security or war prevention and conclusion they can prove disastrous. It is the presence of force variables, and not the formality of an agreement which effectively concludes a war. I recategorize success of an agreement to not only mean failure of a return to war, but also whether the tenets of an agreement are actually followed. I utilize a modified version of Fortna's conflict dataset and run three separate logit analyses to test the effectiveness of settlements in a medium n quantitative analysis. If politicians and policy makers realize that it is not treaties that establish peace but the costs of war and military might then perhaps the world will be a more peaceful place.
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Media, Education and Corruption: Investigating the Associations
Article first published online: 6 JUN 2013
DOI: 10.1111/ecaf.12020
© 2013 The Authors. Economic Affairs © 2013 Institute of Economic Affairs. Published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd
Economic Affairs
Volume 33, Issue 2, pages 207–219, June 2013
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Dutta, N. and Roy, S. (2013), Media, Education and Corruption: Investigating the Associations. Economic Affairs, 33: 207–219. doi: 10.1111/ecaf.12020
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- Article first published online: 6 JUN 2013
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- access to information;
- corruption;
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We study the interactive association of press freedom, access to media and education with a nation's corruption levels. A free press generates unbiased information that greater access to the media helps propagate; and a greater degree of education, in the same context, helps individuals apply that information. This entire process generates a vigilant and corruption-free economy. It is therefore important to consider these factors in conjunction.


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Burning bright: Increased demand from downstream manufacturing will support industry growth
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The Petrochemical Manufacturing industry has a medium level of market share concentration. In 2014, the top four players account for over 40.0% of revenue, with the industry's largest player ExxonMobil accounting for 20.1% alone. While the average establishment employs just 47 workers, the bulk of manufacturing is done by machines. As a result of the automated process and the reliance on machinery, capital intensity is high, leading to significant investments in equipment for industry participants. The high capital investment required deters new entrants from entering the industry at a rapid pace, further leading to a higher level of market share concentration... purchase to read more
This industry manufactures petrochemicals, which are chemicals derived from petroleum and natural gas. Key products include ethylene, propylene, butylene, benzene, toluene, styrene, xylene, ethyl benzene and cumene. These products are used in the production of consumer products, automotive components and various durable and nondurable goods. Organic compounds like ethyl alcohol and inorganic chemicals like carbon black are excluded from the industry.
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"mediocre - and in wrong section"
Why is this book listed in the teen section? It is in NO way intended for young adults, doesn't have any teens in it, is a very adult story... Not to say a teen wouldn't perhaps be interested, but it clearly is not intended for that audience. It must be a mistake, and hopefully audible will move it to a more appropriate section. Teens be warned - this is not a YA book.
Aside from that, this is a medical thriller in which a scientist tries to unravel the plot of a villain/terrorist who is releasing various nasty diseases. I agree with the other reviewer here that there is a lot of gruesome, graphic detail regarding those diseases, but that didn't bother me, and was obviously part of the story. However, those with little tolerance for that sort of thing probably want to avoid this book. The story is often very dry, bordering on dull. I think it is meant to appeal to people who like such books as The Hot Zone or Demon in the Freezer, but it is not nearly as compelling or well written as those.
The characters are not in any way compelling and don't feel well fleshed out and I didn't feel concerned or interested in them. So when the disease attacks become personal, it lacks the punch I think it was intended to have. After several hours listening to the unleashing of the various diseases and their effects and the scientist explaining them, it became very repetitive and we kind of know exactly where it is going.
There is a theme to the disease attacks- a pattern they fit into. The theme of the disease attacks stops being mysterious once we know about it, and personally I didn't find it as clever as I think it was expected to be - just complex and complicated. I think if you aren't impressed by that element, then the story will not seem as compelling or unique as I think it was supposed to be. I found it just to be really complex, unecessarily so, and a bit too far fetched and often too much dry detail and analysis. There was just something missing from this story for me... The basic idea makes it seem like it should be really interesting, but the writing is just dull, sometimes with more medical detail than is needed, flat characters and an unbelievable and overly complicated plot.
Halfway through I was ready to give it one star, but finished the whole thing and realized that this is not to my taste and I want to be fair. I think the 3 stars I gave it is generous, but there is no 2 and a half option... If I take my personal taste out of the equation, I still don't think it is a brilliant book, but it may appeal to some more than to me, and to be fair it is readable, I made it to the end, and I suspect there are those who will have more interest and patience for the aspects I found dull... So if you like complicated medical crime stories, perhaps this is the book for you, though there are better choices out there, I think - such as those I mentioned above. I also think this book really needs to be moved to its proper category ( thriller, mystery, even science fiction would all be better than the teen section) where it may find a more appropriate audience.
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