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Ukranian broadcaster NTU has got their search underway to find the successor of this year's entrant Gaitana by releasing details for next year's national selection.
This new album is a sole selection of sport-oriented tracks and it is dedicated to the London Olympics and Euro 2012 football championships including her Eurovision Song Contest entry Be My Guest and other known Gaitana's hits in support of charity. It is now available only in digital form.
With the rare exception, the United Kingdom has had little to show of its former glory at the Eurovision Song Contest. Some fans blame a lack of interest on the part of the BBC, others claim that the rest of Europe has it in for the UK while Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber has talked about his own theory as to the lack of British success.
Gaitana's Eurovision Song Contest entry already have a football theme to it, but she has also released an actual support song for Euro 2012. In a tough group the Ukrainian national team now needs all the support they can get before their last match against England tonight.
The annual Barbara Dex award, which goes to the worst dressed performer in the Eurovision Song Contest, has been won by Albanias Rona Nishliu. The Irish twins Jedward came second while the overall winner Sweden's Loreen was 8th worst dressed.
From the moment Azerbaijan triumphed in Dusseldorf in 2011, taking the contest further east than it had ever gone before, there were concerns about Azerbaijan's suitability to host such a prestigious international event and controversy dominated the months and weeks leading up to the contest. A new venue, the Crystal Hall, was built for the event. The Azeri authorities insist that the plans for the building already existed before it was chosen to host the 2012 contest. They also stressed that those forced to leave their homes to make space for the construction were properly compensated, something denied by the locals whose homes were affected. Azerbaijan's human rights record was also put under the spotlight. The BBC seemed particularly keen to bring the contest into disrepute, broadcasting what was effectively an anti-Azerbaijan documentary the day before the first semi-final. There is the not unreasonable argument that a song contest should not become a political event and it is worth noting that the Azeri population were delighted to have the opportunity to show their country to the world, something those giving themselves the grand label of 'human rights campaigner' would have denied them.
While the presentation of the show was rightly apolitical, the President of Azerbaijan couldn't resist influencing proceedings. His wife was put in charge of the organising committee and his daughter, Leyla, was one of the presenters and then there was the interval act. So, the question is; if you're Azeri and want to show your talent to the world, how can you secure a gig in the Eurovision Song Contest? Hard work? Maybe. Talent? Possibly. Be married to the daughter of the president? Definitely! Ladies and Gentlemen, please be upstanding (or else!) for Emin. He was supported by a cast of thousands (well, that's what it looked like) but still managed to seem inadequate.
Politics also played a part in the number of participants. Of the two countries withdrawing from the event, one was a significant withdrawal. Armenia has long had its differences with Azerbaijan, but initially said it would take part in the contest. However, after much umming and aahing, the Armenians decided that the organisers couldn't guarantee the security of an Armenian delegation in Baku and so withdrew from the event. Poland withdrew due to the commitment of co-hosting the Euro 2012 football tournament. Montenegro returned after a two year absence, so a total of 42 countries headed east.
Political interference didn't stop in the host country. In Belarus, Alena Lanskaya won the final with the ballad, All My Life. Discontent was expressed about the fairness of the result and the public had their way when the President intervened and declared that Litesound, who came second, would go to Baku instead.
As has become the norm, much was made of the alleged neighbourly voting. Of the Scandinavian countries, Sweden won easily while Norway languished at the bottom of the scoreboard. Work that one out!
Željko Joksimović was appearing for the second time as a singer, as was Jonsi from Iceland and the irrepressible Irish twins, Jedward. Kaliopi had been selected for the contest before, but that was in 1996 when all countries were put to a vote and Macedonia was one of six countries who missed out, so she had to stay at home.
Famous and respected singer. Check. A decent song. Check. A bit of luck in the draw. Damn it! Engelbert's fate was sealed as soon as the draw was made and he came out first. Good though his old-fashioned romantic ballad is, it needed to be nearer the end. Going on first, it was always going to be lost in the mixture that was to follow.
Not just the sound of our hearts, but the sound of the 1980's, too. The lead singer looked nervous in the semi-final but, perhaps buoyed at being there, was a lot more assured in the final and he gave it everything.
Rona gave us easily the classiest song of the entire contest, enhanced by the intense red background. There were reasons to doubt it would qualify for the final, never mind finish fifth overall. It's great for the contest that a song like this can prove so popular.
How this came third in its semi-final is a mystery! The sparkly blindfold (this is Eurovision, it couldn't possibly be a plain blindfold) gimmick looked ridiculous, his dancing was worse than a drunk uncle at a wedding and the song, which starts promisingly, descends into a disorganised mess!
Jolly or straight-laced is what we usually get from Bosnia. Korake Ti Znam falls firmly into the latter category. Maya starts her soft and gentle song at the piano before, somewhat predictably, she walks away from it towards the end for the big finale.
Just when Engelbert Humperdinck thought he had the title of 'Oldest Singer to Perform in the Contest' in the bag, the Russians chose a group from the local OAP home. Simple sing-along is the order of the day. Had it won, the reputation of the contest would have taken one of its biggest knocks together with a huge dent in its credibility.
Iceland continued its run of strong entries with Greta and Jónsi's highly likeable ballad. Greta's violin playing evoked memories of Alexander Rybak three years earlier, but nothing should be stopped just because it may have been done before. It would have been a shock of historical proportions had this not made the final.
Cypriot broadcaster, CyBC, chose Ivi to sing all three songs up for selection as the island's entry. The song was chosen by national juries and the presence of a lot of fans on those juries was evident when the most stereotypical song of the three won.
The use of gymnasts instead of dancers was an interesting choice. It's on the border of working and looking a bit daft but she probably got away with it…just.
Nina had been compared by some to Amy Winehouse because of her appearance. Perhaps keen to capitalise on this, her hair had been styled in the Amy way. She was chosen by a special panel at the Sanremo song festival and initially, the plan was to sing her Sanremo song, Per Sempre in Baku. However, it was changed to the title track of her album. Officially because she wanted to give a different view of her style to the world, but quite possibly because it proved too difficult to reduce Per Sempre to the required three minutes. Handily, L'Amore È Femmina was already three minutes long.
An example of how to nearly turn virtually guaranteed success into disaster! Pre contest, Kuula was a beautiful, heartfelt ballad that went big at exactly the right moments. Whether pre-planned or not improvised, Ott used a different vocal arrangement in the semi-final whose only effect was to lose the neatness of the song. Anyway, it worked so the same vocal arrangement was used in the final as well.
Many were sure that Tooji's pop/dance track would qualify but no-one foresaw how narrowly it would do so – only beating Bulgaria on the count back system after a tie. It's therefore not surprising that he propped up the scoreboard in the final.
Written by the team which included writers involved in the successful Azeri entry in 2011 plus the lift that comes from being the host country, the omens were good. Much was made of her dress in the build-up, but the stage lighting can take most credit if there is any being handed out. Sabina went through a lengthy selection process to represent her country and the powerful, moody ballad chosen for her was always going to finish high up the scoreboard.
The Romanians added some colour and jollity to the evening with their ethnically flavoured, up-tempo ditty. The instruments looked like toys from some angles!
The Danes seem to specialise in bland, AOR songs which do better than they deserve. It's melodic enough but never quite moves off the starting blocks. It did finish low down in the final, but being in the final at all was over-achieving!
In what must have been a first, the Greek final was held in a shopping centre. Aphrodisiac is typical of recent Greek entries; catchy, high energy pop performed by a good-looking singer.
Euphoria indeed as Loreen not only won, but came close to scoring the highest number of points in contest history. Her freestyle dancing led to comparisons with Kate Bush. Her song, which is perhaps unworthy of such a victory, will be a club anthem in Scandinavia for years to come. She also achieved chart success in many other European countries, making Euphoria the most commercially successful Eurovision song for many years.
Can didn't receive the warmest of receptions when he was announced as the Turkish choice. Turkey missed out on the final last year and can consider themselves lucky to be back on stage in the Saturday extravaganza this time. Cheap gimmick alert! Can's backing dancers form the shape of a boat from the cloths they had previously been waving around while accompanying Can's ethnic Turkish song, which also has hints of Greek music – controversial!
This is what the Spanish are very good at but have avoided entering for many years. A big voice with the task of selling an epic, passionate ballad. They chose the right lady as Pastora absolutely nailed it!
Germany's entry has good pedigree as it was co-written by Jazz star, Jamie Callum. His fingerprints are all over it and the end result is a song which could possibly have given Germany a second win in three years. Standing Still would sound great on a small stage in a jazz club but also sounded more than good on the biggest stage in music.
Are you ready for more dodgy choreography? Then we'll begin the Maltese song. Many were surprised when Malta were announced as one of the qualifiers on Thursday night – or very early Friday morning for those in the host country! Kurt's pop song was spoiled by the playground style dancing which featured at the end of the chorus. This included his two guitarists, possibly making this the most amusing choreography since Liliane St Pierre in 1987.
The song starts quietly enough but develops into a quality piece of Balkan rock. Kaliopi was always likely to put everything into her performance. In the event, she tried a bit too hard.
Just when you thought it was safe to watch the contest again, Jedward were back, this time with a water feature! As happened a year earlier, their backing singers worked non-stop. Even when Jedward put down their mics for a quick shower, there was no noticeable change to the vocals.
Željko is a Eurovision veteran! This is the second song he has performed, the fourth he has written and he hosted the contest in 2008. He took no chances when accepting the approach from Serbian broadcaster, RTS, to represent his country. He gave everyone what they expected, an ethnic ballad oozing beauty with an effective string arrangement.
Oh dear! This is a song better heard on disc than watched live. In her excitement, Gaitana shouted rather than sung the words and the garland on her head looked awful and out of place.
Pasha's song and performance may have been positive, but his chances weren't, or at least, didn't seem to be! However, a couple of favourable draws and a memorable presentation gave Pasha a much better showing than was merited.
EuroVisionary presents Gaitana performing her 2012 Eurovision Song Contest entry Be My Guest. This performance - recorded in 3D - is from the dress rehearsal for the final.
Tonight, the 57th Eurovision Song Contest was beamed live to Europe and anywhere with internet access, from the Crystal Hall in Baku, Azerbaijan. Hosts, Nargiz Birk-Petersen, Eldar Gasimov (one half of the duo who won last year) and Leyla Alieva guided the audience through the evening.
EuroVisionary presents Gaitana singing her 2012 Eurovision Song Contest entry Be My Guest. This video - recorded in 3D - is from the dress rehearsal for the second semi-final.
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i'm over it. didn't watch the last one and doubt i missed anything special. besides most of my friends watched it and mostly all didn't really give a fuck. but some little kids i heard liked ..
Warner Bros. Pictures and director Peter Jackson have chosen to stick with a release season they know very well regarding the final installment of The Hobbit trilogy. The latest announcement from the studio confirms their decision to remove The Hobbit: There and Back Again from its July 18, 2014 slot and push it back into the December 17 weekend.
Here's the full press release:
Burbank CA, February 28, 2013 — "The Hobbit: There and Back Again," the final film in Peter Jackson's trilogy adaptation of the timeless classic The Hobbit, will now be released on December 17, 2014. The joint announcement was made today by Dan Fellman, President of Domestic Distribution and Veronika Kwan Vandenberg, President of International Distribution, Warner Bros. Pictures.
The film moves from its previous summer slot, and now follows the holiday release pattern of "The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey," which went on to become a billion-dollar global blockbuster, as well as the three films in the blockbuster "The Lord of the Rings" Trilogy. The second film in "The Hobbit" Trilogy, "The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug," is next to be released, on December 13, 2013. All three films in the Trilogy are productions of New Line Cinema and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures (MGM).
Stated Fellman, "We're excited to complete the Trilogy the same way we started it, as a holiday treat for moviegoers everywhere."
Added Kwan Vandenberg, "Our holiday release of the first film set a successful precedent for this wonderful Trilogy, and we're delighted to bring it to a conclusion in the same release window."
From Academy Award®-winning filmmaker Peter Jackson comes "The Hobbit: There and Back Again," the final film in an epic Trilogy adapting the enduringly popular masterpiece The Hobbit, by J.R.R. Tolkien. The three films tell a continuous story set in Middle-earth 60 years before "The Lord of the Rings," which Jackson and his filmmaking team brought to the big screen in the blockbuster trilogy that culminated with the Oscar ®-winning "The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King."
Jackson directed "The Hobbit: There and Back Again" from a screenplay by Fran Walsh & Philippa Boyens & Peter Jackson. Jackson is also producing the film, together with Carolynne Cunningham, Zane Weiner and Fran Walsh. The executive producers are Alan Horn, Toby Emmerich, Ken Kamins and Carolyn Blackwood, with Boyens and Eileen Moran serving as co-producers.
All three films in "The Hobbit" Trilogy are productions of New Line Cinema and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures (MGM), with New Line managing production. Warner Bros. Pictures is handling worldwide theatrical distribution, with select international territories as well as all international television distribution being handled by MGM.
i'm over it. didn't watch the last one and doubt i missed anything special. besides most of my friends watched it and mostly all didn't really give a fuck. but some little kids i heard liked ..
IMO you did miss out me and my kids (17 & 15) absolutely loved it. THEY didn't go to the bathroom and wanted more when it was over (as me). I'm glad to see the move to pre-Christmas. Meanwhile... I cannot wait till this one and seeing Smaug in all his glory.
I will say that all you missed out on was seeing it in the theater. I still recommend seeing it, but I honestly didn't think it was a vital holiday movie. I REALLY enjoyed it, but if you are looking for a GREAT holiday theater experience, I can understand where it would have been lacking. Anyway, zillaman, I say you should still see it at some point, but I totally get your friends' position. If they were wanting more LOTR, they would have been disappointed.
Here's a thought, The Hobbit is not LOTR. Why would anyone expect to see LOTR when they go see the Hobbit?
I don't get still the critics hate towards Hobbit. It was 2nd to Avengers for me last year with Batman in third. I might have to ponder where Spider-man is for me but it's way down the list for top movies last year.
The Hobbit grossed over $600 million so it's very obvious more than just a few little kids liked this movie.
Uh oh.......Peter Jackson must have found more notes........
So does that mean that parts 4-18 are delayed too? The Hobbit part 6: Oops I forgot something in the shire, you mind if we go back? I'm totally rippin off SNL which did a hillarious take on the stretching of the story!!
in all seriousness I have nothing but love for these movies and Peter Jackson so the delay will be a minor gripe compared to the near guarantee that all these films will be spectacular.
And here's a thought too: Do you think The Hobbit would have ever been made on the scale they are making it if it hadn't been for the huge success of LOTR? Do you think it would even be considered a contender for top grosser if not for LOTR? So yeah......that's why people go into the Hobbit expecting to see at least some of what they saw in LOTR.
The Hobbit was a great film and seeing it in the 48fps was an unbelievable experience for me... absolutely beautiful. If you missed seeing it the way that Peter Jackson intended it to be seen, I think that you really missed out.
I'm really looking forward to seeing the rest of the tale come to life!


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Total sales in 2015 are expected to reach $811 million.
Nokia to integrate Windows on all phones, but grab for market share could be tough.
The new guy at mobile phone maker Nokia, CEO Stephen Elop, turned the company's world upside down when he announced Feb. 11 that "Windows Phone is our primary smartphone platform going forward." The company is taking its longstanding Symbian mobile operating system and throwing it in the trash. This is quite a move for any manufacturer to make.
Nokia is one of the top makers of mobile phones, smart and dumb, in the world. But in recent years its Symbian system has taken a huge market share hit from Apple Inc.'s iOS and Google Inc.'s Android. In Q3 2010, Symbian was far behind smartphone OS leaders iOS, BlackBerry (which also is getting eaten alive by Apple and Google) and Android. Windows Phone was a distant fourth to the big three.
So the idea is a fading star, Symbian, and a stagnant giant, Windows, can join forces and take the smartphone world by storm. While the market share for Windows Phone smartphones will certainly jump in 2012, when Nokia says it will begin shipping the new phones en masse, I have my doubts that it can overtake the iPhone or Android.
A new report from Forrester Research Inc. entitled "Nokia And Microsoft Tie The Smartphone Knot" says it all.
"The Symbian platform is practically invisible in North America, while iPhones and Android-based phones have grabbed market share," write Ian Fogg and Charles S. Golvin. "While Nokia and Microsoft bring complementary technologies and skills together, to succeed they must execute flawlessly and with alacrity in a market that is innovating at a remarkable pace."
Apple and Android are so far ahead of Microsoft in the realm of smartphones that Microsoft has one of the biggest uphill battles to fight in the technology industry.
The report goes on. "Nokia found its market disrupted in just a few years by competitors, including Apple (with its iOS-based devices) and a number of handset makers employing Google's Android operating system. Nokia rightfully acknowledges that the market has transitioned from just phones to a broader ecosystem of devices, software, user experience, applications and content—a total product experience. Consumer product strategists throughout the mobile ecosystem must prepare for reinvigorated fresh entrants—both Windows Phone and Nokia—but the union's success faces many questions, primary among them: Is differentiation possible?"
Apple has been and continues to be the leader in innovation in the smartphone and smartphone app markets. Android is quickly catching up. Nokia and Microsoft would have to create stunning innovations, and plenty of them, in building a new mobile ecosystem. And let me tell ya', so far, Windows Phone has been a dud.
"Product strategists building applications for the expanding portfolio of smart connected devices today place Apple's iOS and Google's Android at the top of their priority list, with BlackBerry, Symbian, [Palm's] webOS and Windows Phone a distant collective third place," Fogg and Golvin conclude. "Even if this collaboration bears all of its hoped-for fruit, the installed base of Windows Phone devices will be far outstripped by those of Android and Apple for the rest of 2011 at least. In contrast to applications built for Android, iOS and webOS, those targeting Windows Phone devices today will exclusively target phones and won't scale to tablets, further reducing the strategic value of committing primary development resources to Microsoft's platform."
I think the marriage of Nokia and Windows Phone is a smart move for two players desperate to make headway with a technology that's key to the future, but I think they're too late to the game. And with the introduction of the mega-popular iPad tablet, which runs Apple's iOS, and tablets running Android, this leaves Windows Phone in the mobile dust.
But I'll be keeping a sharp eye on what Nokia and Windows Phone can bring to the smartphone table that's different from what the iPhone and Android offer. They certainly have the potential to knock the shrinking BlackBerry down a peg, but compete with the iPhone or Android? I don't think so.
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Three-dimensional tissues called "cerebral organoids" can model the earliest stages of brain development.
Neuroscientist and pediatric neurologist Peter Huttenlocher, who discovered that synapse growth peaks in early childhood, has passed away at age 82.
An fMRI study shows speculations that people are "left-brained" versus "right-brained" are not backed by evidence.
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On his 50th birthday, Walter H. White reflects on his mundane life: he is an overqualified yet underpaid high school chemistry teacher, a father to a moody teenage son with cerebral palsy, husband to a pregnant wife, and a socially inept introvert. And on this melancholy day of middle-aged reflection, Walter White learns that he has inoperable lung cancer and, within 2 years, will be dead.
Walter seems emotionally numb to the news, taking it in quiet stride. While hiding his diagnosis from his family, Walter decides to take a ride-along with his brother-in-law Hank, an agent at the Drug Enforcement Administration, as they bust a notorious crystal methamphetamine dealer known as "Cap'n Cook". At the ride-along, while waiting in the car while the DEA busts into the hideout, Walter spots a man jumping out the window of the building, and recognizes him as Jesse Pinkman, a former student of his. Jesse evades the DEA and escapes in his car which bears a vanity license plate "THE CAPN" as his partner Emilio is arrested inside.
That night, Walter tracks Jesse to his home and confronts him with a proposition: the two of them partner up to cook crystal meth, using Walt's expertise in chemistry to produce a superior drug, and Jesse's experience to sell it. Jesse agrees, though not believing that it will work out.
The next day, Walt steals chemistry supplies from the high school and Jesse purchases an RV as a mobile hideout and the two drive into the desert to begin cooking meth. Walt produces a drug that Jesse, an experienced producer and user, claims is the purest he's ever seen. Jesse takes a sample to a distributor known as "Krazy-8″, the cousin of Jesse's former partner Emilio, to strike a distribution deal, but Krazy-8 believes that, since Jesse escaped the DEA while Emilio was caught, Jesse ratted Emilio out. Krazy-8 and Emilio, who is out of jail on bail, take Jesse at gunpoint out into the desert to kill him, but, considering the purity of Walt's meth, plan to negotiate a deal with Walt.
In the desert, Walt barters for Jesse's life with Krazy-8 and Emilio by promising to reveal his meth formula. While inside the RV, Krazy-8 tosses a cigarette out the window into the brush. As Walt is mixing chemicals to show the two dealers his recipe, he suddenly throws the wrong chemical into the batch to create a poisonous gas. He runs out of the RV with a gas mask and holds the door shut on the two dealers from outside as they die from inhaling the gas.
He and an unconscious Jesse desperately flee the scene in the RV with the dead bodies of Krazy-8 and Emilio in the back. The RV crashes into a ditch and won't start. Walter hears police sirens closing in on him. He emerges from the RV with a gun, ready to fight the police, but sees that the sirens are coming from fire engines responding to a brush fire. He hides his gun as they pass. Back in the RV, Jesse wakes up and they drive back into town, hiding the vehicle with the dead bodies at Jesse's house.
Ep 02 – Cat's in the Bag…
Walter and Jesse plan on disposing of the bodies of Krazy-8 and Emilio when Krazy-8 suddenly wakes up from his apparent coma. Locking Krazy-8 in Jesse's basement, the two decide that Jesse will take care of Emilio's body while Walt takes care of Krazy-8. However, neither of them have the stomach to kill the drug dealer, but they can't risk letting him go and revealing everything that's happened, so they keep him alive in Jesse's basement.
At home, Walter's wife Skyler is becoming curious of Walter's time away from home. She redials a number Walt spoke to suspiciously on the phone and reaches Jesse's voicemail. When she confronts Walt about this, he covers by saying that Jesse sells him marijuana, and that he needs Skyler to get off his case.
Jesse is told by Walt to melt Emilio's body in hydrofluoric acid in a plastic container, but Jesse decides to use his upstairs bathtub out of convenience. When the acid eats through the tub and floor, spilling Emilio's partially-melted remains onto the first floor, Walt chastises Jesse for not listening to him, as hydrofluoric will eat through almost anything except plastic.
Ep 03 …And the Bag's in the River
After cleaning up the remains of Emilio, Walt is still struggling with working up the courage to kill Krazy-8.
Skyler, worried about Walt, talks to her sister, and Hank's wife, Marie about marijuana, leading Marie to believe that Walt and Skyler's son, Walt Jr, is smoking pot. Marie asks Hank to educate Walt Jr about the dangers of drug use, which Hank does by taking Jr to a trashy motel frequented by druggies and prostitutes.
Walt, while bringing food down to Krazy-8, suffers a coughing fit and collapses in the basement. When he wakes up, Krazy-8 asks what's wrong with him, to which Walt reveals that he has lung cancer, the first time he's told anyone else. Walt throws away the shattered remains of the plate he brought down and brings another meal, and some beers. Unable to kill Krazy-8, he shares a beer with him and they talk about their lives, Krazy-8 finally convincing Walt that he won't rat to the police if Walt lets him go. Walt, relieved, returns upstairs to get the key to free the dealer, but feels that something is off. He fishes the shattered glass plate out of the trash to find that a chunk is missing, and Walt, horrified, concludes that Krazy-8 took it while he was unconscious and plans to kill Walt with it. He returns to the basement and strangles Krazy-8 to death, feeling shame at taking a life.
He returns home to an angry Skyler, who is wondering where Walt has been. He tells her that they need to talk.
Ep 04 Cancer Man
Several days later, at a get-together with Hank and Marie, Walt and Skyler reveal that he has lung cancer.
Jesse, while hanging out with his friends "Skinny Pete" and "Combo", shows them the pure meth that Walt cooked and tries smoking it with them. They all react with astonishment to its potency. The next morning however, Jesse, still smoking the meth, becomes paranoid about his safety in a drug-induced hallucinatory haze. He runs, high, to his parent's and little brother's home where he is reluctantly welcome. His parents think that Jesse, a screw-up, is a bad influence on his teenage brother Jake, a child prodigy.
When they find a joint in their house, Jesse's parents kick him out. Jake thanks Jesse for taking the fall for his weed as Jesse leaves. Jesse receives a call from Combo who says that he's found buyers for their pure meth.
Skyler plans a visit with an expensive oncologist, but Walt, acting as though nothing is wrong, persists that it's too much money, while he secretly removes cash from an air vent to pay for the visit. Jesse shows up to Walt's house unexpected, to which Walt is furious, hoping that he was done with Jesse. Jesse angrily gives Walt his share of the money they made from the meth: 00.
At the oncologist, Skyler nervously listens to the doctor discuss Walt's treatment options while Walt is bored and distracted. Skyler plans to start Walt on a ,000 treatment, but Walt states that it is unlikely to work and that there is no need to bankrupt the family, to which Walt Jr angrily replies that Walter should "just fucking die then."
Walt comes across an annoying businessman named Ken at the bank and again at a gas station. Ken seems pretentious, rude, and shallow. Walt, at the gas station, pops the hood on Ken's sports car and shorts the battery with a wet windshield cleaner, smiling as he walks away.
Ep 05 Gray Matter
Jesse, determined to turn his life around, begins applying for jobs around town, but is horribly unqualified for anything. He runs into and old friend, "Badger," and they share a joint. Badger offers to partner with Jesse if he ever decided to cook meth again.
Walt and Skyler attend the birthday party of a wealthy old friend of Walt's, Elliot Shwartz. Walt and Elliot were business partners at a company called "Gray Matter" which, after Walt left, Elliot turned into a billion-dollar business. While talking, Elliot offers Walt a job, which Walt refuses. When Elliot presses the matter, claiming that they have "excellent health insurance," Walt decides it's time to leave. He angrily confronts Skyler, believing that she told Elliot about Walt's cancer and his expensive treatment, to which she confesses but does not apologize for.
Jesse decides to get back into the meth business and calls Badger out on a cook with him. They cook several batches but Jesse is disappointed with how the quality doesn't match that of Walt's meth. Badger insists that the quality doesn't matter and the two fight, Jesse leaving Badger in the desert as he drives away in the RV.
When Walt Jr is caught trying to buy beer, the family believes that he is just acting out in reaction to Walt's diagnosis. When they realize how strangely Walt himself is acting, refusing Elliot's offer to pay for his treatment, they decide to hold an intervention.
Skyler, Walt Jr, Marie, and Hank sit with Walter and discuss his behavior. Skyler says that she can't stand the thought of losing him and that it's in everyone's best interest if Walt accepts the treatment. Hank agrees. Walt Jr claims that Walter is being a "pussy" in the face of treatment, when he has had to deal with palsy all his life. When Marie decides to side with Walt, the four begin fighting and yelling. Walt interjects with his own opinion: if he takes the treatment then he will be weak, constantly on medication, and will only live a short while longer, and that he would rather die with dignity than as a weak vegetable.
The next morning, Walt tells Skyler that he has changed his mind, and will go through with the treatment.
Walt receives a call from Gretchen, Elliot's wife, who tells him that he deserves the money Elliot offered him, as Walt helped found the company that made Elliot wealthy, but Walt refuses.
He goes to Jesse's house and offers to start cooking meth again.
Ep 06 – Crazy Handful of Nothin'
Walt enters the damaged RV and explains to Jesse that from here on out, he will handle the chemistry, and Jesse will handle the selling, and that there will be "no more bloodshed".
Walt begins his chemotherapy, reassuring Skyler that it's all being paid for by Elliot.
At school, Walt gives a lesson on how rapid chemical reactions can happen, using explosive fulminated mercury as an example. He leaves the room to vomit in the restroom, and is gives a piece of gum by a friendly janitor named Hugo. Later, when Skyler confronts Walt about where he goes in the afternoons, he says he takes long nature walks.
While cooking meth in the RV in the desert, Walt has a coughing fit and is forced to take a break to catch his breath. Jesse recognizes the radiation marks on Walt's chest from his aunt who had cancer. Jesse surmises that Walt is cooking meth to make enough money for his family to support themselves after he dies.
Hank and his partner, Steve, at the DEA discuss a gas mask they found out in the desert and trace it back to Walt's high school.
At the high school, Hank visits Walt and tells him that a gas mask was stolen from the supply room. Upon inspection, Hank discovers that another mask and some glassware was also taken, concluding that a meth cook must've done it. The DEA eventually arrests Hugo the janitor on suspicion of cooking meth, which horrifies Walter, who is certain of Hugo's innocence but unable to help him.
After a night of selling meth himself, Jesse brings ,300 to Walt, who is dissatisfied with the amount. He suggests that they find a distributor. Jesse tells him about an up and coming dealer named Tuco who might be interested.
Jesse and Skinny Pete meet with Tuco at his hideout. Tuco takes a snort of Walt's meth and instantly offers to buy it. When Jesse demands the money upfront, Tuco becomes irrationally angry and beats Jesse, keeping the meth for himself. Walt finds out about this and plans on confronting Tuco.
The next morning, Walt shaves his head completely and walks into Tuco's hideout with a bag of crystals. He introduces himself under a pseudonym: Heisenberg. He demands ,000 from Tuco to pay for the meth he stole from Jesse and for Jesse's injuries. When Tuco refuses, Walt takes a crystal from his bag and reveals that it is not meth, but fulminated mercury. He hurls it at the floor where it explodes, blowing out the windows and disorienting everyone in the room. Walt clutches the bag, threatening to blow the whole thing. Tuco agrees to pay Walt and to buy another 2 lb. batch.
Ep 07 – A No-Rough-Stuff-Type Deal
Walt brings Jesse's share of the money to Jesse, who is furious that Walt cut a deal with Tuco, saying that they could never get enough pseudoephedrine to make another 2 lb. of meth.
Later, at their next meeting with Tuco in a junkyard, Walt and Jesse present a measly amount of meth, claiming that they're having production problems. When Tuco appears angry, Walt demands more money for their next batch, which will be a full 4 pounds, which Tuco reluctantly agrees to. Jesse believes that their new quota is impossible, but Walt puts together a list of alternate ingredients for Jesse to find, ingredients which will increase the yield of their next cook.
At a baby shower for Skyler, Marie presents an extravagant jeweled tiara as a gift. Walt and Hank share cigars and discuss the arbitrary nature of the law.
That night, Walt convinces Skyler that he should attend a Navajo sweat lodge out in the desert as part of his treatment, instead planning on cooking with Jesse.
At Jesse's, Jesse has found all of Walt's ingredients except methylamine, which is crucial. Jesse explains that he's hired someone to find it for him, but that it will cost them thousands of dollars. Walt suggests that they find it themselves. That night, they infiltrate a chemical warehouse and steal a barrel of methylamine. They return to Jesse's house and cook four pounds of meth with their new recipe.
When Skyler tries to return Marie's baby shower gift, she learns that it was stolen from the jewelry store and plans to confront Marie.
Walt returns home from the weekend, Skyler believing that he was on a Navajo reservation. When she mentions that Marie stole the tiara, Walt replies that sometimes people have to do crazy things for the good of their families.
At the next meet-up with Tuco, Walt and Jessie present their new meth, which, as a side effect of their new recipe, is blue. Tuco snorts a crystal and is ecstatic at the quality, happily declaring that there is a lot of money to be made from Walt's incredible meth. When one of Tuco's henchmen tries to assert dominance over Walt and Jesse, Tuco once again becomes irrationally angry and beats his henchman before happily departing. Walt and Jesse walk back to their car in shock.
Season 2
Ep 08 – Seven Thirty-Seven
As Walt and Jesse leave the meet-up, Walt calculates how much money he will need to make in order to keep his family supported after he dies. Between education for his children, and cash for food, shelter, utilities, etc., he needs 7,000 to last roughly the next 20 years.
As they drive away, Tuco's car suddenly returns. Tuco pulls the henchman he beat from the car, who is now going into shock and dying. Tuco yells at Walter to help him, but Walt, flustered, can do nothing. The man dies. Tuco, angry, orders his other henchman, "Gonzo", to bury him under a nearby abandoned car. Walt and Jesse leave, while Tuco tells them that they are "done".
Jesse illegally purchases a gun, planning to kill Tuco. He explains to Walt that the two of them are witnesses, and that Tuco will likely come after them. Walt chastises Jesse for not having a thorough plan.
At the DEA, Hank and his partner Steve watch surveillance cam footage of the warehouse from which Walt and Jesse stole their methylamine. Unable to tell who it is in the video, the agents surmise that whoever they are, they must be making very potent meth, and are likely to become targets of Mexican cartels.
When Walt notices one night that he is being followed, he meets with Jesse to plan how to kill Tuco: using the poisonous extract of castor beans, ricin, they will poison a sample of meth and slip it to Tuco. It will take days to kill him and will look like a heart attack.
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The Padres are coming home on a high note they're experiencing for the first time this season. Now they'll see if they can turn that good fortune into a spurt in their own home ballpark.
They finished a 10-game road trip with a 6-4 record, their first winning trip of the season. Their last came Aug. 24-26 of last year, when they swept a quick three-game series in Arizona. Their last winning trip of more than six games came June 25-July 4 of last year.
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• Brandon Phillips is two RBIs shy of tying Adam Dunn for 14th on the Reds' all-time list. He's also two back of Jay Bruce on the franchise home run list. Bruce is 13th with 156, while Phillips is 14th with 154.
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• Chase Headley hit .316 (12-for-38) on the Padres' recent road trip.
• The Reds are making their first road trip of the second half, and will have stopped at all three of the NL's West Coast cities. They went 1-3 against the Dodgers and 3-1 against the Giants.
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Think about passing a SATA controller through as well.
This would provide awesome speed and as many HDDs as you like or the controller can handle.
I finally got it working! Thanks to this thread: http://gro.solexiv.de/2012/08/pci-passthrough-howto posted by another member here.
Some remarks thou:
1. I used PCI passthrough, not VGA passthrough. The latter gave me only troubles. I couldn't load the xen-pciback module before the nouveaux driver took control of the graphics card. Short of compiling the xen-pciback statically into the kernel, I chose to buy a second graphics card. So now I have one graphics card dedicated to dom0, and another to domU.
2. I also got myself a KVM switch to connect keyboard and mouse to two different USB2 ports on two different host controllers. My screen has two DVI ports and I can select between the two via button.
I'm still missing a vital component for my setup - a second DVI-DVI cable which I'll get after the weekend.
So far I managed to install Win7 Ultimate 64 bit into the domU and it even recognized my 2nd video card. I installed the latest driver for it (via the virt-manager vncviewer under dom0). Windows complains about some problems, but this should hopefully be solved once I'm able to connect my display to the second video card (missing cable, how stupid of me).
Once everything is fully functional (with the display connected), I report back with more details.
For those interested, here some system details:
Asus Sabertooth X79 board
i7 3930K with C2 stepping, 10 threads for domU, 2 threads for dom0
AMD 6450 video card for dom0
Nvidia Quadro 600 card for domU
32GB memory, 24GB for domU
120GB Sandisk Extreme SSD
2x 2TB WD hard drives for data (I need to install 2-3 more drives from my old PC)
Linux Mint 13 Maya 64 bit Mate edition with Xen hypervisor as dom0
Win7 Ultimate 64bit as domU
I use LVM partitions for /root, /home, and win7, as well as for the data drives.
Now I need to check how I can make hard drives accessible from within the domU. I've got a lot of data to use under Windows. I guess I need to modify my /etc/xen/win7.cfg file.
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Think about passing a SATA controller through as well.
This would provide awesome speed and as many HDDs as you like or the controller can handle.
I was celebrating too soon. While the second graphics controller gets passed through to the Win7 domU, and I can see it listed in the device manager window, I can't get the Nvidia driver (or any driver) to work with the card. So it's marked with a yellow triangle and deactivated by Windows.
One thing I found is that my Linux distribution (Linux Mint 13, i.e. Ubuntu 12.04-based) uses vpci instead of pass (passthrough) for assigning the PCI in the domU (Windows). That means my physical 02.00.0 and 02.00.1 PCI IDs get changed into different PCI IDs in Windows. But I don't know if that is critical.
I then decided to give the newer 4.2 Xen hypervisor a try, together with reading the VGA BIOS of the graphics adapter to patch it into the software, as instructed by David Techer here: http://www.davidgis.fr/blog/index.ph...a-pass-through, using the latest 25240 patch as mentioned here http://www.davidgis.fr/blog/index.ph...hes-for-nvidia.
I managed to pre-compile the tools but got stuck at reading the BAR.
only gives me some BARs for unrelated devices, but not for the graphics card. So I'm stuck.Code:dmesg | grep BAR
Any suggestions on how to read the BAR memory information for the graphics card are most welcome. I already checked through all the log files I can find, and tried lspci -vv.
I spent much more time than I can afford on this, and I don't want to give up.
My next alternative is to replace my Nvidia Quadro 600 card for a Nvidia Quadro 2000 card, which Nvidia officially supports as multi-OS capable and supposedly allows VGA passthrough. I found someone who wants to replace his Quadro 2000 for my my Quadro 600 and some $$$ cash.
But if there is any chance of getting the Quadro 600 to work, it would be great.
Thanks thorgas! I was thinking about it, but it doesn't fit my needs. I use LVM for my Linux root and /home partitions, as well as for the Win7 domU. Most of my data needs to be accessed both by Windows and Linux. I haven't tried yet to mount my win7 LV to Linux. I plan to use some disks formatted to NTFS for both Windows and Linux. Need to check that.
My Win7 domU isn't terribly fast (though it's on a SSD), but OK.
But first I need to fix this passthrough issue.
For those interested in mounting a domU Windows partition residing on LVM from the Linux dom0, here is what works for me:
Here the interesting part of fdisk -l:Code:sudo apt-get install kpartx sudo fdisk -l
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/mapper/lm13-win7p1 * 2048 206847 102400 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
/dev/mapper/lm13-win7p2 206848 125827071 62810112 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
win7p1 is the boot partition, win7p2 is the actual Windows partition which I'm going to mount. lm13 is the volume group I created when installing my Linux Mint system.
Use kpartx to map the new LVs:
Note: I didn't try /lm13-win7p2 which may also work.Code:kpartx -av /dev/mapper/lm13-win7
Create a mount point and (re-) scan the physical volumes, volume groups, and logical volumes:
Code:sudo mkdir /mnt/win7 # or wherever you want to mount your Windows partition pvscan vgscan lvscangives me something like this:Code:ls /dev/mapper
control lm13-root lm13-win7p1 vol1-lm13_backup vol2-swap
lm13-home lm13-win7 lm13-win7p2 vol2-data
lm13-win7p2 is what I want.
Let's mount the Windows file system as NTFS:
And check:Code:sudo mount -t ntfs /dev/mapper/lm13-win7p2 /mnt/win7
Code:ls /mnt/win7Documents and Settings PerfLogs Recovery Users
hiberfil.sys ProgramData $Recycle.Bin Windows
NVIDIA Program Files System Volume Information
pagefile.sys Program Files (x86) temp
If the domU is up and running, it might be a better idea to mount the NTFS partition "read-only".
So I have now full access to the Windows domU file system from within the Linux dom0.
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I finally made it - this time for real !!!
I had to replace my PNY Quadro 600 (Nvidia) graphics card for a PNY Quadro 2000 card which supports "multi-OS", as Nvidia terms it. It works!
I have now 2 graphics adapters - a cheap Sapphire (AMD) 6450 card for Linux / dom0 and the Quadro 2000 for Windows 7.
Windows performance index is 6.8 (the lowest value = storage) - not bad.
I can shutdown Windows and restart it when needed, without rebooting the Linux dom0. In fact, I can switch between Windows and Linux by the press of 2 buttons: a USB KVM switch to switch keyboard/mouse between 2 USB host controllers (one is passed through to Windows ), and the "input" button on my screen to switch between the two graphics adapters. I could look for a USB+DVI KVM switch to make it even more convenient.
Anyway, just wanted to let you know.
The Quadro 2000 card works perfectly, as far as I can tell. I need to install some more software on Windows to give it full trial, including display calibration with a USB screen calibration device and SpectraviewII (NEC software for their screen calibration). I'm right now installing it.
Will keep you updated and post or link to a how-to, as this is not the easiest thing to get working.
Note: I didn't have to patch or compile any kernel or xen. I basically used the default packages that came with Linux Mint 13 Mate 64 bit, with some adjustments in the config files and a pciback script, as well as some missing links (ln -s ...) in some places.
So, the following hardware can be listed as VGA passthrough capable:
i7 3930K CPU with C2 stepping
Asus Sabertooth X79 with 1203 BIOS and VT-d enabled
Sapphire 6450 graphics card for Linux/dom0 (primary card)
PNY Quadro 2000 (Nvidia) graphics card for Windows 7/domU (secondary card)
120 GB SSD drive
Some 2TB hard drives
Linux Mint 13 Mate 64bit Linux distribution (my setup should also work with other Linux Mint 13 versions and Ubuntu 12.04)
Xen hypervisor 4.1.2 (default package in Linux Mint 13)
Windows 7 Ultimate as guest VM / domU
Thanks for your help and suggestions!
VGA and PCI passthrough works well, better than I ever hoped for.
In Windows domU, I installed the GPLPV signed drivers that can be found here: http://wiki.univention.de/index.php?...-GPLPV-drivers. The disk driver really does wonders - pushed the Windows Experience Index from 5.8 to 7.8.
I tested my screen calibration software and calibration device on one of the PCI passed through USB ports. It works flawlessly. The software is also able to load the LUT (color adjustment curves) into the screen using the graphics adapter's DVI port.
Installed Lightroom 4 and CaptureNX2 (Nikon RAW converter) and both work on steroids. It takes only 2-3 seconds (or even less) to load either of them (used to take 10-20 seconds on my old Core2duo rig). RAW photo conversion with adjustments in CaptureNX2 is almost instant (less than 1 second what used to take 10-15 seconds). CPU core temperatures stay lower than 60C during such conversions, when using 5 of 6 cores at 100%. Everything is real snappy, all the while my Linux dom0 runs beside Windows.
I gave my dom0 some processor scheduling priority, just to be save. When I shut down the Windows domU I can recapture all cores for the Linux dom0. I still need to try ripping some DVDs under Linux to see if that performs as expected (I got above 400 fps without Xen and I hope it will stay like that).
Minor issues:
1. For some reason I can't run some "root" applications when clicking on them, for example gparted. However, they work perfectly fine when called from the terminal command line with gksu gparted for example. Synaptic works, though. Gives me a root login window and runs just fine.
2. Local network file transfers are real slow: 2.3-2.5 MB/s in both Linux and Windows on a 100 Mbps Fast Ethernet wired link. Only around 5.4 MB/s for Gigabit Ethernet. That really sucks! I have a pretty ordinary /etc/network/interfaces configuration where I set up a bridged network. I removed the network-manager package, though, and use a static /etc/resolve.conf file to specify my DNS servers. At first I had a regular setup using network-manager, but when I changed my router and reconfigured my network interface I just couldn't get it to work anymore, only after removing network-manager and manual adjustment / creation of the files specified.
3. I'm currently copying 800GB from a 1TB drive I took from my old PC onto a Windows domU NTFS file system, from within Linux dom0 using the kpartx utility to mount the domU "partition". It runs at only 40MB/s, pretty slow. The target "partition" is on a logical volume (LV) using two 2TB drives formatted to LVM using stripe which essentially should work like RAID0. So the target should reach a write speed somewhere around 180 MB/s. I would expect to see at least 60MB/s, but 80-90MB/s read speed should be the doable. Which brings me to the question: Which is the best/fastest disk/file access format for domU if I want to access files from both domU and dom0? Currently I'm using phy:/dev/VG-group/LV-name in my Windows domU config file. Is that the best option, or are there better options? I know that people reported file transfer speeds of 80-90MB/s when using the Windows domU machine, but I was hoping to get that on the Linux dom0.
I think I will try to transfer files from within the Windows domU, just to see how fast that works.
My idea is to use the Linux dom0 to create snapshots of LVM formatted drives for backup purposes, either when there is no running Windows domU (such as now when I'm transferring the files) or automatically as a cron job while I could be working in Windows. snapshot is a feature of LVM, so it would be running under the Linux dom0.
I think XEN VGA Passthorugh MUST BE PRESINTALLED at some computers.
If any of you knows anyone with a hardware store, or someone at DELL ACER or any brand tell them it would be at the bloggers news a computer with a good XEN VGA passthorught configuration.
From a AMD Trinity to an Intel I7 any good "XVP" configuration with its MS WOS benchmarks vs baremetal with antivirus and without antivirus would be an excellent product for marketing, giving the brand notoriety, even that specific model perhaps is not a best seller or perhaps
It is an excellent solution, in a cheap configuration for security at SOHO - Small Offices and HOmes - , and in a expensive one for hard gamers and programmers.
Yeah, I totally agree. Would be awesome. I had minor nightmares to get my VGA passthrough working. But now that it does, I can't think about anything that comes close to it. Bye bye dual boot. I switch between Windows and Linux at the push of a button. And my Windows performance under Xen with VGA passthrough is just awesome. I doubt it could be any better on bare metal.
Ok, so I've been giving this a shot from a different angle I think without a whole lot of success.
I installed XCP 1.6 to my home server:
xeon 3.3 ghz (with VT-d)
32gb ram
NVidia quadro 4000
2 tb hard disk and some other disks
I manage the server with XenCenter on a basic desktop. This part works beautifully. I can create vm's for days.
I've experimented with many combinations of os installs and drivers and have gotten mild gpu passthrough success. I installed Win 7 Pro SP1 to a vm and then installed the xs-tools that come with xcp. This gave me a pretty speedy and stable Win7 vm. I enabled gpu passthrough in xencenter and restart my vm and there it is in my device list. I install drivers and restart and everything seems configured properly, my display adapter says NVidia Quadro 4000 without any warnings. But I can't do anything with it. I don't see any improvements since enabling the gpu and I can't get any 3d applications to launch.
In case you are wondering: I decided to try this method because I'm pretty new to xen. I've been reading forums and the wiki for the last week or so trying to get a handle on it. I went this way because it seemed pretty simple, but obviously its not working the way I want it to. Any help would be appreciated.
Note: I tried to run 3dmark11 and this is the error I get -
Workload Single init returned error message: DXGI call IDXGIOutput::GetDisplayModeList failed:
The requested functionality is not supported by the device or the driver.
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it would be extremely useful if PTS had an automated way of doing bissection tests in order to find the guilty commit...
in such cases. Maybe by triggering the bissection search manually to avoid abusing the host.
But it may already be able to do so, I haven't checked.
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Those Warsow results look interesting. At both 1280x1024 and 1920x1080, the resolution for almost all kernels was capped at almost exactly 42 fps. I'm assuming that there's a CPU bottleneck somewhere that's prevening things from improving, or some internal cap in the game engine (although 42 fps seems like a weird fps cap).
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Cooking time
Cook: 15 mins Prep 45 mins plus chillingSkill level
Moderately easyServings
Makes 9 fondantsA gooey prepare-ahead dessert that's perfect for entertaining - it's all a matter of timing...
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- Can be frozen uncooked
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- carbs
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- fat
- 40g
- saturates
- 21g
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- 30g
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- 0.55g
- 50g melted butter, for brushing
- cocoa powder, for dusting
- 200g good-quality dark chocolate, chopped into small pieces
- 200g butter, in small pieces
- 200g golden caster sugar
- 4 eggs and 4 yolks
- 200g plain flour
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- First get your moulds ready. Using upward strokes, heavily brush the melted butter all over the inside of the pudding mould. Place the mould in the fridge or freezer. Brush more melted butter over the chilled butter, then add a good spoonful of cocoa powder into the mould. Tip the mould so the powder completely coats the butter. Tap any excess cocoa back into the jar, then repeat with 1 the next mould.
- Place a bowl over a pan of barely simmering water, then slowly melt the chocolate and butter together. Remove bowl from the heat and stir until smooth. Leave to cool for about 10 mins.
- In a separate bowl whisk the eggs and yolks together with the sugar until thick and pale and the whisk leaves a trail; use an electric whisk if you want. Sift the flour into the eggs, then beat together.
- Pour the melted chocolate into the egg mixture in thirds, beating well between each addition, until all the chocolate is added and the mixture is completely combined to a loose cake batter.
- Tip the fondant batter into a jug, then evenly divide between the moulds. The fondants can now be frozen for up to a month and cooked from frozen. Chill for at least 20 mins or up to the night before. To bake from frozen, simply carry on as stated, adding 5 mins more to the cooking time.
- Heat oven to 200C/fan 180C/gas 6. Place the fondants on a baking tray, then cook for 10-12 mins until the tops have formed a crust and they are starting to come away from the sides of their moulds. Remove from the oven, then leave to sit for 1 min before turning out.
- Loosen the fondants by moving the tops very gently so they come away from the sides, easing them out of the moulds. Tip each fondant slightly onto your hand so you know it has come away, then tip back into the mould ready to plate up.
- Starting from the middle of each plate, squeeze a spiral of caramel sauce – do all the plates you need before you go on to the next stage.
- Sit a fondant in the middle of each plate. Using a large spoon dipped in hot water, scoop a 'quenelle' of ice cream.
- Carefully place the ice cream on top of the fondant, then serve immediately. Repeat with the rest of the fondants.
Recipe from Good Food magazine, November 2008
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I made these last night as a last minute pudding … they were SO easy and quick to make and the end result was heaven on a plate. There were only four of us so I halved the recipe which made 5. I cooked them in metal dariole moulds at 200C/fan for just under 12 minutes and they were perfect. Never have I successfully made these puddings before - so this recipe really works. Very impressed with the double butter/cocoa dusting idea - which made them literally fall out of the moulds. Last time I attempted Chocolate Fondants the first few came out and collapsed and the last ones were rock solid! I will definitely make these again, and probably keep a batch in the freezer for emergencies!
I 've been making this recipe for years now. The secret is in the baking: you really need to keep an eye on them, literally. As soon as they are no longer runny on top, they need to come out. I made them once and in the mix I added chocolate liquor and another time I added coffee liquor. Delicious! I guess you can add orange or mint liquor if you want them with a twist!
Did this for the first time today. Absolutely spectacular dessert and sooooo easy. Our guests said it was the best chocolate pudding they had ever tried. I will definitely do this again. Followed the recipe and halved the amount which made 5 puddings, just in case, but i need not have worried. Took them out at exactly 12 minutes and they were lovely and gooey inside.
I made this last night - fantastic. Apart from one slight hitch, making them too big (is that possible!??!) and all the gorgeous chocolate gooey-ness came pouring out moments after I put them on the plate - they were simply devine! So easy to make, and very impressive! Definitely one to be repeated!
Made this at the weekend did 24 hours in advance and then put in the oven before. Serving. Tasted amazing, made with the caramel sauce which was nice but had a slight burnt taste? Maybe I overlooked it! Nevertheless guests enjoyed the pud even one who didn't normally eat chocolate .One guest even said she didn't think you could make these , only but them from M & S !! I wasn't sure if it was a compliment or not ! Far better than the M & S version make sure you use good quality choc, I made in individual pudding tins which I would think are larger than ramekins but still only cooled for 11 mins. 5 stars but I pad wont rate it.. Needs to be fixed .


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