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The gimlet eye of Saul Steinberg.
Mar 11, 2013, Vol. 18, No. 25 • By JOSEPH EPSTEIN
The saddest of Steinberg's love affairs, recounted in detail by Deirdre Bair, was the longest lasting. This was with a German emigré named Sigrid Spaeth, which began in 1960, when he was 46 and she 24. At first besotted by her, he shaved off his mustache at her request—for a vain man, the ultimate sacrifice. As Bair puts it, "The thirty-five years war began." Sigrid, who called herself Gigi, was psychologically fragile, given to deep depression. He moved her in and out of his apartment in Greenwich Village and house in East Hampton. He took her to Europe and paid for her many trips to Africa. He gave her an allowance, paid her tuition for courses at Columbia, and provided her with everything except what she really wanted: marriage and children. He made plain that he was up for neither—and added that, in any case, he wasn't in love with her. A bit of a hippie, with lots of love affairs of her own, and a druggie, she eventually killed herself, at the age of 60, by jumping off the roof of the Riverside Drive building in which Steinberg had bought her an apartment.
In her bill of complaint against Steinberg, Sigrid Spaeth claimed that he often shut her out, and that he didn't include her in his social life. She embarrassed him, he countered, by not being sufficiently sophisticated, socially or intellectually. Steinberg was often invited to the dinners and parties of those rich given to dabbling in art. As an intellectual who read in a serious way, he also had entrée to the Partisan Review crowd. Two figures in that circle, Mary McCarthy and Dwight Macdonald, pushed him politically further to the left than he might other-wise have gone. A closer friend was Harold Rosenberg, a high-powered schmoozer who wrote art criticism for the New Yorker and who championed Steinberg's work.
On his frequent trips to Europe, Steinberg met with Alberto Giacometti, Vladimir Nabokov, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Nicola Chiaramonte, Carlo Levi, Janet Flanner, Igor Stravinsky, and Pablo Picasso. He bought Stravinsky's Cadillac, and described Picasso as resembling "an old Jewish man in the Florida sun—all torso and shorts. The voice of a cigar smoker . . . the falsetto of a cello."
Steinberg thought of his own art as in the tradition of James Joyce and Nabokov. If so, it would have been the Joyce of Finnegans Wake and the Nabokov of Pale Fire, farcical works built on the mockery of the vagaries of language. Nabokov, Bair reports, reciprocated Steinberg's admiration, and said of him that, in his drawings, he "could raise unexpected questions about the consequences of a style or even a single line, or he could open up a metaphysical riddle with as much wit as Escher or Magritte and with far more economy." Steinberg also admired Picasso, and thought he and Picasso were the two most important visual artists of the 20th century—an assertion that, at best, may be half true.
Resisting all attempts to get him to explain his art, Steinberg said: "The sort of people who need an explanation deserve a mystery." He claimed to be "a writer who draws," by which he must have meant that he was a visual artist of ideas. Anton van Dalen, his studio assistant, maintained that Steinberg "was all about ideas." Steinberg's notion of his own art was that it was "only an indispensable way of showing a poetic invention. Notice the drawing."
The first things worth noticing about his drawings are their immediate fascination and infinite charm. "Don't underestimate your god-given ability to enchant and delight," Hedda Sterne told him during one of his many glum periods. And so his endlessly inventive talent does. Steinberg held that one of the aims of the artist should be to keep alive the childlike ability to see things innocently and afresh. He was aided in this attempt by being an outsider in every culture into which fate had tossed him—Romanian, Italian, American
What to American eyes might be ordinary was to Steinberg's often astounding. He could be amusing in his representations of American ambitions and vanities, and took particular note of the contradictions that ran up the center of American culture. In a famous New Yorker cover showing an American monument, the figure of Prosperity sits atop the highest pedestal, flanked by statues of Freud and Santa Claus, while at the bottom Uncle Sam shakes hands with Uncle Tom; in the middle, under a banner reading "The Pursuit of Happi-ness," a snake and a crocodile are biting off each other's tails.
Death was always much on Steinberg's mind. He has drawings in which he sets out life as a series of ascending steps from childhood to a paunchy retirement in Florida, which he called a "concentration camp for old people." In one drawing, a man appears enclosed on the right side of a parenthesis, a bird about to place a wreath over his head, with the date 1905 followed by a dash occupying the left side of the parenthesis. In another drawing, a Quixotesque figure on horseback, lance at the ready, chases a crocodile down an incline, unaware that a large boulder (death itself) is in pursuit of, and certain to kill, him and the crocodile both.
The autobiographical element in many of Steinberg's drawings is not difficult to espy. A drawing of a man earnestly dancing with a girl crudely limned in crayon recalls a photograph, reproduced in this book, of Steinberg dancing with Sigrid Spaeth. The subject of many of his drawings is drawing itself, and the comedy of artistic creation generally. In several of these, styles from different art-historical periods
A splendid calligrapher, Steinberg was able to bring letters of the alphabet, as well as numbers, to life. In one drawing, the letter "H" from the word "Who" pushes over the word "Did," which crushes the letter "I" in the word "It" in the phrase "Who Did It"—with the question mark off to the side presumably asking the question. In another, a man sits before a desk while the authoritative man behind the desk fills the large balloonish letters "N" and "O" with much indecipherable writing, all of which of course adds up to "NO." Owing to their construction, he thought the numbers 5 and 2 erotic, and 1, 4, and 7 quite without sex appeal, though he felt the number 4 might be of interest to cats.
Cats with human countenances—many of them resembling that of Franz Kafka—in Steinberg drawings slyly observe people solemnly pursuing their ridiculous ambitions. He drew false documents in which he substituted fingerprints for faces. In other drawings, human beings are lost in mazes and labyrinths; military men are given severely geometrical faces; women are all legs in whorish high heels or else menacingly birdlike; rococo architecture looms in the background (he drew the Chrysler Building over and over); a vinyl record, on the Sphinx label, shows the head and bosom of a woman attached to a cat's body, with the song on the record called "Kumming Tango."
In an oeuvre so large as Steinberg's, not everything succeeds. Late in life he began producing the tops of desks and their contents, and these, apart from being tidy compositions, seem of slight interest. His postcards, often of landscapes with rubber stamps on them, fail to engage the imagination. In the 1960s, his view of America darkened, and so did his drawings. They began to be filled with menacing Mickey Mouse-like figures toting guns, hookerish women, fierce dogs, rats, bums, menacingly bearded Black Panther types. Of all his drawings, these seem most like the doodlings of a frightened neurotic, and hence are of the least interest.
Steinberg was best as a humorist, though one who went in less for jokes than for puzzles, paradoxes, and visual parodies. "I try to make [people who view my drawings] jittery by giving them situations that are out of context and contain several [possible] interpretations," he said. He even claimed that he published a few drawings in the New Yorker "that I myself didn't quite understand." He rendered the watercolor painting of a palette of watercolors; a man under the hood of an old-fashioned camera photographing a woman in a burka; men and women carrying portraits, statues, busts, and pennants of themselves; a parade of avant-garde painters like so many soldiers in Red Square, marching in lockstep past a building marked the "National Academy of the Avant-Garde."
As "a writer who draws," Saul Steinberg also claimed that "drawing is a way of reasoning on paper." Had he been born "in a place with a good language, a good vocabulary," he told a New York Times reporter,
I would have stayed there, I would probably have become a writer. This was my inclination. But being deprived of this thing, and having what I considered a modest talent, gave me from the beginning a métier. I transformed this métier into something much more complex and much more to my own needs.
That "something" was illustration at the service of ironic observation.
Steinberg's uniqueness resides in the fact that we do not enjoy his work in the way we do most art—considering its elements, examining the feeling it evokes, gauging its power—but instead tend to read it for meaning. He himself sometimes referred to his audience as "readers." These drawings force us to ask, What's going on here? What is the true subject? Why is it amusing? And, finally, What makes it all so Steinbergian?
Like "Orwellian" or "Kafkaesque," "Steinbergian" is a personal adjective of a kind assigned to only a few exceptional modern artists. The Steinbergian figure is a man who, like E. M. Forster's description of the poet Cavafy, stands "at a slight angle to the universe." In Steinberg's various drawings, he is a male figure with a rabbit inside his head, or a man able to detach his nose from his face, or a man photographed holding the hand of a life-size photograph of his 8-year-old self. Fairly certain that life is a joke, Steinbergian Man anxiously awaits its punchline.
Because he published his drawings chiefly in the New Yorker, Steinberg probably had the largest audience for his art of any visual artist in the 20th century. Print was his preferred medium, and magazines the preferred venue for his work. Of that work, Harold Rosenberg, in an essay accompanying the collection of drawings that appeared at a Steinberg retro-spective at the Whitney Museum in 1975, wrote: "Steinberg is the only major artist in the United States who is not associated with any art movement or style, past or present."
Because of this, Steinberg's art is not easily categorized. I think of him as belonging to that small but lustrous school of artists—Alexander Pope, Honoré Daumier, Maurice Ravel, Max Beerbohm are of this same school—who do not overpower, but instead charm through the mastery of their craft and the unalloyed pleasure they provide.
Saul Steinberg's considerable success—financial, critical, social—wasn't sufficient to offset the depression that scorched his last years. As a hypochondriac who was more than a bit paranoid, a heavy drinker, and a man more than normally terrified by death, Steinberg found life drearier and darker as he reached his seventies. As his friends died off, Steinberg's depression deepened. So strong was its hold on him that, in the hope of shaking its grip, he submitted to electro--convulsive therapy. Being diagnosed with slow-growing lymphoma didn't lift his spirits. Pancreatic cancer took him in his 85th year.
Saul Steinberg was not the first, and doubtless will not be the last, of those artists who gave the world much more pleasure than he was able to derive from it.
Joseph Epstein, a contributing editor to The Weekly Standard, is coauthor, with Frederic Raphael, of the forthcoming Distant Intimacy: A Friendship in the Age of the Internet.


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Coupled with the spins in my case has been hearing loss - significant in my right ear and lesser in my left - talking in a social setting is really hard.
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BIRMINGHAM, Ala. Two stroke-prevention procedures are safe and equally beneficial for men and women at risk for stroke, but the effectiveness does vary by age, say researchers at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) in collaboration with other North American stroke investigators.
In findings reported Feb. 26 at the International Stroke Conference in San Antonio, Texas, the researchers say physicians now have better information when tailoring their treatment plans for patients at risk for stroke. The study is called the Carotid Revascularization Endarterectomy vs. Stenting Trial (CREST).
Stroke, the third leading cause of death in the nation, is caused by an interruption in blood flow to the brain by a clot or bleeding. The carotid arteries on each side of the neck are the major source of blood flow to the brain. The buildup of cholesterol in the wall of the carotid artery, called atherosclerotic plaque, is one cause of stroke.
CREST compares endarteroctomy, a surgical procedure to clear blocked blood flow and prevent stroke, with carotid stenting, a newer procedure that involves threading a stent and expanding a small protective device in the artery to widen the blocked area and capture dislodged plaque.
The overall safety and efficacy of the two procedures essentially is the same with equal benefits for men and women, for patients who previously have had a stroke and for those who had not, researchers say. The most notable finding was the role of patient age in accounting for differences in comparing the two prevention procedures, says George Howard, Dr.PH., chair of biostatistics in UAB's School of Public Health and a CREST co-investigator.
"The fascinating finding is that in young people, say age 69 and younger, the stenting is better than the surgery. The younger the patient, the better stenting works," Howard says. "In contrast, in older people, defined as greater than age 70, the surgery is bette
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This record was set as part of Prius Records, a two-day event streamed live on the Internet. In a 48-hour period, URDB officials adjudicated 200 Prius-related world records. This was the most records ever documented in a 48-hour window, a world record in and of itself.
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The driver was jailed for 18 years after he and three colleagues were arrested at Dover's Eastern Docks in April 2011.
Phillip Roe, 42, of Farndale, Whitwick, Leicestershire, was transporting equipment for the Kawasaki World Superbike franchise.
In the trailer of the first lorry Border Force officers found six kilos of cocaine, 68 kilos of cannabis resin, 35 kilos of herbal cannabis and 30 kilos of ecstasy tablets worth £2.5 million concealed in a number of bags and boxes hidden in the seating area.
One holdall containing ecstasy tablets also had a Walther P22 handgun and 35 rounds of live ammunition inside.
Officers searched the second lorry, being driven by Roe, but found nothing suspicious.
The trucks had been at a race meeting in Holland and were returning to their base in Penrith, Cumbria.
Border investigators carried out forensic examinations of the drugs and found Roe's palm print on one of the boxes containing drugs.
They also found a number of incriminating messages on his laptop, including one stating that the trip to Holland would be a "pay day" for him.
Roe was charged with six counts of attempting to import class A drugs, class B drugs, firearms and ammunition.
The other three men arrested were released without charge.
Following a two week trial at Canterbury Crown Court, Roe was found guilty on all charges and today the judge sentence him to 18 years in prison.
Malcolm Bragg, from the National Crime Agency's Border Policing Command, said: "This was a brazen attempt to smuggle a large quantity of illegal drugs plus a gun and ammunition into the UK. These drugs would have been worth around £2.5 million had they made it on to the streets.
"Right from the start of our investigation Roe denied any knowledge of this importation and was happy to blame his colleagues and team.
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Often just walking out the door is the hardest part of sticking to your exercise routine. I find that if I lace up my shoes, grab my ipod & leave my house promising myself that I can leave the gym after a 1/2 hour if I am not into my work out I tend to go workout and stick with it an hour or more. Just walk out the door with the promise that you will do something. It's 10 times better than you doing nothing at all.
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I've found breaking my fitness into 5-10 minute mini sessions of exercise makes it more doable during the day. Everyone has 5 minutes here and there that they aren't doing anything. During those moments do a quick set of 3 different exercises. Something like this 25 wall pushups, 25 squats and 25 jumping jacks. You've worked 3 different muscle groups and gotten in a quick burst of cardio
- Submitted by ALWAYSCHANGING 5/20/2011 in Exercise | 4 Comments
I realized recently whenever I eat yogurt I eat it so quickly I barely realize I've eaten it. In order to slow myself down I add fresh fruit and bits of granola and I eat it with a baby spoon. The size of the spoon causes me to eat it in much smaller bites and I have time to truly savor it.
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Remember this is a Journey not a Sprint
It's so easy to have a winner take all attitude when ou first begin; but it's important to remember that the gaining of the weight didn't happen overnight therefore losing it won't happen overnight. Focus on getting healthier, eating right, moving more, doing more. Set mini-goals such as trying to eat your daily serving of fruits and veggies each day. Drinking more water and less soda. Celebrate each small victory. Believe you can do this, Know you WILL do this.Commit to it.
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When the scale isn't moving, it's sometimes hard to stay positive, but as long as you are moving, eating right and trying then see that day as it truly is: A victory for you!!!! Keep trying, don't give up and don't use the scale as the only determinant of what you are achieving.
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Take "I will Try" out of the equation Change it to " I Will do"
Too often we say I will try to do such and such. Already we are half way to defeat and we haven't laced up our sneakers. Instead of saying "I will Try to do 10 pushups" say "I will do 10 pushups" half of doing what needs to be done is believing that you can! No more defeatist mentality, believe that you are capable, that you are strong and even if you don't complete the task know that you did something!
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I have enlisted the help of my sparkfriends off line! We swapped numbers and we text or call each other daily to ensure we are each staying on track. We challenge each other to drink water, workout or just touch base to ensure we're doing okay. It's great having them close at hand when a computer isn't in reach and we've built some really strong, supportive and loving friendships.
- Submitted by ALWAYSCHANGING 1/30/2011 in Motivation | 4 Comments
Would you put sugar in your cars' gas tank?
Would you put sugar in your the gas tank of your car? No of course you wouldn't because you know it would cause your car to run inefficiently & eventually kill your engine. So why would you put junk into your own body? Food must be considered the fuel needed to fuel your body & therefore you must put the best food in, in order to get the best effiency out of your daily life and workouts. The next time you reach for something to eat, ask yourself is this fuel or junk & then make the best choice.
- Submitted by ALWAYSCHANGING 1/1/2011 in Healthy Eating | 7 Comments
Recognizing that this is a journey and not a sprint is a key component of making this a lifetime change and not simply a diet. In order to make this stick, take it one change at a time. When I first started I went all in giving up junk food, working out twice a day and I quickly failed! When I started again I told myself slow and steady will win this race. Each week I replaced one unhealthy food with a healthy one.
- Submitted by ALWAYSCHANGING 11/14/2010 in Getting Started | 4 Comments
Woo-sah isn't just a catch phrase
Often when we lose it, we aren't aware that what we say, how we react and what we do are affecting others. When you are about to blow your gasket, say Woo-sah, very slowly under your breath. Breathe out on the Woo and in on the Sah. After doing this 5 or 6 times you will have achieved two things. You will have calmed down a bit allowing others to calm down too and you will have given yourself time to think before you react. This is the best way to avoid doing or saying something you may regret.
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Authorities in Mankato are asking for the public's help in solving a weekend burglary at a car dealership. The break-in at Northtown Auto on North Riverfront Drive apparently took place at some point between 10:30 Saturday night and 8:50 Sunday morning. Unknown suspects broke into the dealership and took keys to several vehicles, along with other items. Two vehicles have been reported missing as well. They included a maroon 1999 Cadillac Deville with Minnesota license plate 075-EJM and a brown 2008 Chevy Silverado with Minnesota plate XAW-562. Anyone who has seen the vehicles is asked to call 911.
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In 1983 Buffalo Bill's Brewery pioneered a bold new direction in American brewing. Today, as one of the nations oldest brewpubs, Buffalo Bill's continues to offer a great selection of outstanding craft beer, including year-round favorites as well as seasonal specialties.
Tasmanian Devil Double AleThis California Strong Ale was first brewed in 1986 and gained notoriety appearing in Newsweek Magazine. Brewed with a variety of hops from Tasmania, Australia, and Washington, this Strong Ale has a smooth malt character but is never bitter. A favorite at the Hayward Brewery…
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I'm comfortably independent, yet still feel that void of not having that complement in my life. I'd like to meet a woman who shares common interests and inspires me to grow as a person and hopefully I would provide the same. Simple enough, right? I often take day trips into the mountains to relax from a busy week. I enjoy taking the road less traveled for the peacefulness, the off-roading adventure, stargazing, photography (my Nikon D800 is typically within reach) and if I'm lucky, finding a fossil or gemstone from a lonely creek bed. I also like to stay active (biking, hiking, skiing, camping, pilates, yoga, golf, working out, etc.) but a few surgeries from my soccer playing days keep me from being too crazy. I should also mention that you must like dogs. I work as the Hospital Administrator for an Animal Hospital and have a blue-ticked coonhound who gets to come to work with me at work every day. This job is what brought me out to Denver from Cincinnati almost years ago. I'm complex, intelligent, loyal, logical, enigmatic, aloof, eccentric, compassionate, competitive, kind, selfless, stubborn, quiet, independent, nerdy, athletic, introverted, and social. If it sounds like I can be hard to figure out, that's because I can be. I've experienced a lot in life and all of them have shaped the person I am today. I'd like to find someone who enjoys some of the things I do, such as: biking, golf, hiking, photography, traveling, the universe; both big and small, off-roading, random adventures, intelligent conversation and debate and, of course, sports. I'm definitely a sponge for knowledge and experience, so I'd also like someone who's not afraid to challenge me or introduce me to different ideas. I can almost assure you that if you're looking for someone that you want to be able understand on the first date, I am not your man. This isn't to say that I'm not comfortable meeting new people. I'm actually quite comfortable and secure in exploring the world around me. However, because of my inherent need to process things internally before I make decisions, I can seem reserved or quiet. The irony is that I'm very open to new ideas and other people's opinions and I'm especially drawn to someone that can challenge my ideas and speak their mind. I don't feel that I need to have all the same views and hobbies as my partner. In fact, learning from each other is what I find most exciting. I'm hopeful to find that special woman who understands it takes more than a walk around a park or a drink at happy hour to really know one another and let life take us where we're supposed to be. If you've made it all the to the end and haven't moved onto the next random profile, why not a second more and say hi?!?
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His latest novel, "The Big Field" (Philomel/Penguin Young Readers Group: $17.99, ages 9 and up), is all about being a guy, and all the unspoken and apparently unspeakable difficulties that guys have to learn to negotiate. Keith Hutchinson, known inevitably as "Hutch," plays on an American Legion 17-and-under team in Florida. After teaching him the essentials of being a shortstop, his father--who was once a rising local star headed for the Major Leagues--has mysteriously withdrawn. Hutch will find him in the evenings slumped in front of the television, beer in hand, watching a game with the sound off. There's an invisible force field around him; Hutch knows not to enter where he is not invited. The father rarely comes to his son's games, and even the prospect of Hutch leading his team to the championship fails to rouse him.
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Lupica develops his characters with great subtlety while remaining true to the casual dugout manner. You'll never hear his guys having heart-to-hearts, but you will hear the trash talk that relaxes, the jokes only intimate friends share, the oblique remark that says "I was wrong" and the grunt that says "I accept your apology."
Things come to a head as the championship game approaches. Local media attention aggravates the rivalry between Hutch and Darryl, who has figured out Hutch's weak spot: Hutch is ashamed that his father, once headed for stardom, can barely hold down a job and is content to carry rich men's bags as a golf caddy and limo driver. Understanding begins to dawn when Hutch's mother tries to explain her husband to her son: "What he's doing is good, honest work. He's with good players most of the time, and when he helps them play better, it's a way for him to compete. He takes pride in it. And he's outdoors, not stuck behind some desk in an office, which always drove him crazy." This is not a vision of adulthood that most boys dreaming of Major League glory will see as noble, but Darryl, who has grown up without a father, makes Hutch see that he can be proud of a dad who cares enough to live with heartbreak and still take care of his family.
Baseball novels about girls tend to cast them as fans, but this is not second-class-citizen status, for in baseball, unique among sports, devoted fandom has at least as powerful an aura as spectacular playing. Linda Sue Park's novel, "Keeping Score" (Clarion Books/Houghton Mifflin: $16, ages 10 and up), set in the years before the Brooklyn Dodgers defected to Los Angeles and celebrating the almost lost art of scorekeeping, will warm the heart of the baseball historian as well as the nostalgic fan.
It's a great novel to share with grandparents. Listening to the radio is central to this story, and anyone who loves Vin Scully -- although Maggie, the novel's main character, regrets the departure of Red Barber -- must lament the days when most fans experienced the games through the announcer's voice: "[Maggie] would walk past the row of houses that looked just like hers, all built of dull brownish yellow brick, one window downstairs two windows up . . . Everyone would have their radios on, the sound of the game trailing in and out of each doorway like a long thread that tied the whole neighborhood together."
The Chicago Cubs have provided ample material for storytelling -- mostly of the tragic kind -- and it would be just wrong to enter their 100th season since winning a World Series title without a novel projecting a win. "The Comeback Season" by Jennifer E. Smith (Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, $15.99. Ages 13 and up) is not a happy story, though, so it's best to save it for adolescent girls who adore fiction that gives them a good cry -- which is not as small a market as you might think. It's a novel about the complex deal-making that has become part of the lore of Cubs devotion. "If the Cubbies can just get out of this jam," a true believer will say, "I'll give up desserts for a month."
Ryan, daughter of an eternally optimistic Cubs supporter who died in a river-rafting accident, has finally found a kindred spirit in the new boy at school. It's a typically inarticulate first love, and when she finally learns Nick's secret trouble, she finds herself making the ultimate deal: "It's okay if the Cubs never win again," she thinks, "if only he would just be okay."
Then Ryan has to find a way to live with that bargain -- a piece of magical thinking that any baseball fan will recognize as eternally binding.
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Universal Orlando Resort's Mardi Gras 2013 is combining a Stellar lineup of high-energy performances featuring some of the most sought-after names in music with the exciting spirit of the famed "N'awlins" celebration.
On select nights Feb. 9 through April 20, guests will let the good times roll as they experience an authentic, family-friendly version of the Mardi Gras bash at Universal Studios Florida. The event couples unparalleled Theme Park entertainment with a dazzling parade, authentic New Orleans musicians, mouth-watering Cajun cuisine, tons of glittering Mardi Gras beads and live concerts by high-profile artists.
This year's talent lineup features an incredible variety of music, ranging from Americana rock to soulful R&B to upbeat pop to Latin rhythms. Guests can return night after night to hear their favorite performers, including internationally-renowned rapper Pitbull - whose number-one single, "Give Me Everything," was named "Top Radio Song" in the 2012 Billboard Music Awards; 2012 People's Choice Award-winner Demi Lovato for "Favorite Pop Artist;" season 11 winner of "American Idol," Phillip Phillips whose hit song, "Home," was certified double-platinum; chart-topping country duo Montgomery Gentry , with top hits like "If You Ever Stop Loving Me" and "Back When I Knew It All;" teen heartthrob Austin Mahone ; and alternative rock band Matchbox Twenty, whose latest studio album, "North," debuted at number one on the Billboard Hot 100. For the complete line-up, see below.
Before enjoying the live concerts, guests can dance along with dozens of energetic street performers and collect beads by the handful as the Mardi Gras parade winds through Universal Studios. This year's parade celebrates "Colorful Cultures Around the World," featuring all-new float additions inspired by the Mexican Day of the Dead, Chinese New Year and Elegance of India. The parade's elaborate, hand-crafted floats are built by Blaine Kern Artists - the same company that designs floats for the Mardi Gras parade in New Orleans.
The celebration continues at Universal Orlando's very own French Quarter Courtyard. Partygoers can enjoy the soulful sounds of authentic New Orleans bands that travel straight from The Big Easy to perform Blues, Jazz and Zydeco music. And the irresistible smells of authentic Cajun cuisine will fill the French Quarter as guests taste an array of delicious New Orleans fare, including jambalaya, gumbo, beignets and more.
The excitement of Universal Orlando's Mardi Gras is included with admission to Universal Studios. For more information, visit www.universalorlando.com/mardigras.
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Pure Digital has launched the Flip Mino HD.
A response to rivals who have offered better specced competitor devices since Pure Digital launched the Flip Mino, the tiny camcorder gets the ability to shoot in 720p widescreen.
The Mino HD also boasts 4GB of flash memory built-in that offers an hour of storage for HD video right out of the box. The small gadget is said to offer around 2 hours of battery life.
Another new feature is the built-in video editing application called FlipShare, that offers both Mac and Windows users a basic suite for altering clips and the like.
The Mino HD records to MPEG4 format and - thanks to Flipshare - offers direct uploads to YouTube and MySpace.
The Flip Mino HD goes on sales in the States for $230, no news on a UK release.


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Originally posted by Ridelynn
Intel already offers some 10-core processors:
As best as I can tell, that's the cheapest of them. Yes, higher bins actually cost more than that. Ivy Bridge-EX is rumored to go up to 15 cores.
But yes, it's not just that it's not a mainstream necessity. It's also that they're very expensive to produce. 10 cores and 30 MB of L3 cache on a 32 nm process node leads to an enormous die size of 513 mm^2. Try to launch that on a then-cutting edge process node and you're asking for yield problems. The last time AMD made a chip with a die that big was, well, probably never.
For what it's worth, AMD's take on this is, 8 processor servers have 0.1% of the market, so Intel can have it to themselves. Westmere-EX does offer variants for 2- or 4- processor servers, but there's not much sense in shelling out for Xeon E7 chips if you've got a workload that Xeon E5 (basically the server version of Sandy Bridge-E) can handle just fine.
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OP brings up good points about the new ATI card at this price point but we'll see where the card actually ends up after a few months it will either find it's niche price or disappear.
As to everything else being brought up here...IMO when you buy anything you do your research and buy what's the best value and bang for your buck at the price point you are at.Brand Loyalty is jsut stupidity because those companies don't return your loyalty or slavish love.
As such I've used both Nvidia and ATI cards over the years and had my share of problems with,this will be shocking to fanbois on both sides, BOTH at different times.Each companies drivers have strengths and flaws as do their driver release schedules.I for one don't want to see a single company dominating a market ever.
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Quite sure ATI has the lead on nVidia in the GPU department outside the entire titan stuff that just seems terribly overkill and not worth all the money, but amd is down the drain compared to intel.
Feels like its always nVidia with driver errors and bugs while ATI works smoothly.
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Originally posted by Drakynn
As soon as 20 nm chips are ready, the Radeon HD 7990 becomes completely pointless to buy new. Retailers will generally want to have sold out entirely before then, so the card could well disappear sooner rather than later. A card with two high-bin Tahiti chips is never going to be cheap to produce.
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I agree that not a lot of people care. I never saw the appeal of buying the best GPUs (like GTX 690) or CPUs like that Intel's i7 CPU which was a total overkill for any sort of gaming (don't remember the name). Do people really spend so much money on a single GPU just to get the very best. You will most likely have to buy a new GPU in 2-3 years tops anyway so "futureproofing" seems a bit pointless as technology evolves so quickly.
You know what is exciting though? The new Xbox which is being unveiled on the 21 May :)
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Originally posted by fivoroth
When I were playing BF2,BC2 and WoW etc I would very often get nVidia related problems, but nVidia has been infamous for hating the Battlefield genre with passion, but a little after BC2 was released I got my hands on a 5770 and later now a 7950 which has never given me any artifacts and such.
And if you went from nVidia to ATI you probably had driver fragments remaining or something that might screw things up, but I guess it's decided by the rest of your system.
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This thread perhaps demonstrates why the Radeon HD 7990 even exists: it gets people talking about AMD having high end video cards, even though hardly anyone is going to buy it. If someone else doesn't reply just before I post this, this will be post #67 about a thread for a card that hardly anyone will buy. It's not a bad card in its own right like the GeForce GTX 590 was; just a card that makes sense for basically no one.
Meanwhile, I start this thread about a chip that AMD will sell by the millions:
And then it only gets one reply from someone besides me. Unlike the Radeon HD 7990, Kabini/Temash makes sense for a lot of people. If you want a Windows-based tablet, this is the chip you want. Period. Nothing else is remotely competitive. If you want an ultraportable laptop, this is probably the chip you want. It's highly probable that it will be better than ULV Ivy Bridge and likely that it will be better than ULV Haswell for ultraportables. It will certainly be massively cheaper than either of those, excluding crippled Celeron variants that are completely awful in addition to probably still being more expensive than Kabini. If you want a cheap nettop, this is likely again the chip you want.
At the risk of stirring up another Xfire-type debate, Steam does publish hardware survey information:
Steam is just a microcosm of the PC community, so it's not all-encompassing. People running Steam tend to be gamers, so your missing out on a vast majority of the PCs (PCs used in businesses, your grandparents who don't game, secondary systems such as netbooks that can't game well, etc).
But I figure, that in the context of hardware used for gaming, a survey done by Valve for hardware used while gaming, is probably indicative although not authoritative.
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Single Core CPU: 4.4%
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My guess is because it's a CPU intended for ULV/Ultraportables, and this is a (mainly PC) gaming forum. It won't see a lot of use for MMOs, unless mainstream MMOs start to become ultraportable. And while the new PS4/Xbox will use a variant of this, they will almost certainly use heavily modified variants that will probably perform nothing like these particular SOCs.
Whereas the 7990, while hardly practical, is aimed right at PC gamers (and maybe the bitcoin mining niche).
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One of the fastest singlecards in the world only pricetag is bit high.
pro - heat-noise-consumption are ok for such card
con - pricetag is high after so late release should be lower.
Most tests dont include asus ares II card other wise that one would be fastests
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Whatever you do, do NOT speak ill of Asheron's Call 2...
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I wonder what card the OP is using...
That Guild Wars 2 login screen knocked up my wife. Must be the second coming!
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Originally posted by Mtibbs1989
Gaming advancement has fallen behind though on the Pc gaming exclusive front. Pc exclusives are few are fare between to actually push these card. To play games today any decent graphics card of the last 3 to 4 years will do along with any CPU of the last 3 years. Games have been made to fit PS3 and Xbox 360 tech and that's very old in tech terms. Pc gamers will have to wait for the Pc kick start projects to make it to release to push PC hardware of today.
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Originally posted by IAmMMO
Crysis 3, nuff said.
Originally posted by Slampig
Radeon HD 5850
At the time I bought it, it was the only DirectX 11 card in stock on New Egg.
Unless your using a dual monitor setup or 3d monitor
80% of games you can play on an old card.
17% of games will run at maximum levels on a 660gtx or 7870
That 3% of cutting edge games will play on high or max settings on a 670gtx or 7950
You don't need anything faster.
Pity crisis 3 is a boring cod style corridors and cutscenes duck behind cover manshoot.
1 was good
Warhead was even better
2 was a boring console style shooter
3 is even more so.
While Crysis 3 will push some hardware, I would have pointed to Tomb Raider's TressFX.
Although - even though we've come up with a couple of modern examples, IAmMMO's point is still very valid and I agree with it: PC titles by and large have been stagnate. We've been stuck in the DX9 Unreal3/Crytek2/3-type engines for years now, and I do think it's largely because these run on consoles well. There are newer generations coming out soon (tm), but we probably won't see a proflic number of titles with these until we have the engines running on the next-gen consoles. If there is any doubt to this, just look at DX10/11 adoption rate, and realize that it's partially because of Windows XP's lack of support, and partially because DX9-level tools exist for the current consoles, and they are technically unable of running many DX10/11 features.
And I think another part of it is that we don't have mature development tools for the newer technologies, such as Tessellation, even on the PC. These require a good deal different skill set than most graphics designers and programmers are used to dealing with, and we won't see widespread adoption until the development tools catch up to allow these types of technology to be best applied by the people working with it. If you need a graphics designer that a) Is a good artist, and b) has a PhD in mathematics to effectively use tessellation (which is more or less the case now), then you have a very slim pool of potential applicants.
Lol you don't need a doctorate in mathematics do do the art for tesselation.
Now your guys coding the engine, might help if they have a mathematics degree, but I suspect the level of maths you get from a GOOD software engineering / comp-sci degree will be enough (e.g the ones that concentrate on technical skills rather than 1980s project management bs)
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More or less to use tesselation you just need to make a texture akin to a bump/heightmap referred to as displacement mapping. Ultimately they are all essentially a greyscale texture map of an object showing the high/low points of a model and the tesselation mechanics translates that onto the object.
The point of the original argument stands though. PC gaming has not seen major strides in a while outside of some rather tech-demo level implementations because of the console market. With the next generation of upcoming consoles we will see a bump up in the quality of games, but it will not break the habit of the PC hardware being somewhat underutilized in potential.
Even with PC only titles the tendency to adhere to lower standards is still common too because of the fact that a lot of people lag behind in hardware, playing on machines that can be five years old or more.
Also just wanna note. Crysis 3 might look pretty, but the engine it's built on does not hold any major advancements. Rather it was built as a more stable and multiplatform version of the previous generation of the Cryengine.
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Originally posted by ShakyMo
For the textures, no. Any ordinary game artist can do that just fine.
But the geometry side of tessellation? While you don't need a PhD, it's going to be awfully hard if you haven't at least taken a manifolds course--which is typically graduate level. Mathematicians are likely to have the necessary background, and possibly physicists, too. Apart from that?
Tessellation in its purest form is just procedurally generated vertex data. But the geometrically intuitive approach is using it to do subdivisions of simplicial manifolds with boundary. That is, you start with a model with few triangles and break them up into many more triangles. But you have to move around the new vertices, as if you just leave them all in the convex hull of your original vertices, the final image won't look any different.
If you're not using tessellation, you just have to specify where a handful of vertices go. You can have modeling programs that let you see the model and move things in or out with the program implicitly handling where each particular vertex goes. If you're using tessellation, you have to be able to specify the coordinates of any arbitrary point on the surface, not just a handful of vertices. If you want any lighting effects at all, you probably also need to specify the normal vector at any arbitrary point, and not just a handful of points. And you need to be able to do both of these fast, with stuff that a GPU can do.
In order to do this, you start by deciding what shape you want to draw, most likely a manifold with boundary. For shapes that are more complex than this, you likely break it into multiple pieces and draw each separately. Basically, you can have an explicit formula, read it in from a texture, or do some combination of these two where you read in points from a texture and then have a formula to interpolate between them. The first option means that you have to be able to think of the geometry of what you want to draw in terms of formulas, without the benefit of a GUI. For the second, the textures from which you generate the geometry will have to be pretty high resolution, and this could add a considerable performance hit and a lot of additional video memory needed. The third will let you use lower resolution textures, but now you get both the performance hit of additional texturing and also needing to be able to write formulas that interpolate smoothly.
So let's suppose that you know what shape you want to draw, and that it is a manifold with boundary. Next you have to pick a triangulation of it, that is, a simplicial manifold with boundary that is homeomorphic to the shape that you want to draw. That triangulation will be your base vertex data.
In vertex shaders, all that need you do is to determine the tessellation degree at the vertices of your base data. This basically depends on the curvature of your model at that point, how far it is from the camera, and the frustum width of a pixel on the screen. The third of those is some fixed constant, the second is pretty easy, and the first doesn't really require explicit computations; you can just eyeball it and call it good enough. This isn't trivial, but it's no harder than older DirectX 9.0c-style graphics.
Tessellation control shaders will probably be pretty trivial. The simple approach is to make any outer tessellation level the maximum of the tessellation levels that you compute at the two vertices of the edge and any inner tessellation level the maximum of the three vertices of the triangle. Assuming you're using triangles; for quads, it's a little different, but not hard. You need to understand some geometry to understand why you'd do it this way, but it's the sort of thing that a programmer who knows that it's what he's supposed to do could implement without understanding why. They already do that with clip coordinates, and this would be less complicated than that.
But in tessellation evaluation shaders, you have to give both an explicit homeomorphism from your simplicial manifold with boundary to the actual manifold with boundary that you wanted to draw. Furthermore, you have to explicitly specify the normal bundle for it, which tends to be a lot harder than the homeomorphism. Specifying a handful of particular points isn't enough; for each triangle in your base vertex data, there are tens of thousands of possible barycentric coordinates that the hardware tessellator could kick out, and you need to be able to specify both explicit coordinates and an explicit normal vector for every single one of them. And you need to do it smoothly so that when the tessellation degree changes, it doesn't look like your model visibly jumps. You'll probably also have to fill in texture coordinates in tessellation evaluation shaders, but that's easy by comparison.
And if you want to animate anything rather than just having a bunch of objects of fixed shapes in your game world, then that adds a bunch of new complications. But let's ignore that for now.
So, how much mathematics is involved here? When I finished a BS in mathematics, I didn't know what a manifold (whether with or without boundary), triangulation, homeomorphism, simplicial manifold (or any other sort of simplicial complex), or normal bundle (or any other sort of vector bundle) were. There's no way that I could have done tessellation at that point, even with today's tools. Think your average game programmer would have a stronger math background than someone who got a BS in mathematics while taking considerably more math courses than necessary for the BS? A handful of relatively advanced undergraduates may well take a graduate-level course in manifolds as an undergraduate, but there aren't a ton of such people and they're likely headed to grad school anyway.
And I'm skeptical that tools will ever be able to give anyone without that background access to the full power of what tessellation can do. You could make a game engine that knows how to draw a sphere and lets artists put spheres wherever they want in the game and tessellates them accordingly. Or you could make more general shapes such as an ellipsoid rather than a sphere. You could have dozens of shapes available. But as soon as an artist wants to draw something that isn't on the list of what the game engine already knows how to do, either he's out of luck, he can draw it but not use tessellation, or he needs all of the mathematics above.


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220 Agfa sample I grabbed (no reason it would be any different) was WAY too wide to fit 2-1/4x3-1/4 holder, eyeball 3-4 mm too wide. I suppose two cuts aren't much worse than 1 if you have a sharp tool.
I bought some recently outdated 4x5 Ektachrome 64 on eBay to play with (cause I can't afford to play with the fresh stuff), and considered it to cut down too. I have 2 rolls of Agfa 160 in 220 left; I finally learned to stop trying to plug light leaks in 120 cameras. It was fun while it lasted in a Moskva V with the 6x6 mask further masked down to 645...got about 27 exposures hand counting turns, just too many leaks.
Next question is whether a lab can handle 2x3 color without clogging the machine...is this where a so-called 'dip & dunk' lab is desirable? I don't know exactly what's meant by that.
I found no color in the list of various brands at J&C, which was where I thought it might turn up, if anywhere.


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