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The Four Corners of the Sky: A Novel
by Michael Malone
I liked the characters, and the directions the plot took were always interesting and unexpected. However, the book as a whole was one of those predictable books that have a female main character who has been unlucky in love and embarks on an "adventure" and through the adventure meets the love of her life.
Four Corners of BORING!!
Took me forever to read. I am normally a voracious reader and this book was plain torture to get through. I considered placing it aside but I am one that has to finish something I've started, afraid I would miss something great. Well, I can tell you THIS; I missed nothing and I can't believe I wasted so much time with this story, one that should've been told in a short novella because it lacked interest for anything over 120 pages. The whole time, all I could think was GET ON WITH IT ALREADY!!! And, don't even get me started on the goofy cliches.
Lieutenant Annie P. Goode is a top gun pilot in the U.S. Navy. She drives a Porsche. She breaks records (and the hometown band honors her with a little diddy to the tune of "Johnny Be Good"). When she takes flight, air-traffic control tower clears her for takeoff with, "And you're Goode to go!!" Somebody shoot me!!! And then, to insult women everywhere, the author thought up a fat sidekick friend for Annie. Annie, of course, had men tripping all over her but the overweight, RICH, doctor friend, who was apparently unworthy of a love life because of her weight, must constantly be a goofy joke. Poor, unloved Georgette!! Really? Yes! Was a tedious read for me. The plot line is ridiculous and I rather hate myself for reading this. So many wasted nights when I could've been reading, Oh! I don't know, ANYTHING ELSE!!! Sorry, this was just Four Corners to many for me!
I enjoyed this book so much that I found it hard to put it down until finishing it a few days later. It centers around Annie, a motherless child left by her con-artist father at the age of 7 with her aunt. The characters surrounding Annie as she grows up are developed through memories of their earlier days and connections with Annie's father. The gift of an old airplane from her father leads to Annie's lifelong goal of becoming the best pilot ever. She graduates at the top of her class at Annapolis and is a top Navy pilot by age 26 when her father suddenly pops back into her life. Things get crazy from that point on, but I won't spoil the best parts of the book. I highly recommend that you read it!
Very interesting if a little long and at times repetitive. I like the way he used the sky metaphor throughout, and the characters were compelling.
I absolutely loved this book. It was engaging, heart-warming, and exiting. An epic thrill ride!
Engrossing read if you're interested in flying. Intriguing plot twist around a Cuban religious relic but it could have been shorter.
Lots of interesting characters, very finely drawn. Plot line was a bit tedious. the whole book would have been improved if it was considerably shorter.
Easy, entertaining read with appealing characters. Descends into farce at times. Definitely could be shorter - lots of it could be tightened up and made less repetitive.
I tried to get through this, but I haven't yet succeeded. I like the idea of the story, but for me it is a little drawn out. It is very well written and interesting, but I want more of a conclusion a little sooner than this has given me. I've put this one away for a while, even though I'm almost finished, maybe a third left. Hopefully, I'll appreciate it more at a later point.
Summer reading 2009.
The Four Corners of the Sky. Michael Malone. 2009. I loved this book! It is great fun! Another romp with Malone is always a joy. I may go back and re-read Handling Sin! Annie's father, a charming scoundrel, left her with her aunt when she was seven. Annie is a successful navy test pilot when her father calls her, tells her he's dying and promises to tell her mother's name if she will help him. Annie reluctantly agrees and so begins a typical, funny, Malone adventures filled with delightful characters and funny-sad moments. It is a treat to read! The characters are wonderfully drawn and delightful!
A sort of Chick-Lit version of "Handling Sin," this was an enjoyable, light read. Malone is such a good writer that you almost don't mind when he spends way too many pages setting up the story. I counted, and one scene spanned 60 pages and several chapters. Get on the plane already. The humor mostly fell flat, and the characters were pretty one-dimensional types borrowed from his other books.
This is a big book. The sort that I shy away from unless I have unlimited amunts of time at my disposal, which of course, being the mother of three very active children, never occurs anymore. But this book sounded good. And it was something I had made a commitment to read. And do you know what? I read it as quickly as I've read many a much shorter book. That is to say, Malone can put together a story that gallops along and certainly keeps a reader turning pages fast and furiously as I did with this one.
Annie Peregrine Goode is 26. She's in the middle of divorcing her cheating ex-husband. And she's going home to see the aunt and aunt's best friend who raised her after her con-man father dumped her at the family home and ran when she was seven. Told by dizzying jumps forward and backwards in time, the mystery of Annie's mother, why her dying father needs her help now after all these years, and the story of a possibly real but possibly apocryphal Cuban treasure cram the book's pages thoroughly. As the reader stumbles along with Annie, trying to figure out the important things she needs to know and what she can just let go, Malone manages to weave a rollicking, fun story. His characters are quirky and off-beat. Perhaps a few of the plot lines are ultimately given short shrift but the plethora of characters helps to illuminate the themes of unconventionality, familial love, drive, and learning to fly on your own (the literal standing in for the figurative here given Annie's status as a top-notch Naval pilot).
As this is an overly long book, it could probably have done with some cutting and it does get repetitive in places, especially for the reader who doesn't put it down often. Sometimes the repetitiveness makes it all too obvious where the plot is going and which bits are most important to remember but if you can ignore the occasional heavy-handedness and the unbelievable character coincidences that make it terrifically obvious Malone wrote for a soap opera, you can still have an entertaining and adrenaline-laden read. I did notice this stuff, and yet, overall, it was still a light and fun read for me. So don't let the length scare you off but be willing to suspend disbelief and enjoy a dip into a Southern style soap opera.
This book was way too long for its plot. The author was repetitive. Ok, I get that the main character was very driven. Ok, I get it that her father was a con artist. Hundreds of pages later, the author is still telling the reader what to think. Not a surprising outcome, either. Too bad, I wished that it was otherwise.
wonderful book, full lusious and a great book for the book group to read next year. Annie, the Navy pilot, seraching for her father, Jack and raised by her gay Aunt Sam and her friend Clark. Wonderful story of love, redemption, longing and finding answers to life's tough questions of betrayal and desertion.
I adored this book, which has the usual Malone mixture of fantastic situations, plot-driven narrative, and - at least this time - enough interesting and sympathetic characters to hold my interest. I've read at least six books by Malone, and find them highly variable. Perhaps the best is Handling Sin, while others like Times Witness (and Dingley Falls) wasted far too many pages in rants on social issues like capital punishment, while forgetting about character development and tieing up all the loose ends by the time the novel ends (a major Malone weakness).
Four Corners suffers from none of these faults.The major female characters are fascinating (The women in Malone's work generally tend to be the most interesting), the plot, although it wanders all over the place, returns to the major focus and resolves all at the end. This also features a rapidly-vanishing virtue in modern litererature, the (mostly) happy ending.
Strongly recommended.
"It was Dan who put the last pieces into the center of the puzzle, so that the sky was one huge blue square. Clark, Sam, and Annie stared at it, a little disappointed. Somehow, all those years, finding the right shapes, fitting them together, they had imagined that this square would be more than it turned out to be. Bluer? Bigger? Filled with meaningful symbols? Somehow more?" (Page 528 of the ARC)
Michael Malone's The Four Corners of the Sky is a story of the Peregrine family and particularly Annie Goode, con artist Jack Peregrine's daughter. From its Wizard of Oz feel to its convoluted mystery, Michael Malone shifts from past to present and person to person, but it is far from confusing and a highly enjoyable ride.
"After the muddy hues of Emerald, North Carolina, Miami had almost blinded her. Miami was in Technicolor. Annie felt as if she'd awakened in a tropical cartoon of hot pink birds and purple flowers, set to salsa music. What's more, she felt rested, although the rest had been imposed on her." (Page 241 of the ARC)
Lt. Annie Peregrine Goode is a fighter pilot in the Navy who is dropped off by her father, Jack, in Emerald, N.C., at her aunt Sam's house when she is only 7 years old. Sam, Jack's sister, is a lesbian eager to play matchmaker who lives with her childhood friend Clark Goode, who has given up on love after several marriages. Annie is divorcing her husband and fellow Navy pilot Brad Hopper and heading back to Emerald for her 26th birthday party with family and friends, including Georgette. Hoping that her trip back home will help clear her head and get her life back on track, Annie is completely unaware of the mystery she has to unravel concerning her father, a mother she has never known, and La Reina Coronada del Mar (Queen of the Sea).
Malone's training as a soap opera writer is apparent in this novel with its over-the-top characters--Raffy Rook, Jack Peregrine, Vietnam Vet D.K. Destin, Helen Clark aka Ruthie Nickerson, Dan Hart, Sam Peregrine, and Georgette Nickerson--but his writing style is vivid and compelling as each of these characters' lives peels back slowly revealing the deep love and connection they all share.
"'Sometimes these ladies I [Raffy] flop on? These ladies and myself, at Golden Days, we got to be friends. We go to the salad bars, botanical gardens, zoo, IMAX. They get a senior's discount, I play them a song on my guitar. It's a connection. And in this sad fast life, how many do we make time for?' He spoke wistfully into the water bottle, as if he were depositing his confession inside and then quickly screwing the cap back on to keep it there." (Page 340 of the ARC)
Readers will enjoy the plot twists and revelations in The Four Corners of the Sky as Annie heals old wounds left by her father when he abandoned her and refused to reveal her mother's identity. She finds strength in adversity and strives under pressure. The subordinate characters--Raffy, Sam, Clark, and Georgette--add comedy to the plot. While some portions of this novel are a bit too long and veer off randomly into the past, these tangents are vivid and entertaining. Some readers may be put off by the continuous movie references made by Sam, Clark, and other characters or the constant puns, but these character flaws set these characters apart, providing them greater depth. Overall, Malone creates an intricate family web that readers must unravel to understand the depth to which a daughter can love her father in spite of his faults, learn to forgive those faults, and dig deep within herself to emerge a stronger woman whose foundation she couldn't initially see.
This book was just O.K. for me. Not bad, but nothing to drop everything for. This is a long book and it took more than the usual 100 pages to get me interested in it. In fact, I not sure that I was totally interested until the very end.
The book is totally wrapped around Annie. She desperately wants to know who her mother is, but in order to find out, she has to chase her con-man of a father all over the country. Annie finds herself caught up in a scheme in which her father is trying to secure one million dollars to give to Annie. Annie's character is well developed, but I'm not sure that any woman, especially with the intelligence that Annie has, would chase the man that abandoned her as a child. I don't think that I would! I really liked Annie and wanted things to work out for her, so I was glad that she finally found love.
The big con that Annie's father was wrapped up in seemed really far fetched. I know that this is a fiction book, but do cons like this really exist? I just couldn't believe some of the things that went on with him. Maybe it's just that I'm totally naive to that sort of thing, but I couldn't picture this stuff actually happening. I would also have like to see a little more suspense. I never felt the urge to jump ahead in this book because there wasn't anything teasing me to do so.
This book was drawn out and went on and on, but the ending was really good and totally fitting to the rest of the story. There were so many underlying messages about family and love, and many of them came out in the end. Sam and Clark had the most incredible relationship and were such great 'parents' to Annie. I found myself wanting to give up on this book, but I'm glad that I didn't.
A young woman, abandoned by her father at age 7, grows up under the care of an aunt and her friend. She learns to fly and joins the US Navy as a pilot. Suddenly, on her 26th birthday, she gets a message from her father asking for her help in retriving an item from Cuba. She gets involved with her father's schemes and starts a fascinating journey to help him and to possibly find out who her mother was.
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HONOLULU -- Tripler Army Medical Center's Interservice Physician Assistant Program Class 10-3 graduated in the chapel, Sept. 7, here.
First Lts. John Ernst, Travis Kaufman, and Felipe Salazar each received a Masters of Physician Assistant Studies degree from the University of Nebraska Medical Center, the affiliated academic institution for Tripler's IPAP.
The PA profession has a long history. During the Civil War, the Union Army created a Surgeon Assistant Corps to assist physicians on and off the battle field. The modern PA profession officially began October 6, 1967 when the first PA class of four students graduated from Duke University in Durham, N.C.
The graduates, who were promoted from officer candidates to first lieutenants during the ceremony, will all be relocating from Tripler to practice at U.S. Army Health Clinic-Schofield Barracks.
Maj. Jude Abadie, chief, Core Laboratory, TAMC, was invited to be the keynote speaker for the ceremony. From 2009-2011, Abadie served as the U.S. Army Medical Department Center and School branch chief of Chemistry and course instructor for the IPAP Biochemistry and Clinical Laboratory Medicine course.
"I am especially honored that I was invited to be the guest speaker by John, Travis and Felipe because they had to listen to me pontificate ad nauseam for an entire trimester at the AMEDD Center and School (in IPAP Phase I)," Abadie said jokingly. "My parting wish for you is that you continue to develop your own professional and personal stories on passion, perspective and leadership, so that you gain confidence to guide your successes not only through your professional career but through your personal lives as well."
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Type de cuisine : Traditional cuisine
Le Balbec
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Type de cuisine : Traditional cuisine
Les Bains de Cabourg
Cotation :
Type de cuisine : Classic cuisine
Le Rally
Le Rally
Address : 5 Avenue du Général Leclerc F - 14390 Cabourg
from : 52 EURBook
Set in the centre of Cabourg, this hotel is just a 10-minute walk from the beach. You can use the property's free Wi-Fi or ask about the surrounding area at the tourist office, just 250 metres away. The rooms at Le Rally are decorated in a simple style and include a TV. An en suite bathroom is also provided in each one, which is complete with a shower. A continental breakfast is served every morning in the hotel's breakfast room. Additional on-site facilities include a bar, where you can relax with an aperitif before dining in the surrounding restaurants. Free private parking is available on site and the A13 motorway is 9 km away. Other local towns include Deauville, just 18 km from the property.
Useful Information
- Address : 5 Avenue du Général Leclerc F - 14390 Cabourg14390Cabourg
Main services
- Non-smoking rooms
- Animals allowed


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Sapphire HD 5770 and 5750 Review
Reviewed by: ccokeman
Reviewed on: October 13, 2009
Price: Hd 5770 $159.99, HD 5750 $129.99
ATI had just dropped a bomb on the boys in green with the release of the HD 5870 that usurped the single GPU performance crown that nVidia has had a stranglehold on for the last few years and the company has now quickly followed up with the Juniper based HD 5770 and HD 5750 to fill a gap in the price/performance wars. The latest cards form Sapphire are DirectX 11 ready, support Windows 7 and are built on a 40nm fabrication process to both reduce costs and provide lower energy consumption. The HD 5770 features exactly half the stream processors (800), texture units (40) and ROPs(16) that its big brother, the HD 5870, carries into battle. The HD 5750 is built much the same way but the card itself has half the parts of the HD 5850. So just where will these cards fall when it comes time to start fraggin zombies or beginning the move to using your GPU as a computing tool? Based on the specifications, the HD 5770 and HD 5750 should offer up either half the performance of the HD 5870 and HD 5850, respectively. Let's hop to it and find out!
Closer Look:
Both the Sapphire HD 5770 and 5750 continue the packaging theme that we first saw with the HD 5870 just a few short weeks ago. Both feature a different rendition of "Ruby," each with a slightly different look. The same goes for the background but much is similar in the features advertised on the front panel. The 5700 series from Sapphire feature Eyefinity support, onboard HDMI and DisplyPort connectivity, are DX 11 ready, ATI stream Technology to harness the power of the GPU in parallel computing tasks, and of course the cards are both CrossfireX capable. Each card comes with 1GB of GDDR5 memory. Both the 5770 and 5750 come with a digital download key for the game Dirt 2, a DirectX 11 title. The rear panel goes into detail on the attributes of the features listed on the front panel. At the bottom of each box is a bit of information that shows that Sapphire is doing its part to reduce its carbon footprint using recyclable materials for the packaging.
Both the 5770 and 5750 come packaged identically, Each box carries a small recyclable icon on the bottom left to promote that fact. Popping the boxes open you have the cards stored in a formed cardboard tray with the accessories in a separate compartment, with the documentation and driver disc on top of the bubble wrapped cards. For reference, the HD 5770 is on the left with the 5750 on the right.
The bundle of accessories allows you to get the most out of the Sapphire HD 5770 and 5750. Both cards come with a manual, driver disc, digital download key for Dirt 2, a CrossfireX bridge connetor, DVI to D-sub adapter and a 4-pin Molex to 6-pin PCI-E power adapter. Where the bundle differs is the inclusion of the ArcSoft SimHD software to make use of the Stream computing capability of the ATI GPU.
Time to pull the cards from their wrappers to see what Sapphire has in store for the public with the HD 5770 and 5750!
Closer Look:
The Sapphire HD 5770 and 5750 are based upon the "Juniper" series GPU from ATI built upon a 40nm fabrication process. While the big dogs of the 5800 series carry a transistor count of 2.15 billion, the 5700 series carries just shy of half that number at 1.04 billion, about 5 to 6% more than the last generation top card from ATI, the HD 4890. The Sapphire HD 5770 is delivered with a core clock speed of 850MHz on its 800 streaming processors, while the HD 5750 comes in at 700MHz on its 720 stream processors, giving the cards 1.36 and 1.08 TFlops of computing power, respectively. The 5770 is equipped with 40 texture units, four more than the 5750 at 36, while both cards have 16 ROPs. Each card is equipped with 1GB of GDDR5 memory at clock speeds of 1200MHz (5770) and 1150MHz (5750) running on a 128-bit bus. Power consumption has been minimized so these cards only pull 18 and 16 watts respectively at idle. Just looking at the cards you can see that the cooling solutions are vastly different from one another. The HD 5770 has the sleek look achieved with the full cover shroud while the HD 5750 uses a circular cover for the heatsink much like the Vapor X models. The 5770 is noticeably larger when you put the two cards side by side. The back side carries four of the eight memory modules on each card and are not covered with any heatsinks.
The front end of both the HD 5750 and 5770 are equipped with the same connectivity, two Dual Link DVI ports, a single DisplayPort connection and a single HDMI port that supports HDMI 1.3. The reason for the wealth of connections is to enable you to enjoy features such as Eyefinity, a multi monitor display configuration that can be run from a single card at a resolution of 3x2560x1600. The power connection resides on the back end of the card on both the 5770 and 5750. The connection looks hidden up in the air intake and looks to make removing the power connector a pain in the behind but in all actuality it was no more difficult than removing the connector from an open card.
Both of these cards are CrossfireX capable and have dual bridge connections to run three or more cards in this configuration with a supporting motherboard that has the right number of x16 PCI-E slots available.
It's always a shame to rip apart a perfectly good video card but here you go, both the Sapphire HD 5770 and HD 5750 in all their naked glory. The differences between the two are pretty obvious, with the 5770 being the larger card with a black PCB, while the 5750 looks, for all intents and purposes, like a card from the Vapor-X lineup although I can assure you it is not.
The heatsink assembly used on the HD 5750 looks like what comes standard on Intel's Core i5 750 processor with the copper slug inserted in the center of the radiating aluminum fins. There are four rubber legs to keep the heatsink from rucking on the GPU core. The heatsink on the 5770, on the other hand, does make use of Sapphire's patented Vapor X vapor plate technology to cool down the 800 shader cores.
The GPU cores each carry 1.04 billion transistors but where the two cards differ is in the number of shader cores, texture units and ROPs. The memory used on both the 5770 and 5750 is supplied by Hynix and is rated to run at 5Gbps. Each one of these cards was able to exceed 1300MHz+ on the memory clock speeds, or 5.6Gbps. The 5770 was able to jump 150MHz higher than 1300MHz with a climb to 1450MHz, the highest video card memory clock I have reached to date.
Let's see what the two latest creations from Sapphire and ATI have to offer in terms of performance.
Closer Look:
You know you just can't wait to get the Sapphire HD 5770 and 5750 installed in your rig to enjoy some righteous gaming. But first, you have to install the drivers so that you don't sit there utterly disappointed by the graphics performance of this shiny new card. Thankfully, Sapphire has included a disc to get you started although the manufacturer website is a great alternative. I will browse through the disc to see what is included.
After you insert the disc and allow the autorun to start the process you end up with the Sapphire GUI on the desktop. There are three options to choose from, ATI Easy install, Online Manual and Adobe Reader. Of course, the ATI Easy install is for installing the drivers and proprietary software to gain the most functionality from your new purchase. You have a choice of operating systems to choose from so just choose the appropriate OS and you get to start the ATI driver install wizard. The Online Manual is a link to download the manual while Adobe Reader links to Adobe's website to so you can download the latest version of Adobe Reader.
When you choose to install the drivers from the disc just move forward through the process and check the options best suited for your needs. You have two options, you can choose either the Express install that manages the whole process for you or the Custom Install that allows you to choose what software you will install from a list. Agree to the EULA and let the wizard finish and do the customary reboot to finish the installation.
Closer Look:
The ATI Catalyst Control Center got a new look with the introduction of the 9.7 drivers so it's about time to take an in-depth look at the options and the interface to see how well the GUI is set up and how easy it is to navigate through. Since the basic view is well, basic, I will look through the Advanced panel. The first page to open with ATI Catalyst Control Center is the Welcome page, which has quick hyperlinks to check for driver updates, get in contact with customer care, to give feedback, visit the AMD website, or to join the [email protected] cause. The next page is the Information Center, which is split into two tabs, one for Graphics Software information and the other for Graphics Hardware information. These two tabs can be very handy for troubleshooting any problems that crop up while using the Sapphire HD 5700 series video cards.
The Graphics Hardware tab of the Information Center contains information about the Sapphire HD 5770 and 5750, including BIOS version and date, chipset, memory, vendor code, and so on. Most people shouldn't need the Graphics Hardware and Software information, but it's definitely handy when a problem may occur. The next page is the Desktops & Displays page – this page is for the basic settings of the monitor(s) and desktop. Users can figure out which monitor is which and rotate the outputted image. Clicking the properties or moving along brings us to the Desktop Properties page.
The Desktop Properties page has much more control over the desktop with settings such as desktop area, color quality, refresh rate, and again, rotation. The next tab in the Desktop Properties page adjusts the color, contrast, brightness, and gamma output. This can be handy on monitors that need some help putting out the appropriate colors – back when I used a CRT a long time ago it helped keep the colors closer to true when the monitor would get aged and get a gray or yellowish tint.
The Display Options page is very short and is used just for one option – Display Detection Option. The options are automatic or manual detection of displays. The 3D page has several tabs that allow users the ability to define a custom scheme for their games. There are previews for the effects or users can power through all of the settings on the 'All' tab at the end.
The Avivo Video page has five tabs dedicated to performance and quality adjustments for video output. A preview is included of a woman with flowers and fruit. Again, just as with the 3D page, there is an 'All' tab that can adjust all of the settings for the Avivo Video at once.
The last page on the graphics menu is the ATI Overdrive. To use this feature users must first click the "lock" to unlock the program after then agreeing to some terms. The software is capable of automatically overclocking the video card through Auto-Tune, but I prefer using the manual settings. Users can test their settings using the Test Custom Clocks button. Fan speed control is relatively new to ATI Overdrive and allows users to define what speed the fan or blower runs at. Underneath and to the right of this are gauges and readouts of some of the more important data for this card – temperature, usage activity, fan speed, GPU clock speed, and memory clock speed. The test feature brings up a full screen image that is pretty basic – greenish reddish with an AMD logo in the bottom left.
The latest additional menu is the HydraVision menu. The first page is the HydraGrid page, which allows users to define a grid-like component to lock applications to a certain chunk of desktop real estate. Options such as showing the grids when moving a window and showing an icon in the tray are settable at the bottom while adjustingthe grid is near the top. The grid can be previewed as the default layout is seen with white bars representing the grids. Users can customize the grid layout to whatever they desire and the keyboard shortcuts are listed out in the image while the red bar means it is the selected grid component to be adjusted.
The next page is the Desktop Manager, which does exactly what the name implies – it manages the desktop. The desktop manager can keep track of application position and size, and allow spanning across multiple displays. The last page is the Multi Desktop. This name is also suggestive to its use – this program allows users to have multiple desktops ranging from two up to nine. Users can rotate between desktops with the scroll wheel, preserve display settings, and enable another tray icon. This can be useful for those who have a ton of desktop icons as a means to separate them out – one could for instance even make a desktop for each category of their own choosing even – gaming, work, school, and whatever else.
Now that the Catalyst Control Center has been configured we can get to some gaming or take a rest and let the Sapphire 5700 duo do some crunching for a cure!
1.04 Billion
1.04 Billion
Engine Clock
700 MHz
850 MHz
Stream Processors
Compute Performance
1.36 TFLOPs
Texture Units
Texture Fillrate
25.2 GTexels/s
34.0 GTexel/s
Pixel Fillrate
11.2 Gpixel/s
13.6 GPixel/s
44.8 GSamples/s
54.4 GSamples/s
Memory Type
Memory Clock
1150 MHz
1200 MHz
Memory Data Rate
4.6 Gbps
4.8 Gbps
Memory Bandwidth
73.6 GB/s
76.8 GB/s
Maximum Board Power
Idle Board Power
- Microsoft DirectX 11 Support
- ATI Eyefinity Technology, support up to 3 displays.
- ATI Stream technology**
- Microsoft Windows 7 Support
- 40nm Process Technology
- 2nd Generation TeraScale Engine
- PCI Express 2.0 x16 bus interface
- Advance 1GB/256-bit GDDR5 memory interface
- HDMI 1.3 support with Deep Color and 7.1 High Bitrate Audio
- On chip HDCP Support
- ATI CrossFireX™ multi-GPU support for highly scalable performance. (Use up to four discrete cards with an AMD 790FX based motherboard)
- ATI Avivo HD Support ATI Unified Video Decoder 2 (UVD) for Blu-ray™ and HD Video, Accelerated Video Transcoding (AVT), DVD Upscaling, Dynamic Contrast, Built-in HDMI with 7.1 surround sound support
- Dynamic power management with ATI PowerPlay™ technology including memory clocks
- Dolby® TrueHD and DTSHD Master Audio TM Support: Driver version 8.66 (Catalyst 9.10) or above is required to support ATI Eyfinity technology and to enable a third display you require one panel with a DisplayPort connector ,Requires application support for ATI Stream technology
- System Requirements: Sapphire HD 5770, PCI Express® based PC is required with one X16 lane graphics slot available on the motherboard, 450 Watt or greater power supply with two 75W 6-pin PCI Express® power connectors recommended (600 Watt and four 6-pin connectors for ATI CrossFireX™ technology in dual mode) Certified power supplies are recommended. Refer to http://ati.amd.com/certifiedPSU for a list of Certified products, Minimum 1GB of system memory, Installation software requires CD-ROM drive, DVD playback requires DVD drive , Blu-ray™ playback requires Blu-ray drive, For an ATI CrossFireX™ system, a second ATI Radeon™ HD 5770 graphics card, an ATI , CrossFireX Ready motherboard and one ATI CrossFireX Bridge Interconnect cable per graphics card (optional) are required, Operation System Support: Windows XP(32Bit/64Bit); Windows Vista(32Bit/64Bit); Windows Media Center Edition 2005, Windows 7
All information courtesy of Sappire technology @http://www.sapphiretech.com/presentation/?lid=1
Testing the Sapphire HD 5770/5750 will consist of running the card through the OverclockersClub.com suite of games and synthetic benchmarks to test the performance of the 5700 series cards against many popular competitors to gauge its performance. The games used are some of today's popular titles to give you an idea on how the cards perform relative to each other. The system specifications will remain the same throughout the testing. No adjustment will be made to the respective control panels during the testing with the exception of the 3DMark Vantage testing where PhysX will be disabled in the nVidia control panel. Clock speeds on each card are left at stock speeds. I will test both cards at stock speeds and then overclocked to see how much additional performance is available when you choose to overclock the card to see if it can run with or faster than the current fastest single GPU cards on the market. I have also changed up the benchmark suite to include some of the newest titles to market including Batman: Arkham Asylum, Resident Evil 5 and Darkest of Days. Of course, all settings are left at defaults in the control panels of each respective manufacturer except where noted. I will be using the latest drivers from each manufacturer at the time of this review. Catalyst 9.9 for all ATI cards save the 5800 and 5700 series, which require the 8.66 RC, and 191.07 for the nVidia cards
- Processor: Intel Core I7 920 150x20
- Motherboard: MSI X58 Eclipse SLI
- Memory: Mushkin HP3 12800 7-7-7-20
- Video Card(s):Sapphire HD 5770/5750
- Power Supply: Mushkin 800 watt Modular power supply
- Hard Drive: 1 x Seagate 1TB SATA
- Optical Drive: NEC DV5700
- OS: Windows Vista Ultimate Edition SP1 64-bit
- Case: Thermaltake Armor +
Comparison Video Cards:
- Sapphire HD 5850
- Sapphire HD 5870
- Nvidia GTX295
- Sapphire HD4870x2
- Asus GTX 260 Matrix
- Sapphire HD 4890 Vapor-X 1GB
Overclocked settings:
- Sapphire HD 5770 960/1450
- Sapphire HD 5750 840/1346
The first thing you want to do if you plan on trying for clock speeds in excess of the limits in the Catalyst control Center you should download AMD GPU Clock tool and MSI AfterBurner to make sure you get all the functionality you can. The reason for the two utility appraoch is that when you set the clock speeds in AMD GPU Clock Tool and apply the setting you default the fan speed to auto. If you go back into the CCC to change the fan speed you lose the clock speeds you set in the GPU Clock Tool. Goofy, but it's what happens. Enter MSI Afterburner - this application was written by the same person responsible for Riva Tuner over at Guru3d and is an easy to use interface that is already able to work with the latest cards from ATI and their partners like Sapphire. Once you have the applications installed it was a simple matter to overclock both of these cards. Both cards hit clock speeds in excess of their stock settings with the 5750 reaching 840MHz on the core and 1345MHz on the GDDR5 memory with the 5770 going even higher at 964MHz on the core and 1450MHz on the GDDR5 memory. Each of these cards were incredibly simple to clock once you got used to navigating between two programs. Just punch up the clock speeds, test, and repeat!
- Video:
- Far Cry 2
- Crysis Warhead
- Darkest of Days
- Call of Duty World at War
- Warhammer 40,000 DOW II
- Batman: Arkham Asylum
- Resident Evil 5
- Left 4 Dead
- 3DMark 06 Professional
- 3DMark Vantage
Far Cry 2:
Featuring a new game engine named Dunia, this game looks to be another one to stress your video card. Built especially for Far Cry 2, this engine allows for real time effects and damage. This next generation First Person Shooter comes to us from Ubisoft surprisingly - not from Crytek. The game is set in a war-torn region of Africa where there is a non-existent central government and the chaos that surrounds this type of social environment. If you have seen the movie Blood Diamond, you know the setting. Ubisoft puts the main storyline of the game into focus with these statements: "Caught between two rival factions in war-torn Africa, you are sent to take out "The Jackal," a mysterious character who has rekindled the conflict between the warlords, jeopardizing thousands of lives. In order to fulfill your mission you will have to play the factions against each other, identify and exploit their weaknesses, and neutralize their superior numbers and firepower with surprise, subversion, cunning and, of course, brute force." In this version of the game, you don't have the beautiful water, but instead the beauty and harshness of the African continent to contend with. Most games give you a set area that can be played through, while Ubisoft has given the gamer the equivalent of 50km2 of the vast African continent to explore while in pursuit of your goals. The settings used are just a few steps below the maximum in-game settings and offer a good blend of performance vs. visual quality.
- Anti-Aliasing: x2
- Game Settings: Very High
- VSync: Off
The 5700 series cards from Sapphire deliver scores that fit the architecture. Having half the processing cores or less, not to mention the texture unit differences, the cards perform almost at half the speed of the behemoth 5870.
Crysis Warhead is a standalone expansion pack situated in time with the story line of the original Crysis. As Sergeant "Psycho" Sykes, you have a secret mission to accomplish on the far side of the island. Along the way there are EMP blasts and aliens to contend with, as you hunt down the KPA chief. This game uses an enhanced version of the CryEngine 2.
- Anti-Aliasing: x2
- Game Settings: Enthusiast
- Ambush
Comparing favorably with the GTX 260, the 5770 shows that it has some promise. The HD 5750 comes in right behind it in much of the testing, being at most 3 FPS off the pace set by the 5770!
What would testing be if you did not show both sides of the fence? In this test, PhysX was set to low, while leaving the remaining settings intact. You have seen time and again where the ATI cards suffer when PhysX is enabled. Mirror's Edge and Cryostasis are two prime examples. Darkest of Days is no different. What happens in this test shows that, although the game can be played by cards from the red team, the video effects and quality are diminished.
Game Settings:
- 4x Anti-Aliasing
- 16x Anisotrophic Filtering
- PhysX: Low
- Ambient Occlusion: On
- Quality: High
- Resolution: 1280x1024 - 2560x1600
Higher is Better
At the semi aggressive settings used the 5770 and 5750 from Sapphire deliver decent performance. The GTX 260 outperforms the Duo in this test at the higher resolutions.
Activision's Call of Duty: World at War goes right back to the bread and butter of the franchise - WWII FPS action. In this rendition, you start off in the South Pacific and move through a series of missions that flip back and forth between the Russian front and the island hopping advance toward the Imperial Japanese homeland. Included is a mission on Peliliu Island, arguably one of the more difficult and costly battles in the Pacific theater. The gameplay in the single player mode is rather short, but the game makes up for this shortcoming in online gameplay. If you thought CoD4 looked nice, this game is amazing with the graphics maxed out playing at a high resolution. I will use Fraps to measure a section of gameplay in the Semper Fi map on Makin Island to compare the performance of these video cards.
- Game Settings: Maximum
- FPS measured via Fraps
There is not a single resolution where the 5700 series is not playable in Call of Duty World at War. Again, the comparison card for the 5770 is the GTX 260. At the top resolution the cards performed at 43 FPS each.
Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II is a Real Time Strategy game that is significantly different than its predecessor, with improved AI and an improved physics engine. You can play either as a single player in campaign mode, or in a multiplayer game where Microsoft's Live ranking system can be used.
- Vsync: Off
- Ultra Preset
- Game Settings: Maximum
At 2560x1600 the HD 5770 takes out the GTX 260 and HD 4890, not by an amount that would be noticeable though, but to think a $150 card performs to this level is exciting.
Batman: Arkham Asylum is a new game that brings together two bitter foes, the Joker and Batman. The Joker has taken over Arkham Asylum, Gotham's home for the criminally insane. Your task is to reign the Joker back in and restore order. This game makes use of Physx technology to create a rich environment for you to play your trade.
Game Settings:
- 4x Anti-Aliasing
- PhysX: Off
- Ambient Occlusion: Off
- Quality: High
- Resolution: 1280x1024 - 2560x1600
At 2560 x1600 the 5770 comes close to the performance of the HD 4890 but falls well behind the GTX 260.
Resident Evil 5 is the sequel to one of the best selling video games of all time. You play the game as Chris Redfield, a survivor of the events at Raccoon City who now works for the BSAA. Sent to Africa to find the genesis of the latest Bio Organic agents, you meet up with another BSAA operative and work together to solve the problem. The game offers incredible 3D effects and a Co-Op gaming style.
Game Settings:
- 4x Anti-Aliasing
- PhysX: Off
- Ambient Occlusion: Off
- Quality: High
- Resolution: 1280x1024 - 2560x1600
The Sapphire HD 5770 delivers performance equivalent to the GTX 260 and HD 4890 at the higher resolutions but still falls short at the lower resolutions.
Left 4 Dead is a new release from Valve that leaves you as part of a group of survivors in a world where an infection has rapidly turned the populace into a zombie horde. You goal is to make it to a rescue point, all the while fighting what seems like overwhelming odds. Along the way there are safe houses where you can replenish your weapons and health. The movie 'I Am Legend' comes to mind to set the stage for this game. But unlike the movie, there are four characters and not just a lone gun and his faithful companion. The horde is not at all like the typical slow walking, foot shuffling zombie. These zombies are quick and work with the pack mentality. Your job: survival!
- Anti-Aliasing: x4
- Anisotropic Filtering: x16
- Game Settings: Maximum
The Sapphire HD5770 and 5750 deliver performance below that of the other comparison cards. I was expecting the 5770 at least to keep pace with the GTX 260 but it fell short in each resolution.
3DMark06 is one of the benchmarks that always comes up when a bragging contest has begun. 3DMark06 presents a severe test for many of today's hardware components. Let's see how this setup fares. The settings we will use are listed below.
- SM2.0 Graphics Tests: GT1- Return to Proxycon, GT2- Firefly Forest
- CPU Tests: Cpu1- Red Valley, CPU2- Red Valley
- HDR/SM3.0 Graphics Tests: HDR1- Canyon Flight, HDR2- Deep Freeze
The HD 5770 from Sapphire puts up a respectable showing coming close to the GTX 260 at 2560x1600. The HD 5750 is not as capable but still delivers scores that outpace previous generations.
Featuring all-new game tests, this benchmark is for use with Vista based systems. "There are two all-new CPU tests that have been designed around a new 'Physics and Artificial Intelligence-related computation.' CPU test two offers support for physics related hardware." There are four preset levels that correspond to specific resolutions. 'Entry' is 1024x768 progressing to 'Extreme' at 1920x1200. Of course, each preset can be modified to arrange any number of user designed testing. For our testing, I will use the four presets at all default settings.
- Settings (each preset): Default
- Entry: 1024x768
- Performance: 1280x1024
- High: 1680x1050
- Extreme: 1920x1200
The Sapphire HD 5770 makes a run at the cards close to its class but is handily beaten. When overclocked, the cards show great promise and compare more favorably to the GTX 260 and HD 4890.
Sapphire and ATI have brought out a series of video cards that offer great performance for the right price point. Coming in at $159 for the HD 5770 and $129 for the HD 5750, you have a set of cards that compare well performance wise to the GTX 260 and at times the HD 4890. I was quite surprised with the oveclocking abilities of both of these cards. Both the 5750 and 5770 gave up over 100MHz of headroom on the GPU core and gave up phenomenal gains on the memory clocks to the tune of over 1400MHz on the HD 5770 and well over 1300MHz on the HD 5750. Bargain overclocking that really gave up serious gains in performance for the effort. It took two separate applications to get clock speeds above what was available in the Catalyst Control Center. At least with this series ATI has given you the room to play since they did not give this option on the 5800 series. Even when I pushed the clock speeds the cards remained cool under fire, maxing out in the mid 60s Celsius, either with the driver controlling the fan or manually setting it. Before ripping apart the HD 5770, I did not know the reason it kept cool but found out as soon as I pulled the shroud off of the HD 5770 and found that it uses Vapor Plate technology to help manage the heat load. The other thing that contributes to the lower temperatures is the power consumption, which ATI says is 108 watts for the 5770 and 86 watts on the 5750 under load while dropping to an unreal 16 and 18 watts at idle, respectively. Eyefinity is a great idea if you can get past the trim surrounding the panel. Slapping three 24 to 30 inch monitors together in a surround setup could make for a great gaming experience, I see flight sims and driving games as the real benefactors since they already have pillars in if you play the cockpit views. Since nVidia is going full force with GPU computing, ATI is now getting into the act full force on this series of GPUs with ATI Stream technology. DirectX 11 looks to offer a next step in the visual quality of the games we like to play but at this point there is only one title supporting it but there are more in the works, 20+ going by ATI's documentation. Dirt 2 is coming out but until then it's slim pickings. If you dont have the cubic dollars it takes to play at the deep end of the pool, the Sapphire HD 5700 series of video cards will give you great gaming up to 1920x1200 at stock clock speeds and you can get additional performance with a little work. Overclocked performance at cool temperatures for a price that is sure to drop equals a deal that is hard to pass up. Both the Sapphire HD 5770 and HD 5750 fit this bill. As Bob Barker would say, "The Price is Right!"
- Cool running
- Massive overclocking
- Price
- Eyfinity ready
- Windows 7 ready
- DirectX 11
- 40nm
- Low power performance
- No DX11 titles yet


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I've written a total of thirty eight (38) books now, ranging from love stories (Meet Me in Memphis Looking For Catarina) to the creation of man (Celestial Games), from historical fiction (Boudicca)to the mythological (Storytellers: In Pursuit of Happiness).
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We are in the meat of earnings season for retailers, and there are very clear winners and losers emerging. » Read More
As of 9:15 this morning, 100% of retailers tracked by Thomson Reuters have reported same store sales. Here is a breakdown of where things stand.
The hope is that we will see some back to school lift, but Labor Day is the latest possible date this year. There are a lot of tax-free holidays in August, particularly in the South, that may help.
CIT, the finance company struggling to avoid a Chapter 11 filing as soon as tomorrow, is seeking to line up between $2 to $3 billion in secured financing from private investors, CNBC has learned.
CIT Group's inability to get emergency government funding raises expectations that the commercial lender will file for bankruptcy.
Monthly chain store sales came out this morning. See which companies did well and which did not...
Stock futures are up modestly on better-than-expected jobless claims data and Alcoa's smaller-than-expected loss.
Following are the day's biggest winners and losers. Find out why shares of Macy's and Citigroup popped while Allegheny Energy and Lorillard dropped.
Many traders went to bed last night with futures drifting lower and woke up broadsided by a surprising election in India that has pushed up emerging markets.
Indian stocks that trade in the U.S. are up double digits as stock trading in India was halted for the first time because of a surge in stock prices on the big election victory for Prime Minister Singh's Congress Party.
Last week, analysts finally woke up and began aggressively cutting same store sales. As always, they have been late and the stock market has moved ahead of them.
Cramer makes the call on viewers' favorite stocks.
Coming off the worst week ever where volatility continues to rule, enhanced by options expiration Friday, the major indexes are all up about 4% or greater for the week.
As of about midday on Tuesday, the markets have swung between being positive, negative and flat for the day. Which companies are withstanding the volatility and sustaining their gains since Friday's close?
The credit freeze, which is shifting into overdrive heading into the holiday season, is expected to hit consumers harder than corporate America.
For many of the nation's retailers, this is shaping up to be the most critical holiday season since the recession of the early 1980s. Chains that fare poorly could end up as ghosts of Christmases past, says the New York Times.
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Early July sales results from retailers have been disappointing, with many falling short of analyst estimates. It also appears that the benefit from tax rebate checks is beginning to wane.
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The major concern here is for existing cloud providers such as Dropbox, and of course Google Drive will also be in direct opposition of Apple's iCloud. Google are offering 5Gb free to everyone, and buying additional storage is cheap as chips since after all Google have more storage and cloud capacity than anyone else. What will be interesting to see is if Google make a direct attack on iCloud, offering synchronization between mobile, web and desktop for apps, music and photos. No doubt, if Google don't directly offer this service there will be a plethora of developers happy to open up this area of features as Google Drive has API access for developers to take advantage of. For now, the Google Docs integration is nice.
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Administrators say the dollars will allow their researchers to forge ahead in areas such as cancer, AIDS and Parkinson's disease. FAMU's College of Pharmacy is well known throughout the nation. The fourth largest in the country, the school ranks 6th in research funding. Today, $15 million can be added to the books.
Tuesday, Claude Allen, deputy secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, awarded FAMU with a record grant of more than $15 million. Health officials say minorities are often two to three times more likely to develop certain diseases. As a historically black university, FAMU pharmacy heads take their role seriously.
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10 - 24, 2005
Palmiero Charged for War Crimes
Matt Taibbi
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Upstate Sucks; No One Cares
Shawn Ewald
An Interview with Rep. Sherrod Brown
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for most of my adult life, what has happened to upstate New
York and my hometown of Syracuse has inspired the kind of
sadness, helplessness, anger, and disgust that one might feel
for a beloved relative who is actively drinking themselves
to death, or doing some other stupid and willfully self-destructive
thing to speed themselves to the grave. For me, upstate New
York is that lovable loser that makes you hate yourself for
caring about him. You want to believe that things will work
out for him in the end, that he'll finally get on the
wagon and turn himself around, but every time you check up
on him he's passed out, face down on the floor as always.
be thirty-six this year, and for about twenty-five of those
years I have watched Syracuse and its entire surrounding region
go through a long, steady and agonizing decline. My generation
grew up enjoying the last dregs of prosperity the region has
experienced: my father had a good paying union job at the
massive General Electric plants in the suburb of Liverpool,
which used to employ approximately 18,000 central New Yorkers.
Most of my friends' parents had good jobs, typically
union jobs, with one of the many big employers here: GE, GM,
Carrier, Bristol Labs, Anheuser-Busch, Miller Brewing Co.,
Nestle, Crucible Steel, or with one of the many small manufacturers
whose existence depended on the bigger ones.
was good then. My mother could stay home and take care of
my brother and I, and my dad had no problem keeping us kids
supplied with Atari Game Consoles, BB Guns, Green Machines,
and Star Wars action figures. However, these good times were
hard won.
of the most bitter labor battles to keep jobs in the area
occurred in the mid- to late-seventies and early eighties.
Syracuse was a union town then and my dad and other union
members fought fiercely to keep their standard of living intact.
Back then, it was considered "tough times" when
my mother had to work to make ends meet, which she did when
my dad went on a long-term strike or when he was temporarily
laid off. It may seem strange to talk about both parents working
as if this were an unusual thing, but it was still possible
then for a working-class mom to stay at home without bankrupting
the family, and many of them did. Labor still knew how to
win then and, make no mistake, it was those labor victories
that kept the real hard times at bay until I reached my teens.
factor that ameliorated the economic climate in Syracuse during
that time was a man named Lee Alexander, probably the most
popular mayor that Syracuse has ever had. Alexander, who was
mayor of Syracuse from 1970 to 1985, was an old school Democrat
politician. He was the kind of guy who consistently brought
home the bacon for his constituents, while skimming a little
off the top for himself. He was a charismatic Greek in a town
dominated by Irish, Italians, Germans, and Poles, and he had
a level of class and sophistication that made him seem out
of place in our provincial little burg. He lived well, he
dressed well, and his mistresses were an open secret, but
he also showed up to neighborhood meetings, kept the city
solvent, got things done, and generally did more good for
the city than any mayor since. He was elected president of
the US Conference of Mayors in 1977, and remained an influential
member of that organization, because Syracuse was one of the
few cities during the recessions of the late seventies and
early eighties to remain in the black and keep unemployment
below the national and state averages. Even when he was finally
indicted on bribery charges—which eventually got him
sent to a white-collar prison—he left the city with
an AA credit rating and a budget surplus.
don't mean to imply that Lee Alexander was a great man,
he was a corrupt politician who also happened to do the job
he was elected to do, and maybe he gave a damn about his constituents.
However, in comparison to his successors, he looms above them
like a titan. What makes him great is not his inherent greatness,
but simply the glaring contrast one discovers when he is compared
to the mediocrities that took his place, and the low expectations
the electorate has had since.
the bad times truly began.
with Lee Alexander's downfall came the rise of Jack
Welch, who had been appointed CEO of General Electric in 1981.
If there is one man and one company that could take a large
share of the blame for what has become of upstate New York,
it would be Jack Welch and General Electric. GE had facilities
all over the state, employing tens of thousands of people.
Under Welch's leadership, GE continued its efforts to
systematically devastate upstate New York economically through
layoffs, plant closings, and the sale of its many businesses.
Previously, the actions of management were justified as cold-blooded
business decisions, but with Welch the ruthlessness of GE's
management culture was ramped up. He turned throwing thousands
of people out of work and evading culpability for the company's
incalculable environmental crimes into a personal ideological
the relationship between labor and management within GE was
never friendly, Welch brought labor/management acrimony to
unheard of levels, becoming a target of murderous hatred for
his union employees. Welch was quite conscious of this hatred—when
he visited the Syracuse plants, for example, he took great
pains to avoid any contact with union employees without an
entourage of security personnel. He even refused limousine
service, opting instead to take a helicopter to the plant
from the airport.
the poor saps on GE's factory floors dutifully followed
labor's doomed "Buy American" strategy (my
father's co-workers would refuse to even jump-start
another co-worker's car if it was foreign made), Jack
Welch was telling the business press that GE was not an American
company, but an international company. GE's employees
put up a great fight, but in the end Welch was able to do
what he wanted with near impunity, leaving thousands unemployed
and numerous Superfund sites in his wake. Once Welch showed
the corporate world, with Satanic efficiency, how his "lean
and mean" philosophy could work, it didn't take
long for other companies in the area to follow suit initiating
the free fall that upstate New York continues to this day.
people from central New York joined the rust-belt diaspora,
selling their homes while they could still get a good price
and moving to the south and the west in search of work. Those
who stayed seemed to have just sat back and watched the region
slip deeper into decline. These were the same people who would
spray-paint "SCAB" on the side of a scab's
house in the middle of the night and mix it up with cops on
the picket line—I can only assume that, once their jobs
were gone for good, they had nothing left to fight for.
are the same basically decent, friendly, and helpful people
that I knew as a kid. They have let the world steamroll them,
and every time I come back to the area to visit my family
it both breaks my heart and makes me angry. What makes me
angry is not that they seem to take having their lives and
livelihoods screwed over as if it were a spell of bad weather,
but that they consistently elect petty criminals who help
make things worse by orders of magnitude.
hyenas ganging around a carcass, a succession of unremarkable,
Babbittesque businessman's flunkies have occupied the
mayor's office and other key elected offices in the
city and county, ever at the ready to throw public money at
any greedy developer to fund the most preposterous boondoggles
in the name of "creating jobs." From the monstrous
eyesore known as Carousel Mall, to a moribund convention center,
to a four-stop commuter train that boast an average of 60
passengers a day (not coincidentally, its last stop is Carousel
Mall), it seems as if no project is too ridiculous to fund
partly or in whole with taxpayer money. The latest and most
insane example of this central New York tradition is the forever
delayed and ironically named Destiny, USA, which is a plan
to build a gargantuan mall/eco-friendly theme park/alternative
energy research facility, which has enlisted the county government's
eminent domain powers to muscle out existing businesses and
homeowners to make way for this fiasco. Meanwhile, as these
scams on the public have repeatedly accomplished little more
than filling the pockets of politicians and their businessman
cronies, more public money is spent throwing as many people
in jail as possible.
I must admit, the good natured complacency of central New
Yorkers regarding their lot in life gets to me too. Even in
decline, people here go about things with a Swiss-like tidiness:
you can find ten storey buildings in downtown Syracuse, completely
abandoned, surrounded by clean, unused sidewalks sprouting
grass and wildflowers from the cracks, with not a single initial
of graffiti or a single broken or boarded window. Even some
of our ghettos look neatly kept, like well-groomed corpses.
Elsewhere in the world, even elsewhere in America, one can
find the occasional outburst of rage and discontent when a
community has reached this level of decay—a riot here,
a shooting spree there—but not in central New York.
It is harrowing to watch every kick to the teeth the region
takes, yet that friendly grin, to my horror, still remains.
I visit Syracuse, I often roam around downtown. With the almost
complete absence of industry, the air is fresh and clean even
in the heart of the city; the loss of industrial jobs has
certainly been an incredible boon to the environment. Onondaga
lake is a short bike ride from the center of town; it was
once one of the most polluted lakes in the world, but now
it no longer has that familiar chemical stink that I knew
in my youth, as it continues the long process of cleaning
itself. Downtown used to be a busy and vibrant place; people
used to complain about the parking here, but now it is nearly
don't claim to know what should be done to turn the
region around, and since I don't live there anymore,
I don't even know if it's my place to give advice.
But I can ask: people of Syracuse, people of upstate, where
is your anger? It may not be your fault that you're
in the mess you're in, but what are you going to do
about it? Unfortunately, as with watching a loved one slowly
drink themselves to death, I am powerless; only they can make
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Mystery of the Dead Blackbirds Continues
By Gautam Naik
On New Year's Eve, thousands of blackbirds are found mysteriously dead in Beebe, Ark. Whodunit?
That's the question puzzling John Fitzpatrick, director of Cornell University's Laboratory of Ornithology in Ithaca, N.Y.
Dr. Fitzpatrick doesn't believe it was a weather event. And, like others examining the case, he thinks it is "plausible" that local fireworks could have been responsible. The loud bangs may have startled the sleeping birds out of their roost, disoriented them, and thus caused them to fly around in a panic and slam into the ground and other objects.
But if celebratory fireworks were the trigger, how come similar blackbird deaths weren't reported in years past?
"I'm not too satisfied with the fireworks explanation," says Dr. Fitzpatrick, noting that fireworks tend to explode high above where birds roost. "Perhaps something else scared the birds off."
Blackbirds can be a soft target. At night, they often sleep in clusters of many thousands of birds. Like people, they are also practically blind in the dark. (This year, New Year's Eve also happened to fall on a moonless night.)
Worse yet, blackbirds whizz around at 30-40 miles an hour. It's not a good speed at which to hit an immovable object.
Dr. Fitzpatrick duly notes that the postmortem examination of some deceased birds, conducted by Arkansas authorities, "showed blunt internal trauma as if they hit stuff."
So it wasn't the weather. And it wasn't necessarily fireworks. So what –- or who -– did the dirty deed?
Because large blackbird groups can be extremely noisy and messy, Dr. Fitzpatrick says he doesn't altogether rule out a more "sinister" explanation. His idea: That someone deliberately set of some kind of explosion near the birds in order to scare, disorient and kill the songbirds.
"Maybe somebody really wanted to get rid of the blackbird roost," he says. "If I were a forensic investigator looking into this in Arkansas, I'd try to find out what caused the loud boom" that appeared to have terrified the birds in the first place.
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Old-Fashioned Cranberry Scones
Old-Fashioned Cranberry Scones
Dress up your bread basket this Thanksgiving with these extra special Old-Fashioned Cranberry Scones. They're super easy to make and bake up in only 20 minutes!
Makes: 8 scones
Cooking Time: 20 min
What You'll Need:
1 1/2 cups plus 1 tablespoon all-purpose flour, divided
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/4 teaspoon salt
2 tablespoons plus 2 teaspoons sugar, divided
1 teaspoon cream of tartar
3 tablespoons stick butter, chilled and cut into pieces
2/3 cup sweetened dried cranberries
2 teaspoons grated orange rind
3/4 cup nonfat buttermilk
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3. Sprinkle remaining flour evenly over work surface. Turn dough out onto floured surface; knead 4 or 5 times. Divide dough into 2 portions. Pat each portion into a 5-inch circle on prepared baking sheet . Cut each circle into 4 wedges, cutting to, but not through, bottom of dough. Sprinkle each circle evenly with remaining sugar.
4. Bake 20 minutes, or until golden.
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