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Thursday, August 06, 2009
Consciousness (5): Switching Voices
In conversations about consciousness, the voice of the garden-variety biologist (Mr B) often gets drowned out. This is typically due to blithely confident philosopher-types who act as if the armchair provides just as much authority as the lab bench when it comes to consciousness. Equally perplexing is that some folk's confidence actually becomes bolstered by the paucity of theoretically significant experimental results about consciousness. A lack of data makes good scientists less confident, not more confident, about a topic. (There are interesting parallels with creationism here.)
I am happy to start by inverting this antiscientific bias about consciousness. In that spirit, I will grant Mr B sole control of the lectern until he has finished saying what he has to say. Only then will I entertain questions from those armchair pilots who believe they have deadly objections to Mr B's project. At that point we will be better posed to see if they are right.
While I am not Mr B, for the above reasons I do consider myself his advocate. Because it is becoming a distraction to talk about him in the third-person, I will simply speak in his voice for a bit. Because confusion is likely to follow such a grammatical shift, this post will serve as a handy reference (especially for those tempted to bemoan my ignorance of what the philosophers have (putatively) contributed to our understanding of consciousness).
Next up, we'll get back to the science.
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In conversations about consciousness, the voice of the garden-variety biologist (Mr B) often gets drowned out. This is typically due to blithely confident philosopher-types who act as if the armchair provides just as much authority as the lab bench when it comes to consciousness.
Sure, but remember that it's all to easy to ignore the actual details of someone's argument and instead just label them as a type of person ('garden-variety biologist', 'blithely confident philosopher-types') and critique them solely on the basis of the types of argument that type of person is meant to make.
- Eric Thomson said...
Anon: I have spent a good deal of time with such real and overconfident philosophers of mind.
That said, of course there are nuances and hopefully I will not overlook important arguments in the final product. As I said, I'll let the armchair pilots in eventually. Indeed, my goal is ultimately philosophical as well as scientific, a fairly synoptic picture of the science of consciousness but also the limits.
Stepping back a bit, I am not taking a science-first approach in my posts (the inversion I spoke of) just because my primary expertise is neuroscience. I believe the best philosophy follows science, not vice-versa. For instance, the best philosophy of space and time came after Einstein. The best phenomenology (Merleau-Ponty) came after the Gestalt theorists and drew on their work quite explicitly. The best ideas about the foundations of mathematics came post-Godel.{1}
Pushing the physics analogy, I am not even sure we have had an Aristotle of consciousness yet, much less a Kepler, Newton, or Einstein. The data are so impoverished, so little is known, that to be dogmatic is cute, but mistaken. There are ridiculously confident people on all sides of the consciousness debate.
Because of the lack of conclusive data, I believe most views on consciousness are sane alternatives right now. What you find compelling will be a function of the assumptions and biases you bring to the table in the first place. Some will gravitate to Chalmers, some to Dennett, the Churchlands, Colin McGinn, Dennett, some to Quantum Kookiness, etc..If you are a creationist you will likely be a dualist. :)
Sociologically, choosing a perspective here unfortunately has much in common with the dynamics of religious choice. It is based more on historical, cultural, and other extrarational factors than evidence and reason. I realize I am overstating and oversimplifying things a bit here, and I'm certainly not going to push things into a kooky postmordernist sociology of science direction! Ultimately, our theory of consciousness should be grounded in good evidence and reason.
Frankly I am more interested in the science than the above more philosophical points, but that is some of the territory I plan to cover in future posts (or the book because this is frankly becoming too big in my notes for a bunch of blog posts).
[{1} In practice science and philosophy coevolve to some degree, though with a much larger arrow of influence from science to professional philosophy rather than vice-versa.]
- Mike Wiest said...
Re: quantum kookiness. I resemble that remark!


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Imagine my surprise when Secrets' Editor-in-Chief, John Johnson, asked me if I would review a pair of Jones Audio's 300W solid-state monoblock power amplifiers. "Now that would be quite a switch," was the first thought that popped into my head.
My last three amplifiers – the Bruce Moore 100W Dual Mono power amp, Jadis 100W DA-7 Luxe amplifier, and VTL 450W monoblock Signature 2 prototypes – have all been tube-based. In fact, the only solid-state amplifier I've spent much time with at home in many years was a Class D baby that was not to my liking. The last thing I expected was to be asked to review powerful solid-state monoblocks.
All of which made me relish the prospect of reviewing these babies even more. Given that so many music lovers whose taste I value prefer solid-state to tubes, I was eager to discover how the Jones Audio monoblocks would sound. And with 300 watts, I expected dynamic swings, especially on high-resolution computer files, that would sound great in my large space.
I had actually taken a brief listen to these amps once before, at one of the shows I was blogging for Stereophile. On that occasion, they were displayed in a molto sub-optimal hotel room. Here was an opportunity to revisit them in my own home, in a room whose sound I understand quite well.
Another thing that excited me was the potential of the PA-M300 Series 2 monoblocks to control the woofers on what were then my reference loudspeakers, the Talon Khorus X Mk. 2.5. (I'm not sure there was a 2.5, but there were so many upgrades to the speakers, performed over some many years, that it's impossible to state with certainty where my four times upgraded pair stood in the grand scheme of things.) All Khorus models have two 8″ woofers, one hidden within the cabinet, arrayed back-to-back in isobaric configuration. They demand a lot of power, and are a bitch for a tube amp to drive. So when John asked, I paused but 30 seconds before I replied with an enthusiastic yes.
Jason Jones, son of co-amplifier designer and company Sam Jones, was able to deliver the amps personally to Casa Bellecci-Serinus. As fate would have it, by that time, the Talons had been moved to the side, and replaced by Eficion F300 loudspeakers. Jason came over just when Nordost Odin jumpers arrived to connect their upper and lower modules. Together we set them back up on Stillpoints, and inserted the jumpers. We also placed the amps on Stillpoints amp stands, and made sure everything was running smoothly.
A month later, Jason returned for an amp demo that I staged for the Bay Area Audiophile Society that also included a preview of the Auraliti L-1000 music server. At the close of the demo, the amps were packed up and carted back to Jones Audio's home in Black Diamond, WA. I hated to see them go.
- Design: Solid State Monoblock Power Amplifier
- Power Output: 300 Watts RMS into 8 Ohms, 560 Watts RMS into 4 Ohms, Class A/AB
- MFR: 10 Hz – 200 kHz, – 1 dB
- SNR: -119 dB (A-Weighted)
- Transformer: Toroidal 1,000 VA
- Power Consumption: 775 watts
- Dimensions: 8.2″ H x 16.2″ W x 16.3″ D
- Weight: 80 Pounds/each
- Price: $24,000/pair
- Jones Audio
In a recent phone interview with Jason Jones, I learned that his father Sam, who considers himself a lifelong audiophile, was building Heathkit amplifiers at a young age. An autodidact who started a computer software company 28 years ago, he shifted to part-time consulting seven years ago, and let others in the family run the computer business. This liberated Sam to befin working full-time on developing the amplifiers of his dreams.
Jones Audio began showing their Series 1 amps at audio shows as early as 2008. At that point, they were more interested in receiving feedback, doing much more listening, and perfecting the design. The company began to promote the amps seriously at CES 2011. A fledgling distribution network now exists in Canada, Hong Kong, and the Northeast.
One distinctive feature of the PA-M300 Series 2 monoblock is that it uses lateral MOFSET output devices. "What's great about these is that they're much faster than the bi-polar transistors you usually find," Jones explained. "That creates a much cleaner and more natural sounding high end. We encountered tube lovers at the Rocky Mountain Audio Fest who expected to hate the sound of solid-state, and couldn't believe that they liked it. This is because of these output devices.
"The MOFSETs can also take a higher range of bias and a higher total amount of bias. This helps get rid of crossover distortion, which looks like a notch in the waveform. If you increase the bias using bipolar transistors, you can create a notch in the other direction. The MOSFETS, on the other hand, can create much more bias without creating artifacts. This allows us to have a high bias amplifier that runs Class A up to 38 watts, then switches to A/B. With most music except the peak transients, the amp plays in Class A."
The Jones Audio monoblock also features a fully complementary input and voltage stage. The company claims this dual-differential design helps to cancel out some noise from the power supply, and some artifacts from differences in part tolerances. It also produces symmetrical clipping, which makes the amp operate and sound more like a tube amplifier because the positive and negative clipped waveforms look the same.
Jason stresses that the company pays particular attention to detail. (What company is going to tell you that they don't?) I wasn't sent a picture of the amp's inside, but it contains a 38 lb., ultra low-noise torroidal transformer as well as extensive heat-sinking. That's one pound for each watt of pure Class A sound. The amp's resistors, capacitors, and other parts are chosen, not according to price, but rather because they work together synergistically and sound the best (at least to the company's ears).
As you will see from the equipment list posted at the end of this review, my system now uses Stillpoints amplifier stands. The difference in sonic control between these stands and what I was using previously is immense. Placed on the stands, the amps received maximum isolation from external vibrations.
Given that Jones Audio monoblocks sport 20-amp power receptacles, I counted myself extremely fortunate to have on hand 20-amp Nordost Odin power cables. I've tried using adapters to convert 15-amp cords to 20 and vice versa, and I'm convinced that they compromise bass extension, slam, and midrange fullness. Interconnects between my Theta Gen. VIII Series 3 DAC/preamp and the monoblocks were a 1.5meter pair of balanced Nordost Odin. Though I do use audiophile grade fuses in my own equipment, I did not upgrade fuses in the amps.
The amps accept both single-ended and balanced interconnects, and spade as well as banana-terminated speaker cables. Perfect.
The amps had already been broken in prior to arrival. With the rear toggle switch set in "balanced" interconnect position, I first turned on the main power switch on the back of the amps to put them in standby mode. To prevent any possibility of turn-on transients blowing out my loudspeakers, I paused to turn on all my other components (which were already in standby mode). Finally, I turned on the amp's front power switch, located beneath the front of the unit.
Although the amps were capable of playing music immediately, I let them warm up an hour so they would produce optimal sound. Before serious reviewing, I also ran either the Ayre demagnetizing / break-in CD or the more elaborate break-in sequence from Isotek. Finally, I also made sure that all power cables and interconnects were well over an inch apart, as in 2-3″ or more.
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The first thing that jumped out at me was the sound of the bass. Boom! Wham! Slam! Big, powerful, tight, focused, and viscerally thrilling bass. Not since I reviewed the Parasound JC-1 Halo monoblock amplifiers in August, 2004 have a heard such jaw-dropping bass from my system. The timpani thwacks at the start of Ivan Fischer's recordings of Mahler's Symphony No. 2, "Resurrection" (Channel Classics) were floor-shaking.
But that head-turning bass was only from the CD layer of a hybrid SACD, whose ultimate dynamic range is limited. A far bigger surprise was in store when Ray Burnham of Auraliti brought over the prototype L-1000 music player to prepare for the BAAS demonstration, and put on a not-yet-available hi-resolution file of Reference Recordings' fabled version of Copland's Symphony No. 3. This is the symphony from which the ubiquitous Fanfare for the Common Man originates. I wonder, when the Republican Party chose it as their election year theme song a campaign or two back, if any of the decision makers were aware that the composer was a liberal who narrowly escaped total vilification and career destruction by Sen. Joe McCarthy's House Un-American Activities Committee.
Well, if Joe had ever gotten the chance to hear what the Jones Audio amps could do with the big bass drum thwacks on this ultra-dynamic, hi-resolution file of Copland's symphony, he might have stopped pointing the finger outward and run for cover. The bass was like nothing I'd ever heard before in my room, or just about any room I can think of.
When we first played the track, I was experimenting with midrange port loading, and had loosely stuffing the rear ports on my speakers' upper modules with white anklet socks. The first time we turned the volume way up to realistic symphonic levels – not ear-deafening levels, but definitely loud – and the bass drum pounded in 24-bit, 88.2 kHz sound, one of the socks shot straight out the rear port and hit the wall behind the speaker!
Even more dramatic, the huge current draw required to reproduce such realistic thwacks soon tripped the internal protection circuit on the amps. The sequence sounded something like this: Boom, Pop (as the first sock shot out one of the rear ports), Boom-Boom, Pop (as the other sock shot out), Boom-Boom-Boom, Click (as the amps shut off).
This was accompanied by a huge emotional swing on my part that went from "What?" to "Wow!" to "Are you kidding!" to "Oh no!" in the space of a few measures. Right after Ray quipped, "How's that for a case of sock it to me," our elation crashed.
As we retrieved the socks, both Ray and I saw that the amps looked dead to the world. Then we realized that the BAAS demo was but two days away. We had no idea if we had burned them out, if they contained esoteric value fuses that we would never be able to replace in time, or what.
An emergency call to Jason Jones, who bless his heart was available, produced reassurance that the amp's internal circuit breaker had tripped to avoid damage, and would reset once the babies cooled. We able to turn the amps back on in a few minutes.
As a result of this quasi-hilarious mishap, the amps' headroom has been bumped up a bit to avoid similar unnecessary simulated meltdowns in the future. Glad to serve.
Bass, of course, was only one aspect of the sound. The rest of the range was also as tight as could be. Midrange was strong, and highs were brightly illumined, extended, but never piercing. (This is not a dark sounding amp by any means). In addition, as mentioned above, the dynamic range was far greater than I was accustomed to, especially from CD. The huge chorus at the end of Mahler No. 2 was astounding, as hundreds of singers, two soloists, gongs, bells, timpani and everything else in the huge Mahler orchestra joined together in one huge, clearly articulated outpouring of resurrectional release.
One of the reasons I wish I had been able to spend more time with the PA-M300 Series 2 monoblocks is that I've since learned far more about optimal positioning of the Eficion F300 loudspeakers. They are now considerably closer together, with less toe-in. I've also established that, at least in my room, the more the toe-in, the more the tonal balance shifts from midrange-full and top just right to midrange lean and top over-pronounced. I can even white out the sound by not toeing in enough. There is a delicate balance where top to bottom sounds in correct proportion both tonally and in volume, but it takes time and patience to dial it in.
While the Jones Audio monoblocks were at my home, I experimented with the exact degree of speaker toe-in by using a protractor. Please join me in a chorus of "the best laid plans of mice and men…" As it turned out, the protractor I was using was inaccurate, and whose 90º middle setting was more like 88.8º. As a result, when I tried to toe-in both speakers 2.5º, one speaker was actually angled closer to 3.7º, and the other 1.3º. This produced an uneven tonal balance between the two speakers, and skewed the certainty of my evaluation..
Hence, when I say that, if pushed to characterize the sound of these monoblocks, I would describe them as having just a touch of the muted silver, gunpowder gray patina that I recall from the Parasound Halo JC 1 monoblocks, I would also say with certainty that I cannot trust that call. Had the amps remained through the time when I finally found a Taiwan-sourced protractor that gave accurate readings, and was able to position the speakers properly, I'd feel far more comfortable describing their tonal balance.
Let us instead say this . . .
The Jones Audio PA-M300 Series 2 monoblock amplifiers rank alongside the Parasound Halo JC 1 monoblocks as the most impressive solid-state amplifiers to ever reside in my system. The dynamics are wide and stunning, the bass tight and awesome on every level, and the top as extended as the bottom.
In the month I spent with these monoblocks, I heard nothing but smooth, effortless, and transparent full-range sound. Symphonic music, jazz with bass, and of course rock became more exciting than ever. Hi-resolution material was at times jaw dropping. I only wish I could have spent more time exploring PA-M300 Series 2's many strengths.

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(Chambersburg) -- Officials at a south-central Pennsylvania high school say they've found the student behind a Twitter page where students anonymously posted cruel things about each other.
The Chambersburg Area School District has announced the student is being disciplined in accordance with district policy and no legal action is being taken. The student's name was not released.
The district said it worked with the Chambersburg Area Senior High School and the technology department to identify the student.
School principal Buddy Chapel said any student found to be an administrator on the site would get 10 days of out-of-school suspension and would undergo administrative review with a recommendation to the school board for expulsion.
Chapel said no student at his school is going to die because of cyber-bullying.
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[ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDFS-985?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel&focusedCommentId=12848465#action_12848465 ] Chris Douglas commented on HDFS-985: ------------------------------------ bq. It turns out there is no need to change mapred in the trunk. This is already done. (MAPREDUCE-1615) > HDFS should issue multiple RPCs for listing a large directory > ------------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: HDFS-985 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDFS-985 > Project: Hadoop HDFS > Issue Type: New Feature > Reporter: Hairong Kuang > Assignee: Hairong Kuang > Fix For: 0.22.0 > > Attachments: directoryBrowse_0.20yahoo.patch, directoryBrowse_0.20yahoo_1.patch, directoryBrowse_0.20yahoo_2.patch, iterativeLS_trunk.patch, iterativeLS_trunk1.patch, iterativeLS_trunk2.patch, iterativeLS_trunk3.patch, iterativeLS_trunk3.patch, iterativeLS_trunk4.patch, iterativeLS_yahoo.patch, iterativeLS_yahoo1.patch, testFileStatus.patch > > > Currently HDFS issues one RPC from the client to the NameNode for listing a directory. However some directories are large that contain thousands or millions of items. Listing such large directories in one RPC has a few shortcomings: > 1. The list operation holds the global fsnamesystem lock for a long time thus blocking other requests. If a large number (like thousands) of such list requests hit NameNode in a short period of time, NameNode will be significantly slowed down. Users end up noticing longer response time or lost connections to NameNode. > 2. The response message is uncontrollable big. We observed a response as big as 50M bytes when listing a directory of 300 thousand items. Even with the optimization introduced at HDFS-946 that may be able to cut the response by 20-50%, the response size will still in the magnitude of 10 mega bytes. > I propose to implement a directory listing using multiple RPCs. Here is the plan: > 1. Each getListing RPC has an upper limit on the number of items returned. This limit could be configurable, but I am thinking to set it to be a fixed number like 500. > 2. Each RPC additionally specifies a start position for this listing request. I am thinking to use the last item of the previous listing RPC as an indicator. Since NameNode stores all items in a directory as a sorted array, NameNode uses the last item to locate the start item of this listing even if the last item is deleted in between these two consecutive calls. This has the advantage of avoid duplicate entries at the client side. > 3. The return value additionally specifies if the whole directory is done listing. If the client sees a false flag, it will continue to issue another RPC. > This proposal will change the semantics of large directory listing in a sense that listing is no longer an atomic operation if a directory's content is changing while the listing operation is in progress. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - You can reply to this email to add a comment to the issue online.
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I'm following the Austerlitz playthrough "A Walk-Through Tutorial (Austerlitz 1805)" http://www.ageod-forum.com/viewtopic.php?f=138&t=7475 which is very useful in learning the game. But some key pictures seem to be missing, alas.
My basic question concerns how to set up Napoleon and his corps to deliver the knockout blow to the Austrians in Ulm.
Coming from AJE, I learned to manage military control in the regions around an enemy army so that supply was cut off and so that options for retreat paths were constrained. Generally I had several stacks most of which were not the province that contained the army I wanted to attack.
But if I read the walkthrough correctly, Mack was destroyed by the mass of Napoleon's army, concentrated in the one province that contains Ulm.
The key quote from the walkthrough seems to be this one:
"As you can see from the Battle Report, Napoleon directed a six Corps simultaneous attack of over 170,000 men on Mack's 90,000 Austrians. The result was devastating. Napoleon eliminated the Austrian threat in Bavaria in exchange for less than 15,000 men."
So I concentrate mass and directly assault rather than waiting for 96% military control in the surrounding provinces? The knockout blow is delivered by the cavalry, presumably, as part of the battle resolution
Although I do see that ctlAllowRetreat = 5 in this game whereas it is 0 in AJE so it should be possible in this game to destroy an army by surrounding it with provinces in I have 96% control.
Concentrate and attack would be the "correct" Napoleonic thing to do but.


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FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – Duke senior Molly Lehman finished seventh Saturday in the finals of the 1500m at the 2009 NCAA Outdoor Track & Field Championships, posting a two-second lifetime best to earn the first All-America honors of her career during the final day of competition at the University of Arkansas.
Lehman clocked 4:15.19 to finish in seventh and score two points. Her time was less than a second off the standing outdoor school record of 4:14.81 held by Olympian Shannon Rowbury. The mark also qualified Lehman for the senior race at the USATF National meet June 25-28 in Eugene, Ore. Today marked the second personal best broken by the senior this weekend, as she had already set a new PR of 4:17.20 during prelims on Thursday night.
On Friday night, Duke senior Patricia Loughlin clocked 10:15.56 in the finals of the 3000m steeplechase to take 10th overall, after entering the meet seeded 12th.
Loughlin missed All-America honors by just one spot but is also qualified for the senior race in Eugene in two weeks.


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SEATTLE — Mason County Forest Products, which operated a saw and wood planing mill in Shelton, Wash., agreed to pay $900,000 to two female workers to settle a federal lawsuit alleging sexual harassment, sex discrimination and retaliation, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) announced today.
The EEOC's investigation showed that two women faced widespread hostility, and that upper management at the mill chose to ignore the harassment, saying, "Boys will be boys." Their supervisor made it clear that he did not want women on his crew, using demeaning comments, physical intimidation and verbal threats. He condoned and participated in crude and misogynistic language reducing women to body parts, the EEOC said. The male employees targeted their female co-workers with lewd comments and gestures, displayed sex toys and pornography in a locker, and positioned the women's portable lavatory for optimal surveillance. Sometimes, the EEOC said, they would lock the female workers inside and push the unit back and forth, sloshing the contents around them. Ultimately, the supervisor fired the two women, resulting in the all-male crew he frequently promoted as his ideal.
Sex discrimination, including sexual harassment, and retaliation for complaining about it violate Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. After first attempting to reach a pre-litigation settlement through conciliation, the EEOC filed the lawsuit (EEOC v. Mason County Forest Products, Civil Number CV-09-5609 RBL) in U.S. District Court for the District of Washington. Seattle private attorney Scott Blankenship represented the two victims and served as co-lead counsel with the EEOC.
In addition to paying the women $900,000, the company agreed to a three-year consent decree. Although the Mason County Forest Products sawmill stopped operation in 2010, the decree requires parent company Long Bell Ventures, LLC to implement corrective measures such as comprehensive training at any new sawmill facility it may open in the next three years.
"I stood up for myself and, ultimately, through this process, for other women," said Debbie Berntsen, one of the two discrimination victims. "Companies like this need to know that they can't allow women to be treated this way in any workplace."
EEOC Regional Attorney William R. Tamayo pointed out that more than a third of all charges seen by the Commission involve retaliation, and that, for the first time ever, retaliation under all statutes (36,258) surpassed race (35,890) as the most frequently filed charge at the EEOC in fiscal year 2010.
Tamayo said, "Employers who try to solve a harassment problem by getting rid of the people who speak out about it will only add to that statistic. We hope this settlement will remind employers to respond properly to complaints about harassment or discrimination, with timely investigation and steps to end any misconduct found."
EEOC Supervisory Trial Attorney John Stanley said, "Management can make a huge difference in setting the tone for its work force. Making the excuse that 'Boys will be boys' is sexist and patronizing. Surely it's appropriate to set the expectation that your employees will act as mature adults working in a professional, respectful environment free of harassment."
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Now that a guy no longer needs a linebacker's physique, a Rat Packer's swagger or cartoon bags of money to justify the purchase of a made-to-measure dress shirt, here are a few local options — at different levels of wallet strain — worth exploring:
Anto Distinctive Shirtmaker
Anto has been a maker of truly custom shirts (along with neckties, robes, pajamas and boxer shorts – but no suits) for Tinseltown's well-heeled for more than five decades. Clients have included Frank Sinatra, Kirk Douglas, Johnny Depp (at the recent Golden Globes) and Bradley Cooper (in "The Hangover Part II"). Costume designer Ellen Mirojnick put Anto's shirts on Michael Douglas, Josh Brolin and Shia LaBeouf for "Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps."
Price: $325 per shirt, with a first-time minimum order of six shirts.
Made in: Sherman Oaks, using (to quote Jack Sepetjian, who runs the business with his brother, Ken) "the finest European cotton fabrics, finest mother-of-pearl buttons from Italy and thread from Germany."
Turnaround time: First-time customers should expect the process to take four to five weeks. For existing customers, it's usually a three-week turnaround. (But if you've got an awards-show red carpet on your calendar, as many Anto clients do, they can get it to you in a week.)
Anto Distinctive Shirtmaker at 258 N. Beverly Drive in Beverly Hills and 13300 Riverside Drive in Sherman Oaks.
With a nationwide direct-sales network of 1,000 "style advisors," the 5-year-old company combines good, old-fashioned customer contact with the newest of newfangled technology to help guys solve their tailored-clothing conundrums. Co-founder Veeral Rathod envisions the day — he thinks in 2013 — when a guy can ask his smart-
phone what he should wear to the office or a wedding and it will serve up the clothing combination he and his style advisor had
Price: $89 to $159 per shirt.
Made in: Fabrics are exclusively from Italian mills; shirts are cut and sewn in China.
Turnaround time: The Dallas-based company can get guys their goods in two weeks flat if they live in the great state of Texas. For the rest of the country it's about 21/2 weeks.
Locate and contact a local style advisor via the J.Hilburn website.
Hong Kong Grand Custom Tailoring
One of the many peripatetic purveyors of tailored menswear that decamp to hotel suites in major cities every three or four months to meet clients, William Sani has been schlepping his swatch books and order pad from coast to coast for the last 35 years, with local stops that include Century City and Newport Beach.
Price: $299 to $1,190 for a six-shirt minimum package (a three-suit, eight-shirt package can be had for $1,599).
Made in: Hong Kong.
Turnaround time: Four to six weeks.
Hong Kong Grand Custom Tailoring returns to Century City on Feb. 17; see website for full schedule.
Note: Many of the bigger menswear retailers, including Saks Fifth Avenue, Brooks Brothers and Nordstrom, offer men's dress shirts with various levels of personalization. It's not true custom clothing, but it can be a good option for the sartorial standout in training. And of course there's a burgeoning number of online made-to-order options.
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Beta Sigma Phi chapter celebration; Farmer's Market-Chamber's Business after Hours; Native educator honored in NY; Bring wine and learn to paint
Sorority celebrates Founders Day
Members of the Preceptor Phi chapter of Beta Sigma Phi recently celebrated Founder�s Day.
Beta Sigma Phi has been in existence for more than 82 years and is a social and cultural sorority whose theme is �Life, Learning and Friendship.�
Observing Founder's Day were Anne Webb, Carolyn Kennedy, Angela Shader, Valerie Owen, Sharon Herring, JoAnn Meyers and guest, Laureate Xi chapter member Helen Hinson, who is Owen's mother.
�Red Building� to be dedicated today
Produce vendors will have a variety of summer vegetables today at The Lenoir County Farmer�s Market, including sweet corn, string beans, blueberries, tat soy, pointed head and napa cabbage, beets, squashes, an array of leafy greens, asparagus, the last of the strawberries, and whatever else is ripe.
The market is joining with the Kinston-Lenoir County Chamber of Commerce for Business After Hours from 5:30 to 7 p.m., including the dedication of the �Red Building� annex, beside the market. Join the Market and Chamber staff and supporters for fun and entertainment, mingle with the vendors, and share in the building�s dedication in memory of Rick Holder, made possible by a donation from Felix Harvey and Myrtilla Harvey Brody in honor of their friend and business associate.
Plans will be unveiled for the building�s future.
Lenoir Co. native honored in New York
Pollie Wilkins-Stevenson of Elmont, N.Y., originally from Lenoir County, has been named Woman of the Year by the National Association of University Women. She was honored at a luncheon May 19 attended by more than 500 guests, family members and friends.
Wilkins-Stevenson earned a Bachelor of Science degree in elementary education from Winston-Salem State University and a master�s in education administration from New York University. She further studied at Hunter and Brooklyn colleges with a concentration in reading. She is a retired teacher trainer/staff developer from the New York City Department of Education.
A global traveler, she is a graduate of Frink High School and the daughter of the late John and Verner Wilkins, who lived in La Grange.
Paint a lighthouse in one night
A Spirited Palette class will meet from 6 to 8 p.m. today at the Community Council for the Arts, 400 N. Queen St.
Spirited Palette is an evening of non-pressure painting. The arts center will supply a canvas, set of brushes, acrylic paint, wine glasses and cork screws. Bring your own wine. Instructor Linda Clark will give instructions on how to paint the theme picture, which can be taken home when the class ends.
Tonight�s art subject is lighthouses. Pictures to paint will be provided, or bring your favorite. The cost is $35 for members, $40 for non-members. Arrive early and wear old clothes, an apron or smock.
For information, call 252-527-2517.


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My name is Robert Doyle (more affectionately known as Beroc) and I live in Tennessee. I have lived and worked in this area all my life and probably will the rest of my life.
My interests are in art and programming. I have been a game modder since about 1999 and have done 3d models and art for this stuff for as long as I can remember, I am a programmer and have been in it since I was like 10. Couple art and programming and you get games. I love computer games. I also enjoy hanging out with friends and just playing board games and such. There is a wonderful game called Battle Bots board game, it is a game of programming robots to do things.
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Sony has developed a hand-powered digital still camera prototype envisaged for children in developing countries where electricity or batteries might not always be readily available.
The device is the first working concept to come from Sony Design's "odo" project that is attempting to come up with kinetically-powered devices that stimulate a child's creativity, curiosity and energy.
The camera prototype is styled after a flower.
Imagine a magnifying glass with a large hole through the middle of the glass and you've got the shape. The camera is held by the handle and the image sensor and other related electronics are also packed in there. The ring on the end is where the energy is generated. By running it along a table top an outer ring spins and charges up an internal battery. After a few pushes it's ready to take a picture.
When the picture is taken the camera can be placed in a USB cradle styled like a flower-pot (of course) and transferred to a PC.
The Odo project got its start at Sony's design centre in Los Angeles and a team in Tokyo is also working on ideas.
"It grew from trying to figure out how these people's children will be able to enjoy music and video," said Mitsuhiro Nakamura, a member of the sustainable design team at the Sony Creative Center. "They don't have electric power so we have to think about how to generate electricity. So we started looking at electricity generation from kinetic energy. So we came up with these Odo products that children can enjoy."
Non-working design concepts already shown include a video camera that is powered by a crank on the side of its body, a second digital camera that is powered by sticking fingers through two holes in the body and spinning the camera end-over-end, a photo viewer with a roller on the base to generate power and a pair of stereo headphones with built in radio that is charged when a cord is pulled from the ear piece.
If this is all too much effort, a final concept is a solar-charged battery that can be used to power Odo devices when it's been charged in the sun.
The work revolves around a single question: How can Sony set a good example through socially responsible product models? Sony says the concepts developed so far represent one answer to that question.
There are no plans to commercialise the prototypes.


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In order to make it easy to play around with replication, I threw together a little package with scripts that are available from the tutorial page at the forge. With this script, you can run several servers from a replication tutorial directory without interfering with existing installations of the server that you might have installed on your machine. In order to use this package, you need to download a binary distribution of the server without any installers, the replication tutorial package, and unpack them in the same directory.
It is, however, not necessary to download the package to be able to attend the tutorial, but it gives you an option to experiment with replication.


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The physics of iridium-based 5d transition metal oxides has attracted significant interest due to the potential for exotic magnetic and electronic ground states driven by strong spin-orbit coupling effects. Among the most extensively studied iridates is the layered perovskite Sr2IrO4, which was recently proposed as the first experimental realization of a novel Jeff=1/2 spin-orbital Mott insulating state.
In this talk I will briefly review the polaron physics, which has helped theorists to conceive the BCS theory of conventional superconductors as well as experimentalists to discover high temperature superconductors in the cuprates. Specifically I will talk about how charge carriers obtain their
masses from coupling to the phonon field in one, two, three or higher dimensions. More recently, there is increasing interest in topological insulators where a gap can be opened which may suggest new version of Higgs mechanism in condensed matter.
Tensor network algorithms provide highly competitive tools for analyzing ground state properties of quantum lattice models in one and two spatial dimensions. The most notable examples involve matrix product states, projected entangled pair states and multiscale entanglement renormalization ansatz. The key underlying idea of all the approaches is to decompose a quantum many-body state into a carefully chosen network of tensors.
In this talk I will give an introduction to the subject and show how tensor networks can be used to characterize topological order.
The ground state of the candidate spin liquid pyrochlore magnet Tb2Ti2O7 (TTO) has been long debated. Despite theoretical expectations of magnetic order below ~1K based on classical Ising-like Tb3+ spins, earlier muSR and neutron scattering experiments showed no long range order down to 50mK. This motivated two theoretical scenarios to account for the apparently disordered ground state: a quantum spin ice scenario and a non-magnetic singlet ground state.
The discovery of the spin-ice phase in Dy2Ti2O7 numbers among the most significant findings in magnetic materials in over a decade. The spin-ice model is based on an elegant analogy to Pauling's model of geometrical frustration in water ice, and predicts the same residual entropy, as confirmed by numerous measurements. Melko, den Hertog and Gingras, with numerical work using a loop algorithm to speed up equilibration times, were able to determine an ordering for this system. This had not been seen experimentally observed by several groups.
Superconducting quantum circuits have made significant advances over the past decade, allowing more complex and integrated circuits that perform with good fidelity. We have recently implemented a machine comprising seven quantum channels, with three superconducting resonators, two phase qubits, and two zeroing registers. I will explain the design and operation of this machine, first showing how a single microwave photon |1> can be prepared in one resonator and coherently transferred between the three resonators [1].
Motivated by recent numerical and experimental studies of the spin-1/2 Heisenberg antiferromagnet on kagome, we formulate a many-body model for fermionic spinons, which are just uncoupled spins. The spinons interact with an emergent U(1) gauge field and experience strong short-range attraction in the S=0 channel. The ground state of the model is generically a Z(2) liquid. We calculate the edge of the two-spinon continuum and compare the theory to the slave-fermion approach to the Heisenberg model.
Realizing experimentally continuous phase transitions in the electronic ground state of materials near zero temperature as a function of tuning some external parameter (magnetic field, pressure etc.) offers a unique opportunity to probe the extreme regime (near the transition point) where strong quantum correlations encompass the macroscopic sample as a whole, so called "quantum criticality" [1]. In this regime of strong correlations small perturbations/interactions can stabilize novel forms order or collective fluctuations that otherwise do not exist.


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"The brothers had not left the ground since the October 5, 1905 flight, however. In addition to brushing up on their flying skills, they had to make their first flights with a passenger, something required by both contracts, and operate a new set of controls necessitated by upright seating, another stipulation of the contracts.
"They pulled the 1905 machine out of storage and modified it with two upright seats and the new control system. They shipped it back to the Kill Devil Hills of North Carolina because they wanted to undertake the test flights in an area with steady winds, soft sand, and isolation from prying eyes. On May 14, 1908, first Wilbur and then Orville took their mechanic, Charles Furnas, up for a ride. These were the first airplane passenger flights in history."
Crouch's Museum colleague, early-flight curator and Wright scholar Peter Jakab, concurs with this choice of aircraft: "Even the Wrights did not see the 1903 airplane as the conclusion of their experimental work," he says. "They had identified the final goal as a 'machine of practical utility.' They understood that the 1903 airplane, although embodying all the key technology, was not quite that. When they could stay aloft for an extended period, under the sure command of the pilot, and consistently land safely, they knew they had that 'machine of practical utility.' The 1905 machine was that airplane.
"When the Wrights were regularly flying over Huffman Prairie in the fall of 1905," says Jakab, "that's when the world truly changed."
2. Junkers F13
"The F13 was essentially the first aircraft to anticipate the onset of 'modern' air transport: cantilever [no wing struts], all metal, low wing, monoplane, streamlined (by the standards of the day)," says aviation historian Dick Hallion, this year's A. Verville Fellow at the National Air and Space Museum. The metal construction, adds NASM air transport curator Ron Davies, "made it sturdier and less vulnerable to damage than the wood-and-fabric biplanes of its competitors. The metal was especially critical in resisting heat and humidity in tropical countries."
The F13 first flew in 1919 (as the J13), and by the end of the year was in commercial service in Germany. "It established [founder Hugo] Junkers in a position of global air transport dominance that his firm would not relinquish until the mid-1930s, to Donald Douglas," says Hallion. The F13 was used in the first airline service in the Americas (Colombia's SCADTA).
Says Davies, "Unlike postwar transport airplanes that were modified from military types, the F13 was designed to carry passengers in an enclosed cabin. The four cushioned seats had seat belts, and the cabin was lighted and had picture windows." Now that's air travel.
After World War I, Germany was prohibited from operating the aircraft, but it sold them or licensed manufacture to 30 countries, including Hungary, Iceland, the Soviet Union, and Japan. In those years, the F13 established air routes in both Europe and the Americas. The last retired in 1948.
3. Boeing 314
In the hands of Pan American Airways, Boeing's majestic flying boat, the 314, established mail and passenger routes across the north Atlantic, south Atlantic, and Pacific. In Pan Am, An Airline and Its Aircraft, NASM's Ron Davies writes: "The B 314 flying boat put up all kinds of records, but none could compare with the establishment of the North Atlantic service in 1939 in the epoch-making series of inaugural flights which were, perhaps, Pan American's greatest contribution to air transport in all its distinguished history."
On the 314's Pacific route (San Francisco-Honolulu-Midway Island-Wake Island-Guam-Manila), service was opulent—even the flight deck was described as luxurious—with a lounge, dining area, sleeping berths, and dressing rooms, as well as chefs and china from four-star hotels. Advertisements for the Clippers (named for their nautical forebears) promised an experience that was not just safe but sumptuous, exciting the public about flight.
The 314s were the stars of Pan Am's fleet for only three years; World War II shut down commercial operations. Still, it was not until the 1960s, with the debut of wide-body airliners such as the Boeing 747, that the B-314s were dethroned as the world's largest scheduled-use commercial aircraft.
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But to use the thread in a way that might help me - can anyone explain Steve Roach's 'Fever Dreams' series for me - why they like them. I have lots of Steve's music but just can't find my way into these releases.
If we're talking overrated I'd have to agree with Aphex Twin, Biosphere, FSOL.
Interesting thread.I would say Aphex Twin's Selected Ambient Works Volume II. I think I understand what it is trying to do, and there are some tracks and some moments that are quite sublime, but overall there's too many irritating and lazy aspects in much of the music (for me) to be able to get fully immersed in it. Another one could be Structures from Silence. Now, I do find this album absolutely beautiful (and much more enjoyable and far less overrated than Aphex's SAWII), but I'm surprised how it's often viewed as one of Steve Roach's best. I enjoy so many Steve Roach releases more than this one (and more than Dreamtime Return, as it happens.) But maybe that's just me.
Thomas - I agree with you on Music For Airports. When I finally heard it I was surprised how much I didn't care for it. Some other Eno I find utterly brilliant - but I think I'm probably more influenced by later artists. I didn't really sit and listen to Eno until the last decade... Same with some of the berlin school biggies... friend let me borrow Klaus Schulz and JMJ and it just didn't resonate with me. Then again - I haven't given them a try in a while.Aphex Twin SAWII... you know - I bought it back in the 90's, I listened to it, thought it was cool but not "all that" - and then about 2 years later I listened again and loved it - and I still love it years later. That happens to me sometimes.
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Heresy!!! But, yeah.
"Music for Airports" is an interesting title? Also, that's "heresy" what you said about "Black Stars"!!! Actually, I always thought ['ramp] was the most highly overrated group no one's ever heard of! Nice to see you again here, Stephen.


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A shootout between bank robbers and police ensued in Ogies, Mpumalanga, at around 4am on Friday morning after officers responded to information of suspicious men at the bank.
Police spokesperson Brigadier Leonard Hlathi told TimesLive that it was originally believed the robbers were trapped inside the bank and the incident was still in process four hours after it began. However, new information is that the incident did not last long, and the unknown number of suspects escaped the scene in three vehicles.
It was reported that a police officer was shot twice in the upper body during the shootout, which ensued after the suspects opened fire on the police as they approached. The police then shot back at the suspects who were also reportedly believed to have robbed a bank customer and locked him inside his vehicle.
This is the second time in just over a week that a shootout ensued in the quiet town.
The Witbank News reported that suspects were arrested last Thursday before they could rob Denis Supermarket as a spanner was thrown in their works when the police got wind of their plans.
The Provincial Tracking Team together with the Tactical Response Team (TRT) acted on information received, and at the supermarket, the group of suspects opened fire when they saw the police, who were compelled to return fire.
Police managed to corner and arrest seven of the group members and confiscated five firearms. Some of the suspects fled the scene.
Of the seven suspects, five were wounded during the shootout and later hospitalised under police guard, while two were in police custody.
"The team of men in blue further seized a white getaway motor vehicle of the suspects, which was mounted with wrong number plates. The vehicle was loaded with equipment used in the commission of housebreakings," said Hlathi.
Hlathi said there is a manhunt for the rest of the group that escaped and asked anybody who might know their whereabouts to contact Lieutenant Colonel Muntu Mbatha at 082 770 0877 or to call the SAPS Crime Stop number at 08600 10111.
The suspects are facing charges of attempted business robbery, attempted murder, possession of unlicensed firearms and ammunition.
Constable Thabang Petros Mabena, Ogies communication officer, said three of the wounded suspects were discharged from hospital and, together with their two cohorts, appeared in the Ogies Magistrate's Court on Tuesday.
The other two suspects are still in hospital.
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Rights Offering and Reduced 2008 Dividend to Strengthen Core Capital Position by EUR 3bn.
Nordea announces measures to strengthen the Group's Core Tier 1 capital by EUR 3 billion. The Board of Directors of Nordea has resolved to increase Nordea's share capital through an underwritten discounted issue of new ordinary shares with pre-emptive rights for existing shareholders of approximately EUR 2.5 billion net (the "Rights Offering") and secondly by proposing to reduce the dividend payment to 19% of the net profit for 2008, to be decided by the 2009 Annual General Meeting, which will increase the Core Tier 1 capital by approximately EUR 0.5 billion. The Rights Offering is subject to shareholder approval at an Extraordinary General Meeting to be held on 12 March 2009.
Transaction Highlights
- Nordea's three largest shareholders, the Swedish Government, Sampo Oyj and Nordea-fonden (previously Nordea Danmark-fonden), in aggregate representing 36.1% of Nordea's shares outstanding, will subscribe for their pro rata share of the Rights Offering. In addition, Sampo Oyj has agreed to guarantee 13% of the Rights Offering (subject to certain conditions). Accordingly, in total 49% of the Rights Offering is to be subscribed for or guaranteed by core shareholders of Nordea.
- J.P. Morgan and Merrill Lynch International have agreed to underwrite the remainder of the Rights Offering (corresponding to 51%), subject to customary terms and conditions.
"I am encouraged by the strong support from our existing shareholders in pursuing these capital strengthening measures, which gives us an additional cushion to manage for an uncertain economic outlook. Nordea is in a strong position and well prepared for a challenging 2009. The capital strengthening measures provide additional flexibility to selectively explore high credit quality business opportunities", says Christian Clausen, President and Group Chief Executive Officer.


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So, here it is! My, 'should have been put to sleep,' and 'feral dog' earned her APDT Rally 1 title a few weeks ago. Here are some pics from the event!
Yes we had issues with judges in the ring but after enough runs they were no longer an issue. Now we find as many judges as possible to expose her!
Bowdoins Low Ryder, CGC, TT, RL1
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The controversy surrounding gun control in the United States has been dissected to its roots and built back up to the present inside a local classroom.
NICEVILLE � The controversy surrounding gun control in the United States has been dissected to its roots and built back up to the present inside a local classroom.
Twelve students at Rocky Bayou Christian School studied the history and current realities of the Second Amendment during a special �Jan Term� for high schoolers the last two weeks.
�You can�t just jump on one side, you need to understand the rationale,� said Josh Childers, one of the people teaching the class. �I�m just trying to show them that it�s not all about guns.�
Educators originally planned to have the students spend the first week of the course in the classroom and the second week applying their knowledge by firing rifles at a shooting range. But the plan changed at the last minute after school officials discovered their insurance company wouldn�t permit them to take students to a gun range without paying a hefty fee, said Rocky Bayou Superintendent Michael Mosley.
Rather than cancel the course, which had become so relevant since it was conceived last spring, administrators kept the first week the same and made the second week an outdoor survival course.
According to students in the class, they initially were disappointed with the change, but by the end of the first week they weren�t sorry they�d chosen to stay in the class.
�I didn�t know half the stuff that was going on,� said junior Josh Jarrell. �It definitely opened my eyes.�
Along with classmate Josh Hoskins, Jarrell said he�s actually taken time outside the classroom to listen to debates about gun control, especially in light of the trial of the man accused of shooting people in a Colorado movie theater lat July and the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in December.
�We can actually see the big picture,� said Hoskins, who added that they have learned the issue was neither black nor white, but cloaked in shades of gray.
One of the key points educators tried to get across in the course was a sense of personal responsibility.
�Was this amendment designed just so you guys could run around with really cool guns?� teacher Josh Childers asked the class during a recent review of the material.
The students all shook their heads no as Childers reminded them that �there has to be a great moral and spiritual responsibility.�
Childers said he and the students spent one day discussing not only the emotional toll of shooting another person, but what the physical reaction might be.
In spite of the difficulties they encountered with the insurance company, Mosley and Childers said it�s likely they will offer the course again next January because of the clear positive outcome it can produce.
�We don�t want kids at Rocky Bayou School to be part of the problem,� Mosley said. �We want them to be part of the solution.�
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Escorted by her father and given in marriage by her parents, the bride is the daughter of Marie Taylor Williams and David Creech Williams of Kinston. She is the granddaughter of the late David Ray Williams and Esther Creech Williams, the late Elbert Larry Taylor Sr. and B.L. and Thelma Efird, all of Kinston.
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Library maps
I've been dabbling in cartography for our library, drawing out (virtually) and labeling our downstairs and upstairs to help students navigate the stacks better (only showing first floor map here). We do have labels on the shelving, as well as LCSH guides, but this can help make it more visual and holistic.
I mentioned this task very briefly in a former post but now I have the finished products. We plan to post these maps on the bookcases, create smaller handouts students can take, and also post it on our website. Instead of just having a static map as a tab on our LibGuides, I made the suggestion we use photo editing software to create circles or highlights over each subject area's related locations to customize the maps for various departments.
As a review of Gliffy, I really liked it, and it's free. If you select to have objects snap to grid and align, it makes having repeating objects much easier to deal with. As you can see, there are also options for color and text styles/fonts. I also liked the variety of floorplan objects you can select to make furniture look close to what your library might have. Did I mention it's free? That's a huge plus.
The subjects chosen to be shown on the bookcase images (if you can even read them -- text is harder to read on the maps when posted here via Blogger) are ones that directly relate to classes offered and highlighted programs. For example, students are less likely to look up photography books here, and more likely to look up architecture and interior lighting for buildings because of our interior design program, and lack of a photography program.
It will hopefully be less intimidating for students to navigate the library having a map ahead of time; this should also really encourage browsing. I'm excited for when we get them posted to see what the reaction will be.
A slicker example I saw recently of a library map is the University of Arizona's virtual tour but I believe from what a colleague mentioned that it was not free. The pop-ups with photos do look really nice.
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Tuesday, August 7, 2007
Shopping info: Narita airport duty free
Update 1.6.2010: Katherine, who recently traveled through Narita Terminal 1, reports that the array of Japanese whiskies now available there is fairly impressive: "In March they were still carrying basically Hibiki and Yamazaki. This time around they had several Yoichis (12, 18 and even 20 year-olds), and the Taketsuru 21, which was selling for only ¥6000. I paid ¥10500 at Ebisu Kinokuniya in March. I also saw a Hakushu, although I don't remember the year." For more information on people's experiences at Narita, take a look at the comments on this post.
The duty free shops at Tokyo's Narita airport have a limited selection of single malts. Please remember that not all travelers will be able to rely on a last minute duty-free dive. Anyone transferring at a second airport in a jurisdiction that doesn't allow large bottles of liquids in hand luggage may find themselves trying to glug back 700ml of premium whisky at a security gate.
In August 2007, I checked two duty free shops in Terminal 1, South wing. The selection was exactly the same in both. They had 700ml bottles of 12 and 18 year old Yamazaki single malts at very reasonable prices. The 12 was at 4,500 yen compared to 7,119 yen in normal supermarkets. The 18 was 15,000 yen not 21,000 yen. The Yamazaki 12 was also available in a 180 ml bottle for 1,100 yen.
They were also selling the premium Suntory blended whisky Hibiki in 17, 21 and 30-year-old versions and a combo pack of a 180ml Yamazaki 12 and a small bottle of Hibiki 17 for 2,800 yen.
None of the smaller Japanese makers were represented and the only Nikka whisky I saw was an odd "Gold and Gold" bottle dressed up as a Samurai helmet. Incidentally, there was a lot of Scotch that is difficult to get outside Japan, including blends such as Old Parr Superior (6000 yen), at prices that were much better than the Tokyo department stores. There was also a very limited selection of shochu.
Location: Terminal 1, Narita airport, serving Tokyo.
View location on a map of single malt stores.
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Do you have a duty free stores list at this air port? I am going there this month
thanks you can sent email
james at firebay.ca
or james at ipage.asia
- December 17, 2008 at 6:10 AM
I am afraid I do not
- December 17, 2008 at 8:16 AM
- kev said...
will i be able to buy suntory hakushu at the airport? i've been looking everywhere for it!
- April 8, 2009 at 3:30 AM
When I went they had no Hakushu. Stupid question but have you been looking in Japan? I am surprised you cannot find it. Many department stores and bigger supermarkets routinely stock it.
- April 8, 2009 at 10:20 AM
- k said...
ah, i'm sorry to leave out an important piece of info: i live in PA, USA.
not the best place for exotic single malt scotch. >_<
i might transit through narita next month though!
- April 14, 2009 at 2:54 AM
See the bottom of this post for why you might have trouble with Hakushu in the US: http://nonjatta.blogspot.com/2009/04/hibiki-12-to-be-released-first-in.html
Suntory`s company strategy document for 2009 signaled a push for export sales for their top whiskies. They have just appointed a global brand manager.
Good idea to pick it up at Narita. If I lived in the US I would not spend a fortune on getting rare Japanese whiskies at the moment. I believe that in two years time they will be much more available in your neck of the woods.
- April 14, 2009 at 9:35 AM
Was at Narita Terminal 1 Duty Free (after security/immigration) on friday. They had several of the Nikka Whiskeys including 21 and 17 yr old pure malt and others. Still had all of the Suntory's you listed.
Nikka 17 was about 3500 yen, 21 was about 6500 yen. Suntory Hibiki 12 was ~3500, 17 was ~6000, 30 was ~75000.
- January 25, 2010 at 1:25 AM
Thank you very much for posting that info, Scott. These sorts of updates are really useful. Anybody who finds a new retail outlet or finds one of the ones mentioned here much changed, please please post the info!!
- January 25, 2010 at 11:27 AM
I have a friend who will be in transit in Taipei. Does the duty free store at the airport carry any Japanese whiskies and if so how are the prices compared to those in the city?
- September 2, 2010 at 2:36 PM
To be honest, the short answer is that I dont know about Taipei.
- September 2, 2010 at 2:49 PM
I heard that there are lot of Japanese whiskies available cheaply in Taiwan, hence was wondering if anyone would know where to buy them.
- September 2, 2010 at 2:52 PM
I have just returned from recent vacation in japan in 2012 here is an update on duty free shop at narita airport (*warning long post).
In other airports of the world probably if you are departing or arrival from airport you can buy duty free but in narita airport if you are arriving there is no duty free at all. Me and my buddy were quite shocked to find this my buddy he wanted to get a carton of camels smokes but couldn't do so and my plan was to buy the hibiki 30yo for duration of my vacation then Yamazaki 25yo to bring home when I depart from japan via narita and I couldn't do so when I arrived at narita.
Before you buy any duty free liquor at narita, please ask your airline during the check-in time if you are allowed to buy duty free liquor and carry on board your plane. We were flying ANA airways and they allowed it but I hear delta airways may not allow it so please check.
if you buy NON-duty free liquor from many supermarkets in japan you will have to pack into your luggage and check it in they probably will not allow you to hand carry aboard any liquor.
For narita duty free shop, I saw a wide range japanese whiskies, the hibiki 30yo and yamazaki 25yo that I was after it was available but was way too expensive. 75,000 yen each only slightly cheaper than what I was able to get at non dfs whisky retail outlets here in my country. So it was quite a let down not able to sample either hibiki and yamazaki's.
In the end I just bought old parr superior 18yo for 6500yen that was not available in my country and it came along with a nice men's wristwatch memorabilia.
here are my videos of japanese whiskies that are available at narita duty free shop. if you like you can use a youtube downloader to get the videos and incorporate into nonjatta site.
happy tippling (:
- January 20, 2012 at 11:11 AM
Thanks for the videos. If I am not mistaken, the price for Nikka Taketsuru 17 shows up as 5500 yen for a 700ml bottle, is that correct. I have a friend who is flying to Japan so this video is really helpful, I am assuming the prices would still be around the same.
Do you remember any other Japanese whiskies priceed below $100.
- June 12, 2012 at 5:34 AM
Dear Sanjay
I haven`t been through there in a while, but I suspect the cheaper single malts are hovering around your price limit.
- June 12, 2012 at 11:07 AM
I had sent an email to the duty free store at Narita Airport, they sent me a link of the products being offered(though it's in Japanese)
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