Sony Launches Xperia UL with HD display

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEguqYfUIu6d356Wz_P9camu-7LAwi9GoYanRQCUIzOtjzHHjU5hez8kLv_BDJqevwAj07k6yx4WIhwt-1R_QZM3xaVSR9bOoQXZYIoV-qbH8PXxLjUf4_hSc9LBHj1sFKDt52WOtnnVfmc/s1600/Sony_Xperia-UL.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="220" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEguqYfUIu6d356Wz_P9camu-7LAwi9GoYanRQCUIzOtjzHHjU5hez8kLv_BDJqevwAj07k6yx4WIhwt-1R_QZM3xaVSR9bOoQXZYIoV-qbH8PXxLjUf4_hSc9LBHj1sFKDt52WOtnnVfmc/s320/Sony_Xperia-UL.jpg" width="320" ya="true" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sony  recently launched Xperia A and Xperia ZR, this phone is also water and dust resistant and can withstand 1.5 metres of still water for 30 minutes.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sony has launched the<strong> new smartphone Xperia UL in Japan</strong>. Xperia UL sports a 5-inch Reality display with a resolution of 1080x1920 pixels packing in 443 pixels per inch incorporating Sony's mobile Bravia engine 2 for better looking images and videos. It's powered by a 1.5GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 APQ8064 quad-core processor and has 2GB of RAM. It runs Android 4.1 Jelly Bean.</span></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The smartphone features a 13.1-megapixel rear camera with Exmor RS for mobile and a VGA front facing camera. It offers 16GB of internal storage expandable up to 64GB via memory card (microSD / microSDHC / microSDXC ). The phone features NFC, 3G, Bluetooth 4.0, Infrared and 4G LTE connectivity options. It has a 2300mAh battery. The phone will be available in White, Pink and Black colours and will be available starting May 25 in Japan. </span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /><br /><strong><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Sony Xperia UL key specifications:-</span></strong></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /><strong>   *</strong> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">  Colour - Pink,White and Black. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">   *   5-inch full-HD reality display with a resolution of 1080x1920 pixels</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">   *  1.5GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 APQ8064 quad-core processor</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">   *   2GB RAM</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">   *  16GB internal storage expandable up to 64GB via memory card</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">   *  13.1-megapixel Exmor RS autofocus camera with LED flash</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">   *   VGA front camera</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">   *   3G, Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n, Bluetooth 4.0, GPS, LTE, NFC, Infrared</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">   *   Android 4.1 (Jelly Bean)</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">   *   2300mAh battery</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div></div>Published by <br /><a href="https://plus.google.com/112865615030946176397" rel="author">Priyanka</a>

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Sony  recently launched Xperia A and Xperia ZR, this phone is also water and dust resistant and can withstand 1.5 metres of still water for 30 minutes.Sony has launched the new smartphone Xperia UL in Japan. Xperia UL sports a 5-inch Reality display …

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DIY ribbon trim curtain panels

So since my <a href="http://news-these-days.blogspot.com/2013/05/healing-and-blog-party.html" target="_blank">wrist has been giving me troubles</a>, I've had a chance to catch up on other things; like gardening, reading, butter churning. You know, vintage pre-computer things. I even got out my old design binders. Those glorious files of tear sheet after tear sheet stuffed into six (yes six) binders. Basically the paper version of <a href="http://pinterest.com/ladybaum/" target="_blank">Pinterest</a>.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyKpdSzNUU4oA0n8Lplwk23P13fKu9wp2UzzVVRrokLzOzwA7595sycwEOE634U4Rcf5cFyoOzc5TZ56Q5tyCZlD-kRduRXVWlab3arOq1TRT7WCUHCY1DpI4zGhIZzZkvkdqNTeuAfMZE/s1600/pinterestinspiration.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="296" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyKpdSzNUU4oA0n8Lplwk23P13fKu9wp2UzzVVRrokLzOzwA7595sycwEOE634U4Rcf5cFyoOzc5TZ56Q5tyCZlD-kRduRXVWlab3arOq1TRT7WCUHCY1DpI4zGhIZzZkvkdqNTeuAfMZE/s320/pinterestinspiration.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br />And while searching thru my old piles of inspiration I found this.<br /><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgx8z3QrRepMru3j4TPnkoqQ1GN7lyFC5IgUKbAHcehQqMscCtOFLMHCKN6HK8XAet3bwhQhxXPHRMqGt1Po8v_c7X3QaIBv3hdocd11IOwMUDghIpL4nEW-kjl7C4g7g2g4FgusSey-JMq/s1600/ec34f54811a64c0bfb6022bb843ece57.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgx8z3QrRepMru3j4TPnkoqQ1GN7lyFC5IgUKbAHcehQqMscCtOFLMHCKN6HK8XAet3bwhQhxXPHRMqGt1Po8v_c7X3QaIBv3hdocd11IOwMUDghIpL4nEW-kjl7C4g7g2g4FgusSey-JMq/s320/ec34f54811a64c0bfb6022bb843ece57.jpg" width="240" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://pinterest.com/pin/6896205652027787/" target="_blank">source</a></td></tr></tbody></table>An image from one of my all time favorite articles on Fran Keenan in <i>Cottage Living</i> (hand over your heart. How I miss that magazine). I have been looking for a way to spruce up my plain white curtains in the dining room since, oh the day I got them. I'd even toyed with adding ribbon along the leading edge of the curtains, but it just looked dinky so I never went thru with it.<br /><br />But this looked more... substantial. And big key, simple(ish) enough to attempt. I tried several different sizes of ribbon from my stash (c'mon, like you don't have a ribbon stash?!) to figure out how big the ribbon needed to be. 1" was too thick and 5/8" was too small, leaving lucky 7/8". Before I knew it I was putting the girls in the car and we were off to Michael's to buy a 20 yard roll of 7/8" navy grosgrain.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhl9_YHhlljbQdhZ16A5PDbTJUd6KxCK0pZvpVE-AvmTDaTiQx7MwSZEpbiDsll7lxkBsvvPrcUGfD2FvRSE7UJlo02a93pwwP8dPIHbe6YZ-cSvsMPNFWmfjcQDccXSOFDXfLvzvuSle_t/s1600/ribbontrimprogress.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhl9_YHhlljbQdhZ16A5PDbTJUd6KxCK0pZvpVE-AvmTDaTiQx7MwSZEpbiDsll7lxkBsvvPrcUGfD2FvRSE7UJlo02a93pwwP8dPIHbe6YZ-cSvsMPNFWmfjcQDccXSOFDXfLvzvuSle_t/s320/ribbontrimprogress.jpg" width="264" /></a></div><br />This project went down so quick I didn't take many pictures of the process but I will tell you it is as simple as making an X with two ribbons, repeating it about 50 times and then trimming the whole thing with more ribbon. I just tried out a few different size Xs to see what I would like best and then once I found the right length, I cut 24 strips in that length to make the Xs. I glued down each one and then finished them off with trim at the top and bottom of the X and along each side of the drape. One thing to note, this takes A LOT of ribbon. My 20 yards wasn't enough and I had to go back and buy another 13. Crazy, I know.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqQVT3Myg0hA6TpmCVg4vUtw-kS6esi0aeHpZwH-T1_O32xJlO6YCPRPYkBFasgyIbuSy-AMxD1nnY2vVXRWCEmyyma9JasQQR2L2qXVYDl5a9mrUecIFlhiZ1BUn_ZNSWpb2IbQFV-5LE/s1600/ribbontrimcloseup.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="523" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqQVT3Myg0hA6TpmCVg4vUtw-kS6esi0aeHpZwH-T1_O32xJlO6YCPRPYkBFasgyIbuSy-AMxD1nnY2vVXRWCEmyyma9JasQQR2L2qXVYDl5a9mrUecIFlhiZ1BUn_ZNSWpb2IbQFV-5LE/s640/ribbontrimcloseup.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><span id="goog_779550328"></span><span id="goog_779550329"></span><br />Very simple and a great detail against the white curtains. I knew I kept all of those old magazines for a reason!<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiraW6lu-mO-i5FV-qTI7rziG12r93UjgRx6aPdb_bXQE_4oEUkDLFyl7vtG9diJCfthg7MmscVzdkoa2FIcJzqOdvZFoXyFaeL8FP6BMXcplBo9hvMbDwRjpeqqfvNhWM1T2h5wG0FYOMO/s1600/ribbontrimcurtains.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiraW6lu-mO-i5FV-qTI7rziG12r93UjgRx6aPdb_bXQE_4oEUkDLFyl7vtG9diJCfthg7MmscVzdkoa2FIcJzqOdvZFoXyFaeL8FP6BMXcplBo9hvMbDwRjpeqqfvNhWM1T2h5wG0FYOMO/s640/ribbontrimcurtains.jpg" width="579" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-B9sPjmqRicLzE_dhSmRJSNsE6CpZsHjbzAbw0N_QjIOK7Gk1zif3E-94cWTnzla2bfy3-GoPEe4bvg-LBGpjd0kMVX0eJUisY00zQK4FqhDUEgD-gDm3V7pvrQAIQOZFRd3tepvwEOwt/s1600/ribbontrimcurtain3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-B9sPjmqRicLzE_dhSmRJSNsE6CpZsHjbzAbw0N_QjIOK7Gk1zif3E-94cWTnzla2bfy3-GoPEe4bvg-LBGpjd0kMVX0eJUisY00zQK4FqhDUEgD-gDm3V7pvrQAIQOZFRd3tepvwEOwt/s640/ribbontrimcurtain3.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjV1tDxvZ32IFXl_u6jA9QlTvA4tvlYV3C9_D5YlNWgl1REM7D_qNmycPyxD4hn9hb5jYkG1BIZBnQafXq9RbFpb6EyXIHQKjFvtj0PHiU0INdgTZ2TjCSj3H6E-XEh32tNCADNd_DNLWFq/s1600/bluediningroom.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjV1tDxvZ32IFXl_u6jA9QlTvA4tvlYV3C9_D5YlNWgl1REM7D_qNmycPyxD4hn9hb5jYkG1BIZBnQafXq9RbFpb6EyXIHQKjFvtj0PHiU0INdgTZ2TjCSj3H6E-XEh32tNCADNd_DNLWFq/s640/bluediningroom.jpg" width="628" /></a></div><br />Can't show you the right side of the dining room as there are some other projects over that'a way that I'm finishing up. Soon enough my friends.<br /><br />So spill it. Have you been so inspired by an image that you needed to create something right away? Is there an old magazine article that is burned into your brain? Have you ever used 33 yards of ribbon?

DIY ribbon trim curtain panels

So since my wrist has been giving me troubles, I've had a chance to catch up on other things; like gardening, reading, butter churning. You know, vintage pre-computer things. I even got out my old design binders. Those glorious files of tear sheet af…

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Emeril and Jay's Chicken White Bean Sausage Rice Stew

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /><div class="MsoNormal">Hola and welcome to Chez Jay’s! On tonight’s menu is my version of Emeril’s Chicken, White Bean, Sausage and Rice Stew. <o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEWvLY_3i2pz3-wHnPhqm_DifR_invuz1ECbbfJC2rMbXhLstynVgxev95MxYg6Va_knuLgnBsYEpBdehlpj1gSiKsIQIdBaM1z_lhjf5XYFRXjkIbM4EJtcR_wYKAPhD_vpaFOLg_QBc/s1600/Emeril-Jay-Sexy-Chef-Cook.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="259" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEWvLY_3i2pz3-wHnPhqm_DifR_invuz1ECbbfJC2rMbXhLstynVgxev95MxYg6Va_knuLgnBsYEpBdehlpj1gSiKsIQIdBaM1z_lhjf5XYFRXjkIbM4EJtcR_wYKAPhD_vpaFOLg_QBc/s320/Emeril-Jay-Sexy-Chef-Cook.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal"><o:p><br /></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal">The first thing to do is soak the white beans for at least three hours. The longer the better though so I pour them in the pan to soak right before bed and let them soak overnight.<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWWIFJ-cWJ7nWGGrWXNTILUMkbIgBSn35IQYDKJUP-vK-I9c5hrg95l8AXDCpytO41lLtB0rnAVVr-Vm4Qb75aYni_IMYMSA_rhEz6b_nC8_dEsXuOCl3ay5DtGxnsYUn47baPiU6x208/s1600/beans.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWWIFJ-cWJ7nWGGrWXNTILUMkbIgBSn35IQYDKJUP-vK-I9c5hrg95l8AXDCpytO41lLtB0rnAVVr-Vm4Qb75aYni_IMYMSA_rhEz6b_nC8_dEsXuOCl3ay5DtGxnsYUn47baPiU6x208/s320/beans.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">When it comes time to make the stew, pour just a bit of Olive Oil in the bottom of a big pot that’s been heated up on medium. Then put our four skin-on, bone-in chicken breasts seasoned with a little Cavenders (or Emeril’s Essence if you prefer) and maybe a little salt and ground pepper to taste in the hot pan skin side down. They cook for about 5 minutes or until they’re brown. Then turn them over and cook the other side also until brown.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMtfTmnaYCojGkVL4IBBK-bL56TOdkfACwP7LC-QWHLUIROXUfibIcplKP80OTIS0ZNbr7kg_da8HPYSzKyuP0YrG9wWgdZHDGzbXmyps0YxQ8gCVzOr846i2m8lU9LZZcrQKsH_AkqgQ/s1600/chicken.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMtfTmnaYCojGkVL4IBBK-bL56TOdkfACwP7LC-QWHLUIROXUfibIcplKP80OTIS0ZNbr7kg_da8HPYSzKyuP0YrG9wWgdZHDGzbXmyps0YxQ8gCVzOr846i2m8lU9LZZcrQKsH_AkqgQ/s320/chicken.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /> <div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">Then remove the chicken and put about one pound sliced smoked sausage (or Andouille if you prefer) in and cook it until it’s well caramelized. Then throw in the chopped onion, green pepper and celery and let them cook until soft. Then some minced or chopped garlic. Only let the garlic cook for about 30 seconds or so cause you don’t want it to burn.<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi85R6aL4CF3TwYQSAl5z2mb8AfJIE1uvIC__O3T_3q8xHeTlNKpBtuXDi1ysVhUyy-xBZSs7nTSlOPpvnXVE_b6Z9SCKB0eiBtIdlw0dPG0DZ2nCjTF_n0yISnCsb4f_ITR1phZfNQ05A/s1600/Ingredients.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi85R6aL4CF3TwYQSAl5z2mb8AfJIE1uvIC__O3T_3q8xHeTlNKpBtuXDi1ysVhUyy-xBZSs7nTSlOPpvnXVE_b6Z9SCKB0eiBtIdlw0dPG0DZ2nCjTF_n0yISnCsb4f_ITR1phZfNQ05A/s320/Ingredients.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">Now pour 64 ounces of chicken broth, the beans (drained), some thyme and a bay leaf in there and bring to a boil and then reduce the heat to a simmer or small boil and cook for ONE HOUR.<br /><br />Now put the chicken back into the pot with all the ingredients in there getin’ happy! You can toss in a little more salt and pepper or more Essence if you use that or even Cavenders here if you want.<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjw1yFTYiTkGwXfUmg-5rgyE4DQp9sJpAI2WXUoN_bhLppcflEiwvyLNxAeqDXzxjxVksBBc91WO1f-wqU3EP472wWIaSml6BncgxMDLVUu5eNM7MOjqmMgVwSGMaGl7P-NhssmLCBd5Dw/s1600/chicken+broth+ingredients.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjw1yFTYiTkGwXfUmg-5rgyE4DQp9sJpAI2WXUoN_bhLppcflEiwvyLNxAeqDXzxjxVksBBc91WO1f-wqU3EP472wWIaSml6BncgxMDLVUu5eNM7MOjqmMgVwSGMaGl7P-NhssmLCBd5Dw/s320/chicken+broth+ingredients.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">Cook for another hour then make sure the chicken is cooked all the way through and the beans are soft and tender. (If the beans are not soft, cook a little longer, but since you DID remember to soak the beans overnight that shouldn’t be problem, right?)<br /><br />When the stew is done make some rice. I just use the minute rice, but you can make whatever you like.<br /><br />Then serve the chicken and stew over rice and ... <b><i>BAM!</i></b> You have my version of Emeril’s Chicken, White Bean, Sausage and Rice Stew!<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVAFHR2tAsnFegGyS-n5s8FbnlTxEGeLQCpp11698gkS0OPpJ1itYRjLZUwlB5guMUwhuVddmkQH9vRUyrIcTrHiIJj3JMp0zdojl_yBqrE6zbbWRhuU8ZdRTLLYzaUhmhQInIe4VgJq4/s1600/chicken-white-bean-sausage-rice-stew.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVAFHR2tAsnFegGyS-n5s8FbnlTxEGeLQCpp11698gkS0OPpJ1itYRjLZUwlB5guMUwhuVddmkQH9vRUyrIcTrHiIJj3JMp0zdojl_yBqrE6zbbWRhuU8ZdRTLLYzaUhmhQInIe4VgJq4/s320/chicken-white-bean-sausage-rice-stew.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">If you want, you can always pull all the cooked chicken breast meat off the bone and kind of shred it up and throw it back into the pot. Then toss some rice in there instead of cooking it separately. Maybe ½ cup? 1 cup? Not too much or it will soak up all your liquid! Then you could serve it in bowls like a real stew. Just play around with it and be creative! <o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><a href="mailto:Jayman3768@gmail.com">Jayman3768@gmail.com</a><br /><a href="http://facebook.com/Jayman68" target="_blank">Facebook.com/Jayman68</a><br /><a href="http://www.twitter.com/jayman_iws" target="_blank">@Jayman_IWS</a><o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div></div>

Emeril and Jay's Chicken White Bean Sausage Rice Stew

Hola and welcome to Chez Jay’s! On tonight’s menu is my version of Emeril’s Chicken, White Bean, Sausage and Rice Stew. The first thing to do is soak the white beans for at least three hours. The longer the better though so I pour them in the pan to …

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Senior Algorithm Engineer ( C++/OOD/ Algorithms / Mathematics / Computational Electromagnetics ) (#109416)

<font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt;"> <div><b>Position</b>: Senior Algorithm Engineer<br> <b>Location</b>: Milpitas, CA <br> <b>Duration</b>: Full time<br> <br> <b>Job Description</b>:<br> The Film and Scatterometry Technology (FaST) Division provides industry leading metrology solutions for worldwide semiconductor IC manufacturers. The FaST Division portfolio of metrology products includes hardware and software solutions for optical film thickness, optical critical dimension (CD), composition, and resistivity measurement systems. These products are essential for the IC manufacturers as they provide critical metrology capabilities for the development and implementation of their advanced IC processes. The FaST division is committed to support our customers to achieve performance entitlement of our solution and we effectively partner with our customers from their early research and development phase to the high volume in-line manufacturing implementation specific for their process needs. The division consists of a global team located in US, Israel, China, and India.<br> <br> <b>Responsibilities:</b></div> <div>Demonstrate ability in scientific programming; strong background in applied mathematics, computational electromagnetics (field theory), and knowledge of optical modeling especially as applied to scatterometry and thin film metrology.  Knowledge of reflectometry and spectroscopic ellipsometry a plus.</div> <div> </div> <div>Works on complex problems that impact the design success of current products or addresses broad design issues of future products or technologies. Tasks include: define future product development strategy, develop a problem statement, research into particular solutions, develop code, and test prototypes; design, code, and test/integrate into tool product software. The candidate will be responsible for developing and improving algorithms, measurement capabilities, system optical models, calibrations development, and analysis tools for optical metrology applications.</div> <div> </div> <div><b>Preferred Qualifications:</b></div> <div>PhD in Computational Physics highly desired with 9 yrs industrial experience.</div> <div>Proficiency in computational methods, C++, and object oriented design.</div> <div> </div> <div><b>Minimum Qualifications:</b></div> <div>PhD in Physics with 9 yrs industrial experience.</div> <div>Proficiency in C++, and object oriented design. <br> <br> Kindly send your resumes to<font color="navy"> </font><a href="mailto:Sivaram.bose@kla-tencor.com"><font color="navy"><u>Sivaram.bose@kla-tencor.com</u></font></a></div> <div style="margin-top:5pt;margin-bottom:5pt;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"> </span></font></div> <div style="margin-top:5pt;margin-bottom:5pt;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"> </span></font></div> </span></font>

Senior Algorithm Engineer ( C++/OOD/ Algorithms / Mathematics / Computational Electromagnetics ) (#109416)

Position: Senior Algorithm Engineer Location: Milpitas, CA Duration: Full time Job Description: The Film and Scatterometry Technology (FaST) Division provides industry leading metrology solutions for worldwide semiconductor IC manu…

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H.P.P.D.: A Trip That Doesn't End : The New Yorker

Early one night in the fall of 1987, a college freshman ate half of a microdot of lysergic acid diethylamide on his way to a party. He was young, but more than a little familiar with mind-altering chemicals: LSD, mescaline, psilocybin, and other, less common psychedelics. This trip, by comparison, turned out to be only a "mild experience." The tingling euphoria, splendid visuals, and sudden bursts of insight mostly wore off by the time he retired to his dorm. But the following morning, some effects still remained.<br /><br><br /><br>"I opened my eyes to see what time it was," he said, on the condition of anonymity. "As I looked away, I immediately realized that the light from the digital clock was streaking." Throughout the day, other signatures of the hallucinogen high struck him. When he shifted his gaze from a page he was reading, a ghostly afterimage of the text materialized in the air, hanging legibly for a few moments. When he turned a page, a long cascading series of replicas trailed behind, like a stroboscopic photograph.<br /><br><br /><br>The streaking and trailing and after-imaging persisted for days. He began to panic. "I really lost it," he said. "I was sitting in one of my first college classes and, like, hallucinating." He met with psychologists, who could discern little. He called his parents, who could discern less. He became unhinged, wandering campus in a daze, squinting at the world as if through a kaleidoscope. "I broke down," he said. "I could no longer go to class. I couldn't do anything." He quit school, moved back home, and entered rehab. His search for a diagnosis came up empty: no underlying medical condition, nor had the drug been laced with something sinister. Weeks, months, then years went by. The trip just wouldn't end.<br /><br><br /><br>Psychedelic lore is littered with cautionary tales. But it remains to be seen whether reports of hallucinogen persisting perception disorder—quite literally, the persistence of hallucinogen-induced perceptions—should count among them. Hallucinogens are enjoying something of a revival: the drugs are being tried recreationally by nearly one in five American adults(approaching that of the nineteen-sixties), while being tested empirically for their powers to heal alcoholism and other addictions, anxieties from impending death, P.T.S.D., major depression, and even cluster headaches. Reading too much into H.P.P.D., some say, could squelch the renewed intrigue—even though, to some extent, the risk factors, causes, and effective treatments remain a mystery. Others, though, suspect that unraveling this mysterious disorder could reveal clues for the more familiar ones. According to Dr. Henry Abraham, a lecturer in psychiatry at Tufts University School of Medicine who privately sees patients with substance-related disorders, neurophysiological shifts observed in H.P.P.D. patients "may yield useful models for anxiety, depression, psychosis, and even addiction."<br /><br><br /><br>A chronic and debilitating condition, H.P.P.D. warps the perceptual faculties: the external senses are marred by a constellation of mostly visual distortions, while the internal ones are paralyzed by a concoction of dissociative symptoms, panic attacks, and depression. The doors of perception are not so much cleansed, as Aldous Huxley famously found after his first experience on mescaline, as they are cracked open and left askew.<br /><br><br /><br>H.P.P.D. does not generate hallucinations, technically speaking. Sufferers can appreciate that their perceptual aberrations are unreal—that their surroundings only appear blurred by afterimages (palinopsia) and trails (akinetopsia); shimmered by sparkles and flashed by bright bolts of light; interrupted by transparent blobs of color floating around; electrified by visual snow; magnified or shrunk by "Alice-in-Wonderland" symptoms; adorned by halos around objects, around people's heads. The pseudo-hallucinations are ultimately unconvincing, if deeply unsettling.<br /><br><br /><br>Eventually, a sense of permanent unreality casts a pall over the acid-fuelled dreamscape, and sufferers disassociate—from the world, due to derealization, and from themselves, due to depersonalization. At a recent Society of Biological Psychiatry conference, Dr. Abraham presented findings, later published in the S.B.P. 2012 supplement, that suggest up to sixty-five per cent of H.P.P.D patients chronically endure panic attacks, and fifty per cent, major depression. Some patients feel their only relief is suicide.<br /><br><br /><br>The cluster of symptoms first appeared in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders in 1986. Ever since, the official diagnosis has been lumped together with "flashbacks." Brief fragments of a trip that occasionally bubble up to one's consciousness, flashbacks may arise from sudden spikes in the cerebral cortex—stirring perceptions, sensations, or emotions mimicking those of the hallucinogen high, in the absence of any chemical. But as the term has been popularized, flashback has been rendered "virtually useless" diagnostically, writes Dr. John Halpern, an assistant professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and lead author of the most recent literature review of H.P.P.D. In the review, published in Drug and Alcohol Dependence, Dr. Halpern reasons that by conflating two distinct diagnoses, a strict definition of H.P.P.D. has remained elusive, leaving its prevalence obscured. Yet, "it seems inescapable," he concludes, based on twenty related studies dating back to 1966, "that at least some individuals who have used LSD, in particular, experience persistent perceptual abnormalities reminiscent of acute intoxication, not better attributable to another medical or psychiatric condition."<br /><br><br /><br>Peer-reviewed accounts of drug users whose world had been transfigured permanently can be found as early as 1983, prefiguring the initial D.S.M. entry. In a case-control study of a hundred and twenty-three LSD users, Abraham was among the first to catalogue reports from those who flashed psychedelic and never turned off: a struggling shoe salesman whose dark-brown pairs bled into the navy-blues; a confused student whose text jumbled into "alphabet soup"; a distracted office worker whose flower pot slid back and forth along the windowsill. "This isn't flashbacks," said Abraham. "We have to call it what it is: a persisting perception disorder."<br /><br><br /><br>Preliminary estimates of the prevalence of H.P.P.D. dismissed the disorder as an outlier, implicating as few as one in fifty thousand hallucinogen users. The most recent large-scale survey, questioning nearly twenty-five hundred users, found that over one in twenty-five were considering treatment for H.P.P.D.-like symptoms. But because participants, recruited from the popular drug information Web site Erowid, did not represent the average dabbler, and because only a small portion of them had actively sought medical care, the tally remains somewhat inconclusive. "Unfortunately," writes Halpern, assessing the scant literature, "the data do not permit us to estimate, even crudely, the prevalence of 'strict' H.P.P.D."<br /><br><br /><br>If "strict" cases of H.P.P.D. turn up only rarely in scientific journals, though, at HPPDonline.com, a Web forum tracking research developments and connecting sufferers, nearly nine thousand monthly visitors give some indication of what lies beyond the academic purview. They report burning and throbbing and numbing and tingling. They claim that surfaces undulate ("breathing walls"), objects vanish ("they mix with the floor"), and beams of light splinter into shards of extended rays ("star-bursting"). They share encounters that seem inexplicable—"fluids flowing down from my left temple," "a chemical aftertaste"—and plead for the group's insight. They raise suspicions: "Every time I walk past a certain type of tree the leaves begin to shake." They despair: "I hear my brain."<br /><br><br /><br>And they may be making their symptoms worse. While H.P.P.D. sufferers do misperceive their environment, some researchers suspect that severe anxiety—perhaps an underlying condition—aggravates those misperceptions. As noted by Matthew Baggott, a postdoctoral fellow in psychiatric genetics at University of Chicago, fMRI studies generally show close links between the attention and visual systems.<br /><br><br /><br>Such observations have raised doubt over whether hallucinogens are the root cause of the disorder, and even whether H.P.P.D. is a bona-fide diagnosis. "The more you focus on the condition, the more it spirals out of control," said Halpern. "So sufferers must practice letting go, which most Americans tend to struggle with." In one study of five hundred Native American Church members, each of whom had taken peyote hundreds, even thousands of times, no H.P.P.D.-like symptoms were reported. "Our culture is still evolving to deal with what it means to be intoxicated by these substances," Halpern reasons. "H.P.P.D. may be an incomplete description of the syndrome."<br /><br><br /><br>But if H.P.P.D. is to some extent self-perpetuated—perhaps by a naïve culture, perhaps by anxiety-prone individuals—it is not self-induced. Running a battery of standard neurological tests on dozens of H.P.P.D. patients throughout the nineteen-eighties and early nineties, Abraham and co-authors Dr. Frank Hopkins Duffy, a neurologist, and Ernst Wolf, a neuroscientist, found evidence suggesting the flow of impulses through the central nervous system has been chronically altered. When a light is flipped on, the brain still registers darkness for a while; when a light flickers, it registers a steady beam; when an array of colors is presented, it confuses those in proximity. Jennifer Groh, a professor of psychology and neuroscience and the director of the Neural Basis of Perception Lab at Duke University, has extensively investigated the visual-processing system. While she has not studied H.P.P.D. specifically, Groh has found that the brain is generally unable to distinguish stimuli according to their source; even a single stimulus, artificially induced over and over, is treated as genuine and novel. The so-called staircase-of-eye-movements effect, Groh reasons, would predict some of the symptoms—at least the trailing, after-imaging, and poor darkness adaptation—observed in H.P.P.D. patients. "Their brain may not recognize the stimuli as simply the same repeated request," she says.<br /><br><br /><br>Consistent with Groh's findings, Abraham offers his own account of why H.P.P.D. causes sensory input to linger within neural circuitry, firing even after the stimulus is gone. "What we have proven through psychophysics, electrophysiology, and quantitative analysis," said Abraham, "is that when the brain of an H.P.P.D. person is stimulated by some perceptual force in the environment, mostly visual, the stimulus is disinhibited." Objects of perception, in other words, are not readily disengaged, breaking up an ordinarily seamless flow of conscious experience. If the brain is like a paintbrush, then H.P.P.D. appears to make the bristles sticky, and the old stimuli—colors, shapes, and motions—muddy the new.<br /><br><br /><br>Frank Durgin, a professor of psychology and the director of the Perception and Cognition Lab at Swarthmore College, affirmed that Abraham's theory holds promise. "The disinhibition hypothesis is pretty safe as a generic account," said Durgin. "There is a lot of inhibition involved in normal perception. Failure to distinguish and inhibit noise signals is a reasonable first guess about a variety of hallucinogenic effects." The theory seems to be consistent with the current science of perception, according to Irving Biederman, a professor of neuroscience and the director of the Image Understanding Laboratory at the University of Southern California. A healthy brain, Biederman explained, is bathed in inhibitory neurotransmitters—gamma-aminobutyric acid, primarily—in order to mute mild perceptual noise (like visual distortions), and ultimately to safeguard against full-blown cacophony (like seizures). H.P.P.D. patients, he offered, might have "done something structurally to those interneurons, causing perceptual noise to exceed the threshold." (According to some scientists, most psychoactive drugs, including psychiatric medications, can alter the brain's neural structure.) While neither Durgin nor Biederman study such rare perceptual disorders as H.P.P.D., their expertise is illustrative: the symptoms of H.P.P.D. are just the kind of perceptions ordinarily present in the brain, only occluded—or inhibited—from consciousness.<br /><br><br /><br>What is least known about H.P.P.D. is treatment. "Unfortunately," Halpern writes, "the literature on this point remains largely anecdotal." Options are limited: palliative care from more drugs (benzodiazepines and anti-epileptics), adjustment through psychotherapy (of the cognitive-behavioral or straight-talking variety), a pair of sunglasses. While the college freshman, now middle-aged, is celebrated by his psychiatrist as "the poster child for healthy adaptation to the disorder," healthy adaptation is no cure.<br /><br><br /><br>One day several years ago, he was taking a draw from a cigarette after work when he noticed, for the second time, a sudden shift in his vision. He had finally gotten his life on track—securing a degree, starting a family, building a career—and had managed to bury his past. He occasionally struggled to read fine print, especially late at night, and became disoriented by lane markings, especially on an overcast day. ("And when I smelled pot, I ran for the hills," he said.) But if his inner life was disfigured, few—not even his wife—could tell. Until, he recalls, "something clicked."<br /><br><br /><br>What happened next was a blur. "The visuals got ramped up, like somebody raised the volume," he says. "I was sent back immediately into panic mode, going through the emotional roller-coaster ride that I did back in college." Tremors of panic that had been stamped out were swiftly rekindled. "I fell off the grid for a week," he says. He began fearing, perhaps as many others with mental illness do, that the spectre of madness can be raised without warning, that "you may never make it out."<br /><br><br /><br><a href="http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/elements/2013/05/a-trip-that-lasts-forever.html">http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/elements/2013/05/a-trip-that-lasts-forever.html</a>

H.P.P.D.: A Trip That Doesn't End : The New Yorker

Early one night in the fall of 1987, a college freshman ate half of a microdot of lysergic acid diethylamide on his way to a party. He was young, but more than a little familiar with mind-altering chemicals: LSD, mescaline, psilocybin, and other, les…

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Library Media Specialist .5 FTE - Wilton High School

<strong>Library Media Specialist .5 FTE - </strong><strong><strong><span style="color: #48286d;">Wilton High School</span></strong></strong>. Position Type: High School Teaching. Closing Date: until filled. Date Available: 7/1/2013. Strong information and technology literacy skills. Experience managing Destiny, Overdrive and web pages. Collaborative approach to working with certified and classified staff. Experience working with high school students preferred. Appropriate CT certification required.

Library Media Specialist .5 FTE - Wilton High School

Library Media Specialist .5 FTE - Wilton High School. Position Type: High School Teaching. Closing Date: until filled. Date Available: 7/1/2013. Strong information and technology literacy skills. Experience managing Destiny, Overdrive and web page…

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Tuesday, Tuesday

<span style="font-weight: bold;"><a href="http://www.archidose.org/wp/">A Weekly Dose of Architecture</a> Updates:</span><br /><br />This week's dose features <a href="http://archidose.org/wp/2013/05/21/the-public-theater/">The Public Theater</a> in New York City by Ennead Architects:<br /><a href="http://archidose.org/wp/2013/05/21/the-public-theater/"><img alt="this week's dose" src="http://archidose.org/wp/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/May13-20.jpg" title="This week's dose" width="640" /></a><br /><br />The featured past dose is <a href="http://www.archidose.org/Feb05/022105.html">Clinton Library</a> in Little Rock, Arkansas by Ennead Architects:<br /><a href="http://www.archidose.org/Feb05/022105.html"><img alt="this week's dose" src="http://www.archidose.org/Feb05/clinton1.jpg" title="featured past dose" width="640" /></a><br /><br />This week's book review is <a href="http://archidose.org/wp/2013/05/21/where-are-the-utopian-visionaries/"><i>Where Are the Utopian Visionaries?: Architecture of Social Exchange</i></a> edited by Hansy Better Barraza (L):<br /><a href="http://archidose.org/wp/2013/05/21/where-are-the-utopian-visionaries/"><img alt="this week's book review" height="300" src="http://archidose.org/wp/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/book-utopians.jpg" title="This week's book review" /></a> <a href="http://archidose.org/wp/2004/07/19/the-illegal-architect/"><img alt="this week's book review" height="300" src="http://archidose.org/wp/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/illegal.jpg" title="This week's book review" /></a><br />(R): The featured past book review is <a href="http://archidose.org/wp/2004/07/19/the-illegal-architect/"><i>The Illegal Architect</i></a> by Jonathan Hill.<br /><br />: : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : :<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">American-Architects <a href="http://www.american-architects.com/en/pages/50x50">Building of the Week</a>:</span><br /><br /><a href="http://www.american-architects.com/en/projects/project-current-review/41320_robinson_nature_center">Robinson Nature Center</a> in Columbia, Maryland, by GWWO Inc./Architects:<br /><a href="http://www.american-architects.com/en/projects/project-current-review/41320_robinson_nature_center"><img alt="this week's Building of the Week" src="http://c214210.r10.cf3.rackcdn.com/files/projects/41320/images/900:w/Robinson2.jpg" title="Current Building of the Week on american-architects.com" width="640" /></a>

Tuesday, Tuesday

A Weekly Dose of Architecture Updates:This week's dose features The Public Theater in New York City by Ennead Architects:The featured past dose is Clinton Library in Little Rock, Arkansas by Ennead Architects:This week's book review is Where Are the …

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Of New York History and New Hollywood Horror...

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEga0aa1gh5c1QXIN9iQIsZOvSiTfHBznDie3PU3XTw0ywJu2Mmv196jexj33piC22oqrfuqiYnyNl6iTfG8tso1uZqDmSkR8BZRqsQP6i9KoxY0xUma2WsPe1DSWUU4BXm4mYhPpLWVp-Y/s1600/dakota_nighttime2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEga0aa1gh5c1QXIN9iQIsZOvSiTfHBznDie3PU3XTw0ywJu2Mmv196jexj33piC22oqrfuqiYnyNl6iTfG8tso1uZqDmSkR8BZRqsQP6i9KoxY0xUma2WsPe1DSWUU4BXm4mYhPpLWVp-Y/s1600/dakota_nighttime2.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="color: #660000;"><span id="goog_365158183"></span><span id="goog_365158184"></span></span></span></span><br /><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="color: #660000;">EDWARD CLARK'S "FOLLY"</span> </span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The address, One West 72nd Street, may not register with <span style="font-size: small;">many who live outside the city of New York, but the name of the building a<span style="font-size: small;">t the corner of 72nd Street and Central Park West is more familiar.  The Dakota, a famed luxury co-op on the <span style="font-size: small;">Upper West Side, has been home to many high profile luminaries, served as<span style="font-size: small;"> the setting for one of Roman Polanski's best known films, and was the site of a<span style="font-size: small;">n</span> infamous murder in 1980<span style="font-size: small;">.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br /><br /><a name='more'></a><br /><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;">Posh apartment houses designed expressly for the well-heeled were rare in New York in 1880, when construction of the Dakota began. Apartment housing at that time and place was mainly associated with tenements and lower class living, but in the late 1860s the <a href="http://www.nyhistory.org/community/first-apartment-building"><span style="color: red;">Stuyvesant</span></a> building opened. It attracted the reasonably well-to-do in droves and soon more such residences were in the works.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br /><br /><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipDCy4g6JWMMwMiTgVMyyEOQ1KSIxoT0o3XT2w_iOSXraMSWa6zb80NGoSQQRoDIdU6w0y3fuMmYakiVjc-tW72hjZ1P8op8_iratc7wixfwypywbsS0yE-F-2jg4Y6MX5_FVCpKSBdKk/s1600/Dakota_by_Richard_Britell2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="313" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipDCy4g6JWMMwMiTgVMyyEOQ1KSIxoT0o3XT2w_iOSXraMSWa6zb80NGoSQQRoDIdU6w0y3fuMmYakiVjc-tW72hjZ1P8op8_iratc7wixfwypywbsS0yE-F-2jg4Y6MX5_FVCpKSBdKk/s400/Dakota_by_Richard_Britell2.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">The Dakota by Richard Britell</span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;">The lot on which the Dakota would stand was in an area that was then largely undeveloped - both far north and west of what was considered the city's boundaries. And though the building would face Central Park, that region of the park had yet to be landscaped or developed. In fact, the street that was to become Central Park West was still but a dirt road. Astonishingly, all 65 of the Dakota's 4- to 20-room apartments were rented by the time its doors opened in late 1884; from that day until the stock market crash of 1929, there was not even one vacancy in the building.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br /><div style="text-align: right;"></div><br /><div style="text-align: left;"></div><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEkXAZpIe3oSEEHTlsUw03YJf-z2TaRqidn5c2u4MNomRaf8AjB3XEwwc-lepp5ZHNWK-F3cl_FCVh6_5xQbA1JVVTjJeYrLRl6PIKDy0gbiFqRTDZX-78EQhWo4Q521hc7Pgq3-u95w4/s1600/dakota_railing_detail.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="205" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEkXAZpIe3oSEEHTlsUw03YJf-z2TaRqidn5c2u4MNomRaf8AjB3XEwwc-lepp5ZHNWK-F3cl_FCVh6_5xQbA1JVVTjJeYrLRl6PIKDy0gbiFqRTDZX-78EQhWo4Q521hc7Pgq3-u95w4/s320/dakota_railing_detail.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Dakota railing detail</span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;">Edward Clark, an attorney who made a great fortune as partner to Isaac M. Singer in the Singer Sewing Machine Company, conceived and built the Dakota. He hired architect Henry Hardenburgh (the Waldorf-Astoria, the Plaza Hotel), then early in his career at age 32, to design the building. The project would establish Hardenburgh's reputation. Massive and extravagant, the Dakota's e<span style="font-size: small;">xterior<span style="font-size: small;"> </span>was an</span> eclectic interpretation of German Renaissance style while the interior reflected French architectural influences then popular in New York. In his 1970 illustrated novel <i>Time and Again</i>, </span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/6944.Jack_Finney"><span style="color: red;">Jack Finney</span></a></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: red;"> <span style="color: black;">wrote of the Dakota's "pale yellow<span style="font-size: small;"> brick handsomely trimmed in chocolate-colored stone," of its roof "li<span style="font-size: small;">ke a miniature town<span style="font-size: small;">...<span style="font-size: small;">of gables, turrets, pyramids, towers, peaks" shingled in copper-trimmed slate and "peppered with uncountable windows, dormer and flush, square, round, and rectangular." Sadly, Edward C<span style="font-size: small;">lark would not live to see the completion of the Dakota<span style="font-size: small;"> and his own sumptuous apartment in the building would be bestowed upon<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"> his 12-year-old grandson and heir. </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br /><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlKSuc8OrLhy4AvnX05a9ks_it4d6iFF2eSyLoBikx996s3CZb5hJLiZzLgXx6Rmsk1d1u0Ax_IomW_CgwBU2YGg0_nzAOOkKi1LzjPEz8QJPROR1P8q7KtRw9wHsvMgF3wvH-T0QY3do/s1600/Bernstein%2527s+Piano.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlKSuc8OrLhy4AvnX05a9ks_it4d6iFF2eSyLoBikx996s3CZb5hJLiZzLgXx6Rmsk1d1u0Ax_IomW_CgwBU2YGg0_nzAOOkKi1LzjPEz8QJPROR1P8q7KtRw9wHsvMgF3wvH-T0QY3do/s1600/Bernstein%2527s+Piano.jpg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Leonard Bernstein's piano in his Dakota apartment</span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0o4djfHfufSJh7zr1hoh3tFGu7g9NenANkDjsstdo07h0YiWZhKWIBSLNG0bMp2PXXic47l_IsTTZwb0t0auepBhiZCNkJ71TYZ8gyKnAeSgb-WewrGLfmtBrnCUg5gQhe2kaSHGct_g/s1600/Robert+Ryan+at+the+Dakota+1969.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0o4djfHfufSJh7zr1hoh3tFGu7g9NenANkDjsstdo07h0YiWZhKWIBSLNG0bMp2PXXic47l_IsTTZwb0t0auepBhiZCNkJ71TYZ8gyKnAeSgb-WewrGLfmtBrnCUg5gQhe2kaSHGct_g/s320/Robert+Ryan+at+the+Dakota+1969.jpg" width="213" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Robert Ryan in his home at the Dakota (later</span><br /><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">purchased by John Lennon and Yoko Ono) </span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;">Once the Great Depression took hold following the market crash, several of the Dakota's large apartments were broken up into smaller ones and years later, in 1961, the building became a <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/07/realestate/the-idea-behind-the-co-op-building.html"><span style="color: red;">co-operative</span></a>.  Over its long history, the residence served as home to many notables of  stage, screen and other lively and literary arts. The first actor to move into the Dakota came in the late '30s; he was William Henry Pratt, better known as Boris Karloff. Others would include Lillian Gish, Judy Garland, Lauren Bacall (with and without Jason Robards, Jr.), Judy Holliday, Jose Ferrer and Rosemary Clooney, Teresa Wright, Robert Ryan, Zero Mostel, Jack Palance, Gwen Verdon, Zachary Scott and Patrick O'Neal. Composer/conductor Leonard Bernstein lived at the Dakota, as did dancer Rudolf Nureyev, playwright William Inge, director John Frankenheimer, <a href="http://www.classicfilmtvcafe.com/2010/12/ted-ashleywarner-brothersand-new.html"><span style="color: red;">Warner Bros. exec Ted Ashley</span></a>, CBS News legend Edward R. Murrow, singer Roberta Flack, feminist/writer Betty Friedan and interior decorator Syrie Maugham, one-time wife of author W. Somerset. John Lennon, founding member of the Beatles and beloved cultural icon, is perhaps the most widely known of all the Dakota's famed residents.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br /><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7vOIS1rxClW94f85JwDq2JR3GPEJiVD4wbXgcKbhCnTMGx4rMVZ_lkCe52YX-Q3CsZGe_j52SLSsiQsthMOp6l2X3q93M9ycy4ASnBcp8HjOqQZQt7FKPiuS9GJx04h5AcPK1jrVOvHY/s1600/john_sean_dakota.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="258" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7vOIS1rxClW94f85JwDq2JR3GPEJiVD4wbXgcKbhCnTMGx4rMVZ_lkCe52YX-Q3CsZGe_j52SLSsiQsthMOp6l2X3q93M9ycy4ASnBcp8HjOqQZQt7FKPiuS9GJx04h5AcPK1jrVOvHY/s320/john_sean_dakota.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">John and Sean Lennon in their Dakota kitchen</span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">As with many structures of gothic appearance, the Dakota weathered rumors of supernatural incidents and ghost stories. Movie critic and Dakota resident Rex Reed recalled that a doorman warned him early on to expect to see Boris Karloff's ghost. Strange and unexplained events were witnessed below ground, in the basement and, for a brief period, a so-called "Phantom of the Dakota" vandalized the building and spooked its inhabitants. But it was only with the release of Roman Polanski's <i>Rosemary's Baby</i> (1968), set and partially shot at the Dakota, that the building's reputation for quirkiness and opulence took on a decidedly dark facet. With the deadly 1980 shooting of John Lennon at the building's front gate, the incomprehensible and horrifying became real.</span> </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFovWMtn0aKaKW52EABAdmeCOqOzR_YWszXwwKvUm8WwcmXHDfd_moy0usbfS4KB8uqCgfLdXDGu2IxEZex0Jrs5vu4Hs49i9sei-J7ipwFadRoidRAZjwh4-1XgMtfECCjUzx5QN1YFE/s1600/Lauren+Bacall.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="244" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFovWMtn0aKaKW52EABAdmeCOqOzR_YWszXwwKvUm8WwcmXHDfd_moy0usbfS4KB8uqCgfLdXDGu2IxEZex0Jrs5vu4Hs49i9sei-J7ipwFadRoidRAZjwh4-1XgMtfECCjUzx5QN1YFE/s320/Lauren+Bacall.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Long-time Dakota resident Lauren Bacall at home in 2011</span></td></tr></tbody></table><div style="text-align: left;"></div><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #660000;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">ROSEMARY'S BAB<span style="font-size: small;">Y</span> </span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span> </span></span></span></span></span></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlK43rxxt3i6t8F5NOeXuGjFW0b5yTNqiP4MIjjUKcJ6AN5txZrtrzy8ADmyyucabman24-F9vpzDxQ8jeobN73wIJvIspfUfjztfDp2FYv4LM4ZboChkduuK0ggAVigzvTYpx5xNDGL8/s1600/rosemary_new.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlK43rxxt3i6t8F5NOeXuGjFW0b5yTNqiP4MIjjUKcJ6AN5txZrtrzy8ADmyyucabman24-F9vpzDxQ8jeobN73wIJvIspfUfjztfDp2FYv4LM4ZboChkduuK0ggAVigzvTYpx5xNDGL8/s320/rosemary_new.jpg" width="260" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">When Roman Polanski walked into the office of newly appointed Paramount Pictur<span style="font-size: small;">es production head Bob <span style="font-size: small;">Evans for the first time in 1967, he thought he was there to discuss directing <i>Downhill Racer</i>, the project Evans touted when he asked for the meeting. Instead, Evans quickly admitted that, knowing Polanski loved to ski, he'd used the project, the story of a U.S. Olympic team skier, as a lure. What Evans really wanted to talk with Polanski about was directing a film adaptation of <a href="http://www.iralevin.org/"><span style="color: red;">Ira Levin</span></a>'s soon-to-be-published horror thriller, <i>Rosemary's Baby</i>. Evans gave him the printer's galley proofs to take home and look over. In a sitting, Polanski read through Levin's chilling tale of a contemporary Manhattan couple who move into a fabled apartment building - with<span style="font-size: small;"> terrifying<span style="font-size: small;"></span> consequences. He quickly agreed to direct.</span></span></span></span></span><br /><br /><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUkJgm6zBBlMZr2seTo_xnQPgsjH7stbX6pr2xfPB2PC7NalIypmbgXz7BPuOe08U4HMgPdPkLlcnHH2NadCPCdTWkFoZHQeGw6nVeSdksZsNqpTa2uirhJYc_JG_MGI6BKXc7jWnbnLg/s1600/evans_polanski.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="217" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUkJgm6zBBlMZr2seTo_xnQPgsjH7stbX6pr2xfPB2PC7NalIypmbgXz7BPuOe08U4HMgPdPkLlcnHH2NadCPCdTWkFoZHQeGw6nVeSdksZsNqpTa2uirhJYc_JG_MGI6BKXc7jWnbnLg/s320/evans_polanski.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Bob Evans and Roman Polanski</span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;">Why was Evans <span style="font-size: small;">intent upon hiring</span> Polanski <span style="font-size: small;">to direct</span> <i>Rosemary's Baby</i>? William Castle, producer/director of low-budget horror movies, had optioned the screen rights for the book<span style="font-size: small;">. Castle, who had an exclusive contract with the studio, hoped to direct the film himself</span></span></span></span></span></span>.<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> But<span style="font-size: small;"> Evans wasn't interested in making the grade "B" genre fare Castle turned out, pictures like <i>The Tingler </i>(1959), <i>13 Ghosts </i>(1960) and <i>Strait-Jacket </i>(1964). Evans, destined to become a legendary figure in the New Hollywood era, saw <i>Rosemary's Baby</i> as a director's film and his interest was piqued by the Polish director of what he called "three <i>really</i> offbeat thrillers," <i>Knife in the Water </i>(1962), <i>Repulsion </i>(1965) and <i>Cul-de-sac </i>(1966). <i>Knife in the Water</i>, a<span style="font-size: small;"> taut psychological</span> drama that marked Polanski's feature film debut, brought an Oscar nomination for Best Foreign Language Film and international acclaim. <i><span style="font-size: small;">Repulsion </span></i><span style="font-size: small;">starred Catherine Deneuve and <i>Cul-de-sac </i>starred her sister, <a href="http://eves-reel-life.blogspot.com/2013/03/a-birthday-tribute-to-francoise-dorleac.html"><span style="color: red;">Francoise Dorleac</span></a>; both were moody, surreal films that won international a<span style="font-size: small;">wards. Evans believed Polanski's iconoclastic vision might conjure something special and unusual out of Lev<span style="font-size: small;">in's sly, dark fiction<span style="font-size: small;"> and was able to convince Castle to confine himself to the role of producer. Polanski thought Levin's book a "well-constructed thriller," cinematic in nature, and immediately began work on the script, writing from da<span style="font-size: small;">wn</span> to dark for days on end.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br /><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBaVn2eJqcRISHjn2q1UmqjvwTLcgcyx4ovqf3e_gNfUOHQeSSFhTpAkDlVB1o4o2od0xibpD11V1zQh1wPDP00f9sBmpZbbZeNO11D_YI2nG9Y6zBgNVp8Ac-ksFxW7KJg4xzlBBou7o/s1600/Ira_Levin.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="201" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBaVn2eJqcRISHjn2q1UmqjvwTLcgcyx4ovqf3e_gNfUOHQeSSFhTpAkDlVB1o4o2od0xibpD11V1zQh1wPDP00f9sBmpZbbZeNO11D_YI2nG9Y6zBgNVp8Ac-ksFxW7KJg4xzlBBou7o/s320/Ira_Levin.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Ira Levin</span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;">In the meantime, <i>Rosemary's Baby </i>was published and became a #1 best-seller. The <i>National Observer </i>called the book "the best chiller to come down the gooseflesh trail in many a moonless night." Even the <i>New York Times </i>review was a rave and anticipation for the film adaptation ran high<span style="font-size: small;">.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br /><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxkoIVewWthh1Pp27g-i3-jSW2eXZtxH05OInyPqSTtM9KnD1F0_AkPv_YpcnpJC_QCaqpO1jhCUV8epxqw6evzWkLj5Gm0E3KiNVf1-37t_88JpeLki_ALmHTSBY8eL21ctzabHa3kBs/s1600/weld_redford.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="238" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxkoIVewWthh1Pp27g-i3-jSW2eXZtxH05OInyPqSTtM9KnD1F0_AkPv_YpcnpJC_QCaqpO1jhCUV8epxqw6evzWkLj5Gm0E3KiNVf1-37t_88JpeLki_ALmHTSBY8eL21ctzabHa3kBs/s400/weld_redford.JPG" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Tuesday Weld and Robert Redford</span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;">Polanski originally planned to cast the lead roles with actors who possessed the All-American good looks and energy depicted in Levin's book, and favored Tuesday Weld for Rosemary and Robert Redfor<span style="font-size: small;">d as her husband, Guy. When Bob Evans suggested Mia Farrow, the director at first thought her too waif-like and ethereal for the title role. But after meeting and discussing the role with her he hired her without so much as a screen test. Robert Redford became unavailable and Warren Beatty turned down the role of Guy, so Polanski turned to John Cassavetes, an intense, charismatic actor who was also making a name for himself as an independent filmmaker.<span style="font-size: small;"> The hand-picked supporting cast included Hollywood troupers Ralph Bellamy, Patsy Kelly and Elisha Cook, Jr., as well as stage and screen veterans Maurice Evans, Sidney Blackmer and Ruth Gordon. Uncredited in the role Polanski characterized as "the real star of the picture,"  the Bramford apartment building, was the Dakota. Exteriors were shot on-site and <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0843129/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1"><span style="color: red;">Richard Sylbert</span></a>, Polanski's production designer, scrupulously recreated the Dakota's interiors (off-limits to movie-makers) in Hollywood. <i><span style="font-size: small;">Rosemary's Baby </span></i><span style="font-size: small;">would begin and end with <span style="font-size: small;">aerial views of the imposing structure.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br /><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiM22K5PRntLkmzjSj1nUt0JW8KQ45ssjKuXshryClPYe1qEWf2rXC0KRrYjwvpv5h4sFpfNUknrb4m55muyDrfxj3bl4pIqcCUuLJa5o-CVkXNjmgOQvs95dUtyQL4kSuWeGOFAkRZnHg/s1600/Dakota_sketch_by_Sylbert.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="203" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiM22K5PRntLkmzjSj1nUt0JW8KQ45ssjKuXshryClPYe1qEWf2rXC0KRrYjwvpv5h4sFpfNUknrb4m55muyDrfxj3bl4pIqcCUuLJa5o-CVkXNjmgOQvs95dUtyQL4kSuWeGOFAkRZnHg/s400/Dakota_sketch_by_Sylbert.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">"Bramford"/Dakota interior sketch by Richard Sylbert</span></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><br /><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;">Production was underway for only a week when Charles Bluhdorn, Paramount's new owner, began to have second thoughts about Polanski, whose<span style="font-size: small;"> focus on artistic values and fine details he viewed as unreasonable perfectionism. </span>One day while on the studio lot Polanski ran into filmmaking legend<span style="font-size: small;"> Otto Preminger<span style="font-size: small;">. Dejected, he told the <span style="font-size: small;">older director there was talk he was going to be replaced on <i>Rosemary's Baby</i>. </span></span></span>Preminger asked if the studio was happy with the rushes and when Polanski told him it was, he said: "Roman, remember this: You can go over budget as much as you like<span style="font-size: small;">, provided the rushes are good. They only replace a director when the dailies are lousy." What Bob Evans saw in Polanski's dailies was an "ominous sense of fright" <span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;">- and it thrilled him; he <span style="font-size: small;">told Paramount, "If he goes, I go." Both stayed.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br /><br /><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYTvFWhe5M4BgufMTVknCiXeUzKl595mSt_WfEKfsF15CmV05RRY-41stsDFluhzkADJFJstMVqbJo_wP6UrY18VA5pbu3YNwHJ8FC035atm_PfX12q0TdzsViwy1ceJY12-JdXwsdvTI/s1600/mia_roman.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="202" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYTvFWhe5M4BgufMTVknCiXeUzKl595mSt_WfEKfsF15CmV05RRY-41stsDFluhzkADJFJstMVqbJo_wP6UrY18VA5pbu3YNwHJ8FC035atm_PfX12q0TdzsViwy1ceJY12-JdXwsdvTI/s320/mia_roman.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Mia Farrow and Roman Polanski on the set</span></td></tr></tbody></table><div style="text-align: left;"></div><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;">P</span>olanski was determined to recreate <span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;">the exact time<span style="font-size: small;"> frame in which the <span style="font-size: small;">story was set, mid-1965 to mid-1966, just two years before the film was made. Trends had shifted in<span style="font-size: small;"> </span>that brief period;<span style="font-size: small;"> </span>by 1968<span style="font-size: small;"> style<span style="font-size: small;">s</span> had begun to swing from the influence of all-things-English ushered in with "the British Invasion" to a more <a href="http://www.silverscreenmodiste.com/2013/05/bohemian-style-in-film-art.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+SilverScreenModiste+%28Silver+Screen+Modiste%29"><span style="color: red;">bohemian</span></a> sensibility reflecting the "flower power<span style="font-size: small;">"/"hippie" phenomenon. His insistence on authentic detail drove costume designer Anthea Sylbert<span style="font-size: small;">'s meticulous replication of mid-'60s fashion. She captured the look of the moment with Rosemary's Mod-era </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">shifts, mini-dresses <span style="font-size: small;">and attire like a red chiffon pants suit<span style="font-size: small;"> to be worn on<span style="font-size: small;"> <span style="font-size: small;">a romantic evening at home. </span>Other <span style="font-size: small;">time-specific</span> touches include Rosemary's decision to <span style="font-size: small;">have her pageboy tresses snipped into a <span style="font-size: small;">short Vidal Sassoon cut, Rosemary relaxing on the sofa with Sammy Davis, Jr.'s book <span style="font-size: small;"><i>Yes, I <span style="font-size: small;">Can </span></i><span style="font-size: small;">(a 1965 best-seller), a glimpse on TV of the Pope's October 1965 visit to New York<span style="font-size: small;">, and <i>Time</i><i><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></i><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;">magazine's </span></span><span style="font-size: small;">famous "Is God Dead?" issue <span style="font-size: small;">(April 8, 1966) conspicuous among the reading material in her doctor's w<span style="font-size: small;">aiting room.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br /><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_b7lmbdLf5-WrwYygiJ6viVRPzhGdysWyMkWXYCpeuN4TQU3H7tfNdQjhnRPBGMvvyymDbzjKG_OdrY7rOaVKYeKnO4lwbIw_AsWNVOJSHeoRX2_ITIVlH4M-IMMSepJPt-F80pWHROc/s1600/Sylbert2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_b7lmbdLf5-WrwYygiJ6viVRPzhGdysWyMkWXYCpeuN4TQU3H7tfNdQjhnRPBGMvvyymDbzjKG_OdrY7rOaVKYeKnO4lwbIw_AsWNVOJSHeoRX2_ITIVlH4M-IMMSepJPt-F80pWHROc/s1600/Sylbert2.jpg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Costumes by Anthea Sylbert</span></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;">Pola<span style="font-size: small;">nski later said t</span>he story line of <i>Rosemary's Baby</i> had posed one problem for him<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;">, </span></span>it conflicted with his own worldview. He didn't believe in Satan. So he decided, "for credibility's sake," to add an element of ambiguity suggesting the possibility that Rosemary's imagination was the source of her fears. With careful camera placement<span style="font-size: small;"> and the use of special lenses,<span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span>Polanski presented the st<span style="font-size: small;">o<span style="font-size: small;">ry</span></span> through Rosemary's eyes. D<span style="font-size: small;">rawn into Rosemary's point of view, the audience<span style="font-size: small;"> <span style="font-size: small;">easily relates to her confusion, feelings of vulnerabi<span style="font-size: small;">lity and increasing <span style="font-size: small;">fright</span>. Like Rosemary, the v<span style="font-size: small;">iewer is</span> aware of lurking danger but wavers<span style="font-size: small;"> between believing what she begins to suspect is happening or accepting the rational explanations offered by others.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br /><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjI3HHEM3YQcQOz7-CeVKQvp97-epy0g5wgqCwtv0IlFDeIVpp5xMAN9WJSQ-CplmOVW7F1QaJMNW7FIk2zfEd-3NahBXnu0VMFnLuGBtAxxeGvvWqxX5195TjLQybeh2OPa1WgJzP5yNw/s1600/bellamy.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="268" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjI3HHEM3YQcQOz7-CeVKQvp97-epy0g5wgqCwtv0IlFDeIVpp5xMAN9WJSQ-CplmOVW7F1QaJMNW7FIk2zfEd-3NahBXnu0VMFnLuGBtAxxeGvvWqxX5195TjLQybeh2OPa1WgJzP5yNw/s400/bellamy.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Mia Farrow and Ralph Bellamy (Dr. Saperstein)</span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;">While Rosemary remains constant as a naive and mostly defenseless <span style="font-size: small;">young wife, those who inhabit her shrinking world are more enigmatic - from her ambitious actor husband and intrusive neighbors to her wise and kindly old doctor. Ironically, <span style="font-size: small;">some of the characters who are revealed to be most wicked are also the most comically grotesque. I</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;">n keeping with Polanski's bran<span style="font-size: small;">d of humor, <span style="font-size: small;">t</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">he film is laced with darkly comic moments:</span></span><br /><ul><li><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;">Rosemary and Guy dine at the home of her friend Hutch (Maurice Evans). As Hutch carves a lamb at table<span style="font-size: small;">, he relates the gh<span style="font-size: small;">oulish history of the Bramford - which included a pair of sisters <span style="font-size: small;">who, it <span style="font-size: small;">was later charged, devoured children...</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></li></ul><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiK9VZgCD0UWSkegMWI5MtJXAQc0PVOVzlOQe-YEcO-JSh_36V2W-b7PXHdi_6X3zjuqiVldSiit-qjqJQvErLuzOqaptOj7XJlf4-KcejvLW4a8jUdQuk_Y86R2cZoVfHVkkg1m2-9pd8/s1600/meeting.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="212" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiK9VZgCD0UWSkegMWI5MtJXAQc0PVOVzlOQe-YEcO-JSh_36V2W-b7PXHdi_6X3zjuqiVldSiit-qjqJQvErLuzOqaptOj7XJlf4-KcejvLW4a8jUdQuk_Y86R2cZoVfHVkkg1m2-9pd8/s320/meeting.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Rosemary and Guy meet The Castavets</span></td></tr></tbody></table><ul><li><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;">The aftermath of a shocking suicide introduces the Castevets, Minnie (Ruth Gordon) and Roman (Sidney Blackmer), a pair of elderly oddballs who arrive on scene decked out as if fresh from the vaudeville stage<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;">.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></li></ul><ul><li><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;">Rosemary sees her baby for the first time and, uncomprehending, shrieks, "What have you done to its eyes?" Roman Castevet crows happily, "He has his<span style="font-size: small;"> father's eyes!"</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></li></ul><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;">W</span>ith<span style="font-size: small;">out resorting to<span style="font-size: small;"> genre gimmickry</span></span>, Polanski crafted a tight, stylish <span style="font-size: small;">p</span>sychological thriller. And a blockbuster. The last auteur-directed shocker to create such a box office sensation had been<span style="font-size: small;"> Alfred</span> Hitchcock's <i><span style="font-size: small;">Psycho</span></i><span style="font-size: small;"> in 1960. <i><span style="font-size: small;">Rosemary's Baby</span></i><span style="font-size: small;">'s success</span><i><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></i><span style="font-size: small;">would go on to inspire the wave of lavish A-budget horror films to come, notably William Friedkin's <i>The Exorcist</i> (1973) and Richard Donner's <i>The Omen </i>(1976). It would b<span style="font-size: small;">ring an Acad<span style="font-size: small;">emy Award to Ruth Gordon for her supporting performance and a nomination to Roman Polanski for his adapted screenplay.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;">Considered a genre-transcending classic today, <i>Rosemary's Baby</i> remains a landmark of modern horror, as capable of jangling <span style="font-size: small;">nerves<span style="font-size: small;"> </span>and inducing chills as it was in its infancy 45 years ago.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/NoXLXMbOgiU" width="560"></iframe><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i> </i></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Rosemary's Baby </i>is available on Blu-Ray and DVD from the Criterion Collection. This special edition contains many <span style="font-size: small;">extras, including: a documentary featuring Pola<span style="font-size: small;">nski, Mia Farrow and Bob Evans; an interview with Ira Levin; a documentary on the life and work of composer Krzysztof Ko<span style="font-size: small;">meda (who died 10 months after the film was released) and other special features.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;">~ </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Notes</u>:</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Life at the Dakota </i>by Stephen Birmingham, Syracuse University Press (1979/1996) </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Roman by Polanksi</i>, William Morrow & Co. (1984)</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>The Kid Stays in the Picture</i><span style="font-size: small;"> by Robert Evans, Hyperion (1994)</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>

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Samsung has officially launched Galaxy Grand Quattro with new Features

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhilUxeLnwZ7QyOAu5dVOth_y01o2qDenurtaYRNJa88_TOKAU-gW3laAyFHjJw_V-FYXo_XUpbXuLUzmTGoxcPD16DKLAIBGP_1NV4Pzy8zDcP2msz9tCTskeYBLZVKAROJg5tSwDNaF4/s1600/samsung_Galaxy_Quattro.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="221" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhilUxeLnwZ7QyOAu5dVOth_y01o2qDenurtaYRNJa88_TOKAU-gW3laAyFHjJw_V-FYXo_XUpbXuLUzmTGoxcPD16DKLAIBGP_1NV4Pzy8zDcP2msz9tCTskeYBLZVKAROJg5tSwDNaF4/s320/samsung_Galaxy_Quattro.jpg" width="320" ya="true" /></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The samsung has launched a new Galaxy Grand Quattro with Best Features.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Samsung Galaxy Grand Quattro is powered by a 1.2GHz quad-core processor and has 1GB of RAM. It runs Android 4.1.2 Jelly Bean and runs Samsung's TouchWiz UI layer on top. It also offers Motion UI that allows users to control the phone when a certain move is detected. For instance flipping the phone can mute it while receiving a call</span>.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><blockquote class="tr_bq"><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><div style="text-align: left;"> Powerful Performance</div></li><li> Enhanced photo-taking on the 5MP Camera</li><li> Easy Mode</li><li> Motion UI</li></ul></blockquote><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The  smartphone sports a 4.7-inch TFT display with a resolution of 480x800 pixels</span>. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It sports a 5-megapixel rear camera with auto-focus and a VGA front facing camera, while the Grand Duos comes with an 8-megapixel rear shooter and a 2-megapixel front camera. It comes with 8GB internal memory expandable up to 32GB via microSD card.The Grand Quattro has a 2,000mAh battery.</span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">The launch of the Samsung Galaxy Grand Quattro, Vineet Taneja, Country Head, Samsung Mobile, said, "Galaxy Grand Quattro is a revolutionary device that combines powerful performance with smart multi tasking and advanced usability.</span></span></span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Powerful Performance</strong></span></span><br /><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>11.9cms Large display is a great showcase, especially for photos and movies</li><li>1.2GHz Quad-Core CPU offers advanced computing power to handle all your applications, multitasking and more</li></ul><div style="text-align: left;"><strong>Enhanced photo-taking on the 5MP Camera</strong></div><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>Enjoy features such as Continuous Shot, Best Photo, Colour Effect and Scene Mode for enhanced photo-taking on the 5MP Camera</li></ul><strong>Easy Mode</strong><br /><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>Easy Mode helps you access key functions such as favourite contacts, apps, dialer, etc on the homescreen with ease.</li></ul><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><strong><span style="font-size: large;">The Best key Specifications:- </span></strong><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><strong> Best Buy Rs. 17,290</strong> <div> </div></li></ul></div></div><blockquote class="tr_bq" style="text-align: left;">- 4.7-inch WVGA TFT display<br />- 1.2GHz quad-core processor<br />- 1GB RAM<br />- 8GB of internal storage, expandable up to 32GB<br />- 5-megapixel rear camera, VGA front camera<br />- Android 4.1.2 <br />- 2,000mAh battery<br />- Dual-SIM (dual-standby) option <div> </div></blockquote><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><div style="text-align: left;"> </div></div>Published by <br /><a href="https://plus.google.com/112865615030946176397" rel="author">Priyanka</a>

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The samsung has launched a new Galaxy Grand Quattro with Best Features.The Samsung Galaxy Grand Quattro is powered by a 1.2GHz quad-core processor and has 1GB of RAM. It runs Android 4.1.2 Jelly Bean and runs Samsung's TouchWiz UI layer on top. It al…

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Why not tune into our two Microsoft Partners in Learning short webinars on Weds 22nd and Weds 29th May

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flamingtext.com/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_top"><img alt="Logo Design by FlamingText.com" border="0" height="108" src="http://blog.flamingtext.com/blog/2013/05/21/flamingtext_com_1369125720_690838027.png" title="Logo Design by FlamingText.com" width="400" /></a></div><span style="font-size: x-small;">Logo Design by <a href="http://www.flamingtext.com/">FlamingText.com</a></span> <br /><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We invite you to join two Microsoft Partners in Learning webinars to be held on the next two Wednesday afternoons. These will be of special interest to those who are entering Microsoft’s Innovative Educator Expert competition in South Africa where the first closing date is 3 June if you would like to be chosen as one of the 15 finalists who will be completely sponsored to the SchoolNet Conference in Bloemfontein in July 2013. (The final closing date for the Microsoft’s Innovative Educator Expert competition is on 30 September). Find out more <a href="http://e-blogschool.blogspot.com/2013/04/entries-for-microsofts-partners-in.html">here</a>. </span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><u><strong><span style="font-size: large;">Navigating the Partners in Learning Network</span></strong></u></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><u>Name:</u> Navigating the Partners in Learning Network<br /><u>Summary</u>: The Partners in Learning Network is a great portal for teachers who are interested in ICT in education who want to find like-minded colleagues, free downloadable tools that they can use to enhance lessons and a place to discuss hot topics. In this webinar you will learn more about how to find free tools, search for learning activities and complete your profile so that other teachers will be able to find you!<br /><u>Presenter</u>: Megan Rademeyer from SchoolNet <br /><u>Start Time</u>: 05/22/2013 3:30 PM<br /><u>Duration</u>: 15 – 30 mins<br /><u>URL</u>:<a href="http://meet78641452.adobeconnect.com/piln1/">http://meet78641452.adobeconnect.com/piln1/</a><br /><u>Access</u>: Anyone who has the URL for the meeting can enter the room</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong><u><br /></u></strong></span><strong><u><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Sharing a Learning Activity on the Partners in Learning Network</span></u></strong> <br /><u style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Name</u><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">: Sharing a Learning Activity on the PIL-Network</span><br /><u style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Summary</u><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">: Are you using technology in a creative and engaging way to enhance a lesson? Have you developed a project that makes use of technology to build knowledge or solve a real world problem? If so - share your learning activity on the Partners in Learning Network and you could win a trip to the Global Partners in Learning Forum. In this webinar you will learn about the requirements for the competiton and tips for developing an impressive learning activity.</span><u style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Presenter</u><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">: Megan Rademeyer from SchoolNet </span><br /><u style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Start Time: </u><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">05/29/2013 3:30 PM</span><br /><u style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Duration: </u><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">00:15</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">URL:</span><a href="http://meet78641452.adobeconnect.com/r1do1h6omuo/" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">http://meet78641452.adobeconnect.com/r1do1h6omuo/</a><br /><u style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Access</u><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">:Anyone who has the URL for the meeting can enter the room</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">See you there!</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>

webinars Why not tune into our two Microsoft Partners in Learning short webinars on Weds 22nd and Weds 29th May

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