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Right after church on this last fine Sunday afternoon, I did what every God-fearing Seahawks fan without cable television did. Rounded up a few friends and went to a bar to watch the game. Wing Central in Ellensburg, just in case any of you guys happen to live in town. One burger with Hell-Wing sauce, a pitcher of beer, and the afternoon is off to a good start!
That's a fantastic way to enjoy a game, but a TERRIBLE idea if you want to use the "critical watching" part of your brain. It didn't help that one of my buddies kept trying to flirt with the waitress, leaving me the wingman... at a place called wings! "Why yes, he really DID carry me off Mt. Rainier on a broken leg after we got caught up in an avalanche." [Alyssa if you're reading this, Jeff's full of crap, but he's a good guy. Agree to the date when he calls].
Fortunately, Nate Dogg does a weekly video retrospective (link). It's the most amazing thing since free ice cream. In fact, it's BETTER than some flavors of free ice cream. I'm looking at you Rocky Road. One thing I wanted to do this week was compare Breno Giaco.however.the.hell.you.spell.his.name's pass blocking efforts with his work last week.
If you don't know who Breno is, he's our right tackle. If you don't know what a right tackle is, look for #68 on the offensive right.
Play 1. 0:07
1st and 10
McCoy (85) is lined up outside of Breno. The DE fires directly into Giacomini. The Russian absorbs the blow, but rocks back putting his weight behind his feet in the process. Fortunately, this also re-directed the DE right into McCoy, who double-teamed the defender for a moment, allowing Breno to recover his balance and establish a dominant position before McCoy releases into his route. This was an effective and clean block, although the technique was poor.
Play 2. 0:25
1st and 10
I'm really not sure what the hell was supposed to happen here, but I'm pretty sure Zach Miller (86) fucked up. Breno and Zach Miller double-team the DT, easily pushing him out of the passing lane. Unfortunately this leaves nobody on the DE. Fortunately Golden Tate was coming across the formation like a pulling guard executing a trap block. He saw a white jersey and thought it was cowboy hunting season again.
I think it's very likely that Miller was supposed to get the DE, and it's even more likely that our plan wasn't to leave him isolated on a wide receiver! If the play was drawn up the way I think it was, Breno did a nice job. Also nice: as Miller releases into his route the DT pulls back and tries to run with him. The bad news? That DE that tate smacked around got up and forced the throw before we could exploit this mismatch.
Play 3. 0:36
3rd and 7
McCoy is lined up to miller's right. Pre-snap the Panthers are showing an overload blitz to the offensive right. There's one linebacker sitting on top of Unger, with another sitting in the B gap. The 00 tech drops, while the B-gap backer comes.
Unger makes a fantastic read and takes the 3 tech DT, allowing the rest of the line to pick up their guys easily. McCoy chipped the incoming DE so hard that Breno really didn't even have to be on the field. By the time the DE had recovered, he was already out of the play. Fantastic play by Unger and McCoy. Giacomini did his job here, but was a complete non-factor in the game.
Play 4. 0:49
3rd and 9.
Zach Miller and Evan Moore (82) are both lined up tight to the line. However they both release cleanly into routes without chipping the end at all. This is the first play where Breno has been isolated against an End. The DE started with an inside move and a bull rush.
Breno's first step was piss-poor humiliatingly bad biomechanics. As in, he's made a mistake before he's even touched (or been touched by) a defender. What's worse, it's not the first play he's done this on (I saw it in the first play as well, but couldn't get a good screenshot). I have a shot here though, so lets take a look.
Yeah, it looks terrible, but I'm doing my graphics with MS paint on a laptop.
You'll notice that Breno (left and middle) is barely flexing at his ankles at all. Combined with a large bend of his knees, this puts his ass out over thin air (blue arrow), leaving him in an unbalanced position. By contrast, the image on the far right is Anthony McCoy, (from the exact same frame) blocking on the left hand side of the line. Notice that his body weight is distributed nice and evenly over the feet, allowing him to fluidly change directions or absorb a blow without losing his balance.
I'm assuming Wilson let go of the ball sooner than he wanted to because he sensed pressure from his right. At very least, the pass was completed well shy of the first down. On 3rd and 9. In the redzone.
Play 5. 1:00
1st and 10
Breno is still on the top half of the TV screen, so I can't prove what I'm about to say with an image. There's bodies in the way. But on his first step, Breno's inside (left) foot comes WAAAAAY to far to the outside, causing him to swivel his hips in that direction. I can't show you the feet, but I can show you the hips. Notice the defender hasn't even crossed the line of scrimmage yet, so this is clearly an unforced error.
I don't think it was, but I'll allow that given the play-action fake this could have been deliberate. Breno looks like he's trying to establish inside leverage in order to drive the DE to the sideline.
Regardless, the End bit on the play action fake, and went straight into Breno instead of getting his head across the shoulders and coming around for an easy sack. Breno does a good job of controlling the defender, but fails to release as the end eventually gets past him with an angle too wide to influence the play. Instead, Breno grabs some jersey and falls on top of him. Goodby 56 yard bomb to Tate. Hello 10 yard holding penalty.
Play 6. 1:17
1st and 20. Thanks again for that hold.
Breno picks up the LB coming in on a blitz. Does a pretty good job of getting deep, and muscles the defender to a dead stop. The LB tries to reverse direction only to get buried by McQuistan. Good blocking all the way around here and a nice throw to Baldwin to pick up about 17 yards.
Play 7. 1:28
1st and 10
Breno is isolated on his guy. He fires off a really lousy looking cut-block at the defenders knees. The play was a bubble-screen to the other side of the field, and our linemen cut-blocked on every bubble screen of the game. The Ball's out so damned quick the DEs really don't even HAVE to block.
Play 8. 1:38
2nd and 4.
Again, Breno sits his body weight too far back right after the snap, and it results in him getting his hips turned too quickly. However, he does an excellent job of riding his defender 7 yards downfield and keeping himself between the defensive player and the QB. The technique wasn't very pretty but you can't argue with the results. I did think Breno might have held his guy a bit, but the refs either didn't see it, or else Nate Dogg didn't leave that penalty call in the video. If my beer-hazed memory serves, it's the former. Nice work.
Play 9: 1:52
3rd and 4.
Breno's isolated on the DE who Bull-rushes with an inside move. The DT twists, and comes around untouched. To make matters worse, Wilson rolled out of a pretty clean pocket, right INTO the twisting DT's path. A comedy of errors on 3rd down. But we're specifically looking at Breno and he was fantastic. Even did his footwork and bio-mechanics exactly the way you're supposed to.
Play 10: 2:03
1st and 10.
NEVERMIND. The Seahawks brought in Frank Omiyale to play RT at the beginning of the second quarter.
Play 17 (I think? I wasn't counting carefully). 3:32
1st and 20.
Breno's isolated on a DE again. It's first and 20, so there's not much doubt about this being a pass play. His first two kick steps take him nearly 2 yards backwards and an almost equal distance to the right. His knees are forwards, his weight's over his feet, and he's right in the defender's lane. Breno looked really damned good on this play.
The defender even tries an illegal hands-to the face that's both ineffective and uncalled.
Play 18: 3:53
1st and 10.
A bubble screen to Tate has all the O-Linemen chip blocking again. Breno's block is effective. Rice on the other hand, lays down some weak-sauce at the point of attack. -3 yards.
Play 19: 4:00
3rd and 6.
The DE drops into the short zone. The DT pushes McQuistan, then moves on to Breno without making any real effort to get after Russel. Pretty sure his job was outside containment in the event of a scramble. It's really easy to block when the other guy isn't trying to get past you. Either that, or Breno did such an effective job on the block that it LOOKED like the other guy wasn't even trying. One of the two.
Play 20: 4:08
2nd and 8
WOW. This was a gutsy protection. Breno and McCoy both completely ignore the DE. McCoy goes straight into his route, while Breno double-teams the DT with McQuistan, opening up a bigassed throwing lane. It's play-action. M-Rob chips the DE's inside shoulder with authority before going into his route. Lynch comes up behind Robinson and takes on the DE solo.
It takes some serious cajones to isolate an RB on a DE! But the result's speak for themselves.
Even our midget leader has an unobstructed view of the pick-6 he tossed on this play.
Play 21: 4:35
3rd and 4
Trips right. Zach Miller picks up the DE. Breno stands there for 2 1/2 seconds without touching anyone. Hey, it happens all the time in pass-protection. More typically it happens to a guard, but it does happen all the time.
Play 22: 4:44
1st and 10
2 TEs right, both of whom release cleanly into routes leaving Breno isolated. He does a really good job of getting off the line and to the outside. With no option to speed-rush the DE tried to cut inside. Breno attacked forwards and knocked him out of the play. Clean pocket, and some excellent blocking by the entire O-line except Carp who didn't block anyone. I did just say that happens all the time....
Play 23: 5:02
1st and 10
And the bad Russian makes a showing here. He doesn't get enough depth on his initial kick step, and the defender is too far downfield for him to deal with. Less than half a second into the play he's "engaged" but has terrible body position. By the 1.5 second mark the defender has beat him around the corner completely. Thankfully, it was a shallow drop, and the DE cost himself the angle by going too deep. Lucky break.
Play 24: 5:30
1st and 10
I wish I could get the whole second from 5:32.00 to 5:33.00 in a frame by frame. Holy crap was that terrible!
The bit on the far right is a diagram of what an OT's feet are supposed to do during his first step off the line. He "kicks" the outside foot back at an angle, then "drags" the front foot. The idea is to move rapidly while keeping weight evenly distributed over both feet in case the D-linemen cuts inside. This technique is called a kick-step, and it's a basic part of line play.
The image on the far left is what Breno actually did. He 'planted' his inside foot, and his outside foot came backwards and inside. His front foot then had to come outside in order to maintai his balance.
As you can see in the middle image This spun his hips perpendicular to the line before the DE even touched him. It also opened up a HUGE hole in the B gap that we're fortunate no linebacker blitzed down.
It's literally 1 step into the play, and Breno's already messed it up. The DE rides him right into Wilson for what should have been an easy sack. Thankfully Breno managed to regain his balance, and counter-attack at the last possible moment. Unfortunately Wilson used the extra time to fire a rocket that Lynch bobbled straight into the air for an interception. Nice hands bro.
Play 25: 5:45
2nd and 9
He freaking does it again. This time bothers me less though, since he was chopping on a bubble screen. It was lousy technique and it left the defender in the passing lane. But he was focused on Breno around his ankles, and didn't notice the 100 MPH fastball going right over his head.
Also, I don't like how our line always chop-blocks on these bubble-screens. One of my favorite plays in football is the draw-play where you pump-fake the bubble screen first. It gets the DEs to jump in the air, making them easy for the OT's to clobber. Dear Mr. Cable. I know you're one of the best O-line coaches on the planet, but could you please run the Seahawks more like the way I want you to?
Love Travis.
Play 26: 5:58
2nd and 10
The DE is lined up wide of the TE. Just based on where he's lined up, getting good position on him is going to be tough. So instead Breno peels off the line immediately and dives at the shins. Between the distance he had to run and the slowing effect of the chop, Breno's guy was a non-factor on the play. I thought the block itself was terrible but hey, it was damned effective so I won't complain.
Play 27: 6:09
3rd and 10
It's an DE/DT twist, with the latter looping outside for a free rush. If you don't know what that means, check the picture below.
Firstly, the DE attacks Breno's inside shoulder and tries to get upfield as far as possible (#1 in the blue). His goal is to occupy both Breno and McQuistan. The DT loops around to the outside following the red #2 path. The defense's goal is to give the tackle a free-run at the QB.
There's two common ways to defend this, "zone" and "man". In a "zone" scheme the guard will step into the DE and begin blocking him. This lets the OT release and pick up the DT as he loops around. In a "man" scheme, the OT rides his guy through the play, and the guard has to make an athletic move to the outside. This is more challenging and far less common.
As you can see in the second image, the guard McQuistan (Orange Arrow) is out of position to impact the play at all. This is the sort of communication breakdown that leads to your QB getting pancaked by a 350 pound guy doing his best Usain Bolt impersonation.
Most of the blame for this one should go to McQuistan. Its the interior guys job to recognize what's happening and make sure he's in the correct position. Breno could have helped a bit more by driving the end closer to the line of scrimmage, but that's a Walter Jones sort of play, not something you can really expect out of a regular guy.
Play 28: 6:24
1st and 10
Observation first. We seem to have thrown a huge % of our pass-plays on 1st and 10 here. Granted 1st and 10 is also the most common down in football, so a higher percentage of ALL your plays are going to come in that scenario. But I'd be curious to see what the 'Hawks pass/run ratio on first down is, and how that compares to the NFL average. I don't think we're as Run-Run-Pass heavy as many of the critics are complaining about.
The play's a bubble screen. Our whole line chop-blocks again. This time Breno hits his guy right in the knees and sends him to the dirt. Sexy.
Play 29: 6:34
2nd and 8
This was a read run-pass option. Breno ignores the DE and moves towards the LB as though he's about to run-block him. This was clearly deliberate, because the backer wasn't showing blitz (or coming). It's not a case of leaving the DE uncovered to pick up interior pressure. Wilson reads the DE crashing the line, pulls the ball back, and rolls right going behind the linemen.
Maybe I'm just stubborn, but I really don't like any protection scheme that deliberately gives the DE a free-run at your QB. I'm not entirely sure what Breno's job was on this play, but other than blocking the DE I didn't see him NOT doing anything I wanted him to be doing.
Play 30: 6:57
3rd and 8
The panthers drop 8 into coverage. They're determined to hold the Seahawks to a red-zone field goal. Despite the 3 man rush, both OT's end up on an island, as the guards stay forwards to maintain central integrity.
Fortunately good Breno shows up here. He drops back well, getting depth, angle, and staying over his feet. The DE gets completely stonewalled.
Wilson throws a nice pace to Tate, who plays pinball and bounces into the endzone. TOUCHDOOWWWWWWWWN!!11!1!OMGLOLZOLZOWL!1!!11!
Play 31: 7:30
1st and 10
Breno's feet get way too close together as he engages the defender. This costs him the ability to move laterally, and the defender easily runs past Giacomini. Fortunately the defender lost his own balance trying to turn the corner and #86 recovered quickly enough to bury him. Better lucky than good I suppose.
Play 32: 7:43
3rd and 13
This is the first time all game where I've seen Giacomini look weak against the bull rush. He gets driven straight back with authority and stood up by the defender. As the defender starts to shed him to the left, Wilson slides to the right, fixing Breno's body position for him. Unfortunately there's a DT sitting on the outside with containment as his responsibility. Wilson plays tag with the linemen, throwing the ball away before it's his turn to be "it".
Closing thoughts.
Breno gets out of his stance quickly and into the play. He's got some crazy strength for an OT, allowing him to bully the smaller DEs whenever they lock up. His cut block isn't pretty, but it is effective. He's also fairly young. 27 years old with 8 career starts coming into this season.
Unfortunately Breno's fundamentals are wildy inconsistent. Every now and then he'll take a bad first step and just completely fuck himself on the play. The good news is that when he plays with proper technique, he's very good. I only saw Breno get beat by a defender once or maybe twice the entire game. The rest of the time he shot himself in the foot with unforced errors and shit technique.
The biggest thing we can do as an offense to help #86 in pass protection is run the draw play to his side with some frequency. In particular, it would be nice if we could force that DE to be responsible for the B-gap. A DE with B-gap responsibility will have to stay inside more, and that's something the 'ragin Russian can handle, even with lousy technique.
Another thing (and we saw it this game) is to give him some help via chip-blocks early in the game. Chipping TEs and LBs negate the effectiveness of an outside speed rush, giving Breno time to recover from his mistakes (think that very first pass play). It also allows Giacomini to get into the game flow without giving up a sack. He seems to play better as the game goes on, so this is most important at the start of the game,
As for Breno's future with the seahawks, I'd say that's dependent on his continued development. We can compensate for his weaknesses, but (obviously) we'd rather not have them at all. Breno has enough quickness to play RT in the NFL, and enough strength to really dominate at the position. If he cuts down on the unforced errors as the season progresses and demonstrates consistently good technique, he has the potential to be an above average starter for years to come. On the other hand, if he's plateaued and simply doesn't have the concentration to play mistake free we could be looking for a new RT with the 32nd pick in the upcoming NFL draft.


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Diabetes is a disease that requires quite a bit of ongoing maintenance effort from the diabetic. Diabetics must perform their own blood test at home on a daily basis, usually three to five times each day.
The medical supplies needed for this test include a blood glucose monitoring device, blood glucose test strips, a lancet to prick the skin and draw the blood.
The blood test, which luckily takes only about a minute, measures the amount of sugar, called glucose, in the blood. Glucose levels rise and fall in everyone, not just diabetics, throughout the day based factors such as what we've eaten (or haven't eaten), when we've eaten, and rest and exercise levels, to name a few. It's a bit of effort, but millions of diabetics successfully manage their diabetes everyday by making sure their blood glucose stays within the acceptable range of parameters set by their doctor. By keeping your glucose within those parameters, and you can improve your chances of preventing diabetic complications.
Common Diabetic Complications You'll Want to Prevent
- Diabetic retinopathy
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Learn about the details of each of these complications.
Learn about the symptoms of Diabetes.
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If you're buying a blood glucose meter, you'll want to read the details of how to perform a glucose monitoring self-test with a glucose meter.
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Some diabetics are directed by their doctors to check their own blood sugar (glucose) levels on their own, at home or wherever, three to five times each day, with their blood glucose meter, diabetes test strips, and lancet device. Here are a few key features to consider when shopping for the blood glucose monitor that will suit you best.
Common Features: The most common features that virtually all home glucose meters have now are:
- Small sample size
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Learn more about the details of these features.
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Common Diabetes Test StripsIn general, test strips are made to only work with specific glucose meters. Basically, a test strip made by Accu-Check is only going to work in Accu-Check glucose meters. Therefore it is important to evaluate the features and benefits of glucose meters in conjunction with the glucose test strips. Most manufacturers produce unit-sized boxes of 50 or 100 strips.
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- Uses only 0.6 microliters of blood. This is on the lower end of the scale. Typically, the blood requirement can range from 0.3 microliters to 1.5 microliters. Learn more about the blood drop requirements glucose meters require.
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PricewaterhouseCoopers has released its annual review of securities class actions. The findings include:
(1) There were 163 filings in 2007, an increase of nearly 50% over the previous year. Subprime cases accounted for 37 of the filings.
(2) The number of filings associated with financial restatements was relatively small - 39 cases - suggesting that the "market reaction to restatements is declining."
(3) The number of filings with some form of SEC involvement (investigation or enforcement action) fell for the third year in a row to just 24 cases (approximately 15% of total).
(4) There was a sharp increase in the number of filings against foreign private issuers, with 27 cases in 2007 (compared to 14 cases in 2006).
Quote of note: "During hard times, the increased pressure to produce good financial results is more likely to lead to bad behavior, which in turn is likely to result in higher levels of shareholder litigation. If current speculation on the downward direction of the economy is to be believed, then private securities class actions will most likely trend upward over the next few years, above the recent average number of filings since Sarbanes-Oxley."Posted by Lyle Roberts at April 11, 2008 10:57 PM | TrackBack


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"Is it okay to laugh?"
The question caught me off guard for a moment, then its meaning sunk in. She was really saying, "Cancer is serious stuff, my breast has been cut on and radiated, and you've given me cancer fighting poisons in my veins. My hair has fallen out, food tastes funny, and I'm on a first name basis with the muzak at my insurance company. I've done my crying, but is it appropriate to laugh at it all?"
I remembered back to an intimidating nurse critiquing a tape of my very first patient interview during my second month of medical school. Her eyes were sharp and piercing and her brow furrowed as she watched the tape. Half way through she stopped it, turned it off, and said, "You are flippant…. I don't much care for it." My heart sank, and then she continued without a smile, but with a twinkle in her eyes, "but it works for you, so don't mind me and keep on doing it."
I believe that humor is therapeutic. Of course, that is not a new idea. The saying, "laughter is the best medicine" did not originate with Readers Digest. The biblical record states, "A merry heart does good like medicine, but a broken spirit drieth bones" (Proverbs 17:22). I don't know that a merry heart will add time to a cancer patient's life, but I know that it will add life to the time that they have.
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GOSHEN — Jerry D. Sailor, 76, died of natural causes early Sunday morning at his home.
He was born Jan. 23, 1937, in Goshen, to Jesse B. and Mary E. (Bates) Sailor.
He is survived by a son, Jesse D. Sailor, Goshen; a daughter, Stacy R. (Daryl) Wright, Jones, Mich.; four stepchildren; seven grandchildren; eight great-grandchildren; a niece, Cheri Ryan-Miller; and his loving dog, Carmella.
He was preceded in death by his parents; his wife, Nikki, who died Nov. 18, 2010; and a sister, Phyllis J. Minard.
He was a 1955 Goshen High School graduate. He owned Kustom Kut Barber Shop for many years with his best friend, Larry Hubbard.
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Iran's 'Cyber-Jihad' Claims Another Victim
December 11, 2012
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September 12, 2012
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Accounting Aspects Of The Acquisition Of Tangible Assets Through Leasing
AbstractThe present paper approaches problems on lease operations. A lease isan agreement whereby the lessor conveys to the lessee in return for a payment orseries of payments the right to use an asset for an agreed period of time. A financelease is a lease that transfers substantially all the risks and rewards incident toownership of an asset. Title may or may not eventually be transferred. A leaseclassified as an operating lease if it does not transfer substantially all risks andrewards to ownership. Since the transaction between a lessor and a lessee is based ona lease agreement commom to both parties, it is appropriate to use consistentdefinitions. The application of these definitions to the differing circumstances of thetwo parties may sometimes result in the same lease being classified differently bylessor and lessee.
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Chelsea Pereira – Stunningly Beautiful Model and Performer – Has Big Things to Accomplish
Chelsea, you are one busy, young model and actress living out in Southern California. Are you a California native and when did you decide modeling and acting was something you wanted to pursue?
I grew up in San Diego and have bounced around Southern California since. I knew I wanted to be a performer from a very young age, my mom jokes that I danced before I walked.
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Chelsea, you are one busy, young model and actress living out in Southern California. Are you a California native and when did you decide modeling and acting was something you wanted to pursue?
I grew up in San Diego and have bounces around Southern California since. I knew I wanted to be a performer from a very young age, my mom jokes that I danced before I walked.
I see from your Bio you were able to appear in various television shows for National Geographic, PBS, HDnet, and in various commercials as well as music videos. You also got to play a sexy cop in a short film along side Joel McHale (Community, The Soup). How are you liking life as an actress? Is that something you'd like to keep pursuing?
I have been acting since I was four years old. I love taking on a different character and escaping reality. I have been pursuing it actively, modeling I kind of just fell into.
Somehow you also find time to work on your degree in Beauty and Entertainment Marketing. How's that going and what are your career goals in that field?
It is hard managing the time but education is very important to me. I plan to start an e-commerce eco friendly beauty site and work as a consumer behaviorist or trend forecaster for a socially responsible entertainment, beauty, health, or fashion centered company.
Do you have any recent or upcoming projects you'd like to let our readers know about?
I have some big editorials coming out very soon but for now it's hush hush. Recently I filmed a sexy video previewing the editorial that is linked here.
With as busy as it sounds like you are how do you unwind? Where would we find Chelsea kicking back and relaxing?
I love to cook and used to teach classes at Williams-Sonoma. On a perfect night I'll make a delicious meal, watch something on National Geographic with my boyfriend, take a bubble bath with a glass of organic red wine, then snuggle up in bed with the latest James Patterson novel.
To top it off you have been involved in devoting your time to various charities. Would you like to give a shout out to those causes?
I am passionate about equal rights and have advocated for groups like Equality California in the past. I have a hard time accepting that some individuals want to take away equal rights to love.
It is also surprising to me that children in America go hungry each day. I donate to Feeding America, a charity that helps children get nutritious food like fresh fruits and vegetables. I encourage everyone who can to volunteer or donate to this cause.
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Lodsys Also Targeting Android Developers with Patent Infringement Claims
Patent holding firm Lodsys made news two weeks ago when they sent patent infringement notices to several small iOS developers over the use of In-App purchases and upgrade links in their apps. Lodsys is demanding that developers pay a licensing fee or face a potential lawsuit. While Apple has publicly backed their iOS developers against Lodsys, the legal status of the entire situation remains murky. Lodsys was still sending out legal notices to iOS developers at least up until Apple's formal response. Apple has claimed that their existing patent licenses cover their developers' usage.
Based on a Google groups discussion, it appears that Lodsys is also going after Android developers. At least one Android developer has been targeted with the same Patent infringement claims from Lodsys:
We recently implemented in-app purchases for our Android application and several weeks later we received a letter from Lodsys, claiming that we infringed on their patents.This news may even be somewhat reassuring to iOS developers. Like Apple, it seems unlikely that Google will let this stand. Google is also similarly believed to be a licensee of the same patent. Lodsys claims, however, that these licenses do not extend to individual developers on each platform.
Have any other Android developers out there been sent a letter? Has Google taken any action on this issue yet? Has Google given direction to any developers that have been hit by this? We are obviously a small shop and are not financially capable of defending ourselves over a litigation.
iOS developer Villain CEO Dane is asking affected developers to contact him at firstname.lastname@example.com in an effort to pool resources in the event of a lawsuit.
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Just out of spite.
Microsoft too? They make a smart phone OS??? :p
WP7 is head and shoulders above Android.
This is too much, Apple has licensed it for developers and it'll will be the same with Google. These careless trolls are desperately trying to make some money. Its time Apple and Google silence these trolls once and for all.
Maybe not. Part of Apple's legal argument is that their developers are covered due to the curated (google would say "closed") nature of the ecosystem. Here's a quote from Apple's response:
"These licensed products and services enable Apple's App Makers to communicate with end users through the use of Apple's own licensed hardware, software, APIs, memory, servers, and interfaces, including Apple's App Store."
Android's "open" nature means that developers are not obliged to use google's channels and users are able to download apps from anywhere and install them via their SD cards. This is a very different legal situation and I can't see Apple's argument applying to android.
I imagine Google will step in now that Apple did.
Again, maybe not. Google have shown a distinct reluctance to stand up for hardware manufacturers hit by patent litigation. Why should they treat their developers any differently?
this is a reason why Apple, Google and MS should all step up and just fight the guy and get the patent declared invalid. Lodsys and others are going to use things like this and target all the devs.
Microsoft too? They make a smart phone OS??? :p
Buy the company, fire all the employees, put the patents into the public domain.
Just out of spite.
Damn right.
Buy the company, fire all the employees, put the patents into the public domain.
Just out of spite.
I doubt it has any employees. What would they do all day? And to buy the company you'd need to give them lots of money. It's probably exactly what they're after.
Microsoft too? They make a smart phone OS??? :p
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I'm back with another installment of the 2010 Falcons opponents series history. This week, the Ravens.
This is a rather short series, which started in 1999, with the Ravens leading the series, 2-1. The first ever meeting was in the ATL, with the Ravens winning, 19-13, in what would become a train wreck of a season. I just remember Ray Buchanan getting torched in OT in that one, don't remember anything else about that game.
The 2002 game was also played in the ATL, with the Birds holding on, 20-17. This game was part of that amazing streak they were on. The Birds had a 20-3 lead, before the Ravens came back to within three, before their furious charge was stopped. Don't remember much about that one either, though I have it on tape, and have not seen it yet. The 2006 game was in Baltimore ( a place where the Birds still haven't won) The Birds played a great first half, but only led 7-0, then the second half came, and the bottom dropped out with Steve McNair leading the charge, and the Ravens D getting to Vick, and frustrating the hell out of me and them.
The second half of the 2006 season was a nightmare. It won't happen here this year, the team is better coached and managed, and with better players. I see another close one at the dome on Thursday, Falcons, 20-17. I would appreciate some comments, especially the first two games of the series.
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INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - Two people are dead and dozens are displaced, as investigators continue to seek the cause of a Saturday explosion.
The explosion leveled at least two houses in an Indianapolis neighborhood and damaged as many as 30 beyond repair. Indianapolis fire officials say they don't know yet what caused the blast around 11 p.m. Saturday.
Citizens Energy said crews haven't found any signs of a gas leak.
Officials have not released the identities of the two people who were killed.
However, a candlelight vigil was held Sunday night at Southwest Elementary School in nearby Greenwood for second-grade teacher Jennifer Longworth. She and her husband, John Dion Longworth, lived in 1 of the homes destroyed in the blast.
WTHR-TV reported that friends, family and colleagues of the teacher gathered at the school.
Authorities said several people were evacuated to a nearby school and took their pets with them, but other animals are running loose there.
Indianapolis Metro Police Sgt. Christian Nielsen said several animals are displaced and at large. He said Animal Control was called in Sunday to round them up and will try to reunite them with their owners.
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A crackdown by the Metropolitan Police on crimes relating to licensing issues over the past 48 hours has resulted in 297 arrests and 61 vehicle seizures, along with substantial amounts of alcohol and tobacco.
Operation Condor, a co-ordinated operation across London over the weekend, was run to combat those who break licensing rules and involved over 4,000 officers carrying out 800 activities.
One of the largest individual operations involved 175 officers carrying out a raid on one of east London's most popular clubs, 93 Feet East, in Brick Lane, as a result of intelligence suggesting Class A drug dealers were operating there. Edward Baran has the story:
The club was closed by police as a result of evidence recovered during the operation.
Overall there have been 22 venue closures.
The latest figures from Operation Condor showed that a total of 5,830 licensed premises were visited, and 1,046 offences reported or disclosed during the course of the operation.


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Kathryn Maroun spells out 7 Deadly Sins, and tells how not to guide an angler.
I'm sure that you have made offers in life that you never expected the person to actually take you up on.
"Here take it, you should have the last piece of cake. I insist."
Then you are in shock and upset when the person takes you up on your hollow offer. The delight of a great fishing run is a lot like cake – always leaves you wanting more. Nothing will upset an angler more than having someone else mess with his water, even if they seemingly have had their fill.
I politely offer guides a pass at the pool, but I never expect them to take me up on my offers. Sometimes they do. And this prompts me to ask this question: Should a guide get a chance to fish his sports' water?
Whether guides can fish depends on many variables: river rules, licensing rules, and lodge rules. But if all of those are OK, then it depends on your relationship with the guide.
A lot of fishermen become guides because they love to fish. In my opinion, and with experience from both sides of that equation, I think that it muddies the waters and can turn an otherwise successful fishing day on its ear when guides fish their sports' water.
It's a case of you can't have your cake and eat it, too. Fishing is fishing and guiding is guiding. Pick one!
I love guiding and I love fishing, but never the two shall mix. Personally, I think that it is better not to be the person poling the boat. But if you are the guide and not the sport, you should try not to commit any of the 7 Deadly Sins that can lead to the demise of a guiding career.
Lust is an intense desire for money, food, fame, or power.
I remember shooting the pilot for my series, What A Catch!, in the Highlands of Cape Breton on a storied Atlantic salmon river. Fishing was tough (as usual) all week, and I hadn't landed a fish. My husband told me not to come home until I got a fish on camera. Desperate and out of time, the guide and I split up to double the chances of getting the footage.
The local guides know the hot spots. That's why we hire them. I knew that the guide had been holding out on me all week. He was waiting for his chance to catch a fish on camera.
I took one of my cameramen aside and asked him to go with the guide and shoot him catching a fish, as I expected he would do. Sure enough, the cameraman reported back to me that the guide had a fish on after a half-dozen casts. What the guide didn't know is that I'd asked my cameraman to quietly mark his outing with the guide on our GPS. With confidence, the next morning my crew and I retraced the route and – just as they had done with the guide the day before – filmed me landing a fish of note after a handful of casts. I wish I could have seen the look on the guide's face when the series aired featuring me with the big fish that he lusted after. I would never hire that guide again.
On the other hand, I've had great experiences fishing with well-intentioned guides who put me in the hot spot on day one. With a fish on camera, the pressure is off, and everything else after that becomes gravy. It's a win-win situation.
Gluttony is overindulgence and overconsumption to the point of waste.
To offer your guide a rod can also cause problems when the fish are plentiful. Case in point: I was fishing for trophy pike, the wolf of the north. We were above the Arctic Circle, where the fish were not educated to a fly. My guide was very knowledgeable and good company – a recipe for a wonderful week of fishing. I wanted him to enjoy his day, so I offered him the rod.
We were drifting nicely at the hourglass of a lake where the flow was funneling lots of food for the bold pike. My guide started picking off lunkers one after the other. He landed four fish, bang, bang, bang, and bang. Twenty minutes had passed and I wasn't fishing.
I started to get frustrated because he wasn't giving me a chance to fish. I asked him to give me a chance to put the camera down and cast my fly. The words were still afloat in the thin northern air when he hooked up again. I had to pull out my own guide card and tell him to stop fishing. A quiet unease fell over the boat. It wasn't much fun catching fish after that.
Successful guides don't feel a need to hog the water. Their sole focus is to ensure that their client has the best, safest, and fishiest experience possible. I love fishing with guides who get as much pleasure from watching me catch a quality fish as they do from catching it themselves.
Pride is a desire to be more important or attractive than others, failing to acknowledge the good work of others, and excessive love of self.
If you don't think that this sort of thing goes on, just watch this short clip as my guide reluctantly shares the run with me.
I have had the great pleasure of spending time with successful guides, and these are guides who are proud of their local natural resources and want to show them off. What better way to do that than to make sure that their client fishes every inch of promising water during their limited time in the area?
Wrath, also known as "rage" in its purest form, presents with self-destructiveness, violence, and hate that may provoke feuds that can go on for centuries. Wrath may persist long after the person who did another a grievous wrong is dead. Feelings of anger can manifest in different ways, including impatience, revenge, and vigilantism.
We have all heard the stories of the guide who pulls out a trophy fish from under his client's nose with the excuse of, "I was only showing him how to work the fly when all of a sudden the fish hit. It was just luck." The truth is that he didn't have respect for the sport and he wanted to one-up his client the only way he could: flexing his fishing muscle.
A good guide would never try to make someone else feel small. A good guide would take his ego out of the equation and not be quick to pass judgment.
Envy is characterized by an insatiable desire to possess someone else's traits, status, abilities, or rewards. The also desire the entity and covet what others have. Envy is also forbidden in the Ten Commandments: "Neither shall you desire anything that belongs to your neighbor." Dante defined envy as "a desire to deprive other men of theirs."
One of the funniest experiences I've had with a guide getting caught with his hand in the cookie jar happened a few years ago, but not so long ago that the experience has lost its edge. I was working with one of my regular shooters. It is a running joke between us to see how long it takes for the guide to try on his "funny stuff." Oftentimes they feel a need to ensure that they catch the biggest fish on camera. Apparently a number of guys still find it unpalatable for a woman to catch the biggest fish. Yawn.
But this was a new record. The guide set the anchor and said, "The fish are there. Start short and work your way out until you reach your maximum cast, and then we will drop down."
"Great," I said. "Go ahead, you first." He looked shocked. He didn't expect that I would let him have the first cast of the day. He started to pull up the anchor rather than pull line off his reel. He explained that the larger fish were in a different location and that he needed to motor to a new spot. I said to him, "Do I understand this correctly? You put me over frog water?"
Sob. It was a long week.
Great guides whom I have had the pleasure of fishing with are people who would never play games at my expense. It is a shared success.
Sloth can entail different vices. While sloth is sometimes defined as physical laziness, spiritual laziness is emphasized. Failing to develop spiritually is key to becoming slothful. Sloth has also been defined as a failure to do things that one should do. By this definition, evil exists when good men fail to act.
Sometimes it's not entirely the guide's fault. Sometimes the sport [angler] asks the guide to cast for him. The guide gladly steps up to cast the fly, and he knows where to place it to make it count. Not surprisingly he places it on the nose where the fish habitually lie. The water explodes, the guide sets the hook, then hands the armchair angler the rod. The guide found the fish, picked the correct fly and tied it on, spent the time to build enough skill to cast to the fish, lost enough fish to know how to set a hook properly . . . What's left to do? Nothing, really.
He hands the rod off to the client so he will get a big tip and the sport can reel in a trophy, along with the bragging rights. The big white hunter returns to camp at the end of the day and signs the logbook. The guide and the sport cheapen the experience for everyone in camp when this is allowed to go on. And it does go on … on and on and on.
Great guides, whom we love to see in the industry, take the time to pass along skills and knowledge to the folks they guide.
Greed, also known as avarice or covetousness, is, like lust and gluttony, a sin of excess. However, greed (as seen by the church) is applied to a very excessive or rapacious desire and pursuit of material possessions.
I'm happy to report that, when given the opportunity, most guides do the right things for the right reasons. Perhaps I should cut some of the bad apples some slack and excuse away bad behavior by saying that perhaps that the TV cameras bring out the worst in people. Here is a guide/friend who does his best for his sports whether the camera is rolling or not.
When given the choice to deprive me of the magic fly, or do the right thing and share with me what was working that week to elicit a strike, this great guide gave me the fly.


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Team: Triple-A Nashville (Pacific Coast)
Age: 23
Why He's Here: .346/.424/.731 (9-for-26), 3 HR, 1 2B, 12 RBIs, 5 BB, 6 SO
The Scoop: It looks like Gamel will be a Hot Sheet regular for however long he stays in Triple-A. The Brewers' hard-hitting third baseman is already up to five home runs through only 14 games and has reached base at least once in every game but one. He's second in the PCL in both home runs and RBIs with 22. This week, Gamel homered in three consecutive games and had three games with three or more RBIs.
Team: low Class A Wisconsin (Midwest)
Age: 20
Why He's Here: 0-0, 1.50, 6 IP, 3 H, 1 R, 1 ER, 2 BB, 10 SO
The Scoop: Scarpetta's career has already taken some unusual turns. The Brewers snagged him in the 11th round of the 2007 draft out high school and signed him for $325,000, only to void that deal when he needed a second surgery on his right index finger. The club re-signed him for $125,000 instead, but had to add him to its 40-man roster to protect him from the Rule 5 draft. Scarpetta finally got to make his pro debut in rookie-ball last fall and has handled his first full-season assignment well this year. He's only allowed two earned runs in 11 2/3 innings over his first three appearances and has been piling up strikeouts (18) thanks to a heavy low to mid-90s sinker which he can back up with a 12-to-6 curveball and an improving changeup.


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|our dining room
|my hutch
I love the simplicity of this bedroom and the casual feeling it has.
|a vignette in my living room
|our living room
|the chair I bought (sorry for the fuzzy picture)
|our home and front garden
|our back stoop
|our fireplace
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|One of my vintage wooden boxes in our kitchen
Another dreamy bedroom. I love the simplicity of the vignette in this photo, and I LOVE vintage mirrors. This photo inspired me to create a vignette that I have in my bedroom.
|a simple bouquet in my living room
|the vignette in my bedroom inspired by the above photos
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October is Breast Cancer Awareness month, so Century Automotive, Lite 96.9 and Huntsville Hospital have teamed up to "Lite It Up PINK."
Purchase PINK light bulbs, put them in your porch light or recruit your business to "lite up" the windows PINK. Their goal is to see every house and business with these special bulbs to turn the entire valley PINK.
Proceeds from "Lite It Up PINK" benefit the Breast Center Fund at Huntsville Hospital Foundation.
You can purchase a pink light bulb for $5 dollars at the following locations:
Century Automotive, Huntsville Hospital Wellness Centers and Decatur Hospital.
For more information visit: http://www.liteituppink.com/