text:
W.O.D.: D Long Intervals
CFE STRENGTH & CONDITIONING WOD: Rest Day
Spend at least 45 minutes on recovery. Post recovery tools to comments.
CFE Strength & Conditioning WOD Rest Day
Single-Sport (SS):
"Sport (DAY)" refers to when the workout is designed/programmed to be performed within the week.
Choose ONE of the following sports:
Swim (THU): 8 x 200m, rest 90 seconds between, hold all splits within 3-5 seconds
Bike (THU): 6 x 2M, spin/rest 2:00, hold all 2M efforts within 3-5 seconds
Run (THU): 4 x 1200m, rest 3:00, hold all splits within 3-5 seconds
C2 Row (THU): 4 x 1500m, rest 3:00, hold all splits within 3-5 seconds
Post sport and times to comments.
Multi-Sport (3S):
"Sport (DAY)" refers to when the workout is designed/programmed to be performed within the week.
Choose ONE of the following sports:
Swim (FRI): 6 x 200m, rest 90 seconds between, hold all splits within 3-5 seconds
Bike (SUN or Time Trial): 4 x 2M, spin/rest 2:00, hold all splits within 3-5 seconds
Run (SAT or Tempo): 4 x 800m, rest 3:00, hold all splits within 3-5 seconds
Post sport and times to comments.
Kirk Warner, 90kg Clean & Jerk PR, prior to the SF Tri Treasure Island
Workout Legend | Demonstrations | General FAQ | EnduranceFAQ | S&C FAQ | WOD RSS Feed
Comments (45)
|Chad Brinkley
on Wednesday, January 25, 2012 at 06:12 pm
Bike WODDid the 3 sport Bike Intervals on Wednesday evening. 5 minutes warm up (High cadence spinning), 8x1/2 mile with 3 minutes rest (Times were 68, 72, 72, 72, 72, 72, 71, 71), 5 Minutes Cool down (high cadence spinning). Total Time: 40:37, Distance: 12.27 Miles
Did the local Crossfit WOD on Wednesday morning. For time - 30 Wallballs @20, 5 15' Rope Ascents, 25 Calorie Row, 30 KB Swings @55, 50 Abmat Sit Ups, 25 Slam Balls @50, 30 KB Snatch @35, 50 Box Steps @24", 25 Ring Dips; Total Time: 16:56.
|Daniel Smith
on Wednesday, January 25, 2012 at 07:54 pm
Rest day!!Gotta love these days, its seems these are the days that count the most. My body has been needing this rest for some time. Tomorrow do a hard three mile run, followed by some yoga and then some R&R. Really enjoyed every ones posts about the Ironman training bc i to plan on doing a half red man and a half iron man. Looking forward to seeing how my results are. Not to mention trying to qualify for the nationals at el reno. has any one ever raced a ITU?
on Wednesday, January 25, 2012 at 08:28 pm
C2 schedule.I notice the SS row is rx'd for Tue while the others are Thurs. Why is that? New here, sorry.
on Wednesday, January 25, 2012 at 09:08 pm
RE: c2 schedulejustin, that was a typo my friend. fixed!
|Leendert Paul Diterwich
on Thursday, January 26, 2012 at 01:48 am
hold all splits?Great site. Been following the WODs for some weeks now and seeing improvement in my run times already!
One thing however is still unclear to me, what do you mean with:
"hold all splits within..."
on Thursday, January 26, 2012 at 04:18 am
Re:Daniel SmithI'll be seeing you at the Redman. I haven't decided half or full. No, on the ITU series. It is a bit too international for me.
on Thursday, January 26, 2012 at 05:24 am
bikeFor bike intervals on a stationary bike what kind of resistance are you using?
on Thursday, January 26, 2012 at 05:44 am
m/39/210 Crossfit Fredericton, NByoga at noon
10x10 intervals on the treadmill with %12 grade and 12mph. Approximately 14seconds at full height and speed on each interval plus time for the acceleration and deceleration (approximately 20s each direction)
An interesting way to do sprint intervals but that is just part of being a Canadian I guess!
|Stuart F
on Thursday, January 26, 2012 at 06:19 am
SS run4 x 1200m, rest 3:00
4'50, 4'50, 4'59, 4'58
Absolutely sh@gged on the last 2 :)
I am working on my form but start to get pain under my left knee since buying a pair of innov8 233s and trying te pose method. does anyone have any ideas short of seeing video of my technique?
thanks a lot, enjoy your wod!
on Thursday, January 26, 2012 at 06:28 am
Are Long Intervals max effort?Are long intervals for running at max effort?
on Thursday, January 26, 2012 at 06:50 am
Finally an app that works with CFESeconds Pro - an app that you can program intervals and rest with a count down, runs with iPod and alerts over music.
on Thursday, January 26, 2012 at 06:58 am
RE;:Hold all sprintsLeendert Paul Diterwich that is the deviation window. The difference between your fastest and slowest rep is at most the high end of the window
|Gabriel Cruz
on Thursday, January 26, 2012 at 07:08 am
SuggestionsRecommended % running the 4 x 1200ms. I currently run the 8 x 200m @ 11.0 mph on the treadmill. Any recommendations what i should run for the 4 x 1200? Is it supposed to be at Max Effort?
on Thursday, January 26, 2012 at 07:14 am
Re: Are Long Intervals max effort?HM - Max effort to the point that you can still run each interval within 3-5 seconds of the other. Max effort, balls to the wall running would most likely be a TT with more rest in between. More of a 1:2 or 1:3 work/rest ratio.
on Thursday, January 26, 2012 at 07:22 am
bikeFor bike intervals on a stationary bike what kind of resistance are you using?
on Thursday, January 26, 2012 at 07:53 am
@Leendert"hold all splits within 3-5 seconds
" means that your fastest and slowest interval times should be within 3-5 seconds of each other.
|Daniel Smith
on Thursday, January 26, 2012 at 08:02 am
Re:StacyFYeah this is my first ever half iron distance, love the olympic distance but really want to step up my game. I don't know the technical terms but are you a sponsored Triathlete, or working towards it? Just thought i would ask, i have a goal to make it to nationals in vermont, or make it to a ITU race.
on Thursday, January 26, 2012 at 08:28 am
re: Leendert & HMYou want to set a pace where the first interval is below max effort and the last is at max effort but takes about the same time. The difference between the fastest and the slowest should be no more than 5 seconds and no less than 3s for this WOD. Running 4x1200m at 4:25, 4:28, 4:27, 4:29 would be a good LI WOD. 4:21, 4:29, 4:28, 4:32 would not. If speed varies too much you're not setting a consistent pace. If times are too close, you probably could push a little harder.
on Thursday, January 26, 2012 at 09:04 am
Re:Daniel SmithDaniel, how do you qualify for the ITU Nationals, in which race? Is that the World Championships in Neveda?
|Jake Fisher
on Thursday, January 26, 2012 at 09:25 am
RE: Stuart F // SS RunStuart F,
Just a thought, but 1200m SPRINTS in brand new minimalist shoes like the INOV-8 233s might be a little too much volume at this point. Especially if you don't have your POSE running form dialed in. I'm guessing you're changing from a shoe that wasn't a zero drop and not so minimalist as the 233? Is this a safe assumption?
If you're having knee pain while running, you're probably doing one of a couple of things... Reaching out in front of you with your leg/foot-- which would cause you to heal strike, which would then cause the soft tissue around/inside the knee to be smashed/pinched and that's why you're experiencing the knee pain.
You may make the argument that 1200m isn't a lot of volume for you, because you can run a 10K without any trouble; but can you run a 10K at 90-95% (basically sprinting?) and maintain your form? Or even a mile? I'm posing a rhetorical question here to help you think critically...
I would dial back the volume as you transition to those new, EXTREMELY minimalist shoes. I'm talking, working on form at distances of 50-100m, and not going up from there until you have excellent form and you can maintain multiple sprint splits within a second of each other. Once your POSE is good, take up the distance a bit, let's say 200m. Again, maintain form throughout several intervals, dial up the intensity and see if you (as BMack would say) "Go to shit" LOL! If you're able to maintain, dial up the distance again. Keep working on it.
Also, these distance/volume increases aren't going to happen in the same day; probably not even in the same week. You have to start making these small increases very slowly until they become 2nd Nature to you.
I would check out the Skills & Drills posted on here under SPORT TECH > RUN. Implement those as your warm-up for each day's running CFE WOD.
And lastly, and probably THE MOST important; I would talk to some of the coaches/trainers in your CF box and see if they'll video tape you, and then break down your form. If you post a video on YouTube and link us all here, I'm sure you'll get A LOT of helpful feedback.
Cheers, brother!
|Enoch Pitzer
on Thursday, January 26, 2012 at 09:29 am
Main SiteDid the main site wod today on the track. 8x400m, 1:30 rest. 1;18 1;20 1;22 1;20 1;26 1;20 1;19 1;19. Distance and speed were good, rest sucked BAD..
on Thursday, January 26, 2012 at 10:19 am
Daily ResultsEndurance
4x1200m Run
4:46, 4:52, 4:58, 4:58
Ran the first 1200m way to fast!
on Thursday, January 26, 2012 at 10:55 am
Long Interval 4x1200m Run4x1200m Run
You are all too fast for me as I try to get back into running after a 2 year layoff
5:55, 5:50, 6:00, 6:05
Treadmill run
on Thursday, January 26, 2012 at 10:59 am
ResultsC2 2x1500m 3min rest
Lower back in knots, and just not in shape yet. Diggin' this though.
Any advice from the crowd for a beginning C2'er?
|Daniel Smith
on Thursday, January 26, 2012 at 11:46 am
Re: LydiaYou dont have to qualify for the ITU world tri but I sure would like to Race it and see how I perform against some of the best. I'm talking about qualifying for US Olympic team age group races and I think it's in San Diego and there was another one in Vermont last year but financially I could swing it. Is this something you have already done?? Or interested it to??
on Thursday, January 26, 2012 at 12:01 pm
What is the sport workout for today?Looking at the multisport section and the WOD it seems there is nothing to do today. Is this correct?
|Jason Hughes
on Thursday, January 26, 2012 at 12:04 pm
JMac Question in regard to swim intervalsDid Swim Short Int. 15x50m on 1:00. To keep the time, I scale to 40y so that I can rest almost 1:1. Takes me about :30 to do 40 yards, (all out effort). My question is what do you intend as the rest interval for the short interval swim work? Are you wanting 1:1, 20 seconds, 10? I can move to a 25 meter pool and do the intervals as Rx'd but I don't think I can hold a sub :45 second time over the course of 15 rounds. Just wanting to know what you are intending as a rest duration before I stop scaling the workout, so I can do it as intended.
on Thursday, January 26, 2012 at 12:05 pm
RE: What is the sport workout for today?Tim--
Today is an off day for Endurance, CFE S&C and strength. Spend at least 45 minutes on recovery. This could include a number of things such as MWOD, SMR etc.
|Stuart F
on Thursday, January 26, 2012 at 12:20 pm
RE: Jake Fisher RE: Stuart F // SS RunJake,
Thanks very much for your reply, a great response and very much appreciated.
Yes, I guess youre correct regarding distance given the new shoes and technique together.
Reducing the distance substantially is the best method of progressing, ironically perhaps, however I have entered a marathon in 13 weeks time (london).
Bearing this in mind would you suggest
1) exactly as you suggest in your post and say in 13 weeks i could progress the distance, or
2) revert to my old trainers and technique until after the marathon, then start over?
I would LOVE to get to a CF box, but I am in the UK and things havent taken off over here yet. Maybe I should open one.. :)
Once again, much appreciate your advice.
|Jake Fisher
on Thursday, January 26, 2012 at 01:04 pm
Recovery Work / Rest Day80 mins of...
- Shoulder mobility
- Smash Party w/ a 45# barbell, rolling up and down my quads
- Foam Roller: hamstrings, IT-bands, psoas, grinding/smashing my hips flexors (rolling from groin to outside of the glute / laying sideways and really digging into my hip flexors w/ the foam roller)
- Band flossing my hip flexors in squat, lounge position; using the band to pull my hip capsule into alignment
- Foam Roller up and down my thorasic vertebrae & the loins of my back
- Banded shoulder/lat/scap PNF stretching
- Banded flossing of my hips in 90% "pigeon" or "perpendicular" splits; then banded flossing of hips in yoga's "pigeon" pose
- 6-min static headstand (tripod) w/ legs vertical and toe-point; shoulder supported & hollow positioning
- 3-min headstand (tripod) w/ legs in various positions: splits, bent, helicopters, inverted-L, etc; core strengthening & shoulder stability work
I feel like a Million Dollars. The rest of the day will include a 2-hour nap as soon as I get this plate full of eggs & veggies down.
on Thursday, January 26, 2012 at 01:13 pm
Re:Daniel SmithDaniel,
Yes I would be for sure interested. How good do you have to be to race in the US Olympic team age group?
on Thursday, January 26, 2012 at 01:41 pm
Today's Run4x1200m Run, 3:00 rest:
4:21, 4:08, 4:10, 4:10
Tried to go hard but keep my breathing steady on the first one, but it didn't seem like the time was my best, so I pushed it on the rest.
|David Novelli
on Thursday, January 26, 2012 at 01:50 pm
RE: Finally an app that works with CFEThanks for the tip! I downloaded Seconds Pro just for this workout and it is amazing!
I'm new to CFE, but not to CF. I'm training for a Century Ride in June and I think I just found my program!!! Keep it coming!
on Thursday, January 26, 2012 at 02:26 pm
1200'sDid yesterday's S&C this morning. 5:19
1200's were 4:25 4:21 4:20 4:29
Didn't keep a very consistent pace but that will improve.
|Brad Williams
on Thursday, January 26, 2012 at 02:47 pm
1/26/12 WOD45 minute recovery bike workout this morning. Did pedal stroke drills too. After, did some flossing with bands and wrapped bike tubes around legs to aid that like on MWOD. Foam Roller after school today w/a little more stretching.
on Thursday, January 26, 2012 at 03:23 pm
Re: US National Team Age GroupYou have to come in the top of your age group at USA Triathlon Age Group National Championships in Burlington, VT in August.
So, qualify for Nationals, then come in the top in your AG at Nationals to earn Age Group Team USA.
on Thursday, January 26, 2012 at 03:52 pm
Run wod4x0.75 mi:
By far my best run in the 3+ weeks of following CFE...hopefully a sign of more good things to come.
on Thursday, January 26, 2012 at 04:53 pm
Re: Daniel SmithMy all girl cycling team is heavily sponsored, but I cannot give up my Felt for a Cannondale, so I don't race the team bike. Half of the cycling team transitions into the tri team as well.There are times, though, that I will race unattached with a CFE jersey and sometimes I race tri's with a HTFU kit.
Sponsorship is a tricky game. Personally, I like going at it alone without any extra pressure hence the HTFU kit.
We will have to touch base before the Redman. It is an awesome race, and this year, all 4 lengths. I will warn you, the road (Waterloo) on the back half of the course is close to cobble stone, so toughen up and carry extra spares. It was my first 70.3 a few years back.
|Chad Brinkley
on Thursday, January 26, 2012 at 05:28 pm
Active RecoveryWarmed up today with a 300 Meter Row and 3x10 GHD Sit Ups. Followed up the Bergner Warm Up for cleans and snatches using the 45 LB Bar. Then I did 15 minutes of skill work on Hand Stands and HSPU. Finished up with 10 minutes of mobility work (2 minutes hips, 4 minutes calves, 2 minutes Hamstrings, 2 minutes shoulders). Nice change from the usual WOD...
on Thursday, January 26, 2012 at 06:54 pm
I ran the first too fast and. I know for next time.
|Jake Fisher
on Thursday, January 26, 2012 at 11:15 pm
RE: Stuart FStuart,
You could progress in 13-wks, but it will take tremendous dedication and effort. Make sure you are recovering well & your nutrition is dialed in ... SLEEP! Minimum of 7 hours every night!
Get it.
on Friday, January 27, 2012 at 01:00 pm
US National Team Age GroupHow do you quality for Nationals, did I miss that?
on Thursday, February 02, 2012 at 07:39 am
Results4:21, 4:21, 4:21, 4:34
on Thursday, February 02, 2012 at 12:59 pm
KD Resultsrun: 7.2,7,7,7.2MPH on treadmill. I need to up my speed.
on Wednesday, February 08, 2012 at 09:44 pm
4x1200 in 4:35, 4:35, 4:32 and 4:28.


text:
Keira Knightley took to the red carpet at the Princess of Wales Theatre in Toronto, Canada yesterday evening for the Toronto Film Festival premiere of 'Can A Song Save Your Life?'
She was the one I was looking out for at this festival and she didn't disappoint, turning to maestro of prints Mary Katrantzou who created this enchanting bucolic landscapes and painterly murals print strapless calf-length strapless dress, with a fully-boned bodice and voluminous pleated skirt.
I was expecting another Valentino Couture gown, but this chic frock doesn't disappoint. I'm glad she went left, when I was expecting her to go right.
Keeping her accessories to a minimum to let this head-turner speak for itself, she styled her frock with nude Christian Louboutin ankle strap suede pumps, smoky eyes and a tousled updo.
Matches Fashion Global and Matches Fashion UK.
Credit: Getty
Posted by Catherine Kallon on September 8th, 2013 In: Keira Knightley, Mary Katrantzou, Premiere, Toronto Film Festival

subset: commoncrawl


text:
« -Ibanez AGB140 Artcore Bass »
Every once in a while, you come across an 'oddball' instrument that calls out to you. (By "every once in a while", read: "bi-weekly"! *wink*) More often than not, sadly, these instruments tend to get played less than they are admired as a wall decoration. This particular impulse purchase turned out to be a justified expenditure however!
Ibanez makes an extremely affordable line of archtopped hollow and semi-hollow guitars and basses. This 'Artcore' line is surprisingly varied and one of the most consistent values in the current new instrument market. This AGB140 bass cost me less than $300 brand new! What first attracted me to the bass was honestly purely aesthetics- the bound f-holes, single cutaway and transparent rootbeer finish all just plain looked cool & different. The single humbucking pickup in an odd position also intrigued me as to how the instrument might sound...
As it turned out, the bass has a very cool, roots-rock tone! The humbucking pickup is very powerful (it's entirely passive but has a much lower impedance than typical humbuckers) and has a strong midrange emphasis. Honestly, the instrument is a bit of a 'one-trick pony', but it's a good trick! The artcore fits well in rock contexts and works particularly well with overdrive and distortion. Being a semi-hollow instrument (there is a solid centerblock) it doesn't feedback uncontrollably & howl - but it does sustain more and interact when you get up close to a loud amp. Bitchin'!
The Artcore line's construction at these extremely low price-points really is remarkable. The finish, binding and hardware were all perfect off the showroom floor. You really get a lot for your money! I did, however, need to overhaul the electronics with a proper bridge ground, better pots and a higher value tone cap. The last 4 or 5 frets in the treble register also needed to be leveled down a bit (typical with glued-in set necks).
Speaking of the neck - it's worth noting that playing this bass feels, well,... weird! It features a standard long scale (34" from bridge to nut) but the body is somewhat compact and the neck joins it at the 17th fret. The archetypal Fender style bass joins at approximately the 11th fret (based on the upper horn extension). This adds up to make this Ibanez feel very long. I doubt a shorter or younger player would really take well to this Artcore bass. I'm 6'4" with particularly gangly limbs & I still feel like I'm stretching to play a low 'F'!
I recently tried some D'Addario Half Round strings on this bass & I love them! They retain the same rocking attack with a pick, but lend a slightly darker response when plucked fingerstyle compared to regular round wounds while sustaining more than true flat wound strings. This AGB140 was just a tad too 'bright' sounding & the Half Rounds compensated perfectly!
Tech Talk:
The AGB140 is no longer made, but there are a couple of short-scale basses currently in manufacture: Ibanez Artcore Basses
Sporting a set of D'Addario ENR71SL Half Rounds: At D'Addario.com


text:
Developmentally disabled man found safe
POSTED: 07:43 AM MDT Apr 28, 2013 UPDATED: 09:36 AM MDT Apr 28, 2013
A developmentally disabled man who went missing Saturday has been found safe.
Gerald Eugene Wasinger was last seen Saturday afternoon near his home in the 3000 block of Illinois Ave.
Colorado Springs Police announced around 9:30 a.m. Sunday that Wasinger was found safe.
Police said they did not suspect foul play.
Copyright 2013 KRDO. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.


text:
Broccoli and bacon quiche
So, you know how I mentioned that I surrendered to the domestic gods during the holidays? Well, one of their tasks for me was baking. I've never considered myself much of a baker simply because you find so many desserts and pastries already made in the states. I finally decided to attempt some of my favorites – apple pies, tarts and alas, quiche. It wasn't that difficult (it never is once you get used to it), but the dough gave me a run for my money. Lucky for me, I'd had enough experience with the pie crusts to know when it needed more butter and when it needed to be chilled. And, tah-daahhhh…
I know I didn't do the step-by-step like a good blogger should, but I really didn't think it was going to turn out this good.
Following exact recipes have never worked out for me and what I usually do is make tweaks every time I make a dish until it's exactly how I like it.
Lesson learned from this attempt is to use more liquid (i.e. milk or cream). I like my quiches very moist. In any case, here's the recipe I used which is an amalgam of different ones I found on the internet:
6 large eggs, beaten
1 1/2 cups heavy cream
Ground pepper
1 broccoli head sautéed (frozen could be used)
1 pound bacon, cooked and crumbled
1 1/2 cups grated Gruyère cheese
For the dough I used the following:
1 2/3 cups (250g) plain flour
3 tablespoons of sugar
125g unsalted butter, chilled, finely chopped
1 egg, chilled
Process flour, butter and a pinch of salt in a food processor until mixture resembles breadcrumbs. Whisk egg and 1 tbs chilled water in a bowl until combined, then with food processor motor running, add to flour mixture. Process until mixture begins to form large clumps, stopping machine before mixture forms a ball. Turn pastry out on to a work surface and knead gently to bring together. Form into a disc for a round tart or into a log shape for a rectangular tart. Wrap in plastic wrap and refrigerate overnight or for at least 2 hours. Roll out the dough and place in a springform pan or whatever pan you use to make pies.
Preheat the oven to 375 degrees F.
Combine the eggs, cream, salt, and pepper in a food processor or blender. Layer the spinach, bacon, and cheese in the bottom of the pie crust, then pour the egg mixture on top. Bake for 35 to 45 minutes until the egg mixture is set. Cut into 8 wedges.
Tags: Expat, Haitian-American in Venezuela, Photography, Quiche, Recipes


text:
All Mostly True statements involving George Allen
The cost of a gas tank fill-up has risen $30 since Barack Obama became president.
Takes credit for "substantially reducing the size of the state workforce."
"The tax on job creating businesses is 35 percent in the United States, second worst in the entire world."
A majority of the American people opposed the health care law when it was signed and still oppose it today.
Page 1 of 1
How to contact us:
We want to hear your suggestions and comments. Email the Virginia Truth-O-Meter with feedback and with claims you'd like to see checked. If you send us a comment, we'll assume you don't mind us publishing it unless you tell us otherwise.
Browse The Virginia Truth-O-Meter:


text:
If so, you've arrived at the right
place! Stuart Allan & Associates is always looking for qualified
passionate people to join our team and share in our continuing
Please explore the job opportunities listed below and
then complete our online application. It's your first step
towards becoming a Stuart Allan & Associates team member!


text:
Always wondered why they couldn't set up shop on Navarro just north of a handful of bars and have checkpoints. I have no sympathy for drunk drivers and would be glad to be rid of them. I wouldn't know if they did these or not, so maybe they do. I'm not out when the drunks are out on Friday or Saturday.November 13, 2010 at 11:05 p.m.
speakup68...your rantings against Tyler are getting old. Come up with some new material.November 13, 2010 at 2:09 p.m.


text:
I'll be honest, the following breakdown is probably a little more than most of you would like to know about my husband's daily schedule. Plus, it's difficult for 98% of the population out there to follow a similar schedule. Dan has the benefit of being self employed, so he has a flexible schedule.
With that said, I think he's crazy.
However, his dedication to personal fitness has resulted in his loss of 30 pounds and a very nice butt. I am very proud of him and his determination.
I stole the following from an email Dan sent to a friend that inquired about what he does to be so amazing in the gym.
This recipe is so delicious, that I'm posting it before I even have a picture for it. You'll have to deal with a placeholder image for the time being. The Portland winter rain is limiting my photo shoots to near impossible.
When making this recipe, I threw things into the pot and stirred. I really didn't measure much, so the quantities below are estimates, especially the clams and clam juice.
Recipe inspired by Cody Limbaugh Get The Full Recipie →
Get The Full Recipie →


text:
Mola RamTalk0
this wiki
|Mola Ram
Pankot, India
High Priest of the Thuggee
- "You've betrayed Shiva!"
- ―Indiana Jones[src]
Mola Ram was the high priest of the Thuggee and leader of the cult.
The son of a Thuggee priest, Mola Ram emigrated from Bengal to Pankot in search of three Sankara Stones. With two already in his possession, Ram believed all five would empower the Thuggee to destroy their British persecutors and establish his goddess Kali's reign on Earth. In Pankot, he found a powerful ally in Chattar Lal, the Prime Minister of Pankot Palace. Ram poisoned Pankot's ruler, Maharajah Premjit Singh in 1930 and with Lal's help, subdued the heir: Premjit's young son, Zalim. The pair restored the palace's long-neglected Kali temple, and set up a mining operation beneath the palace, with the intent of locating the remaining stones.
After stealing one of the stones — known as the Shiva Linga — from the village of Mayapore, Mola Ram's plans were thrown into disarray in 1935 by the American archaeologist Indiana Jones and his companions Willie Scott and Short Round. The trio freed the village children Ram had enslaved as miners, and stole the three stones in the high priest's possession. Mola Ram and his followers pursued the group to a rope bridge, where Jones cut the ropes, sending most of the Thuggee warriors to their deaths in the crocodile-infested river below. Mola Ram clung to the remnants of the bridge, however, and continued his battle against Jones, even going so far as throwing one of his own surviving men off the bridge in an attempt to dislodge the archaeologist. During the struggle, Jones' invocation of Shiva caused the stones to glow red hot. The move caught Ram off guard; he fell into the river and was torn to shreds by the crocodiles.[1]
Following Mola Ram's demise, people searched the river and found no signs of his body. Rumors began to circulate that his body had disappeared from the river and, despite statements by the British that the high priest was dead, they were unable to provide any evidence to prove it, moving to punish anyone who publicly said otherwise.[2]
Maharajah Singh also publicly declared Mola Ram deceased and offered $2,500 to anyone that could provide proof, or information on who might have taken the body.[2]
However, the stories circulating that Mola Ram haunted the ruins of the flooded "Temple of Doom" pleased both parties, as Singh and the British were keen to keep others away from the area.[2]
Behind the scenes Edit
Amrish Puri portrayed Mola Ram in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom. Though he is the main antagonist, he does not appear until an hour into the film.
Mola Ram is named after an 18th-century Indian painter. George Lucas wanted Mola Ram to be terrifying, so the screenwriters Willard Huyck and Gloria Katz added elements of Aztec and Hawaiian human sacrificers, and European devil worship, to the character. To create his headdress, make-up artist Tom Smith based the skull on a cow (as this would be sacrilegious) with a latex shrunken head. Puri was chosen as Spielberg and Lucas did not want to cast a European actor and apply dark make-up. In the role, Puri resembles Eduardo Ciannelli, who played the cult leader in Gunga Din, an inspiration on the film.
In early drafts of the story, the burning Sankara Stones actually release Mola Ram from the same "Black Sleep of the Kali Ma" he inflicts on Jones before falling to his death, hinting that he may not have been in control of his actions. It was also intended that Mola Ram, after falling from the bridge, be killed by landing on the embankment below, followed by the crocodiles tearing apart his corpse.
When Mola Ram is eaten, the Wilhelm scream can be heard.
Appearances Edit
- Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
- Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom: A Tale of High Adventure
- Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom novel
- Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom comic
- Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom junior novel
- Indiana Jones' Greatest Adventures
- LEGO Indiana Jones: The Original Adventures (Non-canonical appearance)
- LEGO Indiana Jones 2: The Adventure Continues (Non-canonical appearance)
- LEGO Star Wars: Bombad Bounty (Non-canonical appearance)
- Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom: The Illustrated Screenplay
- Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom Sourcebook
- Chattar Lal's Marshall College entry on IndianaJones.com (backup link on Archive.org)
- Mola Ram's Marshall College entry on IndianaJones.com (backup link on Archive.org)
- Zalim Singh's Marshall College entry on IndianaJones.com (backup link on Archive.org)
- Indiana Jones: The Ultimate Guide
- The Greatest Adventures of Indiana Jones
- Top Trumps: Indiana Jones
- The Temple of Doom
Notes and referencesEdit
External linksEdit
- Mola Ram on Brickipedia, the LEGO wiki


text:
janie lopez
Get downloading! iOS 5.0.1 has been released by Apple for the iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch, and promises to improve battery life. The update also brings bug fixes for Documents in the Cloud, multitasking gestures for the iPad 1, and improved voice recognition for Aussie users using dictation.
iOS 5.0.1 also marks the first time that iOS devices can be updated over-the-air, which can be done by going to Settings
(via tumbleamen)


text:
Shifting gears a little from MSU football to baseball, the Diamond Dogs got a big commitment today via Twitter from Itawamba Community College pitcher Ben Hudspeth.

Very excited to announce my commitment to Mississippi State! #hailstate #themdawgs
— Ben Hudspeth (@benhudspeth) September 8, 2012

Hudspeth, a 2011 graduate of Tupelo High School, was named a 2012 first-team All-American by the National Junior College Athletic Association in June. He concluded his freshman season with the Indians with an 11-0 record with a stagering 1.82 ERA. He also notched 65 strikeouts and one save in 74 innings. He was actually only one of two freshmen on the 12-member first-team and one of six freshmen out of 36 players selected as All-Americans. Read and watch more about Ben and his summer award here. (Special thanks to Adam Gore and the ICC Sports Information Department.)
"I'm really excited to have the opportunity to live my dream," Hudspeth told FWtCT.com earlier tonight via text.
MSU finished 40-24 last season with an SEC tournament championship and a trip to the Tallahassee Regional before losing to Samford (twice) and defeating UAB.


text:
MARSING - You wouldn't have known from Owyhee County rancher Dennis Stanford's presentation Wednesday about reseeding after a range fire that he is facing orders to remove up to half his cattle from public land.
Stanford is one of the ranchers the Bureau of Land Management told in January to reduce their seasonal grazing to meet rangeland health standards. He also is one of the key proponents of the Owyhee Initiative, formed by Owyhee County more than a decade ago to bring ranchers together with groups such as the Idaho Conservation League and the Nature Conservancy to protect wilderness and ranching.
The grazing cuts came as a result of an order by U.S. District Judge B. Lynn Winmill, who ruled in a lawsuit by Western Watersheds Project, an environmental group that opposes grazing. Winmill ordered the BLM to update the grazing permits to show the agency was meeting its standards for rangeland health, guidelines to ensure that the desert ecosystem is functioning. The standards help agency scientists determine that native grasses and shrubs are healthy, streamside areas and watersheds are thriving, and habitat for sage grouse and other endangered species is protected.
Many observers predicted the BLM's grazing orders would break up the collaboration, which helped Republican Sen. Mike Crapo get a bill passed by Congress in 2009 to protect 517,000 acres of wilderness and provide help to ranchers and other groups.
"There is a lot of tension," said Brenda Richards, Owyhee County treasurer and a rancher who still serves as chairman of the Owyhee Initiative. "If you had your job and your children's education at stake, think about how you would feel."
But the Initiative Board and its conservation members signed a letter to the BLM, expressing concerns over its decisions to limit grazing to comply with Winmill's order.
"They stepped up," said Richards, who kicked off a series of presentations on desert restoration Wednesday at the American Legion Hall.
The initiative, grazing groups, conservation groups and the University of Idaho organized this week's meetings that brought the sides together to work on restoration projects they can all agree on.
"This is a bright spot," Richards said, "where people are able to leave that tension at the door."
Stanford talked about how the reseeding that ranchers and conservationists did after the 2007 Cow Creek fire has helped provide cover for sage grouse and forage for cows.
BLM acting state Director Tim Murphy spoke of the success of rural fire associations organized by ranchers to respond to range fires.
Art Talsma of the Nature Conservancy shared tips he learned working with rancher Dave Bunker for getting sagebrush and other native plants to grow after encroaching junipers were removed. University of Idaho ecologists offered the latest research findings, including evidence that sagebrush and other native plants don't grow back when thick stands of juniper burn hot, killing seeds and reducing soil productivity.
Jason Pyron, a biologist and sage grouse coordinator for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, said the people in the room agree that fire and invasive species are the main threat to the bird, which his agency is deciding whether to list as an endangered species.
"We can agree on 80 percent of what needs to be done," Pyron said. "We need to focus on the 80 percent instead of the 20 percent."
Still, Stanford couldn't help getting in a controversial message that is central to ranchers' argument on the grazing issue.
"I really believe that livestock grazing is the only way we are going to keep catastrophic fires from burning up all the sage grouse habitat," he said.
The conservation representatives, the BLM and the researchers who were at the meetings do agree that keeping ranchers on the land is important.
"If they are out there on that landscape, being that steward, then sage grouse will be there too," Pyron said.
But one group was not in the room. Members of Western Watersheds Project, the group whose lawsuits have forced the cutbacks, view the issue very differently.
They point to long-term erosion problems that have lowered the water table around many streams where cattle congregate. Such streamside areas are oases of life in the desert that support a range of fish and wildlife.
Ken Cole, Western Watershed's national environmental policy act coordinator, said many of the restoration projects obscure the central issue.
"They're not addressing the real problem," Cole said. "They are addressing the symptoms of the real problem, which is grazing."
Western Watersheds doesn't get involved in restoration programs, he said, because that's the job of the BLM. "I believe in passive restoration," he said.
He points to a recent deal by the Sagebrush Habitat Conservation Fund to retire the grazing rights of two ranchers at the 45 Ranch on 203 square miles in the Owyhee Wilderness as the kind of work his group supports.
But those kinds of buyouts show what's wrong with the Owyhee Initiative, said Republican Rep. Judy Boyle. Retiring grazing rights was authorized in the law that created the wilderness and was supported by Owyhee ranchers.
"The Owyhee Initiative allowed for these buyouts to occur," Boyle said. "What have (ranchers) gained out of this and what has the resource gained?"
Others have criticized the initiative's track record because some of the spending authorized in the law has never been appropriated, in part because of budget cuts. Money for the Shoshone Paiute Tribe to protect its religious sites has not been forthcoming. A Science Review and Restoration Center, to have been operated by the University of Idaho, has never been built.
But the U of I has funded a Rangeland Center, with research projects across Owyhee County. BLM State Director Murphy suggested a new BLM office could be built with a home for the center and a gateway to the wilderness and wild rivers in Marsing.
"We need a place to come together on a daily basis, not just a scheduled meeting basis," Murphy said.
With anger at the BLM running high, Richards said, this might not be a good time to talk about such a plan. But she's still strongly committed to the Owyhee Initiative and said this week's sessions helped.
"The trickiest part is keeping this going," Richards said.
Stanford declined to discuss the BLM cutbacks. But despite the critics and the conflicts, he's still a supporter of the initiative.
"The extreme environmentalists want all livestock off, and we've got to make sure that doesn't happen," he said.
Rocky Barker: 377-6484


text:
- Mobile site
- E-Newsletters
- News feed
- Find us on Twitter
All the latest news and views from the T&A
All the latest sport from the T&A
Latest business headlines from the T&A
- Find us on Facebook
The Telegraph & Argus
Like us on Facebook
Teenager hurt as car hits lampost (From Bradford Telegraph and Argus)
Get involved: send your pictures, video, news and views by texting TANEWS to 80360, or email
Teenager hurt as car hits lampost
9:00am Thursday 5th June 2014 in News
A 16-year-old boy is being treated for a serious head injury after a car crashed into a lampost yesterday morning.
Fire crews from Odsal and Cleckheaton removed the roof of a car to get people out following the accident, which happened on Bradford Road, Oakenshaw, at around 12.48am.
A white Audi A5 crashed into a street light and road signs, spun and came to a stop against the gates of St Andrews Church.
The teenager is being treated at Leeds General Infirmary. A 22-year-old man was also taken to hospital but later discharged.
Crew Commander Neil Harrison, of Odsal Fire Station, said: "It had a severe impact. We extricated the two passengers after the roof of the car was removed.
"The car ended up against the gates of St Andrews Church, near the Richardsons Arms pub. They had lost control."


text:
News: J Dilla's Memory Lives On W/ Launch Of New Website
Tuesday, Jan 26, 2010 1:50PM
Late producer James "J Dilla" Yancey's family is carrying on his memory by launching a new website in his name.
According to reports, the launch was made official this week.
In the year since Vibe Magazine published the article The Battle for J Dilla's Legacy, exposing the behind-the-scenes disaster of the J Dilla estate, many positive changes have taken place. J Dilla's heirs are today announcing a victory in this 'battle' with new estate administrator, and the launch of the website j-dilla.com which will officially represent J Dilla and serve as a contact for anyone wishing to do business the artist's name and music. (Stones Throw)
The producer's mother has also worked to launch a foundation in his name.
The developments mark a new chapter in preserving and enhancing the legacy of the legendary artist and secure a means of future prosperity for his mother, Maureen "Ma Dukes" Yancey, daughters Ja'Mya Yancey and Ty-Monae Whitlow, and brother, John "Illa J" Yancey. "I'm so excited because it's like one big organization," says Maureen Yancey, who has worked tirelessly to ensure that the well-being of her family remains a priority for all involved and her son's accomplishments are held in a positive and productive light. "We've got cutting-edge people all over the country waiting to work and be a part of it. Everybody's on one accord it seems like the universe is working with us." (J-Dilla)
Dilla was known for his trend-setting production and soulful sound that made him a producer's producer.
Ron Watts, Detroit rapper Phat Kat, said Dilla's unique style in which he blended claps, drum machines and samples helped change the sound of modern hip-hop. "That's really where all the other cats are getting that style," Watts said. "It came from the soul, old Detroit soul music." Dilla contributed tracks to the Pharcyde's 1995 album Labcabincalifornia. He also produced much of A Tribe Called Quest's The Love Movement in 1998 and worked with Common on several albums. (Associated Press)
The producer passed away just over four years ago.
It is with great sorrow that the Family and Friends of J Dilla announces his spiritual transition on the morning of February 10th, 2006 in the loving arms of his mother, Maureen Yancey. J Dilla had suffered for over three years with an incurable blood disease, and had also been diagnosed with lupus. (Statement)


text:
23486 Posts in 18995 Topics by 2878 members
General Questions
SilverStripe Forums » General Questions » Webshop - best approach?
General questions about getting started with SilverStripe that don't fit in any of the categories above.
Moderators: martimiz, Sean, biapar, Willr, Ingo, swaiba, simon_w
Page: 1
|Go to End
|582 Views
Forum Moderator
1086 Posts
Webshop - best approach?
4 May 2012 at 1:27am
Hi all,
I'm asked to build a webshop that will ultimately hold a couple of thousand products, and cater to multiple countries. I'll also be implementing multiple payment options, including iDeal (netherlands). I'd like to get the first version of that site ready for testing in, say, two months time. That will be one language/country only. The multi-country version will follow (not much) later.
So now i'm wondering if SilverStripe is up to the task. I know there are at least the two modules eCommerce (in multiple versions) and SilverCart. Also that the payment module of the former is now part of the GSOC. I'm looking for the moste likely candidate to get this done, where
- new payment methods/providers is at least doable
- Thousands of products can be handled
- Translatable is supported, or can at least be implemented within a reasonable amount of time (including country-related settings)
- SS3 will be supported in time, and upgrading doable
- The system is extendible enough for adding custom(?) bits like callouts and combined products and vouchers, giftcertificates, giftwrapping and stuff
I can do my bit of coding, no problem, and I'd rather avoid turning away from SilverStripe to, say, Magento... Apologies for the rather long story - Any help/advice is very much appreciated!!!
Thanks, Martine
Forum Moderator
1792 Posts
Re: Webshop - best approach?
4 May 2012 at 1:34am Last edited: 4 May 2012 1:51am
Hey Martine,
I can only comment on a couple of the issues...
1) Silvercart is going to be the serious option for "idustrial strength" - when I started out I emulated some attributes of the silverstripe eCommerce system for our booking software - and they were not scalable. Things like storing the current order in the session, use of pages as products, etc. However number of bookings and datbase structure is much better in Silvercart
2) Niether has the payments for iDeal and both will be an efforr to code it - but the silverstripe payments are going to be better in the long run for flexibility of other payments without any extra work
3)The system is extendible enough for adding custom(?) bits - again I'd say silvercart
The warning is that silvercart has a lot of complexity - last time I spoke with teh guy behind it he said they had placed a facade on it to make it simpler when you are starting out.
Hope this helps!
Forum Moderator
1086 Posts
Re: Webshop - best approach?
4 May 2012 at 1:49am
Thanks Swaiba - that was fast!
...when I started out I emulated some attributes of the system for our booking software - and they were not scalable.
I'm not quite sure what you mean here - are you saying SilverCart is not scalable or rather SilverStripe commerce isn't?
So, silvercart would be the best option in your opinion? And creating payments is a hassle either way, but i might be better off with the silverstripe version... i was thinking of looking into a payment provider that offers a complete package, including iDeal with only the one api to work against. If acceptable to the client.
And it leaves the question of translatable/multi country settings...
Forum Moderator
1792 Posts
Re: Webshop - best approach?
4 May 2012 at 1:54am
I've updated that first sentance to make it clearer!
I do think Both are translatable - but again I think silvercart handles it better - they have a "quick installer" and are nice guys to ask questions to so I'd encourage you to head over to their forums / site and ask there
|582 Views
Page: 1
|Go to Top


text:
That's a question I'm accustomed to hearing from leery patients and families when I inform them that their physician has ordered Methadone for pain. While it's true that methadone is used to treat narcotic withdrawal symptoms, methadone is also a very effective medication to treat moderate to severe pain.
Morphine has earned the title of the Gold Standard for pain control, the opioid all others are compared with because of its effectiveness, ease of administration and low cost. If morphine is so great, why would we ever use methadone?
If we're going to start comparing methadone with morphine, we need to start with the basic principles of pain. Pain can be divided into two types of physiological explanations: nociceptive and neuropathic. Nociceptive pain is generally caused by tissue injury (somatic pain) or injury to internal organs (visceral pain). Neuropathic pain is caused by injury or insult to nerves in either the central nervous system or the peripheral body.
We are blessed with opiate receptors in our brains that allow our bodies to respond to opioid pain medications. The majority of these receptors are classified at mu and delta receptors and a smaller percentage are NMDA. Nociceptive pain is primarily mediated by the mu receptors and neuropathic pain by delta and NMDA receptors; morphine binds to mu receptors only, while methadone binds to mu, delta and NMDA. Morphine does an excellent job of treating many types of pain, but because of its ability to bind to 100% of opiate receptors, methadone may do it even better.
Opiate Toxicity and Side Effects
Opiates, such as morphine, produce metabolites when they are broken down within the body. These metabolites can build up in the body and cause symptoms of opiate toxicity. Opiate toxicity is essentially an overdose of an opiate leading to poisonous levels in the body and causes symptoms such as restlessness, hallucinations, tremors and lethargy.
Methadone doesn't produce metabolites and therefore doesn't have a "ceiling," or maximum dose. Methadone is also easier to metabolize by the liver, and its lack of metabolites makes it an excellent choice of pain medication for many patients with decreased liver function or renal failure.
Common side effects of opiates include constipation, nausea and vomiting, drowsiness, itching, confusion and respiratory depression (difficulty breathing). Many patients have reported a decrease in adverse affects after switching to methadone from another opiate.
More Benefits of Methadone
So methadone is more effective than morphine at treating pain and typically causes less adverse effects, but the good news doesn't stop there. Another benefit of methadone is its extended half-life. A half-life is the time required for half the quantity of a drug to be metabolized or eliminated by normal biological processes. Because of this extended half-life, methadone has a pain-relieving effect of 8 to 10 hours, while regular nonextended release morphine only relieves pain for 2 to 4 hours. This translates into less frequent dosing for the patient, usually two or three times a day.
And last, but not least, methadone is extremely cost-effective. A typical month supply of methadone costs about $8, while morphine will typically cost over $100. Other opiates, such as Oxycontin and Fentanyl, will cost even more.
Barriers to Methadone Use
Do I have you convinced that methadone is a great medication for pain? If so, you may find yourself wondering why it's not used more often. I've asked the same question to several physicians, and I've found that beyond the stigma that methadone carries, many physicians just aren't comfortable prescribing it.
Because of methadone's extended half-life, it slowly builds up in the body and may take 5 to 7 days for levels to stabilize. During this time, the patient needs to be monitored closely for signs of toxicity. This is generally not a problem for patients on palliative or hospice care, because they are already being followed closely and usually have access to nurses and physicians 24 hours a day. A typical doctor's office doesn't have the capacity to monitor patients that closely, which may be part of their hesitation to prescribe it.
Other barriers are physician education and patient's reluctance. Methadone is still widely known as the drug for drug addicts. That stigma is slowly being chipped away at as physicians continue to educate their peers on its benefits and the public sees more and more patients finding relief because of it.
Ayonrinde OT, Bridge DT. The rediscovery of methadone for cancer pain management. Med J Aust 2000;173:536-40.
Davis MP, Walsh D. Methadone for relief of cancer pain: a review of pharmacokinetics, pharmacodynamics, drug interactions and protocols of administration. Support Care Cancer 2001;9:73-83.
Toobs JD, Kral, LA. Methadone Treatment for Pain States. Am Fam Physician 2005;71:1353-8.
Ayonrinde OT, Bridge DT. The rediscovery of methadone for cancer pain management. Med J Aust 2000;173:536-40.
Davis MP, Walsh D. Methadone for relief of cancer pain: a review of pharmacokinetics, pharmacodynamics, drug interactions and protocols of administration. Support Care Cancer 2001;9:73-83.
Toobs JD, Kral, LA. Methadone Treatment for Pain States. Am Fam Physician 2005;71:1353-8.


text:
Our MSM has been relatively quiet about it, but Iraq is having another election, and democracy seems to be taking hold there. Oh, how awful those evil neocons were to have ruined a perfectly good country!
March 5th, 2010
13 Responses to "I guess the surge worked"
Bob from Virginia Says:
March 5th, 2010 at 3:20 pm
Unfortunately Democracy in the Middle East is a package deal. Neither Iraq, Israel, the US or anyone else is going to know peace until the whole middle eastern political culture of tyranny is replaced. Unfortunately we have a president who thinks gitmo causes terrorism, no country has the right to impose democracy on another, believes Syria is being cooperative and moving away from Iran, Iran will give up its nuclear program once he sanctions in place from Russia and China which should happen any day now and the Mullahs would be crazy to use nuclear weapons and they have the same standards of sanity as we do so we are safe anyway. Furthermore if Iraqi democracy succeeds that would mean Bushhilter was right and that would violate the natural laws of the universe.
At least we have a proven highly professional, experienced secretary of state that can back up our President's insights with sage advice and reset buttons.
Here's my plan, the ancient Egyptians, when they had an unpopular Pharaoh would erase his name from monuments, effectively denying he ever existed. It may be tough but I say it's worth a try with regards to Obama. That is, if the Mullahs and their A-bomb do not make the whole thing unnecessary.
Thank you for this opportunity to rant. I don't know what I would do without you Neo Neocon.
Hong Says:
March 5th, 2010 at 3:23 pm
Now what troubling, pessimistic headline would the liberal MSM have used for this story if Mccain had won?
Richard Aubrey Says:
March 5th, 2010 at 4:28 pm
Just for grins, suppose the Iraqis vote themselves a repressive, unrepresentative theocracy.
The take away is that Muslims really like that stuff.
That provides a problem for those who insist we're all alike., that we all want the same thing for ourselves and our families.
It provides a problem for the multicultis in that all cultures are supposed to be terrific except ours which is perfectly vile. If this happens, these folks wanted it to. Now, I understand that repressive, unrepresentative theocracies are only bad when they're our allies. And Iraq will be our ally.
Now what?
Lastly, if Muslims would do that to themselves voluntarily, what would they do elsewhere if they got some leverage?
Better hope the Iraqis start putting up statues of Jefferson and Jackson–and Bush and Reagan.
Bob from Virginia Says:
March 5th, 2010 at 6:36 pm
I would not worry about the Iraqis voting themselves a tyranny Aubrey for several reasons. One the country is too diverse, there are far more divisions than sunni, shiite and Kurd. It would be unlikely that any one group would be unable to decide on a single dictatorial party and subject the others to it. Furthermore democracy is civil war by non-violet means, so they can have that cake, i.e unending conflict, and eat it too. Two, they had a tyrant and a close call with an Iranian tyrant in Moktaqa Ibn Sadr. They choose to hang the first one and not follow the other. Three, and here is where I pretend to know something, there is an under current of political wisdom in the Arab world. One has to know ones way around in order to get around. The powers that be agree that homicide and tyranny are bad for business so there is a reason for responsible people to support a government that promotes peace and freedom.
And finally Iraqis seem to come equipped with printing presses. The US did not set up a mass of newspapers, magazines and radio stations with the invasion, the Iraqis did it by themselves. That argues well for a love of freedom. Throw it the world wide web, blogging, facebook and twitter and it looks like the traditional tyrant, the one who successfully controls the population because they cannot conceive of anything better may be on the way out.
I am afraid however of Obama pulling US combat troops out and leaving Iraq vulnerable to Syrian and Iranian invasion.
anna Says:
March 5th, 2010 at 8:54 pm
hm, i would echo the sentiments that i would not hold my breath for democracy in the middle east. i hope i am wrong (and still support the war cuz i think they needed their asses kicked) but the truth is that my mother is actually middle eastern believe it or not. I have a real hard time with her mindset a lot of the time, like she is very emotionally driven about everything, votes with her emotions, all that. and she holds grudges for 1000 years, heck her family is still mad at the ottoman empire for gosh sakes. there are just other little things like that, like little cultural things. she is so anti-american that she even hates the existence of toilet paper. very silly.
i was listening to rush one time and a soldier called up, and the soldier said that he thought middle east democracy was possible but the way he thought it would happen was with the re-education of the youth, and described how the iraqi school textbooks say such nonsense as iraq went to the moon and planted an iraqi flag on the moon.
as i said very silly.
holmes Says:
March 5th, 2010 at 9:56 pm
Another grim milestone…
Tom the Redhunter Says:
March 5th, 2010 at 10:46 pm
Yup. Everytime I do a post on Iraq and how the situation is improving I get the same comments from the same liberals warning darkly of this or that on the horizon. Not that there aren't dangers still to face, but you'd think they'd temper their remarks given how wrong they were about the surge in 2007.
J.J. formerly Jimmy J. Says:
March 6th, 2010 at 12:54 am
Well, nobody ever said representative government was a walk in the park. The Iraqis have no traditions of democracy. In fact Islam is not a very good fit with democracy. Look at Turkey. The only Islamic country with representative government and they have to continually beat back the Islamists attempts to take over.
One thing for sure – democracy is never safe and uneventful. Just look at this country. Constant fight to keep from sliding further toward progressive big government taking over. So, as chaotic as Iraq seems, the people there seem determined to make a go of it. They've got a rich and propserous future ahead if they do. More power to them!
Alex Bensky Says:
March 6th, 2010 at 1:15 am
Newsweek, which no longer pretends to be anything but a left wing opinion journal, has a current cover story about "Victory in Iraq" and to my surprise, the cover has a picture of George Bush.
Of course, Biden says this is a geat Obama administration triumph…after he steadily opposed starting it and waging it.
camojack Says:
March 6th, 2010 at 1:24 am
I wonder if Obama will ever admit that the surge worked…not that it matters.
Richard Aubrey Says:
March 6th, 2010 at 8:45 am
If you're addressing me, I am not a liberal warning darkly of failure in Iraq.
But if the Muslims are voting for repressive tyrannies–as far as their leverage allows–in the UK, Holland, and Sweden, why not in Iraq?
Now, I understand they don't have enough votes in those countries, but such as they have go that way.
They insist on special accomodations to various characteristics of a repressive theocracy. They refuse to assimilate. The cops in the UK find community resistance to investigations of honor killing and disappeared young women.
Young women's safe houses, refuge from family violence, are routinely revealed to the buttheads by Muslim cops who think it their religious duty.
Speaking as a devil's advocate, why should Iraqis be different?
But then there is the picture by, I think, David Bellavia, whose unit was providing security for a voting location during the first election. The line was attacked by terrorists. One woman was shot in the head. As she lay dying, she asked for "papers", meaning a ballot to hold as she died.
Nothing is as easy or as certain as it looks.
Bob From Virginia Says:
March 6th, 2010 at 10:37 am
Good story Richard.
Starting and maintaining a democracy is historically difficult. The Iraqis seem on the right path. If they can last a generation it will be the beginning of the end of authoritarian government in the ME. Young (and internet savy) middle easterners will not their lives dominated by tyrants with a better way on display on their doorstep.
And George Bush would have been proven right.
Note: the grown-ups at Defense always recognized that the war against terror is really a multi-generational war against the political culture of the middle east. Bush's greatest failure as a war leader was to explain this this to the American public.
Richard Aubrey Says:
March 6th, 2010 at 11:14 pm
Love to go along with your view.
But the second and third generations of Muslim immigrants to various European countries are the most radical. The educated ones, the ones with exposure to western values.
My wife teaches high school Spanish. Some years ago, one of her students, a good kid, superior student, Muslim with the full garb, daughter of SA professionals, did not want to study El Cid because it "demeaned her faith".
The story of an eleventh-century skull buster, a mercenary, fighting for and against Christians, for and against Muslims, demeans her faith???
Well, he could have died of camp fever. He could have set up on his own and died surrounded by his grandchildren. But he cashed his last paycheck fighting against Muslims and was folded into the Matter of Spain, the story of the Reconquista.
This makes as much sense to us as somebody named Godwin or Godwinson claiming his family should be on the throne of England and nobody in the family will ever be named William–or Norman, I suppose–and they're going to blow up a nursery school to make their point.
Problem is, it makes sense to the Muslims.
They are not like us. They do not think like us. To anticipate them reacting as we would react is going to get us into trouble.
Consider that ten percent of Muslims worldwide–the accepted figure for those angry at the West–amounts to more than the populations of Germany and Japan in 1940.
Look up Wretchard's Three Conjectures.
Leave a Reply
About Me
Previously a lifelong Democrat, born in New York and living in New England, surrounded by liberals on all sides, I've found myself slowly but surely leaving the fold and becoming that dread thing: a neocon.
Read More >>
- A mind is a difficult thing to change: my change story (14)
- Academia (74)
- Afghanistan (39)
- Amazon orders (2)
- Arts (3)
- Baseball and sports (65)
- Best of neo-neocon (61)
- Blogging and bloggers (291)
- Dance (108)
- Disaster (103)
- Education (88)
- Election 2012 (337)
- Evil (48)
- Fashion (169)
- Finance and economics (424)
- Food (185)
- Friendship (19)
- Gardening (18)
- General information about neo-neocon (3)
- Getting philosophical: life, love, the universe (223)
- Health (270)
- Health care reform (439)
- Hillary Clinton (12)
- Historical figures (182)
- History (222)
- Iran (107)
- Iraq (185)
- IRS scandal (61)
- Israel/Palestine (136)
- Jews (92)
- Language and grammar (106)
- Latin America (86)
- Law (571)
- Leaving the circle: political apostasy (47)
- Liberals and conservatives (467)
- Liberty (275)
- Literary leftists (9)
- Literature and writing (173)
- Me, myself, and I (418)
- Men and women; marriage and divorce and sex (278)
- Middle East (219)
- Military (122)
- Movies (159)
- Music (209)
- Nature (90)
- Neocons (24)
- New England (101)
- Obama (1352)
- Pacifism (13)
- Painting, sculpture, photography (60)
- Palin (83)
- Paris and France2 trial (24)
- People of interest (333)
- Poetry (106)
- Political changers (94)
- Politics (997)
- Pop culture (222)
- Press (628)
- Race and racism (223)
- Religion (127)
- Romney (138)
- Ryan (9)
- Science (231)
- Terrorism and terrorists (367)
- Theater and TV (122)
- Therapy (34)
- Uncategorized (1518)
- Vietnam (78)
- Violence (275)
- War and Peace (269)
Monthly Archives
- August 2014
- July 2014
- June 2014
- May 2014
- April 2014
- March 2014
- February 2014
- January 2014
- December 2013
- November 2013
- October 2013
- September 2013
- August 2013
- July 2013
- June 2013
- May 2013
- April 2013
- March 2013
- February 2013
- January 2013
- December 2012
- November 2012
- October 2012
- September 2012
- August 2012
- July 2012
- June 2012
- May 2012
- April 2012
- March 2012
- February 2012
- January 2012
- December 2011
- November 2011
- October 2011
- September 2011
- August 2011
- July 2011
- June 2011
- May 2011
- April 2011
- March 2011
- February 2011
- January 2011
- December 2010
- November 2010
- October 2010
- September 2010
- August 2010
- July 2010
- June 2010
- May 2010
- April 2010
- March 2010
- February 2010
- January 2010
- December 2009
- November 2009
- October 2009
- September 2009
- August 2009
- July 2009
- June 2009
- May 2009
- April 2009
- March 2009
- February 2009
- January 2009
- December 2008
- November 2008
- October 2008
- September 2008
- August 2008
- July 2008
- June 2008
- May 2008
- April 2008
- March 2008
- February 2008
- January 2008
- December 2007
- November 2007
- October 2007
- September 2007
- August 2007
- July 2007
- June 2007
- May 2007
- April 2007
- March 2007
- February 2007
- January 2007
- December 2006
- November 2006
- October 2006
- September 2006
- August 2006
- July 2006
- June 2006
- May 2006
- April 2006
- March 2006
- February 2006
- January 2006
- December 2005
- November 2005
- October 2005
- September 2005
- August 2005
- July 2005
- June 2005
- May 2005
- April 2005
- March 2005
- February 2005
- January 2005
- December 2004
- November 2004
- October 2004
- September 2004
AmericanDigest (writer's digest)
AmericanThinker (thought full)
Anchoress (first things first)
AnnAlthouse (more than law)
AtlasShrugs (fearless)
AugeanStables (historian's task)
Baldilocks (outspoken)
Barcepundit (theBrainInSpain)
Beldar (Texas lawman)
BelmontClub (deep thoughts)
Betsy'sPage (teach)
Bookworm (writingReader)
Breitbart (big)
ChicagoBoyz (boyz will be)
Contentions (CommentaryBlog)
DanielInVenezuela (against tyranny)
DeanEsmay (conservative liberal)
Donklephant (political chimera)
Dr.Helen (rights of man)
Dr.Sanity (thinking shrink)
DreamsToLightening (Asher)
EdDriscoll (market liberal)
Fausta'sBlog (opinionated)
GayPatriot (self-explanatory)
HadEnoughTherapy? (yep)
HotAir (a roomful)
InFromTheCold (once a spook)
InstaPundit (the hub)
JawaReport (the doctor is Rusty)
LegalInsurrection (law prof)
RedState (conservative)
Maggie'sFarm (centrist commune)
MelaniePhillips (formidable)
MerylYourish (centrist)
MichaelTotten (globetrotter)
MichaelYon (War Zones)
Michelle Malkin (clarion pen)
Michelle Obama's Mirror (reflections)
MudvilleGazette (milblog central)
NoPasaran! (behind French facade)
NormanGeras (principled leftist)
OneCosmos (Gagdad Bob's blog)
PJMedia (comprehensive)
PointOfNoReturn (Jewish refugees)
Powerline (foursight)
ProteinWisdom (wiseguy)
QandO (neolibertarian)
RachelLucas (in Italy)
RogerL.Simon (PJ guy)
SecondDraft (be the judge)
SeekerBlog (inquiring minds)
SisterToldjah (she said)
Sisu (commentary plus cats)
Spengler (Goldman)
TheDoctorIsIn (indeed)
Tigerhawk (eclectic talk)
VictorDavisHanson (prof)
Vodkapundit (drinker-thinker)
Volokh (lawblog)
Zombie (alive)


text:
- 3 Years ago
- 0 Comments
- 77 Views
- Follow @TaazaNews
This week on the Gadget Lab podcast, the gang talks about privacy issues with the social sharing app Path and addresses the rampant iPad 3 speculation as of late. Best of all, theres a product giveaway this week, so check out the video to see how you can win! First up, reviews editor Michael [...] Read more


text:
About Us
The 411
News Report
Downloadable Content
Kate Upton's Attorney Calls Nude Photo Leak An Outrageous Violation Of Privacy
Maroon 5 -
411's WWE RAW Report 9.1.14
411 MMA Rankings: Pound for Pound
The Top 8 Gamer Stereotypes
Ultra Street Fighter IV (PC) Review
Oddworld: New 'n' Tasty (PS4) Review
Wildstar (PC) Review
Risen 3: Titan Lords (PC) Review
The Last Of Us: Remastered (PS4) Review
One Piece: Unlimited World Red (PS3) Review
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3
Batman: Arkham City
Street Fighter X Tekken
Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City
411mania RSS Feeds
Follow 411mania on Twitter!
Add 411 On Facebook
The Lego Movie Videogame (Xbox 360) Review
Posted by
Marc Morrison
on 02.17.2014
Warner Bros' video game based on the hit
LEGO Movie
has been released! But is it as much fun as the movie? 411's Marc Morrison checks in with his full review!
Title: The Lego Movie Videogame
Publisher: Warner Bros Interactive Entertainment
Developer: TT Games
Genre: Action/Adventure
Players: 1-2
Rated: E 10+
I'll admit, I have a bit of a love-hate relationship with the Lego game franchise. Most of them are made fairly well, with small improvements manifesting every few games. However, the series still has some nagging issues that continue to plague it, going back to the first in the series (Lego Star Wars). Lego Movie doesn't really break with the tradition any, it has a few neat ideas in it, and covers the source material well, but the old issues do rear their head from time to time which can spoil some of the fun.
The Lego Movie Videogame is obviously based on the immensely popular/reviewed Lego Movie…movie. It's a loose adaptation of the movie, going through Emmet's journey of being "The Special", the fabled one that Vitruvius foretold as being able to stop the evil Lord Business's plan to "Kragle" everything. You team up with Wyldstyle, Batman, Uni-Kitty, Superman and more as you go through the levels to fight off Business's minions and save all the different dimensions of Lego.
With the story ostensibly out of the way, "how does it play?" comes into question. The answer is, "just like every other Lego game." That's not necessarily a bad thing, but the formula is so worn out by this point. The series has existed since 2005, and they have made, basically, 14 Lego games, not counting the Star Wars Complete Saga and Lego Rock Band. That is kind of scary when you think about it.
There are 15 levels to explore in the game, and it follows the movie's plot well enough, just expanding on it a great deal. Characters, per the norm, have different skills which you can use to solve the various puzzles you encounter. Emmet has a drill that he can use for destroying specific walls, but also a wrench he can use to repair certain machines and can use Construction plans. Wyldstyle can jump higher, swing on poles and has Master Builder powers. Batman can use his grapple to pull things, scale some buildings, and throw batarangs. Vitruvius can walk on narrow ledges and isn't afraid of heights (most characters are), and also has Master Builder powers.
So the new trick in this game is the Master Builder/Construction build systems with certain characters only being able to do them. When you do a Master Build, you stand in a spot and highlight three green glowing objects with a cursor. Your character will then jump between the objects, taking them apart, and building something crazy out of the parts. Construction builds involve you finding blueprints in a given level, between 1 and 5, and playing a mini-game to build it. You're given a Lego model, with certain pieces missing. In the corner is a selection of different pieces, and you have to match the missing piece with the correct one. There are different levels, based on how many blueprints are needed, one part for one blueprint, three parts for three, but you also have to do levels one and two. There's also a stud timer clicking down, if you mess up, you get less studs (money) to get once it's all over.
These two systems are about the only big differentiator between this game, and most other Lego games, besides a rhythm mini-game that only happens twice. However, this game is a
smaller than most of its other Lego game brethren. In Lego Marvel, you can collect 200 Golden Bricks, there is a huge open-world hub city for you to explore/do side quests on, there were a ton of side missions, and a plethora of characters to unlock.
In Lego Movie, there are 70 Golden Bricks for you to collect, you get 15 from just completing missions, 15 from finding the 5 "Golden Blueprints" in every level, 15 from getting a 100% stud total, and the rest are in the hub levels. The hubs are split apart from each other, Brickberg, the Old West, Cloud Cuckoo Palace, Octan Tower, and a fifth "Bonus Room" you can explore once you beat the game. There is also a 6th hub world, but it is locked, and I have no idea what it is.
Due to the smaller nature of the game though, it can be very easy to complete. Within a day of getting it in the mail, I beat the main story, getting a 30% completion rate. The next day, I was at 80%, unlocking all the red "cheat" bricks, and buying up the roster. And on the day after that, I finished the game with 100%, mainly to see if it would unlock that locked Hub world, which it didn't.
All that I've said about the smaller in scope aspect of the game might make it sound negative, but it's really not. Lego Marvel was a much more ambitious game, but it felt really bloated as well. Parts of that game were very confusing, and annoying. Lego Movie is a slightly more simple game, but it's more enjoyable since there isn't that much extraneous stuff to actually do.
As stated above though, some of the old series issues do crop up in this game. Things like camera issues, bad vehicle controls, too many nothing characters, and no online play. It's 2014 y'all, and to my knowledge, none of the Lego games have had online play, which is baffling because they've all been tailor made to be co-op games. You can say that they are meant for kids, and that is somewhat accurate, but adults play them also, and the series stubborn refusal to ever go online is a big hinderance now.
The game is also not particularly stable, which is also sadly somewhat par for the course with these Lego games. I fell through the level geometry during a scripted chase once, causing the camera to heavily freak out. It also froze as I completed a quest, in mid-save, which is a bit scary (thankfully my save was fine). Also, fire, and the character of "MetalBeard" tend to drag the game's framerate down quite a bit. MetalBeard can fire rockets which explode, and if there is a lot going onscreen, the framerate turns nasty. If you have a next gen system, or a decent gaming PC, I'd recommend getting Lego movie for that instead.
Even with the stuttering framerate though, the game looks really colorful and vibrant. There are movie clips spliced with game footage which helps maintain the overall look of the story. The worlds are different but do share similar design elements. When the fire isn't causing slowdown, it does look great, as do some of the animations, and tricks the game uses to make it feel more epic.
For the in-game audio, I hope you really like listening to the "Everything is Special" audio clip, because you'll hear it about a million times. Every time you get 100% stud counter, it will play, during the rhythm game it will play, and I think a few other times as well. It's a catchy enough song, but can get trying after some time. The sound effects all sound like typical Lego affair, which is good enough and fits into the world. The voice acting is an interesting beast, the in-game credits lists several of the actors as performing voices for the characters, Morgan Freeman for Vitruvius, Allison Brie as Uni-Kitty and several more. But there was also a whole host of other more stalwart voice actors doing "additional roles" according to IMDB. People like Yuri Lowenthall, Eliza Schneider, Robert Clotworthy and so on. I'm not sure if the IMDB actors are just imitating the movie cast, of if the game's credits are accuarate and they got most of the movie cast for the game as well. The voices mostly do sound good overall though, whichever is the case.
Replayability may be a small factor in this game. Like I said, I finished the game completely in around 2 days. If you're not under pressure and take your time, it may take you like 4 or 5, but it is still a lot shorter than most other Lego games. I assume there is some DLC plans in motion considering there is a "Xbox Games Store" option on the game's main menu (and the locked hub world), but I can only guess at that since it is currently empty.
The gameplay is still largely enjoyable and fun
New additions to the classic formula are interesting and keep it a bit fresh
The in-game humor is great
Some noticeable graphical slowdown in certain areas
A frustrating lack of forward progress surrounding the game's systems
Can be buggy and somewhat unstable
The absence of Surfer Dave is a huge issue for me
The 411
The Lego Movie Videogame is a charming tie-in to the movie. It has some good gameplay, funny humor, and some tweaks to the formula that make it interesting. However, the formula for the Lego games themselves is wearing thin these days, and the series needs to really expand its goals if it wants to continue to stay relevant. It's still a well-made game, that thankfully doesn't overstay its welcome too long.
If you can play on a next gen console, do so. The game looks good, but framerate problems pop up noticeable from time to time.
The game is still fun, breaking stuff, building stuff, beating enemies all comes into play. It's unchanged from other games.
Movie cast questions aside, all the voice work is great, especially Batman's. The song will get annoying, but fits into the world.
Lasting Appeal
There isn't as much to do in this game, compared to other ones. That's not entirely bad though, but can be done quickly.
Fun Factor
I enjoyed my time with this game, the story is good, the different worlds are creative, and there is good momentum when playing
[ Good ]
Top 8 Worst Series Finales
Snipes Rumored for
Blade 4
Upton Responds To Leaked Nude Pics
comments powered by Disqus.
comments powered by
Copyright (c) 2011 411mania.com, LLC. All rights reserved.
Click here for our
privacy policy
. Please help us serve you better, fill out our
Use of this site signifies your agreement to our
terms of use


text: Leslie "TopRealtor" Hall is a licensed Real Estate Agent in the state of Texas. With ALHS, designations she specializes in Residential Home Listings and Sales, with focus being on northwest Harris county and surrounding areas of Houston. Leslie is a native Houstonian and is a member of the Houston Association of Realtors, Texas Association of Realtors and National Association of Realtors. Leslie has an extensive amount of experience in Real Estate specific education and has become a leader in Internet Real Estate Marketing.


text:
Recent Posts
Mumsnet blogger badge
Author Archives: felterskelter
Keeping Red, Yellow and Blue green
Apologies for the break in blogging. Here are some images from a wonderful recycling themed day working with Year 2 pupils at a Hanwell School. Thanks to Gail from @eastsidelondon for her brilliant organisation. More posts to follow but possibly … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized Tagged colloborative art, Eastside Educational Trust, feltmaking, recycled art Leave a comment
Drawing from nature… and a feline surprise
Teaching other teachers can be daunting but last week's training session at Kew Gardens was a gentle and affirming experience. I team taught the session with my colleague Stuart Simler and we began with two warm up exercises to focus … Continue reading
Happy new creative year
Happy New Year dear readers! Apparently cleaning a corner of your house, going on a local adventure or spending time with children can all stimulate creativity. Or perhaps send the kids on their own little adventure and forget about tidying … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized Tagged 3D felting, Arts Week, artsdepot, Eastside Educational Trust, International Day, Laika, space dog Leave a comment
Creative routes
Here's a sneak preview of some work I'm creating with Year 3 children from Barnet schools as part of artsdepot's annual Creative Routes project. The work is based on the theme of Outer Space and is inspired by an opera … Continue reading
Thinking with your hands
I'm thinking about other accessible felting methods for adults or children with poor dexterity so I've been playing around with felting scraps of commercial felt cloth onto needlepunch felt. I love using the negative shapes left over from previous projects. … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized Tagged art experiment, dexterity, experiment at felting, science and art Leave a comment
Felting and dementia
Kathleen tells me for what could well be the 100th time that she used to like colouring-in books. Next, she points to a colourful piece of handmade felt with her name on. "Well I don't know who made that" she … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized Tagged art therapy, Dementia, Felting with the elderly, feltmaking, Home care, Islington, Nursing home, Old age Leave a comment
Lollipop, lollipop, ooo lolly lollipop
I made these with a zillion children at Harrow Arts Centre's open day last Sunday where I had some amazing help from volunteers and lots of eager little felters were born.
Posted in Uncategorized Leave a comment
Felting with your feet
I've been wanting to do this for such a long time… shoes and socks off, let the soapy felting begin! This wonderful project took place at Fitzjohn's Primary school with an exceptionally talented Year 1 class (5 and 6 year … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized Tagged Felting with feet, Fitzjohns Primary, Fiutzjohns Primary, Year 1 artwork Leave a comment
Good things always come in threes
Thanks to a longstanding technical hitch which I've finally ironed out I'm bringing three posts for the price of one tonight. First of all, photos from feltmaking at the Keats House Festival: The second luscious set of photos comes from Sarum … Continue reading


text:
REVIEW-JOURNAL: Sober Bayno ready to clean up Loyola Marymount's act
Las Vegas Review-Journal columnist Ed Graney spent time with Head Coach Bill Bayno on Wednesday and published this story on Thursday.
April 10, 2008
Story Published by Las Vegas Review-Journal
LOS ANGELES -- Bill Bayno stood behind a podium Wednesday afternoon, gazing at hundreds who hope he will awaken a once formidable college basketball program gone terribly astray, and he could not have appeared more at home, more at peace with the demons he exorcised and the future he envisions.
He is 45 and has accepted a challenge the stature of Everest and yet small compared to the obstacles he faced along the journey that delivered him to a small, Jesuit university with breathtaking views.
The former UNLV coach was introduced as the latest to lead the program at Loyola Marymount, which last saw the NCAA Tournament in an Elite Eight loss to the Rebels in 1990 and has one winning season since 1996-97. The Lions haven't been a nonfactor in the West Coast Conference forever. It just seems that way.
"I'm excited," said Bayno, who signed a five-year deal reportedly worth just over $2 million. "I think we can get really, really good players here. Vegas changed my life. Being there sped up the fact I had to confront my issues."
For the complete story, visit the Las Vegas Review-Journal.


text:
If you've never heard of Studio Q with Jian Ghomeshi, then you're probably a filthy American like me.
No matter.
Along with past guests like Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) Welterweight Champion Georges St. Pierre (video replay here), Ghomeshi has interviewed a number of mixed martial arts (MMA) stars, including UFC President Dana White, who stopped by the "Studio" this week to talk shop.
And lips were loose.
While most of the material covered won't come as "news" to seasoned combat sports fans, it's interesting to get White's candid take on the history of the promotion, including the early days when UFC was $44 million in debt, as well as why he's the first person to tell you when one of his fights sucks.
Like this one.
For more news and notes on the current state of UFC and beyond, check out White's recent UFC 168 pre-fight media scrum by clicking here.


text:
A lesbian West Point cadet who said she decided to resign from the United States Military Academy rather than continue to hide her sexual orientation has been discharged by the academy, according to a gay rights advocacy group.
Cadet Katie Miller was ranked ninth in her class at the elite institution -- about 50 miles (80km) north of NYC -- that trains future officers for the Army when she offered her resignation last weekend, but had remained at West Point while the academy's legal office reviewed the request.
Knights Out, which advocates for the right of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender soldiers to serve openly, said Friday Miller had been discharged.
In an interview with the Times Herald-Record published Thursday, she said she couldn't hide her sexual orientation and continue to live a life of lie.
She said she couldn't any longer listen to her comrades toss around the word "fag" and make up stories about fictional boyfriends.
Her coming out openly about her homosexuality was a challenge to the current military policy of "don't ask, don't tell," which means that armed forces personnel will not be asked about their sexual orientation and can continue to serve as long as they don't openly say they are gay or publicly adopt the lifestyle.
The U.S. House of Representative voted to repeal the policy and it is now awaiting action by the Senate.
Twenty-year-old Miller, who is from Findlay, Ohio, has been accepted as a transfer student in the third year of the four year degree program at ivy league Yale University.
Read more: Times Herald-Record
Didn't find what you were looking for?
All content © Copyright 2000 - 2014 Fox Television Stations, Inc. and Worldnow. All Rights Reserved.
Privacy Policy | New Terms of Service What's new | Ad Choices


text:
Several people visiting the fell victim to two armed robberies and two more attempted robberies between 9 p.m. Friday and 5 p.m. Sunday, according to a Howard County police spokesperson.
"[Investigators] will be handling all four cases and are actively looking into the possibility that the [incidents] are connected, but have made no determinations yet," said police spokesperson Bryce Buell.
The department released the following information about the incidents:
- Shortly before 9:30 p.m. on Friday, a group of people approached a person near Champs restaurant. One suspect in the group demanded money from the individual, who refused to cooperate. The suspect pushed the person into a bush and fled.
- At 7 p.m. on Saturday, a group of people approached a person in the mall's food court. The person followed the group toward a hallway, where a suspect displayed a knife and another implied a gun. The suspects stole cash from the victim's pockets and fled.
- Shortly after 9 p.m. on Saturday, two suspects pushed a victim up against a wall on the second floor of the mall, showed a gun to the victim and demanded his cell phone. The suspects stole the phone and fled.
- Shortly after 4 p.m. on Sunday, a suspect approached an elderly victim and her friend as they walked toward their vehicle outside of the mall. The suspect grabbed the victim's arm and attempted to take the phone from her hand, but failed and fled on foot.


text:
FSU fans better start showing Jimbo Fisher some love before it's too late
While I usually avoid reading any of Bianchi's usual self serving sensationalistic drek that he tries to pass off as journalism, this one, I felt, was worth posting. This is one I think all the "we can do better" Nole fans should read and think about, because you just might get what you wish for. "This should have been cause for celebration among Seminole fans everywhere. The coach who has led them back to national prominence, who has guided them to the first conference title in seven years, who has choreographed the first 11-win season in a dozen years, WANTS to be in Tallahassee. This is the best news to hit FSU since Chief Osceola stuck a flaming spear in Jeff Bowden's playbook. But instead of celebration, there has been a collective yawn from Seminole Nation, who like so many unrealistic college football fan bases today seem perpetually bored and miserable unless their team is playing for the national championship. Hopefully, FSU fans will realize before it's too late that Jimbo Fisher is a coach to be appreciated, not taken for granted."


text:
Start Infant or Primary School
If your child was born between 01 September 2009 and 31 August 2010, you will need to apply for a school place for September 2014.
How do I apply?
The deadline for applications was 23.59 on 15 January 2014.
From 16 January 2014 the online application form for Infant or Primary School will no longer be available. You can still apply for an Infant or Primary School place by completing and returning a Starting Infant/Primary School Application paper form.
Any applications to start an Infant or Primary School received after the deadline of 23:59 15 January 2014 will be treated as a late application. For more information on how late applications will be processed please refer to page 9 of the Starting School - September 2014 Booklet.
All the information you need on what to consider, how to apply and what happens afterwards can be found in the Starting School - September 2014 Booklet. We strongly recommend that you read this carefully before making your application.
It is also important that you are aware of how applications will be ranked and places allocated at your preferred school(s) - this is known as the Oversubscription Criteria. Please visit the Admissions Arrangements page for more details.
When will I be told about the outcome of my application?
If you submitted an online application by 23:59 on 15 January 2014 you will receive an email on 16 April 2014 in addition to a letter which will be sent by on the same day. If you submit a paper application by 15 January 2014 we will send you a letter on 16 April 2014.
What if I've changed my mind?
If you change your mind and wish to express a preference for a different school, please put your request in writing to the School Admissions Team. Please note that your changed preference(s) would be processed as a late application unless it is sent before 14 February 2014 (after which the allocation process will begin) and considered to be exceptional.
What if I'm not sure that my child will be ready to start school in the September following their fourth birthday?
The majority of children start school full-time in the September following their fourth birthday. However, in some cases parents believe that starting part-time or starting later in the school year would be more appropriate for their child. Visit the following page for more information: Deferring or delaying admission to school and educating pupils out of their chronological year group
Can I still view my online application even though the system has closed?
Yes, but you will not be able to make any changes: Online application system.
What happens if my child is not offered a place at my preferred school?
The letter will tell you whether you have been allocated a place at your second or third preference schools. If you did not name any other preferences or your other preference schools are also full, your child will be offered a place at the nearest school with room (measured as an actual distance by the nearest available route).
If you are not allocated a place at your preferred school you will have the right to appeal to an independent panel - the letter will tell you how to do this. You will have 20 school days after you receive your notification to appeal the decision. Appeals must then be heard within 40 school days of this deadline.
If your child has a Statement of Special Educational Needs, you will have the right of appeal to the Special Educational Needs and Disability Tribunal. However, in the first instance, you will be advised to contact the Assessment and Education Provision Team (Tel: 0300 1234 101).
Moving to/from Cornwall?
If you are currently living outside Cornwall and want to apply for a school place within the county, either during the school year or at one of the standard points of entry, your application must be made via your home Local Authority. However, if you have a confirmed address in Cornwall, evidenced by either a signed rental agreement or completed proof of purchase, you can apply direct to Cornwall Council.
Similarly, if you live in Cornwall and wish to apply for a school in another county, your application must be made via Cornwall Council unless you have evidence of an address as stated above.
Support with your Application
For help completing the application, understanding the process or other aspects of school admissions, or if your first language is not English, please contact the Family Information Service on 0800 587 8191 or at email@example.com. For assistance with obtaining and completing an application form you can visit your local One Stop Shop, a list of One Stop Shops can be found by clicking on My Area at the top right of this page. Alternatively, please contact the School Admissions Team (details to the right).


text:
The wait is over! Download the BeerAdvocate app on iTunes or Google Play now.
Get 12 issues / year of BeerAdvocate magazine for only $9.99!
Little Creatures Green Hop Pale Ale - Little Creatures Brewing Company
No picture uploaded.
Have one? Upload it now.
Ratings: 2 | Reviews: 2 | Display Reviews Only:
Reviews by the Alström Bros:
None found.
More User Reviews:
4.16/5 rDev +0.5%
Had in a nice pub in Brisbane, chosen by the bartender [always a good sign].
Pours a nice slightly off golden color with a nice head. Good retention.
Aroma is grapefruit. Tangy.
Taste is grapefruit up front. Quite refreshing. A malty backbone.
Mouthfeel is medium bodied and quite cleansing.
Overall, I was pleasantly surprised by this brew. So much so that I had it on more than one occasion on my trip down under. Definitely worth having if you ever get the chance.
04-20-2014 06:53:03 | More by atigerlife
Ontario (Canada)
4.13/5 rDev -0.2%
Pint at the Dining Hall in Melbourne. From notes.
A - Poured hazy copper with good carbonation and two fingers of off white head. Left thick lace rings and one finger of retention.
S - Light grassiness. Fresh hops. Citrus and a fair bit of bread. Quite nice.
T - Good bread and toffee sweetness with a fresh hop pine resin and grassiness.
M - Strong carbonation, light to medium body and a nice bitterness.
O/D - A really nice and refreshing pale ale. Really sessionable and the freshness of the hops comes through well. Good stuff.
04-01-2012 07:21:05 | More by tbeckett
Little Creatures Green Hop Pale Ale from Little Creatures Brewing Company
- out of 100 based on 2 ratings.


text:
Does anyone know if this exists? The game was in 1971, well within the realm of known video recordings. For a future HOF pitcher well into his great career, it seems like it would have been something someone would have made a dupe of.
It was against the Pirates on August 14, 1971 at Three Rivers Stadium
What brought this up was I watched the DVD that came with the book 'Unhittable'. In it, it had little snippets of video footage from Perry and Washburn's back to back No-Nos.
They mentioned Gibby saying that the game against Perry was his greatest game pitched (a 4 hitter that he gave up a leadoff HR against). They never showed any footage or made any mention of Gibby's no hit bid against the Buccos.
Full game broadcasts of Gibson are something I am always on the lookout for. I only have Game 1 and 7 of the 1968 Series. Anything else would be welcome.


text:
Cheney to speak in Knoxville
Vice President Dick Cheney will be among Senator Howard Baker's special guests at the groundbreaking for the University of Tennessee's Howard Baker Center for Public Policy building, set for 11 a.m. November 15 at Thompson Boling Assembly Center and Arena.
Press release here.
When I think of Cheney with a shovel, I think work-release.
Oh how I love a good protest.
I don't think he's going to make this appearance. I hope he's rotting in jail.
"The Devil went down to Knoxville, He was looking for a soul to steal..."
I hope someone has the nuts to scream out "Go f@#$ yourself Mr. Cheney!" Like that guy in N.O.
I've been dreaming of picket signs...
"Dick is a dick" "Treasonous Dick" "Support Dick Torture" "Bin Laden's Bitch" "Saudi Spy" "War Profiteer" "Remember Nuremburg" "Dysfunctional Dick" "I'm with Stupid"...ah, so many possibilities.
Where's the party tomorrow?
hell yeah we protested! it was terrific, and there was great media coverage. some of us protested from within the boling arena itself, saying (war, what is it good for? dick!) and some of us did a rally and march outside. don't listen to any report telling you cheney was not unnerved by the protestors who interrupted his speech... he was... he stopped speaking initially and seemed flustered as he went back to his speech.