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Jan 31 2013, 8:15am CST | by Luigi Lugmayr
We knew for a while that Samsung will advertise during the Super Bowl broadcast. Today Samsung started the campaign for the Samsung Mobile Super Bowl 2013 ad and they do it in a big way. The hired famous Hollywood actors Seth Rogan and Paul Rudd for the Samsung Super Bowl 2013 Ad.
In the teaser video Seth Rogan and Paul Rudd are called in to pitch their ideas for Samsung's Big Game ad for The Next Big Thing, but they run into some hurdles. Watch the funny bit below. I am already excited to see the final Samsung Super Bowl 2013 Ad. I do not expect Samsung to go directly against the Apple iPhone in the Super Bowl ad. It will be though a funny story given the involvement of Seth Rogan and Paul Rudd.
Follow #TheNextBigThing on Twitter and see what unfolds at http://www.facebook.com/SamsungMobileUSA.
Watch all fully released Super Bowl 2013 Ads. See also our Super Bowl 2013 Dates and Facts Guide.
The Super Bowl 2013 will take place on Sunday, February 3, 2013 in New Orleans. Our traditional Super Bowl Ads for Geeks Guide will again feature full coverage of the Super Bowl Ads ahead and during the Super Bowl XLVII (superbowl 2013). You will also be able to watch Super Bowl 2013 Ads here as soon as they are revealed.
Many Super Bowl 2013 ads will be released well before the Super Bowl game day. See all confirmed Super Bowl 2013 Advertisers and the latest Super Bowl 2013 Ads announcements.
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Is it possible we're losing something through the non-destructive way in which we decide the final look of our shots? The answer, quaintly enough, is absolutely yes — but what, exactly? Simplicity. True finesse in color timing is something Dale Grahn (Saving Private Ryan, Gladiator, Munich, Apocalypse Now: Redux) knows a lot about, and in a true chemical timing sense — which says a lot about the power of bold and minimal control over imagery. Lucky for any of us looking to learn from the experience, Mr. Grahn is asking you to match his own color grades by way of a new iPad app — and in the process interact with the very essentials of color grading. More »

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Reuters reported yesterday that while thus far striking at major South Africa-based platinum mines has had little effect on prices for the metal, that could change if production is halted for long enough. The tipping point will be the exhaustion of aboveground platinum stockpiles.
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'The big question over the last year or so has been, 'Where are these above-ground stocks of platinum, and who holds them?" Macquarie analyst Matthew Turner said. 'The size of those stocks is important, but it's also important who holds them.'
Some of this metal is in the hands of the miners themselves, and some is held by carmakers, who along with Chinese jewellery buyers are the main end-users of platinum.
Liquidation of these supplies, held as a hedge, will have little price impact, analysts say, but once they are exhausted, a higher price may be needed to draw out further stocks of metal.


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March 14, 2001, 5:09 PM — If the thought of paying hundreds of thousands of dollars for an enterprise net management platform is getting you down, you may be relieved to know that dozens of free management tools are at your disposal. And while you may still need to fork over big bucks for that platform, these free tools can complement commercial management software and fill other specific needs.
Take Cricket, a free network monitoring program. Rob Davies, global network architect at EDS/EBS Dealing Resources, is among the IS professionals using this program, which is essentially a much more scalable version of Multi-Router Traffic Grapher (MRTG), a popular free tool for monitoring network traffic loads. Davies is using Cricket to monitor about 1,000 Cisco routers in 40 countries on the company's private worldwide network. He also uses Cricket at a data center to monitor Sun Solaris servers as well as switch and firewall port performance.
"Cricket's very easy to configure and operate, due to the simple text-based configuration files it uses," says Davies. He adds Cricket is simpler to use than MRTG.
Most such free management tools are distributed under the GNU General Public License. This means that the programs, some of which come with "use at your own risk" warnings, are copyrighted with specific rules governing their distribution. Here are 10 free tools offered as downloads from the Internet:
Cricket, available for about two years, is a program created by Jeff Allen for WebTV Networks to help him see and understand the traffic on his network. Using MRTG to monitor traffic loads on network links became too unwieldy when WebTV tried to monitor more devices. So Allen developed Cricket, naming it so because Super MRTG or SMRTG just wasn't catchy enough. Plus, Cricket wasn't the same as MRTG; it just looked similar. To use Cricket, you install a bundle of modules on a server and then program them to collect network traffic data from routers. You define which routers you want to poll and schedule the frequency of the polling. You can then view network traffic trends in Web-based graphs.
A private developer designed TCPNetView about three years ago to determine the IP and media access control (MAC) addresses of computers and devices on a LAN. The program's documentation compares it to Microsoft's Network Neighborhood, and it will let you know with whom you can share files and what network devices you can access. Users simply have to download TCPNetView into a working directory to run it.


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The Eden Prairie native fills the void left by Gabe Guertler's departure. Even though he might not have an immediate impact, he'll provide the Gophers with some needed depth at forward.
The Gophers and AM1500 agreed to a new three year contract to broadcast Gopher Basketball and Hockey on AM1500
The Gophers announced all but one of their Big Ten Hockey series will be played on Friday/Saturday. The lone exception? A Thursday/Friday home series against Michigan State.
We count down the top ten most memorable individual plays in Gopher Hockey History. Both good and bad...
The Gophers Junior Caption makes it official: he's returning for his senior year!
The Gopher Football team gets their first 2015 commitment, Austin Hollins works out for the Timberwolves, Several Gophers got awards in the last week, and one broke his damn jaw....
Gopher defenseman Mike Reilly officially announced he will be returning to the Gophers for his junior season next fall!
The Gophers released their 36-game regular season schedule today and it features a good mix of in-state former WCHA rivals, quality non-conference teams, and Big Ten opponents.
While today is a gloomy dark day things were a lot more golden for the Gophers this past weekend!
Gopher Football, Gopher Hockey, Gopher Basketball, Gopher Golf, and Baseball and softball news. Al under this mysterious glowing orb thing up in the sky...
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Here's a riddle for everyone- when is a Mega-Man game not a Mega-Man game? Answer, when the blue bomber's creator Keiji Inafune takes his talents to Kickstarter. That's right folks; the father of Mega-Man brings a new IP to the pages of Kickstarter to make the next gen Mega-Man game you know you always wanted. The Mighty No. 9 takes multiple cues from the beloved franchise the Inafune helped build as he attempts to bring back the classic 2D side-scrolling adventures that send children of the 80's into nostalgia fueled flashbacks.
The story revolves around Beck, the 9th robot in a line of mighty robots designed to help make human life easier. However, we wouldn't have a game if everything went according to plan, now would we? Robots No. 1-8 have been infected with a virus that turned the robots against humanity and it's up to Beck to step in and save the day by taking down his fellow bots and taking their powers. Yes, we know, its sounds a hell of a lot like Mega-Man. But Capcom hasn't done much with the license in recent years, so hush. This is the gaming world's best chance to get a current gen Mega-Man game, so let's enjoy it and back the project.
Currently, Mighty No.9 is currently pegged as a PC game due out in Spring 2015. But, the beauty of Kickstarter lies in the stretch goals. While the target amount rests at $900,000, the included stretch goals leave the team the leeway to make version for Mac, Linux, PS3, Xbox 360, and the Wii U down the line. The prospect of having Mighty No. 9 for the PS3 has me doing mental backflips, that's the highest stretch goal set at 2.5 million dollars. At present, the project has accumulated almost $600,000 of the goal with a month left to go, so it's not entirely out of the realm of possibility.
I know what you're thinking, but Dan, haven't a large number of the video game based projects funded via Kickstarter been lackluster? Yes, the track record hasn't been spotless for the studios that have turned to the crowd-funding juggernaut. However, none of those projects had the father of the 2-D side scroller genre at the helm of the development team. Mighty No. 9 has the potential to be a fantastic game and the best Mega-Man game of the 21st century. Those possibilities alone are worth backing this project, even a little bit. Hey, if you have 10 grand burning a hole in your pocket, you can donate it to the Kickstarter and have dinner with Inafune. That's worth the price of admission right there. Mighty No. 9 has a tentative due date of Spring 2015.


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Q&A with Susan Slusser, A's Beat Writer (Scout.com)
Arguably the biggest unsung heroes of a major league baseball team aren't even employed by the team. They are the journalists who travel with the team everyday to bring fans the inside coverage of every game. Susan Slusser, who covers the Oakland A's for the SF Chronicle, is one of the best beat writers in the business. Susan answers a few of our questions about her background in journalism, the 2006 outlook for the A's and A's baseball without the great Bill King behind the mic.
(Poppy posted this late yesterday.)
Orioles Make Successful Pitch to Mazzone
Forced to choose between friendship and pinstripes, Leo Mazzone went with his heart. After being wooed by the New York Yankees, the esteemed pitching coach agreed to terms on a three-year deal with the Baltimore Orioles.
Poll: Fans Unsure of Changing DH Rule (AP)
AP - Most fans are uneasy with Major League Baseball's decision to take the bat out of the hands of American League pitchers and let a "designated hitter" take their spot in the batting order, an AP-AOL Sports poll found.
Another take on same poll, emphasis on umpires.
Hardball Times on starters in World Series.
Biggio, Bagwell Finally in World Series (AP)
AP - Jeff Bagwell and Craig Biggio stood side-by-side, elbow-to-elbow. After 15 seasons with the Houston Astros - the longest run by teammates now in the majors - they finally made it onto a World Series field. They entered the dugout only a few steps apart before Friday's workout, then walked out into the crisp October air together.
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Salem, NH — Janice M. (Francil) Daley, 68, of Salem, NH, died Monday, Oct. 28, at Holy Family Hospital in Methuen, MA. Janice grew up and was educated in Boston, MA, the daughter of the late Charlotte (Roache) and John Francil. She was a homemaker and she loved spending time with her family. Janice was predeceased by her husband, Daniel Daley. She is survived by her son, Daniel and his wife, Linda, of Walpole, MA; her 4 daughters, Cathy and her husband, Anthony Piemonte, of Sandown, NH, Diane Daley and her husband, Justin Coffey, of Salem, NH, Carolyn Daley of Cape Cod, MA and Janice and husband, Brian Heikkila, of Lakeville, MA; her brothers, John and Jim Francil and 8 grandchildren, DJ, Jenn, Jamie, Nicholas, Kurt, Matthew, Brody and Caroline.
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(From MMAFighting; Interview by Ariel Helwani)
The MMA world has a tendency to make idols out of hype. It happened with Arlovski, Machida, Lesnar and many others, all great fighters, but none of them able to live up their own legend. It could be argued that Jon Jones justified his hype and more last night. But thus far, he has beaten only two opponent in the top 10: Ryan Bader and Shogun Rua, granted the latter is considered one of this generation's premier light heavyweights and Jones absolutely dismantled. But Jon Jones is still 23 years-old. It's much too early to immortalize him and to crown him as the new unbeatable conquerer of the UFC and it's much too early to push him into a fight against pound-for-pound great Anderson Silva. He hasn't earned it yet.
Here Jones is, a spectacular fighter, the likes of which we've never seen before, but he's still a fighter yet to defend his belt. Therefore, he's not fully a champion. Not quite yet. Who's to say Quinton Jackson can't hit him, Thiago Silva can't touch him, or Lyoto Machida can't solve him, and later down the line, who can say Phil Davis won't stop him. What about a healthy, motivated Shogun, coming off a fight instead of a serious surgical procedure? However, who can say that right now, Rashad Evans, his greatest challenge yet, can't beat him?
Consider that both Rashad and Jones are training partners. Not only does Rashad know most of Jones's tendencies in training, but in taking this fight, perhaps he knows something the public doesn't. Perhaps somewhere behind Jackson's locked doors, Rashad's been taking it Jones. Consider why Rashad would take a fight knowing he never had a chance to win. He must have confidence in his ability to beat Jones and the ways in which to do it.
Rashad is also the only ready challenger at light heavyweight with the ability to put Jones on his back, something we've never seen, but something entirely possible. How will Jones fight off his back? Rashad may be one of the few who know. He, in training, must've taken Jones down innumerable times. Evans mixes his strikes with his takedowns more effectively than Jones and his lower base will help him attack the tall legs of Jones more efficiently. His shot is faster than Bader's, as is his cardio. For all the well deserved praise on Jones's ground and pound, Rashad too, is capable of causing significant damage from top control, ask Forrest Griffin or even Rampage in the third round of their fight.
Also consider the mental factor. If you watch the above video, it's clear Rashad is fired up. He's hurt and he feels betrayed that his camp abandoned him during his injury to promote the young lion, the second coming, when all this time, it was he who remained loyal to Jackson's, who began his career there and who, through thick and thin, remained. What will Jones's mental state be like fighting his once-friend, training partner and elder? An emotionally invested Rashad Evans is something we've never truly seen. Even in the Rampage fight, watching the Primetime shows and pre-fight interviews, Rampage clearly, was the more emotionally invested. Rashad wants that belt, and in the process, he wants to humble Jones and remind his camp of the fighter he is, and the fighter they lost. Does Jones have the same motivation? Does he want to hurt Rashad and beat him down as Rashad does to him?
Also, take into consideration that this will be one of the only fights for Jones in which Greg Jackson will not be in his corner. For such a young fighter, how will he react without his crutch, one of the most important figures in his fighting career. Rashad shares the same consequence, but he's the older fighter, he's made it clear that he's cut ties with Jackson's. He knows doesn't need him anymore. He wants to prove himself without him.
So while the UFC is calling for Anderson vs. Jones, it's important to note that a more than worthy challenger is waiting in the wings. Let's not discount the abilities of Jon Jones. He's a once-in-a-generation type fighter who has shown fans things we've never seen before and may never see again after him. But match-ups make fights and Rashad is more than an adequate match-up for Jones. So while we don't discount the greatness of Jones, let's also not discount Rashad Evans as his greatest challenge yet.


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Meeks attended Norcross High School, which he led to its first state basketball championship in 2006 under coach Eddie Martin. During his senior high school season, Meeks averaged 23.6 points per game during the regular season and 28.3 points per game during the state playoffs. Meeks was named the 2006 Atlanta Journal-Constitution Player of the Year . He was also named 2006 Gwinnett Daily Post Player of the Year, 2006 Atlanta Tipoff Club Metro Player of the Year and Player of the Month (February 2006). He was named to the Georgia High School Association (GHSA) All Star Team and led the North Team to its first victory in over three years. He was named the North Squads' MVP. He was also named to the All Tournament Team at Bob Gibbons, Kingwood, The Main Event (Las Vegas), Chick-Fil-A, and Dell Curry's Bojangles tournament. Also, he was named to the 2006 Derby Classic All Star game and played with many of his future Kentucky teammates on April 15, 2006 against rival Louisville recruits.
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Pet Friendly Ocean City MD Rentals
Are your family and friends tired of watching your pet when you go away on vacation? While hotels may not welcome your canine friend, there are many vacation rentals that will. Rental owners can be pet owners themselves and know the importance of bringing the whole family along on a vacation. Pet friendly Ocean City MD rentals are one popular beach option, allowing the whole family to enjoy a sunshine-filled trip. Go for a stroll on the boardwalk, watch the sun come up, or even hit the outlet stores in this favorite family destination.
Why Choose Ocean City, Maryland Vacation Rentals?
Some travelers confuse Ocean City, Maryland with Ocean City, New Jersey. These are both popular family destinations, and both offer vacation rentals. While individual travelers will have their preference between the two, it is often where you live that will determine which of the two you choose. Others will love something that one destination offers; for example, Maryland crab cakes are famous and are one serious reason to plan a trip. With pet friendly Ocean City MD rentals, the whole family can sit down for a scrumptious seafood feast.
The boardwalk in Ocean City, Maryland stretches to almost three miles and is perfect for a bike ride, family evening stroll, or lazy ride on the tram. After a relaxing day on the beach (where you can keep cool with refreshments prepared in your private kitchen) many families choose to hit the boardwalk for its entertainment, games, bright lights, and live performers. Beyond the glitz of the boardwalk, the natural beauty of Ocean City, including its dramatic sunrises, are well worth the trip.
Attractions near Ocean City Vacation Rentals
Many travelers love Pet friendly Ocean City MD rentals because they offer much more than just the beach. Between outlets, boutiques, and antique shopping, there are endless options for a splurge in Ocean City and nearby Berlin or Snow Hill. Ocean City, Maryland also offers opportunities to learn about local history, including the Life-Saving Station Museum. Ocean City is also home to some fantastic restaurants that serve up local seafood and more. From lively bonfires on the beach to a free movie under the stars, Ocean City, Maryland is full of entertainment for the whole family. By staying ina vacation rental in Ocean City, you'll have a vacation that you'll never forget!


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I've upgraded to 2.4 and every time I do a dev/build I get the following change to my DB
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Bill Cammack gives tips on how NOT to do internet video.
Bill Cammack is an MIT graduate, Emmy Award-Winning video editor, Mix Engineer, Dating & Relationships coach and just an all-around great guy! :D
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Notice anything different about me? I have. My profile image changed because I didn't like the way the hawk was striking at the prey. It reminds me of my missing cat.
Commissioned by Mortimer to create a more P.C. version of who I am, this is the new, "me". Mort is a professional and can do a lot of the intangibles. He is one of ours, and deserves the respect. I suggest you do the same.
Also, I asked Mort to do this a long time ago and it has nothing to do with the cat. But how cool is it to have a Mort? I really hope you all think so too and get one.


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Inspired by Our Community's History
Commissioner Tommy Adkisson
April 2001
Hardly a week goes by that I am not inspired by the work of our local civic leaders. This past Sunday evening, your San Antonio Conservation Society recognized a number of authors who have published books dealing with various important aspects of our community. Of the authors and their works acknowledged were: David Dillon, The Architecture of O'Neil Ford: Celebrating Place; Gordon Echols, Early Texas Architecture; George Nelson, The Alamo: An Illustrated History; Gale Hamilton Shiffrin, Echoes from Women of the Alamo; The Texas Historical Foundation for its publication of Texas Heritage; and Lewis F. Fisher, for his ongoing work on San Antonio history and for his fledgling Maverick Press. Some of you may recognize Lewis Fisher for his significant work entitled Saving San Antonio: The Precarious Preservation of a Heritage, commissioned by the San Antonio Conservation Society several years ago.
Each of these and other books adds to the ability of this community to know and remember our very special history. Every day I walk into the Bexar County Courthouse I am reminded of the fact that we have the largest historical courthouse in the entire State of Texas! But, our "built structures" are one very important source of our ability to remember how we got to where we are. Books are also a great way to recall the past and thereby understand our future.
We are all indebted to these and many other fine authors of other books dealing with the history of our area and of our Great State. So, when you meet a member of the San Antonio Conservation Society, tell them thanks! Thanks for keeping our precious history alive and for educating our locals as well as our visitors about the rich history that is all ours because we are in San Antonio, Bexar County, and Texas!


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GoAUpher: Big thanks to Leah and Joseph for putting together a TDG Fan Guide To Houston!
Welcome back to Houston, Gopher Nation! GoAUpher asked me, Houston Gopher Gal (aka Leah), to come up with a list of things for fellow Gopher fans to do while in Houston for the Texas Bowl. It's true that Houston is a big place. Moving here from St. Paul 16 years ago, I was overwhelmed by the size of the city. Over time, though, I have gotten to know it and appreciate everything it has to offer. My husband, Joseph, is a native Texan, so we put our heads together and would like to help visiting Gophers enjoy this diverse city.
First, if you really want to explore Houston, get a car. Houston was built by oil and it was designed for driving. Unfortunately, driving can be an unpleasant experience. Rush hour lasts 2 1/2 hours each way. The traffic jam around the Galleria has been going on for about 40 years. Worse yet, drivers here are NOT "Minnesota Nice." Drivers will expect you to drive 75 mph in a 60 mph zone. A polite driver here is someone who flashes his lights at you instead of honking.
The Texas Bowl fan guide we all received with our tickets includes a map of the neighborhoods of Houston. You can also find the fan guide on the Texas Bowl web site. The guide has a lot of good information and suggestions. We'll point to some of the highlights in our favorite neighborhoods.
This is where the Gophers are staying, a neighborhood named after the mall. The area has developed into Houston's second downtown and is loaded with hotels, office buildings and restaurants.
The mall features high-end retailers including Neiman-Marcus, Prada and Tiffany's. It also includes an ice-skating rink where you can show off your native Minnesota skills. You'll be among the elite few who actually know how to ice skate.
The neighborhood's shops and restaurants also lean high-end, so there's no shortage of places to eat where you can spend $75/person. If you want something more affordable that is a good walk or short cab ride from the mall, we recommend Berryhill Baja Grill (great fish tacos and tamales), Pappas Burger or the Greek food at Yia Yia Mary's.
For a bar, try The West End, which has a contemporary London feel and pretty good food.
Bars in Houston close at 2 a.m. If you want to stay out later, grab a bite at House of Pies on Westheimer. And if you don't want to sleep at all, the Starbucks across from the Galleria is open 24 hours.
If you don't want to drive in Houston, then downtown is the place to be. Houston's light rail system still consists of only one line, but at least it goes from downtown to Reliant Stadium.
Houston has put a lot of effort into making downtown a place to be. Its crown jewel is Discovery Green, a park that has turned its lake into the largest outdoor skating rink in the Southwest. By the way, the forecast for the bowl week is temperatures in the 50s during the day and the 40s at night. Please be tolerant of the good-hearted Texans shivering and wearing heavy coats - furs even. They have no idea.
Like most downtowns, it gets a bit empty after 6 p.m., but there's nightlife. You can head over to the Theater District, which includes restaurants, including a Hard Rock Café. Or you can go to GreenStreet (formerly called the Houston Pavilions), which has a collection of restaurants and a House of Blues.
If you want a unique bar experience, you can test your nerves at Le Carafe, a bar in one of Houston's oldest buildings. It's supposed to be haunted. And while we normally don't put much stock in stuff like that, seriously, the place gives us the creeps.
Basketball fans might want to go to the Toyota Center on the 26th to see the Houston Rockets play the Memphis Grizzlies.
Our preferred places to eat in downtown are technically in the neighboring area of EaDo (East Downtown). Ninfa's at Navigation remains a Houston icon, an unpretentious Tex-Mex place that is widely credited with popularizing tacos al carbon, or the fajita taco. Members of the family that started Ninfa's years ago recently opened a restaurant across the street that we also enjoy called El Tiempo.
And yes, a series of tunnels connects the office buildings in downtown. They're Houston's version of the Sky Way. And no, they are nowhere near as awesome as that sounds.
Museum District/Montrose
Of course, the main museums in the city are here with plenty of options for fans with families.
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, remains our favorite, but the energy and chemical companies make sure that the Houston Museum of Natural Science is something to behold. The Children's Museum is one of the best in the nation.
The museums are adjacent to Hermann Park, which is also home to the local zoo. Think of this park as the Houston version of Como Park, minus the awesome State Fair carousel. The zoo's holiday light spectacular will still be going on, so it will be a special treat if your family wants Christmas to last a little longer.
To eat, we go to the adjacent Montrose neighborhood and enjoy Niko Niko's a Greek restaurant that is one of Houston's most beloved places. If the crowd is too much for you, try the Black Lab, an English pub.
West University/Rice Village
This is an area also near the Museum District. It's like Dinkytown for Rice University, which means it's smaller and fancier. The core of it is the Rice Village Shopping Center, which has several restaurants with a diverse mix of cuisines. The Bombay Brasserie is our favorite for Indian food. We also enjoy the Mi Luna Restaurant and Tapas Bar. If you're lucky, they'll have the flamenco dancers performing the night you're there.
The Ginger Man is a converted single-family home that is now home to a selection of hundreds of beers. If your party includes a bookworm, send him to Half Price books and pick him up in a few hours.
Upper Kirby
If you're coming to Texas, you need to try some barbecue brisket. We consider two places in this neighborhood, Demeris Bar-B-Q and Goode Company BBQ, to be two of the best.
This neighborhood includes other great places to eat. Carabbas is an Italian grill chain that hasn't reached Minnesota yet, but the original is here and it beats all of the other locations. Star Pizza is regularly voted as the best pizza place in Houston.
The Pappas family of restaurants, based here in Houston, has several excellent locations in the neighborhood: the Cajun-style Pappadeaux,, Little Pappas Seafood House and the Tex-Mex Little Pappasito's. All specialize in good food with gigantic portion sizes, and we don't just say that because Leah is a manager at one of their restaurants.
If you want to kick back and have a few, the West Alabama Ice House is one of our favorites. This open air place would be a great spot for families of fans to meet, drink beers and not feel like they are introducing their kids to a den of iniquity. There's always a food truck nearby, but if a guy comes by with a cooler selling tamales, buy them.
Speaking of beer, part of the fun part of traveling that we especially like is trying beers from local breweries. Shiner is the biggest Texas brand, and is best known for its bock-style beer. Saint Arnold's is brewed near downtown Houston, and its brewery offers tours. A new, up-and-comer is Karbach, and we really like their Weiss Versa Wheat. However, if your taste in beer leans towards the stuff your dad would let you try in the 1970s, then get a can of Lone Star.
Just Outside of Houston
Remember the Alamo, but don't forget that the San Jacinto Battleground State Historical Site is where Sam Houston defeated Santa Ana and Texas won its independence from Mexico. It's about 20 miles east of Houston. The monument here is taller than the Washington Monument, which is such a Texan thing to do. For bonus military history, the battleship USS Texas, which served in both world wars, is docked here.
Houston is called "Space City" because NASA's Mission Control, the Johnson Space Center, is 27 miles southeast of downtown. Although the space program has seen better days, the visitor center and museum, called Space Center Houston, remains a one-of-a-kind attraction. After all, the first word said on the surface of the moon was "Houston."
So have fun exploring Houston, everybody and we'll see you at the game Friday! Go Gophers!


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Allistair Overeem On Off the Record with Michael Landsberg In His First Interview Since Knockout Loss To Bigfoot Silva. Overeem Talks About Fedor Emelianenko And Upcoming Junior dos Santos Fight At UFC 160.
not a word about the yeti ??
Does anyone care about thus guy anymore?
Still not an interview yet.
No questions about his last fight?? WTF?
Michael Landsberg is one creepy dude.
First interview and it's with Michael Landsberg – Ha ahah a hahahahaah. Needs a better agent I think.
I think his little sister wrote those questions, who cares which fighter he thinks is the best, there is a ranking list now. Why not talk about anything relevant like getting knocked the f@?& out by awfulfoot? Landsberg should be required to watch at least one mma fight before interviewing fighters.
Overeem seems pretty chill, that was half his problem in the Bigfoot fight. He was just chilling instead of fighting.
Both of these two are douchebags!
Landsberg is a tool. Terrible interview.
If i was a cop in Canada …sorry a Mountie the first place i would look for missing children would be in this interviewer's car trunk
Overeem is dejected, not as cocky, brash, or confident. That knockout really shook his confidence.
No questions about his last fight?? WTF?
Landsberg is a tool. Terrible interview.
Wow. That Landsberg sure is annoying. I feel uncomfortable for him.
terrible interview. not overeems fault.
Interesting note for the Fedor haters. we still here fedor was "never good" for those who listen to marketing .. yet we have another UFC heavyweight who destroyed brock lesnar, ate him alive and says if there is one fighter he respects out of the ring it's fedor.
lol – he thinks GSP is P4P above Anderson Silva…
Hahaha exactly what I thought the first time I seen that guy!
Definitely a creepy dude.. didn't GSP come from a shotokan background anyways? You'd think people would research the things the they say…
I am sure prior to the interview he already told the producers not to ask him anything about the bigfoot fight so that is why you didn't hear any questions realted to his most recent loss… I'm not certain he can beat JDS anymore. Had he stopped bigfoot, then maybe i'd say it would be a even fight possibly even overeem as a slight favorite.
Michael Landsberg is very annoying. I'm glad Chael Sonnen bullied him on live TV. There, I said it.
mma fans will never pass on the opportunity to whine.
I am interested in the upcoming fight with JDS, partly because overeem may have been shaken, but also we need to see how Junior comes back from his beating from Cain.
GSP is good but I don't know why people credit him above Silva. Silva finishes fights and in glorious fashion because he makes his opponents look like amateurs.
Plus GSP is from a Shidokan Kyokushin Karate background, so Landsberg doesn't know what he's talking about.
The true "MMA" guy with no MA background off the top of my head is maybe Tank Abbot..
No questions on Bigfoot fight what a s*** interview. A teenager could have done better.
Michael Landsberg is a douche.
Wholly sh*t. What happened to UberReem's muscle????
I'm sure he'll announce a retreat back to 205 since he can't maintain the muscle mass anymore
Silva is the Best in UFC History ! GSP ? He's good, but He's no Anderson Silva
wow. Terrible interview.
And GSP came from kyokoshin Karate. What an idiot this Landsberg fellow is.
I hope Fedor does a interview with this Twack and smashes his nose through the camera
Worst interview I've ever seen! This guy sucks, I want to see Sonnen ruin him again, what a tool!!
True Silva Finishes and breaks will. GSP is just athletically dominates others.
Worst Interview ever… i just have one question… How do I get 4.36 minutes that i spent watching this crap back?
Chael loves that guys lips…big, fat and red.
puts on the makeup to cover the black eye he got backstage.
Chael is a pimp dog YO!
dude looks like eddie murphy when he plays a white guy! weird albino looking dude
Mike Landsberg was most entertaining while getting roasted by Chael. This interview sucked!!! Mike u wasted the viewers and even Alisters time! f****** Canadians
Landsberg needs waaaay more lipstick if be wants Cheeto on his show.
No wonder they panned to rubber face as little as possible. Does he live in a coffin when he ain't interviewing?
That ego driven hype BS lame interviewers press is getting f**king old.
Good interviewers don't need to rely on creating fake as hype personas.
At least he admits Fedor to be the greatest… I think he is back to his sense after his lose to a lunatic.
Overeem is humble. He was riding a wave of hype, it got to his head. Now he's on a normal thinking pattern. And the reason why Lansberg didn't ask about Bigfoot is because Overeem didn't want to be asked. There are rehearsals in the back you know, where they go over the questions.
Landsberg is creepy as F***. He just seems like the dude nobody liked growing up because he scared all the girls away
surely they said no bigfoot questions if he's going to be on the show. Haven't watched that show since it came out like 15 years ago and I still refuse to watch it. Lansberg looks kind of like mickey rourke and he could possibly be turning into a woman.
reem seems punch drunk lol
Give Landsberg a break. He's having a hard time remembering what questions to ask because the only thought on his mind is Overeem cradling him in his big, dark, muscled arms. Overeem has Landsberg flustered for sure.
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Responding to a January 12th letter from Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR), the State Department said that the "Anti-homosexuality Bill, 2009" pending in the Ugandan Parliament is "a serious affront to internationally accepted human rights standards." Senator Wyden's letter called for a review of Uganda's preferred trade status under the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA), which authorizes duty-free importation of certain goods from preferred status countries. As a condition of receiving preferred status under AGOA, a country must not be engaged in "gross violations of internationally recognized human rights." In its letter, the State Department said that it will work closely with Congress and other stakeholders during its yearly review of AGOA eligibility. The letter also stated that the State Department has asked all of its embassies in Africa to report on host country laws and pending legislation that criminalizes homosexuality. Moreover, it stated that the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor has established a task force on lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) issues to strategize a U.S. response to LBGT issues worldwide. We applaud these unprecedented actions by the State Department to address international LGBT human rights violations, particularly the recent activity around criminalization of homosexuality in African nations.
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Ultimate lemon meringue pie
By Angela Nilsen
Cooking timePrep: 1 hr, 30 mins Cook: 1 hr, 45 mins Or 40-50 mins if baking the pastry a day ahead
Skill levelEasy
ServingsServes 6 - 8
You can't go wrong with one of Angela Nilsen's ultimates and this is no exception
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Nutrition per serving
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- 480
- protein
- 7g
- carbs
- 64g
- fat
- 24g
- saturates
- 13g
- fibre
- 1g
- sugar
- 41g
- salt
- 0.53g
For the pastry
- 175g plain flour
- 100g cold butter, cut in small pieces
- 1 tbsp icing sugar
- 1 egg yolk
For the filling
- 2 level tbsp cornflour
- 100g golden caster sugar
- finely grated zest 2 large lemon
- 125ml fresh lemon juice (from 2-3 lemons)
- juice 1 small orange
- 85g butter, cut into pieces
- 3 egg yolks and a 1 whole egg
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- 200g golden caster sugar
- 2 level tsp cornflour
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- Put a baking sheet in the oven and heat oven to 200C/fan 180C/gas 6. Bake the pastry case 'blind' (filled with dry beans) for 15 mins, then remove the foil and bake a further 5-8 mins until the pastry is pale golden and cooked. Set aside. (Can be done a day ahead if you want to get ahead.) Lower the oven to 180C/fan 160C/gas 4.
- While the pastry bakes, prepare the filling: mix the cornflour, sugar and lemon zest in a medium saucepan. Strain and stir in the lemon juice gradually. Make orange juice up to 200ml/7fl oz with water and strain into the pan. Cook over a medium heat, stirring constantly, until thickened and smooth. Once the mixture bubbles, remove from the heat and beat in the butter until melted. Beat the egg yolks (save white for meringue) and whole egg together, stir into the pan and return to a medium heat. Keep stirring vigorously for a few minutes, until the mixture thickens and plops from the spoon. (It will bubble, but doesn't curdle.) Take off the heat and set aside while you make the meringue.
- Put the egg whites in a large bowl. Whisk to soft peaks, then add half the sugar a spoonful at a time, whisking between each addition without overbeating. Whisk in the cornflour, then add the rest of the sugar as before until smooth and thick. Quickly reheat the filling and pour it into the pastry case. Immediately put spoonfuls of meringue around the edge of the filling (if you start in the middle the meringue may sink), then spread so it just touches the pastry (this will anchor it and help stop it sliding). Pile the rest into the centre, spreading so it touches the surface of the hot filling (and starts to cook), then give it all a swirl. Return to the oven for 18-20 mins until the meringue is crisp and slightly coloured. Let the pie sit in the tin for 30 mins, then remove and leave for at least another 1⁄2-1 hr before slicing. Eat the same day.
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I've made a few LMP's over the years. I learnt as a child by watching my grandmother and my mother make them. Cornflour was never included in the meringue though. My mums meringue was always peaked very high, very crispy on top and not too wet inside. Despite hours of very low, slow heat they always stayed very pale and golden on top. I've spent years trying to replicate those LMP's myself but can never quite get the right amount of height and crispiness. I don't like overly mushy meringue centres.
A QUESTION PLEASE... MERINGUE with CORNFLOUR?
Can someone please tell me what the reason is for using cornflour in this particular LMP recipe? Does it make the meringue rise or what exactly?
Please advise. Thanks.
OMG OMG this is the nicest Lemon meringue pie I have ever made, and trust me I have made a few in my time..everybody loved it the meringue was crispy on the outside and soft on the inside and it was just the right depth for the filling, I was'nt sure about putting orange juice in it as I have never done this before but it was a good balance just the right sweetness, I will be making this again very soon. x
Fabulous recipe, it works extremely well. I had never made lemon meringue pie and decided to try this recipe two days ago for a friend at work who doesn't like sponge. First of all I need to say that this recipe is very easy and just takes a bit of time. The finished result was stunning and I couldn't get over how well it turned out. I thought it would not travel well either and be a pool of soup byt he time I got it to work but it travelled well (I take public transport) and held the set perfectly. My friends at work were blown away by the way it looked and then by the flavour. I have been offered money to produce one for christmas!!! I'm definitely not a great or very experienced baker so I would highly recommend this recipe. Try it!!
Flavours were perfect...spent HOURS (albeit sporadic stints in the kitchen), and after letting it sit for a few hours, confirmed the filling was thick enough to be confident it would set given pastry cracked near edges, so I figured having doubled the filling to fill the pan, it would be thick enough not to leak...THEN....following the last instruction perfectly, assuming I had to leave the pie in the tin for half an hour like with a pavlova, to prevent cracking...merely started trying to take it from the pan after 1/2 hour, and....PLOP! The filling came slopping out the gap : (. Recipe didn't specify to TAKE THE PIE OUT after cooking, then let it cool for at least 1 hour (winter weather....summer much longer I guess)...next time will increase pastry by 50%...yummy flavours though : )
I make this pie in an 11inch fluted dish as I like my pastry
(1 quantity) quite thin and crisp, I also make double the filling (and Meringue) omitting one batch of water (for the double Quantitiy) as the filling does not thicken without doing this!! Also the extra 1 Whole Egg, I only add the yolk and the White goes with the others for the Meringue. This is just the right quantity for the size of dish.


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- Using the heels of your hands, execute a long stroke, starting from the pelvis and going up both sides of the spine.
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- Work your thumbs in small, deep circles, starting in the interior part of the shoulder blades, moving up the spine into the base of the head and then down to the small of the back.
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The NFL has taken great measures to protect the quarterback in recent years in the interest of slinging the ball and running up scores. However, putting good, clean hits on the quarterback could be considered the antidote for the wide-open game the NFL has become. It is a way to stop offenses from posting up a converted Power Forward in the middle of the field while sending two guys who can't be touched after five yards down the sidelines en route to a six-touchdown offensive explosion that gives the folks at ESPN plenty of highlights that are palatable to casual fans, who tend not to have the stomach for the sounds of crunching bones or seeing the number one jersey-seller on their favorite roster carted off the field.
Being able to bring pressure and collapse the pocket could literally mean the difference between, say, stopping a drive on your side of the field or giving up a third and seven that sustains a drive into the end zone. You don't have to do it every time, but you when you need that ace you need to be able to pull it. Last year, the Panthers too often seemed incapable of pulling an ace, unfortunately, and too often left undersized or inexperienced defensive backs on islands to cover for five or more seconds, and the results showed in the win-loss column. The results show in the fanbase's general malaise toward Safety Sherrod Martin perhaps more than anything, but any fair-minded individual will understand that while his tackling was unforgivably poor (he couldn't wrap up one of my daughter's teddy bears if she asked him to tuck her in) - he was also asked to save the day WAY TOO MUCH. (more after the jump)
Quarterbacks too often were allowed to sit-back and diagnose our zone coverages or identify mismatches, glance up at the scoreboard, calculate how many yards they needed for a touchdown, glance up into the boxes and check on their wives and children, make sure their shoes were tied THEN hit their man for a big gain. In the second half of the season finale, it was like Drew Brees was trying to figure out who he had to hit to break what record, bead in on that guy and stand there until he worked his way open. We lost that game.
The team managed a paltry total of 31 sacks last year. That's good for 25th in the league, but not good for a Jim Johnson-inspired defense. Defensive End Charles Johnson was the team leader with 9 sacks - down from his 12 the year before in his breakout, contract-year performance in 2010. This is a respectable number, but no one else on the roster was able to muster more than 4 (both defensive ends Thomas Keiser and Greg Hardy were able to reach this number). Johnson is also credited with a team-leading 27 quarterback pressures, and Hardy with another 17 from the other side. However, Jared Allen had nearly as many sacks as Johnson had pressures. While that didn't help his team into the playoffs, no one would argue it hurt their chances to get there.
Sack totals don't tell the whole story. It's a bit like gaging quarterback performance by passing touchdowns alone. However, a sack is what happens when rushing the passer is done right and our numbers (for lack of a more sophisticated description) sucked. For comparison's sake, opposing teams were able to corral Cam Newton (the elusive, athletic, big and strong SuperCam you and I watch gleefully every Sunday) 39 times. Sacking him once is no small feat.
Even more troubling, the sack totals drastically dropped off after halftime. Throughout the season, the team tallied 21 first half sacks, when the team was keeping it close or even holding a lead the vast majority of the time. However, when the second half rolled around and opposing offenses adjusted their protections and plans of attack - the team managed a mere 10 sacks.
The Panthers also got just as many sacks on first down (10) as they did on third down (11). This is antithetical to drive-killing poundings of the quarterbacks, because they get more downs to recover. The inability to get your third down, get them off-the-field quarterback hit and sack were the one element, aside from plays on the ball in the secondary, that made Carolina a bottom of the league defense and a sub-.500 team more than anything else. To drive the point home further, we had 19 sacks when we were winning, and only 12 when tied or trailing. That gives you an idea of the flow of the game.
There were a plethora of legitimate reasons why the defense was generally incapable of generating and sustaining a formidable pass rush, particularly on third-and-long. Injuries were to blame, certainly. Free agent acquisition Ron Edwards was expected to fill the void that has been the Panthers Defensive Tackle position for sometime now, while bringing along a couple of third round picks who showed promise but weren't necessarily ready for primetime. That was before he went down the first day of training camp, was lost for the entire season, and shoved rookies SIone Fua and Terrell McClain into starting jobs no one hoped they'd inherit that soon. Before the season even started, our "Kracken" Defensive End Greg Hardy (a former sixth round pick who'd emerged on theleft side of the d-line the year before) suffered a motorcycle crash which clearly hampered his ability to get to the quarterback the entire season.
In Weeks 1 and 2, respectively, the team's two most viable rush linebackers- Jon Beason and Thomas Davis - went down with leg injuries, in turn thrusting other lesser-skilled and experienced linebackers into the crucible, with predictable results and so many injuries down the depth chart it's not expedient to go into it any farther for the purposes of this conversation. I will, however, note that Omar Gaither never appeared to be healthy to me, which could have alleviated some of our woes on the weakside.
Aside from thrusting unproven players into increased roles, the injuries also forced our proven players to increase their responsibilities and play different roles. For example, our sack-leader Charles Johnson was forced to move to the inside at times, to stand up and play rush linebacker at others, and I even recall a couple of plays when he dropped back and looked surprisingly adept in coverage. Hardy was also moved inside often, and James Anderson was forced to step into the "Quarterback of the Defense" role, calling out plays and making pre-snap adjustments.
The injuries also, however, allowed the team to explore different options in different spots, and bring in a couple of players who can contend to be long-time contributors. Defensive End Thomas Keiser, End/Linebacker Antwon Applewhite and defensive tackles Andre Neblett and Jason Shirley may have remained in obscurity at the end of the bench had our big guns not been laid down so early on in the season. Shirley, in particular, proved a godsend to the pass rush in a limited late season role, when he was able to collect 2.5 thrashings of the quarterback.
Perhaps just as important in my mind was the schematic difference of philosophy - I like to think of it as a dissociative divide - between the Ron Meeks, Tampa 2-inspired secondary we ran and the aggressive, exotic blitz scheme Head Coach Ron Rivera and Defensive Coordinator Sean McDermott brought with them to Charlotte in the front seven. On an even deeper, the defense could be thought of as kind of schizophrenic this year, switching its fronts, running around frantically putting out fires all over the field and, above all, giving up far too much yardage in the run and the pass. This is to be expected in the first year of a new program, especially when it's hit so hard with the injury bug in that fledgling, infantile state.
That was last year, though, and next year that will not be a luxury we have or want.The problem has to be fixed, and it will, I believe. My only question is how. Here are several options. Some or all could be deployed to help us stop the opposing team's motor (by this metaphor, I mean their quarterback):
1) Free Agency signings: We know that our current cap situation would be prohibitive to making any significant additions to the defense by whipping out the checkbook once the new league year starts. However, when I've listened to team officials discuss their strategies to improve the team going into next year, ALL of them have mentioned free agency as an avenue that will be utilized to the fullest extent possible, and I am confident that a move-here and a move-there in the front office's grand scheme before March 18 will position us to bring in a couple of bodies into the defensive fold.
These acquisitions may not be as eye-popping or rosterbation-inducing as signing Mario Williams and LaRon Landry, but I expect the team to get at least one viable contributor in the front seven and another in the secondary. How, who or when? I honestly don't know. I just know the why. The why makes it a must.
In my eyes, if Edwards isn't back, we'd have to get a veteran defensive tackle to add to the mix on the line. Too much youth in that very important area of the field. Smart money could also be on bringing in a veteran linebacker to man the weakside when TD isn't set up. We need an insurace policy on him. In the backfield, I'm of the opinion it would be ideal to bring in a strong safety who will play more the sneaking into the box role and sliding Charles Godfrey to the free safety to chase down those back-end free-runners that maimed us so last year. I think he can handle that, and we could use a little muscle in the middle. That's just me, though, and I don't portend to speak for the Panthers franchise.
2) The Draft: The draft we know is coming, and we know we will participate in it. I'm all for Best Player Available, either side of the ball, in the first round. That said, I think we're going to specialize a little with those later picks (that we hopefully haven't finished collecting) and look for specific roles that play to our system. The majority of our draft picks have to address the holes on defense, and that's no secret.
In my mind, should we go o-tackle in the first, as I am starting to believe is more and more likely, one could very well see our second, fourth and fifth round picks likely going toward fortifying our stoppers. A young combo guy who can, with more-or-less equal success, stick his hand in the dirt or stand up and make a mad dash around the edge of the pocket on the way to the quarterback seems to be an absolute must have in the draft to bolster our pass rush through the draft. Cornerback should also be addressed with the utmost priority, but tthat ain't gonna add to our sack totals.
3) Natural Progression: To a certain degree, regardless if we don't pick anything up on the market or bring in any pieces that pan out next year through the draft - the argument could still be made that our pass rush should be MUCH better this season after the staff has had a year to install its system, find the right positional coaches and coordinators to institute the system and one has to imagine we'll get a little luckier next year at keeping guys on the field to contribute. This also allows the Big Moneys of the world to do what they do best. What we need them to do.
4) Increased Usage of "Hybrid" Looks: I've taken some heat on here before for outlining my vision for the defense, where ends could stand up and rush from the outside on passing down looks, or move inside to make way for an extra linebacker to make his way into the game and rush the quarterback. I see us being able to use increased 3-4 looks to help disguise pressures, and basically fool the quarterback into staying there until we get to him. I don't think I have to explain how valuable unpredictability is in getting to the quarterback, and switching up our looks in the front seven, as well as adding a strong safety piece that could be better utilized in the blitz package, is an excellent way to confuse a Wonderlic Wonder genius qb.


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A key Singaporean business leader with long-standing ties to Australia says the nation's industrial relations laws are punishing Australia's tourism industry.
Stamford Land Corporation executive chairman C. K. Ow's comments came ahead of Prime Minister Julia Gillard presenting him with an honorary Order of Australia (AO) during her first official visit to Singapore.
Stamford is the largest owner-operator of luxury hotels in Australasia, employing almost 4000 Australians, with hotels in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide and Auckland.
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Torn bicep? All he does is dive at players legs with his helmet. I think he could of played on. Overated anyway.
Yes, 0. Knew he wouldn't let me down.
I agree he's doing a crap job but I don't think anyone can honestly say that he doesn't care about the team. Anyway, for all we know he could...
Sad to say as he's been one of my favourite Titans the last few years but it maybe time to let him go unless his play dramatically improves in the...
Was a good coach you mean. We need a new coach or a new OC and DC that are allowed to do their jobs how they want without interferance from him. That...
Great news. Was hoping thats what would happen. Rather see him on the active roster but it's better than nothing.
How would cutting the WRONG player make someone happy?
The point is he had more of chance of being a "Randy Moss" than Hawkins.
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And your defense.
No, unless she was Collins AA sponsor. Then she might be the reason he's playing the games drunk.
True. When do we play the rams?
I got a feeling that Cook,Britt and CJ are gonna be the only 3 bright spots of this season.
Screw the 49ers. They had their fun with the Montana,Lott and Rice era.
I want a team to win it that hasn't tasted Superbowl glory yet.
I agree. Everytime he's running with the ball I'm thinking it's gonna come flying out. Hopefully we'll be seeing alot more of Cook soon.
Haha. I know. I thought about it too long and the list just appeared in my head.
This maybe a reach but if VY is able to extend some drives with his legs, it may help the defense out a bit by letting them rest for a change. 3 and...
Normally I wouldn't be happy about one of our players breaking his arm but i'l make an exception for him, Nickey and Collins. Oh and maybe Gage the...
I disagree. The best hit of the day was when my head hit my pillow so I could forget about the shocking Titans performance I had just witnessed.
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There are certain aromas that we tend to associate with the holiday season. These include scents from the outdoors such as pine needles and cedar leaves because of the holiday trees that were hauled into our homes to be decorated. Smells from the kitchen also remind of us holiday traditions like mom's gingerbread men freshly out of the oven, grandpa's chocolate fudge boiling on the stove top, or aunt Meg's cinnamon sugar cookies arriving in the mail. Below are a few of the scents that are reminiscent of the holiday season. It is not surprising that many of the scents that we enjoy during the holiday season have healing associations.
PeppermintPeppermint may very well be the most common aroma wafting through the kitchen during the holidays. Peppermint oil and crushed peppermint candies are often used in holiday baking. In aromatherapy peppermint essential oil is noted as a mood uplifter. No wonder candy canes bring smiles to children's faces and delight people of all ages.
Oranges and ClovesDried pomanders can be made from oranges and cloves. Not only do orange pomanders decorate your home over the holidays but they will double as remedies for cold, flu, and winter blues. Cloves ward off winter nasties associated with colds and flu. Oranges are happiness-bringers, offering optimism and gaiety to the season. Cloves are also aphrodisiacs and may induce romantic couplings by the festive fireside.
How to Make an Orange Pomander - Poke holes into the orange peel with a skewer and insert a whole clove into each piercing. It helps to design an artsy or symmetrical punch pattern for a more decorative result. Your clove pierced oranges can also be dusted with fragrant ground spices such as nutmeg, ginger, allspice, and cinnamon. Wrap your pomander with a ribbon and dangle it from doorways or arrange a cluster of pomanders as an centerpiece for your foyer table. Oh, and citrus pomanders make delightful fragrant gifts to give hosts when you arrive at those holiday parties. Limes, lemons, tangerines, or clementines can also be used to make a variety of citrus pomanders.
Pine, Cedar, and EucalyptusHoliday trees and wreaths hung on your front door are often made from trimmings of pine, cedar, and eucalyptus. Pine aromatherapy oil is typically used as a disinfectant. Pine has natural anti-bacterial properties. By choosing a pine tree you would introducing the scent of the lush forest into your home, but also offering you living space with lingering scent which houses protective energies. Eucalyptus oil is also a natural ingredient used in products for treating common cold symptoms. Cedar is also used as a disinfectant as well as an aromatic air freshener.
Frankincense and MyrrhFrankincense and myrrh are historically associated with Christmas. As told in bible stories, along with gold, frankincense and myrrh were gifts the three wise men presented to baby Jesus. The burning of incense sticks dipped in both oils of frankincense and myrrh gives off frankincense's sweet perfume blended with myrrh's more potent fragrance. The combined scent is commonly used during meditation sessions or prayer time.
Cocoa and CinnamonI can't think of anything much more satisfying than drinking a cup of steamy cocoa after an afternoon of sledding or an hour of shoveling snow from your sidewalks during the cold winter season. But, top it with a generous dollup of whipped cream and a sprinkling of cinnamon or nutmeg and you will be enjoying an extra special treat. Cinnamon is a powerful antioxidant. Dark chocolate is one of the super foods, so don't forget to stuff some sweet chocolates inside those holiday stockings.
What healing smells do you associate with the holidays?
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I bought the 360 S 4GB model, mostly because I dislike glossy things (fingerprints are the bane of my existence) and this was before Microsoft made the main model matte as well. The design is definitely an improvement over the original white models that had a tendency to go beige after a while. It feels sturdier too, and better made. The touch buttons are both great and horribly annoying at times. I'm at uni so it spends half its time on my desk and the other half in the living room at home. On my desk I often accidentally press a button reaching for something and at home the dog got a surprise when it was sniffing around the eject button and found a face full of disc tray (luckily she knows not to go near it now) But otherwise they have a nice feel. Buttons, like all moving things, have a tendency to wear out over time but you'll see no problems with these ones. The latest Metro interface is great and simple to use, especially with Kinect. My only gripe is that the apps aren't quite up to standard, in the UK at least. 4OD is just terrible and Sky is still using the old interface. It would be great if the TV aspects could be hard-coded into OS instead of separate apps, some of which can be slow to start up at times and can get quite frustrating.
The controls are a sticky area, it's really horses for courses. Some people seem to prefer the PlayStation shape and others the XBox. Having grown up on PlayStation, and still use a PS3 alongside the XBox, I have to say, personally, the 360 controller is superior to the PS3, it just seems to fit the hand much more comfortably than the PS3. With a PS3 controller you have to really grip onto it, with the 360 it's such a shape that you can just rest it in your hands quite easily.
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In three days, Fox has released four different trailers for "The Wolverine."
Four. In three days. That's more Wolverines than a "Red Dawn" remake.
It started on Monday, when director James Mangold tweeted what he called a "tweaser" -- 6 seconds of flash frames from the teaser to the full trailer -- on the new social media video app Vine. Yesterday, came the "trailer teaser" -- not to be confused with the teaser trailer, that's something else -- on MTV; 20 seconds of footage from the full 120 second trailer. And today there were two more trailers -- actual, full-length trailers this time -- one marked "domestic" and one marked "international." Here, for your viewing pleasure, is the domestic trailer (you can watch the international one at Movies.com):
If you follow any film news websites regularly, then this timeline is not news. Most, if not all, were likely posted on your preferred film site; most, if not all, in separate posts with separate commentary. And while I'm happy to watch any movie with Hugh Jackman as Wolverine (as long as it's not "X-Men Origins: Wolverine" again), this feels, to me, like just a wee bit of overkill. Trailers to teasers for trailers? How many trailers are too many?
None of the journalists I spoke with today for this post could give me an answer to that question. The reason Fox releases four trailers in three days is because film sites will post four trailers in three days. And the reason film sites will post four trailers in three days is because readers will click on four trailer posts in three days. And generally, according to writers and editors at several prominent film sites, all these little glimpses -- 20 seconds of 2 minutes, 6 seconds of 20 seconds, 19 consecutive frames of 3.2 seconds -- do nothing to quell their readers' curiosity or enthusiasm.
"Any trailer post will be a hugely popular post," one film journalist for a well-known film blog told me. This particular writer didn't know the traffic stats on this series of "Wolverine" posts, but he said he'd be "surprised" if there was any dip in hits on the final, full trailer just because his site also posted the 6 second Vine. "It doesn't matter if we already posted a teaser for a teaser," he said. "If anything, it just whets the appetite."
So trailer teasers and tweasers work -- although the editor of another film website said he had seen a dip in traffic in this specific case. "Traffic went down with each post," he told me. "But today the [full] trailer is doing very well again. So I think in this case there was definitely some fatigue before the actual trailer came around."
A few folks told me they questioned the decision to release so many trailers in such a short stretch of time, but in conversation after conversation, different writers and editors told me basically the same thing: we post them all because people read them all. Trailers bring in traffic, and traffic brings in advertisers (which means, in this case, that advertising brings in advertisers). There won't be such a thing as "too many trailers" until readers stop clicking on them. You might claim to be sick of trailers to teasers for trailers. But someone out there is -- or lots of someones out there are -- still reading and watching.
Are you sick of all these commercials? Or do you love getting two or three trailers for each big blockbuster that comes down the pipe? Leave us your take in the comments below.
jcamachott | March 28, 2013 6:28 AM
Some movies are so bad yet have trailers that are awesome. Case in point - Die Hard 5 which, if repeated for 2 hours, is better than the actual movie.
Jordan Hoffman | March 27, 2013 2:19 PM
This kinda thing only really works for superhero or franchise films, which has an insatiable, illogical need to continually feed the obsession about these characters. Teasers to trailers are idiotic (especially when they are teasers to "teaser trailers," which I think this is - these are not the "full trailers" are they?) but I give the Fox team and Mangold some credit for using Vine for the "tweaser." It's a one-time gag and at least shows that they are aware of the absurdity of it all, and the need to pounce on the newest piece of tech.
Still - all this does is undercut the impact of the actual trailer. I hate that there are different ones for different markets. If I ran the world, a tentpole movie would have one teaser trailer, one full trailer and, after opening weekend, maybe some kinda short ad highlighting an aspect of the film people are responding to (comedy in an action film, for example.)