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Pia Sundhage has the U.S. women looking strong ahead of the Olympics
Ever since last year's heartbreaking loss to Japan in the Women's World Cup final, U.S. manager Pia Sundhage has been looking for that extra edge that will turn World Cup silver into Olympic gold. She has tweaked formations and changed personnel, but 11 months after that penalty shootout defeat in Frankfurt, Sundhage appears to have arrived at a formula that has the U.S. favored to win it all in London this summer.
In some ways, Sundhage has come full circle. After the World Cup, the Swede set about swapping her preferred 4-4-2 formation for a 4-2-3-1 set, one that gave the U.S. attack a "more sophisticated" look by making better use of the talented midfielders at her disposal. There was only one problem: The new alignment didn't allow for forwards Abby Wambach and Alex Morgan to be on the field at the same time, thus forcing the latter to the bench.
Opponents soon realized that without a second forward to worry about, they no longer needed to concern themselves with getting beaten for speed, pressing further into midfield as a result. So Sundhage adjusted, pairing Wambach and Morgan together in a 4-0 win over Canada in the final of the CONCACAF Olympic qualifying tournament, a game in which each player scored twice. In the 11 games since, the two strikers have combined for a whopping 20 goals.
"So much of the U.S. attack used to depend -- maybe too much -- on Wambach's superiority as a target striker and as a force in the box," Even Pellerud, who led Norway to the 1995 World Cup title and now manages the Trinidad & Tobago women's national team, said in an email. "Now all teams will be forced to defend deeper in the field in trying to anticipate and maybe cover for Morgan's smart and well-timed runs into the space between an opponent's back line and goalkeeper. But not only can Alex outrun everyone in a quick transitional play; she also has the balance and the needed composure to score following an exhausting sprint with a defender chasing her and trying to tackle her."
Sundhage didn't stop there, however. In a bid to get playmaker Lauren Cheney on the ball more often, Sundhage moved her to the center of midfield and benched presumed regular starter Carli Lloyd. Right midfielder Heather O'Reilly, another fixture in the starting lineup, has been replaced by Tobin Heath, while Megan Rapinoe plays on the opposite wing.
"I would say O'Reilly is predictable," Sundhage said. "Sometimes that's good, when you know you really need to go at a left back or we really need to get behind the back line. We know what she will give us. With Megan Rapinoe, Tobin Heath and even Lauren Cheney, we are more unpredictable. It's great to have that luxury to choose between those four. The thing is with the 4-4-2, as long as Morgan is playing well with Wambach, we need players getting behind the back line. We need crosses. Whoever provides that will be in the starting lineup."
The internal logic behind the moves runs deeper still. When Lloyd and Shannon Boxx were paired together in the center of midfield (a constant over the past four years), there was confusion at times over who should go forward and who should assume the holding role. That left the U.S. vulnerable to opposition counterattacks.
Now that Cheney is partnering Boxx, their roles are more clearly defined: The former plays as an out-and-out attacking midfielder while Boxx provides a safety valve in attack and cover in defense. That said, Sundhage feels there is still some room for improvement in the middle, especially as it relates to Cheney.
"I think right now, Cheney is a little too concerned about defending, to be honest," said Sundhage. "We need to encourage her to be more dangerous and find the final pass, take more shots and get in the box. She covers a lot of ground, but I want her to get behind the back line as well.
"I want [Boxx] to stay central, be ball side, and hopefully she is behind the ball in attack and defense. She slows down the counterattacks against us, but more importantly, keeps the ball, and when we want to change the point of attack in the attacking third, she will be the one."
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Sundhage added that if Boxx isn't on the field -- and given the quick turnaround between games at the Olympics, she'll have to be rested at some point -- Lloyd would assume the holding role behind Cheney. But Boxx figures to be on the field when it matters most and her presence in the center of midfield will play a critical role, namely shielding a back line that hasn't been airtight lately.
Some of this defensive shakiness is due to the ACL injury suffered by right back Ali Krieger at the Olympic qualifying tournament back in January. This forced Sundhage to accelerate the experiment of playing Kelley O'Hara -- who has been an attacking player for most of her collegiate and professional career -- at left back. Amy LePeilbet, a converted center back who played on the left at the World Cup, will take Krieger's spot.
"Overall, I think [defense] is where the U.S. is a little bit vulnerable," former U.S. head coach and current ESPN analyst Tony DiCicco said. "They're good individually. Rachael Buhler is tough. I don't think we have great pace in the back like we used to. Having said that, O'Hara brings a little bit more speed, but it's really Christie Rampone who is the glue back there."
Rampone is indeed the key, as the U.S. captain's speed allows her team to recover and reorganize in almost any situation. Just as critical will be the play of goalkeeper Hope Solo, who will be hoping to reprise her heroine's role in the gold-medal victory over Brazil four years ago. But the developments at the back also explain Heath's inclusion in the lineup. While Heath isn't one to contribute that much in the final third, her willingness to tackle will provide some defensive support for the inexperienced O'Hara as well as allow the left back to get into the attack more often.
That said, Sundhage indicated that her starting lineup isn't completely set yet and that performances at the team's pre-Olympic camp will dictate in part who takes the field for the Olympic opener against France on July 25 (soccer competition begins prior to the opening ceremonies). And for their part, both Lloyd and O'Reilly insisted they will continue to do everything they can to get on the field.
"I'm ready and willing to accept any role that is needed for the team, whether that's starting, coming on in the second half or coming on for the last 30 minutes," said Lloyd. "I'm fully confident knowing that I can bring something different to the table. I'm ready to go ... It's going to be a long tournament, and we're going to need all 18 players to get this gold medal."
But regardless of who starts, it is a group that is brimming with self-belief as it heads to London. In particular, convincing wins over Sweden and Japan last month have the U.S. approaching peak form, even if the Americans struggled at times in defeating Canada 2-1 in their send-off match.
"I think the U.S. has evolved to another level," DiCicco said. "They don't squander as many chances. So I think they're better offensively, and they were already a pretty good offensive team."
That's not to say the path to the gold will be easy. The U.S. has a difficult test right from the start in facing France, which pushed the Americans to the limit before losing 3-1 in the semifinals of the World Cup. Sweden and Japan figure to be better once the Olympics begin, while Brazil, no doubt haunted by its inability to win a major tournament, definitely has the talent to challenge for gold. Sundhage, however, remains undaunted.
"We're getting stronger, smarter and better," she said.
The hope -- and expectation -- is that these improvements will help the U.S. to bring home the gold.
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Directed by | Tom McGrath |
Produced by | Lara Breay Denise Nolan Cascino |
Written by | Alan J. Schoolcraft Brent Simons |
Starring | Will Ferrell Tina Fey Jonah Hill David Cross Brad Pitt |
Music by | Hans Zimmer Lorne Balfe |
Edited by | Michael Andrews |
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Distributed by | Paramount Pictures |
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Country | United States |
Language | English |
Budget | $130 million[2] |
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Megamind is a 2010 American 3D computer-animated superhero action comedy film directed by Tom McGrath. It was produced by DreamWorks Animation and distributed by Paramount Pictures. The film premiered on October 28, 2010 in Russia, while it was released in the United States in Digital 3D, IMAX 3D and 2D on November 5, 2010. It features the voices of Will Ferrell, Tina Fey, Jonah Hill, David Cross, and Brad Pitt.[3]
The film tells the story of a super-intelligent alien supervillain, Megamind, who after a long-lasting battle one day actually destroys his foe, the much-loved superhero Metro Man. Having the fictional Metro City for himself, Megamind finds out that his villainy has no purpose and thus creates a new superhero to serve as his nemesis. His plan backfires, as he ends up creating instead a new super-villain. With Metro City spiraling out of control, Megamind attempts to set things right and discovers his newfound purpose - as a superhero.
Megamind received generally positive reviews from critics, praising its strong visuals, but criticizing its unoriginality.[4] With a budget of $130 million, the film grossed over $321 million worldwide,[2] and despite being a moderate box office success, it became one of the lowest grossing DreamWorks' CG animated films.[5]
A short film, titled Megamind: The Button of Doom, was released on February 25, 2011, on the Megamind DVD and Blu-ray.
Megamind (Will Ferrell) is a super-intelligent alien and the supervillain of Metro City who continually battles - and loses - against his nemesis, Metro Man (Brad Pitt), a rivalry that has extended since the two arrived on Earth as infants. On the day of dedication of a museum in Metro Man's honor, Megamind escapes from jail, rejoins his sidekick Minion (David Cross), and kidnaps reporter Roxanne Ritchi (Tina Fey) to lure Metro Man into a copper-lined observatory. Inside, Metro Man weakens because copper drains his powers and is killed by a death ray that Megamind fires at the observatory from an orbiting satellite. Megamind revels in his victory, but this is short-lived as without a nemesis, his villainy has no purpose.
Megamind prepares to destroy the Metro Man statue, saying his last goodbyes, but is forced to take the holographic disguise of the museum's curator Bernard (Ben Stiller) when Roxanne approaches. Roxanne unwittingly gives Megamind the idea to inject Metro Man's DNA into a worthy target to create a new superhero for him to challenge. Megamind returns to his lair and creates the serum, unaware Roxanne and her dimwitted cameraman Hal (Jonah Hill) have snuck in. Chaos breaks out when Roxanne is discovered, and ultimately Hal is accidentally injected with the serum. Later, Megamind disguises himself as Hal's "space dad" to groom him into being a superhero so as to lead to an all-out battle with Megamind. Hal adopts the name "Tighten", a misunderstanding of Megamind's suggested name "Titan". During this, Megamind continues to see Roxanne using the Bernard disguise and the two develop a relationship. Minion becomes upset that Megamind wants to date Roxanne and has foregone his villainy, and the two break their friendship.
On the night before Hal's battle with Megamind, Megamind takes Roxanne out to dinner, unaware that Hal, who also had feelings for Roxanne, has watched them. Megamind's disguise falters during dinner, and Roxanne rejects him, even after Megamind admits his feelings for her. He further misplaces his invisible car, which has the anti-serum to revert Hal to normal. Despite these setbacks, he prepares to meet Hal, but the hero does not show up. Instead, he finds Hal bitter at losing Roxanne to Bernard, and has begun using his powers for ill-gotten gains. Megamind tries to convince Hal to stop by revealing how he had manipulated him with the Space Dad disguise as well as the Bernard one, but this infuriates Hal further, with Hal threatening to kill Megamind. Megamind tries to catch Hal in a copper-lined trap but this fails to stop Hal, and he along with Roxanne flee the city as Hal threatens the rest of the city with his powers.
Roxanne leads Megamind to Metro Man's secret lair, hoping to find something to stop Hal, and are astonished to find Metro Man there. The superhero explains that on that day, he had had an epiphany, wanting to forgo the superhero business to go into music, and so he had faked his death. Metro Man refuses to help despite the danger to the city. Roxanne tries to convince Megamind that he could be the hero, but Megamind believes that he is destined to be the villain, and turns himself in at prison. While he is there, he discovers on the TV that Roxanne has been captured by Hal, who threatens to harm her if Megamind does not fight him. Having a change of heart, Megamind requests the warden for his release, but discovers that the warden is really Minion in disguise, who also has had a change of heart and returned to help.
Megamind rescues Roxanne, but Hal impales him with the pinnacle of Metro Tower. Metro Man shows up to berate Hal and chase him away. Roxanne goes to Megamind but finds that he was actually a holographically-disguised Minion, otherwise unharmed. Megamind reveals that he had disguised himself as Metro Man as part of the plan. However, Hal returns, having realized the deception from the unique way Megamind had spoken as Metro Man, and begins to fight Megamind. In the battle, Megamind stumbles on his invisible car, and quickly fires the anti-serum at Hal. Hal is reverted to normal and taken to prison, while Roxanne convinces both Megamind and the city's populace to make Megamind their hero. Some time later, Megamind and Roxanne are in a budding relationship, and the city dedicates a new statue to Megamind, with Metro Man, disguised in the crowd, silently congratulating his former enemy.
Voice Cast[edit]
- Will Ferrell as Megamind, an extraterrestrial mastermind who turns from supervillain to superhero. He is a spoof of Lex Luthor and Brainiac.[6] The DVD commentary notes that his costume and showmanship are purposely evocative of Alice Cooper.
- Brad Pitt as Metro Man, Megamind's former nemesis. He is a spoof of Superman.[7] The DVD commentary notes that his costume and showmanship are purposely evocative of Elvis.
- Tina Fey as Roxanne "Roxie" Ritchi, a TV news reporter who becomes Megamind's love interest. She is a spoof of Lois Lane.[7]
- Jonah Hill as Hal Stewart/Tighten,[8] Roxanne Ritchi's hapless, dimwitted cameraman who has unrequited feelings for her. His motivation throughout the film is to get her back to his apartment with him. He later becomes a villain named Tighten (he misspells "Titan"). The name Hal Stewart refers to Hal Jordan and John Stewart of the Green Lantern Corps.[9]
- David Cross as Minion, a sapient talking fish who has been Megamind's sidekick and best friend since childhood. His costume is evocative of Ro-Man from Robot Monster.
- J. K. Simmons as the Warden, the no-nonsense head of Metro City Prison.
- Ben Stiller as Bernard, a museum curator whom Megamind impersonates to win Roxanne's affections.
- Justin Theroux as Megamind's father, a parody of Jor-El, Superman's father, as played by Marlon Brando in Superman.[7]
- Christopher Knights as a Prison Guard.
- Tom McGrath as Prison Guard.
- Jack Blessing as Newscaster.
- Jessica Schulte as Megamind's mother.
The film was written by Alan J. Schoolcraft and Brent Simons.[10] It was first titled Master Mind, and then Oobermind.[11] It was suggested that Ben Stiller would be cast as Megamind,[12] and later Robert Downey, Jr.[13] but Will Ferrell was ultimately given the role, due to "scheduling conflicts" for Downey.[3][14] Lara Breay and Denise Nolan Cascino were the film's producers, and Ben Stiller and Stuart Cornfeld were the executive producers.[11] Justin Theroux and Guillermo del Toro worked as creative consultants on the film. Del Toro only came onboard three weeks before the end of production,[15] but went on to have a more substantial role in subsequent DreamWorks Animation films. The opening of the film, where Megamind is falling to his apparent death, was del Toro's idea.[16]
Megamind: Music from the Motion Picture is a soundtrack to the film of the same name, composed by Hans Zimmer and Lorne Balfe, and released on November 2, 2010 by Lakeshore Records.[17][18]
Megamind premiered on October 28, 2010, in Russia, and was theatrically released in the United States on November 5, 2010.[19] It was supposed to be released in Japan on March 12, 2011, but because of the earthquake and tsunami a day before, the Japanese release was cancelled.[20][21]
Megamind was promoted at the 2010 San Diego Comic-Con International, with Tom McGrath, Tina Fey, Jonah Hill, and Will Ferell, who was dressed as Megamind.[22]
Home media[edit]
Megamind was released on both Blu-ray Disc and DVD on February 25, 2011, accompanied with an all new short titled Megamind: The Button of Doom.[23] The Button of Doom also had its television premiere on Nick, which was aired on February 26, 2011. It was the seventh best selling DVD of 2011 with over 3 million units sold and total sales of $43 million.[24][25]
The film was released on Blu-ray 3D in March 2011 exclusively as a part of Samsung 3D Starter Kits,[26] and on September 11, 2011, exclusively at Best Buy stores.[27]
Critical response[edit]
Megamind received positive reviews from most critics. Review aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes gives a score 73% based on 172 reviews with an average rating of 6.7.[4] The site's consensus states the film "regurgitates plot points from earlier animated efforts, and isn't quite as funny as it should be, but a top-shelf voice cast and strong visuals help make Megamind a pleasant, if unspectacular, diversion."[4] Another review aggregator, Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 top reviews from mainstream critics, calculated an average score of 63 based on 33 reviews.[28] Audiences polled by Cinemascore gave Megamind a grade A-, on a scale from A+ to F-.[29]
Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times awarded the film three out of four stars, stating "This set-up is bright and amusing, even if it does feel recycled from bits and pieces of such recent animated landmarks as The Incredibles with its superpowers and Despicable Me with its villain."[30] Stephen Holden, of The New York Times, positively wrote in his review, "Visually Megamind is immaculately sleek and gracefully enhanced by 3-D."[31] Entertainment Weekly reviewer Owen Gleiberman graded the film a B+ and wrote, "...too goofy-surreal to pack a lot of emotional punch, but it's antically light on its feet, with 3-D images that have a lustrous, gizmo-mad sci-fi clarity."[32] Peter Travers of Rolling Stone commented, "What this raucous 3D animated fun house lacks in originality (think bastard child of The Incredibles and Despicable Me) it makes up for in visual and vocal wit."[33] In a mixed review, Betsy Sharkey of The Los Angeles Times wrote, "Just as Megamind struggles to find his center, at times, so does the film."[34]
The main point of criticism was the unoriginality of the film. Michael Phillips of the Chicago Tribune wrote: "You have seen all this before",[35] while Justin Chang of Variety said: "Though enlivened by some moderately clever twists on the superhero-movie template, Megamind never shakes off a feeling of been-there-spoofed-that."[36] Claudia Puig of USA Today even asked: "Do we really need Megamind when Despicable Me is around?".[37]
Box office[edit]
Megamind opened to $12,530,397 on opening day, and earned $46,016,833 over the three-day weekend, taking the No. 1 spot and averaged $11,668 from around 7,300 screens at 3,944 theaters. The opening was a bit higher than How to Train Your Dragon, which earned $43.7 million back in March 2010. It was the fifth-highest opening for an animated feature in 2010. In its second weekend, it repeated at No. 1 and dropped 37% to $29,120,461 for a $7,374 average from 3,949 theaters, and bringing its 10-day cumulative total to $88,822,635. On its third weekend, it fell 45% to $16,012,831 and finished second to Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1, averaging $4,237 from 3,779 theaters. Over Thanksgiving weekend, it held well with just a 22% drop to $12,575,778 and slid to third place behind Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1 and Tangled (it earned $17,304,307 over the five-day Thanksgiving period). Following Thanksgiving, the film fell a sharp 61% in its fifth weekend to $4,936,851 and finished in sixth place.
The film closed in theaters on February 24, 2011 (a day before it was released on DVD and Blu-ray), earning $148,415,853 in North America, and $173,469,912 in other countries, for a worldwide total of $321,885,765.[2] The final gross was on the low end for a DreamWorks Animation film, but was still a box office success since it beat its $130 million budget. It is the sixth highest-grossing animated film from 2010 worldwide, behind Toy Story 3 ($1.063 billion), Shrek Forever After ($753 million), Tangled ($591 million), Despicable Me ($543 million), and How to Train Your Dragon ($494 million). The film also became the highest-grossing film worldwide in both Ferrell and Fey's careers.[38][39] It was also the second highest-grossing superhero comedy film, behind The Incredibles.
Award | Category | Name | Outcome |
38th Annie Awards[40] | Animated Effects in an Animated Production | Krzysztof Rostek | Nominated |
Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association Awards 2010[41] | Best Animated Film | Nominated | |
2011 Kids' Choice Awards[42] | Favorite Buttkicker From An Animated Movie | Will Ferrell | Nominated |
The National Movie Awards[43] | Best Animated Movie | Nominated | |
The Comedy Awards[44] | Best Animated Comedy Movie | Nominated |
Video games[edit]
Several video game tie-ins published by THQ were released on November 2, 2010 to coincide with the film's release. An Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 version is titled Megamind: Ultimate Showdown, while the Wii version is titled Megamind: Mega Team Unite and the PlayStation Portable and Nintendo DS versions are both titled Megamind: The Blue Defender. All three versions of the game have been rated E10+ for fantasy violence by the ESRB.[45]
Comic books[edit]
DreamWorks Animation and WildStorm produced a 32-page full color comic book titled The Reign of Megamind, which was released in July 2010 exclusively at the Comic-Con convention.[46] Full version of the comic is also available on the Megamind website.[47]
Ape Entertainment released under Kizoic label five full colour comic books based on the film. A 52-page prequel titled "MEGAMIND: Reign of Megamind" was released in October 2010. It features two stories titled "The Reign of Megamind" and "MINION 2.0". The stories show Megamind and Minion's biggest failures in their attempt to defeat Metro Man. In 2010 and 2011 followed a mini series of four 32-page books. The comic book #1 features story titled "Can I Have This Dance", #2 features "Bad Minion! Bad!", #3 features "Megamutt" and #4 features "A Sidekick's Sidekick".[48]
In April 2011, DreamWorks Animation's CEO, Jeffrey Katzenberg, commented that the studio did not have plans to produce future movie genre parodies like Shark Tale, Monsters vs. Aliens, and Megamind, saying that these films "all shared an approach and tone and idea of parody, and did not travel well internationally. We don't have anything like that coming on our schedule now."[49]
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15 Minutes of Fame: Progressive guild thrives under uncommon leadership team {WoW}
Sep 30th 2011 11:40AM WoW Insider should not be giving coverage to politically oriented guilds, period. The most pressing reason is that it's bad for business. Other than the people who don't want politics in their WoW at all, you have those opposed to the philosophy being covered. Generally not wise to piss off a large chunk of your readership.
What makes this particularly egregious is that rather than describing it as a "left leaning guild," and leaving it at that, the article specifically mentions and links to the Daily Kos, which is one of the most offensive, bigoted sites around. Whether or not WoW Insider meant to endorse that site, it comes off that way when it's given such prominence in the article.
Though tempted, I don't plan to stop reading WoW Insider over this one incident, as the content is by and large well-written and pertinent to the game. If this is repeated, however, it may be the straw that breaks the camel's back. Don't bring Trade Chat to the front pages of WoW Insider, please.
Shifting Perspectives: Balance druid talents and the illusion of choice {WoW}
Mar 11th 2011 5:48PM Can someone please explain why a Balance druid would NOT use Hurricane? It's the core druid AoE.
Patch 4.1: What we know so far {WoW}
Jan 6th 2011 9:51PM Ugh, a spoiler warning would have been nice. That said, I hope this patch isn't dropping any time soon. I haven't been to Hyjal yet. I would like to be able to quest in the same zone everyone else has, rather than a "healed Hyjal" in which I played no part. Perhaps they will phase it? I hope.
The Queue: Repeat Christmas header {WoW}
Dec 26th 2010 4:17PM I have to disagree about there always having been a "right" talent point distribution. Perhaps a caveat of "to maximize raid benefit" would be appropriate. For players who don't raid much or at all, hybrid specs could be appealing as they would afford more flexibility for solo or 5-man content, particularly before the debut of dual specialization. Far from handicapping your character, they could let you tackle things you couldn't have in a "pure" spec.
Breakfast Topic: Are boss mods cheating? {WoW}
Apr 5th 2010 8:06AM I view them as a form of cheating, which is why I won't install DBM. Now, I know that they're accepted by the community at large and by Blizzard, so I don't begrudge anyone who does use them, but I opt not to. I also don't use healing addons, auctioneer, gatherer, etc. Any addon that makes my job playing my character easier is cheating, since it gives me information and utilities that mod-less players lack. I only use a font-changer, Wowhead Looter, and Recount, none of which actually change playing.
WoW gamer threatens to blow up plane {WoW}
Jul 15th 2009 12:13PM I just saw this article, and I honestly don't have the inclination to read through all 9 pages of comments. I will say this, however - I find it irresponsible to post this story. I'm sure WoW Insider isn't the only place where this is posted, but these stories raise the red flags and lets others who might be plotting in-game know that they're being watched. If this had been kept under wraps, you never know what else might have been discovered when bad guys think they're communicating safely.
Hunter aspects bugged in 3.0.8 {WoW}
Jan 20th 2009 12:43PM I don't see any situation where this could be a problem. If I remember correctly, global cooldown is 1.5 seconds. Where would changing aspects twice in under 1.5 seconds be a necessity?
What's wrong with leveling? {WoW}
Jul 8th 2008 8:25AM I very much enjoy leveling as well. I have leveled six characters thus far to 70, with two more in their early 60s and two after that in their low 40s. Leveling never gets old for me, because there's always a new level to get, a new upgrade, new talents, new skills. When you level, you're in a state of constant upgrade, something that becomes much harder to maintain once you hit 70.
I enjoy being 70 as well, but I do not feel that "the game starts at 70" as many do.
Forum post of the day: Try a twinkie {WoW}
Jul 3rd 2008 7:53AM I agree that twinking has destroyed the fun in lower level BGs for anyone who doesn't twink. I used to very much enjoy hitting lower level BGs on my way up, but back then, twinks were much less common. The average player could go into a BG and have a chance to contribute.
Nowadays it's a pure waste of time to go into a 10-19 or 20-29 WSG. With all the twinks, it's like being level 29, but in the 30-39 bracket.
To those who say "it's no different than at 70 with S3 players vs. fresh 70s," yes, it is different. At 70, you're EXPECTED to have high level gear, and, as previously pointed out, the gap between high 60s blues and S3 gear is not so great that three blue-geared players cannot take down a S3-geared player.
In lower level BGs, you're not supposed to be sporting gear ridiculously over your level, stat-wise, hence the balance is annihilated and the regular player sporting greens and maybe a couple of blues, with appropriate-level enchants vs Level 60 enchants, is essentially shut out of the game.
It's unfortunate, in my view. You either have to twink to be able to contribute, or forego that part of the game during your leveling process.
News from the WWI '08 WoW Dev panel {WoW}
Jun 28th 2008 12:00PM They're homogenizing the classes more and more. At this rate, by the next expansion, mages will tank, warriors will heal, and paladins will be primary DPS.
I like the fact that classes have certain roles now, it requires you to put some thought into your group makeup and strategies. Yes, that will still exist, but to lesser and lesser degrees. Not every class needs to be able to do every type of ability, yet that's what it seems they're moving towards.


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[Presented at the Toward a Science of Consciousness (Tucson III) Conference, April 30th 1998. (Abstract published in Consciousness Research Abstracts (3) 1998 p. 36.)]
A somewhat revised version of this article
has now been published in Danish translation as:
Thomas, N.J.T. (2006), "Fantasi, Eliminativisme og Bevidsthedens Forhistorie," Slagmark:
Tidsskrift for Idéhistorie (46) 15-31.
Classical and medieval writers had no term for consciousness in anything like the modern sense, and their philosophy seems not to have been troubled by the mind-body problem. Contemporary eliminativists find strong support in this fact for their claim that consciousness does not exist, or, at least, is not an appropriate scientific explanandum. They typically hold that contemporary conceptions of consciousness are artefacts of Descartes' (now outmoded) views about matter and his unrealistic craving for epistemological certainty. Essentially, they say, our belief in consciousness is a residue of once pressing, but now irrelevant, intellectual tensions between religion and the rising new science of the Early Modern period. With the attempts of Descartes and his successors to resolve these tensions, Western thought began down a track toward the conceptual cul-de-sac of the "hard problem". Plausibly, the problem will only be (dis)solved, and the onward march of science assured, when we are able to shake off the pervasive influence of the Cartesian tradition in a way that goes far beyond the mere rejection of dualism. But when we do so, eliminativists contend, the distinctively Cartesian notion of consciousness will simply drop out of our world-picture, like phlogiston or the vital entelechy.
However, few of us find eliminativism toward consciousness plausible: our own conscious experience is just too vivid and immediate, and consciousness is a much more intuitive and generally accepted notion than phlogiston or entelechy ever were. I argue that it really is not a Cartesian invention after all. Once we realize that many aspects of consciousness and the mind-body relation were discussed in former times, under the rubric of "imagination", we escape having to defend the absurd position that consciousness, though people always had it, was just never remarked upon by writers before the 17th century. We may also then find a place outside the Cartesian tradition, but still integrated into the Western world view as a whole, for our continuing investigation of the subject.
In Aristotelian, Hellenistic, and various Early Modern philosophies, and in Roman and Medieval neuroscience, imagination and the closely related technical notion of sensus communis played conceptual roles closely related to those played by consciousness today, and if a "hard problem" was not recognized, that was more because of pre-Cartesian conceptions of matter rather than anything missing from conceptions of mind.
Recovering this 'pre-history' of the development of the concept of consciousness will allow us to answer the historicist arguments for eliminativism, and recovering our sense of the kinship between consciousness and imagination should help us to improve our understanding of both of these deeply contested concepts, and to get a better sense of just what questions science can meaningfully ask about them. "The problem of consciousness" may be largely coextensive with that of understanding how imagination (in the old-fashioned sense) can work. This problem was not solved in pre-Cartesian times, but modern Cognitive Science has already made significant inroads on it.


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Broomfield woman formally charged in wrong-way U.S. 36 crash that killed passenger
GOLDEN, Colo. - A 23-year-old Broomfield woman was formally charged on Wednesday in a wrong-way head-on crash that killed a friend and injured another person in Westminster, Jefferson County District Attorney Peter Weir said.
Britni Bunn is alleged to have been driving a red Ford sport utility vehicle westbound in the eastbound lanes of U.S. 36, near 92nd Avenue at 3 a.m. on Feb. 20, when she crashed into an Acura driven by Kendall Stiff. A passenger in Bunn's car, Vincent Michael James Gibson, 25, was killed in the crash. Both Stiff and a passenger in her car were also seriously injured.
An affidavit in support of a warrantless arrest indicates Bunn told investigating officers she had five margaritas before the crash. Police said they also found cocaine in her vehicle.
Bunn was formally charged with two counts of vehicular homicide, four counts of vehicular assault, possession of a controlled substance, driving under the influence, failure to provide proof of insurance, and improper driving on a divided highway.
7NEWS reported earlier that Bunn appeared to have posted several pictures of alcoholic drinks at a bar on her Facebook page just hours before the fatal crash.
The night before the early morning crash, Bunn or someone using her login uploaded a cellphone photo to her Facebook page showing a bar table with a Corona beer and what appeared to be a margarita and the comment, "Round two biaaaaaAtCH."
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ET 500: Dilip Shanghvi's unwavering focus has made Sun Pharmaceutical a darling of investors
Beneath the glacial calm of Sun Pharmaceutical Industries founder Dilip Shanghvi lies a rock-hard resolve. And it is this resolve and an unwavering focus that has made the drug-maker what it is - a darling of investors in the best of times, and even in the worst.
Sun stands out among drug makers in India. It has mastered the art of selling generic drugs. When many Indian drug makers were devising ways to counter rich multinational companies in the domestic market, Shanghvi, a commerce graduate, set his sights on the US generic market.
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Shanghvi bought Caraco, a Detroit-based drug maker in 1997. And there's been no looking back since then. Sun focussed on niche, high-margin chronic therapeutic areas like psychiatry, neurology, cardiology and ophthalmology even as rivals were after acute-based therapies.
"As a company, our focus has always been to structure ourselves in such a way that we can grow faster than the industry in each of the businesses that we are operating in," says Shanghvi in a telephone interview.
"So, I think we will continue to focus on and hopefully achieve that." The company's net sales have increased at a compound annual growth rate of 30.2% in the last five fiscal years. Net profit has grown at a CAGR of 27% during the same period. The market has rewarded this growth with the company's stock outperforming the benchmark Sensex by a substantial margin even during the worst of the credit crisis in 2008, making investors call Shanghvi the "Man with the Midas touch".
The Midas touch started with the turnaround of a distressed Caraco, which had its fair share of troubles. Caraco's Michigan facility faced a regulatory clampdown by the US Food and Drug Administration. It recently obtained USFDA approval to resume production of two of its drugs at the plant. The steely resolve of Shanghvi was most visible when against all odds he fought a three-year battle to wrest control of another generic drug maker Taro. But all this, Shanghvi says is just normal business.
"It is good to know that people have a good opinion about our business, but I believe that while we focused on strategy, we focused much more on execution. The company's performance is the result of a team effort that has been able and consistent with the company over the last 10-15 years", says a modest Shanghvi, ranked the fifth richest Indian by Forbes with a net worth of $ 9.2 billion.
Sun Pharma's domestic business is one of its key strengths contributing over a third of its consolidated revenues. The business has grown at a CAGR of 20% in the past five years and outperformed the industry. Sun is the market leader in six therapeutic categories, most of which are high-margin specialty chronic therapies. More than half of its 500 brands rank among the top three. It also has a strategic partnership with MSD (India) to co-market the latter's diabetes drugs in India.
A proactive and low-profile management has been a key feature of the company. Also, unlike many promoters, Shanghvi says he does not understand the stock markets, helping him direct his energy at the business than looking for ways to just boost stock price.


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In August of 2009, Min. Winkler took his father to Egypt with the founder and Chief Spiritual Elder of the Afrikan Village, Dr. Ray Hagins who served as the tour guide during their two week study tour. Shortly thereafter, on Dec. 3, 2010, Min. Winkler was consecrated as the presiding Minister over the Baltimore chapter of the Afrikan Village and Cultural Center by Dr. Ray Hagins.
Minister Winkler is an entrepreneur, spiritual consultant, business consultant, and success coach; who has served Afrikan people over a decade. He has lectured at countless seminars, workshops, and private sessions. He has been a servant to many individuals, groups, couples, families and organizations in the progressive development of Afrikan people. Minister Winkler's mission is to equip Afrikans in America with the tools necessary to build stronger family units.
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Mr. Hunt attended Atlanta Metropolitan College where he studied communications and earned Dean's list honors.
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Rohm offers 1200V SiC mosfet with own Schottkty
Rohm Semiconductor has developed a 1200V SiC (Silicon Carbide) power mosfet designed for inverters and converters in power conditioners for industrial devices and photovoltaic power generation.
The SCH2080KE integrates an SiC mosfet and Schottky barrier diode into a single package.
This minimises forward voltage that was problematic in previous SiC power mosfet body diodes. As a result, the SCH2080KE reduces operating power loss by 70% or more compared to Si IGBTs used in general inverters.
"This not only provides lower switching loss, but also enables compatibility with smaller peripheral components by supporting frequencies above 50kHz," said the supplier.
Current Si IGBTs commonly used in 1200V-class inverters and converters cause power switching loss due to tail current or recovery of the external FRD, bringing a need for SiC power mosfets capable of operating with low switching loss at high frequencies.
However, conventional SiC power mosfets were plagued with numerous reliability problems, including characteristic degradation due to body diode conduction (e.g. increased ON resistance, forward voltage, and resistance degradation) and failures of the gate oxide film, making full-scale integration impossible.
There is also the SCT2080KE, an SiC power MOSFET with no internal SiC SBD. Both the SCH20801KE and SCT2080KE can be configured based on customer requirements.
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Hi All- I have been canning my little tail off. At this rate, I will never need to purchase a jar of jam again, ever.
In looking at what I want to preserve, Leeks are on top of the list. If I get a good price, I would can them, they can be expensive sometimes. The other veggies, are pretty cheap fast frozen. (But that may change with gas at 3.50 a gallon) |
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- Posted by readinglady z8 OR (My Page) on Wed, Aug 9, 06 at 15:55
Asparagus can be canned, if you have a pressure cooker. (Pickling can be done boiling water bath.) If you have the freezer space, you might find you prefer it frozen. It's a little difficult to find information on leeks. Onions less than 1-inch in diameter can be processed (again pressure canner), but leeks aren't mentioned, except for root cellaring. Actually, you might have your best luck with leeks if you cleaned, cut in rings and dried them. I know home-dried onions are a world apart from any commercial products. Obviously they wouldn't be suitable for all recipes, but for soups and things where you want that special leek flavor, that's a good option. And again, you could certainly prep and freeze like onions. Carol |
Leeks are probably better if either dried in pieces or frozen. |
This is the info I have: Leeks are unfortunately not a good candidate for freezing unless you plan on using them in soups or other recipes rather than as a main dish. Freezing tends to turn them to mush and lends a bitter taste. If you decide to freeze leeks, cut into slices or whole lengths. Seal in airtight bags, freeze, and use within three months. To preserve flavor, do not thaw before cooking further. Use frozen cooked leftovers for soup within three months. |
- Posted by readinglady z8 OR (My Page) on Thu, Aug 10, 06 at 14:12
That's very helpful, Linda Lou. Did it say anything about drying leeks? We're growing some this year for the first time; I think most will get used fresh but I'm going to at least try drying a few unless you've heard recommendations against it. Carol |
Carol, it didn't say anything about drying leeks. I have never tried drying any, just have used them fresh. Wish they were not so expensive here, I like them better than onions. |
- Posted by mellyofthesouth 8 Netherlands (My Page) on Thu, Aug 10, 06 at 16:08
We had a leek, goat milk and gouda quiche for dinner yesterday. Yum!! Linda Lou, leeks are cheap here. I paid 32 cents for 2 big ones. |
- Posted by readinglady z8 OR (My Page) on Thu, Aug 10, 06 at 19:48
All the alliums in the garden are beautiful this year, a nice change from last year when both the onion and the tomato crops were pretty miserable. I usually dry lots of Walla Walla sweets because DH has a tendency to overplant. They are wonderful that way. If we have leftover leeks, I'll give drying a shot and post a report. Carol |
Leeks are dried and packed in a couple of the Knorr dried soup packets. They rehydrate quite well |
Here leeks cost about a dollar each ! See why I don't buy them often ? |
- Posted by scott(firstname.lastname@example.com) onTue, Jun 7, 11 at 19:54
do you have any leek canning recipes at all , i just went and picked tons of them off our hill and id like to can about 10 jars , one dollar per leek wow i have about have a 5 gallon bucket full |
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Barack Obama wasn't sufficiently vetted by the media before he was elected president in 2008, and Kate Obenshain would like to avoid a repeat this year. And so she's written Divider-in-Chief: The Fraud of Hope and Change; she discusses her case against the president with National Review Online's Kathryn Jean Lopez.
KATHRYN JEAN LOPEZ: So you mean for your book to be a reminder? An awakening? Is there any shot of getting it into new hands? People who do not already see President Obama as a "divider"?
KATE OBENSHAIN: You bet, I meant it for an awakening. With Obama's approval rate hovering around 50 percent, we need a great awakening. There is no reason for this president to still have those numbers. The strategy of dividing Americans by identifying an "enemy" on which segments of Americans can focus their frustrations and disappointments is incredibly effective. But it's incredibly destructive, as well. It's destructive from a policy standpoint, as it allows Obama to ram through his radical agenda, but also from the standpoint of shutting down the intellectual debate — the back-and-forth of ideas that is essential to the health of our republic.
OBENSHAIN: The 2010 elections showed us that people weren't buying it — the whole hope and bring-us-all-together thing. Obama himself said, "There were those who argued that because I had spoken of a need for unity in this country, that our nation was somehow entering into a period of post-partisanship. That didn't work out so well." Women and young people, in particular, who had flocked to Obama's message were disillusioned by the rancor that they saw stemming from the president himself.
And yet after four years of divisiveness and vilifying their opponents, the Democrats, Obama in particular, are reaping a costly harvest. The dynamic has changed dramatically from four years ago. Notice we don't hear that "hope and change" rhetoric, or calls to post-partisanship, from Obama. We hear fear-mongering, bitterness. There is no bright panorama of a bright future — rather it's "If you vote for Republicans they are going to take women back to the Stone Age and give breaks to their millionaire and billionaire friends at the expense of children with autism and Down syndrome."
Roughly half the public — the half that supported Obama in 2008 — has transitioned with Obama to diminished expectations. They have focused their growing animosity, stoked by the president himself, on those they have been conditioned to suspect — anyone who has succeeded to a greater extent than they, or who doesn't walk in lock ideological step with Barack Obama.


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Someone stole my account. I bought it off of Chesterfield Stables, leaving her email address there because I didn't have one to replace it. I thought I could trust her! She was my friend! Now, I can't log into my account, and the name has been changed to Castlebrook Stables CS. Those horses were very good. The best. I paid so much for them that I only had 1k when I was done! I was working so hard to breed them to the best lines, train them, enter them in shows, and get them ranked. I have no idea if it WAS Chesterfield or not. All I know is that it was her email address that was getting my changed passwords. I need your help. Please sign this petition. I will see if PB will take it and change the account pw for me if we have enough signatures. Thanks for your help!
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We had to pass it every time we drove into Rutland. There was really no way around it, unless you wanted to drive miles out of the way. It was our town's only (as far as I know) adult video store. I remember the day I drove by and they had several large poster board signs taped to the front announcing that the DVD's were buy one get one half off. I thought of the men and women who might be tempted by such an offer. I wondered if any of my church folks ever wandered into that store. I hoped it would one day disappear.
And then one day it did. A few weeks ago, the poster board signs announced a going out of business sale. And then the big sign on top was taken down, racy underthings removed from the window displays, and the shop closed. For good, I hope.
And yet, I am not overly pleased the store has closed. Not because I think our community ought to have an adult bookstore. I am glad this particular access to pornography is no longer available. But thinking logically, I understand that this is a hollow "win" because the store likely closed because people are no longer willing to buy in a store what they can get online for free. A few years ago, the news announced that Playboy Magazine enterprises had suffered record losses. This, despite making forays into reality television and the fashion world. Many Christians celebrated. Not me. I knew Playboy was doing worse these days not because people have lost a taste for pornography but because Playboy's offerings are seen as quaint, ineffective. People's tastes have gotten coarser, awfuller. People won't pay big money to see nude women when they can see explicit videos of sex acts on their computer for free.
So my hunch is that the local adult bookstore didn't close because the community lost its interest in pornography, but because their interest has gotten worse and more demanding.
Of course we should be glad when any purveyor of smut shuts down or suffers a setback. But we should not delude ourselves. The culture of porn is financially rich and dangerously addictive. And it is not flesh and blood we must fight this war against but the powers of darkness, the forces of wickedness, the principalities and the prince of the power of the air. No amount of letter writing and picketing and photo-shaming or Internet blocking — which might shut down some providers — can do what the gospel can with the sinful human heart. The Spirit has the power to shut down the flesh. Let's preach the gospel always and help people change. As long as there is demand, there will be supply. And while we can and should curtail supply, the real win is Christ's cure of the demand.


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It's common – and benign
A ganglion cyst is a very common bump or mass that usually appears near joints or tendons in the hand or wrist. Common locations include the dorsal (back side) surface of the wrist, the palm side of the wrist, the base of the palm side of the finger, and the dorsal surface of the end joint of the finger.
You can envision what a ganglion cyst looks like by picturing a balloon filled with clear jelly, attached to a hollow stalk that comes from the joint or tendon lining. Fluid travels from the joint or tendon sheath into the stalk, and fills the balloon with fluid.
Constant motion of the hand or wrist keeps fluid pumped into the cyst and it can't get back out. Ganglion cysts can be uncomfortable if they put pressure on nerves, tendons, or skin.
The good news is that they may go up and down in size or even go away completely on their own, without any needles or surgery. They may not be painful. Ganglion cysts are not malignant (they are not made up of cancer cells) and they don't spread to other areas, though they may get larger or more lobulated (more lumpy).
How do I diagnose a ganglion cyst?
Diagnosis is based on the patient's history (how he or she noticed the mass), where the lump is and what it feels like. Sometimes patients say they remember injuring the hand or wrist several weeks before noticing the cyst, but most patients can't remember a specific event.
Cysts are usually round and firm. You can usually feel the smooth edges of a ganglion cyst, and you can often move the cyst around under the skin with your fingers. Cysts at the base of the finger are usually firm, pea-sized bumps that hurt when gripping narrow objects, like a steering wheel or suitcase handle.
Putting a flashlight on the skin around the mass will make it "light up" in a darkened room (transillumination), indicating that the mass has clear fluid inside.
Cysts at the end of the finger (DIP joint cysts) near the fingernail may push on the growing nail, causing a groove in the nail. Sometimes these may drain if the skin above them gets too thin.
I usually get x-rays to look at the bones and joints around the cyst. Sometimes I can see some nearby arthritis that explains the source of the cyst fluid, but in young people there is rarely an obvious source of the mass on x-rays. Rarely a cyst will be a sign of a serious ligament injury that hasn't been diagnosed yet.
What is the best ganglion cyst treatment?
There are non-surgical treatment options for ganglion cysts; for cysts on the wrist and cysts on the finger. The first option is to do nothing – the mass may just go away on its own. If the cyst is not painful, not limiting activity, and not too big or uncomfortable, this is a good option. A brace or splint will prevent hyperextension, which makes the pain worse.
Puncture or aspiration is the next thing to consider. Putting a needle in the mass may decompress it and allow the fluid inside to escape under or through the skin. Depending on where the cyst is, it may be near nerves or a major artery – make sure the doctor or nurse putting a needle in your cyst knows where these structures are.
I use the term puncture because it's very difficult to draw out the thick clear jelly that's often inside ganglion cysts. Usually, if the cyst is close to the skin, the jelly comes out through the hole made by the needle. I use a numbing shot first, then a larger needle to make a small hole in the wall of the cyst. I recommend a splint after this to allow the cyst wall to seal off. This is done in the office.
In my experience, cysts usually come back after puncture. The longer the cyst has been there, the less likely non-surgical treatment will work.
Finally, taking the cyst out in surgery is the most reliable way of getting rid of it. Ganglion cyst excision is not just a matter of opening up the skin and "lopping it off"; the joint or tendon sheath must be exposed to get out the stalk, or root of the cyst.
This can be done with a small incision over the cyst or through a wrist scope (camera inserted into the wrist joint). The exact method used depends on the size and location of the mass. Recurrence rates (chances of the cyst coming back) are very low – close to 3%.
Restrictions after ganglion excision
For patients with wrist ganglion cysts, I recommend using a wrist splint after surgery for two weeks while the soreness from the surgery goes away. During that time, I advise patients to come out of the splint three times a day and do some stretching exercises. Patients can type and do light activities with their hands during this time.
Activity is rarely limited after finger or tendon cyst excision. Full use is usually allowed when the skin is healed after a few days.
Watch this video for a more detailed perspective on what these wrist cysts look like:


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Disc Spotlight: 'Bond 50 – Celebrating Five Decades of Bond 007′ (Part Two of Two, 1983-2012)
Disc Spotlight By Rob Hunter on November 10, 2012 | Comments (4)We continue our look at one of 2012's biggest and most anticipated Blu-ray sets… Bond 50. The set celebrates fifty years of Bond with special feature-filled Blu-rays for each film, and while most have already seen HD releases the collection also includes Blu debuts of You Only Live Twice, On Her Majesty's Secret Service, Diamonds are Forever, The Spy Who Loved Me, Octopussy, A View to a Kill, The Living Daylights, Goldeneye and Tomorrow Never Dies. The box-set breaks the 22 films into two halves, twelve from 1962-1981 and ten from 1983-2012, each in their own sturdy book. Due to the sheer volume of material this Disc Spotlight will be broken into two halves as well. Keep reading for a look at 1983's Octopussy through 2008's Quantum of Solace, and go here for part one covering 1962's Dr. No through 1981's For Your Eyes Only.
Countdown to 'Skyfall': Ten Ways 'Skyfall' Copies Other Bond Movies (But It's Totally Okay)
Countdown to Skyfall By Kevin Carr on November 7, 2012 | Comments (1)After wading through the MGM bankruptcy hiatus, pre-production, principal photography, marketing and release anticipation, the latest James Bond adventure is finally upon us. (If you live outside of the U.S., there's actually a good chance that this wait ended a week or two ago, but we'll let that go.) Skyfall hits theaters early in IMAX on November 8 and then in wide theatrical release on November 9. Now you have a chance to finally see the brand new, completely original Bond. Sort of. One of the great things about Bond movies is they have a certain level of familiarity. If made well, you can expect some common elements that make it feel like a quintessential Bond film. Sure, we all like originality, but you can trust almost any James Bond film to cover familiar territory. Here's a James Bond history lesson and how it relates to the upcoming film.
Culture Warrior: A Word About Product Placement in Movies (Brought to You By Doritos)
Culture Warrior By Scott Beggs on October 25, 2011 | Comments (3)Buried deep within this sentence (Doritos are delicious) is an advertisement. Did you catch it? You probably didn't because it was so subtly subliminal, but that's exactly how product placement has worked for a century to varying degrees of success. After all, there's a thin line between using real-life products in a film to create a sense of verisimilitude and using them to promote the product in question. Where that line is drawn is up to each person. One person might see a kid reading "National Geographic" in It's a Wonderful Life and think it's quaintly appropriate while another person might find it craven and conspicuous. To the same extent, different film productions have delivered brands with means ranging from the slyness of near-imperceptibility to almost Doritos-Scorchin'-Habanero-Flavor levels of obviousness. It's far from new, and even though sold items have sneaked their way into movies for almost one hundred years, there's been an explosion in recent decades, seeing a new revenue stream for studios and a new annoyance for film fans.
Quantum of Solace: Shortest Bond Movie, Sexiest CD Cover
Movie News By Neil Miller on September 23, 2008 | Comments (22)As November 14th continues to inch closer and closer — quite literally — by the day, the one man that is one almost every movie fan's mind is Bond, James Bond.
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Study Links Adolescents' Mental Health With Physical Exercise
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Adolescents who participated in organized sports, on the other hand, were at lower risk for mental health problems. Confirming both the self-image hypothesis and the social interaction hypothesis, adolescents' body weight perception (such as "too heavy," "good," or "too thin") and sports club membership each partially accounted for the relationship between physical activity and mental health, even after taking adolescents' backgrounds into account.
These results suggest that certain psychosocial factors—body image and social interaction—may help explain at least part of the connection between physical activity and mental health.


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Miami show events roundup
Posted onWest Marine, the country's largest retailer of boating supplies and accessories, will announce the winner of its first annual Green Product of the Year contest, and present a selection of innovative new products for 2010 at 10:15 a.m. Feb. 11 at the West Marine booth at the Miami International Boat Show.
As part of West Marine's mission to "preserve and protect the marine environment," the company launched its first annual Green Product of the Year contest with the intention of spurring innovation and development of green boating products.
At the press conference, West Marine's chairman and founder Randy Repass will announce the 2010 grand prize winner, and present a $10,000 award.
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Expedition Great White's Chris Fischer is making an appearance at the 2010 Miami International Boat Show. The National Geographic Channel star will talk about his ground-breaking journey studying one of nature's most mysterious creatures.
The presentation takes place 5 p.m. Feb. 12 in the Big Game Room.
Fischer is the former host of ESPN's "Offshore Adventures." An advocate of ocean conservation, Fischer is a board member of The Billfish Foundation and recently founded Ocearch, a conservation organization dedicated to the protection and management of the world's marine resources, focusing on research, education/awareness, sustainability, and reducing marine debris.
Click here to view a video of Fischer landing a great white and for an interview.
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