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After last season when the Texans finished 9-7 and lost a playoff berth to the New York Jets on the last day of the season, coach Gary Kubiak said one objective would be to get more physical on both sides of the ball.
By the time the Texans got to training camp, Kubiak was ready for his players to take the next step toward meeting his goal.
"Our No. 1 focus in camp was to get more physical," said Kubiak, who enters his fifth season. "We hit in camp more than any time since I've been here. We tried to create a tougher environment. We want to be more physical on both sides of the ball because we think that'll help us finish (games) better.
"I'm very pleased with the results. I'm happy with the way our guys have done what we want. Now, we have to carry that over to the field."
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The coaches believe the Texans have to become more physical to improve in the AFC South. They were 1-5 in the division last season.
"It's time for somebody else to win the AFC South, and we believe we have the team to do it," Kubiak told fans at a Texans luncheon this week.
The defense became more physical over the last 13 games last season when it ranked fourth, including second against the run. The offense is getting more attention this season, and it begins with the running game.
Injuries hampered the running game last season when the Texans ranked 30th against the run, including 3.5 yards a carry. Now they have new starting guards and a running back, Arian Foster, who picked up where he left off last season.
Foster, 6-1, 227, is a power back with the speed to get around the corner. He gouged Miami and New England for 216 yards and three touchdowns in his only two starts at the end of last season.
In a 23-7 preseason victory over Dallas, he rushed for 110 yards and averaged 6.1 per carry. The offensive linemen were much more physical, and it's something Kubiak hopes will become a habit against the Colts.
"I have high expectations for myself," Foster said. "I think highly of myself. I think every successful player in this league does. What I've done hasn't surprised me because I set high goals."
Foster was undrafted last year. The Texans signed him to a two-year contract to keep him away from the Saints and Jets. He began on the practice squad and worked his way on to special teams before getting to start in the last two games, both victories.
"It wasn't instantaneous by any stretch of the imagination," Foster said about his success. "They let me go, but they brought me back on the practice squad. That showed they saw something in me. When the opportunity came, I made the most of it."
COACHING: Gary Kubiak, 5th year, 5th with Texans (31-33).
REMEMBERING: 2009 record: 9-7 (2nd in AFC South).
PREDICTING: 2010 regular-season record 10-6 (2nd in AFC South); lose in wild-card round.
The Texans drafted running back Ben Tate in the second round and receiver Trindon Holliday in the sixth because they thought both could add to an already explosive offense that ranked fourth, including second passing.
Tate suffered season-ending ankle and fibula injuries in the first preseason game. Holliday, who was supposed to be a game-changing return man because of his 4.2 speed, suffered torn ligaments in his thumb. Tate and Holliday were placed on injured reserve.
All the news hasn't been bad, though. Pro Bowl tight end Owen Daniels was cleared to return to practice 13 days before the opener against Indianapolis. Daniels underwent knee surgery to repair a torn anterior cruciate ligament, then suffered a setback during his rehab in May when he developed a stress fracture on his kneecap.
Daniels passed the Texans' physical and was taken off the active/PUP list. He practiced with his teammates for the first time since he suffered the injury in the eighth game at Buffalo. He was on a pace for 60 catches, 1,000 yards and 10 touchdowns.
Daniels wanted to play in the last preseason game against Tampa Bay, but coach Gary Kubiak told him no. Ideally, Daniels will take 15 to 20 snaps against the Colts. He's quarterback Matt Schaub's second-favorite target behind Andre Johnson and excels on the bootleg plays on which he runs crossing routes, usually wide open.
--RG Mike Brisiel, who took every snap two years ago but suffered a season-ending foot injury last season, has been backing up on the right side and at center. He's putting pressure on Antoine Caldwell for the starting job at right guard.
--WR Kevin Walter, who had three catches for 65 yards in preseason, is trying to hold off Jacoby Jones, who's become a big-play receiver after averaging 16.2 yards last season.
--C Chris Myers kept his starting job for a third consecutive season by playing exceptionally well in the 23-7 victory over Dallas. Myers played last season with a high ankle sprain, but he's healthy now.
--P Matt Turk is coming off a good preseason. He's 42, but last season, he punted well enough for the Texans to rank second in punt coverage. Turk gets good hand time, and his direction is uncanny, especially at his age.
--DT Amobi Okoye dropped from 295 to 282 because he wanted to increase his quickness. It worked in preseason. He had a sack and came close four other times. The weight loss hasn't affected him against the run so far.
--RB Jeremiah Johnson signed with the Texans last year as an undrafted free agent, then underwent shoulder surgery and was placed on injured reserve. He went to camp as the fifth back and is now third. In his first three games, he carried 16 times for 87 yards, a 5.4-yard average.
--FS Troy Nolan, a seventh-round pick last year who spent his rookie season on injured reserve, was the most impressive of the unheralded defensive players going into camp. At 6-2, 206, he's got good size, but he showed range and hitting ability. He's no threat to take Eugene Wilson's starting job, but Wilson better stay healthy.
Rd. 1/20, CB Kareem Jackson, Alabama -- Was placed in the starting lineup as soon as he arrived in Houston. He played very well.
Rd. 2/58, RB Ben Tate, Auburn -- Suffered season-ending foot and fibula injuries and will spend the season on injured reserve.
Rd. 3/81, DT Earl Mitchell, Arizona -- Ran a 4.78 40 at the combine and has shown quickness and explosiveness. Has been elevated to become part of the inside rotation.
Rd. 4/102, OLB Darryl Sharpton, Miami -- Had an outstanding camp and preseason. Has been the backup at three spots.
Rd. 4/118, TE Garrett Graham, Wisconsin -- A sure-handed H-back type who runs good routes, works hard but needs to get stronger and improve as a blocker.
Rd. 5/144, CB Sherrick McManis, Northwestern -- One of the surprises of camp and preseason. Fell behind in the offseason program but made a lot of improvement in camp.
Rd. 6/187, G Shelley Smith, Colorado State -- A backup with a nasty streak. He made progress as a pass protector in preseason.
Rd. 6/197, WR Trindon Holliday, LSU -- Was supposed to be a game-changing kick returner but was placed on injured reserve with ligament damage in his thumb.
Rd. 7/227, WR Dorin Dickerson, Pitt -- The combine star was placed at wideout behind Andre Johnson and told to watch and learn.
QUARTERBACKS: Starter -- Matt Schaub. Backup -- Dan Orlovsky.
Schaub is coming off an exceptional receiver with a league-high 4,770 yards and 29 touchdowns. He's become a team leader on and off the field. His receivers have confidence in him because he's extremely accurate. He's tough and can take a beating. Last season was his first as a 16-game starter. He'd like to reduce his 15 interceptions and improve in the red-zone offense. Orlovsky is a competent backup who runs the same plays as Schaub, but nobody wants to see him play after the last preseason game.
RUNNING BACKS: Starters -- Arian Foster, FB Vonta Leach. Backups -- Steve Slaton, Jeremiah Johnson, Chris Henry.
The Texans are 18-2 under Gary Kubiak when they run at least 30 times, so no wonder he wants to improve a 30th-ranked running game. Foster is a physical runner who plays with a chip on his shoulder because he wasn't drafted last season. He runs well between the tackles. Slaton is an ideal change-of-pace back because he's a tremendous receiver. As a former starter, he'll touch the ball 10 to 12 times a game if he can avoid fumbles. Leach is an outstanding lead blocker.
TIGHT ENDS: Starter -- Owen Daniels. Backups -- Joel Dreessen, James Casey, Garrett Graham.
Daniels was on his way to a second consecutive Pro Bowl when he suffered a season-ending knee injury. He was on a pace for 60 catches, 1,000 yards and 10 touchdowns. He was cleared to practice last week and will play for the first time in the opener against the Colts. He has good hands, runs precise routes, catches in traffic and wants the ball in clutch situations. Dreessen, who started in place of Daniels, is the team's most underrated player. He catches well, blocks hard and plays on every special team. Casey and Graham are young, fast and athletic, but they won't play much barring injury.
WIDE RECEIVERS: Starters -- Andre Johnson, Kevin Walter. Backups -- David Anderson, Andre' Davis, Dorin Dickerson, Jacoby Jones.
This is the most talented area of the team. Johnson, one of two receivers to post consecutive 1,500-yard seasons, might be the league's best. Jones has good size and speed. Kubiak said he considers Jones, currently the No. 3 receiver, another starter. He had 27 catches and six touchdowns. He'll get the ball a lot more. Walter is solid at everything but spectacular at nothing. Anderson is coming off a career-high 38 receptions. The one thing the receivers can do better is to catch the ball more consistently in the red zone.
OFFENSIVE LINEMEN: Starters -- LT Duane Brown, LG Wade Smith, C Chris Myers, RB Antoine Caldwell, RT Eric Winston. Backups -- T Rashad Butler, LG Kasey Studdard, RG/C Mike Brisiel.
Brown needs to be more consistent against the quicker rushers. Winston is the best lineman, but he doesn't get a lot of attention even through the running game has worked best on his side the last two seasons. Smith and Caldwell are new starters. Myers gets a lot of grief from fans and media, but the coaches love him. Butler is the swing tackle. Brisiel and Studdard are former starters. As a group, they've got to become more physical in the running game.
DEFENSIVE LINEMEN: Starters -- LE Mario Williams, LT Shaun Cody, RT Amobi Okoye, RE Antonio Smith. Backups -- LDE Connor Barwin, LDE Tim Jamison, LT Frank Okam, LT Earl Mitchell, RDE Jesse Nading, RDE Malcolm Sheppard.
Williams, Barwin and Smith combined for 18 sacks. Williams needs to be more consistent, and his motor needs to kick into another gear when he's blocked by one player. He had nine sacks and made the Pro Bowl. If he doesn't have at least 12 this season, fans will be disappointed. Barwin, who added 10 pounds of muscle and is up to 265, should be their most improved player. Smith, a physical player against the run, moves inside in passing situations. They need more inside pressure from Okoye, who had 1 1/2 sacks last season. Keep an eye on Mitchell, a rookie with quickness off the ball and a mean streak.
LINEBACKERS: Starters -- WOLB Zac Diles, MLB DeMeco Ryans, SOLB Kevin Bentley, WOLB Darryl Sharpton. Backups -- SOLB Xavier Adibi, SOLB Danny Clark, SOLB Brian Cushing, SOLB Isaiah Greenhouse.
Cushing, the defensive rookie of the year last season, is suspended for the first four games. Bentley, a former starter on the strong side who backs up in the middle, is expected to replace him. The coaches don't want to move Diles, a former starter on the strong side, to his previous position. The idea is to change only one position if possible. Ryans, coming off a Pro Bowl season, is the team leader who covers a lot of ground and makes tackles in the backfield. Sharpton had an outstanding camp and preseason backing up at all three positions.
DEFENSIVE BACKS: Starters -- LCB Glover Quin, RCB Kareem Jackson, SS Bernard Pollard, FS Eugene Wilson. Backups -- LCB Antwaun Molden, LCB Jacques Reeves, RCB Brice McCain, SS Dominique Barber, SS Torri Williams, FS Troy Nolan.
The coaches aren't afraid to go green at cornerback. Quin, a starter, and McCain, the nickel, enter their second season. Jackson is the first-round pick. Quin and Jackson are physical against the run and have the skills for man coverage. Pollard was their best defensive back last season. He's physical, plays the run well but also covers well. He brings another level of intensity to the defense. Barber is the best backup at both safety positions, but Nolan was a big surprise in camp.
SPECIAL TEAMS: PK Neil Rackers, P Matt Turk, LS Jon Weeks, KOR Steve Slaton, PR Jacoby Jones.
Rackers, signed as a free agent, has waged a battle with Kris Brown, the last original Texan, through the offseason program, camp and preseason. Both were excellent on just about every kick. Turk, 42, helped the Texans rank second in punt coverage last season and has done well in preseason. Weeks is a rookie snapper. Slaton, nursing a sore toe that kept him out of the last preseason game, is returning kickoffs because he's not starting. He's expected to be ready for the Indianapolis opener. Jones is a dynamic return man who's capable of scoring every time he touches the ball.
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ACCORDING TO JIMThis could be a season of destiny for the Harbaugh-led 49ers. See who's in the playoffs, and when they play.
Thad Lewis will make his first career start against the NFL's top defense.
Cleveland's third-string quarterback will start the season finale Sunday against the Pittsburgh Steelers, filling in for injured quarterbacks Brandon Weeden and Colt McCoy, who are both nursing sprained right shoulders. Browns coach Pat Shurmur told Lewis he would make the start following Friday's practice.
''He said, `You're the man,''' Lewis said. ''It's exciting. It's a blessing for a childhood dream to come true.''
Weeden and McCoy were not able to practice all week after being injured during the second half of a lopsided loss last week in Denver. Lewis took all the snaps with the first-team offense during practice, and the Browns signed free agent Josh Johnson earlier this week as added insurance in case Weeden and McCoy were still hurt.
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The committee finds that APHIS and other regulatory agencies charged with assessing the safety of transgenic plants face a daunting task. This is so in part because environmental risk assessment of transgenic plants is new and in part because the social context in which regulatory decisions about transgenic organisms must now be made is dramatically different from the one in which these agencies have been accustomed to work. The committee finds that the APHIS regulatory system has improved substantially since it was initiated. For example, in two Bt corn petitions for nonregulated status, one completed in 1994 and one in 1997, the breadth of environmental issues addressed and the degree of rigor with which they were addressed improved with time. Furthermore, the development of a notification process that utilizes ecologically-based performance standards was an important step in effectively streamlining the field-testing process. The learning process at APHIS has not come without missteps, but the agency seems to use them as opportunities for further improvement. In its role of analyzing APHIS environmental reviews the committee mostly searched for problem areas as a means to help improve a functioning system.
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Boulder, CO, USA - The meters-long, carnivorous "shrimp" from hell that once ruled the seas of Earth a half billion years ago may have been a real softy, it turns out. A new 3-D modeling of the mouth parts of the Anomalocaris, along with evidence that these parts were not hard like teeth, but flexible, shows that the famed predator could not have been munching on the hard shells of trilobites and other such creatures of the early seas.
What's more, there is no evidence from fossilized stomach contents or feces that Anomalocaris' ate anything hard enough to leave a fossilized trace. In fact it was this lack of fossil evidence backing any dietary preference right alongside other animals that do show fragments of what they ate in their gullets which inspired the investigation, said paleontologist James "Whitey" Hagadorn of the Denver Museum of Nature & Science.
Hagadorn will be presenting his team's discoveries about Anomalocaris on Monday, Nov. 1, at the annual meeting of the Geological Society of America in Denver.
"It was supposed to roam around the Cambrian seas gobbling up trilobites and everything else," said Hagadorn. But the pineapple-like whorl of mouth parts and the associated whisker-like appendages of Anomalocaris all appear to have been bendable, in the fossil remains, he said. They are not mineralized like the exoskeletons of the trilobites they were supposedly eating.
His suspicions prompted Hagadorn to develop a 3-D, finite element analysis model of the Anomalocaris mouth. This allowed for testing just how the mouth worked and how much force it could create in other words, how strong a bite it had. The model turned up some surprises.
"It couldn't even close its mouth," said Hagadorn. And there was no practical way these mouth parts could create the force needed to break open a modern lobster shell nor a shrimp shell, which were used as analogues for a trilobite carapace in the model.
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This is the troubled actress' first interview since completing three months of court-ordered treatment for substance abuse, and the 27-year old's sixth trip to rehab.
Lohan told Winfrey that her troubled past is behind her and she's hoping to restore her reputation and restart her acting career. Oprah asked, "What's going to be different this time?" Lohan responds, "I'm not taking Adderall. That's a big deal."
She acknowledged she has a battle with addiction. Oprah asked, "You were addicted to Adderall?" Lohan responds, "Yes, because that's all I knew. I was convinced that it ground me."
Lohan confessed to using cocaine at least 10 to 15 times. Lohan says, "I snorted it. I never injected anything except b12 shots."
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Nov. 30 (Bloomberg) -- Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas President Richard Fisher said the central bank is not "bailing out Europe" with its decision to lower the cost of emergency dollar funding for financial companies.
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The study was held at Slovakia's Comenius University School of Medicine. One hundred patients with stage I or II OA were included in the study and were randomly allocated to either a Pycnogenol(R) or placebo group. Patients were supplemented with 150 mg Pycnogenol(R) or placebo per day over a period of three months. They were allowed to continue taking their NSAID or analgesics prescribed before the study but had to record every pill taken. The established Western Ontario McMaster questionnaire for joint function was employed to rate the pain level, and obtain measures of joint stiffness and to what extent the arthritis affects participation in daily activities. Patients were investigated in two week intervals over the treatment period of three months and a final time two weeks after discontinuation of medication.
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Comment: Political hit job (Score 0, Troll) 102
Smells like somebody's trying to Swiftboat the Clintons. I wonder who bankrolled this, and who stands to benefit?
Smells like somebody's trying to Swiftboat the Clintons. I wonder who bankrolled this, and who stands to benefit?
It's different this time.
America gets the elite. Europe gets the rabble.
Count yourselves lucky.
That in itself is a sign of weakness and laziness.
They only seem to do technical disciplines in great numbers (and aren't particularly good at it; the shops here in London are FULL of "Asians" with worthless IT degrees). They will not study the humanities or anything which challenges their strident, deeply held prejudices. Their inability to throw off their ignorance is what's holding them back. Ironically, worthless technical degrees from crap universities doesn't help with this. "Thinking" entails much more than paying others to build bridges or cut code.
The Americans aren't hanging homosexuals by the neck with nylon rope from cranes in public though. Nor are they doing judicial amputations and blindings.
But clearly, funding local schools from property taxes is a terrible idea. When rich people flee an area and leaves poor and disadvantaged (usually non-whites) behind, they get screwed twice: falling economic activity, and then falling funding for decent schools.
Bad schools breed disadvantage. You make it worse by turning schools into "gated communities" (e.g. charter, private schools), and consign everyone else to dropout factories.
A good way to buy social peace, would be to find a better way to fund state schools.
Quite possibly the easiest way to do that would be to adopt China's approach of selectively implementing trade barriers in the name of domestic self-interest. Everything made of cloth or plastic should get a 200% tariff on it; and those barriers should only be relaxed when we've 'drained the swamp' at home.
This, and cutting all passive welfare to the able-bodied.
At the end of the day, not everyone is smart enough to go to college. Thick people need jobs, money and dignity too.
Unfortunately, this is anathema to our naive neoliberal overlords, whose world-view never went beyond Econ 101.
I'm keen to see how the techn-libertarian crackpots that infest this board are going to explain THIS away...
You forgot "SHEEPLE"
That is AWESOME. They've managed to take the piss out of every annoying Web fad invented in the last 5 years.
Incidentally, it does demonstrate the herd mentality of web designers in general... and how when one person used Bootstrap or material design in a website, then a billion other web hipsters will do the same. Result, an Internet where a third of the websites look identical.
... how about charging those rural parasites fair market value for the water they use, reflecting the scarce/non-renewable nature of fossil water??
Asking greedy/short-sighted primary producers to take some of that personal responsibility they vote for and foist onto the urban poor is only fair. If the shoe fits, wear it.
Waiting for some gullible brainwashed libertoon to say now that "there's no such thing as market failure".
I've had idiot college conservatives actually tell that to me with a straight face, in this day and age.
... at the term "Future Banned User" (FBU).
Isn't that just a nice way of saying "somebody our algorithm flags as a complete asshat"
Why would the Chinese government have them attacking their enemies in such an obvious and easily attributable way?
Are they just at the point where they now think they're so big and strong, that they can just steamroll anybody in the world IRL and online without long-term consequences?
It could just be Third World 'peasant mentality'. Or are people, who are ostensibly rational enough to take control of a nation of 1+ billion people, really this stupid?
What, there's no law against having a conflict-of-interest?
Hah America, the cradle of democracy can't get THIS right.
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How do you guys measure when drawing objects and drawing from life in general? I'm having a lot of trouble measuring things.
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Here's a tutorial I wrote a little while back:
It certainly is not the only way to draw, but mostly it is to get you thinking about how everything relates to everything else. The more you draw the easier it will become to see the relationships between things and the "measurements" will come naturally.
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I start with the longest axis and then establish that length on my canvas in the place I want it. This may or may not be the way it is in the real world. Once I establish that, I compare all other measurements to that first one so they are proportional. Then I check negative spaces and positive spaces and all angles starting with the biggest shapes and working down to the smaller ones.
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I work pretty much the same way as dpaint describes - pretty standard approach. I also tend to check where line things up vertically above each other and horizontally across from each other.
As far as the actual measuring - it helps to be standing - arms distance from your work you have to measure from that same position/spot always - with arm extended and elbow locked. Also helps to close one eye and keep your work shifted just to the right or left of the subject - the less translation the better. Then it is a simple ratio translation from what you are measuring to your drawing.
The book "Drawing Essentials" by Deborah Rockman does a great job demonstrating the process.
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NEW YORK ( MainStreet) -- Baseball's interleague play is back, and so are the high-priced seats for regional rivalries.
Major League Baseball's American League and National League teams are facing off for the 15th consecutive season, which is just about as long as fans have been arguing over the merits of interleague matchups. Interleague supporters love the local and regional rivalries, World Series rematches, pairings of historic franchises and visits by players they wouldn't see during their league's regular schedule.
The Yankees and Mets faced off in May 2011 and do so again today -- at ticket prices of $39 to $561.
The downside is misery that comes from Seattle Mariners/San Diego Padres matchups and other arbitrary scheduling and the futility of American League pitchers stepping into the batter's circle. The novelty of C.C. Sabathia's full frame flailing away at the plate wears off pretty quickly.
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3 Surprising Things Parents Should Know About Video Games
Do video games have an upside? Scott Steinberg, an author and technology analyst who's written for 400+ outlets from Parents and CNN to The New York Times and Rolling Stone, tells me that they do. Here he discusses 3 surprising things he believes parents should know about video games:
- They're not evil, destructive, or going away – besides being a perfectly normal and positive part of childhood, mounting research shows that gaming can have tremendous mental and physical benefits for children. But like any other part of a balanced media diet, you have to be careful what types of titles you consume, in what manner and to which extent. The one tip today's parent concerned with video games and their potential effects on children would do well to heed: Educate yourself about them, and don't be afraid to go hands-on with the controller. Games can be a powerful force for good, like any other medium – but you also need to make informed decisions, teach kids positive play habits and foster an environment that's conducive to healthy interaction and development.
- They're the future of education. Games and 3D virtual worlds offer massive benefits over passive, traditional solutions such as snooze-inducing lectures and presentations. Case in point: Interactive options encourage learning, experimentation and problem-solving in real-time sans fear of failure in lifelike contexts, letting students respond dynamically as situations evolve, providing a more realistic, engaging and retainable learning experience. Moreover, even everyday titles found on GameStop's shelves – SimCity, World of Warcraft, etc. – teach players how to manage limited resources, cooperate or delegate authority and problem-solve dynamically, while others such as Civilization V can spark interest in history, geography and foreign cultures.
- Today's game player could be tomorrow's CEO. According to the Federation of American Scientists (FAS), kids need more, not less, video game play. "The success of complex video games demonstrates that games can teach higher-order thinking skills such as strategic thinking, interpretative analysis, problem solving, plan formulation and execution, and adaptation to rapid change," the Federation announced in a recent report. "These are the skills U.S. employers increasingly seek in workers and new workforce entrants." Bottom line: The next time you tell your lazy teen to get off the Xbox and get a summer job, you may actually be doing them a disservice.
As you consider these points, do keep in mind that it is always important to make sure that video games – like any other form of technology – do not interfere with all those other important things kids should be doing, like reading, playing, and having positive social interactions. And do note that Mr. Steinberg has recently launched The Modern Parent's Guide - the world's first high-tech parenting book series covering all aspects of connected life from social networks to online safety (www.parentsguidebooks.com) – with the debut of The Modern Parent's Guide to Kids and Video Games, a complete how-to guide for families. In addition to paperback, iBooks and Kindle editions, the volume will be 100% free to download.
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by Jeff
On March 24, 2012 at 8:58 pm
Finally someone recognizes the tremendous upside to video games! Thanks to Mr Rende for recognizing and articulating the massive learning potential of interactive media. Just to add to the list, video games and learning apps also allow the learner to repeat the learning experience multiple times, at the learner's own pace. This both empowers the learner and leads to mastery in a way that trumps traditional education's desk-teacher environment.
Also the iPad has really changed the game here with it's portability and touch based input. The are so many educational apps available for the iPad that are, quite frankly, stunning in their ability to engage and teach. Check out Star Walk as an example of what this new medium makes possible as a learning tool.
by Shawna Devoe
On March 24, 2012 at 10:37 pm
I have no problem with educational video games (in fact they are great at reinforcing concepts their teachers are teaching them), but the games that promote violence, killing, and the beating of other people are not good choices. Lets face it when the kids become teenagers and young adults not many of them are playing educational games, they are killing. Just my two cents.
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Dennis Leeflang
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|Dennis Leeflang
Dennis Leeflang performing live with Lita Ford in Cleveland, September 2009
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22 May 1979
Leiderdorp, Netherlands
|Rock music, Pop music, Heavy metal, Hard rock
|Musician, producer
|Years active
|Associated acts
Dennis Leeflang (born 22 May 1979, Leiderdorp) is a rock drummer, currently living in New York City. He is most known for his work with Bumblefoot (Guns N' Roses). Other artists he has worked with include Lita Ford, Within Temptation, Sun Caged, Epica and The Saturnine.
After having laid a solid foundation through playing snare drum in several marching bands between ages 8 and 12, Dennis Leeflang started playing the drum set at age 13, playing along with records of bands such as Nirvana, Guns N' Roses, Metallica and Iron Maiden. He started playing with local hard rock bands practically immediately. After mixed successes with local Dutch bands, Leeflang's career officially took off in 1996, when he joined Dutch gothic rock legends Within Temptation at age 17 as their first official drummer. With Within Temptation, Leeflang recorded the legendary "Enter" demo tape at his home rehearsal studio, which made a huge impact on the Dutch and later also the international metal scene and proved to be the official start of a major new movement in rock and metal music.
Leeflang played with various other successful Dutch rock and metal bands between 1997 and 2004, including Epica and The Saturnine, before relocating from the Netherlands to New York City, shortly after having departed his band Sun Caged, of which he was a founding member. In 2006, Dennis re-joined The Saturnine. The band would continue as an inter-continental recording project with occasional live performances in Europe.
Leeflang had been Bumblefoot's live drummer for European tours since 2002, but became his full-time drummer once having moved to New York in 2004. Though having recorded a song for a Jimi Hendrix tribute album with him in 2003, Dennis's album debut with Bumblefoot was the 2005 "Normal" album, followed by the 2008 "Abnormal" album. Throughout 2011, Dennis has released one song a month with Bumblefoot of which several were renditions of classic songs such as The Beatles' Strawberry Fields Forever, as well as original songs which Thal and Leeflang co-wrote at Leeflang's studio in 2009, just before embarking on the Lita Ford tour together.
Next to recording and touring with Bumblefoot, Leeflang has been recording drums for numerous albums since 2004, both from his own studio and at various studios in the New York area and in Europe for many known and up-and-coming artists, including Anneke van Giersbergen, Milan Polak, Indestructible Noise Command, Tiffany Giardina, Ted Poley (Danger Danger), Shane Gibson (Korn) and Angus Clark (Trans-Siberian Orchestra).
In the summer of 2009, Dennis was asked to join Lita Ford's band, with less than 48 hours to learn her set list. With Ford, Leeflang toured all over Europe and the US throughout the summer and fall of 2009, including performances at prestigious events such as the Bang Your Head!!! festival in Balingen, Germany, the Gods of Metal festival in Milan, Italy, and the annual Sturgis Motorcycle Rally in Sturgis, SD.
Leeflang is known for mixing powerful hard rock drumming with funk and jazz influences, and the use of a wide range of dynamics in his playing.[citation needed] Especially in New York, he has done sessions in many different genres, adding more influences to his palette. He's also a drum teacher and clinician, performing drum demonstrations in Europe, Russia and the US regularly. In his home country of the Netherlands, Leeflang has become a popular and influential rock drummer, drawing big crowds at drum clinics.
When not on the road, Dennis works out of his own recording studio in the New York City area from where he collaborates with musicians all over the world. He has also become an active producer and recording engineer in the New York area.
As some of his main influences, Leeflang names drummers such as Nicko McBrain, Stewart Copeland, Chad Smith, Dave Grohl, Steven Adler, Matt Sorum, Josh Freese, Steve Jordan, Jeff Porcaro, Dave Abbruzzese and John Bonham.
Leeflang endorses:
- Paiste cymbals
- Q Drum Co. drums
- Vater drum sticks
- Humes & Berg Enduro cases
- Ahead Armor Cases bags
- various accessory manufacturers
Dennis plays Q Drum Co. drums, live as well as in the studio. His most common kit is a mahogany/poplar/mahogany kit with maple reinforcement rings in Ginger Glass Glitter. His most commonly used sizes are a 16"x24" bass drum, a 9"x13" tomtom with a 16"x16" and a 16"x18" floor tom, but he has also been seen using a 12" tom and 15" floor tom (in place of the 16"), or only a 16" floor tom. He has a large collection of snare drums but is mostly seen with either a Q Drum Co. 5.5"x14" copper plate snare or a 6.5"x14" Q Drum Co. Black Beauty. His hardware is all DW 9000 series, with 5000 series pedals.
Drum heads are all Remo: Coated Emperors on toms, Coated or Clear Powerstroke3 on bass drum, Coated Controlled Sound or Controlled Sound X on snare. He uses Puresound Custom Pro snare wires.
Dennis' cymbal setup varies per situation, but his most common (rock/Bumblefoot) setup is (left to right, viewed from behind the kit):
- 19" 2002 Crash
- 15" 2002 Sound Edge Hi-Hat Top with a 15" 2002 Medium Hi-Hat Bottom
- 20" 2002 Medium
- 24" 2002 Ride
- 20" 2002 Medium
- 20" 2002 NOVO China
- 20" 2002 Crash
In lower volume situations, Dennis uses a pair of 15" Formula 602 Modern Essentials hi-hats, and a 24" Masters Deep Ride. His crashes will vary but are usually a combination of Formula 602, Formula 602 Modern Essentials, Signature Dark Energy and 2002's.
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|Preceded by
Richard Willemse
|Drummer for Within Temptation
|Succeeded by
Ivar de Graaf
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|Succeeded by
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Weibel-Palade bodies (WPBs) are secretory organelles used for post-synthesis storage in endothelial cells that can, very rapidly, be triggered to release their contents. They carry a variety of bioactive molecules that are needed to mount a rapid response to the complex environment of cells that line blood vessels. They store factors that are essential to haemostasis and inflammation, as well as factors that modulate vascular tonicity and angiogenesis. The number of WPBs and their precise content vary between endothelial tissues, reflecting their differing physiological circumstances. The particular functional demands of the highly multimerised haemostatic protein von Willebrand Factor (VWF), which is stored in WPBs as tubules until release, are responsible for the cigar shape of these granules. How VWF tubules drive the formation of these uniquely shaped organelles, and how WPB density increases during maturation, has recently been revealed by EM analysis using high-pressure freezing and freeze substitution. In addition, an AP1/clathrin coat has been found to be essential to WPB formation. Following recruitment of cargo at the TGN, there is a second wave of recruitment that delivers integral and peripheral membrane proteins to WPBs, some of which is AP3 dependent.
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D.H. Lawrence, that is. A trip to Sardinia retraces his memoir about visiting there in 1921.
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Well, since everyone is talking about it, I guess I'll answer my first question from the first post. Based off my experience, I'd go with (and I did go with, which is obvious to anyone who followed this topic
) B5. Farscape had a good first season, and some good main characters, but then it went downhill with season 2, with a mediocre villain, a horrible addition to the cast (who came in at the very end of Season 1, actually) and a big drop in the quality of the writing. There were enough bright spots to make me keep going for awhile after season 1, but after a very jumping the shark moment
The main character, John Chrichton, gets cloned, except neither is the clone, apparently
I stopped watching. That was the last staw for me, and I gave up on the show.
I don't want to put this in spoiler tags, but I will just to be polite.
The only reason that he's split is so that Ben Browder can appear in most of this season's episodes, instead of merely half after the group is forced to split up. It gets resolved before the end of the season, and is handled quite well. It has a huge impact and everyone's character arcs.
Well, the crew didn't have to be split up. The writers chose to do that.They could just have not split them up, and not cloned Chricton. Still, if it had happened without all the other things about the show that were making mke angry (bad writing, chiana, Jool) it wouldn't have made me stop. But, I probably wouldn't have lasted much longer, anyway. The bad writing would have found something else to finally make me fed up. Farscape is one of the biggest Sci fi dissappointments for me. A good concept with some good characters ruined by horrible writing and the things that writing led to, like horrible characters.
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I have been struggling with the fact that the icon of 'Google Disconnect' never appeared in my navigation bar.
I have at this point finally spotted the cause, on my system of course.
'Google Disconnect' will appear when applicable when TWO conditions (at least) are satisfied :
1- dom.storage.enabled must be set to 'true' (which is the default) ;
2- Adblock+ must be disabled completely.
If either of these conditions is not filled, the icon of 'Google Disconnect' will not appear when the visited site is concerned. Does this mean that 'Google Disconnect' is not working or does it mean that, above conditions being met, 'Google Disconnect' does not need to work, I have no idea..
Nevertheless, in the best scenario this does mean that if a user has dom.storage.enabled set to true and that Adblock+ is not installed (or not the correct filters), 'Google Disconnect' fills it duty wonderfully.
Thanks for all the investigating!
#1 is by design (ours). But there are sturdier ways to implement, which we'll reconsider.
#2 is also by design (Mozilla's). And there's no workaround for us. Filtering add-ons filter in the order they're installed, so ABP is already purging the pages you're going to of Google.
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Mayor Bloomberg rode the subway today and said he felt "perfectly safe." Of course he does -- he's surrounded by bodyguards and, if attacked, can shoot deadly streams of money from his sleeves. But he meant from swine flu contamination -- the trip, broadcast on local TV news, was evidently meant to counter Joe Biden's begged-off allegation that subway travel might be a swine flu hazard for members of his family. The Mayor also told people not to PANIC, that we are "better off than we were yesterday," and announced that the Casa Puebla Cinco de Mayo party in Flushing had been cancelled. Then everyone ran screaming for the exits.
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The New York Times Book ReviewAmid the vast outpouring of literature about America's banana empire in the Caribbean, no one seems to have written a full-fledged biography of the remarkable Samuel Zemurray, who guided the United Fruit Company through perilous times. Rich Cohen has rectified that oversight. Cohen…gives us the fascinating tale of "Sam the Banana Man," a poor Russian Jew who emigrated to Alabama as a teenager and ended up controlling much of Central America…Rich Cohen books constitute a genre unto themselves: pungent, breezy, vividly written psychodramas about rough-edged, tough-minded Jewish machers who vanquish their rivals, and sometimes change the world in the process. Within this specialized context, Cohen's Zemurray biography admirably fills the bill.
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The Colorado Ballet opened its new production of "Peter Pan" to a most appreciative audience, ranging from kids (some in their own Peter Pan and Tinker Bell cos... Read the full article
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CBS4's Jane Monreal reports live backstage during the student matinee performance of "Peter Pan." She interviews Gil Boggs, Colorado Ballet Artistic Director.... Read the full article
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When choreographer Michael Pink's "Peter Pan" debuted two years ago, it was the kind of hit the ballet world wishes it saw more often. Packed audiences, cri... Read the full article
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Griner dunks, Baylor rolls in opener
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Brittney Griner and Baylor still find ways to entertain the home folks, even in blowouts.
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Griner's record 15th career dunk was the first of several crowd-rousing plays with the game well in hand in the second half, and the defending champion Lady Bears opened the NCAA tournament with an 82-40 win over Prairie View A&M on Sunday night.
Griner finished with 33 points, 10 rebounds and six blocks, but the Lady Panthers will remember the time they were on the court when the 6-foot-8 star threw in a one-handed reverse to send the fans into a frenzy.
''It was amazing. It was amazing,'' said Prairie View guard Jeanette Jackson. ''We got star struck.''
The Lady Bears (33-1), the overall No. 1 seed, won their 31st straight game since an early season loss to Stanford, another top seed.
Baylor plays eighth-seeded Florida State in the second round on Tuesday night.
Odyssey Sims had 12 points and 10 assists, and Destiny Williams had nine points and 10 rebounds.
Gabrielle Scott led Prairie View with 14 points. The Lady Panthers (17-15) lost as a No. 16 seed for the third year in a row. Two of them were against Baylor in Waco, and the other was to Connecticut.
''This one game doesn't justify our season,'' Prairie View coach Toyelle Wilson said. ''Baylor was a lot bigger than us. They had a lot more ammo. They played like the No. 1 overall seed in the tournament.''
Griner's latest dunk - she had two in the NCAA tournament last year - came right after Prairie View had scored to make it 49-26. Sims found Griner alone under the basket and threw a pass three-quarters of the length of the floor. Griner caught it, turned under the basket and dunked with one hand on the other side of the rim.
''It was a little energizer,'' Griner said. ''We definitely started playing with more energy after that.''
A few minutes after Griner's dunk, Prairie View's Tanisha Lacey took the ball away from Griner and tried to shoot over her. Griner didn't even let the shot get out of Lacey's hand, stuffing it out of bounds.
With the crowd still wildly cheering the block, Sims got a steal and threw the ball ahead to Kimetria Hayden, who converted a three-point play for Baylor's first 30-point lead.
Sims pleased the crowd again a few minutes later when she almost kicked the ball out of bounds on a fast break, but saved it to Brooklyn Pope. Sims was waiting for a return pass under the basket, and the layup put Baylor ahead 62-28.
A 3-pointer from Sims made it 70-30 with 9:07 remaining, and when Sims and Griner left the game less than 3 minutes later, Griner had as many points as the Lady Panthers.
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''This crowd was pretty electric tonight,'' Baylor coach Kim Mulkey said. ''They didn't wait until the dunk to get excited. I just think it was like a snowball effect. We did one thing. We started doing another thing. That's just kids playing hard. That's kids understanding this is tournament time.''
Baylor's lead was just 22-15 midway through the first half when Mulkey called timeout and stared down Hayden for leaving Gabrielle Scott open for a 3-pointer that gave Prairie View five points in just 35 seconds.
The Lady Bears scored the next five points coming out of the timeout to start a 17-4 run that put them ahead 39-19 late in the first half. Griner, who had her 61st career double-double, scored 10 in the spurt and had 20 in the first half.
Playing for the first time in nearly two weeks, Baylor let the Lady Panthers stay close in the first few minutes, thanks in part to a stretch of a minute and a half when the Lady Bears didn't even get off a shot.
Prairie View got a steal and had three straight offensive rebounds before Kiara Etienne hit a 3-pointer to give the Lady Panthers their only lead at 6-5.
''I think we came out a little too excited,'' Sims said. ''They forced us to shoot jumpers. We didn't attack the goal from the jump. We knew what we had to do. We slowly picked it up and got back on track.''
Prairie View qualified for the tournament by beating Mississippi Valley State in four overtimes in the Southwestern Athletic Conference championship game.
Leading scorer Latia Williams started quickly for Prairie View, but was just 2 of 10 from the field in the second half and finished with 10 points.
''It always starts for me on the defensive end, but I didn't recognize me picking it up,'' Sims said of her second-half defense. ''I guess I was just a little more anxious, trying to concentrate on getting a little more steals and just defending.''
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Screenwriter Hossein Amini makes a stylish directing debut with this sleek thriller set in Greece and Istanbul, 1962. Intrigue begins at the Parthenon when wealthy American tourists Chester MacFarland (Viggo Mortensen) and his young wife Collete.
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Scott O'Neill, lead scientist of the Eliminate Dengue program, says the key to the reduction of dengue transmission may not be a vaccine for humans but a common bacterium, Wolbachia pipientis, that thrives in insect cells.
The dean of the Faculty of Science at Melbourne's Monash University talked at the Philippine Science High School about the innovative method being developed to control dengue.
The talk was part of the Australian Embassy's Scientists in School initiative, which aims to encourage students to take an interest in scientific research.
As he discussed the work they were doing, the scientist advised his audience: "Do not be afraid to work with big issues. If you want to do something that makes an impact, be prepared to persevere even in the face of failure."
He said his team had thousands of failed trials but, after years of experimenting, they were able to infect enough mosquitoes with wolbachia. Results were even better than expected, he said.
O'Neill said previous studies showed that the bacterium was capable of halving the life-span of its carrier and infected nearly 70 percent of the insect population, though it was not usually found in most mosquito species.
Aside from shortening the life-span of a mosquito, the scientists found that the wolbachia also limited the dengue virus' ability to replicate.
This information, he said, helped scientists of the Eliminate Dengue program to develop a different approach to the problem. They wanted to take the bacteria from infected fruit flies for micro-injecting into the eggs of a common dengue carrier, the yellow fever mosquito.
O'Neill explained it took eight to 10 days for a mosquito to transmit dengue after biting someone with the disease. The bacterium was expected to shorten significantly the insect's normal life-span of 30 days, greatly reducing the chances of its passing on the dengue virus.
When tested in several outdoor cages in Australia, they found that generations of wolbachia-infected mosquito larvae could be produced so long as the female parent was infected.
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It was also noted that the mosquito population size was reduced by nearly 30 percent.
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When the Boston Bruins open the Stanley Cup playoffs Friday night against the Detroit Red Wings, they might do so without two of their most experienced forwards.
Third-line center Chris Kelly and fourth-liner Daniel Paille both are nursing injuries and could sit out Game 1 against the Wings. Their absence would leave a void not only in the bottom-six forward group but also on the Bruins' penalty-kill unit, on which both play a major role.
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