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Just over 70 years ago, in February 1928 Scotsman John L Baird – demonstrated the first transmission of human faces and other moving images by radio across the Atlantic.
He had succeeded in sending the "sound of a face" some three thousand miles from London to New York. I love that expression, don't you? It's the kind of thing a trendy, skinny creative in a shiny Soho agency would say: "Shall we have a 'Sound of Face' Skype call at 5?"
Amazing, isn't it, when you think of it? We (us Brits or Scots) created 'The Televisor' (as it was called then) but have been one of the slowest nations to grasp the commercial benefits that it might bring to us, whether via sponsorship or product placement.
However, recently there have been rumblings and grumblings in the press over here that Culture Secretary, Ben Bradshaw, is currently looking into formalizing the practice of product placement within TV shows.
This, as some of you might know, is a complete U turn from Mr. Bradshaw's predecessor Andy Burnham. He felt that product placement could harm editorial independence and that nasty brands might hurt or contaminate the audiences in some way – thereby insulting the intelligence of directors, programme-makers and audiences.
Burnham's prudish Victorian approach had the dangerous possibility of forcing us into a world where every product on television has to look 'Vanilla' so as not to offend or influence the viewers' delicate sensibilities.
Oh, I feel I am going all Charlotte Bronte now!
Mr. Burnham was quoted as saying 'As a viewer, I don't want to feel the script has been written by the commercial marketing director"–Yikes! What strange world does Mr Burnham inhabit? A world where commercial directors can actually write scripts?
A couple of things that Mr. Burnham failed to take into consideration is that brands are part of everyday life, therefore audiences expect to see them in television shows.
I am sure that Mr. Burnham would probably turn red with rage, have a nosebleed and immediately fall over if he knew that product placement has been teasing viewers with its 'petticoat' within UK television for a very long time.
I ran a product placement agency during the late 90's, so I should know.
We used to target key shows and provide the products free of charge and were not able to formalize any of our actions but it was effectively a happy marriage with the production companies and broadcasters. And guess what? Nobody got hurt and no one was contaminated!
Now it seems that Ben Bradshaw finally wants to formalize Product Placement and I say it's about time, too. This is a potential revenue stream for broadcasters and an interesting creative outlet for brands. I'm sure that John L. Baird would see it as a natural extension of 'The Televisor' that he made all those years ago.
But watch out Mr. Bradshaw—there is a Mr. Dave Turtle (yes, his real name) waiting in the wings. Mr. Turtle is a spokesperson for Mediawatch UK.
I personally am always very wary of organisations with the word 'Watch' in their titles, and I think, in Mr. Turtle's case, I have every reason to be. He argues that, 'We shouldn't be using television programmes to push a product, and broadcasters need to be responsible about which audiences they're selling to," and goes on to claim that, "Self regulation isn't working – do we want to go down the American road where you're bombarded constantly?"
Well Mr. Turtle, these changes are likely to come as early as next year and you may need a tough shell to shield you from those potential bombardments. But fear not! Just like other forms of marketing, when Product Placement is implemented as part of an overall strategy and in keeping with story-line integrity, it can work wonders!
I personally don't mind a trip down the American Road—it would do us all some good. With that, I'm off to keep an eye on The Televisor and try to make time for some 'Sound of Face' with my colleagues.
About the Author: Alex Gulland
Alex Gulland began working in the entertainment industry in 1981 with Rogers and Cowan International, working as a publicist for top artists including Elton John and Peter Ustinov and liaising with production and distribution companies like Universal and Merchant Ivory.
In the late 80's she was a founding partner of Rogers and Cowan Entertainment, which represented brands such as Coca-Cola, Ford and Nestle Rowntree within the film and TV industry.
Alex next moved to an agency that was building a reputation for breaking the mould of traditional advertising – Howell Henry Chaldecott Lury & Partners. She was made a partner and creative director of their alternative marketing department, Environment Marketing.
In the late 1990's Alex left HHCL to set up Showcase International across six European markets, establishing relationships for brands with top production companies on high profile feature film productions such Wag The Dog, Mr Bean, Shooting Fish, Entrapment, and Bridget Jones' Dairies.
In early 2000 Alex set up Wunjo Entertainment with Russell Jarman Price, working closely with clients such as Manchester United, TSB, Pfizer and Rolls-Royce to bring their brands to life via the medium of film – a medium now firmly established as "branded content".
The pair were early exploiters of the internet as a powerful distribution channel for long-form content, establishing a relationship with Intel and Microsoft that provided their clients with "first mover advantage" on the ownership of channels on the worldwide Vista network.
Looking to expand their branded content offer, in March 2006 Alex and Russell became creative partners of what is now OgilvyEntertainment and have worked with clients including Nestle, Unilever and Ford on a wide variety of branded content projects both on and off-line.


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The Chip Kelly Era Takes Off
The Eagles showed crazy looks at a breakneck pace in their opener, and it sure was fun. Plus, the Tuesday Mailbag
Note from the editor-in-chief: Each Tuesday during the season, I'll write a column about some element of the weekend's games that has major significance for the rest of the NFL season—this column, called "On Further Review." Accompanying the column will be an embedded video featuring other impact events of the weekend. The first column centers on Philadelphia coach Chip Kelly's uptempo offense in the wake of the Eagles' 33-27 win at Washington Monday night.
What a fun night Monday was for the future of football. Unless, of course, you're a fan of Washington, and/or its star quarterback, Robert Griffin III. Fun is more plays, more chances for scoring explosions. And in the first quarter, playing at breakneck pace, Philadelphia quarterback Mike Vick ran 30 snaps and put Chip Kelly in the forefront of American football innovation.
Will he stay there? Time will tell. Maybe an enterprising defensive coordinator will find holes in the Eagles' offense, and find a way to break through the zone-blocking scheme protecting Vick to disrupt his play-managing and -making. Defensive coordinators always figure things out—just look how first-year Eagles coordinator Billy Davis frustrated Griffin Monday night.
Not to take a hard left turn in this story, but after one week of the season, I can tell you the most-anticipated game on the 2013 schedule, at least as of this morning, is Chip Kelly at Peyton Manning in 19 days. In altitude. Bring your oxygen masks for that one.
"I've never been a part of anything like this," said Vick, the 33-year-old quarterback who took a beating Monday night. He'll never last 16 games getting hit as much as he did in game one. "When the first quarter was over, I thought we were about to go into halftime. Unreal. The only thing I could tell myself was, 'It's going to be a long season.' "
A fun one, if this night is any indicator. Two favorite plays, both from the same series in the second quarter, from the Philadelphia's win over rusty Washington at FedEx Field, in the first game of the Kelly Era:
• Split out on either side in two I-formations, with one receiver behind another. Jason Avant is in front of Riley Cooper on the left, DeSean Jackson behind Brent Celek on the right. At the snap of the ball, Cooper and Jackson turn to Vick and stare in anticipation for him to throw the ball. He doesn't. Rather, he rides LeSean McCoy in a read-option play, handing it to him, and McCoy gains eight.
• Three plays later Kelly shifts the two tackles out wide, into the bunch formations on either side of the line. Now, instead of a five-man blocking line, there are only three linemen—the center and two guards—remaining to block the confused five-man Washington front. And Jason Peters (left) and Lane Johnson (right) are in three-man bunch sets to throw off Washington. It works. McCoy runs past the strangest formation he's ever run behind for 10 yards.
In football, creating confusion can be a very good thing.
"This is stunning, Mike," ESPN's Jon Gruden said to play-by-play man Mike Tirico not long after that play, with tackles as receivers split wide, forced much finger-pointing and shifting and confusion by Washington.
Wish I'd said that.
I spent time with Kelly in training camp a month ago, and I found him surprisingly open-minded. "I've always been a 'why' guy," Kelly told me that day. "The only thing I won't accept is because that's the way we've always done it. I think the one thing we're very conscious of is, we don't have an ego in our program. So it's not: We are gonna do it our way no matter what and I don't care what anyone else thinks. If it makes sense, and the science is behind it, we'll do it."
That's how the team looked Monday night. In the first half, with Vick never huddling except at the start of drives or during penalties, the Eagles averaged 17 seconds left on the play clock when they snapped the ball. Only twice did the clock get inside 10 seconds. With McCoy eating up big chunks of yards—he had 115 rushing yards as the Eagles built a 26-7 halftime lead that could have been much worse—Philadelphia didn't need Vick to be a bombs-away player. Don't try to do too much is the mantra in the Philly offense. In fact, the Eagles were a 64 percent run team on the night. Not surprising if you've studied Kelly. His Oregon teams in 2011 and 2012 ran the ball on a combined 63 percent of their offensive snaps. This is not going to be a pass-happy offense, and Vick's fine with that.
Kelly let his foot off the pedal in the third quarter when the Eagles had a 33-7 lead, and it sounds like he thinks he might have been too quick to go from attack mode. Asked if he eased up too soon, he said, "We may have eased. The clock's always running at this level. It's a different game than in college. We have a lot to learn." That's what I mean about being open to ideas; Kelly understands that any team that can play fast (and Washington can) is a threat even down 26 midway through the third quarter.
But when it was over, Jackson chest-bumped Kelly like he was one of the players. Owner Jeffrey Lurie gave the new coach a game ball. It was a good night, and Kelly remembered why he was there.
"It's still a game," he said. "We love playing football. We had fun out there tonight." We saw.
Tuesday Mailbag
WHY NO WEEKLY PICKS? Will Peter be having his weekly picks put up on this site? I liked looking last year at who he predicted would win the weekend games.
In the past few years, my picks have grown to an 800-1200 word column, where I try to be part informant and part wise guy in previewing the games of the weekend. I have some new duties with the new website. For instance, I have to do three videos per week that were not on my schedule a year ago. I have to edit stories, which was not part of my job a year ago. And I have to write an additional Tuesday column, which is different from the column I had to write a year ago and requires more reporting. So, at some point, I had to make choices. Originally I wasn't going to do my mailbag each week, but because so many people wanted me to do that, we decided that I would do that as the second part of my Tuesday column. I've had a few people tell me in the last few days that they really miss my picks. I don't know why—I stunk at it. Maybe that's why. Maybe its fun to see how bad I am at predicting the outcomes in the sport that I cover.
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DON'T JUDGE THE BOLDIN DEAL YET. Don't you think the title of Monday's MMQB column, "Anquan Boldin has the Last Laugh," is extremely premature? It was you who wrote about the defensive players the Ravens were able to add in the offseason solely because of the money they saved by dealing Boldin. I don't think Ozzie Newsome was sitting at The Castle watching Boldin have a monster game against a very suspect Green Bay defense thinking "Man, I wish we had him for the final year of his contract and not Elvis Dumervil for the next five years." Especially considering Terrell Suggs' contract expires soon, and he's the Ravens only other proven pass rusher. Boldin had a great game, and the receivers for Baltimore had the complete opposite, but it was one game. Let's see who benefits most from that transaction in a few years from now, not after one game.
I don't write the headlines to the column, and I didn't write this one. I will say that the intent of my item was not to tweak the Ravens, but simply to say that it has been my contention all along that Boldin certainly was worth $6 million a year, and he began to prove that on Sunday.
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WEEK 1 WAS SLOPPY. During the Sunday night game yesterday, Al Michaels and Cris Collinsworth made reference to something about the CBA requiring either less intense or less frequent practices, which could account for a lot of the sloppy play we all saw in the Week 1 games. Is there any truth to this, and do you think it had an impact? Or do you think we just saw a lot of cobwebs being cleared out in the first games of the season? Obviously player health is a critically important part of the game, but does the new CBA go so far as to dilute the game by making it harder for coaches to prepare their players?
I definitely think there is something to it. I think more important than new practice schedules is the fact that so few teams practice tackling or play physically during training camp. That means that for many players on Sunday, they may have only had 15 to 20 plays all summer—meaning plays during preseason games—where there was actually tackling. I think the poor play in Week 1 was more related to the lack of tackling and physical practices than the fact that teams can practice less now than they could before the 2011 CBA.
QUESTIONING MIKE MCCARTHY. Before the penalty-enforcement debacle in the Green Bay-San Francisco game, Mike McCarthy accepted a five-yard illegal motion penalty instead of declining and having San Francisco face a 4th-and-1 from inside its 10-yard line. I also believe it was a full yard that needed to be gained, not a short yard. If he thought it was very close, why not ask for a measurement to take some time? To me that was a critical mistake. He wasn't going to push the 49ers out of field goal range—it was a chip shot even if Kaepernick takes a sack on the 3rd-and-6. He gives a mobile quarterback, who is also hot, another chance at the TD/first down without facing a fourth-down conversion. I believe Jim Harbaugh takes the field goal there (though I could be wrong; he is very aggressive). If he doesn't, you have a shot to stop them on 4th-and-1. I don't think I'd take a 10- or 15-yard penalty in those circumstances, but definitely not a five-yarder. Thoughts?
I agree. I do think that was a mistake by McCarthy, and if he had to do it over again he would have made a different call. Good catch.
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THE SAINTS RECEIVERS JUST GET IT DONE. After watching the antics and listening to the nonsense of diva wide receivers all these years, I take a look at the Saints wide receivers and see Marques Colston (seventh-round pick), Kenny Stills (fifth round) and Lance Moore (undrafted) as the starters for an attack that rolls up passing yards at a near-record pace year in and year out. It seems the lesson for wide receivers should be: Unless you're Calvin Johnson or Randy Moss, keep your mouth shut and find a good quarterback.
Part of that, I think, is that Sean Payton is not going to stand for a bunch of nonsense from any player mouthing off on his team if it interferes with how the player plays. But you're right. I think most people in America are tired of diva antics, and want to see guys behave like professionals.
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JUSTIFYING TEBOW. You mentioned in your column, "Tebow can have a role as a changeup quarterback on a winning team." Why would any winning team want to take a winning quarterback off the field and put someone like Tebow in? He's not an everyday quarterback; he's a circus, period. Would you take out Tom Brady for a series for Tebow? Would you take out Drew Brees for a series for Tebow? Would you take out Matt Ryan for a series for Tebow? Would you take out Aaron Rogers for a series for Tebow? I think you get my point. What are your thoughts?
Simple. Say you have a pocket quarterback. You decide as a coach that you want to work on the two-point conversion play, when the ball is snapped from the two-yard line. You have a spread offense in the game, with four receivers. You put Tebow in the shotgun. You have a running back, and Tebow thus has six possibilities when he gets the ball at the six-yard line. He has the four receivers, the running back, and himself. This is a guy who is a 245-pound battering ram right now. If you don't think that in short yardage or on a two-point conversion play Tebow would be a good weapon, I would respectfully disagree with you. That's where I think Tebow would help a winning team win more.
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FOULED UP ON THE FALCONS. The Cardinals lose to the Rams and you have them ranked in your Fine Fifteen. Baltimore gets steamrolled on national television and they are ranked as well. Atlanta loses a nail-biter on the road to a motivated and rejuvenated Saints team and they don't make the cut? What have you done for me lately indeed, Mr. King…
I blew it. Atlanta should definitely be in the Fine Fifteen. My mistake, and I will be more careful from here on out.
Jim Harbaugh stated in his presser that he would have gone for it on the 4th and 1 if it had happened.
In my opinion, it looked like the Redskins were entirely unprepared for the uptempo offense from the Eagles. How can that be, as the Eagles - and everyone else - have been talking about the potential it had since Kelly was hired? Were the Redskins (yes, deliberate namedrop there) simply unable to believe Philly would try to hurry things up? Redskins' DC Jim Haslett needs to pay better attention to things. Oh, and yes, it did seem that Redskins players were flopping to slow things down at times. The NFL needs to pay better attention to that. Eagles over Redskins (one more time) next time if the Redskins don't change things quick.
Also looked like Griffin was as rusty as many people were afraid to say he would be. Nice kid, he'll get his legs under him quick.
Tebow wouldn't help a winning team. Who he'd help is Jacksonville. Go get Young, Tebow, and Pat White as 1,2,3 on the QB depth chart install a packaged play offense. You can do it over a week of practice. Give up on Gabbert. Run up and down the field on teams and try and win some games.
The only reason you keep Gabbert at QB is because your scouts really like that kid Bridgewater at Louisville.
When you start signing circus acts just to convert 2-pt attempts...that's when you stop being a winning team. Tebow simply can't play QB in this league and why he refuses to play any other position and still keeps getting second chances (if not from the league but from guys like Peter King) is beyond me.
Hey peter where is your New Jersey liberal union editorializing about the officials. They are pathetic and you didn't spare any officials ripping when it was the replacement officials. They seems better and better the more we see the regular guys. But they couldn't be any good because they were not union. A little consistency would be good. But that wouldn't be typical of you. The replacements were better than the regular guys when you consider the awkward situation and lack of experience they had
That strange sound you hear around the NFL this week is the scramble to get film of the college teams who defeated Chip Kelly!!
This writer makes it sound like McCoy and this O wasnt nothing before Dip got there. Always enjoyed Mccoy and Westbrook on my fantasy teams, and that was before DIp. 1 game dont be creating a new icon before at least a couple of more years. Hate these writers shoving RG3, Wilson, Kap and anybody else who has been good for only a very short time as shore lock hall of famers.
The Washington Sun Burns?
King - Whats with this "Sorry I work to much to give game predictions" crap?! Cry me a river man!! You write for a living! You don't lift heavy stuff in the hot sun!! In fact, you drink beer in the air conditioning....or so says your columns!! I have no idea what you get paid, but its got to be $1 million plus/year. So spare us with the time stuff! I can predict games in like 5 minutes.....which means you should be able to in 30 seconds. Come on man!!!!
I love seeing Mike Shanahan lose. I feel sorry that RGIII has to play for him. Only reason Shanny won two SBs is John Elway.
Regarding the use of the name "Redskins", teams usually name themselves words that connote bravery, determination, ferocity or reflect regional associations. My point is; Washington is not using the word in a derogatory context, but quite the opposite. They're using it to honor America's first citizens. Should the Cleveland Indians change their name to the "Native-Americans"? The word "Indian" came to be used to describe native Americans because Columbus was seeking a new route to India. Should the Atlanta Braves change their name? What about the Florida Seminoles? These sports teams are HONORING this country's native American history. Most of these words are English slang. Native Americans never referred to their warriors as braves. That was an English word assigned to their warriors by white folks.
I grew up in the racist South. In my elementary school numerous kids bragged about being 1/4 Cherokee or the name of some other native American tribe. No kid ever mentioned the possibility of having any Negro ancestors in his or her family. My point is there was plenty of racism directed to African-Americans when I was a kid (and sadly it hasn't completely gone away even today) but there was never any racist attitudes expressed towards native Americans back in the 60s when I was a kid. Every kid on the playground admired native Americans. And when we divided up to play cowboys and Indians more kids wanted to Indians! This was in Louisiana!
Kelly's going wear out his guys if he continues to play them at a break-neck pace! They're going to tire quickly and get hurt more frequently. There's no way he can keep this pace up for 16 games. And beating a Redskins team when it was RG3s first game since last season is nothing to get over confident about.
I don't think NFL DCs believe that they rely as much as they do, on platooning and deception and they don't want to give up what they're good at.
@RobertSellers Funny you mention Vince Young... Frankly I think that would be the perfect spot for him... They need a veteran QB (or quasi veteran), whose mobile enough to run and can grasp the stripped down offense they run for Gabby.
I'm not even a VY fan, but I think this would be - or would have been a better spot than Green Bay (had he stayed on the team)
"The only reason you keep Gabbert at QB is because your scouts really like that kid Bridgewater at Louisville."
Now THAT is funny - and true!
@pksugs The real refs are so much better than the replacement it's not even logical to try to debate your "point". Go comment on Golf.com about TIger's swing.
@Jon8 ~ The only film they need to get are Ohio State vs Oregon and Auburn vs Oregon. I'd lean more towards Ohio State. I didn't mention LSU because, well, it's LSU. No slight against the Tigers. The defensive performance of Ohio State against Oregon was more dominating than the other two.
@Jon8 It's not a complex formula: be physical with the smaller, faster guys until they're exhausted by the 3rd quarter. Employ a physical running game throughout the game regardless if Ore-Philly gets an early lead. Fast little guys wear down; big physical guys don't shrink.
He's too old to keep up. And overpaid to boot.
@jj25onjor I don't think Peter gets paid nearly what you think. After all, from what I've read it sounds like SI makes him fly coach! I would imagine most of his time is spent on the phone talking to players and coaches and his other contacts in the league. He has to keep up with 32 teams! He has to have an in-depth knowledge of what's going on inside all 32 teams and gather as much information as he can. That's what he spends most of his time on as well as traveling for assignments and interviews. He writes this column as well as articles for the print magazine. Peter has to be one very busy guy. I hope he is paid well but it aint no million dollars!
@Mark20 Substitute Davis for Elway and your all set.
@JeffHunter ~ @Notslor pretty much addressed it already. I'd just add that you probably want to ask a Native American what they find "offensive." 10 out 10 will tell you "Redskins" is offensive. Toss in the logo and yeah, that's offensive.
I'm not NA, but that name rubs me raw just the same. Will "they" change it? Probably not.
@JeffHunter you grew up in the racist south and that is why you still racist and dont realize it, fool
@JeffHunter Seminole is the name of a tribe. Brave is what the native american's would call their warriors. Redskins, however, is what white men called them in derision. In no way is it "honoring" them.
@JeffHunter , You will be surprised! The players will do fine and Kelly is going to spark major change in in a very boring NFL league.
We must remember that the college teams have more bodies to throw at a problem!
Every so often an offense comes along that shakes-up the NFL (West Coast, Wildcat, Read Option, etc) and I think the Kelly offense is going to do just that!
@Ciscos @Jon8 Auburn beat Oregon by being more spread than Oregon bad comparison.
The pro-style teams to beat Chip Kelly without just out scoring him were Boise St. and Stanford.
Basically penetration on the D-line, don't let the O-line start to move laterally to the line of scrimmage. Tackle in the open field. Don't try to take risks to score on every drive.
Wow! Why is Dan Snyder paying all that dough to Shanahan and his staff when you're available!!
@JeffHunter @jj25onjor Thanks Peter.
You are forgetting his work for NBC for which he is paid 300k!
@RockerMaximus @Mark20 You're right about TD! He was a big part in those Super Bowls. Great combo with Elway. Pity his career was quite short.
Are native Americans offended by the old Indian head / buffalo nickel? That visage of a native American is very similar to the Washington Redskins logo.
Um, no! You're so off base I don't have time to explain. It would take volumes. I'll try to make it short. I've always been a liberal Democrat. I well remember the racial struggles in the 60s. My family's business always employed at least 50% African Americans. The first people I knew outside of my parents were the African Americans that worked in my family's business and made more than their share of contributions to its success for over a century!
From my experience in elementary school, native Americans were admired and revered. Sadly, African Americans were not. Several of my classmates were proud of their native American relatives and having native American blood in their DNA. That attitude was diametrically opposed to African Americans and how they were regarded. Thomas Jefferson's descendants had Negro blood, as many other Caucasian families. Did they brag about it like the whites that bragged about their native American blood kin? No! Obviously not!
By the mid-twentieth century racism against African Americans was rampant. Racism against native Americans was hard to find, and in my neck of the woods (northwest Louisiana), I never heard of it. Not so for African Americans. By the time I reached high school and the era of racial integration was in full swing, it quickly became evident which kids harbored racist attitudes and which kids did not. Owing to my appreciation and allegiance to the African Americans I grew up with and realizing they were some of the finest people I have to this date known, I could not be friends with the white racists in my high school. Now, does that sound like I'm a racist?
If you've read my previous posts, and I will ask again, why would a proud professional sports team choose a name intentionally to be a racial slur? It would not make sense!
@Notslor Yes, I know Seminole is the name of a tribe. That's why I said most of these words are English slang. My point is, the name was never meant to be derogatory. The people who object to the name are taking it out of context! Do you seriously think a sports team would call themselves the Nashville Ni++ers (meaning the "N" word), or the Chicago Cockroaches? All teams name themselves a name they're proud of, no exceptions! Naming the Washington football team the Redskins was never meant to be a racial slur. That wouldn't make any sense!
@oregonian I agree, the first half was exciting ,but they were running out of gas in later quarters. College teams field more players and have shorter schedules and longer half times. I've read rookie NFLers remark about how much more physically demanding the NFL schedule and game experience is.
@RobertSellers @Ciscos @Jon8 ~ Robert, I did say to defer to Ohio State's film. Auburn, with Nick Farley(sp) just keep him & Co shooting the gaps (or getting to the gap faster) than the OL could get into position (which is pretty much what you said).
While I did not mention that, I did not forget it. Television pays a lot more than print media nowadays. Print media is a dying business model. And good for Peter. It's been his life's work and he's very good at it. Most television careers are rather ephemeral and don't last long; you know the flavor-of-the-season in sports terms.
@Mark20 @RockerMaximus And Shanahan was the schemer who literally made 'any RB' off the street rush for 1000+yards per season. So it comes back full circle.
@john715 @JeffHunter @RobertSellers @Ciscos
There will always be someone offended by something. Taste and sense of humor are subjective. Some people take things very seriously and some people prefer to see the whimsy in life.
I don't know if a comprehensive unbiased survey among a wide cross-section of Native Americans has ever been taken and published on this matter. If so, I haven't seen it. I've only read anecdotal reports. Of course, everyone has a right to his or her own opinion. It makes for an interesting discussion.
The team's owner has complete say in what his team's name will be. That's his unassailable right. He will probably only consider changing it if ticket sales to home games decline. My guess is that will not happen, he will not change the name and the controversy will eventually blow over.
GO STEELERS! (not looking good so far) and GO SAINTS! (looking promising).
@JeffHunter @RobertSellers @Ciscos Jeff I'm having a really hard time taking you seriously, I can't for the life of me understand why you're bringing up the Chiefs, arrowhead stadium, the Braves and other names that simply are not at issue here. It's the Native American community themselves who have long objected to the Redskins name, if they had an issue with the Chiefs or the Braves they would have said so, as far as any of us know, they have not but what we do know with 100% certainty is that a great deal of Native Americans find the nickname "Redskins" to be offensive, and it makes absolutely no difference whether or not the name was chosen in order to be offensive or if it was chosen to somehow honor Native Americans, the bottom line here is that they find it offensive...that's it, case closed and it should be changed.
And Robert Sellers.....are you kidding me? Please don't say that it's ok to insult a domin-ANT culture, this is exactly what racists and bigots cling to, the idea that there is a double standard when it comes to these kinds of things and it's why Mr Hunter thinks it would be ok to name a team the pastyskins or the blue eyed devils so therefor it should be ok to insult everyone else.
But one more time....context is completely irrelevant, and even if they did name the team the "Redskins" as an intentional act of respect and honor then where is that respect and honor now when they know that the name is insulting and hurtful to the very people you claim they respect and honor? If it did exist then the name would have been changed a very very long time ago.
@RobertSellers @JeffHunter @Ciscos
Should the Kansas City Chiefs change their name? What about Arrowhead stadium? If you address a native American you don't know by the word "chief" he will probably be just as offended as if you addressed him as "redskin".
I think context is the key factor. Naming a stadium or a team is an intentional act of respect and honor. It would not make sense otherwise.
@RobertSellers @JeffHunter @Ciscos
If Washington changes its name the rivalry with Dallas will never be as good. I've never liked the Cowboys. I always enjoy seeing the Redskins whip the Cowboys, for a number of reasons, cowboys and Indians you know. I'm serious.
@RobertSellers @JeffHunter @Ciscos
Okay, if Carolina changes its name to the Carolina Custers, will that even things out? ;-)
The Buccaneers is about piracy in the Caribbean, but it's different if a dominate culture makes fun of dominate behavior v. dominate culture uses symbol of a violently suppressed culture
What about the Tampa Bay Buccaneers? The name refers to pirates or white men behaving badly, white invaders and thieves. It's certainly not complementary to white folks. I'm not offended by their name. Can't that be a counterbalance for the Redskins name?
@JeffHunter @Ciscos ~ I'll go down the hallway and ask one that works in my building.
I do think, however, part of the problem is the history of the Washington franchise under their original (I believe) owner George Preston Marshall who was an unapologetic racist. If I'm correct, current owner Daniel Synder(sp) has reached out to soothe old wounds, but from the looks of it I guess he wasn't successful.
Imagine for a moment that new ownership took over in Dallas, Minneapolis, and Foxborough, and imagine that the new ownership was black or Native American. Suppose they changed their respective team names to the "Palefaces", "Pastyskins", and the "Blue-eyed Devils". How mollified would you be by the new ownership if they said something like "We're honoring the Western ideal of the Paleface riding tall in his saddle", or "There was no greater image of ferocity than a longship full of Pastyskins unloading at the beach to sack your castle", or "The noble spirit of those Blue-eyed Devils that fought off the British is still alive today in New England"?
My guess is that you'd start seeing the issue from a different perspective.
@JeffHunter @oregonian ~ Jeff, the first year under Kelly is going to be rough for the OL and his players in general come mid season. However, by next season, he'll start to get the type of players that work in his system better. Players will know what type of off-season conditioning they need to do. Will some drop off because they can't keep up (or don't want to)? Of course. But that's not unexpected. Players have already bought into his program and that'll help go a long way to helping them improve their conditioning.
Last thought, Oregon's player rotation during games wasn't/didn't go that deep. I should know because I've watched them play my Trojans too many times to count. :-)
@JeffHunter @oregonian Yes NFL rosters are much smaller than those in college. And not all 53 men dress on Sundays either. On any given Sunday an NFL team will have like 22 or 23 offensive players dress out of the 46 who dress (offense, defense and special teams... and they have to have a few back up lineman dress in case of injuries, the back up QB who almost never plays barring an injury etc...) so there aren't all that many men available to keep playing that break neck of a pace on offense...
This offense is different enough that it makes me think of alternating a QB the way teams alternate RB's when they become winded. The pace, while nothing like a basketball game, is still different enough from regular football games that if the coach really wants to keep the pedal to the metal all of the time then it might warrant playing Foles a few snaps here and there simply so Vick ,may catch his breath.
Again, I'm NOT a fan of alternating QB's but this offense is different than others in that if they do ever play a full game the way they played the first half against the Eagles then they'll risk turnovers etc... from a QB who is completely winded...
At one point, a player who is too tired and remains on the field (or court in a basketball game) becomes a liability to his team and he should take a breather...
This offense might be one that at least makes a coach think about doing that with his QB for reasons like this...
Uh Foles can so run that offense, keep wishing in one hand people...
@JeffHunter @oregonian He'll need a deep team to run that offense. So what happens when Vick gets hurt (yes, it will happen) and Foles plays? He can't run that offense.

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Rhino does not support multiple (different) video cards, and relies on the OS to manage them (it has to, since different drivers are most likely involved)… That being said, Rhino will initialize itself based on what ever the primary video source is, and in this case, my guess is that will be what ever monitor Rhino is started up on. However, since this user is using two completely different video cards, it means that two completely different drivers are being used…This means that what ever Rhino initialized itself to probably will not work or be compatible with the "other" video card/driver (unless everything is being done in software (ie. Microsoft Software Emulation) read below…)
I realize this can be misleading since Windows seems to be able to manage between the two, however what you won't see is an application running that spans both monitors…you would have a single application running on two completely different video cards (which is an impossible thing to do). For example: Suppose the second video card was an ATI card, you couldn't possibly have half of the Perspective view rendered by nVidia and the other half rendered by ATI…get the picture? The only way this can work is if/when the OS manages between to two, and the only way it can do that is by enforcing a 100% pure software solution (ie. no hardware accelerated support). Which means that the user has most likely configured his system so that he can extend the Windows desktop across the multiple monitors…at which point, Windows probably disables ALL hardware accelerated capabilities.
My guess is that the user can still have both cards in his system, but I think he needs to configure his "Primary" display to use the FX3500 and then only run (or start) Rhino on that monitor/card…Moving and/or launching Rhino on the other monitor will most likely have undetermined results. The user also probably has to configure the system so that you're not allowed to "span" or "extend" across the monitors…doing so will most likely disable all hardware acceleration capabilities.
I'd also like to point out that this is not, and has nothing to do with nVidia's SLI capabilities… SLI (and ATI's Crossfire) technology is where multiple video cards can be used together simultaneously and in parallel to generate the final result in a cooperative fashion…However, the video cards MUST be exactly the same cards, they MUST support SLI, they MUST be physically connected together using the SLI bridge adpater, and they MUST be running on a motherboard that supports SLI/Crossfire. Given all of that, the drivers will allow you to enable SLI support, and Rhino will work just fine across multiple video cards…This user's situation does not meet any of these requirements, and as I said, is something completely different.
The reason his old ATI card worked better, is because it was standalone, and operating in full accelerated mode…The user must be made aware that "more" video cards does not equate to "faster" or "more" capabilities. This (IMO) sounds more like a lack of understanding of how hardware works.
Thus, this isn't bug, or if it is, I'm really not sure how one would even go about "fixing" it. I believe the solution is to configure the system to use both video cards, but in a standalone fashion, and not allow "Extending the desktop"…That way Windows will allow hardware acceleration to be enabled…However, moving windows (viewports) across the different monitors is still not something I would recommend…at most, he could place toolbars on one monitor, but all modelling and "viewing" must take place on a single monitor (most likely the Primary monitor).


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Well not really sure how to introduce myself so here goes... My name's Vandern and for awhile now I've been meaning to get started or at least find something to get me started with pursuing my goals. I stumbled upon Conceptart.org quite sometime back and never really looked into it all that much but as off late after searching here and there, I'm happy to say that I'll start right here.
To start from scratch and work my way up from my current level of art to something worthy of being called professional is what I have planned as of now. So expect to find a lot of practice here as well as illustrations from time to time. For starters it will all pretty much be work created through traditional media and once I find myself at a level I'm happy with, I'll continue on digitally.
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Fayetteville FireAntz coach Mark DeSantis says there is a reason that Columbus is the defending champion in the Southern Professional Hockey League.
The reason the Cottonmouths emerged with a 2-1 win at Crown Coliseum on Monday night may have been some good fortune in regard to the officiating.
The Antz had two apparent goals wiped off in their second straight home loss, the latter coming after the red light went on in the third period and the goal was signaled by an official.
Fayetteville (17-6-1, 35 points) was on a five-on -three power play early in the third period when a shot by Josh McQuade, who had the only FireAntz goal in the first period, sent a shot in from the left that caromed down from the top of the goal with an audible clang.
"It bounced down, right on (Brandon) Richardson's stick, and he put it in the back of the net," McQuade said. "It was underneath his (Columbus goalie Andrew Loewen) pad. It was under his pad and across the line.
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The goal was disallowed after the officials huddled.
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The league-leading FireAntz also thought a second-period shot by Mike Kavanagh went into the goal and popped back under Loewen's pads.
Despite the apparent bad luck, DeSantis said the FireAntz still had their chances. Fayetteville stepped up its offensive pressure in the final 20 minutes, outshooting Columbus 16-6 in the last period, but even after pulling goalie Marco Emond for the final 1:40, the Antz couldn't muster a goal that met the approval of the SPHL crew.


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I met my boyfriend, Leonard, when I was in the 8th grade. Everything was great, but after a few months, I realized we were better off as friends. I didn't know what to do because Leonard was such a swell guy. My friends told me to distract him with chili. Apparently breaking up over a bowl of chili was all the rage. So I cooked a batch of this hearty, filling, vegetable chili. I'm not sure if it was the slow cooked red beans, the smokiness, the sweet potatoes and parsnips, the touch of citrus, or the mambo I danced while cooking… but I ate the whole batch. I literally scraped cumin off the bottom of the pot. Well I couldn't admit to anyone that I ate an entire pot of chili in one sitting. So…. Leonard and I will be celebrating our 25th anniversary next month.
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When the Israeli edition of 'Dancing With The Stars' confirmed it would feature its first-ever same-sex couple, the outpouring of media attention caught the eye of the producers of the American version. Now, sources tell me the US edition of the worldwide dance phenomenon is actively looking to do the same.
"The show is definitely looking for a trick for its next edition that will go up against 'American Idol,'" a 'Dancing' insider tells me. "What better than to have a same-sex couple dancing together? That would certainly get more press than even Jennifer Lopez could drum up."
It's true the show does know a thing or two about stunt casting. Learning from recent stars Kate Gosselin and Bristol Palin, the producers have seen first hand how a casting controversy can bring in the viewers.
"Nothing would be as sensational as two beautiful women dancing together," a TV expert tells me. "Two men would be less accepted as two gorgeous ladies, that is why the producers' first choice is Portia de Rossi, who is married to Ellen DeGeneres."
Although Portia has not been approached yet with the idea, several sources close with casting tell me it's one name that keeps coming up over and over again.
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As the Bible says, In the later days people will consider good evil, and evil good. I believe we are in the later days and all I can say is God have mercy on those who think homosexuality is not a sin.
YOU WERE NOT BORN THAT WAY! You have a choice to not sin, you will not enter the kingdom on heaven! and...I don't really care what any of you think because God said it and I believe it. God is not old fashion. His Word is alive and His Word is just as alive and valid as it was 2000 years ago.
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Why is it the bible thumpers always seem so angry at everything all the time? And so uptight? Makes me very, very, extremely happy to be an atheist!
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For those of us who do not belong to your cult, the bible is meaningless. Your interpretation is not shared by all christians.
Unlike religion, being gay is not a choice. "Christian" groups like Exodus make millions promoting the myth that being gay is changeable, but produce absolutely no evidence that they have ever changed anyone.
As a gay, atheist, American citizen, I have the right to ignore what your book says. I am an atheist BECAUSE I have read your silly book, and seen its contradictions and lies.
As for this show, I knew they would go for two women--if they go through with it at all. The show reeks of adolescent sexuality; just look at the insane outfits the women are subjected to. Two men dancing would just freak out their childish little minds.
- Tuesday 09 NovemberBy mel1226
How dare you call me a close minded bigot because I do NOT believe what you do. I have read your bible, and I worked for a preacher for about 6 years. I have used my open mind to decide that your bible and your believes are not for me. What I do believe is that all people deserve love, and happiness no matter their sexual orientation, race, or whatever reason they are different. People like you disgust me. You say you follow the bible but all you do is spew hate. I hope that you have a child or grand child who is gay then you will learn the truth behind it. That is not a choice, it is how some people are born.
- Tuesday 09 NovemberBy Lynn
cmp, you are so right. Truth be told, I have never watch DWTS, but if they would get Adam Lambert, I just might start! I'd love to see him dancing with one of the guys on the show.
- Tuesday 09 NovemberBy boydanb203
Love when people use man made religion to define GOD, before the Christian god it had the Egyptian God for over 4000 yrs , and after that the Roman Gods for over 1000yr it is always the same god just change the names and cruelty of people judging others..GOD is love he doesn't hate or judge anyone, we do!!! Have you thought that maybe your religion is the false religion????let's be honest if point fingers and throw the first stone how can you call yours el Christ follower??(remember he was the one against the church and temples of that time and he never taught anyone in a church but in small groups of no more than seven people, and his words was "love each other")
- Tuesday 09 NovemberBy Phil
The churches of the world are wrong...It is so easy to see this.
Those people saying men should not sleep with men, as with women should realise that this does not hold true for homosexuals, but to heterosexuals, since gay men don't sleep with women. Hetero men should not sleep with men..For them it is natural. But not for Homosexuals..Every bible I have read says basically the same thing but the word homosexual was never in the bible since it was not a word during biblical time. Homosexual, the word, became a word in or around 1865, thus changing the word is sin, as it says in Revelation.
- Tuesday 09 NovemberBy Maryanne
- Tuesday 09 NovemberBy ddawn07
Oh Please - you just had to bring up something like that. How stupid can you be? My God loves everyone.
- Tuesday 09 NovemberBy sandra
- Tuesday 09 NovemberBy saide
Helena: I am actually an ordained Christian minister and I can tell you that my God and my Bible only teach about love for all man (and woman) kind. There is no place for hate or condemnation in our church.
- Tuesday 09 NovemberBy Godsaidso
Wow Helena,
When did God speak to you personally and tell you what he or she is thinking? Your narrow mindedness and ignorance in this day and age is both appalling and horrifying. I think God would forgive you, but be disappointed in you as well.
- Tuesday 09 NovemberBy SkyBlue
The Bible also speaks about false prophets, particularly in the Last Days. You purport to speak for God on this subject and lay judgment on those you dislike, both of which are against Biblical teaching. Doesn't that make you a false prophet?
- Tuesday 09 NovemberBy rkniolek
exactly, i am with you 100%, and i will not watch the show anymore
- Tuesday 09 NovemberBy Ron in NYLow Ranked Vote downVote upReport this
I support your right to believe whatever ridiculous interpretation you have twisted out of your reading of the Bible to validate your own personal biases. Just stop trying to ram it down everybody else's throats.
When the Bible is read in the way it was meant to be interpreted in ancient times when it was written, it shows that people such as you are the true Sodomites for your lack of charity and hospitality.
Now, why don't you crawl back in your cave.
Bring on the same-sex dancers, male or female.
- Tuesday 09 November
I agree whole heartedly Helena, thats why I dont get all worked up about it the people that think being gay is not wrong wont be in heaven with us unless they repent and accept Jesus.
But I do resent hollywood pushing this crap down our throats and posioning our kids with their form of morality. I wont be watching this ahow anymore if they do this nor allow my children to view it.
- Tuesday 09 NovemberBy lola
- Tuesday 09 NovemberBy wabbitno2High Rank Vote downVote upReport this
And the bible also says, (Judge Not Lest Ye Be Judged).Helena, get of your self righteous throne, I read the bible every day, I am a christian and the God that I believe in loves all.
- Tuesday 09 NovemberBy russellLow Ranked Vote downVote upReport this
- Tuesday 09 NovemberBy Liz
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|Camille Rivera Montes
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|Hair/eye color:
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|-- (Height), -- (Weight)
|Dist. Features:
|Burn scarring on back
| Unnamed father (Deceased)
Unnamed mother (Deceased)
Unnamed sister (Deceased)
|Bolivian with Russian descent
|Intelligence operative
|Bolivian Secret Service, independent
|Alive; whereabouts unknown
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Camille Rivera Montes is a Bolivian agent who is seeking revenge for the murder of her family by General Medrano. She appears as the main heroine and Bond girl in the 2008 James Bond film Quantum of Solace and despite being South American she is portrayed by Olga Kurylenko.
Film biographyEdit
Camille is of Russian-Bolivian descent. When she was a young girl, the opposition in Bolivia sent General Medrano to her house, but Medrano shoots Camille's father, rapes her mother and sister before strangling them to death, and then smiles at Camille before leaving and setting the house on fire, which is the cause for the burnt scars on Camille's back. Camille joins the Bolivian Secret Service and begs to get revenge for her family's death.
She first meets Bond in Haiti where she has her own agenda in killing General Medrano. She seduced Dominic Greene as a way to get to Medrano, but it didn't work. At first she clashes with Bond, but soon begins to realize he is the only one she can trust. They then team up and go after Greene and Medrano.
From her conversation with Bond, we learn that Camille got the burn mark on her upper back from the fire in her family's household that was caused by Medrano right after he killed her family. She possibly suffers from pyrophobia because of the tragedy; this can be observed during the part where the building starts to burn after Camille had exacted revenge on Medrano.
Behind the scenesEdit
For the part of Camille, director Marc Forster chose Olga Kurylenko because out of the 400 women who auditioned, she seemed the least nervous.[1] When she read the script, she was glad she had no love scene with Craig; she felt it would have distracted viewers from her performance.[2] Kurylenko spent three weeks training to fight with weapons, and she learned a form of indoor skydiving known as body flying.[3] Kurylenko said she had to do "training non-stop from the morning to the evening" for the action scenes, overcoming her fears with the help of Craig and the stunt team.[4][5][6] She was given a DVD box set of Bond films, since the franchise was not easily available to watch in her native Ukraine.[3] Kurylenko found Michelle Yeoh in Tomorrow Never Dies inspiring "because she did the fight scenes by herself."[1]
The producers had intended to cast a South American actress in the role.[7] Kurylenko trained with a dialect coach to perform with a Spanish accent.[5] She said that the accent was easy for her because she has "a lot of hispanic friends, from Latin America and Spain, and it's an accent I've always heard".[8] When reflecting on her experience as a Bond girl, she stated she was most proud of overcoming her fears in performing stunts.[9]
Barbara Broccoli has said that she intends for Camille to return for a future film. If this happens, Camille will become the first Bond girl to make a return appearance since Eunice Gayson, as Sylvia Trench, appeared in Dr. No and From Russia with Love, albeit as a minor character.
- According to Medrano in the film, her family name is Montes, but according to the video game it is Rivera.
- Being the film's main Bond girl, Camille is the only main Bond girl not to sleep with James Bond. Major villainous Bond girl, Xenia Onatopp, also did not sleep with Bond, however she was not the main Bond girl in the GoldenEye.
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Matt Mueller. "On the Set of 'Quantum Of Solace': Olga Kurylenko: The Bond Girl", Premiere. Retrieved on 14 January 2009.
- ↑ Tim Masters. "Talking Shop: Olga Kurylenko", BBC News, 31 October 2008. Retrieved on 31 October 2008.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Mark Brown. "Everything changes but Bond", The Guardian, 24 January 2008. Retrieved on 24 January 2008.
- ↑ Chile Soundbites videos. Sony Electronic Press Kit. Retrieved on 11 April 2008.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Chris Tilly. "Olga Kurylenko Q&A", IGN, 31 January 2008. Retrieved on 31 January 2008.
- ↑ Hollins, Grant. "Street urchin to Bond girl", The Sun, 5 April 2008. Retrieved on 6 September 2011.
- ↑ "Bond 22 Pre-Production Diary (22)", MI6-HQ.com, 30 December 2007. Retrieved on 31 December 2007.
- ↑ Rob Scheer. "INTERVIEW: Olga Kurylenko on "Quantum of Solace"", UGO, 14 November 2008. Retrieved on 6 September 2011.
- ↑ David Giammarco. "From Ukraine, with love", The Herald. Retrieved on 18 September 2008.


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Trott ended his career at Holy Cross with 73 points, 33 goals and seven assists and ranks third in all-time career goals and fourth in career points at Holy Cross.