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The Nashville Predators acquired Andrei Kostitsyn from Montreal at the trade deadline with the hope that playing with his younger brother Sergei would reinvigorate him.
The move worked, as Andrei clicked upon arrival in Nashville, totaling 12 points in 19 regular-season games. He added a goal and an assist in five playoff games against the Detroit Red Wings.
Now the Predators hope Sergei Kostitsyn can re-discover his scoring touch.


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The concept for this lip balm with sunscreen is intriguing: The applicator tip of this standard Chapstick-style tube has wavy ridges meant to massage lips and help remove dead, dry skin. Unfortunately, it seems that no one at Blistex tried this before launching it, because the ridged tip doesn't work for massaging anything, which really doesn't matter all that much because lips don't need to be massaged. A bigger frustration is that the ridges also don't work to remove dry, flaky skin—they simply move it around, with flakes ending up in other spots—on your mouth or on the applicator itself (so each time you reapply this you're redepositing flakes on your lips unless you wipe it off first). Getting past the packaging novelty that doesn't work very well, this would have been a very good lip balm whose sunscreen includes avobenzone for reliable UVA protection. Unfortunately, it is not recommended because it contains menthol, an irritant neither chapped nor healthy lips need.
Lip Massage's soft-touch tip smoothes away rough spots, leaving your lips soothed, comforted and totally refreshed…like they've just had a massage. Keeps your lips moisturized and totally protected. Its rich emollients soften and hydrate lips, while effective protectants defend lips against the elements. Contains both UVA and UVB sunscreens to protect your lips from the sun's harmful rays.
Active: Avobenzone (3%), Octinoxate (7.5%), Octocrylene (2.7%), Oxybenzone (2.5%), Petrolatum (42.33%), Other: Aloe Barbadensis Leaf Extract, Shea Butter, Matricaria Flower Extract, Citric Acid, Diethylhexyl Adipate, Ethylhexyl Palmitate, Ethylhexyl Stearate, Flavors, Glyceryl Laurate, Sunflower Seed Oil, Menthol, Microcrystalline Wax, Phenoxyethanol, Propylene Glycol, Saccharin, Silica, Jojoba Seed Oil, Squalane, Tocopheryl Acetate
Blistex At-A-Glance
Strengths: Includes complete ingredients for all of its products on the company Web site; a couple of lip balms with excellent UVA protection and above-average formulas.
Weaknesses: The majority of lip balms with sunscreen lack sufficient UVA-protecting ingredients, leaving lips vulnerable to sun damage; many contain irritants such as menthol or camphor.
How this small but longstanding line of lip products has achieved the status of being the solution for cold sores or chapped lips eludes me! Most of these lip products contain enough irritating ingredients to chap anyone's lips. Lots of lip products claim to be medicated, but "medicated" is a dubious term at best, with no regulated meaning.
The way Blistex and a handful of other companies define medicated, it means using camphor, menthol, or phenol in their formulations, yet none of these are in any way, shape, or form "medicines" or "treatments" for dry lips. Quite the contrary, they make dry skin worse and can cause irritation. Products like Blistex can include 0.5% phenol, a potent disinfectant, that is strong enough to actually trigger some serious problems, the least of which are dryness and irritation. It is not something I would recommend for anything but extremely limited use because repeated application can keep your lips chapped forever.
Blistex beckons to you to "discover what your lips are missing," but with few exceptions your lips aren't missing anything with these products except the irritation or inadequate sun protection they provide—definitely an instance where missing something is a good thing! One more thing: Press materials and Blistex's Web site mention dermatologist Dr. Charles Zugerman as an advisor to the company. Yet for a dermatologist whose special interests include allergic contact dermatitis to endorse lip products with known irritants is puzzling to say the least. And if Dr. Zugerman knows about the need for sufficient UVA protection and the ingredients it takes to achieve that, he's not sharing that knowledge on a consistent basis with Blistex. This is just another example of how a dermatologist's endorsement may create an impression of professional credibility, which can be different from speaking to the efficacy or safety of the products themselves.
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Don't Blame the Devil by Pat G' Orge-Walker is about facing the consequences for one's actions and God's ability to show us how to redeem time wasted by selfish choices. The main character, Delilah Dupree Jewel-Pillar, abandoned her young son and husband in order to pursue her dream to be a professional singer. After 40 yrs. of chasing her dream, and experiencing quite a few hard knocks along the way, Delilah decides she wants a relationship with God (on her terms, of course). One thing she "orders" God to do is help her find her family (ever hear the saying "be careful what you ask for"?).
Delilah is that underdog the reader winds up rooting for in spite of themselves. You actually want to see her get her family back and be forgiven for her past misdeeds. Blame is a book that can tear the reader apart because as much we like a good "prodigal story", there's the issue of an child being abandoned and what about her husband (and the son's foster mother whom daddy is thinking about dating?). One lesson Blame teaches us is that life doesn't always come in a nice, neat perfect little package, but for those whom love God and are called according to His purposes, things do work out for their good.
Mrs. G'Orge-Walker includes a Q&A (my favorite part) at the end of the book that invites readers to discuss the moral issues the book covers.
Don't Blame the Devil is available for preorder on Amazon.com (www.amazon.com) and Barnes & Noble (www.bn.com)


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Forecast discussion: After some early morning showers and light rain, we began to see some early sunshine. This helped raise our high temperature in Boston to 81 degrees. It remained cooler than the inland areas as the winds shift to the northeast by 11 a.m. A cold front then passed through the city this afternoon, helping to lower the temperature. It was only 69 degrees as of the 4 p.m. observation at Logan Airport. Also, this front helped create some late day showers and thunderstorms. There are showers passing through Boston at the moment.
The showers will linger into the late evening, before the front passes offshore. We will also be losing the high humidity, as high pressure moves down from Canada and brings drier air. This high will control the weather through the weekend and into early next week. As we head into Monday, we will finish June with temperatures possibly reaching the middle to upper 80's.
By Tuesday, a low pressure center over Canada will bring a slow moving cold front towards the east coast. Right now, the American model predicts isolated showers ahead of the front, with more scattered activity for Wednesday and into Thursday. Although it is still a little early to forecast the Fourth of July, many models believe the front will move offshore late Thursday night, bringing dry weather and seasonable temperatures for the holiday.
72 hour forecast:
Tonight: Any lingering showers will end by 11 p.m. It will become less humid with clearing skies. We will see a low of 61.
Friday: Mostly sunny and less humid with a high of 79. We will see northeast winds at 9-12 mph.
Friday night: Partly cloudy with a low of 60. Winds will come from the north-northwest at 2-5 mph.
Saturday: Mostly sunny with a high of 81.
Saturday night: Partly cloudy with a low of 62.
Sunday: Mostly sunny with a high of 83.
Sunday night: Partly cloudy with a low of 64.
Extended Forecast:
Monday: Partly to mostly sunny. Highs 84-87, lows 65-68.
Tuesday: Overcast with isolated showers. Highs 83-86, lows 67-70.
Wednesday: Overcast with scattered showers. Highs 84-87, lows 65-68.
Thursday: Scattered showers/thunderstorms until 10 p.m. then clearing skies. Highs 82-85, lows 61-64.


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What you need to know before you invest in greenhouse
By Andrew Ndawula Kalema
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As they gain more experience, they can set up greenhouses on their farms, but still continue to source inputs and search for markets collectively. Greenhouse farming is a way farmers can cope with the challenges brought about by climatic change, and also ensure food security for the country and region.
The author is a farming journalist and a consultant .


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Lauren Lothrop
2004 (Freshman): Played in all 19 contests, drawing 12 starts ... Registered five points on the season by tallying one goal and three assists ... Posted a team-high two assists On Sept. 10 against Angelo State ... Scored her first career goal on a penalty kick against Baylor on Oct. 29.
High School: Served as team captain for her junior and senior seasons ... Played for the Dallas Texans '86 club team ... State champions 2001-2003 ... Regional semifinalist in 2002 and 2003 ... Ranked No. 1 in the nation in 2003 ... Named team and Offensive MVP following her junior and senior years ... Team was Bi-District Champions three-of-four years ... Named first team All-District as a sophomore, junior and senior ... Three-year member of the North Texas ODP state team ... Member of the Region 3 pool.
Personal: Born May 12, 1986, to parents Bill and Beverly Lothrop ... Mother attended North Texas and both parents are self-employed ... Has one brother, Bryan ... Majoring in education.


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He created Gollum in Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings, and now British actor Andy Serkis takes on the iconic King Kong, creating a soul and emotional resonance for this extraordinary creature. It's a seamless performance by an ingenious actor. Garth Franklin caught up with Serkis in New York.
Question: So I heard it was your idea for the ice sliding scene that takes place in the last act of King Kong? Serkis: The true way that it happened was when we were experimenting with how Kong reacted to being put in the middle of Times Square, once he jumps out of the theatre, and he knows where he's going up to that point because he's very focused on Jack. But when he bursts out of the theatre, he's suddenly in this environment, which is freezing cold -- because of New York, winter -- and he's got this slippery stuff that he's never encountered before having come from a tropical rainforest. So I started experimenting with him slipping and sliding.
On the motion capture stage, my original version of that scene was him slipping and spinning 'round, but I'm thinking kind of gathering up all these cars and trucks and people in between his legs as he's spinning around. But Peter said, "No, let's ..." It was actually Peter's idea to actually take that and make it into a scene between -- he always had this intention to make a scene between Ann and Kong, which turned into this magical sort of moment in Central Park. And it was originally going to be a Christmas tree and him playing with the lights, a sort of innocence about it. So we transposed my idea and had Kong slipping on this slippery stuff which you would then find out was called ice with the Ann Darrow character, and that became a fleeting moment of reprieve before the attack ensued.
Question: Discuss the time you spent in Rwanda with gorillas. Were you ever in any danger? Serkis: Sure. The story starts slightly before then when I was working at the London zoo. I spent a lot of time in the Regent's Park Zoo with the four gorillas there. Zaire. There were three females and one male. One of the females is called Zaire, whom I particularly formed a relationship with. The thing about gorillas in captivity is that they reflect human behaviour a lot more than gorillas in the wild. That's one of the things I was to discover, because they're surrounded by human beings from birth. Their keepers. They're reared by human beings and surrounded by "hunters" all day long.
But Zaire, this gorilla, chose me, she beckoned me over and we got on very, very well. The male of the group, Bob, didn't like me at all. He intimidated me on a number of occasions because he didn't really have the ability to be an alpha male since he'd been brought up in a circus with chimpanzees. So he didn't have the social etiquette to know how to be an alpha male with these three females, so they found it frustrating. I was in the middle. So he used to take it out on me a bit, which included throwing a whole pile of rubble right at me when I had my video camera on him, and it smashed, scratched the lens of my camera.
So I spent two months at the London zoo and then I had the chance to go to Rwanda and seeing them in the wild is another thing altogether. You're watching them in groups now. You're watching them in big groups -- 23 was the group I was part of -- 23 animals, beautiful gorillas. And you see the whole structure and hierarchy of family in operation, 10,000 feet up in the Virunga Volcanoes. It was quite magical, really, and to have nothing between you and them is phenomenal. I was with the Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund International, who monitor their welfare and they're habituated gorillas, so they're used to human beings.
They didn't know me. They spotted me immediately as the odd man in the group because they hadn't seen me before and were very curious. They'd come up. You're supposed to keep to the 7-meter distance between them so you don't transmit human diseases because we share so much of the same genes, it's very easy to transmit disease from us to them -- and that's fatal because it can wipe out a whole group very, very quickly. So I had a mask, I had a paper mask and they were very curious about that. So they'd come up and sort of be very curious with me. Then one or two of them would be cheekier, the young adolescents came running past and giving me a bit of a thump.
The one time I really -- I didn't feel so much in danger because I've been grilled in etiquette and how to respond, but there was a charge by one silverback that took me so by surprise because it was so fast. There's very, very little warning. It's all in the facial ... it's all in the eyes. They avert their gaze and then suddenly they're off. It's like nought to 60 in nothing. They stand their ground and they're very rigid. They strut and rise up and they beat their chest. They beat their chests with open hands -- as opposed to clenched fists, which they did in the original "King Kong" -- because they have inflated chest sacs, which when they hoot, opens up and it sounds like a drum, the sound is very taut, like wood blocks. They beat their hands 17 times a second, very fast. Like that. That can be quite scary, but you're supposed to not move. You're supposed to defer. But it's all bluff; it's all display -- unless you transgress that, and then you're a fool.
Question: You're the first name in this kind of motion capture acting. Do you have any thoughts on competitors like "Polar Express" and "I, Robot"? Serkis: I think Gollum and Kong are both photo-real characters and actually, "I, Robot" was as well. But "Polar Express" was slightly different. It was a much more painterly style, much more animated style. It was slightly different from what we were doing, although it was I think the first film to use facial motion capture for capturing actors' facial performances. But with this obviously, it's not trying to replicate a human face. The difference between the way we tried to capture facial expressions with this and Gollum was with Gollum my performance was shot on 35 mm film, and the animators copied my facial expressions and keyframe animated that. With this, it was directly from 132 markers on my face, which then drove the CG face of Kong, of course with some of the animators then enhance that and augment the lower muscle movement because it's very hard as a human being, the way that the jaw moves and the way it's connected to what's called the sagittal crest on a gorilla. But the eyes, particularly, represent the acting choices that I've made and all the physicality of the way that Kong is and his personality is portrayed through performance capture.
Question: Who played the dinosaurs then when Kong is fighting them? Serkis: The T-Rex fight sequence is predominantly, I would say, the animators' domain. What we did was to facially motion capture the entire fight, and then they basically took off my face and stuck it on the keyframed animated fight. I did some sequences with stunt men, but very little for the actual T-Rex fight. Some for when he's hanging, to get the actual physics of him actually hanging, trying to get back up. That was specific and also the dramatic beats through a fight. Obviously a fight sequence is also telling a story; so there's a progression through there with all the close-ups of the face when he's being bitten and all those performance moments. But the actual physics of fighting with the three dinosaurs that was one area that was particularly keyframe animated because of the interaction of the other CG characters. But all the stuff with Ann particularly and the more static stuff, the more emotional stuff was more heavily physical motion captured stuff.
Question: In the motion capture sequence when Kong is pushing Ann around, did you have a Naomi Watts doll? Serkis: Yeah, I did actually. I had several different Barbie dolls weighted with a lead shot. And a slightly more malleable one, sort of a rag doll weighted with lead shot that I could actually push with my fingers and pick up so there's some weight. The motion capture phase -- there are two phases to stages to creating a character. One is obviously the on-set performance, working opposite Naomi, and that was crucial for her performance and for synchronizing our performances so that we're playing very specific moments together. Everything I was doing, she was able to respond to and everything that she was doing, I was able to respond to in the same way an acting performance would be working with someone on the other side of the camera, off camera. Peter's prime aim to have an actor play Kong was so that the actress playing Ann Darrow didn't have to imagine what Kong would be like. That way she wouldn't have to make decisions for what he might be doing. I was doing those things, and Naomi could respond to them being the actress that she is. She's phenomenally adept and she's an amazing actress and wanted the connection.
If it had been any other actress who wasn't interested in forming a connection, but just wanting to do a performance by herself, I think it wouldn't have worked because it is all about the connection between the characters. She's one of the best actresses of her generation, as far as I'm concerned. It was a pleasure and honour to work with her. The second part was then having shot the scenes on set with Naomi was then when we came to the motion capture. I got a chance to experiment with the personality and the character of Kong. I would then work off her shots, her close-ups. I was looking down at monitors for the less physical scenes where I could be static, set down. Kong is sitting down a lot, when he's got Ann in his hands or is looking down at a place, specifically to her shots. And that's how we synchronized the performances.
And in that motion capture phase, which was two months after principal photography, Philippa Boyens, Fran Walsh and Christian Rivers -- the two writers basically and Christian Rivers who is really in charge of taking my performance through to WETA Digital. I just gave them lots of choices in terms of performance and how close Kong would be to human behaviour and how close he's be to gorilla behaviour in how we expressed his emotions. We just carried on experimenting for weeks and weeks and weeks until we kind of cracked the character. That's the joy of working in that way. You just keep going and keep going. So that's the kind of two-step process for creating Kong.
Question: Was Kong more difficult to do than Gollum? Serkis: Immensely more difficult because so much of Gollum was his voice and the way he spoke. The character emanated from his -- he's called Gollum because of the way he sounds. The physicality came out of the voice. I had to get myself into certain physical positions to make that voice really work. He explains himself to other people, his predicament, and he talks to himself in very rich dialogue from talking -- from Philippa Boyens and Fran Walsh. And that was one of the biggest challenges, how we were going to convey that range of emotion with a so-called mute character like Kong.
Of course once I started researching gorillas I found out that they used a lexicon of vocalizations. That was a big key into it. You found out that they sing, they chuckle, they have very specific ways of communicating within a group. And just the breath, actually. The breath worked throughout the whole thing. Again, in order to achieve a real performance -- what we wanted to do, the way I was directed -- was that on set I had a sound system for Naomi to respond to, but on the motion capture stage they recorded sound as well. So the sound is linked to the physicality. The chest expands and contracts. You'd have that breath happening for real and being recorded. So it wasn't ever a sense of it being an effect with a sound effect stuck on top. It was enhanced of course. It was beefed up and very amazing things are done with the original sound that I made. But it emanates from a living, breathing creature, i.e. a human being creating those sounds in sync with a physical performance. So in that's sense, it's no different from doing dialogue. But the range of emotions and the experimentation with finding who his personality was -- you know, the fact that he was unlocked by Ann. He as a character is changed, transformed by her, and years and years and years of this suppressed socialized behaviour that he has with these sacrifices that are put over the wall to him, the cycle is broken with her. And he's freed to a certain extent, although he then becomes slightly disempowered by her in that transitional scene.
He's an old -- someone described him and I think it's a quite cool way of looking at him -- he's an old, psychotic hobo. He really is. He's not used to -- although it's in gorillas' innate desire to connect with other beings -- he's just not used to it. The only contact he has are with creatures that are trying to attack him or threaten. All creatures are screaming at him and then he doesn't know how to deal with them. We found that Ann Darrow's strength is humour. Her character is an actress, is used to entertaining people and making people laugh. And that's her way of surviving. And that's the way she engages Kong. Gorillas have a sense of humour. They do. They have a huge range of emotion. And finding the humour there was a big, big key into their relationship.
Question: What was your reaction seeing your performance on the big screen? Serkis: I'm still recovering from it really, because I've lived and breathed every single moment of that character for such a long time now. I've seen it change incrementally from CG, the motion capture puppet, the slight renderings, the layers and the levels, and then three weeks ago it still wasn't finished. I'm recording the final vocal tracks. Last night -- I have to watch it again. I was so overwhelmed. It's such an assault on the senses all around. I'm really dying to see it again as quickly as possible. Because you just pick everything apart when you're watching your own performances. It was very hard last night to get really emotionally carried along by it because I was being a bit analytical.
Question: Is there more motion capture in your acting career or go for flesh and blood roles? Serkis: I don't see the difference between flesh and blood and motion capture. For me, acting's acting. What I've done with Gollum and Kong is no different to any other character that I've ever played. It's acting. I don't cut out a chunk of my flesh and blood mode, put it on a hanger and insert ones and noughts and do a different type of -- it's just acting to me. Whatever. It's all through the character and script. If someone came up and said, "Now, here's a great CG role," and I read it and thought the script's amazing, okay, it's a CG role. It wouldn't make any difference to me.


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Fantasy football is often compared to poker — and specifically the game Texas hold 'em — with regard to how much of a player's success or failure can be attributed to skill, and how much can be attributed to luck. Wisdom holds that luck might prevail in the short term, but skill perseveres over the long run.
An inferior poker player might be able to beat superior competition during a three-hour session at the table. But if an inferior player keeps coming back to a weekly game against highly skilled players, the inferior player is likely to lose money (probably a great deal of it) over a span of several months. An unskilled fantasy owner might be able to stumble into the playoffs or even back his way into a championship in a given year, but there's little chance that he will be able to string together a series of successful seasons.
But there's another way in which Texas hold 'em can be compared to fantasy football, and I'll get to that in a minute.
First, let's talk about Dolphins WR Brian Hartline.
In the aftermath of Hartline's 12-catch, 253-yard tour de force against the Cardinals in Week Four, a lot of fantasy owners have been asking themselves, "Why didn't I see this coming?" No one sees a 253-yard game coming, of course. But many of us were slow to identify Hartline as a player who matters, even after he had turned in a nine-catch, 111-yard performance in Week Two. Hartline essentially had to club us over the head with a two-by-four to make the point that, yes, he does indeed matter.
Nothing in Hartline's statistical history suggests that a breakout was coming. In his rookie year with the Dolphins in 2009, he caught 31 passes for 506 yards and three touchdowns. He followed with seasons of 43-615-1 in '10 and 35-549-1 in '11. Entering this season, Hartline had played 44 games in the NFL and had averaged 2.48 receptions and 37.95 yards per contest, with six total touchdowns. Those numbers don't exactly scream "impact player," do they?
Hartline's college numbers are no more enlightening. His best season at Ohio State came in 2007, when he produced a stat line of 52-694-6. Hartline trailed teammate Brian Robiskie in receptions, receiving yardage and TDs. In his final season at OSU (2008), Hartline had 21-479-4. He had exactly half as many receptions as Robiskie had that season.
But Hartline's stat history is far less significant than his current circumstances. The rebuilding Dolphins have often found themselves trailing their opponents, so they've been throwing a lot (and will probably continue to throw a lot all season). They're so thin at wide receiver behind Hartline and Davone Bess that they just signed the previously unemployed Jabar Gaffney to be their No. 3. The Dolphins' new head coach, Joe Philbin, is a passing-game specialist who came to Miami from Green Bay, where he had helped turn Jordy Nelson into a burgeoning star. And the Dolphins' rookie quarterback, Ryan Tannehill, has been more competent than expected.
This isn't to suggest that Hartline is ticketed for stardom — although there are some eerie statistical parallels between Hartline and early-career Wes Welker. But Hartline is now clearly relevant in fantasy football. He's an asset worth owning. Few people felt this way about Hartline back in August, when they were preparing for their drafts and auctions.
But the ability to adapt to changing circumstances is critical to fantasy football success, and this is where we can draw another parallel between fantasy football and Texas hold 'em.
The two cards dealt to each player in Texas hold 'em can constitute a good starting hand or a bad one, but after the initial bets are made and three community cards are dealt on the flop, the complexion of your hand can change entirely. A strong hand can be rendered vulnerable. A mediocre hand can become powerful.
A pair of aces is the optimal starting hand in Texas hold 'em, but if the flop brings the 8, 9 and 10 of spades, your pocket aces will quite possibly be crushed by someone with a flush or a straight. A 9-5 is a lousy starting hand, but it becomes mighty if the flop delivers a 9 and two 5s. Preconceived notions of strength and weakness are rendered obsolete when those first three community cards hit the board. And there are two more community cards yet to come, so the circumstances can change yet again.
A lot of fantasy owners chain themselves to their own preconceived notions about player value. Admittedly, this is my own greatest weakness as an owner. With most players, I tend to be slow to change my original valuation, even in the face of mounting evidence that the valuation was flawed.
Fantasy owners tend to tether their expectations to draft/auction results. A player drafted in the third round is a third-round value. A player purchased for $9 is worth $9. But drafts and auctions are just starting points. Wherever Hartline was drafted, or whatever his auction price (if he was selected at all), he's clearly more valuable now than he was back in August.
Maybe it was easy for a lot of fantasy owners to wave the white flag on Chris Johnson, a first-round pick in most of this year's fantasy drafts, because Johnson already had shown signs of slippage before this season. But a lot of owners are still hoping to get a reasonable return on investment with early-round picks such as Ryan Mathews, Steven Jackson, Michael Vick, Dez Bryant and Michael Turner, even though early results suggest that a reasonable ROI is unlikely.
Not only are expectations tied to fantasy drafts, but also to the NFL draft. When the Patriots drafted Shane Vereen in the second round of the 2011 draft and Stevan Ridley a round later, most of us assumed that Vereen would be the more valuable fantasy commodity. Vereen may yet pan out, but at the moment he's a less valuable fantasy commodity than teammate Brandon Bolden, an undrafted free agent who didn't lead his team in rushing last year during his final college season at Ole Miss. Hartline was a fourth-round pick when he came out of the college ranks and thus drew no immediate attention. Justin Blackmon drew a ton of attention in fantasy drafts after being the fifth overall pick in this year's NFL draft, but he has been irrelevant so far.
Victor Cruz helped a lot of people win leagues last year, including me. Despite his lack of pedigree — he was an undrafted free agent who had zero receptions in his rookie season — I liked what I saw of him early last season and spent a sizable amount of my free-agent budget on him, and there's no way I would have won that league without him.
Don't completely disregard statistical history, of course. A player's stat history matters. But in most cases, current circumstances matter more. A roster full of strong historical performers can often get a big lift from one or two Johnny-come-latelys, so don't be shy about ditching a deflated asset for a growth stock.
When circumstances change, adjust. Pay attention to the board cards and not just your starting hand. The flop could bring an ace of hearts … or an ace of Hartline.
- Brian Hartline


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Jane Fonda poses in front of her father, Henry Fonda's hand and footprint as the 2013 TCM Classic Film Festival honors Jane Fonda with a handprint and footprint ceremony at the TCL Chinese Theatre on Saturday, April 27, 2013 in Los Angeles. (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP)
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Last year I talked a bit about blog subscriptions. At the time, anyone subscribing to my email list did so through the FeedBurner service — bought by Google in 2007 but left to stagnate ever since. FeedBurner's free to use, but it's very limited, there's no support, and it might disappear and take my email list with it, so about six months ago I switched to AWeber.
Here are a few AWeber benefits.
Boosting subscribers by 1,000%
During the first two months with AWeber I was getting two or three new email subscribers each day — the same as with FeedBurner. But with AWeber I'm able to change things slightly, offering a free chapter from my book that's automatically sent to subscribers after they confirm their subscription. Four months after implementing the free download I now get about 20 daily sign-ups. Over the course of a year that's the difference between 700 new subscribers and 7,000, so offering an incentive definitely works. With your own mailing list you could give away a free ebook, a free font download, useful resources, etc., and all taken care of automatically after some straightforward setup through AWeber's admin panel.
Setting a schedule
I'm now able to choose how often newsletters are sent, on what days, and at what time. FeedBurner can only send updates as soon as a blog post is published, so if you post once a day, your readers are emailed daily. I think that's too often. I've set my current broadcast to send every two weeks, regardless of how many posts are published in that timeframe. There's also an option to send a newsletter after a specific amount of new posts are published, where subscribers get an email as soon as there are five or ten or however many blog updates. It's a nice alternative and I'll probably change to that, meaning less frequent emails but with more content.
Creating follow-ups and tracking what readers do
I've thought about using AWeber's autoresponders to create a class for students. I'd prepare the content in advance (text, images, video), choose the delivery schedule, then let it run automatically. Something to plan.
Another advantage over FeedBurner is the ability to customise the welcome message, so I can signpost a few pieces of popular content from my archives that are unlikely to have been seen by new visitors.
The analytics are a great feature, giving reports on things like these:
- Track where on your website readers go after they click a link
- Track what time of day readers open emails and click links
- Send emails to specific subscribers based on what they've clicked in the past
- Split test different versions of your newsletter to see which works best
- See how different sign up forms are performing to maximise subscriptions
Tracking the clicks tells me what content subscribers are most interested in, and that can help give direction for future content.
I wasn't too keen on the template sign-up forms provided by AWeber, but this guide helped a lot with the styling.
There are other companies that handle email marketing. MailChimp for example. It offers a free option if you have a small amount of subscribers, but you can't use MailChimp autoresponders unless you become a paying customer, and it's the autoresponders that gave me a ten-fold increase in subscribers.
AWeber's competitors could be just as good, but I'm more than happy with my choice.
It's $1 for the first month, and you can cancel any time. More info on the AWeber website.


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Diaz Heijtz, R; Fuchs, E; Feldon, J; Pryce, C R; Forssberg, H (2010). Effects of antenatal dexamethasone treatment on glucocorticoid receptor and calcyon gene expression in the prefrontal cortex of neonatal and adult common marmoset monkeys. Behavioral and Brain Functions, 6:18.
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BACKGROUND: Synthetic glucocorticoids such as dexamethasone (DEX) are commonly used to promote fetal lung maturation in at-risk preterm births, but there is emerging evidence of subsequent neurobehavioral abnormalities in these children e.g. problems with inattention/hyperactivity. However, molecular pathways mediating effects of glucocorticoid overexposure on motor and cognitive development are poorly understood. METHODS: In this study with common marmoset monkeys, we investigated for neonatal and adulthood effects of antenatal DEX treatment on the expression of the corticosteroid receptors and also calcyon, a risk gene for attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder, in the prefrontal cortex (PFC). Pregnant marmosets were exposed to DEX (5 mg/kg body weight) or vehicle during early (days 42-48) or late (days 90-96) stages of the 144-day pregnancy. RESULTS: In neonates, relative to controls, glucocorticoid receptor (GR) mRNA levels were significantly reduced after the late DEX treatment in the medial, orbital and dorsal PFC and after the early DEX treatment in the dorsal PFC. The early DEX exposure, specifically, resulted in significant reduction in calcyon mRNA expression in the medial, orbital, dorsal and lateral PFC relative to controls. Mineralocorticoid receptor (MR) mRNA levels were not significantly affected by DEX treatment. In adults, PFC GR, calcyon, and MR mRNA levels were not significantly affected by early or late prenatal DEX treatment. CONCLUSION: These findings indicate that antenatal DEX treatment could lead to short-term alterations in PFC expression of the GR and calcyon genes, with possible neurodevelopmental functional consequences.
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Oh, how I miss…
I am glad to be back in the U.S. but there are things that I miss from my French life.
Things to do and see
Here are some of the things I have done and seen over the past few weeks in Arles.
Sejour en Italie
Because of Bastille day we had a five day weekend, so some friends and I headed to Cinque Terre, Italy. Here are some pictures from my wonderful time there.
Settling in, but not settling down
This is just a glance at everything that has come with the IES program in the first two weeks.
For the Summer, I am Arlesienne
My first few days in Arles have been terrific. Here are some shots of the city.
My adventures thus far
I have already had a packed and exciting summer thus far between being the Maid of Honor in my sister's wedding, listening to my boyfriend's Ecuador stories, and going on 2 hour trail rides by the lake, but the most exciting part is to come. I leave on Thursday for Arles!


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"bill o'reilly freakout" on youtube is the only bill o'reilly worth watching.
FUCKIT I'LL do it LIVE!!
Fuckinthing SUCKS!!
pretty soon they want to know which political party you belong to --before your approved to own any firearm.
welcome to the 4th reich!
Bill O'Rielly is a populist, he wouldm pimp his mother and sisers for ratings
Can't stand the better than thou A hole. I still believe he is the reason that Judge Napalano got shidcanned on the business channel. The judge was pulling to many viewers. After that no decent show.
Dont watch the moron much anymore, but today he's pushing registration.
They have started to say that all NRA members are crazy.
Crazy. You know what that means. No guns!


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World of warcraft has an incredibly realistic economy where supply and demand truly shape the value of items, and there is an inate sense of how much gold per hour a character should make. This stable economy fluctuates rarely but when it does huge amounts of gold can be made. There are times however, when players go overboard with speculating.
Speculation has it's moments, I have made gold fastest on patch days when new elements are added to the game and everyone wants them right away. Inscription netted me 20k gold right off the bat on the first weekend after it was introduced. It was amazing openning my mail box and life was good. However, things don't always turn out so well for the speculator. In fact, most of the time you are going to fail at speculating. Remember the 80/20 rule? It applies here as well.
Speculation is dangerous and it frightens me to see players spending 90% of their gold on stockpiling items for a patch. You should never throw all your money at any one item, especially an item whos price is yet to be determined. Speculation is gambling, and you should go about it as such. Whatever you bet you should be prepared to lose and not have to get into the soup line anytime soon after. Also, if you plan on selling ALL your items on patch day then you have to consider two factors: What will the demand be (ie how many will I actually sell) and How much competition will there be?
The goal of this blog is to provide you with the tools to create STEADY, DEPENDABLE, ROCK-SOLID, and OTHER SYNONYMS FOR GOOD cash flow which will make you filthy rich in the long run. It's ok to invest in the latest goods, but you should also keep up your auction house, farming, and other wow gold practices to maintain a reliable source of income.
In particular I'd like to address the dream shard issue. Some players are very worried that they wasted their money and I'd like to comfort them with some important information which they may not be aware of.
For starters, guild banks were full of these shards and you have to expect a large amount to come from their stockpiles. Enchanters who bought all of their new enchants were easily gathering the shards as well. If the price dropped because of a flooding of shards, these two groups were the culprits. Understand that although the banks and enchanters have many many shards to sell, they will sell them all eventually and the price will increase. On some servers this process literally took an hour or two before the price of dream shards shot up to 30-40g a piece. However, many servers are still in the process of guild banks/enchanters selling their shards and depending on demand it may take a while for these to be used up.
World of warcraft has an incredibly realistic economy where supply and demand truly shape the value of items, and there is an inate sense of how much gold per hour a character should make. This stable economy fluctuates rarely but when it does huge amounts of gold can be made. There are times however, when players go overboard with speculating.
8 comments: on "Speculation Roulette"
Anonymous said... January 26, 2009 at 8:31 AM
Yes... this has happened on my server. The first day I managed to sell a few for 30g then an hour later the market had been flooded with 10 pages down to 10g/shard and is still hovering around there.
That same situation happened on my server (arthas). i just keep buying them up, all the ones under 14g. i've been using these cheap dream shards to buy new enchants now that i'im 450. I trust Marcko and think that they will eventually go back to that 25-30g mark.
Krazykral said... January 26, 2009 at 9:02 AM
Same here :) I sold about a stack of them on patch day for a reasonable price (around 25-30+ gold each) and within a few hours the price sank to 15-20. I've not sold a single one since patch day, however I've not panicked once :p People ALWAYS need shards, and if you followed the guidelines you could sell them all for 12g each and still not come out a loser. Just hold onto them for a bit longer and your price will return to something nicer :)
On a side note, my AH is still hovering around 10-12 gold each and there's around 150 auctions up constantly. People are too stupid and keep undercutting and flooding the market. As soon as they make a quick buck I'll swoop in and make a large buck :p
Pretty much the same thing happened to my server. Before patch, Dream Shards were hovering around 7-10g a piece. I bought out pretty much all of 7-9g (about 20 stacks of them). After the patch came out, the AH was flooded with Dream Shards and some of them were selling for 4-6g. Right now it's back up to around 8-9g. I guess I'll wait few more weeks and see what happens.
Lindsey said... January 26, 2009 at 7:40 PM
I had stockpiled about 3 stacks of dram shards for the patch. As soon as the servers came up I posted them and managed to bring in about a 400g profit, which is great. I probably could have gotten more but I was being conservative and posting them for only a bit more than I had bought them for. A few days later they were back down to their original price. I know there were probably a lot of people who got screwed by it, but luckily I wasn't one of them.
When WOTLK came out I had stockpiled a ton of the BC mats expecting the price to go up since there would be less people disenchanting outlands gear. It wasn't until a couple of weeks ago that I was finally able to sell them for a decent amount. Sometimes it just takes a lot of patience and luck.
Anonymous said... January 28, 2009 at 9:33 AM
Speculation didnt really go my way this patch:
-Dream shards never took off (collected several hundred of them)
- frozen orb only increased by 10g, collected loads of them too of AH.
- titansteel stuff never got implemented, which we knew for a while, but still collected bout 40 of them..
But, whatever i invested in buying out loads of the above I have made back selling tons of infinite dusts and cosmic essenses. Who would have thought these to that were "nerfed" in usage would rise as much as they have done on my server infinite 6g+ (50%increase postpatch), greater cosmic from 23-25g to 30-40g).
So i have more gold and loads of the above stuff waiting for the right moment..
Markco said... January 28, 2009 at 9:57 AM
The reason enchanting mats are going up in value is due to blizzard removing several easy methods for crafting/disenchanting high level greens.
Currently the cheapest item you can craft/disenchant are the JC rings that cost two eternal earths. If you look at eternal earths on your server I'm sure you'll see that they are either in short supply or atleast going up in value.
Anonymous said... January 29, 2009 at 9:49 AM
Thanks Markco for the input. Yes the main reason why i have so much infinite and cosmics are the cheap JC eternal stuff. Eternal Earth is surely increasing, prepatch between 4-6g, now kinda stuck on the 8-9g. Not to stress the Earth market i usually go for the one with one shadow and one earth.
Shadow still down there round 5g mark.
Thanks for great info..
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Situated in the heart of the North Peninnes, an 18th Century Grade 2 listed building in the centre of the village offering well-appointed bedrooms, a friendly atmosphere and service. The Tea Rooms serve homemade cake and produce and upon arrival guests are offered a complimentary pot of tea and a homemade scone. 12 miles from historic Hexham and 15 miles from Hardrians Wall.
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Sophomore first-team All-League selection Margaret Iliev and Army head to No. 8 seed Alabama in the NCAA Women's Tennis Tournament Friday.
May 10, 2012
CENTER VALLEY, Pa. – The NCAA Tournament gets underway this weekend, with the Army women and the Navy men's tennis teams looking to make some noise and Patriot League history.
Upcoming Schedule
Friday, May 11
NCAA Women's Tennis Tournament – First Round
Tuscaloosa, Ala.
Army at No. 8 Alabama, 5 p.m. | Interactive Bracket
Saturday, May 12
NCAA Men's Tennis Tournament – First Round
Gainesville, Fla.
Navy at No. 12 Florida, 12 p.m. | Interactive Bracket
In addition to the two squads getting ready for the national tournament, each had a player honored with a monthly award Thursday. Navy's Calvin Mark was named Patriot League Men's Tennis Player of the Month of April, while Army's Natalie Allen garnered the Women's Tennis Player of the Month honor. Both are freshmen, and both were instrumental in their respective teams' success last month.
Army punched its ticket first by winning the Patriot League Women's Tennis Tournament at Lehigh. The second-seeded Black Knights won three matches, including the championship bout April 22 against rival Navy, to claim their eighth consecutive League crown and advance to the national tournament. Allen was named the Co-MVP of the Tournament, and earlier this week she added Rookie of the Year and second-team All-Patriot League honors. Army led with five All-League selections and swept the major awards, with Jamila Paul (Player of the Year) and Paul Peck (Coach of the Year) joining Allen as trophy recipients.
Navy, which won four straight Patriot League Men's Tennis titles from 2007-10, once again climbed to the top of the mountain with a championship victory over defending champion Army on April 29. The Mids claimed their ninth League championship, all of which but one have come under John Officer, who was named Men's Coach of the Year. Mark garnered the Tournament MVP award after winning the clinching matches in Navy's semifinal and championship victories in the tournament, and he added first-team All-League and Rookie of the Year honors this week.
Army and Navy are seeking to claim the first victories by a Patriot League team in the NCAA Tournament.
Should the Black Knights advance, they would take on the winner of the Oklahoma State-Georgia Tech match Saturday at 1 p.m. If Navy defeats the Gators, the Mids would face either Harvard or Virginia Tech Sunday at 2 p.m. in Gainesville.
In another note of history, the Bucknell doubles tandem of Gregg Cohenca and Evan Zimmer earned the League's first doubles automatic bid to the NCAA Men's Tennis Championships. Cohenca and Zimmer went 20-5 during the course of the year, including a 10-2 mark at No. 1 in the spring. The pair broke into the top 60 nationally in mid-March, making them the highest-ranking Bucknell duo in recent memory. As of the Intercollegiate Tennis Association's (ITA) April 24 poll, they were 68th in the country.
Cohenca and Zimmer will compete in the NCAA Men's Tennis Championships beginning May 23. All competition is slated for the Dan Magill Tennis Complex in Athens, Ga.
CALVIN MARK, NAVY Fr., Union City, Calif.
Mark combined for a 6-2 mark in April, going 3-1 at each singles and doubles during the month. His first competition of the month came April 14 when he logged a 6-2, 7-6 (3) win over Army freshman Alex Van Velzer. He added a pair of straight-sets wins in the Patriot League Tournament, picking up the semifinal-clinching point with a 6-4, 6-4 triumph over Bucknell's Evan Zimmer before securing Navy's fifth League title in six years with a 6-4, 6-2 win over Van Velzer again in the championship match. Mark played all four of his doubles matches for the month at No. 1 with Peter McDonald. Two of their victories came against Asika Isoh and Henry Jang-Milsten of Army, including an 8-6 win in the League championship bout.
NATALIE ALLEN, ARMY Fr., Shoreline, Wash.
Allen has won nine straight matches, including all eight during the month of April and all seven against Patriot League opponents. She logged three straight-sets victories in the Patriot League Tournament last month, picking up wins against Holy Cross, Colgate and Navy en route to helping the Black Knights claim their eighth consecutive League crown and accompanying NCAA Tournament berth. She was the first Army player in 11 years to win three singles matches at the League tournament. Allen was named the Co-Tournament MVP and brings a 29-7 singles record into the NCAA postseason. She's 21-3 in dual matches this season, while her 29 overall wins are the most by a Black Knight since 2004-05.
OLIVIA RAUH, COLGATE Fr., Washington, D.C.
Rauh was 5-1 at singles for the Raiders, all at the No. 6 flight, with four of those victories coming against Patriot League opponents. She picked up a 6-0, 6-0 win over Lafayette's Lauren Gibbons in the quarterfinals of the League tournament April 20, helping to send Colgate to the semifinals for the sixth straight year.
ROMMEL VERANO, ARMY So., Edinburg, Texas
Verano combined for an 8-1 mark in both singles and doubles, with a 6-1 ledger across both competitions against Patriot League opponents. All four of his singles wins for the month came in straight sets, including a 6-3, 6-4 victory over Lehigh's Andrew Krentz and a 6-1, 6-3 triumph against Navy's Nicholas Gutsche in the Patriot League Tournament. His only singles loss of the month came April 14 at Navy to Gutsche in three sets in a match where he was suffering from debilitating cramps. He was forced to serve underhand through much of the match.
JOSH KATTEN, BUCKNELL Jr., Plainview, N.Y.
Katten was nearly unstoppable in doubles competition with partner Evan Zimmer throughout the month of April. The tandem went 8-1, with their only loss an 8-5 decision to Colgate in the quarterfinals of the League tournament. The two rebounded for an 8-3 win the next day over Navy in the semifinals, though the Bison ultimately lost the contest. Katten was also 3-1 in regular-season matches against League opposition during the month.
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Seven-time defending Patriot League champion Army entered this year's League tournament in unfamiliar territory as the second seed, but the Black Knights took care of business with three victories to capture their record eighth-straight League crown. Freshman Natalie Allen shared the Tournament MVP honors with junior Erin Colton. It was Colton who picked up a three-set victory at No. 1 singles over Navy's Darien Sears to clinch Army's 4-1 win over Navy in the championship final.
The Navy men saw their four-year run at the top of the Patriot League come to an end in last year's tournament semifinals, but the Mids roared back in 2012 with a 5-0 mark in League play during the regular season to capture the No. 1 seed. With the tournament taking place in Annapolis, Md., the Mids had the benefit of the top seed and zero travel. They defeated Bucknell in the tournament semifinals before capturing a 4-1 victory over defending champion Army in the title match April 29. Freshman Calvin Mark was named the Tournament MVP after winning the clinching matches in both tournament wins. Navy captured its ninth Patriot League crown, one shy of Army's League-leading 10.
ALL-LEAGUERS, AWARD WINNERS REPRESENTED AT NCAAs
The Army women led the way with five All-League selections, while the Navy men were tied for the most with three on the men's side when the squads were announced earlier in the week. In addition, the Mids picked up two of the three major awards, with Calvin Mark (Rookie of the Year) and John Officer (Coach of the Year) capturing awards. Army swept the major awards in women's tennis, with Natalie Allen being named Rookie of the Year, Jamila Paul Player of the Year and Paul Peck Coach of the Year. All three of Navy's All-League selections made the first team in Mark, Marcus Rebersak and Peter McDonald. Paul, Erin Colton and Margaret Iliev were first-team selections on the women's side, while Allen and Della Taylor earned second-team recognition from the head coaches.
The Patriot League's academic awards in men and women's tennis were announced earlier this week, with each champion featuring one student-athlete on the Academic All-League squad. Army's Jamila Paul, a sophomore who garnered the Player of the Year nod and first-team All-League status, was named Academic All-League, while Navy junior Nicholas Gutsche earned Academic All-League laurels on the men's side.
The Navy men, who are making their fifth trip to the NCAA Tournament in the last six years and sixth overall as Patriot League champion, are headed to Gainesville, Fla., for the second time and first since 2008. The Mids fell 5-0 to the Gators that year in the first round. In this year's tournament Florida is seeded No. 12.
Women's champion Army is making its first trip to Tuscaloosa, Ala., and will face No. 8 seed Alabama in the NCAA's first round. The Black Knights are making their eighth consecutive trip to the NCAA Tournament and their first voyage to Tuscaloosa as the League's representative. The Patriot League champion traveled to California six times in seven years from 2004-10, but Army's trip to Alabama is the second straight season in which the League titlist is not headed to the West Coast. The last such back-to-back stretch was 2002-03.
Lehigh junior Andrew Krentz and Holy Cross senior Emily Marr were honored earlier this week as the Patriot League Scholar-Athletes of the Year in men's and women's tennis, respectively. Krentz, who became Lehigh's first Scholar-Athlete of the Year since Ty Esler in 2004, owns a 3.94 cumulative grade-point average working on an integrated degree in engineering and arts and sciences. He's a multi-year Dean's List member who has achieved a perfect 4.0 GPA in three semesters at Lehigh. Krentz was 12-8 in singles and 10-10 in doubles matches this season for the Mountain Hawks. Marr is the first Crusader named Scholar-Athlete of the Year in women's tennis, and carries a 3.59 GPA while double majoring in psychology and political science. Marr combined for 25 victories this season, including an 11-5 singles record, and helped the Crusaders to an 11-5 dual-match mark in 2011-12, its best in six years.


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- Price Before Booze & Tip: £10.50 for a Hot Toddy
- Official Site: http://doubletree3.hilton.com/en/hotels/united-kingdom/doubletree-by-hilton-hotel-london-tower-of-london-LONTLDI/dining/index.html
- Telephone and Address: +44 207 7091000; 7 Pepys Street, London EC3N 4AF
- Location: Tower of London
Expect a hot winter this year.
Why? Because you're about to discover the hot cocktail. It's comforting and delicately spiced and so drinkable it's a little worrying. Most importantly, it's about as cold-weather appropriate as you'll get without wellies on and a flask of Lemsip on-hand.
One bar repping the winter warmer trend is Skylounge: offering up comfy cocktails against the spectacular backdrop of its 12th floor city view of the Tower of London and The Shard.
Skylounge's seasonal winter drinks are a love letter to staying in and wrapping up. Ignoring the rooftop outdoors area and sipping a steaming glass of something nutmeggy whilst admiring the lit-up London skyline is the stuff that makes winter worthwhile.
The bar's special Hot Toddy menu is small but effective. The Classic Hot Toddy can be made using either Scotch or Cognac, and the Coconut Chai is a fittingly fruity variation on the theme. Another popular choice on the warm menu is the Hot Buttered Rum, featuring delicate spice notes and a enjoyably-bad-for-you butter top layer. It was also just a bit too strong for this writer (I don't know what I was really expecting from a big mug of rum), but nevertheless, true rum fans will be in warm boozy heaven.
The Hot Toddy you must try this winter though, is the Kuddly Kracken. Its name alone brings to mind a comforting embrace from a big wet seamonster and to be honest, that's a pretty accurate description. It's Skylounge's own recipe, made using Kracken rum and infused with delicious, festive spices to create a tall, amber cocktail that in all its festive buttery goodness, tastes a bit like a biscuit. A scorching and wonderfully alcoholic biscuit. Yum.
With a prime location, it's probably no surprise that the patrons here are overwhelmingly city-worker men in suits. This is no bad thing -- in fact, it's evidence that despite the bar being found at the top of the Double Tree by Hilton Tower of London hotel, it's not just the hotel guests that it attracts. But it also means that this is not a place to pick up dates. If that's how you'd like to spend your night, instead opt for the nearby East London bars in the direction of Old Street and Shoreditch. No, this is a place to keep in your arsenal for getting a drink with friends if you happen to have a meeting in the City, or for taking a business contact for an evening drink.
Unfortunately for Skylounge, the bar's non-descript modern aesthetic does have an inescapable air of Generic Hotel Bar about it -- even with the attention to detail in its Hot Toddy recipes. We just wish the locale offered the same comfort and cosy escapism that its menu does.
The bar snacks, on the other hand, are simple, yet exactly what you'd want after an evening brimming with spirits: it's all about nuts, fries and battered stuff. Three essential food groups that, on a night out, are all we ever need. The bar menu stand-out comes in the form of tempura inspired, beer-battered green beans with a sumptuous blue cheese dip: the perfect way to satiate the kind of alcohol induced hunger pangs that only deep-fried food can satisfy.
Despite its unassuming surroundings, Skylounge is a great spot to have up your sleeve when you're in the City: the sweeping views of London are made even more impressive by how tucked-away the whole thing is. And what better way to gaze over a stormy, wintery London than in a warm bar, sipping an even warmer, buttery Hot Toddy? Steam in, guys.