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A few weeks back, Gators fans waited patiently for the Indiana-Michigan State game to end on ESPN before the network switched over to Florida-Missouri. While we waited, we were treated to a great finish with the Hoosiers pulling out the gutsy road win in the final minute. Two hours later, the Gators could not do the same in Columbia. Everything that Indiana did right to finish off its victory in East Lansing, the Gators did wrong at Missouri.
Why was Indiana successful where Florida failed? The easy answer is the Hoosiers are a much better team than the Gators. Most will concede Indiana might be better than Florida but it isn't a huge gap. And certainly Michigan State is much better than Missouri. So what was the difference?
Florida has now lost six games on the season, all away from Gainesville, with five of the six decided by six points or less. Even more distressing, Florida has blown comfortable late-game leads in four of the losses. These numbers become more biting when combined with Florida's consecutive Elite Eight collapses in 2011 and 2012 and Billy Donovan's overall 58-76 at Florida in games decided by five points or less.
Many will argue that luck is a huge factor in determining who wins and who losses a close game. The most recent example occurred this past Sunday, again with Indiana, this time against Michigan. If you watched the final minutes of that game, you saw no less than three glaring examples of luck on the Hoosiers side. First, the Wolverines missed three straight free throws down the stretch, including two front ends of 1-and-1's. Second, IU
should could have been called for an intentional foul on a breakaway layup but the refs didn't do it. And third, Michigan's last shot to win it rolled all the way around the rim before falling away and giving IU another close road win.
In Florida's five close losses this year, no such luck entered into play at any time. In fact, it was usually the opposite (see the final minute of the Arizona game). So is Florida just unlucky? There is something to that but it isn't the main reason for their struggles. The Gators contributions to their own late-game demises are obvious. Poor shot selection, increased turnover rate, inability to break the press, rebounding issues and poor defense have doomed UF more than bad luck. But there is no denying that if Florida had experienced luck like Indiana did against Michigan, they'd have won at least one of their close games.
Still to me there is one factor that may be more important than any of this. The Gators lack a star go-to player. Let's go back to both Indiana examples for why that's the most important factor. In the Michigan State game, potential player of the year Victor Oladipo made the plays down the stretch with a put back lay in and a dunk, then sealed the game with two free throws after securing a big rebound, all in the final minute. In the Michigan game, All-American Cody Zeller scored six in the final minute, including a whirling double move layup for the lead with 13 seconds left. We've seen it throughout the year with big-time players – Ryan Kelly against Miami, Otto Porter against UConn, Marcus Smart against Kansas and Trey Burke against Michigan State – making huge plays in the final minutes of big wins.
Despite all the Gators issues, they've had chances to win all five of those close road games. But when the Gators need a big play, where can they turn? Their most effective offensive weapon is Eric Murphy but he can't create his own shot. Their most physically imposing presence is Patrick Young but his offensive game is severely limited. And their best off the dribble attacker is Mike Rosario but he doesn't have the size and strength to attack and score against a packed-in defense in the final minutes.
This isn't to imply that you can't win close games without star players. But when you have stars, you can overcome some of the negative plays you might make earlier in the game knowing they will make a play late to help you win it. Without a star who can create his own shot, get into the paint and to the rim or draw two and three defenders to create an open shot for someone else, your margin of error is extremely small. Yes, you can still win close games with good execution and complete trust in your system, but all too often college kids on the road cannot stick to the fundamentals of that system and end up making mistakes that cost you.
Kenny Boynton was supposed to be the star the Gators relied on this year. Boynton was one of the top recruits in the country back in 2009 in a class with the likes of John Wall, Derrick Favors and Demarcus Cousins. For Billy Donovan, Boynton was a huge piece in rebuilding after the back-to-back titles and departure of the '04s. In fact, expectations were so high, no one thought Boynton would make it to his senior year in Gainesville. In his freshman season, he helped the Gators get back to the Dance and announced his presence on the national stage with 27 points in the Gators loss to BYU (which was of course a tight game the Gators had multiple chances to win but didn't). Boynton's big game resume grew in his sophomore season when he scored 17 against BYU and in the aforementioned Butler collapse.
But despite the sometimes gaudy scoring numbers, Boynton earned a reputation as a gunner with poor shot selection. Alongside Erving Walker, they could shoot the Gators into and out of any game. Boynton had his best statistical season last year when he averaged 15.9 points per game, shooting 44% from the field and 41% from three. But his poor shot selection doomed him in clutch situations and the Gators increasingly turned to Walker or Bradley Beal at the end of games. Don't underestimate how much they miss Walker this season, either. I won't make a huge point of it, but despite all his naysayers, he was never afraid to take or make the big shot at crucial moments. As great as Scottie Wilbekin is, it hurts to not have a point guard who can bury a big three in the final seconds.
This year when watching Boynton, I have had eerie flashbacks to another Gator. In 1999, Billy Donovan signed an All-American guard who wasn't supposed to last long in Gainesville before heading to the NBA. Brett Nelson helped the Gators reach the NCAA title game as a freshman and had his best season in 2000-2001 when he averaged 15.3 points per game on 45% shooting from the field and from three. By the time Nelson finished his senior year, he had forgotten how to shoot, making only 30% of his shots and averaging a paltry six points per game. Boynton's numbers haven't slipped to that level (12.5 pts/g, 39% FG, 33% 3PT) but watching him take ill-advised threes, I've often found myself thinking of Nelson. Yes the two play very different styles with Nelson a true point guard and playmaker while Boynton has always been a scorer. But their similarly disappointing senior seasons will be forever tied in my memory.
On the eve of the SEC and NCAA Tournaments, all of these factors leave Florida in a very precarious situation. We know they will do well if they can shoot the ball from distance early and get up big. And perhaps they have a run in them like the 2006 team that also had six regular season losses, was extremely balanced without a superstar and entered the Dance as a 3-seed (which Florida currently projects too). They won every game by double digits except one, needing a late game miracle shot by Corey Brewer to get past Georgetown in the Sweet Sixteen. And therein lies the danger for this year's team. As Billy Donovan said this week, the Gators will be in another close game at some point this season. We know they don't have a star to save them so will they have the mental toughness to stick to Billy's system down the stretch and pull it out?


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Jerry Clower was born in
Liberty, Mississippi, on September 28, 1926. He
joined the Navy immediately after finishing high
school, and served on the aircraft carrier Bennington
in the Pacific during World War II.
After the war he attended Southwest Mississippi
Junior College and Mississippi State University,
receiving a degree in agriculture from the
latter. He subsequently became a fertilizer
salesman for the Mississippi Chemical
Corporation, and over a span of eighteen years
rose to the position of director of field
It was while working as a
salesman that Clower's gift for humor became
known; he often told humorous stories about his
childhood as a way to improve sales. One of his
friends thought he should go into comedy full
time and taped one of his stories and sent it to
MCA Records in Nashville. The record company was
impressed, and Jerry Clower from Yazoo City,
Mississippi Talkin' was released in 1970;
the album achieved gold status within a few
months, and Clower gave up fertilizer sales for
comedy. By 1973 he was a regular at the Grand Ole
Opry, and remained as such until his death.
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around life in the rural South and the multitude
of situations that non-Southerners found
hilarious. He was especially famous for the
Ledbetter clan, a family of hicks he made up for
the purpose of relating various stories. In
addition to humor, Clower was also known for his
devout Southern Baptist beliefs, which
occasionally made their way into his stories. He
served as a lay minister and deacon at his
hometown church, and also hosted a Christian
radio show and a syndicated television show.
Clower was also the author of
four best-selling books: Ain't God Good
(1975), which became the basis and title for a
documentary film which won an award from the New
York International Film Festival in the category
of Ethics and Religion; Let the Hammer Down!
(1979); Life Everlaughter (1987); Stories
from Home (1992), an autobiographical
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Jerry Clower died in Jackson, Mississippi, on
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For many children, going back to school usually means receiving a flashy, new backpack and markers, but for some school children these items are a luxury their family cannot afford. Madison and Mackinsey Mascali, 13 and 10, saw this need in Contra Costa County and founded Packs With Love, which gives a backpack full of school supplies to a child who otherwise wouldn't have one.
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Hollywood Actors: Six-Packs That Speak Lines
Via Outside the Beltway, I see that Men's Journal has a lengthy article on what it takes to be a male movie star these days. The short answer: 3 to 4 percent body fat, an incredibly carved six-pack and lovingly sculpted musculature. Because that combination does not normally occur in nature, the long answer involves nutritionists, traveling weight trainers, and more-than-occasional injections of testosterone and human growth hormone.
In other words, a Hollywood star is not so much an actor, or a body. It is a nearly starving body that has been stripped of almost all its naturally occurring subcutaneous fat, then artificially bolstered with various supplements and medical technology to make it look like a statue rather than a famine victim.
The actors are being treated like actresses. And they don't like it:
"Either you have it or you don't," says Fast and the Furious star Rick Yune, "It's not about Sean Connery's fitness, or Liam Neeson's muscles. You see Clint Eastwood point a gun -- and you believe it. It's not the physical. It's what you put behind it."
What Yune is really complaining about is this sense that studios see actors as bodies now -- interchangeable in a global movie business that's built more on brands than stars. More than ever, studios are building franchises around fresh, inexpensive faces with bodies that can fill a superhero costume.
"One of the reasons there are so few real movie stars is that there are very few who are distinguishable from one another," says Nicolas Winding Refn, who directed Ryan Gosling in Drive and Only God Forgives. "Everybody can get a six-pack, so it has no value. Everybody starts to look alike. It's the soul that makes you a movie star. Not your body."
In today's movie world, however, is this really true? More and more of the big movies today are franchises, in which the name and the character are arguably more important than the actor, who can change -- by my count, we are now on our squillionth Batman. This, in turn, is driven by fundamental changes in the markets. Movies are now all about international box office receipts. And the international box office doesn't care about your personality.
Watching a movie with subtitles or overdubbing is a fundamentally different experience from watching one in your own language, which is why foreign movies used to be the taste of the minority of people who liked entertainment better if they had to work for it. Incredible amounts get lost in translation. If you've ever seen an American movie abroad, even with an English-speaking audience, you'll probably have noticed a weird phenomenon: They laugh in different places than you do. One lonely Sunday in London, I went to see Eddie Murphy's "Doctor Dolittle," and I was mortified to find myself cackling madly all by myself ... then sitting in puzzled silence 10 minutes later as the rest of the audience went into paroxysms of laughter over something that hadn't even caused me to crack a smile.
Any sort of subtle verbal humor is, of course, entirely out. So are culturally specific references to things like history and geography. In fact, the more your movie relies on nonverbal cues, the better. Slapstick is better than jokes, explosions are better than exposition, and a cut physique is much better than character development, which might not translate across 100 countries.
As I said, the male actors are just going through what the women have long experienced. Of course, Hollywood has always had its starlets, and it has always been cruel to aging women. What's remarkable now is that almost no one seems to make it past the age of 30. When good home video became available, women stopped going to the movies so much -- and as a result, Hollywood cut back on movies for women, so they went to the movies less and less. Now Hollywood produces one movie for adult women a year, maybe two in a very good year, and the rest of the field is abandoned to teenage boys. And when you name the top female stars, the ones who actually star in nonfranchise movies by themselves, you hear names like Julia Roberts, Sandra Bullock, Meryl Streep, Diane Keaton -- many of the same names you would have heard if you'd asked that question in 1995.
Now male movie actors are also becoming commodities -- bodies who occasionally speak lines. They're not in quite as dire a place as female actors, but it's not good for them -- or for those of us who like movies in which nothing explodes or dies and the characters actually talk to each other.
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On the downside, this is a resistive screen rather than a capacitive one, which means controlling it with your finger isn't quite as easy as it could be. To be fair, Archos has produced one of the best resistive screens I've used, but it still falls foul of being slightly sticky, and I often find myself selecting something random when I'm trying to scroll down a list. This isn't a deal breaker by any means, but it does make the Archos 5 Internet Tablet slightly frustrating to use at times.
Another frustration is the accelerometer, which is somewhat erratic, to put it mildly. The orientation is supposed to switch from landscape to portrait as you turn the device, but I constantly find it switching randomly for no apparent reason. To be fair, this problem has improved significantly after the many firmware updates, but it's still there, and still annoying when I find myself having to turn the device through 90 degrees for no good reason.
While I'm on the subject of issues with the hardware, the Archos 5 Internet Tablet can also be incredibly slow in operation. I often find myself waiting for what seems like an age after making a selection. Even something simple like pressing the Back or Home buttons can leave the Archos 5 thinking for a while before responding. Considering that there isn't much on my device other than the core applications, I can only assume that this will get worse if you start to install more apps.
It has never been easier to install new apps to an Archos device, because this is the first PMP that the company has produced that runs Google Android. Just like the plethora of mobile phones that sport the Android platform, the Archos 5 Internet Tablet can access and download a whole library of apps via the AppsLib store. It comes with a base suite of Android apps installed, some more useful than others, but the real win is the ability to download apps that suit you, just like with an iPhone or iPod touch.
If you're an Android user you're probably wondering why this device doesn't use the Android Market to download apps like every other Android device. Well the answer is that the Archos 5 Internet Tablet can only use Android apps that are specifically designed for it, which kind of limits the usefulness of the Android implementation in the first place. As things stand, the level of Android support on offer for the Archos 5 is fairly limited, and while this will no doubt improve with time, I doubt it will ever compete with what's available via Android Market.
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I slight correction concerning why Android Market isn't available (yet) on this device. The Archos screen has a resolution of 800x480, which is not natively supported by the version of the Android OS it ships with. It's this lack of official support that prevents Google from allowing access to it's core apps and market, so this is why Archos had to design apps specifically for it. Support for this resolution was incorporated into later versions of the Android OS (versions 1.6 and above). Archos are due to release the updated Android OS in the next few days and with it the inclusion of the Android Market (and maybe even the google apps).
bit of an overly frank intro paragraph that.
so you saying if its rubbish you wont review it,bad reviews hurt your website,whilst letting chums by blindly hurts no-one.
Betelgeus, it sounds more like he was waiting until the device was ready to be reviewed. There'd be no point releasing a review early, slating it badly for having so many bugs only for the bugs to disappear a couple of months and firmware updates later. Think of it this way -- a review released a week after it was released would be relevant for a few months, but then it would be out of date for the rest of the device's life.
@betelgeus: I agree, it would be better if Archos released products with great firmware & software stability and functionality out of the gate. But they don't tend to, so rather than having a review that needed to be updated with further releases, let's get an accurate one after they have made their updates.
Reviews are not live document. They take a snapshot in time. If you take a photo when people aren't ready, you wouldn't keep it. It's not representative.
nice in-depth review, Riyad, thanks ;-)
@betelgeus – Errr no, I'm afraid you've got completely the wrong end of the stick. I have no problem saying that a product is poor if it is so, but as has been pointed out by AlexMck and Eddy Hall, writing a review based on the initial release firmware would have meant that the review was completely unrepresentative of the device a month or so later.
And no, bad reviews don't hurt my website in any way shape or form. The point is that experience told me – that's experience from being a technology journalist for the past fifteen years or so – that there would be a flurry of firmware updates shortly after release of this device, so I waited a little while. Now, if you're suggesting impropriety there, why not ask yourself why I needed to start the review the way I did at all. I could have not mentioned that there were all those problems early on, which surely would have made Archos far happier.
I can guarantee that had I reviewed this device back in November with the original firmware, right now there would be a plethora of readers telling me that many of my complaints had now been addressed and that the review wasn't a fair assessment of the product.
As I said in the review, and as Eddy Hall reiterated, Archos should not expect early adopters to bug check their devices, but this is often the case. So, I decided to review the device once it functioned properly, but made a point of highlighting the fact that it was far from perfect out of the box. That way, the review stands the test of time, but readers are still made aware of the early problems.
@Riyad: I can't believe you actually had to spend time explaining that. You must get pretty tired of these comments sections sometimes...
To my mind, it's this kind of transparency that helps set TR apart from the crowd and some of us really appreciate it.
err chris no...
just type archos 5 internet tablet into google and you get reviews dating back to september,i would rather TR reviewed at time of release stating how it was and mentioning firmware updates may improve things.
would you rather come here to see things reviewed 4 months later than anyone else.
many products are released in beta form these days,look at the furore over ssd's.
i would rather be informed at the time with updates as and when.
@betelgues – there may be people claiming to have "reviewed" the Archos 5 Internet Tablet in September, but all they did was have a quick play with one at the launch event, as I did…
In fact, if you actually look at the "reviews" you're citing from September, pretty much every one of them is a news report or a quick hands on from the launch, just like my piece above.
Actual review samples were not available until the end of October, so anyone who claims to have reviewed it prior to then had spent very little time with the device at all. And I know from first hand experience that those early devices didn't even have the full feature set enabled.
Proper, detailed reviews started to appear in December, and had I not been quite so busy on the run up to Christmas, I probably would have posted this review a few weeks back, but instead I had to take time out over Christmas to get it polished off before flying out to CES.
As for products being released in beta form – I have never reviewed any product until it is in full production form, anything prior to that will get a preview, without scores of conclusions. Again, many other publications will run so called full reviews of preproduction samples in a bid to be first and grab traffic, but I don't feel that does the reader much service.
Great review - have to concur, more or less, on your observations
I have a 160GB (HDD) model and have found it a wonderful convergence device, but with typical Archos quirks. That said, as is their form, Archos have released a flurry of constructive firmware updates, and the platform is solid and dependable.
I have owned a variety of PMPs in recent times, the last few all being Archos. The A5A is comfortably the most rounded of recent devices, and I feel that this reveiw was accurate, informative, fair and balanced.
Nice review, good to see TR reviews getting a bit longer. I think the extra detail over 3 page reviews is useful.
Funny how people complain about a review. I mean it's not like TR have to review any particular product. Sure this review could have come out earlier - and then been updated - but it's fine to come out now as better late than never and this is the product you'll get if you buy it now.
But with CES pumping out a lot of tablets I'd hold off buying something like this until we know what's available at the end of the week.
of course people would buy it, but only some at best if not few... why ? what would you think it were a smart phone ? would you be more anxious to buy it despite the big screen ?
Hey, does this properly support multiple audio formats in .mp4 containers or .mkv? It supposed to, as in, it would say use a vorbis stream over DD. What about multiple subtitle support? That's a handy feature the itouch thankfully supports.
Good Review Riyad. I was just wondering if the the hard disk variety of the Archos 5 internet tablet would be any slower than a solid state memory version, as I am considering getting one but don't really know which version to get, either the 64GB or the 500GB.
I bought one of these for Christmas, for my son, who is Autistic and loves you tube, only to discover that it does not support you tube and he can not use it to access videos this way! Anyone got any advise as to a similar free service he could use or any way of enabling him to use you tube
I've had the same problem, and I'm going to try to solve it by hacking it to a later android version... but that's not really practical advice and I'm only doing it as a little project of mine.
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yes i'dl ike to know that as well.. i did use the email link a week ago and have heard absolutely nothing back part from the automatic acknowledgemnt email..
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I grew up near this drive-in. The screen was close to and very visible from Highway 101. At night it was always fun to get a glimpse of the movie on the big screen when driving by!
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Look, I believe English is important, but still… peter needs to do a john kerry and disappear.
You're turning your target audience off with your clumsy remarks, Mister.
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Much as I, too, favor increased attention and resources given to the promotion of English, it's notions like those peddled by Peter Wallace that help discredit the proponents of the language.
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TALLAHASSEE - For members of the Florida legislature, it was time to 'get to work' on Tuesday, as their annual 60-day legislative session kicked off. Governor Rick Scott started the session by delivering the annual 'State of the State' address, his third since he was first elected.
In a speech that focused mainly on jobs and education, the Governor touted Florida's improving unemployment rate and the nearly 200,000 private sector jobs that have been added since he first took office. "I believe Florida will be the number one place in the world for job creation," said Scott in his speech.
State Representative and small business owner Keith Perry, who represents portions of Gilchrist, Dixie and Alachua counties, said after the speech that he thought the Governor hit all the right notes, especially when talking about job creation. "We came up here to do a job, to get people back to work. That's the fundamental thing that we have to focus on, is getting jobs," said State Rep. Perry.
During the 37-minute speech, Governor Scott also recounted his own mother's struggle to afford healthcare, and how that experience moved him to recently announce his support for an expansion of Medicaid under the President's new healthcare law.
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Discussion in 'Fan Zone' started by Cbz40, Dec 4, 2005.
Good job D.........lousy Field position
hmm someone tivo that and see if manning was really throwing that ball..
i question the call lol
You know, the way that we're getting pressure on the punter lately, it wouldn't surprise me if Bill doesn't call an all-out blitz and try to block one today.
Oh god don't tell me we're gonna do what the Giants did last week.
dangerous, dangerous
It looked real close to me too.
3rd down!! Crayton! Crayton!!
Free first down!
Horrible penalty for the Giants - stupid and horrible.
just a bit long
is it just me or does soemtimes terry glenn slow down on the deep balls?
You know what else? We can run on this team too.
And that's going to be great news for the Cowboys today, especially with this crappy weather.
I'm sure we'll se plenty more penalties by the Giants.
I just hope that we don't begin getting penalized.....we've been pretty good about that all year.
Another free 1st. That guy was all over Glenn
Just about everytime he turns around to find the ball, he slows down.
good call refs
OLine getting handled
O-line needs to do their job and open up some holes.


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U.S. Marine Corps veteran Kurt Mason hugs a member of the Southeast New Mexico Patriot Guard Riders at Roswell International Air Center, Saturday. Mason and veteran Kenneth Kaighn are headed to Alto for an elk hunt, sponsored by Base Camp 40 and Warrior Bands USA.
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U.S. Marine combat veteran Kurt Mason walked into the Roswell International Air Center Saturday night expecting to start an elk hunting trip. But before he did anything, he stopped to hug each man and woman who stood guard before him holding an American flag.
"I think I'm kind of at loss for words," Mason said. "Words can't describe [auth] what people give back to us nowadays. Ever since I've been hurt, people have opened up their houses, businesses. It's heartwarming."
Mason, from Wyoming, and Kenneth Kaighn, who also served in the Marine Corps and the U.S. Army, were met at the airport by the Southeast New Mexico Patriot Guard Riders. The two were severely injured in combat and are on 100-percent disability. Both served in Afghanistan, and Kaighn spent time in Iraq and Somalia.
The trip is sponsored by Base Camp 40 — Warrior Hunt New Mexico, and Warrior Bands USA, a Texas-based company that creates wrist bands out of paracord for active military and veterans. Base Camp 40 is a non-profit organization that hosts veterans for hunting trips on private land.
Jon Gifford, owner of Warrior Bands USA, of Houston, said he wanted to help get Mason and Kaighn on the trip.
"I said let's set up a hunt. Let's get this list rolling," Gifford said. "These guys deserve a free hunt for what they've sacrificed for us."
Gifford waited at the airport as the two arrived. He snapped a Warrior Band on them, telling them about its symbolism as he did.
"They've never met each other," Gifford said. "They met in Dallas on a connecting flight here."
All expenses will be paid during the five-day trip to the Cornerstone Ranch in Alto.
"It's going to be a blast," Mason said. "I can't wait. I've never hunted big game before in my life."
Kaighn, from Colorado, said he was really excited about the trip.
"It's been a long time since I could get out and be able to do something like that again," Kaighn said. "It means a lot to me to come out and meet Kurt and go out in the wild and experience it. Maybe we can overcome some of our disabilities."
Kaighn shook hands with the veterans of the Patriot Guard Riders when he arrived.
"It's pretty overwhelming for us," he said.
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The Kitchen Table Rethinks Kosher California Cuisine
In New York, Paris and Jerusalem there are several upscale kosher restaurants. In Northern California, there is only one – and "kosher" doesn't even get top billing at it.
The Kitchen Table, describes itself as "a California-style restaurant that happens to be Kosher." Located on Castro Street's busy restaurant row in Mountain View in the heart of Silicon Valley, the chefs think out side of the kashrut-box to attract both observant and non-Jewish diners.
The restaurant is known for upscale Jewish fare, like its pastrami and corned beef (both cured and smoked in-house) and an entire wall of the restaurant is covered in artfully framed photos of Jewish families eating together.
But "we are not trying to be a New York-style Jewish deli or a re-creation of your grandmother's kitchen," said Jay Vigilla, Chef de Cuisine, who has worked at the The Kitchen Table since it opened in the spring of 2009. "We are a fresh, seasonal restaurant," he continued. "We stick with what is seasonal in terms of produce and fish. We're fortunate to have so much available to us here."
Maintaining the integrity of the rotating seasonal menu means that favorite items disappear for months at a time. "Our yam fries were very popular, but we decided to only serve them when yams are in season. Otherwise, the fries end up having the wrong consistency," Vigilla explained.
With the produce so close by and its constant changing nature with the seasons Vigilla and Executive Chef and General Manager Steven Long are constantly coming up with new ways to incorporate it into their dishes. For instance, their knishes go far beyond the traditional potato, spinach or kasha ones. On a recent visit, the daily knish was filled with flavorful beef, fresh arugula and tomatoes.
Such spontaneity, however, cannot apply to the main meat menu items, which typically include beef, chicken, lamb, turkey and even duck. With no kosher shechitah (ritual slaughtering) available in this region of the country, the restaurant must resort to shipping in meat – sometimes fresh, sometimes frozen – from Los Angeles or other cities. "Our biggest challenge is the meat. We really have to plan ahead when it comes to this," said Vigilla.
Vigilla acknowledges that with the strong emphasis on organic, sustainable, and ethically sourced food in the Bay Area and Northern California, there could be a growing demand for food that meets these criteria and is also strictly kosher. And when the time comes, Vigilla sees The Kitchen Table as possibly taking part in building the requisite infrastructure.
In the meantime, the owners and chefs are glad to be able to please the palates of both local kashrut-observant Jewish families and Apple, Google and other hi-tech company employees who stop in for lunch or dinner.
"Our matzah ball soup may not be as good your grandmother's – and I am fine with that," said Vigilla. "We do what we can to honor traditional Jewish food, but we put ourselves – and Northern California – into it."
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The pair frequently meets in social gatherings and their annual game of Christmas charades, where they are constantly pitted against one another. Streep, who has been married to sculptor Don Gummer for 31 years, has admitted that their deep friendship and her admiration for his film work has made it easy for her to slip into the role as Tucci's on-screen wife.
"Stanley and I are always on opposite sides in a very famous charades game during Christmas. We've been at each other's throats like married people for a long time, many years and we knew each other in that way," the Daily Express quoted her as saying.
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Friday, April 16, 2010
IOWA CITY, Iowa -- Willie Argo got hit in the head by a pitch against the Iowa Hawkeyes last Sunday and had a small problem. His batting helmet was damaged and had to be replaced before he could run the bases. Argo, of course, was perfectly fine.
Yes, Willie Argo is a tough customer.
Argo was a four-sport star at Davenport Assumption High School in Iowa, excelling in football, wrestling, track and baseball. Now he's "only" a baseball player at the University of Illinois, and a good one. Baseball America named him the best athlete among all ballplayers in the Big Ten, an honor he probably could have lived without.
"My teammates saw that and made fun of me a little bit," he said.
Nobody else makes fun of him. If they do, it's their mistake.
Argo, 20, scored 83 touchdowns in high school, an Iowa Class 4A record. He placed third at the state wrestling meet, and anchored sprint relay teams that finished second and third at state track meets. He hit .481 for Assumption one year, then hit .508 the next. Gong back a little further, he socked a home run in the 2001 Little League World Series.
So yes, Willie Argo is an excellent athlete. In high school, it was practically non-stop. Football practice would begin in August, and the baseball season would end in July. In between would come wrestling and track, so there wasn't much time to rest.
"It takes a toll on you," he said. "I had to miss a little bit of wrestling one time, and in football one time I didn't practice for like six weeks. And I missed a little bit of the baseball season my sophomore year. It takes a toll on you, but I wouldn't want to be not playing a sport and sit around and do nothing."
Argo, 6-1, 205, is now a one-sport athlete at Illinois. And a good one.
"It's nice," he said last Sunday after the weekend series against Iowa. "I kind of miss some of the other sports, but I can watch those and play flag football at school. It's nice to be able to work on my baseball game every day, because I think I'm pretty raw as a player and I have a lot of room to grow."
Raw? Argo had a stretch this season where he hit 30-for-63 for a .476 average with 12 RBIs, 18 runs, four doubles, a triple, a home run and went 15-for-16 in stolen bases. Everybody should be so raw.
"I don't know if I really went 30-for-63, but I'll take your word for it," he said. "I've just been using my speed, putting the ball on the ground. When I'm the leadoff hitter, I swing at the first pitch a lot; pitchers are trying to get ahead in the count. I haven't exactly been killing the ball, but the ball has been falling a lot."
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Argo enjoyed playing a variety of sports in high school, but he always liked baseball the best and thought it was the logical sport for him to pursue in college.
"On the football field, there were plenty of guys who could do what I did," he claimed. "In baseball, my skills – or tools – are probably a little more rare, so I thought that was probably a little more valuable on the baseball field than on a football field or anywhere else.
"Yeah, I like baseball the most. It's different in college. It's a lot more work, but I still enjoy it the most. I see the football guys – that's all they do the whole year, and they hate it, so I think I picked the right sport."
Argo was selected in the 49th round of the 2008 major league draft by the Arizona Diamondbacks, but did not come close to signing. "No," he said, smiling, "they didn't even make me an offer."
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Finnex planted plus or ray II
I have a standard 55g tank which I just started planting. I'd say its low tech. Using excel, flourish, and iron supplements. I don't plan on getting high light plants and would prefer to stay low tech. I just want 1 48" fixture so which would work best?
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I would look into a planted plus. Ray 2 puts off a lot of light. Planted would give you nice growth withought the high light
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Will it be enough to still reach the bottom of the tank and maybe promote flowering on my red lotus?
Will the rayII put me at the need for co2 injections where the planted plus can possibly still be good with only using excel?
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How deep is your tank? There's par values on the site I believe. Can't remmebr them off hand. I'll look them up
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Approx 18" from substrate to light
This thread describes the issue fairly well. ut if the Ray II has the same number of bulbs as the Planted+ then you are taking away a few bubs which do fairly well on
plants(as far as the spectrum being good, but not in any "sweet spot" for the plants)
and replacing them/w better bulbs(that are exactly in a sweet spot that the other Ray II doesn't cover.) I would use the same line as for the Ray II to see how much PAR you get from it and it says 45 at 20".
If you want to stay low tech, then it's good for that at 20". The problem/w the overall picture might be that most will want tall plants to try and "fill" that height and then any plants in the shadows of the taller ones lack good light. Anubias, Jave Ferns don't need much light so they could be planted in those shadows and do just fine.
If you haven't gotten the tank yet they do make a 40L which has the same footprint but 16" tall. The visible light from the Planted+ is less which leeds some to think it
might not be enough for a 55 but for one that's low tech it is just right IMO.
How about the current USA fixture? A little cheaper with some neat gimmicks?
If you are growing the same plants, whether you go with the Finnex Ray II or Planted +, I would go with the planted +. You will be much happier with the colors that your plant leaves will have vs a Ray II. The greens are much deeper green. I have both of these fixtures on separate tanks.
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Good responses. He hit it on the head! +planted plus
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I'm in the same boat. I have a 20in deep tank and I'm running a Build My LED 24in dutch H/O but would like a 2nd light to cover the back of the tank. I like the output of the Ray2 but it doesn't have the red LED's I need for my red plants. Guess I'll have to try out the Planted Plus.
Thank u all for the input. Between this board and another one I posted at planted + was overwhelmingly the favorite. Another light has come into the equation now and that is the current satellite plus. Thoughts?
I have the Current Sat Plus on an ADA 60-P tank. The light is suspended about 2 inches above the top of the tank, and the tank has probably 3" of ADA substrate. I think it's been on that tank for about 3 full weeks now. My fissiden mosses are loving the light, I have a really good green biofilm on the 3 edges of the tank- which I want because I am keeping shrimp in it. The different lighting options are really pretty cool. After you play with them, you probably find your favorite and stick with it. However, once I have shrimp in the tank, I might do the simulated cloudy day where the light intensity fluctuates/cycles around.
For your 55 gal, it might be stretching it a bit. You're probably just on the edge of low light getting down that far. If it were me, I'd probably go with the Finnex for that tank, and if you find that it is a bit too much light, get some risers to lift the light up, shorten your photo period, etc. I think toning down a light is easier than having to make up for not enough. I actually have both brands of lights on different tanks, and like them for different reasons. On my shrimp livestock tanks where I don't have the depth to worry about, I get the Current lights because I like the light cycle features and the color options. On my mainly planted tanks, I like the Finnex because the tanks are deeper, and I have the extra pop in the PAR that I can deal with if it is too much light.
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