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Peter Blight
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Global freelancer
Melbourne, Australia
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Saw this the other day, it really is incredible. Regardless of how much experience he has, doing something of that quality in his spare time is an amazing achievement. The alien design was actually cool and not just an over-zbrushed muscle/vein showcase. The mech was also interesting and original (despite the multi eye Matrix similarity). Even the city was well done.
I'd pay to see it as a feature, though with the big jaws and muscles around them I'd expect some kind of mouth opening as part of the evolutionary combo (would make emoting a lot easier on the audience for two hours too). I get why it was done for the short, no way could he have included lip synch as well in that timeframe.
|01 January 2013
brain filler
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Posts: 1,519
cool story, design, and overall quite incredible quality.;my hat off to whoever did this.;it's a really great short and I enjoy watching it much more that certain high standart short from companies around.
|01 January 2013
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Mr. Array
Join Date: Jan 2002
Posts: 3,004
I'm sorry, but I'm extremely skeptical that a 22 year old film student can do all of this in the course of 7 months. An experienced team with time to iterate, along with an established pipeline and workflow? Yes. First year film student? Nope. Some of the things that he states in his blog don't add up either, like his claim of 4-6 minute render times that he makes here:
Really? For frames with GI, motion blur, and volume particle effects? In another post he claimed that he was using "Maya" for rendering, so I'm assuming MentalRay? Unless this guy somehow happened across a computer from the future, complete with the processing power of an entire render farm embedded into a single CPU, then those render times are not happening. This whole thing smells like a publicity stunt to build up hype.
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|01 January 2013
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Join Date: Aug 2004
Posts: 1,401
Seems he landed a job:
Needless to say, his insanely impressive short has already caught the attention of quite a few movie company execs, and Kaleb will be making his way to Hollywood later this month. Not bad for a first year project.
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|01 January 2013
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Christopher Bischoff
Lead artist & game designer.
The Brotherhood
Johannesburg, South Africa
I would assume that the school gave him access to resources that he wouldn't have otherwise had. Direct feedback from people, computing time, perhaps even software.
Of course this is doable in 7 months. The majority of the production value comes from his very skill full use of cameras. Otherwise, I count maybe 6 sets, and 10 assets?
I would hazard a guess that many of the assets are rebuilt using previous ones. The interrogation bot for one could just be a hack-job of the big walking robots (probably happened the other way around, with the 2 main hero assets being built first).
I don't know what render engine he is using (Im a Vray user, so take that as a yardstick), I really don't see the issue with render times.
Those render times, if you are breaking your scenes up into layers are extremely doable. I work in high end architectural illustration, and with pure renders of large cityscapes and such, we need to keep our render times to below 7 minutes/frame for animation, or the farm just becomes too expensive to use. GI is cheap nowadays, and things like motion blur can be done in post with virtually no hit in render times.
Volume Particle Effects can be done in separate passes, so as not to interfere with GI, and takes times down to seconds a frame.
As I write this, I'm rendering an animation on my home PC. Full GI, Particle Effects, flashing and flickering lights, 1 main organic character, and a really large set containing a huge tram station. Its down to 7 minutes a frame, including all lighting calculations.
For me, the most impressive part of this animation is his camera work. No fancy zooms, and 'floaty' camera. He seems to have attacked the shots as if he had a limited gravity-bound camera rig, and has set up his scenes as such. The subtle changes in lighting of the main character are really well done to heighten the emotion.
The sound design is also really top notch, and grounds everything in reality. Really excellent stuff!
|01 January 2013
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If you download the original version you can clearly see the GI flickering pretty horribly. It is most evident on the robot. Those render times seem very plausible.
|01 January 2013
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Daryl Bartley
vfx goon / gfx ho
Los Angeles, USA
Join Date: May 2002
Posts: 4,050
How is this so hard to believe? It's not THAT flawless/polished to say it would take a huge team to do.
He was clever and practical in his use of limited locations and staged shots, no lipsync, etc. to minimize everything and still tell the story. I didn't see anything that outrageous in the rendering or scope of the shots that it would be impossible.
For someone with years of experience it should definitely be doable..not the easiest thing, but it's not like he had never seen a computer in his life and waltzed right in and did this.
Not to diminish his accomplishments either, it was a very nice effort, but seems like there is too much amazement or skepticism on both sides.
|01 January 2013
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Kel G
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Surrey, Canada
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Posts: 3,435
I assume he planned it well before going to school and just used the school equipment to render it. Maybe also planned the marketing of it well in advance too (i.e. using the claim that he was a first year student to get attention unless he managed to hook up with someone media savvy who knew how to exploit it).
It showed some decent directorial choices, editing and overall design--the improvisation worked for me--using expressionless characters and relying on lighting and other things to make it interesting. I think its impressive for that but I was getting bored by the end of it and wouldnt want to watch a movie based on the concept.
Its very good for showcasing his storytelling abilities and time-cost cutting efficiency, but as a story its pretty generic despite nice visuals.
Good for him if he gets a job out of it.
The speed genius hype is getting tired though.
Next year it will be someone who made a short in 4 months if the trend continues.
|01 January 2013
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Giancarlo Ng
Quezon City, Philippines
This. Incredible the ways one thinks of completing a film when you know from the off that you don't have resources.
Not to mention he cleverly used the "interrogation" to serve as the main structure. That means for a vast majority of the film the alien doesn't move at all save for some small body movements and head movement.
The alien's mouth doesn't even move. And when the alien runs from the lab, the running is cut off at the shoulders.
All this designed so that he can focus on the bits he really wanted to have in the short which was more on the FX, the lighting....
Very smart guy.
"Your most creative work is pre-production, once the film is in production, demands on time force you to produce rather than create."
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|01 January 2013
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I think marketing is the keyword here. What better way to get noticed these days where people seem to believe anything they read than to create the cute story of the "1st year student without means" to appear on social networks and forums like the next "wunderkind" who'll end up for sure on tv news and billion views on youtube? From his own Vimeo:
Written - directed - animated by Kaleb Lechowski
Hartmut Zeller - Sound
Dave Masterson - Voice acting
Scott Glassgold / IAM Entertainment - Representation
Really? A professional musician, a professional actor doing the voices AND an agent? How many 22 year old in school do you know with the means to get all that? And an agent to promote your story and animation to the whole world? And people believe in fables about not having the means to do it before school etc? I wouldn't be surprised if a silent team was behind the modeling and compositing. The animation was shoddy at parts (the escape looks like stop motion bobbin' up and down, his cliche'd slow motion jump at the robot head looks terrible specially after the music buildup).
I don't get why these days, in spite of the massive amount of free knowledge around and very nice hardware available for home consumers, stuff like this and other overrated products like the Tears of Steel, the Blender pastiche of bad CG and mediocre animation (they couldn't even get the robots frame-rate right at the end) gets praised. I understand the general audience who still gets hypnotized by lens flares, but not trained artists who should have higher standards and not be mesmerized by fairy tales and a forgiving rethoric "oh, its ok, that shot there didn't even make sense but he's still only a first year student" but then scrutinize to the frame an established studio production.
In my humble and probably against the tide view, once you upload something on the tubes to promote yourself, it doesn't matter your background, if its something from Blur, Disney or a poor "genius 15 year old kid who found a computer while running from a lion and learned 3D in his night time with a book he found on the trash", you should be evaluated in the same terms and standards and your background shouldn't ever affect trained critics, specially with the ease it is to create a nice marketing strategy based on some "awww" story.
|01 January 2013
Chris Kautz
Freelancer/Character artist.
Yeah it doesnt work like that.
Sometimes a cheap looking website will generate more business than a well designed and classy one. People think the business with the cheapo site will charge less. In this situation quality looses. There goes your theory.
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|01 January 2013
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Christopher Bischoff
Lead artist & game designer.
The Brotherhood
Johannesburg, South Africa
You would be surprised at how a friendly email will get people involved in your project. I have had some very top tier voice artists, and composers email me about working on my project, for the joy of collaboration, and having a cool portfolio piece.
As for the representation, its the same company who represented the guy who did ROSA. Im assuming that the representation was offered to him after the release by a company that has experience in this area.
I don't understand who you can say in one breath that this is good enough for a team to have done, and in the next sentence say that the animation is shoddy (alluding to it being amateur).
Could some people just think that the short is of a very high quality? Because it is. It is a very cool short. Its brilliantly executed, and brilliantly designed. The fact that its actually a completed project with a limited time line just makes all of those other elements more impressive.
Now, is this Luxo Jr? Is this going to revolutionize CG in this day and age? No. But should something that's clearly an impressive act be swept under the carpet because of some strange jealousy of elitism?
|01 January 2013
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Giancarlo Ng
Quezon City, Philippines
@Shesul: First of all, you are 100% correct about everything being marketing surrounding R'ha. The presence of representation means the publicity and everything is already staged.
While it's been true the short has been online for only 24 hours since the call from some studios in California, the truth is the agent has probably been shopping the short around in video clip form for quite a while. Maybe even as far back as 6 months to 10 months back. I know some people who work in that industry. They work VERY hard and the general public is ALWAYS the last to know.
Secrecy is a primary weapon in the business of entertainment.
This is the reason why "releases" (such as the one in THR accompanying R'ha) seem to be too good to be true. They are applying known methods used in studio productions to material as small as "student work".
Because if Secrecy is the primary weapon, then Timing is the secondary weapon.
That said, it is probably true Kaleb did this himself. Again, you have to look at the technical dissection done by some of the people above in this thread. Kaleb reduced the color palette to a bare and repeatable minimum. The alien barely moves. Many of the machines look like quick "hack jobs" and many of the city FX look like they were done with miniatures and stock particle FX.
It's the VFX and rendering that really push this work. That's Kaleb displaying his "tactical mind" as well as his artistic vision.
The only thing Kaleb wanted was to grab a viewer at "first viewing". He has done enough to do this. I doubt there is a "secret team" behind this, because I think he has honestly pared down the complexity quite a lot. It only seems complex because of the lighting and rendering style.
Lastly, as someone who recently created a short himself, I can tell you that when we do these things we do aspire to the same standard as Blur, Disney, Digic, etc. We know we cannot hit that. But it doesn't mean we do not stretch ourselves to try. People who appreciate these things recognize what was done right. But if you look at comments, people also see what was not done correctly or what can be improved upon.
I admit some of the comments like "It's better than studio productions" are probably exaggerated and they come from a different place. I don't subscribe to those kinds of comments - but you can't stop that from happening.
Even a film like "Jesus Christ: Vampire Slayer" has its staunch admirers.
But I also think the view that professionals and critics are lowering standards when looking at student work is not entirely accurate. The standard, as I always like to say, is there in the cinema.
"Your most creative work is pre-production, once the film is in production, demands on time force you to produce rather than create."
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|01 January 2013
Aang Airbender
Air Temple, USA
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Posts: 194
7 months was quick but then again that is about 1 month per minute. Other filmmakers like Jeff Lew did about 3 minutes per month. It is great seeing how good and how fast he did it. In fact it makes me ask the question is "why aren't teams of people just as fast?" I've seen some nice, good and great shorts around the 6 minute mark and they took 2 years to do it and had a team of about 20. I guess some folks might have to rethink their methods if a dude by himself can match the speed and quality of 20 people. That I don't get.
4-6 minute render times....I think others have already addressed this through personal experience. So yeah it is possible especially as he mentioned with a 50 machine renderfarm.
One cool thing about actors and musicians, even professional ones, are willing to give support to a project. Many of them love to collab. Traditional and CG artists, modelers, animators usually have a slightly different mindset than actors and musicians. If you go to voice acting forums and musical forums and put out the word for a collab, you'll get 30 responses to every 1 response you get on say the collab forum here. Musicians the same thing. In some instances you can even find famous folks willing to drop down on a collab. The support from those types of artists doing music and acting is very healthy. So I see him being able to get that support. Agents on the other hand have to find good artists and find them work to get themselves paid so if you have some talent it ain't that hard to secure an agent.
Awwww stories are great. We as humans love "awww" stories. To think that someone was able to do something out of the ordinary, like make a quality looking film of this caliber. It is good looking. It is on par with many studios back in the day. To achieve this level of quality is impressive, trained or untrained eye. Even some of the negative comments "he didn't do this by himself, he had a team" , should show you that it is not ordinary to do this quality at this level and in that time and he did it. He gave folks something fun to watch, was very creative it making it look better than it was and shows some skill. Imagine what he can do in another 10 years of experience.
I really dig this and Rosa. That dude did his in a year using Poser err....Daz models. But in both folks case it seems to have opened a lot more doors than a demo reel could have.
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If you do it right, building a family time capsule doesn't mean you forgo massive profits in the garage-sale market. Not even that mouth-breather who pulls up in the '73 Le Mans would cast a second glance at the stuff I crave from my formative years: a faded menu from the Stockyard restaurant at Aurora Village; the primitive "phaser" I carved from wood lath and used to stun the housecat; a pair of Toughskins jeans; the tube of "Vampire Blood" I purloined from Fred Meyer; the can of lighter fluid and the subsequent police report.
But I have none of that. Most of my youth is preserved on Kodachrome 64 slides inside a carousel in the recesses of Mom's closet. Even if I mustered enough interest to find them and assemble the slide projector, the images would leave me hollow. There's nothing tangible on those color transparencies, nothing that communicates directly from past to present.
Thanks to either my growing appetite for nostalgia or the onset of dementia, I have decreed this winter the season of the Blaylock time capsule. If you have the means, have a go yourself. By all accounts, they are fun to assemble and even more fun to open, assuming someone remembers or even cares where it's stashed. Below are some tips for building your own little piece of family history.
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Find something sturdy and moisture-resistant. A large Tupperware container will do, and include a bunch of gallon- and quart-size Ziploc bags for individual items. The Tupperware should be as large as possible — at least the size of two shoeboxes. (You can also use some smaller Tupperware containers for each child so they can have individual time capsules; in 10 years, nobody will remember whose Thomas that is.) Those large plastic storage bins at the hardware store are another option, but sealing them becomes an issue if you bury the capsule outdoors, pirate-style. (See below for outdoor storage guidelines.)
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- Keep "top of mind" the words of "time capsule historian" William Jarvis, who laments that most time capsules are filled with "useless junk."
- Consider including descriptions of each family member, a letter from you to your older self, a menu from a favorite restaurant, a certificate from a summer camp, a piece of jewelry your child wore every day for a year, a can't-put-it-down toy catalog.
- Remember the adage "Comedy is tragedy plus time." My parents burned the clothesline I used to tie up my brother, but that's exactly the kind of memory that evokes guffaws around the dinner table these days.
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- Storage devices such as CDs, DVDs, video- and audiotapes, etc. may not be playable in the future, what with media standards changing so quickly. NASA's Voyager spacecraft, launched in 1977, is carrying a gold-plated phonograph record to communicate with alien beings. To most of us, that's the modern equivalent of a cave drawing.
- If you insist on using recordings, try to put them on a variety of media. Still, tangible content is the goal; I would trade 385 minutes of my parents' home movies for my old G.I. Joe Sea Adventurer.
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Marcos Zotes, winner of the Reykjavik Winter Lights Festival 2012, and Chris Jordan presented Rafmögnuð Náttúra in Reykjavik, Iceland, as the main event for the festival in February. The work consists of a temporary, site-specific installation that appropriates the facade of Hallgrímskirkja church with a large video-mapping projection. The aim is to transform the static condition of this iconic landmark into a dynamic, engaging and participatory visual experience, and to intervene by socially activating its surrounding public space.
Marcos explains: I am fascinated with finding new ways to interact with the existing urban environment. I feel the city is there for us at our entire disposal, and we must reclaim its public spaces and urban structures in ways that exceed the limited uses for which they were originally intended. In this case, I wanted to subvert the static and timeless image of Hallgrímskirkja church and temporarily turn it into a contemporary, interactive and participatory experience. The idea is to make people look at their everyday environment with completely new eyes.
In Rafmögnuð Náttúra, a series of site-specific video performances and visuals inspired by the four elements are video-mapped and projected onto the church, specifically adapted to each particular detail of the façade. The intention is to challenge the audiences spatial perception with an installation that blurs the boundaries between dance, film and architecture. Of note is the participatory role of the audience, who becomes an active element capable of interacting with the light projected onto the building. The work included a live performance of Icelandic band For a Minor Reflection.
Marcos Zotes is an architect and artist who lives and works in New York.
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Technical Direction: Chris Jordan
Animation: Marcos Zotes, Thessia Machado, Noa Younse, Andrea Dart, Steven Tsai, Chris Jordan
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Videography: Azmi Mert Erdem, Raghul Sridharan
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When Dave Dombrowski took over the Tigers, not only was the cupboard bare -- there wasn't any cupboard.
Things have improved to the point where Detroit has used minor league prospects to fill needs in the last two offseasons, and yet the organization still could lose prospects in the Rule 5 draft.
The Tigers set their 40-man roster Nov. 20, and there wasn't enough room for Randor Bierd, a promising 23-year-old who bounced back sharply at the Class A and Class AA levels after missing 2006 because of arm surgery.
Re-signing free agent left-hander Kenny Rogers would mean trimming another player -- unless Detroit does something sneaky like agreeing to terms with Rogers, who fired agent Scott Boras, and delaying the signing until after the winter meetings.
At any rate, a full winter roster means the Tigers probably won't be participating in the Rule 5 draft's major league phase for the first time in several winters and might lose several players in the draft.
The Tigers were able to trade a serviceable utility infielder, Omar Infante, to Chicago to get a regular left fielder (Jacque Jones) from the Cubs because they had bench players deemed ready to make the jump in shortstop Ramon Santiago and utilityman Ryan Raburn.
Dombrowski traded three pitchers to the New York Yankees for DH Gary Sheffield two winters ago and earlier this offseason shipped a promising young pitcher and a precocious center fielder to Atlanta for shortstop Edgar Renteria.
"We are in a situation now where, to compete for a championship, year in and year out, you've got to keep your major league club going," assistant GM Al Avila said the day after right-hander Jair Jurrjens and center fielder Gorkys Hernandez were traded to the Braves. "At the same time, the only way you can continue this for the long term is to continue feeding good, young players into the organization. That's the only way to do it. We have to stay balanced in order to stay competitive."
Dombrowski cited young pitching and two center fielders ahead of Hernandez (Curtis Granderson and Cameron Maybin) as reasons he felt able to make the deal without stripping the farm system.
Drafting hard-throwing young pitchers is a focus of Detroit's restocking. The Tigers have also been aggressive (within financial limits) in signing Latin American talent.
"We don't say, 'Let's go after a catcher in the first round because we need a catcher,' " Avila said. "The top talent will always have top value. If you take the best player, he can better your organization by playing for you in the big leagues, or you can trade him to help where you have a deficiency."
Sheffield, although he got hurt, was seen as a productive acquisition. Renteria, the Tigers believe, will keep the club strong at shortstop while letting Carlos Guillen strengthen the first base spot on offense and defense.
--LHP Kenny Rogers dumped his agent, Scott Boras, Nov. 16 in a move widely seen as a precursor to the free agent re-signing with the Tigers. Rogers sent e-mails to Detroit newspapers acknowledging he was talking with the club about a 2008 contract. The 43-year-old said at the end of last season he wanted to think about retirement and that if he came back it would only be with Detroit. Then Boras stunned the Tigers at the general managers' meetings by saying he wanted to establish a market for Rogers. Detroit had put out two one-year contract offers believed to be in the neighborhood of the $8 million it paid him last year, when he was limited to 11 starts because of shoulder surgery and a sore elbow. One of the contracts might have been for less money with generous incentive bonuses based on games and innings. Rogers, possibly feeling himself squeezed out in a limited market, notified the Major League Baseball Players Association he was dismissing Boras and representing himself. Clubs were informed of the change in a league-wide e-mail. Rogers, in his e-mail to Detroit newspapers, said people should be patient.
--LHP Danny Christensen was outrighted to Class AAA Toledo on Nov. 20 after he was designated for assignment and cleared waivers. Christensen was acquired from Kansas City in October as compensation for RHP Roman Colon, traded to the Royals last summer. Christensen struck out 99 in 140 2/3 innings at Class AA Wichita in 2007. He was drafted in the fourth round by Kansas City in 2002 and has put up a 4.80 ERA with 473 strikeouts over 566 2/3 minor league innings covering 116 games in six seasons.
--C Dane Sardinha was re-signed to a minor league contract that likely contains an invitation to major league spring training. Sardinha, 28, batted .202 with 10 home runs and 47 RBIs in 117 games this season for Class AAA Toledo. He was called up by the Tigers in September to be a bullpen catcher even though he was not put on the major league roster.
--RF Magglio Ordonez finished second to 3B Alex Rodriguez of the New York Yankees in balloting for the American League Most Valuable Player, announced Nov. 19 by the Baseball Writers' Association of America. Ordonez got the only two first-place votes that did not go to Rodriguez, and both came from Detroit writers, who both cited the Tigers' right fielder's league-high overall batting average (.363) and average with runners in scoring position (.429) as major reasons for their decisions. Rodriguez had 382 points to 258 for runner-up Ordonez. Ordonez will receive a $200,000 bonus for his finish in the voting. "That's why they signed him to that long-term contract," C Ivan Rodriguez said. "They know he can hit. That's the Magglio we're going to see for years. I'm just very happy for him. He's our MVP, after what he did. He was everything for us." Ordonez was Detroit's first batting champion since Norm Cash in 1961 and had the highest batting average by a Tiger since Charlie Gehringer hit .371 in 1937. His hits and doubles totals were the most by a Tiger since George Kell in 1950. His second-place finish was the highest by a Tiger since Cecil Fielder finished a close second in both 1990 and 1991 to Rickey Henderson and Cal Ripken, respectively. LHP Willie Hernandez was the last Detroit player to be MVP and also was named the Cy Young winner in 1984.
--Former Detroit 3B Tom Brookens was bumped up to manage Class AA Erie after former C Matt Walbeck was plucked from the Tigers' organization to be third base coach for the Texas Rangers. Brookens, 54, has finished with a winning record in all three of his seasons as a manager in Detroit's minor league system. He led the Class A West Michigan Whitecaps to a Midwest League title in 2007. Brookens has already managed some of the organization's top prospects, at West Michigan and short-season Oneonta, where he spent the 2005 and 2006 seasons. He makes his year-round home in Pennsylvania, a couple of hours from Erie.
--Detroit made no changes in the 40-man roster it filed Nov. 20 with Major League Baseball. "We felt comfortable with our roster, as it is now," GM Dave Dombrowski said. The Tigers will have to drop a player if they re-sign free agent LHP Kenny Rogers. Several minor league players left unprotected could be taken in the Rule 5 draft next month at the winter meetings.
BY THE NUMBERS: .429 -- RF Magglio Ordonez's batting average with runners in scoring position this year, when he hit a league-best .363 overall. The RISP average was by far the best in the league and a key reason he finished second in the AL MVP balloting.
QUOTE TO NOTE: "I spoke with Dave (Dombrowski, Tigers president and general manager) Monday to let him know I needed some time to get up to speed on my new job. I hope to speak with him again soon." -- Free agent LHP Kenny Rogers, expected to re-sign with Detroit after firing his agent, Scott Boras, and negotiating on his own behalf.
Adding a starter is the final chief component of the Tigers' offseason restructuring plans. The re-signing of RHP Todd Jones to return as the closer eliminated a chief need that arose when RHP Joel Zumaya hurt his shoulder. The acquisition of LF Jacque Jones added a decent left-handed outfield bat to the lineup. The club solved its shortstop problem with the acquisition of Edgar Renteria to facilitate the shift of Carlos Guillen to first base next season. Detroit needs two rotation members but will fill one in-house. The Tigers would like LHP Kenny Rogers to come back and take the other slot.
ARRIVALS: SS Edgar Renteria (trade with Braves), OF Jacque Jones (trade with Cubs).
DEPARTURES: RHP Jair Jurrjens (traded to Braves), INF Omar Infante (traded to Cubs).
BIGGEST NEEDS: Two starting pitchers -- but only one coming from outside the organization. LHP Kenny Rogers is the first choice. The return of RHP Todd Jones to close, filling a need created by the loss of RHP Joel Zumaya for at least a half-season, means the addition of a seventh- or eighth-inning pitcher can wait, possibly until spring training.
FREE AGENTS: LHP Kenny Rogers, RHP Todd Jones, 1B Sean Casey, IF Neifi Perez. Rogers has decided he'll pitch again next season at the age of 43 and fired his agent, Scott Boras, and represented himself in negotiations expected to lead to his return to Detroit. Jones signed a one-year deal to return to Detroit the day before he could negotiate with other clubs as a free agent. Casey has been told he won't be offered a 2008 contract, and Perez won't be back, either.
ARBITRATION-ELIGIBLE: LHP Tim Byrdak, LHP Bobby Seay, LHP Nate Robertson, RHP Chad Durbin, OF Marcus Thames, OF Timo Perez. GM Dave Dombrowski likes to avoid arbitration and eliminated SS Ramon Santiago from the list by signing him to a split contract. The acquisition of LF Jacque Jones means Perez is probably not going to be offered arbitration.
IN LIMBO: OF Timo Perez had a hot September and might have limited market value, but the presence of LF Jacque Jones means he probably will be squeezed off the roster. RHP Chad Durbin is one of a handful of bullpen members who are out of options (RHP Jose Capellan, RHP Jason Grilli plus others), and that could make them trade material. 3B/1B Mike Hessman showed power and Detroit signed him to a split contract, but he still could be dealt.
RHP Joel Zumaya (right shoulder AC joint surgery in October 2007) will be out until at least midseason.
DH Gary Sheffield (right shoulder surgery in October 2007) should be able to hit by the start of spring training, but he might need more time before he starts throwing.
C Vance Wilson (Tommy John surgery in June 2007) hopes to be able to throw well sometime in the spring.
RHP Jeremy Bonderman (right elbow strain) was shut down in late September; rest is his prescription.
LHP Kenny Rogers (sore left elbow) ended the season pitching with an elbow that wasn't 100 percent, but rest is the cure.
RF Magglio Ordonez (sore left heel) just needs to keep off his foot to be ready to go in the spring.
C Vance Wilson (Tommy John surgery in June 2007) feels he'll be able to throw by the time spring training starts.


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Bando draws with Kaneko
By Joe Koizumi
JBC#6 Hero Bando (20-10-7, 9 KOs), 130, a former Edwin Valero victim in the Venezuelan dynamite's first appearance here in Japan in 2005, barely fought to a split draw (78-76, 76-77 and 77-77) with slick-punching counterpuncher Daiki Kaneko (10-2-1, 4 KOs), 129.25, over sizzling eight rounds on Monday in Tokyo, Japan. Kaneko was in command, outjabbing and outpunching the game but slow starter with flat foot in the first three rounds. Bando woke up in round four, when he bloodied the footworker's nose and started furiously stalking him with roundhouse and less accurate combinations. Kaneko kept retreating and countering the willing mixer, but his negative style didn't impress the judges to waste his early lead on points.
JBC#2 light-fly Masayoshi Segawa (18-2, 7 KOs), 110.25, positively threw versatile combinations to elusive Thailander Ratanadet Por Thitima (11-6-2, 5 KOs), 114.25, with less precision in the first three, but finally caught him with a flurry of punches to deck him for the count at 2:33 of the fourth session in a supporting eight. Segawa, a busy-punching southpaw, scored six wins straight with four within the distance since dropping a majority nod to Kenichi Horikawa in 2007.
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TARGET applies a comprehensive genomic approach to determine molecular changes that drive childhood cancers. Investigators form a collaborative network to facilitate discovery of molecular targets and translate those findings into the clinic. TARGET is managed by NCI's Office of Cancer Genomics and Cancer Therapy Evaluation Program.
TARGET: Therapeutically Applicable Research to Generate Effective Treatments
Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia
Acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) is a cancer of white blood cells, the cells in the body that normally fight infection.
Acute Myeloid Leukemia
Acute myeloid leukemia (AML) is a cancer that originates in the bone marrow from immature white blood cells known as myeloblasts. About 25% of all children with leukemia have AML.
Kidney Tumors
Pediatric kidney tumors fall into four primary categories: Wilms tumors (~85% of all cases), clear cell sarcomas of the kidney (~5%), congenital mesoblastic nephromas (~4%), and rhabdoid tumors of the kidney (~3%). The TARGET initiative is investigating three of these tumor types.
Neuroblastoma (NBL) is a cancer that arises in immature nerve cells of the sympathetic nervous system, primarily affecting infants and children.
Osteosarcoma (OS) is the most common type of bone cancer in children and adolescents.


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Fallout from a high-profile Calgary bribery case has spread from Canada to Africa, now that Chad's president has reportedly sacked an ambassador for his role in a cash-for-access scheme targeting lucrative oil plays in the African nation.
Just one day after a Canadian judge ordered Griffiths Energy International to pay $10.35-million in fines for a 2011 bribe paid to the wife of Mahamoud Adam Bechir, at the time Chad's ambassador to Canada, President Idriss Deby Itno dismissed Mr. Bechir from his latest diplomatic post in South Africa, according to local Chad media.
A French-language
article said the president responded to the Canadian decision in the most "severe" way, firing Mr. Bechir for transforming his diplomatic mission into a "haven for white-collar criminals." Another website, an opposition publication called Alwihda, reported on Sunday that the president fired Mr. Bechir on Saturday after he was "accused in a bribery case."
When the bribery scheme took off in 2009, shortly after legendary investment banker Brad Griffiths incorporated his oil-exploration company, Mr. Bechir was simultaneously serving as Chad's ambassador to the United States and was housed by an embassy in Washington, D.C.
U.S. State Department documents show he was named Chad's envoy to the U.S. in 2004, but a new person took over in July 2012. Canadian documents identify Mr. Bechir as Chad's ambassador to Ottawa as recently as October, but by November the position was listed as "vacant."
National Post
reached Chad's embassy in Pretoria, South Africa, where Mr. Bechir most recently served, but a press secretary there said he had not been in the country since leaving for Chad on regular official business sometime in November. When asked about reports that Mr. Bechir was dismissed over the weekend, the press secretary said "there is no problem" and that "he will come back." South Africa's International Relations and Cooperation department still lists Mr. Bechir as Chad's ambassador in Pretoria.
A spokesperson for Griffiths Energy International declined to comment on the African media reports. Chad's government did not respond to an emailed request for comment Tuesday. Efforts to reach Mr. Bechir's wife, who was implicated in the scheme after entering into the criminal consulting agreement herself, were unsuccessful. She is believed to be living in Silver Springs, MD.
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ANCHORAGE – Dwight O'Connor sat expressionless in an Anchorage courtroom Thursday morning while a recording of the 911 call that led to three rape charges against him played for a jury.
"He wouldn't let me out and he raped me and he said he would put it in my [expletive] and stuff. He wouldn't let me out I didn't know what to do," the alleged victim's 911 call played through the courtroom speakers.
That was a call made on July 21, 2011 by a mother of three who was at the time a homeless hitchhiker. She had told police that O'Connor had raped her.
Two years later, the victim took the stand following opening statements to share her account of what happened between her and O'Connor.
"I remember just like it was yesterday even though I almost blacked out I thought 'God, don't let me die, help me get out of here I can't take it,'" she said.
O'Connor's attorney Brendan Kelley rebutted the witness' testimony.
"Dwight O'Connor might be a lot of things here — stupid, unfaithful, stubborn, prideful. But there's one thing this evidence is going to tell you that he's not — it's that he's' not a rapist," Kelley argued.
O'Connor is a former head of the Westside Community Patrol and had spent nearly a decade on the Anchorage Public Safety Advisory Commission — appointed by the mayor himself.
Records show O'Connor lied to police several times before admitting to picking up the hitchhiker up near the Northway Mall after an evening spent drinking with his wife.
O'Connor also admitted to trying to have sex with the hitchhiker at his workplace, Golden Nugget RV Park, but said his inability to maintain an erection ended the encounter before it began.
"This was not Mr. O'Connor's best night ever sexually," Kelley said. "Things were not working not for lack of trying, but it just wasn't happening that night."
Yet, evidence shows the DNA found inside of the alleged victim matched DNA found on O'Connor's genitals.
That DNA, however, didn't belong to the hitchhiker or to O'Connor.
A cliffhanger in a case that demonstrates the danger of casting caution aside and climbing into cars with strangers.
The prosectution questioned the alleged victim on Thursday. The defense will cross-examine her on Monday.


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Origin of the Universe
The Least Luminous Known Galaxy
Astronomers' observations of the universe1 provide substantial support for the cosmic creation event taught in the Bible.2 Evidence shows that the universe is comprised predominantly of dark energy … more
Cepheid Variable Stars
Yet six different Bible authors wrote extensively and explicitly about this continual expansion, "the stretching out of the heavens" under fixed physical laws.1 For over two thousand years … more
Proving Cosmic Expansion Using Direct Measurements Only
Opponents of the anthropic principle and of big bang cosmology (whether atheists or young-earth creationists) frequently attempt to push aside compelling physical evidence for these biblically … more
Distance to Double Pulsar Tests Cosmic Creation Models
Space-time theorems prove a supernatural Agent must've created the universe of space, time, matter, and energy. These theorems are true, however, only if general relativity reliably describes the … more
Another Dwarf Galaxy Test of Big Bang Cosmology
Recent astronomical research has accounted for a "missing galaxies problem" and thereby buttressed the notion of a cosmic creation event according to what the Bible has taught for centuries1. This … more
Pulsars in Ultracompact Binaries
Two of the strongest and most compelling scientific evidences for the biblically predicted big bang creation model1 include the continuous expansion of the universe and the reliability of Einstein's … more
More Evidence for Supernatural Creation and Design of the Universe
When all possible confirming efforts say she or he is the right one, one can be confident that the right decision has been made.
The same principle applies in scientific research. Scientists strive … more
Star Formation in Dwarf Galaxies As a Test of Big Bang Cosmology
Astronomers' observations1 of the universe continue to support big bang cosmology–which the Bible has taught for centuries.2 The evidence shows, among other things, that the universe is … more
A Dark Galaxy: Finding the "Missing" Dark Stuff
Many independent sets of observations confirm that only about six percent of all the ordinary matter (neutrons and protons) in the universe is made up of stars and stellar remnants.1The other 94 … more
Gravitational Lens Test for Creation
Yet multiple Bible passages1 described this cosmic feature—making a bold scientific prediction—more than 2,400 years previous to its discovery.
While astronomers have developed many tests … more
Milky Way Galaxy's Tiny Black Hole
The latest and most definitive measurement puts the mass of that black hole at 3,600,000 times the mass of the Sun.1
The Milky Way Galaxy's central black hole by itself is not dangerous to … more
The Right Temperature
One component, the expansion of the universe, is revealed by the cosmological redshift found in distant galaxies. Another component, the cosmic microwave background (CMB) radiation is considered by … more
Testing Cosmic Creation Models, Part 1
At two different outreach events this past month I met both atheists and young-earth creationists who expressed skepticism concerning the evidence I presented for the biblically predicted big bang … more
Cosmic Creation Model and the First Stars
In attempting to achieve a comprehensive validation of the biblically predicted big bang creation model1the greatest challenge for astronomers has been assembling a detailed history for the formation … more
Most Accurate Distances Shore Up Creation History
Opponents of big bang cosmology, both atheists and young-earth creationists, frequently attempt to push aside very compelling and overwhelming physical evidence in favor of this biblically predicted … more
Dwarf Galaxy Test of Big Bang Cosmology
The big bang creation event— as taught by the Bible for centuries1— now stands well established by astronomers' observations of the universe.2This observational evidence shows that … more
Geometric Distance to M81 Buttresses the Distance Ladder Foundation for Cosmic Creation
Yet, six Bible authors described this expansion in great detail over two thousand years ago.1For centuries, the Bible stood alone as the only text making such claims about the universe. Consequently, … more
Primordial Helium Abundance Test of Big Bang Cosmology
Until the twentieth century the Bible was the only "text" explicitly describing the fundamentals of big bang cosmology—a Causal Agent beyond space and time, a beginning of space and … more
Where Is the Cosmic Density Fine-Tuning?
This word picture helps to demonstrate a number used to quantify that fine-tuning, namely 1 part in 1060. Compared to the total mass of the observable universe, 1 part in 1060 works out to about a … more
Beginning and End of Cosmology
Study of the brightest galaxies in the universe persuaded astronomers that 99 percent of the matter in the universe was dark. And measurements of the brightest stars convinced astronomers that three … more


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|Mike Therman
At Michigan ... special team contributor ... two-year letterman ... appeared in 24 career contests ... switched from tight end to outside linebacker during 2009 fall camp.
Senior/Junior (2009) ... earned second varsity letter ... Academic All-Big Ten ... played in all 12 games on special teams ... contributed on special teams in non-conference games vs. Western Michigan (Sept. 5), Notre Dame (Sept. 12) and Eastern Michigan (Sept. 19) ... played special teams in conference opener vs. Indiana (Sept. 26) ... appeared on special teams in road games at Michigan State (Oct. 3) and Iowa (Oct. 10) ... participated on field goal/PAT protection units against Delaware State (Oct. 17), Penn State (Oct. 24), Illinois (Oct. 31), Purdue (Nov. 7), Wisconsin (Nov. 14) and Ohio State (Nov. 21).
Junior/Sophomore (2008) ... earned first varsity letter ... played in all 12 games ... saw special teams action vs. Utah (Aug. 30), his first career game action ... contributed on special teams vs. Miami (Sept. 6), at Notre Dame (Sept. 13), vs. Wisconsin (Sept. 27), vs. Illinois (Oct. 4) and vs. Toledo (Oct. 11) ... played on special teams units in conference games at Penn State (Oct. 18), against Michigan State (Oct. 25), at Purdue (Nov. 1), at Minnesota (Nov. 8) and vs. Northwestern (Nov. 15) ... contributed on special teams at Ohio State (Nov. 22).
Sophomore (2007) ... did not see game action.
Freshman (2006) ... did not see game action.
Prep ... attended Fork Union Military Academy (2006) coached by John Shuman ... Key Statistics... caught 12 passes for 300 yards as a tight end ... grabbed one interception and tallied three sacks as a defensive end ... attended Pioneer High School (2005) coached by Chuck White ... Honors and Rankings... SEC scholar-athlete all four years of high school ... Other sports... played basketball all four years of high school at Pioneer and was named captain his senior year ... Michigan AAU MVP.
Personal ... Mike Brian Therman was born July 20, 1987 ... enrolled in the School of Kinesiology, undeclared major.
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Each day we offer samples of headlines that appeared in the world press along with our comments.
Australia, Sydney Morning Herald: "Harry Potter Banned By Christian School"
Not very Christian if you ask me.
New Zealand, New Zealand Herald: "We've Got To Be Smarter"
Or else we will get more Todd Akins in the Senate!
Turkey, Hurriyet: "South Korea Bans Apple Products"
Does that mean no more apple cider?
Russia, Moscow Times: "Clergyman Wants Guards At Holy Sites"
Isn't God's presence enough?
Sweden, Local: "Seek Garbage Man"
This is one smelly story.
Denmark, Copenhagen Post: "Wake Up America"
Or, you will sleep on the streets of poverty.
France, Connexion: "Prisoners Grow Cannabis In Yard"
At least this will be one high prison.


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Team Tito then claimed that Jameson is lying, and furthermore, that she's battling an addiction to OxyContin.
He is battling on alone at a time when the Republican Party has completely collapsed.
There, he would spend the next decade battling toe-to-toe with his old employer.
Of he course he is not popular among the people he is battling.
Abbas' Fatah party had been battling with Hamas since the latter seized power in the Gaza Strip four years ago.
He hadn't the sense to realise that Lean Bear was only battling with him to keep him awake—alive.
It was sad to see her in these surroundings, battling against the inevitable.
There stood Alvarado unhorsed and battling, with the savages pressing upon his rear.
René, battling with his second parcel, shrugged his shoulders.
Many of these people were gallant soldiers in the late war, and since 1865 have been battling for the Democratic party in Alabama.
early 14c., "to fight," from French batailler (12c.), from bataille (see battle (n.)). Related: Battled; battling.
c.1300, from Old French bataille "battle, single combat," also "inner turmoil, harsh circumstances; army, body of soldiers," from Late Latin battualia "exercise of soldiers and gladiators in fighting and fencing," from Latin battuere "to beat, to strike" (see batter (v.)). Phrase battle royal "fight involving several combatants" is from 1670s.
early 14c., "to fight," from French batailler (12c.), from bataille (see battle (n.)). Related: Battled; battling.


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As everyone is aware, the mens side of the lululemon products has been lacking over the past year compared to the women's. There has been some great product (smash pant, pacific beach hoodie, werc crew, cypress run long sleeve etc) as well as some not as good product (west coast hoodie, domain hoodie, cypress pullover).
This message was posted on the Facebook Page which is very important for more Feedback to be submitted to lululemon so they can help improve the mens line. What do you want to see?
Personally I would love to see more bold colours (lime green, red, bright blues) instead of the usual grey and black (seems to be a pattern recently). I would also like to see the return of the pacific beach hoodie as well as some type of cotton pullover hoodie just for starters. They also need to improve the length of sleeves on some of the recent product. It would also be cool to see some *SE (special edition) products as well.
Basically, you need to submit PRODUCT FEEDBACK more so they know what we want!


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The Craigslist Posting is here. I live in Winston Salem North Carolina. I thought I would post here in case any of you in the area is either looking to purchase a loom or knows of someone who is.
Oh I love it! My mom has been really wanting a weaving loom, I wish we lived closer to each other... and I had more room.:sad:
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W squadron of Canada geese, flying in a huge V over the building site, drew the attention of more than 400 people waiting for members of the Loudonville Public Library Board of Trustees to conduct a symbolic groundbreaking for a $2.7 million, 15,000-square-foot library addition Wednesday evening.
The geese lent a supernatural air to the upbeat ceremonies for the groundbreaking, which capped over a decade of planning and fund raising by library staff and promoters.
"This is an exciting time, culminating years of planning, more planning, hard work and so much time," library board president Arthur Butts indicated in remarks to open the ceremony.
"And this moment would not be possible without the cooperation and support of so many. The designs of this expansion, which you can look at inside of the building, contain virtually every suggestion given us in community surveys which we conducted in our planning phases," Butts added.
"This moment culminates the dreams, staff participation, public participation, architect skills and board vision of many years and many meetings, and lots of very hard work," library director Gayle Patton added. "We are half way to completion of this project. Hopefully, a year from now we will be back here to dedicate our expanded facility. In the meantime, myself and my staff pledge to continue library services with as little disruption as possible."
Bids for the library construction were opened Tuesday, and a contract will be awarded next Tuesday at the regular library board meeting.
Without revealing the low bidder, Butts noted "we were very pleased because our bids came in significantly lower than estimated."
Butts introduced architects for the project, Dave Holtzheimer and Rob Blatchford of Holtzheimer and Associates, Chagrin Falls, who have been working on the project since last fall.
Patton noted that the expanded library, which more than doubles the size of the current 9,000-square-foot facility, will include not just more space for books and computers.


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TNA debuts at the Manhattan Center in New York City tonight for the first of three Impact Wrestling tapings.
Advertised for tonight's first taping is TNA World Heavyweight Champion Lashley vs. Jeff Hardy. Jeff's brother Matt returns to TNA tonight and will be in his corner for the title match.
Also advertised is an appearance by Japanese legend Great Muta. TNA President Dixie Carter has teased that she and Muta will be making a major announcement tonight.
Other top TNA stars advertised to appear include Bully Ray, Samoa Joe, Eric Young, James Storm, Gunner, Magnus, The Beautiful People and TNA Hall of Famer Kurt Angle (who is injured).
Check back later tonight for complete results of the Impact Wrestling tapings from New York City.


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Customize a healthy living plan with this Food Network chef.Top Rated Diets of 2017
Ellie Krieger, a widely celebrated celebrity chef, dietitian, and author of "Small Changes, Big Results" has started a revolutionary new online program called "Healthy Living with Ellie," designed to help people lose weight through healthy diet and exercise. This online program will allow you to be the best person you can be through making some changes to your current diet and exercise.
This is a great program for those that love food and like to eat. Healthy Living with Ellie Krieger will offer you support around the clock and the tools you need for a diet and fitness makeover. You start off by filling out a health questionnaire about the goals you have where weight loss and fitness are concerned. You will receive an email from the site that breaks down your goals and the best way to reach those.
The keys to changing your body include eating better, getting active and living well. Members who sign up for Healthy Living will enjoy the use of 16 different online tools including custom meal plans, hundreds of recipes, a custom fitness plan and several others. Through diet, exercise, and wellness Krieger teaches that you can live the happy, energetic, and healthy life that you deserve.
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- Krieger promotes diet and exercise that is easy to work into a busy schedule
- The program is Food Network Approved
- Healthy Living with Ellie is completely customizable
- Ellie Krieger is a well-known and trusted weight loss and nutrition expert
- The site provides many tools including shopping list guides, recipes, daily meal planners, eating out guides, a calorie tracker, and many more
- Program is completely customizable
- No foods are forbidden
- Great plan for those that love food and love to eat
- Many of the programs are only endorsed for women
- Must sign up to get a complete look at the plan
Healthy Living with Ellie provides ample amounts of nutrition and health information. There are not any restricted foods. You'll simply place foods into three categories to help you define when you may eat them: Usually, Sometimes, Rarely. Eating throughout the day is part of this healthy plan- three meals and two snacks.
You are not limited in what you eat because you have access to hundreds of recipes including Herbed Goat Cheese Dip, Whole Wheat Pancakes with Strawberry Sauce, Oven Fried Chicken, Pasta Puttanesca, Cherry Almond Chocolate Clusters. Below is a sample menu that you might use while on this program.
- Breakfast - cherry vanilla oatmeal
- Morning Snack - energy bar with skim milk
- Lunch - broccoli-cheddar frittata and chopped salad with lemon dill
- Afternoon Snack - pear and cheese
- Dinner - teriyaki pork, soba noodle vegetable salad, yogurt with pineapple
Healthy Living with Ellie includes an exercise component that is customizable for you as well. The importance of having a workout program that fits your fitness level is emphasized so that you are starting at a level that is comfortable for you.
Plans are available for those who love going to the gym as well as those who have never done any exercise. You'll be able to create an exercise program tailored to your personal needs. The components of exercise that are most focused on in this program include cardio, strength training and flexibility workouts.CONCLUSION
Krieger has compounded the secrets of healthy weight loss through diet and exercise in a fun and convenient program. Healthy Living with Ellie Krieger offers all of the necessary elements for you to reach your weight loss goals and get healthy. This is the perfect plan for those that love food and want to implement healthier habits without sacrificing flavor.
You will enjoy having access to 16 different tools and customization on every level. Krieger is a registered dietitian with years of experience so you can be assured that you are in good hands. Weight loss and fitness don't have to have a blanket approach. With Healthy Living you can customize your healthy journey and lose weight in a way that works for you.Common Misspellings
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User Feedback(Page 1 of 1, 9 total comments)
This is probably the best eating program of all to follow. The foods are well balanced, nutritious, tasty and very easy to prepare. Ellie's advice is very good and the whole family can enjoy eating with Ellie.
I love Ellie. I love her recipes and her philosophies and her ideas about losing weight by eating real food and moving more without subscribing to a gym or buying anything fancy.
That said, the site is a total waste of money. Logging food was difficult -- it constantly posted things twice, gave me trouble when searching for simple, real food (instead I got name brands). There is nowhere to log fitness minutes -- why?
I am still a fan of Ellie's and I will continue to cook out of her books. But for online weight loss tools and message boards, I'm sticking to SparkPeople (which is FREE, not $52) and the WeightWatchers forum (ditto).
Whatever company runs this needs to get its act together, otherwise the only money it's going to make is from people curious enough to click past the pay firewall and then cancel out of frustration.
This is a fabulous diet, its for people who like to eat and cook.. Its not good for single people , because the recipes are often for 4-6 people. I cook once every 2 days and eat the same, this cuts down on the cost and labor. All with all the best tasting diet I have been on and don't have many cravings, as the food is delicious. Really good diet. But only for foodies who like to cook.
Ellie Krieger's recipes are fabulous, I will not deny that. I also agree with her suggestions for what types of food to eat (i.e. starch, vegetable, etc.) and how much.
There seem to be a lot of issues with the diet though. Namely that it is not realistic or an efficient use of one's money and time. If one was to follow this diet exactly, they would have to spend hundreds of dollars each week grocery shopping (for one person) and hours cooking each day. Most people just don't have that much time or money to follow it exactly. The diet also does not make use of leftover foods or food that you would use more than once in separate meals so as to buy less items each week. There also is not a way to change diet requirements, like if someone is a vegetarian or does not eat specific foods. You are required to change eat meal specifically. Also, the way you are charged and lack of easy way to cancel the program seem a bit manipulative.
Glenda, maybe you should read more carefully and check your credit card bill every month. Those things sounds like they are your own problems. Every plan like this has a contract, and if Food Network is backing it, of course there is a contract you need to understand before you act. Come on.
The web site is terrible and the diet plan is not explained. The menus she suggests are too expensive in that there is no consideration of leftovers, subsequent days of using up ingredients, etc. The worst part is that I was unaware of the time span the $65.00 for the diet and that they AUTOMATICALLY deduct $65.00 additionally every three months! As is true of the rest of the web site and diet, that detail was not adequately explained either! I was charged $65.00 four times before I discovered it on my credit card bill! I am VERY DISAPPOINTED to say the least. Not worth the money, my friends!
krieger seems to have put together a good plan here. I'm all about new recipes and eating 5 times per day
ellie knows what she's doing and her recipes are delicious
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text: Garmin may end up with no choice but to pay a higher price after it was caught by surprise acquisition moves in the past few months involving the two key players in the mapping industry --- Navteq ( NVT) and Tele Atlas. TomTom got the ball rolling with its cash offer of 21.25 euros a share of Tele Atlas on July 23. The offer represented a 28% premium over the closing price of 16.55 euros a share on July 20, the last day before the bid for shares were made. On Oct. 1, cell phone maker Nokia ( NOK) surprised the industry with its $8.1 billion bid for Navteq -- a move that pushed Garmin tighter into a corner. "Our consideration of an offer to acquire is really rather recent given the significant changes that have just recently taken place in the industry over the last 90 days," Kevin Rauckman, chief financial officer of Garmin acknowledged on a recent conference call, "and given those current moves toward consolidation in the sector we believe that now is the right time for us to combine with a mapping supplier." Garmin has also largely been using rival Navteq's mapping data, so a switch to Tele Atlas would cause considerable integration problems and bode a very bumpy ride ahead for the company.


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Posted by Peter Sheldon on the eBusiness & Channel Strategy Professionals Blog on July 29, 2014
Order management systems (OMS's) typically haven't garnered the same attention as other commerce technology. Orchestrating online orders from the point of purchase through to the point of fulfillment was viewed (through the eyes of eBusiness professionals) as a back-office process. In fact, eBusiness professionals have historically paid little attention to these systems and were happy for them to be developed and minded by supply chain or enterprise architecture professionals. But like the awkward kid at school, Omnichannel OMS systems have blossomed and turned into the must-have technology for almost every eBusiness leader.
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Have you ever stopped to think where your last online order came from and how it got to your house? We might assume that the package on our doorstep has probably just made a lengthy and complex journey across the country (courtesy of the belly of a UPS freighter, a handful of trucks, a few miles of conveyor belts and some good old human muscle) from a large, nondescript distribution center located in the suburbs of a city we've barely heard of. You may be surprised to learn then, that today it is increasingly likely that the package at your door came no further than a few miles down the road from a locally based store of the retailer you ordered online from. Of course, as consumers, we don't really care where our purchases came from or how they found their way to our doorstep - as long the right merchandise arrives damage-free and on time.
Posted by Peter Sheldon on the eBusiness & Channel Strategy Professionals Blog on January 28, 2014
With Omni-channel excellence fast becoming a customer imperative, retailers and brands alike are rushing to operationalize an increasingly complex set of cross-channel order processing and fulfillment scenarios that are often referred to in aggregate as "buy anywhere, fulfill anywhere". In fact in recent survey, we found that 52% of eBusiness professionals ranked Omni-channel integration as a top technology investment priority.
The path to Omni-channel maturity is far from simple; in fact it requires execution across a set of tactics that span organization, process and technology. Front of mind for retailers is solving the basics such as store pickup, cross-channel inventory visibility, store based fulfillment and endless aisle (in-store) ordering. Today, retailers that have already enabled these capabilities have done so by developing custom applications that integrate their eCommerce, POS and ERP/supply chain systems. However as these capabilities rapidly become the 'norm' for the consumer, retailers seek packaged solutions that enable them to rapidly rollout, experiment with and scale these programs.
Enter the OMS (order management system). In our May 2013 survey only 17% of eBusiness professionals identified the investment in an OMS platform as an investment priority, however this relative lack of interest is in fact easy to explain:
1) Many retailers are still in the nascent phases of their Omni-channel journey and have yet to fully map out their requirements. Simply put, these retailers still need to make the connection between the capabilities of an OMS platform and the requirements of their Omni-channel strategy.


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The Levy County Sheriff's Office is hosting a pistol class from 8 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 18 This class will qualify individuals for a concealed carry permit. The cost is $55 if registration is done online, or $60 on the day of the class. To register online, go to www.levypistolclass.info. This is a fund-raiser for the Sheriff's Office Employee Christmas Party.
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Wired magazine has become the first publication to take a peak inside the black box that is the PlayStation 4. Their in-depth photos and article show pretty much everything that's inside the console, from the motherboard with its APU and RAM, to the harddrive, the Blu-ray drive, the cooling system, and everything else. Check out the full gallery here.
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