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Sabbath or a sabbath is generally a weekly day of rest and/or time of worship that is observed in Islam, Judaism, and Christianity. Many viewpoints and definitions have arisen over the millennia. The term has been used to describe a similar weekly observance in any of several other traditions; the new moon; any of seven annual festivals in Judaism and some Christian traditions; any of eight annual festivals in Wicca (usually "sabbat"); an annual secular holiday; and a year of rest in religious or secular usage, originally every seventh year.
- But the child who is born on the Sabbath day
Is fair and wise and good in every way.
- "Monday's Child," first recorded in A. E. Bray's Traditions of Devonshire vol. II (1838), pp. 287–288).
- Thou art my single day, God lends to leaven
What were all earth else, with a feel of heaven.
- Robert Browning, Pippa Passes (1841), scene 1.
- 'The Christian Sabbath' is not in the Scripture, and was not by the primitive church called the Sabbath.
- Timothy Dwight IV, Theology, sermon 107 (1818 ed.), Vol. IV, p. 49 Note.
- The Sabbath, as now recognized and enforced, is one of the main pillars of Priestcraft and Superstition, and the stronghold of a merely ceremonial Religion.
- William Lloyd Garrison, reported in Wendell Phillips Garrison and Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879 : The Story of His Life Told by His Children (1885) Vol. III, p. 224.
- Reason and sense demand the acceptance of one or the other of these alternatives: either Protestantism and the keeping holy of Saturday, or Catholicity and the keeping holy of Sunday. Compromise is impossible.
- Cardinal James Gibbons, The Catholic Mirror (December 23, 1893).
- You may read the Bible from Genesis to Revelation, and you will not find a single line authorizing the sanctification of Sunday. The Scriptures enforce the religious observance of Saturday, a day which we never sanctify.
- Cardinal James Gibbons, The Faith of Our Fathers (1917 edition), p. 72-73 (16th Edition, p 111; 88th Edition, p. 89).
- So sang they, and the empyrean rung
With Hallelujahs. Thus was Sabbath kept.
- John Milton, Paradise Lost (1667; 1674), Book VII, line 632.
- See Christians, Jews, one heavy sabbath keep,
And all the western world believe and sleep.
- Alexander Pope, Dunciad (1728 to 1743), Book III, line 99.
- E'en Sunday shines no Sabbath day to me.
- Alexander Pope, Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot (1734), Prologue to the Satires, line 12.
- Unless ye fast from the world, ye shall not find the Sovereignty; unless ye keep the entire week as Sabbath, ye shall not behold the Father.
- Gospel of Thomas 27.
Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations[edit]
- Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 689.
- On Sundays, at the matin-chime,
The Alpine peasants, two and three,
Climb up here to pray;
Burghers and dames, at summer's prime,
Ride out to church from Chamberry,
Dight with mantles gay,
But else it is a lonely time
Round the Church of Brou.
- Matthew Arnold, The Church of Brou, II, Stanza 3.
- Of all the days that's in the week,
I dearly love but one day,
And that's the day that comes betwixt
A Saturday and Monday.
- Henry Carey, Sally in Our Alley.
- How still the morning of the hallow'd day!
Mute is the voice of rural labour, hush'd
The ploughboy's whistle, and the milkmaid's song.
- James Grahame, The Sabbath, Song.
- Gently on tiptoe Sunday creeps,
Cheerfully from the stars he peeps,
Mortals are all asleep below,
None in the village hears him go;
E'en chanticleer keeps very still,
For Sunday whispered, 'twas his will.
- John Peter Hebel, Sunday Morning.
- Sundaies observe: think when the bells do chime,
'Tis angel's musick; therefore come not late.
- George Herbert, The Temple (1633), The Church Porch, Stanza 65.
- The Sundaies of man's life,
Thredded together on time's string,
Make bracelets to adorn the wife
Of the eternal, glorious King.
On Sunday heaven's gates stand ope;
Blessings are plentiful and rife.
More plentiful than hope.
- George Herbert, The Temple (1633), The Church, Sunday.
- Now, really, this appears the common case
Of putting too much Sabbath into Sunday—
But what is your opinion, Mrs. Grundy?
- Thomas Hood, An Open Question, Stanza 1.
- O day of rest! How beautiful, how fair,
How welcome to the weary and the old!
Day of the Lord! and truce to earthly care!
Day of the Lord, as all our days should be.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Christus, Part III. John Endicott, Act I, scene 2.
- The Sabbath was made for man, and not man for the Sabbath.
- Mark, II. 27.
- For, bless the gude mon, gin he had his ain way,
He'd na let a cat on the Sabbath say "mew;"
Nae birdie maun whistle, nae lambie maun play,
An' Phœbus himsel' could na travel that day,
As he'd find a new Joshua in Andie Agnew.
- Thomas Moore, Sunday Ethics, Stanza 3.
- The sabbaths of Eternity,
One sabbath deep and wide.
- Alfred Tennyson, St. Agnes' Eve, Stanza 3.
Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)[edit]
- Quotes reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895).
- There are many persons who think Sunday is a sponge with which to wipe out the sins of the week.
- Henry Ward Beecher, p. 524.
- There is a Sunday conscience as well as a Sunday coat; and those who make religion a secondary concern put the coat and conscience carefully by to put on only once a week.
- Charles Dickens, p. 524.
- I have, by long and sound experience, found that the due observance of the Sabbath day, and of the duties of it, have been of singular comfort and advantage to me. The observance of the day hath ever had joined to it, a blessing upon the rest of my time; and the week that hath so begun hath been blessed and prosperous to me.
- Matthew Hale, p. 526.
- Nothing draws along with it such a glory as the Sabbath. Never has it unfolded without some witness and welcome, some song and salutation. It has been the coronation day of martyrs — the first day of saints. It has been from the first day till now the sublime day of the church of God; still the outgoings of its morning and evening rejoice. Let us then remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy.
- James Hamilton, p. 525.
- Sweet day, so cool, so calm, so bright,
The bridal of the earth and sky.
- George Herbert, p. 525.
- Tell me how a professor spends his Sabbaths, and I will tell you in what state his soul is spiritually considered.
- John Angell James, p. 524.
- Sunday is the golden clasp that binds together the volume of the week.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, p. 525.
- The longer I live the more highly do I estimate the Christian Sabbath, and the more grateful do I feel towards those who impress its importance on the community.
- Daniel Webster, p. 525.


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Midwife accused of manslaughter: 'Justice can be done'
COQUILLE, Ore. (AP) A Bandon midwife who helped deliver a baby who died a few days after birth pleaded not guilty to manslaughter and criminally negligent homicide.
The defense attorney for Marcene Rebeck said that her client did nothing wrong. The defense alleges Coos County District Attorney R. Paul Frasier presented an incomplete picture to the grand jurors who handed down an indictment.
"Our job will be to paint the full picture so that justice can be done," Laura Fine said.
The unlicensed midwife has delivered more than 300 babies in 30 years, The World newspaper of Coos Bay reported, and she can continue to practice as she awaits future court dates.
Outside the courtroom Monday, roughly 75 supporters chanted the midwife's name while carrying signs that read, "Home birth is legal" and "Our community loves Marcene."
Young children wore signs that read, "I'm a Rebeck baby."
"'We love her and trust her; these charges are completely unjust," said Nicole Kraynik, whose children were delivered by Rebeck.
The case against Rebeck stems from the death of a baby girl who died from septic shock on June 18, 2011.
Frasier said Rebeck provided "substandard" care after the baby was born, and the girl would have survived if the midwife had recommended prompt medical attention. He said eight medical consultants, including five midwives, were consulted and they drew the same conclusion after studying written and video records of the birth.
In court papers, Frasier said Rebeck advised Bethany Reed and Arkus Rodriguez that their daughter did not need medical attention despite multiple indications that something was wrong.
Rebeck reported in handwritten notes that the baby, two minutes after birth, had "no heart rate, very limp, very pale gray, without muscle tone, vigorously rubbed and did percussions -- cord very short." Moreover, the girl had no rooting reflex, a reflex babies have to seek their mother's breast milk.
Three days later, the worried parents took the newborn to a local hospital, where it was determined she was in septic shock. The baby was transported to a Springfield hospital, where she died the following day.
Coos County Medical Examiner Kris Karcher investigated the death and noted "several deficiencies in the care the baby received," Frasier said.
Karcher consulted local doctors and experts from the nurse-midwifery program at Oregon Health & Science University in Portland. Frasier said all agreed the baby would have survived had medical intervention been sought immediately after birth.
In her report, Karcher said Rebeck's "lack of recognition or disregard for the need of medical intervention" makes her a "dangerous practitioner, and it is only a matter of time before another bad outcome will occur."
Some supporters of the midwife used the term "witch hunt" to describe the DA's decision to pursue charges.
Frasier said he understands the outpouring of support for Rebeck, but he denies their claims that he opposes midwifery.
"There will be times when I have to make a decision that will be unpopular, and this is one of those cases," he said.
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Will 2012 be the year of the twesume?
By Sue Walder
Source: mashable.com
Hmm. The twesume. A blend of tweet and resume, right? Right.
While it's a concept that has yet to gain traction in the UK, the twesume is clearly on the rise in the USA, where 89% of companies used social networks for recruiting in 2011.
I first came across the twesume (a resume condensed into 140 characters) in an article on Mashable in December last year by Sean Weinberg, COO and co-founder of RezScore, a free web application that reads, analyses and grades resumes.
A more effective way of connecting
Sean suggested that as social media recruiting grows, twesumes can help job seekers connect and engage with potential employers much faster and more effectively than traditional CVs and cover letters.
The idea originated with communications consultant Richard Skaare, who wrote a blog post in December 2008 called 'The 140-Character Resume'. His theory is that "forced brevity sharpens the mind and quickens the soul".
In early 2009, writer Matthew Wayne Selznick took up the challenge to write his resume in 140 characters (see here) and introduced the hashtag #twesume to make it easier for people to search on Twitter.
When more is less ...
According to CEO Gerrit Hall, Rezscore had noticed that many professional people end up with with overly long and verbose resumes. In response, they asked clients to condense their work experience into a short 'elevator pitch' – essentially a 'twesume'.
"We started doing research on the concept and came across the work of Skaare and Selznick, who were very much ahead of the curve on the subject," he says.
"The twesume concept has only recently started to take off. Previously, there simply wasn't critical mass. Twitter wasn't mainstreamed, few employers would accept a twesume, and little infrastructure had been built up to support the concept.
"Nowadays, we know of at least a dozen employers who will accept twesumes. We've talked with other startups launching services dedicated to twesumes. And, of course, RezScore maintains a searchable public index of every publicly posted twesume at http://rezscore.com/twesume, and we retweet them through our @twezscore account."
The twesume in action
Rezscore says job seekers like the way twesumes provide a useful back door through which to make an introduction. And employers like twesumes as they cut through the 'fluff', create a good buzz, and allow people who are savvy in social media to shine.
Rezscore has already put their money where their mouth is by engaging two freelancers on contract projects after reading their twesumes.
Another company that has just hired two people as a direct result of reading their #twesumes is nylmedia.com – a New York-based digital agency specialising in luxury brands.
"After searching through #twesume posts on twitter during November and early December last year we contacted about 30 people and then invited 10 people to attend an interview," says nylmedia owner Ross Anderson.
"We actually ended up hiring two people – a local New Yorker and a guy from Denver, who actually posted the best #twesume. (I am an enthusiastic person who is passionate about crafting catchy phrases through lyrical expression. I thoroughly enjoy playing with the English Language.)
"They are both entry level, with some experience in online and social media and it showed in their tweets."
Less is more
Ross believes the twesume is definitely here to stay.
"Cover letters are so boring. And even if people do use one, they are so bland and generic that we can't really get a feel for the person. Limiting their words and characters lets us see the applicant's thinking and personality much better!
"My advice to job seekers thinking about using a twesume is: Be Creative! The whole point of this is to show a level of thoughtfulness."
If you're thinking of posting your #twesume , here's some more useful advice from Gerrit Hall of Rezscore:
"Don't forget to a link to your full resume, portfolio, or LinkedIn profile. And remember to tweet your #twesume at the company or recruiter you want to reach reach. Broadcasting yourself without direction or context will instantly lose the desired effect."
Here at PFJ, there's a mixed reaction to the twesume concept. A quick straw poll in the office suggests that while no one has yet heard of it, it could be especially useful way of finding potential candidates in the media/digital industries.
So, what do you think? Will the twesume will catch on over here? Are you planning to post your #twesume soon?
You can read Sue's blog at www.havingaword.com and follow her on twitter: @suewalder
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IDT is the world's leading provider of silicon timing devices (clock ICs) and offers the industry's broadest product portfolio of clock timing solutions for networking and communications, consumer, and computing applications. With the industry's largest market share, IDT offers products from full-featured system solutions to simple clock building-block devices. Factory-programmable options and clock solution customization capabilities address unique customer requirements, while the lowest jitter and lowest power features set IDT apart from the competition.
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With a clock IC portfolio 10 times greater than any other supplier, IDT is in a unique position to address the needs of virtually any application. IDT's industry-leading portfolio of timing devices consists of clock generators, buffers, dividers, multiplexers, crystal oscillators, and jitter attenuators with frequency translation - many with programmable capabilities for maximum flexibility. Application-specific clock ICs address needs for RF timing and network synchronization, including JESD204B, synchronous ethernet, IEEE 1588, PDH, and SONET / SDH.
About Clock ICs and Clock Timing Solutions
A "clock IC" is a broad term used to describe integrated circuits that generate, condition, manipulate, distribute, or control a timing signal in an electronic system. At its most basic level, a clock timing signal oscillates between an electrical high and a low state and is utilized like a metronome to coordinate the actions of circuits. When applied to today's most advanced technologies, clocking ICs must be able to generate accurate clock pulses, and continuously and reliably distribute that signal for use by various timing devices within the system. When operating at such high speeds, system design and environmental factors make it especially challenging to maintain signal quality, often resulting in higher bit error rates (BER) and degraded system performance. Fortunately, IDT offers a wide range of clock timing solutions to meet the stringent system requirements of virtually any application.


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Osteoporosis is a disease in which the bones become weak and are more likely to break. People with osteoporosis most often break bones in the hip, spine, and wrist.
In the United States, millions of people either already have osteoporosis or are at high risk due to low bone mass.
Osteoporosis can occur in both men and women and at any age, but it is most common in older women.
Many risk factors can lead to bone loss and osteoporosis. Some of these things you cannot change and others you can.
Risk factors you cannot change include:
Other risk factors are:
There are many steps you can take to help keep your bones healthy. To help keep your bones strong and slow down bone loss, you can:
A healthy diet with enough calcium and vitamin D helps make your bones strong. Many people get less than half the calcium they need. Good sources of calcium are:
Vitamin D is also needed for strong bones. Some people may need to take vitamin D pills. The chart on this page shows the amount of calcium and vitamin D you should get each day.
Recommended Calcium and Vitamin D Intakes
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|Calcium mg/day
|Vitamin D (IU/day)
|Infants 0 to 6 months
|Infants 6 to 12 months
|1 to 3 years old
|4 to 8 years old
|9 to 13 years old
|14 to 18 years old
|19 to 30 years old
|31 to 50 years old
|51- to 70-year-old males
|51- to 70-year-old females
|>70 years old
|14 to 18 years old, pregnant/lactating
|19 to 50 years old, pregnant/lactating
Definitions: mg = milligrams; IU = International Units
Source: Food and Nutrition Board, Institute of Medicine, National Academy of Sciences, 2010.
Exercise helps your bones grow stronger. To increase bone strength, you can:
Smoking is bad for bones as well as the heart and lungs. Also, people who drink a lot of alcohol are more prone to bone loss and broken bones due to poor diet and risk of falling.
Osteoporosis is called the "silent disease" because bone is lost with no signs. You may not know that you have osteoporosis until a strain, bump, or fall causes a bone to break.
A bone mineral density test is the best way to check your bone health. This test can:
Treatment for osteoporosis includes:
Men and women with osteoporosis need to take care not to fall down. Falls can break bones. Some reasons people fall are:
Some tips to help prevent falls outdoors are:
Some ways to help prevent falls indoors are:
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A £7,000 windfall is on its way to a community garden in Northwich town centre.
The Grozone project, near Vickersway Park, has been given £7,157 by the Cheshire Community Foundation to get more young people involved.
Jane Staley, executive director of Groundwork Cheshire, which organises the project, said: "Groundwork is all about changing places and changing lives and this project will truly change the lives of some of the most hard to reach young people."
The Grozone site has been transformed from an old vandalised plant nursery into a thriving green oasis, thanks to the work of more than 200 volunteers.
It now boasts a wooded and planted area with beehives, fire pit, bog, nature walks, sculptures and vegetable patches.
Andy Martin, Grozone project manager, said: "Grozone is a fantastic project that hopes to involve all sectors of the local community.
"The money will enable us to work with a group of disengaged young people and provide them with an exciting programme of social and practical skills that will improve their attitudes, behaviour, skills and employability."
The group will now recruit young people and arm them with new skills to help them get a job or further education.
It will use the funding to help young people with physical and learning disabilities and those with mental ill-health.
Helen O'Donnell, chief executive of Cheshire Community Foundation, said: "Grozone is a fantastic project which has attrracted fantastic support from volunteers and we're impressed by how it now plans to help young people in the area."


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The 100 Women Charitable Foundation will partner with more than 20 downtown Los Altos merchants and restaurants for a Shop & Dine Day fundraiser Dec. 12.
To date, participating businesses include: Adventure Toys & Teachers' Supplies, Davino Florist, Linden Tree Books, Alys Grace, Fina Lifestyle, Nature Gallery, Apricot Lane, First and Main Sports Lounge, Opa!, Atelier Gray, Gourmet Works, Paperwhirl, Chico's, JB&B Jewelers, Pendleton Woolen Mills, Cover Story, Know Knew Books, Present, Cranberry Scoop, Kula Sweet and Therapy.
Mention "100 Women" and participating retailers will donate a portion of the day's sales to the Los Altos-based organization.
All proceeds will underwrite foundation grants to local nonprofit organizations that serve Santa Clara and San Mateo counties. The grant recipients will be announced at the foundation's seventh annual Member Dinner and Grant Vote, scheduled March 7 at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Palo Alto.
The foundation's mission is to provide access for more women to be involved in local philanthropy and to help make a significant difference in the long-term sustainability of the local nonprofit community.
Since 2006, the foundation has donated $629,500 to community-based organizations with programs that focus on education, family, and health and wellness. The organization has grown to 400 members.
Founders of the foundation include Mary Ann Poulos, Barbara Dehn, Connie Viveros and Teri Zingale.
Zingale, who currently serves on the board of directors, said she raised money for local schools for years before helping to start 100 Women.
"It was time to stop raising money for kids who have everything and start raising money for kids who don't," Zingale said of her inspiration.
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Is PAT a Silver Bullet?
Ready to Kill Some Werewolves? Process Analytical Technologies (PAT) Are Beginning to Inject Quality-by-Design (QbD), Model-Predictive Control, Risk Management and Other Well-Known Process Control Methods into Long-Resistant Pharmaceutical Applications
By Jim Montague, Executive Editor
Not many car dealers will drive you home. Not many oven manufacturers will bake cookies for you. And not many mattress companies will tuck you in and check for monsters under the bed.
However, a lot of pharmaceutical and biotech manufacturers need some extra TLC these days so they can begin changing decades-old production practices and adopt process analytical technology (PAT) methods. Consequently, some of their machine builders and equipment suppliers are lending a hand.
For example, Broadley-James in Irvine, Calif., recently spent a year and more than $1 million to model and start running batches of donated CHO mammalian cell cultures this past January. The bioreactor builder is now producing antibodies in six of its 7-liter, benchtop bioreactor systems. Its conducting this gutsy beta test to prove to potential users that it can accomplish on-line prediction of quality and economic parameters, show the value of high-fidelity process models for testing alternate control strategies and evaluate different means of online fault detection and identification (See Figure 1).
Broadley-James BioNet uses a benchtop version of Emerson Process Managements DeltaV controllers, HMIs and software to bring industrial control capabilities to its bioreactor system, and uses multi-test BioProfile Flex bioanalyzers from Nova Biomedical Corp., to examine 15 parameters from a single 1-ml sample every four hours.
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The beta test also is using single-use bioreactors donated by Hyclone. Its 100-liter bioreactor will be used to prove scale-up of Emersons mammalian cell model, and results are expected by Interphex 2009 next March in New York.
We previously had little information about what was going on in bioreactors. We usually took hand samples every 24 hours and had a pH probe and dissolved oxygen (DO) probe, but we didnt know much about the quantity and quality of cells. If we had this data, we could introduce more control and make more and better quality product, says Trish Benton, Broadley-James life-sciences consultant. Incorporating DeltaV mass-flow controllers and digital I/O allows us to control several variables at once, makes the vessels all perform the same and gives us a nice, precise digital sequence. Having a well-characterized bioreactor system also means we know better what needs to go into the next, larger batches when we scale up.
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Its lucky some suppliers are willing to give their pharmaceutical users so much assistance because few seem able to update their manufacturing practices on their own. Despite a flurry of interest and activity when the U.S. Food and Drug Administrations (FDA) PAT guidelines were released in 2004, many of the subsequent conferences, publications and attention surrounding them have died down, and observers report that inertia has once again tightened its grip. This paralysis seems driven by fears that any process change may trigger revalidation requirements; the fact that many drug patents are due to run out by 2010-11, increasing layoffs recently; and profit margins that still have been large enough to stifle most production efficiency efforts. As a result, there still dont seem to be more than half-dozen drugmakers with genuine PAT projects underway.
There are competing forces affecting PATs implementation, says Gawayne Mahboubian-Jones, product development manager at Optimal Industrial Automation, a U.K.-based PAT system integrator. The positive forces are the need to reduce the gross inefficiency of manufacturing in the pharmaceutical industry and the need to improve product quality by improving process capability and removing the need for end-of-line testing and replacing it with a better method. However, negative forces resisting this change include pharmas enormously conservative nature, its unwillingness to learn from outside and the ambivalent response of the FDA and regulators worldwide. Pharma believes that its special, and has to develop all its own solutions to problems.
The FDAs PAT guidance was the first real step towards pharma adopting methods pioneered in other industries about 20-30 years earlier. That guidance was driven by the early recognition that the industry was heading into a financial dead-end because of higher drug development costs and fewer new drugs. The industry as a whole still doesnt really understand what the FDA PAT group understood five years ago.
Process-Based Background
Joe Alford, who recently retired from Eli Lilly, Indianapolis, Ind., reports that many people think of PAT as only three or four years old because of the FDAs guidelines, but that his former company and others have been practicing its methods for 20 years as online process mass spectrometry (PMS) and online, high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC). These have been tried and true technologies for a long time, says Alford. PAT uses them for online and near-real-time testing to monitor process quality parameters and get pre-approval of products. So, instead of waiting hours for test results before harvesting from a bioreactor, PMS now gives enough data so users dont have to wait. Because the FDA also was seen as part of the problem, its resulting PAT philosophy is that users should do what makes the most sense in their applications and then justify those decisions later.
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Try to put Jeffrey Maier out of your mind, no matter how many replays of him and Tony Tarasco you see over the next few days. Yes, the last time the Yankees and Orioles met in October was quite some time ago, and no, they haven't moved in the same competitive circles much since. We didn't expect this matchup six months ago, or six weeks ago, or even six days ago. But the Orioles have won just one fewer game to get to this point, and the two teams have split their season series so far. They'll start a new series this evening in Baltimore. Is it finally time to stop worrying about run differential and learn to believe in Baltimore?
Lineups (AVG/OBP/SLG/TAv)
The Orioles' offense is the poor man's Yankees' offense (which is not to say that Peter Angelos is poor). Both teams score their runs the same way: via the home run. The Yankees (48.4 percent) and Orioles (47.3 percent) scored the highest and second-highest percentages of their runs via the home run this season. That led to a lot of hand-wringing about both teams' ability to score in October, when the caliber of pitching improves and teams supposedly can't "sit back and wait for the three-run homer." However, as I wrote earlier this season, there's nothing to the idea that teams that rely on the home run lose a disproportionate amount of offense in October. Expect to see plenty of balls fly out of Yankee Stadium and Camden Yards in this series.
However, the fact that both teams can go deep doesn't mean they're equally potent at the plate. The Yankees walk considerably more and whiff considerably less, which makes a major difference: the Bombers' .279 TAv is the highest mark among the remaining contenders, while the O's .259 TAv tops only the Braves' and Reds' (though they were at their best offensively at the end of the year).
The Yankees' strength starts at the top, where Jeter defied Father Time with his best offensive season since his MVP-caliber 2009. Ichiro's success in pinstripes allowed the Yankees to push Granderson and Swisher, who split most of the season in the no. 2 slot, down in the lineup. Rodriguez suffered another season of declining playing time and production—be prepared for plenty of boos in the Bronx if he gets off to a slow start in the series. Joe Torre made a reactionary and ill-advised move when he batted a slumping A-Rod eighth in the 2006 ALDS, but Girardi would be justified were he to slide him down to seventh. Cano was my third-place pick for AL MVP, and the return of Teixeira (who's still at some risk to reinjure his calf) gives the Yankees all of their offensive weapons in the same lineup, something they haven't had often this season. Martin and Ibanez (against righties) at the bottom are something like league average, which is about as bad as this lineup gets. The Yankees can easily avoid batting same-handed hitters back to back, making it difficult for opposing managers to neutralize them with a situational arm, though they are about 20 points of OPS weaker against southpaws as a group.
McLouth has been unexpectedly competent for the Orioles since he signed with them in June after being released by the Pirates, Machado has been better than anyone could have expected a 20-year-old with no experience above Double-A to be, and Wieters and Davis have done their best hitting of late, but this is still a lineup with only one hitter who makes opposing pitchers quiver (the bad kind of quiver, not the "opposing pitcher at the plate" kind). The Orioles' lineup has no platoon split to speak of and is probably even less susceptible to matchups than the Yankees', so it's got that going for it, which is nice.
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Nunez will likely get the Game Two start at DH against Chen, the only lefty in the O's rotation. He has a .302 TAv against southpaws this season, but A) it's a very small sample (55 PA), and B) it's all BABIP-based. Yankees scouts like Nunez, but in light of his limited defensive value and lackluster past production, it's hard to see why. Chavez is the likeliest candidate to pinch-hit for Martin at some point in the series, which would get Chris Stewart—like Martin, a plus framer behind the plate—into the game. Gardner, who missed most of the season with a right elbow injury, will play the Dave Roberts role, coming off the bench as a defensive replacement and pinch-runner—a role in which his 82 percent career stolen-base success rate will serve him well. He and Nunez give the Yankees some semblance of speed, which—Ichiro aside—is in short supply in the starting lineup. Nix is the jack of all positions who seems like a lock to make the roster after recovering more quickly than expected from a hip flexor strain. Notably absent as a result of Nix's return is Andruw Jones, whose second half this season (.142/.256/.255) looked nothing like the 2011 second half that convinced the Yankees to bring him back (.291/.416/.612).
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Sabathia showed some unaccustomed signs of strain this season, serving two stints on the DL and reaching the 200-inning mark—which he usually blows by with several starts remaining—without an out to spare. His velocity declined by roughly a mile and a half per hour, and perhaps as a result, his home-run rate rose to a career-high .99 per nine innings. His other peripherals remained strong, however, and he finished the season with three straight eight-inning outings and a 28:4 K:BB, which restored Yankees fans' faith in his ability to be dominant. He'll pitch Game Five, if necessary.
Sixteen years ago, a 24-year-old Andy Pettitte started Game One of the ALCS against the Orioles. One year ago, a retired, 39-year-old Andy Pettitte threw out the ceremonial first pitch before Game Two of the ALDS against the Tigers. And on Monday, a 40-year-old, unretired Andy Pettitte will start Game Two of the ALDS against the Orioles. Something seems off about that sequence of events, but Pettitte is no nostalgia act. Pettitte didn't make his first start until mid-May, and he missed almost three months after a line drive fractured his left fibula in late June. But when he was active, he pitched as well as he had in any season since his early 30s. Pettitte already holds the all-time records for postseason starts, innings, and wins, and the memories of all those Pettitte starts past have given some Yankees fans the sense that even when he's pitching poorly, he'll find a way to limit the damage and grit his way through five or six innings. That's not necessarily the case—Pettitte has made five playoff starts in which he failed to go four innings, and seven in which he allowed five runs or more—but on the whole, Petitte has pitched to a 3.86 ERA in the regular season, and a 3.83 ERA in postseason play. Given the heightened level of competition in the playoffs, merely sustaining the same ERA in October is an accomplishment.
Kuroda for one year and $10 million proved to be one of the winter's best signings—he likely would have started Game Two had Girardi not wanted to get him a little extra rest (and avoid giving Pettitte too much). Phil Hughes spent another season as something of a cipher—he looked good in the middle months of the season but struggled early and late. Hughes allowed 1.65 HR/9, second only to Ervin Santana among qualified pitchers, so we could see some fireworks in Game Four (although oddly enough, Hughes has given up most of his homers on the road).
A healthy Hammel is a big boost to Baltimore—the righty was one of the biggest surprises of a surprising season, and the team's most effective starter when healthy. The sinker he's picked up this season has made him the best groundballer in either team's rotation, and the most likely to keep the Yankees' home-run bats at bay. Although he hasn't appeared in a real game since September 11th and will be wearing a knee brace, he's simulated enough games and had enough bullpen sessions that he doesn't expect to be on a pitch count.
Chen and Gonzalez are league-average-ish arms, at least the equals of Hughes, but no matches for the top three starters in the Yankees' rotation. That leaves Tillman, who had so much success down the stretch that it seems likely he'll get the call in Game Four. While he's not exactly a ticking time bomb, his .221 BABIP was the second-lowest among starters with at least 80 innings pitched this season. Showalter hasn't officially announced whom he'll start after Gonzalez, and he might be best-served by going back to wild-card game starter Joe Saunders, who gave his manager no reason to regret his choice.
The popular notion in New York that Mariano Rivera has been the most crucial component of the Yankees' success since the mid-90s may have taken a bit of a blow in 2012, as Soriano stepped up in his absence and delivered a season that resembled (if not quite equaled) vintage Rivera. Of course, all it would take is one blown save in October to make Yankees fans miss Mo a lot more. David Robertson remains an elite setup man whose season was seen as somewhat disappointing only because of how good he was in 2011, and Chamberlain has shown signs of his old dominance, finishing the season with 11 consecutive scoreless appearances. Logan and Rapada give the Yankees a couple left-handed options with McLouth, David, and Thome at the plate. Logan, who led the AL in appearances, is more often allowed to face right-handed hitters, while Rapada, who pitched for the Orioles last season, fits the true LOOGY mold. One of the few questions about Joe Girardi's plans for the roster was whether Lowe would get the nod over Cody Eppley; Lowe has pitched well out of the pen for New York and would give Girardi a go-to arm when he needs a groundball.
As Derek Carty and I discussed in a pair of articles prior to the play-in game, the bullpen has been the difference-maker for the Orioles, helping them to their extraordinary success in one-run and extra-inning games and giving them a 74-0 record when leading after seven innings. Yankees relievers threw the fewest innings of any AL team's; the Orioles' relievers threw 30 more innings than any other postseason club's (though that's the sign of a shaky rotation as well as a capable relief corps). Of course, while the Orioles' pen holds the obvious edge in performance to date, they aren't immune to regression: as Derek pointed out after Jim Johnson's shaky ninth on Friday, the Orioles' closer is hardly an unhittable force.
Brian Matusz, who's held lefties to a .175 batting average and a .194 TAv in 123 plate appearances this season, will see plenty of Cano, Granderson, & Co., and Darren O'Day, whose submarine delivery has made him almost as effective against righties, can neutralize Jeter and Rodriguez. Luis Ayala has backed up what looked like a fluky year for the Yankees with an even better one for Baltimore, as he seems to have recovered the pinpoint control he showed for the Expos and Nationals early in his career. And then there's Tommy Hunter, whose four-seamer averaged nearly 97 mph out of the bullpen in September after averaging about 90.5 as a starter in April.
The Orioles' defense converted 69.8 percent of balls in play into outs in 2011. That figure improved to 71.5 percent this season. That might not sound like that much, but with over 4500 balls in play allowed, it amounts to roughly 78 extra outs. If you think the Orioles' run differential is underwhelming now, imagine what it would look like if all those outs had been baserunners instead. The Orioles' error rate dropped in the second half, for which Buck Showalter credited the arrivals of Manny Machado (a natural shortstop stationed at third) and Nate McLouth and the improved play of Mark Reynolds at first. For what it's worth, Reynolds' -15.1 FRAA doesn't match his rehabilitated reputation. Make of single-season FRAA totals what you will (as long as "what you will" comes with a sizeable grain of salt), but J.J. Hardy's 19.6 ranked third among all players.
Ben Lindbergh is an author of Baseball Prospectus. Follow @benlindbergh
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In both cases, the worst hitter in the respective starting lineup is batting second. #70sthrowback
Oct 07, 2012 09:22 AM
Also, the O's actually finished second. Although I suppose if they win the ALCS (or, god forbid, the WS), "worst to first" would apply.
Oct 07, 2012 09:26 AM
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There was brief panic on Twitter earlier when it looked mysteriously like Ichiro was out of the lineup and Gardner was batting ninth. Turned out it was an erroneous graphic somewhere. Great preview, Ben. Can't wait for things to get started tonight.
Oct 07, 2012 12:37 PM
Edited to remove Omar Quintanilla and add Joe Saunders after the Orioles announced their official roster.
Oct 07, 2012 12:39 PM
Who is the "one hitter who makes opposing pitchers quiver?"
Oct 09, 2012 09:28 AM
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I say the AFC Championship game in '06-07 year. I was there and I refer to that night as the best night of my life..... tied with the night we won Super Bowl XLI
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I say the AFC Championship game in '06-07 year. I was there and I refer to that night as the best night of my life..... tied with the night we won Super Bowl XLI
Smothered Chicken!
Full agreement. I was there!
I got a call from a friend of mine who lives in Boston two days before the game. He said he had bought 11 tickets through a link in the NE front office, and he had 10 guys renting an RV and driving to Indy for the game, but they had 1 ticket left and he knew I was a huge Colts fan. I paid $75 for that ticket.
I went to that game at the RCA dome with 10 New England Patriots fans. The entire first half, they were ribbing me and giving me a hard time, because the Pats jumped out to that 21-3 lead at the half. I got 'em back in the 2nd half.
At two points late in that game, first when Addai scored and gave us our first lead of the game at 38-34, and then when Marlin Jackson intercepted Brady to end their hopes --- it hit absolute white noise level in that stadium. Absolute white noise. I've never heard or felt anything like it. You could "feel" the place shaking... the building, the air, everything. Twenty years of frustration and disappointment were vented by 60,000 people all at once. Random strangers were hugging in the aisles.
Greatest Colts game I've seen or attended. The NE fans I went with left dejected, but were really fun guys who were class acts. They congratulated me on the way out.
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It's obviously the AFC Championship game in 06-07. Best sporting event I've ever attended in person. 4th and 2 was great too. Obviously Patriots fans wouldn't have those as their top two. If I were guessing, I'd say that their favorite game would be in the 04-05 divisional round when they held the high octane Colts offense to 3 points. That was the Manning 49 year. That was a tough loss to take. "Super Bowl 41 1/2" at the Dome between the two undefeated teams was great too. Just wish it had ended differently.
It's kind of a shame that Manning and Brady haven't met in the playoffs since the AFC Championship game.
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The AFC Championship game was the best.
But 4th and 2 was the funniest.
EDIT: To expand on 4th and 2, I watched this game with a couple friends at Yogi's in Bloomington. I was well, pretty hammered, by the time 4th quarter rolled around and when BB was debating if he should go for it, I screamed out to the whole bar that the smug ******* was finally going to bite off more than he could chew and get what was coming to him and he was about to look like a colossal jackass. Whole bar just kind of looked at me, and then the play happened and everyone started high fiveing me. Just a hilarious moment, I was in tears from laughing at BB so hard. I don't care what the "odds" say like everyone tried to argue the next day, that was one of the single dumbest coaching moves I have ever seen in pro sports.
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Oh, this thread brings back some bad memories....
My ex-GF and I went to the 11/15/09 game in Lucas. That was the game where BB decided to go for it on 4th and 2 in Colts territory.
To make a long story short, we hadn't eaten all day and as time kept ticking by we, and by we I mean her, kept getting more and more antsy. She didn't want to eat at the game, but by the time the fourth qtr rolled around she decided that eating there was fine. Except they closed everything down. After NE kicked the field goal to go up 13 with 4mins left we, and by we I mean her, decided that beating the traffic and getting some food was priority #1. About half way to my truck, both of our phones start blowing up with calls and texts.
Should have known you never count out Peyton until the final horn, but after that night, it's something I'll never forget.
I was at the same game as Since and Sollozzo. My dad and I were 10 rows up. Growing up, my dad and I went to a lot of games, mostly Pacers. He would always want to leave early if it looked like the game was over. I, of course, being a kid would always want to stay. Welp, to this day I still have never left a game early, I don't know why, I think if you're a fan you should sit through the bad times too. So my dad is a huge Colts fan and he is getting really upset about the game. Finally, he says "we're going." I told him there's no way. We have really good seats and we have no idea what could happen. He's not even paying attention to me, still getting his things together to leave. I then told him to put his little binoculars bag back down because this is Peyton freaking Manning, we have no idea what we could miss. He said I was right and sat down. I believe that was the first time he ever said I was right about anything and actually listened to me. Thank God Peyton delivered. After the game my dad kept thanking me for making him stay.
The Colts and Patriots were in the same division prior to the realignments before the 2002 season. Had the NFL not done the realignments, Manning and Brady would have been playing each other twice every season.
The AFC Championship game is by far the best football game i've ever watched. Of course that is a biased opinion, but I felt so good after that game. Honestly, that game had a greater effect on me than the super bowl. I was just so tired of watching the Pats beat the Colts in the playoffs.
The '09 game is my personal fave. I was downtown watching the game with some friends, including my close friend and roommate at the time who is a Pats fan. She talked a lot of **** throughout most of the game. Needless to say, she was a lot less vocal at the end.
One of my favorite ones was one we lost, I believe the last one they played. We were getting killed in the first half but Peyton was storming back. Everytime they showed belicheat's face he looked scared s***less and was ready to hurl. It was at that point I knew that Peyton owned his ***.
Don't ask Marvin Harrison what he did during the bye week. "Batman never told where the Bat Cave is," he explained.
The one two years ago where Peyton threw that pick in the endzone?
Ugh, what a frustrating finish.
The game where Luck leads a 4th qtr drive to take the lead and win the game in his first ever trip to Foxboro...
Nuntius was right for a while. I was wrong for a while. But ultimately I was right and Frank Vogel has been let go.
"A player who makes a team great is more valuable than a great player. Losing yourself in the group, for the good of the group, thats teamwork."
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AFC Title Game here in Indy nothing will ever come close
Although I did enjoy 4th and 2 but that was mostly for the Pats fans reactions I watched on YouTube... hysterical.
Obviously it's gotta be the AFC Chamiponship game. Regular Season, 4th and 2.
For the Pats wins...Maybe that Willie Mcginnist phantom injury and goal line stand?
Marlin Jackson's INT in 2006 caused me to jump high enough that I probably could have dunked on a regulation height basket. Its still the only time that I've ever found myself at eye level with an EXIT sign hung from a ceiling....
"Nobody wants to play against Tyler Hansbrough NO BODY!" ~ Frank Vogel
"And David put his hand in the bag and took out a stone and slung it. And it struck the Philistine on the head and he fell to the ground. Amen. "
2004 playoffs, Good Guys 20, Colts 3 was my favorite
2003 playoffs, 24-14 was great too
The poster "pacertom" since this forum began (and before!). I changed my name here to "Slick Pinkham" in honor of the imaginary player That Bobby "Slick" Leonard picked late in the 1971 ABA draft (true story!).
I see no one has mentioned the two regular season victories at Foxboro in the 2005 and 2006 seasons. In 2005 we absolutely bulldozed them on Monday night (the last season where Monday Night was on ABC). That was Manning's first victory against Brady-Belichick. 06 was fun too on Sunday Night Football. That's when Harrison spiked the ball at Vrabel.
That 2005 Colts team was without question the best Colts team I've ever seen. There really wasn't a flaw on that team. You had a 29 year old Manning in the prime of his career. You had Harrison and Wayne in prime form. You still had Edge. You had Clark. You had a very solid defense as Sanders was healthy and went to the Pro Bowl. You had Mathis, Freeney, etc. When one thinks of the 05 season, they naturally think of the Pittsburgh loss. But that Colts team absolutely dominated the regular season.
I started crying when Marlin picked off Brady
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09 was great too. I loved watching one of the greatest ever pull out win after win for a team that clearly wasn't as talented as it had been in previous years. I just wish 09 didn't have such a bitter ending to it against New Orleans. That Super Bowl still stings a bit.
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I was at the title game too! Easily one of the best moments of my life. Such a dramatic change from being at the Pitt game a year before, where the whole stadium felt deflated and empty. Almost unreal to remember, the difference a year made. You could feel the whole stadium getting that monkey off their back.
I was at the 4th and 2 game as well, but we left early. Heard the play on someone's car radio as we were walking to the parking lot. Peyton loves to burn the doubters.
I also feel that after that title game Peyton no longer had any fear at all for Belichick. Even when they beat us, you could tell that Peyton flat out did not fear the man, and he expected to beat him every time. I loved seeing that confidence, and really those are some of my favorite memories of Peyton: supreme self-assuredness in the face of the man who once seemed to have him "figured out."
Worst colts memories: anything related to our struggles with the biggest jokes in the AFC, the San Diego Chargers. I don't even . . .
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Yeah I would rank the title game as one of the best moments of my life too. Regardless of what I attend in the future, there's no way I could ever attend anything as special as that AFC game against New England.
The Chargers losses are just disgusting. No one else in the AFC ever had any problem beating them in the playoffs except for us. Pittsburgh, New England, and the Jets were able to beat them. We were the only team that struggled with them. The worst fact concerning the Manning era is that we were eliminated by the Chargers two straight years after winning our Super Bowl. It's one thing to lose to Pitt or NE because you can respect them as elite championship teams. But losing to SD twice in a row was just a joke.
The AFCCG is arguably the best game in Indianapolis sports history, and yes I would put it above 8 points 9 seconds.
The other memory I have is when Marvin made that amazing catch at Foxboro and managed to keep his feet in bounds. What's funny is when that happened I was probably as drunk as I've ever been in my life with some fat sorority girl trying to hook up with me, but still I somehow remember seeing that play as it happened and knew even in that state that it was an amazing catch. However I felt like absolute crap the next day but I always chuckle when I see the replay of that catch, remember where I was at that time.


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" Genre: Music & Dancing / Video Game for Nintendo Wii / Release Date: 2011-11-11 / Published by Ubisoft "
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I bought this product a few weeks ago as it was on offer and here are my thoughts on it .Personally, i think this game is fantastic . It does what it says on the packaging. Great and entertaining and get the family off their feet. There's a variety of song choices from the black eyed peas. However, i found that some dance moves were quite repetitve in all the songs. This meant that it wasnt that challenging as soon as you get the hang of it. After you recieve a high score in a specific song you recieve a message from each member. But, i was disappointed that all the messages were close enough to be excatly the same .Overall the game is repetitive but a good way to entertain the family and i think this game deserves a good 3 out of a possible 5 on my charts.
I'm rather a fan of the Just Dance series on the Wii, but when I try to get my partner to join in he tends to claim the dances are too "girly", which he says is backed up by the fact that in the vast majority of the tracks the on-screen dancers are female. So in an attempt to get him up and dancing with me, we bought "The Black Eyed Peas Experience", a dance game featuring tracks solely performed by The Black Eyed Peas themselves. Before I go any further, I will point out that if you are not a fan of The Black Eyed Peas themselves then this game really isn't for you as it really does help to actually "know" the songs when it comes to dancing along.
From the Ubisoft, the software company that brought us the Just Dance series, The Black Eyed Peas Experience follows a similar format, with the Black Eyed twist. Load up time is reasonably quick and it doesn't take more than a couple of clicks to get dancing. The graphics throughout are a definite step up from Just Dance with the on-screen dancers being recognisable, digitised versions of the band members, Fergie, Apl.de.app, will.I.am and Taboo. In some tracks the actual music video is playing on a screen in the background and with all the lyrics are shown in the bottom left. As each dance progresses a pictogram is displayed in the bottom right, which gives an idea of which move is coming next.
The audio is pretty good, as is to be expected for this style of game, but definitely benefits from being played through a home cinema system to gain full advantage of the banging beats. There's a fair range of tracks available, 25 in total, from their earlier albums through to their latest. Among the available tracks are many of their most popular including The Time (Dirty Bit), I Gotta Feeling, Shut Up, Let's Get It Started and Hey Mama, but there are also some less popular and well known tracks, plus there are some omissions, most notably Where Is The Love. All of the available tracks are played by The Black Eyed Peas rather than being "in the style of" which adds to the authenticity.
Before I go into the actual gameplay, I guess it would be helpful if I told you a bit about myself, as whether you will enjoy this game and how easy you will find it depends very much on who you are as a person. So I'm a 40 year old, rather overweight, unfit Mum, who does love listening to the Black Eyed Peas (especially their earlier albums) and uses the Wii dancing games as a way of burning calories. To say I have two left feet is an understatement, it's probably fair to say I also have two left-hands or in other words, I'm very uncoordinated, but I am enthusiastic. I'm not the most social person, so this game is never played with any more than just myself and my partner and I therefore cannot comment on the multi player aspect any more than to say you will need lots of space if the maximum of four are joining in.
From switch on to dancing takes no more than a couple of minutes, there are very few menu options, just dancing and options. I would have liked to have seen a sweat option that would allow me to track my progress, but it's not really a problem, as such. Choosing which track to dance to is simple enough via the rotating track list. Each track is graded as to difficulty and effort required, with a scale of one to three and a small clip is played in the background to help you choose. What I will say is that even the supposedly easiest of the tracks is a lot more difficult than the majority of the tracks on the Just Dance games, as I found out after attempting The Time (Dirty Bit) on my first try only to collapse in hysterics halfway through.
Even by picking the supposedly easiest tracks I found it hard to keep up and this isn't really helped by the fact that the on-screen dancer has a habit of changing part way through a song or that the pictogram is a little on the vague side. Even so, with practise I've started to pick up some of the dances and can now almost keep up, with this game it really is practise makes perfect. As well as different difficulties of play there are also different styles, with some tracks being solo, some duet and the others group. This doesn't mean that if you are playing by yourself you are limited to the solo tracks, or if you're playing in a group of four you are limited to the group tracks. But it does mean that there are a varying number of dancers on-screen at once and players are split between those dancers. So with a solo track everyone does the same moves, while in duet they'll be split into two groups and in group up to four players each have their own moves. One aspect of this group play that I do not like is that I cannot choose which part I am going to dance meaning more often than not I have to follow a male's moves.
Scoring in The Blacked Eyed Peas Experience following the same format as the Just Dance games in that your movements are tracked and depending on how closely they match the choreography you get points. Movements are only tracked using the WiiMote in the right hand though, which means that it cannot track your legs and it is possible to cheat by just waving the WiiMote around. I have to say I do not cheat and I struggle my way through the tracks throwing my whole body into it and I find that generally movements are picked up quite well. I can't say that I'm ever completely in step so I don't know if they are completely accurately picked up. There are three levels of points to be picked up by each player ranging from almost there to spot on and then extra points can be gained in multi-player mode when group moves are performed correctly. There are also lots of points to be had, even barely being able to keep up I can earn 20-30 thousand points, so goodness knows what I will earn when I can keep up.
The duets are great fun to perform with a partner, with lots of slightly sexy, interactive moves that my partner enjoy performing. Never having played with three more players I cannot comment on this aspect, but from how much room we need as a duet I would say a large, clear space is required. As much fun as it is to perform the dances, it's almost as much fun to watch, as the dances are so difficult, learning them involves throwing yourself around a great deal (or it does in my partner's case), and I must burn nearly as many calories watching him as I do dancing. While I would never perform a complete routine on the dance floor, I have to admit that my partner and I do have a few favourite moves that we've practised in clubs. One slightly disappointing aspect is that there is nothing to unlock, but as with all of this type, this is a game where you compete to beat your high score rather than complete.
All-in-all The Black Eyed Experience for the Wii is a challenging dance game that takes a long time to master. The moves are fast and complex even on the easier tracks and extremely challenging on the harder tracks. While there are no swear words throughout the tracks (only the clean version) some of the dance moves are overtly sexual and so I wouldn't recommend this game for children or younger children (even the 12 year olds it is certificated for). But for older teenagers and even old fogies like me, it is an ultimately fun game for those who want to get up and groove and of course enjoy listening to The Black Eyed Peas. As to stars out of five I would probably have to give it four as it is quite difficult to master and a bit of a niche product.
*Favourite track for solo : I Gotta Feeling
*Favourite track for duet : Shut Up
A couple of weeks ago we were given some Wii games by a friend who no longer played with them. Some of the selections were great but others were a little strange. Like this one! I had new heard of the Black Eyed Peas Experience before and thought it almost seemed like someone had decided after a few too many drinks that they were going to make a Black Eyed Peas game. Unfortunately for me, that is exactly what the whole game feels like! It doesn't feel very well thought through and most of the game and the dance moves are far too fast, unless you've got moves like Jagger of course!
The game promises to get the party started right in your living room with the world's 'hottest group'. Don't get me wrong, it is really good fun, but unlike the variety you have with other dance games such as Just Dance, this game has only Black Eyed Peas songs (obviously) and for me it seems too much to play for a long period as it just gets a little tiresome listening to the same band. Unless you are an absolute diehard fan I just can't see people wanting to play this for a long time or more than a couple of songs. The Black Eyed Peas Experience features 25 tracks from the band, and the aim of the game is to perform dance moves alongside apl.de.ap, Fergie, Taboo and will.i.am with professional choreography designed exclusively for the group. The game has a party style theme with the player being able to follow the group on tour and go to venues inspired by the music videos and shows.
The dance moves have been developed in collaboration with a professional choreographer, Fatima Robinson, and you can really feel this in the game, but some of the moves were just too complex for me and my children and we often ended up just doing our own dance moves and going along with the song rather than trying to follow some of the moves.
The game allows you to play alongside 4 friends at the same time and you can play as a team and get a group score or against each other in a competitive dance battle. One screen lyrics allow you to sing along as well but I found if you were dancing, there was too much going on to take my concentration away from the dance moves and so this is more suitable for an observer of the game.
The game explains that the dance movements are easy to follow and compares to Just Dance, but I have to disagree as I think there is just too much going on on screen for a person like me who isn't the world's best dancer!
The song list is as follows:
Boom Boom Pow
Disco Club
Don't Lie
Don't Phunk With My Heart
Don't Stop The Party
Dum Diddly
Everything Wonderful (BEP & David Guetta)
Fashion Beats
Hey Mama
I Gotta Feeling
Imma Be
Just Can't Get Enough
Let's Get It Started (Spike mix)
Meet Me Halfway
My Humps
My Style (feat. Justin Timberlake)
Pump It
Shut Up
Rock That Body
Take It Off
The Best One (The Boy)
They Don't Want Music (feat. James Brown) - This is only on the Wii edition of the game.
The Time (Dirty Bit)
I find that the dance moves move on too quickly in the instructions and by the time you have figured out what you need to do the next move is upon you and so the execution can be messy and out of time. I spent most of my time playing catch up with the moves. The demonstration that flows along the screen is small and the choreography is too complicated for the small size of the dancers.
I didn't know quite a few of the songs and felt like a lot of the songs were fillers. Obviously there are quite a few well known songs on the game, but some of them (as far as I'm aware) haven't even been released.
PEGI rating: 12 and over.
We got this game for free (thank god!) but if you really want to you can pay £14.59 for it from Amazon!
As mentioned in previous reviews me and some girlfriends have a regular Wii night and with all the Dance games out at the moment we don't stop dancing all night!
The BEP Experience has been added to our repertoire now after it was received as a Christmas present. Some us love it more than others, and you really need to like the BEP's songs to enjoy the game.
There is a lot of choice of routines and just some of them are ; Boom Boom Pow, I Gotta Feeling, Don't Stop the Party, Meet Me Halfway, and Where is the Love. There are 30 tracks in total so plenty to keep you going! On other dance games you can usually download some extra tracks from the Wii store which this game doesn't have, this is a little disappointing.
If you have played any of the 'Just Dance' games then be warned the routines on here are much much harder. The Dance moves are faster and more varied and it is more difficult to follow. But there is a step by step coaching section where you can learn some before you jump into the song, but I am too impatient to do this. I go straight in and then get confused. But despite the routines being more difficult, it still is a great laugh! You'll be singing while your dancing and working up at sweat.
You can have up to four people on the multi-player option and even create your own choreography!
It is at a price of £14.99 on Play.com with free delivery so if you like the BEP, then give it a try with some friends


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A VILLAGE pub is back in the heart of the local community following a revamp.
The Crown, in Kingsclere, closed in March, following negotiations between landlord Dan Wilkinson and Enterprise Inns to refurbish the premises.
The former Bournemouth restaurant owner had acquired The Crown last August, after it had been vacant for about seven months.
"It certainly needed a little bit of TLC – it was looking a little tired," explained Dan, who was delighted when Enterprise Inns agreed to spend thousands of pounds on carrying out major renovations at the pub.
The revamp has involved redecorating the premises, working on the electrics, kitting out the kitchen, modernising the toilets and extending a courtyard behind the pub.
Dan (below) was happy to give regulars an opportunity to have a look round before The Crown officially re-opened last Wednesday.
Dan said: "It was a wonderful day – we were heaving and we've certainly listened to what people were saying about the things they missed about us.
"One customer said 'you've put the heart back into the village' and others have said that there hasn't been that focal point."
Dan feels very much part of the community and recalled when he first saw an advertisement when the pub came on to the market last year.
He said: "I saw that it's a beautiful building, and when I came to Kingsclere, I liked the feel of the place. It's a charming village and it just seemed very welcoming. It just had a nice feeling as a quintessentially English country village."
In addition to a new menu, The Crown has also opened The Crown Parlour, Kingsclere, tea room, complete with its own entrance, offering teas, coffees, home-made cakes and 14 varieties of New Forest Ice Cream.


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NEW YORK ( TheStreet) -- HP's ( HPQ) fourth-quarter earnings topped Wall Street consensus, but the company's issues go much further than one quarter -- it looks as if HP's assets are in a structural decline. HP's biggest revenue generator, its Personal Systems Group, saw revenue fall 14% from last year. Printing sales fell 5%, services fell 6%, and Enterprise Servers, Storage and Networking was down 9%. These results make it abundantly clear that HP is nowhere near close to finishing its turnaround, and there may be considerable downside left to go. HP took an $8.8 billion write-down on software maker Autonomy, which it purchased under former CEO Leo Apotheker. HP only bought Autonomy for $10.3 billion, so writing the value of the asset down by about 85% a little more than a year later suggests HP has incredible challenges ahead as it tries to turn itself around. Under Apotheker, HP thought it would be a software company, transitioning itself similar to what IBM ( IBM) has become. Since Meg Whitman took the CEO job in late 2011, she has distanced herself from this route, trying to turn HP around and focus on what made HP one of the top PC makers in the world. But Whitman's route seems too late though. HP is in an unenviable position, similar to Dell ( DELL), in that the PC market is slowing as consumers and enterprises rely more on smartphones and tablets for their computing needs. HP doesn't have a phone or a tablet, though Whitman said earlier this year the company has to offer a smartphone. Apple ( AAPL), Samsung, Google ( GOOG) and others are dominating the mobile market right now, and rapidly putting the hurt on HP. Since the start of the year, HP shares have lost 48.37%, compared to a 39.7% gain for Apple and a 3.45% rise for Google. Dell has fared almost as bad as HP, falling 37.6%, but Dell has one thing going for it that HP does not. Dell had $14.2 billion in cash at the end of the third quarter with no debt. HP has $11.8 billion in cash, but had $21.8 billion in long-term debt at the end of its fiscal fourth quarter.
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