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By Joe Lindsey
Two years ago, the Sky team became something of a running (or rolling) joke in pro cycling when team leaders began using trainers to ride after finishing races. What? 200km wasn't enough?
But there was method to the madness; Sky's head trainer, Tim Kerrison, put his riders on trainers to warm down from particularly intense finishes, with the idea that it would help them recover better than simply getting on the bus. By the 2012 Tour de France, a number of teams were using the strategy.
A story in today's NY Times Well blog challenges that notion—or seems to. Esteemed fitness and health writer Gretchen Reynolds points to several studies on subjects ranging from sedentary adults to pro soccer players that indicate cooldowns don't actually reduce muscle soreness.
But as Reynolds notes later in the piece, there are benefits to cooldowns, including to reduce "venous pooling" in the lower body extremities, which prevents dizziness.
Sky is a very data-driven team. If the primary benefit of a cooldown was to prevent Chris Froome from fainting, would they still use them?
Absolutely. Reynolds' story focused on research into only one aspect of post-exercise recovery: muscle soreness, which has been linked to lactic acid buildup. That's not intended as a criticism of the story; just pointing out the relatively narrow focus of it and the studies it highlights.
But it turns out we don't really understand the function of lactic acid in exercise nearly as well as we thought—including whether it's a harmful byproduct of exercise or beneficial.
Setting that aside, there are two aspects the Times' story didn't really address that matter greatly to endurance athletes. First, the exercise itself. In the study of sedentary adults, subjects performed five sets of 10 lunges with extra weight in the form of dumbbells. In the studies of pro soccer players, the intense exercise sessions lasted for less than an hour.
That's far different than the consistent, intense effort needed for a century, a marathon (for us amateurs) or, for pros, a race like Liege-Bastogne-Liege (check out Chris Sorensen's LBL power numbers from TrainingPeaks, with a mind-boggling 5,744kJ expenditure and a Training Stress Score of 461).
Other cautions around the studies: Small sample sizes always merit more investigation and are never conclusive. Second, muscle soreness was analyzed based on perceived pain in the sedentary adult study, and effort based on RPE (rate of perceived exertion) in both soccer studies along with heart rate. Subjective, self-reported data like perceived soreness and RPE are always a little bit squishy.
But back to the main point: 20 minutes of weighted lunges or 45 minutes of aerobic exercise are not the same as a four-hour ride at 80 percent of threshold with numerous above-LT efforts. RPE and perceived soreness are only limited measures of recovery. And a one-day recovery window doesn't reflect athletic reality; if I ride four or five days a week, what's the cumulative effect of cooling down versus not cooling down over a week or month of riding?
The point of a cooldown in racing is to start to undo the effect of the length and intensity of the effort. On a mountaintop finish at the Tour, riders will perform 30-minute max power outputs all the way to the line, and then stop riding.
A cooldown both helps bring heart rate down and keep blood flowing to flush waste products, and signals a shift from catabolic phase to anabolic (teams have experimented with core cooling technologies for the same reason). That's important not only in a stage-race scenario, but any racing environment with multiple efforts.
The Ardennes week featured 717km (445 miles) of racing in eight days. Liege alone has 4,700 meters (15,000 feet) of climbing, and Amstel Gold and Fleche Wallonne are similarly hilly. In between are training and recon days—lighter efforts to be sure, but still several hours a day of riding.
For endurance athletes, a cooldown is still a good idea. As Reynolds points out, if there's no scientific evidence in the studies that she surveyed showing cooldowns help, there's also zero evidence that they hurt. The placebo effect may have no direct cause, but it does work, so if it feels good, do it.
Last point: A cooldown is not just aimless easy pedaling for 10 minutes. Sky and other teams have somewhat specific parameters, just as they do for warmups before time trials. Which gives me another story idea.
Netflix > HBO
Last week I wrote about the outdated model of sports coverage on television that is forcing bike racing fans in the United States to choose from canned coverage of some events or dodgy live "pirated" internet streams. I hoped to encourage a third model of official internet streaming to emerge.
On the heels of that, I note that Netflix announced some interesting news the other day: Its subscribers to its streaming service—which offers movies, TV reruns and some original content—just passed HBO for subscriber numbers. Just over 29 million U.S. accounts exist.
Bloomberg notes that Netflix, whose stock got hammered in fall of 2011 with an ill-advised pricing plan that later got rolled back, offers pretty liberal policies that let people share an account, so the actual number of viewers is far higher.
Even if it tightens those subscriber rules some, revenue should keep growing, and Netflix reported a 20 cents per share profit in its last quarter compared to an eight cents per share loss from the same quarter a year ago.
Holczer Back at Katusha
I realize this is broad-stroke, but per capita, there's probably no greater concentration of dodgy people in cycling than at Katusha—the only WorldTour team I know of employing a doctor (Andrei Mikhailov) with a criminal conviction for drug trafficking. The latest: Hans Holczer, the ex-GM let go last year, is now back with the Russian team. In fact, it sounds as if he's been quietly working there for some time.
Holzcer, you might recall, is the former GM of Gerolsteiner: home of caught and admitted dopers like Stefan Schumacher, Bernhard Kohl, Levi Leipheimer, and Davide Rebellin. Holzcer still maintains he had no idea doping was going on there (even as Schumacher says it was as commonplace as "eating pasta").
That led VeloNews contributor Ryan Newill to memorably dub Holzcer as the Sergeant Schultz of pro cycling. (For readers under 30, Schultz was the bumbling see-no-evil, hear-no-evil Nazi POW camp sergeant in "Hogan's Heroes" known for his catchphrase: "I know nothing!") Rarely have I heard a nickname more fitting. Sergeant Schultz it is, Hansy.
Whiskey Off-Road Gets All-Star Start List
On the heels of the UCI's decision to postpone enforcement of the rule barring international licenseholders from participating in non-sanctioned events until 2014, the pro start list for this weekend's Whiskey Off-Road is looking exceptionally good.
Pretty much every prominent pro in North America will be on the start line looking for a piece of the $40,000 pro prize purse (equal money for men and women, pays 12 deep).
The license crisis caused some existential soul-searching on the part of many racers who wondered if they'd be forced to choose between racing UCI/USA Cycling sanctioned events or essentially go privateer.
Although racers don't have to make that choice this year, if the license issue doesn't reach a resolution, I've got a feeling that in 2014 you'll see a pretty similar start list for the Whiskey. The decision has been made; it's just a question of whether the UCI and USAC can accomodate it.
Tags: Hans Holczer, Katusha, mountain bike racing, Pro Racing, recovery, sports science, Team Sky, TV coverage, UCI, USA Cycling, Whiskey Off-road
I'd love to turn on and tune in, but the feed keeps dropping out
By Joe Lindsey
What's it like to be a bike racing fan in America? Television coverage of two recent events gives us a clue.
On Wednesday, April 17, I tuned in to Fleche-Wallonne. No U.S. broadcaster owns the rights, so my choices were a range of unrestricted "pirate" internet feeds.
I try not to think about it, but those feeds are often hosted on dodgy Russian servers, which offer up a host of overlay ads and pop-ups that get past the blockers on some browsers. Sometimes you can kill the overlays by going full-screen, but the pixelated mess that often results is unwatchable.
But the overlay ads have a habit of coming at the worst possible time. At Fleche, one popped up about 200 meters into Carlos Betancur's attack on the finishing climb of the Mur de Huy. I patiently waited the 24 seconds to close it and kill the pop-up ad that followed, so I could see the last remnants of Philippe Gilbert's counter and just barely caught Dani Moreno's win. It was not the most satisfying viewing experience.
Just 10 days before, I woke up at 6 a.m. on Sunday, excited to watch Paris-Roubaix. This time, NBC Sports owned the rights, which meant I got to watch live, in HD. As I settled onto the couch with a cup of coffee and a laptop open to a copy of the start list and Twitter, I quickly realized a disconnect between what was going on on-screen and on the second screen.
NBC, I realized, was not actually live, but was running about 10-11km behind the action on the road. The disconnect was so bad I actually pulled up a pirate feed to follow the race live, with NBC on in the background as a kind of distant replay.
Neither of these experiences was very satisfying, and both of them point to what's wrong with televised racing coverage today. Namely: It's stuck in a bygone era.
I make my living as a creative. Stuff like copyright matters to me because I'm acutely aware that someone on the other side of that content depends on being compensated for it.
So it's hypocritical to watch pirate feeds at all; if I was a real man of principle, I'd just abstain. I rationalize that with the knowledge that it's essential to my job to watch races, and I only choose pirate feeds for races that lack U.S. broadcast rights.
I've avoided the third option, cycling.tv, because of persistent complaints about quality; what I'd like is for them or someone else to figure out how to make this work (see below).
Again, I realize the hypocrisy of what I'm doing. It brings to mind that old line that's sometimes (wrongly) attributed to Churchill or Groucho Marx, "We've already established what you are, madam; now we're just haggling over price."
But as unsatisfying as live pirate feeds are, official coverage is even worse. It's often tape-delayed and shown at awful hours (midnight mountain, etc.) And at Roubaix, NBC made what I felt was an indefensible error in delaying coverage. They'd promoted the event as live, and I felt they should have stuck to that.
Producer Joel Felicio explained in a series of tweets why the network made its decision. As also explained by NBC Universal spokesman Adam Freifeld in an e-mail to me, the network had keyed its start time (8 a.m. eastern) to pick the race up as it entered the mythical Arenberg Forest.
Problem: The early part of the race was faster than anticipated. Instead of reaching Arenberg at 8:15 a.m. Eastern—according to the fastest timetable posted by the organizer—the riders reached it at 7:55.
"Arenberg is an iconic section of the race," Freifeld wrote, "and we wanted to ensure viewers saw it."
OK, so why remain tape-delayed—why not show Arenberg and jump ahead? That was the initial plan, wrote Freifeld, but "as the race played out we never felt there was a good situation to catch up to the live race. We felt it best to show the race in its entirety."
I disagree with that point. After Arenberg there were a number of chances to catch up as the race re-settled on the patchwork of roads and minor cobbled sectors that follow.
More to the point, while the race entered Arenberg 20 minutes ahead of schedule, it was only five ahead of broadcast start, but NBC insisted on its usual softshoe lead-in, gobbling up valuable time.
(Aside: As I watched, NBC also fell further and further behind the live coverage. At the start of the broadcast, they were roughly 10k behind the race; by the time Vanmarcke and Cancellara hit the velodrome in Roubaix, NBC was a full 15km behind. I have no explanation for this.)
A decade ago, NBC could likely have gotten away with a slight tape-delay. The number of viewers watching TV and also following one of the live text updates from CyclingNews or VeloNews was not large, and it wouldn't have been much problem to simply focus on the screen.
What's changed?
Twitter, in a word. The social media site is huge in cycling. Every cyclist I know, every team, and almost every ardent fan, not only has an account but uses it to follow races and—here's the important part—to interact with other fans.
We live in an era of second-screen viewing. TV networks increasingly are taking advantage of this, using hashtags promoted on-screen to improve viewers' experiences. And that works nowhere better than during live sports events, when you can connect with people in a shared experience no matter where you are in the world.
But that means your coverage has to be live too. Despite multiple requests, Freifeld did not reply to a question about NBC's approach to the second-screen experience, so I can't give any insight here as to what they were thinking in delaying coverage.
But for me, and for many other viewers (as experienced anecdotally on Twitter), the delay essentially ruined NBC's coverage and eventually sent me away from it as my primary viewing mode.
Freifeld said that NBC averaged 137,000 viewers; viewership peaked at 239,000 viewers, between 10:30-11 Eastern. But the race finished at 10:20 Eastern; NBC's peak viewership came, I suspect, when people such as myself tuned in to watch, essentially, the not-so-instant replay.
NBC's treatment of Roubaix was, to me, awful. In the name of respecting the race, it disrespected fans, and sports. It's also a relic of a bygone era of sports broadcasting that I lay pretty much directly at ex-NBC Sports chief Dick Ebersol's feet.
Ebersol was the man responsible for NBC's Olympic Games coverage for years. It's due to him that we get lots of soft-focus features and tape-delay coverage. Under Ebersol, sports was treated as entertainment.
There are some innovations to this, for sure. Ebersol's chief insight was that viewers connect with human stories. He sought to tell those stories so viewers became invested in the people they watched compete.
That's less essential for sports that Americans are regularly in touch with. We don't need to hear the complete story arc of Tim Tebow's life; we've already learned it. But at the Olympics, or events like the Tour de France, it's essential to introduce the viewer to the athletes, to give them a reason to care and to cheer for them.
But the way that's done has to change. Right now NBC is caught between a broadcast philosophy from the 1970s and a modern media environment that's changing quickly. And they're getting dropped.
Tags: NBC Sports, Pro Cycling, TV coverage, TV rights, UCI


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A photo-journalism and essay project by the Miami-based Iris Photo Collective portrays the complex connections between Haiti and her neighbor Cuba. We speak with Iris co-founders Carl Juste and Luis Rios talk about the photographs and essays, produced before the earthquake, and how their context has changed after the disaster.
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2.35/5 rDev +36.6%
look: 3 | smell: 2 | taste: 2 | feel: 3 | overall: 3
You know what you're getting into when you buy this. Quantity, not quality. You buy this when you're going to play "Three Man" or "Up the River, Down the River." You buy this when you want to build a pyramid of empty beer cans in your dorm room. You buy this to feed to the frat boys and sorority chicks when they come over.
It's yellow beer-water. It's cheap. This makes it easy to drink. It has a bit of alcohol, like nail polish remover.
You don't pour this into a glass, you shotgun it and smash it against your face. You and your buddies headbutt and yell at each other, then stand in a circle and vomit.
I'm guessing my score for this will be somewhat high. It looks like beer, it is easy to swig. But it doesn't taste good. It tastes like you buy 30 of them for $10.
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1.7/5 rDev -1.2%
look: 1 | smell: 1 | taste: 2 | feel: 2 | overall: 1.75
Pale yellow whiz in a can. No head, no lacing. Smell is like after your buddy spills Coors in your ride, and it cooks in there for a weekend.
Taste, since it doesn't taste like much, it isn't as bad as the "bad" appearance and aroma. Mouthfeel doesn't leave anything. Bad aftertaste I guess of cornmeal. Drinkability rates high, hey, its cheap, and since its like alcohol water, its relatively easy to drink, but why you would want to . . .
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look: 2 | smell: 1.5 | taste: 2 | feel: 2.5 | overall: 4
Poured undeservingly into a glass
A-Type macro brew "beer", weak bubbly foam dissipates quickly into nothing.
S-sickly sweet, caramel?, corn?, hard to discern. Faint grainy smell. Make it go away.
T-A bit better than the smell, still has the mystery sweetness in the aftertaste, metallic, do I taste MALT?! I think I do! Good job Keystone!
M-Like sex with a girl with the clap, I don't notice anything "wrong", but in the near future there may be repercussions for drinking this.
D-I could drink a lot of this beer. I could also cut my hair with a weedwacker, but that doesn't mean it's a good idea.
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02-28-2010 01:16:56 | More by kcr357
2.25/5 rDev +30.8%
look: 3 | smell: 2.5 | taste: 2 | feel: 2 | overall: 2.5
24 oz. can:
Pours straw yellow with a decent head at first - but it soon collapses to barely a wisp. Almost thought it would have some lacing - but that vanishes in a heartbeat - leaving glass clean in the end. Overall, it turns out to be a typical "macro lager" look...though body towards golden and a head that lasted a very fleeting moment.
The smell is of some grain and cereal - some boozy alcohol...that lends an odd floral/fruitiness.
The taste is of fusel alcohol, hint of lingering sweetness, and something close to, but quite hitting, nail polish remover. Finishes sweet - reminiscent of cheap malt liquor.
It has a slick, light body. It's not too fizzy.
This is for people who want a cheap quick buzz if you chug it, I suppose. I didn't chug it and was able to get through the whole 24 oz. can. Some short-lived sweetness lingered. In the end - a cheap macro with a bit of booze...
Serving type: can
01-28-2010 02:59:59 | More by jwc215
2.15/5 rDev +25%
look: 3 | smell: 2.5 | taste: 2 | feel: 2 | overall: 2
Bought a 24 ounce can for $1.35. Poured from can appears like most other lagars pale yellow. Lots of carbonated bubbles. Strong smell of corn. Lots of corn, sugar and yeast in the flavor. Somewhat stale flavor. No real malts or hops to speak of. Mouthfeel is pretty watery. Drinkability, in one word no.
Serving type: can
01-08-2010 23:35:43 | More by mtnbikerpa
2.73/5 rDev +58.7%
look: 2 | smell: 3 | taste: 2.5 | feel: 3 | overall: 3
Poured from a 12 oz. can. Has a very pale yellow color with a 1/2 inch head. Mild smell, some malts. Taste is lacking, some malts, finishing a bit metallic. Feels light in the mouth and has average drinkability. Overall not a whole lot to like about this one.
Serving type: can
11-11-2009 01:02:38 | More by tone77
1.93/5 rDev +12.2%
look: 2.5 | smell: 2 | taste: 2 | feel: 1 | overall: 2
A: Pale yellow, lots of carbonation bubbles. Decent amount of head initially, but quickly dies down to a thin ring. Definitely meant to be inside a can.
S: Smells like a typical light "college party beer", which makes me slightly upset to my stomach. Sours hops, grain, wet paper, a hint of citric sweetness. Toilet water.
T: Metallic and grainy, some sweetness that makes it just a little more bearable than Keystone Light. I mean, it is better than say Natty Light or Genny Light, but that's not saying much.
M: Thin and watery, really terrible.
D: I suppose if it's ice cold it's at least "drinkable". This beer is what it is: A (really) cheap buzz bear that you can buy in large quantities at gas stations and grocery stores. A "beer pong beer" in my book really. I would also like to point out that I'm not one of those people that is unwilling to drink macro light beers. I don't mind an occasional Coors or Bud Light with some chicken wings. That being said, I would never want to drink this outside of a college party, and even then not really.
Serving type: can
11-08-2009 05:14:25 | More by MrDanno96
2.6/5 rDev +51.2%
look: 2 | smell: 2 | taste: 3 | feel: 2.5 | overall: 2.5
Saw a single bottle of this, so I said why not. I used to drink this stuff in college.
Pale, crystal clear, straw with a medium-sized, fizzy, white head that quickly diminishes to a thin ring. Smell is of weak malts, light yeast and veggie. Taste follows. Very adjunct flavor. Finish is crisp with light fruity whisps of fruit on the finish, something actually enjoyable. But as you go the finish turns chalky and husky. It looks cheap, it tastes cheap... but as long as that's what you're going for, it's not terrible. Is it a good beer? Ha! But in the category of American Adjunct Lager, it's not bad. So keeping style in mind I won't blast this beer.
Serving type: bottle
10-08-2009 01:31:39 | More by ski271
2.75/5 rDev +59.9%
look: 2 | smell: 2 | taste: 3 | feel: 3 | overall: 3
Appearance from this 24 oz. can is straw in color with a crisp head that dissapates quickly. Smell has light adjunct, but clean. Taste of slightly sweet corn, watered down with a light bitter bite. Mouthfeel is light with good carbonation. Drinkable cheap buzz.
Serving type: can
08-26-2009 02:16:47 | More by Bookseeb
1.6/5 rDev -7%
look: 3 | smell: 2 | taste: 1 | feel: 2 | overall: 2
What's the deal with Ice brews? Keystone Premium is awful, Keystone Light is worse, so why not stop there? The ABV is higher, but that doesn't make this any better. This beer is watery and not much else good can be said about it. Others have said it better than I can. Mouthfeel is weak, taste is atrocious, and poured appearance is without obvious merit. Drinkability is not improved by a higher ABV.
Serving type: can
07-24-2009 05:44:04 | More by utah44
2.08/5 rDev +20.9%
look: 1.5 | smell: 1.5 | taste: 2 | feel: 2 | overall: 3
Picked this one up for a buck and a quarter at the store where I work.
The beer is a very light gold. The color is about as deep as sunlight. Lots of bubbles rise to the top but the head dies within seconds. The smell holds the slight burn of carbonation and hints of cheap beer adjunctness. The alcohol really takes over the beer in the taste. It's really sweet with a hint of sour adjuncts. The carbonation gets the back of your throat. There are thinner beers out there and I could drink the hell out of it, but I don't really want to.
Serving type: can
07-22-2009 23:51:44 | More by nicksta
1.65/5 rDev -4.1%
look: 2.5 | smell: 2 | taste: 1.5 | feel: 1.5 | overall: 1.5
Pours a clear yellow color that is very light. There is a very slight head to it. The smell is of alcohol and grain. The taste is of alcohol and grain. The taste is very stingy it is very harsh to drink taste wise. The mouthfeel is overly carbonated. The mouthfeel is very harsh. The drinkability on this is very low, it is harsh and stings of alcohol, good if you are in college i guess.
Serving type: can
07-17-2009 23:45:31 | More by goblue3509
New York
2.65/5 rDev +54.1%
look: 2.5 | smell: 2 | taste: 2.5 | feel: 2 | overall: 4
I'm going to skip the drill here, because this stuff pours into yer glass with a nice head that dies before you can say Keystone Ice, and looks and smells like any other Big Beer adjunct. Best you chug it from the can. When you don't see it, it def tastes better. Really. So on a long hot summer weekend afternoon, you can do 10 Coors Lights, 6 Coors... or a bunch of Keystone and get pleasantly buzzed in the right fashion. Read on.
At 15 bucks for a 30 pack (here in NY) Keystone Ice is the perfect base for making yer own summer beer (or beer cocktail if you're a purist). You can't do this with, let's say, Steel Reserve, because it actually has some taste. With Keystone Ice, add an orange slice at the least. Or boil up some Cilantro and Ginger root in a small amount of water with a bit of sugar, chill it, and add to the Keystone. Or try a grille seared chili pepper tossed into your glass. The point is, forget the "grains of paradise" and other hype. Save a few bucks.
Nevertheless, Keystone Ice, as a beer on its own, doesn't cut it. But what did you expect from Coors?
Serving type: can
07-10-2009 04:14:29 | More by theBubba
1.53/5 rDev -11%
look: 3 | smell: 1 | taste: 1.5 | feel: 2 | overall: 1.5
CAN you dig it? Here I go again with yet another CAN of beer!
As I poured, the white head bubbled and fizzed like soda pop and had retention commensurate with pop - none. That left me with a glass of golden-yellow beer with NE-quality clarity. The nose had a sweet, candy-like quality to it. Not lager-sweet, but candy-sweet. Oof. Pressing on, the mouthfeel was thin and watery with a bubble gum sweetness coupled with an alcohol heat on the tongue. Finish had an unpleasant astringency. I was glad that I was eating along with drinking. This could have been a Drain Pour otherwise.
Serving type: can
06-30-2009 17:20:45 | More by woodychandler
2.55/5 rDev +48.3%
look: 1 | smell: 2 | taste: 3 | feel: 2.5 | overall: 2.5
12 oz can in an American Tumbler. Aug 15 '09 on bottom.
A - Insanely effervescent, The amount of fizz in terms of bubbles and sound is more-so than most sodas. The super fizzy, loose head was gone by the time you blinked and left no ring or lacing at all. Light golden color.
S - A weird slight citrus with a lot of dry straw, huskiness, and a touch of sweetness.
T - Sweet and almost slightly spiced somehow. Dry straw and low levels of caramel-ish malts. Not terrible for a cheap adjunct lager.
M - Medium in body, its got a sharp crispness to it and a harsh carbonation bite.
D - I suppose for a higher gravity cheap beer (got it for 50 cents otherwise I'd never try it) its ok on the drinkability level (even if the alcohol is a tad low for an ICE) but I could see this leaving one huge headache in its wake.
Serving type: can
06-16-2009 14:53:46 | More by BeerFMAndy
New York
1.1/5 rDev -36%
look: 1 | smell: 1 | taste: 1 | feel: 1 | overall: 1.5
The smell is of perhaps stale bread and corn.
Appearance is pale yellow.
The mouthfeel is light with heavy carbonation.
The taste is just simply disgusting. Imagine licking a railroad spike covered in corn flakes.
I was able to finish 6 of them despite the horrible taste. I would never want to have this again.
Serving type: can
06-10-2009 00:18:52 | More by sdj5
3.53/5 rDev +105.2%
look: 3 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.5
Big ol' 2X4 "specially lined" can, and it even says "ale" on it. Weird. Pours the same ol' clear straw yellow, white head pops up but dies a quick death. Only .99 cents too.
Not too bad of a malty aroma, surprised me with that. Quaff ain't too bad either, malty amongst the grain and grass. Damn smooth beer, slides down easily, no hint of the 5.9%.
Maybe I'm in a darn fine mood with the 80 degrees and golf coming up - but this was a easy drinking adjunct "lager".
Serving type: can
05-20-2009 20:47:16 | More by Vancer
1.8/5 rDev +4.7%
look: 2.5 | smell: 2 | taste: 1.5 | feel: 2 | overall: 2
As far as cheap beer goes I have always had a big forgivability towards the Keystone brand (picture McDonald's fries poured into a can); however, even though this "ale" was dirt cheap, it was a real task to drink on it's own. Hindsite being 20/20, it turns out that I don't care how little I pay for a can of suds when I feel a little like vomiting after every drink that I take. Unless you are just getting this stuff to put a beer into your obnoxious cousin's hand to make him shut-up and pass-out, then don't bother paying for the shit.
Serving type: can
05-20-2009 04:08:52 | More by ThickestHead
New York
1.83/5 rDev +6.4%
look: 2 | smell: 1.5 | taste: 1.5 | feel: 2.5 | overall: 2.5
I'm doing this review strictly for curiousity's sake. This beer was a transparent light yellow with a big and quickly-fading head after a vigorous pour. Let's not split hairs here, this is a beer for homeless people that can't manage to stumble into a place that sells Thunderbird or Mad Dog. Every so often college kids will also buy it to be ironic and then they'll pop their collars and high five and then drink a case of this swill and suck each other's dicks. The taste is as neutral as they could get with almost six percent alcohol. There's some corn, there's some alcohol, there's some lingering regret. The good news is that if you chug enough of it it begins to taste like water and that daytime hooker begins to look less like a post-op tranny. If it's cold enough you could almost mistake the mouthfeel for beer, and the drinkability for something rivaling a refreshing beverage. This is a beer that would make the people who purchase it sad if they still had the capacity for that type of emotion.
Serving type: can
05-10-2009 03:07:39 | More by TheTrevor
New York
2.88/5 rDev +67.4%
look: 2.5 | smell: 2.5 | taste: 3 | feel: 3 | overall: 3
No need to be technical here. This is a typical cheap macro, but a drinkable one. Bear in mind this is comparing it to other beers of its ilk; I paid 2.99 for 6 tall boys (16oz). Nothing overtly offensive (unless you find the taste of macros offensive). Sweet malt and plenty of adjunct. No hops. A little rocket-fuel-like alcohol at the end, and that about sums it up.
I would drink this as a thirst quencher on a very hot day, or if I wanted to get hammered for less than 4 bucks.
Serving type: can
04-29-2009 22:45:31 | More by Hoagie1973
1.05/5 rDev -39%
look: 2 | smell: 1 | taste: 1 | feel: 1 | overall: 1
This is easily one of the worst beers I have ever had. Even worse is it is an "ice" beer that doesn't even have a high ABV.
I can't say anything nice about it except that it doesn't look terrible. For a cheap beer it pours nicely and looks ok in a beer pong cup. That's about it. Terrible taste.
Serving type: can
03-03-2009 00:54:43 | More by woodske1
3.13/5 rDev +82%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3 | taste: 3 | feel: 3 | overall: 3.5
Poured clear with a small head into Pint Glass.
Faint aroma of honey , very faint.
Pretty tasteless , getting some metallic hints , slight bready background.
Mouthfeel is light , sharp mouthfeel from carbonation.
Overall a pretty decent buy at $14 a 30 pack.
Serving type: can
01-26-2009 23:33:04 | More by shroompod
1.65/5 rDev -4.1%
look: 1.5 | smell: 2 | taste: 1.5 | feel: 2 | overall: 1.5
I can't stomach this type of beer. Ice beer only has the quality of being more alcoholic than regular beer. It sacrifices flavor for alcohol. Beer should not be about getting drunk but rather the flavor. Therefore this is the opposite of what beer should be.
Serving type: can
01-24-2009 23:29:25 | More by Rhynes2
1.7/5 rDev -1.2%
look: 2.5 | smell: 1.5 | taste: 1.5 | feel: 2 | overall: 2
Poured from a 24 ounce can into a Duvel tulip glass. Along the bottom of the label it says that it's an ale instead of a lager, so perhaps we need a new style, "American Adjunct Ale".
Appearance: Decent clear golden yellow with a fizzy white head. A darker yellow than most cheap adjunct beers but par for the course for "ice" beers. Low carbonation and the head dissipated fast. Seems fairly average for the style, but I hoped for more carbonation.
Smell: Smells like water and corn. Disappointing.
Taste: Water corn and sugar, which is probably the three main ingredients.
Serving type: can
01-17-2009 03:49:07 | More by BierFan
1.2/5 rDev -30.2%
look: 2 | smell: 1 | taste: 1 | feel: 1.5 | overall: 1.5
Pours a little more gold than yellow, as if someone ate a lot of carrots before they peed in the can. Aroma is extra-sugary corn syrup. Weird. The taste is beyond bad; tons of grain and metal with a heaping of sugar. The beer does have more heft to it than its cousins, and that is not a good thing. You will get drunk quickly on this stuff, though. And sick just as fast of drinking it.
Serving type: can
12-05-2008 22:41:55 | More by magictrokini
Keystone Ice from Coors Brewing Company
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Don, try clicking on the little letter symbol at the top of you page. It's on a gray bar at the top of the screen between your name and a person symbol. Took me a long time to figure out how to work it, too. :)
I'm doing fine. You're just now starting your toms? I've got two trays of tomato seedlings in my house which were started by the third graders at the Shamrock Gardens dinner event, and I'll be returning them in a week or so. They will be missed. They're kind of like my foster toms. We're not having a garden this year because the soil around our ancient rent house is just too obviously contaminated with large chips of lead paint. :(
The big plant in the picture is from my TX garden. Pruning tomato bushes in that area made them too prone to disease, heat stress, and sunburn, so I just let them grow up and over their six foot tomato cages and back down to the ground again. And I promise I wasn't loading them up on nitrogen. :)
The frost-free date around here is about April 16th, isn't it?
Anyway, try to check your mail, it's about the school thing.
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I saw that Darlene Heater was going to contact you about the adult gardening at clean and green. Amy and I are concentrating on the "kid and family" activites/demo in this same area. Let's talk and try to co-ordinate!
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Toledo should be a team that can compete with BCS-level opponents in 2013 thanks to a strong offense.
Aug. 31 - Florida vs. Toledo - Preview
2012 Record: 9-4 (6-2 MAC)
Returning Starters, Offense: 9
Returning Starters, Defense: 3
Key Losses: RT A.J. Lindeman, ILB Dan Molls, OLB Robert Bell, SS Jermaine Robinson
Key Returnees: QB Terrance Owens, RB David Fluellen, WR Bernard Reedy, WR Alonzo Russell
Top Passer: QB Terrance Owens -- 216-351 (61.5%), 2,714 yards, 14 TDs, 8 INTs
Top Rusher: RB David Fluellen -- 259 yards, 1,498 yards, 13 TDs
Top Receiver: WR Bernard Reedy -- 89 receptions, 1,120 yards, 6 TDs
Top Pass-Rusher: DE Jayrone Elliott -- 18 tackles, 7.0 tackles for loss, 6.0 sacks
Top Defensive Back: CB Cheatham Norrils -- 74 tackles, 2 INTs, 5 PBUs
2012 RECAP: Toledo was a hair away from having a significantly better record in 2012. The Rockets lost an overtime game to Arizona to open the season, then ripped off eight straight wins, including a win over No. 21 Cincinnati. The Rockets tripped up in back-to-back weeks in narrow seven-point losses to Ball State and BCS-bound Northern Illinois before wrapping up the season with a win against Akron and a shellacking at the hands of Utah State in the Famous Idaho Potato Bowl.
OFFENSIVE OUTLOOK: Toledo will bring a veteran offensive unit to the Swamp that will really test Florida's fledgling young defense in the season opener. There is talent and experience across the board for the Rockets, starting with senior quarterback Terrance Owens.
Owens has 17 starts to his credit and nearly threw for 3,000 yards a year ago. He has his top five targets back in the passing game, including 5-foot-9 playmaker Bernard Reedy, who amassed 1,120 receiving yards a year ago.
Paced on the ground by senior running back David Fluellen, the Rockets are a formidable, well-balanced bunch. Fluellen finished eighth in the country in rushing in 2012, just two yards shy of 1,500.
He should be even better as a senior, running behind an offensive line that returns four starters, including All-MAC center Zac Kerin. The right tackle spot is the only one open, and two 6-foot-8 behemoths are competing for the job there.
The bottom line is that the Rockets will certainly test a young Gators defense early on. Florida will have to play well to keep this game in the 20-point range in the season opener.
DEFENSIVE OUTLOOK: Toledo lost a whole lot of talent on defense, including the nation's leading tackler a year ago in Dan Molls. With nine starters gone, the Rockets will have their hands full slowing down a Florida offense that should once again boast a dominant running game.
The Rockets have a pair of veterans returning at end, where Jayrone Elliott racked up six sacks a year ago. The interior of the line is far less certain, with one veteran senior returning along with a handful of fairly inexperienced sophomores.
Linebacker is where Toledo has its biggest hole on defense after losing a pair of 100-tackle starters. Sophomore Trent Voss is expected to be a star there after racking up 47 tackles as a true freshman, and he'll be flanked by a pair of little-used seniors and a somewhat experienced junior.
In the secondary, the Rockets have to replace both starting safeties and a starting cornerback. Junior Cheatham Norrils returns as the team's third-leading tackler in 2012 as a cornerback. The safety positions are up in the air between some young players, including former Florida player Jordan Haden, now a junior.
All in all, Florida shouldn't have much trouble moving the ball against Toledo. That said, the Rockets do have pretty good size up front, which should provide the Gators with a good test in the running game before heading to Miami a week later.
SPECIAL TEAMS OUTLOOK: Toledo returns everyone on its special teams unit. Starting kicker Jeremiah Detmer hit 82.8 percent of his field goals a year ago with a long of 47. Punter Vince Penza averaged 40.5 yards per punt and dropped 21 of his 58 punts inside the 20. Return man Bernard Reedy had four special teams touchdowns, including three kickoff return touchdowns and one punt return touchdown. He averaged 27.7 yards per kick return and 11.1 yards per punt return.
WHAT TO EXPECT: Toledo boasts a strong offense, but the Rockets will be facing a pass rush they have never seen and a pair of cornerbacks that can lock down some of the nation's best. Simply put, it'll be hard for them to move the ball, even with everything they have coming back.
Still, we'd expect the Rockets to put together at least one or two scoring drives. On the other hand, Florida really should have no trouble carving up a very inexperienced Toledo defense and controlling the line of scrimmage throughout.
This game may stay close, particularly if Florida opts to keep it as vanilla as it did in last year's opener -- Toledo is a pretty good team, likely entering the season as the MAC favorite -- but it should never really be in any doubt.
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Tell me if I took a little too much Nyquil last night because I feel like I'm hallucinating here. Did McDonalds and their creative agency DDB Sydney really create an adult-sized playland? More than three stories high and taking up the entire forecourt of Customs House at Sydney's Circular Quay, the Playland was constructed by Gregsets, who's worked on incredible…Continue
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Just how do you visualize an idea getting destroyed? If you are artist Scott Campbell, you create an interesting series of paintings where you draw upon stories we're all familiar with. While I'm sure those at the creative agencies will appreciate these the most, who hasn't felt frustrated over an idea that never came to fruition?
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My wife first went to the location to buy some boxes. When she first went in to look they said they were out of almost everything and all they had were 5 large boxes and she could buy those along with 10 extra large boxes with a 10 % discount, which came out to 62 dollars. The man took almost 20 mins to cash her out and then when they went to pick up the boxes outside they said sorry they don't actually have the 5 large boxes. So she had to go back in and wait another 30 mins while the man is complaining about having to give her a refund for the five boxes. Finally after almost an hour she is able to leave. The boxes we're to too large to fit packed in our vehicles so we went back to refund them. The same lady and man were there this time and they said no they couldn't refund them, when none of them explained this to my wife the first time and it doesn't state this anywhere on the receipt and also does not state that any place in the actual store. We ended up having to leave all ten boxes at the store without getting our money back. When you can clearly see we never opened the boxes or used them once. Worst customer service I have ever experienced. Never coming back to this place ever.
This is an excellent facility in every manner. A very knowledgeable and professional staff. Security in and around the units is perfect. I am well pleased with this storage facility.
The system scheduled two storages for me and I only needed one.
Office staff was great. The storage space I ordered online was too small and they were able to get me a larger space with no issues.
Unfortunately, I had a delay in my move and therefor will not be using the storage unit yet.
We had to cancel this reservation on 11/9/13 due to a change in our moving arrangements. The management was courteous in our cancellation.
Helpful staff and great location for my needs.
They did not have my reservation in their system. They did not have the size unit I reserved. I had to get the next size up and pay more. They were very nice though.
Really love the service and I love all the safety features, but a little pricey. Kinda to be expected because there is an alarm on each unit
Staff was very knowlegeable and courteous. Orientation was thorough. Storage area was absolutely spotless. Never had that happen before with other storage facilities.
Facility was fine. Staff very helpful.
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Renis and her coworker were very friendly and helpful, they took care of us.
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I couldn`t be more satisfied. The facility is huge and clean. The staff is very friendly and accomodating. The monthly rate is very reasonable.
Very nice facility and people. They have a truck you can use for free to move your stuff in. While that was not needed by me, I`m sure others would find it pretty convenient.
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Clean facility, great people, security is a top priority for them, and a military discount! I'd recommend this facility to anyone, especially retirees/PCSing.
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Women superheroes; Sexually confused youth; Heterosexuality every after; Beards and more beards; The interiors of Transcendence.
Elmore Leonard, 1925-2013. One of the most beloved American novelists dies at 87, and inspires a round of obituaries and appreciations that use fewer adjectives than their writers might normally deploy. RogerEbert.com's Odie Henderson appreciates Leonard's spare, direct style, as well as his ability to write his way into the heads of people who didn't look or sound like he did. Marilyn Stasio of The New York Times writes perhaps the most comprehensive obituary. For Cowboys & Indians, "The Premier Magazine of the West," Joe Leydon writes about Leonard's roots in the western genre. Revisit "A dinner with Elmore Leonard and his son Peter," recounted by Amy O'Neill of CNN.com. RogerEbert.com editor-in-chief Matt Zoller Seitz writes the Vulture appreciation. Forrest Wickman of Slate tells us why Leonard's novels made great movies. At Variety, "Justified" creator Graham Yost calls Leonard a mentor as well as a friend. See also: Elmore Leonards 10 Rules of Good Writing.
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"Mr. Murray was one of the last surviving links to a period of flowering creativity and spreading ferment among the black intelligentsia in post-war America, when the growing force of the civil rights movement gave rise to new bodies of thought about black identity, black political power and how African-Americans can live in a society with a history of racism. As blacks and whites clashed in the streets, black integrationists and black nationalists dueled in the academy and in books and essays. And Mr. Murray was in the middle of the debate, joining or sparring with writers and artists like James Baldwin, Richard Wright, Romare Bearden and his good friend Ralph Ellison."
"Pakistan Ex-Leader Charged in Bhutto Assassination; Pleads Not Guilty; Prosecutor Says the Onetime Military Leader 'Denied Her Security'." By Saeed Shah of The Wall Street Journal. Pakistani ex-President Pervez Musharraf was charged in court with a role in the 2007 assassination of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, his most serious legal setback since his return to the country in March.
"Ms. Bhutto was killed by a suicide bomber as she left a political rally in the city of Rawalpindi in December 2007, when Mr. Musharraf was president. The case promises to test relations between Pakistan's civilian authorities and its powerful military. Mr. Musharraf was army chief when he seized power in October 1999, ousting then-Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and later making himself president. Mr. Musharraf returned from four years of self-imposed exile to Pakistan in March this year with the aim of taking part in May elections. He was barred from politics, however, while Mr. Sharif proceeded to reclaim the premiership. Mr. Musharraf appeared in the court on Tuesday in Rawalpindi, near the capital Islamabad, amid tight security."
"The Book That Will Make You Never Want to Drink Again." For The New Yorker, Ian Crouch writes about reading Charles Jackson's "The Lost Weekend" in a "literary" bar. Related: Roger Ebert's Journal entry "My Name is Roger, and I'm an alcoholic."
"Part of the mythology of grand alcoholic writers rests on our desire to see the many different parts of their lives as contributing to a unified artistic whole. And so the drinking must connect to the writing, either as a spark of creativity or as a release from that creativity. Or perhaps the sentimental association of drinking and writerly genius is just an attempt at forming a connection with the great authors of the past. Most of us can't write like our heroes, but nearly every one of us can try to drink like them."
"How the Violence in Kick-Ass Challenged Comic Book Movies." Jack Giroux of Film School Rejects says the mayhem in the original Kick-Ass had physical and emotional consequences, which distinguished it from other movies of its type.
"It's difficult to shake the potential for a death toll when you fictionally destroy that many city blocks, but Kick-Ass made the loss of a single life seem grisly and as powerful as a steaming locomotive. Director Matthew Vaughn and screenwriter Jane Goldman wisely steered clear of showing random bystanders getting tossed off like candy (with one the hilarious exception being a kid going to a costume party). Kick-Ass was a movie that successfully had its cake and ate it, too: embracing its colorful comic-booky nature while also maintaining some semblance of bloody, "real world" consequences. That's not an easy balance to strike. Even Christopher Nolan, a comic book realist and one of the best directors working today, often fell victim to the difficulties of portraying comic book violence — particularly in PG-13 parameters."
Production still from "The Day the Clown Cried," Jerry Lewis' still-unreleased Holocaust comedy-weeper. To read more about it, read Chris Nashawaty's 2009 Entertainment Weekly piece here.
"Quentin and Pam's Big Score." A video essay about "Jackie Brown" by RogerEbert.com's Odie Henderson and critic/filmmaker Jason Bellamy, published last year at Press Play. Focuses on the debt QT owes to, respectively, blaxploitation and Elmore Leonard. To read a transcript, click here.
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By Matt Barber
4/22/2013 (1 year ago)
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The Genesis account ascribes manifestation of this incomprehensibly complex and precisely honed universe to a benevolent, omnipresent, omnipotent and omniscient God who transcends time and space. This is, as it goes, the only way to account for a universe teeming with evidence of design, painstakingly engineered and clearly crafted by a superior intelligence that far exceeds man's finite ability to comprehend.
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Catholic Online (www.catholic.org)
4/22/2013 (1 year ago)
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Keywords: creationsim, genesis, Catholics and creation, evolution, Stephen Hawking, Matt Barber, Evolution
LYNCHBURG, VA (Catholic Online) - "In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth." - Genesis 1:1
Be they theist or be they atheist, on this most scientists agree: In the beginning there was nothing. There was no time, space or matter. There wasn't even emptiness, only nothingness. Well, nothing natural anyway.
And then, bang! Everything. Nonexistence became existence. Nothing became, in less than an instant, our inconceivably vast and finely tuned universe governed by what mankind would later call - after we too popped into existence from nowhere, fully armed with conscious awareness and the ability to think, communicate and observe - "natural law" or "physics."
Time, space, earth, life and, finally, human life were not.
And then they were.
The overwhelming consensus among scientists, whether they believe in God or deny Him, is that the "Big Bang" moment of singularity is the only feasible explanation to account for the universe and everything in it. All things material must have a beginning and an end.
Still, scientists disagree over the who, what, when, why and how of it all. The Genesis account ascribes manifestation of this incomprehensibly complex and precisely honed universe to a benevolent, omnipresent, omnipotent and omniscient God who transcends time and space. This is, as it goes, the only way to account for a universe teeming with evidence of design, painstakingly engineered and clearly crafted by a superior intelligence that far exceeds man's finite ability to comprehend.
Psalm 19:1 says, "The heavens declare the glory of God; the skies proclaim the work of his hands."
Others say it ain't so. Secular materialists and atheists claim it can't be - that such explanation is a "God of the gaps" supernatural explanation and, therefore, must be banished from the realm of scientific inquiry.
They demand that anything beyond the known natural is off limits. Atheists attribute all of existence to, well, nothing. It just kind of happened. Genesis 1:1 of the materialist Bible might read: "In the beginning nothing created the heavens and the earth."
Fuzzy math. Nothing plus nothing equals something. Zero times zero equals everything.
And so, they have reasoned themselves into a corner. These same materialists acknowledge that, prior to the moment of singularity - the Big Bang - there was no "natural." They admit that there was an unnatural time and place before natural time and space - that something, sometime, somewhere preceded the material universe. That which preceded the natural was, necessarily, "beyond the natural" and, therefore, was, is and forever shall be "supernatural."
Reader, meet God.
In short: the Big Bang blows atheism sky high.
Scripture admonishes: "The fool has said in his heart, 'There is no God.'" (Psalm 14:1) It never ceases to amaze me the spectacular hoops through which God-deniers will jump to rationalize God's existence out of existence.
I got a chuckle the other day from one such God-denier. Stephen Hawking is, no doubt, a brilliant physicist. He's widely considered one of the most intelligent men alive.
Which makes his abject foolishness all the more puzzling.
In a desperate attempt to explain how a finally tuned, infinitely complex universe with highly intelligent, mindfully self-aware human beings can "appear spontaneously from nothing," Hawking threw the "M-theory" Hail Mary during a recent lecture titled "The Origin of the Universe."
According to NBC News, "M-theory posits that multiple universes are created out of nothing, Hawking explained, with many possible histories and many possible states of existence. In only a few of these states would life be possible, and in fewer still could something like humanity exist. Hawking mentioned that he felt fortunate to be living in this state of existence."
This is also known as the "multiverse" theory. It is, essentially, the God-deniers last best attempt to explain away a universe that exhibits smoking gun evidence of intelligent design and fine-tuning clearly intended to support life. The multiverse theory - to the extent it can be called a theory (there's exactly zero evidence to support it) - conjectures that our universe is merely one universe among an infinite number of invisible, parallel universes. It just so happens that we live in that one spontaneously self-created universe wherein, against astronomical odds (quite literally) - everything fell right in to place.
Poof - here we are.
In other words, we won the cosmic-parallel-dimension lottery at a-bazillion-to-one odds.
And they say we rely on blind faith?
1 Corinthians 1:18-19 says, "For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God. For it is written: 'I will destroy the wisdom of the wise; the intelligence of the intelligent I will frustrate.'"
Indeed, how frustrating it must be. So bright, yet so dull - "fearfully and wonderfully made," yet in stubborn denial of the Maker.
Romans 1:20 observes, "For since the creation of the world God's invisible qualities - his eternal power and divine nature - have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that people are without excuse."
Yet excuses they make; silly, unsupported, irrational excuses. According to Scripture, atheists like Hawking are fools. They are perishing. But even as they perish, they futilely grasp at multiverse straws, willfully blind to the loving Creator-Redeemer who reaches with nail-pierced hands to save them.
I feel sorry for Stephen Hawking. He's had a very difficult life. Fifty years with Lou Gehrig's disease, confined to a wheelchair and unable to move. A brilliant mind trapped in a failing body.
Pray for him.
Still, brilliant though he may be, Dr. Hawking is only human. "For the foolishness of God is wiser than human wisdom, and the weakness of God is stronger than human strength." (1 Corinthians 1:25)
I would encourage Dr. Hawking - all God-deniers for that matter - that, in and through Jesus Christ, they can be made new in body, mind and soul.
They need only ask.
Because, for now at least, we do live in time and space.
And time is ticking.
Our next time is eternal. Our next space we now choose.
Choose wisely.
Matt Barber (@jmattbarber on Twitter) is an attorney concentrating in constitutional law. He serves as Vice President of Liberty Counsel Action. (This information is provided for identification purposes only.)
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Trammell Hudson's been using his USB microscope to take pictures of all kinds of things. This time, it's a crystal oscillator. He writes:
Microscope view of the die inside a crystal oscillator. The die was covered with potting compound that was disolved with solvent to expose the electronics.
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Stop sporting that Star Wars lunch box. Verizon has something more functional for the frothing sci-fi fanboy (or girl).
Today, the company announced the availability of the R2-D2 Droid phone. Modeled after everyone's favorite Astromech Droid, this device allows you to take a little Star Wars wherever you go. The limited-edition item comes packaged in a Han Solo-free custom carbonite box, with its own little a Star Wars media dock and wired stereo headset.
Of course, there's also exclusive preloaded content. Some of those goodies include R2-D2 notification sounds and ringtones, four live wallpapers, an R2-D2 clock widget, a "Best of R2-D2" video with original Cantina music, and an exclusive Binoculars app.
If you're not ready to upgrade yet, existing customers with Android devices running Android 2.1 or higher can soon download an Empire Strikes Back app. Features on that include sounds and photos, live wallpapers, trivia, and a "Bounty Hunt Visual ID" feature, which invites users to find and capture images around the Star Wars universe to unlock hidden content.
Of course, the stand-alone app is not the same as having your own Droid—which is obviously important to someone. (OK—to many people!)
The R2-D2 Droid is available now for $250, after a $100 mail-in rebate. To get that price, you'll also need to sign on for two years, with an additional $30 (minimum) data pack.
The TX-NR737 and TX-NR838 are part of the company's "Emotion Delivered" concept.
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By John Gruber
Joachim Bengtsson has turned James Speth's aforementioned keyboard list-item selection plug-in for Mail into an input manager hack that changes the selection rules for NSTableView controls in all Cocoa apps.
★ Tuesday, 25 July 2006
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