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Anonymous said: about the post that was just reblogged, katy perry has never said if she's prolife or not. the captions on that interview are fake.
It would be nice to have a source or even better the actual interview. Not being a fan myself, I've had a hard time tracking the video.
Whether or not what the captions say are true or not, what was written is something we believe in, the the fetus is just another person who, since we grant ourselves rights, deserves rights. It's no different coming from a celebrity or a normal folks mouth.
a link to the uncut intervew: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o6q0xyNZ9mA
The reason that the error needs to be pointed out, though, is that we need to be arbiters of the truth. Lies have no place in the pro-life movement. Lies only makes us look like hypocrites, and they make the people who hear the lies question EVERYTHING about our message.
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To THG, it feels like 2008 all over again.
To the United Kingdom, most of which had no idea who the hell Heidi Montag was until she showed up on Celebrity Big Brother ... it just feels like 2013.
In any case, Spencer Pratt's wife is up to her old tricks on the hit show, flaunting her hilariously fake boobs and talking about plastic surgery. See clip below:
Yes. Speidi, the gruesome twosome who dominated fake news for so long here in the U.S., currently reside in the Celebrity Big Brother house. Sorry, UK.
It's been quite a run for the married couple, to say the least, and on a recent installment, Heidi Montag opened up about some of her many regrets.
"I kinda wish I never talked about it and wish I didn't make it so public," a bikini-clad Montag told co-star Rylan Clark in the hot tub, re: her plastic surgery.
"I didn't realize I would be a surgery girl for the rest of my life ... I just thought everybody did it and didn't want to be a liar. It's really kind of backfired."
Heidi famously had 10 plastic surgeries in one day in 2010, getting a nose job, liposuction, breast and butt augmentation, a chin reduction, and so on.
She's barely recognizable from The Hills Season 1 as a result.
Speaking of, she also opened up about "pretending" to be a "character" on MTV's less-than-real reality show that made her a D-list star for years.
Anyway, it's great to have Heidi Montag and Spencer Pratt back on our radar, isn't it THGers? Hello? [crickets] Anyone? [crickets] HEY! [crickets]
They do make me laugh though - they are so obnoxious and stupid they really believe in their own hype! It's hilarious. My favourite bit to date, is when they kept repeating over and over things like 'we're Americans, we're from the land of the free' ..it was non stop for a while. Then, some people in the house were chastised for something and speidi went running to the diary room to tell BB they hadn't been involved and they'd been good. Heidi even said 'you saw that right? We aren't in trouble' or words to that effect. It was so funny, I couldn't work out how they couldn't see the irony...except. oh yeah, they're American! Disclaimer: My Texan Husband has said I can write that last part because it's true.
Erm we do get MTV here in the UK you know!!! Most people watching big bro are more than aware of who they are!
at least theyre not a bunch of two faced,gossiping,backstabbing,clicky,fat old pathetic ,boring,talentless hasbeens!
and the only bully in there is razor who thinks its ok to threaten to attack someone just because hes a big fat bastard! lol
They are not hasbeens, they are never weres. They are famous for wasting every dime on plastic surgery and living way beyond their menes. They were homeless and living in a parents basement or something, last I heard. Now, they are "celebrities" in the UK. Unreal
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It's prob. European Death M. Euro sucks ass, all of it: American is superior. Yeah!! USA Death Metal Rah Rah Rah
That music, it's not my cup of tea..: Boy, I really hates it. And I loves metal!
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I love veal and lamb, especially gyro meat. How are those meats compared to chicken and turkey?
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Lamb I know is very comparable to chicken in calories and lean protein.
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But gyro meat is very heavy on additives, including fillers (that add calories), fat, and loads of sodium. Lamb it self is lean providing you cut away the fat.
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September 17, 2010 5:31 PM
I am not 100% about this but reasonably sure most of this is correct.
Lamb and veal are lean meats. I believe lamb is leaner and as with all meats the cut you choose can effect the fat content.
As far as Gyro, it is basically ground lamb (sometimes with beef) and it does have fat added to during the grinding process, similar to how sausage is made. That's why it gets all sizzly while it's spinning. It is not your healthier meat choice
But the tzatziki is healthy!!!
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September 17, 2010 5:32 PM
I've always heard Lamb is Lean and Healthy. Like Serow said just trim the Fat. Sorry But I have No clue what Gyro meat is.
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I, for one, love gyros. It won't be long and I'll be making them here at the house too. We used to have a place downtown called Ted's Greek Corner and it was delicious!!
I just try to keep things in proportion to other things and include as much healthy options as I possibly can. I'd check the sauce though to see how many calories it has. (Maybe the best part) The rest is veggies and pita bread.
I think it's fairly healthy as long as you keep it within your calories. I just try to keep meats as lean as possible. There is always a lean cut of meat if you're so inclined.
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September 17, 2010 6:13 PM
Is there such a thing as gyro meat? I know what gyros are but I think the cuts and leaness of the meat can vary. Next time u get one ask for them to use the leanest meat they have
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Interesting responses. Thanks guys.
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Menus. No! Not restaurant menus, menus in games, you know? Those things that most designers give about as much thought to as their dirty laundry during the design process (and if they work in a bigger studio, palm the design of off onto a poor UI artist)? Those things. Game menus have become the black sheep of the design process because we, as makers of games, have got their primary purpose and our primary criterion for their design completely wrong!
Most menus are designed with one major principle; practicality. Usually this translates into noninvasive, minimalist style affairs, a positive yawn-o-rama devoid of any personality or relationship with the actually game you are playing.
Dull, dull dull. Skyrim: one of the worst offenders. This beautifully streamlined interface doesn't exactly communicate the medieval gothic that pervades the rest of the game.
Think back to the first interactable moment you have had with most games over the course of your life. Almost always this experience will start with a menu laid out as a centred (or if the designers were feeling really edgy, right-aligned) list comprising the words: NEW GAME, LOAD GAME/CONTINUE, OPTIONS. And some sort of background image or animation. If you've picked up a game in which the UI designer was a real thrill seeker then selecting different sub-menus might change the background image, or even animate it!
In the department of missed opportunities I believe the abandonment of games menus by most games designers is one of the worst. And the reason for this? Because most games designers don't really approach the experience of interacting with a game holistically. Speaking to many of my peers they don't consider the interaction with a menu before "gameplay" begins to be part of he essential game experience. Most believe that menus functions as a kind of neutral conduit through which users travel into their more traditional experiences and this is tragic because there is SO much you can do with a menu that re-inforces the design, theme and storytelling of your game.
Let's look at a game that does this a bit better than our aforementioned Skyrim; Suda51's bizarre epic, Killer7. This game is one of best examples of meaningful menu design. Although it's not perfect and still has some standard "menuing" that many games suffer from, these standards are delivered in at least in an original style. When first loading it up the player will be treated to the run of the mill CAPCOM / GRASSHOPPER title cards, however each of these is underscored by the giggling laughs of KIller7's main enemy - the Heaven Smiles - followed by a gun shot synced with a violent red color palette swap on each logo throwing them into dramatic noir-style lighting. Then a rather (formally) uninspired Press Start to begin screen followed is followed by the NEW GAME / CONTINUE / LOAD GAME shtick. However, these titles are compressed as to be almost unreadable - it's arguable that much of KIller7's fiction is about the absurdity of the game play experience and its execution, so the use of these compressed titles forcing the player to interrogate ( and actually read) them for once, signs which they should be so familiar with, is at least a somewhat interesting statement as it forces a new perception of what one is actually doing when they press new game. As different options are selected from this list the titles spring out across the screen become grossly stretched - the opposite extreme - and equally hard to read. A simple transformation of text can have some interesting implications then and reinvigorate a tired formula but things are about to get a lot more interesting.
Next the player is taken to a mission select screen presented in the style of 80's documentary store archive cards, floating passively in space with an anonymous silhouette behind it - the target for your mission. In the mission card is a single check box into which a glowing blocky laser sight points from where the player is seated - as if in first-person shooter mode (another reference possibly to the point, shoot, select arcade games of the early 90's).
When first starting the player's only option is to accept and mission and proceed. However, later on this screen updates dynamically, placing the targets you have eliminated in cell-shaded color in the foreground, staring off, maimed and defeated. All of these elements immediately communicate the sense of the Killer7; contract assassins of the early 90's - in deep with the end of the political machinations of the Reagan administration.
The player literally plays accepting the mission card from this menu. On pressing accept another visceral gun shot is heard - yes, the Killer7 are the type of people who accept a mission by firing at it - shifting the screen again violently to the same target silhouette this time with a glowing red laser that the player can control tracing the line of the target's body, underscored by an abrasive ringing sound. You must then position the laser over a body part of the shadow and fire again. A final violent bang issues forth and the body disintegrates into a collection of red particles, the sound of a car or freight horn sampled and shifted to a deafening degree blares out, and the figure is replaced by a japanese kanji stating the theme for this level made from the same blood red spots that disintegrated them on your shot.
Here Killer7 offers a thoughtful look at how interactivity is important even in the basic procedure of selecting a mission. The player is forced to look, aim and fire. They are confronted at every moment by the fiction of the game world which they will, and arguably already have, stepped into. A world of paranoia, extremes of quiet and loud, compression and expansion, symbol and lie.
Killer7's innovative pause screen menu.
Similarly Killer7's "pause menu" has a very interesting and original aesthetic that reinforces the fiction and story of the game world. There are numerous examples in this image of the tailoring of menu for fiction - the blood bag styled blood counter, items displayed on silhouetted spikes, polaroids of targets yet to be found - but I will focus on one for the purposes of this post.
The eye in top right hand corner indicates the player's health. The closer it is to being closed the less health the player has - conceptually consistent with Killer7's fiction about the third eye, enlightenment and lines of sight, echoed again in the laser sights of the original opening screens discussed above. Compare that to how most games indicate health; a green or red bar that moves from right to left as health decreases and has absolutely nothing original to say. You can see why these sorts of customisations can be so powerful.
A final note about Killer7 is its save and load system which has a proper fictional context for it. All save and load files work through interaction with recorded surveillance tapes that appear on TV's in specific rooms. A nod to the nightmarish surveillance state in the style of Fahrenheit 451, in which citizens are spied on through their televisions, a state that records every move one makes, so closely that the player's very being can be reconstituted at the point they were last recorded. Save and load files are accessed through a tele-text style menu system that again fundamentally communicates the thematic ideas behind the game.
On a wider level the homogenisation of the menu also represents a kind of effacement of thought about games as whole and how all their interactable mechanics dictate the game world. The "standard" menu has become so accepted in the medium that we no longer think about the assumptions that spring from new game and load game. In terms of storytelling these two actions have become nothing more than a usability convenience. When many designers think about games they accept almost immediately that their game will have an unambiguous start button, and if its a game where the player makes character progress, there will be an easily accessed save/load option. All mediated through the meretricious neutrality of a standard menu list.
The act of loading a game is inherently bizarre when you consider the fictional context of most games and their implied experience. Even the act of starting is completely ridiculous when examined closely. Games seem to be fond of in medias res story telling but why do we "start" here, why is this a "new" game. What happened before now? What about the notion of "new"? Isn't it fundamentally absurd that we can finish a game and somehow make a "new" version of it just by selecting from a list.
My point is not meant to be a surface level, clever-clogs critique of the absurdities of interaction, I realise that designers can't somehow examine the nature of experiential interaction and the fourth wall in every game or play session. But the tacit acceptance of menu design as it is today is leading to a lack of thought about these aspects of design. These are really interesting questions about our medium, that could add so much to the story and execution of the video-game medium but no one wants to, or perhaps simply can't, engage with because of assumptions about the form the medium should take.
Think of Assassin's Creed. A series of games, the fiction of which is crying out for a fictionalised menu system. A game in which you explore memories through a computer. Why not make that computer terminal an operable component instead of a menu. Imagine loading up the game and the first thing you have to do is navigate through a computer terminal. Start up the memory module to plug your character into their matrix of remembered DNA. Immediately the player is engaged in a way that builds the fiction of a universe in a very interesting way. But because of designer's acceptance of how game menus "should" be, they shy away from these possibilities.
A quick disclaimer; I am not an enemy of usability, every menu should not be labyrinthine affair intended to put the player off from the start. But the idea that a UI should itself be a challenge to a player? If that's consistent with the fiction of the game world you are trying to communicate then surely it would be hugely beneficial to use that play time to your advantage as piece of story telling. So when I critique the primary tenent of menu design as being practicality (or usability) I am critiquing a particularly interpretation of this that has become widespread in the game's industry; that translates these worlds in the boredom inducing, uninspired minimal aesthetic that many games' menus use.
In games I've developed in the past I've tried to practice what I preach. I made a game about a year ago called Rosemary's Artery in which I cloaked all the menu elements in claustrophobic cuttings of a heart. The user, before they could select any options or begin the game then had to rake away these crowding fragments of heart to find the menu. This made the player immediately get a sense of the game's tone, the crushing atmosphere of being interned in another's body, trying to escape a prison of flesh.
More recently when developing a game called Really Good Paths, I'm hoping to create a fully fledged mini-game out of the start menu, through a paired down side-scrolling version of the central experience in which you have to play and catch the UI element you want to choose.
In essence. Go wild. Question your medium. And make your menus as artistic, beautiful and thought provoking as the experiences that you want to craft. More designers need to treat the menu as an essential part of the game experience.
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|David Navarro
It's funny, when Skyrim came out I thought it was extremely brave of Bethesda to go with a non-serif typeface and generally uncluttered panels for the menu design, instead of Ye Olde Pubbe Signe aesthetic that seems to infect most other RPGs. It's almost like they were anticipating the trend towards reduced skeuomorphism in user interfaces.
Or you could call it dull, I guess.
|Hussain Patel
This is an interesting article, as a student I thought "Wow! Plain boring pause menus and inventories are making my game look unpolished!" And then seeing the Skyrim menu and others made me question myself again. As a designer I would (now) notice a dull menu and it would break my immersion, although I haven't heard any direct problems with minimalistic menus with people who aren't designers. Truly before you pointed it out I wouldn't have noticed. But I imagine that an innovative menu would be hard to miss.
Although I'm really mixed up about my own opinion I will definitely make time to come up with fun menus in my games (both graphically and interactively). I admire your creativity in adding minigames to the menu but personally I feel that it sacrifices too much functionality.
Also I just thought, I'd love to see this applied to The Stanley Parable menus (assuming they're normal, I've only played the demo) try to convey those emotions and that atmosphere in a pause screen :D (even though the simplicity of the interface reinforces the expectation that it will follow standard game conventions so that it can blow those expectations out of the water?) It all makes sense! Waaaaaaaa!!!
|John Trauger
I;'d suggest that a minimalistic UI is entirely appropriate, but it's What Everybody Does. You want people to play the game and you do NOT want the UI to complicate the player's relationship to the game. Minimalizm is the shortest path between player and game, albeit unimaginative.
...which is not to say that a dressed up interface is automatically bad either.
It *is* to say that if you call attention to the UI, it better add to the experience.
|Bart Stewart
As with most things, there's probably a balance point between a UI that helps contribute to the feel of a game (which I agree is a good idea) and one that is fiddly and cute to the point of getting in the way of the play experience.
It's still in development, but what Josh Parnell has been doing on the UI for his Kickstartered game, Limit Theory, is pretty remarkable. For his science fiction game, he's designed a futuristic-looking node-based data interface that will be used for multiple purposes: managing ships, buying and selling equipment, controlling production, selecting research paths, and even modding the game itself. It's likely that even the less interactive UI elements will mimic the node editor's look for thematic consistency.
You can see his progress on this in the two most recent Limit Theory update videos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KN3tKT0E0t8 and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ekq56VZqQvs . The data interface sections are about halfway into each video.
|Eddie Gomez
Surprised to see that Grand Theft Auto 4 and 5 in-game menu system is not mentioned as a great example of thematic storytelling menu system.
Also, Ubisoft's "The Division" seems very promising in this category.
|Maxim Zogheib
Strange that in a discussion about immersive UIs and ingame menu implementation no-one mentions Dead Space.
I see where you're going with this, but you make several statements that, to me, make little sense.
1. "The act of loading a game is inherently bizarre when you consider the fictional context of most games and their implied experience."
No it isn't. Every single form of recreational activity, let alone entertainment, accessible to us has some form "switching" period and ritual. It is, among other things, a consequence of our inherent desire to distinctly separate pleasurable activities from non-pleasurable ones. We need that subconscious line in the sand that tells us: "here the fun begins".
Furthermore, these "switching" periods allow us to tailor our environment to maximize the impact of the experience and minimize external distraction.
Basically, you've got cause and effect mixed up here. We use menu systems precisely BECAUSE we want control outside the experience itself. And over the millennia that we've been telling stories and listening to them, we've become accustomed to a certain level of control over our ability to suspend those experiences. So much so, that a menu system, even when poorly integrated as part of the experience, doesn't break immersion (unless broken or cumbersome, like Skyrim's for exmaple <_<).
2. "Even the act of starting is completely ridiculous when examined closely. Games seem to be fond of in medias res story telling but why do we "start" here, why is this a "new" game. What happened before now?"
All stories start somewhere. They all end somewhere. So must games. It's like opening and reading a book - the SETTING and NARRATIVE may reach into the past and into the future, but the BOOK and the STORY it tells have to start and end somewhere. There's no reason for us to treat menu systems any different than we treat a table of contents and an index at the start and end of each book.
3. "These are really interesting questions about our medium, that could add so much to the story and execution of the video-game medium but no one wants to, or perhaps simply can't, engage with because of assumptions about the form the medium should take."
In my opinion, you're overreacting to a problem that is hardly there. I mean - an immersive UI and menu system is usually a welcome thing for me as a gamer. I thoroughly enjoyed the way it was done in the aforementioned Dead Space. Rock solid vision on their part. There's also games like Journey, which doesn't really have a menu system, because it doesn't need one. You're dropped straight into the game.
But good luck trying to implement an immersive UI in a control-centric management game, like Egosofts's X series. Oh wait... they did try. And failed spectacularly at it too.
And it's not like no-one acknowledges the problem and isn't doing anything about it. The way we interact with games evolves all the time. And so do all the in-between bits like the UI and menus.
4. "Imagine loading up the game and the first thing you have to do is navigate through a computer terminal. Start up the memory module to plug your character into their matrix of remembered DNA. Immediately the player is engaged in a way that builds the fiction of a universe in a very interesting way."
I did, and it's not pretty. Because AC is not a game about navigating complex mechanics in menu systems. There is a very good reason ingame menus are rarely included in the gameplay loop of a game. You wouldn't want to go through a complex array of actions JUST to get to a readout of your altimeter on an airplane. And more often than not, that altimeter is best left as just that - an instrument to be used at the pilot's convenience, and not a gameplay system component or plot device.
5. "But the idea that a UI should itself be a challenge to a player?"
Should an instrument panel in an airplane be a challenge to the pilot? I'm not so sure. I wouldn't want the damned things to come crashing down from the sky all the time =)
However, I'm not saying it shouldn't be done. It's just that there must always be a compelling reason to do it. And do it without compromising on accessibility, utility or functionality. You have to be sure that your game's focus is appropriate for an immersive UI and that your core systems are designed with one in mind.
To wrap things up, I'd say - tread lightly. If nothing else, overplaying a menu system may make your game feel, well, "gamey". And we don't want that now, do we?
Anyhow - good article. I always like the ones that inspire me to a bit of a rant.


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How many security regulations apply to your company? Odds are, there are more than you think
Regulation. When a government entity has created a draft regulation, it is required to allot at least 30 days for public comment. Typically, agencies allow 90 days of public comment on proposals. The Web site www.regulations.gov provides an up-to-date list of all proposals up for public comment that is searchable by agency and keyword.
• Make your own comments: You may generally submit comments on behalf of yourself or your organization through www.regulations.gov or by mail (providing three copies of comments and referencing the appropriate docket number in your notice).
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While a security department can try to keep track of all security-significant legislation, the complexities of proposed rules and regulations make this a sometimes insurmountable challenge. It takes some digging to get to the security impact of many regulations, and often that impact is not explicitly stated — it might not be recognized until the rule is put into action.
While most large companies already rely on government affairs to watch laws that effect their business (i.e. taxes, EPA issues, FDA issues), no one outside security is watching laws affecting security regulations. Organizations would do well to make security-related law-watching a coordinated, enterprise effort.
Security must partner with other corporate entities, such as government affairs, legal, quality, safety and human resources, to jointly track and understand the import of proposed rules. An enterprise view helps individual departments more clearly understand when it is important to act and when it is not. Some legislation affects numerous aspects of an enterprise, some positively and some negatively. Only with a business mindset can the benefits and drawbacks be accurately measured.
The Security Executive Council has created a tool to help member organizations identify, track and comply with security-significant laws, regulations and guidelines. The regulation and compliance management tool allows members to view a baseline list of requirements or controls and assess how compliant they are and what they still need to do. The tool breaks requirements into 11 main categories, such as information protection, physical security and governance. The tool can also show users commonalities between requirements to allow them to make the best use of their resources.
The council's list of legislation, regulations, and guidelines is quite lengthy, but it is still incomplete, so it is asking for input from Security Technology & Design readers. If you submit to the council a law, regulation or guideline with a security component that is not currently on the list — laws may be industry-specific, state or federal — the council will provide you a free $50 metric tool for your participation. To see a list of rules already compiled, visit www.csoexecutivecouncil.com/public/lrvc.html.
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Rashard Lewis played well for the Miami Heat down the stretch filling in for an over-the-hill Shane Battier but, with the LeBron James chase on early this offseason, Lewis wasn't a priority for the organization. Lewis, whose contract expired at the end of last season, agreed to a deal with the Dallas Mavericks.
However, that deal didn't come to fruition because Lewis failed his physical due to a knee surgery. Dallas since then acquired forward Chandler Parsons and won't likely try to sign Lewis again.
According to Barry Jackson of the Miami Herald, Sweet Lew would like to return to Miami.
Rashard Lewis, whose Dallas contract was voided because of knee surgery, conveyed to the Heat that he would love to return here, but Miami already signed Shawne Williams for that role (backup stretch power forward). Williams essentially has had only one good season (2010-11 with the Knicks) but performed well in offseason workouts.
Jackson is right, the Heat have seemingly moved on and signed Williams to fill that role. However, it isn't like cutting Williams would break the bank. Now seeing that Lewis is an option, Miami could opt to bring both into training camp and open up a competition for the backup stretch-4 position.
In a straight competition, Lewis may have the advantage because of his familiarity with the organization. But Williams impressed enough for Miami to move on from Michael Beasley as well, so the team hold him in relatively high regard.
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This morning, Steve and I made the trek out to Gillette Stadium to take in some training camp and check out the 2010 New England Patriots. One thing I want to say about going to camp if you've never been: It's not a fan entertainment event. If you're not interested in the inner workings of what prepares a football team for the season, then do not go. It is a practice session, meaning there is time for stretching and warming up, along with just some fundamentals drills. They are not there for your entertainment! I do not want to hear, "Is this all they do?" from one more person! However, I find training camp very entertaining because I love seeing the team come together, but I'm not saying it's a snooze fest either. The 11-0n11 match-ups are very fun to watch, along with some other position vs. position drills. That being said, here's some observations and notes that were jotted down during practice:
- Sammy Morris, who was not in pads yesterday, joined the team for the full practice in pads today. However, there were some more missing players than there were yesterday: Darnell Jenkins, Matthew Slater who was hurt in yesterday's afternoon session along with Bret Lockett, RB Thomas Clayton, Ron Brace, and of course Derrick Burgess and Logan Mankins.
Wes Welkerjogged onto the field at the beginning of practice to a large ovation from the crowd and stretched with the team before working exclusively with the rehab staff. He was not in pads but only had a small brace on his knee.
- Terrence Wheatley held onto the receiver he was facing quite a bit during 1-on-1 WR vs. DB drills. Not very good technique, especially with today's offense-friendly rules.
- Rookie QB Zac Robinson was not very accurate at all this morning, overthrowing and under-throwing receivers. He also fumbled a snap.
It was interesting to watch Bill Belichick work with the team. It's easy to see why he's the best in the business. He roamed around from showing techniques in the WR's vs. DB's drill to working with linebackers, special teams, and the offense.
Randy Mossmakes playing receiver look like the easiest job in the world. Everything he does seems effortless and he looked great today. He could also be seen giving pointers to Julian Edelman in between reps.
- Brandon Tate looks good at WR. At one point, Tom Brady under-threw a ball that Tate had to spin around and grab near the ground, which he did very impressively.
Zoltan Meskohad an inconsistent morning punting. He shanked quite a few while booming others. After his first shank that went about 20 yards, I overheard Belichick yelling, "Do you want me to punt? A 20-yard punt? Even I can handle that!"
- Pierre Woods is getting opportunities at OLB with the starting unit. The spot opposite Tully Banta-Cain seems wide open.
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I've finally figured out why a Balanced Budget Amendment cannot gain traction with our elected officials. The Justice Department is now going to look into the details of how J.P. Morgan Chase lost $2 billion on a "risky" investment. The federal government is losing $3 to $4 billion per day. They are spending the money […]
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By calling the average American voter "stupid, myopic and selfish," the author of the letter "Unions pull the strings" (Nov.10) proves just how mean spirited and petty the conservative right is when they don't get their way. He states that "when you have unions providing financial support to politicians to get them elected so that […]
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Randall Lane, editor of Forbes Magazine, seems to understand the "occupy" movement. In a recent interview he said that the protesters aren't against success, but rather they oppose reward for failure. As an example he noted that two Bank of America executives just got $11 million for their departure, while the bank is laying off […]
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The debt ceiling: Right fight, wrong time
House Republicans want President Obama to agree to spending cuts in exchange for raising the debt ceiling (which allows the federal government to continue borrowing money). The President says there is no way he will do that. As he put it at Monday's press conference, you don't go to dinner and then skip out on the tab. But once you have maxed out your credit cards, shouldn't you stop eating out?
The Republicans view the debt ceiling increase as their one chance to squeeze spending concessions from a President who otherwise will never agree to reduce federal appropriations. The trouble with forcing that standoff is that Republicans cannot win it. Obama will stand firm, and they will have to flinch or shut down the government. Either way, Obama wins and Republicans lose more credibility, which makes it harder to force a showdown on spending on more favorable ground in the future.
Of course, default is not inevitable should the ceiling not be raised. As Bloomberg View columnist Caroline Baum wrote in these pages on Tuesday, if Congress does not authorize more borrowing, the administration can pay our debts with current tax revenues, thereby avoiding default. Obama just has to stop paying for a lot of other things, including entitlements. But Republicans won't win this political battle by trying to explain that technical point in 20-second snippets on the evening news.
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Hailing from a small Wisconsin town where green and gold are the primary colors, new Bears defensive end Austen Lane realized he was going to hear it from Packers fans back home. "I would say 95 percent of them were: 'We're happy for you, but we're not going to be cheering for you,' '' Lane said. "But I think Chicago is going to be a great fit." Lane, who signed...
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The Soloist is a true story Based on a book by the Los Angeles Times columnist Steve Lopez (Robert Downey Jr), that explores the unlikely relationship between the reporter and bi-polar Juilliard dropout, Nathaniel Ayers (Jamie Foxx); who ended up on the streets, where he played his violin, pushed a shopping cart filled with trash and slept next to rats, junkies, prostitutes and miscreants.
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The 17th Karmapa has broadened his activities this year to address the concerns of young Western Buddhist aspirants and the welfare of animals in his Indian home.
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TOWSON, Md. (WJZ) — Police in Towson investigate a crash that sent eight people to the hospital.
It happened Sunday along I-695 between Providence Road and Dulaney Valley Road.
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