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Irn-Bru signs up to YouTube's TrueView ad format
Irn-Bru, the iconic Scottish drink, is using YouTube's TrueView skippable ad format as part of its major 'Irn-Bru Gets You Through' campaign.
TrueView offers users the option of skipping pre-roll advertising after five seconds. Advertisers don't have to pay for the slot if the user decides not to watch it.
If the viewer has already watched the Irn-Bru ad, they will have the option of watching the next spot in the series.
There are three 30-second in-stream Irn-Bru ads in total on YouTube – repurposed from TV ads by The Leith Agency for the brand's £2.5m campaign that launched this week.
The tongue-in-cheek ads illustrate how the drink give people the strength to get through the "most cringeworthy" of situations, such as walking in on your parents in the bedroom.
They are based around the strapline, "Irn-Bru gets you through" and will run for three months, across cinema and TV. PHD North handled the media and the ads were produced by MTP.
Michael Kinlan and Mark Davies, joint deputy creative directors at The Leigth Agency, were the lead creatives on the campaign. Blonde built the website and is handling the social media behind the campaign.
Dara Nasr, head of agency sales, YouTube and display, Google said the YouTube campaign is "a great use" of the TrueView ad format.
He said: "The viewer can experience the full brand narrative, taking 'viewer choice' advertising to the next level."
YouTube's TrueView format launched in December 2010. It puts greater impetus on advertisers to use good content for pre-roll advertising.
Last year, Google revealed that opted-in users who chose to watch the skippable ads are 75% more engaged than an average user on the video streaming site.
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juice from 1 large or 2 small oranges
juice from 3 lemons
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Characterization of a novel microdeletion polymorphism on BTA5 in cattle
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Liu, G. E., Li, R. W., Sonstegard, T. S., Matukumalli, L. K., Silva, M. V. G. B. and Van Tassell, C. P. (2008), Characterization of a novel microdeletion polymorphism on BTA5 in cattle. Animal Genetics, 39: 655–658. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2052.2008.01769.x
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I might just be on a mission to blow the whistle on B.S Marketing, because it's seriously killing me, and, I think it's killing business. A few weeks ago I wrote a post called Can We Quit the B.S Marketing?
Sadly, I'm not done talking about this because I keep seeing tasteless, slimy marketing, and I think we need to open a discussion about it for it to stop. Asides for cheesy sales-copy, bad marketing is happening in the form of Webinars.
Webinars are all the rage these days in modern marketing.
In case you weren't familiar a webinar is like an online class or seminar. The speaker is normally talking live (via audio or video) about a subject that would interest you, and it would be full of valuable, useful inspiring information. It's like getting a free into-class on something you're excited to learn about.
Often webinars open for a Q & A portion, and most of the time there is an offer at the end letting you know how you can go deeper into learning more on the subject or work one on one with the speaker.
I've listened to webinars that have been amazing. The whole time the speaker is giving real value: information and inspiration. The best webinars are short, sweet and to the point, maybe 30 minutes of content and then it may open for Q & A so that if you make the call live you can potentially get a great teacher/coach to answer your question, and after all that value, hearing the short sales pitch is welcome. After all, you may actually want to find out how to learn more if you found the topic super interesting!
The problem is some of these webinars are a complete waste of time.
Here's the deal:
The whole glamour around webinars is the the fact that it's live. This is a hot point for a lot of people. One of the reasons it is such a hot point is that most webinars open up for Q & A at the end – which is pretty cool if you get to ask a question live and get your specific questions answered.
It's kind of like getting access to a free course.
A Webinar can be a great way to give away free information and interact with your fans, readers and potential buyers in real time.
The problem is when the webinar is twisted into a slimy spammy 60-minute sales pitch. It's like watching a tasteless info-mercial…..For an hour!
Example 1: The speaker gives a very shallow level of information. It's all hype and headlines with barely any real content.
It's like being told you're gonna get this incredible full course meal, and all you get is a small sample of the worse part of the meal (liver anyone?)
Worse, when it's time for Q & A the speaker skirts around the issue saying "Oh I just use a lot of different things" or "you can google that" or "It doesn't matter what I've done"
I mean what's the point of Q & A if you're not gonna answer honestly and directly?
This weekend I encountered the epitome of B.S marketing via webinar (which was the inspiration behind this post, so I guess it wasn't a total waste of time)
This weekend I decided to listen to a webinar. The topic was supposed to be informative – it was on a subject I don't know much about (J.V partnerships)
I've have heard about Joint Venture partnerships and figured, if I can learn something more than my basic understanding, then it's worth it.
Here's the problem, for about 45 minutes they talked in circles about the wonderful information I would learn.
They talked about how great the topic (joint ventures) was.
They went on and on how if you don't have famous contacts and know people of influence how hard it is to get in if you don't have a list of 10-20 000 people on your list.
On and on they went about NOTHING.
Or they'd use scare-tactics to let you know how important and difficult it was to make a J.V partnership.
Yet, they kept telling me to stick around because they will "reveal the details" of how to make it work no matter what.
Then they reveal the most basic things I already know. So basic I think a 4th grader could figure out. They spent the rest of time trying to sell me their program to be part of the inner circle of Joint Venture Partners. Are you kidding me?
That was a sleazy sales pitch. I learned nothing. Except what NOT to do when hosting a webinar.
Worse part was that the speaker was a so-called self proclaimed ethical marketer.
It's like WalMart hiding behind "We care about going green" as they pollute the planet.
So if you're reading this, I hope you can take away this lesson:
People are smart. We can smell B.S.
We like generosity; we can't stand constantly being baited and hooked yet getting no fish, not even a single meal of advice.
Seriously: I do not understand how this can be considered ethical marketing.
I don't even see how this is SMART marketing!
The whole point of the revolution of online marketing is the ability to give real value away for free since it costs next to nothing and this is how you build trust, loyalty and fans.
The long term benefit of giving away true value far supersedes any small gains you may get from the bait and hook technique of deception, reeling in with empty promises, and scarcity (Buy right now and you will get $400 off!)
Saying you're an ethical marketer when you blatantly waste peoples time going in circles is the opposite of ethical and generous marketing.
To me this is the epitome of B.S marketing.
It's like selling something in a pretty package and you look inside and it's crap. Nobody enjoys that. Nobody likes to fooled. Nobody appreciates having their time wasted. Nobody enjoys being misled.
Whether something is free or paid – your actions speak louder than words.
My message, my hope, and my plea is:
If you're going to create a 1-hour webinar, please, give real content.
Don't spent 45 minutes talking in circles about what you will do.
Keep it simple. Give real value. Be a generous human.
Remember — it's the inside that matters.
Let's take it upon ourselves to revolutionize HOW marketing is happening. It begins with you. It begins with me. It's about caring what's on the inside as much (if not more please) than the flashy headline on the outside.
Now I want to hear from you
Are you tired of sensational headlines that don't follow through on their promise?
Have you had a crappy webinar experience?
I'd love to hear your take on this and what you think we need to do to raise our standard of how we market in a generous and ethical way. Share Your Insights in the comments below


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Black People More Likely to Keloid Post Surgery
We've all seen people with noticeable raised scarring on their ears, necks, even backs. They are called keloids. African Americans are seven times more likely than Caucasians to develop a keloid – following head and neck surgery, according to a new study from Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit.
This finding, however, is much lower than that previously reported in medical literature, where rates of keloid development have been shown to be up to 16% in African Americans. Unlike regular scars, keloids do not subside over time and often extend outside the wound site. Keloids also may be painful to the touch and itchy.
"Many African American patients are afraid to have head and neck surgery or any facial cosmetic procedures for fear of developing keloids at the incision sites," says Lamont R. Jones, M.D. vice chair, Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery at Henry Ford. "We hope our study helps to eliminate that fear by showing that keloid development on the head and neck following surgery is actually much smaller than other reports."
Much of the uncertainty surrounding keloids is rooted in there being no known cause for their development. But Dr. Jones and his research team at Henry Ford hope to eliminate that unknown.
They are planning on another keloid study to find a new technique to identify the genes that may be responsible for keloid development. By identifying the genetic cause, it may be possible to develop better treatments for keloids in the near future. "The cause of keloid formation is unknown, but it is believed to have a genetic component given the correlation with family history, prevalence in twins, and its predisposition in darker skin," notes Dr. Jones, a facial plastic and reconstructive surgeon.
Treatment for keloids includes cortisone injections, pressure dressings, silicone gels, surgery, cryosurgery (freezing), laser treatment, or radiation therapy. A combination of treatments may be used, depending on the individual. In some cases, keloids return after treatment.
There is a wide range of reported incidences for keloid development and the Henry Ford study is the first to investigate keloid development following head and neck surgery.
Among the nearly 6,700 patients in the Henry Ford study, 20 were found to have a keloid within the head and neck area following surgery. Of those, the keloids rate for African Americans was 0.8 percent, while the rate for Caucasians was 0.1 percent. After adjusting for age and gender, the study showed that the odds of getting a keloid for African Americans were 7.1 times that of Caucasians.
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In a recent comment, Doug wrote:
If I want to be a truly educated observer of Tyrannosaurus rex mounts, what 5 things should I look for in a reconstruction to assess if it is true to our current scientific understanding? I'm not talking tail dragging/upright at this point…we are well past that I hope.
If he had asked about Apatosaurus, I could have written him a novel. But it is a point of pride with me not to contribute to the over-application of human attention to T. rex; not only would it be vulgar, it would also be a waste of resources, considering how many people already have that covered. So, you theropod workers and avocational "rexperts", we're finally inviting you to the high table. Please, tell us–and Doug–what separates the good T. rex mounts from the crappy ones. Big piles of SV-POW! bucks will be showered on whoever brings the most enlightenment, especially if you adhere to the requested List of 5 Things format.
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Museum of Osteology, June 2013 visit
June 30, 2013
Well, I'm back. Been on the road a lot–to Flagstaff for a few days around Memorial Day, and in Oklahoma to visit family in the first half of June. Now I'm busy with the summer anatomy course, but I finally found time to post some pictures.
One of my favorite museums in the world is the Museum of Osteology in Oklahoma City. It hits all the right notes for me: just shedloads of stuff on display, mounts you can walk all around and even touch (all they ask is that you don't climb on them), and nary an interactive gizmo in sight. Plus a gift shop at the end where I could easily spend an hour (and several thousand dollars, if I had that much disposable dough and someplace to put all the loot). This was my second visit, but I never got around to posting the photos from my last visit, so maybe I can make up for that this summer. This post just has some highlights–I'll try to get more photos up before another month goes by.
One of my favorite things in the museum is this awesome and appropriate triple display of the three-banded armadillo.
And old friend, from a new perspective.
In my experience, in the Great Plains states it is a rare museum indeed that does not have a two-headed calf. Not just natural history museums, either–historical museums and roadside attractions usually have at least one. The first I ever encountered was at the Dalton Gang Hideout in Meade, Kansas–maybe someone knows if it is still there? Even as a kid, I understood that the link between bovine developmental anomalies and Old West outlaws was pretty tenuous–basically, both crop up in Kansas–but I didn't mind then and I don't mind now. IMHO, finding two-headed calves on display in unexpected places only reinforces the concept of museums as cabinets of wonder.
Of course, it is entirely appropriate to find two-headed calves in an osteology museum, and the Museum of Osteology has more specimens than I've ever seen in one place.
The herp case is rad: the anaconda in the middle is a 14-footer, and the king cobra at lower right is 13'7″. And check out the super-fat Gaboon viper below the anaconda. If you're wondering about turtles and crocs, they're in the next case over.
As anyone who followed Darren's multi-part series on matamatas (1, 2, 3, 4, 5) knows, they are fabulously weird. As I conceive it, there are two kinds of turtles: matamatas, and "regular-ass turtles", the latter being the paraphyletic group that includes all non-matamata turtles.
My favorite mounts in the Museum of Osteology are the smallest: a pair of impossibly tiny ruby-throated hummingbirds.
I spend a lot of time with vertebrate bodies and skeletons, both taking them apart and putting them back together, and I am not exaggerating when I say that these are the most astonishing skeletal mounts I have ever seen. Unfortunately there aren't any external indicators of scale with these skeletons, and perspective effects would defeat any attempt to put a scale bar up against the glass. These ruby-throated hummingbirds are slightly longer-billed than the Anna's hummingbird mentioned in this post, but even so the skulls are probably no more than 30mm long. I recently helped London clean up a rat skull (yet another thing I need to blog about), and that skull was about as big as one of these skeletons minus the bill.
That's all for now. If you're ever in Oklahoma City, go check out the Museum of Osteology. I recommend it to anyone who is interested in bones, anatomy, animals, nature, or even, like, things.
Check your calculations. Submit your data. Replicate.
April 20, 2013
It's well worth reading this story about Thomas Herndon, a graduate student who as part of his training set out to replicate a well-known study in his field.
The work he chose, Growth in a Time of Debt by Reinhart and Rogoff, claims to show that "median growth rates for countries with public debt over roughly 90 percent of GDP are about one percent lower than otherwise; average (mean) growth rates are several percent lower." It has been influential in guiding the economic policy of several countries, reaffirming an austerity-based approach.
So here is Lesson zero, for policy makers: correllation is not causation.
To skip ahead to the punchline, it turned out that Reinhart and Rogoff made a trivial but important mechanical mistake in their working: they meant to average values from 19 rows of their spreadsheet, but got the formula wrong and missed out the last five. Those five included three countries which had experienced high growth while deep in debt, and which if included would have undermined the conclusions.
Therefore, Lesson one, for researchers: check your calculations. (Note to myself and Matt: when we revise the recently submitted Taylor and Wedel paper, we should be careful to check the SUM() and AVG() ranges in our own spreadsheet!)
Herndon was able to discover this mistake only because he repeatedly hassled the authors of the original study for the underlying data. He was ignored several times, but eventually one of the authors did send the spreadsheet. Which is just as well. But of course he should never have had to go chasing the authors for the spreadsheet because it should have been published alongside the paper.
Lesson two, for researchers: submit your data alongside the paper that uses it. (Note to myself and Matt: when we submit the revisions of that paper, submit the spreadsheets as supplementary files.)
Meanwhile, governments around the world were allowing policy to be influenced by the original paper without checking it — policies that affect the disposition of billions of pounds. Yet the paper only got its post-publication review because of an post-grad student's exercise. That's insane. It should be standard practice to have someone spend a day or two analysing a paper in detail before letting it have such a profound effect.
And so Lesson three, for policy makers: replicate studies before trusting them.
Ironically, this may be a case where the peer-review system inadvertently did actual harm. It seems that policy makers may have shared the widespread superstition that peer-reviewed publications are "authoritative", or "quality stamped", or "trustworthy". That would certainly explain their allowing it to affect multi-billion-pound policies without further validation. [UPDATE: the paper wasn't peer-reviewed after all! See the comment below.]
Of course, anyone who's actually been through peer-review a few times knows how hit-and-miss the process is. Only someone who's never experienced it directly could retain blind faith in it. (In this respect, it's a lot like cladistics.)
If a paper has successfully made it through peer-review, we should afford it a bit more respect than one that hasn't. But that should never translate to blind trust.
In fact, let's promote that to Lesson four: don't blindly trust studies just because they're peer-reviewed.
Turtle laminae of the Yale Peabody Museum
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Here's a cool skeleton of the South American pleurodire Podocnemis in the Yale Peabody Museum.
What's that you're hiding in your neck, Podocnemis?
Laminae! Here's a closeup:
The laminae run from the transverse processes to the prezygapophyses and the centrum, which I reckon makes them analogues of the PRDLs and ACDLs of sauropods.
As long as I'm posting on Peabody turtles, here's Archelon. It's not bad, if you're into that sort of thing. Which Mike clearly ain't, but for a good reason, which will be revealed soon.
For more info on vertebral laminae in extant non-dinosaurs, see this post and the lower left paragraph on page 212 of this paper.
In the recent post on serial variation in sauropod cervicals, I wrote:
Even in 'adult' sauropods like the big mounted Apatosaurus and Diplodocus skeletons, the anterior cervicals are less complex than the posterior ones. Compared to posterior cervicals, anterior cervicals tend to have simpler pneumatic fossae and foramina, fewer laminae, and unsplit rather than bifid spines. In all of these things the anterior cervicals are similar to those of juveniles of the same taxa, and to those of adults of more basal taxa. This is also true in prosauropods–in Plateosaurus, the full complement of vertebral laminae is not present until about halfway down the neck.
I was working from memory there and actually understated things a bit. Plateosaurus presacral vertebrae don't have well-developed spinal laminae, but they do eventually get the four major diapophyseal laminae–the anterior centrodiapophyseal lamina (ACDL), posterior centrodiapophyseal lamina (PCDL), prezygodiapophyseal lamina (PRDL), and postzygodiapophyseal lamina (PODL–please see the lamina tutorial if you need a refresher on these and the other 15 commonly identified laminae). But they aren't all present halfway down the neck–the ACDL doesn't really show up until the cervicodorsal transition. The other three kick in sequentially down the neck, as shown in the above image. I think that's pretty cool, that you get different character states expressed at different points along the neck, in one individual organism, at one time. And possibly also at different times–in sauropods, the anterior cervicals tend to look more 'juvenile' or 'primitive', even in adult animals, so all of the cervicals go through a juvenile stage, but not all of them grow out of it. I don't know if there's a word for that–some kind of serial heterochronotopomorphy or the like–but hopefully someone will enlighten me.
I took the original photo in the collections at the Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde Stuttgart in the spring of 2004. Markus Moser and Rainer Schoch were wonderful hosts during my visit. Mike did all the work of turning the raw photo into a figure, so thanks to him for getting this off my hard drive and out into the world.


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Under the terms of the agreement, Innocap will be entitled to 50% of any cargo that is recovered from the salvage. Although many ships from the Ming Dynasty era contained cargoes worth millions of dollars by today's standards, there is no way at this time to estimate the value of the cargo on this sunken ship.
It is the intention of Innocap, Inc. to recover, treat and conserve the artifacts reclaimed. The company plans to create exhibitions and make the artifacts available to the general public. Innocap will create a video of the recovery and provide the video on our website, www.innocap-inc.com. Innocap will ultimately have to obtain funds to finance this project.
Paul Tidwell, President of Innocap, said, "We are working with groups in this part of the world and hope to be starting similar projects soon." Mr. Tidwell has experience in finding and salvaging sunken ships. Some of his activities have been filmed and shown on networks like the NBC, National Geographic Channel, and NHK Television in Japan.
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October 26, 2014 was a beautiful fall day for the wedding of Maricela and Lucas. Maricela arrived in her beautiful wedding gown and flowing long veil. Maricela was escorted down the aisle by her son and Mother. Lucas was beaming with happiness as his gorgeous bride walked towards him down the aisle. They has a beautiful sand pouring during the ceremony with sand in the brides purple accent color. The bridesmaids also looked so pretty in their lovely violet colored dresses and flowers. After Group photos we took a ride on the Golf cart to the gorgeous grounds of the Green River Golf Club. We loved the setting sun on the river that made the photos even more special. The reception was such a fun party. They had a photo dress up booth for the guests and the room looked wonderful. Congratulations to Lucas and Maricela!
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Two bank robbers fall in love with the girl they've kidnapped.
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Barry Levinson has a habit of making clever, really interesting films and with a cast this good I expected a lot better.
Bruce Willis and Billy Bob Thornton are the bank robbing escaped convicts that become a media sensation with their unusual bank robbing technique. Arriving the night before at the bank managers home and then spending the night with their family they then casually arrive at the bank early the following morning and rob it. Ruthlessly efficient they intimidate without violence and with Thornton's character amiably likable they earn a grudging respect from both the media and law enforcement. Things however become complicated when a disillusioned housewife comes into the mix in the shape of Cate Blanchett creating mayhem…
Bruce Willis has the scariest looking wig I've ever seen.
Its not one of the best action movie, but it its a good comedy and i laughed alot.
Two best buddies who rob banks together , fall in love with the woman they've kidnapped .
Actors are good , so the love triangle works . I was kinda surprised that this movie had any kind of triangle at all , instead of all those typical average gun fights it could have .
A worth-watching crime comedy / love story .... and Cate is so yummy in it !
Just on in the background. I want Cate's beautiful red hair.
I've been thinking a lot about 'Blue Jasmin' the past couple weeks and just how good Cate Blanchett is in that role. It made me want to watch some of her lighter roles. I went to watch 'Pushing Tin' but accidentally grabbed another Blanchett/Thornton combo, 2001's 'Bandits'. Saw this in the theater, kind of liked it, found it in some bargain bin for $2, bought it and forgot about it for 10 years. It's loosely based on a true story about a pair of crooks who would sleepover at the homes of bank managers and then smoothly rob their hostage's banks the next morning. The film is played mostly for laughs but the out-of-sequence narration kind of adds some tension.…
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I watched this movie in my film studies class at school. I thought that it was pretty good. It was the perfect balance between action and comedy. And the ending threw me way off when Kate ended up with Joe and Terry but I didn't think that took away from the story. At times I found it a little repetitive, but all in all, I found it an enjoyable film.
Watched this in its entirety with my Film Studies class; it's that good. We've yet to watch an entire film prior to this one. No one had heard of it, including the sagely sub we all adore! Naturally, everyone loved the story, though responses to "Kate" are mixed. I say she's perfect -- she fleshes out Thorton and Willis' characters as well as completes the complexities of the plotline (plus her hair is awesome) -- but some of the kids dislike her "morals" and propose she ruins an otherwise good story.
Opinions on Kate aside, I heard much laughter, encouraged lots of discussion, and saw many students hard at work in their film logs, so I'm a happy teacher. This…
I have a deep fondness for this little three hander in spite of an ending that strains credibility in so many ways. I think my fondness stems from three actors digging really deep into their characters and interacting in a way you just don't see in the heist genre.
Its not one of the best action movie, but it its a good comedy and i laughed alot.
Two best buddies who rob banks together , fall in love with the woman they've kidnapped .
Actors are good , so the love triangle works . I was kinda surprised that this movie had any kind of triangle at all , instead of all those typical average gun fights it could have .
A worth-watching crime comedy / love story .... and Cate is so yummy in it !
One of the more entertaining bank robber/love triangle films to come along in a few years. Joe (Willis) and Terry (Thornton) bust out of prison -- in rather unconvincing fashion, I might add -- and get back to what they're good at: sticking up banks.
For the first half hour or so, we get Joe & Terry on the run, busting into people's houses to set up robberies. They are a fun pair: Willis, the irrational (but of course gold-hearted) hot-head; and Terry, the hypochondriac nebbish.
A new dynamic is introduced with the introduction of Kate (Blanchett), and unhappy, loopy housewife who voluntarily acts as a hostage. The relationship between the three (a la Jules and Jim) is sandwiched between the…
The performances, especially those of Thornton and Blanchett, enliven this otherwise familiar and forgettable film.
Haven't seen this since about its release, and I'd forgotten just how far off the lighter enjoyable caper/crime-things it was--unlike so much of the others I've been doing to change up the animation pace of April lately.
Bandits are really just a silly journey into the bored mind of the trippy Cate Blanchett-character, and it really isn't nearly as interesting as it should and/or could. Bruce and Billy Bob is a combo that could have been equally interesting, but their characters aren't well enough developed and it all just runs out in the sand.
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Thursday 22nd May 2014
Every regular spectator of live sport knows that there is much more to the overall experience than merely the action on the field. It's true that diehard fans want their team to win whatever the cost, but when I look down from my lofty perch in the BBC radio commentary box on a sunny afternoon, I see a Test match crowd made up of men, women and children of all ages and backgrounds creating a vividly colourful scene and a vibrant atmosphere.
'Trent Bridge, Nottingham, is my home ground … there's no stifling security and, being the closest ground to Melton Mowbray, commentary box cakes are replaced by delicious pork pies'
Clearly the logistics involved with effectively moving office every week as we pack up and move on from game to game can create complications for our producer and sound engineers,but one of cricket's many attractions is that every pitch performs differently, bringing variety in the playing of every match. The diversity provides a welcome contrast for those of us for whom the summer circuit has become a way of lif e.
Lord's is the headquarters of cricket and home to the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC), formerly a gentlemen's club that was responsible for the running of the game. I experienced its reputation for being an unfriendly and stuffy place when, arriving early one morning to report live for the Today programme in 1991, I was refused entry by the steward on the gate. It did not matter one bit that I had the correct accreditation; he simply would not let me in. So my scene-set for Radio 4 was filed from a telephone box in St John's Wood High Street. (I remember vividly shoving in another 10p piece whenever the pips sounded.)
Happily, Lord's has been transformed, coinciding with the long overdue decision to allow women to become members. Welcoming and friendly – none more so than Errol who mans the East Gate and receives our steady stream of cakes from generous listeners – Lord's has combined its wealth of history and tradition with a first-class spectator experience.
'Word of a pork pie delivery quickly gets out, resulting in a raid by our colleagues, inevitably led by Ian Botham'
Trent Bridge, Nottingham, is my home ground and, although I'm naturally biased, it's also the favourite for many of my colleagues. There's no stifling security and, being the closest ground to Melton Mowbray, commentary box cakes are replaced by delicious pork pies. Word of a delivery quickly gets out, resulting in a raid by our colleagues from Sky TV, inevitably led by Ian Botham. This can be used to our advantage – towards the end of a summer during which he had been fed a non-stop diet of our pork pies, Ian reciprocated by arranging for me to interview his great friend Eric Clapton on Test Match Special.
Food is clearly a recurring theme on the cricket circuit. The Ladies Pavilion at Worcester, which overlooks the beautiful cathedral, is renowned for the splendid cakes that are served during every tea break, and if it's a full English breakfast you need, look no further than the unprepossessing but satisfying Ugly Mugs café at Headingley. Frankly, it's no surprise that every cricket commentator's winter is spent on a strict diet!
Thursday 15th May 2014
This week would usually see us gathering at Lord's for the first Test match of the summer. The congested international timetable is the principal reason for playing so early in the summer, but it is also a good opportunity to ambush the opposition who, invariably used to tropical conditions, spend their time in the field clutching the hand warmers that are concealed deep within their trouser pockets.
'England lacked the dangerous approach of opposition batsmen'
Spectators arrive fully equipped for every meteorological possibility, so it is with relief all round that the switch has been made to delay the Test series against Sri Lanka until June, and kick off the international summer with the shorter, busier limited overs matches.
In fact, this is a big year for one-day cricket with the World Cup due to be staged in Australia and New Zealand in February and March. England remain one of the few senior teams never to have won despite appearing in the final three times, and it is ironic now to consider that last winter's disastrous Ashes campaign was brought forward by a year to improve their prospects. Previously the World Cup was played on the back of a gruelling Ashes campaign in Australia and it was argued that the players were simply too tired to recover properly.
Well, there can be no such excuse this time but the bottom line is that England have just 20 matches between now and their World Cup opener on Valentine's Day to rebuild their team after their 4-1 defeat to Australia and the sacking of their most dangerous one-day player, Kevin Pietersen.
'There will be no more resting of the leading players that I still believe was one of the causes of England's dramatic collapse last year'
Even with Pietersen in the team, England lacked the carefree approach of many opposition batsmen, which has seriously hampered their prospects in the past. Encouraging an attacking mindset is just one of the challenges facing the recently restored coach, Peter Moores.
One thing is certain: there will be no more resting of the leading players that I still believe was one of the causes of England's dramatic collapse last year. The decision to field virtually a second X1 in the one-day series after the Ashes last summer dismayed spectators who had paid up to £70 for a ticket in advance to see the best, and it gave Australia the welcome opportunity to win some matches and regain confidence. The decision also smacked of arrogance and I hope it is just one of many lessons learned as England take their first steps into a new era.


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Will another Countdown soon be on for Beyonce?
According to Hollywood Life sources, the singer is absolutely, positively, 100% expecting another child with Jay-Z.
The supposed news broke after Beyonce showed up at La Marina in Washington Heights on September 23 and was clearly showing a baby bump, witnesses claim.
Beyonce and her music mogul of a husband are parents to Blue Ivy Carter, of course, who broke the Internet with her birth about eight months ago.
Asked about his client already planning a second child, Beyonce's rep simply replied:
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THG does, however. If this story is valid, we're ever so happy for Hollywood's First Couple!
UPDATE: Okay, maybe not. Tina Knowles has come out and shot down this Beyonce pregnancy rumor.
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2014 Ford C-Max Energi: Car Seat Check
The Ford C-Max Energi hatchback is a fun-to-drive hybrid that Cars.com reviewer Aaron D. Bragman said "delivers comfort, style and efficiency," but warned that it "compromises cargo capacity." That's not all that the 2014 C-Max Energi has had to compromise.
Parents who purchased the C-Max Energi hoping for convenient car-seat installation might be disappointed with it. Although the 2014 version earns a couple of A's for the easy install of our booster and infant seats, the rest of its report card looks like the answer sheet of a high school student guessing on every question of a multiple-choice test: C, C, C ... see what we mean below.
How many car seats fit in the second row? Two


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