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Investors want Google's bonds. When the tech giant offered its $1 billion bond to help pay off its debts Thursday, investors wanted five times that amount.
Google's $1 billion in 10-year bonds received $4.75 billion in orders, according to the Wall Street Journal. The Google bonds "were priced to yield 3.377%, or 62.5 basis points over comparable 10-year Treasury bonds," according to a Google spokesman. And that was enough to cause Wall Street to jump on the investment.
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Organizational Talent Rankings via Baseball America
2012 (3) | 2011 (1) | 2010 (16) | 2009 (11) | 2008 (24)
2012 Affiliate Records
MLB: [72-90] AL Central
AAA: [83-61] Pacific Coast League – Omaha
AA: [58-81] Texas League – Northwest Arkansas
A+: [66-74] Carolina League – Wilmington
A: [68-72] Midwest League – Kane County (SAL Lexington beginning 2013)
Graduated Prospects
Will Smith (LHP); Kelvin Herrera (RHP); Everett Teaford (LHP)
The Run Down
The Royals traded away a decent chunk of their upper-levels talent in the James Shields deal with the Rays. Wil Myers, Jake Odorizzi, and Mike Montgomery are all gone, and what's left is a very young system. It also happens to be a very good system. But with youth comes risk. There's as much upside here as there is in any other organization — numbers 1-10 below are all capable of bringing significant value to fantasy owners — and there are some college arms that should move quickly. But for the most part, this farm system is unproven. Unless Yordano Ventura is converted to relief, I don't see much fantasy value pushing through until 2014. Even so, this group will be a lot of fun to watch in the upcoming season.


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We've run through the fantasy basketball rankings for each position – well, you ran through them. I sprinted for a bit, started feeling woozy, then threw up all over my slacks. I don't know why I wore slacks to a sprint, but I made sure to wear bicycling shorts to today's 2011 fantasy basketball top 100. … I'm sorry. I was just informed I am wearing John Stockton's game worn shorts, not bike underoos. My mistake. On so many levels. Anyway, feel free to click the link at the top of this paragraph or shift your eyes to the menu bar above this post and click there. Whichever. Like all these here rankings, the top 100 is organized using a hybrid of roto and H2H leagues. Let's get it on! Here's your top 100 for fantasy basketball:
1. Kevin Durant – If you need this pick explained to you, go ahead and stop chasing the white rabbit, because you ain't never getting out of Wonderland.
Season Projections: .470/.880/2 3pt/29 pts/6 rbd/3 ast/1 stl/1 blk/2.5 tov
2. LeBron James – Villain schmillain. General Patton wasn't any fun to go to movies with either. Didn't stop anyone from wanting to go into war with him leading the way.
Season Projections: .515/.755/1 3ptm/25 pts/7 rbd/7 ast/1.5 stl/1 blk/3 tov
3. Chris Paul – He'll either be playing alongside three all-stars this season or alone on an emaciated squad full of scrubs doing three all-stars-worth of work.
Season Projections: .480/.860/1 3ptm/18 pts/4 rbd/9.5 ast/2.5 stl/0 blk/2.5 tov
4. Derrick Rose – Malik, Jalen and McGowan are soooo jealous of Derrick's rank.
Season Projections: .460/.850/1 3ptm/24 pts/4 rbd/8 ast/1 stl/0.5 blk/3 tov
5. Dirk Nowitzki – Say goodbye to the top five after this season, Dirk. It happens to the best of us. Also, it happened to three of your teammates, Jason, Vince and Shawn.
Season Projections: .475/.885/1 3ptm/22.5 pts/7 rbd/2.5 ast/1 stl/1 blk/2 tov
6. Pau Gasol – A brief conversation with my lady about the defunct Hornets-Rockets-Lakers trade: MY LADY: "So was there a big trade today?" ME: "Huge. L.A. traded its best player, Pau, for New Orleans' best player, Chris Paul." MY LADY: So where do the Rockets fit in?" ME: "They threw in some players and will get Pau Gasol, who they might use to replace a guy they lost last year named Yao." MY LADY: "Yao Gasol?" ME:" No, Pau Gasol." MY LADY: "Right. Chris Pau for Yao Gasol. So where do the Hornets come in?" ME: "There is no Yao. The Hornets have Chris Paul." MY LADY: Ooo, Chris Paul. I thought you were saying "pow." / Adam slams Sprite can on the ottoman out of frustration.
Season Projections: .510/.830/0 3ptm/23 pts/10.5 rbd/3.5 ast/0.5 stl/1 blk/2.5 tov
7. Dwyane Wade – Sweet pick-up. What's even sweeter: now you don't have to bother with shooting guards until it's at least Marco Belinelli time! (My buddy Justin bet me I couldn't rationally fit Belinelli into the top 10 without mentioning Chris Paul. My buddy Justin is not a smart man.)
Season Projections: .485/.765/0.5 3pt/26 pts/6 rbd/5 ast/1.5 stl/1 blk/3 tov
8. Stephen Curry – Admit it, you're still not sold on Stephen Curry being a top 10 guy and you're fighting the temptation to just pick Kobe Bryant. Keep fighting it. If you're one of the last picks in a snake draft, Bean will still be there on the way back.
Season Projections: .470/.895/2 3ptm/21 pts/4 rbd/7 ast/1.5 stl/0 blk/3 tov
9. Deron Williams – You gonna argue the high ranking of a TURKISH LEGEND!?! No. I didn't think you would.
Season Projections: .475/.800/1 3ptm/19 pts/4 rbd/10.5 ast/1 stl/0 blk/3 tov
10. Kevin Love – You know that five spot I said Dirk was likely vacating after this season? This guy has already filled it on a lot of lists. I'm a bit more frugal. I take things slow. I waited nine years after we were married before I kissed my wife for the first time.
Season Projections: .475/.845/1 3pt/19 pts/14 rbd/3 ast/0.5 stl/0 blk/2 tov
11. Carmelo Anthony – I find myself wondering quite often if Carmelo Anthony ever thinks about Allen Iverson . Even just for a minute.
Season Projections: .455/.835/1.5 3ptm/25.5 pts/7 rbd/3 ast/1 stl/0.5 blk/2.5 tov
12. Kobe Bryant – When the Lockout was at its darkest and it looked all but certain that this season would pass us by, the cries that this was Bryant's last good season were almost as shrill as Mila Kunis' voice. A part of me wants y'all to chill on the "Kobe's almost done" talk, another part of me knows that if his last good day isn't today, it will be tomorrow. And yet, another part of me just wants a Hot Pocket.
Season Projections: .450/.825/1 3ptm/25 pts/4.5 rbd/4 ast/1 stl/0 blk/3.5 tov
13. Dwight Howard – Howard shot .718 from inside five feet last season. He also dunked the ball 227 times as compared to NJ's 269 as a team. I'm not explaining this to you, as much as I'm explaining it to the guy reading this over your shoulder who doesn't understand why the Nets would offer up Brook Lopez for a guy whose head is three sizes too tiny for his shoulders.
Season Projections: .575/.593/0 3pt/20.5 pts/14 rbd/1.5 ast/1.5 stl/2.5 blk/3.5 tov
14. Blake Griffin – It gives me armpit sweat thinking he's only a sophomore/junior (depending on how you define the start of his pro career).
Season Projections: .495/.670/0 3ptm/25 pts/11.5 rbd/4 ast/1 stl/0.5 blk/2.5 tov
15. Russell Westbrook – Word up, Russ. Things going well this offseason? Definitely, definitely. Excited for your fourth season? Definitely, definitely. Well, that's great.
Season Projections: .440/.829/0.5 3ptm/21 pts/4 rbd/9 ast/2 stl/0.5 blk/4 tov
16. Amar'e Stoudemire – Here's where you should take pause: Stoudemire hasn't been on a team this talented since the height of the Nash/Marion/Johnson Suns teams. With a guy like Amar'e, I tend to think he works better among great players instead of being the alpha male. I know HE doesn't think that, but I do. When he's alone, his stats are like your devlish good looks – enjoy 'em now, 'cause it's only a matter of time before everything starts drooping.
Season Projections: .515/.795/0 3pt/24 pts/8 rbd/2 ast/1 stl/1 blk/3 tov
17. Al Horford – I think this Atlanta Hawks nucleus has seen its best days (and frankly, those days weren't all that spectacular). Crawford, Johnson and Smith are all down-trending and unless this team is going to totally fall off the map, I think Horford and, to a lesser extent, Teague, are to be the ones to slow its roll.
Season Projections: .545/.777/0 3pt/16.5 pts/10 rbd/3.5 ast/1 stl/1 blk/2 tov
18. Rudy Gay – I think it's about time Rudy Gay replace Sonny Weems in the NBA's Sweetass Blues Band Revue®. Taj Gibson is down, but Wayne Ellington is being a total dick about it.
Season Projections: .460/.775/1 3pt/19.5 pts/6 rbd/3 ast/1.5 stl/1 blk/2 tov
19. Monta Ellis – Monta Illest has led the league in mpg and total minutes in each of the last two seasons. Knowing Monta (which I do not, at all) he'll try to surpass both minute marks this season despite there being 16 fewer games. I don't think he'll succeed. He'll give us just a tad under what he gave us last year. Well, gave you, maybe. He didn't give me nothing, 'cause I was too busy drafting Stupid Joe Johnson (™).
Season Projections: .445/.770/1 3ptm/24.5 pts/3.5 rbd/5 ast/2 stl/0 blk/3.5 tov
20. Danny Granger – Granger's the poster boy for three underwhelming games followed by one monster game to even out the averages. That poster is worse than anything with Katherine Heigl on it.
Season Projections: .445/.850/2 3pt/22 pts/5.5 rbd/2.5 ast/1.5 stl/1 blk/2 tov
21. LaMarcus Aldridge – Pat yourself on the back, young fella. You just got yourself Aldridge 21 picks into the draft. I'm right proud of you!
Season Projections: .495/.775/0 3pt/21 pts/8.5 rbd/2 ast/1 stl/1 blk/2 tov
22. John Wall – Wall's been practicing on that jumper all summer (and fall). They say practice makes perfect. I'd settle for practice makes 46 percent.
Season Projections: .440/.770/0.5 3pt/19.5 pts/4.5 rbd/8 ast/1 stl/1 blk/3 tov
23. Al Jefferson – I'd be interested to know what percentage of drafts LMA and Jefferson are taken within five picks of one another, I bet it's more than 60 percent. I can say that because there's no way for anyone to check me.
Season Projections: .495/.710/0 3pt/19.5 pts/10 rbd/2 ast/1 stl/1.5 blk/2 tov
24. David Lee – Lee's still one of the best PF in the league. But he only managed to play 73 games last season, fewer than 20 of which he was all that healthy for; so he took his lumps. Being elite doesn't stop anyone from having to perform … actually, that's not even close to true. The biggest perk of being elite is not having to perform. This list is ruined.
Season Projections: .529/.784/0 3pt/19 pts/11.5 rbd/3 ast/1 stl/0.5 blk/2 tov
25. Josh Smith – Smoove needs to stay a) motivated and b) away from the three-point line when he shoots the ball. He does that, he could be a value pick at 25. Hopefully he doesn't read this and assume I'm daring him to shoot farther away from the basket than the three-point line. Oh, crap. I really wish I hadn't rubber cemented the delete key. Now that mistake will just have to ride.
Season Projections: .488/.699/0.5 3pt/16.5 pts/8 rbd/3.5 ast/1.5 stl/1.5 blk/2.5 tov
26. Tyreke Evans – I haven't been this hopeful for a foot and ankle to hold up since my ballet recital at fifth grade fat camp.
Season Projections: .449/.779/0.5 3pt/19.5 pts/5.5 rbd/6.5 ast/1.5 stl/0.5 blk/3 tov
27. Steve Nash – Remember when People magazine debuted and Hank Aaron became baseball's home run king? Steve Nash does. That's a problem.
Season Projections: .480/.935/1 3pt/14.5 pts/3 rbd/10 ast/0.5 stl/0 blk/3.5 tov
28. Brook Lopez – He's the worst rebounding center in the league. He grabbed 10 percent of the available rebounds while he was on the court. But Adam, advanced statistics are more complicated than the lyrics to any song by the Decemberists. How bad is that 10 percent? Well, compare that to Kevin Love's league-best 23.6 percent.
Season Projections: .505/.800/0 3pt/22.5 pts/7 rbd/2 ast/0.5 stl/1.5 blk/2.5 tov
29. Kevin Martin – He annually feels like a player who belongs somewhere in the fifth or sixth round because of his injuries. He also annually has stretches where he plays like a top 10 guy. No. 29 feels appropriate.
Season Projections: .430/.910/2 3pt/22.5 pts/3.5 rbd/2.5 ast/1 stl/0 blk/2 tov
30. Gerald Wallace – 29-years-old, no longer the team's best offensive option and has been rumored to be on his way to Orlando so the Nets can have Dwight Howard. What happened, Crash? You used to inspire magic. Now you just might have to settle for being on its roster.
Season Projections: .470/.759/0.5 3pt/15.5 pts/7.5 rbd/2.5 ast/1.5 stl/1 blk/2.5 tov
31. Rajon Rondo – Rondo is so much better at real basketball than fake basketball. He's your little brother's version of Jason Kidd.
Season Projections: .515/.600/0 3ptm/12 pts/5 rbd/10.5 ast/2.5 stl/0 blk/3 tov
32. Zach Randolph – Lionel Hollins on the first day of open camp, "Hey is Zach here yet?" Yeah, boss. He got here a couple minutes ago. "How'd he look? Did he get fat? Tell me he didn't get fat." No, boss. He looks good. In shape. "Don't lie to me, son. I've been afraid of this moment since July 1." No, boss. He looks good. Have you seen Kendrick Perkins? "No. Did he get fatter?"
Season Projections: .485/.770/0 3pt/20 pts/11.5 rbd/2 ast/1 stl/0.5 blk/2 tov
33. Manu Ginobili – When healthy, he's a great asset. But you've got to factor in his past health issues and you gotta factor in his age. That's what's called Manufactoring. It's a troubled industry here in the States.
Season Projections: .455/.859/1.5 3pt/18 pts/5 rbd/5 ast/1.5 stl/0.5 blk/2.5 tov
34. Chris Bosh – Chris Bosh is a great player who had a down season, took his lumps, put on some muscle, stayed right in the offseason and will improve on his 2010 performance. Chris Bosh paid me $425K to write that.
Season Projections: .505/.812/0 3pt/19.5 pts/8 rbd/2 ast/1 stl/0.5 blk/2 tov
35. Andre Iguodala – Last year represented the beginning of Iguodala 3.0, in which he becomes a defensive entity with a little offense instead of the team leader. Live it. Love it. Leave it alone.
Season Projections: .469/.714/0.5 3pt/14.5 pts/6 rbd/6 ast/1.5 stl/1.5 blk/2 tov
36. Paul Pierce – You know what you're getting with Pierce. It's like going to a Jessica Biel movie. It's not going to change your life or anything, but you didn't choose it for that. You chose it for a chance to see Pierce in his underwear. Or, you know, whatever.
Season Projections: .470/.840/1.5 3pt/19 pts/5.5 rbd/3.5 ast/1 stl/0.5 blk/3 tov
37. Eric Gordon – Improved a ton last season, but also missed 26 games (46 missed games in his last two seasons) and defenses never got a hold of him because they were busy adjusting to Griffin and their rotating cavalcade of point guards. I think Gordon is legit, but not without a little settling down this season.
Season Projections: .470/.810/1.5 3pt/20 pts/2.5 rbd/4 ast/1 stl/0 blk/2.5 tov
38. Jrue Holiday – Most Improved Player, 2011-12? Most Improved Player, 2011-12.
Season Projections: .460/.815/1 3pt/18 pts/3.5 rbd/7.5 ast/2 stl/0 blk/2.5 tov
39. Nene Hilario – Solid all-around center. That said, I don't trust anyone who names himself Nene and then insists everyone refer to him only as that. That man ain't right.
Season Projections: .590/.715/0 3pt/15 pts/8 rbd/2 ast/1 stl/1 blk/2 tov
40. Arron Afflalo – This will almost certainly be Spellcheck's best statistical season yet, but just know that he's not a huge scorer and 15 points is about as good as it gets.
Season Projections: .460/.830/1.5 3pt/15 pts/4 rbd/3 ast/1 stl/0.5 blk/1.5 tov
41. Joe Johnson – There's going to be some fantasy team out there with David Lee, George Hill and Johnson and it's going to be the guys-with-names-that-sound-like-they-came-out-of-the-Witness-Protection-Program team.
Season Projections: .450/.810/1 3pt/17 pts/4 rbd/4 ast/1 stl/0 blk/2 tov
42. Tony Parker – I know you don't like Tony Parker this high. But you can't count on Manu all year. Duncan is, like, 60-something years old, and Richard Jefferson did not turn into someone who is good at basketball over the long break. Yet, if I asked you whether you believed the Spurs would make the playoffs, you'd almost certainly say, "yes!" So you tell me … who gets San Antonio to the playoffs?
Season Projections: .494/.777/0 3pt/19.5 pts/3.5 rbd/5.5 ast/1 stl/0 blk/3 tov
43. Joakim Noah – If his recent production trend continues, expect his value to continue arcing upward next season. Who's arc? I think you see where I'm headed.
Season Projections: .519/.711/0 3pt/13 pts/12.5 rbd/2.5 ast/1 stl/1.5 blk/2.5 tov
44. Paul Millsap – "Utah: home of the unending streak of big men who get in my way despite not being anywhere as good as me." – embroidered message on Paul Millsap's pillow
Season Projections: .522/.733/0 3pt/18 pts/8 rbd/2.5 ast/1 stl/1 blk/2 tov
45. David West – Well, I'll say this for him. He's good enough to replace Tyler Hansbrough. So he's got that going for him.
Season Projections: .471/.829/0 3pt/18 pts/8 rbd/2.5 ast/1 stl/0.5 blk/2 tov
46. Ty Lawson – The Denver Nuggets: Where no one will average 17+ points a game. Things are gonna get REAL interesting up in the thin air region.
Season Projections: .490/.790/1 3pt/15.5 pts/3.5 rbd/7 ast/1 stl/0 blk/2.5 tov
47. Andrew Bynum – Let's ask J.J. Hickson and LeBron James how much new Laker coach Mike Brown helps develops the youngsters.
Season Projections: .550/.700/0 3pt/13.5 pts/8.5 rbd/2 ast/0.5 stl/2.5 blk/2.5 tov
48. Dorell Wright – I been thinkin' about my Dorell / When you gonna pick it!?! / When you gonna pick it!?! (My apologies to Jack White.)
Season Projections: .420/.780/2 3pt/15.5 pts/5.5 rbd/3 ast/1.5 stl/0.5 blk/1.5 tov
49. Carlos Boozer – Ugh. I just have no idea about Boozer this season. He could be a top 30 guy, or he could totally flop. Sticking him at 49 seemed like just enough of an anonymous spot so that no one would remember if I really mess this one up.
Season Projections: .515/.718/0 3pt/18 pts/9 rbd/2.5 ast/1 stl/0 blk/2.5 tov
50. Brandon Jennings – This is the highest I've ever ranked Jennings. It feels kooky. But imagine Maggette gone, and Stephen Jackson in his place. Now imagine Beno Udrih motivating Jennings not to mess up and lose his job. Now imagine a healthy Bogut. Okay, now picture a winged horse. Now picture Jennings on that horse eating a taco. I know, right!
Season Projections: .422/.795/1.5 3pt/15 pts/4 rbd/6.5 ast/1.5 stl/0 blk/2.5 tov
51. Roy Hibbert – Much was made last offseason about his weightloss, but dude looked soft. Not doughy-soft; he looked weak-soft. Dr. Hibbert made minor increases to his stats, but there's still trouble in Circle City. That starts with T and rhymes with P and that stands for per36. As in, they should get better this season and if they don't, I'm done with him.
Season Projections: .465/.770/0 3pt/12 pts/8 rbd/3.5 ast/0.5 stl/2 blk/2.5 tov
52. Devin Harris – Hate it or love it, his game don't stop. Envy him.
Season Projections: .456/.824/1 3pt/17 pts/3 rbd/6.5 ast/1.5 stl/0 blk/3 tov
53. Luol Deng – Improved scoring, almost 40 minutes a game, almost in the 1 stl+1 blk+1 3pt club, and yet … meh.
Season Projections: .455/.770/1 3pt/16.5 pts/6 rbd/2.5 ast/1 stl/0.5 blk/1.5 tov
54. JaVale McGee – "He finally gets it." – teammate Andray Blatche on December 12. I guess I don't need to add anything here. Blatche has spoken!
Season Projections: .519/.605/0 3pt/12 pts/8 rbd/1 ast/1 stl/3 blk/2 tov
55. Andrew Bogut – I haven't been this excited about an Aussie bendin' the ol' elbow since I went on that three-day drinking bender with Olivia Newton-John! My god that woman can toss down shots of rye.
Season Projections: .530/.561/0 3pt/13 pts/10.5 rbd/2 ast/0.5 stl/2.5 blk/2 tov
56. Serge Ibaka – Sometimes, when I'm feeling way too confident and satisfied with my basketball bloggin', I just flip back to last year's top 200 list and let the reminder that I ranked Ibaka 199th wash right over me.
Season Projections: .530/.740/0 3pt/12 pts/9 rbd/0.5 ast/0.5 stl/3.5 blk/1 tov
57. Andrea Bargnani – I honestly can't see ever owning Bargnani with the six players surrounding this guy on either side. I just know I won't opt to pick him unless all the others were taken first. So why not knock him down a few more slots? Because I don't want you to accuse me of defaming the Italians.
Season Projections: .465/.825/1.5 3pt/20 pts/5.5 rbd/2 ast/0.5 stl/1 blk/2 tov
58. Lamar Odom – And to think, Derrick Caracter is going to miss the first month of the season for L.A.. Boy, the Lakers must really be kicking themselves NOW!
Season Projections: .500/.660/1 3pt/15.5 pts/9 rbd/3.5 ast/1 stl/1 blk/2.5 tov
59. Luis Scola – My biggest problem is his blocks. If you have someone like Dwyane Wade, Derrick Rose, Tyreke Evans or any other guard that rates well above-average in blocks, Scola would make a good pairing with them.
Season Projections: .522/.730/0 3pt/18 pts/8 rbd/2.5 ast/1 stl/0.5 blk/2 tov
60. Greg Monroe – Is a sleeper still a sleeper if everyone and their hairdresser has him ranked in the top 60?
Season Projections: .555/.701/0 3pt/13 pts/9 rbd/2.5 ast/1.5 stl/0.5 blk/2 tov
61. Marc Gasol – GAS HOLE! (Come hell or highwater pants, this guy's getting a new nickname.)
Season Projections: .514/.721/0 3pt/12.5 pts/7.5 rbd/3 ast/1 stl/1.5 blk/2.5 tov
62. Darren Collison – Remember how jazzed you all were a year ago about how huge DarCo was going to become? Then how disappointed you were in his second season? Great. Now go compare Mike Conley and D.J. Augustin's third seasons to their second ones and get excited about Collison all over again.
Season Projections: .470/.875/0.5 3pt/15.5 pts/3.5 rbd/7.5 ast/1.5 stl/0 blk/2.5 tov
63. James Harden – Whether he starts or not, he'll be sneaky-hot this season, like Carey Mulligan.
Season Prediction: .440/.800/1.5 3ptm/15 pts/4 rbd/3 ast/1.5 stl/0.5 blk/2 tov
64. D.J. Augustin – Let's just hope D.J.'s desire to improve trumps his frustration from having to do it in Charlotte.
Season Projections: .435/.910/1.5 3pt/16 pts/3 rbd/7 ast/0.5 stl/0 blk/2.5 tov
65. Raymond Felton – Wanna see into Felton's future? Look at Andre Miller's recent past.
Season Projections: .440/.800/1 3pt/13 pts/3.5 rbd/6.5 ast/1.5 stl/0 blk/3 tov
66. Kyle Lowry – I won't own Kyle in any leagues this year because a lot of fantasy owners confuse surprise production last year with huge upside this year. You watch.
Season Projections: .435/.805/1 3pt/14.5 pts/4 rbd/6.5 ast/1 stl/0 blk/2 tov
67. DeMar DeRozan – Biggest PPG leap from 2009 to 2010, but he shot a fair FG% in over 34 mpg. Realistically, he won't improve much past that.
Season Projections: .475/.819/0 3pt/20 pts/3.5 rbd/2.5 ast/1 stl/0.5 blk/2.5 tov
68. Michael Beasley – The Wolves, like Sofia Vergara, are just too stacked in the frontcourt not to get in its own way. Beasley was certainly the second option on offense last season, as I believe he will be this season, but there weren't too many viable options last season. This season? I mean, hello! J.J. Barea!
Season Projection: .461/.775/0.5 3pt/17.5 pts/5.5 rbd/2 ast/1 stl/0.5 blk/2.5 tov
69. Marcin Gortat – As I said earlier in this post, my delete button is glued and broken. That's a shame because I can honestly see this guy producing top 40 numbers by season's end. I'm cool with him here, but he's also the player (aside from Boozer) I'm least confident about having ranked properly.
Season Projections: .545/.700/0 3pt/16 pts/11 rbd/1 ast/0.5 stl/1.5 blk/1.5 tov
70. Mike Conley – Conley's become somewhat forgotten amid the hubbub of other guards. That's a mistake. Fair warning. Unfair warning: yelling "Fore!" a second after your ball dents the roof of a nearby group's golf cart.
Season Projections: .454/.750/1 3pt/14.5 pts/3.5 rbd/6.5 ast/2 stl/0 blk/2.5 tov
71. J.J. Hickson – Hickson's SICK, son™. Go ahead and put in a 5,000 t-shirt order on that one.
Season Projections: .490/.719/0 3pt/17 pts/9.5 rbd/1.5 ast/0.5 stl/1 blk/2.5 tov
72. Marcus Thornton – Averaged 36 mpg/16/3/3 in the final seven games of the season. It's a small sample size, but like all small things, I'm making do with it as best I can. I worry about Sacramento's desire to make Jimmer Fredette a starter, however.
Season Projections: .440/.795/2 3pt/18 pts/5 rbd/2 ast/1.5 stl/0 blk/2.5 tov
73. Jason Kidd – Kidd is just slowly dwindling. His minutes, his scoring, his efficiency. He's 38, he'll be 39 in March; this is to be expected. His assists are the slowest to dropoff. Watching him last year, it was clear he's playing only to facilitate the other four players on the court. Nothing else. In the fantasy world, that's about as useful as having grapes for nipples.
Season Projections: .400/.849/1.5 3pt/8 pts/4 rbd/7.5 ast/1 stl/0.5 blk/2.5 tov
74. Stephen Jackson – I dare you to listen to Staggolee by Pacific Gas & Electric while Stack Jack is on the floor and tell me it doesn't pop into your head every time you watch him from now on.
Season Projections: .440/.805/1 3ptm/17.5 pts/4 rbd/3 ast/1 stl/0.5 blk/2.5 tov
75. Omri Casspi – Oh, here's where I left my single Cavs representative from this top 100 list. I wondered where he went.
Season Projections: .445/.700/1.5 3pt/14 pts/6 rbd/2 ast/1 stl/0.5 blk/2 tov
76. Ray Allen – Rajon Rondo's per36 assist number drop from 11.4 to 8.0 when Ray Allen was not in the game. So there you are. STATS!
Season Projections: .485/.900/2 3pt/15 pts/3.5 rbd/2.5 ast/1 stl/0 blk/1.5 tov
77. Wesley Matthews – He's Jason Terry with better percentages and no peanut head.
Season Projections: .470/.890/2 3pt/15.5 pts/3 rbd/2 ast/1 stl/0 blk/1.5 tov
78. Jason Terry – He's Wesley Matthews, if WesMatt was jet-propelled by the glory of God. (I'm ranking Matthews first because God is cool and all, but I'm really allergic to peanuts, y'all.)
Season Projections: .455/.870/2 3pt/15.5 pts/2 rbd/3.5 ast/1 stl/0 blk/1.5 tov
79. Jared Dudley – I'm not even sure how deep of a sleeper he'll be come draft day. He went widely unnoticed in most leagues in the final 20 games of the season. It's hard to tell if that will carry over to this one. He averaged 26 mpg, 11/4/1, with 2.4 stl+3ptm last season, which is okay. Upon closer inspection, Dudley Do-Right did pretty damn right in his 15 games as a starter, averaging 34 mpg, 16/6/2, with 3.2 stl+3ptm. With Vince Carter gone and Mickael Pietrus generally underwhelming, this looks to be the uproarious, and drunken shenanigan-filled year of Dudley's more!
Season Projections: .475/.765/1.5 3pt/14 pts/4 rbd/2 ast/1.5 stl/0 blk/1 tov
80. Kevin Garnett – KG could very well exceed his output last season. It wouldn't shock me (that's what forks and wall sockets are for!). It also wouldn't shock me if things went bleak for any of the older players who have had a significantly longer vacation than they are used to having.
Season Projections: .500/.850/0 3pt/14.5 pts/7.5 rbd/3 ast/1 stl/1 blk/1.5 tov
81. Jason Richardson – Wait, the Magic re-signed him!? Why? For HOW much!?! WHY!?!
Season Projections: .445/.750/2 3pt/13.5 pts/3 rbd/3.5 ast/1 stl/0 blk/1.5 tov
82. DeMarcus Cousins – He's still gonna foul a lot this year, mostly because he defends outside shooters with the quickness of someone running on ice wearing high heels. That liability on D stands to affect his O.
Season Projections: .430/.670/0 3pt/17.5 pts/10.5 rbd/3 ast/1 stl/1 blk/3.5 tov
83. Danilo Gallinari – The good news is that The Rooster will have every chance to be this team's scoring leader and I expect him to make good (sort of). The bad news is that there's no other news.
Season Projections: .425/.885/2 3pt/16.5 pts/6 rbd/2 ast/1 stl/0.5 blk/2 tov
84. Tim Duncan – The projections below are Duncan's floor. So there's that. I also think we're absolutely going to see his floor this season. So there's that also.
Season Projections: .485/.720/0 3pt/13 pts/8 rbd/2.5 ast/0.5 stl/1.5 blk/2 tov
85. Nicolas Batum – Didn't take a huge leap forward, in fact, he went backward. I expect his output to match his minutes a little more this season. Assuming he gets minutes, which is not an assumption I would make about most of the Trailblazers' lineup.
Season Projections: .470/.830/1.5 3pt/14 pts/5 rbd/2 ast/1 stl/1 blk/1.5 tov
86. Elton Brand – He could be as good as any PF in the league this season, but would you bet on it?
Season Projections: .510/.740/0 3pt/15.5 pts/8 rbd/2 ast/1 stl/1.5 blk/1.5 tov
87. Toney Douglas – He's the Bizarro Derek Fisher: he's the exact opposite of a Western Conference thinker whose body limits his physical ability. Douglas is an East coast Charlie Hustle who makes a ton of bonehead errors per 36 (BHEP36™).
Season Projections: .430/.780/2 3pt/15 pts/4.5 rbd/5.5 ast/1.5 stl/0 blk/2 tov
88. Channing Frye – You could go with Blatche. Blatche is the Frye you get if you're too cool for three-point field-goals. But if you follow Razzball, you're probably not too cool for anything. So Frye is the Blatche you get if Blatche is still available and you'd rather not draft Blatche. Frye averaged almost six three-point attempts per game and sank 39 percent of them. The season before, he shot 44 percent from the arc on one fewer attempt. Look for a teensy regression on both attempts and percentage. Look for it, but not forward to it.
Season Projections: .450/.825/2 3pt/13.5 pts/7 rbd/1.5 ast/0.5 stl/1 blk/1 tov
89. Andray Blatche – All reports suggest that Blatche is an unpleasant guy to be around. Makes sense, he'll be 25 this season. Name a 25-year-old who is pleasant to be around. No, I'd prefer to focus on his upside. He averaged 17/8/2 with more than two stl+blk per game. No one's grabbing him until at least the eighth round. Production anywhere near that is something on which you'll take and ask for free refills.
Season Projections: .460/.750/0 3pt/15 pts/7 rbd/2 ast/1 stl/1 blk/1 tov
90. Corey Maggette – "The Bobcats intend to make Maggette the central focus of its offense this season." *shudder*
Season Projections: .455/.830/0 3pt/18 pts/6 rbd/2 ast/1 stl/0 blk/2.5 tov
91. Tyson Chandler – Here's to hoping a bloated contract translates to bloated statistics. *clink* (It won't.)
Season Projections: .610/.715/0 3pt/9.5 pts/9.5 rbd/0.5 ast/0.5 stl/1 blk/1.5 tov
92. Kris Humphries – Drop him two rounds if he's trying to rebound next to Dwight instead of Brook.
Season Projections: .505/.690/0 3pt/9.5 pts/9.5 rbd/1 ast/0.5 stl/1 blk/1 tov
93. Chauncey Billups – (NOTE: This projection assumes Billups will be playing backup to Chis Paul for the Clippers. If that holds true throughout the entire season, I'd be surprised.) At what point do we get a reality show that follows Billups around while he bitches about spending the twilight of his career effected by younger, better players demanding trades to New York? Call it "Changes for Chauncey."
Season Projections: .429/.925/1 3pt/12 pts/2.5 rbd/4 ast/1 stl/0 blk/2.5 tov
94. George Hill – He was slightly overrated last year, then he pooped the bed. Now that he's underrated, you've got to swoop in. Poop = swoop.
Season Projections: .455/.870/1 3pt/13 pts/3 rbd/3 ast/1 stl/0 blk/1.5 tov
95. Thaddeus Young – Every year that he's a sixth man, I'm going to assume he'll be "this year's Sixth Man."
Season Projections: .505/.730/0.5 3pt/14.5 pts/5.5 rbd/1.5 ast/1 stl/0.5 blk/1.5 tov
96. Jordan Crawford – The are four Wizards in the top 100. RUN ON WIZARDS! (not overheard at a Magic: the Gathering gathering … for once!)
Season Projections: .440/.800/1 3pt/15 pts/3 rbd/3 ast/1 stl/0 blk/2 tov
97. Gerald Henderson – Averaged 35 minutes and a 16/5/4 line in the last eight games of the season. Without Gerald Wallace in the lineup, he averaged 13/4/2. Playing time alone should make this range a solid bet for the 24-year-old.
Season Projections: .445/.760/0 3pt/14 pts/5 rbd/2.5 ast/1 stl/0.5 blk/1.5 tov
98. C.J. Miles – He's a SF who played SG about 40 percent of the time last year. I expect the reverse to be true in 2011 and for Utah to go with a big lineup a lot more. It's really his only hope for a breakthrough season.
Season Projections: .420/.785/1.5 3pt/13.5 pts/3 rbd/2 ast/1 stl/0.5 blk/1.5 tov
99. Hedo Turkoglu – I'm 71.7 percent positive whatever I say here will be null and void come Christmas Day. So consider this the thing I said. I dare you to argue that I didn't say this or that I was wrong for having said it. #treated.
Season Projections: .440/.700/1.5 3pt/12 pts/4 rbd/4 ast/1 stl/0.5 blk/2 tov
100. Boris Diaw – Third Frenchman! I've clearly made multiple mistakes on this list. Ah well. No turnin' back now …
Season Projections: .485/. 710/1 3pt/11.5 pts/6 rbd/4 ast/1 stl/0.5 blk/2.5 tov


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One of the best ODI innings ever.
When Kohli got out, I was excited to have our spinners bowl at Yuvraj.
captains decision, to come into bat in a tight game being out of form.
Absolutely brilliant
For as long as there is limited overs cricket - of ten, twenty or fifty overs - there will remain the Sri Lankan spinners' mid-innings choke
WAG. Great knock. Won't call it one of the greatest or anything, but still awesome under pressure.
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Yeah, an epic performance!
Well played to SL too. Fantastic cricket and I really wouldn't have mind that much if SL won and Murali got a send off with WC. But of course, I am happier with this
Jai Hind!! Lots of people are jealous of India and it makes our victory even sweeter
I alwaysaid that Dhoni is probably the best Indian captain ever. I still maintain this
And smalishah's avatar is the most classy one by far Jan certainly echoes the sentiments of CW
Yeah we don't crap in the first world; most of us would actually have no idea what that was emanating from Ajmal's backside. Why isn't it roses and rainbows like what happens here? PEWS's retort to Ganeshran on Daemon's picture depicting Ajmal's excreta
Great knock, led from the front. He has led India to become the number 1 test and one day side.
Dhoni.. WAFG..
Congrats to all Indian Fans... still can't believe they won
Since it matters a lot, Dhoni's average in world cup finals - well, it doesn't exist actually
Great man. May he be the captain for at least a decade to come.
Has to be best captain of India.....
Love You India
No matter what people say about him, he has always looked to me like someone destined to achieve BIG things, and achieve them in the most unassuming manner. There is a sense of inevitability about things he does.
I can't prove it because I am not old enough on the forum, but back at a time when he was not even being considered for captaincy, I believed, and said on some other forums, that Dhoni is a natural captaincy material.
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Wait, what has been said about him? A quality performance when it counted, he's proven more people right than wrong.
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BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — More than 300 abortion-rights activists carried signs and chanted, "Veto! Veto! Veto!" in a demonstration Monday at the state Capitol protesting a package of measures that would give the state the toughest abortion restrictions in the nation.
The newly formed Stand Up For Women North Dakota also planned rallies Monday in Fargo, Grand Forks and Minot, said Robin Nelson, one of the organizers of the demonstration.
"The intent is to stop the attack on women's rights in our state," said Nelson, of Fargo.
Russell and Jenn Landphere of Bismarck brought their two infant sons with them to the Capitol.
"The priorities of this state are not in the right place," said Russell Landphere, who took a late lunch from his job as a civil engineer to attend the rally with his family.
"We're here as a family supporting women's rights," Jenn Landphere said. "We feel it's a woman's choice or a family's choice — not the government's choice."
North Dakota lawmakers moved Friday to outlaw abortion in the state by passing a resolution defining life as starting at conception, essentially banning abortion in the state. The North Dakota House approved the bill 57-35 Friday, sending it to voters likely in November 2014. The Senate approved it last month.
Representatives also endorsed two other anti-abortion bills Friday. One would ban abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy based on the disputed premise that fetuses feel pain at that point. Lawmakers also passed another measure that requires a doctor who performs abortions to be a physician with hospital-admitting privileges.
The Republican-controlled Legislature had already passed measures that would ban abortion as early as six weeks, or as soon as a fetal heartbeat is detected, and because of genetic defects such as Down syndrome. Together, those bills would give North Dakota the strictest abortion laws in the nation.
The measure requiring doctors with hospital-admitting privileges to perform abortions, the genetic defects bill and the so-called fetal heartbeat measure were the first to reach Gov. Jack Dalrymple's desk Monday afternoon. The Republican, who hasn't yet indicated whether he supports the measures, has three legislative days to act on the bills.
The proposed North Dakota legislation is aimed at shutting down the state's sole abortion clinic in Fargo and backers say it's a direct challenge to the U.S. Supreme Court's Roe v. Wade ruling that legalized abortion up until viability, which is usually at 22 to 24 weeks.
The demonstration Monday took place both outside the Capitol and inside the building while the Legislature was holding floor sessions in both chambers. An increased number of North Dakota state troopers patrolled the Capitol during the rally. No incidents were reported.
Dina Butcher, a private investigator from Bismarck, drew loud cheers after telling the crowd that the lawmakers should not be "legislating women's reproductive rights." The demonstrators could be heard by lawmakers who were meeting in their chambers down the hall.
"I am a Republican who believes in the very conservative principle of less government intrusion in my life," she said. "Where are the real conservatives when you need them?"


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It's a Tuesday afternoon at Germantown Friends School, and in the main building the floor is lightly bouncing, the gilded-framed portraits on the walls are shimmying and vibrations are resonating through the ceiling. Upstairs in the Poley Auditorium, fourth- and fifth-grade members of the Lower School World Percussion Ensemble are pounding out their mighty rhythms.
In 2004, ensemble director Shawn Hennessey, GFS Class of 1998, brought drums, which he got while studying music in Ghana, to a third-grade class at GFS.
"When I saw little kids in Africa playing with master adult drummers and not missing a beat, I realized that young people have a place in the musical community," he said.
The classroom visit led to the formation of the World Percussion Ensemble, which plays Afro-Cuban, Middle Eastern, and African drum music – with some hip-hop and pop mixed in.
While it's not hard to see why almost any kid would want to beat away on a drum to make a booming ruckus, these kids are doing much more than that: They are learning about historical, cultural and spiritual aspects of drumming.
"I teach the kids that drumming is part of almost every culture," Hennessey said. "It's a common thread throughout the whole world. I tell them stories about Africa and what the drums are used for."
Fourth grader Phoebe Rotondo joined the group for fun but said she learned something, too.
"I've learned about South and West African music," she said. "We studied Africa in third grade, but now I know about a whole other aspect of it."
Hennessey believes rhythm can be a bond that ties people together.
"Everyone has a natural rhythm that is easy to forget to exercise in modern America," he said. "The communal rhythm strengthens everyone's individual rhythm, so once the students start working together, they see what they can do with the sound."
"The goal is to all play together," said fourth-grader Sean Flaynik. "We all hear each other play and if we make a mistake, we help each other out. We try to sound like one drum."
Hennessey said that the students' understanding of the Quaker testimony of community, as well as their knowledge about Africa, makes the group open to the larger lessons of drumming. And those lessons often stick with Hennessey's students.
When junior Pedro Ramos was in elementary school, he played the piano, but after participating in the very first World Percussion Ensemble, he switched to playing drums.
"Playing in an ensemble really taught me to listen to the other players and adjust accordingly," he said. "And playing Afro-Cuban rhythms allowed me to gain insight into the respective cultures, folksongs and dances."
Ramos now plays percussion in several bands and in the Upper School orchestra.
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We all like to fantasize about how awesomely we'd perform in the face of a disaster like a plane crash or zombie invasion. While you may imagine yourself pulling off Chuck Norris spin kicks and living off the land, a Ka-Bar knife and survival training will only get you so far. To get through a disaster alive, you need to react properly under horrible circumstances. Luckily, you can reprogram your brain to do it, but you have to start now. The August, 2008 issue of National Geographic Adventure focused on "Everyday lessons for making it out alive." Author Laurence Gonzales offered a bunch of ways to cope better in a disaster simply by changing your way of thinking. Here are some highlights.
- Use a Mantra - Whether it's something simple to keep you focused ("I will survive.") or an inspiring reminder of what you'd miss if you give up ("I love my wife and kids."), repeating a mantra over and over can help clear your mind and get you through a chaotic situation.
- Don't Be a Victim - Once your basic needs are taken care of (like, you're not going to bleed to death in the next few minutes), divert your attention to the other people around you. See what you can do to help them. This takes your focus off of your own injuries and mental trauma. People who maintain this kind of selfless behavior have better survival rates in disasters. That's just one more reason to start leading a less self-centered life.
- Learn New Things - When you devote time and effort to learning a new task or skill, such as playing a musical instrument or speaking a foreign language, it literally changes the shape of your brain. If your life is in a rut and you follow the same routine, never trying anything new, your brain will have a hard time dealing with the sudden upheaval of a disaster. Keep your mind limber and you'll adapt more easily if the worst happens.
- Stay Emotionally Cool - Anger, frustration, or despair will cloud your thinking and lead you to make poor, possibly fatal decisions in a disaster scenario. Staying calm and cool is perhaps the most important thing you can do in the aftermath, but you can't just decide to be calm. You have to train yourself to be cool while in line at the DMV, dealing with the "customer service" of your cell phone provider, or whenever you visit your in-laws.
- One Step at a Time - What do you do when you find 100 zombies staggering through a corn field toward your isolated farm house? Lock the doors, barricade the windows, and find a gun. Seems simple, but could you clearly think through and prioritize those steps under such circumstances? This is a skill that you can use in your everyday life, whenever you feel totally overwhelmed by work and other responsibilities. Decide which one thing is the most efficient and important thing for you to do right now, then do it. Then do the next thing. Practice that and it will come naturally when the inevitable zombie apocalypse comes.
Gonzales offered many other excellent survival tips in his article, but I'm baffled at his complete failure to mention any zombie survival scenarios. Image by: underexposed949.
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- Makes 6 servings
- Active Time
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- Total Time
- 2 hr
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- 1 medium onion, finely chopped
- 2 celery ribs, finely chopped
- 1 large garlic clove, finely chopped
- 1/2 stick (1/4 cup) unsalted butter
- 1/3 cup veal demi-glace
- 2 tablespoons chopped fresh tarragon
- 1 tablespoon fig balsamic vinegar
- 3/4 cup chopped walnuts (2 oz)
- 2/3 cup soft dried Mission figs (1/4 lb), stems discarded and figs finely chopped
- 1 cup coarse fresh bread crumbs
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/4 teaspoon black pepper
- For figs and sauce
- 1/2 stick (1/4 cup) unsalted butter
- 1 pt fresh figs, stems discarded and figs halved lengthwise
- 1/4 cup finely chopped shallot
- 1/4 cup finely chopped celery
- 1 cup dry red wine
- 1 1/3 cups veal demi-glace
- 1 teaspoon arrowroot or cornstarch
- 2 tablespoons fig balsamic vinegar
- 1 tablespoon chopped fresh tarragon
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/4 teaspoon black pepper
- For quail
- 12 semiboneless quail
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/4 teaspoon black pepper
- 2 tablespoons unsalted butter
- 2 tablespoons vegetable oil
- Special Equipment
- kitchen string; wooden picks
- Make stuffing:
- Cook onion, celery, and garlic in butter in a 10-inch heavy skillet over moderate heat, stirring, until pale golden, about 10 minutes. Add demi-glace and boil, stirring occasionally, until most of liquid is evaporated, about 3 minutes. Stir in tarragon, vinegar, walnuts, dried figs, bread crumbs, salt, and pepper, then spread stuffing on a plate to cool.
- Prepare figs and make sauce:
- Heat 2 tablespoons butter in a 12-inch heavy skillet over moderately high heat until foam subsides, then brown figs, cut sides down, without stirring, about 3 minutes. Transfer figs to a bowl with a slotted spatula. Add shallot and celery to skillet and sauté, stirring, until golden, 3 to 5 minutes. Add wine and 8 to 10 browned fig halves (reserve remainder) and boil, stirring and mashing figs, until wine is reduced to a syrup, about 5 minutes. Stir in demi-glace and bring to a boil. Stir arrowroot into vinegar until dissolved, then add to skillet, whisking to incorporate. Boil sauce 2 minutes, then pour through a fine-mesh sieve into a 2-quart heavy saucepan, pressing on and then discarding solids. Stir in tarragon, salt, and pepper.
- Prepare quail:
- Discard any disposable metal skewers from cavity of each quail, then rinse quail inside and out and pat dry. Stuff 1 quail with a scant 1/4 cup stuffing, pressing and shaping it to fill out breast. Tie legs together with string and push legs up against body. Thread cavity closed with a wooden pick. Repeat with remaining quail.
- Put oven rack in middle position and preheat oven to 350°F.
- Sprinkle quail all over with salt and pepper. Heat 1 tablespoon each butter and oil in cleaned 10-inch heavy skillet over moderately high heat until foam subsides, then brown 6 quail on all sides, about 10 minutes total. Transfer with tongs to a large shallow baking pan. Wipe skillet clean and brown remaining 6 quail in same manner in remaining tablespoon each of butter and oil.
- Remove strings and picks from all quail, then roast quail, breast sides up, until just cooked through (check inner thigh — meat will still be slightly pink), 10 to 15 minutes. Add reserved browned figs to pan for last 2 to 3 minutes of roasting.
- While quail roast, return sauce to a simmer, then add remaining 2 tablespoons butter, whisking until incorporated.
- Transfer quail and figs to a serving dish and pour any juices from baking pan into sauce. Serve quail with sauce.
Cooks' notes:
Stuffing can be made 1 day ahead and cooled completely, uncovered, then chilled, covered. Bring to room temperature before proceeding. Figs and sauce (without remaining 2 tablespoons butter) can be prepared 1 day ahead and cooled, uncovered, then chilled separately, covered. Bring sauce to a simmer before adding butter. Quail can be browned 1 hour before roasting. Keep quail, uncovered, at room temperature.
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Nutritional Info
- Calories916
- Carbohydrates43 g(14%)
- Fat58 g(89%)
- Protein50 g(101%)
- Saturated Fat21 g(104%)
- Sodium1278 mg(53%)
- Polyunsaturated Fat13 g
- Fiber6 g(23%)
- Monounsaturated Fat19 g
- Cholesterol217 mg(72%)


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Sony has announced an overhaul of its headphone range, and introduced its first wireless headphones, the Bluetooth-enabled DR-BT160AS and DR-BT160IK.
But why would you want to go wireless, we hear you cry? Well, Sony seems to be targeting its new headphone range at both the sporty and the lazy.
The sporty ones can run around listening to music, without the fear of cable strangulation, while the plain lazy can use the 'phones for your phone – as a Bluetooth headset, necessitating the need to actually hold your mobile. You can also change tracks and adjust volume from the headset.
Cable guys
Those who fear going wireless, will be pleased to hear that Sony isn't shunning the world of cable just yet, with the release of the MDR-EX33LP and MDR-EX35LP headphones. Sony is making big claims with its in-ear cans, boasting "studio-quality sound".
The buds have been shaped slightly differently, too, which is said to give an extra-comfortable fit. Sound is enhanced by a 9mm EX driver unit for wide dynamic range and deep bass.
While no pricing has been announced, expect the Bluetooth buds to be in the shops in November, and Sony's new wired in-ear headphones to hit stands in October.


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My name is Jack, I have been looking in here for a while and have learnt a lot, so I thought it was time to join in and maybe give something back so here I am.
I have been modelling narrow gauge railways for some years, in 009 and also in 09, after looking in here I decided I liked the look of GNine and thought I would like to attempt modelling in this scale, especially as I have acquired a fair bit of 009/n gauge equipment gathered over a number of years.
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This story appears in the September 2002 issue of Entrepreneur. Subscribe »
It's a familiar story. A little wining and dining, and you find you have so much in common. The moment you laid eyes on each other, there was an instant chemistry, a feeling that this was the one, the one you could grow old with. But then you slept on it, and the next morning you woke up alone in your bed with those familiar pit-in-the-stomach words running through your mind: "What was I thinking?"
So we all agree? Finding the right business idea is difficult. Even if your parents believe you should have settled down with an idea already, or taken the easy route and let them fix you up with some cushy corporate career instead of pursuing this--this start-up--you know the right business idea is out there. But where? Where?
If you're in despair, you're not alone--and if we can help it, you won't be alone for long. We've consulted experts who may be able to help you finally find the right business idea you've been waiting for.
First, Some Inspiration
She was a wide-eyed teenager when she met the right business idea, although she didn't know it yet. It was the mid-1980s, and Amy Nye Wolf was capping off a six-week backpacking tour across Europe with a friend when she saw a store selling music at London's Heathrow Airport. "I was so sick of the music I had, and I was just happy to see it," Wolf recalls. She doesn't remember what she bought--"probably some '80s band"--but she flew home, excited and impressed. Back then, retailing in American airports was mostly limited to restaurants and newsstands.
Five or six years later, after college and some time spent as an investment banker, Wolf decided to do something she had been thinking about for a long time: start a business. "I had no major responsibilities in my life," she says. "It was the right time."
Wolf founded and is now the chair of AltiTunes Partners LP, a chain of music stores with 28 locations--one in a train station, the rest in airports; in fact, there are a few airports that have more than one store. By year-end, she projects AltiTunes will bring in $15 million.
Finding the Elusive Idea
But like all businesses, this one began with an idea that Wolf, 34, freely admits she borrowed. "I stole the idea, and then did some serious adapting," Wolf says. Stealing an idea for a business isn't as shifty as it sounds; if entrepreneurs didn't take inspiration from fellow business owners, there would be no Burger King or Wendy's, just McDonald's--and perhaps not even that, because White Castle and other burger joints had already been on the scene. Starbucks wasn't the first coffeehouse, and Barnes & Noble wasn't the first bookstore. Wolf simply remembered how an entrepreneur fulfilled her musical needs in London and realized she could fill those needs in her own country as well.
But back when she decided to start a business, she had no idea what her great business idea would be. Wolf had completely forgotten about her experience of buying music in an airport. The right idea was in the recesses of her brain, but she had to find it first.
Wolf quit her investment banking job in the fall of 1992. With $100,000 saved to put into her start-up, she could afford to spend time brainstorming business ideas. That was a good thing, because it took a while--at least several months between starting the brainstorming process and channeling a lightning bolt. But how she found that business idea could be a blueprint to any entrepreneur's success, and that blueprint had three important components:
- She kept an open mind about possible businesses.
- She constantly looked at the financial bottom line to see if the business would be viable.
- Even when the business seemed potentially profitable, Wolf took a reality check and asked herself if it could live up to the expectations she had for herself and her future company.
The first idea that really appealed to Wolf was to open a store that sold educational and entertainment software for children. She also considered offering classes in a room behind the retail department, where parents and children could learn to use the software. "But the margins didn't work," says Wolf, who did plenty of planning, trying to figure out whether she could make money.
Wolf assessed her idea because she didn't want to wake up one morning, poor and discouraged, wondering "What was I thinking?" After crunching the numbers, she realized that she would only be really busy after school and on weekends, and that much of the workday might look like a ghost town in her store.
To make extra money to live on, Wolf started doing some freelance computer training. And even though that sounds like a bit of a strategic retreat from boldly starting her own business, she was inadvertently following the advice that business consultant Jeff Blackman recommends.
Blackman, whose most recent book is Carpe A.M. Carpe P.M.: Seize Your Destiny! (The Result Collection) and who speaks nationwide about business issues, suggests if you're going to find that elusive perfect idea, you need to get out there, live your life and be open to new prospects.
Wolf enjoyed computer training and considered that as a career, but her hands-on experience opened her eyes. "I was always going to be limited by the hours in the day," she says. "I couldn't work enough as one person to have the type of company I wanted, and the only way I could would be to train others. It just wouldn't have been the right business for me."
"Watch TV, go see a movie, read a magazine, take a walk," suggests Blackman. "You know how when you're looking to buy a house, and suddenly you notice all of these For Sale signs in yards? If you're looking for an idea, you can program your brain to notice these things."
Which is why one day, Wolf suddenly recalled her experience at an airport in London.
Programming the Brain
Deborah G. Estes is a speaker and consultant for companies and organizations wanting to understand how the brain works when brainstorming. "You have to stimulate the brain to make it go into a brainstorming mode," says Estes, a former teacher and principal. She thinks and talks a lot about dendrites, which wire our brains to our nerves. "The more dendrites you have, the more ways you have to solve problems, the more connections your brain is making, and the more creative you can be," says Estes. So if you're looking for a business idea but you don't want to depend on dumb luck, you need to stimulate those dendrites.
Estes recommends brainstorming in a group. If you already have a potential business partner or friends who are willing to help you, gather them together, start talking and taking notes--with a cavalier, "anything goes" attitude--and see what you come up with.
And don't worry if your creative sessions aren't logical. "They're not supposed to be logical," says Estes, who adds that, above all, your brainstorming sessions should be adventuresome. "Keep it creative and playful," she says.
If you can't always bring somebody else into your brainstorming sessions, you're going to have to operate solo and dance with the dendrites. "Go someplace you've never been before and take notes," advises Estes. "Talk to people you wouldn't normally talk to. Drive a different way to work, go to a museum or start journaling."
But here's the biggest mistake most people make when brainstorming: "They simply don't cover enough ground," says Tom Monahan, who runs Before & After Inc., a creative coaching business in Tiverton, Rhode Island. "They don't work out enough ideas, and they tend to go with their first idea or their first good idea. In a competitive business world, your first good idea is likely to be an idea that somebody else [has thought about already]."
He should know. Monahan wrote The Do-It-Yourself Lobotomy (John Wiley & Sons), a book that teaches people how to think creatively. He has also helped large corporations such as AT&T, Frito-Lay, GTE and United Way with the brainstorming process.
In his book, he outlines several methods to brainstorming, like the 180-degree method, in which you think of the worst possible outcomes for a business. Let's say you love coffee, and you're thinking of opening a coffeehouse. The worst thing you could do to your customers is throw hot coffee on them, right? So you might come up with a business that manufactures special coffee gloves.
Admittedly, it's probably the stupidest idea in the world, but in the world of brainstorming, there are no stupid ideas. Or you might start thinking about a company that sells soothing hand lotions for minor burns, and suddenly you're light years away from your coffeehouse idea.
Whatever technique you use to concoct a new business idea, Monahan suggests you think of it this way: "I like to look at what problems consumers have in any given area. I think problems are the biggest springboards for ideas."
Brainstorming can be a lonely business, so don't allow yourself to get discouraged, warns Estes. "The brain believes what you tell it. It has no reason not to trust you. And when you make the statement 'I can't do this,' your brain will believe it."
Monahan offers more encouragement. "There is no such thing as absolute creativity," he says. "Every new idea is merely a spin on an old idea. [Knowing that] takes the pressure off from thinking [you] have to be totally creative. You don't. Sometimes it's one slight twist to an old idea that makes all the difference."
Think Tank
- JPB Creative, a company that specializes in innovative thinking, offers a Web site devoted to creativity, featuring a 10-step brainstorming program.
- Tom Monahan suggests visiting www.do-it-yourselflobotomy.com. Mostly a Web site for his business and book, it also provides ideas you could adapt on your own.
- Log on to www.mindtools.com. This online retail store sells products that inspire you to think and offers plenty of suggestions for books and software to help you brainstorm better.
More Than an Idea
Whether you spend $2 million or two bucks on an idea, that doesn't mean you can make it work, or that you will want to spend the rest of your life with it. Just as you probably wouldn't get married after the first date, you're going to have to court your idea for a good period of time and start asking the crucial getting-to-know-you questions.
For Wolf, she began asking herself, "What's the worst that can happen?" She went through various worst-case scenarios to see how long her business would last if people simply weren't buying. She finally deduced she would need to sell 30 CDs per day to stay afloat, "which was probably wrong," says Wolf, "but that's what I thought, so I started the business. I was the one who was going to be working behind the counter, and I thought I could sell 30 CDs in a day." Today, Wolf's business sells 3,000 to 4,000 per day, among other things, like portable stereos and computer games.
Thinking about your business--planning, plotting, daydreaming--can help you avoid problems with it later. "The hardest thing about inventing is selling and marketing," says Sol Aisenberg, a physicist and member of Invent Resources, a Lexington, Massachusetts, group of scientists that develops prototypes of inventions based on their clients' ideas.
There are several questions you should ask yourself, Aisenberg says, after you've come up with an incredible, surefire idea for a business, product or service:
1. Will it work?
2. Do you own the idea?
3. Is it practical?
4. Is there a need for it?
Once you answer those questions, you're one step closer to starting your dream business.
Just don't neglect that step where you assess the idea. "The dumbest reason to start a business is because you like the idea," warns Seth Godin. That sounds like strange talk coming from somebody who wrote Unleashing the Ideavirus (Hyperion), but what he means is that it's more important to have entrepreneurial skills than to simply have a clever notion for a business. "Plenty of entrepreneurs with boring ideas do very well," says Godin.
He's right. An idea is just an idea until you do something with it. But you have to find that idea first. And it's out there, perhaps lurking in a dendrite in the back of your mind. Maybe it will make itself known when you're sitting on the bus, looking up at the advertising or at the scowling passenger next to you, and a connection in your brain ignites.
The right idea for you exists, and looking for it is as applicable as Wolf's dating advice. Says Wolf, who met her husband at age 24 and married him five years later, "You have to try finding some common interests, and if the relationship works without it feeling like a lot of work, then it's a signal for success."
When Good Ideas Go Bad
The Bermuda Triangle. Roswell. Michael Jackson. Good business ideas gone bad. There are many mysteries out there, but some think they know the reason for that last one. Richard Pavelle and his team of scientists invent the ideas brought to them by companies around the country. Not surprisingly, seemingly good ideas go bad because they weren't well-thought-out to begin with, says Pavelle, president of Invent Resources. "More than 90 percent of the ideas and inventions listed at the patent office are worthless," he adds.
Invent Resources physicist Sol Aisenberg says ideas often cost more than an entrepreneur is willing to invest. And George Freedman, an MIT-trained engineer, blames it on the lack of a customer base--it may be an interesting idea, but nobody will buy it.
Then there's the possibility that the idea was good, suggests business author Rick Maurer, who wrote Why Don't You Want What I Want? How to Win Support for Your Ideas Without Hard Sell, Manipulation or Power Plays (Bard Press). If investors and business partners don't support your idea, especially if their reasons are vague, "they [may not] like it at an emotional level--deeper than they'll tell you," says Maurer. That means you shouldn't push the idea, but "go into the eye of the hurricane" and work on fixing the real problems behind the resistance.
Contact Sources
- AltiTunes Partners, LP
(212) 696-0050, www.altitunes.com
- Estes Group Inc.
(903) 892-0033
- Invent Resources Inc.
(781) 729-3746, www.weinvent.com
- Maurer & Associates
(703) 525-7074, www.beyondresistance.com


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Hardware Store Restaurant owner Melinda Sontgerath opened a new restaurant near the University District in Seattle last week to good reviews.
Sontgerath, who has been working to create 50 North for the last four months, was pleased with the preview "tasting" days and opening day itself.
"It was great. It was really smooth. …. It felt so good," she said.
Like The Hardware Store, 50 North serves what Sontgerath calls "upscale American cuisine."
"We take food people know and make it more special," she said, noting her staff uses high-quality ingredients and takes care with presentation.
Islanders will see many familiar items on 50 North's menu. About half of the new restaurant's menu is the same as The Hardware Store's, but the other half was conceived for 50 North, Sontgerath said.
The head of the new kitchen is Joel Lewis, who had been the executive chef at Red Fin, the restaurant in Seattle's Hotel Max. He and Sontgerath collaborated on the new menu, a fun process, she said. At the top of her new favorites list is pomegranate short ribs.
Upstairs from 50 North is a 3,200-square-foot luxury event space, and the staff at 50 North are the designated caterers for events there.
Sontgerath, who has owned The Hardware Store Restaurant on Vashon for five years, said she did not set out to open a new restaurant, but her friend and Hardware Store customer Rob Andrews, an investor in the popular Seattle restaurants The Wild Ginger, El Gaucho and the Waterfront, found this new space and suggested to Sontgerath they create an eatery together.
She told him she would be interested only if they could create it and stay true to their mission of creating a gathering place within a community.
The neighborhood, near University Village, did not have that kind of restaurant, Sontgerath said, so they set about creating one, spending the last months redoing the space top to bottom, developing the menu and hiring staff. Five hundred people applied for 50 positions, she noted.
"It's a group of professionals," she said of her staff.
The Hardware Store has a following of loyal customers who live in Seattle, according to Sontgerath; about 25 percent of the restaurant's business is from there. Sontgerath believes this new restaurant will increase the visibility of The Hardware Store and draw more visitors from Seattle, who will decide to take a trip over.
This new business has lured Sontgerath away from Vashon for bit, but she said that is just temporary, and she will be back and very much part of The Hardware Store Restaurant once 50 North is fully launched.
"The Hardware Store is my first baby," she said.
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Drew Smith necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 75 diseños de 28 diseñadores freelance.
Aspirant Bookkeeping - You made the money. We'll help you keep it.
We are a small start up bookkeeping company. We have a passion for helping small businesses succeed. This passion drives us to do whatever it takes to make our customers happy. Our potential clients are currently located in and around Washington DC, Maryland, and Virgina. I would say we are a pretty scrappy no thrills company but we want a comfortable trustworthy and professional image. That image starts with our logo and branding efforts.
We are targeting small and medium sized businesses and nonprofit groups. Our target market is Internet savvy. They are familiar with icons of pop culture. They are the Google generation so the design will have to be eye-catching enough to attract their attention.
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We chose the name aspirant because aspirant means one who aspires or hopes for greater things. So we are hoping that with your help our business will reach the heights of success. And help other small businesses reach their goals.
The logo should include this tag line: You made the money. We'll help you keep it.
We need a logo with the company name for a website header. We need a smaller logo with company initials for our Facebook fan site and twitter site. And we need a small logo for business cards and stationery.
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Our Mountain Home So Dear
31243, Hymns, Our Mountain Home So Dear, no. 33
1. Our mountain home so dear,
Where crystal waters clear
Flow ever free,
Flow ever free,
While thru the valleys wide
The flow'rs on ev'ry side,
Blooming in stately pride,
Are fair to see.
2. We'll roam the verdant hills
And by the sparkling rills
Pluck the wildflow'rs,
Pluck the wildflow'rs;
The fragrance on the air,
The landscape bright and fair,
And sunshine ev'rywhere
Make pleasant hours.
3. In sylvan depth and shade,
In forest and in glade,
Where-e'er we pass,
Where-e'er we pass,
The hand of God we see
In leaf and bud and tree,
Or bird or humming bee,
Or blade of grass.
4. The streamlet, flow'r, and sod
Bespeak the works of God;
And all combine,
And all combine,
With most transporting grace,
His handiwork to trace,
Thru nature's smiling face,
In art divine.
Text: Emmeline B. Wells, 1828-1921
Music: Evan Stephens, 1854-1930


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Transportation Alternatives' mission is to reclaim New York City's streets from the automobile and advocate for better bicycling, walking, and public transit for all New Yorkers.
Streets and sidewalks are 80% of our public space in New York City – but right now, our lives are polluted, congested, and endangered by car and truck traffic. Transportation Alternatives believes that this public space belongs to the people of New York City, and we are working with New Yorkers in every borough to reclaim our streets. Act Now
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Before you read about me playing DJ Hero 2 at GamesCom, check out the skills of FreeStyle Games studio manager Kevin McSherry as he and a fellow dev play dueling decks.
I got to go hands on with DJ Hero 2 myself today, and thought I did rather well, until McSherry took up the DJ controller to show the assembled members of the gaming press how it's done.
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Breaking the Chain Mail
When I was in 8th grade, I thought both chain letters and the people who sent them were exceedingly annoying. Now that I'm older, I realize I was wrong. The letters aren't that bad.
Chain mail wouldn't do anyone any harm if no one sent it. Except maybe James Peterson, a man with an Anglo-Saxon name living in a non-specific location in Asia, who broke the chain in 1682. He was poked to death by his Aunt Bea.
Chain letters are where frivolity and superstition meet to form "frivostition," better known to the rest of the world as "my god, why do people keep sending these stupid things?" And that was before the world had email. Now it's only gotten worse.
Chain letters have no purpose. Chain letters take up space. Chain letters need to be stopped. Wow, I never realized how similar chain letters are to Regis Philbin.
I'm writing about chain letters now because I get several dozen every day. I understood why everyone sent them when the internet first became popular - there was a novelty in the newfound ability to annoy all your friends at once. But I've been online for the last ten years, and my god why do people keep sending these stupid things?
There are many types of chain letters. The most easily dismissed is the death letter. This is the letter that tells you a scary story and that you'll die unless you quickly send it to your friends, who then get the opportunity to face death, too. But I'm a better friend than that. If I had a choice between taking a bullet and wishing the same fate on 10 of my buddies, I'd take the bullet. Except if my buddies were people who sent chain letters. Then I'd let em have it.
There's also the scheme letter, like the one about Bill Gates tracking your email or the American Cancer Society donating three cents every time you forward it. Aside from the obvious point of ACS being the ones to ACCEPT donations, wouldn't something like that make the news if it were actually happening? What? Check if it's true before sending out a letter to several dozen people? Why would anyone do that?
The worst are the attempted heart-wrenching letters. These letters are supposed to be about something important, but are so childishly written that you end up getting more upset that your time was wasted reading it than at the actual story. Usually it's about a phony encounter in a night club or a made up DUI, or some sort of debilitating disease that doesn't really exist. These come in all forms, but usually involve a poorly rhyming poem with haphazard meter.
A recent letter that's been going around like this is the "ribbon" for the soldiers. That letter fits into this category for one main reason - the opening line physically threatens people who don't forward it. Your support for the troops is great, but isn't intimidating people into helping spread peace a bit ironic? And instead of writing a letter about the troops, why don't you write a letter TO the troops instead? Oh, because that would take time and effort. My fault.
There are two other strains of chain letters that have appeared more recently. One is the anti-chain letter chain letter, which is when someone hits "reply-to-all" with a message that contains a variation of "yo, stop sending me this crap." The other is the anti-chain letter chain letter apology chain letter, which is a bit more complex. After someone sends out a variation of "yo, stop sending me this crap," a few people who never sent chain mail will reply complaining that they did nothing wrong. So these people are smart enough to avoid sending chain mail, but not smart enough to know the difference between a personal reply and a form letter. The "yo, stop sending me this crap" guy then replies with another mass e-mail apologizing and explaining who they were talking to. In other words, the guy complaining about chain mail just sent out two more pieces of chain mail.
When I first started getting chain letters on the web, I sent ten copies of the letter back to whoever sent it to me. That prevented them from ever sending me another piece of chain mail. A mail bomb, sure, but no chain mail. I recommend you try that sometime. Sure, you'll have to deal with the impending loss of friendship, but do you really want to stay friends with someone who keeps sending you tweety birds? Just think of it as e-mail address book Darwinism.
I hope you enjoyed my take on these nuisances. Now send this column to 14 of your friends in the next eight seconds or Aunt Bea is coming to dinner.


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An Epidemic of Absence: A New Way of Understanding Allergies and Autoimmune Diseases could be co-marketed with the Thomas Rockwell's children's classic How to Eat Fried Worms. It begins with the author, Moises Velasquez-Manoff, recounting his border-crossing to Tijuana to infect himself with Necator americanus—hookworms—in an attempt to cure the asthma, hay fever, food allergies, and alopecia that had plagued him since childhood. In the next three hundred pages, the author very cogently explains the idea that led him to willingly infect himself with a parasite known to cause severe diarrhea, anemia, and mental retardation in children.
Velasquez-Manoff marshals the reams of evidence researchers have accumulated to support said concept: the hygiene hypothesis, but with an updated, parasitic twist. The ideas he presents haven't been accepted by many in the medical community, and there's little high-quality evidence, in the form of well controlled trials, that exposure to parasites could have positive effects on human health. So, even if the author is thorough, it's important to keep in mind that the evidence he's presenting is primarily in the form of correlations.
The Hygiene Hypothesis
A simplistic view of the hygiene hypothesis is that in the absence of something dangerous to fight against—the cholera toxin, for example—immune cells get confused, or bored, and fight against harmless stimuli like dust mites and peanuts instead. But there is a more nuanced view. Our immune systems co-evolved with an enormous community of microbes, and were in fact shaped by them. Many became established, long-term, and vital residents in our guts; the importance, and in fact the very existence, of these commensals has only recently been realized.
Constant exposure to all of these bugs, as a unit, enhanced the regulatory arm of the immune system, modulating responses so that we could tolerate the filthy environment in which we lived while at the same time (hopefully) fighting off those pathogens that posed a mortal threat and not destroying our own bodies in that process. In the martial analogy that is inevitable in discussing immunology, ancient human immune cells that were always surrounded by microbes were like battle-hardened old soldiers who have learned the ability to watch warily when encountering something new, waiting to see whether or not it is dangerous; modern immune cells raised in our hyper-sanitized environment are like new recruits just given their first gun, testy and jumpy at the first hint of a threat and liable to blow up their surroundings in inappropriately directed and outsized force. Experience has not taught them moderation.
Seeing worms everywhere
Yes, he includes autism in the list of modern diseases caused by our out-of-whack immune systems. Along with other cases where immune dysfunction hasn't been established, like obesity, cardiovascular disease, type 2 diabetes, and cancer.
There are some serious problems with blaming all of these on immune dysfunction, but we'll focus on a single example: autism. Just as the absence of worms' mediating effects on our immune system causes some people to have an allergic response to harmless ingested proteins and others to attack their own tissues, the argument goes, chronic inflammation in the womb generates fetuses with autism.
The rest of this article can be read here: http://arstechnica.com/science/2012/10/book-review-an-epidemic-of-absence-takes-on-the-worms-youre-missing/


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For horror fans, Sam Rami's flick "Drag Me To Hell" arrives, and for kids there's "Up," Pixar's animated movie about a cantankerous old man who sends his home aloft with thousands of helium-filled balloons.
Director Sam Rami takes a break from the Spider-Man franchise to return to his first love: horror. This one stars the underrated Alison Lohman as a banker taking perverse joy in foreclosing on homes. But one of her victims exacts revenge by placing a curse on her that turns her life into a living hell.
The Pixar guys are back with yet another sure-to-be-delightful tale, this one about a cantankerous old man (Ed Asner) who tries to get away from life's annoyances by sending his home aloft with thousands of helium-filled balloons. But no sooner does he take off, and a stowaway child ruins his peaceful bliss.
The talent-starved Jessica Biel, aka Justin Timberlake's main squeeze, puts on airs as a snooty Yank invading British high society in the 1920s in this variation on the Noel Coward play. God Save the Queen? How about God Save Us?
Filmmaker Majid Majidi ("Children of Heaven") takes a humorous look at a man (Reza Naji, winner of Best Actor at the Berlin Film Festival) struggling to to support his family after he loses his job on an ostrich ranch.
The Patriot Ledger


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Things and stuff:
* Been asked asked whether I think Joe Biden's sudden declaration about being peachy-fine with same sex marriage is politics or an actual declaration of Biden's feelings on the matter. Well, why either/or? I think Biden may very well not have a single problem with men marrying men and women marrying women, and also that the Obama Administration is doing one of its messaging things to gays and lesbians (and those who have no problem with gays and lesbians marrying their own respective sexes), to wit: "Hey, Obama's gotta do that fence-sitting thing on the topic until at least after the election, but remember which party it is that's actually going to evolve in the direction you want. Hey, did you see how the Romney campaign hung that gay spokesman of theirs out to dry? Yeah. Anyway, keep it in mind, okay?"
Is that cynical of Obama to thread the needle like that? You bet. Welcome to the 2012 presidential election.
* Entirely unrelated, I've also been asked for further thoughts on the tenor guitar, which I've now been playing with for about a week. The short answer is that I'm still quite liking the thing: it really is substantially easier for me to play than a standard guitar, and because I've enjoyed playing it, and find it less frustrating than other guitars I've owned, I've been playing with it quite a lot. My strumming is still crap, but it's less crap than it was a week ago.
It's also a nice guitar, or at least this is what independent outside observers have told me. I took it to my local music store to get restrung (since I have it tuned like a uke, I needed to switch around the top and second strings), and the folks there seemed quite taken with it. They were also sort of curious about it; I think it might have been the first tenor guitar they had seen in the flesh. Which I can certainly understand, since I didn't know such things even existed until three weeks ago.
The one drawback I'm having with the guitar is that I keep bumping it into things. Even though it's smaller than the average guitar, it's substantially larger than a uke, which is the thing I'm used to playing. So I've got to wrap my brain about that.
But overall: One of the better purchases I've made lately.
* Additional Redshirts news: There's a review of the book on Tor.com today, which is nicely positive, which makes me happy. The review has some mild spoilers, so be warned. If you don't want the book spoiled minorly, here's the pull quote:
Redshirts is a light, fast read, but it's also a book whose questions about storytelling and agency stay with you long after you have put it down.
Yup, that sounds about right.
I am trying not to overdo Redshirts stuff around here, but as a fair warning, we're almost exactly a month away from the release date and between now and then news and reviews are going to roll in, plus there will be some very awesome surprises and probably a few more giveaways. So you will hear about it a lot. This is what happens in the month before a book drops.
The good news is, immediately afterward I'll be on tour, which means I'll be so busy I will hardly update at all! Lucky you.