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Never heard of a leg injury game in a playoff game (Seahawks-Redskins, to be exact) causing such a media/Twitter/Facebook/eHarmony/water-cooler firestorm ...
Calm down, everybody. Team doctors agreed Steven Hauschka has a calf injury, and Seattle put the kicker on injured reserve. The team signed Ryan Longwell, and the playoffs proceed.
OK, the Robert Griffin III saga was a big deal. But the reality is that the Washington Redskins are gone from the mix, and the suddenly-hurting-but-hot Seattle Seahawks move on. Their kicker is gone, as well as their best pass rusher, yet the 12th Man remains confident as ever that this squad can deliver a road win in Atlanta. The Seahawks have been playing solid football, and overcame uncharacteristic mistakes -- like Marshawn Lynch going Yield Mode, fumbling at the goal line -- to log a sixth straight win. I like that group again this weekend.
As for the rest of the games, you might notice another upset below. Call it a mild upset. And how about the Denver Broncos? Well, another game in which a win won't necessarily prove that they truly are the best the NFL has to offer. That said, a win automatically brings the AFC Championship Game to Sports Authority Field at Mile High (if that's still the sponsor by then). Opposing teams are 1-4 historically when playing a mile up in Denver in the AFC Championship.
But we might be getting ahead of ourselves; maybe the Baltimore Ravens will shock the football-watching world. Per the usual, would love your thoughts on that potentially happening and anything else that tickles you pink in the scribblings below. The dropbox is @Harrison_NFL.
Elliot Harrison went 3-1 on Wild Card Weekend, giving him a 144-67-1 record since taking over this space in Week 4. How will he fare in the divisional round? His picks are below, with home teams listed second:
Can the
Baltimore Ravens stop the run? That's the question in my head for this divisional-round opener. Teams have gotten a tremendous amount of movement on Baltimore's front seven -- with or without
Ray Lewis -- so you should expect
Peyton Manning to audible to more running plays than usual. (Unless, of course, the team just calls more runs in the huddle than usual because of the
Ravens' weakness in that area.) The
Denver Broncos have averaged more than 148 rushing yards per game in their last four outings, with six touchdowns on the ground.
The other concern for the underdog Ravens is their dependence on the home run. Joe Flacco hit a few long balls on Wild Card Weekend, but the Indianapolis Colts certainly don't have a corner of Champ Bailey's ilk, or a comparable secondary overall to Denver's group. The Broncos' defense has given up the fifth-fewest passing plays of 20-plus yards. Now, it's important to note that when Ray Rice is inside the white lines Sunday, he will be the best player on the field. The Ravens should try to get the ball in his hands 25 times, with a sprinkling of Bernard Pierce. Limit Peyton's possessions = best chance to win for Baltimore. #BALvsDEN
Green Bay Packers are fresh off
a cruise-control win over the Minnesota Vikings. Bottom line: Green Bay was never really challenged by the extremely mobile -- and extremely unprepared --
Joe Webb. That won't be the case with
Colin Kaepernick, who will be starting his eighth straight game for the
San Francisco 49ers. While the
Packers' secondary is exposable, the Niners' strength is not in their passing game. So, the real matchup might be
Charles Woodson vs. Kaepernick. When Woodson blitzes, or changes his "expected" position on the field, will the
49ers quarterback recognize it? The other key matchup is Green Bay's
17th-ranked run defense vs.
Frank Gore, who got some needed rest with the bye.
So did Justin Smith, who hasn't seen action in a month. If Smith and his ailing triceps can't get a push, or occupy two blockers, can Aldon Smith wreak havoc on his own? This Packers offensive line is what it is -- mediocre -- and Aaron Rodgers still holds the ball too long. But right now, I trust Rodgers more than Smith's triceps, which is big for a 3-4 defensive end. Green Bay must hope it can get something out of DuJuan Harris, or the 49ers will have a much easier time affecting Rodgers' timing with Greg Jennings, Randall Cobb and others. #GBvsSF
Trailing by six late, the Atlanta Falcons get a field goal and a clutch defensive stand to get the ball back, but can't get it done against the Seattle Seahawks' secondary on the final possession. That's what I'm calling, although my Seattle pick doesn't feel as strong without the team's best pass rusher in Chris Clemons.
@harrison_nfl Bruce Irvin will get two sacks in SEA's win over ATL. So, no, the drop-off won't be huge. SEA has depth. But Clemons is missed.â Ray Cascade (@raycascade) January 9, 2013
Two sacks, huh? And of course, I would expect Seahawks head coach Pete Carroll to say nothing less. Heck, maybe I'm overrating the injury. (Can you overrate 11.5 sacks in such an even playoff match?) Still, Seattle can't let Matt Ryan sit back there and pick the defense apart. Even the Seahawks' secondary is vulnerable if the opposing quarterback has time. Look no further than the loss to the Detroit Lions back in Week 8. Like that Lions team, Atlanta doesn't have much of a running game. (Unless 3.7 yards per carry gets you all hot and bothered.) I'll tell you this: Seattle will be able to run the football in the second half against an Atlanta defense that is particularly bad on first down -- teams gained 5.1 yards per carry on what is often considered a "running down," i.e., when defenses prepare for a handoff. So even if the Falcons stack the box, they still get racked up by guys like Marshawn Lynch.
@harrison_nfl, I belive Carroll, "We'll certainly miss Clem, but (Irvin) can hold up his own."#SEAHAWKSâ Colby Dees (@ColbyDees) January 9, 2013
Play action could tell the tale of this game. Not only does Russell Wilson routinely employ it off Lynch plunges, but bear in mind that play action is precisely where so many big plays come from. (Some things from 1952 and 1982 still ring true in 2012.) This just in: Over the last eight weeks of the season, the Falcons gave up the most plays of 20-plus yards in the NFC. #SEAvsATL
Houston Texans' secondary has to play it close to the vest, which is to say defensive coordinator
Wade Phillips has to play it close to the vest. The last two times
Bill Belichick has faced a Phillips defense, it hasn't been pretty:
» Patriots at Cowboys, 2007: 448 total yards, 129.6 passer rating ( Tom Brady), 48 points.
» Texans at Patriots, 2012: 419 total yards, 125.4 passer rating (Brady), 42 points.
Umm ... Those numbers kinda suck. I love me some Wade, but he just can't leave his secondary in man coverage all day while he tries to get his blitzing linebackers in mismatches. The age-old equation with Phillips has always been easy, and effective: 'Backers on backs equals sacks. The problem is, while Houston works to get those matchups, some dude on the back end of the defense will get exposed.
Now, the Texans can plan on running the football to maintain possession and burn clock. But if they can't stop all of Brady's hot reads to Wes Welker, or check-down-and-sprint-your-tail-offs to Danny Woodhead, they're done. I expect Houston to be aggressive offensively, perhaps airing it out on the first two drives, forcing the New England Patriots to play the whole field defensively EARLY ... Thennnnnnnn grinding it on the ground with Arian Foster. Will that be enough? You saw my score prediction. #HOUvsNE
Elliot Harrison is an analyst on NFL Network's NFL Fantasy Live show, weekdays at 1 p.m. ET and Sundays at 11:30 a.m. ET. Follow him on Twitter @Harrison_NFL.


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This website shows the HO Scale Delaware & Hudson "Adirondack Branch" Model Train Layout, built by Fred B. Cupp, Williamsport Pa.
- Work began about 1998, and is still under construction.
- Use the links at right, to view the photo pages.
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Was it even possible to follow all of the action in the NFL this Sunday?
If you were watching the Lions come from behind and beat the Eagles in overtime, did that make you miss the Cowboys' failed comeback in Baltimore, where Dallas missed a game-winning field goal as time expired? Maybe you were watching the undefeated Falcons need a 55-yard field goal with one second left to beat a surprisingly game Raiders team. But if you were, did you miss the Dolphins improve to 3-3 with a surprisingly stout defense and a surprisingly effective rookie quarterback in Ryan Tannehill? And if you watched the Browns get their first win of the year, how were you supposed to follow along as the Jets blew out the Colts and made a statement that they're a serious team, not a circus?
And that's just some of the early-afternoon action. In the late afternoon games, the other New York team made a statement as the Giants pounded the 49ers. But if you were watching that game, you missed an absolutely amazing sequence of events — Russell Wilson throwing the second of his two fourth-quarter touchdown passes to lead the Seahawks over the Patriots, Robert Griffin III running for a 76-yard touchdown to seal the Redskins' win over the Vikings and Jay Feely missing a 39-yard game-winning field goal, just moments after he had made a 61-yard field goal to force overtime for the Cardinals in a game they'd ultimately lose to the Bills — that all happened almost simultaneously.
This was an amazing Sunday of NFL action, but that's what we've grown accustomed to. Week in and week out, the NFL is the best program on television. The NFL's drama is more compelling than anything anyone could script. And we've still got 11 more regular-season Sundays to go.
Here are my other thoughts on the wild day in the NFL:
What Madden Curse? Lions receiver Calvin Johnson was the cover boy for this year's Madden video game, but there's no evidence of any curse. In Sunday's win over the Eagles, Johnson caught six passes for 135 yards, and he's now on pace for 1,786 this season — more than 100 yards better than his league-leading total last year. If anyone can kill the Madden Curse, it's Megatron.
The NFL uniform police are pretty silly. Colts receiver Reggie Wayne wore orange gloves last week because orange is the color used to denote leukemia awareness, and Wayne wanted to honor coach Chuck Pagano, who's battling leukemia. This week ESPN reported that the NFL told Wayne he couldn't wear the orange gloves anymore. I realize uniforms are supposed to be, well, uniform, but there's no reason that during a month when the league is painting everything pink for breast cancer awareness, there's no reason they couldn't have allowed Wayne to keep wearing the orange gloves.
Rookie quarterbacks continue to impress. It's stunning how good these rookie passers are. Seattle's Russell Wilson had 293 passing yards, three touchdowns, no interceptions and a 133.7 passer rating — the highest passer rating of any quarterback in any game on Sunday afternoon — in a win over New England. Cleveland's Brandon Weeden threw for 231 yards and two touchdowns as the Browns beat the Bengals. Ryan Tannehill completed 21 of 29 passes for 185 yards and two touchdowns with no interceptions as the Dolphins beat the Rams. Robert Griffin III had about as good a running game as you'll ever see from a quarterback, gaining 138 yards and two touchdowns, as the Redskins beat the Vikings. The Colts' Andrew Luck was the one rookie quarterback who didn't lead his team to a win this week, but as we discussed last week, he's already shown plenty of reasons to believe that he's going to be an excellent quarterback for many years. There was a time when quarterbacks coming out of college needed some time to adjust to the pro game, but that time has passed. These rookie quarterbacks are ready to play, and play well, right now.
Larry Fitzgerald's amazing career continues. Fitzgerald's 93 receiving yards put him at 10,045 yards for his career. At 29 years and 44 days old, Fitzgerald has joined Randy Moss as the only receivers to top 10,000 yards before turning 30. What's really impressive about Fitzgerald, however, is that he has played most of his career with subpar quarterbacks. Other than a few years with Kurt Warner, Fitzgerald has been stuck with the Josh McCowns, Matt Leinarts, Derek Andersons, Kevin Kolbs and John Skeltons of the world. To put up numbers like Fitzgerald while playing with quarterbacks like that is remarkable. It's also remarkable that Fitzgerald has remained a perfect teammate who never, ever complains that the Cardinals' quarterbacks aren't getting the job done.
The Patriots' pass defense is a mess. After giving up six passing plays of 20 or more yards in Sunday's loss to Seattle, the Patriots have now given up 33 such passing plays so far this season — by far the most of any team in the NFL. New England's secondary just isn't good enough, and if Bill Belichick can't get it straightened out, I have a hard time seeing New England winning a playoff game against a good quarterback.
The Packers aren't going down without a fight. The Texans entered Sunday looking like the best team in the league. The Packers took it to them on Sunday night in Houston. Coming off a disappointing loss to the Colts last week, the Packers needed to play their best game of the season. And that's exactly what they did.


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text: Overview: Sibelius is a music notation program that allows you to create sheet music, from a simple chord sheet to a full orchestral score. You can enter music into the program either by using the piano keyboard, computer keyboard, or scanner (with existing sheet music). There is a Sibelius work station on the third floor of the Davis Family Library near the M1500's (call number).


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Discovering Psychology "Constructing Social Reality" Investigates the factors that contribute to our interpretation of reality and how understanding the psychological processes that govern our behavior can help us become more empathetic and independent members of society.G
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Design Squad Nation "Garden-To-Go" Judy and Adam travel to London, England, to meet Mariam and Bert, two young members of Global Generation -- a community organization that grows fruits and vegetables in one of London's largest construction sites. Bringing new meaning to the phrase "eat locally, build globally," Mariam and Bert work with Adam and Judy to design and build a pedal-powered mobile garden that will help them sell their produce to nearby restaurants. D
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Biz Kid$ "Sell, Sell, Sell (The Science of Sales)" All sales final. Join the Biz Kids in sales training as they explore philosophy and sales techniques. Discover the traits common to all good salespeople. D
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The Electric Company "The Limerick Slam" Jessica and Manny compete in the annual Limerick Slam. D
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Cyberchase "And They Counted Happily Ever After" The kids use numbers and a system to keep track of a large number of golden eggs to free a King.G
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Knit and Crochet Now! "Baby Sleeping Sack" Snuggle up the wee ones in one of our baby sacks. Robyn has designed a colorful crochet sack and Kristin will take you through the steps of a knit hooded baby sack by courtesy of Simply Knitting. Afghan square is the crochet Raised Cluster. D
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Paint This With Jerry Yarnell "Study -- Reminders of the Past, Part 1" In this unique study of weathered wood, Jerry shows his students how to paint a simple landscape in the background. Then shows how to under-paint the old barn wood to form the shape of an old barn window as though you were looking from the inside out. D
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Mexico -- One Plate at a Time with Rick Bayless "Presenting: World-Class Wines of Baja" Baja California Norte produces many world-class, gold medal-winning wines. That fact may surprise most people in the United States. Rick takes us on a tour of the region along with renowned winemaker and visionary Hugo d'Acosta, founder of La Escuelita, a nonprofit winemaking school that opened in 2004. D
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Joanne Weir's Cooking Confidence "Summer In Italy" Joanne shows how to get maximum flavor from a bountiful tomato crop by roasting them slowly. Sasha learns to make a stew fit for summer using fresh vegetables and a basil mint pesto. Recipes: Oven-Dried Tomatoes, Feta and Olives, Summer Vegetable Stew with Basil and Mint Pesto (Parm-Reg). D
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This Old House "Old and New In Harmony" Roger replaces the existing concrete front walk with a beautiful new bluestone design. Tom shows Kevin the modifications he specified on the replacement windows. On the third floor, tile contractor Mark Ferrante uses a shower waterproofing system. D
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Rick Steves' Europe "France's Dordogne" Rick takes a canoe ride, visits a goose farm and savors the foie gras, wanders through a lamp-lit castle, enjoys a country market, and visits the Sistine Chapel of the prehistoric world.G
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Travelscope "Thailand - Islands and Festivals" Joseph continues his Thai journey by taking a break on the island paradise of Ko Samui before heading north to Chiang Mai for the annual Loy Krathong festival where fireworks and 5,000 floating paper lanterns are part of the celebration. D
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Lidia's Italy In America "New England's Italy" As the Italian immigrants settled the Northeastern coast of the United States, they did what they knew from their homeland. In many cases, this included fishing for the local catch. In this episode, Lidia makes Calamari Fra Diavolo over Linguine and she also prepares a Salt Cod, Potato & String Bean Salad. D
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Jessica Simpsons best friend is her former personal assistant CaCee Cobb, and Zach Braffs best friend is his former 'Scrubs' co-star Donald Faison, so of course Simpson and Braff were a bridesmaid and groomsman when Cobb and Faison got married this weekend in LA.
It's worth noting that Jessica, who hasn't officially confirmed that she's pregnant again, looks pretty pregnant, even in blurry pictures and a black dress.
Also of note are the pictures of the evil witch who puts a curse on interracial relationships, the one that every dad in the south warns their daughters about.
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Chad Johnson, formally known as Ochocinco, is an employed man again, ladies and gentleman.
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The Los Angeles County coroner has officially ruled Sarah Alarid's death an accident five days after the 19-year-old Canyon Country woman was found near her crashed car in a ravine.
Ed Winter, an assistant chief coroner, said Monday an autopsy showed Alarid died of "multiple blunt force injuries" from a car accident.
She went missing New Year's Day, when she was last seen leaving a party.
Friends and relatives spent more than a week looking for her until sheriff's deputies in a helicopter on their way to another call spotted her car early Wednesday off Sand Canyon Road in the Angeles National Forest.
Her body was found near the car, having apparently been ejected after the car went several hundred feet down a hillside off the windy road.
Because detectives were initially unsure whether Alarid's death was related to a shallow grave found in Big Tujunga Canyon, they placed a "security hold" blocking the coroner from releasing any information about Alarid last week.
But after investigating, detectives said they didn't believe there was foul play. They lifted the security hold and and turned the crash investigation over to the California Highway Patrol.
A spokesman at the CHP's Newhall office said the cause of the crash is still being investigated. Winter said the results of toxicology tests on Alarid won't be available for at least a month.


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Nintendo Has A Plan To Share Ad Revenue With YouTubers, But Nobody's Happy About It
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Roughly a year ago, Nintendo began a bold plan of declaring war on well-known YouTubers who created "let's play" videos using Nintendo IP. Well, perhaps war isn't the right word. Suddenly and swiftly, it claimed these YouTube videos through the site's system that then allowed it to push ads into the videos, the revenue for which it shared between YouTube and itself, leaving the videomakers out in the cold. It was misguided in several ways, the most obvious being that these kinds of videos and their creators are essentially free advertising for Nintendo, getting the word out to potential customers about games they may then pick up. It strains the mind to think of any large numbers of people who might substitute a "let's play" video for actually playing the game themselves, but Nintendo is Nintendo, so the company opted for control over goodwill.
Perhaps only coincidentally (or maybe not...), the last year has been rough for the gaming company. Console sales are down across the board, and Nintendo appears to be pinning its hopes on a couple of triple-A games coming out to save its skin -- which makes it all the more interesting that Nintendo is also announcing a new plan to share ad revenue with YouTubers who sign up for its affiliate program.
Nintendo's statement came from a series of messages on its Japanese Twitter account that mentioned "several affiliate programs" for YouTube users that would allow them to "receive a portion of the advertising revenue" coming from videos featuring gameplay footage. I reached out to the company for additional information, and here's what a representative from Nintendo of America had to say:On the surface, this seems like a huge step in the right direction. The once monolithic stance on collecting all the revenue possible from these videos is finally giving way to a program that will allow some of the fan-gathering YouTube personalities to have some skin in the game. You'd think there would be praise across the board for this. You'd be wrong. Between the ill-feelings still lingering from the actions of last year and the wariness of working under the umbrella of a Nintendo affiliate program, some of the bigger names seem suspicious in this phase where details are still lacking on the program.
"Nintendo has been permitting the use of Nintendo copyrighted material in videos on YouTube under appropriate circumstances. Advertisements may accompany those videos, and in keeping with previous policy that revenue is shared between YouTube and Nintendo. In addition, for those who wish to use the material more proactively, we are preparing an affiliate program in which a portion of the advertising profit is given to the creator. Details about this affiliate program will be announced in the future."
Zack Scott, another popular YouTuber and the one who first brought the issue to light last year after he noticed that some of the Nintendo-focused videos on his popular ZackScottGames channel were being tagged with the network's Content ID system, told Kotaku at the end of last June that he had resumed posting such work once Nintendo appeared to back away from its crackdown. I followed up with him today to see if anything had changed since his tentative return to posting Nintendo-centric "Let's Play" videos last year. He said that while he's been impacted "very, very minimally" by any changes in Nintendo and YouTube's policies so far, he could "definitely see a future" where this has a bigger influence.Left unsaid is the converse: will Nintendo use its affiliate program to attempt to exert control over YouTubers' video content. Keep in mind that the Nintendo IP on display isn't really the draw in these videos. After all, there are a million such videos for a million games. The popular ones are popular because of the personality of the YouTuber. They share the stage with the game and they got their audience on a ledger of trust from the viewers. If Nintendo attempts to leverage that trust by exerting control through its affiliate program, such as by only allowing access to content in exchange for positive or non-negative editorial speech within the video, it will be a massive problem, one that will ultimately backfire in Nintendo's face, while torpedoing a bunch of YouTube personalities along with it.
"I feel the relationship between video creator and content publisher is mutually beneficial," Scott wrote in an email. "Numerous companies already understand this balance. I'd hate for the model to become where a popular creator can request revenue of a publisher in exchange for coverage. I'd equally hate for a publisher to request revenue of a creator in exchange for access."
Either way, the devil is most definitely in the details with this kind of program. If Nintendo makes it extremely clear that editorial content is hands-off and that the affiliate program will be free from YouTuber corruption, this might, possibly work. Given the company's history, however, I have my doubts.
Filed Under: let's play, monetize, promotions, videos
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Back in 1978, right before rap started to take over the world, an aspiring filmmaker named Andrew Davis — who would later go on to direct "Under Siege" and "The Fugitive" — managed to scrape together the money for this (in several senses of the word) funky feature about an aspiring Chicago band trying to scrape together a career. There are two white guys — Richie (Richie Davis, the director's brother) and Harold (George Englund, son of Cloris Leachman) — but the rest of the band is black. So is the music, which is funk/soul/R&B; think Tower of Power and Earth Wind and Fire. Their mentor is sax player Percy (Gene Barge, best known for his work with Gary Bonds).
The script is pretty much a loose collection of elements used before and since for aspiring-musician movies. But, despite — or maybe because of — some ragged acting and rough production values, it has an undeniable energy and a realistic sense of time and place.
In addition to those who were already well known as musicians (Oscar Brown Jr., Phil Upchurch and Ronnie Barron), nearly everyone involved went on to greater renown. Bangle Susanna Hoffs — whose mother co-wrote and coproduced — has a small role as Richie's love interest. Rae Dawn Chong makes her film debut as one of the band's singers, as well as cowriting one of the songs. The strikingly young Dennis Franz quickly moved on to Brian De Palma movies and "Hill St. Blues." Cinematographer Tak Fujimoto ended up shooting "Ferris Bueller's Day Off" and "Sixth Sense."
The DVD has two main extras. One is billed as an "alternative ending," but it's really a bit more than that — an extra 12 minutes or so that would have immediately followed the commercial release ending. Better yet is "The Making of Stony Island," a better-than-usual 35-minute documentary including interviews with Barge, Chong, both Davises and both Hoffses, not to mention comments from Quincy Jones and Chuck D.
"Stony Island" (Cinema Libre Studio, DVD, $19.95)


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- Indian Ad Turns the Male Gaze Back on Itself and it's Awesome | Bustle (19 Dec 2013): "Prominent Asian film school Whistling Woods International released a YouTube video on Monday, exactly one year after the horrific rape case in Delhi that became international news and drew global attention to violence against women in India, that turns the tables on men who ogle women in public. The film shows four scenarios where women are subjected to the ever-pervasive male gaze while going about their daily lives, whether talking with friends or just riding the bus. But then a reflective surface, be it sunglasses or a necklace, turns these gazes back on the men themselves."
- When "Life Hacking" Is Really White Privilege | jendziura, Medium (19 Dec, 2013): "James Altucher recently posted a short piece on Quora entitled, How to Break All the Rules and Get Everything You Want. He has written an article about "getting everything you want." He has actually written an article about white privilege. (And probably class privilege, and male privilege, and maybe some others.) There are many people in this country for whom it is exceedingly dangerous to assume that if you aren't angry, there's no reason for anyone to be angry at you."
- When is "guys" gender neutral? I did a survey! | Julia Evans (27 Dec 2013): "The other day I was having a discussion with someone about whether or not "guys" was a gender-neutral term. This person said "my friends totally think it is!", and I verified with my friends, who totally said it wasn't. Not the best grounds for a discussion. So I ran a slightly-more-scientific survey."
- What Makes Girls Fall In Love With Computers And Code? | Colleen Taylor, TechCrunch (29 Dec 2013): "So perhaps the best way to get a girl interested in computers is simply to put them in front of her as often and as early in life as we do for her male counterparts — and even more importantly, encourage her to approach computers as a producer, rather than as a consumer."
- It's Not "Too Late" for Female Hackers | Katie Siegel, Medium (29 Dec 2013): "The fact is, most women and minorities are currently entering the field in high school or college. And yes, this is a problem. But it certainly should not be a death sentence for entrepreneurial aspirations. When the head of Y Combinator, arguably the best and most selective tech startup accelerator, claims that "it's already too late" for those who began hacking past middle school to ever start a company, he is no longer critiquing CS education. Instead, he is emulating Silicon Valley's deeply-held bias against a group of people typically composed of females and racial minorities: those who do not fit the stereotype of the "typical hacker.""
- Paul Graham Isn't Keeping Women Out of Tech – From Y Combinators' Newest All Female Company | Lauren Kay & Katie Bambino, The Dating Ring (28 Dec 2013): "Paul Graham is right in that there is a huge problem 10 years upstream of us. Real societal and educational changes need to be made before Y Combinator is going to have any chance of having a truly diversified class. But that doesn't give us free rein to ignore the problems that exist in universities, accelerators, tech companies and venture capital. These pieces of the funnel need to be thoroughly analysed and optimized for inclusion."
- Hello Pronoun Stickers | Not Actually a Pirate (29 Dec 2013): "The stickers read "Hello, address me as:_________, Please use: ________", allowing you to declare your name of choice and preferred pronouns immediately upon meeting people."
- Where Do You Learn Your Cultural Traditions? | s.e. smith (23 Dec 2013): "It got me thinking about cultural knowledge, these small things that we just assume people know by virtue of living in and interacting with a culture; I can't tell you who's told me these things about weddings and why I know these rules, just as I couldn't tell you the cultural rules for weddings based in other cultures and held in other nations. I'd have to ask someone, and that person likely wouldn't think of some very basic rules because they're so second nature, it wouldn't occur to them to mention them."
- Combating Sexual Harassment in Tech | Alexandra Garretón, MissionLocal (23 Dec 2013): "The coed members of Noisebridge, a collective workspace, agreed ["It has become abundantly clear to most women in the space that 'Be Excellent' has failed us."]. In late September it became one of more than 100 hackerspaces, tech conferences and meetups since 2010 to impose an anti-harassment policy from the Ada Initiative, a San Francisco-based nonprofit that supports women in tech. The idea is "no jerks welcome.""
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I had a law professor who illustrated the "innocent construction" doctrine in defamation law with the following case from the 17th or 18th century:
A brewer sued a farmer for defamation after the farmer declared that his horse could piss a better beer than the brewer sold. Citing the innocent construction rule, the court ruled in favor of the farmer because it was possible that he had an extraordinary horse.
I'm reminded of this story by the statement in the CIA Inspector General's report that his office's work did not permit a "definite conclusion about the effectiveness of particular interrogation methods." The report found that terrorists disclosed more and better information after they were subjected to the "enhanced" methods of interrogation that have become so controversial, than they did when conventional methods were used. However, some in the intelligence community say there is no way of knowing whether the same information could have been obtained some other way.
Technically, they are correct. As many interrogation techniques as interrogators might have tried, it is still possible that if they had just tried just one more non-enhanced approach the terrorist would have gushed the same way he did after being waterboarded. Who knows, the terrorist might have been an Everton fan who would have spilled the beans in exchange for Duncan Ferguson's number 9 jersey.
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While my friends and I were running around the tri-oval in NASCAR race cars recently, Richard Petty Driving Experience personnel were also conducting a Drive SRT Track Day for owners and enthusiasts of the SRT-4, SRT-8 and SRT-10 Chrysler products. The orientation format is similar to the NASCAR Experience in that you are shuttled through four teaching stations where the operation of the cars and safety issues are discussed.
After orientation, you are sent out to the cars to participate in one of four modules offered at the SRT Experience.
Autocross is one module that features a technical road course you must navigate as fast as you can without touching marker cones. You attempt this course several times, trying to improve your speed and accuracy.
Performance Drive is another module that has you follow a professional driver on a high-speed road course to hone your braking and handling techniques with feedback from your lead driver.
Full Throttle Challenge is the module where you race head-to-head with another participant in identical vehicles to gauge your reaction time and elapsed time against each other.
Hot Laps is another module where you ride along with the experienced lead car instructors and see how much more they can squeeze out of these cars in terms of speed and cornering ability.
From talking to several participants, I believe Dodge SRT owners get one free SRT experience ticket when they purchase the car, however additional tickets or for those of us who can't afford an SRT but want to flog on one, can be purchased for around $500. Not as cheap as the Petty Driving Experience, but you do get a lot more seat time and the tips you learn are likely to come in handy in your daily driver down the road.
Further information on the Dodge SRT Track experience is available on their website: www.drivesrt.com and there are locations throughout the country where you can participate. Charlotte was only 900 miles from Bennington but you should be able to find another location closer to you.
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Lorien participated in the With Love Studio Mother's Day Scrap- A- Thon and won!
Way to go!!!
Lorien participated in the With Love Studio Mother's Day Scrap- A- Thon and won!
Way to go!!!
oh cool! congratulations Lorien!
yay! I haven´t seen With Love Studio today yet
Thank you for the congrats Did you see the pages with So Zen kit Molly? I am still planing another double LO following the same idea...
I did see them... I was like, "WOOT! She used my kit!"
Awesome. Congrats!
LOL, Molly, I know the feeling XD.
Ty Sugarbutt
Congratulations Lorien!
Love the LO with your cats, congratulations Lorien!
WTG! Congratulations Lorien! You're so talented!!!
That's great, Lorien - congrats!
Cool! enjoy
Congrats Lorien!!
Wow, congrats Lorien!! I have to go have a look!
Wow! Congratulations Lorien:)
Yay Lorien! SO Exciting!!
Cool! you really make a great job
Congratulations Lorien! Can someone post a link to where the lay-outs can be viewed? I can't seem to find it.
Thank you ladies
@Dawn: I guess I´ll just upload them to my gallery... Sounds a good idea
Edit: Done - They are the first three layouts on the gallery.
Thanks Lorien - you've done a great job on them and Molly's kit is looking fabulous - so love that Panda!!


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Bruteforcing encrypted Excel documents. Document also shows how to download, compile and run John The Ripper using a specific wordlist. Thanks for the info Andy. https://t.co/8cojn4FcEc
22 Mar 2019
Just added a free online DNS tool to my list of DNS tools. @dmarcian provides a free SPF record checker. Read more : https://t.co/C1TtTzKbv2 (sorry, this tweet contains the correct url) https://t.co/FJzueMs5UX
17 Mar 2019
@PrivacyPros Would be great if the carreer center has 1 - an option to filter or sort by region/country 2 - an e-mail service with the filtered results for iapp members.
09 Mar 2019
Dutch Supervisory Authority provided guidance today about #GDPR and the use of #CookieWalls. "Under the GDPR (#AVG), a cookiewall is not allowed. This is because you cannot get a valid permission from your visitors with a cookiewall" (Dutch) https://t.co/JPFvLPGU4Q @privacypros https://t.co/oygqKZHmZe
07 Mar 2019
Dont bet on anything happening for at least a couple of years on U.K. adequacy post-Brexit, advised European Data Protection Supervisor Giovanni Buttarelli https://t.co/T9V9mnFSyn via @DailyDashboard @PrivacyPros
04 Mar 2019
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HOLLYWOOD — The red carpet is in some ways a microcosm of the Oscar food chain.
The first nominees arrive two and a half hours before the show is to begin. These are the people who worked on live-action shorts and documentary features and foreign-language films and animated shorts and documentary shorts.
The last nominees show up as cameras are being shut down, notebooks and microphones are being stashed and everyone is scrambling to get in place for the show.
George Clooney brought up the rear Sunday.
In between came the parade of nominees and other celebrities: some dashing, some taking their time. Mind you, I'm talking from the perspective of the print...


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Have you been missing out the Illustrator Effects? Did you know it is a powerful tool for creating symmetrical shapes or adding texture to vector paths? For example, with just one simple effect, you can turn a polygon path into a flower shape. You can also make paths look sketchy with the Scribble effect. Read this tutorial to learn how to save time by using Illustrator Effects and work more efficient.
Let's start with a basic effect, the Add Arrowheads. Use the Pen Tool or Line Segment Tool to draw a straight line. Go to Effects > Stylize > Add Arrowheads and choose a style.
The great thing about using Illustrator Effect is the ease of changing its appearance. In the Appearance palette, click on the Add Arrowheads layer, now you can easily change the result by selecting different arrow style. This effect is very useful for drawing diagrams.
Without The Effect?
Without the effect, the arrow shape will get distorted when the line is stretched. With the effect, I can easily adjust the length of the arrow without distorting it.
Round Corners
Draw a rectangle shape, go to Effects > Stylize > Round Corners and enter a radius value.
Without The Round Corners Effect?
Round Corners is one of my favorite effects. It is my essential tool for designing icons. Not only it can prevent the round corners to be distorted when I stretch the object, it also saves me a lot of time. Could you imagine how long it will take to draw these perfect round corners without the effect?
Zig Zag Effect
Draw a straight line, go to Effects > Distort & Transform > Zig Zag and enter a value for Size and Ridge Per Segment.
Wavy Line
Draw a straight line, apply the Zig Zag effect, select Smooth Points, and you will get a symmetric wavy line.
Draw a circle and apply the Zig Zag effect with the setting as shown and you will get a badge shape.
Play around with the Zig Zag options and you may get these shapes:
Pucker & Bloat Effect
Draw a circle, go to Effects > Distort & Transform > Pucker & Bloat, enter -55% (Pucker), and you will get a diamond shape.
Draw a polygon shape, apply the pucker effect, and you will get this shape:
With the same object, change the Pucker & Bloat option to 70%, and you will get a flower shape.
Transform Effect
The example below shows how I can duplicate 12 copies of the object (in increment of 30 degree angle) with the Transform effect.
Play around with the shape and Transform setting, you may get the following:
Roughen Effect
With the Roughen Effect, I can make the trees look more realistic.
Scribble Effect
The example below shows how you can create a sketchy effect combining the Scribble and the Roughen effect. First apply the Scribble effect (Effects > Stylize > Scribble) and then apply the Roughen effect as shown.
Sketchy Icons
If you are constantly using the same effect, it is wiser to use the Graphic Styles to save time and maintain consistency.
After you've done the inital sketchy style, drag the object to the Graphic Styles palette to create a new Graphic Style.
Now, select the object(s) where you want to apply the styles. Then, click on the Graphic Style that you've just created. Change the fill and stroke color if you want. Don't forget you can also apply it to text, which remain editable.
Conclusion (There Are More…)
I've only showed the basic Illustrator effects. There are actually more cool and useful effects. Don't be afraid to explore the effect menu and experiment with the other effects such as the Warp and 3D.
Tips For Using Illustrator Effect
- Graphic Styles – save time by using Graphic Styles.
- Scale Strokes and Effects – you can toggle Scale Strokes and Effects option via the Transform palette.
- Appearance Palette – you can turn effect layer on/off or remove it. Double-click on the effect layer to open the option dialog.
- Press D to quickly remove all effects.
- Expand Appearance – if you want to expand the appearance into paths, go to Object > Expand Appearance. Note: once the effect is expanded, it will become ineditable.
Download The Source File
You may download the Illustrator file (CS2) that is used in this tutorial for your learning purposes.
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Sunday, August 9, 2009
The Ice Cream Truck
55 comments:
- sstahlberg said...
Lol Man, a cocktail truck is a GENIUS idea. You should definitely patent that idea.
- August 9, 2009 at 7:19 PM
- Jen said...
Oh I want the cocktail truck to come to my neighborhood.
- August 9, 2009 at 9:11 PM
- ChocDrop said...
If you have a cocktail truck coming to your neighborhood, the I will be your new neighbor!!!! lol
And I thought the drive-thru liquor store was a novel idea...I so missed the mark.
- August 9, 2009 at 9:24 PM
- Searching For Reinforcements said...
Every time the GD ice cream man drives down my street I say "I can't believe he isn't selling alcohol"! Wouldn't it be great??!!
- August 9, 2009 at 9:28 PM
- Lynn @ Walking With Scissors said...
Amen, sista.
- August 9, 2009 at 9:33 PM
- Bren said...
Please send him to my neighborhood when you are done with him!
- August 9, 2009 at 9:40 PM
- Carri said...
Oh that cocktail truck looks awesome. I wonder if they carry my poison LOL.
- August 9, 2009 at 10:02 PM
- Rita/Fighting Off Frumpy said...
Our neighborhood ice cream truck has bells loud enough to wake the dead. Even when we're inside with the windows shut, we can still hear its annoying siren song calling to the kids like the damn Pied Piper. Luckily, though, my kids are still small enough that we can talk loudly over the sound and they won't notice. Bwahahaha.
And btw ... cocktail truck = completely awesome idea!!!
- August 9, 2009 at 10:33 PM
- *jimaie.marie* said...
omg, GENIUS!!!!!!
- August 9, 2009 at 11:36 PM
- Susan in the Psych Ward said...
Brilliant.... but so are the drive through daiquiri places in New Orleans!
- August 9, 2009 at 11:42 PM
- Lisa-licious said...
I have a cold, and I laughed so hard I think I coughed up a SMURF! What a great idea!!! You KILL me!
- August 10, 2009 at 12:35 AM
- Frau said...
I would love that little margarita or sex on the beach!!
- August 10, 2009 at 1:24 AM
- Bama Girl in AZ said...
now that truck would ROCK!
- August 10, 2009 at 1:37 AM
- kmoye said...
i see a business opportunity here, you in? we could really rack up!! think of all the moms during the summer who would come screaming out to the streets thanking us for the service we provided. and we could just follow the ice cream truck around because where there are kids there are moms willing to buy cocktails!
- August 10, 2009 at 8:04 AM
- Tracy said...
Wow! This is a brillant idea that would do so well in my neighborhood.
Also, as a line extension, I'd throw in some pills too...zanax, ambien, cealis, phentermine. You'd really double your profits!
- August 10, 2009 at 10:30 AM
- Cindy said...
- August 10, 2009 at 11:06 AM
- April said...
I thought the drive-thru cocktails stands in Texas were fantastic, but this is PURE GENIUS!
- August 10, 2009 at 11:22 AM
- Lynette said...
AHAHAHA... I can only hope that cocktail truck carries Long Islands. :)
- August 10, 2009 at 11:50 AM
Have you ever seen Golfers when the Beer Cart Comes around!
The Cocktail Truck would have to have munchies Too!!!
and not just beer nuts a pretzels...I am taking some nice cheese and Bruschetta...Oh wait that is a Caterer!
- August 10, 2009 at 2:09 PM
- Organic Meatbag said...
I would be the Cocktail truck's version of Norm on "Cheers"...in fact, I would offer to be the navigator on the truck...
- August 10, 2009 at 2:25 PM
- Life, Love And Lola said...
LMAO! I hope that truck pulls down my street tonight!
- August 10, 2009 at 4:46 PM
- my mid mid-life crisis said...
A cocktail truck is an AWESOME idea. I'm pretty sure you'd make millions if you created this. Please let the cocktail truck come to my neighborhood...
- August 10, 2009 at 5:41 PM
- Dad.. said...
Mmmm... what I would've paid for a Mojito from the "Cocktail Man" yesterday afternoon while mowing the yard! LOL!
- August 10, 2009 at 9:58 PM
- Terri said...
I totally want to run a cocktail truck!!!! Great idea -
- August 10, 2009 at 11:06 PM
- Nanny Goats In Panties said...
This totally reminds me of Eddie Murphy's bit about how kids go cuckoo over the ice cream truck. But yeah, that little plinky-plinky music in the distance brings out some Pavlovian thing.
And are the drivers still a bunch of drug dealers? That was always a rumor I could never confirm.
- August 11, 2009 at 1:45 AM
- Lindy said...
And seriously? What's with having to cross through yards/streets/war zones to get to the ice cream truck?
If doesn't park his damn thing right outside my driveway....for-get-it.
- August 11, 2009 at 8:55 AM
- Stephenie said...
What a great idea! I hope it comes to my neighborhood.
- August 11, 2009 at 10:16 AM
It's the theory of Pavlov's Dog at its finest...
- August 11, 2009 at 12:34 PM
- Merrie said...
I'd buy.
- August 11, 2009 at 1:17 PM
- Dawn in Austin said...
Think the cocktail truck would let us run a tab? And what music would he play so that we would know he's just around the corner?
- August 11, 2009 at 3:35 PM
The only problem with the cocktail truck, at least in my cul-de-sac, would be that he would A) never be allowed to leave and B)surely always run out. But maybe we could just give him a 20 to drive down to the store and refill and then come back. So all in all it would be kind of fun!
- August 11, 2009 at 4:19 PM
Your Peeps have peeped. Cocktail Truck idea is amazing.
It must have a catchy tune so you know it is coming http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O0rx1srLsh0
Awesome selection of Cocktails...Could feature Cocktail of the Month or Better yet Day!
Munchies or suitable snacks. Possible extension products, Zantac, Xanax, Ambien, Cialis (maybe just stop visiting the cocktail truck....naw), phentermine (snacks will not be a problem then)....but this may get DEA involved, and you know how they drink! I digress.
Porch or platform at the back with Bar stools so Norm, no BG, can sit and greet the neighbourhood....or inflatable blow up pool to act as swim up bar!!!
and come on...Ice Cream.
- August 11, 2009 at 5:01 PM
- LiteralDan said...
I'd like a pizza truck, myself. Though I might not have any money left after a couple weeks of it.
- August 11, 2009 at 6:38 PM
- Liz said...
So would it be playing "Tequila" over the speakers as it came down the street? Or maybe the Alan Jackson song "It's 5:00 Somewhere"? Oh the possibilities!
- August 12, 2009 at 12:30 AM
- Cathie said...
This cocktail truck would have my credit card on file!
- August 12, 2009 at 3:11 AM
- Ashley said...
That is the best idea ever!!
I could have used one last night in my Neighborhood!
- August 12, 2009 at 11:20 AM
*sigh* i still love the ice cream truck.
- August 12, 2009 at 11:41 AM
- 737FlyMom said...
Wow! Didn't see that coming! I was taking a drink as I read the punch line. I laughed so hard I shot my D.Coke out my nose...and well, that isn't pretty! Unfortunately, I would be the person you described!
- August 12, 2009 at 9:04 PM
- Shannon said...
completely unrelated...I just wanted to mention that I finally, but hesitantly saw Twilight and I must say, Edward Cullen is lust-worthy, although he has nothing on my original vampire-loves: the cast of "Lost Boys" (sigh)
- August 12, 2009 at 10:15 PM
- LORI said...
- August 12, 2009 at 11:39 PM
- WhisperingWriter said...
Actually, I get just as excited when I hear an ice cream truck. They have awesome slushies in there...
- August 13, 2009 at 1:02 AM
- Jack said...
I knew a couple of guys in college who had similar ideas.
- August 13, 2009 at 3:25 PM
I just wanted to say thank you, that was hilarious and soo worth the boss coming and asking "what the hell are you laughing at?". He asks, how much is one of those trucks anyway? I see the potential in that idea...phew.
Got me job for another day.
- August 13, 2009 at 3:37 PM
- Lizzie said...
LOVE this idea! you are hilarious :)
- August 13, 2009 at 4:47 PM
- Julie said...
I have a sneaking suspicion that our ice cream man does sell more than ice cream but I would love for him to sell fruity frozen spiked drinks.
However, I wonder if I would wake up with my bra on the outside of my shirt like I did when I once drank the punch at a fraternity party in college. Supposeably another girl and myself thought it would be funny to channell our inner Madonna and "vogue". I never ever drank the punch again. Strictly warm keg beer!
- August 13, 2009 at 9:24 PM
- Kourtney said...
This totally made my day. If only it was real.... :-)
- August 14, 2009 at 6:04 PM
blame it on the a-a-a-a-alcohol
- August 14, 2009 at 7:46 PM
and I'm only anonymous because I can't figure your dang site out but have been reading for months! google id...bah!
- August 14, 2009 at 7:47 PM
- sheilah said...
Wow...great idea. And it could be retrofitted to be a Beer Truck on football Sundays.
'Course the men would send their wives out to the truck so they wouldn't miss a play...
- August 15, 2009 at 2:10 PM
- Heather, Queen of Shake Shake said...
This is SO true.
- August 22, 2009 at 6:30 AM
- Drowsey Monkey said...
OMG - I want that in my neighbourhood!
- August 22, 2009 at 3:52 PM
- Digger derrick said...
Ice cream trucks can be bought at comprehensive prices. You can also use digger derrick trucks for your construction business.
- September 28, 2009 at 2:18 PM
- Ernie Fidanza said...
Having an ice cream makes people very at heart.. Most people feels excited when they hear the tune from the ice cream truck.. Makes them to scream for an ice cream..
- October 2, 2009 at 3:26 AM
- Used Pole Trailers said...
lolol!!! Classic! I'll have an appletini please!
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Author Notes: I make scones a couple times a week and after seeing it on TV, I've adopted & adapted the Cook's Illustrated technique of using frozen grated butter and folding my scone dough like puff pastry for all my scones, this makes for a light and flaky scone. It is a a little more work than regular scones, but worth the extra effort. This combo of sage, walnut, brown butter and maple makes for a great sweet savory treat, perfect with a hot cup of coffe or even some scrambled eggs. This only makes four since it's just me and Mr. MGrace, but will easily double for a crowd. This recipe is easily adaptable to any add-in, substitute blueberries (the original America's test kitchen recipe), currents or any dried fruit for the nuts and omit the sage; with or without the glaze. —MGrace
Food52 Review: WHO: MGrace is from Cambridge, MA and is always on the lookout for new, exciting food inspiration.
WHAT: A tender, flaky scone full of chopped walnuts and topped with a barely sweet maple-brown butter glaze.
HOW: The butter is grated and stirred into the flour -- no pastry cutter needed! -- and folding walnuts and sage into the dough ensures that you'll taste them in every bite.
WHY WE LOVE IT: This scone combines all our favorite flavors -- walnuts, sage, maple, brown butter -- in a convenient package. We'll be doubling this recipe for breakfasts all winter. —The Editors
Makes: 4 scones
stick frozen butter, of which you will use 4 TBS
cup toasted walnuts
cup milk
cup greek yogurt, whole works best
cup white whole wheat flour
cup all purpose flour
scant 1/8
cups sugar
teaspoon baking powder
teaspoon salt
scant 1/8
teaspoons baking soda
teaspoon sage, minced or more to your taste
Brown Butter Maple Glaze
tablespoon butter
cup maple syrup
cup confectioner's sugar
tablespoon milk or cream, use enough to slightly thin the glaze
- Heat oven to 425 degrees
- Grate 4 Tbs of butter and place in freezer until ready to use
- Whisk milk and yogurt together, set aside. (If your kitchen is warm, place in fridge until needed.)
- Mix together flours, sugar, baking powder, baking soda, salt and sage. Add frozen grated butter and toss until butter is well coated. Gently stir in milk mixture with a spatula just to combine.
- Place onto a floured bench and knead a few times until it comes together. Gently press into a 1/4" thick square, then fold up long sides in thirds (like folding a letter) then fold up short sides until you have a small tall square. Place in freezer for five minutes on a floured plate.
- Place on floured bench and gently fold or roll into 1/4" thick square. Place enough walnuts to generously cover the surface, then press walnuts into the dough so they stick. Gently roll dough into a log. With seam facing down, press into a rectangle - it will be about 6x4 and an inch thick. Using floured knife, cut in half then cut each half into triangles.
- Place on silicone lined (or parchment paper) baking sheet. Bake 18-20 minutes until browned. Let cool.
- Make the glaze: Melt butter in small saucepan and lightly brown, add maple syrup. It will bubble vigorously, once bubbles have subsided whisk in confectioner's sugar. add enough milk or cream to thin glaze slightly (until it looks 'spreadable') Drizzle or brush over scones. **Note: If you end up with a thick glaze (like I did in picture) just spread on with a spatula and call it icing, no one will be any wiser.
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World Wrestling Entertainment, Inc. will have two movies out in 2006, but the company's CEO Linda McMahon was cautious about any dreams of big-screen success for the wrestling company.
"Our film development provides an opportunity for us, as we've stated in the past," McMahon told analysts in a conference call this past week. "We will continue to take a careful, measured approach with respect to our investment in this area."
The first WWE film that will see the light of day is See No Evil, which will be distributed by Lions Gate Entertainment on May 19, 2006.
The flick stars Glen Jacobs, who is better known as Kane on the WWE Raw television show. Jacobs is Jacob Goodnight in the film, and early publicity says he has "a rusty steel plate screwed into his skull and razor-sharp fingernails that pluck out his victims' eyes." Holed up in an abandoned hotel with some petty criminals who are sent there to clean it up as community service, Goodnight locks them in and begins to hunt them down.
The filming in Queensland, Australia began in November 2004, under the guidance of director Gregory Dark, who used to be a part of an adult movie production team with his brother, and has more recently done music videos. The film, which is believed to have had a budget of around $8-million, has had three working titles: Eye Scream Man, Goodnight, and The Goodnight Man.
"We've created the classic bad guy, the classic monster, we're planning to create a villain franchise in the vein of Jason, Freddie and Pinhead" producer Joel Simon told the Dark Horizons website.
There will also be a mass market paperback of See No Evil (ISBN 1-4165-2034-1), written by the scriptwriter Dan Madigan, published by WWE Books/Simon & Schuster.
The other finished film is The Marine, which stars John Cena, and has a better-known supporting cast, including Kelly Carlson of Nip/Tuck and Robert Patrick of Terminator 2 and The X-Files. Award-winning commercial director John Bonito was at the helm of the Australian-filmed movie, which was shot in 11 weeks, starting in October 2004.
A release date under 20th Century Fox is still up in the air, said McMahon, who could only offer "late summer, probably the end of September."
Cena stars as a Marine who returns from battle only to learn that his girlfriend (Carlson) has been kidnapped.
In an interview with Men's Fitness in April 2005, Cena was realistic about whether the film and his rap CD would bomb. "It doesn't really matter. They're mainly to say to the critics, 'Look, you guys just classify us as big 'rasslers: But we're more than that. We're people, we're athletes, and we're multitalented:' I paid for the production of my album myself, and I'm not going to see a dime from it. It all goes to the WWE. I don't have any acting ambitions, but I'm an entertainer, and film is another avenue for me to entertain."
For the Tastes Like Chicken website, Cena compared acting and wrestling. "[In the] WWE there's no take two. You're in front of a live audience, you give it your all, and that's it. You have to respect wrestlers because there are very few people who can do that stuff in one take. But with acting, you have to do everything with such emotion over and over and over again. You have to keep doing the same thing, because they have to get different shots, different looks, different lighting, reverse angles... all this stuff. So you really have to be on all day long. It's the same line in the same room with the same setting with the same person all day long. You've really got to keep your game face on. It's tough to repeat that."
Michael Sileck, WWE CFO, told analysts that "$33 million in feature film production assets for the two films currently in post-production" has been recorded. "We do not anticipate seeing any revenue from these projects until fiscal 2007."
Linda McMahon said little about future projects, other than the already-announced film The Condemned, set to star "Stone Cold" Steve Austin
"We are also in the process of evaluating and refining scripts for any future film projects, and not yet started production on any new films. We anticipate beginning production on a project entitled The Condemned in the spring of '06, but do not anticipate starting any other productions in calendar '06 until we see first how See No Evil and The Marine perform at the box office," she said. "We are currently in discussions with different parties on various projects, which include made-for-TV movies, and will provide further information if we choose to move forward on any of them."
Discussion during the conference call moved to the frequency of movie projects. "It really is a wait and see. If the two are really strong, out of the box office, we might think to do three on a yearly basis. It'll depend on production schedules," McMahon said. "We're going back to Australia for The Condemned. We're planning probably in March to begin that production. Australia was a very good venue for the first two films that we produced, and we're excited about being back there."
Like the current WWE product, which has found buckets of cash awaiting on international tours, McMahon stressed that the North American box office receipts would not be the end all, be all for the two finished films. "I think if we are strong out of the box, and we have good reception international for these films, we would bump up, probably, the production schedule. But again, it will be on a very conservative, let's see how they do, and what is the marketplace ready for. We'll, very cautiously again, not go into production really until we have our distribution deals lined up, because that's our key, and keeping the budgets low. So we think we have a good formula to move forward."
Long-time fans will remember the last time the WWE (then WWF) got deeply involved with a film -- 1989's No Holds Barred, starring Hulk Hogan, Joan Severance, and Tiny Lister as the evil wrestler Zeus. It was savaged by critics, like Richard Harrington
of the Washington Post: "Charmless, stupid and badly made, No Holds Barred makes Rocky look like Citizen Pain."
Besides the return of WWE matches to network TV on Saturday Night's Main Event, starting on NBC in March 2006, McMahon also talked about made-for-TV movies. "I'm not really at liberty to discuss those much beyond just making general statements," she said, later explaining that they "would run somewhere in the four-to-five million dollar range" with some of the costs being offset with license fees.
All Linda McMahon's cautiousness is in stark contrast to her husband Vince McMahon, who is chairman of World Wrestling Entertainment, Inc. In the press release for the Austin-WWE Films deal, "Mr. McMahon" trumpeted loudly. "Having successfully submerged itself in the world of television and generated a host of superstar talent, WWE is ideally positioned to bring its unique and powerful cultural sensibility to the motion picture industry," McMahon said in the release. "I am extremely excited about showcasing the talents of Stone Cold Steve Austin, John Cena and Kane; as well I truly believe these and other WWE Superstars will achieve new artistic and commercial successes on the big screen."
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Cosplay of the Day: Deadpool, the Airbrushed Assassin
Wanna know how to take your Deadpool cosplay to the next level? Check out this cosplayer's amazing airbrushed approach.
This is Sydney Spiderman (aka Wickedm6), a cosplayer from Sydney, Australia who has put together some pretty great costumes, including Spider-Man (of course), and some really great Robin and 'Ghostbusters' looks. Sydney pointed us to his gorgeous Deadpool cosplay on Facebook, and we're so glad he did.
Rather than going the straight and simple approach by just sewing up a red and black color-blocked suit, Sydney added some depth and dimension with fabulous airbrushing with the help of his friend Justin Costello, giving the cosplay a real comic book-style appearance. Sydney had a couple of photo shoots, at times featuring his friend Black Cat in one as a Lady Deadpool, which is super cute. Two Deadpools are definitely better than one, but we're not sure we could handle that much sass.
He also spent quite a bit of time putting together the sword harness and the appropriate weapons, taking extra care to replicate Deadpool's guns. The work paid off, as you can see below. If you want to see even more of Sydney's fantastic cosplay work, head over to his Facebook page.
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Mark Adzone needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 93 designs submitted by 23 freelance designers.
We are an advertising website.
We currently host over 24,000 free ads on our website and are keen to grow. Our existing website has over 35,000 unique visitors a month with over 500,000 page views. However, while the site is functional, it really needs a redesign as it has become quite dated. The first step of the redesign is a new logo.
1. Individuals buying, selling or advertising through a classified ad
2. Businesses buying, selling or advertising through a classified ad
3. Businesses promoting products through paid ads
While this an internet business and the logo will be used in digital materials such as icons, emails etc.), the logo will also be used on banners, business cards, printed documents, etc.
1. We're looking for a soft design with a cartoon feel very clearly indicating what the site is about "Buying, selling, advertising". This tag line could be in the logo but should also be easily seperated.
2. The new site will be much less "cluttered" and we're planning on a running a cartoon theme throughout the site including cartoon images of the key categories, for example, dogs and puppies for sale will have an image of a cartoon puppy etc. So the logo needs to reflect this theme. We also like the idea of a cartoon theme character for the website and would love to see any ideas you have for this.
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Uncertain, is who the Angels would get in return or if there is a third team involved.
I'm not a Matthews fan, and if the Angels are willing to spend $20 million of the remaining $24 million of his contract to get rid of him, what does that say about their regard for the player? Matthews hit .250 with four homers and 50 RBI, with an on-base percentage of .336 last season.
Since 1999, Matthews has played for seven teams, including two games with the Mets in 2002. There has to be a reason why he's always been on the move.
His numbers averaged out over a 162-game schedule is a .258 average with 14 homers and 63 RBI. Not exactly earth-shattering stuff.
Matthews' best season was 2006 when he hit .313 (his only .300 season) with 19 homers and 79 RBI (both career highs), for which he was rewarded with that ridiculous contract by the Angels.
Matthews' name also surfaced in the Mitchell Report, which begs the question of what he might have hit if he were clean.
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Aside from being a Qigong Grandmaster, Dr. Chow has a Ph.D. in higher education and a master's degree in behavioral sciences and communications, and is a registered public health and psychiatric nurse. She is also a licensed acupuncturist (NCCA diplomate) and founder of the East West Academy of Healing Arts in San Francisco.
Dr. Chow has served in numerous health policy advisory positions, including policy development work with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) in the field of cultural diversity, complementary and alternative medicine, and ethnomedicine. In the early development of the acupuncture licensing law in California, she was an advisor to Senator Moscone and other legislators. She has also served as an appointed member of the National Advisory Council to The Secretary of DHHS on Health Professions' Education for Medicine, Osteopathy, Dentistry, Veterinary Medicine, Optometry, Pharmacy, and Podiatry (MODVOPP).
Recognized as a leading expert in the field of complementary and alternative medicine, she served on the first Ad Hoc Advisory Panel for the National Institutes of Health Office of Alternative Medicine, and is a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Complementary and Alternative Medicine. She is also an editorial consultant to Time-Life Books; a member of the editorial advisory board of Rodale Press; on the scientific advisory board of the Richard and Hinda Rosenthal Center for Alternative and Complementary Medicine at Columbia University; and consultant/advisor to the Institute of Healing Arts and Sciences at the University of California, San Francisco.
Over the past two decades, Dr. Chow has presented to over 200,000 people of all cultures, more than 350 business corporations including Fortune 500 companies, hospitals, health clinics, and universities. She is the co-author of Miracle Healing from China, Qigong, with Charles McGee, M.D., and developer of the Chow Integrated Healing System, which is demonstrated on audio and videotapes (1-800-824-2433).
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The Platform: Key to Micropayments' Success October 12th, 2009
In my last post, I wrote about why consumers may be more willing to pay for some types of news content over other types, and how publishers that are focused on creating original, unique content for their readers will benefit most from the transition to paid (or partially paid) distribution models on the web.
I also mentioned, though, that's only half the challenge. As Google pointed out in its recent submission to the Newspaper Association of America:
When it comes to a paid content model, there are two main challenges. First, the content must offer value to users. Only content creators can address this. The second is to create a simple payment model that is painless for users.
That second challenge has been at the front of our minds for the past six months, as we've been building the bitcents platform. We started with a simple goal: to make micropayments work for publishers, consumers and the web as a whole … and not just now, or in the next year, but in the long term.
In short, we believe that for news micropayments to flourish, the systems adopted by publishers will need to:
- Operate at scale
- Be easy to use
- Earn and keep user trust
- Embrace the web
Future blog posts will go into greater detail, but here's a rough overview of these four principles, which we've built bitcents to address.
1. Operate at scale
A successful micropayments system will need to work as well for a site that receives five million visits a day as it does for a site that gets fifty thousand … or five hundred. But the system must also offer scale to users, by allowing them to access content from a broad range of publishers of all shapes and sizes. A micropayments platform solution like bitcents benefits consumers (who won't need to deal with different siloed payment systems for each publisher site they visit) and benefits publishers (because all consumers on the platform will be able to easily access and pay for publisher content).
2. Be easy to use
From a consumer side, that means integration with participating publisher websites needs to be smooth and intuitive, the sign up process needs to be fast and straightforward, and (more than anything else) each individual transaction needs to be completely frictionless. For publishers, it means that the system must be both simple to integrate and offer enough flexibility to keep the publisher in full control of their content.
3. Earn and keep user trust
Competition on the web is only ever a click away, and any successful micropayments system will need to earn the trust of both consumers and publishers. How? By being reliable, secure and privacy-sensitive. The privacy settings we've built into bitcents allow a consumer to pay for premium content without having it associated with her account if she prefers greater privacy.
4. Embrace the web
The other three principles could be applied to any web app, which is why we're particularly excited by the fourth one: embrace the web. We think of it as having two main components:
First, there's the link-driven nature of the web. Links are, to put it bluntly, what makes it a web, by connecting each page to other pages. Links drive traffic around the web. Whether a publisher's revenues come from advertising, micropayments, or some combination of the two, they'll need to start with traffic … and therefore with links. That's why Rupert Murdoch or Tom Curley's complaints of exploitation by search engines are red herrings.
By default, bitcents keeps publishers' content available to search engines. An individual publisher can, of course, decide to override the default, but we strongly believe that for a micropayment system to work, it will have to embrace the web's linkability.
Secondly, there's the rapid innovation that happens on the web, driven by constant competition. For micropayments to thrive in the long term, they'll have to embrace this culture of rapid iteration and change. The problem, of course, is that this need doesn't naturally fit alongside scale and ease-of-use principles.
That's why we've built bitcents as a platform, on top of which developers can build subscriber networks. Each subscriber network will provide full access to every bitcents publishing partner's content.
It's easiest to think of it like using a credit card to pay for something in a store. A publisher's site is like a store, and subscriber networks are like different types of credit cards (your Amazon.com Visa or US Airways MasterCard). bitcents is the card machine that sits on the counter in the store. Just like different types of credit cards, subscriber networks will be able to offer different benefits, building special tools and services for their users. For example, one subscriber network may offer a recommendation engine based on a user's social network. Another may manage multi-user corporate acocunts, while a third could allow users to buy and tag stories from a variety of publishers over the course of the week and deliver a personalized newspaper to the user's door on Saturday morning for leisurely weekend reading.
We think the competition between subscriber networks will drive innovation, which will make micropayments more useful for both publishers and consumers, and the subscriber network will receive a percentage of the revenues it helps publishers to earn.
We founded bitcents because we want to make micropayments work for publishers, consumers, and the web as a whole. It's a long term project, which is why we think it's important to get the fundamentals right from the start.
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