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I love ice cream! No ifs ands or buts about it. I am one of those "a pint is not enough" men. No matter what size the container, I can usually finish it in one serving. Okay, I have to admit, as I have gotten older, I do struggle a little with the gallon size. I also have to confess that it is a struggle to maintain my high school, athletic figure. Yeah, I'm sure you can imagine the guy who eats Choclatique chocolate all day has got to look like the "blob" that swallowed Hollywood. I digress…
I have been on the low carbohydrate Choclatique Q-91 diet since the beginning of summer. I haven't had a "lick" of ice cream or much of anything else I love for over two months. I have lost about 16 badly needed pounds, but I still have another 12 to go. I get obsessive-compulsive about things like diets and nothing can even tempt me-even all of the great new luscious marshmallow flavors they are turning out of the Chocolate Studio this afternoon. If I can't eat any ice cream at the moment, let me at least write about it.
Ice cream is a simple combination of dairy products, sweeteners, and flavorings. There are basically two kinds of ice cream: Philadelphia-style, which is made with various combinations of milk, cream, flavorings, and sugar; and custard-based, which is made with egg yolks, sugar, some milk, a lesser amount of cream, and similar flavorings. Custard ice creams, sometimes called French ice creams, are whipped before they are frozen. With the exception of the egg yolks in the custard ice cream, basically the ingredients for both are the same, although the proportions are different.
We all love ice cream that is smooth and velvety. Ice cream has to contain a certain amount of butterfat to be so smooth and creamy. The butterfat in ice cream comes from the milk products in the mixture, and the higher the butterfat content, the richer the ice cream. The amount of butterfat in commercial ice cream is regulated by the FDA. For vanilla ice cream, the standard is at least 10 percent; for chocolate ice cream, it is at least 8 percent. Many ice creams that you buy in the store barely reach that minimum, while others reach 15 to 20 percent. When making your own ice cream, you can increase the butterfat content even more, resulting in the smoothest ice cream you'll ever eat.
If you're making your own ice cream, here are the ratios you need to follow. There are three cups of heavy cream and one cup of half-and-half in most Philadelphia-style ice cream recipes. There are two cups of heavy cream, one cup of half-and-half, and four egg yolks in most custard-style ice cream recipes. These standards yield ice cream that far surpasses any of the commercial brands, some of which substitute chemical additives, gelatin, and other stabilizers to provide smoothness and body. We don't believe in better living through chemistry.
Smoothness in ice cream is achieved only with some sacrifice. That same butterfat that makes the ice cream so tasty can also be a problem for people with high cholesterol levels. You could reduce the amount of butterfat in the ice cream by substituting half-and-half for the cream and milk for the half-and-half. The problem is that you'll get an icier ice cream. The ice cream just won't be as smooth. It tends, especially in home ice cream freezers, to become icy and granular when there's too much water and not enough fat in the mixture. If you want smoothness, the only solution is to eat very, very good ice cream—and only eat a little bit of it. Ice cream that's well made (or anything else, for that matter) need not be eaten to excess to be satisfying. In France they serve ice cream in tiny cones. The cones are perhaps an inch and a half in diameter at the widest point. They are perfectly satisfying.
If you simply mixed up a batch of cream, sugar, and flavoring and then froze it, you would get a solid block that you'd have to chip at with a chisel. The mixture has to have some air added as it freezes. This is the second most important factor in making good ice cream. The air lightens the mixture and increases its volume while keeping the cream soft. Too little air makes a solid ice cream; too much results in frozen foam.
Some commercial ice cream makers use an air pump, which pumps air into the mixture as it is being frozen. Home ice cream machines do a similar process mechanically by stirring a small amount of air into the mixture with the beater as it freezes. To some extent you can control the amount of air being incorporated and thus control the density of your ice cream.
The percentage of air that is whipped into ice cream is referred to as "overrun." The FDA has standards for the weight of ice cream, and these weights are a direct reflection of overrun. A gallon of commercial ice cream must weigh at least 4.5 pounds. The ice cream you make at home will weigh twice that. Some popular brands of ice cream advertise a low overrun—for example a 20% overrun. That means for every 100 ounces of cream mixture, they beat in enough air to produce 120 ounces of frozen ice cream. Try testing this yourself. Hold up two different containers of ice cream at once and notice which is heavier. The heavier one has the lower overrun, which means you're getting more ice cream and less air for your buck.
It pays to use only the best ingredients. Why spend all that time and effort to make something that is second rate? If you want second-rate ice cream, you can find that easily at the store. Go that route and along with second-rate taste, you'll get junk like homogenizers, stabilizers, and emulsifiers; corn syrups instead of sugar; and artificial flavors instead of real flavors. The freezing process tends to bring out all the imperfections in ingredients. If you compromise on quality here, you'll taste it later.
Remember that in making ice cream, you are working with dairy products (milk, half and half and cream) and eggs that when not totally fresh, can have higher counts of bacteria and possibly get you sick.
If you are going to use the freshest cream, half-and-half, and eggs, you should be using only real vanilla or vanilla extract. Vanilla reinforces the flavor of the cream and gives the ice cream its characteristic dairy taste. It also enhances the flavor of chocolate ice cream. Phony vanilla just doesn't cut it and it leaves a metallic aftertaste.
If you're using chocolate, it should be the best. We recommend using Choclatique Private Reserve Dark Chocolate (64%); Choclatique Prestige Milk Chocolate (32%); or Choclatique Snowy White Chocolate (33%). For cocoa, use Choclatique Red Cocoa Powder. It is a light, Dutch-process cocoa that still gives a nice, warm brown color and enhance the chocolate flavor.
Inclusions are those things (fruits, nuts and chips) that you can add to ice cream to give it that Ben & Jerry's texture. I prefer to only add frozen inclusions. Adding room temperature inclusion may develop ice crystal in the ice cream and delay the freezing process. At the very least make sure anything you add is well refrigerated. And always start with the coldest mixture of dairy products.
You can add in unsalted nuts, dried fruit, chocolate Choclatique chocolate chips, fresh candy or crisp cookie pieces. These are added just before the ice cream is packed for hardening in the freezer.
Ice cream is made by stirring the cream mixture while it freezes. The mixture has to be cold, stirred constantly and not too quickly, but at a pace that allows the cream to freeze without becoming solid and without separating. For the home, there are basically only a three kinds of machines.
The old-fashioned hand- or motor-cranked machine is essentially a canister that is held within a larger bucket. By turning the crank, you are able to turn the canister, which has a beater, or dasher, inside it to stir the cream. Between the canister and the bucket, you pack in layers of crushed ice and salt. The salt keeps the ice cold. Salt lowers the temperature of the ice while melting it, thus making a very cold casing around the canister to help freeze the cream.
If you don't want to make a production out of it at the 4th of July picnic and mess with all the salt and ice, then the frozen core machine is just what the doctor ordered. The core is pre-frozen in your freezer. Then just fill the bowl with the cream mixture and turn it on. It will yield between a pint and a quart in about 20 minutes.
If you want to spend about a zillion dollars, there is yet another type of machine available—the self-freezing variety, with a canister inside the machine and with the freezing coils wrapped around the canister. It is a mini electric freezer with a small compressor and everything. The cream mixture is stirred inside the canister as it is frozen, without need for salt or ice. The big advantage of the self-freezing machines is that they are quick, easy to clean and virtually foolproof. Most people can't make a mistake.
Some people like to eat the ice cream fresh, right from the bucket. Others like to chill it to make it quite hard. When ice cream comes from the ice cream making machine, regardless of the type of equipment, it is light and fluffy and at about 17ºF. When you pack it in containers to store in the freezer, it hardens (if your recipe is good, the ice cream should remain creamy and smooth). The best storage for ice cream is about 0º to -10F°. Pack it tightly in airtight containers and top the ice cream with a layer of food film, tapping it down to cover the surface. Place the cover on top of the container on to seal. Label, date and rotate. Just because it is kept in the freezer doesn't give it the shelf life of plutonium.
When ready to serve, take your ice cream container out of the freezer and place it in the refrigerator for about 15 minutes to slightly soften. If you can't wait, put it in the microwave for about 15 seconds at 50% power.
So here we have presented some simple tips to eat healthfully, stay fit and above all have fun in your kitchen.
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Skip to comments.Not even MH17 will stop Putin's goal of new Soviet Union
Posted on 07/19/2014 6:41:47 PM PDT by Tailgunner Joe
THE tragedy of MH17 will do nothing to stop Putin in his plans to re-establish a new Soviet Union. This was a tragic accident for him but his ambitions extend beyond Ukraine and this will not stop that.
The world now knows he is involved with separatists connected to the deaths of hundreds of innocent people. I think Putin will understand there is no going back now and he will make his move.
Ukraine is only the first stage; it is the beginning of a wider campaign to increase Russia's strength. He will move to other countries, such as Moldova and Belorussia, where there is a strong Russian population.
This will become a European war if the West does not do more to stop it. The deaths of foreign civilians make this a European war already. Europe relies on Russia for oil and gas and Great Britain relies on it for money, but that is where they have to hit. If you watch Russian TV it is extremely anti-Ukrainian, they are showing a completely different picture.
The Russian people are being fed opposing information. They are happy to see themselves as a powerful state again, but not if it becomes expensive.
Europe should cancel visas for Russians who are members of parties that supported the annexation of Crimea, for example. It should stop Russian airlines flying over Europe or Russians from visiting the UK.
It should tell the wives of powerful people that they cannot travel to London to shop any more.
This is how you get them, you have to make it personal and there are ways of doing that. Europe should hit the rouble and hit the stock market. Cut the country off from the rest of the continent, and then Russians who rely on Europe for business will question what Putin is doing.
This is not a problem anybody wants to deal with, but the murder of the passengers on that plane means everyone has to. It is not economic any more, it is a political power struggle. If Europe does not demonstrate to Putin now that it is taking it seriously then the problem will escalate and we will have the costs of war to worry about, not just the economy.
Putin will not stop until others stop him.
All he has to do is fire everyone competent. We won the Cold War. The Soviet Union failed.
Sounds like someone misses the Cold War.
Venezuela did that. Venezuela is a model of (in)efficiency. Could take 3 weeks or months to unload a cargo ship. Seriously it is that bad.
Personally Vlady don't care what Euros America and rest of the world thinks
Romney said this and the MSM / Obama said his political views were 'from the 1980s.'
Have any admitted their mistake?
What a coincidence. His comrade-from-another-mother, Barry Soetoro, doesn't let loss of life like that which occurred at Ft. Hood and elsewhere stop him from fundamentally transforming The USA into The USSA.
Putin is in a box, he can come clean on the missile attack and Russia will be relegated to an outsider in the world community or not cooperate and be persona non grata on the world stage.
After all the outrage and media over-coverage, not much will come of this.
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It wasn't a mistake. They are part of the team. If they have to pull a Reggie Jackson and stick their hip into the path of a double-play ball from time to time in order to win The World Serious, they see it as their job.
It was the CCCP then, and they didn't admit to anything for a long, long time.
Everybody kept dealing with them. History teaches us things.
Bummer told Vlad that after he was re-elected he would have more flexibility to bend over and grab his ankles.
~Europe should cancel visas for Russians who are members of parties that supported the annexation of Crimea, for example. It should stop Russian airlines flying over Europe or Russians from visiting the UK.
It should tell the wives of powerful people that they cannot travel to London to shop any more.
This is how you get them, you have to make it personal and there are ways of doing that. Europe should hit the rouble and hit the stock market. ~
Well, if they are looking to lose all the influence with any group in Russia why not?
~Cut the country off from the rest of the continent, and then Russians who rely on Europe for business will question what Putin is doing~
Why would they ask questions as far as it's the West that severed ties? With all pro-Western groups isolated this way it would be a gift for any power inside the country willing to restore a real dictatorship.
All of the above worked exactly the same in Cuba or Iran. None of these regimes could have been alive today if not for a sanctions uniting populations behind their leadership who can easily cover their mismanagement and corruption blaming sanctions for poor performance.
I think he takes note, but this is just a little bump in the road for his plans. A mere inconvenience.
I am unconcerned with Putin. America has its own tyrant to deal with presently.
Did we not encourage Russia to abandon communism and adopt capitalism and emulate America? Are we condemning companies that are doing business with Russia? Should they jettison all investments that they have made?
The reason we found it necessary to install a puppet government in the Ukraine was that they were getting ready to sign a deal with Russia that was better than the EU bankers were offering. Imagine that! A leader looking for the best deal for it's country.
I would put the USA and Russia close to levels of corruption and having a Fascist governments with Russia still in the lead.
Putin holds a fair amount of cards. The natural gas pipeline is a key one. Europe depends on it.
I do not see that it would matter much if Putin through some pro-Russian separatists to the wolves. How would that change anything?
through should be threw
Russia has been holding joint war games with the ChiComs every other year, now every year, since 2005. They support Marxist dictatorships throughout Latin America. They stand behind communist North Korea. If they supposedly are through with communism, why do they support these communist regimes?
The "pro-Russian separatists" may well be Russian army plants there to make it appear as if it's an internal matter.
He's using the same strategy as Hitler, the use of Russian enclaves as an excuse for conquest. He's opposed by the same sort of "Give him what he wants and maybe he will be satisfied" leadership. However, he has the ruthlessness of Stalin. This will not be pretty.
Putin's regime will never be a restoration of the Russian Empire, because that would mean restoring the Romanov dynasty and returning their property. Putin is not about to do that anymore than Hitler put the Kaiser back on the throne of Germany. Putin can't even condemn the murderers of the Romanov Family because that would mean he would have to condemn the whole Soviet Union and Lenin himself. He would have to condemn his own loyal service to the evil Soviet tyranny which destroyed the Russian empire in the first place. He'll never do that. Putin cannot be a Tsar because he has no noble blood. He's a peasant. His grandfather was Lenin's cook.
You just gave Alaska to Putin.
Seriously Christmas cookies hit their shelves in April or something. Cargo ships just sit there, waiting and waiting. Which costs $$$ and I wonder if they lose more sitting idle than they got from the cargo. Or maybe more than the cargo is worth.
The government of Venezuela owes billions to airlines, hospitals and importers that the government does not have the ability to pay.
Did Communism Fake Its Own Death in 1991?
American Thinker ^ | January 16, 2010 | Jason McNew
In a [] 1984 book [New Lies for Old], ex-KGB Major Anatoliy Golitsyn predicted the liberalization of the Soviet Bloc and claimed that it would be a strategic deception. ..."
"Golitsyn's argument was that beginning in about 1960, the Soviet Union embarked on a strategy of massive long-range strategic deception which would span several decades and result in the destruction of Western capitalism and the erection of a communist world government."
"Golitsyn published his second book, The Perestroika Deception, after the Soviet Union was dissolved in 1991. This book contained further analysis of the liberalization, in addition to previously classified memoranda submitted by Golitsyn to the CIA. The two books must be read together to get a complete picture of Golitsyn's thesis."
A Putin kind of communism - July 2, 2014 - Russian President Vladimir Putin has awarded the Order of Alexander Nevsky to the head of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, Gennady Zyuganov.
According to RIA Novosti, Zyuganov's award is for "achievements [in] labor progress, significant contributions to socio-economic development of the Russian Federation, [and] the implementation of the foreign policy of the Russian Federation."
Zyuganov, who has led the Russian Communist Party since 1993, has expressed support for the revival of the Soviet Union, changing the names of the Russian cities of Volgograd and St. Petersburg back to their Soviet-era names of Stalingrad and Leningrad, and is on record as declaring that the USSR was the "most humane state in human history."
The award was made public on Zyuganov's 70th birthday. In a meeting with Zyuganov, Putin gave also gave him a statuette of a popular Soviet-era hero Vasily Chapaev, according to the report.
Chapaev was a Bolshevik officer during the Russian Civil War, which pitted the Soviet Red Army against the White Army attempting to overthrow Lenin's Communist state. Killed in action, Chapaev was known for his devotion to duty and his Soviet fervor. During the Soviet era, a book was written about him, a film depicted his exploits, and a class of cruisers was named after him.
On Zyuganov's 65th birthday, Putin had given Zyuganov a copy of the Soviet edition of the Communist Manifesto.
Obviously the Russian Communist leader and the President of the Russian Federation have a common appreciation for things Marxist and Bolshevik.
Putin cant even condemn the murderers of the Romanov Family because that would mean he would have to condemn the whole Soviet Union and Lenin himself."
April 25, 2005...
Russias Putin: Soviet Collapse a Tragedy
By ALEX NICHOLSON
Associated Press Writer
MOSCOW (AP) - President Vladimir Putin lamented the demise of the Soviet Union in some of his strongest language to date, saying in a nationally televised speech before parliament Monday that it was "the greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the century."
In his annual address to lawmakers, top government officials and political leaders, Putin also sought to reassure skittish investors about Russias investment climate - just two days before a ruling in the tax evasion and fraud trial of oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky.
His statements on the collapse of the Soviet Union and its effects on Russians, at home and abroad, come as the country is awash in nostalgia just two weeks before the 60th anniversary of the end of World War II in Europe - a conflict Russians call the "Great Patriotic War."
Putin, who served as a colonel in the KGB, has resurrected some communist symbols during his presidency, bringing back the music of the old Soviet anthem and the Soviet-style red banner as the militarys flag.
In the 50-minute address at the Kremlin, Putin avoided mentioning the need to work more closely with other former Soviet republics - in contrast to previous addresses ..."
"Putin said Stalin deserves statues in his honor as much as the late British lord protector, a 'cunning fellow' who "played a very ambiguous role in Britains history."
Putin misses it.
It gave him a chance to be the THUG that is his NATURE.
Good one, Guilfoyle.
Tsar/Czar Vladimir. Da!
Ochen harasho!
"What a coincidence. His comrade-from-another-mother, Barry Soetoro, doesnt let loss of life like that which occurred at Ft. Hood and elsewhere stop him from fundamentally transforming The USA into The USSA."
Yes, yes. Now that you mention it, those two do have quite a bit in common...
Many people don't realize that the official ideology of the Soviet Union was not Marxism, but Leninism. The Bolshevik leader Lenin contradicted key parts of Marxist theory. Lenin focused on creating an all powerful state which would act as the "vanguard" of revolutionary socialism. This "dictatorship of the proletariat" would establish socialism which meant a centralized economy. Actual communism was only a promise which would come after a period of socialism. Lenin's "New Economic Program" even allowed limited capitalism with the purpose of improving the economy. The Putin regime is simply following in Lenin's footsteps, allowing limited capitalism, but only for the purposes of improving Russia's economy while maintaining a dictatorship which promotes Communism around the world.
Putin's foremost a businessman in today's Russia and on an International Scale....companies know he's ready , and has been, to do business.
Recent Economic summit showed corporations are and will continue to do business with Putin. And interesting listening to EU businessmen stating they will go in their own direction regarding business with Russia and Putin.
Companies who have stated they won't do business are those being strong-armed by the US Administration.....and even they are looking for means and ways to loosen the leverage being used.
LoL...now that's a good one!
The author is naive. Putin doesn't want the old CCCP.
Putin is a modern csarist. Putin wants to flip Germany to his side and break up NATO. He wants to leave bankrupt Greece and Spain on their own, or better still let them drag down France once Germany has left the EU.
..."If they supposedly are through with communism, why do they support these communist regimes?"....
Doesn't matter what position they hold when it comes to trade and doing international business. .....Ideologies etc only matter for political leverage in their game, but bottom line will always be the purse.
People would do well to recognize that nations citizens are simply pawns on their game table....nation leaders will feed them emotionally to their advantage...or deny them.
What about business with China ? They never stopped being Communist.
Weird. If Communism is actually an enemy, making them your biggest trading partner seems a bit stupid.
In fact, so stupid, that there's no way it was done out of stupidity. The financial elites of America didn't get to be billionaires by being that stupid.
Meanwhile, the "Chicoms" have gained an economic and technological boost of enormous proportions due specifically to trade with the US, which the door was opened to back in the early 1970's.
Gee, all during the "cold war", our financial elites were building business and trade with "communist" China.
I feel stabbed in the back; doesn't everybody else in America also feel this way ?
Putin knows he has to play to the new generation and the old population as he brings his nation along from it's fall. So he's simply being a statesman in his approach to satisfy all......it's something he knows he has to 'balance' as the people adjust to the new Russia of today.
Unlike Obama who has shoved his "Hope and change" down everyones throat...like it or not. He's a terrible politician let alone any resemblance to a Pres.
We have zero tanks left in Europe. That's right, not even one.
Well we have been stabbed in the back as it's all moved to the Eastern Hemisphere. That's just the reality of where things are happening.
Russia and China's partnering in trade is simply "business"...not political so much, though it's given some consideration regarding both those nations are ramping it up to be top dogs with International clout..and that in 'all' respects.......but neither Russia nor China are "friends"...they know it.
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Three minutes of fame
June 24 2009 02:41PM
We're still taking donations! We've achieved our goals for sending Jason Gregor to the 2009 NHL Entry Draft to cover all the goings-on for the OilersNation. But we still want to raise as much money as possible for the Stollery Childerns Hospital Foundation! Donate today!I spent most of my life watching ITV News here in good old E-town. I remember the weather with Bill Matheson and sports with Darren Dutchyshen. Lately, of course, I catch the six o'clock news with Lynda Steele and Gord Steinke. Obviously, Global hasn't been called ITV in ages. Clearly, the only hockey knowledge I possess is stuck in that era of local television. But what might not be obvious is that tonight, I along with ON's own Jason Bartholomew Jefferson Gregor VII will be on The Early News at 5pm with Lynda Steele.
When you crazy citizens of the Nation decided you wanted to send a writer to the Draft, Wanye and I were floored. "Draft!?" we thought out loud. "Why it's preposterous! It's insanity! It's exactly the type of nincompoopery we like from our readers!"
So we posted the handy donation button and let you guys go buckwild. It took about 24 hours to get to the total we needed to send Gregor to Montreal, and then you wonderful Denizens of the Digital opted to donate any overage to the Stollery. I thought this was newsworthy, so I Twittered Lynda Steele, and she suggested Gregor and I come in for an interview.
And it was rad.
We made our way to Global Studios this afternoon, and met with Lynda when we arrived. I immediately handed over a box of 24 cans of Vitamin-P covered in OilersNation stickers with a note written on it:
"Some libations for the crew at Global TV from Wanye Gretz."
At least I think that's what it said. Wanye was drunk when he wrote it with a sharpie in his mouth.
Lynda took us straight to the studio (pictured above), where the famous "I'm" Bob Layton had just finished doing one of his segments. (And no, Bob doesn't appear to have a radio voice. He always talks like that.) I accidentally bumped past Bob as I was putting my stuff in a corner. I said "Sorry Bob," without even thinking. Yeah, sorry, Bob, old friend. Are we still on for dinner later this week, Bob? Because we're good buddies given that we occupied the same room for two minutes together JUST AN HOUR AGO, BOB.
I'm an idiot.
Bob was gracious, of course, said it was no problem. Still, I expect his segment tonight will go something like this:
"Young people are so rude these days, bumping into their elders, using their first names without permission. This generation needs to learn some manners before the entire city plunges into the cold, black abyss of the North Saskatchewan. I'M BOB LAAAYTON."
Anyway, Gregor and I finally sat down with Lynda to shoot the segment. Lynda's as nice as she seems on TV (read: very). She asked great questions and kept things moving. As quickly as the segment started, it ended. But you can catch it live on Global tonight at 5pm.
Before Gregor and I left, I gave Lynda two OilersNation T-shirts. One for her, and one for her co-anchor Gord Steinke.
Sorry Gord, no OilersNation neckties yet.
@ bingofuel: You looked pretty nervous, Are you sure your not related to Brownlee?
@ Sandra
I was TOTALLY nervous!
And I don't think Brownlee and I are related... He keeps insisting, however, that he's my daddy. Not sure what that's all about...
17 you are awesome. Thank you. I would have totally missed it if not for you. Can't wait for the draft.
@ Bingofuel
You are much less of a nerd than I was expecting. You don't look like you live in your parents basement. You ARE a blogger right?
Nicely done guys. Really.
My girlfriend just saw the clip and said "that Oilersnation site you always read is really taking off eh?"
I'm really impressed boys. Great work. I love this place. Low budget my ass. How long until the next Nation party? I want to buy some drinks for some people.
And holy crap is Gregor ever a pro. That was some nice plugging going on there.
props to everyone involved. My daughter needed to be admitted to the Stollery when she was an infant. there's no better cause. *slow hand clap
June 24 2009, 06:27PM
Great interview guys!
Was Gregor hitting on steely linda? kind of an elongated stare. lol
right on. good to see ON getting some dues. and even better to see the stollery get another plug.
~now you have to get off that Pil and start drinking the sleemans :P
Great job. Hopefully you see a nice traffic boost.
June 24 2009, 06:50PM
White Ninja wrote:
You are much less of a nerd than I was expecting. You don't look like you live in your parents basement. You ARE a blogger right?
It's okay; I wear pajamas 24/7 so that the site never misses its quota.
I had no idea his name was pronounced "Wan-yee Gretz".
More pure brilliance from ON.
Travis Dakin wrote:
How long until the next Nation party? I want to buy some drinks for some people.
I'm down for a Visa night, Nation style.
Hi. Long time reader, first time poster.
I want to get my first post in before the traffic on this site explodes :-)
Excellent interview guys. I feel oddly proud that my favourite blog is in the news.
Lynda Steele is such a fox... an absolute stunner.
NIce work boys.
Hi guys im new here and just want to say that the tv brodcast was very awesome.
So did anyone see TSN broadcast about the Oil almost getting Turris last year? I never heard anything like that last year....
B-rad wrote:
So did anyone see TSN broadcast about the Oil almost getting Turris last year? I never heard anything like that last year….
I recall hearing some whispers. It was actually 2 years ago though in 2007. They were talking with Philli who opted to keep the pick and take Van Riemsdyk.
June 24 2009, 10:32PM
Long time reader, first time poster. Glad to see the word is getting out about this awesome site!! Look forward to the draft day coverage!!!
Hey Everyone! I know this probaly isn't the place for this but i have a question i need answered....
Is there "sign up" area to become a "follower" for you crazy bastards??? I have been a very faithful reader for about a year now when I found this holy grail of hockey talk sites! Freaking love it here!!!! I dont know if I am as blind as the great zebra, Helmethair Fraiser, or as dumb as Keenan was when he trade Lou to the canuks for.....I dont even remember...a bag of B.C chronic, and a box of old porn. I can not seem to find a sign up area anywere? Please Help!!!! lol
Hopeful new member, but long time reader...
oh, and i saw the spot you guys did with hotlegs Linda Steele...Great job! I have no doubt your following grows by atleast 8 to 10 whole people by the end of the week as a result of your preformance on the show!!! lol I kid ofcoarse, you guys really did great! Keep it up, and I am looking forward to the draft coverage.
June 24 2009, 11:27PM
I remember the days where ITV would pick up only 10 Oiler games or so a season, no Sat night double headers on CBC, heck if you missed the Ched broadcast of the game you might not even know who the goalscorers were till you picked up the Sun and read the boxscore the next morning,...walking to school in 10ft of snow...uphill...both ways...*grumble grumble*.....
Ahhhh the evolution of technology!!....and Media!!!
OMG Human Torch, you were mentioned on TV. Dude, youre almost as famous as Adam...whoever that is.
June 25 2009, 12:01AM
@ Reijo Ruotsalainen:
I believe the Oilers were on CFRN 1260 or some whackiness like that back in those days. *tries to remember his precious childhood*
Tip of my cap to the entire nation for stealing my heart.
June 25 2009, 12:06AM
Completely off topic, but I have a question...
Does anyone remember those kickass IGA Oilers cards from the early 90's?
I totally can remember my Mark Lamb IGA card.
Awww jeez. Here's looking forward to 500 post GDB's. May as well quit work right now. Still, pretty impressed with what you've done here.
Archaeologuy wrote:
OMG Human Torch, you were mentioned on TV. Dude, youre almost as famous as Adam…whoever that is.
woo! I got namedropped!
(And yes, I most of my first 27 years in Edmonton. bingofuel was right.)
If I needed validation that I'm an over-obsessed hockey fan, it's that I told about 15 people about this, and none of them gave a crap.
B-rad wrote:
So did anyone see TSN broadcast about the Oil almost getting Turris last year? I never heard anything like that last year….
the deal was apparently done, the flyers backed out at the last minute as the trade conference was starting
@ Rusty Shackleford:
I will raise your IGA cards with my 80's vintage "Red Rooster" Oilers hockey cards.
Before this site explodes and everyone finds out about the awesomeness of it, I want to say that I was here before then. Nice interview and Lynda Steel is a fox. Good job boys.
@ buck75 I was gonna raise rustyshackleford with the McDonald's Oiler booklets with the packs of sticker cards you had to put on each player, I still have mine from 1984 or 85? Good times, my friend, good times.
@Bingofuel Fantabulous interview! I've been reading ON for over a year now (with the odd post) and it just keeps getting better. Keep up the good work "Adam".
ITV and Hi-Q, ahhhh, the good ol days. From time to time I wish I still lived in Edmonton. Calgary is a nice place to live/work/raise a family, except there is this horrible NHL franchise here a few people like to cheer for and riducule me for supporting their provincial. Been here 10 years and never wavered my Oilers allegience! I'm even working on raising my boys up right, the oldest is totally into the Oilers and he's only 3! God Bless his little heart, brings a tear to my eye...sniff
It's sort of sad on my part, but I've never actually noticed that Wanye Gretz was spelt the way it is. I've always just glanced over it assuming it was Wayne... I burst out laughing when I heard "wanye" on global lol.
BUCK75 wrote:
@ Rusty Shackleford: I will raise your IGA cards with my 80's vintage "Red Rooster" Oilers hockey cards.
I've got those ones...somewhere...awesome!!!
I would just like to put this forward but Bingifuel's/Adam's soul patch and side burns are those of the gods
@ jayoilfan: Dude...I was ON Hi-Q...red high tops, dress pants, and squeaky high voice. Yes, the ladies loved me...and oddly enough, so did Mike Sobel.
June 25 2009, 08:36AM
jayoilfan wrote:
Been here 10 years and never wavered my Oilers allegience! I'm even working on raising my boys up right, the oldest is totally into the Oilers and he's only 3! God Bless his little heart, brings a tear to my eye…sniff
You sir, are a fine parent. I salute you.
How about that bat guy after the *awesome* Nation piece? I can't velieve no on has at least mentioned him. That looks crazy!
Terrific job again guys - great work.
June 25 2009, 09:15AM
Just got to watch it on youtube, awesome job guys!! I actually didn't think bingo looked that nervous. Feels good to be apart of something like this, can't wait for some draft days coverage form Gregor! I'll be glued to this site thats for sure (hopefully it isn't too clogged in here).
Hey Gregor, how many different glasses do you own?? The ones you wore on tv were pretty cool! Gotta get me some.
Rusty Shackleford wrote:
Completely off topic, but I have a question… Does anyone remember those kickass IGA Oilers cards from the early 90's? I totally can remember my Mark Lamb IGA card.
YES. They came in the bread! Haha, I still have a binder of them somewhere ...
June 25 2009, 09:34AM
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Rusty Shackleford wrote: Completely off topic, but I have a question… Does anyone remember those kickass IGA Oilers cards from the early 90's? I totally can remember my Mark Lamb IGA card. YES. They came in the bread! Haha, I still have a binder of them somewhere …
Why did all the mice at IGA get pregnant?
They didn't know there was a safe way.
@ Librarian Mike:
That's probably a very old joke, but it's new to me, and I had a real chuckle this morning. Thanks! (btw, I'm totally telling it as my own this morning!)
@ Rusty Shackleford:
I was so jacked because I got the whole set on one sheet. Brian Glynn was my favorite. what a killer.
June 25 2009, 10:38AM
@ BUCK75: That would be before I was born, but I surely remember the Red Rooster. I can still vaguely remember Texaco haha.
June 25 2009, 10:51AM
As a transplanted Edmontonian now living in St John's, I've got to say that his thread brings a tears to my eyes.
- Linda & Gord - Bob Layton - Mike Sopel (4 O'clock rock, Hi-Q, Disney Afternoon anayone?) - Red Rooster Trading cards.
Man, Right now I want to go home, buy a Happy Mart slurpee, walk whyte ave, and listen to Brian Hall ramble about the weather conditions at Commonweath while a football game suposedly takes place down below.
PS - Lately I've been thinking that this team needs Bub Slug to come back and join the coaching staff. Anyone else with me or would that just part of the old boys club?
@ Chester Copperpot:
How 'bout a case of Pop Shoppe, quick hit to the Inside Edge, then home to watch Betamax?
Edmonton media is pretty impressive. All the nationals use Edmo-sourced talents, and then Hallsie and John Short are still in the game, not to mention the HOF's Rod and Matty.
I miss Wes Montgomery, best MC ever.
Best of luck at the draft, Greegor (say it like igor, you know, kravchuk, byakin) and enjoy the next best city on earth!
June 25 2009, 11:10AM
@ risto:
I have a copy of Boys on the Bus on Beta.
Man the memories just keep coming back - Lee Fogolin doing adds for Mr Lumber "what's a cubit?" - Kurri doing adds for Shipply (sp) Photo
If we can ship Gregor off to Montreal, is there anyway that we can get Dutch back from TSN for 1 drunken Thursday SportsNight broadcast from a local BPs?
June 25 2009, 11:14AM
Chester Copperpot wrote:
- Mike Sopel (4 O'clock rock, Hi-Q, Disney Afternoon anayone?)
Hell, I remember 4 O'Clock Rock with Chuck Chandler. Wasn't Bub Slug a 'High Level Bridge Waterfall Maintenance Guy'? Man that comic was funny. I'm gonna have to see if there are any anthologies of it.


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Following last weekend's heroics against play-off hopefuls Munster, Elwood has opted to make minimal changes with just one switch at the back.
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Dragons: 15 Will Harries, 14 Tonderai Chavanga, 13 Andy Tuilagi, 12 Ashley Smith, 11 Aled Brew, 10 Lewis Robling, 9 Wayne Evans, 8 Toby Faletau, 7 Jevon Groves, 6 Dan Lydiate, 5 Rob Sidoli, 4 Luke Charteris (capt), 3 Nathan Buck, 2 Steve Jones, 1 Phil Price.
Replacements: 16 Sam Parry, 17 Nathan Williams, 18 Dan Way, 19 Lewis Evans, 20 Tom Brown, 21 Joe Bedford, 22 Adam Hughes, 23 Steffan Jones.
Connacht: 15 Gavin Duffy, 14 Fetu'u Vainikolo, 13 Kyle Tonetti, 12 Henry Fa'afili, 11 Tiernan O'Halloran, 10 Miah Nikora, 9 Frank Murphy, 8 John Muldoon, 7 Ray Ofisa, 6 Mick Kearney, 5 Mike McCarthy, 4 Michael Swift, 3 Ronan Loughney, 2 Ethienne Reynecke, 1 Brett Wilkinson.
Replacements: 16 Adrian Flavin, 17 Finlay Bealham, 18 Rodney Ah You, 19 Eoin McKeon, 20 Eoghan Grace, 21 Paul O'Donohoe, 22 Matthew Jarvis, 23 Dave McSharry.
Date: Friday, March 30
Kick-off: 19:15 BST
Venue: Rodney Parade
Referee: Giuseppe Vivarini (Italy)
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Skip to comments.DOLLYWOOD FIRE? REPORTED ON FOX AND FRIENDS
Posted on 03/18/2013 3:56:19 AM PDT by Yosemitest
Massive Pigeon Forge fire damages at least 35 cabins, 2:43 AM, Mar 18, 2013
Brush fire won't affect opening of Dollywood park, Mar 17, 2013 11:05 PM
Fire breaks out near Dollywood, multiple agencies respond, Mar 16, 2013 7:51 PM, Updated: Mar 17, 2013 9:50 AM
Wildfire burns outside Great Smokey Mountains in eastern Tenn.; more than 30 cabins burned, March 18, 2013
Brush fire breaks out on Dollywood's property, Mar 17, 2013 10:32 AM
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I heard this, but the lady is not Gretchen.
There were several foreclosures the past couple of years.
"Ya gotta have a fire every so often to make a profit."
Tony Mangioni
I guessing arson, from someone who was very familiar with the area.
With all the rain/snow in the last month or so in the southeast, I can't imagine this being a dry-brush forest fire.
The neighborhood on fire now is off Wears Valley Road.
We were just in one of these lovely cabins last week. My heart goes out to these families. It's a beautiful neighborhood run by some of the nicest people around.
Ainsley Air art sitting in for Gretchen
My family was just in a cabin last week on Black Bear Cub Way in this neighborhood. We are SO devastated for these families.
The homes are mostly vacation rentals and a large portion of these homes are run by EdenCrest. It's a wonderful, God-fearing group of people...and my heart and soul prays for them
My wifes family founded that area literally for John Sevier. She is from Isaac Thomas & McCown families bloodline.
Ali is one of my faves. I wish she would replace the Grinch and I would watch their show more.
My first thought, too. It'd take some effort for a wildfire to get started. It's happening in the Fort Collins area West in the mountains now, too.
Way too early during what could be considered the wet season.
We love the area, too. It's amazingly beautiful and the people there make this one of the best family vacation destinations anywhere. Our kids constantly ask when we'll go back.
we fell in love with that area of TN. Had never been anywhere near the Smokies before.
Sevier County/Wears Valley just stayed in my heart ever since last July. Couldn't wait to get back. (yes...figured out some backroads to avoid 441!)
It's a fine part of our country with some really fine people.
Your wife's family must be grieving. I'm so, so sorry.
Our first time in that area.....loved it/loved the people.
Went back just last week...on Black Bear Cub Way.
A lot of the homes in that neighborhood are run by EdenCrest Vacation Rentals. They run a great outfit with clean homes, quick, friendly service. Their rental office has a scripture mural on the wall.
These homes are beautifully maintained with many having either scripture or some other artwork/wall decoration proclaiming faith. This is so devastating.
I wonder if the mods could actually change the title. This isn't a Dollywood (or Bollywood :P) fire.
If you saw my eariler posts, this neighborhood is a beautiful area with edencrest.net maintaining a lot of the homes. They are a super group of people.
I know..I feel awful for the good people affected...and it is a beautiful area....
Her great grandparents moved out out the county in about 1920 for Arkansas then some of the family came back to East Tennessee :>}.
Do you think an angry Muzzl'em stayed in one of those Christian rentals, then got offended and, then set fire to the area?
I was driving through Arkansas last week and saw more than a handful of brush fires on the way— one running along a ditch just below the shoulder of the road. I agree with you about the dry material and strong winds.
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I think they call that Jewish lightning.
The Skyline Parkway is fabulous, everyone should do it. The Natchez Trace Parkway is fabulous too, I hope to do both of them again some year.
"You Light a match...." - Henry Hill (Goodfellas)
I am still falling in love with TN.
after our first visit last summer, couldn't wait to get back. we were there just 4 nights last week...but went thru Cade's Cove 4 times. :)
last summer, did Clingman's Dome 3 times in a week.
My wife and I just recently purchased a cabin in Gatlinburg. It was a dream come true but a lot of hard work and investment.
My heart goes out to these owners, I hope they have rental loss insurance.
This is the best site for cabin foreclosures:
After being in that area, I can see how owning a cabin there would be a dream come true (hard work and all!)
Ever since our first visit last summer, I have spent hours and hours just looking at real estate websites of that area..especially Wears Valley. Can't buy for several years (see tagline...LOL), but maybe some day.
I just can't stop looking for updates on Black Bear Ridge...I'm just so sad for the families. I can't believe I was in one of those homes just last week. :(
I just drove by there and Mt LeConte yesterday myself.
Funny thing about the Trace
I grew up on it's boundry, it went thru my grandfather's land off the Clinton-Jackson Blvd in Mississippi
and now I live south of Nashville in Williamson county about 4 miles off east of the Leipers Fork exit...350 miles up the Trace
(the second to last north end exit)
and I drove back from Asheville yesterday thru the area now on fire
it looked like they still had some snow at Maggie Valley..though it was 65 down below
-- Hey Sam, I heard about the fire in your factory.
-- Shhh, that's next Thursday!
The key is to buy low and go with a solid property management company.
We were blessed to find Jackson Mountain Homes and just transitioned to them in October.
They have very high standards and do not take just any cabin. We spent thousands on upgrades after we bought our cabin and they still gave us a list of things they wanted done. Their cleaning is impeccable and our cabin is inspected for bed bugs more often than the Ritz-Carlton.
As far as realtors Autumn was great to work with and they have the best site for aggregating foreclosures and short sales.
Be patient, it took us 6 months to close!
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Posted 26 September 2012 - 08:50 AM
I've worked with lots of resin, filling pin holes, and fixing offsets its pretty normal. It's the fact that these are not display models they are designed to be handled often, and are now being made out of a very very fragile material.
With metal the worst case scenario would be a joint popping loose. I would have paid the current finecast prices to keep the metal models.
Now if it were anything like the new Reaper Bones I would be all over it.
Posted 26 September 2012 - 08:54 AM
Sorry, the failcast set off my rant-o-meter.
No apologies needed! For someone just getting into Miniatures (using Heroclix to block out fights for Mutants and Masterminds doesn't count, And I've not played D&D since college...) this is all valuable information!
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Posted 26 September 2012 - 11:28 AM
Failcast is a reference to GW's Finecast resin that they have shifted to . They replaced all of their metal miniatures with resin, indicated that this reduced their production costs and promptly did their yearly upward price adjustment.
Sorry, the failcast set off my rant-o-meter.
I think it pegged just about everyone's rant-o-meter. My son has a box of harlequins in both metal and in finecast. There really is no comparison, the metal is just so much better. Because of the stances these were already somewhat fragile in metal, in finecast they just about break when you look at them.
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Posted 26 September 2012 - 01:10 PM
I was instructed to paint the Monsters box set for the store, and I'm awfully glad I didn't pay the 40-whatever bucks it went for. Only the green slime and white dragon were even remotely salvagable - as in they were only "pretty bad" as opposed to "oh, how horrid".
None of the other miniatures were usable. It was grotesque.
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Posted 26 September 2012 - 01:46 PM
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Posted 28 September 2012 - 08:04 AM
You should read it! The latest novel in the Discworld series, Snuff, even has goblins!
You're trying to tempt a goblin with a book titled Snuff, mentioning that it has goblins... I like your style!
Yes, Pratchett is well worth reading, as are most of the other series mentioned here. I enjoyed the Hitchhiker's Guide as well, but couldn't finish the last book in the series. Don't know why, probably just too much overload at that point (was reading them all one after the other), but it just didn't strike me like the others. As to the Game of Throne series... I quit that when I got one book, then had to wait 6 years for the next to come out.
Jim Butcher. Kim Harrison. All I'm gonna say.
Jim Butcher: Yes - Kim Harrison: Not so much. The series seemed to fizzle out around the 3rd or 4th book... but meh.
Okay, enough thread-jacking, sorry.
And yeah... as to the OP - Doesn't surprise me at all. I haven't had bad experiences with them myself, but I also haven't purchased anything from them in 9 years - those friends that have, have mentioned some very bad incidents.
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Posted 01 October 2012 - 08:32 PM
Later I had terrible service from them in regards to a Land Raider that was badly formed - one entire frame was unusable because of insufficient fill or pressure. He kept suggesting that I 'heat the frame in hot water and bend it back into shape' with me telling hime, over and over, that no, the parts were incomplete, not just warped - and that even if it was just warped they should replace the parts. And, eventually, they did.
Then a friend that owned a game store got a shipment of Failcast... oh, dear gods, above and below.... And the GW rep was downright abusive about it. My guess is that he had already fielded fifty or sixty calls that day, all complaining about the horrible, bad, awful QA they had done on Findcash. The most common was insufficient fills - hands, weapons, bits of banner, all missing or partially missing. And Paul put the call on the speaker phone so that everyone in the shop could hear it.
The store is gone now, but I don't think that they dealt with GW again after that little conversation, just got their replacement models and never ordered from them again.
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Posted 01 October 2012 - 08:43 PM
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Posted 05 October 2012 - 10:20 PM
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People who complain about GW's prices are, as a general rule, being completely myopic. Yeah, you heard me. I'm calling you all out.
Yes, if you compared the cost of single miniatures between GW and, well, frankly, anyone, it does appear that GW is ripping you off. GW miniatures are about twice as expensive as anything else you could play. I personally think comparing GW and Reaper is comparing apples and oranges -- Bones may be plastic like most GW miniatures, but they're not anywhere near as easy to use for doing conversion work as GW plastics. Reaper makes RPG miniatures, GW makes wargames. Big difference. A much better comparison would be GW to Mantic, which is about the same quality, pretty much the same range of models, and about half the price (or less). So on the surface, GW seems like an Evil Empire, out to rob us all blind.
But that's BS, because when you buy GW models you are buying something else entirely. Something not listed on the box anywhere, something which makes the value so much clearer. You're buying the Games Workshop stores. Because those stores barely make money, and the GW prices reflect the necessary subsidization of those stores.
I could build two Warlord armies in metal for the price of one plastic Warhammer Fantasy army. But Reaper doesn't have a store in Seattle where I am always going to be able to find a game. Games Workshop does. I have lost count of the number of times I have packed up one of my armies into a box, drove down to the store and immediately found another player ready to play. And when there wasn't another player to play? The store manager (often the only employee of that location) will call people. He has a network of customers he has developed relationships with, he knows when they're likely to be free, and he'll find me someone to play with. That is a form of customer service that Reaper, Mantic, Wyrd, etc. cannot hope to match.
That's why I still play, even though I haven't liked a single one of the rules revisions since the 1st edition of 40k, even though they keep failing to support the games I love most (Mordheim? Adeptus Titanticus? Space Marine? Space Hulk?). That's why I still play despite it being like a decade since they updated my favorite army (SISTERS OF BATTLE!!!!). Because for all the things they get wrong (and its a lot of things!), GW produces games that I can actually find people to play and I can actually play with.
And that is awesome.
So stop whining.
Posted 05 October 2012 - 10:46 PM
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Posted 06 October 2012 - 08:03 AM
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Posted 08 October 2012 - 11:06 AM
I guess we were told! Turns out we have no reason to complain. After all, we should be happy we're subsidizing GW so that Gailbraithe has a place to play...
That's kind of what I thought once I realized he wasn't being ironic.
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Posted 11 October 2012 - 10:48 AM
I used to use Citadel paints when I first switched to acrylic from enamels back in the day (this was the old paint that is now sold as Coat D'Arms). I stopped using them when they switched to the "Bolter Shell" paint pots (the hard plastic lids did not seal properly, so the paints had the shelf life of unrefrigerated lettus). I switched over completly to Vallejo with a few Reaper Paints mixed in (love the dropper bottles). Around a year ago I started hearing about these great new specialty paints Citadel added to their line, like Foundation Mechrite Red and Griffon Sepia Wash. I gave thegm a try and thought these were the bee's knees and started incorporating them into my own painting techique. Now, however, they redid their paint line again and dropped all these popular specialty paints, and instroduced a new "system" which is no where near as good. So, I drop them again and am back with Vallejo/Reaper as my primary paints, this time for good.
Is anybody here playing with the latest Citadel paints and, if so, they any good?
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New Zealand lifted the Rugby Championship trophy on Saturday as a six-from-six record ended with a 38-27 victory over South Africa.
The All Blacks retained the Rugby Championship silverware on Saturday as a six wins from six record ended with a 38-27 victory over South Africa.
It had been billed as possessing the ingredients to create one of the great Tests and the two teams did not disappoint. Put simply, it was a classic.
There were thrills and spills from minute one with nine tries scored in all, but crucially for New Zealand they picked up the try bonus-point.
In fact they got five, despite being down to 14 men for a quarter of the game. The Boks though can't fault their own efforts and neither will their fans.
But this is a special group of All Blacks who, despite missing Dan Carter, were led superbly by the likes of Kieran Read, Israel Dagg, Ma'a Nonu and Liam Messam. Substitute fly-half Beauden Barrett was also critical coming off the bench.
New Zealand did begin the stronger but despite their dominance, the All Blacks failed to trouble the scoreboard. What they did do was show to any pre-game pessimists they weren't here to just defend.
South Africa were clearly awoken and hit back after Charlie Faumuina was penalised by referee Nigel Owens at the scrum. Morne Steyn made no mistake to put his side 3-0 up.
Attempting to seal victory before going all guns blazing for tries was clearly the message from Heyneke Meyer and unfortunately for South Africa they weren't prepared for the Kiwis' retort. Ben Smith it was who crossed for the game's first try on twelve minutes following excellent work down the sideline from Read, who offloaded after drawing two defenders. Smith then stepped inside and raced over for his eighth try of this year's tournament.
Smith's score saw him become the record marksman for a season in the Rugby Championship and old Tri-Nations format, moving above Habana and Christian Cullen.
Cue the aforementioned Bok to show his unique class as he went over for a brace of scores in two minutes. His first arrived following Duane Vermuelen's line break 35 metres out, with the number eight then firing out a good pass to his wing who did well to get under the posts.
South Africa were now 10-7 ahead before Habana's second moment of brilliance, this time one of the best of his career. The Toulon-bound wing was this time sent on his way by a superb offload on halfway from Francois Louw, with Habana's chip over the top bringing his pace to the fore as he made it 15-7. Unluckily for him, he would soon leave the field injured.
New Zealand, as is their wont, responded in kind through Messam's drive over the line, helped by the hard-working Brodie Retallick, as the lead was down to a single point.
It had looked like South Africa might hit back though in the closing stages of the half but streetwise defence saved the visitors' skin before they launched a late attack of their own. It bore fruit too, with Messam finishing off a fine team try on the left for a 21-15 half-time lead.
So New Zealand had three tries to South Africa's two, as the importance of the next five-pointer became increasingly critical to the destination of the Rugby Championship trophy.
It would be the Boks who claimed it and that arrived following a yellow card for Messam at a ruck. Willie le Roux was the man to go in from a quickly-taken penalty and with Steyn's successful extras, the home side were 22-21 to the good with 34 minutes remaining.
The lead exchanged hands once again when Barrett kicked a penalty in the 55th minute.
Jean de Villiers then showed grit two minutes later when he sold a dummy and crashed his way over Barrett and Nonu to score his side's fourth try, with Steyn missing the two points.
The tourists then struck a psychological blow as Barrett scored the All Blacks' fourth try of the match – an impressive individual one at that – to ensure they claimed the silverware.
The All Blacks shrugged off another numerical disadvantage when Ben Franks was sin-binned as Read extended their lead with fifteen minutes left in the Ellis Park encounter.
The Boks made a spirited attempt to cut the gap to secure the consolation of victory but their opponents proved too strong and will celebrate another triumph and a 100 percent record.
Man of the match: The future long-term captain of New Zealand, Kieran Read, showed once again that he is probably the most complete player in world rugby. Offloads to savour, pace and just a real dog about him made the number eight's performance stand out.
Moment of the match: It was going to be Bryan Habana's second try but how can one overlook super-sub Beauden Barrett. He has been the scourge of South Africa this year, being key in Brodie Retallick's try at Eden Park before scoring one of his own today. Superb.
Villain of the match: Nothing dirty to report but if we have to, how about that teamsheet typo?
The scorers:
For South Africa:
Tries: Habana 2, Le Roux, De Villiers
Con: Steyn 2
Pen: Steyn
For New Zealand:
Tries: B Smith, Messam 2, Barrett, Read
Con: Cruden 3, Barrett 2
Pen: Barrett
South Africa: 15 Zane Kirchner, 14 Willie le Roux, 13 JJ Engelbrecht, 12 Jean de Villiers (c), 11 Bryan Habana, 10 Morné Steyn, 9 Fourie du Preez, 8 Duane Vermeulen, 7 Willem Alberts, 6 Francois Louw, 5 Juandré Kruger, 4 Eben Etzebeth, 3 Jannie du Plessis, 2 Bismarck du Plessis, 1 Tendai Mtawarira.
Replacements: 16 Adriaan Strauss, 17 Gurthrö Steenkamp, 18 Coenie Oosthuizen, 19 Franco van der Merwe, 20 Siya Kolisi, 21 Ruan Pienaar 22 Pat Lambie, 23 Jan Serfontein
New Zealand: 15 Israel Dagg, 14 Ben Smith, 13 Conrad Smith, 12 Ma'a Nonu, 11 Julian Savea, 10 Aaron Cruden, 9 Aaron Smith, 8 Kieran Read, 7 Richie McCaw (captain), 6 Liam Messam, 5 Sam Whitelock, 4 Brodie Retallick, 3 Charlie Faumuina, 2 Andrew Hore, 1 Tony Woodcock.
Replacements: 16 Dane Coles, 17 Wyatt Crockett, 18 Ben Franks, 19 Steven Luatua, 20 Sam Cane, 21 Tawera Kerr Barlow, 22 Beauden Barrett, 23 Charles Piutau
Referee: Nigel Owens
Assistant referees: John Lacey, Leighton Hodges
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Practicing yoga is like giving yourself a full body massage, from the inside out. It feels soooo good! (Nobody read anything into that, ok?)
Seriously, yoga is like my favorite thing ever. I've been doing yoga very regularly throughout my pregnancy and as much as I can post-delivery, but today Draco took a 2 hour nap (!) and I got a chance to really stay in some of the poses and feel the stretch and release in my muscles - it felt like such a luxury! And I found myself taking truly deep breaths, too. Sometimes I think the best part of yoga is the way it makes you breathe. I think I end up holding my breath a lot throughout the day without realizing it (waking apnea?) So yoga is a fix for that, too! Another great thing about yoga is how it corrects posture.
In fact, I want to say this for any new mommies out there - in addition to yoga, I've found it really helpful to consciously pull my shoulder blades back and together, several times a day. Anyone else feeling hunched over alot?? I know it comes from cradling our tiny ones, but a hunched posture is not healthy and I think it's totally worth correcting. Remember in school how they used to tell us that if we didn't sit up straight, that we'd end up permanently hunched over as we got older? That still haunts me... :)
Anyway, just wanted to share the miracle of yoga with y'all. And remember, throughout the day: BREATHE!
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posted by Rafael on April 8th, 2012
Yôga rocks. I´ve found it complements my highly logical activity of software development, by working intuition, body, emotions. It probably complements your activity on math :)
posted by Alaska on August 8th, 2013
so true! yoga helps me alot, too. i mean i'm the type that worries about everything but this helps me to let it all go and, how you say, just breathe!!
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"These shoes are the most comfortable heels I own. The leather is buttery soft and the height in the front make the elevation do-able."
By: XiMoon
Location: NY, NY
August 13, 2012
Great pump!
"Love the color, even through the color looks different from the website. It looks like a dark coral color. Easy comfortable shoes with big heels to wear during the summer and upcoming fall."
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