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Heads up! Falling balls hazardous
Q. Would a baseball tossed off the top of a tall building be going faster than a pitched fastball by the time it hit the ground? Could somebody catch it? B. Robinson
A. This stunt has been tried a couple of times. Terminal velocity of a falling baseball is probably around 95 mph, notes physicist Peter J. Brancazio. That's about what a good major league fastballer can muster.
But catching a horizontal, well-controlled pitch is one thing; fielding a ball plummeting unpredictably out of the sky is another. In 1938, a couple of pro catchers nabbed balls tossed from atop a 700-foot Cleveland skyscraper after watching the first few rebound 13 stories off the pavement.
The following year, playing top this, San Francisco Seals catcher Joe Sprinz stood with mitted hand beneath a blimp 800 feet up. One dropped ball smashed into bleachers; another pounded into the turf.
Then Sprinz got under one and wished he hadn't: The down-plunging orb slammed into his glove and shoved it back into his face, breaking five teeth and fracturing his jaw.
And the ball got away.
Q. What's the Southern hemisphere's equivalent of the North Star that stays directly overhead at the North Pole? S. Claus
A. There isn't any South Star. To appreciate how remarkable it is to have a North Star, figure that the entire sky consists of 41,253 square degrees, and Polaris happens to be situated within a single degree of the celestial pole, says astronomer Bob Berman in Secrets of the Night Sky. So the odds against one of the 50 brightest stars winding up so singularly situated are almost 1,000 to 1!
But things will not always be as they are, for the Earth spins with a slight wobble, following cycles of 25,780 years, and as it does, our planetary axis points to various locations in the sky. This is not noticeable over the span of a few lifetimes, but within several thousand years Polaris will hardly be a North Star at all (then, roughly 200 centuries later, Polaris will "return").
As recently as about 1,500 years ago, the polestar was Kochab, as bright as Polaris but never very well aligned with Earth's axis. Not to worry, however: The Age of Polaris will see us through the current millennium.
Q. Aren't two (three, four...) heads better than one? B. H. Todd
A. Takes only one head to answer this– the head of anyone who has studied the research on "brainstorming." It doesn't work. It's overrated. It's a waste of time. And the bigger the group, the more inefficient their thinking. To say this is heresy in many circles– political, military, educational, business–but the evidence has been clear for 50 years, says social psychologist Professor Gordon W. Russell in Sport Science Secrets: From Myth to Facts. Loners or at most duos (John Watson and Francis Crick discovering DNA) generate more and better ideas.
Oh, sure, putting heads together over coffee and amid souped-up morale can be, well, heady stuff. It's fun. And people come away feeling the process worked– the "illusion of group effectivity." Why? Because, says Russell, group members tend to take credit for ideas even if they didn't really originate them, fostering a roundtable glow of mutual ego-boosting. And it all feels so downright democratic.
So even if in fact nothing comes of it, everybody just can't wait for the next stormy brain session to ensue.
Q. Do you have a good idea how high you can jump? How about your hang time? S. O'Neal
A. Most people guess a second or so, but are in for a surprise if they try. Basketball great Michael Jordan was one of the best, going up three feet or more, clocked at around .9 second air time, a couple of tenths more than most hoopsters and at least twice better than most of us mortals. So good was Jordan that he seemed to hang level in space. If you watched his head carefully, up, up, up it went, then leveled off and seemed to hold there, uncannily.
His secret lay in his fancy legwork. At the top of one of his signature jumps, Jordan would bring both feet bent back up behind him, seeming perhaps stylish affectation, yet it was more than that. In fact, it helped his shooting. For once he was airborne, he could no longer change the movement of his center of gravity. But by bending his legs at just the precise moment, he stabilized his upper body while his center of mass went up, then down. This movement was now translated to his arms and legs, steadying his eye for a deadly shot.
Similar wizardry permits leaping ballet dancers to hold their head level, a picturesque effect. Skillful high jumpers snake their bodies up and over, body part by body part, even as their center of gravity never clears the bar.
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wesmst-2 reacted to a post in a topic: Zetec S 1.0 Vs Fiesta St-2
I'm that 17y/o haha! I ordered mine in September, delivery next month! £1,200/yr. one years NCB in March too! Touch wood
Got the nav added too for £333 ;) £17,500 total now! Yourself?
Spirit Blue Smoke storm part leather Climate control Convenience pack Auto headlights etc Rear centre head restraint Cruise control Style pack £17,250 :-)
Same date as me! Roll on November!
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I hope so, the people over at FiestaSTOC helped me make my decision also. I'd advise you to register, great forum full of ST lovers!
So, I've forgotten to update you all, I'm sorry! I bought an ST-2, delivery date is 2nd November :-) Will keep you all updated, thanks very much for the kind words everyone, means a lot that everyone took interest!
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My Personal Review Of The Fiesta St
kyle1 replied to The Dark Knight's topic in Ford Fiesta ClubGreat review, I do believe I'll be able to achieve around 33-40MPG in mine however it isn't as important anymore as it's a performance car, I understand that. Looking forward to getting it however, only because I'm in the position to do so and may as well pay £3,000 extra to get an ST rather than a ZS.
That's exactly what's pushing me towards the ST haha, that and I know in say 2 years I won't have had as much of a loss as I will with a ZS. I also do like the ZS 17" alloys, they're really nice.
The only thing I'm wondering about is, a ZS would in theory last me a year/half before I'd want more power from it (a remap can take it to... 150bhp?) whereas an ST would last me around 3 years and then I'd want more power and go for the mountune upgrade. I manage my own company and I'm doing pretty well for myself so I'm not entirely bothered about the cost of the car/insurance as it all counts on the fun factor. Due to me working from home I hardly get time to myself let alone to go out with friends much anymore. Cost of building a future, I guess. So I'd like to have the car to go out on weekends etc just to have fun and I've been told by several people the handling really is amazing. I know everyone says the I won't drive it much will go out of the window but I only go out lets say 2 days out of the 7 so the rest of the time it'd be in my garage whilst I work, therefore in theory MPG doesn't really matter as much as it should.
I'm around 2 months away from 1 year NCB (touch wood) and please note £1600 is overtaking my current car on my current policy which leads until February (which is quite a lot) but a full year would be £2,200. There's a local car meet which ALWAYS happens right near me, roughly around 5 miles away and there's always an ST or 2 there (see what I did there? lol) and I think having an ST would honestly stand out among the usual corsa's and the mk6 ST's etc. I do agree, the extra power would be very nice and would stop me from getting bored for a few years to come (whereas I might want more power from the ZS next year and decide I want a new car after just paying £14,000). My parents have keyless entry on their Focus ST and it really does seem useful, especially since I'm very fussy with security and the ST comes with a Thatcham CAT-1 alarm whereas the ZS comes with the standard alarm, and getting an alarm fitted would cost me a further £250. I definitely agree that if I go to a ZS I'll regret it in a year's time or so or when I see an ST shoot past me on the motorway, I can't test drive either as I'm only 17 and you have to be 18 to test drive the car, but I've been inside an ST-2 whilst the dealer drove the car and he was quite young and he definitely enjoyed driving it. He kept letting the turbo kick in and it was honestly amazing, the seats are gripping and they sort of pull you in and make you want to stay. Well, money will always be a factor but in time my earnings will increase due to being self employed (touch wood, yet again) so I assume I'd see more fun out of an ST-2 as would my friends/family when being in it. I believe I'm just going to bite the bullet and go for the ST-2, going to go down there now and order it. Worst comes to worse, I'll have to sell it. RRP of the car is £18,900 but I managed to get £1,900 off and get it for £17,000 with every option I want. I believe I could make my money back if I decide it's not for me, and my brother literally loves the ST-2 so I believe I'd make him pleased rather than getting the ZS. I agree with you, Dave, at my age, image does count for a lot. So therefore with these two posts I am going to buy the ST-2, I'm taking a little drive down to Ford now to order it. I'm sorry for the countless threads, this decision was pretty big for me and I believe I've gone for the right one. I wanted the ST-2 in the first place and I've gone back to it after days of thinking so I've not second guessed my first option in reality.
I'm a 17 year old boy, I can't make decisions very well lmao. My parents are both telling me to go for an ST-2 as well as my friends, I think I will bite the bullet as soon as I place an order that's my deal done. I've been talking to Craig and he's told me £60 will get me around 400 miles. That's more than my current car does for sure, after selling my car the total price I would've paid for the ST-2 is £10,000.
Zetec S 1.0 Vs Fiesta St-2
kyle1 posted a topic in Ford Fiesta ClubSo, I like both cars but this is really killing me deciding between them, I just know with petrol prices going up I could either love or hate the ST-2. I like cruising at speeds of around 70-80 on the motorway, therefore whatever would allow me to do that cheaper wins the race for sure, I love being able to shoot past people if need be without waiting for the car to gain power. I really do like both cars but I'm finding it so difficult to decide. Few questions to those with either: Do you regret getting the ST2/ZS? What's your MPG like and what speed do you drive at on A roads etc? (Please specify ZS or ST) Was your money well spent? How much does it cost to fill your car up all the way? (Please specify) Is keyless entry worth the money as an extra on the ZS, and is it better than using a key on the ST-2? I've got a few more days to decide which car I'd like to get and I have benefits of each really Here's the basics of what I'm considering: Zetec S Looks very nice Interior is semi-decent GREAT on petrol £618 insurance (17y/o) £0 road tax 125bhp in a 1.0, not sure if that's good or bad because of the engine size but ecoboost would be good on petrol. ST-2 Looks amazing in blue Very nice interior Decent-ish MPG (been told around 31 with caning) Decent on insurance £1,600 (17y/o) 185bhp will be beastly. Here's the differences: Zetec S ST-2 Really, money isn't the issue, however it's sort of depending on MPG right now, I've been told figures of just below 40 for caning the ZS 1.0, cruising at about 70/80. However I've been told using the turbo in the ST-2 will get you around 31mpg. There's around a £2,500-3,000 difference between the two models I want (with the extra's) and I know for a fact an ST will hold its value better than the ZS will... Please help me here, my mind is going in/out on deciding lol.
What do you mean by booting it? How fast would you say you were going roughly? Like cruising speeds on NSL roads etc?
Not too sure on the differences but the leather seats are a must, especially because they're heated... simply amazing. And I'd want the privacy glass, push to start etc. I may sound like the snobbiest 17 year old you'll meet but money truly is no issue (self employed, own a business, no parents involved) and for the stuff i'm getting £17,000 is a steal, great investment if I do say so. Spirit blue ST-2 with smoke storm part leather seats Air conditioning + Electric Auto Temperature Control (EATC) Automatic headlights + automatic windscreen wipers + auto dimming rear view mirror Ford SYNC Bluetooth connection with voice control and USB port Keyless entry with 'Ford Power' starter button Sony DAB radio/CD player Style pack - Fiesta ST Tyre repair kit I'd need the automatic headlights, I'm such a fail at putting them on myself (current car is automatic too) and I went for EATC because I can't stand the dial temperature bit, I'd prefer the one with the buttons.
I appreciate you sticking up for me :-) Regardless, after speaking to Craig he's definitely convinced me to proceed with my ST-2! I'll definitely keep you guys updated, can't wait to drive my own!!!


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[G]uidelines call for between-innings time, that is, the time from the third out of one half-inning to the first pitch of the next half-inning of two minutes and five seconds for local TV games, 2:25 for national TV games during the week, and 2:30 for national TV games on Saturdays and Sundays.Papelbon met with Frank Robinson (now working as a special assistant to Bud Selig) before last night's game against the Yankees. He did not contest the fine.
When Papelbon entered Wednesday's game it took 3:34 from the last out of the bottom of the eighth until he threw his first pitch in the top of the ninth.
I just got to find a way to get to the mound a little bit quicker and get my warm-up pitches in, and get ready a little bit quicker. ... I'm just a few seconds off the mark that I'll be able to shave it down.


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LAS VEGAS (AP) - A San Francisco Giants pitcher has been charged with lewdness after police say he touched a woman's breast at a Las Vegas hospital earlier this year.
The Las Vegas Review-Journal reports (http://bit.ly/11CURlh ) 30-year-old Chad Gaudin (GOH'-din) was arrested Jan. 27, although the case didn't attract attention at the time.
Police say Gaudin was drunk when he approached a 23-year-old woman on a gurney at Desert Springs Hospital, told her she was gorgeous and touched her face and breast.
The newspaper reports a paramedic told Gaudin to leave the woman alone, but he refused, and security staff held him down until police arrived.
Gaudin has pitched as a starter and in relief. He's 2-1 this year with a 2.44 ERA.
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The sentencing has been delayed for a man convicted earlier this year of shooting a Pontiac man to death in 2008.
Patrick Magee Jr. was to be sentenced Tuesday morning. A new date has not been set.
A jury convicted Magee of felony murder following a trial in March. A felony murder conviction generally carries an automatic sentence of life in prison without the possibility of parole, but because Magee was 16 at the time of the shooting, his sentence is more complicated. The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that mandatory life sentences without the possibility of parole are unconstitutional in juvenile cases.
This is the second time Magee's sentencing has been delayed. He was initially scheduled to be sentenced in May, but that hearing was adjourned.
Magee was accused of shooting Antwon Chavis during a marijuana sale inside a vehicle in Pontiac. Chavis survived initially, and Magee pleaded no contest to several charges. Chavis died about a year after Magee was sentenced to two-and-a-half to 27 years in prison.
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Monday, December 19, 2011
Despite Vote of Confidence, Frazier Still More Likely Than Not to Be Fired
There were numerous signs of coaching short-comings evidenced in yesterday's games. Chief among those was the Vikings' utter inability to make any sort of adjustment whatsoever to stop Drew Brees. At this point, nothing should be considered too extreme or too far-fetched. That certainly includes throwing out a Tampa-2 defense that depends on having very good corners, smart safeties, and a terrific middle linebacker--none of which the Vikings have.
Yesterday, the Vikings were gashed for nearly 600 yards of offense and five touchdown passes. The pass defense was so woeful that, despite carrying two legitimate goal-line backs, the Saints twice went to the pass on first and goal from the one yard line. Both times, of course, the Saints converted. Only when the outcome was secured five times over did the Saints show an sympathy, handing off to Pierre Thomas in a similar situation, leading, of course, to a similar result.
The Vikings' quip this season, too often aided by those covering the team, is that the team simply is bereft of talent in the secondary. While it certainly is true that the Vikings, owing to poor drafting and poor assessment of talent, are short on good corners and safeties, that should not be read to mean that good coaching cannot at least compensate somewhat for these shortcomings. What the Vikings are currently doing is nothing short of simply acquiescing to the passing game--no fight, no adjustments, no consideration of alternatives, nothing. It is and embarrassment traceable both to execution and design.
Switching out of the Tampa 2 requires switching to something. A read-and-react secondary philosophy is one option. It is difficult to imagine that this could produce a worse result than the present disastrous scheme--a scheme that has been highly unsuccessful during Leslie Frazier's entire run in Minnesota. It is also a scheme that is now favored in the NFL, particularly for teams that do not have an elite middle linebacker.
Switching to the 3-4 defense also would help this team, allowing the Vikings to move Kevin Williams to the middle and drop another player into coverage in the base package. That would require identifying another linebacker. The Vikings have that player, but on offense--fullback Ryan D'Imperio, a former linebacker with decent speed. That would give the Vikings four average linebackers. While reducing the pressure up front, that loss presumably would be marginal given the Vikings' penchant for all or nothing front line play.
Offensively, the Vikings need to join the rest of the league in employing the forward pass. Christian Ponder had his second straight awful game and, if overseen by this current staff, is likely to see many more such days. Ponder's check-down appears to be the primary play and is almost always a short dump off play in the flat. Understanding this, opponents routinely jump the flat and, too often, blow up the play.
The Vikings seem finally to have acknowledged that Ponder will have to learn the pocket game by being allowed to roll out. Unfortunately, the coaching staff has deemed it necessary to force Ponder to roll left. In one particularly embarrassing moment yesterday, the Vikings called a left-side rollout on third and two for the right-handed Ponder. Not surprisingly, the Vikings did not convert. If the game is about putting players in a position to succeed, that play epitomizes the Vikings' coaching decisions this season, more often seeming experimental--without purpose--than thoughtfully designed.
Frazier and offensive coordinator Bill Musgrave also appear convinced that Joe Webb is a great athlete, yet they continue to jerk him around, putting both Webb and the offense in the worst possible situation when Webb is in the game. That, of course, was again true yesterday with the Vikings' continued and unwarranted use of the Blazer package.
The Vikings' use of the Blazer has no apparent upside but carries with it significant downside--both usually indications of a scheme that ought to be discarded but which the Vikings' coaches continue to trot out on the field, particularly when Ponder is struggling.
When the Blazer package is in the game, opponents know that either Webb is going to run the ball or try to get it to Percy Harvin. Of course, Ponder could accomplish either, making the Blazer unnecessary. Thus, bringing in Webb to run the Blazer merely puts the defense on notice that one of two plays is coming and offers no upside. If the Vikings want to get Webb in the game, the purported upside of the Blazer, they ought to find him a position that does not exist only in the Blazer package.
In addition to the clear and continuous coaching gaffes pertaining to defensive scheme, offensive philosophy, and use of personnel, there is the exasperating issue of non-use of personnel. At the beginning of the season, Musgrave touted his two-headed tight end attack, employing Visanthe Shianco and second-round pick Kyle Rudolph. Not only do the Vikings not have a two-headed tight-end attack, they do not have even a one-headed attack. The reason for this is anyone's guess. Shianco and Rudolph have proven their abilities as receivers--a seeming asset for a team with offensive line challenges. That would suggest greater use of the tight ends. This year, the Vikings are on pace to pass to the tight end less than any time since prior to Shianco's arrival. That flies in the face not only of the Vikings' needs but also of the direction in which the better managed teams in the league have moved. Whether Musgrave's or Frazier's decision, the decision ultimately ought to be Frazier's.
Frazier's assets as a head coach appear to be his pleasant personality and the occasional ability to jettison a cancer. Those can be useful traits in the NFL. But significantly more important is an ability to manipulate the talent on the team and oversee the minions. Frazier appears to do neither of these things remotely well. Combined with what is likely to be the Vikings' worst season ever in virtually every respect and there is little reason to believe that merely bringing in better talent will do more than make the Vikings an average team in the league under Frazier, as the Vikings have both personnel and scheme issues in all phases of the game.
Firing Frazier is not the proper first step toward rectifying the Vikings' current situation, however. That proper first step is for the owner to recognize that he does not have a firm enough understanding of the NFL to make personnel decisions and to hire someone who does. Rick Spielman has made some good moves--bringing in Jared Allen and drafting Percy Harvin and Adrian Peterson--but those were obvious good moves. Spielman has been far less successful when the move has been less obvious, with the only significant addition in this category being Toby Gerhart, who has emerged from the garbage heap to become a decent power back.
Should the Vikings part with Frazier--a near necessity after yesterday's demolition--the sense is that they would lean toward hiring a coach in whom they also would invest GM responsibilities. That's almost always a mistake in the NFL. For an ownership group seemingly forever intent on learning the hard way and fighting precedent, that is, therefore, also almost a certainty.
Up Next: In a Season of No Rhyme or Reason, What Should Vikings' Fans Expect?
11 comments:
- Childress of A Lesser God said...
I read last week that in previous games some of the DBs were refusing to play the coverages that were called in the huddle due to lack of confidence in the scheme.
Now Schiancoe is claiming that some of his teammates quit during the Saints game.
Assuming there is even "some" truth in those things, can there be any greater indictment on the coaches? Or the players for that matter?
Horrible drafting, poor coaching, questionable schemes, marginal talent, bad attitudes, ancient stadium, etc...
Where do you start with this mess?
- bmc13 said...
I'm not here to trash your posting, I always read them with an open mind and find myself agreeing for the most part with your commentary. My questions are numerous...for starters, everyone wanted Frazier to be the next HC, now many are calling for his head. All well and good but who would come in here and have a one season turnaround with sustainable results??? Some wanted McDaniels as OC, look at his marginal results with the Rams. I don't theink the Pack will let their OC go for anything, so now where do we turn? I heard on NFL radio that Bill parcells thought our current DC Pagac was pretty good...not a bad endorsement. If your players don't follow the plan, you could be the next coming of Monte Kiffin and all would call for your head. Do we blow up the D and try to fit players into a new scheme and basically stifle their carrers? if we replace all of them, then who should we get? Blow it all up and start anew? Bring in a name coach or try a unknown again....yuk.
As to drafting, you know full well, that its always a crap shoot when you draft a player, how many blue-chip players have been busts for many teams??? Should we protect the QB with a LT, get help for the secondary with a shutdown corner or get a WR to help the QB, who in my opinion should be Ponder. Webb is a gifted player but what successful sustainable future do running QBs have in the league??? A QB who can run if needed is far different that a QB who runs at the drop of a helmet, and that seems to be more of Ponder than Webb right now. Or do you trade the top pick for more picks add through FA and pray that you know what you're doing.
I could blather on for much longer but I await your commentary.
Thanks again and Merry Christmas.
- vikes geek said...
Most players understand that, in the wake of a bad defeat in a lost season, saying that "players quit" stands a chance of getting a coach fired. I'm not saying Shianco's comments were calculated, but given that he went from being one of the top receiving tight ends in the game to being a non-factor in a contract year, there is that possibility.
- vikes geek said...
I hear you. I think my posts have been fairly consistent and fairly accurate. I neither condemned nor endorsed the Frazier hire. I did, however, question whether someone who was unable to manage the defensive secondary--his playing position--would be able to manage an entire team. I also thought that this mix of veteran talent and youth probably needed something other than a forgiving coach.
I even more strongly questioned Musgrave's appointment as offensive coordinator--a position from which he once was fired only two games into the season by the man who hand-picked him from his own staff. Musgrave is a career QB coach who has not even excelled at that. While he has done some nice things this year, he almost as quickly has jettisoned his good ideas for heaping helpings of awful schemes, ploys, and plays.
Defensively, somebody must be responsible. The linebackers are woeful this year, particularly in coverage, the secondary is non-existant, and the team has gone nine straight without a pick--an NFL record.
Marry these problems with the oft-seen long returns out of the endzone and the team clearly is a mess.
Frazier's staunchest supporters argue that the problem is one of talent. The Vikings' deficiencies at some positions explain some of this mess, but not most of it. Rather than attempting to resolve the team's problems, the Vikings seem to run the same schemes every week with no vision for change that would enable the current roster to do better than the worst-case-scenario.
The Vikings will finish with either the worst or second worst record in team history. That despite having Jared Allen, Kevin Williams, EJ Henderson, Chad Greenway, Kyle Rudolph, Adrian Peterson, Percy Harvin, Steve Hutchinson, Jim Kleinsasser, Shianco, Joe Webb, Chris Kluwe, and Ryan Longwell. Those are some pretty good players.
Clearly, however, having those players has not translated the same way as it has for other teams with similar talent level. Why? In no small part, the problem is that the schemes do not match the personnel. Henderson cannot cover in the Tampa 2, Rudolph and Shianco cannot catch on the bench, Webb cannot thrive as a two-down-a-game Blazer player, Harvin cannot excel where it matters most if he is not in the game when it matters most, Hutchinson is a matador on the left side at this point of his career, particularly when surrounded by lesser talent. Put him at right guard and that might change.
- vikes geek said...
Part II
While I agree that the draft is the proverbial "inexact science," I do not consider it a crap shoot. When you draft in the top half of the draft, you must get a long-term starter. The Vikings do well when given one of the top five players in the draft (Harvin, Peterson), but seem befuddled beyond that.
What team, other than the Vikings, trades out of the first round to take a cornerback with more red flags than all other players in the draft combined? What team, other than the Vikings, trades high draft picks to move up to take players nobody else had on their radar? What other team routinely fails to produce results after the first round of the draft, despite imploring the fan base to recall how "precious" late round selections are in a seven-round draft? What other team has so little to show for its draft day efforts?
As I noted in a previous post, after this season, the Vikings could well have two entire draft classes in the past three years from which they have not a single player left on their roster. That's not bad luck, it is simply not doing homework or not knowing how to do the homework, despite trying.
I suspect that you were being earnest in your suspicions of those who lobbied for McDaniels as OC (you will note, from my posts, that I was not and never have been a McDaniels supporter). Others in the Minneapolis market, most notably those covering the team and some working the flagship station, have used the same analogy to defend Frazier and his staff. Their line, slightly different from yours in that they always raise the same defense in the face of poor coaching by the team they get paid to cover, is that "if not Frazier/Musgrave/Pagac, then who?"
The answer is two-fold. First, it is not the fans' job to identify the talent. That's the job of the GM (a position that the Vikings share among two or three people) or owner/president (regarding the GM). Clearly, the Vikings' "GM" has not done a good job hiring/extending over the past decade.
Second, particularly under the Wilfs, the Vikings have made such questionable hiring decisions that even fans have enough knowledge of credentials to wonder as to the hires. Childress? Bevell? Musgrave? Frazier? What had any of these coaches accomplished before being made head coach or offensive coordinator for the Vikings? Only Bevell came without significant red flags, and the suspicion with him was that he was getting a break because of his ties to Childress, more so than because of what he had done on his own.
Lots of issues, BMC, and they go all the way to the top of the food chain in this organization.
Is this team salvageable? I think so. There is still some very good talent on the team. But the team will do little different next year if the current philosophies about drafting, managing, coaching, and scheming continue. The Vikings need the owner to remove himself from the football side of the equation, hire a GM that knows football, hire a head coach who can optimize talent, change schemes, and bring in a wide receiver, two corners, linebacker, and offensive lineman on each side of the ball. This can all happen in one year, but not if the Vikings do not first acknowledge their issues.
Finally, and, again, to your point on McDaniels, it is not sufficient to rid the team of its current ills; the cures must also represent an upgrade. It was necessary to move on from Mike Tice, but Childress never was the answer. It was necessary to remove Childress, but Frazier was not the answer. Good teams identify their weaknesses and make proper upgrades. The Vikings are stuck in a mode of identifying weaknesses (easy with this team) but giving very little consideration to their next move. That has left them where they are. If they do not figure out the latter, they are doomed to repeat the former and will not change things around in the near term.
- HBandM said...
Thank you for your excellent analysis as always.
I do think Frazier should get one more year as HC to at least try to consolidate his tenure. The team seems to have pressured itself to win quickly from both a new stadium standpoint and because the team's DNA is focused on winning (I think the Vikings are the 5th most winning team in NFL history).
You tend to demand nothing short of perfection in your posts, but I do recall several of your posts over the past few years indicating that Frazier was a significant upgrade over Childress… I also agree that a GM is badly needed in both the short and long-term.
The flashes this year of what could have been do give me some optimism moving forward – believe it or not, I think the blown leads in most of the first 6 games of the year do show that the team and coaching staff were on to something, and close games against Detroit, Denver, and Green Bay (at home) make me think they weren't completely phoning it in towards the end of the season. In either case, I think the defense needs significant upgrades and the offense needs to be more consistent.
If they can adjust in the offseason with both scheme and (healthy) personnel, there may be a first-round wild-card loss to the Falcons (or equivalent) in our cards next year.
As a parting note, I think this picture sums up the 2011 inconsistency perfectly:
- vikes geek said...
I know I suggested that Frazier was an upgrade over Childress, but that's with two very large caveats. The first is that Childress set a low bar. The second is that Frazier's presence was the primary upgrade, coaching is another matter. They might be equals in that realm, for vastly different reasons.
I hope I am wrong down the line regarding Frazier, because I like him and I like that he seems accountable. I don't like his apparent lack of vision in dealing with ongoing problems, however, and I don't like the sense that I have at the beginning of every game that the other team will win, no matter the fourth-quarter circumstances.
We do know this--if Frazier were an a-hole, he would be gone already. That should give him some solace, at least.
- vikes geek said...
That is a classic photo--says a mouthful.
I don't think I expect perfection, it just seems like I do because what I espouse is vastly superior play to what we have come to expect lately. If this lasts much longer, we will again see the expectation bar lowered so that people reminiscing about the competence displayed this year will be deemed task masters. I'm fine with a high bar. But more important to me is that the obvious mistakes not be repeated over and over again. Eliminate those and we can enjoy splitting hairs.
- Cyd said...
Love the blog. If I may ask, what is your background that you are so experienced in the Vikings' many shortcomings?
- vikes geek said...
I was fortunate enough to be born with functioning eyes.
- Cyd said...
Touche! Did not mean to pry, however, you write very well and you seem to know quite a bit of the intricacies of the game and the team. If you care to elaborate on your background, I'd love to hear it. If not, understood and no worries.


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When you don't play your best and still win, it can feel like a loss.
That's how Iowa Lakes coach Troy Larson felt after eking out a 65-57 win over Iowa Central on Wednesday.
"Lately we're just not as focused," he said. "Sometimes when you have success and win some games, it's harder to have that edge."
Larson said Iowa Central played harder than the Lakers.
"We just made a few more plays," he said.
Larson did commend the play of Deondre Parks who had 12 points in each half to finish with 24. He was 8-of-13 from the field, including 4-of-6 from 3-point range and 4-of-4 from the free-throw line. He also led the team in rebounds with seven.
The two teams battled to a 23-23 tie through the first 13 minutes of the game.
In the final 7 minutes, both teams struggled to hit from the field until baskets by Parks and Diamonte McKinley in the final minute. That gave Iowa Lakes a 32-24 edge at the break.
After shooting just five free throws in the first half, Iowa Central started the second half attacking the basket, drawing fouls and getting to the free throw line.
That allowed the Tritons to get within three points. But Parks hit back-to-back 3-pointers to maintain a six-point Laker edge at 40-34.
But Iowa Central kept fighting and got within a point twice, the last at 50-49 with 7:50 remaining in the game.
However, the Lakers hit enough shots and free throws down the stretch to preserve the win.
The Lakers led 61-57 with 2 minutes left in the game and while the Tritons had their chances, four free throws by Kelly Madison in the final 40 seconds sealed the victory.
Madison finished with 16 points while Josh Schaben had 10 and Ben Shellim had five. McKinley and Colton Neff each had four points and Tate Harmon had two.
Larson complement Harmon for his defense and also Kevin Larson for running the offense well in the closing minutes.
Rhys Ellis and David Anderson led Iowa Central (12-9, 2-4) with 14 points apiece.
Iowa Lakes (13-4 overall, 6-1 in the league) hosts Clinton at 1 p.m. on Saturday.


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It's official! Guinness World Record executives have declared that the world record for the Largest Practical Science Lesson belongs to Iowa Lakes Community College, the Northwest Iowa Regional STEM Hub, the Clay County Fair and those who participated in the event.
The confirmation came much earlier than anticipated.
"When Guinness received the documentation required to process our attempt, they emailed stating it could be 'up to 12 weeks' before we would know anything," commented Trish Morfitt, Iowa Lakes writing and marketing/media assistant, and the coordinator of the documentation materials. "So you can imagine my surprise when just a few days later another email came in from them. I was certain - since it was such a quick reply - that we had failed to meet the requirements, but was quite literally shouting with excitement when I saw the greeting - 'You are OFFICIALLY AMAZING.'!"
The record-breaking event, which took place on Sept. 14, during the Clay County Fair, hosted 771 people who participated in a Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics related lecture, demonstrations, and two experiments all showing the "Power of Air."
"Putting on an educational event like we did, with the number of people required both to participate and behind the scenes, is no easy production," commented Kari Webb, Northwest Iowa Regional STEM Hub Manager. "It took an army of volunteers including Iowa Lakes staff, professors and students, local citizens, and of course assistance and access to a venue large enough to handle the crowd, thanks to Jeremy Parsons, Rebecca Peters, and the staff at the Clay County Fair."
The official certification documents from Guinness recognizing the record will soon be arriving at Iowa Lakes.
"Iowa Lakes' partnership with the Governor's STEM Initiative helps fulfill our commitment to advancing tomorrow's workforce through STEM related education," said Iowa Lakes Community College President Valerie Newhouse. "The College is very fortunate to have such dedicated professors and employees, who put in the time and effort to make this record happen. We're lucky to be in a region where our communities support these efforts."
The 'world record' event was the 'theme' for the day.
"We were happy to partner with Iowa Lakes and the STEM Hub on this record," stated Jeremy Parsons, Clay County Fair Manager. "We look forward to what the future might bring that we can join forces on again."


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For these actors, singing isn't just an act
Updated 5:36 pm, Wednesday, July 24, 2013
Next month, "House" actor Hugh Laurie will release "Didn't It Rain." The album is the singer and pianist's second collection of tastefully played and produced old blues and jazz standards with a decidedly New Orleans flavor. And this weekend Kevin Costner and his roots-rock band Modern West, who released their first album five years ago, will perform at the Coushatta Casino Resort in Kinder, La.
Sometimes it seems most actors have a guitar laying around the house, along with some flickering ember of musical aspiration ... the road not taken. Over the years, several have had the chance to make albums or play concerts, some more successfully than others. More often than not, the recordings suggest hobbyists whose fame greases through a vanity project.
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Some actors use music as an unpretentious outlet, like Dennis Quaid and his bar band, the Sharks. Many are harmless folk/roots types like Kevin Bacon and Jeff Bridges, who found a record label willing to put out their harmless folk/roots music. Some do their best to hide in a band format like Johnny Depp in P and Keanu Reeves in Dogstar. Some - John Travolta, John Schneider - benefited from being around in the 1970s, when bad ideas were rubber-stamped. Others - Bruce Willis, Don Johnson - benefited from being around in the 1980s, when bad ideas also were rubber-stamped. A couple of actors had surprise hits during that decade: Both Eddie Murphy and Jack Wagner recorded No. 2 singles in the mid-'80s. But let's not judge things by pop charts: Willis' and Johnson's hits both reached No. 5.
David Hasselhoff is famously famous as a singer - in Germany. At least two "Star Trek" cast members have made albums.
Just the past 10 years have seen a number of actors release albums: Jamie Foxx, Scarlett Johansson, Rita Wilson, Terrence Howard, Robert Downey Jr., Minnie Driver, Peter Gallagher, Tony Danza, Jada Pinkett Smith (with her band Wicked Wisdom), Juliette Lewis and Steven Seagal. Some have created fuller discographies than others. Earlier this summer, Jared Leto's band, 30 Seconds to Mars, released its fourth album. Billy Bob Thornton - who was in a ZZ Top cover band before he ever appeared in a movie - made four records under his own name, before making three with his British Invasion/early-rock band the Boxmasters.
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Following are a few of the better recordings made by actors. It's worth noting we've discounted musical-theater types such as Matthew Morrison as well as performers such as Janet Jackson, Drake, Alanis Morrissette and Jenny Lewis, who were in TV and film early on but no longer list "actor" as vocation on their tax returns.
1. "Volume Two" (2010)
Actor: Zoe Deschanel
Band: She & Him
Sound: Having sung on screen, Deschanel teamed up with indie-rock multi-instrumentalist and guitar whiz Matt Ward for a contemporary take on '60s and '70s California pop.
Recommended if you like: '60s girl groups
Sample song: "Don't Look Back"
2. "Music for Lovers Only" (1953)
Actor: Jackie Gleason
Band: Jackie Gleason Orchestra
Sound: The actor and comedian was best-known for characters on the cusp of coming unhinged. But as a pianist, composer and conductor, he went for a slow, smooth romantic sound with strings.
Recommended if you like: Percy Faith
Sample song: "My Funny Valentine"
3. "Nighttiming" (2007)
Actor: Jason Schwartzman
Band: Coconut Records
Sound: Having drummed for Phantom Planet, Schwartzman became a one-man band with his Coconut Records, making endlessly melodic California pop.
Recommended if you like: Harry Nilsson
Sample song: "West Coast"
4. "Let Them Talk" (2011)
Actor: Hugh Laurie
Sound: The "House" actor dabbled with music on the show, but off-screen he's more than a dabbler. Laurie, an Englishman, shows his affinity for jazzy New Orleans blues.
Recommended if you like: Mose Allison
Sample song: "St. James Infirmary"
5. "Songs for Dust Mites" (2003)
Actor: Steve Burns
Sound: Burns was an aspiring musician before he landed a job (and unfortunate shirt) appearing on "Blues Clues." He got back to music with an assist from Flaming Lips multi-instrumentalist Steven Drozd and producer Dave Fridmann, who helped him make a hooky sort of experimental alt-rock. Drozd has worked on some worthwhile recordings by actor Adam Goldberg, who has released music under the names LANDy and the Goldberg Sisters.
Recommended if you like: Flaming Lips
Sample song: "Troposphere"
6. "Goodbye to All That" (1996)
Actor: Dermot Mulroney
Band: The Low and Sweet Orchestra
Sound: Folk music with a rocking pulse. Mulroney played cello and viola in the band that also included Thelonious Monster's Mike Martt, the Pogues' James Fearnley and the Circle Jerks' Zander Schloss.
Recommended if you like: the BoDeans
Sample song: "Sometimes the Truth Is All You Get"
7. "Dead Man's Bones" (2009)
Actor: Ryan Gosling
Band: Dead Man's Bones
Sound: Gosling and fellow singer-songwriter bandmate Zach Shields made an interesting, moody and experimental-rock recording that has no trace of vanity project in its varied sounds.
Recommended if you like: Scott Walker
Sample song: "Lose Your Soul"
8. "A Tramp Shining" (1968)
Actor: Richard Harris
Sound: Harris made the fine decision to leave the songwriting to the songwriter, singing nine songs penned by the great Jimmy Webb. His voice and Webb's words were immersed in slow, string-saturated balladry.
Recommended if you like: Robert Goulet
Sample song: "Didn't We"
9. "The Divine Comedy" (1994)
Actor: Milla Jovovich
Sound: Model/actress Jovovich's album wasn't greeted warmly, which is too bad because the music is unpretentious and charming folk-tinged pop, and Jovovich's voice is expressive and interesting.
Recommended if you like: Kate Bush
Sample song: "Gentlemen Who Fell"
10. "That Man, Robert Mitchum, Sings" (1967)
Actor: Robert Mitchum
Sound: In 1957, Mitchum, a pothead, did a very potheady thing: He made a calypso album. It's really only good for tormenting people who love calypso. But his deep, oaky voice was better suited for a subsequent set of songs that were far removed from the Caribbean.
Recommended if you like: Johnny Horton
Sample song: "Ballad of Thunder Road"


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Today is not a normal Thursday.
The Dolphins don't play until Monday night so we'll have some time to get to the New England game soon enough. Meantime, I want to take you back to the final set of downs the Dolphins had against the Jets Sunday night.
The NFL Network did a good job of relating those final important downs in a breakdown segment that took Brandon Marshall to task for his effort on those final four downs.
Host Mike Mayock began the segment by showing Marshall's 30-yard catch and run that got the Dolphins to the New York 11 yard line with 54 seconds remaining.
Mayock, former NFL wideout Sterling Sharpe and former NFL DB Solomon Wilcots then break down Marshall not exactly flying off the line of scrimmage on first down -- a fade pass from Chad Henne in the end zone that Marshall didn't get to despite only man-coverage from Antonio Cromartie.
"Go get the ball! Go get the ball!" Wilcots said as Mayock was saying, "I know he's tired. I know he's gassed, but his hand doesn't even go up. He doesn't jump ..."
On second down, the criticism gets sharper with Mayock circling Marshall on the telestrator and saying, "he's just jogging, he's just jogging," on the play coming off the line.
"Now, you've got third-and-9. [The Jets] are going to bring three and drop eight, and here's our guy [Marshall] again. You traded, and paid this guy a lot of money. Beat the jam and get open. It's done. He's going to check is down to the far side. They're not even looking at Brandon Marshall right now, the best player, supposedly, on their team. Fourth down, game on the line, down eight points. [The Jets are] showing five, they're only going to bring three. Brandon Marshall, is he working hard?"
Wilcots chimes in, "No."
At the end of it all, Sharpe gives something of a note to Marshall with the kicker line in his thought to Marshall being: "At the end of the day, you my friend are going to have to bring it."
And here are Salguero's thoughts:
Aside from the look of Marshall, I want to know why the Dolphins aren't in shotgun? Look at the video and every time, even when they have no backs in the backfield, the Dolphins put Henne under center. Why?
Offensive coordinator Dan Henning will speak in a few minutes. Marshall is scheduled to speak today also.
Come back for their reactions.
[UPDATE 1: Henning was apparently not in the mood to give straight answers on a couple of questions today. One of those was why put Henne under center during that final set of downs and no RBs in the backfield, although he did reveal Henne does prefer to operate under center.
I asked Henning what his thinking was for having Henne under center on the final set of downs ...
"Is it better for him to be in shotgun?" he said to me.
"I don't know, I'm asking you," I said to him.
"We didn't have any thinking about whether he's under center or in shotgun. It doesn't make any difference, he works well out of both places," he said. "We had two timeouts left. We have a running game and there's all kinds of possibilities left. He in particular like to be under, by the way. But those plays we called had no bearing whether he was in shotgun or not."


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DOWNERS GROVE – Dan Cronin's county board administration has signed several contracts with companies connected to high-powered state lawmakers, and that has some saying the dealings are intended to warm the Republican's relationship with statehouse Democrats ahead of a run for a higher office in the future.
Since 2010, when Cronin was elected, the county has hired at least four companies that previously did little-to-no businesses with the county but have ties to powerful Democrats in Springfield, according to a Better Government Association article posted April 17.
In 2011, the county hired Mesirow Financial, a firm that employs Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan's son, the article states. Other businesses hired since 2010 include Thompson Coburn LLP, a law firm that has state Senate President John Cullerton as a partner; Burke Burns & Pinelli Ltd., a law firm with state Sen. Don Harmon as a partner; and Mahoney, Silverman & Cross LLC, a law firm with Illinois House Minority Leader Tom Cross as a partner, according to the article.
Cronin told the BGA that the businesses were hired based on merit, not politics. He also said that two of the four companies were selected through competitive bidding.
"We look at the qualifications – period," he told the BGA. "It's a merit-based selection."
In the case of the Mesirow hiring, they were not the cheapest company to bid, but were deemed "most qualified" by county staff and the board, according to the BGA story.
The other firm hired through competitive biding was Mahoney, Silverman & Cross LLC, which serves as the general counsel to the DuPage Housing Authority.
The law firms of Thompson Coburn LLP and Burke Burns & Pinelli Ltd. were hired without bids, which is common for professional services contracts, the article states.
To read the BGA report, click here: http://www.bettergov.org/bga_exclusive_cronins_cronies/


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Jorge Garcia, author of "Heart of Racism," opened the 2012 Ethics/Religion and Society Lecture Series
The current theme of the three-year series is "Justice, Tolerance and Diversity" | January 1, 2012
Jorge Garcia, a philosophy professor at Boston College and a fellow of the Du Bois Institute at Harvard University, was the first speaker of the 2012 Ethics/Religion and Society Lecture Series. Garcia, the author of "The Heart of Racism: Essays on Diversity, Race, and Relativism" and more than 80 articles on ethics, medical ethics and race, gave his presentation in the Conaton Board Room on Thursday, Jan. 26.
The theme of the current three-year series is "Justice, Tolerance and Diversity." Lecturers are invited to debate the meanings of justice, tolerance and diversity and their interrelationships: How do different definitions of or approaches to justice affect the understandings of tolerance and diversity? How does one's understanding of diversity affect one's view of justice? Which differences are most significant and which must be tolerated?
The annual lecture series provides opportunities for ethical and or religious analysis of socially significant issues. The lectures are free and open to the public.
Garcia's appearance is followed by a presentation on the following day, Friday, Jan. 27, at 3:00 by his wife, Laura Garcia, a scholar in residence at Boston College who has taught there and at numerous other universities. Her lecture, "A Feminist Defense of Male/Female Complementarity," takes place at 3:00 p.m. in the Conaton Board Room in Schmidt Hall. Garcia writes on natural theology, ethics and feminism.
The series sponsored five speakers in the fall of 2011. The final two speakers for spring 2012 are:
• William Wagner on Tuesday, Feb. 28, at 7:00 p.m. in the Schiff Conference Room at the Cintas Center. A professor of law at The Catholic University of America, Wagner directs the Interdisciplinary Program in Law and Religion. He has been a Fulbright research scholar at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Law in Heidelberg, Germany. He is also the author of "The Contractual Reallocation of Procreative Resources and Parental Rights: The Natural Endowment Critique." Wagner will present two lectures, one on "John Courtney Murray and the Vatican II Declaration on Religious Liberty" and another on law and diversity.
• Waheed Hussain on Monday, Apr. 9, at 7:00 p.m. in the Schiff Conference Room at the Cintas Center. Hussain teaches legal studies and business ethics at the Wharton School of Business. He writes on the intersection of morality and public life. He will present two lectures, one on Islam and business, and another on a more general discussion of Islam and modernity.
For more information, please call 513-745-2009 or visit the Ethics/Religion and Society website.


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Jimmy Dale Bean, a former Tupelo Police employee, faces federal and state charges on apparently separate complaints.
A U.S. District Court notice Thursday set a June 25 plea hearing for Bean on a one-count "information," which is a federal charge that comes from prosecutors, not a grand jury, usually after a defendant agrees to plead guilty.
Court records do not state what the 39-year-old Tupelo man is charged with, and it won't become public until his plea is entered in court before Chief U.S. District Judge Michael P. Mills.
However, his federal record shows the unusual addition of a U.S. Department of Justice official, Sheldon L. Beer, from the Civil Rights Criminal Division.
Bean is represented by attorney Stephen Travis Bailey of Tupelo.
In Lee County, Bean faces indictment accusing him of three counts of embezzlement from New Bethel Missionary Baptist Church in Plantersville.
Bean pleaded not guilty at his April 10 arraignment and is free on $75,000 bond. He is represented by Tupelo attorney Rob Laher.
The indictment claims he wrongly withdrew more than $500 cash three times from an ATM in May, July and August 2012.
He allegedly did so with money "entrusted to his care or possession" by virtue of his relationship with the church.
His state case is likely to come up during the May term of circuit court, which begins April 29.
This week, judges will preside over two days of pleas from indicted individuals in advance of the court term.
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DENVER -- It is absolutely beautiful here today. The temperature is in the high 60s and there is a light breeze at Invesco Field at Mile High.
I woke up this morning to a copy of the Rocky Mountain News that had a picture of linebacker Joey Porter in flight as he came out of the back of the end zone and chest-bumped a Colorado State receiver after the Rams scored a TD versus BYU last night.
Porter, who attended Colorado State, was at the game along with Dolphins teammate John Beck, who attended BYU. What a combo, hey? I didn't know Porter and Beck were boys.
Anyway, BYU won the game. And the Rams were flagged for their receiver's celebration with Porter.
As for today, Porter will be at times matched against Broncos rookie left tackle Ryan Clady, who you know has not allowed a sack this season if you read this blog regularly. We'll see today if Porter's streak of five consecutive games with a sack or Clady's sackless streak is broken today. Of course, it doesn't have to be one or the other as Porter can also rush from the right side.
Other things to watch out for today:
Does Ted Ginn Jr. have an enore performance for last week's 7-catch, 175-yard performance?
Do the Dolphins ride Ronnie Brown and Ricky Williams in order to keep the Denver offense off the field?
Can the Miami secondary contain the Broncos receivers?
I will be live blogging during the game so let's meet in the comments section. I will update with news -- if there is any -- both here and there.
UPDATE: Receivers Ernest Wilford, Derek Hagan and fullback Casey Cramer are inactive for Miami. Receiver Chad Jackson and tight end Tony Schefler are among Denver's inactives.


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By The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
This article was published December 6, 2012 at 2:10 a.m.
LITTLE ROCK NEXT WEEK Ewww: Prepare to be disgusted. The Museum of Discovery, 500
President Clinton Ave., welcomes its newest traveling exhibit:
"Grossology: The (Impolite) Science of the Human Body." This
collection of interactive displays and games allows visitors to
climb a human skin wall, perform "surgery," and find out what causes runny noses. It runs Dec. 15-May 26 and museum
hours are 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Tuesday-Saturday, 1-5 p.m. Sunday.
Admission is $10, $8 for ages 60 and older and children 12 and
younger. Call (501) 396-7050 or visit museumofdiscovery.org.
Ohhh: Screaming 'tweens will fill Verizon Arena in North Little Rock when pop star Justin
Bieber comes to town,
7 p.m. Jan. 10. Tickets are $51.50-$94. Call
(800) 745-3000 or visit ticketmaster.com.
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Happy Birthday Paul Rodgers
Happy Birthday to the legendary Paul Rodgers, who celebrates his 63rd birthday today (December 17th) The recently reunited Bad Company are currently in post-production for their upcoming documentary called Movin' On, which chronicles the band's 2010 gigs. No release date has been announced.
Although a renowned rock songwriter, whether it's his work with Free, Bad Company, the Firm, Queen, or on his own -- Rodgers knows that his ultimate musical gift is his unique voice: "I'm lucky, y'know? I'm blessed by God to have the voice that I do. And I've also listened a lot to, what I feel are the greats -- people like Otis Redding and Ray Charles, say, and James Brown. . . a lot of blues guys, too, you know? John Lee Hooker. . . and I copied those guys, y'know, initially, until my own style developed. And I like to think that I'm still experimenting -- I'm still playing with my voice, and I'm still trying different things from night to night. A lot of them are subtle, that people might not even notice, but I do. I'm trying things all the time."
In 2009 Rodgers received an honorary Doctor of Letters degree from Middlesbrough, England's Teesside University, which is located in his childhood hometown. Rodgers says that rock and roll was one of the only ways out of Middlesbrough: "I was born in, in Middlesbrough, in the northeast of England, which was heavy industry, steel works, chemicals, and ship building, and coal mining, and all that kind of thing. And really, you were educated in order to go into one of the above. And I used to look around and think, 'God, is there no other way?'"
Since splitting with Queen + Paul Rodgers following the European dates in support of their disappointing The Cosmos Rocks album, Rodgers has reconnected with Bad Company for a series of shows and a newly released live CD and DVD. He was asked if any of the band's old tensions reared their ugly head during their reunion gigs: "Well actually, y'know what, it was really nice. It was a really warm feeling because we've been through a lot over the years. And we did all those wild and crazy tours back in the '70s and onwards. And I think towards the end of it, we got a little burned on each other, y'know? It was good to part company and do different things."
On October 21st, 2011 Rodgers officially became a Canadian citizen when he was sworn in at a public ceremony in Surrey, B.C
Paul Rodgers will next perform on the "Rock Legends Cruise" in Fort Lauderdale, Florida from January 10th through 14th. After that, he'll perform on January 16th at Hollywood, Florida's Seminole Hard Rock Live.


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MILWAUKEE (AP) -- Caron Butler scored eight of his 30 points in the fourth quarter and the Bucks rallied from a 13-point deficit in the third quarter to beat the Detroit Pistons 104-101 Wednesday night to snap a nine-game losing streak.
Brandon Knight added 16 points against the team that traded him in the offseason, while backup center Miroslav Raduljica added eight points and eight rebounds off the bench.
The Bucks trailed 76-63 in the third quarter, largely due to Brandon Jennings, who finished with 30 points.
But Butler provided a boost with his jumper in the fourth before the Bucks held on late.
Josh Smith missed two foul shots with about 5 seconds left, and Rodney Stuckey missed a desperation 3 at the buzzer to tie.
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Massage a small amount into your hair and scalp two or three times a week. For dry hair
with split ends, take some warm oil and rub it into the ends of the hair and leave on
overnight. Wash in the morning with a low pH balanced shampoo.
Ancient Traditional Indian Head Massage
Warm some of the oil in the palm of your hands and gently rub it into the crown of your
head. Using your palms and fingertips rub some more oil into your hair, going from the
sides and back of your head up to the crown.
Then use your fingertips and thumbs press on the scalp in a downward and forward manner
creating heat through friction by using small, rhythmic movements over one spot. Make sure
to work your way over the entire head, again coming up from the sides and back.
Next, place the heels of your hands over your temples and while keeping one hand still
vigorously move the other hand up and down on the same spot. Repeat this step using the
other hand as well and then do the same at the front and back of your head.
Run your fingertips through your hair at the sides of your head and at the same time close
your fingers and gently pull. Then, move your hands from side to side.
Now gently rub the areas in front and above of your ears, using a circular motion.
Putting your hands on your temples with your fingers pointing upwards then repeatedly
squeeze for five seconds and release. Repeat this while squeezing the area above your
The muscles on either side of your neck at the bottom of your skull are massaged next, by
quickly rubbing them up and down with your fingertips. Then, till your head back and rest
it on your thumbs, for fifteen seconds.
Finally, squeeze and relax your neck muscles, gently pulling them in a circular motion and
go down and across to the tips of your shoulders. Use the right hand for the right side of
your neck and the left for the left side.
It is important to remember to lightly pass your fingers through your hair to relax you
Oil Brahmi Oil: was traditionally used in India for many centuries to:
• balance the right and left hemispheres of the brain
• improve concentration
• promote mental equilibrium
• deepen meditation
• Traditional hair oil
It was also traditionally known to counteract:
• hair loss
• insomnia
• dry hair
• nervousness
• stress
• anxiety
• fear
• dandruff
Hair needs daily grooming, care and attention in order to stay healthy and strong.
Nourishing care needs to start from the root of the hair shaft, and we need to use a
nourishing food like coconut oil.
The best time to massage oil into the scalp is before a bath in the morning, when it
gently awakens the nerves; or in the evening, when it helps to remove the stress of the
day and promotes a good nights sleep.
Some of the benefits of an oil massage are:
- Improves hair condition, makes it glossy and healthy.
- Increases body heat, improves circulation.
- Improves quality of hair and clears it from disorders like dandruff, thinning, split
ends and dry, damaged hair.
When oil is applied to the head, it gets absorbed into the scalp through the roots. This
nourishes, strengthens and lubricates hair roots and the scalp, preventing hair loss and
premature graying. It improves circulation to the head, relaxing the muscles and the nerve
fibers. This refreshes the mind and body, relieves tension and fatigue, and improves the
Here is a recommendation for various types of hair -
Dry hair: As many as three times a week. It is important to brush the
hair before an oil massage, as it stimulates the scalp and improves the condition of the
Greasy hair: Only once a week. Do not massage vigorously - gently rotate
and lift the scalp a little. After shampoo, rinsing has to be thorough, and instead of a
conditioner, dilute lemon rinse may be used.
Dandruff conditions: People with dandruff can have an oil massage thrice
a week. It exfoliates, and rids the scalp of waste.
Blonde and chemically-treated hair: When you use warmed oil you are
nourishing your hair. So, chemically-treated hair also definitely benefits. It improves
the quality of the hair.
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Does that mean Windows Firefox users are ostensibly safe? I don't know what library firefox uses for xml parsing.
afaik Mozilla includes the expat [libexpat.org] parser
maintained by an individual going by the online moniker of 'Paunch,'
that's what my wife calls me!
Problem fecking solved. Nobody should be running without a script blocker in this day and age.
Broadly agreed, but t'Internet is a woeful mess of script upon script upon script. I use NoScript, Ghostery, AdBlock Plus and HTTPS Everywhere...but sometimes find well-known sites that still b0rk until I reconfigure an addon.
If you run NoScript, essentially every web site in existence is broken by default and has to be whitelisted. If you get into the habit of auto-allowing everything, you're no safer than you would be without it installed, and if you don't, then you have to manually spend 5 minutes picking and choosing which scripts you have to enable for the page to work.
More like 10 seconds. It's a compromise worth the time.
that's why i prefer "request policy" much more than noscript, i dont use noscript.
with "request policy" it blocks any external resources, and allows any script being loaded or run from the same domain you're visiting. malicious adds and scripts are always external, and you're safe. with many sites, like slashdot, you have external elements and scripts from a domain being used as CDN, you can whitelist it in 2 clicks, and keep the rest blocked. very easy, and maintains compatibility and security.
No problem isn't solved. But believe whatever you want.
Unfortunately, the changes prove once again that the criminal economy online is alive and well.
Just in case you were living under a rock in fantasyland with the cyber fairies where the robot unicorns roam free unhampered by criminals...
Just in case you were living under a rock in fantasyland with the cyber fairies where the robot unicorns roam free unhampered by criminals...
You leave my robot unicorns out of this!
Before a knee jerk posts "I use NoScript -- I'm safe!"...
The bottom, line the best way to protect yourself is honor the following three golder rules:
1. Keep your browser and OS updated with security fixes.
2. Don't visit suspicious websites and don't open suspicious email attachments.
3. Use a good antivirus that monitors your internet traffic.
You're a couple posts behind staving off the knee jerks. However, the safety of NoScript isn't the primary reason I run it. It's the crap that third party scripts "add to browsing experience" that I find useless at best; distracting in most cases of advertising; and tracking sites that are actively harmful to my privacy as well as to the accuracy of the web in general because their results are used by marketers to manipulate search engine results via their SEO activities.
And I would argue against your ass
Funny, I often wonder how so many people can view with the WWW without NoScript installed! Zooming up fake windows, continually scrolling sidebars, attack ads, "do you want to chat with a representative online" boxes, it seems like there are usually about three things to dismiss before even uncovering most content.
However, I'd certainly agree that NoScript is not for the uninitiated. It doesn't pass the mom test, or even the wife test. Most people just want things to work, and are willing to put up with whatever crap they're served in order to get it. I'm willing to view the static content, and if there's something deeper to explore, I understand up front that I might have to whitelist a few things to get it to work. Note that you can configure NoScript to automatically permit scripts originating from "base 2nd level domains" (i.e. allow everything from *.foobar.com when you're on www.foobar.com), which generally enables local content to work just fine, while still preventing XSS nonsense. The only place where I commonly run into trouble is with video content, as it's generally hosted somewhere else like Vimeo or YouTube, and with third party SSO providers like Yahoo. In all, over many years of browsing I've added some margin of trust for about a hundred sites which seem to have taken care of most of those issues.
Oh, and I forgot to mention the most important recovery method: if it's too hard to view, it's just the freakin' web - I go back to my search results and find the info on a different site. There are usually dozens of other sites willing to provide me the information without making me endure their JavaScript stupidity.
This is the wrong way to see this. A markup language that generates a static DOM (from which a GUI is rendered) is inherently more secure than a programming language that has access to a large set of supposedly sandboxed API's in that, while both can have vulnerabilities, the latter has considerably more "surface" to attack. Exploits may leverage one-off, soon-to-be-patched bugs to do their nasty work, but--statistically speaking--these bugs are going to arise more often in the more complex piece of softwar
>1. Keep your browser and OS updated with security fixes.
Useless, this is based on a flawed model from the beginning, the OS will always be unsecure,
as it does not follow military grade standards, and the population will always be left to use inferior products
>2. Don't visit suspicious websites and don't open suspicious email attachments.
They do not know in advance if a site is suspicious....until someone detects it...
I can also write javascript code that morphs continuously so that no entity (google)
I was going to call "citation needed", but then I Googled around and found an example [metasploit.com].
The bottom, line the best way to protect yourself is honor the following three golder rules:
1. Keep your browser and OS updated with security fixes.
2. Don't visit suspicious websites and don't open suspicious email attachments.
3. Use a good antivirus that monitors your internet traffic.
I'm not a fan of antivirus software, but otherwise I completely agree. Defense-in-depth is the only defense.
How many ad servers do you contact with each page visited?
How motivated would attackers be to compromise any ad server?
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Submission + - Google Glass could be the virtual dieting pill of the future (extremetech.com)
MrSeb writes: "In a year or two, augmented reality (AR) headsets such as Google Glass may double up as a virtual dieting pill. New research from the University of Tokyo shows that a very simple AR trick can reduce the amount that you eat by 10% — and yes, the same trick, used in the inverse, can be used to increase food consumption by 15%, too. The AR trick is very simple: By donning the glasses, the University of Tokyo's special software "seamlessly" scales up the size of your food. You pick up an Oreo cookie, and then the software automatically scales it up to 1.5 times its natural size. Using a deformation algorithm, the person's hand is manipulated so that the giant Oreo appears (somewhat) natural. In testing, this simple trick was enough to reduce the amount of food eaten by 10%. The inverse is also true: shrinking the Oreo down to two-thirds its natural size increased food consumption by 15%. This new research dovetails neatly with an area of nutritional science that has received a lot of attention in the United States of Obesity recently: That the size of the serving/plate/cup/receptacle directly affects your intake. The fact is, there's a lot more to dieting than simply reducing your calorific intake and exercising regularly. Your state of mind as you sit down to eat, and your perception of what you're eating, are just as important — which is exciting news, because both of those factors can be hacked."


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Matheson Reacts to State of the Union Address
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(KCPW News) President Obama's State of the Union address last night touched on some themes that could please some of Utah's elected officials in Washington, like expanding domestic energy access. But do they think he has the track record to get it done? KCPW's Jeff Robinson talked with one of them, Democratic Congressman Jim Matheson, to get his reaction to the address last night. He began by asking the lawmaker if he heard the president put forward any new initiatives for improving the economy.
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Kelly Rowland, "Talk a Good Game', Republic , HHH
Not unlike being a Supreme, being a member of Destiny's Child who's not Beyonce is a tough go. Kelly Rowland and Michelle Williams have each made their mark outside the group, but their groupmate cast a formidable shadow — a "bittersweet' situation Rowland acknowledges in "Dirty Laundry,' a track from her fourth solo album. Of course, she adds, her feelings were mostly due to the influence of a physically and emotionally abusive boyfriend who Rowland sings "turned me against my sister.' That forthright and confessional quality bolsters many of the 12 tracks on "Talk a Good Game,' making it Rowland's most stirring and provocative outing since 2007's "Ms.
Kelly.' "Dirty Laundry' is, in fact, followed by "You Changed,' in which she reunites with Beyonce (who co-wrote) and Williams to bid a bad lover goodbye, while songs such as the Joni Mitchell-quoting "Gone' (with Wiz Khalifa), "I Remember,' "Down on Love' and the title track (with rapper Kevin Cossom) offer more laments about relationships gone bad. Elsewhere, however, Rowland holds her own with Pusha-T on "Street Life,' while the sultry "Kisses Down Low' and the '80s-flavored pop-funk of "Freak' let Rowland get her, well, freak on beyond Destiny's Child's carefully maintained PG-13 parameters. An all-star list of producers such as Nate "Danja' Hills, The Runners, The-Dream, Boi-1da, Pharrell Williams and others craft arrangements that are contemporary but not gratuitously current, resulting in probably the best thing either of the other two Destiny's Child members has produced on her own.
J. Cole, "Born Sinner' (Roc Nation/Columbia): HH1â 2
J. Cole is a mess on his sophomore album. Oh, the North Carolina MC and producer is as cocky and assured as he was on 2011's chart-topping "Cole World: The Sideline Story,' but there's a kind of buckshot rage on "Born Sinner' that makes his swagger this time seem forced and defensive, even if his sentiments are heartfelt. It certainly leads to some provocative territory, however, especially when he assesses his stature in the rap game in the combative opening track "Villuminati' and ponders a particularly delicate situation in "Let Nas Down,' which seems based on hearsay rather than actual communication. Musically, meanwhile, "Born Sinner' works best on live-band tracks such as "Runaway,' "Forbidden Fruit' (with Kendrick Lamar) and "Crooked Smile,' and he uses a choir to good effect throughout the set, and especially on the album-closing title track.
New & Noteworthy:
BWB, "Human Nature' (Heads Up International): The second "supergroup' collaboration by instrumentalists Rick Braun, Kirk Whalum and Norman Brown.
Donna The Buffalo, "Tonight Tomorrow & Yesterday' (Sugar Hill): The rootsy New York quintet delivers its first new studio album in five years.
Falling In Reverse, "Fashionably Late' (Epitaph): The second outing by the hard-hitting post-hardcore troupe from Las Vegas.
Bill Frisell, "Big Sur' (OKeh): The genre-hopping guitarist put together a new quintet for a collection of compositions inspired by California's varied landscapes.
Hanson, "Anthem' (3CG): The "MMMBop' brothers are still going strong, self-producing the fourth release on their own 3CG label.
High On Fire, "Spitting Live' Vols. 1 and 2 (eOne): Two separate live albums that showcase the power of the Oakland, Calif., metal trio.
Hunter Hayes, "Hunter Hayes (Encore) Deluxe' (13Star): This expanded edition of the country prodigy's debut adds eight tracks to the original, including duets with Jason Mraz and Ashley Monroe.
Stephen Kellogg, "Blunderstone Rookery' (Fat Sam/Elm City): The deaths of his grandmother and mother-in-law informed the tone of Kellogg's third solo album without his band the Sixers.
Bill Kirchen, "Seeds & Stems' (Proper): The latest solo release by the Ann Arbor-born alumnus of Commander Cody's Lost Planet Airmen was recorded in London during down time of a two-week U.K. tour.
Leogun, "By the Reins' (Yamaha): The debut outing from the British hard rockers signed personally to Elton John's management company.
Tommy Malone, "Natural Born Days' (M.C.): The Subdudes singer-guitarist releases his first solo album in a dozen years.
Maysa, "Blue Velvet' (Shanachie): The Incognito vocalist and member of Stevie Wonder's Wonderlove taps contemporary producers such as Mike City and Chris "Big Dog' Davis, as well as Incognito's Jean Paul "Bluey' Maunick to collaborate on her latest release.
Delbert McClinton and Glen Clark, "Blind, Crippled & Crazy' (New West): The two Americana musical partners and kindred spirits reunite for their first full album together since 1973.
Mac Miller, "Watching Movies With the Sound Off' (Rostrum): The Pittsburgh rapper's second album features guest such as Action Bronson, Earl Sweatshirt, Jay Electronica and others.
The Mowgli's, "Waiting For the Dawn' (Photo Finish/Island): The southern California modern rock group makes its major-label debut with this 13-track set.
Nektar, "Time Machine' (Purple Pyramid): The German prog rock group of "Remember the Future' fame returns with another set of ambitious compositions.
Primal Scream, "More Light' (Ignition): The Scottish psychedelic rock group's first new album in five years hits these shores after a May release across the pond.
Satan, "Life Sentence' (Listenable): The British heavy metal group returns with its first new album in 15 years, and using its original moniker after stints as Blind Fury and Pariah.
Sigur Ros, "Kveikur' (XL): The Icelandic ambient rock group's seventh studio set is its first as a trio following the departure of keyboardist Kjartan Sveinsson.
3OH!3, "Omens' (Photo Finish/Atlantic): The fourth album by the Boulder, Colo., electropop duo has been awhile in coming, with a first single ("You're Gonna Love This') released a full 11 months ago.
From The Vaults: Primus, "Sailing the Seas of Cheese (Deluxe Edition)' (Interscope/UMe); Sublime, "3 Ring Circus — Live at the Palace' CD and DVD (Gasoline Alley/UMe)
Soundtracks: "Annie: The New Broadway Cast Recording' (Shout! Factory); Marco Beltrami, "World War Z: Music From the Motion Picture' (Warner Bros.); "Despicable Me 2' (Backlot); "Monsters University' (Walt Disney); Various Artists, "Lizzie' (Broadway); Various Artists, "20 Feet From Stardom' (Columbia


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|Elegantly served with simple syrup and sorbet.
This is a lemon's lovers bread pudding turned gourmet!
3/4 cup heavy cream
nutmeg, cinnamon and sugar for topping
|Elegantly served with simple syrup and sorbet.
This is a lemon's lovers bread pudding turned gourmet!
Whenever lemon is involved--it must be delicious!
I love limoncello, your pudding looks amazing dear :) Bye, have a great day
This sounds like a great aromatic dessert!xxx
Limoncello is one of my favorite drinks, so how can this recipe possibly be bad? This sounds fantastic to me!
A wonderful warm weather dessert. Lemons just make you think cool and refreshed.
Now if I could just save some limoncello and ave some leftover (we love it) this will get made. It brightens up the bread pudding.
You know I'm copying this recipe like ASAP! What a terrific dessert..I adore Lemoncello liquor, it's so delish and fresh. Thanks for it pretty lady.
What a great twist on your traditional bread pudding. This would make for a very elegant dessert indeed!
Well this is something different that I've never heard of. I had Limoncello when I was on the Amalfi Coast so I would imagine in bread pudding it's got to be delicious! Now to make some limoncello or I guess I could buy it.
Love the idea of serving this with sorbet! So refreshing and yummy too!
Now this is an excellent use for limoncello! Bread pudding does make for an upscale and tasty dessert. With the lemon flavor, no doubt this would be a sure fire hit at any occasion. Also, the lemon sorbet means a double dose of citrus-which is always welcome. Excellent post!
I just bought a bottle of limoncello…what a great way to break it in! Sounds delicious!
I'm saving this recipe for when summer arrives down under :) Sounds delicious!
Oh my, this is fantastic! So delicious!!!
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John O'Connor finds work in Alabama…
(from WFSA.com) – WSFA 12 News is pleased to announce that John O'Connor is joining the WSFA 12 News Team in January. John comes to WSFA 12 News with over 25 years experience in broadcast journalism working in Orlando, Jacksonville and Louisville. He is excited about returning to live in Alabama. O'Connor lived in Mobile for several years as a teenager.
"I am very much looking forward to becoming a part of the WSFA 12 News team. They demonstrate day in and day out why they are a News leader in Montgomery," O'Connor said….Cont….
O'Connor was slowly pushed out of Jacksonville's WTEV/WAWS in 2010, after a DUI arrest. He joined the duopoly several years before to serve as lead anchor, when WTEV changed affiliation to CBS. Prior to WTEV/WAWS, O'Connor anchored at WESH in Orlando.


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Stuffed Garlic Spinach Bread
- Yield: 6 servings
- 2tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil, divided
- 1large onion, finely chopped
- 3-- garlic cloves, minced
- 1-- (14.5-ounce) can no-salt-added chopped, spinach, drained and squeezed dry
- 1/2cup diced, canned red bell peppers
- 12large black olives, chopped (optional)
- 1pinch crushed red pepper
- 1/4cup freshly grated Parmesan cheese, divided
- 1/4teaspoon kosher salt and ground black pepper, to taste
- 1pound frozen pizza dough, thawed
- Preheat oven to 425F.
- Heat 1 tablespoon olive oil in a large skillet over medium-high heat. Add onion and sauté until tender, about 3 minutes. Add garlic and stir 30 seconds. Remove from heat and stir in spinach, peppers, olives, crushed pepper, 3 tablespoons Parmesan cheese, salt and pepper.
- Roll out pizza dough into a 12-inch round using just enough flour on the work surface and dough to keep it from sticking. Brush off excess flour and transfer dough to a baking sheet. Sprinkle remaining Parmesan over the center and mound the spinach mixture on one side of the dough leaving a 1/2-inch border of exposed dough at the edge. Brush the exposed edge with water, and fold the other side of the dough over top, stretching it so that it completely encases the filling. Firmly pinch the edges together sealing the filling inside. Cut 4 slits in the top and brush with remaining olive oil. Bake until crisp and brown, about 20 minutes; cool 10 minutes before serving. Cut in 6 wedges.
Nutritional Info *per serving
- Calories 250
- Fat 9g
- Cholesterol 5mg
- Sodium 510mg
- Carbohydrate 38g
- Fiber 3g
- Protein 8g


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The Turkish club Galatasaray says it is having talks with Didier Drogba about a possible move to Istanbul.
Galatasaray's statement on its website gave no other detail on its efforts to sign the former Chelsea forward, who signed last summer with China's Shanghai Shenhua and is with Ivory Coast at the African Cup of Nations in South Africa.
The Hurriyet newspaper reported Galatasaray officials met with Drogba during the African Cup and agreed to an 18-month deal that would earn him 7 million euros ($9.43 million), plus an extra 30,000 euros per match.
Drogba could become Galatasaray's second major signing during the January transfer window.
Last week, Dutch midfielder Wesley Sneijder joined from Inter Milan with a 3 1/2-year contract.