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Every once in a while I get a huge craving for General Tso's chicken but want a slightly lighter option. Recently I've also gotten a few emails from readers who were curious about how to make vegetarian versions of their favorite takeout dishes. So I got inspired to do a vegetarian General Tso's using tofu.
One of the benefits of using tofu is that it's quicker and a bit easier than preparing the chicken. Instead of shallow-frying the chicken, you just pan-fry the tofu cubes in a large skillet with a couple tablespoons of oil to get it nice and crispy on the outside. And you don't even have to worry about searing all the sides. Just use a spatula to get about 1/2 or 3/4 of the sides to a nice golden color; this way, the tofu is crisp on the outside but still soft on the inside.
For this recipe, I adjusted the quantity of the sauce that I usually use for General Tso's chicken, and a couple of ingredients in it, to compensate for the protein not being marinated. A few readers have noted in the comments of General Tso's chicken that they used ketchup instead of tomato paste with great results, so I added it as a substitute; it's great if you prefer a sweeter sauce in your General Tso's.
Finally, you can either mix the broccoli in or serve it on the side (just like takeout!) Of course, this is also much better for you than takeout, so you don't have to feel guilty about having seconds...or thirds...
General Tso's Tofu
Serves 4 as part of a multi-course meal
- 1 pound extra-firm tofu
- 2 cups broccoli florets
- 1 tablespoon peanut of vegetable oil
- 8 dried whole red chilis, or substitute 1/4 teaspoon dried red chili flakes
- 2 cloves garlic, minced
- 1 teaspoon minced ginger,
- 1 scallion, white and green parts separated and thinly sliced
- 1 teaspoon white sesame seeds, for garnish
- 3 tablespoons tomato paste (or substitute ketchup for a slightly sweeter sauce)
- 2 tablespoons soy sauce
- 2 tablespoons rice vinegar
- 2 teaspoons hoisin sauce
- 2 teaspoons chili sauce
- 2 teaspoons sesame oil
- 2 tablespoons sugar
- Rinse and drain the tofu, then cut into 1-inch cubes. Blot the tofu all around with paper towels (drying the tofu helps it pan-fry better.)
- Bring a medium pot of salted water to boil. Add the broccoli and cook for about 2 minutes. Drain, rinse under cold water, and drain again. Set aside.
- Prepare the sauce: In a small bowl, stir together the tomato paste, soy sauce, rice vinegar, hoisin sauce, chili sauce, sesame oil, and sugar.
- Heat 2 tablespoons of the peanut oil in a wok or large skillet over medium-high heat. Swirl to coat the bottom. Add the tofu in one layer (you may have to do this in batches) and allow it to sear on the first side undisturbed for about 1 minute. Then use a spatula to move the tofu cubes around until they are golden on half or most of the sides, about 3 to 4 minutes. Transfer to a plate and set aside.
- In the same pan, add the remaining 1 tablespoon of peanut oil. Add the dried chilis, garlic, ginger, and scallions and stir-fry until just fragrant, about 30 or 40 seconds. Pour in the sauce and stir until thickened, about 1 minute. Add the tofu and carefully toss to coat with the sauce. You can either toss the broccoli in with the sauce or serve it on the side. Transfer everything to a large serving dish. Sprinkle the sesame seeds and scallions greens on top and serve with rice on the side.


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Vertical sleeve gastrectomy (VSG) is surgery to decrease the size of your stomach.
This surgery involves re-shaping the stomach to reduce the amount of food it can hold.
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Body mass index
(BMI) is used to determine if a person is
or obese. A normal BMI is 18.5 to 25. This surgery is an option for people with:
If lifestyle changes are made, the benefits of VSG include:
Problems from the procedure are rare, but all procedures have some risk. Your doctor will review potential problems, like:
Long-term complications include vomiting and developing
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General anesthesia
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Several small cuts will be made in your abdomen. Gas will be pumped in to inflate your abdomen, making it easier for the doctor to see. A laparoscope and surgical tools will be inserted through the incisions. A laparoscope is a thin, lighted tool with a tiny camera. It sends images of your abdominal cavity to a monitor. Your doctor will operate while viewing the monitor.
Surgical staples will be used to divide the stomach vertically. The new stomach will be the shape of a slim banana. The rest of the stomach will be removed. Your new stomach can hold 50-150 mL (milliliters) of food—about 10% of what a normal adult stomach can hold. Incisions will be closed with staples or stitches.
In some cases, the doctor may need to switch to open surgery.
The breathing tube and catheter will be removed.
About 2 hours
Anesthesia will prevent pain during surgery. Pain and discomfort after the procedure can be managed with medications.
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If you think you have an emergency, call for emergency medical services right away.
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Weight Control Information Network
Canadian Obesity Network
Weight Loss Surgery
Bariatric surgery. EBSCO DynaMed website. Available at:
http://www.ebscohost.com/dynamed. Updated November 3, 2014. Accessed December 4, 2014.
Bariatric surgery for severe obesity. National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases website. Available at:
http://win.niddk.nih.gov/publications/gastric.htm. Updated June 2011. Accessed December 4, 2014.
Gastric sleeve. University of California, San Diego Health System website. Available at:
http://health.ucsd.edu/specialties/surgery/bariatric/weight-loss-surgery/gastric-sleeve/Pages/default.aspx. Accessed December 4, 2014.
Laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy. Cleveland Clinic website. Available at:
http://weightloss.clevelandclinic.org/Sleevegastrectomy.aspx. Accessed December 4, 2014.
Sleeve gastrectomy. Virginia Mason Medical Center. Bariatric Surgery Center of Excellence website. Available at:
https://www.virginiamason.org/SleeveGastrectomy. Updated October 2010. Accessed December 8, 2013.
Weight loss surgery. North Shore Medical Center website. Available at:
http://nsmcweightloss.org/web/surgical_procedures.aspx. Accessed December 4, 2014.
3/23/2015 DynaMed's Systematic Literature Surveillance http://www.ebscohost.com/dynamed: Short V, Herbert G, et al. Chewing gum for postoperative recovery of gastrointestinal function. Cochrane Database Syst Rev. 2015 Feb 20;2.
Last reviewed December 2014 by Michael Woods, MD
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If you're a Yankees fan so obsessed with your team that you require daily tidbits of minutiae to get through your workday, you might have one of those daily desk calendars. (We have one for "The Far Side.") Fishbowl NY has pointed out the above entry for yesterday, August 2, in which the copy-editing whiz kids discover what horrors can sometimes occur when you get a little to crazy with the Search and Replace.
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In this article for Slate Tanner Colby talks about the differences between his reporting and writing for Belushi: A Biography and Bob Woodward's Wired: The Short Life and Fast Times of John Belushi.
To promote a new indie comedy he's starring in called Somebody Up There Likes Me, Nick Offerman made this video with Adam Scott, Megan Mullally, Amy Poehler, Alison Brie, and Stephanie Hunt.
Jimmy Fallon answered questions for this week's edition of "Ask a Grown Man" from Rookie, the online magazine for teenage girls.
Fallon also had some help from Steve Carell and Justin Timberlake for the latest in his series "Real People, Fake Arms".
Comedian J-L Cauvin wrote this piece on all of the things new comics "should" do.
Watch Jerry Seinfeld do five new minutes of stand-up on The Tonight Show.
Laughspin has been covering the comedy at SXSW (Day One, Day Two, Day Three, Day Four).
The trailer for Louie CK's new HBO special, Oh My God, is now available to watch online.
Doogie Horner sent some "anonymous tips" to Philebrity.
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Belated congrats on your LLC2 qualification.
I've been following Armadillo's exploits for years and through all the iterations of engines, injectors, nozzles, etc, I've wondered how you guys kept track of this ever-growing bundle of acquired knowledge. Do you just have a bunch of text files with point-form notes, or do you have a more formal way of keeping track of what you've learned?
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Location: Yerushalayim (Jerusalem) - capital of Israel!
If they don't, maybe we could make a project in the Spacefellowship of organizing the info in the Armadillo updates and even on their posts to the Armadillo forum . . . I'd be willing to help.
"Once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return."
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Space Walker
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Yes a little wiki or database would be nice. With Hyperlinks of course. I would be happy to help data mine.
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Location: Haarlem, The Netherlands
It's all stored in John Carmack's massive brain .
Say, can you feel the thunder in the air? Just like the moment 'fore it hits – then it's everywhere
What is this spell we're under, do you care? The might to rise above it is now within your sphere
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Lourens wrote:
It's all stored in John Carmack's massive brain .
That's likely true, though for the whole team. Our knowledge is in emails, a few design documents, some posts to ARocket, and a lot of experiences kept in people's heads.
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Location: Fleet Command
Heck, as a developer I'd be darn interested in this...
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Space Walker
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Location: Webster, TX
I couldn't begin to imagine what could be done with a resource like that.
I'm sure it would be a lot of work to organize, sift through the posts, data, and to pick the brains of the team members.
If I had the time I would gladly help, unfortunately I am a bit sparse on that .
I wonder what the Armadillo guys think about this
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It sounds like 1) a lot of work for them, 2) not necessary to their operations, and 3) a potential enormous competitive loss if someone got a hold of it. They paid for that knowledge in blood, sweat, and, well, maybe not any actual tears yet, but certainly a lot of time, energy, and money. If it were all boiled down to a nicely indexed DVD, it'd be industrial espionage waiting to happen.
Wait until 10 years from now; if John follows precedent, he'll open source the plans to Pixel right about the time they do their first orbital shots (same as he did with open sourcing Doom after Quake shipped....)
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Location: Vienna, Austria, Europe, Earth
... as he did with Quake 1, 2 and 3 subsequently
But you don't really want to wait for him to open source the engineering plans, because a) there probably aren't any (at least no detailed technical drawings) and b) if you are willing to learn about rockets and build something like pixel or the mod, you just have to buy a book about liquid fuel rocket engines, learn and understand the principles and then read through the archive of updates over at armadillo's website. There is a TON of information there, especially regarding engine development.
Of course, there isn't everything there, but certainly enough to start your own learning by doing project. It basically is the same with game engines from ID software: only the code of the engine(s) has been open sourced, not the actual content of the game(s). So you still have to develop/design your own stuff to make it work.
But well, maybe Armadillo will open source their GN&C code a few years from now
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Location: Dallas, Texas
Hi Guys,
Going through the old Armadillo forum stuff I realized that no one from the team ever answered this!
Now, 6 years later, with Armadillo in hibernation, much of the core team has joined forced to pick up where we left off. Of course we lament the fact that John is no longer a part, but we understand fully why that is not the case. He has is own pair of Golden Handcuffs with Oculus/Facebook to keep him occupied for a while.
When Armadillo was winding down after the last flight, one of the things we did at John's request was document everything with as much of the design reasons and test details as we could muster. The document produced was very extensive. It is called "The Book of Stig", and for the most part may remain a fabled unicorn for folks that would generally like to get their hands on it.
That book is ITAR restricted for obvious reasons, and I doubt that it will ever be published for general public dissemination. It has test data as well as the decisions behind each level of change in design. The information in that book could very well be worth hundreds of thousands of dollars because it takes things from such sources as "Propulsion Elements" and shows experimental data that refines the math into a working engine.
I am pleased that the Exos Aerospace Systems & Technologies (EAST) team has formed and is moving forward now before we lose the knowledge with the flavor of the experience to back it up. Even though John Carmack is missing from the equation, our prior work brought us appropriate contacts to write new GNC software for the SARGE vehicle. Some of the same team that wrote the platform for NASA's Morpheus vehicle will be working on the new SARGE platform.
One of the reasons for the kickstarter campaign is so that we can refine the models appropriately for them to be able to do their work.
If you would like to participate in an actual launch, you can actually do that now through this Kickstarter campaign! Sign up to be a part and experience the launch with us!
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SAN JOSE, Calif. – The San Jose Earthquakes announced today that the club has loaned goalkeeper David Bingham and midfielder Sam Garza to the San Antonio Scorpions (NASL). As part of the agreement, the Earthquakes will have the option to recall either player at any point during the loan.
"This is a great opportunity for both of these young players to gain valuable experience," said Earthquakes head coach Mark Watson. "It's important from a player development standpoint to play in games as often as possible. Both Sam and David will get that chance with San Antonio."
Bingham, 24, has made five MLS appearances since joining the Earthquakes through a weighted lottery on Jan. 26, 2011. The former All-American at Cal also started three of the club's four CONCACAF Champions League group matches and each of San Jose's four Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup games since 2012.
Garza, 24, has made 11 MLS appearances in his two years with the club. He was San Jose's first-round pick in the 2012 MLS SuperDraft after a standout college career with UC Santa Barbara. Garza has amassed two goals and six assists in Reserve League action over the last two years and also had a game-winning brace against the Fort Lauderdale Strikers in the 2012 Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup.
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Volunteer Notes, Sept. 25
Wine, Women, Shoes
Volunteers are needed for Wine, Women and Shoes, a charity event that benefits Communities In Schools of North Carolina. The event will be held Thursday, Sept. 26, at Marbles Kids Museum in Raleigh.
Volunteers are needed to help with the fashion show, copy writing, social media and more. For more information or to volunteer, visit www.cisnc.org.
International Festival
Volunteers are needed for poster distribution and outreach for the International Festival of Raleigh on Oct. 4-6 at the Raleigh Convention Center.
For more information, visit www.internationalfestival.org.
City of Oaks Marathon
The sixth annual City of Oaks Marathon on Sunday, Nov. 3, seeks volunteers to monitor the course, distribute race packets and help with setup and tear-down. All volunteers will receive a marathon T-shirt. For more information, visit www.cityofoaksmarathon.com/volunteers. To volunteer, email email@example.com.
WF guest services
Wake Forest seeks volunteers to work at the guest services desk in the lobby of town hall. Duties will include greeting visitors on the phone and in person, and directing them to their destination. Volunteers are expected to work two three-hour shifts per month. Volunteers must attend an orientation to learn about guest desk responsibilities, participate in a tour of town hall and submit a background check form. To apply, visit www.wakeforestnc.gov/volunteer.aspx or pick up a form at 301 S. Brooks St., Wake Forest. For more information, contact Jannie Chaffin at 919-435-9467 or firstname.lastname@example.com.
Inter-Faith Food Shuttle
The Inter-Faith Food Shuttle seeks volunteers for a range of activities. Get your hands dirty at the teaching farm, deliver food to people in need, or lead cooking classes and demonstrations. For more information, visit www.foodshuttle.org.
ESL volunteers
The English as a Second Language program seeks volunteers to teach ESL classes, help with office work and program promotion. Knowledge of another language is not required to participate. For more information, contact the program office at 919-996-6844 or email the volunteer coordinator at firstname.lastname@example.com.
Special Olympics
Special Olympics Wake County seeks volunteers to help during training and competitive events. Volunteers assist as event officials, athlete escorts, coaches, award presenters and more. For more information or to volunteer, visit www.raleighnc.gov or call Recreation Program Manager Brian Philpot at 919-996-2111.
Garden work
Volunteers 16 and older are needed for the Deadheaders Program at Raleigh Rose Garden, 301 Pogue St., Raleigh. Volunteers adopt rose beds and deadhead weekly. For more information or to volunteer, contact Cindy Trumbower at 919-996-3292 or email@example.com.
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Calvin's Paws, a nonprofit organization focused on the rescue and adoption of cats and dogs, is seeking volunteers. Volunteers are needed for animal transport, adoption counseling, and administrative and fundraising activities. Foster homes and donations are also needed. For more information or to volunteer, visit www.calvinspaws.org.
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Senior assistance – Help the Activity Director at the UniHealth Post-Acute Care Facility, 2420 Lake Wheeler Road, Raleigh.
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Cystic Fibrosis Foundation
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TEL AVIV (MarketWatch) -- Bank of New York Mellon Corp. BK, -1.78%, the New York banking major, reported fourth-quarter net income rose to $613 million, or 53 cents a share, from $500 million, or 42 cents, in the year-earlier quarter. A survey of analysts by FactSet produced a consensus estimate of earnings of 53 cents a share. The bank cited strong growth in fees in a number of its businesses for the results. The net interest margin, measuring the difference between what a bank takes in on loans and pays out on deposits, narrowed to 1.09% from 1.27% in the quarter.
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Much of the narrative regarding New York's recent track record of underachievement has been centered around a lack of team chemistry. That narrative does have some merit to it, as this has been New York's first conventional training camp with the trio of Carmelo Anthony, Amar'e Stoudemire and Tyson Chandler all on the roster. Not only was this seen as a training camp in which the "broadway bigs" would have the opportunity to mesh together, but a camp where the Knicks as a team can mesh together as well. However, the Knicks have run into a plethora of injury problems. Amar'e Stoudemire has missed time and both pre-season games to date with a "bruised knee". CAA favorite Chris Smith is now out for the season with a torn patella tendon. His brother, one JR Smith, now has some sort of unidentified ankle/achilles injury. Free agent steal Ronnie Brewer has yet to see action due to recovery from arthroscopic knee surgery. Marcus Camby has a calf strain and his return is unknown. For what it is worth, Henry Sims hurt his ankle in practice, but he is a longshot to make the team anyways. So yeah, that is a lot of injuries. Great thing the Knicks have Jason Kidd and all of his veteran presence. He'll be able to fix all the Knicks problems. Wait, he's old and he's not good anymore so never mind.
In all seriousness, this plethora of injuries may very well set the Knicks back in their progression. Apart from a few practices, the star studded front-court trio have not been on the court very much together. Ronnie Brewer, the team's likely starter at shooting guard, could go into the season without having played a preseason game. It is unknown when Smith and Camby, arguably the two most important players off the bench, will be back. Stoudemire will be back this weekend, but we have no idea what level his play is at currently. This is a huge year for Stoudemire, as he needs to rebound from his dreadful 2011 season. This season certainly has not gotten off to a good start for the much maligned Stoudemire.
New York's early season schedule just magnifies the possible impact of these injuries even more. Of the Knicks first ten games, the first nine of those games are against 2011 playoff teams. The Knicks have to face Brooklyn, Miami, Philadelphia twice, Dallas, Orlando, Memphis, San Antonio and Indiana. Yikes. After those first nine games, the Knicks go on the road to face Anthony Davis and the Hornets and then play in Dallas and in Houston. That is a brutal first twelve games. If the Knicks get off on the wrong foot, it is foreseeable for them to start off with only three to five wins in that stretch of those first twelve games. This early season slate of games was already a gauntlet of a schedule before the injuries. But now the Knicks really are going to have to scratch and claw their way to get wins.
Luckily for the Knicks, they do play great defense. God forbid something happens to Chandler (knocks on an entire desk full of wood) then the Knicks would really be screwed, but they should be good on defense as long as he is in the fold. You still have Melo, who has looked quite sharp in pre-season, and the point guards have been healthy throughout camp. I'm not saying the world is ending because of some injuries, but there is definitely reason for concern. Not being in the lineup makes it just that much harder for Stoudemire to mesh with Anthony and Chandler. New York needs Camby to be effective to anchor the second unit defense. For a team that may struggle to score even with him in the fold, JR Smith's shooting is absolutely imperative to the Knicks offense. If Brewer isn't there, the Knicks will have a major void to fill in their starting lineup at shooting guard. Do you trust James White to give them productive minutes there? I don't. Not that he can't do it, but he hasn't shown anything yet. The Knicks need to get all these guys back and get them on track (rhymez) or else they may be in for a turbulent start to the season.
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Let's look to Washington, D.C., for a moment. It seems that, every few weeks, Americans are warned that we are about to go off the fiscal cliff or some other financial crisis is imminent. Ask yourself, until recently, had you even heard the word "sequestration?"
At first, these warnings sound serious and legitimate. But since the shrill cries over the potential crises continue unabated, pundits are now speculating that the public may be dismissing strident claims of coming disaster as nothing more than "crying wolf" by the president and other politicians looking for an advantage in budget negotiations.
No kidding. These observations seem to be fresh from the Department of the Obvious.
At this point, only a policy wonk, or a masochist – some say these are the same thing – would not be suffering fiscal crisis fatigue, or, as the governor might express it, they are bored with the whole matter. Many people would be happy if they never again heard the words "fiscal cliff," sequestration or a phrase often associated with them – "kicking the can down the road."
This boredom factor is also at work in California. Residents are tired of bad news, like high unemployment, high taxes, a high home foreclosure rate, that job providers are fleeing the state or that the state economy and personal incomes are declining.
This helps explain the willingness by many Californians to embrace the governor's declaration – which has been amplified by much of the media – that, as a result of his policies, including tax increases, our state budget problems have been solved. It has been so long since a state leader dispensed "happy talk" with a straight face while discussing the future that Californians are anxious to accept these positive prognostications as fact, and Brown's approval rating is soaring.
To the cynical, it might sound like Californians are behaving like the three young men in the insurance company TV commercial: after a baseball breaks a window, they are able to conjure up an insurance agent, a sandwich, the girl next door and a hot tub by singing the company jingle. However, it's not that the public is naïve, it may be as simple as wanting a break from all the depressing news.
So, when looking at polls that are supposed to reflect attitudes about significant policy issues, keep in mind that the result may be heavily influenced by the fact that the general public finds the political class to be "boring." But also keep in mind that, as those of us who are not bored with public policy issues predict, when the wheels come off the bus known as California, the public, which currently seems satisfied, will turn ugly. And that hostility will be directed at those who now are telling us that things are fine.


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This man was a gross and mouthy comedian of the '70s and '80s, yet this, you will most likely think, is eloquent and appropriate.
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Originally founded in 1904 as National Apple Week, it has now been expanded to the entire month. It's a perfect month to enjoy all the flavors that the fall harvest has to offer and nothing says it better than crisp apples.
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EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. — Osi Umenyiora came ripping around right end chasing the quarterback from his blind side, the way he's done it so often in his NFL career.
EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. — Osi Umenyiora came ripping around right end chasing the quarterback from his blind side, the way he's done it so often in his NFL career.
Aaron Rodgers was about to let loose with a throw when Umenyiora slammed his right hand down on Rodgers' arm and the ball floated loose.
Umenyiora's fellow defensive end, Jason Pierre-Paul, scooped it up and the Giants were on the way out of their slump and reemerging as one of the top teams in football.
They scored two plays later when Ahmad Bradshaw took an inside handoff from quarterback Eli Manning out of the shotgun and burst through a huge hole off right tackle. The Giants led by three touchdowns inside of a minute left in the first half. They shut out the Packers in the second half and beat them, 38-10, Sunday night at MetLife Stadium.
Umenyiora was the first to say early in the week the Giants needed to start looking like world champions. Then a kid represented by the Make-A-Wish Foundation had a message for the Giants on Friday night. Play like world champions.
The Giants listened. They finally played like world champions.
The Giants needed to win this game. They didn't need it in the must-win sense. They needed it to regain their confidence and swagger that looked shaken the last time out, two weeks ago in Cincinnati. The Giants could have lost more than a game in the Queen City. They could have lost their way. The Giants looked alarmingly bad. Manning looked like he had been dumped out of his NFL youth, making rookie mistakes left and right.
Suddenly the Giants were 6-4 and coming off consecutive losses. They had blown a fourth-quarter lead against Pittsburgh. They had tripped all over themselves against the Bengals. All those questions about the Giants' lame second-half slumps resurfaced. How could they not? The Giants moved to 27-39 under Coughlin in the second halves of regular seasons, 0-2 this year.
The Giants performed serious soul-searching during their bye. Manning's arm and mind got much-needed rest. His passes regained their zip during practice. He opened things with a well-placed back-shoulder 9-yarder to Hakeem Nicks, finally appearing to be fully healthy. Manning's 16-yarder to Rueben Randle in the back of the end zone was a gem. It was 14-7 Giants in the second quarter. They would never trail.
The Giants answered their two most pressing questions Sunday night. Umenyiora and his friends chased around Rodgers, pounded him into the turf, sacked him five times. The secondary, another sore spot in the Giants' recent tale of woe, stiffened after Jordy Nelson toasted Corey Webster for a 61-yard touchdown that helped make it 7-7.
The Giants were a two-piece orchestra Sunday – the pass rush and the quarterback.
Rodgers, remember, began the day as the hottest quarterback in the league. The Packers appeared to be a tough game for any team trying to break its slump. The Green Bay defense had been exponentially better than the one the Giants sent out of last season's playoffs, though Charles Woodson and Clay Matthews missed Sunday's game.
The Giants made it look like several other Green Bay starters watched from the sideline.
The Giants are 7-4 and two full games in first place. They have a 26-3 win against the 49ers and a 38-10 win versus the Packers. They found something else buried amid those lackluster early season wins. They found their aura of invincibility created by two special qualities: a game-changing pass rush and an elite quarterback.
The schedule is still a bear, but the Giants' second-half finish won't be about their schedule. It will be about the Giants. If they play to their talent level, they will win at least three more games.
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Darwinism on the immune system
At Access Research network, David Tyler discusses the supposed origin of the immune system, as per American court rulings:
Dr Behe submitted a letter of response to Science, but has been informed that his letter was not of sufficient interest to publish. The Darwinians are quick to claim a victory over these issues but are simply not able to get beyond speculations about the origin of the immune system. Here is Behe's last paragraph.But truth, falsehood, nonsense, and speculation all serve Darwinism equally. You would only have a problem if you actually wanted evidence.
"In my court testimony I cited the then-new article by Klein and Nikolaidis, "The descent of the antibody-based immune system by gradual evolution" (Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 102:169-174, 2005), which first disputed the big bang hypothesis. In it the authors candidly remark, "Here, we sketch out some of the changes that the emergence of the AIS entailed and speculate how they may have come about." Valuable as it might be to science, however, speculation is not data, let alone an experimental result. Students are poorly served when they are not taught to distinguish among them."
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The Sundance Film Festival wrapped up this weekend and not only did many films come out with distributors, but celebrities walked away with a boat-load of free swag.
Stars who attended this year's festival — whether to promote a film like Naomi Watts or to party like Paris Hilton— received free trips to the Caribbean, beauty products, electric bicycles, flat screen TVs, Samsung tablets, head phones, jewelry, winter jackets and more.
We spoke with Kari Feinstein, founder of Kari Feinstein PR, who puts on elite annual gifting suites for Sundance, Golden Globes, Oscars, MTV Movie Awards and the Emmys to find out exactly what it takes to pair A-list talent with quality brands.
Business Insider: This is your 12th year doing a gifting suite at Sundance. Tell us your company's role in getting certain brands into the hands of celebrities.
Kari Feinstein: I do gifting suites year round, I do them five to six times a year so product seeding is a core part of my business for my retainer clients and celebrity endorsement deals but then we also do the style lounges.
BI: How do you choose your clients? How do you get certain brands involved?
KF: We have sponsorship decks that, because we do these all year round, we have brands asking me what do you have for the Summer? What do you have for Sundance? So I have a lot of people that reach out to me. I work with a lot of other PR companies and I work with some advertising agencies as well that have clients, but we go out to companies that we think would be a good fit, and we also have people that come to us and want to sign up for the events.
BI: What brands did you work with this year at Sundance?
KF: Built, they're out of New York, they're one of our bigger sponsors and they make laptop cases and iPad cases, all out of waterproof material. It protects all of your electronics and that's been a big hit because everyone has an iPad and a laptop. Then we have a handful of beauty lines, a bicycle worth $3,000, and $1,200 Apple laptops from Melrose Mac, which got like 10 press hits already over the past two days.
BI: How many trips to the Caribbean did you give away at Sundance?
KF: We've probably given away 25 trips. Katherine Heigl, Matthew Mcconaughey, Paris Hilton, Adrian Grenier, Allison Janey, Mary Elizabeth Winstead and Casey Affleck are among the stars we gave vacation packages to this year.
BI: Can you put a dollar amount on the cost of free swag celebrities walk away with in one visit?
KF: An A-list celebrity will walk out with over $10,000 for sure, because they're getting trips to the Caribbean for a week, which is already
worth over $5,000. They're getting Apple laptops which are worth $1,200 dollars. From bikes we're giving to top talent worth $3,000 to high ticket items, because you need to have things that entice them.
BI: Are there any celebrities you don't want in the suite?
KF: Usually a publicist will submit names. We deal with all the publicists and agents and managers before the event and invites go out saying please submit your client for our upcoming event, so they know it's not 'invite your client' it's 'submit your client.' We do the filtering process and start approving names that make sense. There is a lot of up and coming talent at Sundance that aren't exactly household names, but if they're one of the leads in one of the main films then of course we'd love to have them come.
But there's some people that come up to Sundance every year that aren't really related to the festival in anyway but just come for the free stuff. I usually try to avoid them and decline and we say "unfortunately we can't accommodate your client at this time" — we do that a lot. If you're a main role in a Sundance film or if you're an A-list actor then I would rather have quality versus quantity. I know there's a lot of other lounges going on which is kind of like a party atmosphere, but ours is a fun, mellow, atmosphere. It's like a lounge so I try to be really specific with the guest list.
BI: How exclusive and hard is it for a brand to get a spot in one of these gifting suites?
KF: If it's a brand I think celebrities would like, then I take them into the event. But we have a range, from trips to the Caribbean to these hemp socks that have marijuana leaves on them.
BI: Other than obviously these brands getting great press from you guys is there any financial benefit or is it strictly press they're after?
KF: A lot of the celebrity photos get utilized for sale purposes, like when brands have trade shows. Brands also send the photos and press hits to all of their existing accounts and potential new accounts. I've had many sponsors open new accounts now that they have a celebrity following.
US Weekly, for example, won't write about your brand unless you have a handful of A-list celebrity photos and followers. So when somebody can go back and say, 'Here's my picture of Matthew Mcconaughey using my brand, and Katherine Heigl' and they get placed in US weekly — Those press hits generate tons of sales. And we have celebrities tweeting and instagramming pictures. Jewelry by Veronique had a celebrity [Kourtney Kardashian] take a picture of somebody wearing her necklace and in one day this small brand did over five thousand dollars in sales.
Paris Hilton tweeted a picture using one of the beauty products from the Sundance lounge before she went to bed and that's kind of priceless. If sponsors wanted to pay her to do that it would of cost them over six or seven figures, but they paid $20,000 to be here and things are coming out every hour. So it's actually saving companies money for product placement.
BI: So sponsors pay you to put their product in your gifting suite? What is that investment usually worth?
KI: Yes, they pay me. For Sundance, the sponsorships range from $20,000 to $100,000, but I would say the majority of our sponsors pay between the $20 - $40,000 range.
BI: Is it the same price range at other gifting suites throughout the year?
KF: For L.A. events such as the Golden Globes and Oscars, it ranges from $5,000 to $40,000. So some smaller brands can do the $5,000 level, while some bigger brands that have bigger budgets want to be exclusive in their brand category with types of brands that are like them. They want a bigger a booth at the event, so they'll pay the $20,000 and up as a sponsorship fee.
For Oscars it starts at $5,000 and goes to $40,000. So if I have 20 sponsors paying a range of those fees there's a nice profit for me. I think why I've been in business so long doing this is because I have a consistent good celebrity turnout and press coverage keeps it going and helps sign new sponsors. When other companies read about my event they want to sign up for the next one. And what is really key for me is having the right celebrities and the right press coverage.
BI: When you do an Oscar lounge, that's the biggest entertainment event of the year, what's the difference between the product brands are giving out there and at the more low key Sundance Film Festival?
KF: Oscars we'll have a lot more jewelry, fine diamonds. We have a company that's doing cutlery that's very expensive, but we do still have lifestyle and fun grabs there too.
BI: How does your company benefit financially?
KF: The sponsorship fees help pay for the cost of the venue, the production of the event, my staff, and so we obviously have to make sure for each event we bring enough sponsorship money to cover all the costs and make it worthwhile.
BI: What's your background? How did you get into gift lounges?
KF: My first job was at CAA,. It was a big talent agency and I worked for two agents who repped a lot of A-list celebrities and I made a lot of connections and contacts that way. Then I started a PR company when I was 23-years-old and our first client was E! Entertainment and they hired me to do their event at Sundance and we did all the product placement and celebrity outreach and we did a gift bag sort of thing and we got photos of celebrities taken with the product and there wasn't gifting suites at the time.
I decided that for the Emmys, I would do a gifting suite on a large scale because so many brands were so excited when I sent them those photos of celebrities using their product. The only gifting suites that were happening were maybe two brands at a hotel room displaying fine jewelry brand and a dress company for the red carpet and it was mostly stylists coming through and a celebrity here or there to look at the dresses but it was all for borrow, for loan.
So what I did in 2001 was take over a few bungalows at the Chateau Marmont and brought in 15-20 companies. It was the first time there were ever gifting suites on a bigger scale, so it spiraled from there. Some other companies came up that replicated what I was doing — some were successful and some were not and they've kind of disappeared through the years.


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Columbus native Michael Feinstein has a lot to say about George and Ira Gershwin, other great writers of the American Songbook and his own career as a singer and popularizer of such classics.
He's put a lot of it down in his new memoir, The Gershwins and Me.: A Personal History in Twelve Songs (Simon and Schuster, 352 pages). I interviewed Feinstein about his memoirs for this past Sunday's Arts section Book pages, but he offered so many interesting nuggets of insight, history and dedication about the world of music that I am sharing more in Theater Talk than could fit in print.
Columbus native Michael Feinstein has a lot to say about George and Ira Gershwin, other great writers of the American Songbook and his own career as a singer and popularizer of such classics.
He�s put a lot of it down in his new memoir, The Gershwins and Me.: A Personal History in Twelve Songs (Simon and Schuster, 352 pages). I interviewed Feinstein about his memoirs for this past Sunday�s Arts section Book pages, but he offered so many interesting nuggets of insight, history and dedication about the world of music that I am sharing more in Theater Talk than could fit in print.
Singer Michael Feinstein, a Columbus native, at his piano in 2011 photo Credit: A.J. Mast
Q Why did you write this memoir?
A To find a different approach to the story of the Gershwins and create a book that would be interesting for civilians as well as people who already know about the joy of their work.
Q Why do you favor so many older songs?
A The classic American songbook is neglected today. There are literally thousands of songs worth hearing, not for nostalgia but because their quality makes them timeless and indeed contemporary.
Many songs are constantly being reinterpreted by younger artists and heard by listeners who have no idea they are old songs. Even though there are a lot of talented voices, I feel a lot of short cuts are taken today in writing music.
Q Some people say you are so passionate about preserving the best of the past because you have the soul of a scholar, not a performer.
A That does ring true. It�s the desire to share so much of this great art with audiences today. I look all of these songs as a contemporary sensibility. I don�t think anybody can do it better than these great writers.
I just love the work so much that I always want to be able to sing the songs.
I do write (songs) here and there and like what I�ve written. Yet to sing the songs of Jerome Kern or Ellington, it�s a long list is a great joy. The thought I might sing something that someone in the audience might have heard before and is exciting.
Michael Feinstein, one of the nation's leading collector/preservationists trying to preserve memorabilia from the Great American Songbook, holds a record of Fred Astaire singing Change Partners by Irving Berlin in the film Carefree. Feinstein, seen here in 2001, salvaged it and others from the RKO dumpster. Credit: Lawrence K. Ho, Los Angeles Times
Q Your passion to collect treasures of American music was obvious in in the PBS series Michael Feinstein�s American Songbook. Is there a downside to your obsession?
A The greatest thing is collecting is connecting the dots, finding a lyric from one sheet and a missing lyric elsewhere, marry the two and put it back together to restore a song that otherwise might be lost.
The downside is it�s overwhelming to collect so much material. That�s why I created the Feinstein initiative to have a place to safeguard and secure all these things.
Q What�s your favorite Gershwin song?
A Probably Isn�t It a Pity, for many reasons. It�s the first thing I sang and recorded with Rosemary Clooney, who was a second mom and mentor and one of my favorite singers. I�ve never tired of singing it. I love the melody and the harmonic sense of it: �It�s a funny thing. I look at you. I get a thrill I never knew. Isn�t it a pity we never met before?�...
Once I was with Clooney onstage, and we were about to sing the song. I asked: �Did you know this is Barbra Streisand�s favorite song?� She snapped back: �Can I tell you how little I care?�� She was impulsive and very funny.
Q You learned a lot from lyricist Ira Gershwin, who outlived his brother by many decades and became your employer, then a mentor and friend.
A He loved to educate in a way that was fun. He shared stories and information in such a compelling way that it never felt like teaching.
Q Beyond music, what else did you learn from Ira Gershwin?
A He was 80 and hadn�t taken care of his body. Ira had depression and regrets about things. I realized that the decisions we make along the way have long-lasting repercussions.
Ira Gershwin and Michael Feinstein on Ira's 81st birthday...Photo courtesy Michael Feinstein
Q The Michael Feinstein Great American Songbook Initiative is a program you helped create as Artistic Director of The Center for the Performing Arts in Carmel, Indiana. Why in Carmel?
A Because they were building a $180-million new performing arts complex and had the resources and support of the community for the arts. They gave me the office, storage and exhibition space, staff and commitment to do a museum.
I like the location in Greater Indianapolis. It�s centrally located, not far from Chicago or Columbus or Michigan so it�s accessible to many people. The groundbreaking will be in the next two years. with many collections of Bing Crosby, Rudy Vallee, Alice Faye, Margaret Whiting....
Q Not counting the CD of Gershwin songs included with your book, your most recent CD release was devoted to Frank Sinatra. What made him great?
A What made Sinatra extraordinary was the total immersion in his art. He didn�t just sing the songs. He lived them.
Michael Feinstein singing Sinatra in 2012 at the performing arts center in Carmel, Indiana, Credit: Zach Dobso
Q You�v e performed on Broadway in four shows, all hits but the last one, (All About Me) a collaboration with Dame Edna. Will you return?
A Eventually, I�ll go back. I�m discussing ideas with producer Jeffrey Richards....I had such a wonderful time working with Barry Humphries (the Australian actor who plays Dame Edna in drag). We were disappointed with the way the critics received the show. The audience had a different response.
Q What other projects are you working on and are there any big dreams you have left to pursue?
A I just finished a recording with Andre Previn at the piano that comes out next year, along with season three of Feinstein�s American Songbook on PBS. Song Travels, an NPR radio series interviewing creative artists, is going into our second season.
I just want to keep making music in every way I can. I want to write more music and another book. I�d love someday to create a Broadway musical....
Q Do you return to Columbus occasionally to connect with your roots?
Yes, I do but it�s funny. I seem to perform more in Cincinnati and Cleveland and other parts of Ohio. I wish it were otherwise.


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