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Historically speaking, have you ever noticed that on some games, the reviewer consensus is much higher than the player consensus? And other times, the reviewer consensus is much lower than the player consensus. What do you think causes this?
Well, a lot of "final" point scores tend to be an average of scores for a few categories that a game is judged by. IGN and Gametrailers at least clearly let people see this. A reviewer might bash the "story" into the ground over 3 paragraphs because it's worth talking about, but if everything else about the game is great, he doesn't really have much to write about those things to fill 3 more paragraphs with how great they are. So even if it seems like a review is overly negative, in many cases it's just a detailed description of the one aspect that's not up to par, with no complaints about the others. So the average score might still come out high, even though a review sounds negative.
The games that are universally bad in every imaginable aspect usually reflect this in their scores.
I think a lot of it is sample size and self-selection. There aren't nearly as many reviewers as users, so the averages are statistically questionable. At the same time, users are more likely to review games that they enjoyed (or really hated, although my unresearched guess is that negative reviews are much less common than positive reviews), hence the ratings are higher.Reviewers also have different ranges than users. Reviewers almost never give above a 9.5/10 and almost never give below a 6.5/10. Users have fewer qualms giving 10/10 or 0/10.
Re "objectivity," reviews are all about finding someone with common subjective tastes to help you find stuff you like and avoid boring or annoying stuff. The only role "objectivity" might play is in hard-numbers stuff like speaker wattage or video card minimums, and that is always secondary to an interest in something like home sound systems or graphics-heavy software.
Re bashing Elemental because Brad's a 'right-winger,' that's just silly. Stardock has more than a few longtime games forum posters who are various sorts of non-mainstream/right-winger. We might get little or no affection from Draginol or Frogboy, but some of us have various forms of 'stature' in 'the community.' More importantly, I'm close to certain that Brad actually respects the idea of a loyal opposition, unlike too many folks currently claiming to be 'true patriots' or whatever. And I'm not just sweet-talking because I want the Elemental (and hopefully GC3) code to demote currency to a secondary resource in the basic game mechanics.
As much as people like to claim their view is the majority, there is no way to find out what the player consensus is. So you can't really compare the two.
But if im being less pedantic about the question id say a reviewer opinion is one from someone that wont play the game outside of their job. (If they do play the game outside of their job then technically their opinion is a player opinion.) and thats why there is a difference.
It will be interesting when the big *cough* professional reviewers check out Elemental's expansion (the sold separately one) because by that time the game will be so changed they won't know most of it was patched in over time. Who knows? Maybe we'll see an expansion of the year award like GC2 TotA.
From one quick look at f.e. GameSpots reviews and its users, I cannot trust the users as their "reviews" are 5 sentences long.
A review must mention pros'n'cons and tell you what works and what doesn't.
About professional reviews....I'm looking for a gamereviewersite to become my "home" for gamereviews but it's hard to decide. PCGamer is out of the question because of their "75% from us means 50% from other magazines" <--- Yes they've said that! They're inflating scores and affecting metacritic!
Another thing which I believe is that reviewers MUST mention what types of games they like and what they don't like. In SuperPlay many years ago the reviewers were listed with their preferred gametypes and what they didn't like.
In one number, they reviewed DOOM for Playstation (this was back in 1995.) One of the reviewers, a guy called Martin-san (san is a honorary title used in ancient Japan. He loves JRPGs like Final Fantasy and such) reviewed it and part of the review went like this: "Zzzzzz.....shoot monsters, get blue skullkey, enter blue door, fight more monsters, collect weapons and ammo, get in trap and fight Barons of Hell and Cacodemons very close to you. Die 3 times until you survive. I really hate games like DOOM."
He gave it 42%(!)
The other guy who reviewed DOOM likes shooters and gave it a high score. Don't recall the score but it was what a FPS fan at the time would have given DOOM. Like atleast 85%.
I wished there were more reviews like that since it shows a a review from two different perspectives. One that loves the genre and another guy who dislikes it.
Kinda like if I had to review Baldurs Gate or IceWind Dale. Without help I wouldn't have gotten anywhere and would probably give it like 50% or something.
^^ eh? PC Gamer are hands down the best PC reviewing magazine.
Q:Why does blockbuster titles get high ratings?A: As long as there's a single rating that has to cover gameplay, graphics, interface, sound, then a game with good graphics and sound, and at least passable design and gameplay otherwise - which the big titles nearly invariably has - is going to have a high score.
Q: Why does reviewer and user scores differ?A1: Many users will pad stats if they like/dislike a game or something about it, often for irrelevant reasons. (All 0 and many 10 scores.).A2: Personal preference. Not everyone likes the same game. Some reviewers try to have objective scores to rate a game by to minimize this, but that can often lead to ratings that does not reflect the game. Some reviewers are up front about their likes and dislikes; liking a genre is as dangerous to a score (Especially if it fails to live up to its hype but is still a good game) as disliking it.A3: Longevity, updates, patches are seldom reflected in reviews, but very often so in user scores.
As some others here I've become less concerned with the actual score and more with the 'meat' of the matter... but it is still important, because if a game has a low score I might not look at it in the first place.
I've come to like GameTrailers' reviews, because they give a decent summary of the strong and weak points of the game, including game footage. Not all reviews are good, but there's been some good ones. (The review of Alpha Protocol, for instance, slammed its combat system but also made it clear WHY - and that reason was one I do not care about, so I knew I could ignore that part of the score.).
Khardis does indirectly raise the good point that one big reason why user review scores will always be lower is because of the 0s. A reviewer who hates a game won't give it a 0. He will give it a 50 or maybe even a 30 if he thinks it's truly awful. But they will almost always give it some points. A user on the other hand will happily give it a 0 if they think it's a bad game, or sometimes just because they hate one feature. This will cause user scores to be significantly lower on average.
Now it's also true that users are more likely to give a 10 then a reviewer. But it's not as big a deal if a user gives a 10 when a reviewer gives a 92, as it is if a user gives a 0 and a reviewer gives a 50.
I don't know why all these 0's or 1 stars are such a big deal. You have a polar group doing the opposite thing at the same time, spamming perfect scores wherever they go because they like a game, love a company, or just love the idea and think that one day, some time in the horizon a poor game will become good so they give it 10s now.
They are a big deal because they are much further away from the average score then the 10s. If most people give the game a 7, but 10 people give it a 0 and 10 people give it a 10, then the 0s have a much bigger influence on the average then the 10s do.
In order for the 10s and 0s to have equal impact, the average score would have to be a 5. And because we interpret a 5 to mean awful, very few games get that.
No, I don't think that's the case. If a game is hitting around 5-6 because its less than average, and you have a bunch of fans throw in 10s and then you have people throwing in 0's... its almost the same. You also have to keep in mind for the sites that have stars, you can't actually give zero stars but you can give max stars.
Well note that I specifically said that a game getting a 5 was the only case when the scores would be balanced out. Very few games average 5 though, which is why on average the 0s will impact much more then the 10s. A 5 is generally viewed as an F.
Good point about the stars though. 2.5-3 stars is about average, so star systems will tend to be less effected by extreme scores.
I mean it's not that I don't share your concern. I just think that the people that rate games artificially high are of equal concern as the ones that rate them very low. For some reason fanbois tend to get a pass when haters don't, and really, we could do without either of them in the score board. While I rate games I like fairly high, I don't typically give them max points or stars or whatever and often point out negatives for even games I adore. And I think the average for games should be in the 5-6-7 range with the higher scores reserved for extraordinarily good or bad games.
The part about sharing my concern may be where you misinterpret what I say. I'm not expressing a concern or making any kind of judgement about people who rate high or low. I'm just saying that statistically the overall effect of the artificial scores is to lower the average user score. I agree with you that it would be better if the average score was a 5-6, but that is not currently the case.
I think most people tend to view games scores as simililar to academic grades, where anything less then a 65/100 is a F.
Well I originally said I didn't think the 1 star or bottom scores were such a big deal because there are inflated high scores that counter them. You then said it was a big deal which I took to mean you were making a judgment because you said it was a big deal. In any event, I made an assumption which appears to have been incorrect.
That last bit is certainly true which is unfortunate. I mean a "C" score to me for a game means its fine and some people will love it but maybe it's not so mainstream that gazillions will line up at midnight to get it.
Ah no I just meant that it was a big deal in the sense that it had the overall effect of lowering the average score. Kind of a big deal from a statistical perspective, but maybe not from a real world one!
For the last bit, that's also why scores can be really inconsistant. There is no one definition for what a particular score means, particularly among users. A score which means average to you might mean awful to someone else.
True on both account. I know metacritic tried to level things out a bit in comparing scores, but yeah we as gamers don't really have a way to have consistent meaning between the scores at this point, user scores or pros.
They're not a big deal. The problem isn't with the users, it's with reviewers. With the rare exception, an AAA game will get a review between 7-10. Always. The other numbers might as well not exist. For something like Fallout: NV, 7 is considered a failing score by Bethesda.
Users on the other hand actually will give out a 0 if the game is unplayably broken (like say Final Fantasy 14). The review sites won't. And honestly, that game doesn't deserve better then a 2.
hehe it might be worthwhile to go back and reread the discussion between me and Nesrie regarding what I meant by "a big deal".
Yeah I think we talked about this earlier maybe about how you read a review that pretty much says the game is a piece of garbage, the reviewer can't believed it was released it in this state and then give it something like a 7 which completely baffles me because, to me, 7 is an acceptable score.
I never have. I also can't, since our academic grades are G, VG and MVG and it's being changed in less then a year to have 13 steps.
I wonder if it was american reviewers who started that standard....and now I know it is because of their academic gradesystem....
Myself I see it like this:
10 - A masterpiece that got everything right
9 - A truly great game with almost nothing to complain about.
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Simple answer is because most commercial game's journalists aren't really gamers at all, they are , well journalists
I see a trend where even a poor shallow game will get a very high score as long as it's relatively bug free, polished and accessible. In fact I think to be a games reviewer these days, being a "n00b" is some sort of prerequisite.... and lets not get into the big publishers rumored payouts for a good score.
I very rarely find myself agreeing with any critics these days or there scores, except maybe Yahtzee, but he doesnt give scores and even he hates RTS/TBS and fighting (which is my favorite genre's). So I generally don't trust what he says either.
In the end try a demo or rent.
Too Human was a game that was slaughtered in the press, but me and my friends love it. It's not polished or user friendly, but man once you get a hold of the combat system it's a hell of a lot of fun.
Because the general panning I suspect we will never see the sequels and that makes me a sad panda.
As for scores I generally don't like them because people tend to just focus on that. No game is ever perfect so I don't think any are entitled to a 10.
Talking about reviews and perhaps how to manage it a bit better - try looking at www.Boardgamegeek.com that seems to manage things quite well, I wonder what a computer game version of that might look like.
I like that website, but it's a mess to wade through.


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Updated: February 12, 2013
1. What is the WATCH D.O.G.S. program about?
WATCH D.O.G.S. (Dads Of Great Students) is an innovative program focusing on education and safety in schools by using the positive influence of fathers and father-figures to provide an extra set of eyes and ears to enhance school security and to provide positive and active male role-models for the students.
2. Who are WatchDOGs?
Fathers, stepfathers, grandfathers, uncles or any positive male role model are asked to spend at least one day working as a volunteer during the school year.
3. When did WATCH D.O.G.S. begin?
WATCH D.O.G.S. began in 1998 at George Elementary here in Springdale, AR
4. How many programs are there?
WATCH D.O.G.S. programs are in 2,700 schools and 46 states currently across the nation, Mexico and Puerto Rico
5. How many programs in Arkansas? Other States?
WATCH D.O.G.S. programs are in 212 schools around the state of Arkansas, 713 schools have the program in the state of Texas and 224 schools have the program in the state of Washington
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1) ...provide positive male role models for the students, demonstrating by their very presence that education is important, and (2) to provide extra sets of eyes and ears to enhance school security and reduce bullying.
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8. What does a WatchDOG do?
They support the school through monitoring the school property and working alongside the teachers in the classroom, the hallways, the lunchroom and on the playground. They help with reading, writing and arithmetic. They are great as homework facilitators and recess referees. They will also provide listening ears and whatever else needs to be done in order to help the teacher's plant seeds of success in the lives of the students.
9. Has the program received any National Recognition?
Each year the WATCH D.O.G.S. program is receiving more and more great endorsements. One of our most recent comes from the President's Advisory Council where they listed the WATCH D.O.G.S. program in the March 2010 report to the President. Another great endorsement comes from our partners at the National PTA organization and our alliance with their M.O.R.E. program (Men Organized to Raise Engagement). And to round out the list of recent endorsements, US Department of Education Secretary Arne Duncan visited a local WATCH D.O.G.S. program in the DC area in June 2011 to encourage fathers and father figures to become more active in the educational system and to get a firsthand glimpse of this dynamic program in action.
10. How can I become a WatchDOG?
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Summer Catch
Screenplay : Kevin Falls and John Gatins (story by Kevin Falls)
MPAA Rating : PG-13
Year of Release : 2001
Stars : Freddie Prinze Jr. (Ryan Dunne), Jessica Biel (Tenley Parrish), Matthew Lillard (Billy "Bru" Brubaker), Fred Ward (Sean Dunne), Jason Gedrick (Mike Dunne), Gabriel Mann (Auggie), Bruce Davison (Rand Parrish), Brian Dennehy (Coach John Schiffner)
Summer Catch is an amiable, if unoriginal and prefabricated, sports drama about a self-destructive young pitcher trying to make up for past mistakes and find his way into the big league.
The story takes place over one summer during the elite, century-old Cape Code Baseball League, which is populated with hotshot players just out of college who are hoping that the myriad of professional scouts attending the game will offer them a contract to play in the big leagues. Freddie Prinze Jr. stars as Ryan Dunne, a home-grown pitching hero who has nearly destroyed any chance of going pro by being thrown off his college team for fighting. Now facing a future of cutting lawns and landscaping with his widowed father (Fred Ward), whom he considers a failure, the summer league represents Ryan's last opportunity to make something of himself.
But, to keep the movie interesting, screenwriters Kevin Falls and John Gatins put enough obstacles and conflicts in Ryan's way to frustrate even the heartiest of souls. First, Ryan is faced with animosity at home, as he feels that his father and older brother, Mike (Jason Gedrick), who works as a bartender, want to see him fail because they never made anything of their lives. Second, there is plenty of ill will between Ryan and the A's other pitcher, a bleach-blond pretty boy with tattoos and a wicked fastball (Corey Pearson) who has already been offered a $2-million contract to play with the Dodgers, but is holding out for another $500,000. Then, there are Ryan's conflicted feelings about being the "hometown boy," caught between his new teammates and his old friends (who are needlessly portrayed as bumbling airheads except for when one of them has to make a big speech that sums up the movie's theme about the nature of success). One of Ryan's new friends on the team is Billy "Bru" Brubaker (Matthew Lillard), a fast-talking catcher with a hitting problem whose purpose in the movie is to offer rowdy comic relief.
Of course, what would a movie starring Freddie Prinze Jr. be without a romantic angle? Romance proves to be the movie's biggest conflict of all, as Ryan falls for Tenley Parrish (Jessica Biel), who comes from one of the many idle-rich families that spend their summers in Chatham. Tenley's father, Rand Parrish (Bruce Davison), doesn't look kindly on his daughter dating the guy who mows his lawn, especially when said lawn boy is telling her to follow her dreams by becoming an architect, rather than take the job he has set up for her in San Francisco. The movie milks protracted class conflict for all it's worth, playing up Ryan's blue-collar genuineness and demonizing Rand's white-collar heartless snobbery. Davison does all he can as the cruel father, but doesn't have much to work with, as the role he's been given is so melodramatically transparent in its aristocratic evil that it's hard believe in some of his more heavy-handed tactics.
Summer Catch tries hard, but it's not a particularly good movie. It is too cookie-cutter in its plot, and its attempt to use overdetermined Freudian dramatics to explain Ryan's emotional problems (dead mother, failed father, etc.) are stretched paper thin from the beginning and dragged out even further in a series of explanatory dramatic speeches. Prinze Jr. is obviously trying to expand his range by playing a rebellious character, but he's not well-suited to this type of role. Especially in the moments when he is supposed to be an "angry young man," the movie veers dangerously toward unintentional comedy. He does generate some heat with Jessica Biel (TV's 7th Heaven), and the movie plays with their relationship a bit by making her the one who is constantly pursuing him, rather than the other way around.
Yet, when it comes to really pushing the envelop, Summer Catch falls short in every department, relying on tried-and-true plot devices to ensure that everything turns out just right in the end, from winning the girl, to winning the big game, to getting the big paycheck. It's telling that it is never made clear which of these victories is most important.
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Dover Chamber of Commerce awards dinner set for Jan. 25
Friday, December 28, 2012
DOVER — The Greater Dover Chamber of Commerce Annual Awards Dinner and Celebration for 2013 has been set for Jan. 25.
The event will take place at the Red Barn at Outlook Farm in South Berwick, Maine, on Route 4. A cocktail reception will begin at 5:30 p.m. and dinner will be served at 6:30 p.m. Guests will enjoy a duet plate featuring seafood stuffed baked haddock and marinated grilled sirloin tips, red bliss potatoes, a mixed greens salad and chef's choice dessert. A vegetarian selection of pasta primavera is also available. |


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Pioneer Woman on Food Network!
Howdy, pardner. I'm Pioneer Woman, also known as P-Dub. Also known as P-Widdy. Also known as P-Widdy-Dub-Diddy-Diddy-Dub-Dub.
I love to cook.
I love to eat.
I do both on my Food Network show every Saturday morning! Here are the show times:
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Saturday mornings @ 10:00 am Eastern Time/9:00 Central
Monday afternoons @ 5:30 pm Eastern Time/4:30 Central
Replay of new episode: Monday afternoons @ 5:30 pm Eastern Time/4:30 Central
Here's Food Network's page, where they'll post updates, photos, videos, etc.
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See you Saturday!
Saturday, June 22: The Building! We have a site meeting at the old building we're restoring in our small town, and I bring along box lunches…including these delectable black pepper potato chips!
Saturday, June 8: Pickup Picnic! To deliver to the cowboys and kids after a long morning of calf working, I whip up spicy roasted chicken legs, cowboy beans, deviled eggs…and the most decadent brownies in the universe. Lots of great ranching in this episode. Hope you enjoy!
A brand new season of Pioneer Woman premieres Saturday, June 1! Lots of fun episodes planned this time around, featuring the family, the ranch…and Charlie, of course. See you then!
Saturday, April 20: Investment Club Reunion! Years ago, I was part of an investment club in town. It's been ten years since our last meeting, so we all decided to get together and do what we always did best: EAT! We have chicken tortilla soup, loaded cornbread, the best margaritas ever…
And this cake, which is ta die fer.
Saturday, April 13: The Sleepover Six: The Drummond cousins have a crazy sleepover at the Lodge…and they may or may not have a prank somewhere in their plans…
Saturday, April 6: Edna Mae's Birthday! The kids and I surprise Edna Mae with a home-delivered birthday meal…including this multi-layer cake! We had a lot of fun.
Saturday, March 30: We're having a long day of school at the Lodge: We do our lessons in the morning, then I make the kids a big lunch while they do their science experiments and math drills. (We have a quick spelling bee at the end…Fun!)
Saturday, March 23: The whole family comes over after church for a big Sunday Brunch.
I make a big glazed ham, biscuits and ham gravy, a pretty and yummy fruit salad, and fun eggs baked in potato cups. Great Easter-friendly recipes!
And my sister-in-law Missy brings these gorgeous cupcakes. We had a delicious time.
Saturday, March 16: The calf-working crew comes by for a rib-sticking lunch of pork chops, the best green beans ever, a delicious hash brown casserole…and a yummy cobbler!
Saturday, March 9: Marlboro Man's coaching my football-playing boys and I'm making food to get them through not just their practice, but the big playoff game. Go, team!
Saturday, March 2: When Marlboro Man brings our friends Butch and Julie over for an impromptu dinner, I have to think fast to get food on the table before they get to the house. (And there maybe a rubber snake prank along the way…)
Saturday, February 23: This show's about two "Special Deliveries" on the ranch. First, I take orange sweet rolls and bacon to the cattle-working crew…then, to thank my BFF Hyacinth for taking my oldest to homeschool coop, I whip up a surprise dinner for her household. (Yummy stew alert!)
Saturday, February 16: Cowboy Tailgating! While the guys work cattle, I whip up a tailgating lunch of hearty lasagna, delicious garlic cheese bread, and these luscious fried fruit pies. There's nothing like lunch on the side of a horse trailer!
Saturday, February 9: Ten Things I Love! Using list form (one of my favorite things) I go through ten of the things I love the most. From Bassets to horses…to cream-filled chocolate cupcakes, I'll walk you through all the things that makes my heart go pitter-pat.
(Hint: Mac and Cheese is involved.)
Saturday, February 2: "Sixteen Minute Meals!" Who wants to spend four thousand hours making dinner? Not me, that's who! I mean whom. I mean who. Never mind. This episode examines three different (exceedingly busy) nights on the ranch…and the delicious throw-together meals that result. They really do take sixteen minutes.
Season 4 begins this Saturday morning, January 26, at 10:00 eastern/9:00 central! We have a big Ranch Games competition with Tim's family, and the events include a calf scramble, roping…and a goat milking competition between Missy and me.
The new CHRISTMAS episode airs Saturday morning, December 8 at 9:30 Central/10:30 Eastern and Sunday morning, December 9 at 7:00 Central/8:00 Eastern.
Hope you love the show. There are meat-a-balls, Christmas trees, chocolate treats, and Christmas cheer galore.
Merry Christmas, friends!
Saturday, October 6: High School Reunion! I have my best friends from high school out to the Lodge for our annual reunion and make lots of food to kick off the weekend. There may or may not be gift bags…and there may or may not be neon scrunchies.
Saturday, September 29: It's my oldest child's fifteenth birthday, so she has her three best friends over to hang out and have dinner. I make the food and by the end of the day, I think I'm fifteen again, too. Being a teenager is fun!
Saturday, September 15: Horses are front-and-center in this week's new episode! I may or may not embarrass myself by riding.
To send with the kids on horseback, I make yummy chocolate-dipped granola bars that are to-die-fer. Yum.
See you Saturday morning!
Saturday, September 8: The girls and I have pasta while Marlboro Man and the kids are out of town, then we all reunite in a big Burger-and-French-Fry-Fest.
Saturday, August 30: We have our good family friends over for a big spread of Mexican food!
Mango margaritas are involved. Amen.
Saturday, August 25: In another typical (not) cooking show episode, I give my two Basset Hounds a bath. *Enter at your own risk.*
Saturday, August 19: My girl has her best buddies over for a picnic and sleepover and we make all sorts of fun food…
Including these crazy, bedazzled cookies!
Here are photos from previous seasons/previous episodes.
Saturday, March 24: Rise and Shine: For this show, I took a slightly different approach and chronicled three breakfasts on three different days: a quiet breakfast at home by myself, a birthday breakfast for my father-in-law, and breakfast burritos for the cowboys.
(Hollandaise sauce makes an appearance.)
Saturday, March 17: Triple Act!: In this episode, my mom and Betsy visit on the same weekend and we have a total girl-fest of food: Seafood pasta, spinach salad, olive cheese bread…and creme brulee. Yay for moms and sisters!
Saturday, March 10: Sleepover!: On this Saturday's episode, my girls spend the night at my BFF Hyacinth's house while her boys come to the ranch for the night. I made them breakfast food for dinner…and dinner food for breakfast.
It was a yummy and delicious sleepover.
And Marlboro Man took them all to cut down cedar trees, so he got some benefit out of it too!
Saturday, March 3 – Marlboro Man's Birthday Party: It's MM's birthday, and the kids decorate the Lodge while I whip up one of his favorite meals….and this ridiculously easy four layer chocolate cake.
It was a fun show to film! The shirt I wore is permanently stained with chocolate.
Random highlights from the show:
* I go feeding with Marlboro Man.
* I open gates for Marlboro Man.
* Because that's what ranch wives do.
* I make chocolate cake.
* I make chocolate frosting.
* The kids and I go to town and manage to shove 43 balloons into the back of my vehicle.
* My hair is lighter in this show. I decided to get highlights right before we filmed it and when I left the hair place I was convinced I was a platinum blonde.
* You probably will not notice.
* That had nothing to do with cooking. I just wanted to mention it.
* I make easy chocolate curls to adorn the cake…then Marlboro Man's candles melt them within seconds.
* Unfortunately, I have no leg to stand on when it comes to teasing him about his age considering I'm two weeks older.
* I make Chicken Parmesan for Marlboro Man's dinner, which makes me laugh considering he's a cattle rancher. Har.
* I make yummy blackberry ice cream with chocolate chips. It's in my new cookbook. It's very purple.
* The kids make Marlboro Man "gift certificates" for things like hauling off the trash, washing his pickup, etc. Sometimes we do this when there's nothing we can think of that he really wants or needs. It's a fun, homemade way to make a birthday special.
* Charlie smelled like skunk throughout the filming of this show.
* Not that you will notice this. I just thought I'd share.
Saturday, February 25 – Potluck Sunday!: >On this Saturday's show, Marlboro Man and the kids travel to two awesome Oklahoma spots to shop for everything from boots to chaps to winter coats to hats.
Next week, I'll feature one of the shops on my site. It's a fixture around these parts.
On the food front, the next day is a big potluck at our church, so I whip up comfort food to the max and Charlie helps me.
Help being a relative term…
Saturday, February 15 – Camping by the Creek!: This week chronicles my mother-in-law's annual camping trip with the kids. She braves the cold, I cook the food. (I like that arrangement…)
Saturday, February 9 – Chocolate!: In this week's episode, I make three of my favorite chocolate delights, putting a new twist on each one. Come to Mama.
Inside this jar of love is…well, you just have to try it.
Saturday, January 28 – The Big Game: The show highlights my husband's two best friends from college, Tony and Bill, who travel to the ranch to watch Arizona State (their alma mater) play Arizona (their arch rival) on TV. I make football food like guacamole, wings, and brownies, but the real fun of the show is the dudes.
(aired December 2011)
Update: The PW Christmas show was a blast. We filmed at the end of November, then into December and the edit barely made it in time! But it was fun to actually film a Christmas special…at Christmastime. Loved it.
(aired Fall 2011)
Here are some behind-the-scenes shots from from Season 1:
My kids and I are having fun. And chowing down.
What am I getting ready to pour into that bowl of ground beef? The mystery deepens…
Roping is not exactly my strong suit.
Fortunately, Food Network edited out my body-shaping camisole.
Marlboro Man would like me to hurry up and snap the photo so he can eat already.


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So what filesystem doesn't allow non-alphanumeric characters in filenames?
"run" "to" "eat"
excellent example of tangential, pr100, but we're not doing geometry.
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Pretty sure it is as simple as 37^32 or 37 x 37 x 37 ..... 32 times
big number either way
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Pretty sure it is as simple as 37^32 or 37 x 37 x 37 ..... 32 times big number either way
This is correct. HUGE number.
Very roughly, it's about the number of atoms in the planet Earth.
"Way to make Borat look overdressed"
But only three times the number of possible chess positions!
I ran. I ran until my muscles burned and my veins pumped battery acid. Then I ran some more.
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Recent results improve that estimate, by proving an upper bound of only 2155, which is less than 1046.7.
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Essemtec Takes TowMate to Next Level of Wireless Lights
By Andy Shaughnessy, I-Connect007
There's a lot of truth in the old saying "Necessity is the mother of invention." Just ask TowMate founder Bryan Anderson. He began making wireless lights for towed vehicles out of frustration – his old light cords quit working while he was towing a car in 1985. Now he's running a $3 million-a-year wireless light manufacturing company, and assembling his own circuit boards.
TowMate LLC founder Bryan Anderson didn't plan to own a wireless light-making company. Or a pick-and-place machine, for that matter.
In 1980, armed with a business management degree, Anderson acquired a firm that disposed of wrecked vehicles for insurance companies.
"That was from 1980 to 1986," said Anderson. "We moved a lot of disabled cars all over the country."
One cold Arkansas night in 1985, Anderson answered a call and headed out to tow a vehicle himself. Out on the highway, while trying to hook up a set of lights to the car being towed, he faced a problem that has plagued tow truck operators for decades.
"I discovered that the cord didn't work," Anderson explained. "I said, 'We can put a man on the moon, so there must be wireless lights out there somewhere.'"
But he was mistaken. Wireless lights for a vehicle under tow did not exist in 1985.
So Anderson decided to change that. He got out of the vehicle disposal industry, acquired a building on Beaver Lake in Rogers, Arkansas, and by 1989 TowMate was manufacturing wireless lights for the towing industry. (Waterfront homeowners joked that Anderson could never afford to buy a house there, but he did, and he's now president of the homeowners association.)
For years, TowMate depended on a company in Michigan to build its circuit boards, which had SMT parts on one side and through-hole technology on the other. SMT technology was still fairly new at the time and TowMate was somewhat locked in with this supplier. Anderson estimates that TowMate spent over $600,000 with that company over a two-year period.
"I always had the desire to control our own destiny and build our own circuit boards," said Anderson. He invested in screen printers to spread paste and vapor phase equipment, and TowMate began populating its own boards with magnifying glasses and tweezers.
Anderson soon realized that controlling his company's destiny would mean investing in assembly equipment. He began researching pick-and-place equipment, and in December 2009, the company bought an Essemtec Pantera-X. He hired Mike Fortin, a former anesthesiology assistant, to operate it. (Essemtec, based in Switzerland, manufactures equipment for the entire SMT production process: printers, dispensers, pick-and-place machines, handling and storage systems and soldering equipment.)
"We couldn't have done it without Essemtec. They came in and helped us through the learning curve," explains Anderson. "And Mike Fortin is well suited for the pick-and-place machine. He's a perfectionist; he's persnickety."
Anderson also hired design engineer Lee Young, who came to TowMate from the LED lighting industry. That background comes in handy – many of TowMate's lights feature high-intensity LEDs.
At first, Anderson was worried that the company might not have enough work to keep Young busy, so he agreed to take on outside design jobs if necessary. But the firm is creating so many new products that they have not had to take on any outside design work. Anderson says his company makes at least 30 different PCBs, and that number is certain to increase as more lighting configurations are introduced.
TowMate does much of its business through catalogs; the giant catalog company Grainger is the company's biggest distributor. With distribution already established, Anderson finds it easy to roll out new product.
TowMate continues to evolve its product lineup, even moving into markets outside the towing industry.
"The tow truck industry has been our niche, what we call the 'amber market.' But we're also dabbling in the 'red and blue' market, lighting for law enforcement vehicles," Anderson says. "Plus, we just won our first government contract, and that's exciting. These new lights will wind up on tow trucks in Afghanistan. We're going to begin dabbling in the consumer market in the next six months. Soon we'll need a multihead pick-and-place machine."
Anderson grows excited discussing his newest lights, which can be converted to strobes at the flick of a switch – a big selling point for law enforcement. "The strobes can be 'educated' with a magnet. The operator trains the strobe and sets the switch he wants to use to make it come on, just by using a magnet," says Anderson. "No one on the planet does this, and we are so proud of it."
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Anderson believes TowMate's management has the perfect place to flesh out new product ideas.
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He thinks TowMate is going to continue its growth, and he plans more investment in technology and people.
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Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity. Following that formula, Ronnie Davis is a lucky man, indeed.
Ever since high school, Davis was the white boy who could jump. His remarkable athleticism enabled him to be named 1986 Class 2A high school basketball Player of the Year in tiny Sabine, Texas, where he led the Cardinals to a Final Four appearance at Austin's famed Super Drum during that year's state playoffs.
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Local soccer icon Gordon Jago was the original coach of the Sidekicks. Jago echoed Missy Davis' observation about her husband being a natural fit to lead the rebirth of the franchise. Perhaps as much as what he has done, it is how Davis has done it that Jago credits to the Sidekicks' impressive success during this maiden season back on the pitch after an eight-year hiatus.
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There was no palace coup two years ago when Geoff Gordon took over the Philly branch of Live Nation, the concert-booking behemoth responsible for a good percentage of local shows by artists you'd hear when flipping through radio stations. It was more like "Tag — you're it!"
Both men who'd hired him were gone: Electric Factory co-founder Larry Magid had left the company to go back into business for himself, and executive VP Neil Jacobsen had already moved to Miami to take a promotion within the company.
"I was the last man standing," laughs Gordon.
Booking and promotion companies might not be foremost in the average live-music fan's mind, but they ultimately determine who that fan will get a chance to see live, and where. Most venues tend to pick a team and, for the most part, stick with it.
In Philly, some of the biggest players are Larry Magid's new group, now booking at the Electric Factory and sometimes the Kimmel Center (among other venues, which also applies to the other companies); R5 Productions, at the First Unitarian Church, Union Transfer and sometimes Johnny Brenda's and Kung Fu Necktie; AEG, at the Trocadero, Mann and Keswick; and Live Nation, the biggest of all, which books, among others, the TLA, the Tower, Penn's Landing and the Susquehanna Bank Center.
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"The biggest change Geoff made when he got in was that he literally knocked down the walls of the president's office," says James Sutcliffe, Live Nation Philadelphia's longtime marketing director. "Now there's this big, loud, intense, swirling energy, never there before, that Geoff moves through."
Sutcliffe has been around long enough to have endured several business-card changes: the independently owned Electric Factory Concerts was bought by the "Godzilla of the concert presenting business" (as the Daily News put it at the time) SFX, which was bought by even huger radio conglomerate Clear Channel, which then spun off its live-music arm as Live Nation.
Previous Live Nation Philly head Magid co-opened the original Electric Factory venue in 1968 in an old tire warehouse at 22nd and Arch and has been an integral part of the Philly live-music scene ever since. He stayed on when he and his partners sold Electric Factory Concerts to what's now known as Live Nation in 1998 and served as regional chairman until 2010, when they couldn't agree on financial terms for him to stick around. When he left, Magid took with him several staffers and the Electric Factory venue at Seventh and Callowhill, which he owns, to form Larry Magid Entertainment (which made those Springsteen shows at Citizens Bank Ballpark happen this fall). Gordon's former boss, then, is now among his competitors.
"I respect and learned a lot from Larry," says Gordon. "Some [lessons] I use daily, some are ways of how not to do things. Either way, being in that new position gave me the freedom to try new ideas."
And he has been. This year found Gordon and Live Nation launching three festivals — the most familiar is probably the Jay-Z-curated Made in America on the Parkway, plus the Allmans-led Peach Music Festival in Scranton and the boy-band-focused MixTape Fest in Hershey — and expanding to do shows at SoundGarden, the new electronic-music playground in the old Egypt space at Columbus and Spring Garden. Gordon's also behind the surprising relevance of the city's Independence Day event on the Parkway of late, with hometown heroes The Roots as house band and ?uestlove as curator, and working further with the Roots on their annual Picnic.
But the biggest news is Live Nation's new live-music club being built with developer Michael Samschik just off the Columbus Boulevard entertainment superhighway. Rising on the site of the former Ajax Metal Company property, the still-unnamed space will sit in that sweet spot between small club and amphitheater/stadium. The new venue, planned as a 2,400-plus capacity room, is an order of magnitude larger than 250-capacity Johnny Brenda's and an order of magnitude smaller than the 25,000-capacity Susquehanna Bank Center. The new venue's size will put it in the same weight class as (and, presumably, in competition with) Magid's Electric Factory and R5 Productions' smaller Union Transfer. It's a bold move.
It might seem odd, then, that Gordon's been all but silent since taking the reins, but it's in character — he's stayed well behind the scenes since arriving at Live Nation Philly in 1997 from Washington, D.C.'s Cellar Door Booking.
"I'd rather let my work do the talking," says Gordon. "I'm not really into talking about myself."
These days there are obstacles, of course, to doing that work: a lousy economy, in-home entertainment options, formidable competitors (like AEG's efforts with the ever-being-refurbished Mann Center). But Gordon is, in the words of legendary talent agent Jonny Podell, "all about solutions, not exclusion."
"Everybody said Made in America was going to be a disaster in every which way possible," Gordon says with a snort, and that's true. A year after the summer of flash mobs, local media wasn't shy about expressing doubts about the ambitious outdoor Labor Day-weekend event. But it went off basically without a hitch. "Instead, hotels had 92 percent occupancy and restaurants were packed on a weekend that's usually dead," says Gordon. And instead of the riots predicted by doomsayers, "we had one guy out of 84,000 attendees arrested for stealing beer."
Few people could have talked Mayor Michael Nutter into taking a chance on Made in America — but Gordon had already earned Nutter's trust with his efforts on modernizing the Fourth of July Jam, and even then it still took some star-shine from Hova to convince the mayor that the two-day, multi-genre festival could be successful, cost-effective and safe.
Indeed, Philly's big summer shows do seem like a pretty safe bet at this point, and Live Nation handles the biggest ones. There will be a second Made in America next year, claims Roots co-manager Shawn Gee, one of Gordon's collaborators on MiA. (Gordon neither confirms nor denies, stating nothing is signed.) The Peach and MixTape fests will also be coming back. There's also WXPN's XPoNential festival and Loaded, the dubstep-and-dance fest at Festival Pier, both of which get bigger every year.
A good portion of next summer's Roots Picnic is already booked. "?uest and Black Thought are judge and jury for the Picnic, but I start conversations with Geoff about the next one the day after the last one," says Gee. "Same with The Roots Fourth of July Jam."
According to people who know him, Gordon's ability to pull off large-scale things boils down to personal relationships. His proximity to Eddie Vedder is legendary to industry insiders, and Gordon claims his longtime friendship with Vedder was crucial in getting Pearl Jam to headline four nights of shows for the Spectrum's 2009 finale as well as the second night of Made in America. Gordon was able to build on Live Nation's established relationship with Jay-Z, producing tours nationally for the Watch the Throne spectacle, and then enlisted Jay-Z to help talk Philadelphia into Made in America.
But how does a promoter form close relationships with artists who swing through Philly maybe once or twice a year?
"Geoff's not a guy who pats you on the back at the end of a show and says, 'See you next year.' He's the guy [who's] friendliest with every artist, telling jokes, remembering birthdays. Acts look forward to playing Philly because Geoff pushes them in the market and is a genuine pal," says Jared Paul, once an intern for Gordon at D.C.'s Cellar Door agency, now manager of New Kids on the Block (whose Donnie Wahlberg is another friend of Gordon's) and rep for the TV-based tours from Glee and The X-Factor. Paul, Wahlberg and Gordon hashed out the MixTape fest over dinner one night.
"He never forgets that it's not his name on the ticket, but rather those musicians he's befriended," says Paul. "Take a survey of young rock guys — they all know Geoff."
Gary Clark Jr. certainly does. Gordon landed the Austin blues guitarist on bills for both Made in America and next year's Roots Picnic, to help build a local audience. His gut tells him Clark will be a perennial.
There's a sense of being in it for the long haul that Gordon finds appealing about Philly.
"This city is very loyal," says Gordon. "Philly often feels like it's filled with people [who were] born here and will die here — that's a good thing. Once you get a Philly fan's attention, you have it for a long time."
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