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Today's Names to Know: Destroyed NFL tapes, NFL Picks, Vince Young vs. Donovan McNabb, Kevin Everett,
Lead Item: Pats cheating scandal takes a weird turn: Without a shred of transparency, the NFL has destroyed all the tapes that the Pats turned over to them, simply saying, "Didn't see anything."
I think this will flare into the Big Story today, because "destroying evidence" (particularly without letting anyone else see it) is something we all can conceptualize -- and it doesn't speak to clearing things up.
On the contrary, it instantly implies HIDING things.
We are forced to trust the NFL on their decision-making, but I think you're crazy if you do. It's in the NFL's best interests to lock down on anything... bigger... that they might have found on those tapes. But we'll never know, because the tapes are destroyed and the NFL controls the situation.
Imagine a similar scenario with David Stern or Bud Selig. The outrage would be off the Richter scale. I don't think it's crazy to suggest there would be calls for Congressional hearings.
But King NFL? Please. Won't happen. I hesitate that mainstream media will even try to investigate the increasing (and increasingly legit) claims that are popping up -- including about the Tuck Game, the most iconic of any Pats wins during the dynasty.
Just look at the crackerjack way that mainstream media has taken on the NFL's PED epidemic. Again, if they worked fractionally as hard as they have on MLB's PED scandal, they'd find... that the NFL is SO much worse.
It's not like that would cripple the sport; everyone already assumes that HGH or other PEDs are rampant in pro football, and it doesn't affect the league's popularity one bit.
Still, this is skeevy: Given the rumors that are circulating, it seems suspicious that the league would chirp, "Nothing to see here"... and destroy everything. Not just lock it away, but destroy it.
At the very least, it gives conspiracy theorists (in this case, some would say "realists") a parting gift to the scandal.
As usual, Florio over at PFT has the definitive take on this. (Please, please, please PFT: Can you include permalinks to individual Rumor Mill items? While you're at it, how about an RSS feed?)
NFL Week 3 Preview and Picks: SD d. GB, MIN d. KC, NE d. BUF, NYJ d. MIA, DET d. PHI, PIT d. SF, STL d. TB, BAL d. ARI, IND d. HOU, DEN d. JAX, CLE d. OAK, CIN d. SEA, CAR d. ATL, WSH d. NYG, CHI d. DAL (SNF), NO d. TEN (MNF). LW: 11-5 (07: 23-9)
Feel free to put your favorite Week 3 NFL storyline in the Comments.
McNabb and Black QBs, Cont'd: Where do you stand on Vince Young's reaction to it, which was... no reaction. Literally. "Not my fight," Young said, despite being the heir to Briscoe, Williams and – yes – McNabb.
Without their "fight" before him, Young would be preparing to line up right now at wide receiver.
I appreciate that VY was taking the road of "I'm just concentrating on the game in front of me," but that was intellectually dishonest.
Young needs to have a response; I'm sure he does, but just didn't want to say it, either because he was afraid of getting in the middle of a discussion about race in sports or because he was afraid it might dent his marketability.
CFB Tonight:
But no! I look at
Now, either Bob Stoops learned his lesson before... or, even if you know it's coming, it's hard to be a BCS-league power and take the sandlot-style of non-BCS football seriously.
The game is at
I'm calling the shocker:
More CFB Top 25 Preview and Picks: Picking Tulsa over
While newly minted Top 25 team
Everything else? Yawn: Top 25 teams jockeying for style points. (Um, nevermind the fact that I picked A&M over unranked
I guess that works out better for me, given that I will be refraining from watching football during the day in observance of Yom Kippur.
(Is it wrong that I'm TiVo'ing the big games – including
USC (1) over
LSU (2) over
B.C. (14) over Army
Clemson (15) over NC State
VA Tech (17) over William and Mary
Notre Dame SuckWatch (TM): And the worst marketing idea of the year goes to... adidas and Notre Dame, which will outfit fans at the Stadium with... white towels. Because nothing says "Fight on!" like a white towel.
CFB Thursday:
Kevin Everett Update: Between the "Belicheat" and "McNabb" memes over the last two weeks, it's amazing simply to find out that doctors think
MLB Pennant Racing:
Mets Collapse, Cont'd: After a 10-inning loss last night to the Marlins (where they blew a three-run lead...twice), the Mets are now just 1.5 games ahead of the Phillies, who won.
Angels thisclose to clinching: Just need to win tonight versus
(Indians close, too. And is this the weekend the Yankees catch – or pass – the Red Sox in the AL East? I know I have talked for months about the only thing mattering being making the playoffs however you can; the division title is relatively meaningless as long as you win the Wild Card. However, I now find this intriguing, even though both teams are virtual locks to make the playoffs. It would be infinitely better if it was a runner-up-is-out situation. Get on that, MLB!)
NL West: Padres win 7th straight, putting them only .5 GB the D'backs. The reason the NL East race is so insane is that the loser will likely miss the playoffs entirely, probably because of the NL West.
MLB: Ken Griffey will miss the rest of the season. September 20? You definitely won if, at the start of the season, you picked the "over."
Astros hire Ed Wade: When I first wrote this, I accidentally typed "Astros fire Ed Wade." Fast-forward anywhere between 3-8 seasons, and that's pretty much what you'll have.
PGA and PEDs: The PGA will institute PED-testing in 2008, presumably more than enough time for the dozens of players you just KNOW are using rule-bending drugs to get their system clean.
(If you think I'm crazy to suggest that many PGA players are using PEDs, YOU'RE the one who is delusional. It's like you haven't been paying attention to sports for the last decade.)
Yes, Floyd Landis is still a cheater.
Must-Read: Big Daddy Drew's lead-in to his weekly Deadspin NFL guest-post. Filed under "Wish I Wrote That."
The Big Picture's "Would You Do..." Tournament returns... for Round 2. Here's a link.
Housekeeping: Sorry to pack so much into a single post. Abbreviated day for me here. I'll try to set up a CFB Live-Comment post for Saturday's games before the end of the day, even though it'll be early.


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No one likes to find an ant infestation in Grant, whether its in their house, their yard, or any other building they might have. If it is just a few ants the homeowner should have no problem getting rid of them using commercial and home remedies to get rid of the ants.
If it is an infestation it is best to call an ant exterminator in Alabama to professionally get rid of them.
Ants can be found in many different places because they are attracted to any food that has been left behind. In addition to treating the problem they will also focus on preventing them from becoming an infestation.
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When the ant exterminator comes to your home the first thing they will do is to determine what type ant infestation you have, as there are more than twelve thousand species of ants in the world. In the United States there are more than four hundred fifty species. Fortunately, there are only a few species that will cause problems.
Most Grant pest control exterminators quickly become experts at recognizing which species it is that's causing the problem, and then make a plan to get rid of ants. It is important to know which species it is so the exterminator can determine how to combat the problem. The treatment used could vary depending on which species it is.
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The ant exterminator will take time to understand the situation and also talk to the client about their personal concerns. If there are pets or young children in the household that could affect how the problem is taken care of.
Even a small amount of poison could be harmful to them so it is important that a consultation be done before any treatment options are suggested. If the ant species is harmful to wood the exterminator may look at crawl spaces and other areas of the home to see if there are any infestations of this particular species.
This is not only done to see how much of a infestation there is, but how much damage has already been done. Not all ant exterminators in Alabama will do this, so you should ask if this is included in the price.
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We never see ants as a threat or a problem we have to immediately deal with. It's definitely not the same reaction we would have if confronted with termites or possums in our home. When faced with either one, it's almost a guarantee we would spring into action to take care of it.
That perhaps, is a misconception we have about ants. We wait far too long, until it's too late. Then just as suddenly, we realize, it's not that easy to get rid of ants. All ants, even carpenter ants, are small. There's no question about it. And compared to other insects pest control deals with, these are the least persistent of the lot. But it's this seeming "vulnerability" that fools us.
Ants, especially carpenter ants, can create untold problems for you and the rest of your household if ignored. They can be persistent insects, who find ways to break into your food stocks no matter where you keep it. You will be displeased to discover that your things have turned mucky and gross after the ant invasion.
Ant Sprays, insecticides? Hah, you can't get rid of ants that easily. Spraying ants with insecticides can definitely stop them dead on their tracks, literally speaking. However, in a matter of mere days, the ant infestation will be back again, stronger than ever. It will be quite frustrating to repeat the process over and over again – with the same disappointing result. No, to get rid of ants in Grant permanently, you need to have proper ant extermination service.
Hiring a professional pest control specialist to handle the ant extermination in your home is not only a smart thing to do, but definitely a wise one.
The possibility of death (especially in small children) from exposure to harmful insecticides and chemicals is not worth it.
Anyone who handles ant killer without protective clothing and gloves, is in danger from exposure to harmful chemicals. By letting the professionals do their job, you not only eliminate the problem, but you also save yourself and your family from the perils of improper chemical use.
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If a musician's greatness is measured by the breadth of his influence — and how else should we gauge it? — Jimi Hendrix's legacy commends him as one of the most inspiring virtuosos who ever lived. Consider just a few of the acts who explicitly cite Hendrix as central to their sound, or who pay tribute by incorporating at least something of him into their work: The Red Hot Chili Peppers, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Miles Davis (who, of course, influenced Hendrix, as well), ZZ Top, Stephen Stills, Public Enemy — the list is as long as it is dizzying in its variety.
To put it even more simply: Who else can be heard, resoundingly, in the music of both Prince and Metallica? Funkadelic and Van Halen?
Perhaps the only aspect of Hendrix's career more remarkable than its aesthetic clout is how awfully short it was. (A fact often obscured by the seemingly endless reissues of his work that have hit the market in the decades since his death.) After making a name overseas in the mid-1960s, he came to sudden and enduring prominence in the U.S. after his legendary performance at the Monterey Pop Festival in 1967; he died in London in September 1970, when he was just 27 years old. But for those 40 months, Jimi Hendrix was one of the few undisputedly indispensable pop-culture figures of the era. And as with so many huge stars who died young — including other members of rock and roll's "27 Club," like Jim Morrison, Kurt Cobain, Janis Joplin, the Stone's Brian Jones and more — the brevity of his life has hardly made his place in the rock pantheon less secure.
On what would have been his 70th birthday (Hendrix was born in Seattle on Nov. 27, 1942), we pay tribute to the guitar wizard through photos made by another iconoclastic creative force, the rock and roll photographer Jim Marshall.
Known for his work capturing legends (Jagger, Richards, Dylan, Sly Stone, Joni Mitchell, the Beatles, Johnny Cash and countless others) onstage and in quieter, unguarded moments, Marshall — who died in March 2010 — photographed Hendrix from the moment he exploded, flaming guitar and all, into the public eye at Monterey through the heady, propulsive months and far-too-few years that followed.
The pictures in this gallery, meanwhile, are emblematic of Marshall at his very best — a distillation of a long career spent chronicling the charismatic, chameleon-like and frequently unhinged heroes and heroines of rock.
Here is Hendrix at his most relaxed and winning (laughing with his friend and sometime bandmate, the great drummer Buddy Miles, for example, in slide 7); at his most incendiary (slide 11); and at his Sgt. Pepper-meets-Voodoo Chile grooviest (backstage with Brian Jones at Monterey, slide 14).
But whatever mood or persona Hendrix happens to be projecting at the moment, the overriding sense we get from Jim Marshall's pictures is one of intimacy. Few photographers who have spent any amount of time with the notoriously volatile egomaniacs (not to mention often-drug-addled paranoiacs) who inhabit the rarefied realms of rock have managed to come away with work that was clearly made by someone who belonged. Marshall — who was something of a celebrity himself by the mid-Sixties — was not cowed by the outsized personalities who could fill entire stadiums not only with music, but with attitude.
(MORE: Jim Marshall's Collection of Rock 'n Roll Portraits)
It's fruitless to ask what Hendrix might be doing now, at 70, had he not died of "drug-induced asphyxia" — that is, if he hadn't choked to death on his own vomit — at 27, while he was still growing and exploring as an artist. Fruitless, and inevitable. After all, it's only natural to wonder what a talent as protean as Hendrix's would have achieved in the decades after he gave us "Crosstown Traffic," "Hey Joe," "The Wind Cries Mary," "Bold as Love," his transcendent "Star-Spangled Banner" and scores of other singular classics. Would he have composed soundtracks? Symphonies? Would he have dug ever deeper into his bluesy roots, finding simpler, more elemental ways to tell his own story? Would he and Neil Young spend half the year, every year, touring together, trading beautiful, terrifying riffs in front of overawed fans?
Happy birthday, Jimi, and rest in peace. We shall not see your like again.
Ben Cosgrove is the editor of LIFE.com.
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When it comes to the best baby toys, you're not only getting them something to play with, you're also helping them interact with and learn about the world around them. A classic toy that every baby needs is a mobile. It attaches to the side of your child's crib and spins while playing a tune that will help lull your child to sleep for naps or bedtime. They're easily detachable so they can be placed on play yards when you're on the go.
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Along with a mobile, you'll want to fill their crib with one or two stuffed animals from our selection at Kmart. They'll love to snuggle one of their favorite cartoon characters or a cute bear or sock monkey. All of these toys will keep your child entertained and learning. Pair these crib toys with a plush bedding set and they'll be able to play and sleep in comfort.


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The totem poles represented in the images were carved by Haida artist Bill Reid and 'Namgis artist Doug Cranmer. They were originally situated at UBC's Totem Park. They are now located on the grounds behind the Museum of Anthropology, and modelled on a 19th century Haida village.
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Dublin is home to many tradesmen, that is for sure. Whether you are looking for plumbers, electricians, roofers or another trade altogether, you will find many, many people willing to do the job for you. But, and this is very important, should you hire them? Should you part with your hard earned cash? Now in my very first post I already spoke about some of the basic rules of hiring a tradesmen. Checking if they are fully insured, affiliated with some sort of a union or governing body and most importantly checking their previous work. Before I forget here is my shout for the guy who consistently produces the most impressive roofing dublin, has seen in a very long time. Also, here's a great link for more info on domestic roofing.
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If a potential employer is going to look over your internet presence before interviewing you, you can do the same. Reviewing a company's Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn profiles can offer valuable insight into what a company is working on before you head in for your interview, and give you something to talk to the hiring manager about when they ask if you have questions.
US News Business explains that every company presence on social media can yield valuable interview intel that you might find useful before you set foot in the building. Even if the company is huge and you're interviewing in a small department, learning as much as you can about the big picture will show your interest in the company.
For example, they suggest Twitter can often be used to glean a company's corporate culture, which we know can be just as important as qualifications to a potential employer. LinkedIn groups and company pages are great ways to find out useful news, featured hires, and departmental changes that the company wants to make public. Plus, LinkedIn Groups can offer tons of insider information you wouldn't otherwise get without meeting someone at a company proper. Hit the link below for more ways you can do a little healthy intelligence-gathering to learn more about a company before you interview with them—or even apply to work there.
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FILE – This undated file photo shows al Qaida leader Osama bin Laden in Afghanistan. Osama bin Laden's spokesman and son-in-law has been captured by U.S. intelligence officials, officials said Thursday, in what a senior congressman called a "very significant victory" in the ongoing fight against al-Qaida. A Jordanian security official confirmed that al-Ghaith was handed over last week to U.S. law enforcement officials under both nations' extradition treaty. He declined to disclose other details and spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the matter. (AP Photo)
Abu Ghaith is expected to be in U.S. federal court in New York on Friday in an initial hearing to face terror charges, according to a law enforcement official who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to release the information.
Rep. Peter King, the former chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, credited the CIA and FBI with catching al-Qaida propagandist Sulaiman Abu Ghaith in Jordan within the last week. He said the capture was confirmed to him by U.S. law enforcement officials.
A Jordanian security official confirmed that Abu Ghaith was handed over last week to U.S. law enforcement officials under both nations' extradition treaty. He declined to disclose other details and spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the matter.
"Definitely, one by one, we are getting the top echelons of al-Qaida," said King, R-N.Y. "I give the (Obama) administration credit for this: it's steady and it's unrelenting and it's very successful."
Abu Ghaith became an international name in late 2001 when he appeared on pan-Arab satellite television urging Muslims everywhere to fight the United States and warning of more attacks similar to those of Sept. 11. In one video, he was sitting with bin Laden in front of a rock face in Afghanistan. A teacher and mosque preacher in Kuwait, he was stripped of his Kuwaiti citizenship after 9/11.
He is identified as a major al-Qaida core official by the New America Foundation think tank in Washington. King said Abu Ghaith was involved in the planning in the 9/11 attacks against the World Trade Center and Pentagon.
Tom Lynch, a research fellow at the National Defense University in Washington, described Abu Ghaith as one of a small handful of senior al-Qaida leaders "capable of getting the old band back together and postured for a round of real serious international terror."
"His capture and extradition not only allows the U.S. to hold — and perhaps try — a reputed al-Qaida core survivor, further tarnishing the AQ core brand, but it also points to the dangers for those few remaining al-Qaida core refugees," Lynch said.
It's likely that Abu Ghaith will face a host of terrorism-related charges and possibly murder, which could carry the death penalty, said attorney Michael Rosensaft, who was a prosecutor in the U.S. Attorney's office in Manhattan until last fall and is now in private practice. He predicted the trial will last months, if not years, and that some of the evidence against Abu Ghaith will be a challenge for prosecutors to bring to court if it is classified.
Abu Ghaith's trial will make one of the few prosecutions of senior al-Qaida leaders on U.S. soil. Charging foreign terror suspects in American federal courts was a top pledge by President Barack Obama shortly after he took office in 2009 — aimed, in part, to close the detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
Since 9/11, 67 foreign terror suspects have been convicted in U.S. federal courts, according to watchdog group Human Rights First, which obtained the data from the Justice Department through a Freedom of Information Act request.
By comparison, of the thousands of detainees who were swept up shortly after the terror attacks and held at Guantanamo Bay, only seven were convicted by military tribunals held at the U.S. Navy base in Cuba, the watchdog group said. The vast majority have been sent back overseas, either for rehabilitation or continued detention and prosecution.
"They know this is where this case belongs," Raha Wala, Human Rights First's national security attorney, said in a statement, praising the move to prosecute Abu Ghaith in New York. "That decision underscores the confidence Americans should have in our tried-and-true system of justice and its ability to handle these complex cases."
The Turkish newspaper Hurriyet reported that Abu Ghaith was caught while passing through Jordan, on his way to Kuwait, shortly after leaving Turkey.
The newspaper said that Abu Ghaith was taken into custody more than a month ago at a luxury hotel in in Ankara, the Turkish capital. But Turkish officials decided he had not committed any crime in Turkey and released him, the newspaper reported.
In Ankara, Turkish officials refused to confirm Abu Ghaith's deportation or his capture in Jordan to The Associated Press. In Amman, the Jordanian capital, a security official said he had no information on the CIA arrest in Jordan.
U.S. intelligence officials in Washington and New York refused to comment on the case.
Associated Press writers Tom Hays in New York and Jamal Halaby in Amman, Jordan, contributed to this report.


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2012 is a busy year for environmental decision-making, with many large-scale conventions taking place. But the IUCN World Conservation Congress is a unique event with a unique audience. It is the only global summit that represents every aspect of conservation, bringing together leaders of all levels – from governments and international NGOs to academia and local charities.
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This is also the first Congress to be held in Northeast Asia. The Korean people are proving to be highly engaged hosts who won't disappoint you with their hospitality and efficiency.
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Oscar Picks coming later today! But before that, there's a ton going on today:
Wade Injury Update: If Dwyane Wade has season-ending surgery on his shoulder, the Heat's season ends, too.
Not only will they not make the playoffs, but they SHOULDN'T make the playoffs (given that they have no chance to win), and instead should take advantage of the rich NBA Lottery. (Who else has a "frozen Ping-Pong ball" sending Oden to
NBA Trade Dudline: Just make the commitment to yourself that you'll never get worked up about it again.
The Nets will regret not dumping Carter when he bolts for
Meanwhile, this is the most publicity Juan Dixon has gotten since
"Violence in Vegas," Update: David Stern said that Sunday's violence won't deter the league from bringing another event there (or even relocating a team) as much as the lack of a new arena. At least he's being honest.
Dennis Johnson dies: I'm sure Simmons will give this full-court treatment, but for the non-Celtics fan, DJ was notable for:
5. His defensive prowess
4. His Sonics title in '79 (Finals MVP)
3. His role in the Celtics 80s dominance
2. Consensus pick as "least attractive NBA player of the 80's"
1. His role in Game 5 of the 1987 Eastern Conference finals, finishing the "Bird stole the ball!" play.
Rest in peace, DJ.
CBB Last Night: When you find out that
Meanwhile, if you thought
Finally, Duke's win over Clemson puts the Tigers on the outside of the Bubble, needing a strong ACC Tournament push.
Women's College Hoops (2 Days in a Row!): But you know I love a good superlative, so "Longest Game Ever!" certainly qualifies. 5 OTs! (Who won? Who lost? Meh.)
CBB No. 1 vs. No. 2:
More CBB Weekend: Is Pitt at
The Steroid Cops are coming to spring training, where they can expect their lack of enforcement power to yield the same "Eff off" as before.
MLB: Clemens Watch. Presuming that the Yankees and Red Sox will be neck-and-neck all season long, the Rocket is going to make a LOT of money (and make a LOT of people happy/mad) when he comes back.
Hide the mics: So the Red Sox won't be re-signing Curt Schilling next season, and he's already talking about being a free agent. No, THAT won't be a distraction this season or anything.
NHL: What does it say that the only time the NHL makes the radar is when two teams brawl it out?
CFB: Boise State's Chris Petersen got a new five-year deal worth more than $4 million. Which he SO earned. Who doesn't love
High School Hoops: Anyone else catch OJ Mayo scoring 47 last night against No. 1 St. Patrick's? What great foreshadowing of his one-year college career: Lots of points, but ultimately losing.
NFL Draft: I love the total arbitrariness of the coin flip to decide whether the Browns or Bucs get the 3rd overall pick. It happened this morning: The Bucs called Heads; the coin came up Tails. And the Browns end up with the 3rd overall pick, with the Bucs picking 4th. (The teams will flip-flop in subsequent rounds.)
What's the difference? Well, if both teams want an O-lineman and Joe Thomas sneaks past the first two picks, he's there. If both teams want a WR and Calvin Johnson sneaks past the first two picks, he's there. If the Bucs really covet Johnson as much as the mock drafts insist they do, then the Browns -- who might not really want/need Johnson, with Braylon Edwards as their No. 1 WR -- might be wise to swap picks with the Bucs, in exchange for flip-flopping their positions in Rounds 2, 4 and 6, allowing the Browns to pick ahead of the Bucs.
(But via the must-read ProFootballTalk, it sounds like the Browns are hot-n-heavy for JaMarcus Russell. Either he'll drop to them at No. 3, or that No. 3 pick gives them a better shot at trading with the Raiders for the top spot than having the No. 4 pick. Draft intrigue already sizzling.)
NFL Combine: I would love to have a all-access camera inside the team one-on-one interviews with the players. They sound fascinating, and the premium seems to be on "football smarts" over, say, Wonderlic. (How's that Vince Young uber-low score looking now? He should frame that Wonderlic scoresheet next to his Rookie of the Year trophy.)
NFL News: Is Corey Dillon going to retire? (Was anyone else surprised to see the stat that he's 14th all-time in rushing yards and the career leader among all active players? Given that he's "only" 32, that's a hell of a career (but not Hall of Fame).
More NFL : The Raiders dumped Aaron Brooks. Those cheers are from fans in
Whitlock takes on the "Black KKK": If only he didn't compare himself to Rosa Parks for doing it, I might appreciate this column as much as I should.
DC Sports Bog does "The Big Picture": He had big shoes to fill this week (kidding), but it's a very interesting (long) interview.
Steve Rushin leaving SI: Excuse me if I can't get too worked up over this. I've always found his column to be overrated. We get it: You're married to Rebecca Lobo.
Cold Pizza leaving NYC: USA Today's Mike McCarthy confirms that the program is relocating to
Most intriguingly, the show is getting a new name, finally shedding what was quite possibly the worst name in sports-TV history. (When the show was first announced, I suggested the sensible and self-evident "ESPN A.M." but was ignored. Of course, I also suggested that they steer clear of the fuzzy, non-sports content, which was also ignored.)
Prediction: The ratings will go up simply from dropping the name "Cold Pizza" and changing it to something better. Many viewers will think that it's an entirely new show. (Of course, they'll still run into Skip Bayless at 10 a.m.)


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The ratio of sh-t talking messages to "yay love them" messages about the Michelle Williams/Jason Segel hook-up has been 1-1000. Almost everyone likes the idea. Sounds like Busy Phillips figured it out for everyone. But it's only the beginning. And making love work in Hollywood is so challenging. Theirs is a young relationship. Don't you wish you could will a relationship well?
Here are those exclusives of the two of them out together a couple of weeks ago in Brooklyn. The shots appeared in Us Weekly in their last issue and were embargoed from online release until today. I thought you might like a few different angles.


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Migrate a running virtual machine from one host to another, including in use storage, with no downtime. No need for a shared storage location between the two.
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Live migration of a VM has been around for a while, but usage historically required that VM storage disk images were shared between the source and destination host, and mounted in the same location.
Since qemu 0.12 (December 2009), there has been a storage migration feature in qemu, but it was inflexible, and inefficient to the point that any workload in the guest would often prevent the guest from ever being full migrated. While supported in libvirt/virsh, it was still difficult to use, requiring stub disk images to be present on the destination host.
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Rita's Story: Standing Strong Against Hunger
John Iwasaki, senior writer for World Vision's U.S. Programs, tells the story of Rita Lujan, a cancer survivor who struggles to make ends meet for her family. With the help of World Vision food kits, Rita is standing strong: "God doesn't give you more than you can chew."
"Food insecurity" sounds like beef and veggies with an anxiety problem.
But hunger is hardly a joke for more than 50 million Americans -- including 16.7 million children under 18 -- who were considered food insecure in 2011. According to the USDA, they were unable to acquire enough food for their households in any given month due to lack of money and other resources.
Hunger persists in the United States, despite the nation's standing as the breadbasket for the world. For the 15 percent of American families living in poverty, getting adequate amounts of nutritious food can involve a multitude of challenges.
That's the case for Rita Lujan, a native of Guam who moved to the mainland United States in 1989. Her husband of 42 years died of a stroke in 2010. One daughter lives with cerebral palsy; another is on dialysis after her kidneys failed. Her son-in-law also faces serious health issues.
Rita underwent a double mastectomy after being diagnosed with breast cancer. Now she's battling bone cancer. Her black knit cap covers silver hair thinned as a result of chemotherapy.
Yet she remains strong, holding together a family that includes her 8-year-old grandson, Nicholas.
"I pray that the Lord is taking care of [everything]," says Rita, 66, who has lively dark eyes and a broad, if weary, smile. "The days seem so overwhelming. It's really tough."
The family lives in a manufactured house in Tacoma, Washington, and gets by on a combination of disability, Social Security, and retirement payments. Rita juggles household bills -- "robbing Peter to pay Paul" to keep the rent paid, lights on, and meals on the table.
The family's food budget is bolstered through food stamps, trips to the food bank, and cucumbers, tomatoes, and zucchini from their garden.
Letting others know her family's needs is not easy. "I'm not a person who says, 'I need help,'" says Rita, who worked for 20 years as a secretary in Guam's Department of Education.
Going to the food bank for the first time, "I was embarrassed," she admits. "But when cancer came, everything changed."
Nicholas qualifies for free lunch at his elementary school, one of 21.4 million children in the United States who received free or reduced-price meals through the National School Lunch Program in 2012 -- the highest number since the program started in 1969.
But only 2.3 million children of those eligible students eat in the Summer Food Service Program. That's partly because many schools, like Nicholas' school, don't participate in the summer program.
Research shows that children raised in poverty encounter a multitude of emotional, social, health, and other challenges that hinder academic success. Hungry children perform more poorly in school and have lower academic achievement because they cannot concentrate and are ill-prepared to learn.
When Rita's household runs low on food at times, the local director of a nurses' association serving Pacific Islanders brings her Family Food Kits from World Vision. Each kit provides enough ingredients for 15 meals, including such dishes as lentil soup -- "a very good meal," Rita says -- rice-and-bean casserole, and macaroni and cheese.
Other domestic programs offer clothing, personal hygiene items, household cleaning products, and building materials to vulnerable families. World Vision also responds to U.S. disasters with relief and recovery efforts, and we train local organizations to tutor and empower young people.
The programs help address some of the daunting needs faced by families like Rita's.
On her right wrist, she wears a white rubber bracelet imprinted with words that match her spirit: "Keep calm and fight on!"
"People say, 'You're still standing.' With God's help, I can do it," Rita says. "I try to be strong. Life's been hard, but God doesn't give you more than you can chew."
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The Administrative and Training Services group provides a range of integrated IITS services, technology systems, and supports the operation of the IITS department.
Reception & Switchboard Services provides information and directory assistance to the university community and general public. Their operators respond to inquiries and direct callers or visitors to the appropriate staff, faculty or university resource. Operators also set up, administer and monitor operator-assisted conference calls with multiple parties in various locations, facilitating meetings with IITS staff members.
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Now that the dust has settled somewhat on the rhetorical skirmish between Rand Paul and Chris Christie over NSA data-gathering, it's easier to see the irony of the confrontation.
We witnessed not just the punching and counterpunching of politicians considered likely contenders for the 2016 GOP nomination. It was also a clash between men who each possess a key to winning the White House.
But that's the rub. It takes at least two keys for a Republican to win the White House — one to unlock the Republican electorate of the primaries; the second to woo general-election voters. And the libertarian senator and tough-talking governor seem to be holding different keys.
Paul, the Kentuckian who carries the Tea Party banner in the Senate, would seem to have more appeal to the Republican Party base than does Christie. A recent Pew Research Center survey of Republicans indicates as much.
But Paul has less to offer, at least right now, to the broader universe of general-election voters. What he lacks in that respect however, Christie possesses, as suggested by a recent Public Policy Polling survey.
As governor of decidedly blue New Jersey, Christie is in the center-right tradition of previous Republican occupants of Drumthwacket, the New Jersey governor's official residence. That would very likely make Christie more competitive against a Democratic nominee in battleground states, and could even put New Jersey in play in a general election.
But he would first have to get through the Republican primaries, which could prove a challenge.
So Christie and Paul have related problems. You can see how each could get part of the way down the path to the White House. Less clear is how either goes the distance.
The GOP has faced some version of this challenge — where one politician has stronger appeal to voters inside the party, and another candidate to voters at large — in a number of presidential election cycles.
Recent history might seem to favor Christie, with Republican Party primary voters eventually falling in line behind the candidate seen to have greater crossover appeal to political independents. In 2008, they chose Arizona Sen. John McCain over former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney. In 2012, it was Romney over former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum.
It's as though the party hasn't forgotten the 1964 GOP nomination race, when another centrist big-state governor ran for the Republican nomination against a senator who was a right-wing darling with libertarian tendencies.
William Scranton of Pennsylvania, who died in July at age 96, lost that nomination to Sen. Barry Goldwater of Arizona, whom Democratic President Lyndon Johnson crushed in the general election.
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This image released on Thursday March 21, 2013 released by the European Space Agency (ESA) shows the most detailed map ever created of the cosmic microwave background acquired by ESA's Planck space telescope. George Esfthathiou, an astrophysicist who announced the Planck satellite mapping on Thursday, says the findings also offer new specificity of the universe's composition. (AP Photo/ESAPlanck Collaboration)
PARIS (AP) — New results from looking at the split-second after the Big Bang indicate the universe is 80 million years older than previously thought and provide ancient evidence supporting core concepts about the cosmos — how it began, what it's made of and where it's going.
The findings released Thursday bolster a key theory called inflation, which says the universe burst from subatomic size to its now-observable expanse in a fraction of a second. The new observations from the European Space Agency's $900 million Planck space probe appear to reinforce some predictions made decades ago solely on the basis of mathematical concepts.
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The Big Bang — the most comprehensive theory of the universe's beginning — says the visible portion of the universe was smaller than an atom when, in a split second, it exploded, cooled and expanded faster than the speed of light.
The Planck space probe looked back at the afterglow of the Big Bang, and those results have now added about 80 million years to the universe's age, putting it at 13.81 billion years old.
The probe, named for the German physicist Max Planck, the originator of quantum physics, also found that the cosmos is expanding a bit slower than originally thought, has a little less of that mysterious dark energy than astronomers had figured and has a tad more normal matter. But scientists say those are small changes in calculations about the universe, whose numbers are so massive.
Officials at NASA, which also was part of the experiment, said the Planck probe has provided a deeper understanding of the intricate history of the universe and its complex composition.
Krzysztof Gorski, a Planck scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab, said in a statement that the new results "are giving astronomers a treasure trove of spectacular data, and bringing forth a deeper understanding of the properties and history of the universe."
The Planck space telescope, launched in 2009, has spent 15 1/2 months mapping the sky, examining so-called "light" fossils and sound echoes from the Big Bang by looking at background radiation in the cosmos. The spacecraft is expected to keep transmitting data until late 2013, when it runs out of cooling fluid.
Scientists not involved in the project said the results were comparable on a universal scale to the announcement earlier this month by a different European physics group on a subatomic level — with the finding of the Higgs boson particle that explains mass in the universe.
"What a wonderful triumph of the mathematical approach to describing nature," said Brian Greene, a Columbia University physicist who was not part of the new Planck research. "It's an amazing story of discovery."
"The precision is breathtaking," Greene said in an email Thursday after the announcement. "The satellite is measuring temperature variations in space — which arose from processes that took place almost 14 billion years ago — to one part in a million. Amazing."
Efstathiou marveled at how the Planck data was such "an extremely good match" to the theory of rapid inflation in the split-second after the Big Bang.
Inflation tries to explain some nagging problems left over from the Big Bang, which formed the universe in a sudden burst. Other space probes have shown that the geometry of the universe is predominantly flat, but the Big Bang said it should curve with time. Another problem was that opposite ends of space are so far apart that they could never have been near each other under the normal laws of physics, but early cosmic microwave background measurements show they must have been in contact.
So a few physicists more than 30 years ago came up with a theory to explain this: Inflation. That says the universe swelled tremendously, going "from subatomic size to something as large as the observable universe in a fraction of a second," Greene said.
Planck shows that inflation is proving to be the best explanation for what happened just after the Big Bang, but that doesn't mean it is the right theory or that it even comes close to resolving all the outstanding problems in the theory, Efstathiou said.
There was an odd spike in some of the Planck temperature data that hinted at a preferred direction or axis that seemed to fit nicely with the angle of our solar system, which shouldn't be, he said.
But overall, Planck's results touched on mysteries of the universe that have already garnered scientists three different Nobel prizes. Twice before scientists studying cosmic background radiation have won a Nobel Prize — in 1978 and 2006 — and other work on dark energy won the Nobel in 2011.
At the press conference, Efstathiou said the pioneers of inflation theory should start thinking about their own Nobel prizes. Two of those theorists — Paul Steinhardt of Princeton and Andreas Albrecht of University of California Davis — said before the announcement that they were sort of hoping that their inflation theory would not be bolstered.
That's because taking inflation a step further leads to a sticky situation: An infinite number of universes.
To make inflation work, that split-second of expansion may not stop elsewhere like it does in the observable universe, Albrecht and Steinhardt said. That means there are places where expansion is zooming fast, with an infinite number of universes that stretch to infinity, they said.
Steinhardt dismissed any talk of a Nobel.
"This is about how humans figure out how the universe works and where it's going," Steinhardt said Thursday. "And it's kind of a raucous time at the moment."
Efstathiou said the Planck results ultimately could give rise to entirely new fields of physics — and some unresolvable oddities in explaining the cosmos.
"You can get very, very strange answers to problems when you start thinking about what different observers might see in different universes," he said.
Borenstein reported from Washington.


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I want to start talking a bit about painting technique. Technique is different than color.
So far I've talked only about color theory and nothing at all about brush technique. They are two completely separate things. You could be good at color but not so good at technique. There are a lot more artists who are good at technique but are not as good at color. I don't know why exactly. I guess you can learn technique but not taste.
Art Lozzi was excellent at both. Look at this beautiful painting below.
The color thinking on this tree BG above is very similar to the color thinking in this Frazetta painting below, yet the two styles look completely different. Why?
Because the painting techniques are different.
Here's a painting by Kristy Gordon. Similar thinking in color. Another different painting technique.
The general technique that Lozzi and Monte and the early Hanna Barbera painters used was painting with sponges and friskets.
They would cut holes in cells (friskets) in the shapes of certain objects, like the trees above, and then dip a sponge in paint and apply the sponge over the frisket.
Then when they peeled the cel off the paper, there would be a textured tree in the shape of the frisket on top of the BG color.
Sometimes they would keep layering sponge textures on top of the paint and even use smaller friskets to fill shadow shapes in with.
Below you can see contrasts in techniques. There is some flat color (the sky), some sponge (the tree on the right) and some dry brush (the trees on the left).
If the painting was completely filled in with equal amounts of texture from left to right, the BG would be indistinct and hard to read. Contrasts are important in all aspects of creativity. Contrasts are punctuation. They are what tells you what to pay attention to. Stories need contrast, dialogue needs contrast, acting needs contrast, composition needs contrast, design does, animation does, timing does-everything does.
Here is a similar technique with less contrast from Disney. See how more monotonous it is compared to the better designed, better colored and contrasty styled HB BGs? Looks like wallpaper.
Without contrast or punctuation you have monotony. Controlling contrasts is very difficult and I'd say even impossible for weaker artists or actors or writers. Today's prime time cartoons are extremely monotonous because they have no punctuation or contrasts in any of the creative aspects of them. Everything just drones along at the same pace, volume and evenly spaced design. Nothing is more important than anything else. It all just lays there and expects you to weed through the morass to find what the entertaining parts are.
This BG above has all the paint techniques I've been talking about plus some pencil shading on the grass and hills and trees. Lots of contrasting textures, values and negative shapes.
These HB painting techniques can be very simple...
..or more complex
Even the lines on the trees are full of contrasts. Some are close together. Some are far apart-they are not evenly spaced. Some lines are painted on, some are drawn with colored pencils, some lines are curved, some are jagged.Even though the striking styling of this is bold and cartoony, the control of the contrasts in techniques and design and color makes it all organic and natural.... as opposed to today's mechanical computerized looks.
God, those multi million dollar budgeted prime time cartoons don't even HAVE painted backgrounds. The flat characters vanish right into the flat fluorescent backgrounds. These HB cartoons were originally budgeted at $3,000 each-or $9,000 per half hour and they are infinitely more complex and skilled than what you get for 3 million. Here's millions of dollars worth of artistic achievement.
I've asked Art if he would be willing to explain to us his step by step procedure in painting backgrounds like this. Tell him in the comments how much you would appreciate that!