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FLOWERY BRANCH — About midway through his first organized team activity [non-contact practice] with the Falcons, cornerback Asante Samuel made a plea to the offense.
"Get me some action over here so I can show these people [as he pointed to the coaches] what I can do," Samuel said Tuesday.
When no passes immediately came his way, Samuel went to the top and involved Falcons general manager Thomas Dimitroff in his antics.
"Dimitroff, tell them to get me some action," Samuel said.
The offense was working on their inside timing routes and finally got around to throwing some passes to Samuel's side of the field. Samuel stepped in front of a pass from backup quarterback John Parker Wilson that was intended for Kevin Cone. Samuel ran to the sideline for a quick pose, with his arms crossed.
"That's the G-Stance," Samuel said. "I'm the first person to do this. [He posed again.] I branded it. "
A few plays later, Samuel nabbed a Matt Ryan pass that was intended for Drew Davis.
Samuel, 31, who was acquired in a trade with Philadelphia in April, said there was a method to his madness in calling for some action in practice.
"That's what you've got to do, put the bull's eye on your shoulder and step up to the plate," Samuel said. "That's how you get better. If you are talking [smack] and you're telling them 'they can't do this or they can't do that,' of course, they are going to try. But if you don't back it up, they are going to [make fun of] you."
Samuel has 45 career interceptions in nine seasons, fourth among active players. His 38 interceptions since 2006 is tops in the NFL.
Samuel spent some time Tuesday at right and left cornerback. Dunta Robinson played inside when the Falcons went to the nickel defense.
"I have a preference," Samuel said. "I want to be on the left side. This is a right-handed league, and I want to be where the ball is coming."
While Samuel has a stated preference to play on the left side, he plans to blend into Mike Nolan's defense.
"Check his record," Samuel said. "He's always been a good coordinator. Over there with Miami … he had a top-five defense one year. I can tell by the schemes and the different coverages, that he's mixing it up.
"It's not about one coverage. It's about confusing the offense. This is a league with great quarterbacks. You have to confuse people. He's going to do a real good job."
Samuel's play caught the attention of coach Mike Smith.
"He made a couple nice plays on the right and left side," Smith said. "The thing that Asante allows us to do is it gives us a lot of flexibility in terms of how we want to line up our players. That's something that coach Nolan and the staff have spent a lot of time discussing and something we'll look at very closely through these next nine OTAs that we have."
Samuel's antics caught some off guard. Under Smith, the Falcons have taken a businesslike approach to practice.
Other than a few outbursts from the linebackers, there usually isn't much loud talking. Not since the DeAngelo Hall days under coach Jim Mora has there been a player calling for some action during practice.
"It was cool," linebacker Sean Weatherspoon said. "I really don't know him that well, but just getting out there with him today and seeing the way that he competes. … He talks a little smack, and I definitely like that. He was having a good time out there today, and he was making some plays."
The Falcons believe Samuel could add swagger to the defense.
"I think so. We definitely need something like that," Weatherspoon said. "Anytime that you can add a player of that caliber to your defense, that's going to be a bonus."
–D. Orlando Ledbetter, The Atlanta Falcons beat blog
May 29th, 2012
2:47 pm
Superbowl bound.
May 29th, 2012
2:48 pm
why a guy has 3 mics?? orlando i dont see you there!
May 29th, 2012
2:56 pm
Just want to say one thing I am excited about this year.
May 29th, 2012
3:09 pm
[...] D. Orlando Ledbetter of the Atlanta Journal-Consitution has videos of Matt Ryan and Asante Samuel after OTAs, and also a video of the Falcons warming up for OTAs. Share [...]
May 29th, 2012
3:57 pm
Basically he said Ryan was e-z to read
May 29th, 2012
4:41 pm
FINALLY…a guy with some edge who isnt scared to say a "bad word" on camera. I think with his personality he should instantly become the alpha of our defense. I can see him and Spoon feeding each other (no pun intended). Two high energy guys like that should give us a good jolt!
May 29th, 2012
5:53 pm
I love it! I'll be praying for the health of our 3 starting CB's all season. I think that Samuel, Koetter, and Nolan were all HUGE improvements for the falcons. I can't wait for the season to start! No more vanilla defense! No more Michael Turner up the middle when the entire stadium knows it is coming! Yay Falcons! Thank you Arthur, Thomas, and Mike for putting together a team of players and coaches that will be very fun to watch! Yay Falcons!
May 29th, 2012
6:06 pm
This is exciting news! Only the beginning-not since Prime Time have we had an all pro calibre corner who will make big plays to help win/save ball games.
May 29th, 2012
8:07 pm
Duece Duece is definitely what this D needs. I hope the stiffs don't get too offended by his verbal antics. Sounds like he took over the first day of OTA's. Hopefully some of the control freaks on the sideline can adapt to what this guy brings to the table.
May 29th, 2012
9:08 pm
Some of these pathetic retards just sit at home and stare at the AJC blogs all day. LMAO! What a life.
May 29th, 2012
9:59 pm
Look dude don't play stupid OK you know you are the same BSer that did not show up and if you did you didn't have the Saints shirt on. I was there and you were not now move on with your life chump. You keep hiding behind this blog. You know what happens to you if I ever catch up to you though right. LOL You keep trolling the blog sites BSer looking for verbal battles like the weak chump that you are. You must be a kid. I would hate to think a grown man has such a worthless life as to rehash ish on sports blog sites. I actually feel sorry for you dude. You clearly have no life. If you think you punked me and it makes you in your little world feel better then be my guest. You wanna talk football then speak up but if you wanna play some silly childish game of hide behind the blog and play tough guy, I'm not interested. You go ahead and get your rocks off. I'm done with trash.
May 29th, 2012
10:37 pm
I love it, a louder Champ Bailey. Bring it baby, go Falcons!
May 29th, 2012
10:52 pm
Two INTs! Did he get any tackles? Didn't think so.
May 29th, 2012
11:39 pm
…ugh……….Chuck……….and….um….um…….Elmer. Now, …..uh…..you two just need to….uh……stop this feuding. Remember,….uh………….whatever your problem is, it….um……is Bush's fault.
May 30th, 2012
1:02 am
seenthisb4, who gets tackles in OTAs?….no pads bro, step your IQ up
May 30th, 2012
1:09 am
In a little over two months, we get to see what Samuel really has as a Falcon. Hope he can stay healthy, too. Never been quite this excited for Pre-Season to start, and see our "new" team in action!!!
May 30th, 2012
1:16 am
SeenThisB4's IQ is a fixed IQ.
May 30th, 2012
6:12 am
new team, same old tired 0-3 qb and coach . should be a spectacle for sure !
May 30th, 2012
6:22 am
Between Grimes and Samuels they are going to have a field day with Brees. And with Dunta playing the Nickel he should light up your slot WRs. This is going to be good. Seen and Hiram are here because they KNOW the Falcons will dominate the Saints this year.
May 30th, 2012
8:49 am
The Sain'ts and their fans who think they are playoff bound are in for a rude awakening. Carolina is close to breaking out with Cam, the Bucs have some very good new pieces on both sides of the ball, and the Falcons are only a pass rusher (a healthy Edwards?) away from having a shutdown defense to go with their efficient offense. Another thing these 3 teams have is a very real dislike of the New Orleans team and what they have been up to in recent years with their injury bounties. All three know that their respective QBs have been targeted, unsuccessfully, and a little payback on Brees and his weapons may be in order, like planting them firmly at the bottom of the division. The Sain'ts better have their insurance up to date when they get run over by the entire NFC South in 2012.
May 30th, 2012
9:15 am
I Love It
May 30th, 2012
10:55 am
I really like the moves on defense. However all this talk about sucess maybe we forgot about our most glaring weakness OL. Opening holes for the running game and giving MR time to read is diffently our problem. We continue to load up on skill players but give the OL, DL minimum attention!!!!!!
May 30th, 2012
10:57 am
success, difficult (sorry)
May 30th, 2012
11:01 am
definitely,, I can't get it together
May 30th, 2012
12:03 pm
May 30th, 2012
12:05 pm
Not laughing at you SavDawg.
May 30th, 2012
12:10 pm
Failcon fans have such a low IQ…. SB bound really ??? win a play-off game first. You think with a washed CB you gonna win SB ?
NO TEAM WANTED HIM….7th Round pick for him tells what how team values him. I can't believe people are so delusional…other than Nolan appointment as DC what other good thing has happened to Failcons in off-season ?
May 30th, 2012
12:12 pm
May 30th, 2012
12:17 pm
M. Ryan => Noodle arm
J.J => Injury prone
Roddy White => Loud mouth
M. Turner => slow
T. Gonazales => Old
A. Samuel => unwanted, discarded
Edwards => useless
D. Robinson => overpaid
So with these players you guys will be SB bound. LOL
May 30th, 2012
12:31 pm
rouge21, thank-you. Sounds to me like a great group of veterans that will rise-up.
May 30th, 2012
12:53 pm
No one wanted Samuel because of his extremely high cap number not because he doesn't have anything in the tank. The Eagles couldn't afford him and that's why the had to let him go. They wanted to do it last year but no one was willing to give up a second round pick for him especially with that high cap number.
May 30th, 2012
1:32 pm
[...] was overheard from the sidelines calling out challenges to the offense. "Get me some action over here so I can show these people [as he pointed to the coaches] what [...]
May 30th, 2012
2:09 pm
Vikings CB Asher Allen has retired from football.
May 30th, 2012
3:19 pm
michael smith, kinda like how randy moss went from oakland to new england for a 7th rounder…cause he had nothing left in the tank too right? oh wait thats weird, he had his best years as a patriot after that.
May 30th, 2012
5:11 pm
Jerry Glanville type of player. Talk as long as you can back it up, Deion, Favre, etc. Well, Brett had a party problem then, Swagger is back ! Go Coons !!
May 30th, 2012
5:47 pm
o my
May 30th, 2012
5:51 pm
May 30th, 2012
6:16 pm
Get a life Seenthis and Hiram….you are both so pathetic.
May 30th, 2012
6:18 pm
I wish the AJC would force people to register and log IP addresses. Of course I would also like the ability to block other users. That way I wouldn't have to read these tards' trolling BS all the time. Why can't they just get a life?! Who has this much time on their hands?
May 30th, 2012
6:22 pm
Get 'em Willie!
May 30th, 2012
6:49 pm
Token-That's just it, these people don't have lives. The only success in most of their lives is a football team winning a Super Bowl. I was one of the people that went to N.O. to help after Katrina with FEMA. I even employed many that had to relocate to the Atl area. Not all Saints fans are as ignorant as the ones that troll here. I did have to fire a few for stealing and drugs but overall decent people. I have NEVER visited a Saints blog site and never will but then again I do have better things to do.
May 30th, 2012
7:15 pm
@Chub Rock HEARD.
May 30th, 2012
9:22 pm
Asante Samuel will be hanging his head in shame when the season is over. He will learn all about falCANTS football. It's a new season, new coaches, new players. In the end, it the same old losing falCANTS. No Super Bowl win. I will go ahead and say it for all falCANT fans. Maybe Next Year !!!!!!!!!!!!!
May 31st, 2012
9:42 am
Asante "hot air" Samuels…..This guy is not a shut down corner. He will play the underneath routes well but he better have safety help because he always bites on pump fakes. He can be beat deep. However, you will never see him get beat deep at Flowery Branch because Noodle arm can't throw the deep ball.
May 31st, 2012
9:54 am
Don't call him noodle-arm……………..and ream the taints.
May 31st, 2012
10:39 am
I never said who noodle-arm was…..but seems like Matt Ryan's Mother is protective of whomever he is.
May 31st, 2012
10:56 am
Rough21 I thought you are Falcons lover…whattha heel!
May 31st, 2012
11:25 am
Well Darn
May 31st, 2012
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The high-energy, nine-piece ensemble, which helped jumpstart the swing revival in the mid-90s, is celebrating its 20th anniversary and promoting its latest album, "Rattle Them Bones."
The band performs at 7:30 p.m. Oct. 4 at the Art Kamangar Center at the Merced Theatre. Tickets range from $15 to $35 and can be purchased online [1].
"It's going to be an unforgettable evening," said Gail Benedict, producing manager for Arts UC Merced Presents. "Swing music makes everybody happy. I think we're going to surpass our goals on this one."
In its formative years, having secured a legendary residency at the Derby nightclub in Los Angeles, Big Bad Voodoo Daddy reminded the world — in the middle of the grunge era — that it was still cool to swing, big-band style.
The band's big break came when three songs — "You & Me & the Bottle Makes 3 Tonight (Baby)," "I Wanna Be Like You" and "Go Daddy-O" — were featured in the soundtrack of the 1996 hit movie "Swingers."
"After all these years," band leader Scotty Morris said, "I still enjoy writing in a vintage style. There's an integrity that comes from writing and playing songs the way folks did in the old days, when they did it to capture the audience's imagination; not simply to click with a specific demographic."
The band's numerous television appearances include "Dancing With The Stars," "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno," "Late Night with Conan O'Brien" and "Last Call with Carson Daly."
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We've paid attention to detail and have created an authentic atmosphere fitting of displaying these fine motor vehicles from yesteryear. Over 20,000 collectible items of interest that will stir these fond memories are on display. Come and enjoy an experience that you will long remember!
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Black History Month Craft Night
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Tuesday, February 18, 2014 - 3:30 p.m.
Learn about amazing African Americans who changed the world, and make crafts inspired by their contributions!
Make your own star puzzle for Benjamin Banneker and write messages in invisible ink for Ralph Ellison. All crafts we will do can be found in Carol Gnojewski's African-American Crafts Kids Can Do!
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Chanda Goes To The Gulf
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NEW ORLEANS, LA, USA - As the devastating impacts of the BP Oil Disaster continue to unfold, a group of athletes from different sports ranging from the NFL to NHL to Olympic medalists joined together to tour the damage, voice their support for Gulf Coast communities and share with their fans what they have seen. They highlighted the connection between sports, health and a clean environment, and discussed why we need to fully clean up the coast and move towards clean energy to ensure that a disaster like this never happens again.
Athletes took a boat tour of the affected region, where they left from Myrtle Grove Marina and went to Barataria Bay, Cat Island and Bay Jimmy. The athletes held a press conference where they shared their experiences.
Among those in attendance was former Top 10 player Chanda Rubin.
"When I first decided to come and tour the Gulf I didn't know what to expect. Seeing the effects first hand was indescribable," Rubin said to the media at the press conference. "Really seeing the wildlife made it hit home. The oil-covered marshes were the most saddening part - seeing the oil stuck to the grass and the leaves leaning under the weight of the oil - you don't get that from pictures."
Rubin won seven singles titles and 10 doubles titles on the Sony Ericsson WTA Tour, making it as high as No.6 in the world. She reached three French Open quarterfinals and an Australian Open semifinal as well, in 1996. The American, now 34, has been off the circuit since 2006 due to injuries.
Other athletes in attendance were Mike Richter and Andrew Ference (NHL), Mike Alstott and Ovie Mughelli (NFL), Leilani Munter (ARCA/NASCAR), Krista Bradford (X Games snowboarder), Stacey Cook (US Alpine Ski Team), Loree Smith and Gary Morgan (Track & Field).


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June 21:
A pre-teen was visiting her father and his family for Father's Day in the 600 block of G Street when mom arrived at midnight to pick the girl up in strict compliance with the terms of a parenting plan. An argument broke out between the ex's outside the residence, and police were called. One of the visitors claimed to have been shoved during the argument, but officers were unable to verify an assault occurred. The argument was ended, and the child left with her custodial parent to return home. Written statements are being collected for review.
June 21:
Officers res-ponded to a 911 hang-up call in the 700 block of A Street and determined that a neighbor in an apartment complex was worried about noises coming from another unit. Officers contacted the couple in the second apartment. They explained the husband, who had facial injuries, had been roughhousing with his small child when the child accidentally struck him in the nose. The child appeared fine, and the spouse supported her husband's statements.
June 20:
A passerby reported suspicious activity near Drayton Harbor Road and Semiahmoo Parkway that might have been a fight between the occupants of a car. Officers checked and did not find anyone in distress and no vehicles stopped in the area.
June 20:
Officers provided a courtesy ride to five stranded Canadian visitors. Their car had broken down a few miles from the border. Two adults and three children were given a ride to the Pacific Highway crossing, where they were met by a friend. Officers cleared without incident.
Officers received and checked on a couple of reports regarding possible protesters in the area of Peace Arch Park. Blaine officers and Customs personnel found a small gathering of people peacefully meeting about U.S. embargo against Cuba. No assistance was needed.
Officers were dispatched to a possible drug overdose in the 300 block of Alder Street. On arrival they found that a person had taken several prescribed pills, with no intent to harm himself. The fire department arrived and spoke with the patient, who refused treatment and was not in any immediate danger. Officers and fire department personnel spoke with the reporting party, who was going to stay with their friend in case other problems developed.
Dispatch reported that WCSO was en route to a report that a man had been shot by a shotgun wielding assailant in the Birch Bay area, and a witness with a cell phone was following the suspect's car north towards Blaine. With the assistance of the witness, Blaine police officers located the suspect behind a business in the 1500 block of Odell Rd and took him into custody. He was turned over to WCSO deputies. Blaine officers assisted in locating a shotgun from the brush near where the suspect was apprehended.
Officers investigated a complaint that a landlord was harassing a former tenant in the 1100 block of Harborside Drive, at the tenant's new home. Officers investigated and advised the complainants about their options in dealing with the problem, (which did not appear to be criminal at this point.)
Officers contacted a driver in the 2700 block of Peace Portal Drive for a vehicle license violation. During the contact, the driver relinquished a personal use amount of marijuana. The driver was polite and cooperative and was cited for the violations and released at the scene.
Officers stopped a car that had been parked in the middle of Odell Road. Officers learned that the subjects in the car had been arguing and were trying to work things out. No physical assault had occurred, and the driver agreed to move the disagreement off the road.
A person in the 600 block of B Street called to report that an open fire in his neighbor's back yard was dangerously close to his wood pile and storage shed. Officer responded and found the neighbor was tending a fire in his backyard firepit, and the fire's size had gone down substantially. The fire's owner agreed to closely watch the fire and limit its size. (Fires in the city limits can be no larger than three feet wide and high, not endanger adjacent structures, and closely monitored with tools and water available to extinguish it if needed.)
A person in the 1700 block of Peace Portal Drive called to report that he had bought a vehicle from a private party which turned out to be in a lot worse condition than he had been led to believe. The reporting party did not know the name of the person from whom he had purchased the car. The reporting person was advised that the problem was civil, and that he should seek compensation from the courts if he felt he had been wronged. He agreed to do so. Report taken for informational purposes.
Officers were told that there were several juveniles drinking and being disorderly in an apartment complex in the 700 block of A Street. Officers spoke to the juveniles: they were loud but were not drinking. They agreed to be quiet and disperse for the evening.
A parent reported her 14-year-old daughter ran away the evening before she was supposed to report to juvenile detention for a five day stay. The girl was entered into the law enforcement database as a missing person.
A resident in the 300 block of Martin Street reported an adult female was sleeping on her back porch. Officers contacted the female and found she was listed as a missing person and escapee from a mental hospital. A detention order was served and the female was transported without incident to St. Joseph Hospital for an involuntary commitment.
A person reported a male exhibiting outbursts of emotion in the 1400 block of Peace Portal Drive. The male was outside his vehicle near an ocean view point . No one else was around. Officers contacted a man seated on the grass outside his vehicle. The man was emotionally distraught over the death of his father and beyond the safe limit of alcohol consumption to leave the area in his own truck. Officers called the man's mother who lives in Blaine. Mom immediately came to the scene. She drove the truck to her home and another relative drove the man home.
A probation officer requested officers check on the welfare of a resident in the 300 block of H Street who seemed to have disappeared. Officers spoke with the woman's neighbor who said she had moved out of state. The information was relayed to the probation officer.
Officers were asked to check on the welfare of a two year old child at a house in the 700 block of Elm Street where arguing had been heard. There was no one at home when officers arrived, and a note found on the front door indicated the owners had not been home in the past 24 hours. Officers will continue to attempt contact until the welfare of the child has been verified.
Several people reported porta-potties at construction sites in the 5300 block of Canvasback Road that were tipped over. The were also several mail boxes that were smashed. Case under investigation.
A person was referred for a secondary inspection at the Peace Arch Port of Entry. During the inspection a pink lunch box containing about 7.2 grams of marijuana, a grinder, a cigarette roller with marijuana residue and rolling papers were found. The driver of the car, who admitted ownership, was issued a citation for the offense.


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Tarsier Studios secures further funding for development of new 'Hunger' concept
We are super proud to have been awarded €150,000 in development support from the EU's Creative Europe programme for our new concept, Hunger.
Hunger is an adventure-suspense game about a girl named Six and her attempts to escape the strange world of The Maw. Hunger's ambition is to offer something different to players looking for exactly that.
Having already received financial backing from Nordic Game for the concept, we feel the Creative Europe support shows Hunger has the ability to inspire and impress those who come into contact with it.
"We couldn't be happier" says CEO Ola Holmdahl. "Only about 20 percent of the applications were awarded Creative Europe development support. Our goal is to make the best game we possibly can, and for Tarsier this money means we can go forward and explore the Hunger concept with greater confidence."
Tarsier secures funding for 'Hunger' concept
Today, at the Nordic Game Conference 2014, we were awarded 500.000 Danish Kroner (67.000 EUR) in development support from the Nordic Game Program for the concept of our new IP 'Hunger' (working title).
'Hunger' is a third-person 3D action adventure game with stealth and exploration elements. A nine-year old girl named Six is kidnapped from her home and taken to work in The Maw – a surreal underwater resort catering to the whims of the powerful elite. When an unexpected twist of fate offers her a chance at freedom, Six takes a journey through the bizarre and unpredictable world of The Maw, and catches a glimpse at the corrupt heart of modern happiness.
"This is not only a huge vote of confidence from the Nordic Game Program expert group," says CEO Ola Holmdahl. "The grant enables us to explore an idea we are deeply passionate about. Hunger holds fantastic potential, and our job now is to harness that promise into a great experience."
DC Comics Level Pack Giveaway!
It just so happens that we have a handful voucher codes for the European version of the DC Comics Premium Level Pack! So what better way to start the new year than with a small competition?
If you have a EU PSN account and would like to win a code simply tell us who your favourite DC Comics hero (or villain!) is and why!
Leave your responses in the comments below, on our Facebook page, or you can send us a message on Twitter. You have until the morning of January 20 to come up with a clever answer!
The best/funniest responses will receive a code early next week!
DC Comics Premium Level Pack out this week!
We are happy to reveal that one of the biggest level packs yet is coming to LittleBigPlanet 2 this week! Join the Justice League on an epic adventure that will take you all around the world in five exhilarating story levels and two brand new mini-games!
To help you overcome the obstacles awaiting you we've added a whole range of new features and abilities to LittleBigPlanet!
The Hero Cape!
Why run and jump when you can glide? The new Hero Cape power-up gives your Sackboy the ability to glide for long distances and perform incredible aerial acrobatics that even Batman would be proud of!
Wall Jumps!
With new Wall Jump Material and the Wall Jump Tweaker even steep walls no longer represent insurmountable obstacles!
The Memoriser and more!
We included a whole range of additions and improvements that were previously only available in LittleBigPlanet PS Vita. One of the biggest of these is the Memoriser! The Memoriser allows you store data within a level so player can continue from where they left off, and send data from one level to another enabling you to build epic stories!
The DC Comics Premium Level Pack will also include a whole range of new materials, objects, decorations, and even five new interactive music tracks to create even more astonishing levels with! And of course we also included a number of trophies and pins for all you collectors and trophy hunters out there.
We can't wait to see the amazing levels you will create with all of this!
Nightmare before Christmas Competition!
To celebrate the launch of the Nightmare before Christmas DLC for LittleBigPlanet 2 and LittleBigPlanet Vita we thought it would be nice to run a little competition. The prize is a copy of the poster below signed by all of us here at Tarsier!
To enter the competition simply decorate your pod for Halloween and send us a picture of it by November 4. You can send us the picture over Facebook, Twitter, or just leave it in the comments below.
And the winner is…
There were a lot of great entries and we were amazed by how well all of you used the decorations from the Nightmare Before Christmas DLC and other spooky DLC packs. Well done all of you!
In the end there could only be one winner, so without further ado:
Please get in touch with us either by sending an email to us through the contact form (select LBP PS Vita as the topic) or by sending us a message on Twitter or Facebook so we know where we need to send the poster to!
LBP: The Nightmare Before Christmas DLC Trailer
The Nightmare Before Christmas Creator Kit and Costume Pack is available for LittleBigPlanet PS Vita and LBP 2 today! Check out the trailer!
Announcing The Nightmare Before Christmas Creator Pack
Just in time for the 20th anniversary of Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas we are bringing a brand new gallery level to LittleBigPlanet PS Vita and LittleBigPlanet 2!
The Nightmare Before Christmas Creator Pack will be released next week! The pack comes with a number of new materials, a new background, music and sound effects, as well as a range of objects, decorations and stickers.
LittleBigPlanet PS Vita is one year old today!
LittleBigPlanet PS Vita has been out for exactly one year now! And what a year it has been!
Making LittleBigPlanet PS Vita was a daunting task, especially so since we built it for a platform that barely existed when we started on the project. But, with the help of Double Eleven and Sony XDev, we managed to overcome all obstacles and delivered a game that we are very proud of!
Since launch LittleBigPlanet PS Vita picked up several awards, like the Game of the Year award from TIGA, and was nominated for several prestigious awards such as a BAFTA for Best Mobile/Handheld Game. The critical reception was simply amazing with many reviewers praising it as "the definitive LittleBigPlanet game". Today LittleBigPlanet PS Vita is one of the highest rated PS Vita games on Metacritic with a Metascore of 88.
But more importantly you guys seem to enjoy it a lot! Over the past 12 months you have created way more content for your fellow players to enjoy than we ever could! There are now 118,323 levels and on average of 324 levels are added to this number every day.
To celebrate we are giving away 3 voucher codes for the EU version of LittleBigPLanet PS Vita. If you would like to get a one, simply leave a message on our Facebook page or send us a message on Twitter and tell us why you should be chosen!
Make sure you are following our Twitter account, @TarsierStudios, so we can DM you the code.
We will send out to codes tomorrow afternoon!
LittleBigPlanet Internship
At the end of last year Sony ran an awesome LittleBigPlanet contest for the chance to win a month-long internship with us here at Tarsier Studios. During his stay we would work with the lucky winner to polish his level into a true community gem and introduce him to the dark secrets of game development!
After playing through hundreds of amazing LittleBigPlanet PS Vita levels created by players from all over Europe the judges decided that Simone's entry, Flint, was the best. So Sony flew him out to Sweden to join us at the beginning of June.
Over the course of the past four weeks Simone worked closely with our designers and artists. During that time he learned a lot about how we made the story levels in LittleBigPlanet PS Vita and we helped him make his mini-game even better than it already was. We think the end result is a great showcase of what anyone can create with LittleBigPlanet given a bit of time!
It was awesome to have a LittleBigPlanet fan as motivated as Simone in the office for four weeks and to see how quickly he improved upon his level after just a little feedback from us!
Do check out his level when you get a chance! You can queue it up on vita.lbp.me right now!
You can also read more about Simone's experience with us over on the PlayStation Blog.
Tarsier Studios appoints DICE veteran as new CEO
Malmö, 2013-06-06. The board of directors at Tarsier Studios, a Swedish game studio best known for internationally acclaimed games LittleBigPlanet PSVita and Rag Doll Kung Fu: Fists of Plastic, and their work on LittleBigPlanet and LittleBigPlanet 2 has appointed Ola Holmdahl as its new CEO.
"Ola Holmdahl has a long track record in the game industry and brings a wide range of skills within game design, project management and corporate leadership. We believe Ola will be a great help in Tarsier's continued development", says Magnus Lindsten, chairman of the board of Tarsier Studios.
Mattias Nygren, the original Chief Executive Officer at Tarsier Studios, will be leaving the company.
"As CEO and executive producer I've been responsible for the development of the company as well as product development at two separate offices," Nygren explains. "The office in Malmö is developing console games and our Karlshamn office provides game art outsourcing services. Due to my great ambitions, I don't consider it feasible to keep both these studios running under me at the same time. I want to focus on a single studio, and given the fact that my family lives in Karlshamn, that is where I want to work."
Tarsier Studios has decided to sell off the Karlshamn office to Nygren as a means to achieve its goal of focusing more on original IP development. Nygren will continue to operate the Karlshamn office, but as a new and independent company focusing on contract work within the game industry.
According to Ola Holmdahl himself, "Tarsier Studios is a fantastic company that always delivers quality and creativity in a class of its own. As cofounder, coowner and CEO, Mattias Nygren has faced every challenge along the way to success in an exemplary fashion. As an entrepreneur and business developer, he's built a unique and successful relationship with Sony Computer Entertainment, where Tarsier's work on LittleBigPlanet won the company a place among the best game developers in the country. Sony is a fantastic publisher that has worked closely with Tarsier and contributed greatly in refining and developing our products."
On top of which he states that "now it's time to lead Tarsier onward, and we look forward to continuing our great relationship with Sony Computer Entertainment. Tarsier Studios is a company that has everything it takes to create a portfolio of fresh games and new IPs. Tarsier needs to be a creative leader, a workplace where the very best creators have an environment where they can work on their dream projects. In the international arena, quality, artistic expression, creativity, and craftsmanship remains the best combination."
Click here to download the full press release
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There are only four actors in the Falmouth Theatre Guild's winter production "The 39 Steps," but more than 140 roles.
The play is a comedy that combines Alfred Hitchcock's 1935 thriller with a dash of Monty Python. Two of the actors in the show together play dozens of roles.
Tom Pucci of Falmouth, the director of the production, said he was concerned going into auditions.
"Well, to be honest, I was not sure anyone would show up," he said. "By the second night of auditions, I had tons of talent. I was very excited about the cast I chose."
How he made his casting decisions was simple. "I thought they gave me the best schtick, which is most important in this farce-type show," he said.
Mr. Pucci said he learned about "The 39 Steps" from his niece Katie, who majored in theater in college.
"I have my own personal play-reading assistant," he said. "My plays often start with, 'Hey Uncle Tommy, I know what show you should direct.' "
Playing the lead in the play, a debonair Englishman named Richard Hannay, is Fred Carpenter of Falmouth. He is the straight man for the hilarity that ensues around him.
Playing the female lead—actually three female leads, Annabella, Pamela and Margaret, all with different accents—is Kimberly Boutin of Falmouth. Ms. Boutin said she has been having fun with her parts in "The 39 Steps."
In a recent interview, she quickly demonstrated their manner of speaking. She started with the guttural tones of the Russian spy, Annabella, segued into a line spoken by the Scottish farm girl, Margaret, and then went to the British accent she uses for the character, Pamela, in the last part of the show.
But most of the heavy lifting in "39 Steps" is done by two actors called "the clowns" who play just about everything but clowns. From portraying a Scottish innkeeping couple to train conductors, to police officers, to international spies, Eric Gomes of New Bedford and Greg Pucci of Falmouth, the 26-year-old son of the director, offer laughs throughout.
They do quick costume changes on stage, with a twirl and a new hat perhaps, and just like that—with a different accent—they have been transformed.
Also helping out in the production as "sign girl" is Anne Krishfield of East Falmouth.
"The 39 Steps" opens Friday, January 31, at Highfield Theater and plays for two weekends, through Sunday, February 9. Shows are 7:30 PM on Fridays and Saturdays and 2 PM on Sundays. Tickets are $17; seniors and students are $15. To order tickets, go to www.falmouththeatreguild.org.
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Not a bad first pic yay for sushi!
Well now we know ONE thing for sure about the iPhone 5......that it will have a camera. :P
Yellowtail, salmon and sea urchin nigiri sushi and an avocado roll... Sushi purist, eh? I'd like to see how this thing photograps one of them 'Spicy Pink Flamingo Flying Over a Palm Tree in Vegas' - type rolls... Then eat it.
I usually hate sushi but that damn picture makes me want some now!. NOM NOM NOMZ
Wow.. no offense to the writer but I just got dumber from reading this..
good to know apple employees don't only eat apples and drink at bars
i really wanna work there now... and it's not even the ghetto boxed style sushi
While the photo is underwhelming, I will be waiting to see what a fully unedited photo taken by the iPhone 5 looks like before I pass judgement.
Soooo, I'm waiting for iOS 5 public release, the iPod event, and the iPhone 5/4S. How long must apple keep us waiting
before getting so wasted that you'd risk breaking the "new phone embargo" by leaking a badly cropped sushi pic, and maybe losing your iPhone in the bar too.
EXIF data is useful, but like .MP3 ID3 tags and most other forms of metadata, they can be edited. Just saying.
how about a picture of the phone instead of a picture by the phone... come onnn
Attention, photoshoppers! Get on it naow!!
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A certified fund raising executive with 12 years of hospital development experience, Joel and his team at Renown Health Foundation work to build partnerships that elevate healthcare for our community. The Foundation and its supporters have funded marvelous projects at Renown, including the William N. Pennington Nursery, the Wilbur D. May Pediatric Intensive Care Unit and The John and Sue Dermody Children's Healing Garden. Community philanthropy also fuels efforts in research, nursing education, healing arts and patient assistance.
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|Martin Luther King, Jr. Day
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September 11, 2014: Shaker Life, a quarterly magazine published by the City of Shaker Heights, has won national recognition for the quality of the publication by the City-County Communications & Marketing Association (3CMA). The first place Savvy Award given to Shaker Life distinguishes it from among 23 entries in the Printed Publications - External Publications category from across the country. The awards were announced during a ceremony at the Music Box Theatre in Minneapolis on September 4.Read more...
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September 9, 2014: Sound the alarm! The Shaker Heights Fire Department's 2014 Open House is almost here. On Saturday, September 20 from 12-3 pm the Fire Department (17000 Chagrin Boulevard) opens its doors to the community. New this year, Shaker Town Center merchants will participate by offering a Scavenger Hunt for children, various donated prizes, in-store activities, and treats.Read more...
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August 27, 2014: Shaker Heights has joined seven other cities in Cuyahoga County's ReadyNotify mass notification system. The City will use ReadyNotify to deliver important information to the public regarding emergencies and safety situations as well as when emergencies require closing of city buildings. The system is provided by Cuyahoga County at no cost to the City.Read more...
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August 6, 2014: The City of Shaker Heights is hiring Police Officers through a lateral entry process, limiting the pool of applicants to the first 50 completed application packets received from trained and experienced police officers from other Ohio law enforcement agencies. This process reduces outside training time and puts experienced police officers to work as quickly as possible. All Police Officer positions are Civil Service appointments and participate in the Ohio Police and Fire Pension Fund.Read more...
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Bayonne High and the City surrounding it is the reason why the whole country thinks that New Jersey is a big pile of trash. The Smell of this city burns your nostrils and makes you vomit uncontrollibly. This High School breeds STD infested Guidos and Prostitutes. Graduates of this High School amount to nothing and live off the government. A fantastic stop if you are on a road trip. Don't forget to bring your bulletproof vest!
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Professional Leadership
Combined, Gaudenzia's executive leadership team has more than 200 years of experience in their respective fields of study and practice. We are proud to attract some of the best and brightest in the field to help us fulfill our mission of helping individuals with substance abuse problems.
Michael B. Harle, MHS
President / Chief Executive Officer, Gaudenzia, Inc.
Michael Harle is the President / CEO of Gaudenzia, Inc. Mr. Harle began his career in 1973 as a chemical dependency counselor, and shortly after, developed drug and alcohol treatment programs in three state correctional institutions in Pennsylvania. He received his Master's Degree in Human Services from Lincoln University in 1978 and holds a certificate in Non-Profit Management from Harvard University Business School. For a full biography, please click here.
Gadi Aronson, MSW
Director of Development
Gadi Aronson has been with Gaudenzia since 2004 and has more than 25 years experience in fundraising. Mr. Aronson is responsible for all aspects of fundraising and public relations for the organization.
Michael Coyle, MBA, CPA
Director of Finance & Accounting
Michael Coyle has been with Gaudenzia since 2011 and has over 20 years of executive financial experience, specializing in healthcare and non-profit organizations. He directs all aspects of Gaudenzia's financial operations.
Ken Dickinson, MS, RHP
Director of Marketing
Ken Dickinson has been with Gaudenzia since 2007 and is responsible for all aspects of recruiting clients to our programs. Mr. Dickinson is a registered pharmacist. He enjoys a national reputation as a lecturer and advocate in the areas of addiction and behavioral health. He is a Trainer for the Institute for Research, Education, and Training in Addictions (IRETA) as well as the North Eastern Addiction Technology Transfer Center (NEATTC).
Karen Griffin, MS
Director of Administration
Karen Griffin has been a Gaudenzia employee since 1979. With a background in education and social service agencies, Ms. Griffin has held several positions at Gaudenzia. As Director of Administration she manages Gaudenzia's two Boards of Directors, program acquisitions and start-ups, strategic planning and incident investigation.
Sharon Johnson, MBA
Director of Human Resources
Sharon Johnson has been with Gaudenzia for more than 15 years, and is the Director of Human Resources for the organization. Ms. Johnson is responsible for all aspects of human resources for over 900 full-time and 150 part-time employees.
Gale Saler, LCPC, CRC-MAC
Director of the Chesapeake Region
Gale Saler has been with Gaudenzia since 2001. Ms. Saler has worked in the addiction and rehabilitation field since 1984, during which time she has developed and operated some of the most effective addiction treatment and recovery programs in the region.
Mark Sarneso, M.S.
Director of the Central and Western Region
Mark Sarneso holds a B.A. from York College of Pennsylvania and a M.S. from the University of Pittsburgh's School of Social Work with a concentration in Child and Adolescent Development. He has over 35 years of increasingly responsible management positions in the behavioral health field. Mark also has extensive experience in advocacy of public policy, as he was Chairman of DASPOP (Drug and Alcohol Service Providers of Pennsylvania) for 17 years.
Cecilia Velasquez, MHS
Director of the Eastern Region
Cecilia Velasquez has been with Gaudenzia since 1981 and has been in field of human services since 1974. Ms. Velasquez has worked with diverse populations including: chemical dependency, women/women and children, victims of domestic/sexual violence, dual diagnosis, homeless, community corrections and prisons.
Carole Ziegler
Director of Risk Management and Internal Audit
Carole Ziegler has been with Gaudenzia since 1985. Ms. Ziegler plans and completes internal audits of agency programs and departments, implements policies and procedures and assists in preparation of agency audit work-papers. She is the Chair the Safety Committee and manages the administration of the pension funds.


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BitTorrent has pretty much solidified itself as the undisputed king of P2P — like it or not, the reality is there's not much to debate about. But what about those other P2P filesharing protocols? Have they become forgotten pioneers of a bygone era, cast aside by a next-gen world of crazed torrenters? Or are they equally thriving in their own right, albeit somewhat displaced? We'll try to answer that by digging around in some of the alternative P2P methods to see what's hot, and what's not.
BitTorrent (Public)
While using any tracker (as-is) is not considered a 'safe' method of P2P filesharing; incredibly, public sites are increasingly popular. Even the most devout private tracker user will probably stray to a public site from time to time to search for a hard-to-find file (as public trackers offer much more variety than even the best private tracker). Perhaps you have 10, even 20 different private accounts - combined they still can't compete with the sheer content found on just one public indexing website. Love 'em or hate 'em, public trackers are here to stay - until an entirely new P2P protocol is created that fills in the obvious security holes, lousy seed-to-peer ratios, and other inherent flaws pertinent to BitTorrent.**What's Hot:**
Torrent metasearch sites and aggregators, especially Web 2.0 versions. More than ever, torrent aggregators seem to be winning over public users who want a greater selection & real-time comparison of similar torrents.
Decentralized Trackers: The prospect of a fully-decentralized public tracker is not too far off in the distant future. The Pirate Bay is one such site that has split itself up over many continents in order to avoid closure in a (single) country where it's hosted.**What's Not:**
Large public indexing sites. They continue to steadily lose ground to superior private trackers, as more torrenters become increasingly knowledgeable and security-conscious. Mininova was once in the "Alexa Top 50" - now it resides at 81 (a 28% drop in traffic from 3 months ago). Same goes for ThePirateBay, who was once in the Top 100 - they've seen a 27% decrease in visits. Another slider is Isohunt - down 50 points from 3 months ago (a 31% decrease).
BitTorrent (Private)
Private trackers have been red-hot for years now; and amazingly their unabated growth seems almost exponential year-after-year. Users have more choices than ever before for diversity and content, and private BT communities contain the tightest group of members of all the P2P protocols. Camaraderie is high; competition is fierce.**What's Hot:**
Niche trackers that offer specific torrents; 'Community' trackers that are less concerned about the torrents (and more about the members & forums); Gazelle codebase trackers; so-called 'secret' cliquey trackers (with names that don't coincide with the URLs).**What's Not:**
Ubiquitous 'General' trackers with so-so pretimes and a hodgepodge of releases - what the filesharing world does not need is yet another run-of-the-mill all-purpose tracker. The market is already oversaturated with these.
P2L (Pay To Leech) trackers are also cold as ice - no one wants to be hounded for donations, "or else we'll have to close down" being a common threat. Likewise, 0day sites that offer upload GBs for a monetary contribution are being similarly criticized, especially when there's not a single freeleech torrent to be found.
Gnutella Network (Limewire)
P2P programs that connect to a decentralized network such as Gnutella (or multiple networks) were once king of the P2P world. While there's still an expansive group of users on Limewire, their numbers are steadily dwindling. The ugly reality that users are easy targets for lawsuits by the RIAA because of the "shared folder" conundrum has shied many users away, especially in the U.S. Toss in the fact that Gnutella's flagship program is currently doomed by a can't-win litigation case vs. Arista (a record label under the RIAA's umbrella), this undoubtedly spells disaster for Limewire as we know it.**What's Hot:**
Not much. Because of the decentralized structure and haplessly uncontrolled uploading/sharing, it's impossible to keep out 'fake' files that plague the network. Music still seems to be a safe bet; although even this can be hit & miss - true audiophiles want bitrates higher than 128. After the dust settles in the Limewire saga, look for a new or existing clone (FrostWire) to gain immense popularity.**What's Not:**
While anti-piracy agencies can't take down a decentralized network - as long as there's even one user on it, then it's still viable - so the second best thing they can do is flood it with fake/bad files until everyone becomes so totally discouraged to not use it anymore. Most of us can recall KaZaA and FastTrack - so terribly disfigured with junk that finding even one good version of a song proved a daunting task. Due to its own uncontrolled nature, a decentralized architecture becomes its own undoing. For this Shareaza, BearShare Lite & Limewire (including the many clones) are all losing market share to other protocols.
Direct Connect (DC)
Probably one of the least known protocols, DC's origins stem back to 1999. Users connect to centralized servers, or hubs, and more often than not you'll need to share between 1 to 10 GBs before being allowed to join most of the popular hubs. The premiere client DC++ has been downloaded over 52 million times since November 2001, proving Direct Connect is here to stay.**What's Hot:**
Private hubs. Closed "University network only" DC hubs such as Dtella are hardly a new concept, yet seem to be popping up even in the smallest of schools. With the increased blocking of most P2P traffic/protocols that connect outside of the University's ISP and out-of-network bandwidth restrictions, DC circumvents this by keeping everything self-contained within the walls of the school's ISP - and everyone else out. This effectively marginalizes the risk for anti-piracy agencies to hit students with DMCA notices and the like. Not only that, but intranet bandwidth is much cheaper than external P2P traffic - University ISPs need not turn a blind eye to DC, but actually allow and embrace it.
DC clients that are hot: RevConnect (a DC++ mod); VerliHub (a cross-platform server).**What's Not:**
Most public hubs that are hosted inside the U.S.
eD2k / eMule
Today, the eD2k network is less than half the size it was back in its peak just a short few years ago. The likely culprit for the decline is BitTorrent which has absorbed many of its users who are looking for quicker downloads. Truth be told, BitTorrent doesn't have the vastness of files that eD2k has (it's not even close); this continues to solidify eD2k as a viable P2P alternative for older and hard-to-find files that are unavailable elsewhere.**What's Hot:**
"eD2k Links" communities. Like BT, eD2k employs a hash system to verify valid files, thus many users have moved away from in-program (eD2k client) searching, and tend to lean towards a community-based approach. In these communities, members post viable working eD2k links (for direct downloading into a client such as eMule). This effectively cuts out the risk of bad downloads, and users don't have to sift through scores of similar search results in order to find a 'good' file. Private communities that are hot: Luelinks (still), Psyreactor.com (trance), ShareTheFiles, FileHeaven, and others.
eMule clients that are hot: eMule (original); MorphXT (eMule mod); Shareaza (multi-network).**What's Not:**
Slow download speed and queueing system is eD2k's Achilles heel. Direct eMule searching yields viruses in the results (especially when searching for software, zipped & rarred archives) - most of which can be modestly bypassed by using eD2K links from reputable sources.
Usenet / Newsgroups
While Usenet has taken a backseat to BitTorrent in recent times, binary newsgroups are still popular. With the somewhat-recent introduction of NZB files that index a complete set of RAR/PAR files for a release, users need not bother with a 'newsreader' style program for browsing the groups anymore. As bandwidth increases as does hard drive sizes, server retention continues to grow, making Usenet a great choice among filesharers (leechers) who want the fastest download speeds.**What's Hot:**
"NZB" sites & communities. Private sites continue to excel (such as newzbin.com) and are similar to private trackers in that they're "invite only", and NZBs are hand-done and manually added to the site. Other 'free' public sites that require registration (or not) are also on the incline, such as nzbsrus and nzbmatrix — here's even more.**What's Not:**
Newsreaders with no NZB support are dead. Free ISP Usenet access is almost useless in most cases. The downside? You'll likely have to pay for a good provider, as most ISP's retention is low, and often missing crucial files required to complete a 'set'.
Along with Usenet, IRC is one of the oldest filesharing protocols that's still in existence today. While the filesharing aspect to IRC is losing ground to superior P2P protocols, it's still the best medium for chatting. Most BitTorrent trackers have their own IRC channel to coincide with the site, to announce info and new torrents. IRC still plays a very important role in "the scene" even if it's not used as commonly as it once was for general filesharing.**What's Hot:**
"XDCC" is still formidable despite the queueing system, longish wait times and relatively slow download speeds. These 1-to-1 connections are less favoured when compared to instant Usenet and BitTorrent downloading.**What's Not:**
FServes are dead. DL speeds are usually very sluggish; direct peer and file searching near impossible; browsing is erratic at best.
DDL / Rapidshare Sites
The DDL filesharing method is quite possibly the easiest way to obtain copyrighted material on the Internet. There's no software to install, no programs to configure, no ISPs getting wise to your P2P traffic. 1-click hosters are more popular than ever, and new ones pop up constantly.**What's Hot:**
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Last night's news that Ales Hemsky had signed a 2-year, $10M contract to stay with the Oilers ignited a flurry of tweets and posts about 83′s surprise signing. The Oilers from summer 2006 through yesterday spent deadlines bloodletting and moving the cluster back one desperate year at a time. Last night, management sent a strong signal to the fanbase, joining the masses in one giant "we're as mad as hell and we're not going to take it anymore!" refrain.
Finally! The Oilers are keeping their actual NHL players, and that is news. After YEARS of offloading–you know the list–they signed Ales Hemsky and brought hope back into the conversation. What does it mean? Well, come summer the holes won't be as plentiful as past summers and the team will perhaps address holes and find a way to establish balance. Sweet, beautiful balance.
The forwards and defensemen signed, rfa with merit and the UFA who is certain to stay:
- G Nikolai Khabibulin
- G Devan Dubnyk (rfa)
- D Tom Gilbert
- D Ladislav Smid
- D Ryan Whitney
- D Jeff Petry (rfa)
- D Andy Sutton
- D Corey Potter
- D Theo Peckham (rfa)
- C Ryan Nugent-Hopkins
- C Sam Gagner (rfa)
- C Shawn Horcoff
- C Eric Belanger
- C Anton Lander
- L Taylor Hall
- L Ryan Smyth (ufa but signed soon)
- L Magnus Paajarvi
- L Ben Eager
- R Ales Hemsky (yay!)
- R Jordan Eberle
- R Ryan Jones
I always forget someone, but think that's right. Barker is RFA but unlikely to stay, and Hordichuk, Petrell are UFA. Anyway, you can see there's some nice things here and guys like Hartikainen, Omark and others may help out too. Man, it's good to be going into the summertime with an eye to building instead of trying to catch up to what was flushed at the deadline. I think the Oilers need a defenseman who can play plenty of evens and at least one of the special teams.
RNH plays today, that should be good. He's slipped in the Calder rankings but honestly if he can just stay healthy now through the end of the season I expect he'll win the day.
- Pat mentioned this last night on twitter, but the Taylor Hall verbal seems to have been a turning point.
- Hemsky may not be popular in some circles but his teammates certainly appear to have wanted him to stay.
- This is great news for Jordan Eberle. Hemsky's ability to face the tough music and post numbers 5×5 means #14 can facer softer comp and hopefully kill it like he's done his year. Eberle's home road splits (36 points in 27 homes games, 24 points in 29 road games) gives us a view to how important having a veteran option is for these kids.
- I think this sends a message to both players and fans: the Oilers are done with adding bullets for bullets sake and we're going to see more nights like the Flames and Flyers tilts earlier this week. Not all the time, but the climb is underway.
Nation Radio hits the airwaves today at noon on Team 1260. Guests scheduled to appear:
- Terry Jones from the Edmonton Sun and perhaps the hottest twitter account in Edmonton. Terry will help us put this week into perspective and I'll ask him how he sees the trade deadline working out with 83′s signing.
- Kent Wilson from Flames Nation. Kent always gives a unique perspective on the Flames and all things NHL. We'll discuss the Flames week, what Jay Feaster might do if they let him near the telephone and that tweet about Hemsky from Flames official site.
- Richard Pollock from Illegal Curve. The Jets have been such an interesting story and arrive at the deadline as a clear buyer. I'll ask Richard what that might mean for Jets fans over the next 72 hours.
- James Mirtle from the Globe and Mail. James will handle the Leafs portion of the deadline drama, and that could fill an hour but we'll only have 15 minutes. I'll also ask James about an interesting article about what it's like to get traded at the deadline.
- David Staples from the EJ's Cult of Hockey. David always has a unique opinion and backs it up with logic and reason. I'm looking forward to his view of the Oilers at the deadline.
- Cam Charron from Canucks Army. Vancouver is the one Canadian team that could stand pat and still deliver an impressive playoff 23, but from the sounds of things they will be active.
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"You know what would be a great idea? Dressing up in outfits that TLC would wear in a way that would conceal how white we actually are. Once our disguise is perfected, which it no doubt will be, we can white up a storm and embraced by the hip hop community. Chris Gaines 4 Life."
--Not one person in the world...with the exception of these people.
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2. Joey Lawrence's Music Career
Classic Joey Lawrence going on over here. This is off his album called "Whoa Blossom." While the skate-dancing and the fact that Joey Lawrence exists was a major blow the the hip hop community, he did nail one particular aspect of the era of 90s rap videos: playing football on the beach in street clothes. 90s rappers loved putting on their jeans and football jerseys and playing in the sand.
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"Cut it Out" (feat. MC Gladstone)
4. MC Karl Rove
So a few years ago, Karl Rove, adviser to George W. Bush, decided to grace everyone at the Radio and Television Correspondents dinner with his hip hop stylings and super-fresh dance moves. Obviously. We don't know if this did more damage to the rap community or the nation as a whole.
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No audio on this one. But what we have here is a metaphor for the white community's relationship with hip hop culture. See something innovative and fun, proceed to ruin it simply by involving oneself.
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Not Brian Austin Green. I will not hate on that man. He's obviously done very well for himself when it comes to bedding unattainable women. But David Silver, oh boy, that guy set white people back a bit. And hip hop even more. This was back in the early 90s. Yes, hip hop had its following. But I'm guessing a good number of the teenagers worshiping Luke Perry's sideburns were not going home and debating who the best emcee in the Wu Tang Clan was. Their exposure to hip hop was David Silver. And this is what he was capable of.
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A photograph that captures a tender moment between a Beverly man whose cancer is terminal and his dog has gone viral since a friend posted it online.
The photo of Mike Petrosino, 21, with his dog, Rusty, was taken at Massachusetts General Hospital, WCVB reported. It was posted online last week.
"In April 2006, two months shy of his 14th birthday my son, Mike, was diagnosed with metastatic Ewing's Sarcoma," his mother, Paula Petrosino, wrote on a fundraising page.
The page has raised nearly $19,000 to help with medical expenses.
Mike suffers from Ewing's Sarcoma, a rare cancer that targets bones and soft tissue. He was cancer-free and able to attend school for a few years after his diagnosis, however, in his senior year of high school, tests revealed a new cancer.
Although the cancer has been deemed terminal, his family is holding tight to faith.
"Rusty was very emotional when Mike said his finale goodbye…Every time I come home these past two days, he sits near Mike's favorite couch and whines," Mike's brother, John Petrosino, told the news station.
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The average media age of an American worker is 42.3, but for some in the tech industry, it's much lower. The youngest in Silicon Valley were found at Facebook and Zynga, where both median ages are a youthful 28, according to a report.
The news comes from PayScale, a company that provides industry income information online, reported that tech companies tended to have the youngest workers. Google's median age was 29, while AOL, Blizzard Entertainment and Infosys's median age was 30. Hewlett-Packard came at the end of the pack with an average age of 41, the New York Times reported. (According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics only retail clothing and shoe stores and restaurants have workers under 30, so tech workers have something in common there.)


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Recent Fourth District Foreclosure Trends
Foreclosure rates among Fourth District states remain at or near historic highs. Outside of West Virginia, which has seen its rate remain elevated but stable, these rates have continued to trend up since the recovery began in the second quarter of 2009.
This pattern differs noticeably from trends in the so-called sand states—Arizona, California, Florida, and Nevada. These states saw among the largest increases in foreclosure rates following the nationwide bust in housing market activity around 2005; however, since mid-2009, with the exception of Florida, foreclosure rates in the sand states have fallen sharply.
The declines have been so significant that Arizona and California, which had the nation's third- and fourth-highest foreclosure rates in the second quarter of 2009, respectively, had the thirteenth- and seventeenth-highest rates, respectively, two years later. By contrast, Ohio has continued to have one of the nation's highest state foreclosure rates—remaining in the top ten—while Kentucky and Pennsylvania have each seen their rankings worsen, from twenty-second- to fifteenth-worst for Kentucky and twenty-ninth- to twenty-fifth-worst for Pennsylvania.
What accounts for this divergence? Broadly speaking, states can use two different kinds of processes for resolving foreclosures, and these differences appear to be behind the differing patterns of recent foreclosure-rate changes. One approach, judicial, requires that a foreclosure proceed through the courts. Another approach, nonjudicial, is handled outside of court, generally by a third-party trustee who, at the time the loan was originated, was given the power to sell the property under certain conditions. States may employ one or both of these processes.
Judicial foreclosure timelines tend to be longer under normal circumstances. But they are also prone to getting even longer if courts face a flood of foreclosures, as has happened in the last several years. As a consequence, those states that rely on courts to process their foreclosures have generally seen their stock of foreclosures continue to build, often amassing a considerable backlog. By contrast, the states that rely more heavily on trustees' sales have in many cases seen their foreclosure rates fall.
This partially explains patterns evident in the Fourth District, where states that rely exclusively on a judicial foreclosure process—Ohio, Kentucky, and Pennsylvania—have seen little decline in their foreclosure rates. But this difference can be seen even more starkly in the sand states. Florida is the only state among these that relies exclusively on a judicial foreclosure process. It is also the only state among the sand states that hasn't seen a meaningful decline in its foreclosure rate. This has recently prompted Florida officials to consider changing the state's foreclosure process from one that's court-mediated to one that's not.
Of course, changes in new foreclosure filings could be contributing to differences in foreclosure rates as well. However, foreclosure filing rates fell for most states from the middle of 2010 to the middle of 2011. And unlike what we've observed for foreclosure rates, foreclosure filings don't appear to have been affected by differences in state foreclosure processes. This suggests that recent changes in foreclosure rates across states are being driven by differences in the rate at which loans are moving through and out of foreclosure, rather than the rate at which they are moving into foreclosure.


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Oh My!Finally cashed in the Christmas present from my future in-laws . . . a couples massage at a funky little spa in the river-front area of Fort Myers that is being inhabited with businesses that are taking over homes and properties. So inviting . . . painted lime-green and pink . . . Verbena and Pentas bursting in bloom and color standing guard around the entrance. Quiet Saturday late morning.
Met Jen at the quaint sitting room where she enthusiastically greeted me with cool water, a slice of orange and a friendly touch of my shoulder. Allie for my fiance. Both ladies mid-30s. beaming and glowing. It was apparent that they knew they would transform us.
So they did.
If you've never had a massage, go. Now. Immediately. Imagine a room with two beds (well, they're massage tables), dimly lit, innocuous and soothing new-age music lightly playing, the smell of lavender permeating. Fiance and I kicked off sandals, shorts, undies and tee shirts and got snug under a sheet and light blanket.
It's difficult to describe a massage other than what one already knows. My flesh from toes to scalp and every muscle, sinew and fiber were kneaded, pulled, stretched, rubbed and smoothed over with oils and aromatics. "Is that a good sigh?" Jen asked with a slight giggle as soft sounds must have escaped my lips from deep within. "Not a full-blown ******," I parried with a whisper. "Touche!" Fiance was making similar yummy "Mmmmm" sounds next to me.
It was that delicious. Who knew there were that many places that needed attention and manipulation? I've got parts of my butt, thighs, arms and neck that have never been plundered and pampered before. She even found and loosened up an old shoulder injury . . . smashed up body surfing when I was 11. I can now after 15 years touch the spot between my shoulders far more easily.
Ninety minutes? Sheeet! It seemed like, maybe 30.
Gushing thanks after another glass of orange-infused ice water ("Gotta flush away those toxins" we were told) and then left to dress we considered naughty possibilities as our naked bodies basked in the massage after-glow. "That was really amazing," I said to Jen, squeezing both of her hands. "I know," said said. "We'll see you again soon."
Oh, splendid day!
Always, always a spot of Earl Grey Tea! Dont be shy about ****** in massage, ( most really good massage therapists see it as a bit of a compliment) I'm not talking about seedy places but, if you google massage pressure points you'd be amazed at the network of nerve endings that start all over the place and end.... yes you know where....
lol I have taken classes and love to give massages, I had a friend ****** while I was massing her.........feet!
its all how you use your hands! so glad you enjoyed!
dame , I luv to find that place for the misses .I go to asian massage place that are very good but diff to communicate what I really want done but don't want to offend anyone . thx for the journey ..... wait'n to read more ...
Thank you for sharing your romantic outing. My wife and I enjoy a couples massage at a local spa as our date afternoon from time to time. We go and enjoy as you did feeling wonderfully relaxed and sensual - all the juices flowing. A few times we just could not hold back after the Masseuses left us alone to relax I hopped up on the table for a blissful finish to the massage. We then head out to our local cafe for late lunch or early dinner with a sparkle in our eyes.
I really relate to your story. I love the way you describe the massage.
I've enjoyed many "back rubs", but this sounds like a very different experience!
spas and massages are heaven. Its that virtuous feeling of being healthy (and eating free fruit) when actually you are just lazing about, being pampered. Did a mud treatment the other week. Locked in a little room smearing mud all over, could have got messy if I had been with a sexy bloke (rather than an elderly colleague)...
Got a Korean massage a few weeks back. Felt like I had been beaten up by a grizzly bear. So gain without pain, I guess ....
it does when you put it that way .... Especially the middle one ....
Beaten up during a *Korean* massage, eh? Hmmm... sounds like you had the "Enemy of Kim Jong Il" treatment. :P
I went to a professional masseuse to heal a knee injury. He was not always gentle as he had to release the trauma from my quadriceps especially, but a bit less urgently from my hamstring and my calf. For a good 15 minutes and perhaps 30 he put real pressure on the quad and on a pain scale of 1-10, it was about a 5 ---which is pretty high for me but would be an 8 or more to anyone not used to pain. Anyway, the point was to release the pressure those large muscles were putting on my knee to get blood circulating there to heal it. It took a long time (6 months) to fully heal the knee, and about a year before I could lift real weight (100 lbs ascending a staircase) using that knee. But the knee is naturally healed.

The masseuse had a plan and used it. All the tension went away

and with normal circulation, my body healed itself. The muscle memory is about two weeks so that is how often I went.

The rest of the massage made me "lossey goosey" for a long time, and that in and of itself was a great pleasure.
Massages are amazing :) Gotta love being pampered. Sounds like you had a fabulous time with the fiance!
love the happy endings....
Thanks for sharing, inspires me to share my experiences...
Mine came with Happy Endings...
I couldn't agree more. Couples' massages are magical.
Nope. I like when it gets stroked...
I feel relaxed by proxy - such bliss. <3
Oh, that sounds like a wonderful way to spend a day. You've reminded me of all the massages I've gotten over the course of my years... and right now I feel like I could go for another one.
sounds like they did a good job on you as well ??
I couldn't agree more ... In fact am starting to think I'm addicted to my therapist, Hoda. She's a young woman, I would guess early 20's of Egyptian descent. Small hands almost always cool to the touch. She seems to find muscles in need her magical touch that I didn't even realize I had. My back being my favorite followed by shoulders and hands. Always 90 minutes as well that fly by at record speed requiring a return visit every 3 to 4 weeks. Couldn't agree with you more and actually the more you go the more you will enjoy / benefit as your therapist will get to know you and your body overtime.

One key to a successful massage is communication. Tell your therapist where you're sore, what feels good and what doesn't.

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