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Seattle playing great defense and Bronco's offence playing like shit are not mutually exclusive.
Seattle playing great defense and Bronco's offence playing like shit are not mutually exclusive.
I feel the same regarding the military stuff. Toby Keith is one of the worst offenders. I also loathe pulling up to businesses that have "We support the troops" signs. No shit? You do? Does anyone not? Recall reading or listening to a couple comedians trying to figure out what the most offensive bumper sticker would be here in 'merica. Came up with "Fuck the Troops". Oh man, to see that on a bumper or in front of a business. That would be the real shocker.
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This site is a great time suck for NFL/Draft fans. The first time I did it, I traded away pretty much everything and ended up with 25 picks... all in last five rounds. Horrible strategy.
Huge. Calling him being drafted by the Chargers.
Missouri defensive end Michael Sam told The New York Times and ESPN he is gay, and the 2014 NFL Draft prospect plans to become the first openly gay player in the NFL.
"I just want to make sure I could tell my story the way I want to tell it," said Sam told The Times. "I just want to own my truth."
The senior, 24, was among the top pass rushers in the SEC last year with 10.5 sacks, boosting his NFL draft stock despite his lack of size for the defensive end position (6-foot-2, 255 pounds).
The NFL released a statement in support of Sam on Sunday night: "We admire Michael Sam's honesty and courage. Michael is a football player. Any player with ability and determination can succeed in the NFL. We look forward to welcoming and supporting Michael Sam in 2014."
According to The Times, Sam first told Missouri teammates L'Damian Washington and Marvin Foster about his sexual orientation about a year ago, and announced it to the squad during a team-building exercise during the preseason last year. The University of Missouri official Twitter feed expressed support for Sam.
"I'm not naive. I know this is a huge deal and I know how important this is," Sam said. "But my role as of right now is to train for the combine and play in the NFL."
NFL Media Insider Ian Rapoport received the following reaction from a club executive: "The league is in a better place to handle this now than a few years ago given the influx of younger GMs."
Rapoport also spoke to an NFL scouting director who did not believe Sam's decision to make his sexual orientation public will hurt his draft status, and that Sam projects as a late-round pick. NFL Media analyst Bucky Brooks agreed that Sam's draft status would not be affected, but Brooks projects Sam as a mid-round selection. NFL Media analyst Daniel Jeremiah, who has experience as a scout with the Cleveland Browns, Philadelphia Eagles and Baltimore Ravens, also believes Sam's draft stock will not be adversely affected.
"In my eight years in draft rooms, the subject never came up. I would expect it would not have an impact on his draft status," Jeremiah said. "In my experience with every team I was with), it was all about putting the best 53 players on the field. I don't see why that would change here."
The 2014 NFL Draft will be held May 8-10.
Due to his size, Sam is expected to be drafted by a club using a 3-4 defensive scheme and switched to outside linebacker, where his pass rush skills can be best utilized. He played in the Reese's Senior Bowl last month and is among the Tigers' invitees to the NFL Scouting Combine in Indianapolis later this month.
Nine of his 10.5 sacks came during three three-sack peformances against Arkansas State, Vanderbilt and Florida. He also recorded an assisted sack while working against Texas A&M star left tackle Jake Matthews, who is expected to be a first-round choice.
The Bolts need a quick multi-talented DE that can also play OLB depending on the scheme, outside of CJ Mosley from Bama (the player he shared defensive player of the year with) there is nobody that fits that mold, Mosley will be gone before the Chargers can pick in the first round... Michael Sam is a nice consolation prize
If the Chargers use a first-round pick on Sam, and I'm not entirely sure that's what you're implying, they will probably have taken him too soon. Some scouts have questioned his production against quality opponents, but it appears like he'd be a nice pick for someone in the 3rd round or later.
Sasha when are you going to post your mock draft.
I can post a full one when the combine gets going... As far as your Cards go, they have two HUGE needs in the o-line and TE and one big need in a strong CB opposite PP. My gut tells me that Arians is finally going to address the missing piece to the vertical threat he loved so much in his previous passing attacks by going for a freakish TE, Palmer also desperately needs a presence in the middle of the field, luckily Jace Amaro and Eric Ebron are two of the most talented TE's to come out in a long time, both would be welcomed by Arians and are more than likely available at #20... On the other hand Cyrus Kouandjio is a polished and gifted Tackle with 'Bama pedigree and could fill a HUGE void in the front. Also don't sleep on Justin Gilbert from OkState, he would be Patrick Peterson's biggest compliment on the other side, he's a really nasty oversized ballhawk that would add tremendous depth to the AZ secondary with Honey Badger coming back to play nickel.
If they don't draft an OT in the first or second round, Arians and Keim might get lynched. I don't see CB as a big need right now, not compared to OT, TE, or DT (Dockett's getting up there in age)
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Arians recently said that his main area of concern was both sides of the line. He feels that withn the division that's where they get beat up, and physically manhandled. He wants to even the playing field.
At this point I don't think his draft stock is going to be affected by the media circus regardless of where he ends up... He's a smart player who has shown he can bounce in between positions and excel at all of them and an edge pass rusher is always a hot commodity in Belichick's book, he'd fit well in that system, even though he's a tad undersized for Belichick's taste.


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- October 25, 2010 at 12:26 AM
WOW C.G., you outdid yourself with the editing this time.
And I bet you let Glen's segment roll without any editing necessary. What a freak!
"I was married to the little girl and there was a lot of sexual abuse"? You gotta be ultra right wing christian to count holding hands as sexual abuse. I think anything you do before you are old enough to realize the rationality of it absolves you of your deed.
Lastly, did that guy taste the air like a reptile at 2:25
Second lastly, why is it the Christians always have the coolest, scariest, most imaginative pictures of the occult? - October 25, 2010 at 8:26 AM
Christians, keep your damn hands off my HALLOWEEN!!! - October 25, 2010 at 9:05 AM
I think Dr. Hale here should've just stuck to making Tripolydine.
My favorite thing about these videos is when they actually cut to footage of the deadly Satanists and it's six of the least threatening dorks you can imagine frolicking in the woods.
Did the Manson Family ever dance around a maypole? - October 25, 2010 at 9:10 AM
Wait. Why were the Christians hanging out in the pagan temple?
Is that pagan trick where the pagans dress as Christians to try fool people using reverse psychology? If so, I've seen it done better... - October 25, 2010 at 11:47 AM
- J.R. Herbaugh said...
Don't let the bee costumes fool you.
- October 25, 2010 at 12:06 PM
- Ravenhallow said...
Live, from Castlevania, it's the Baphomet Hour! I think the male host is secretly Dracula.
- October 25, 2010 at 12:09 PM
1) This was a series?
2) From my experience, pagans seem to be more realistic than fundamentalists. My brother is wiccan, and as he was showing me how he did up his ritual corner even he admitted that the tools aren't necessarily "magic", but are merely tangible items to represent and bring out the parts of your inner self.
3) Ann Landers is a cat. Fucking awesome.
Captcha: "deder", as in "This film makes my brain go 'der-de-der'." - October 25, 2010 at 2:08 PM
How come no Christian groups ever tried to recruit ME with drug and sex parties in high school?
wv: cinrelbi n. the trashy girl one invites over for the depressing desperate three-way: always runs away just before midnight - October 25, 2010 at 4:41 PM
Yup. The interview with that guy was completely real. I'm now convinced that Halloween is dangerous.
Really, if you're gonna go there, at least have the decency to get a decent actor and a halfway believable script. - October 25, 2010 at 8:11 PM
Lol, "Punkins." That's fantastic.
- October 25, 2010 at 8:13 PM
I borrowed this tape from my church library when I was little and felt guilty about celebrating halloween for years. for shame, pagan invasion.
P.S. PUNKINS!!! - October 25, 2010 at 8:45 PM
I watched this video while shuffling my new pack of tarot cards. The irony kills me.
So our neighborhoods are full of roving bands of Satanist children? Wow. o_o - October 25, 2010 at 9:09 PM
...and why is Olivia Newton John slumming it with these weasels?
PUNKINS@ - October 25, 2010 at 9:56 PM
- ThefilmBug said...
@Jonathan. I guess you never ran into any Baptists.
- October 25, 2010 at 10:15 PM
I was forced to watch this in school! I can't believe that it's still out there. I hated it then and I hate it now. Wish I could get my hands on it for free to show my friends why it's such an accomplishment that I'm normal.
- October 26, 2010 at 1:19 AM
- Richard Whittall said...
Personal highlight: the man with the awkward, between sentence lizard tongue flick. Some things you can't teach.
- October 26, 2010 at 6:49 AM
i feel like a video about how halloween is immoral is funny enough on its own, why did you do all of the stupid editing
- October 26, 2010 at 7:49 AM
- Voracious_Boot said...
It's the lady from Jeremiah Films' "Harry Potter: Witchcraft Repackaged"!!! Oh, I *love* her. She so cray-cray.
Also, I see she can't find any original Pagan footage. They just reuse all the pagan/druid ritual footage in every anti-pagan movie they make. I like it when the Pagans dress like badgers & frogs & chase each other.
I'm a Wiccan and haven't found and people to do that with me. Anyone in the Long Island area keen on that? - October 26, 2010 at 11:06 AM
I used to have neighbors like these people. They'd spaz out like it was The Wickerman... I just wanted some fucking candy.
GIVE US THE SEX AND DRUG PARTIES AND WE WON'T SACRIFICE PEOPLE - October 27, 2010 at 9:29 AM
I think Det. Kurt Jackson should have stayed in the Sabotage video, where he belongs.
- October 27, 2010 at 10:18 AM
- Victor Serge said...
Love the editing, good job EIT.
Anon, personally I would've sacrificed people to get invited to sex and drug parties. Instead I went to my friend's church's youth group. There they told me the Smurfs were occult. Why do Christians have to tear down everything that's good and true in the world? - October 28, 2010 at 10:31 PM
- Uncle Staple said...
i like how Det. Kurt Jackson has to work himself up to lie about people being sacrificed.
- November 2, 2010 at 7:55 AM
- Joe said...
man the pagans have the raddest title sequences!
- November 13, 2010 at 6:08 PM
This series is called "Pagan Invasion" You can watch the whole thing on youtube, it's pretty awful. Not only do they attack Halloween, they attack Christmas as well in a series called "The Unwrapping of Christmas".
I guess some people just have to suck the fun out of EVERYTHING, don't they? - October 20, 2012 at 11:00 PM


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I found it too annoying how it took an entire fucking "magazine" to kill someone with them. Preferred the mattock no matter how overpowered it was. yeah, assault rifles on infiltrator, deal with it
I found it too annoying how it took an entire fucking "magazine" to kill someone with them. Preferred the mattock no matter how overpowered it was. yeah, assault rifles on infiltrator, deal with it
good luck getting those physical items with a digital preorder
Source please.
I find hitmarkers in singleplayer very distracting. Takes away immersion etc. If you want good feedback wouldn't nice sound effects, animations and physics get it across much better? Or even the quiet "snap" sound you can hear in CoD multiplayer when you hit someone, or the similar one in Crysis without the hitmarker?
I apparently psychicly stabbed DX_V in the eye with a fork over the Internet and everybody flipped out over day-one DLC
So there's a shop near me that may or may not have the (physical) collector's edition, I haven't pre-ordered digital yet so if it's available should I get it?
I like some of the rounder mask designs, they would of been nice.
oh man wtf that's bullshit!!
...I mean come on DX_V didn't deserve that!
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Hit markers are like crack cocaine. There's a certain Instant gratification to it that makes them addictive to players. it might seem like it changes your immersion on the surface, to you, but the subconcious function is that it makes combat more tactile, which makes you feel more responsible for it, and your own actions which in turn ADDS to the player's immersion. Either way its' a thing you'd just get used to and stop caring about after 5-10 minutes of gameplay anyway.
seriously though I expected Day 1 DLC with the way Bioware have been lately
evidence : why femshep walks like maleshep.
I understand others like it and I'm fine with it in multiplayer, but it constantly bothers me in SP. See: Battlefield 3. Just wish UI related stuff like that was optional in every game so you could disable any part of the HUD you don't like. But what developer would bother?
oh no hitmarkers in SP cancelling pre-order
I'll stream more ME1 if you guys want me to.
Hey, i might ask Darth if i can schedule it as an event in the steam group if you guys would be interested.
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So, I' confused. Those rumours about Locust DLC for 360 and Helghast for PS3...That bullshit, or can I get a source?
cause TBH if we're doing crossover I'd WAAAY rather roll in this
You are the worst and the best poster in the thread.
I think you're confused, it's not Helghast or Locust armor, you straight up fight them as an enemy in the co-op on those respective consoles.
They already did that with DAII.
He's the saddasta of the Mass Effect thread. Our Sobotnik. Our Zeke. Our Chickens.
...That's silly
Well... we can still include Necromorphs, right?
I really like Dead Space.
I like how one looks like a salarian staring into my soul and a helmet design is 343 Gulity Spark
Yeah, I gave the code to someone else though.
T'was it a Mass Effect code I'd have held onto it.
Also, I get the Helghast as the PS3 go-to enemy
but for 360, are these guys really not thinking about what is the 360's most prominent exclusive?
I'd WAAAAAAAAAY rather fight the Covenant than Locusts. Call me a minority, but I prefer Halo to Gears, really.
okay while searching for an image I found this and I wish I hadn't
Yeah to be fair Halo with the 360 would of fitted more better.
Oh well why stop there lets have freaking xenomorphs jump in
To be honest I think it's a budgetary thing.
Helghast can use all of the Cerberus animations.
Locusts can use a lot of the husk animations.
Elites have fairly unique body structures which would require porting animations across which would use a lot more of that precious memory the consoles don't have much of.
Never said that. I'm not buying the game on release anyway, but it's just a thing that annoys me.
I also can't find any evidence on this crossova' shit
Before long ME3 becomes "SUPER SPACE MARINE BROS. BRAWL!"
Aren't Locusts really burly guys with guns? They'd look like silly husks
Neither can I, I heard it purely as rumor so I cannot confirm anything.
like i give a fcuk
Actually, I think they'd just be Cerberus reskins with a few husk animations.
Also, bear in mind that the husks in me3 aren't all just like the me1 and me2 husks, they can actually use weapons and do firefights and shit, they aren't just zombies.
oh guys chillax
I swear to god anytime anything gets revealed in this thread you're all so dramatic about it
It's not even out yet and you're all treating it like it's gonna be the Anti-Christ or something. We're all hear because we loved the shit out of the last 2 games, let's at least give this one a try?
Elites are built similarly to Turians (legs, hands), they're just bigger. Too bad Turians use human animations.
I'm just waiting to see what us PC users get. XCOM Aliens? Combine? Japanese Samurai? Filthy Sandrakers? Lot of possibilities.
just letting you guys know i fapped to these
Really? Husks use weapons? Great. Another Insanity monster.
Husks on Insanity are a real pain in the dick, when they swarm you, and all those little bastards have armor and your shotgun cannot fire fast enough
Why do all the ME2 Shotguns suck, except for the Geth one?
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"Game of Thrones" fans have been very patient for the new season, which starts April 6, and as if to reward them for their devotion, HBO has released a yummy trailer for Season 4. Call it an appetizer for the main course.
The 15-minute trailer – "Game of Thrones Ice and Fire: A Foreshadowing" — includes on-camera interviews with such cast members as Gwendoline Christie (Brienne), Peter Dinklage (Tyrion) and Natalie Dormer (Margaery).
Executive Producer David Benioff notes "There is tremendous clamor for revenge, especially in the wake of the Red Wedding. Some of the most mind-blowing scenes of the entire series are coming at the end of this coming season. There's some very bloody confrontations. This is definitely the most dangerous season for Tyrion. In almost every episode, he's in jeopardy of getting his head removed from his shoulders."
The actors also dish about their favorite characters. Kit Harrington (Jon Snow), Maisie Williams (Aria Stark), Sophie Turner (Sansa Stark) and others weigh in.
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One of the funniest bits on the trailer is listening to show stars Emilia Clarke (Daenerys), Nikolaj Coster-Waldau (Jaime) and others talk about how evil Joffrey (Jack Gleeson) is. "He's the last person on earth you would want to have any kind of power," says Coster-Waldau.


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Five of Pakistan's cricketers were recently awarded Grade 'A' contracts with revised salaries. The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) has now gone one step higher by stating that their players will get a financial bonus if they manage to beat the World's Number 1 Test side, Australia. The two teams will clash in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) in September.
Earlier, the PCB announced performance-based pay structure in attempt to lift the team's morale after regular changes in management and coaching staff over the past few months. There has been nothing great to write home about the performances of the team either, reports cricket.com.au.
In the revised structure of player fees, veteran batsman Younis Khan, Shoaib Malik and wicketkeeper Kamran Akmal have been demoted to Grade 'B'. The top earners list include all-rounder Shahid Afridi and spin wizard Saeed Ajmal.
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Some Elvis fans never got to see The King perform live.
Randy 'Elvis' Friskie is the closest thing according to some who would know, and he's bringing his Vegas show band to the Chilliwack Cultural Centre on Jan. 5 for his Real Tribute to the King of Rock and Roll.
He'll sing three decades of hits, with some tantalizing special guests.
Because it's the 40th anniversary of Elvis' Aloha tour, Friskie is putting a big emphasis on hits from the famous Hawaiian trip of 1973.
"We picked what we think are some of the best moments."
A few gospel songs, and some clips of Elvis live are coming, with a little high tech help and a duet of Elvis and Celine Dion.
"We haven't done Chilliwack in a long time," he tells The Progress over the phone. He's taking a break from his gruelling two-hour gym workout.
Friskie has been an entertainer his whole life. He comes by it honestly. He's won contests in Vegas and toured all over with his tribute act.
"My dad played 14 different instruments. We'd go camping and pull into the place with a full sound system and everyone would know there'd be a dance that weekend. I was brought up in a musical family."
He's looking forward to bringing the whole Elvis experience to the glorious Cultural Centre for the very first time.
"I just love the feeling of the theatre. It's the setup. My dad taught me when you're doing a show to treat the audience like your best friends. I like to laugh and joke. In some of the theatres I play, I can't even jump off the stage.
"But this room is so intimate, I'm just going to have a blast, and the band is amazing."
His show sold out three times in Las Vegas.
"It's going to be high energy and lots of fun."
Band leader Jake Stolz of Chilliwack, of the band Appaloosa is joining Friskie, along with his daughter Cassandra Friskie, Uptown Horns of Kelowna, and more special guests from near and far, and a few surprises.
"We put together the best show we could. Elvis really was the best live, so we always try to put the best Elvis experience for Elvis fans.
"I've had 13-year-old kids with purple hair come up to me and say, 'I get it now.'
"Maybe their mom was always a huge Elvis fan, they'll say, but they never got the whole thing until now. That's why I keep doing this, when I hear kids with purple hair say something like that."
Randy Friskie's Real Tribute To The King of Rock and Roll – Elvis Presley at the Cultural Centre, Jan. 5, tickets: $39.50 (incl. tax & sc). They'll be collecting blanket or a coat donations for street people to be distributed by Phil and Friends. 604.391.SHOW (7469).


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I don't have many design tendencies that drift toward "grandma," but I do have one very big one: crewelwork. Whenever I see huge overscale crewelwork pieces at thrift stores and flea markets, I feel myself reaching for my wallet. I think it's all that texture; it's irresistible. I haven't found the perfect piece for my apartment yet, but I'm always on the hunt, and these vintage crewelwork pieces on Etsy are a great place to start. For me, crewelwork can go "grandma" really quickly, so pairing it with a minimal modern frame and letting it have plenty of breathing room on the wall helps it feel more modern. If anyone has any vintage crewelwork sources they love, I'm all ears ;) xo, grace
*Image above: Large crewel embroidery, $42 at The White Pepper
Image above: XL Vintage Crewel at viAnnelli $85 (This one is my favorite. That purple is so pretty.)
Image above: Vintage crewel at NoCarnationsHome, $36
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Oh, me too Grace!
I'm a granny trapped in a mid-twenty something year old's body.
I was gifted this lovely set of miniature framed needlepoints:
http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=3024310740430375295#editor/target=post;postID=2641101860940531982I just can't get enough of them. I smile every time I walk past them!
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I love crewel work! I have several pieces in my home in bright colors, so they look less grandma-70s-ish to me. I also keep crewel pieces of all sizes stocked in my booth at the Tennessee Antique Mall, but that would be a long trip just for some crewel. :)
my goodness- I am swimming in my mother's crewel work! I do have such warm memories of going w/her to choose the yarns. She will be thrilled to know about your fondness!
I love crewelwork flowers, too. There's a large thistle piece hanging on my wall right now. It is honestly the one piece of artwork I've carried with me over the last few years/moves.
so beautiful, I like the purple flowers the best.
What memories! I was a creweling diva as a teenager. Yes.. I'm that old. No wisecracks please! At that time I embroidered everything and gave them out as gifts. I even embroidered a pair of Army Navy hiphuggers (we all wore them in the early 70s with bare midriffs and clunky platforms). I still have these hiphuggers. Unfortunately they mysteriously shrank.
I always snatch these up when I see them, too! I'm so glad that I'm not the only one who loves them to death. I have two prized pieces, a large vertical thistle piece (similar to the above but — I think! — better executed) and a large horizontal wildflower and grasses piece. The colours are amazingly vibrant on that one as the original owner kept it under a piece of plastic this whole time!
I am still heartbroken, years later, over missing out on a flea market find of a large framed flower embroidery. The seller was so mean about my offer of three dollars less that what he wanted that I walked away. I should have just shelled out and I'd have the art, instead of a sour memory of a rude man!
Crewel is super relaxing to do & not all that hard! Check out Katherine Shaughnessy's book, The New Crewel for techniques and some (modernish) patterns. I have used photos of vintage pieces as inspiration for making my own patterns.
I actually have the crewel piece you have pictured third from the top, daisies on the dark green background. My mother made it for her mother in the late 70s as a birthday gift. For many years it was stuffed, unframed, in a drawer (also dirty from being in a house with two chain smokers!) but several years ago I had it cleaned and framed and now it's hanging front and center in my kitchen. I think of my grandmother and mother every time I see it.
I love doing crewelwork too! I wrote a book called Colorful Stitchery in 2005. Looking forward to a crewelwork revival so I can write another one!
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Just have to object to the use of "grandma" as a perjorative. Of course I am one now but I remember learning embroidery and knitting from my beloved grandmothers whom I miss every day. Can't you imagine another word for "out of date"?
@cassie – my mother made this same crewelwork, too! As soon as I saw those white flowers on the green background I was taken decades back in time. She still has it hanging in her house.
Love these! I have a minor crewel obsession too. I've been trying to hold out and
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YES! I have always loved the texture and color pallette of a zinnia bouquet piece that hung in my bedroom when I was a wee child. A new love of thrifting has prompted me to start collecting crewelwork. Unfortunately in the excitement of the hunt, I have bought a few ugly finds that lean to close to "grandma". You've inspired me to send those packing and hold out for the best of the best.
Agreed. Let's drop 'grandma' from the perjorative lexicon. I hope to be blessed enough to live to be a grandma with extraordinary talents.
I love embroidered motifs, but I often heard, from people in my age – 30, that this is reserved for grandmas :)
Not all of them are boring and grandma-style… My sister made it colorful and interesting in other way :)
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I did that daisy crewel picture too, along with several others. I still have a gorgeous HUGE cactus picture I did, and a Chinese lanterns one that I will never part with. I understand the "grandma" crack, but it still hits a nerve.
Wow, what a trip down memory lane ! I, too, did that daisy on the dark green linen way before I became a grandmother. I think it was a kit from Family Circle magazine. I have no clue what happened to it, but would like to think the one pictured is the one I did !
I collect vintage needlework, especially crewel work. I also collect the vintage patterns to make them from myself. They really are very strightforward and enjoyable. I always save images like yours above, then draw them out on fine gridded paper. The biggest problem is finding the right ground cloth, as the fabric available now is more difficult to come across. One of my local fabric shops here in Edinburgh do a beautiful range of dress-weight coloured linen that is just right. I keep buying a metre here and a metre there of the different colours to be waiting for inspiration to strike. Also find your local embroidery shop, they are a font of knowledge and encouragement.
ITA with @kathleen… another word for out-of-date please! I loved to do crewel as a kid. My mother still has my favorite piece, a pillow with a Japanese woman standing on a mountain.
Maybe this will inspire me to do a crewel piece after I finish my current project. And would you do a post on my other love, bargello?
I love the crewelwork florals but today I found one with a Folky-Norwegian looking boy with a rabbit and bird. I really think it will look fantastic in a little boys room with modern furniture pieces. Here's a photo (with some other vintage finds today): https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=362491260485842&set=a.127884540613183.21997.127884000613237&type=1&theater
I have had a major issue crewelwork lately. It started with 2 pieces I got from my grandmother's house that she sold after 50+ years. She and my mother did both pieces together. After that, I bought several pieces off of ebay and a couple from a local vintage store here in Long Beach, CA. There are a couple of flowery ones but most are of owls or birds. I have my eye on a couple on Etsy as well. Our whole dining room is crewelwork and I love it!
i bought a piece at a thrift store and my sisters said "that is UGLY, where are you going to put it?"
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This post brought a smile to my face! My grandma has a beautiful crewelwork sunflower framed from her days participating in a social club in Kansas City. Hope you find the perfect piece soon!
I thought I was the only one!!! I am 28 years old and I have a fascination with crewel work! I am an artist, but I do not have the patience for any type of needlework. I like to leave them in the frames I find them in unless they are just gross. If they are wood I will paint them in a bright color! Thrift stores and etsy are the best places to find them. Here they are: yes I have wood paneling, I rent. http://pinterest.com/pin/84161086757362544/ and this one only cost one dollar at a yard sale! http://pinterest.com/pin/84161086757362551/
I know this is months after your post, but I was googling "crewelwork" and came across your post. I love this and totally agree with you that it CAN get too stuffy and grandma-ish if not displayed alongside a modern space or modern/clean pieces. Here's a picture of mine. I pinned it! http://pinterest.com/pin/199284352233421863/
Ok. Come to the English Lake District and see the wonderful Crewel Work at Muncaster Castle. Less of the Grandma and more of the full on blood and guts Jacobean, which would be your great great great x 20 Grandma. There are professionally embroidered and family made hangings and cushions 17th -20th Century. http://www.muncaster.com
Re good tatse – my old Mum used to say – its not that it is ugly, its just that you are not yet ready to appreciate it.


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This a bit late for a respond to your comment but here we go: You're absolutely right that I was biased. I know I shouldn't compare it to xxxHOLiC (which I love), but I just couldn't help myself. I would've probably liked it more if I didn't compare them.
But as for the harem aspects, I still hold on to them. While there wasn't any real romance except for between Arararagi and Senjoughara, it's still has the same structure as the KyoAni harems (Clannad, Air, Kanon '09) with the usual harem cast. Even though the cast is a step better in Bakemonogatari than in the usual harem, they're still very much the same kind.
Oh, btw, thanks for the comment. A complaint is better than no comment at all.
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Next weekend, why not nip down to the cinema and enjoy... a spot of Wagner. "Cinecasts" have become the coolest way to enjoy opera: increasing enthusiasm for them appears to be sweeping the globe – the sold-out cinemas tell their own story.
The Metropolitan Opera in New York first tested a cinecast five years ago; now, in the era of HD, many more companies are taking up the challenge internationally, and not just in opera. From the Bolshoi Ballet to our own National Theatre, stars of the performing arts are ready to wow us in the comfort of our local multiplex.
Next up is the Met's Die Walküre, the second opera of Wagner's Ring Cycle, which will hit stage and screen on 14 May, directed by Robert Lepage and featuring an extraordinary roster of operatic celebrities including Deborah Voigt as Brünnhilde, Bryn Terfel as Wotan, Jonas Kaufmann as Siegmund and Eva-Maria Westbroek as Sieglinde. At the Met itself you'd fork out around $300 (£180) for a seat. Trot along to the cinecast, though, and you can see it all for a relatively modest £30.
It's a deliciously modern medium. Last month the Met treated the world to Rossini's Le Comte Ory, starring a happy, if exhausted, Juan Diego Florez, whose wife had given birth half an hour before curtain-up. Opera fans in different countries united on Twitter to compare notes, sharing the experience while thousands of miles apart.
Opera and cinema, of course, are by no means strangers. Operatic films have occasionally become classics, notably the 1984 Carmen starring Julia Migenes-Johnson and Placido Domingo, fabulously filmed on location in Andalucia. Opera on film can be a vehicle for starry presences – try Angela Gheorghiu and Roberto Alagna in Tosca (2002), directed by Benoît Jacquot; as for television, last year Verdi's Rigoletto, with Domingo, was broadcast in instalments live at the appropriate times of day from the palaces of Mantua. These projects, though, were one-offs; cinecasts have become a regular feature in cinemas all over the world.
Still, opera and cinema can be uneasy bedfellows. Peculiarly enough, at the same time that live opera went into cinemas, opera companies began to engage big-name film directors to create new productions for stage, not screen. Sometimes it works. The late Anthony Minghella's 2005 production of Madam Butterfly for the Met and ENO was generally adored, won an Olivier Award, and has been revived several times. And when Terry Gilliam's new production of The Damnation of Faust by Berlioz opens at ENO this Friday, everyone will be hoping that the former Monty Python artwork supremo will have enough wit and wisdom to transfer his screen magic to the Coliseum stage.
But other results have been dubious. ENO found success elusive with Abbas Kiarostami's rather static production of Mozart's Cosi fan tutte, and a couple of months ago Mike Figgis's staging there of Donizetti's Lucrezia Borgia was dismissed by one critic as "psychologically moribund, visually dull and dramatically stone dead". Faced with an unfamiliar live and musical medium, superb cinema directors can seem out of their depth: no close-ups, no fascinating camera-angles, and certainly no relying on the dramatic expertise of those in the leading roles, who are not generally selected for their acting.
Opera and cinema make extremely different demands on their directors and raise completely separate sets of audience expectations. The peculiar outcome is that film directors are failing on stage, while specialist opera directors find only second-hand success on screen via the cinecasts.As for the audience, much of the current cinecast craze is down to its novelty. Some of us are trying operas for the first time; sometimes we get hooked.
Hear Jonas Kaufmann or Juan Diego Florez, nearly live, for a reasonable price, from a comfortable cinema armchair rather than an overpriced, under-sized seat that only shows you the stars at the size of pins? The advantage is clear. But – and it's a big but – there's a drawback. This experience of opera may take place in real time, but it is not really "live" because the show is still somewhere that you're not. The truth rams home when the curtain falls and you applaud – only to realise that the performers can't hear you and the rest of the audience is giving you funny looks. The edge is immediately blunted.
Cinecasts are neither truly live performance, nor real cinema. At the moment the emphasis is firmly on showcasing great performing-companies to prove that they can reach a wide audience; the "live on stage" element has been the chief selling-point. But because of the discrepancy between the two media, the artistic result is bound to remain second-best: essentially this is visual radio plus tonsils. Cinema can do much, much more when it tries.
Wim Wenders's Pina, which brings us the late choreographer Pina Bausch's Tanztheater Wuppertal in up-to-the-minute 3D, filmed with exceptional poetry and sensitivity, proves just how effectively stage works can be brought into the cinema. The startling beauty of Pina is likely to win many more new friends for contemporary dance than any number of views of Kaufmann and Voigt's epiglottises will gain for opera. Nor is 3D the answer in itself: the Mariinsky Ballet recently cinecast Giselle in 3D, but the result was widely felt to require considerable fine tuning.
What's needed, above all, is a great enough imagination and the requisite directorial empathy to redesign the performing arts for the big screen and give them the best of both worlds, rather than two thin ends of the wedge. Currently the capabilities of film far outstrip what we see in cinecasts. If opera were tocatch up, the rewards could be stunning.
The filming of opera needs to be exciting, thought-provoking, magical: it should add a new dimension of its own to the experience. Wenders with Pina does precisely that for dance.
And, in an ideal world, filmed opera could become an art form in its own right. Perhaps it will be sooner than we think.
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CLEVELAND, Miss. (AP) — The Delta State University Sculpture Garden has nine new artworks on display.
The garden is on the north side of the university's Bologna Performing Arts Center.
The works include:
— "Homage to Gus," in marble, granite, steel, bronze and glass, by Glenn Zweygardt.
— "Pharaoh," in steel and bronze, by Aaron Hussey.
— "Contemplating Passage," in steel, by John Ellis.
— "The Cycle," in steel, by Hanna Jubran.
— "Zip Code," in aluminum and concrete, by Greely Myatt.
— "Start Paddling," in steel, by Nathan Pierce.
— "Gesture," in steel, by Cliff Tresner.
— "Three Flames," in bronze, steel and granite, by Shawn Morin.
— "Magenta Charm," in limestone and aluminum, by DeeDee Morrison.
The works will be on exhibit until August 2015, at which time at least one will be purchased and remain as part of the Hazel and Jimmy Sanders Sculpture Garden Permanent Collection.
The competition is made possible by an endowment from the Sanders family.
Ron Koehler, chairman of the Delta State art department, said the biannual competition has become a tradition.
"We have a nice balance of work this year," said Koehler. "Looking at all the pieces, I think it's one of the best collections we've had since the competition began," he said.


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The man who turned talking rubbish in to an art form is back with Force Majeure, his brand new world tour for 2013.
Force Majeure is set to be the most extensive comedy tour ever. It begins its mammoth journey around the globe during Spring 2013. From Cardiff to Kathmandu, Moscow to Mumbai, Eddie will visit 25 countries throughout Europe, USA, Africa, Russia, Australia, New Zealand, India, Nepal and The Far East.
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Now this is what i call bee Heaven , look and listen ! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PNBfe5F06KQ
Now this is what i call bee Heaven , look and listen ! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PNBfe5F06KQ
Looks rather perfect doesn't it!
Wonder what the honey tastes like.
I know from last year Lavender growing in this area was one of the best ways for me to find out if the bees where foraging. Many other flowers the bees would be ignoring. but they where always on the lavender.
Everything gets darker, as it goes to where there is less light. Darrel Tank (5PM drawing instructor)
Rafael, From what I can find and in my experience. Lavender can be hard,(not impossible) to start from seed. I tried started a couple of plants for my wife last year and the seed never came up. I never did try again but I have a few methods I usually use to get the more difficult seeds started that usually work. Anyway I woudl suggest you experiment with getting the seed started before you attempt a bunch of them at once. At least get an idea of what will work and what doesn't.
Everything gets darker, as it goes to where there is less light. Darrel Tank (5PM drawing instructor)
I've never had any luck starting lavender from seed either. Maybe someone knows a trick or tip that would be helpfull. I've tried every year for about the last 10 and it will pop up in pots but I cant seem to get it out into the yard and growing good.
its so...beautiful.../cry
ok guys i have two things going for me first my winters is in the 80s+ in the day time ,nights about 65 , two going to start them out door on my roof where i have my bees , vegetable and flower garden which i started 2 months ago , so far everything i started from seeds have has germinated , i dont use dirt but i make my own compost it's a big big diff. one trick i use for seed im not sure of ,if it will germinated or not because the seed might be old is to put them in a wet not soak paper towel and put them in a zip lock bag , and put it away for a week or two , believe it work pretty good for hard to grow seeds here a link on how http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rbjXZZsLfV0
Thread made me do some hunting on youtube. And one was sudjecting the best way was from cuttings. one of there main crop it sounded like.
What Rafael does with a paper towel is one trick I use. it is one of the simpler ways to get hard to germinate seed going. Other types of seed, Usually larger seed is to simply soak it in water over night. Starting them outdoors is harder when it comes to keeping them moist. but better for the plant.
Hemi, It sounds to me like you problem is in hardening them off. Plants grown indoors have to be introduced to the outdoors slowely. Either place them in a well shaded area for a couple of days then slowely move them so they are exposed to more and more direct sunlight. or limit how much direct sunlight they get each day by moving them back indoors.
I usually try for a couple of hours of direct sunlight on the first day. double that for the second day watching very closely how they are reacting. any sign they are burning and I move them back in. If I did not get a full 4 hours on day two I will try again for 4 hours on day 3. The following day I try to double it again but this is also sometimes to much. after a full 8 hours in the sun the plants are ready to go outdoor permanently. It can take 5 days to a week to get a plant hardened off to live outdoors.
Everything gets darker, as it goes to where there is less light. Darrel Tank (5PM drawing instructor)
Trying to think inside the box...
Some seeds have to be exposed to freezing before they can germinate. but those are exceptions. like apple seed being germinated in the cold.
From the info I have they need to be germinated at 70 degrees. In comparison tobacco is germinated at 85 to 90 degrees.
The biggest problem with lavender is soil that is to wet. They like moist, sandy or even gravely soil and will develop root rot quickly in wet soil. excellent drainage. growing in pots or indoors will increase the problem with soil that is to wet. Many people will then move plants outdoors and immediately start watering. this could then appear that moving them was the problem when really the watering was. water is not the cure all for plants that most treat it as. wet soil will cause a tobacco plant to stop growing for example.
I like to do things with plants very slowly when i am first growing them. if I know I will be moving the plants in 24 hours. I will water them the day before if I think they are goign to need it. It then check them the following morning to see how the watering effected them. I then move them out. if there is a reaction after being moved I can be fairly certain it was caused by the moving and not a lot of other things I did at the same time. Do not move plants outdoors and then fertilize them. In fact lavender does not really like fertilizer at all. it will cause it to grow lots of green foliage and not many flowers.
Abuse and hardship is what lavender seems to like best. very drought tolerant. it likes it dry and hot.
Everything gets darker, as it goes to where there is less light. Darrel Tank (5PM drawing instructor)
once i get the seeds going to try 3 diff way to germinated them and going to use 2 type of soil to see what they like best and i give your guys feed back,on my attemp on growing them here.
wow!! Denial you must be a Big time Gardener your 110% right what you said. also people forget you could grow rose not only from cuttings but by seeds if you put them on the freezer for 3 to 4 month ,with the moist paper towel and zip lock bag trick they will germinated. the fact is some plants seeds need the winter to germinated , and bulbs also in fact need some cold storage for a few month but you store them in a dry dark place
I think Daniel Y might be on to something with the problem I am having. I'm one of them guys that puts the plants out and throws the water to them. Thats probably whats causing them to fade away. Good advice from all here and I hope I can use it to have my best lavender crop ever. Not only my bees love it but my Wife does too and we all know if Mommas happy everybodies happy.


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Tomorrow's earnings will show further weakness
When you read that IT spending is weak, as Gartner announced recently, don't let it spook you – that's the whole point of cloud computing. It dramatically lowers the cost of owning information technology. As more and more firms adopt cloud computing, legacy IT companies are left with bloated infrastructures and stale business models. I view cloud computing as a classic case of creative destruction with fat legacy software, hardware and IT services margins as the only victim.
As we approach earnings season, I want to highlight three companies that I think will report weak results driving their share prices lower.
and report earnings tomorrow and CapGemini reports on July 31st. They're all in the same boat but for slightly different reasons. Even mighty has missed expectations for 5 of the last 6 quarters. And guided down expectations citing lower margins.
The bigger they are, the more vulnerable they are.
IBM – Up today, down tomorrow
IBM (having missed street expectations for 8 out of the last 8 quarters) may be in the worst shape because it sells hardware, software and IT services - all areas vulnerable to the cloud's margin destroying force. Hardware (server) sales continue to plummet and are a leading indicator for software deployments. This is priced into expectations. Software is going to the cloud and IT services margins are falling, as I'll explain shortly. Consulting weakness is not baked into expectations. There's simply no getting out of the way for IBM.
It is not time to own IBM despite the multiple. I think it's a value trap at best.
SAP – Expecting another weak quarter
SAP missed expectations by $.04 last quarter and the stock took a 5% hit over the next several days. This quarter, SAP not only faces accelerating cloud adoption but economic clouds in Europe as well, which I'll address later in detail.
Though the growth in cloud adoption has heretofore been limited to point solutions and non-core systems such as HR, CRM and other functions, bigger Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems is starting to move to the cloud as well. For enterprise software vendors, not only is SaaS less lucrative, it also penalizes current revenues. Rather than booking the whole amount of a license sale in the quarter in which it's made, SaaS revenues are booked over the years long life of the contract. This smoothing out of revenues is good for the cloud startups but destructive to the legacy model. The costs alone make cloud adoption a lucrative prospect.
To put some numbers to this, an IDC white paper sponsored by Amazon suggests that the primary benefit of switching from on premises to cloud ERP was a reduction in costs, where they found that on average, annually, each company replaced $3.66 of capital costs with $1.00 of operational costs.
A Booz & Co paper also suggested drastic savings from switching to cloud. They show traditional in-house ERP costing $80M in one-time costs, versus $7M for cloud ERP. Then, after the initial expense, the 5 year cumulative run-rate cost for these models are $17.5M for traditional in house versus $21.3M for a cloud solution. Using their numbers, the total costs after five years including initial capital expenses plus OPEX for on premise and cloud are $97.5M and $28.3M respectively.
Indeed, most firms are not oblivious to these advantages and have either adopted cloud services or plan to. A Gartner survey found that 47% of firms surveyed planned to move their core ERP systems to the cloud within 5 years, while only 30% said they'd keep their core ERP on premise for the foreseeable future.
SAP's professional services group (the consulting division) last reported a drop in operating margins from 17.3% to 12%! When explaining this drop in an earnings call, management said:
"There is a significant structural change in the demand for consulting services that we are experiencing. We have been and will continue to be adapting to this changing market environment. We expect this transformation to take some time and as such, expect the services profitability to be negatively impacted throughout the rest of the year." (Emphasis mine)


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Frank Turk takes on the there-is-no-difference-between-the-sexes-in-the-church crowd and takes some fun swipes at Anglicans and Scot Mcknight in the process:
Some of you may know that a couple of weeks ago, John Piper had the DG Pastor's Conference, and had a lot of men there. Well, this offended a lot of women, and Scot McKnight, and they had a lot to say about it as you might expect. Most of it didn't really make any sense, but it's Wednesday, and we can't just leave this space blank.
The message that seems to have really bent them all out of shape and put them off their yogurt and vitamin water is the biographical sketch Dr. Piper did of J.C. Ryle. In particular, they took offense to Dr. Piper saying this by way of introduction…more
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Saturday, November 10, 2012
Aniplex Delays Garden of Sinners
I don't want to go on a tirade here or anything, but this is getting ridiculous if you ask me. How is any company expected to stay in business if they keep jacking up their prices like this? Instead of catering to a select few high-brow nerds, the company would do better to make their initial releases of the product a little more cost conscious to the consumers.
I know that I do spend a lot of money on anime, but I am also NOT made of money, and neither are the fans for that matter. They may have some, but not enough to rush right out and spend nearly two hundred dollars for a box set of anime. If I didn't know better, I'd swear that Aniplex had lost their freaking minds.
I may have to dedicate some time to this in a rant article later, but now is not the time.
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Makes one wonder what happened to the days of releasing this kind of box set following a singles release of the series, huh? I'm all for specialty box sets or collections being available for a property so that the hardcore fans can get the special matching DVD covers, a cool artbox, cool inserts, or other packaged gifts and goodies included with the show. With that, I still want the option of just buying series itself. Whether that is at a DVD at a time or in half season sets, it lets me still buy the series, even if I'm not a big enough fan to require the collector's artbook or the limited edition keepsakes that a specialty season set might include.
Maybe Aniplex feels that fans of the series will buy the seasons regardless and hopes to rope a few extra sort-of-fans into the same sets by making it the only option. Maybe they believe that sort-of-fans aren't going to buy DVDs/Blu-rays anyway due to accessability of episodes on the internet and feel their only option is to milk the good fans for all their worth. Either way, it is a slap in the face to the fan community and forsakes more casual customers. I can only hope that Aniplex decides later on to sell the series in a format that is more friendly to casual fans of the show, like through smaller (AKA stripped down) disc sets or possibly episode downloads.
My last thought is (sadly) that Aniplex has little to no faith in the series being compelling enough for people to buy the whole series unless they are forced into it. It could be that the company believes casual fans might drop it after one or two DVDs, looking to cut their losses before they are too invested into the show. I understand that the designing, packaging, shipping, and marketing of singles and sets are a cost that won't be recouped if the series is abandoned by fans midway through, but that begs the question as to why Aniplex licensed this property to begin with if it wasn't thought to be strong enough to get sales.


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The phenomenon of warmer surface temperatures in the central and eastern Pacific Ocean can affect monsoons and hurricanes, causing droughts in some places and floods in others, said Rupa Kumar Kolli of the World Meteorological Organization.
He said it was difficult to predict specific impacts in different regions, because El Nino is not the only factor that determines weather even if it is one of the most dominant. More accurate regional forecasts are provided by national weather services that take El Nino into account, Mr Kolli said, but he noted that El Nino has been associated with weaker monsoons in Asia.
The current El Nino started in June and became moderate by September, with sea surface temperatures about 1 degree Celsius (1.8 Fahrenheit) above normal in the eastern and central Pacific, he said. "During October, almost all indicators of El Nino became noticeably stronger," Mr Kolli said.
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Mr Kolli had said earlier that El Nino would also likely lead to the weak Atlantic hurricane season recorded this year. But, he cautioned, "no two El Nino events are alike."…PNS (ENDS)
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Many of you will have been shocked by all the recent revelations about some of the horrors in the ready meals lurking in our deep freezers. But there's really no excuse for settling for these convenience meals when you can easily knock up a fresh, tasty and speedy meal for the whole family. The whole debate about the quality of cheap food in this country just highlights the fact that it's time for a real change in our eating habits, especially as, in my opinion, there is much more, in terms of the convenience food scandal, yet to emerge.
When I root around the supermarket chillers, I'm always surprised at the range of good-quality bargains on offer, many of which are left over from more expensive cuts. I often load up on chicken and duck under-fillets which supermarket butchers cleverly whip out from under the breasts so they can quite rightly get two cuts from one. You occasionally see lamb fillets from under the saddle where the loin chops are cut from, and the same applies to the under-fillets of venison. So this week's column is dedicated to thrifty yet delicious recipes that you can create from ingredients which you can trust.
Duck fillet and blood orange salad
Serves 4
These are often sold as mini-fillets and can be real bargains. What's more, they are completely fat-free.
8 or 12 duck mini-fillets
A little vegetable or corn oil for frying
A couple of good handfuls of salad leaves and herbs like rocket, land cress, watercress, flat parsley, washed and dried
2 blood oranges, peeled and segmented (reserve the juice)
For the dressing
The juice from the blood orange
4tbsp rapeseed oil
1tbsp cider vinegar
Salt and freshly ground black pepper
First make the dressing: put the blood orange juice in a small saucepan and simmer until you have about half a tablespoon or so. Transfer to a bowl and whisk in the cider vinegar and rapeseed oil and season to taste.
Put the duck fillets between a couple of sheets of clingfilm or a cut freezer bag and bash them into thin escalopes.
Heat a lightly oiled, heavy frying pan or ribbed griddle.
Season the duck fillets and cook them for only about 20 seconds on each side, then remove from the heat and cut them in half.
To serve, mix the duck, orange segments and leaves with the dressing, season to taste and arrange on serving plates.
Chicken piccatas with polenta, black olives and rosemary
Serves 4
I always find these are a real bargain, especially when you bat them out into little escalopes. I always keep a bit of a stockpile of these and duck under-fillets in the freezer so that I can rustle up a cheap and tasty light supper.
8 chicken under-fillets, lightly bashed out between some clingfilm
100ml extra virgin olive oil
20 black olives
A few sprigs of rosemary
Salt and freshly ground black pepper
For the polenta
750ml milk
1 clove of garlic, peeled and crushed
1 bay leaf
Salt and freshly ground white pepper
A pinch of nutmeg
75g quick-cooking polenta
100ml double cream
75g freshly grated parmesan
First, make the polenta. Bring the milk to the boil in a thick-bottomed pan, then add the garlic, bay leaf, salt and pepper and nutmeg.
Simmer for 5 minutes and then whisk in the polenta.
Cook on a low heat for about 10 minutes, stirring every so often so that it doesn't stick to the bottom of the pan.
Add the cream and parmesan and cook for a further 5 minutes. Cover with a lid or clingfilm to keep hot.
Heat half of the olive oil in a pan, remove the leaves from the rosemary, add to the f pan with the olives and remove from the heat. Heat a ribbed griddle pan until it is almost smoking and brush with a little olive oil, season the chicken fillets and grill briefly for 30-40 seconds on each side.
To serve, spoon the polenta on to warmed serving plates, arrange the chicken on top and spoon over the olives, rosemary and olive oil.
Lamb fillets served with wild garlic gremolata
Serves 4
You often see these tiny fillets which come from under the saddle of the lamb in butcher's shops; they also seem to sell them a lot in halal butchers – they are obviously using their cuts very economically, as they should be.
8 or 12 lamb fillets, bashed out between sheets of clingfilm
Salt and freshly ground black pepper
A little vegetable or corn oil for grilling
For the gremolata
The zest of 1 lemon
15 or so wild garlic leaves, finely chopped
4tbsp extra virgin olive oil
Mix all of the ingredients together for the gremolata and season to taste.
Heat a heavy frying pan or ribbed griddle pan and briefly cook the lamb fillets for about 30-40 seconds on each side. Arrange on warmed serving plates and spoon the gremolata over.
Ray escalopes with fennel salad
Serves 4
I do love the texture and flavour of ray, which is often lazily sold as skate, which is unfortunately not a sustainable member of the ray family.
When you are buying ray, it's a good idea to always make a point of asking your fishmonger what species it is and while you're at it, ask him to remove the skin from the fish and fillet it, both of which he should be very capable of doing.
The fillets from two 400-500g ray wings, skinned
Flour for dusting
1 large egg, beaten
40-50g fresh white breadcrumbs
Salt and freshly ground black pepper
Vegetable or corn oil for frying
To serve
A handful of small salad leaves, washed
1 small fennel bulb, quartered and finely sliced
For the dressing
2tbsp rapeseed oil
½tbsp cider vinegar
1tsp Dijon or Tewkesbury mustard
Have three dishes ready, one with the seasoned flour, one with the beaten egg and the third with the breadcrumbs. Pass the ray fillets through the flour, dusting off any excess, then through the egg and finally the breadcrumbs.
Heat the vegetable oil in a large, heavy frying pan and cook the fillets for a couple of minutes on each side, adding a knob of butter to the pan when you turn them over.
Meanwhile, mix the oil and vinegar together for the dressing and toss with the salad leaves and fennel. Arrange on serving plates with the ray escalopes.


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Cable companies continue to pooh-pooh Fiber, the super-fast Internet connection and TV service that utterly shames their own services in both speed and price.
But cable investors might want to keep a close watch on this project, which is beginning to look like the biggest threat to those merger-hyped cable shares since got serious about streaming.
Note in a stock chart how much more fun it's been to be a Google or Netflix investor lately, even with merger talks hyping cable shares.
Since November, Google Fiber has sold a $70-a-month Internet connection to Kansas City residents that can do in seconds what takes minutes on a 's $74.99-a-month connection. Google Fiber is about 150 times as fast as the connections most cable subscribers buy there, and for an additional $50, it comes with television too.
and executives treat that competition as Google's little hobby—perhaps a ploy to embarrass them into better service, which they insist won't work. Last month, Comcast CEO Brian Roberts addressed the Google Fiber threat with a demonstration showing that his company could create connectivity at 3 gigabytes if it wanted to. (Google Fiber runs at 1 gbps.)
Roberts and cohorts say there's no demand for super speed connections, as demonstrated by the high number of people who refuse to pay them $300 a month or more for their highest speed connections. Those typically top out at 105mb.
But there's no question that speed is becoming more of a driver of sales. As customers connect more and more devices to their home Wi-Fi, they need faster connections to keep them running optimally. Time Warner recently reported that 21% of its broadband customers subscribe to its more expensive, higher-speed services, compared to just 9% three years ago. It is Internet subscriptions that kept it and Comcast profits growing even as interest in cable television services wanes.
Austin, Texas, and Provo, Utah, may tamp down the swagger. Google Fiber announced in April plans to move into both cities, along with a dozen other Kansas and Missouri cities. Time Warner immediately responded with free Wi-Fi hotspots for Austin customers. (And a big shout-out to Google for speeding up the project.) In Provo, Google will compete head-to-head with Comcast.
Last year, cable television's popular programming was expected to keep many viewers tied in. But in Kansas City now, the lineup on Google Fiber looks a lot like Time Warner's, complete with ESPN, Disney (DIS) and CNN. In April, Google announced that HBO would be available for an extra $20 a month.
Cable companies can still control prices in many, many markets, where the only competition is the phone company's even slower DSL service. But Bernstein Research went door-to-door to 204 households in Kansas City earlier this year and determined that 52% "definitely or probably" would buy Google Fiber. If Google gets serious about nationwide expansion, it can make the competition hurt.
That's the big "if." Google insists it's in this to make money, but it's noncommittal on how far it will go. Bernstein estimates Google needs some $11 billion for a serious nationwide roll-out and has only spent $87 million on this project so far. With $50 billion in cash and short-term investments, it looks like Google can afford to jack with those cable companies, which include Charter Communications (CHTR) and Cablevision (CVC), for a long time to come.
Here we compare Google's cash position to the vulnerable market caps of the cable companies.
Financial research will show there's much to like about the cable companies, but one must also keep watch on the competitive situation.
Dee Gill, a senior contributing editor at YCharts, is a former foreign correspondent for AP-Dow Jones News in London, where she covered the U.K. equities market and economic indicators. She has written for The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Economist and Time magazine. She can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com. You can also request a demonstration of YCharts Platinum.
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