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Below is a Tweet as it might be displayed on the Twitter website when viewed on a computer. Note that not all Tweets might include all of these exact attributes. If you are using an app or third-party service like Hootsuite or TweetDeck to read your Tweets, they might look slightly different, but the parts will still be there somewhere. Scroll on down under the sample Tweet to see brief explanations of the parts! (Accurate as of the time of this post. Twitter has a habit of rearranging these things once in a while!)
1. Avatar - A photo or graphic which represents the person or company sending the Tweet. If you click the avatar, an abbreviated version of the Tweeter's profile will display, and from it you can visit their complete profile if you want to know more about them.
2. Tweeter's Name - In theory, this is the real name of the real person behind the Tweet. Some Twitter users decide to use their username or another unique name here. It depends on what they set up in their profile when they signed up for Twitter.
3. Twitter Username/Handle - The name a person is known by on Twitter. Some users use their real name again here. Others, like Mark Warren in the Tweet above, use a representative name. In this case, Mark chose @MagisterWarren, representing the fact that he is a Latin teacher.
4. Shortened URL - A large number of Tweets include links to websites the Tweeter feels will be useful to their followers or which explains more about what they are saying in the Tweet. URLs will almost always be shortened in some way to help leave more room for other information within the 140 character Tweet limit.
5. Tweet Text - The meat of the Tweet. All of the text in black is part of the "message" the Tweeter is conveying.
6. Hashtag - Hashtags help categorize the topic of a Tweet on Twitter. Using them can help others who are not following you find your content, and they help your followers quickly scan their Tweet streams to find topics of interest to them. Occasionally, hashtags are used #justforfun to make a comment. Hashtags are very useful but can be mysterious at first. I encourage you to learn more about them and use them. The best explanation of hashtags I've ever come across can be found here.
7. Time and/or Date of Tweet - This just lets you know how long ago the Tweet was sent out. After 24 hours, it will display a date. (NOTE: You can also click the Time/Date of a Tweet to be taken to a unique web page where the Tweet "stands alone". This will allow you to make a link to a specific Tweet if you wish, like this: Click to read a past Tweet of mine.)
8. RT - Indicates a "Re-Tweet", or re-posting of someone else's Tweet. Third party Twitter clients like Hootsuite make it easy to send out RTs in this way. On the Twitter website itself, if you use the Retweet feature, it will simply repost the Tweet "as-is" out to your followers, with no RT symbol in front. Sometimes, RTs are also indicated by quotation marks around the entire Tweet. Multiple possibilities - with time, you'll come to recognize them all!
9. Mention of Another Twitter User - When an "@" is placed in front of a word in a Tweet, Twitter assumes you are mentioning another Twitter user. You can click on that user's name/handle and see their latest Tweets.
It's good etiquette to mention the original Tweeter of a Tweet in an RT, as was done in the example above. Sometimes, you might start a Tweet with a mention of someone's handle to let them know you are speaking directly to them. If you do that, the Tweet still appears on your public page, but only shows up in the timeline of the person addressed and anyone who follows both you and that person. If you want to mention a user but want all of your followers to see it, make sure you put their name somewhere other than the start of the Tweet. See examples below.
10. Click to Reply - Click the Reply link to reply back to a Tweet you found interesting. It helps the recipient if you reference the original Tweet. For example "Really enjoyed the story on BYOD. Thank you for sharing!" instead of just "Great story. Thanks!"
11. Click to Retweet - Is there some great information in that Tweet you just read that your followers would benefit from? Click the "Retweet" link to spread the learning!
12. Click to Favorite - You can keep a list of Favorite Tweets. Maybe there is a link to an article you don't have time to read right now. "Favorite" it, then go to the Me page on your Twitter profile to access it later. You can then click Favorited to "unfavorite" the Tweet when you are done with it.
13. Advanced Options - Currently includes the ability to email a Tweet to someone (maybe if you do that often enough you'll convince someone to join Twitter) or copy embed code to embed a Tweet in another website (embedding allows the Tweet to remain "live" in the website, so people can reply, retweet, etc, directly from the site).
Ok, there you have it! Probably more than you ever wanted to know about how to decode a Tweet! If you are new to Twitter, or even if you've been on it for a while, I hope this has helped you become more comfortable with the platform. Happy Tweeting!
Shoutout to The Connection blog. I used this Anatomy of a Tweet post in a workshop I taught last year, and based on its model, decided to write an updated version.
If this post interested you, you might also be interested in the resources I've put together in a LiveBinder on Twitter for Professional Learning, and another blog post I've written called Grow Your Twitter Network with a Spiffed Up Profile.


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SnoreStop to Hire More Headvertisers
SnoreStop, the company that won an Ebay bid of $37,375 to advertise on Andrew Fischer's forehead for a month, is expanding its forehead advertising efforts an looking to find the next sucker or group of suckers to slap the company's logo on their head for a month.
SnoreStop promises a $37,375 month long contract as a grand prize and has invited people to interview to be the next SnoreStop headvertisement. This time, the company is looking to go beyond having their headvertiser simply wear a temporary forehead tattoo but to showcase their special talents, such as singing, dancing, modeling, stand-up, poetry, even snoring, that can help spread the SnoreStop message in a creative manner.
The first interview session will be held on August 12 from 9am-6pm at the Renaissance Hollywood Hotel in Los Angeles. Those interested can apply online at Monster, HotJobs or CareerBuilder to register for the event. Later, SnoreStop will offer Mid-West and East Coast interviews opportunities.
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Delusions On A Double Dimwit At The Donuteria – February 8, 2011
• Friday, December 17 6:54 p.m. Teetering on the knife-edge of moral ambivalence, a tall. hooded figure stood at Samoa Boulevard and H Street with a pair of shoes in his hand, their laces tied together. His gaze drifted from the power lines above to the two goons on the sidewalk nearby, who were exhausting their vocabulary hooting and gibbering for the shoe-bearer to fling the footwear over the wires for comic effect. The crew had scampered away when police arrived, but an on-site Eye investigation revealed a set of sneakers dangling from the wires at the site (see photo). It is not known whether these are the shoes in question, however, as they're way too high to dust for stupid.
7:01 p.m. A lady incinerating dinner in the 200 block of Seventh Street called police about a kitchen fire, but the blaze was confined on one pan which made an incredible amount of smoke. It was placed outside.
• Saturday, December 18 2:25 a.m. Disputatious dimwits at a downtown donut dispensary were separated from each other, and from the tempting pastry selection…
2:27 a.m. …as both were arrested for public drunkenness.
5:43 a.m. A Spear Avenue woman was cornered for a time on her front porch by a two-pit pack of roving pit bulls.
10:50 a.m. A woman called saying she wanted a different police department and repeating the questions the dispatcher asked her. Her confusion led to intervention and hospitalization.
• Sunday, December 19 2:02 a.m. Another day, another double-dullard implosion in front of the donuteria. Two booze-boggled gladiator-galoots helped populate the Pink House.
10:41 a.m. Two men and a woman were implicated in a shoplifting escapade at a 13th Street store. All were arrested. One turned out to be a missing person, another a trespasser.
• Tuesday, December 21 12:19 a.m.
A Western Ave. caller was glum
From excessive rum-pa-pum-pum
A tuba, blown hard
In a neighboring yard
At this hour, that seems kinda dumb
8:48 a.m. Unknown asswipe enthusiasts deployed rolls of their favorite stationery all over a house and grounds on 10th Street, again.
10:32 a.m. Three packages dropped off at a Valley West apartment's door of course disappeared. The Slithy Tove groundscore included an e-reader ($150), candy ($15) and an Uno game ($12).
12:30 p.m. Another opportunist, described as having a neck tat that reads, "Dreamer," mined a Valley West trailer park for unattended riches. These included exercise weights and the front tire off a bike.
1:39 p.m. Someone brought a pretty nice guitar into an I Street music store with a story about finding it in the woods. The store was holding onto the $800 to $1,000 instrument pending further research.
2:15 a.m.
Besmirching the Plaza's west bower
A surge of profane bongo power
Police scoured the square
Found it empty of blare
For his part, McKinley just glowered
4:20 p.m. A Stewart Avenue resident chose this particular hour and moment to report receiving an unexpected package in the mail containing "a large amount" of marijuana. It was turned in to police.
4:42 p.m. Doing his part to boost the atmosphere's CO2 content, an entropy enthusiast at an H Street apartment complex started burning recyclables. He was arrested on an arson charge.
• Wednesday, December 22 3:05 p.m. A 10th Street business's padlocked gate was broken open and $400 in stuff, including a power washer, was stolen.
• Thursday, December 23 7:54 a.m. Someone picked up the courtesy phone outside APD asking for an officer and offering a tour of some garbage outside City Hall. But the debris docent had disappeared when the officer went out there, and a walkaround revealed none of the promised garbage.
23:53 p.m. After kicking some objectionable guests out of a Valley West motel room, the managemnt found a half-pound of pot, a scale and a vacuum sealer.
3:06 p.m. A feisty resident of Olympia Street made his neighbors an offer – that he would "put bullets inside of them," as he so-quaintly phrased it.
7:28 p.m. A 20 year old had a heart attack on Union Street.
8:41 p.m. A woman said she "kicked off" three men at a bus stop at 14th and B streets for making a disturbance by arguing.
• Christmas Eve 9:35 p.m. A specially etched window which had survived for decades at an historic Plaza storehouse was broken by a man having a mega-hissysnit. $3,000 damage
• Christmas 2:13 a.m. A car and kitty cat attempted to occupy the same space and time at Alliance and Spear. One of them went to the veterinarian with a broken leg.
2:53 p.m. A man in green clothes with yellow shoes spent three hours in a G Street Chinese restaurant, enough time to eat and get hungry again in triplicate. He seemed to think that an alternative to paying his bill was harassing other customers, but that failed and he was arrested on a charge of defrauding an innkeeper.


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Russell Wilson says eyebrow bet with Colin Kaepernick "not real serious"
The San Francisco 49ers and Seattle Seahawks will square off this week on Sunday Night Football on NBC in one of the premier matchups of the early season schedule. The teams aren't particularly fond of each other. The head coaches don't like each other, and both teams are among the favorites to represent the NFC in the Super Bowl in February.
An extra layer of intrigue was added as the starting quarterback for each team supposedly entered into a bet where the loser would have to shave off an eyebrow if they don't earn the victory Sunday night. However, that bet may not be completely set in stone after all.
Seahawks' quarterback Russell Wilson addressed the bet with Colin Kaepernick made in a promotional video for EA Sports on the Dave "Softy" Mahler show on 950 KJR-AM in Seattle on Tuesday.
"He's going to have to shave off his [eyebrows]," Wilson joked.
Wilson then said the bet wasn't truly something they took seriously but did say they may still provide some kind of payoff depending on who wins the battle of NFC West heavyweights Sunday night.
"It was more of just a friendly, joking around type deal. It's not real serious. We'll probably do something digitally. Something like that," Wilson said.


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As a middleware maker, it makes no sense to have favorites. We do our best to keep integrations of Voxel Farm on par so we reach as many users as possible. As an individual, I see no problem stating I prefer Unreal, but this is only because it is an all C++ environment. It is not a rational thing.
This post, however, is not about how I feel. It is rather about the state of the two engines and how much they facilitate procedural generation and working with voxel data. I think many of the issues we have encountered over the past few years are common if you are doing a similar type of work with these engines. Hopefully, our story can help.
Let's start with the visuals. Both Unity and Unreal are capable of rendering beautiful scenes. Both are also able to render at very high frame rates, even for fairly complex content. This has likely been the lion's share of their R&D for years now. Unity has one crucial advantage over Unreal, which is it natively supports texture arrays. Unreal almost supports them, in fact, we managed to make them work in a custom branch of UE4 with little effort. However, this is not possible with the out-of-the-box Unreal distribution. That is a dealbreaker if your middleware is to be used as a plugin like it is our case.
Texture Arrays in Unity allow precise filtering and high detail
Texture arrays make a big difference if you need complex materials where many different types of surfaces need to be splatted in a single draw call. When an engine lacks texture array support, you must use 2D atlasing. This raises a whole hell of issues, like having to pick mip levels yourself and wasting precious memory in padding textures to avoid bleeding. When you hit this low point, you begin to seriously question your career choices.
If your application uses procedural generation, it likely means the contents of the scene is not known when the application is in design mode. This is at odds with how these engines have evolved to work. If your application allows users to change the world, it only makes it worse. For the most part, both engines expect you to manage new chunks of content in the main thread. This is something that if left unattended can cause severe spikes in your framerate.
There are multiple aspects involved in maintaining a dynamic world. First, you must update the meshes you use to render the world. This is fairly quick in both engines, but it does not come free. Then, you must create collision models for the new geometry. Here Unreal does better. Since you have closer access to the PhysX implementation, you can submit a much simpler version of the content. In Unity, you may be stuck with using the same geometry for rendering as colliders. (EDIT: I was wrong about this, see the comments section.) From reading their latest update, I see this motivated the Card Life developers to ditch PhysX collisions altogether.
Card Life, made in Unity, features a hi-res voxel world
Voxel Farm allows players to cut arbitrary chunks of the world, which then become subject to physics. Unity was able to take fragments of any complexity and properly simulate physics for them. Unreal, on the other hand, would model each fragment as a cube. Apparently, PhysX is not able to compute convex hulls, so for any object subject to physics, you must supply a simplified model. Unity appears to create these on-the-fly. For Unreal, we had to plug in a separate convex hull generation algorithm. Only then we could get the ball rolling, literally.
When it comes to AI and pathfinding, both engines appear to use Recast, which is a third party navigation mesh library. Recast uses voxels under the hood (go voxels!) but this aspect is not exposed by its interface. For a voxel system like us, it is a bit awkward to be submitting meshes to Recast, which then are voxelized again and ultimately contoured back into navigation meshes. But this is not bad, just messy. There is one key difference here between Unreal and Unity. Unreal will not let you change the scope of the nav-mesh solution in real-time. That means you cannot have the nav-mesh scope follow the player across a large open world. It is unfortunate since this is a tiny correction if you can modify the source code, but again for a plugin like Voxel Farm it is not an option.
Dynamic nav-mesh in UE4
This brings me to the last issue in this post, which is the fact Unreal is open source while Unity is closed. As a plugin developer, I find myself surprised to think a closed source system may be more amicable for plugin development. Here is my rationale: So far the open source model has been great allowing us to discover why a given feature will not work in the official distribution. You can clearly see the brick wall you are about to hit. For application developers, open source works better because you can always fork the engine code and remove the brick wall. The problem is this takes the pressure off and the brick wall stays there for longer. In Unity, both application and middleware developers must use the same version of the engine. I believe this creates an incentive for a more complete interface.
I'm sure there is more to add to this topic. There are some key aspects we still need to cover for both engines, like multiplayer. If you find any of our issues to be unjustified, I would love to be proven wrong, for the betterment of our little engine. Just let me know by dropping a comment.


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Murphy slams NRA, Apple for app
Sen. Chris Murphy ripped the NRA and Apple on Tuesday, demanding the computer giant reclassify an NRA-produced shooting game it has labeled appropriate for children as young as four.
"The NRA seems intent on continuing to insult the families of the victims of Sandy Hook," the Connecticut Democrat said in a statement. "How could they think it was a good idea to use the one month anniversary of the tragedy at Sandy Hook to release a game that teaches four year olds to shoot assault weapons? No matter what outrageous new tool they use, the NRA cannot make a straight-faced case that sport shooters need military-style weapons to enjoy their hobby."
The NRA released "NRA: Target Range" on Sunday. The game offers users a shooting practice feature, as well as a database of stage gun laws and safety tips. It gives users a chance to fork over 99 additional cents to upgrade their virtual weapon from an M9 to a Baretta, Browning or Colt. Apple ruled the game was appropriate for kids ages 4 and up because it contains "no objectionable content."
Murphy sent a letter to NRA executive vice president Wayne LaPierre and Apple CEO Tim Cook asking for Apple to reclassify the game.
The game "allows individuals to shoot targets in a variety of settings and with a number of different weapons, including handguns, an AK-47 and an M-16," Murphy wrote. "In particular, the M-16 is the military version of the Bushmaster AR-15, which was used in the shooting at Newtown. As a parent of two young sons, one of whom is four years old, I find it appalling that this type of app is deemed acceptable for young children."
Murphy also accuses the NRA of hypocrisy, which condemended violent video games in a speech responding to the Sandy Hook Elementary massacre, which left 26 victims dead, including 20 first graders.
"In his remarks after the shooting, Mr. LaPierre noted the role that violent video games play in de-sensitizing our society," Murphy wrote. "It is the height of irony that now the NRA is releasing a game that teaches kids as young as four years old to shoot an AK-47. Your organizations can play a role in beginning to change the culture of violence and gun glorification that plagues our society, by recognizing that selling this type of 'game' contributes to the problem."
Murphy represented Newtown in he U.S. House at the time of the shooting.


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An article at Cracked.com explores the fact that every human being on the planet is born with super powers, from telepathy to heightened senses - we just grow out of them.
It's a bird! It's a plane! It's super babies! Scientists love studying babies more than they enjoy studying rats and monkeys, mainly because babies are so
delicious much more similar to real human beings than animals are.
What's that? Babies are human too? I beg to differ, and science begs to differ as well. If babies were humans, would they be able to read minds?
Of course they wouldn't, and they can't, but they do have powers similar to mind reading that baffle scientists on a regular basis. In an article called "5 Superpowers We All Had as Babies (According to Science)," Cracked's Cezary Jan Strusiewicz explores some of the amazing things babies can do before they grow up and become annoying preteens.
For instance, mind reading. It isn't really mind reading, but scientists have found that babies are able to read subtle facial expressions in the adults in their lives so acutely that it verges on supernatural.
In 2007, the team at the University of Washington Institute for Learning and Brain Sciences conducted an experiment with 18-month old toddlers found they become so sensitive to the subtlest psychological changes in a person's expressions that it might actually explain why they always cry when you come anywhere near them. They can feel the deep-seeded hatred for all things baby under that fake smile of yours.
This strange power even extends to animals, according to a Brigham Young study that discovered that babies under six months could match a dog's bark to its picture without ever coming into contact with the animal. Bizarre!
Of course then we grow up and it all turns to crap.
Sadly, these amazing abilities get lost the minute the babies learn how to talk and get their hands on Twitter, becoming the modern age nonverbal-communication cripples. Before that though, they are basically Lil' Professor Xaviers.
What other powers do babies have?
How about extreme eyesight? Another study, conducted on a herd of six and nine month old children found that the younger babies could discern between two different monkeys, while the older babies could not. This tells us that somewhere between six months and nine months, babies get stupid. How does that happen?
The thing is, adult brains are very busy and don't have time for such trifle things as actually "seeing" colors. From the time we acquire language (seven to nine months old), our brains start perceiving only the "idea" of a color rather than the real thing, unlike all the toddlers who see the world for what it really is. It's like us adults are living in a perpetual Matrix where everything we see is a lie, and all infant babies are Neo.
Babies also have hypersensitive hearing. Unlike adults that have developed the ability to filter out non-essential sounds, like air conditioners or our bosses asking us when this article will be ready, to babies, every sound is essential, and they can hear things happening in the next room as if it were happening right in front of them, hence all the crying.
Babies even have stronger brains than adults.
Humans are born with around 100 billion neurons, same as the number of stars in the Milky Way. However, without a large number of synapses, having lots of neurons is like owning an impressive gun collection with only peas and carrots to load them with. By age three, babies have around 15,000 synapses per neuron... three times as much as an adult in his prime.
Unfortunately, the adult mind can't deal with that much information being processed at all times, so our synapses get trimmed as we age, which Strusiewicz likens to "chopping off most of your gigantic dick because there was no woman on Earth capable of taming it."
The point here is we need to take a short break from whining over not having real super powers so we can lament the ones we did have that disappeared as we became so-called productive human beings.
5 Superpowers We All Had As Babies [Cracked]


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or "Pizzeria Uno" style pizza
A Chicago Legend
In Chicago...eating pizza is a dining experience, not just a snack as in most places. But it wasn't always that way. Ike Seawell changed things back in 1943 when he created deep dish pizza. (Some folks call it Chicago Pizza.)
This recipe was adapted from the book The Frugal Gourmet Cooks American by Jeff Smith. Jeff wrote that "I have tried to figure out how it's done at Pizzeria Uno and I think that I'm very close. I ran my recipe by Mama, a gorgeous black woman who has been cooking pizzas there for thirty years, and she smiled and nodded. You can't get much better than that!"
In the bowl of a stand mixer (e.g. KitchenAid), dissolve the yeast in the water. Add the vegetable oil, olive oil, cornmeal, and half of the flour. Beat for 10 minutes. Attach the dough hook and mix in the remaining flour. Knead for several minutes with the mixer. (Note: because the dough is very rich and moist, it would be difficult to do this by hand.)
Remove dough and place on a clean countertop. Cover with a very large metal bowl and allow to rise until double in bulk. Punch down and allow to rise again. Punch down a second time and you are ready to make pizza!
Oil your deep-dish pizza pan. Depending on the size of your pan, place some dough in the pan and push it out to the edges using your fingers. Put in enough dough so that you can run the crust right up the side of the pan. Make it about 1/8-inch thick throughout the pan.
Place the cheese in tile-like layers on the bottom of the pie. Next put in the tomatoes and the basil, oregano, garlic, and salt, reserving the Parmesan cheese for the top. Drizzle olive oil over the top of the pie and you are ready to bake.
Variations: Before you put on the Parmesan cheese and olive oil drizzle, you might like to add any or all of the following:
Bake the pie in a 475°F oven until the top is golden and gooey and the crust a light golden brown, about 35 to 40 minutes.
Italian Sausage (Chicago Style)
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Grind pork and mix in spices. Do not saute the sausage, as it hardens it. Try forming the sausage into 6-inch oblong loaves and microwave them on the defrost setting until the pink barely disappears. Let the loaves cool, then break them into bite sized chunks. Freeze and use as you desire.
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I think it's because game isn't enough - it doesn't change the dispiriting conditions in which modern dating takes place.
Back in the 1930s an Australian feminist and communist named Jean Devanny wrote a short story about a male communist who believed in absolute sexual liberty. Both men and women were to have sex with whomever they pleased. All went well until our male communist found his wife in bed with another man. In principle he had to accept her actions. She for her part tried to persuade him that sex itself was just a meaningless physical act that he shouldn't be too fussed about:
... she was right; her attitude was the only one if they were to continue living together. He must conquer himself. What was she saying? - "Make too much of this silly sex act. It doesn't mean anything, really. It is the smallest thing in life. It takes up only a moment or two out of millions of moments. The things that matter are comradeship, congeniality, friendship and kindness ...
This is a purely materialistic view of sex, in which sex expresses nothing beyond itself as a physical act. And the logic too is that for sex to be made wholly free it must be made meaningless.
Jump forward to 2007. Laura Sessions Stepp published in this year a book about the attitudes to sex of young upper middle class women. What she found is that these women had decoupled love from sex. They hadn't given up on love, but had deferred it. They were too busy with their "projects" for serious relationships. They treated sex as just sex:
Stepp follows three high school girls and six college women through a year in their lives, chronicling their sexual behavior. These girls and women don't date, don't develop long-term relationships or even short, serious ones -- instead, they "hook up" ...
Why hook up? According to Stepp, college women, obsessed with academic and career success, say they don't have time for a real relationship; high school girls say lovey-dovey relationships give them the "yucks."
Laura Sessions Stepp herself is concerned by the situation:
Stepp is troubled: How will these girls learn how to be loving couples in this hook-up culture? Where will they practice the behavior needed to sustain deep and long-term relationships? If they commit to a lack of commitment, how will they ever learn to be intimate?
But the woman reviewing the book, Kathy Dobie, wants to set Laura Sessions Stepp straight:
The author is conflating what the girls refuse to conflate: love and sexuality.
In other words, Kathy Dobie thinks it wrong to think that love and sex should go together. Sex is ... just sex. It's Devanny's communists all over again, but this time writing in The Washington Post.
Laura Sessions Stepp really does try to hold the line. She advises young women:
He will seek to win you over only if he thinks you're a prize.
She also opposes the reduction of relationships to the physical aspect alone:
Stepp is most thought-provoking when she considers the culture at large: All the females she interviews come from reasonably well-off families, we're told, and all are ambitious. "Hooking up enables a young woman to practice a piece of a relationship, the physical, while devoting most of her energy to staying on the honor roll . . . playing lacrosse . . . and applying to graduate programs in engineering."
Kathy Dobie again disagrees. She thinks it a worthy experiment to make sex a less meaningful part of relationships:
In a culture that values money and fame above all, that eschews failure, bad luck, trouble and pain, none of us speaks the language of love and forbearance. But it is not hooking up that has created this atmosphere. Hooking up is either a faithful reflection of the culture, a Darwinian response to a world where half the marriages end in divorce, or it is an attempt at something new. Perhaps, this generation, by making sex less precious, less a commodity, will succeed in putting simple humanity back into sex ...
And perhaps as this generation grows up, they will come to relish other sides of an intimate relationship more than we have: the friendship, the shared humor, the familiar and loved body next to you in bed at night. This is the most hopeful outcome of the culture Stepp describes, but no less possible than the outcome she fears -- a generation unable to commit, unable to weather storms or to stomach second place or really to love at all.
Love and sex have been decoupled and both have been relegated in significance and priority.
It's worth noting that Kathy Dobie is the modern girl par excellence. She has written a book about her own early sexual experiences. She came from a good family, but at the age of 14 she began to chase boys for sex and, as a sexually liberated modern girl, she went for "the confident, aggressive, dirty-minded ones."
Why did she do it? She explains in the book that she wanted to feel "as alive, as bold, as free" as the bad boys around her (which makes her sound like a vitalist - as someone who responds to a nihilistic culture by seeking out sensation and excitement).
So let's say you're a young man and you are confronted with modern girl culture. You meet women who choose to have sex with the "confident, aggressive, dirty-minded" boys and who aren't psychologically oriented to love or to attracting love or to the entanglements of something serious.
Even if you learnt techniques to make you fit better into the confident, aggressive category of man, would this really satisfy? Wouldn't it be dispiriting to exist within a culture in which sex is both decoupled from love and from any meaning larger than itself? In which women aren't oriented to love? Would you really see the women produced by such a culture as a prize worth fighting for?
I should say at this point that not every woman has taken on the modern girl ethos. There do still exist women who put love, marriage and family first. If game techniques help some men attract these women, then it could have some benefit.
But it often seems to be the case that gamists have accepted the modernist conditions, and then I don't wonder that they seem discontented even when they get more of what's on offer.
Because it isn't enough. It's not that men are incapable of casual sex. But a man's nature can't be reduced to this. We do want to connect in a deeper way with a woman, and this requires a culture in which women are oriented to love and in which sex expresses something of ourselves. We are bound to feel alienated when this is not on offer.


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Messrs. Edward E. Odom and James T. Brady, both of Washington, D.C., for petitioner.
Messrs. Wm. Dike Reed and Louis J. Altkrug, both of New York City, for respondent.
Mr. Justice BLACK delivered the opinion of the Court.
Section 500 of the World War Veterans' Act1 (as applicable here) prohibits the recognition of attorneys or [305 U.S. 85, 86] claim agents in the presentation or adjudication of veterans' War Risk Insurance claims; limits to ten dollars the payment for assisting in the preparation and execution of an application to the Veterans' Bureau; permits a court-rendering a favorable judgment or decree on a veteran's claim-to allow the veteran's attorney a fee not to exceed ten per cent of the amount recovered; and makes soliciting or obtaining any fee greater than the statute provides a crime subject to a maximum punishment of a $ 500 fine and two years imprisonment.
A committee (guardian appointed by a New York state court) for an insane veteran retained an attorney to prosecute the rights of the incompetent on a War Risk Insurance contract. The New York court was petitioned for an attorney's fee of $3,000. Upon hearing, it appeared that the attorney had performed services of an investiga- [305 U.S. 85, 87] tional and preparatory nature in the prosecution of the veteran's claim; that contrary to Section 500, he had been recognized by the Bureau and permitted to join with a representative of the Disabled War Veterans in presenting the claim to the Bureau; and that subsequently, but without litigation, judicial decree or judgment against the government, the government paid the guardian an amount in excess of $10,000 on the claim. The New York court allowed a fee of $1,500 for the attorney's services, over the objection of the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs who intervened and insisted that Section 500 prohibited any fee in excess of $ 10 in this case. 2 We can assume, in the consideration of questions here presented, that valuable services were rendered by the attorney.
Respondent seeks to sustain the $1,500 fee upon the theory that the general power of the New York court to fix fees for services rendered an incompetent under that court's jurisdiction is not subject to the limitation of $10 for fees as provided in Section 500. He urges that the present case is controlled by the decision in Hines v. Stein, 298 U.S. 94 , 56 S.Ct. 699. In that case the Court said (page 701), 'Nothing brought to our attention would justify the view that Congress intended to deprive state courts of their usual authority over fiduciaries, or to sanction the promulgation of rules to that end by executive offices or bureaus.' This language did not refer to Section 500, which we now consider, but was a construction and interpretation of rules promulgated by the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs under authority of 4 and 7 of an Act of March 20, 1933, c. 3, 48 Stat. 9, which rules were traceable to 111, 114 and 115, Title 38, U.S.C., 38 U.S.C.A. 111, 114 and 115. These Code Sections are based upon an Act passed in 1884
[305 U.S. 85, 88] Obviously, the interpretation given rules promulgated in furtherance of a line of legislation dating from 1884 cannot be accepted as controlling in determining the intent and effect of a separate and distinct act (Section 500) differing in form, substance and historical background. The rules and statutes construed in Hines v. Stein, supra, have no bearing on this case, which must be determined by the application of Section 500.
Section 500 is one in a series of congressional efforts to limit fees of claim agents and attorneys in the prosecution of veterans' insurance and related claims. Shortly after the United States entered the World War, Congress provided a comprehensive statutory plan of War Risk Insurance for soldiers and sailors. 3 Section 13 of that statute contained this provision: 'The director shall adopt reasonable and proper rules ..., to regulate the matter of the compensation, if any, but in no case to exceed ten per centum, to be paid to claim agents and attorneys for services in connection with' collection of soldiers' and sailors' benefits.
May 20, 1918, Congress amended Section 13 of the 1917 Act. 4 The House report shows that this amendment was strongly urged by the Secretary of the Treasury, then administering the World War Veterans' Act. 5 The 1918 [305 U.S. 85, 89] amendment is substantially the same as Section 500, and in a case involving the meaning of that amendment this Court said, 'Petitioner claims that the inhibition against receiving any sum greater than $3 ($10 under Section 500) relates solely to the clerical work of filling out the form or affidavit of claim and does not apply to useful investigation and preparatory work such as he did. ...
In 1926, Congress enacted additional legislation for the specific protection of incompetent veterans from illegal or excessive fees where guardians had been appointed by any court-State or Federal. 7 Congress declared that 'whenever it appears that any guardian, curator, conservator or other person, in the opinion of the Administrator, is not properly executing or has not properly executed the duties of his trust or has collected or paid, or is attempting to collect or pay, fees, commissions, or allowances that are inequitable or in excess of those allowed by law for the duties performed ..., then and in [305 U.S. 85, 90] that event the Administrator is empowered by his duly authorized attorney to appear in the court which has appointed such fiduciary, ... and make proper presentation of such matters ....'8 (Italics supplied.)
The history of Section 500 manifests beyond doubt the clear establishment of a public policy against the payment of fees for prosecution of veterans' claims in excess of those fixed by statute. Collection of a greater fee than that fixed in the statute is made a crime, and this Court has sustained a conviction under the statute. 9 Contracts for the collection of fees in excess of valid statutory limitations and for services validly prohibited by statute cannot stand, whether made with a competent veteran or the guardian of an incompetent veteran. Nor can any court having jurisdiction over an incompetent award a fee in violation of a valid statute. Congress clearly intended to protect all veterans, competent and incompetent, in all courts, State and Federal, against the imposition or payment of fees in excess of the amount fixed by statute. In furtherance of this policy the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs was charged with the express duty of appearing in all courts where it appears that 'any guardian ... or other person ... is attempting to collect fees ... in excess of those allowed by law.' The progressive strengthening of this particular legislative policy precludes any probability that Congress intended to exempt mental incompetents from its protection, and Congress alone is vested with constitutional power to determine the wisdom of this policy. [305 U.S. 85, 91] Congressional enactments in pursuance of constitutional authority are the supreme law of the land. Section 500 is a valid exercise of congressional power. 10 'The laws of the United States are laws in the several States, and just as much binding on the citizens and courts thereof as the State laws are.' 11
No court has rendered a judgment or decree in favor of the incompetent veteran and against the government, in which the court as a part of its decree determined and allowed a reasonable fee for the attorney of the veteran. In the absence of such a judgment and decree an attorney's fee of more than $10 is contrary to the controlling congressional enactment. The judgment below being for more than this amount is unauthorized and the cause is reversed.
[ Footnote 1 ] 'Amount permitted to be paid agents or attorneys; solicitation, etc ., of unauthorized fees or compensation; punishment. Except in the event of legal proceedings under Section 19, Title I of this Act (section 445 of this chapter), no claim agent or attorney except the recognized representatives of the American Red Cross, the American Legion, the Disabled American Veterans, and Veterans of Foreign Wars, and such other organizations as shall be approved by the director shall be recognized in the presentation or adjudication of claims under Parts II, III, and IV, of this Act (chapter), and payment to any attorney or agent for such assistance as may be required in the preparation and execution of the necessary papers in any application to the bureau shall not exceed $10 in any one case: Provided, however, That wherever a judgment or decree shall be rendered in an action brought pursuant to Section 19 of Title I of this Act (said section 445 of this chapter), the court, as a part of its judgment or decree, shall determine and allow reasonable fees for the attorneys of the successful party or parties and apportion same if proper, said fees not to exceed 10 per centum of the amount recovered and to be paid by the bureau out of the payments to be made under the judgment or decree at a rate not exceeding one-tenth of each of such payments until paid. Any person who shall, directly or indirectly, solicit, contract for, charge, or receive, or who shall attempt to solicit, contract for, charge, or receive, any fee or compensation, except as herein provided, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and for each and every offense shall be punishable by a fine of not more than $500 or by imprisonment at hard labor for not more than two years, or by both such fine and imprisonment.' 43 Stat. 628, as amended 43 Stat. 1311, chapter 10, 38 U.S.C. 551, 38 U. S.C.A. 551.
[ Footnote 2 ] The Administrator appealed and the Appellate Division affirmed. In re Lowrey, 252 App.Div. 779, 300 N.Y.S. 603. The Court of Appeals of New York denied the Administrator's motion for leave to appeal. 13 N.E.2d 478. This Court granted certiorari, Hines v. Lowrey, 304 U.S. 555 , 58 S.Ct. 1045.
[ Footnote 3 ] c. 105, 40 Stat. 398, 399. (October, 1917).
[ Footnote 4 ] c. 77, 40 Stat. 555.
[ Footnote 5 ] House Report No. 471 from the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce, 65th Cong., 2nd Session. A part of the letter of the Secretary of the Treasury contained in the Report was as follows: 'The evils of the situation are pressing. Unscrupulous attorneys and claim agents are circularizing prospective claimants ... The heartlessness and rapacity of these persons knows no bounds. In some instances their breakneck rush for employment has led them to the length of crucifying the wives and mothers of those in the service by false announcements that their husbands or sons have already fallen, and in almost all cases they are seeking to mulch the unwary out of hundreds of dollars for services that are either entirely unnecessary or would be amply remunerated by a nominal fee.' The discussions of the amendment in the House by those in charge of the bill were of the same tenor. Congressional Record, Vol. 56, Part 5, 5220-5226.
[ Footnote 6 ] Margolin v. United States, 269 U.S. 93, 101 , 102 S., 46 S.Ct. 64, 65.
[ Footnote 7 ] c. 723, 44 Stat. 792, chapter 10, 38 U.S.C. 450, 38 U.S.C.A. 450.
[ Footnote 8 ] In 1935, Congress added the proviso that '... the Administrator is authorized and empowered to appear or intervene by his duly authorized attorney in any court as an interested party in any litigation instituted by himself or otherwise, directly affecting money paid to such fiduciary ( guardian) under this section.' c. 510, 49 Stat. 607, 38 U.S.C.A. 450.
[ Footnote 9 ] Margolin v. United States, supra.
[ Footnote 10 ] Margolin v. United States, supra; Calhoun v. Massie, 253 U.S. 170 , 40 S.Ct. 474.
[ Footnote 11 ] Claflin v. Houseman, 93 U.S. 130 , 136.
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With all the carnage from gun violence in our country, it's still almost impossible to believe that a mass shooting in a kindergarten class could happen. It has come to that. Not even kindergarteners learning their A,B,Cs are safe. We heard after Columbine that it was too soon to talk about gun laws. We heard it after Virginia Tech. After Tucson and Aurora and Oak Creek. And now we are hearing it again. For every day we wait, 34 more people are murdered with guns. Today, many of them were five-year olds. President Obama rightly sent his heartfelt condolences to the families in Newtown. But the country needs him to send a bill to Congress to fix this problem. Calling for 'meaningful action' is not enough. We need immediate action. We have heard all the rhetoric before. What we have not seen is leadership — not from the White House and not from Congress. That must end today. This is a national tragedy and it demands a national response. My deepest sympathies are with the families of all those affected, and my determination to stop this madness is stronger than ever.


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NASA designs new space telescope optics
Although hundreds of planets orbiting other stars have been discovered in the past 15 years, we cannot yet answer the age-old question of whether any of these planets are capable of sustaining life. However, new NASA technology may change that, by giving us our first look at distant planets that not only are the right size and traveling in the temperate habitable zone of their host star, but also show signs of potential life, such as atmospheric oxygen and liquid water.
Research scientists at NASA's Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif., are developing new space telescope optics that won't just detect planets similar to Earth, but actually take photos of them. To take photos, called "direct imaging," a new technology will be used called phase-induced amplitude apodization (PIAA). In development since 2003, it is a proof-of-concept and technology tested prototype that is a strong candidate for NASA's upcoming direct imaging exoplanet missions expected to launch in the 2020 decade and beyond.
"By blocking the glare and diffraction from the star, we can start seeing planets that would otherwise be obscured. With this technology, direct imaging confirmation of a habitable zone exoplanet would happen for the first time," said Ruslan Belikov, a NASA astrophycist and technical lead of the coronagraph technical experiment at Ames.
Today, scientists use primarily indirect methods, such as the "transit method," to detect extra-solar planets. This method measures the dimming of a star as the planet passes between it and the telescope's line of sight. By observing the changes in starlight, scientists can determine a planet's size, its distance from the host star, and the orbital period. This method is currently used by NASA's Kepler mission, which was launched in 2009 to find Earth-size planets in the habitable zone.
In the future, however, a different approach in design and concept may be used to detect common biomarkers of life, such as oxygen and liquid water, on planets similar to Earth orbiting sun-like stars. PIAA is a "direct imaging" technique, which means it takes actual photos of exoplanets. The difficulty in taking such photographs is that the star's brilliance causes diffraction and glare to overwhelm dim planets in orbit around it. To solve this problem, a telescope needs to suppress the diffraction of the starlight.
The PIAA system uses two specially designed non-spherical mirrors to reshape the light in the pupil of the telescope into a new "high-contrast" pupil pattern. This new high-contrast pupil has the special property of confining all diffraction and glare from the star into a small spot, which virtually blocks all the starlight without appreciably affecting the light from the planet.
Instruments that block starlight are typically called "coronagraphs" (originally invented to block our sun's brilliance, so we can see its outer gaseous envelope or corona). PIAA is a particularly powerful type of a coronagraph, approaching fundamental physics limits.
Telescopic optics have tiny imperfections, called aberrations, that cause unclear images of the star. Optics completely free of aberrations presently cannot be made, but can be corrected by separate mirrors that can actively change shape. "These mirrors are called deformable mirrors. They counteract the existing distortions of the telescope optics," explained Belikov.
PIAA, or coronagraphs in general, block the brilliance of starlight, but only can work sufficiently to reveal Earth-size planets if telescope optics are perfect, which they never are. The deformable mirrors correct these imperfections with their wavefront control system. This system "fixes" the imperfect telescope optics to enable the coronagraph to work properly.
At the Ames coronagraph experiment facility, the deformable mirror, built by Boston Micromachines Corp., Mass., is a one-by-one centimeter square that employs a grid of 32-by-32, or 1024 actuators, which can generate any shape desired on the mirror. By controlling the shape of the surface of the error-compensating deformable mirror, the aberrations in the telescope can be reduced sufficiently to allow Earth-size planets to be directly imaged.
"The surface of these deformable mirrors can be set to such high precision that we are incapable of measuring it," said Belikov.
Although PIAA is approved for further development, it still is awaiting a mission. It is designed for two classes of missions: one for small telescopes, the other for very large telescopes. A small telescope proposal, called Exoplanetary Circumstellar Environments and Disk Explorer (EXCEDE), was selected for technology development for a potential future science mission in September 2011 by NASA's Explorer program.
Led by the University of Arizona, Tucson and in partnership with Ames and Lockheed Martin Space Science Company, Palo Alto, Calif., EXCEDE will directly image circumstellar dust and debris, and large planets in habitable zones, but not planets similar to Earth. "EXCEDE will do amazing science and may be a precursor to a larger mission, but won't quite capture exoEarths," said Belikov."
To see Earth-like planets, a much larger telescope is needed. While the current focus of the Ames Coronagraph Experiment (ACE) team is on the EXCEDE mission, they also are collaborating with NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), Pasadena, Calif., to develop coronagraph technology for larger telescopes, capable of observing exo-Earths. Currently, there are two vacuum testbeds at JPL developing different kinds of coronagraph technologies.
Coronagraph technologies are initially developed in ambient conditions, rather than vacuum conditions. An ambient, stable, air-controlled, environment is a cheaper and faster development path than operating in a vacuum. Testing in vacuum conditions, however, is desirable because they are similar to conditions in space. Once these coronagraph technologies are tested in ambient conditions, they then are ready to be tested on vacuum testbeds.
"The ACE testbed is in air, not in a vacuum. Our team has advanced the technology for the EXCEDE mission to the point where it is ready for vacuum testing," said Belikov.
So what are its prospects?
Recently, the National Academy of Sciences produced a 2010 decadal survey that endorsed the Wide-Field Infrared Survey Telescope (WFIRST) mission as its large mission in the 2020 decade. NASA accepted this recommendation.
"Presently, it does not include a coronagraph to do direct imaging of exoplanets. But things can change," predicted Belikov.
It also seems promising that two 2.4 meter Astrophysics Focused Telescope Assets (AFTA) telescopes were given to NASA last year by another federal agency. If one of these telescopes becomes the WFIRST mission, its telescope size will be larger than originally planned. If this happens, and the mission has a powerful enough coronagraph, it may be able to survey the nearest stars for habitable exoEarths, according to Belikov.
"With sustained funding, NASA will be capable of launching a telescope large enough to find and characterize basically all the habitable planets around our galactic neighborhood, say the nearest hundreds of stars, within the 2030 decade," concluded Belikov.
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Nancy Ann Malz (née Burton) died peacefully on Friday January 18, 2013 at Oak Park Place in Madison, WI.
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Ya I get high.
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STAMFORD, Conn. – September 18, 2013 – Jay Cutler and the Chicago Bears (2-0) travel to Heinz Field in Pittsburgh, Pa., to take on Ben Roethlisberger and the Steelers (0-2) on Sunday Night Football. Coverage begins with Football Night In America at 7 p.m. ET on NBC.
Calling Bears-Steelers is seven-time Emmy Award-winner Al Michaels (play-by-play), in his 28th season as the voice of the NFL's premier primetime package; 14-time Emmy Award-winner Cris Collinsworth, who has won the Emmy for Outstanding Event Analyst in each of his four seasons in the Sunday Night Football booth; and Emmy Award-winning sideline reporter Michele Tafoya.
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Football Night in America, the most-watched pre-game show in sports, is hosted by 25-time Emmy Award-winner Bob Costas, who will report from Heinz Field in Pittsburgh, Pa. Costas will be joined on site by Michaels, Collinsworth, and two-time Super Bowl winner Hines Ward.
Dan Patrick co-hosts Football Night from NBC's famed Studio 8H at 30 Rockefeller Plaza. Patrick will be joined by Super Bowl-winning head coach Tony Dungy, two-time Super Bowl winner Rodney Harrison, Peter King of Sports Illustrated, Mike Florio of Pro Football Talk on NBCSN and NBCSports.com, and longtime NFL front office veteran and former NFL Executive of the Year Scott Pioli. Alex Flanagan will report from Candlestick Park in San Francisco, Calif. on the Colts-49ers game.
In addition to Sunday Night Football and Football Night in America, NBC Sports Group's NFL coverage also includes digital content and social media extensions that are available online, as well as NFL-related shoulder programming on NBCSN.
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Dungy on the Bears – "The big improvement I have seen is their offense is getting some plays out of their tight end. Martellus Bennett has helped take some pressure off of Brandon Marshall and make some big plays."
Dungy on the Steelers – "They are going to have to be an offensive team. Ben Roethlisberger is going to have to win games for them. They have got to play differently than they have in the past. They need to get rid of the ball faster, run the ball and take some pressure off of Ben."
Harrison on the Steelers – "They have to run the ball. Big Ben holds the ball too long. When you hold the ball too long, and you don't have great offensive linemen, bad things happen."
As part of the NFL's celebration of Hispanic Heritage Month, NBC Sports Group will incorporate a series of special elements into the Sunday Night Football broadcast and marketing campaign. The winner of Season 1 of Telemundo's La Voz Kids, Paola Guanche, will sing the national anthem live from Pittsburgh, Pa. In addition, NBC's Sunday Night Football on-air, print and digital-marketing elements will feature Hispanic Heritage Month logos and branding.
For the sixth consecutive season, the entire Sunday Night Football schedule will be streamed live online. NBC Sports Live Extra, NBC Sports Group's live streaming product for desktops and tablets, will stream all SNF games televised on NBC. The video stream will come directly from NBC's broadcast of SNF, and will include additional camera angles and interactive features.
NBC Sports Live Extra employs a full HD-quality player, which includes a draggable picture-in-picture feature for any of the online-only cameras, plus full DVR functionality allowing the user to pause, scroll back-and-forth, and review plays in slo-motion.
In addition, online coverage features in-game analysis from the Sunday Night Football and Football Night in America teams as well as fantasy tips from Rotoworld fantasy experts.
For desktops, NBC Sports Live Extra can be accessed at NBCSports.com/liveextra. The NBC Sports Live Extra app for tablets is available at the App Store for iPad and iPod touch, and on select tablet devices within Google Play.
NBCSN's in-depth coverage of the 2013 NFL season continues tonight with new episodes of FNIA Coach's Clicker at 6:30 p.m. ET and NFL Turning Point at 10 p.m. ET.
FNIA Coach's Clicker, NBCSN's new weekly half-hour NFL studio show that dovetails off of Football Night in America, will provide an in-depth Xs-and-Os preview of the biggest games coming up in Week 3 of the season. FNIA Coach's Clicker host Liam McHugh will be joined by Super Bowl-winning head coach Tony Dungy and two-time Super Bowl winner Rodney Harrison, who will look at the play of Washington Redskins QB Robert Griffin III and discuss whether he should start for the Redskins in their upcoming game against the Lions. In addition, Dungy and Harrison will preview this week's Sunday Night Football matchup between the Chicago Bears and Pittsburgh Steelers.
NFL Turning Point, hosted by Football Night In America's Dan Patrick, will take a look back at Week 2 in the NFL and focus on the crucial "turning point" moments that ultimately defined the outcome of some of the key games. This week's episode features the Denver Broncos-New York Giants matchup, and shines a spotlight on how quarterback brothers Peyton and Eli Manning performed in the "Manning Bowl." NFL Turning Point also contains a segment on the San Diego Chargers-Philadelphia Eagles game, which analyzes how the Eagles clock management allowed the Chargers to come back late in the fourth quarter and win the game. In addition, the show includes a film study session with Arizona Cardinals CB Patrick Peterson, and compelling in-game audio from Texans DE J.J. Watt.
For the fourth straight season, NBCSports.com is providing a destination for fans dedicated to behind-the-scenes content of Sunday Night Football. New this season, SNF All-Access will feature a section dedicated to pertinent Twitter feeds around the NFL and SNF. Fans can follow @SNFonNBC, NFL teams, players and NBC Sports experts all within one curated destination. SNF All-Access will also continue to include exclusive photos and videos of the Sunday Night Football production, look-ins on SNF production meetings, Michele Tafoya's "Ten With Tafoya" interviews with key NFL players, and a weekly notebook and conversations with SNF and FNIA talent.
Fans can digitally follow the Sunday Night Football bus and The Sunday Night Football, at NBCSports.com/FollowSNF. The site will include an interactive map of where the bus and ball have been, and where they are travelling to next. Users will be able to click into each city on the map to experience photos from the road provided by SNF, as well as Twitter and Instagram pictures from NFL teams and players. Fans can also upload photos of themselves in their favorite team gear and see it appear in the experience.
In addition, the site offers a behind-the-scenes look at the Sunday Night Football crew and talent, plus content from the bus itself.
- FANS OF THE WEEK: Each week, NBC Sports Group will select four social media "Fans of The Week" to become Sunday Night Football Ambassadors. The four fans will be rewarded with experiences such as a tour of the SNF production truck, tours and rides on the SNF bus and a VIP experience on game days. The "Fans of The Week" are selected based on their social media activity and NFL team fandom. Each "Fan of The Week" will have the opportunity to share their experience through their individual social media accounts, with support from the SNF social media accounts.
- SNF SOCIAL MEDIA FEED: To help fans continue the conversation about the Sunday Night Football bus and The Sunday Night Football, NBCSports.com/
FollowSNF will aggregate tweets and Instagram posts utilizing #SNF. The feed will include NBC Sports NFL experts, players, teams, "SNF Fans of The Week", and others talking about SNF and their interactions with the bus and the ball.
- SUNDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL SOCIAL MEDIA: NBC Sports Group will deliver news, interview, photos, videos, and exclusive content to fans following Sunday Night Football on NBC Sports' social media platforms.
- SNF ON FACEBOOK: Facebook.com/
SNFonNBC – Over 1 million LIKES strong, the Sunday Night Football Facebook page provides links, photos and exclusive behind-the-scenes videos. The page aggregates all SNF-related content found within the NBC Sports digital network, including NBCSports.com, SNF All Access, Follow SNF, ProFootballTalk.com, and Rotoworld.com.
- SNF ON TWITTER: twitter.com/SNFonNBC
– For the second year in a row, Sunday Night Football sideline reporter Michele Tafoya will be sharing live video tweets from the sideline through @SNFonNBC. Exclusively featured on the SNF social media platforms, Tafoya will provide fans with extended real-time content from her unique sideline perspective. Using tweets, pictures, vine videos and twitvids, @SNFonNBC will also provide unique content from SNF and Football Night In America talent, production staff and NFL players.
- In addition, each week @SNFonNBC will promote a guest player who will live tweet during the Sunday Night Football broadcast on NBC. On Sunday, September 22, former Steelers LB Chad Brown @chadbrown94 will be the guest player. Brown played in Super Bowl XXX with the Steelers and was named to the first of his three Pro Bowls while with Pittsburgh. The tweets from Brown will automatically be pulled into the SNF Extra Player.
- New this season, Sunday Night Football fans on Twitter will also have the opportunity to follow a second account dedicated to the weekly SNF broadcast. Designed for the ultimate NFL stats fan, @SNFSuperStats will offer viewers a comprehensive feed of information about Sunday Night Football games in progress. Every Sunday night @SNFSuperStats will feature live stats on the game, teams and players.
- According to SocialGuide.com, NBC's Sunday Night Football broadcast featuring San Francisco 49ers -Seattle Seahawks on 9/15/13 was the No. 1 most talked about event on Twitter for the day, with 289,000 uniques and 657,000 total tweets. In addition, #SNF garnered 123 million impressions and was mentioned 39,000 times on Twitter during the week."
- SNF ON INSTAGRAM: Going into its third season, Sunday Night Football gives the SNF fan a look at photos through the filters of Instagram. Fans get a look inside the production trucks, the locker rooms, on the field and around the city. Fans also have the opportunity to submit photos through Instagram using #SNF that will automatically be curated into a special Instagram tab on the Sunday Night Football Facebook page.
The Sunday Night Football bus will travel to all 17 SNF games, and the Thanksgiving night game in Baltimore, arriving in each city two or three days prior to each game. The bus will make stops at local landmarks and events in each market before making its way to the game site for a full Sunday at the stadium, giving fans the opportunity to interact with America's most-watched primetime television show.
The Sunday Night Football bus will incorporate exclusive activities and social media both inside and out. SNF's Facebook, Twitter and Instagram accounts along with the #SNF hashtag will be displayed on the exterior. Once on the bus, fans and visitors can tweet and post photos of themselves in the broadcast positions occupied by Al Michaels and Cris Collinsworth from a mock SNF studio.
For the second consecutive season NBC Sports will present The Sunday Night Football, a custom made football from Wilson, which will travel with the SNF crew all season long. Fans of SNF on Facebook and Twitter will be able to keep up with The Sunday Night Football on the SNF Facebook page, follow its path through each city and recommend where it should visit while in town. In addition, fans can visit NBCSports.com/FollowSNF.
At the end of each SNF game, The Sunday Night Football will be signed by the player of the game. Photos, video and stories around The Sunday Night Football and its travels will live on Facebook, Twitter, and SNF All-Access.
Week Player
*Week 1 Peyton Manning Ravens at Broncos Thurs. Sept. 5
Week 1 Tony Romo & Sean Lee Giants at Cowboys Sun. Sept. 8
Week 2 Marshawn Lynch & Richard Sherman 49ers at Seahawks Sun. Sept. 15
*NFL Kickoff 2013
Pro Football Talk, NBCSN's daily NFL studio show co-hosted by Mike Florio and Erik Kuselias, airs at 5:30 p.m. ET every Monday through Friday. The show regularly features a roster of NBC Sports football commentators, including Rodney Harrison, Hines Ward, Doug Flutie, Ross Tucker, Peter King, and Scott Pioli.
In addition to deep diving on the most topical NFL stories of the day, Pro Football Talk provides all-encompassing coverage of the NFL, including the most current news and analysis, engaging features, thought-provoking debates, and interviews with a wide variety of NFL newsmakers.
Building off of Yahoo! Sports' popular Sunday live streaming show Fantasy Football Live, Fantasy Football Live on NBCSN is a live and on-demand, multi-platform, fantasy football program that airs at 6:30 p.m. ET on Thursday nights.
Fantasy Football Live on NBCSN combines the best fantasy football expertise from Yahoo! Sports and NBC Sports, including unique metrics from Yahoo! Sports' leading fantasy football platform, and full integration with NBC Sports' premier fantasy sports information site, Rotoworld.com.
A subsequent, digital-only version of Fantasy Football Live is available live from 7-7:30 p.m. ET, as well as through video-on-demand across web and through mobile devices on both Yahoo! Sports and NBCSports.com.
Hosted by NBC Sports' Erik Kuselias, Fantasy Football Live features a mix of Yahoo! Sports, NBC Sports, and Rotoworld fantasy experts, including NBC Sports' Shaun King, and Yahoo! Sports' Brad Evans and Brandon Funston. Yahoo! Sports' Melanie Collins will host the digital show. Rotoworld's Kay Adams will be a regular contributor for the show across both platforms.
NBC Sports Radio will surround the 2013 NFL season with daily coverage on 339 radio affiliates, highlighted by McNabb and Malone; an all-sports show that leverages the unique perspective of two former NFL quarterbacks, and Safety Blitz with Rodney Harrison; featuring three-time All Pro and two-time Super Bowl-winner Rodney Harrison.
NBC Sports Regional Networks, which serve top NFL markets such as New York, Boston, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washington DC, Atlanta, Chicago, Houston and San Francisco, will surround the 2013 NFL season with in-depth news, analysis and original programming on the teams that matter most in more than 50 million U.S. households.
Despite a 60-minute weather delay, the San Francisco 49ers-Seattle Seahawks matchup on Sunday Night Football drew an average of 20.5 million viewers on NBC – marking the most-watched primetime NFL matchup between West Coast teams in nearly two decades.
Through three NFL telecasts, NBC is averaging 23.9 million viewers — the fourth consecutive year with a 23+ million average at this point in the season.
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NBC will broadcast 19 primetime NFL games during the 2013 season, including NBC's annual Thanksgiving night game, featuring the heated AFC North rivalry Pittsburgh Steelers vs. Baltimore Ravens.
|Sun. Sept. 22
|Week 3
|Chicago Bears at Pittsburgh Steelers
|Sun. Sept. 29
|Week 4
|New England Patriots at Atlanta Falcons
|Sun. Oct. 6
|Week 5
|Houston Texans at San Francisco 49ers
|Sun. Oct. 13
|Week 6
|Washington Redskins at Dallas Cowboys
|Sun. Oct. 20
|Week 7
|Denver Broncos at Indianapolis Colts
|Sun. Oct. 27
|Week 8
|Green Bay Packers at Minnesota Vikings
|Sun. Nov. 3
|Week 9
|Indianapolis Colts at Houston Texans
|Sun. Nov. 10
|Week 10
|Dallas Cowboys at New Orleans Saints
|*Sun. Nov. 17
|Week 11
|Green Bay Packers at New York Giants
|*Sun. Nov. 24
|Week 12
|Denver Broncos at New England Patriots
|**Thurs. Nov. 28
|Week 13
|Pittsburgh Steelers at Baltimore Ravens
|*Sun. Dec. 1
|Week 13
|New York Giants at Washington Redskins
|*Sun. Dec. 8
|Week 14
|Atlanta Falcons at Green Bay Packers
|*Sun. Dec. 15
|Week 15
|Cincinnati Bengals at Pittsburgh Steelers
|*Sun. Dec. 22
|Week 16
|New England Patriots at Baltimore Ravens
|*Sun. Dec. 29
|Week 17
*Flex Week
**Thanksgiving Night Game
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Year of Milestones Continues for Legendary Play-by-Play Announcer
Cris Collinsworth & Hines Ward Highlight NBC's Coverage in Pittsburgh
Steelers Rank Fifth among NFL Home Teams with Michaels At Mic
STAMFORD, Conn. – September 18, 2013 – When NBC's Sunday Night Football kicks off this week with the Chicago Bears visiting the Pittsburgh Steelers, Al Michaels will be at the microphone for his 25th primetime Steelers game in Pittsburgh.
The Steelers are the seventh NFL team to host at least 25 primetime games called by Michaels. (Note: Michaels has also called 25 Hall of Fame Games at Fawcett Stadium in Canton, Ohio).
In his record 28thseason as the play-by-play voice for the NFL's premier primetime package, Michaels joined NBC's Sunday Night Football when the network acquired the package in 2006. Previously, he called ABC's Monday Night Football for 20 seasons (1986-2005). Michaels' former Monday Night Football colleague Frank Gifford was in the MNF booth for 27 seasons (1971-97).
Michaels' partner in the Sunday Night Football booth is former Bengals receiver Cris Collinsworth, who had 32 catches for 447 yards in seven career games in Pittsburgh from 1981-87 – ranking second in both categories among all visiting players in the 1980s, behind only Hall of Fame tight end Ozzie Newsome (44 catches for 573 yards in 10 games).
Football Night in America analyst Hines Ward played 14 seasons for the Steelers, winning MVP honors in Pittsburgh's Super Bowl XL victory over Seattle. Ward is one of five players in NFL history to have 1,000 catches for one team (Jerry Rice, 49ers; Marvin Harrison, Colts; Tim Brown, Raiders; Cris Carter, Vikings).
In addition to his 25 Steelers games in Pittsburgh, Michaels also called the team's two most recent Super Bowl victories.
"There has been no better NFL game for me than Pittsburgh-Arizona in Super Bowl XLIII," Michaels said. "That was the No. 1 game in terms of drama and excitement. There is always an argument about which Super Bowl is best. But how many Super Bowls have not one, but two, plays for the ages – James Harrison's interception-return touchdown just before halftime and Santonio Holmes' touchdown catch in the waning seconds in the corner of the end zone to culminate a long Ben Roethlisberger drive. Those two plays are as iconic as any I have ever seen."
Following are the NFL teams to host the most primetime games (includes pre-season and post-season) called by Al Michaels:
|Host Team
|# of games
|Miami Dolphins
|Denver Broncos
|Dallas Cowboys
|New York Giants
|Green Bay Packers
|San Francisco 49ers
|Pittsburgh Steelers
|*includes Sunday's game
A seven-time Emmy Award-winner (including earlier this year for Outstanding Sports Personality – Play-by-Play), Michaels was inducted in March 2013 into the Television Academy Hall of Fame by the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, which annually recognizes television's most distinguished "innovators and icons."
This past summer, Michaels was honored by the Pro Football Hall of Fame with the prestigious Pete Rozelle Radio & Television Award. Presented annually by the Pro Football Hall of Fame, the award distinguishes long-time exceptional contributions to radio and television in professional football.
The Sports Broadcasting Hall of Fame recently recognized Michaels for his "excellence and lifetime achievement", and announced that he will be a member of their 2013 Hall of Fame Class, with induction at a December ceremony in New York.
The #1 primetime show for the last two television seasons, Sunday Night Football is averaging nearly 24 million viewers after three 2013 games.
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Yes, it's a commercial. Yes, it concerns the Paralympics. Yes, it's from Canada. Let no preconceived notions you might have about any of these areas preclude you from watching and being generally astounded by this one-minute ad featuring short-distance runner Alister McQueen. They've also posted a video showing all the planning, storyboarding, wireframing, and set-building that went into this production.
How running an NFL team is like running a restaurant | Chef Emeril Lagasse


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A growing body of scientific evidence proves getting outside (i.e., being an "outsider") is good for our health and well-being. Exploring and appreciating nature—in our own backyards, community parks and school yards—reduces stress, improves memory, boosts heart health, and offers a host of other benefits for our minds and bodies.
Getting outside, even for just 10 minutes, can do much to boost your mood, productivity, and quality of life.
Here are 10 easy ways you can enjoy nature in under 10 minutes.
Take a walk. Lace up your athletic shoes and head out for a walk around the block or to your neighborhood park. While you're out, commit to turning off your cell phone and enjoying the natural setting around you (it's just 10 minutes, after all!).
Get your kids moving. A rousing game of tag or hide-and-seek in the family yard is a great way to counter computer and screen time.
Play with your dog. A dog's favorite "room" of the house is your family yard. Take inspiration from your pooch and spend a few minutes outside playing Frisbee or fetch.
Clean up your outdoor living room. Make simple work of yard chores by breaking them up into smaller chunks. Ten minutes is enough time to put a serious dent in weeding a flower bed, sweeping off the back patio, or picking up debris from your lawn.
Plant something. It is spring planting season, so take 10 minutes to dig a hole and introduce a new plant or get started on your vegetable garden or flower beds.
Dine alfresco. Taking a meal outside is one of the easiest—and most nourishing—ways to enjoy the outdoor space around you. Have breakfast with the backyard birds. Lunch at a park near your office. Enjoy your coffee break under a shade tree.
Study or read a book. Take the "work" out of homework by moving study or reading sessions to your backyard or community green space.
Swap a (short) commute for walking or biking. Do you typically use your car to run down to the mailbox, to a nearby convenience store, or to run other nearby daily errands? If it's not too far, take a short walk or ride your bike instead.
Meet outside. Fresh air can be a catalyst for fresh ideas, so take your next brainstorming session for work outdoors. Need to have a heart-to-heart with your child? Scientists have discovered that communication between parents and children is more connected when conducted outside.
Sit back and relax. Sometimes, the best thing to do is absolutely nothing at all. Spend some time in a hammock, spread a blanket out on the grass, or take a meditation break outside to soak up the nature around you.


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