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It's a fact that Electronic Arts needs to get off its ass and employ someone (anyone!) to make a true next-generation SSX title. What if that "someone" was Guildford, England-based Burnout developer Criterion Games?
That's the rumor, coming straight from the latest issue of Official PlayStation Magazine. The title is said to be in development alongside the already confirmed "action" Need for Speed title that's set to ship this holiday.
Word of a Criterion-developed SSX started floating around awhile back when the company's official Twitter account dropped a mysterious message referencing SSX announcer DJ Atomika, as well as the "Peak 3."
Whether or not this is true remains to be seen, but with E3 set to be a huge show this year, we may hear more in the coming months. If someone important is reading this -- please make this be true... even if it's not.
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Cheese and mushroom casserole with chicken
This casserole is simple and delicious, and makes a perfect snack during a picnic (bento anyone?)—you should use it as a basic idea for a casserole, since the pasta sauce is the stable and the most important piece of the meal. It's also a very tweak-able recipe! :-)
Tuna and egg bento
The bare tuna-paste bento was a great success, but with the arrival of my new bento container, I was left with some extra unused space. I decided to fill the space with easy to make and very tasty iri tamago, which is basically a Japanese kind of scrambled eggs! You can definitely use iri tamago in onigiri, or as a small side dish.
Simple chicken teriyaki bento
This recipe is very easy and fast to cook, because it requires ready-made teriyaki sauce. Still, it's a really tasty alternative to sausages and pork, and chicken made in teriyaki style is juicy, tender and full of aroma! It also takes just few minutes, because the meat is first fried quickly, and then glazed with sauce. Fast food like a boss ;-)
Teriyaki pork strips with shallots bento
This simple recipe requires only 3 ingredients: sliced pork loin (already mentioned minute steaks or easy steaks), shallots and teriyaki sauce. It's also one of the lazy recipes — part of it you can prepare evening before, and finish it quickly before serving or packing your bento box. Plus, marinating for a long time allows increased flavors to transfer easily across the meat!
Marinated beef and pasta bento
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On Sun January 23, 2011 Charles will be playing in Hoboken, NJ at Maxwell's.
More about the show...
Charles solo show benefiting the Project Matters (w/ good friends Cymbals Eat Guitars etc.).
Charles (with a probable Greg, and a possible Kevin) will be playing a solo show on Sunday, January 23rd (w/ old pals Cymbals Eat Guitars and Escape Directors, Carah Faye Charnow) to benefit The Project Matters.
Here's the official Project Matters mission statement/general description, from their site:
******The Project Matters ( "TPM" ) has been established in the memory and honor of Benjamin High a young musician from Freehold, New Jersey and the founder of his band Green Arrows.
The Project Matters believes in the importance of music, music education and how the musical arts benefit all of society. The primary focus of TPM is to discover aspiring musicians 21 years of age and younger and provide them with, among other things: funding, business, legal, emotional support and educational opportunities. Currently, TPM is building a network of experienced musicians who can offer advice with touring, performance, production, post production and related subjects as the careers of our young musicians unfold.******
Why we're playing…
The more personal backstory goes something like this, at least as well as I can remember it…a few years back, Oct. of '06 to be exact, we got a super nice email from someone named Ben who wrote because his band, Green Arrows, and a friend's band, Joseph Ferocious, had combined to cover our song Happy at a co-headlining show at the Stone Pony and he wanted to share along a link for us to - you can see it here.
…which of course, is really flattering, even putting aside that they played the song better than we did. Around the same time, his friend, Joseph began taking lessons from me – ostensibly guitar stuff, songwriting, recording etc. although when you see where this is going, you'd be right in thinking there wasn't much I'd be teaching him.
By the next summer, Joe had started recording at our studio what eventually became his first album, also eventually settling on a band name of Cymbals Eat Guitars and Ben was onboard playing bass, while still working on his own Green Arrows music.
We were only just a few day into recording when – and I've written this a dozen times now and can't seem to find the right way to say it – Ben died.
Besides the tragedy of someone passing so young, Ben was just one of the sweetest, most sincere, and wise-beyond-his-years folks I'd ever met. And talented. This show is also serving as the official release party of the posthumous debut for Green Arrows and the record, which I've now listened to in its entirety a dozen times, is heart-breakingly wonderful.
If there's any fairness in the indie world, you'll be reading about it on a few best-of-year lists next December.
Each band/performer, myself included, will be covering one of Ben's Green Arrows songs from the album. I'll also be playing another new song with Joseph from Cymbals Eat Guitars.
So with apologies to Ben's mom and brother, who started the Project Matters and are organizing the benefit/release show, for the very late announcement on all this, we hope to see you there…
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After a year of planning and development the new Freshwater Box is finished and is heading out to NSW schools. The Freshwater box was developed in partnership Sydney Water and is the second box in a new style that includes scientific equipment to assist student in monitoring their local environme
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We such a great time at Molly & Kevin's wedding on September 6 and they have chosen to give their 5% donation to the ASPCA. It's another "Event that Gives Back!"
An excerpt from their website:
"Founded in 1866, the ASPCA was the first humane organization in the Western Hemisphere. Our mission, as stated by founder Henry Bergh, is "to provide effective means for the prevention of cruelty to animals throughout the United States." While there are SPCAs and humane societies all over the country, the ASPCA is not directly affiliated with them. However, the ASPCA works nationally to rescue animals from abuse, pass humane laws and share resources with many shelters across the country."


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Here are sample playlists put together from my own (admittedly limited) library, each one "arced" for a particular purpose. Then I asked a few folks who can really pick out a tune to share their sample lists.
It's siesta time. I feel myself lapsing into food coma, eyelids drooping and motivation flagging. Flo Rida's sunny dance beats shake me awake, and LMFAO'sdriving base gets me going. Calvin Harris evens out the energy level, and Cypress Hill's vibrant melodies with Marc Anthony's soaring vocals send my spirits flying.
"Good Feeling" by Flo Rida
"Party Rock Anthem" by LMFAO
"Feel So Close" by Calvin Harris
"Armada Latina" by Cypress Hill, featuring Marc Anthony and Pitbull
It takes me a step or two to transition from a ball of stress into lounge mode. "Electric Feel" by MGMT may be high-energy for some, but its otherworldly lyrics and sound transport me far from my troubles. Buffalo Springfield's pensive lyrics bring the energy down, and Nikka Costa's laid-back funk tells me to "take it easy." Then I float away on Zero 7's dreamy cloud of electronica.
"Electric Feel" by MGMT
"For What It's Worth" by Buffalo Springfield
"Like a Feather" by Nikka Costa
"In the Waiting Line" by Zero 7
When I want to push my limits, the Heavy's vengeful driving funk can send me sprinting. Gwen Stefani eggs me on when I start to flag, David Guetta's dance beats set a steady pace — but ultimately, I rely on Daft Punk's relentless house beats to take me into the home stretch.
"How You Like Me Now?" by the Heavy
"What You Waiting For?" by Gwen Stefani
"Memories" by David Guetta, featuring Kid Cudi
"Touch It" by Daft Punk
RICO LOVE (singer-songwriter and record producer)
I wake up really early in the morning, no matter how late I am in the studio. I believe in no days off, so to get me up and moving before I go to the gym, I listen to:
"Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough" by Michael Jackson
"Aguanile" by Hector Lavoe
"Why I Love You" by Kanye West and Jay-Z, featuring Mr. Hudson
"Hello Good Morning" by Diddy-Dirty Money, featuringT.I.
I've been really stressed out this past week, so what really gets me to calm down and focus when I have one of those kind of weeks:
"In the Air Tonight" by Phil Collins
"Vicious World" by Rufus Wainwright
"The Sweetest Taboo" by Sade
"Losing My Religion" by R.E.M.
I can't start any day without going to the gym — its gives me that extra burst of energy that I need to go through the day. So when I'm working out with my trainer, I listen to:
"Without You" by David Guetta, featuring Usher
"We Found Love" by Rihanna, featuring Calvin Harris
"Way Too Gone" by Young Jeezy, featuring Future
"Bangarang" by Skrillex, featuring Sirah
Garth Trinidad (DJ, KCRW-FM)
Having kids means no matter what time I hit the sack, I'm up at the crack of dawn. For the ride to school, Murs has the whole fam head-bopping, while Yellow Alex and Big Moves provide bright, playful, high-energy indie rock and pop rhythms perfect for playground plans and, of course, the rest of Daddy's daytime adventures.
"Fresh Kicks" by Murs and Terrace Martin
"Lisa Lisa Lisa" by Yellow Alex and the Feelings
"Inspiration as a Recurring Theme" by Big Moves
When the workday ends at 3 a.m., nothing like plugging in the headphones for some head nodding to chill those beta waves out. The down tempo swing and sublime vocal harmonies of Ana Tijoux and the Internet set me adrift to meet the Sandman, while Jensen Sportag's remix for Madi Diaz lays down the final groove for REM sleep.
"Volver" by Ana Tijoux
"Love Song -1" by the Internet
"Trust Fall" (Down We Go Remix by Jensen Sportag) by Madi Diaz
We'll call this one hypothetical, as it's been a while since I've witnessed the fitness. Spirit Animal's raucous punk funk is on repeat while we get the blood pumping on the treadmill. Then we go hard on benches, squats and free weights with the heavy monster sound of Blah Blah Blah and savage speed of Stiffed.
"Crocodile Skins" by Spirit Animal
"Why Am I the Only One Laughing?" by Blah Blah Blah
"What You Gon' Do?" by Stiffed
Randall Roberts (pop music critic, Los Angeles Times)PICK ME UP:
These songs serve myriad inspirational purposes, as the psychic fuel in my life, from Arthur Russell's ode to the dream life to the explosion that is Beyoncé's "Countdown," along with jazz iconoclast Sun Ra's wonderfully sloppy "Rocket No. 9" and L.A. punk band the Weirdos' burst of fury.
"Come to Life" by Arthur Russell
"Countdown" by Beyoncé
"Rocket Number Nine" by Sun Ra
"A Life of Crime" by the Weirdos
These songs are comfort food for me: Shuggie Otis' "Island Letter" is an exquisitely rendered musical note penned on a beach, and British pop minimalists the xx honor the warm feeling of a night on the couch. Joni Mitchell is, well, Joni Mitchell, and British composer Gavin Bryars' 74-minute version of his work "Jesus' Blood Never Failed Me Yet" is among the most ethereal music I know.
"Jesus' Blood Never Failed Me Yet" by Gavin Bryars
"My Old Man" by Joni Mitchell
"Island Letter" by Shuggie Otis
"VCR" by the xx
Hard rhythms are natural performance enhancers, and given the right song, a workout can transform what's often a daily drag into a virtual dance party. Before you know it, LCD Soundsystem's "Losing My Edge" is igniting your heart, or the Stones' classic "Street Fighting Man" is pushing you forward. Kanye West's "The New Workout Plan" is a literal aerobics ditty, and the Detroit techno wind-sprint "Knights of the Jaguar" is a 138 bpm, six-minute boot camp.
"Losing My Edge" by LCD Soundsystem
"Street Fighting Man" by the Rolling Stones
"Knights of the Jaguar" by DJ Rolando
"The New Workout Plan" by Kanye West
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Lots of things out there to cause you to leave here:
- Some new unbooked blogs: Dracula Blogged and This Date, from Henry David Thoreau's Journal. I got the links from The Little Professor, who discusses them briefly, with some good ideas and questions about how they work and why. She's put up a lot of good posts, recently (including a review of Dozois's latest Year's Best Science Fiction).
- Speaking of a lot of good posts recently, the academic group blog The Valve has been opened wide and spouting great ideas and discussions over the past week. There was John Holbo's post about John Crowley, and Crowley showed up to join the discussion in the comments. John Holbo then had an interesting piece on "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Pulp". And Ray Davis on "The Liebestod of the Author", with a fascinating anecdote about a Kate Wilhelm workshop at Clarion. And Miriam Burstein (the aforementioned Little Professor) on academic prose.
- Wheatland Press has updated their website! You can now pre-order a bunch of upcoming anthologies (and need I remind you yet again that TEL: Stories includes a reprint of Greer Gilman's "Jack-Daw's Pack"? Your life, mind, and claims on humanity are impoverished without it, you know...) Last year's Polyphony 4 placed stories in a bunch of Best of the Year collections, including the upcoming Best American Short Stories, and is currently nominated for a few World Fantasy Awards. There are also new limited edition hardcovers of the Polyphony anthologies, signed by all contributor, and with a new introduction and a new story in each.
- George Saunders has a new story at The New Yorker: "CommComm". I can't resist quoting the beginning:
Tuesday morning, Jillian from Disasters calls. Apparently an airman named Loolerton has poisoned a shitload of beavers. I say we don't kill beavers, we harvest them, because otherwise they nibble through our Pollution Control Devices (P.C.D.s) and polluted water flows out of our Retention Area and into the Eisenhower Memorial Wetland, killing beavers.
"That makes sense," Jillian says, and hangs up.
The press has a field day. "AIR FORCE KILLS BEAVERS TO SAVE BEAVERS," says one headline. "MURDERED BEAVERS SPEAK OF AIRFORCE CRUELTY," says another.
- A profile of Kelly Link & Gavin Grant, the people behind Small Beer Press. There are some little inaccuracies in the article, but it's nice to have a peek behind the scenes. (via Dave Schwartz)
- Simon Callow on the 50th anniversary of Waiting for Godot.
- A conversation with John Irving and Stephen King. Maybe title it Men with Plots.
- Doug Lain on how to get published today.
- John Quiggin at Crooked Timber has an excellent question:
...one vision of the future disturbs me. I was reading Charles Stross' Iron Sunrise ... set in the 24th century, and he introduces a character who had inherited the masthead of The Times and announced his profession as "warblogger".
I don't really suppose our little virtual community is going to last a thousand years, or even 300, but just in case, can't we find some way to agree on a better name than "blogger"?
- Derik Badman at the great MadInkBeard weblog has been writing a lot recently about comics.
- Old, weird movie posters. (via Scribblingwoman)


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Philosophy here means their world-view, the way they look at the world and react to whatever happens to them.
"To meet" the situation means "to be suitable for" or "not to confict with" the situation.
In other words, though Lees and Johnson thought they had entered a fantasy world ("fairyland"), they didn't panic or feel uncomfortable; the way they looked at the world helped them take it all in stride.
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Every Christmas I vow to start on my holiday to-do list early and my goal is always the same: Have everything on my list crossed off two weeks prior to the big day. And every year, without fail, I fail miserably! After some reflection, I realized the two big items that slow my progress are
1) shopping for Christmas gifts and
2) creating holiday photo cards.
While I can't provide any help with the first, I'm here to show you four easy steps to finish those photo cards early and feel the satisfaction of crossing each step off your list!
Just...take...photos. I give you permission to let go of perfection! A lot of us feel we need the perfect setting, the children to be dressed in the perfect clothes with perfect hair, and to capture the perfect expressions. Want to know a little secret? It's not going to happen. Life's not perfect, so we shouldn't expect our photos to be either. Let go of the expectations this year, and just have fun with your photos using the following tips:
Try taking photos with props. Photo by Becky Pogatchnik
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Man, there are so many great games for the Nintendo DS. It's silly! But with all those great games, there are some real stinkers. Really bad games that are pure uncut shovelware. Game site Infendo has a good round-up of not so good DS games. Here they are, are you ready, the five worst games according to Metacritic:
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2. Wiffle Ball
1. Deal or No Deal
Someone made a game based on wiffle ball? That's amazing. It gets better, the game was even packaged with a plastic bat and wiffle ball. Telling.
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I should start by stating that Miley Cyrus is not racist. This is just the latest moron meme in a series of increasingly moronic attacks on Cyrus from the Guardianista ex-liberal tendency. Cyrus isn't the real target, but she has become a convenient scapegoat. The real target is black music and dance.
I blogged a couple of months ago on the Guardian's opening shot in this story, in which Hadley "I Have Black Friends" Freeman launched an attack on Cyrus for her "racist" twerking episode at the VMAs. The claim was that Cyrus was racist. Because – wait for it – she's white and had black backing dancers.
Since then, the Guardian, in true bullying tabloid fashion, has wheeled out one has-been after another to condemn Miley, or to patronise her. Yesterday, they outdid themselves, producing 73 year-old Christian singer Cliff Richard to express the hope that Cyrus "grows out of it". If you're starting to wonder where the line is between the "quality, liberal" Guardian and the "gutter, right-wing" Daily Mail, you're not alone.
Perhaps realising that a parade of white faces screaming RACIST! at Cyrus was looking a little strange, the Guardian recently found a black person to do the same thing. Ikamara Larasi helpfully pointed out that she is a black woman, and she doesn't twerk, but complains (in straw-man style) that she thinks people expect her to twerk, because she's the same colour as Rihanna.
Don't worry Ikamara, I don't expect you to twerk. You see, Rihanna is a stunningly talented international music artist. And you're not. Nor do I expect you to play tennis like Serena Williams, or be the First Lady like Michelle Obama. I don't expect you to read the news like Moira Stuart, nor do I expect you to write incredible, moving novels like Toni Morrison. You see, while that kind of stereotyping does still exist, it's fading fast, and it mostly exists among people like your Oxbridge-educated, Home Counties-raised, Guardian journalist chums. Most of us are perfectly aware that not all black women are amazing singers and dancers like Rihanna, and we're happy to accept that situation. In fact, the only people I can see stereotyping anybody are you and your ignorant "lynch Miley" mates, who think that the average person is too stupid to tell the difference between you and Alexandra Burke.
Of course, this has absolutely nothing to do with race. It is a continuation of the "ban all sex, help, we're all being sexualised!" campaign which some individuals at the Guardian have been nurturing for years, and now appears to have reached fever pitch. Those who have been paying attention will know that much of the noise comes from a small group of individuals: Kat Banyard of UK Feminista, Julia Long of Object (who, together, are competing to be today's Mary Whitehouse) and a small group of Guardian journalists who have somehow managed to turn a quality newspaper into the Object house journal. Ikamara Larasi, who stuck the latest knife in Miley's back, comes from a "black feminist" group called Imkaan, which appears to be (like Lose The Lads' Mags) another group linked to Object, and thus can claim Object privileges, including Guardian column inches.
Sadly, Larasi's intervention seems to have confused people who might have been more skeptical had a white woman penned such obvious nonsense. On Twitter, I was told (by a white woman) that I, as a white man, should pay attention when a black woman writes about race. Because, of course, ALL black people believe the same thing and Larasi is black, so is therefore a spokesperson for black people (or "people of colour" as she tweeted… I kid you not). I wonder what would happen when such a person encounters two black women with opposing views. Would her head explode? A (black) friend of mine commented, "Miley isn't the first. Might as well burn Madonna at the stake for having black and gay dancers then…"
Another tweeter posted a link to a page showcasing The 9 Most Racist Miley Cyrus Moments, which I still can't tell is a parody or not. Gems from this page include she wants her new album to have a "black sound" (OMG Amy Winehouse, Joe Cocker and Elvis were RACISTS!) and she pretended to perform analingus on a black backing dancer (only pretended? Damn… I'd pay good money to see that).
Miley is playing the morality brigade perfectly (this week, she allegedly smoked weed on stage in Amsterdam, and was met with fake shock from the coke-snorting journalistic fraternity), and I applaud her. When society becomes as pathetically (small-c) conservative as it has become again today, the best response is to shock the fuck out of it. That's why the Sex Pistols topped the charts in 1977 with God Save The Queen (despite it being banned), and the Prodigy's wonderful Smack My Bitch Up (watch it!) video won awards 20 years later (despite it also being banned).
Rather than scream at racism-that-isn't-racism and sexism-that-isn't-sexism we should take aim at bullying-that-is-truly-bullying. The moronic British media loves to destroy people, especially young women. Doubtless Guardian and Mail journos alike are salivating in anticipation at the moment Miley appears drunk in public, has a messy break-up, or is rumoured to have a drug problem. I've cancelled my Guardian app subscription, and will be investing the savings in Miley's latest album. Why don't you do the same?


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That famous fattie, Duchess of Cambridge, Kate Middleton, has been slimmed down on the cover of Grazia magazine. Grazia is a UK tabloid and is now going through the typical tabloid day-in-life -- currently apologizing up and down for their tiny mistake to the media and the peoples. Sarcasm aside, it's clear that the tyranny of slim standards is nowhere near the end of its regime. And I bet you, most women (and some men) have some kind of a "fat" story to tell. I do.
It started when I was nine and lying on the bed looking at my legs. "I'm... fat?" I said to my friend testing the word and the concept but also worrying about my thighs. I just heard my (skinny) mother talking about having to lose weight earlier that day. "Then do some sit ups," my friend answered absentmindedly. So I was fat? I wanted to ask her more but I was too humiliated to speak. I pedaled my little legs in the air to do a "bicycle" which was the one of the few exercises I knew about. I hated the "bicycle" but I hated "fat" even more.
And then I was 13 and looking at my first glossy magazine where I was told that, being a girl, if by some miracle I wasn't exactly fat, I definitely had cellulite. The article compared it to the skin of an orange but not because it smelled like one, but because it was so ribbed, dimpled. And cellulite was a gateway condition to fat. There was no escaping it.
In the same magazine, a few issues later I read a story about a girl with an eating disorder and what she had done to achieve her ideal weight and how it almost killed her before she got better. I considered the sad story to be quite educational, actually, and soon found my own ways of keeping fatness at bay. I became a vegetarian. I consumed three food groups: green, pale green and dark green (I was not a very imaginative vegetarian). I added some excessive exercise, a sprinkle of bulimia on top and voilà -- I was desirably underweight!
Drunks can be charming and funny. Mentally ill can be mistaken for artistic, or, in turn, inspire art. Fat is fat. That's it. Overweight people are figures of fun. Fat guy falls, we laugh. Fat is uncool. "Sorry I didn't get on the plane, I got really drunk," sounds way better than "Sorry I didn't get on the plane, I had to pay for an extra seat."
I know, I know, there are plenty of Big Fat Beautiful and Fat and Proud groups out there. That's nice. But I recall exactly one magazine cover featuring a fat model (singer Beth Ditto on Love) and countless others featuring the skinny ones. The world is not exactly rushing to embrace the extra pounds.
In my late 20s and right before I got some help for my own struggle with the hidden "fat monster," I worked for a fitness magazine that built its empire on the notion that "fat" was evil and had to be eradicated. This magazine, still very much in existence, even comes up with an extremely popular annual issue called... Fat Loss. I joked that we should just call the issue Eating Disorder Special but that wasn't the catchiest name, plus I'm sure we weren't the only ones who deserved it. I contributed to causing the fat paranoia myself. I wrote, edited and read pages and pages that featured buggy-eyed fitness women who talked about how happy they were with their grueling workout routines and how awful pizza or chocolate was. They also talked a lot about "cheating" -- eating fat-causing foods, when they weren't supposed to -- and how guilty they've felt afterwards. It was the workouts and the sweating was what gave them the real joy! Packing their cooler with celery and broccoli! Doing 150 sit ups! Yes!
The truth is that these women (and others) are not happy. They may be thinner and but their entire lives revolve around denial, restrictions, guilt, and depression over failing... I know because although I never went that extreme, I'd been hiding my own fat monster behind heads of lettuce and had to appease it with Prozac and talk therapy. It's really freaking taxing to take care of it. Still, I suppose, I'd rather be sad than fat. I'd rather be drunk on a plane than fat. And so would you. And so would Kate Middleton, probably.
I've quit the magazine eventually but, of course, there's no escaping it, the "fat" struggle. It's everywhere. I'd once met a girl in rehab who was dying of her heroin addiction but insisted on being given Sweet'N'Low instead of sugar with her meals because she was worried about gaining weight. I know a woman who is 70 and truly beautiful with the bone structure of Katherine Hepburn, and who talks about being full after few bites, and who had voiced her concern for me when I wasn't losing my pregnancy weight fast enough (by the way, when I was pregnant, it was the only time when I ate french fries constantly without feeling as if I was committing some kind of a crime).
I know, I know, it's important to eat healthy and sometimes being fat has little to do with what you eat. But all I wish for is being able to just erase all the harmful lessons I learned from magazines and media... and I can't. I wish I could not think about food for one day without feeling some kind of angst. I don't think I'll ever get back the feeling of just enjoying what I eat and immersing myself in flavor, texture and smell. Because although the other British Kate, the model Kate Moss, famously had said, "Nothing tastes as good as skinny feels" she and I and you all know that, actually, nothing tastes as good as chocolate. And skinny often feels very sad.


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A rock on Mars being studied by NASA's Curiosity rover is unlike any Martian stone ever seen, and is surprisingly similar to an unusual, but well-known, kind of rock on Earth.
This type of rock is the first of its kind encountered on Mars and is helping broaden scientists' understanding of how igneous rocks form, scientists said Thursday. The rock, named "Jake Matijevic" in honor of a Curiosity mission team member who died in August, is a 16-inch-tall (40-centimeter-tall) pyramid-shape specimen that Curiosity encountered at its landing spot in Mars' Gale Crater.
Curiosity, the centerpiece of the $2.5 billion Mars Science Laboratory Mission, touched down on the Red Planet Aug. 5 to learn whether Mars ever had the conditions necessary to support life.
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The Jake rock is being used as a calibration target for Curiosity to try out its suite of 10 science instruments on. "It was the first good-sized rock that we found along the way," Roger Wiens, principal investigator for Curiosity's ChemCam instrument at the Los Alamos National Laboratory, said Thursday during a press conference. [Amazing Mars Rover Curiosity Views (Latest Photos)]
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In late September Curiosity used ChemCam and its Alpha Particle X-ray Spectrometer (APXS) to probe Jake's chemical composition. What they found was surprising.
"The spectrum that we're seeing was not what I expected," said APXS principal investigator Ralf Gellert of Canada's University of Guelph. "It seems to be a new type of rock that we've discovered on Mars" that wasn't seen by NASA's previous Mars rovers Spirit and Opportunity.
Jake appears to have higher concentrations of elements such as sodium, aluminum and potassium, and lower concentrations of magnesium, iron and nickel, than other igneous rocks studied on Mars.
While previously unknown on Mars, this type of chemical composition is seen in a rare but well-studied class of rocks on Earth. On Earth, such specimens are found on oceanic islands such as Hawaii and in other places. They are thought to form when interior rocks melt to form magma, which then rises toward the surface. As it rises, it cools, and parts of the material crystalize, preferentially selecting some elements while leaving a remainder of liquid magma that is enriched with the left-behind chemicals.
However, the researchers said it's too soon to know whether the Jake rock formed this same way.
"This is based on one rock and one has to be careful not to extrapolate," said Edward Stolper, provost of Caltech and co-investigator on Curiosity's science team. "You have to wait and see if we find others and if relationships among them give us clues into the processes."
Ultimately, this rock is deepening scientists' understanding of the types of geology present on Mars, and could reveal new formation processes for known types of rocks.
"There is a richness in the igneous story that's not surprising," Stolper told Space.com. "The more you look, the more you find different things happened."
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Curiosity is about 65 days into its mission, and still testing out all of its equipment.
The rover used its scoop tool to dig up Martian dirt for the first time earlier this week, and scientists saw a strange shiny object in photos of the scooped material. The find put a temporary halt on scooping activities while mission managers investigated the object.
Scientists have since concluded that it is most likely a bit of plastic from the rover itself or its descent stage that came loose and eventually fell onto the ground.
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Mission team members will continue investigating the debris, but they think it might be a piece of resistive heating material from the rover's exterior that was attached with adhesive, which might have come unstuck.
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"The manor was held under the Stockports, by the family of Bredbury, whose heiress brought a moiety of it to the Ardens." [4]CITATION[CLOSE]
Lewis, Samuel, A Topographical Dictionary of England. Institute of Historical Research, 1848, Print. Another reference claims the place name meant "stronghold or manor-house built of planks," from the Old English words "bred" + "burgh." [5]CITATION[CLOSE]
Mills, A.D., Dictionary of English Place-Names. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1991. Print. (ISBN 0-19-869156-4)
Some of the first listings of the family were found in Cheshire: Jordan de Bredbury in 1270; Adam de Bredbury in 1332. [2]CITATION[CLOSE]
Bardsley, C.W, A Dictionary of English and Welsh Surnames: With Special American Instances. Wiltshire: Heraldry Today, 1901. Print. (ISBN 0-900455-44-6)
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Missing droid? I though Ani was intended to pilot that STAP from the beginning..
I might be interested in the STAPS, but not enough to get the figures with them.
Since apparently these are starting to show up at retail now (I found the Shield Generator pack yesterday, so this might have been there as well), has anyone picked one up? If so, does the Anakin figure indeed have the rumored knee articulation? I've been sort of on the fence about this pack (although the STAPs would be nice), and I was sort of waiting to see if the Anakin was improved on or not.
I read that Anakin does have new legs that have knee and ankles articulation. The battle droid has modified arms to grip the STAPs controls.
It's call B'Omarr Monestary Assault except there is not one B'Omarr monk in the package. Why couldn't they just call this "Flying Stap Attack"?
Quote from: Master_Phruby on October 24, 2008, 05:36 PMIt's call B'Omarr Monestary Assault except there is not one B'Omarr monk in the package. Why couldn't they just call this "Flying Stap Attack"?Uhhhh....there was not one B'Omarr monk in the movie.
I have yet to see the movie, so the name is spoiler IMO.
The Battle Droid is a different shade of tan from the basic carded release, and the lower arms have been modified, as Jayson said, to hold the STAP controls, although the stress from the packaging and rubber bands make his legs prone to fall off. Mine are literally held to the torso by the blue electricity accessory, or otherwise, he'd be a legless droid.
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I'll break my fast of not posting to say I can attest to the Netherlands being a great place for English, especially compared to the other European countries.
I'd like to say in an ideal situation everyone should both be looking out for themselves and for others. This rarely happens in a perfect balance, but it's only the extremes one needs to really worry about. And generally speaking you will find that those that are doing well will have more time to look about themselves than those that are not.
As an example, consider the Netherlands which does excedingly well. They have (as a nation, sorry jcwren -- you can generalize :) ) the time to learn English and Dutch and another language (as mentioned in ML's post it's generally German or French). For Americans, I suppose you could say we show our "well to do" by being very, er, "proactive" in worldwide affairs (I don't exactly support all of this proaction :) ).
However, as mentioned, during economic crisis's Russia was not worried about everyone else -- similarly during the depression American acted similarly.
So anyway, to conclude: It would be nice if we could attain a balance between minding our business as well as our neighbor's. But just try not to be destructive, rather constructive when doing so.
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Sanchez is not the answer for Arsenal
Arsenal's signing of Alexis Sanchez is only part of the solution. His arrival from Barcelona, for a reported fee of £35 million, confirmed that last summer's £42m splurge on Mesut Ozil was not a one-off and the club have shaken free from the financial restraints that came with moving from Highbury to Emirates Stadium.
Make no mistake, Sanchez is a sublime addition and will be an asset to Arsene Wenger's side. He is a fast, powerful and direct attacking player, weapons that were missing when Theo Walcott and Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain spent time on the sidelines during the past season. Indeed, the performances of Ozil, a threader of through balls, dipped when he did not have runners to find.
However, it does not appear that Sanchez is the answer to Arsenal's striking problems. During the 2013/14 season, Wenger relied too heavily on Olivier Giroud, a good and improving centre-forward but not a brilliant one. Despite a return of 16 Premier League goals in the latest campaign, Giroud lacked consistency over the course of his 36 appearances.
That he missed just two top-flight matches is in part to blame for his wanes; the Frenchman was, at times, running - which is being generous - on empty. Wenger acknowledged as such in May: "Maybe we have overplayed him at some stage. There is perhaps room for an attacking player who can play in a different position to Giroud - someone who can play with him as well."
And so, he moved for Sanchez - scorer of 39 goals in 88 Barca appearances - a similar attacking talent to Luis Suarez, formerly of Liverpool but now of Barcelona, but without the risk he might do something unsavoury.
Rightfully delighted with his acquisition, Wenger said, "He can play through the middle ... we can play without Giroud in a 4-4-2 or in a 4-3-3." Yet in these words some Arsenal fans might find cause for concern.
Despite the fact it is still only July - the transfer window closes September 1 - does Wenger consider Sanchez and Giroud sufficient in terms of his striker selection? The answer to that question emerged on Monday, when Wenger was quoted thus: "Up front we don't need any more."
The issue remains: If Giroud sustains a long-term injury, would the French coach be confident Sanchez could deputise as the lone striker during his debut season in the Premier League? Giroud, in spite of his critics, works the position well, holds up play and feeds others with his back to goal; Sanchez may struggle in this regard.
As Arsenal defender Laurent Koscielny said in June, "Yes, we need to recruit a very, very good striker, because it's important for us for competition for places, because Olivier needs that to become even better."
Giroud himself added: "We need another striker. Great clubs have several good strikers, who compete with each other."
Maybe Theo Walcott, when he returns from his serious knee injury, will see this as the season he really makes a go of becoming a centre-forward, but there remain questions over his suitability for Wenger's system of one up top. Plus, regardless of Walcott's ambitions, he seems to play better when out wide, moving out from in.
Wenger will hope Yaya Sanogo, the 21 year old signed from Auxerre, continues his development. Sanogo, though, has yet to make a Premier League start for Arsenal, let alone score a goal for the club, in his 14 appearances in all competitions in the latest campaign.
The Frenchman seems to have the raw materials but raw is the operative word right now and at times last term he resembled a tractor without a steering wheel.
As Nicklas Bendtner finally departs, Joel Campbell returns. Loaned out for three consecutive seasons, the 22 year old impressed sufficiently at the 2014 World Cup with Costa Rica to earn him a chance to stake his claim for a role with the Arsenal first team during pres-eason. "He is maturing well," Wenger said of Campbell, who - though more polished than Sanogo - would again be a gamble if given a role as Giroud's backup.
If reports are to be believed, Arsenal have been in the market for a striker. Yet, Loic Remy looks set for Liverpool, Alvaro Morata has joined Juventus and Mario Mandzukic has moved to Atletico Madrid. AC Milan's Mario Balotelli was mooted as a target during the World Cup, but the rumour mill has ground to something of a halt on that alleged pursuit.
"It's not over, there's still a long way to go," Wenger said of his transfer activity on Saturday. He has brought in right-back Mathieu Debuchy as well as Sanchez. If speculation is to be trusted, Wenger finally intends to address the issue of a natural defensive midfielder, with Real Madrid's Sami Khedira [whose wages are seemingly too high] Southampton's Morgan Schneiderlin and Sporting Lisbon's William Carvalho all having been linked.
There lies the root of the worry: the holding midfield position is one that has not been addressed since 2008. In the space of six months, Arsenal lost Gilberto Silva, Mathieu Flamini and Lassana Diarra. Instead, in 2011, Wenger moved for Mikel Arteta from Everton on the final day of the transfer window and forced a square peg into a round hole. Arteta has admittedly grown into that role over time but this fudging of the issue has resonance with the current striking options.
Perhaps, as demonstrated by the transfer business executed earlier in the transfer window coupled with the calibre of the two signings secured, Wenger still intends to give Giroud competition. In January, the Arsenal boss was unmoved in the transfer market - Kim Kallstrom aside - and the price was paid in their pursuit of the title. There can be no regrets this time around.
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Legion - A House Divided part 1
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To begin this final mission before you jump through the Omega-4 Mass Relay, head to the third floor of the Normandy, the Crew Quarters. Go to Dr. Chakwas' medical office. The previously-sealed door at the back end of the office is now open. Head on through, and you'll find the Geth body sitting on a table (Joker saw this earlier when defending the ship from the Reapers). Walk up to it and examine it, and Shepard will activate it, though not before erecting a barrier to protect himself, just in case. Speaking with this Geth, who will eventually be known as Legion (because of the Geth hive-mind mentality), results in an interesting cutscene. You'll learn that the Geth are having a civil war of sorts. Geth like Legion want to leave "organics" alone, while Reapers have subverted "heretic" Geth into doing their anti-organic bidding. Thus, there are two distinct types of Geth. One group is neutral, and the other is overtly anti-organic in nature.
Upon speaking with Legion again following the introductory conversation, you'll learn that there's a way to stop the "heretic" Geth from doing any more damage. The heretics are planning to use their FTL communication buoys to spread a virus around to neutral Geth, to change their mode of thinking. This can happen rather easily, but Legion has an idea to stop it. Doing so will require you to travel to an all-new part of the galaxy we've yet to have access to, a place called the Phoenix Massing. Upon jumping there, you'll be in the Tassrah system, but you need to use sub-light travel to hit one of its sister systems up, a place with the foreboding name of the Sea of Storms. The only object of interest in this nebula is a place called Heretic Station. This is where the heretic Geth have placed the virus they're going to unleash, in this old Quarian space station. Land there to proceed.
When you land on the ship, you'll witness another brief cutscene before you gain control and are able to head through Heretic Station. (By the way, we took Tali to this mission with Legion, for massive lulz. Remember -- Quarians created the Geth, and they loathe them.) Legion will explain to Shepard how the alarm system in the station works. The Geth shouldn't be privy to the covert crew's presence anywhere but where they currently are, meaning that they can't gang up on you. Of course, once you reach the core, this all changes. Legion also lets Shepard know that the virus is finished, so it can be destroyed, or reprogrammed and used on the heretics to pacify them. Navigate that conversation however you'd like; you can deal with what you want to do with the virus once you get to its location, which is still a ways off.
Head forward from your starting position. You'll see a ramp on your right leading downward. Pillage the medical kit at the top of the ramp, and then head down into the next room. Here, Legion will inform you of the typical Geth defense mechanism onboard this ship. They will come at you in a room-by-room manner, not networked. So, you could conceivably get the jump on the Geth in every location you explore before they even know you're there, by destroying the hardware pods they come out of. In this room, the hardware pod is located to the right of the door on the far side of the room. Quickly approach and destroy it. If you aren't quick, you'll have to fight some Geth, including a couple of Geth Hunters. Either way, once the pod is destroyed, you should approach it and examine it. Doing so will net you several thousand credits, and it will also catalyze another cutscene with Legion, where he talks about Geth networking, memory sharing, and the like. Navigate that conversation, as always, however you'd like.
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Audacity has become one of Alan Pardew's favourite words. It is a trait he actively encourages in his players but not even Hatem Ben Arfa can match the chutzpah of Newcastle United's board.
Whereas Pardew wants his team to pass and move with dash and daring, Mike Ashley, Newcastle's owner, possesses a rare capacity to court unpopularity in pursuit of financial benefit. Accordingly Tyneside woke to reports that Wonga, the payday loans company often criticised for its interest rates, was in advanced negotiations with Newcastle over a shirt and, possibly, stadium sponsorship deal.
To say the prospect did not go down well with fans would be an understatement. Indeed, judging from the initial reaction, the debate about the club's wider social responsibilities versus a potential £8m a year for player investment seemed as one-sided as the opening stages of Manchester United's visit.
As good as the movement of Jonny Evans and Patrice Evra proved at the two corners from which they headed their side into a two-goal lead, such swift set-piece concession were galling for Pardew.
In mitigation, Newcastle's manager was without his first-choice goalkeeper, Tim Krul, and his preferred central defensive pairing of Fabricio Coloccini and Steven Taylor.
Even so all Pardew's talk of his team breaking into the top four rang a little hollow. Or at least it did until he ordered Ben Arfa – by some distance Newcastle's best and most audacious individual – to switch from the right of a 4-4-2 starting formation to the left of a 4-3-3 configuration.
Suddenly, Newcastle finished the first half strongly, Sir Alex Ferguson was out of his dugout and arguing with the fourth official, Kevin Friend, (whose proffered hand Manchester United's manager, incidentally, neglected to shake) and St James' Park reflected on what might have been.
As Newcastle recaptured some of the "rhythmic control" – another favourite Pardew term – that characterised much of their rise to a fifth-placed finish last season, a big "if only" moment arrived early in the second half. Demba Ba hit the bar and Papiss Cissé believed he had squeezed the rebound over the line only for Howard Webb to give David de Gea the benefit of the doubt.
Home supporters were already upset with Webb following the first-half incident in which the referee booked Cheik Tioté for bundling over Wayne Rooney. The England forward may have made the most of that challenge but Tioté's penchant for attracting yellow cards represents a problem. The Ivorian's enforcement skills are essential to establishing Newcastle's passing style – not to mention permitting Yohan Cabaye to strut his midfield stuff – but, all too often, Tioté is left needing to watch his step after attracting a booking.
They say that 2-0 is a dangerous lead and Newcastle might just have hauled themselves back into things had his second-half labours not been cramped by a second booking in four days.
Instead, Tom Cleverley's wonder goal – or mishit cross – ensured that the best efforts of Ben Arfa and friends would count for nothing. It also offered confirmation that Pardew's bold – some would say audacious - pre-match talk about his side's ability to reprise January's Premier League home victory against Manchester United had turned to dust.
That said, it would be wrong to say that Newcastle have regressed since that stirring 3-0 triumph. Ben Arfa has since blossomed into one of the Premier League's brightest talent, Papiss Cissé's goal threat has arrived, Davide Santon is looking the full-back that José Mourinho once dubbed "a phenomenon" at Internazionale and young talents such as Shane Ferguson and Sammy Ameobi are emerging fast.
The only trouble is that key personnel including Tioté, Cabaye and Cissé have taken time to get going this autumn, Europa League commitments inevitably stretching sometimes fairly slender squad resources and there are now real expectations to live up to.
No matter. Pardew's recently signed eight-year contract is studded with exclusion clauses catering for assorted contingencies yet it affords him the time required to weather episodes of minor turbulence. Nonetheless the manager remains anxious to avoid another defeat on Sunday week when his players travel to Sunderland for a north-east derby featuring two teams struggling to hit peak form.
Wearsiders will mock the apparently impending Wonga connection but at least, in Ben Arfa, Pardew possesses a player whose interpretation of audacity comes laden with class and verve.


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For My Favorite Things' Weekly Sketch Challenge #99:
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EXCLUSIVE! Philip Seymour Hoffman's #1 Parenting Tip: 'Tell Them You Love Them, Don't Assume They Know!'
Love and stability are extremely important for kids! It's fundamental that children develop a sense of security and support with help from their families at an early age, and that's something Oscar winner Philip Seymour Hoffman knows.
This is the most important tip that you can ever get as a parent! "It's important to tell [your kids] that you love them," actor and father of three (son Cooper, 3, and daughters Tallulah, 3, and Willa, 2) Philip Seymour Hoffman, 43, shared with HollyBaby.com exclusivelyat the Labyrinth Theater Company's Poker LAB Benefit sponsored by Borgata Hotel Casino & Spa at the Soho House in New York City on Sept. 19. "Don't assume that they know!"
"I think it's important that you're physically affectionate with your children — that they get used to you hugging them and holding their hands," Philip continued. "Those are the things that are the most important — that they know you're there and you're not going anywhere."
"Get habitual about that," Philip suggested. Make sure "they're not concerned or anxious — that they know you're there!"
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Here at Headphonestyles.com we review a wide variety of headphones, including some budget models, but rarely do we venture into the sub-$10 range. But in the case of the Panasonic ErgoFit RP-HJE120 earphones, I decided to make an exception.
I saw the ErgoFit RP-HJE120 earbuds on Amazon and opted for the orange model, which I picked up for $6.07 with free two-day shipping because I'm an Amazon Prime member. The model comes in several different colors and some cost a bit more than others, but you should be able to get a pair for less than $10 shipped.
Of course, when it comes to $6 in-ear headphones, you tend to keep your expectations pretty low. Mine were a little higher because I'd read a bunch of favorable user opinions on Amazon, but I nevertheless wasn't expecting too much out of them.
My first reaction upon cutting open the nasty blister pack the product comes in was that the ErgoFit RP-HJE120s indeed looked like cheap earbud-style headphones, albeit with a bit of design flair and dash of cheerful coloring. I believe that when these were originally released they were targeted at iPod Nano owners, and my pair would have gone well with an orange iPod Nano if I owned one.
As you can see from the picture, these are sort of a hybrid earphone, part hard earbud like your basic Apple earbud and part soft bud. They come with three different-size silicone eartips. At this price, you're more apt to see a hard-bud earphone, but being able to jam the soft tips into your ears helps with sound isolation and maximizes the bass output. I was able to get a tight seal with the largest of the eartips, and I actually thought the earphones were comfortable (in keeping with the ErgoFit name) and they stayed in my ears well.
I wouldn't speak too highly of the cord construction, and the wires leading up to each earbud are pretty thin. The cord does terminate in an L-shaped plug, which is good, although those with thicker "tough" cases on their smartphones may have some trouble getting the plug into the headphone jack.


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This is the 33rd Pro Bowl to be played in Hawaii. The first Pro Bowl in Hawaii was the 1980 Pro Bowl. Every Pro Bowl from 1980 through 2013 has been played in Hawaii except the 2010 Pro Bowl, which was played in Miami. Super Bowl XLIV was also held in Miami that season.
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Three rookie quarterbacks were selected to the 2013 Pro Bowl, the most all time. Robert Griffin III, Andrew Luck and Russell Wilson are the 2012 rookies selected to the Pro Bowl. In Pro Bowl history, nine rookie quarterbacks have been selected, including five to the 2012 and 2013 Pro Bowls.
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Getting in his kicks
San Francisco 49ers kicker Davis Akers tied the NFL record for the longest field goal made, converting a 63-yarder in Week 1 against the Green Bay Packers. Akers also has the longest field goal made in Pro Bowl history, making a 53-yard field goal at the 2003 Pro Bowl.
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Rookie season cappers
Two rookies have been named Pro Bowl MVP (called Player of the Game from 1973-2007), Indianapolis Colts running back Marshall Faulk at the 1995 Pro Bowl and Minnesota Vikings running back Adrian Peterson at the 2008 Pro Bowl. Faulk rushed for a Pro Bowl-record 180 yards as a rookie, averaging 13.9 yards per rush, also a Pro Bowl record. Peterson rushed for 120 yards at the 2008 Pro Bowl, the second-most in Pro Bowl history.
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Quite a catch
Wide receiver Brandon Marshall set the Pro Bowl single-game touchdown record at the 2012 Pro Bowl with his four receiving touchdowns.
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San Francisco 49ers head coach (then Indianapolis Colts QB) Jim Harbaugh threw three interceptions in the 1996 Pro Bowl, the only Pro Bowl that Harbaugh made in his NFL playing career. Harbaugh had passes intercepted by safety Darren Woodson, safety Tim McDonald and linebacker Ken Harvey -- who returned his interception 38 yards for a touchdown. Remarkably though, three interceptions is not the most thrown in a single Pro Bowl -- that honor belongs to St. Louis Cardinals quarterback Jim Hart, who threw five interceptions in the 1977 Pro Bowl, which was played in Seattle, Wash.
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Strength in numbers
The Houston Texans have the most players selected to the 2013 Pro Bowl with nine. The most players selected from a team in a single season since the merger was the 2007 Dallas Cowboys, who had 13 players selected.
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Pro Bowl veterans
This is Peyton Manning's 12th Pro Bowl selection, the most all time by a quarterback. Tight end Tony Gonzalez was selected to his 13th Pro Bowl this season, which is five more than any other tight end in Pro Bowl history. Cornerback Champ Bailey was selected to his 12th Pro Bowl this season, the most all time for a cornerback. Bailey has played in all 11 of the Pro Bowls he has been selected to. He will be playing in his 12, tying him with offensive linemen Randall McDaniel and Will Shields on the list for the most Pro Bowl games played in NFL history.
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Losing teams can still have star players
The 2-14 Kansas City Chiefs had six players selected to the 2013 Pro Bowl. They tied the 2010 Carolina Panthers (2-14) and the 2001 Panthers (1-15) for the most players selected to the Pro Bowl for a team with two or fewer wins in a season.
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