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Europol Suspects that Champions League Match Staged in England Was Fixed: The Daily EPL

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How many times have we heard about betting scandals in European soccer but nothing is ever done about it? Today, it’s revealed that Europol has pinpointed one UEFA Champions League match that was played in England that was allegedly fixed. The specific teams that played the game were not revealed. But it’s part of a larger Europol investigation that has identified 380 matches in Europe that were suspected of being fixed.

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8 Responses to Europol Suspects that Champions League Match Staged in England Was Fixed: The Daily EPL

  1. Dust says:

    What are the odds it was the Barca V Chelski game at the bridge where Drogba lost it on the officials…. If any game in the UCL has been rigged its that one.

    • PhillySpur says:

      Would not be surprised at all if the official was on the take for that match.

      • Patrick says:

        Supposedly it is the 2009 match between Liverpool and Hungarian champions Debrecen. The match ended 1-0 to LFC byway of a Dirk Kuyt goal, which should have been a routine save. If reports from Denmark are correct Debrecen were approached by by someone from a Singapore gambling syndicate to concede more than 2.5 goals.

  2. The Gaffer says:

    Gab Marcotti on TalkSport says that today’s announcement by Europol is nothing more than grandstanding — i.e. Europol basically googling all of the fixing investigations for the past several years and adding it up to 380.

    The Gaffer

    • Smokey Bacon says:

      So you are not bothered about 380 matches being rigged? Old news it may be but it’s still important that this is made public. I’m glad that the police are taking it seriously even if the sport hacks are not.

      • The Gaffer says:

        I’m bothered by it, definitely. But the morning news made it out to be 380 brand new cases, when it appears to be already investigated incidents instead.

        My hope is that the authorities crack down on this instead of sweeping it under the carpet.

        The Gaffer

  3. gbewing says:

    this is the greatest threat to the game
    1. it’s happening
    2. It’s happening alot
    3. There is no punishment look at Jeventus getting by on appeals process where penalties are lifted

    American Baseball is the model- ban for life anyone caught even stars like Messi if caught- wthout integrity you cannot have a professional sports league

    • Smokey Bacon says:

      Absolutely agree. I would go further than banning them. Lock them up like they did with the Pakistani cricketers. Unfortunately the temptation will always be there given the amount of money around the game. But if a few players are convicted of aiding and abetting fraud and get sent down it will send the appropriate message. This sort of thing makes my blood boil, to think that some scumbags can control the outcome of matches. The integrity of the game has to be vigorously defended.

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Captain Grondel outside the Coliseum wants you to gather 7 Drakkari Medallions from the nearby Drakkari Corpses.

Look at me, <race>. Do I look like I have time fer fillin' out reports?

It be all I can do to keep this post free o' the bloody Scourge, and they want me to mess with paperwork!

<sigh> No sense in complainin'. I need to get the commander some kinda kill count from the last skirmish.

You wanna be helpful? Go and get me all the medals you can find from the dead trolls around here. That'll hafta be close enough.

You will receive: 1Gold 58Silver

You get those medals for me, <race>?

Well, now!

Ya saved me a fair bit o' work there lad. I'm grateful. I'll be sure ta make mention of ya in me report.

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Man’s last push to save Audubon School

One man is putting all his time and effort into saving the Audubon School in Rock Island.

When Donald Lind first heard that the Audubon School was going to be destroyed, he feared his childhood memories would also be damaged.

“If they tear Audubon down, all my memories will go up in dust,” said Lind.

Lind reminisced on the time he lost his first tooth on the playground, when his team won the relay race, and the several plays he and his classmates participated in. Now the building where all of those memories occurred, will soon go up in dust.

But Lind is putting up a fight, and the clock is ticking.

Lind is starting a petition with others who are opposed of abolishing the school. With demolition starting this month, time is not on his side.

“I’m going to get a petition and if I have to be out here going to every house, then that’s what I’m going to do,” said Lind.

Lind believes that those who live beside the school will be in his favor.

“If Audubon gets torn down, it’s going to be an eye sore.”

The Rock Island School council originally was going to sell the property to Fairway Grocery for $475,000 , but Fareway backed out of the deal after neighbors protested.

Developer Joe Lemon originally matched the Fareway bid, but it was granted to Fareway.

This week Lemon offered $50,000 to purchase the property for renovation, but it was turned down because the offer was made via email and not considered a “formal” bid.

The Audubon School is planned to be demolished by Thanksgiving, but Lind won’t stop his fight to save the historic building.

“If they tear this down it’s just going to be a field of nothing, there is so much that could be done with this building,” Lind said.

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Iowa DNR warns you to stay off the Mississippi River and Lake Odessa

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The Iowa Department of Natural Resources is warning it is unsafe to go swimming, wading or boating on the Mississippi River along the entire eastern border of the state.

High water from recent heavy rain has put about 95 percent of all boat ramps under water along the Mississippi River according to DNR Conservation Officer Burt Walters.

The current is much stronger than normal, and there is a large amount of debris in the river.  The danger, Walters said, is not just from the debris you can see floating on the water.

“Much of it lies just under the surface, or is mixed in with the water from what was flooded upstream,” Walters said.

Boat wakes add to the problems from high water, and Walters says boaters can be held liable for damage caused by the wake created by their boat.

“A lot of boaters are probably unaware that they can be liable for damages their boats may cause on flooded structures,” Walters said.  “A boat wake is essentially an extension of the boat.”

Boat wakes can cause erosion along some shorelines and push water into shoreline cabins.

Lock and Dam 17 near New Boston, Illinois was closed to commercial and recreational boat traffic Friday, June 27, 2014, and Lock and Dam 16 at Muscatine was closed Monday, June 30.

The DNR extended the advisory to Lake Odessa in Louisa County.  Boat ramps and accesses were all flooded on the lake as of July 1, and the DNR cautioned people to avoid any recreational activity at Lake Odessa until flood waters recede.

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"Mindful" by Mary Oliver from Why I Wake Early. © Beacon Press, 2005. Reprinted with permission. (buy now)

On this day in 1841, the whaler Acushnet sailed from New Bedford, Massachusetts, with Herman Melville on board (books by this author). Melville had been born into an affluent family, but the family suffered a series of financial disasters. First, his father's business failed, and then his father caught an illness and died. His brother might have saved the family with his own business, but it was wiped out by a fire. So Melville was pulled out of school and forced to take a job.

He worked for a while at a bank, and then spent a few weeks as a merchant mariner, sailing to England and back. He tried to head out West to start a farm, but he didn't like farming. So he took off to the whaling port of New Bedford, Massachusetts, looking for a ship that would be willing to hire someone with almost no experience at sea. The ship he found was the newest of America's whaling fleet, a 359-ton ship with two decks and three masts, which would be heading to the Pacific Ocean.

At that time, whales were extremely valuable. Their teeth and bones were used to make buggy whips, umbrella ribs, skirt hoops, collars, and corsets. But they were probably most valuable for their oil. Until 1859, when petroleum was discovered in Pennsylvania, the oil from whale blubber was the most widely available fuel for artificial lights, powering household lamps, streetlights, and even lighthouses. It was also one of the most popular lubricants, used in factory machines, sewing machines, and clocks.

And whaling was one of the most dangerous and adventurous jobs a young man could get. By signing up on a whaling ship in 1841, Melville joined the last generation of men who hunted whales by hand, which involved drawing up close to the creature and stabbing it with harpoons. The sperm whale, which was the whale of choice, could weigh up to 60 tons and grow up to 60 feet long and swam at a speed of 20 knots. Whales had been known to kill numerous men and to destroy whole ships during a hunt.

Melville experienced his first whale hunt somewhere off the coast of Brazil in March of 1841. To catch the whale, four or five smaller whaleboats would be lowered into the water for the chase. When a hunter managed to sink a harpoon, the whale would take off, and the boat would be towed in its wake. Whalers called this the "Nantucket sleigh ride," and they held on for dear life as the whale swam frantically about. If the whalers were successful, they would tow the dead whale back to their boat and begin the laborious and extremely messy process of skinning it on deck.

Melville ultimately spent four years at sea, and he would spend much of the rest of his life writing about his experiences. He later said, "A whale ship was my Yale College and my Harvard."

It was on this day in 1882 that the Irish playwright Oscar Wilde docked in New York (books by this author). Customs asked him if he had anything to declare. Oscar Wilde replied, "Nothing but my genius."

Wilde had come to the United States for a lecture tour. He was part of a movement of literature and art known as Aestheticism, which valued beauty in art over moral or sentimental ideas. The lecture tour was set up for an unusual reason. The comic opera duo Gilbert and Sullivan wrote an operetta called Patience (1881), which poked fun at the Aesthetic movement. It was a big success in England and New York, but Gilbert and Sullivan's manager, Richard D'Oyly Carte, was concerned that the rest of the United States wouldn't know what Aestheticism was, and they wouldn't think Patience was funny. So in order to educate the general public about Aestheticism before trying to satirize it, he decided to arrange for a lecture tour from England's most prominent Aesthete personality, Oscar Wilde.

Wilde's lectures got a lot of criticism. Many people thought he was ridiculous. But he got to meet American personalities like Walt Whitman and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. And his lecture tour did well in surprising places, like the rough mining town of Leadville, Colorado, where he was a hit. It was there in Leadville that he saw a sign at the local salon that said: "Please do not shoot the pianist. He is doing his best." Oscar Wilde later said that it was "the only rational method of art criticism I have ever come across."

It was on this day in 1521 that Pope Leo X excommunicated Martin Luther for condemning the Catholic Church in his 95 theses. Luther was a professor of biblical interpretation at the time in Germany, and he could find no text that permitted the Church to make money by selling indulgences for the forgiveness of sins. The Holy Roman Emperor Charles V called him to defend himself later that year, but Luther was defiant and he was declared an outlaw and heretic.

It's the birthday of the Roman orator and statesman Marcus Tullius Cicero, born in 106 B.C. in Arpinum, Italy. He believed in the ideal of Rome as a republic at the time that a series of powerful leaders were making it into an empire. Cicero spoke out against those leaders, and he was executed. He believed that speaking well and speaking the truth were inseparable. Many of his rhetorical devices are still used by public speakers today.

It's the birthday of Father Damien, born Joseph de Veuster in Belgium (1840), the priest who served the leper colony on the Hawaiian island of Kalaupapa. At that time, victims were dumped off the boat in the shallows because the captains were terrified to go ashore. Doctors left medicine on the beach and fled. Damien, however, dressed the wounds of his patients himself, ate with them, and buried them when they died. Eventually, he developed the illness himself, and he died on the island, having roofed its buildings and made its hospital beds with his own hands. He said: "I would not be cured if the price of the cure was that I must leave the island and give up my work [...] I am perfectly resigned to my lot. Do not feel sorry for me."

It's the birthday of Danish poet and resistance fighter Morten Nielsen, born in Ålborg, Denmark (1922). Nielsen was a young man when the Germans occupied Denmark during World War Two, and like many of his generation, he felt he had no choice but to work for his country's liberation. He not only joined the Danish Resistance, his poetry became its guiding spirit. The Gestapo executed Nielsen for the anti-German content of his work in Copenhagen (1944). He was 22 years old.

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Friday, January 08, 2010

A Misinterpreted Gesture?

In a letter to the editor in the Columbia Flier this week, former Columbia Council Representative and an outspoken opponent of any change in Columbia, Babs Russell, wrote that while sitting in her car at The Mall this past holiday season that “My thoughts were interrupted by the honking horn of a car whose driver thought I was getting ready to leave my parking space. The hand gesture I received from that driver as I exited my car was not at all in the holiday spirit.”

A friend of mine pointed out that maybe the hand gesture wasn’t really about a parking space.

Anonymous said...

Let's be honest. Most of that story was probably made up or seriously embellished.

Bob O said...

A bit unfair, I think. The mall parking lot is an analogue of a Darwinian pond of primal soup,when you think about it.

It's interesting to stand outside of one of the mall's main entrances and watch drivers as they try to find the "best" parking spot. They can be discerned as members of several species....

First, there's the Parking Lot Sharks. Their motto seems to be "swim forward or die," as they cruise the lot for ten, fifteen or even thirty minutes, waiting to pounce on an open spot. When they finally see someone back out, they sense blood in the water and surge forward to get there before anyone else can. If someone else does, they tear at the parking spot like a Great White at a chunk of rotten beef in the water.

Then, there are Parking Wolves. They stalk. Idling in a "no parking" zone, they wait for a lone pedestrian to exit the mall and head into the lot. on the scent...they follow them through the lot...idling along at 2 MPH, waiting in antici...pation...for the walker to get in a car. Then they pounce! Watch out for these Wolves, they travel in packs, and they usually try to cull the weak parking spots out of the herd.

Finally, there are The Pull-In Cheetahs. The Cheetahs find a high vantage point, and then watch for a spot to open up. Then they drop it into first, pop the clutch, and accelerate to 60 mph across the lot to cut everyone else off and do a Dukes of Hazzard into the now open spot. Usually Cheetahs are driving something like a Subaru WRX....

When these three species collide, the results are always amusing.

Me? Being more highly evolved, I'm a hunter. I treat the mall as a surgical strike. I look at the map of the mall before I go, decide what stores I need to visit to get what I want, find the best entrance and egress route, and look at the schedule. Then, I arrive ten minutes before the mall opens, park about halfway out next to a "tree island" (so my car will only get dings on one side), read my email on my iPhone until two minutes from opening time, and then walk to the door. It goes "click" right when I get up to it, I walk in, get exactly what I need, and then egress using an alternate pedestrian route.

My record is about $1700 spent in 35 minutes at Columbia Mall. Christmas Shopping Done.

All without getting the finger.

But I digress.

The loss of common courtesy during the Holiday Season at Columbia Mall is an indicator of where our society is going. Pack people closer together and hype them up...and what do you get?

Lou said...

I'm more evolved than that. I shop online.

Anonymous said...

Incivility while parking isn't a wise move. What person would knowingly leave their car unattended after just pissing off someone else who's about to leave that same place? Such behavior illogically leaves the last laugh for the stranger's option and would have a right-minded person wondering during their entire shopping stop thereafter just what might be afoot outside while they're away from their car.

"The loss of common courtesy during the Holiday Season at Columbia Mall is an indicator of where our society is going. Pack people closer together and hype them up...and what do you get?"

Agreed. The bottom line is if Columbia moves further away from its 'life in a small town' ideal, the more some people will abuse the anonymity of not being recognized by a neighbor as license to be rude, whether it's on the road, in a parking lot, or anywhere else out and about, especially if too-increased density's multiple additional stressors like more noise, traffic congestion/delays, and pollution are added to the mix.

So, park nice. And *zone* nice, too.

Anonymous said...

I am a proponent of finding Rock Star Parking at the mall and everywhere else I can. I would prefer to park next to the door at the Athletic Club, have a 1:30 work out just because... There is a secret to Rock Star Parking. I have a pretty good record...3 out of 4 tries.
Know what the secret is?

wordbones said...

Do tell.

PZGURU said...

WordBones - I bet you get the same salute fairly frequently too! In fact, I'm giving you that very salute right now.

Seriously, your childish attitude toward Barbara Russell is unbelievable. Why is it that you would think that that kind of behavior is acceptable treatment of anyone? I guess you feel it's ok because you dislike Ms. Russell? Please, try and grow up a little.


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Correction: TV Critics Watch-Matador story

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP) — In a story July 10 about the new TV series “Matador,” The Associated Press reported erroneously that Alex Kurtzman is a creator of “Matador.” He is an executive producer.

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Robert Rodriguez unveils ‘Matador’ spy thriller

Robert Rodriguez unveils ‘Matador’ spy thriller on his El Rey network, renews it for year 2

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BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP) — The premiere of the new spy thriller “Matador” has a shocking moment early in the hour. It involves a human head and a sharp object. And it perfectly reflects the rawboned sensibility of Robert Rodriguez, whose network, El Rey, begins airing “Matador” Tuesday at 9 p.m. EDT.

But don’t blame Rodriguez, even though he directed the episode.

The prolific filmmaker and entertainment impresario was called on that scene by a reporter who dubbed it “the Robert Rodriguez touch” during Thursday’s session of the TV critics’ tour.

“I knew I was going to get the heat for that,” Rodriguez chuckled. “I told the writers, ‘You watch: (Viewers) are gonna think I thought of that.’ But it was in the script!”

“Matador” stars Gabriel Luna as a globe-trotting soccer champ who, unbeknownst to his adoring public, is also a top-secret CIA operative.

In this narrative of a soccer player by day, a spy by night, the writers “wanted the story to be very unpredictable,” said Rodriguez, pointing to the lethal scene in question. They wanted viewers to realize “at any point, something could erupt like that.”

But it was left up to Rodriguez, as director, to come up with the proper instrument of pain. He said he spent a bit of time pondering the best one. A cleaver? Something serrated? Something computer-generated?

“I’ve done this a lot,” he acknowledged, sparking laughter in the room.

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Prince’s First Album, ‘For You,’ Turns 35

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On April 7, 1978, Prince released his first record, ‘For You.’ The boldly prophetic lyrics of the opening a cappella title track made it quite clear that this 19-year-old “one-man band” sensation planned to stick around for a long time:

“All of this and more is for you / With love, sincerity and deepest care / My life with you I share.”

Thirty-five years and at least that many studio albums later, some might debate just how much of his life this awesomely talented but notoriously reclusive, self-mythologizing music legend has shared with his audience. (Try searching for one of his songs on YouTube and you’ll see exactly what we mean.)

What can’t be argued is the enormous impact Prince made on popular music and modern culture, even if the somewhat modest songwriting on this particular record only offered small hints at the genius, daring innovation — and of course, controversy — that would soon help him conquer the world.

In 1977, Warner Brothers beat out several other labels to sign the Minneapolis-raised teenager, who many viewed as “the next Stevie Wonder” due to his ability to write songs, play a wide range of musical instruments and produce his own records. That last part was still a bit of a sticking point for the label, who at first preferred that someone more experienced was behind the boards for the ‘For You’ sessions.

However, after a secret studio tryout that reportedly found legendary producers Ted Templeman and Lenny Waronker posing as janitors while Prince assembled a track, it was agreed that the youngster would be allowed to make the record himself, with only an executive producer — who he would apparently mostly shun and ignore –  to aid him.

In the end, and as the back cover proclaims quite proudly in large type, ‘For You’ was “produced, arranged, composed and performed” entirely by Prince, with each of the dozens of instruments he performed on its nine songs exhaustively detailed inside.

Compared to his later triumphs, the 33-minute long record features a surprisingly smooth and eager-to-please sound. In retrospect, the modesty displayed in the lyrics is especially surprising. There’s little talk of sisters, head or “masturbating with a magazine” here — except of course, for the album’s first and highest-charting single, the still somewhat subtle (at least for him) double entendre ‘Soft and Wet.’

Instead, Prince spends most of his time declaring that he’s yours, explaining how he’s blue without you, promising that his love is forever and declaring that everything will be OK just as long as you’re together. Think of it as the promises he’d make to a nervous father before strapping his daughter to the back of a motorcycle for a big night out.

Musically, the record is largely comprised of upbeat, danceable R&B tracks and acoustic guitar-tinged love songs. Standouts include the extended disco-funk instrumental showcase ‘Just as Long as We’re Together,’ the insanely catchy ‘Soft and Wet’ and the dramatic album closer, ‘I’m Yours.’ The latter offers a tantalizing first taste of the hard rock guitar pyrotechnics that would eventually become such a crucial part of Prince’s sound, and perhaps the key to his crossover success.

One early trademark of Prince’s sound that emerged nearly fully formed on ‘For You’ was the use of synthesizers in the place of horn sections. As he told the Minneapolis Tribune in an April 1978 interview: “By not using horns on this record, I could make an album that would sound different right away. So I created a different kind of horn section by multi-tracking a synthesizer and some guitar lines.”

The album was a modest sales success, and garnered Prince some national press attention, often focused on the “one-man band” angle. The next year on his self-titled sophomore album, Prince got more adventurous both lyrically and musically, and in 1980, he blew the doors down, delivering his first stone-cold masterpiece with the raw, lyrically provocative funk-and-punk blend of ‘Dirty Mind.’

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HENRICO COUNTY, Va. (WTVR) – The Walgreens at Mechanicsville Turnpike and E. Laburnum was robbed about 4 a.m. Friday, according  to Henrico Police.

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They say the robber took cash, but did not display a gun.

Police have released photos of the suspect who they described as a “black male, late 20’s – early 40’s, 5’8” – 5’10”, 150-170 lbs., wearing a dark colored ball cap with a white brim and a black zip up hooded sweatshirt.”

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Alabama State trustees rename Acadome

Montgomery, AL – - Alabama State University trustees have
renamed a campus arena in honor of two former basketball coaches.
The decision follows their 2008 vote to strip the name of a
prominent black political leader from the building.
The board voted Thursday to name the arena the Dunn-Oliver
Acadome, in memory of the two deceased coaches, Charles Johnson
"C.J." Dunn and James V. Oliver.
In May 2008, the board voted to remove the name of Joe Reed from
the domed building, which was known at the time as the Joe L. Reed
That vote came amid conflict between the board and Reed, who had
sued challenging severance pay for an outgoing president.
Other sports facilities on the ASU campus also were renamed. The
tennis complex will be called the Arthur Dennis Barnett Centre Court; the university's football complex will be known as the Houston Markham football complex; and the school's track and field at Hornet Stadium was renamed the Horace Crump Track.


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SMS Finance to Acquire La Perla

The financial services provider offered 69 million euros to purchase the floundering Italian lingerie brand.

MILAN — La Perla had no lack of suitors at the Court of Bologna this morning, when the floundering Italian luxury lingerie brand was the subject of an animated hearing and auction. In the end it was SMS Finance, the financial services provider owned by telecommunications entrepreneur Silvio Scaglia, which made the winning bid.

This story first appeared in the June 5, 2013 issue of WWD.  Subscribe Today.

It offered 69 million euros, or $90.3 million at current exchange, to acquire Bologna, Italy-based La Perla.

“We are absolutely enthusiastic, not only for the potential we see in the La Perla brand, but also in the company itself, which is extraordinary even if it has suffered a lot over the years,” said Scaglia, adding: “We are convinced that Made in Italy production is key to success and we believe in the importance of keeping the Bologna factory going.”

Less than a week ago, it seemed certain that Gruppo Calzedonia would add La Perla to its portfolio. The Verona, Italy-based hosiery, intimates and swimwear giant founded by Sandro Veronesi had been meeting with Bologna unions to discuss restructuring plans to save the jobs of hundreds of La Perla employees on government-funded leave.

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In an unexpected swirl of activity, however, SMS Finance and Israeli intimates manufacturer Delta Galil joined the fray, sending local media into a frenzy.

Following today’s hearing, Scaglia is expected to meet with Bologna unions to establish La Perla’s restructuring strategy. The money offered in the SMS Finance bid will go toward paying off La Perla’s debts and renting the company prior to the official acquisition.


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Today's entertainers are emulating Sinatra-style manhood, but only one is able to pull it off.

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There’s a sequence at the beginning of Justin Timberlake’s “Suit & Tie” video that stops me cold every time I see it. I’m sure you’ve seen it too, since the marketing campaign for the performer’s album The 20/20 Experience has bordered on harassment, but maybe you haven’t really noticed it.

In the scene, JT is hanging out with Jay-Z, who is featured on the track, in what looks like a hotel suite, judging from the number of fruit baskets in the shot and the minibar-size bottles of liquor arrayed on the coffee table.

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Jay-Z is in the foreground, lounging on a couch, watching basketball on a flat-screen. In one hand, he holds a rocks glass that looks like it contains Scotch neat. In the other, a cigar. It’s the kind of imagery that you’d expect from a man whose oeuvre includes songs called “Can’t Knock the Hustle” and “Regrets.”

Timberlake is in the back of the shot but he’s not smoking or drinking. Dressed in a checked button-down shirt that looks like it came from the wardrobe of Woody from Toy Story, 32-year-old JT is spooning something into his mouth from a cereal bowl that he’s palming. Juxtaposed with Jay-Z’s breakfast of champions, the cereal bowl (along with the Howdy Doody shirt) makes him look like a kid.

And that makes it really difficult for me to suspend disbelief for the David Fincher–directed, Tom Ford–costumed Rat Pack–meets–“Singin’ in the Rain” fantasy that follows.

“Let me show you a few things,” Timberlake sings as the camera cuts to him performing at a nightclub in a beautiful tuxedo and a new haircut that makes him look his age. And what he does show me is that he’s a supremely talented entertainer capable of emulating that 1960s Las Vegas vibe without bringing much of his own to the party aside from a few Michael Jackson–style dance moves. It’s a performance that manages to be sophisticated visually and adolescent artistically.

The Rat Pack has endured as a cultural touchstone for succeeding generations of men because its members brought so much personal baggage to their performances. They had lived and loved, succeeded and failed—and their songs were freighted with the wisdom and bitterness that came with those life lessons.

Or take another man with a beautiful falsetto like Timberlake’s: In 1978, Marvin Gaye was in his late thirties when he released Here, My Dear, a double album conceived as an alimony payment for his ex-wife, Anna Gordy. In this audio memoir of a failed marriage, Gaye’s voice is as sweet as ever but his subject matter is not. Here, My Dear, a commercial and critical flop when it was first released, is now hailed as a rough-hewn masterpiece of incredible honesty. It will only deepen your appreciation of Gaye and his work if you listen to it.

“Suit & Tie,” the song and the video, reveal little to me about Timberlake’s perspective on life except that it’s all good and, if the interpretation I’ve seen of his use of the word “fatty” in the lyrics is correct, that he appreciates his wife Jessica Biel’s curvaceous ass.

Have we entered a Peter Pan era of masculinity in which the symbols of American manhood—our pop stars, movie actors, and even political figures—come off like boys in men’s suits? While female artists as different from each other as Taylor Swift and Fiona Apple wear their hearts on their sleeves, the guys are behaving like Teflon-coated teenagers: well-groomed, eager to please, inscrutable.

The public seems to like it, too. The “History of Rap” videos Timberlake has created with his pal and confrere Jimmy Fallon, who is still giggly at age 38, amount to a Kidz Bop–style medley of vintage hip-hop—they’re pure emulation curated for the college crowd—but they’ve gotten millions of views.

It’s as if our citizenry is so overburdened with debt, war, and weather-related disasters that it prefers its pop culture to be delivered in easy bites that indulge our nostalgia and don’t require us to think. Bob Dylan or Leonard Cohen need not apply.

Manhood doesn’t really begin until the son figures out how to emerge from his father’s shadow, and Timberlake still seems to be struggling with the show-business giant that sired him: the Walt Disney Company, a corporation dedicated to extending adolescence into perpetuity and then monetizing it.

I was convinced he had broken free of his PG-13 bonds in 2006 when he released his accomplished second solo album, FutureSex/LoveSounds, and starred as the dumb two-bit drug dealer Frankie in Nick Cassavetes’ Alpha Dog. Both the album and Timberlake’s performance revealed something about the man.

But “Suit & Tie” feels like a regression. In fact, it’s not so different from another much-discussed performance featuring Timberlake—one from his Mickey Mouse Club days in the mid-1990s.

Type his name and “Cry for You” into any search engine and up comes another example of the adolescent posing as a worldly dude. This time, Timberlake and his fellow Mickey Mouse Club members are performing the Jodeci slow jam in the regrettably baggy and beige fashions of that moment.

Timberlake, who was in his early teens when he shot this segment, makes the little girls scream with his matinee-idol voice and his grown-up posing. Almost twenty years later, he hasn’t changed all that much.

Someone else in the video has changed, however.

Also singing “Cry for You” is a young Ryan Gosling, who was on The Mickey Mouse Club at the same time as Timberlake (along with Britney Spears and J.C. Chasez). Although Baby Goose, as the ladies like to call him, and JT are roughly the same age, Gosling looks goofily childlike in the video—he could have easily been a stand-in for Macaulay Culkin in Home Alone—and his boy-band hand moves are pretty ridiculous.

But that was then.

Like Timberlake, Gosling has evolved into quite the fashion plate. Unlike his fellow Mickey Mouse Club alumnus, he has put his Disney past well behind him. Weirdly, it was also a Cassavetes movie, the 2004 romantic weeper, The Notebook, that enabled Gosling to graduate to the adults’ table and secured for him a devotional female following. But rather than use the surprising (but still largely cult) success of that movie to star in a bunch of crappy big-budget rom-coms, Gosling has, instead, become our contemporary Clint Eastwood via a string of influential indie movies and, up next, his directorial debut. (Eastwood had his embarrassing Rowdy Yates period on Rawhide, Gosling had The Mickey Mouse Club.)

While Timberlake has cast his net wide—see Saturday Night Live—Gosling has gone deep: the strong, silent type with a slow-burn stare and a dry-ice sense of humor. If you’ve caught Gosling in Derek Cianfrance’s harrowing Blue Valentine or The Place Beyond the Pines or in Nicolas Winding Refn’s Drive, then you know that the cinematic persona he has developed is sui generis.

Gosling brings a wider emotional bandwidth to the screen than Eastwood did during his Man With No Name/Dirty Harry heyday. In The Place Beyond the Pines, his Luke Glanton character wears leather jackets, ripped-up heavy-metal T-shirts, and a lot of tattoos. (Those Mickey Mouse Club boys do tend to go heavy on the fashion symbolism.) And yet, despite the tough-guy imagery, he sheds a tear in church for the illegitimate son he discovers he has fathered. He also makes some difficult decisions and fateful mistakes based on his sense of responsibility for this child.

I don’t wear heavy-metal T-shirts or tattoos, but Gosling’s hard-bitten (if squeaky-voiced) portrayal of manhood in The Place Beyond the Pines felt authentic to me and to my 16-year-old son as well, who rolls his eyes at Justin Timberlake—Fugazi and The Dead Boys are more his speed—and asked me to see the movie with him.

There is a moment in “Suit & Tie” when the complexity of contemporary manhood is broached, but it doesn’t happen while Timberlake has the mic. It’s Jay-Z who brings the gravitas in his rap, a boast about his genre- and culture-transcending power that ends in a brief meditation on that most challenging aspect of manhood: love and marriage.

Tell your mother that I love her cause I love you
Tell your father we go farther as a couple
They ain’t lose a daughter, got a son
I show you how to do this, hun

Jay-Z’s time in the spotlight is the one aspect of “Suit & Tie” that does exude the seen-it-all soulfulness of the Rat Pack, beginning with the very Sinatra moment that Hova, drink in hand, takes his good goddamned time getting up off his stool to deliver his rap.

Jay’s interlude, by the way, contains the best lines of the track:

This is truffle season
Tom Ford tuxedos for no reason

That’s “My Way” in a hip-hop couplet, the words of a pauper, a pirate, and a poet who has earned the right to dress like a king.

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Nick Hart Lashes Out at Abercrombie

The designer is unhappy with the U.S. retailer's plans to open on Savile Row.

The august tailoring houses of the Savile Row Bespoke Association aren’t the only ones unhappy with Abercrombie & Fitch’s plans to open a Kids shop on the central London street that is synonymous with British tailoring. Nick Hart, founder of Spencer Hart, the menswear label that was founded with a store on the Row in 2002, has also hit out at the U.S. casual wear brand.

“What has happened is terrible, Savile Row is being destroyed by greedy landlords and that upsets me,” said Hart, who was recently in Singapore to open the city-state’s men’s fashion week. “I hate Abercrombie & Fitch being there. It’s incredibly disappointing. The government should protect this important street.”

Hart, whose 10-year-old brand is practically a newborn babe on the Row, also said that he was “not at all surprised” by the recent bankruptcy of British heritage label Aquascutum. “I’m really upset about it and it’s disgraceful but the [2009 acquisition of Aquascutum by Harold Tillman and Belinda Earl] did not make sense to me because it was sold without intellectual property rights. One factory I know was owed enormous amounts.”

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Thanksgiving Edition

Nov 23, 2011

Impromptu Turkey Gravy

Yields 3 cups

Turkey necks (2 - 3 if possible)
1 cup of vegetable parings (celery, onion, green onion, carrots - NO bell pepper)
3 1/2 cups water
1/4 cup bacon grease or vegetable oil
1/4 cup flour
1 onion chopped
1/4 teaspoon sage
1/4 teaspoon thyme
1 bay leaf
2 teaspoons Lea & Perrin
Hot sauce and salt to taste
2 tablespoons butter
2 tablespoons flour

Combine the turkey necks, vegetable parings and water in a saucepot. Bring to a boil, then reduce to a simmer and cook for 30 minutes. Strain and reserve stock (or use 3 cups boxed chicken stock.)

Make a roux by combining flour, bacon grease or oil, and cook together, stirring constantly until the roux is chocolate brown. Add onion and cook, continuing to stir for about 3 minutes until the roux is bittersweet chocolate brown. Whisk in the stock, add the herbs and simmer together for at least 20 minutes. Strain the onion bits out and add the Lea and Perrin and hot sauce and return to a simmer. Work the butter and flour together until they have the consistency of a paste. Whisk into the simmering gravy and cook for no longer than 3 minutes and serve.

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Mapping Particle Charges in Battery Electrodes Print

The deceivingly simple appearance of batteries masks their chemical complexity. A typical lithium-ion battery in a cell phone consists of trillions of particles. When a lithium-ion battery is charged or discharged lithium ions move from one electrode to another, filling and unfilling individual, variably-sized battery particles. The rates of these processes determine how much power a battery can deliver. Despite the technological innovations and widespread use of batteries, the mechanism behind charging and discharging particles remains largely a mystery, partly because it is difficult to visualize the motion of lithium ions for a significant number of battery particles at nanoscale resolution.

Building Better Batteries

A battery consists of many particles, and understanding how they work in synergy continues to be an important focus for this research team. Between the positive electrode (cathode) and negative electrode (anode), an electrolyte allows ions (in this case Li ions) to travel from cathode to anode during charging (and to return during discharge).

While at Sandia National Laboratories, Dr. Chueh began this research to make a better battery cathode. Now, as a faculty member in Stanford’s Materials Sciences & Engineering department, Chueh has expanded this research project to further explore battery chemistry, to understand in greater depth how charging and discharging happens in situ, while the battery charging is taking place. The STXM capabilities at ALS Beamline 5.3.2 and 11.0.2 allow researchers to not only map the particles’ charges in freeze frame, but also enable in situ tracking during the charge/discharge process.

State-of-charge mapping obtained via scanning transmission x-ray microscopy (left) and morphology obtained via transmission electron microscopy (right) of the same regions in the lithium iron phosphate composite electrode (A) 26 μm, (B) 18 μm, and (C) 6 μm from the Al current collector. Hue and brightness give the local state-of-charge and lithium iron phosphate thickness, respectively. Outlined in white are particles in which two phases coexist within the same LFP particle; all other particles are single phase, either lithium-rich (red) or lithium-poor (green).

Researchers from Sandia National Laboratories and Berkeley Lab used synchrotron-based scanning transmission x-ray microscopy (STXM) at ALS Beamlines 5.3.2 and 11.0.2 to probe the charging and discharging dynamics of lithium iron phosphate (LFP), a promising positive battery electrode. By tracking the movements of lithium ions, one can decipher the process that ultimately limits the rate of battery charge and discharge. Previous work focused on either the behavior of a single battery particle or the spatially averaged behavior of the entire battery electrode. STXM gives a microscopic “lithium map” with a resolution down to 10 nm for hundreds of battery particles at a time. This unique visualization of lithium distribution across multiple length scales has generated significant insights into lithium-ion battery charging and discharging.

Researchers first charged commercial-grade battery cells to 50% full in 30 minutes, mimicking real world conditions. Then, the battery cell was immediately disassembled and the liquid electrolyte removed to lock in the lithium distribution. Next the battery was sliced into thin pieces about 500 nm thick using an ultramicrotome. Finally, the samples were brought to the ALS, where Fe L-edge spectromicroscopy was performed to determine the nanoscale distribution of oxidation states. In the charged, or de-lithiated state, the material adopts an Fe3+PO4 composition, whereas in the discharged, or lithiated state, the cathode material adopts a LiFe2+PO4 composition. Therefore, the local Fe oxidation state can be used to directly determine the local lithium content.

STXM couldn’t quite resolve individual particles, especially those smaller than 100 nm; complementary transmission electron microscopy (TEM) was performed on the same regions to discern one particle from another.

Researchers analyzed and quantified the local state-of-charge of approximately 500 individual LFP particles over nearly the entire thickness of the porous electrode. Using the STXM lithium maps and the high-resolution TEM images, researchers found that LFP battery particles do not charge simultaneously. Instead, the locked-in lithium distribution indicates that only about 2% of the battery particles were actively undergoing charging. The rest of the particles were either already charged or were yet to be charged.

X-ray absorption line scans of select lithium iron phosphate particles. Particles 1 and 2 are single phase and the x-ray absorption spectra showed negligible variations within the particle. Particle 3 contains two phases, separated by a well-defined boundary. Reference spectra (heavy lines) of the limiting compositions are also shown for comparison.

This simple observation has a significant implication: The battery particles actively undergoing charging (2%) carry all of the electrical current. In other words, the local charging current is about 50 times higher than the overall charging current. The researchers propose that such behavior is due to the high nucleation barrier that limits the rate at which LFP becomes de-lithiated (charged).

These results confirm a mosaic (particle-by-particle) pathway of intercalation and suggest that the rate-limiting process of charging is initiating phase transformation. Therefore, strategies for further enhancing the performance of LFP electrodes should not focus on increasing the phase-boundary velocity but on the rate of phase-transformation initiation. Moving forward, the researchers will apply this powerful combination of techniques to study other battery chemistries.

Research conducted by: W.C. Chueh, F. El Gabaly, J.D. Sugar, N.C. Bartelt, A.H. McDaniel, K.F. McCarty, K.R. Fenton, and K.R. Zavadil (Sandia National Laboratories), T. Tyliszczak (ALS), and W. Lai (Michigan State Univ.).

Research funding: U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), Office of Basic Energy Sciences (BES); Sandia Truman Fellowship in National Security Science and Engineering; and Michigan State University. Operation of the ALS is supported by DOE BES.

Publication about this research: W.C. Chueh, F. El Gabaly, J.D. Sugar, N.C. Bartelt, A.H. McDaniel, K.R. Fenton, K.R. Zavadil, T. Tyliszczak, W. Lai, and K.F. McCarty, “Intercalation Pathway in Many-Particle LiFePO4 Electrode Revealed by Nanoscale State-of-Charge Mapping” Nano Lett. 13, 866 (2013).

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Sky Sports’ Gary Neville and Jamie Carragher gave an interesting insight into why they believed Jose Mourinho failed to pick any striker in his starting XI at Manchester United on Monday night.

Jamie Carragher’s kneejerk reaction to seeing Chelsea’s line-up at Old Trafford was to quip:

I wondering if he’s [Jose] sending a message to the owner in the stands. It’s obvious. We all know he wants Rooney. But he’s basically saying [to Chelsea’s forwards] you’re not good enough. I think thats what he’s telling everyone. Telling the world out there.

You could say it’s the end [for Fernando Torres] at Chelsea. I didn’t think he’d have too great a time with Mourinho. As soon as Jose came in, his quotes were quite negative about Torres… [In 2008-9 ] you wouldn’t have swapped him for anyone. But now? He can’t even get on the pitch… I don’t think we’ll ever see Torres come back to player we did see several years ago against Vidic at Old Trafford.

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(CNN) -- A summer climbing expedition in the French Alps turned to tragedy Thursday when a six-foot-thick wall of snow came crashing down on two groups of climbers, leaving at least nine dead, French police said.

Two people caught in the avalanche were found alive in the snow afterward, but at least four people remained missing, and French police said. Nine people were taken to a hospital with slight injuries.

The dead climbers include people from Germany, Britain, Spain and Switzerland, police said.

The nationalities of the missing are unknown, police said. There were also French climbers in the party.

Two groups of climbers were caught in the avalanche on the north side of Mont Maudit in the Mont Blanc range, near Chamonix on the French-Italian border, police said.

A total of 28 climbers in the two groups were connected by ropes, authorities in Annecy, France, said.

A mountain rescue unit was called out at 5:25 a.m. after the avalanche was triggered when a sheet of ice dislodged.

Some of the climbers managed to get themselves back to their base at the Refuge des Cosmiques.

The rescue operation is continuing, police said.

French Interior Minister Manuel Valls is to visit Chamonix on Thursday afternoon to see the rescue efforts, the Interior Ministry said in a written statement.

He was greatly saddened by the news and expressed profound sympathy and support for the victims and their families, the statement said.

Valls also paid tribute to the efforts of local police and rescue workers as they continued the search for any survivors trapped under the snow.

French newspaper Le Figaro quoted a Chamonix official as saying weather conditions had been good on Thursday morning, giving the climbers no clue that a deadly avalanche might be unleashed.

The route they took up Mont Maudit is often used by climbers tackling the mighty Mont Blanc, the newspaper said.

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ATLANTA -- The 2012 London Olympics begin Friday, and one of the best ways to get up-to-the-minute coverage of Team USA is to use social media.

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NBC has an Olympics app that allows viewers to connect with the Games, including individual events and athletes.

11Alive's own Karyn Greer and Chesley McNeil are covering the Olympics in London. Follow Karyn (@karyngreer), Chesley (@chesley11alive) and 11Alive photojournalist David Brooks (@cameramandavid) for some great local coverage. Use the hashtag #OlympicsATL when discussing Georgia-related topics.

Several of the Olympians with Georgia ties are also on Twitter:

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Hyleas Fountain, Track & Field | @Hept_Chic
Justin Gatlin, Track & Field | @justingatlin
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A large Dublin family is mourning a couple who died in Wednesday's wreck in I-16.

Clayton and Josephine Warnock were traveling to Atlanta for a medical appointment to check his pacemaker.

That's according to Catherine Baggett, Mrs. Warnock's daughter.

"They were both Christians, and they're with the Lord," she said,
"We're at peace with that."

Baggett said her mother was 74 and her stepfather around 80. They'd been married for more than 20 years, she said.

Clayton Warnock was a Laurens County native, who retired from the Forstmann textile mill. Her mother, a retired homemaker, moved to the area from east Texas, she said.

The couple had three children each and many grandchildren and great grandchildren.

They attended the Church of God in Dublin.

So far, Baggett said, authorities have not shared many details of what happened to the couple on Interstate 16 Wednesday morning. She said authorities have subpoenaed their dental records to assist in identifying them.

Funeral arrangements for the couple are not set.

Two other people died in the chain-reaction wrecks.

FedEx confirmed Thursday that one of them, Michael Smith of Covington, was driving a company truck driver for them.

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Sustainability In The Spotlight: “Down To Earth” Wine Book Giveaway!

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Aaaand, the giveaways are back, people!

This week, I’ve got two copies of The Wine Institute‘s new tome, “Down to Earth: A Seasonal Tour of Sustainable Winegrowing in California” to give away to some of you lucky folk.

As some of you possibly soon-to-be lucky folk already know, I rather enjoyed “Down to Earth” (I received a review copy). Janet Fletcher’s text is well-written, the organization of profiled wineries by season provides a helpful context of year-long sustainable farming, and the environmentally-focused efforts by the included wine brands are largely interesting. George Rose’s photography might be the real show-stealer in this one, though; as I wrote for

“Rose has a knack for being able to move between intimate subjects (people, animals, insects, and grapes) and larger contexts (hillsides, and vineyards) without losing a sense of the beauty and tranquility in either.”

Yeah, I just quoted myself, okay? Anyway, The book concludes with some interesting seasonal recipes as well, which is a nice bonus (well, it is when you have a significant other who happens to be a fantastic cook, like I do).

If you want to grab your own hardcover copy of “Down to Earth” (about $40 value), here’s the skinny on how it is all gonna go down…

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Win Tickets To #RiojaWeek Tapas Fest 2014 In NYC!

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Two words: Jamon Galleria.

That’s just one of the culinary delights that you can experience at the upcoming Rioja Week Tapas Fest and Grand Tasting taking place at Weylin B. Seymour’s in Brooklyn, NY on Saturday, May 3, 2014 at 1PM ET. The event will also feature a Casa de Tapas, a Paella and Vino Garden, a Cheese Cave, and something like 200 Rioja wines.

And three of you are going to get to go for free. Who loves ya, baby?!?

I’m excited to tell you that this month I’ve got a (paying) gig with Rioja Wines in which I will be taking part in Tapas Fest in NYC (mostly as a panel moderator for both geekified and introduction-style panel sessions about Rioja wine) as well as hosting a #RiojaBuzz Tweet Chat on April 24th at 8:30pm EST/5:30pm PST (during which we’ll start tasting through some Rioja goodness in lip-smacking anticipation of the NYC event).

I’ll naturally not be formally reviewing any Rioja juice here on 1WD until after that gig has ended. And at this point I’m not sure if I’m in it more for the excitement of how awesome this NYC event is going to be (I’ve seen the insider details on the culinary coolness that will be on hand, and my keyboard is wet from the Pavlovian salivation responses), the fact that I am getting paid, or just the chance to taste Rioja jamon again. Anyway, check out the crazy lineup for this event and you’ll see what I mean.

Now, me being me, I kind of forced my hand with the amiable Rioja Wine folks in order to get some of you at this event (you know, for moral support and all that)! So three lucky 1WD readers will get two tickets each to the Tapas Fest on May 3 at 1PM ET, along with a groovy gift bag of food-related goodies (see inset pic, total value about $150).

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Kicking Alzheimer’s Ass, One Donation At A Time! (ZinZig Wine Game Giveaway)

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This week on 1WD, it’s the time of year when we honor the memory of my late grandmother Lucille, a breast cancer survivor who succumbed to Alzheimer’s when in her 90s, and whose birthday I’d be celebrating in August if she were still alive today.

And so I’m one again asking you to please donate to the Alzheimer’s Association and help end this terrible disease. Let’s kick Alzheimer’s ass!

To help sweeten the deal (aside from the sweet goodness of the karma points given to you by the Universe for your donation, I mean), I will randomly select one of the donators to receive a new, un-played copy of ZinZig, The Wine Tasting and Trivia Board Game (about a $42 value). I got it as a sample for possible review, and the ZinZig folks probably had no idea that I’d end up using their product like this. But… since it’s a board game that my five year old daughter cannot play, there’s little chance of me getting to use it any time soon (which is a shame, because it looks pretty damn fun, and it’s an additional excuse to drink…).

The giveaway will be open to donations made today through August 20, 2013 at 8PM ET / 5PM PT. To be eligible, your donation needs to be made using the links provided here.

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Floyd Mayweather Says Victor Ortiz Lied About Life Story

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In one of 2011’s most anticipated fights, Floyd Mayweather Jr. (41–0, 25 KO) makes his long-awaited comeback versus “Vicious” Victor Ortiz (29–2–2, 22 KO) in a 12-round bout for Ortiz’s WBC welterweight title this Saturday on HBO PPV.

At today’s press conference, Floyd Mayweather stated that Ortiz’s story about his father abandoning him on HBO’s 24/7 series was fake, among other inconsistencies with his life story. Mayweather also stated that he is betting $2.5 million each against both Ortiz and Oscar De La Hoya, that he will win his fight on Saturday night.

The press conference otherwise went smooth, aside from Mayweather placing a box of tampons on the podium, which was quickly removed.

Bodog betting odds have the bout currently set at -650 for Mayweather and +450 for Ortiz. Mayweather is the 8-to-1 favorite to win.

Mayweather is reportedly receiving a guaranteed minimum payday of $40 million for the fight.

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When I had my car smoged the tech advised me the rear brakes were not operating!
When I tried to bleed the system starting at the right rear I found no pressure, no air or fluid would pass. The rear left had the same results.
This car has an ABS system with 2 supply ports from the Master Cyl which supply hydraulic output ports 1 for the front Clprs & 1 for the rear Clprs.
The port from the Mstr Cyl that supplies the rear Clprs via the ABS unit is not supplying any pressure.
The front system works fine.
The Mstr Cyl was replaced recently & should be working properly.
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November 28, 2009.

Hello .. thanks for the donation .. much appreciated

Sounds like the solonoid valve for the rear brakes is not opening !!

Independent of master cylinder pressure, hydraulic unit will compensate brake fluid pressure to wheel cylinders during regulation. Pressure increase above master cylinder pressure is not possible.
The 3 hydraulic unit solenoid valves control left front, right front and rear brakes. By activating valves with current of varying amperage, brake fluid pressure in individual calipers may be increased, held or decreased.
In pressure "build-up" stage, pressure increases by opening intake valve to pressure supplied by master cylinder. In pressure "holding" stage, which precedes "reduction" stage, pressure from hydraulic unit to wheels is constant. Output and input valves in solenoid valve are closed.
During pressure "reduction" stage, brake fluid flows from reservoir to return pump. To maintain fluid volume, pump returns fluid to main cylinder against prevailing pressure.
To dampen delivery noise, each circuit has a silencer. Relays for solenoid valves and return pump are on 12-pole socket of hydraulic unit. A diode is soldered in socket. Hydraulic unit is connected to ground by cable.
Fig. 1: Mercedes-Benz Automatic Brake System Component Location

Hope this helps

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Nov 28, 2009.
Your answer indicated the solenoid valve for the rear brakes is not opening.
OK, I assume these Solenoid Valves are located in the ABS Hydraulic Unit mounted in the left fwd area of the Engine compartment (as identified in your diagram in this area as the Electronic Control Unit).
Assuming this is the location of the Solenoid Valves I have a few questions: 1) Is there a way of isolating the problem between the Solenoid Valves, ABS Control Module & the Overload Protection Relay Module?
2) Are these Solenoid Valves part of an assembly of the ABS Hydraulic Unit?
In other words can they be removed, tested & /or replaced as needed in the ABS Hydraulic Unit?
Are there any pictures showing the assembly with its associated parts & how they go together?
3) Are there special procedures to follow for bleeding the system that I may have overlooked?
4) If the Solenoid Valves are found to be inoperative can they be replaced individually or does the entire ABS Hydraulic Unit need replacement?
5) I have looked around for replacement parts on the internet to no avail! Do you have any suggestions?

Nov 28, 2009.
The ABS Hydraulic control unit can only be tested with a special ABS tester from M/B and can only be replaced as a UNIT you cannot break it down to check it works ! .. I have a dealer part price for the ABS Hydraulic Unit of $2000.00 ... so you may want to look aftermarket/reconditioned or from a car recycle yard

NOTE:DO NOT drive vehicle with tester connected.

Connecting Tester
With ignition off, disconnect 35-pole connector of cable harness from electronic control unit.
Connect 35-pole connector to plug of ABS Test Adaptor (126-589-09-21-00). Make sure that all other electrical components are off before turning ignition on.
Connect multimeter to test adapter. This adapter permits testing the complete ABS system, except the electronic control unit.

Testing Internal Resistance Of Solenoid Valves

Set multimeter to "OHMS" position. Ignition off. Push ground button. Rotary switch moved successively to positions 8, 9 and 10.
Resistance should be 0.7-1.7 ohms. If internal resistance is under .07 ohms or over 1.7 ohms, go to step 3).
Check for poor contact at plug connector on hydraulic unit, interrupted connecting wires or defective hydraulic unit.

Testing Pressure Holding Of Solenoid Valves

Ignition on. Rotary switch moved successively to positions 8, 9 and 10. Spin respective wheel. Press "P" push button. Actuate brake pedal.
Wheel should permit turning and no brake force should build up. If not okay, go to step 3).
Check for defective motor relay, return pump, or solenoid valve. Replace as necessary.

Testing Pressure Reduction Of Solenoid Valve

Ignition on. Rotary switch moved successively to positions 8, 9 and 10. Actuate brake pedal. Press "P" button. Turn respective wheel.
Introduced brake force should be reducing. Return pump should be running. If not, proceed to step 3).
Check for defective motor relay, return pump, or solenoid valve. Replace as necessary.

NOTE:Stoplight switch is connected to 35-pole plug at pin 25.

Testing Overvoltage Protection Relay
Ignition on. Actuate brake pedal. LED indicator "0" should come on. If not, check connecting wires or replace stoplight switch.

On Isuzu and Jaguar models, start engine and run at idle. On all other models, exhaust all vacuum from power unit by depressing brake pedal several times.
Fill master cylinder, then install clear vinyl bleeder hose onto first bleeder valve to be serviced.
NOTE:On manual transmission vehicles where clutch master cylinder feeds from brake master cylinder, bleed clutch cylinder first.

Place other end of hose in clear glass jar.
3) Partially fill jar with clean brake fluid, so end of hose is submerged in fluid. Open bleeder valve 1-2 turns. Depress brake pedal slowly through its full travel.
4) Close bleeder valve, then release pedal. Pump pedal several times to push air toward wheel cylinders. Repeat procedure until flow of brake fluid is clear, and shows no signs of air bubbles. Proceed to next bleeder valves.
NOTE:Check fluid level in master cylinder frequently during the bleeding sequence.

hope this helps

Dave H
Dec 3, 2009.


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1/3 cup finely chopped onion
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1/4 teaspoon black pepper
18 French bread slices, about 1/4 inch thick

recipe directions
Combine beans, bell pepper and onion in large bowl. Whisk together vinegar, parsley, oil, garlic, oregano and black pepper in small bowl. Pour over bean mixture; toss to coat. Cover; refrigerate 2 hours or overnight. Arrange bread slices in single layer on large nonstick baking sheet or broiler pan. Broil, 6 to 8 inches from heat, 30 to 45 seconds or until bread slices are lightly toasted. Remove; cool completely. Top each toasted bread slice with about 3 tablespoons of bean mixture.

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Serves: 6 - Nutrition Information Per Serving:
calories total fat sat fat protein fiber sodium (mg) carbs ww pts
314 4 1 15 1 800 57 6
  • ingrid

    Love this recipe…made a couple of changes…first, for best results make a day in advance to allow flavors to mingle. The second day I added small whole wheat pasta shells and chopped spinach. It needed a bit more dressing so I added about a tablespoon or so of Italian dressing! Definitely spend the time to make the Crostini…makes the dish outstanding. Great for appy or light lunch.