College football previews: Friday night games

Here are previews of the Top 25 teams in action Friday night:

No. 24 Boise State at No. 13 Michigan State, 8 p.m. (ESPN)

Line: Michigan State by 7

Series Record: First meeting

WHAT'S AT STAKE

As usual, the opener shapes up as the best chance on Boise State's schedule for the Broncos to prove themselves against a team from one of college football's top conferences. They beat Virginia Tech and Georgia to open the last two seasons. Michigan State puts a 14-game home winning streak on the line.

KEY MATCHUP

Boise State quarterback Joe Southwick against Michigan State's defense. Southwick makes his first career start after spending two seasons backing up star Kellen Moore. Southwick is 40 for 54 for 400 yards with two touchdown passes in his career at Boise State. The Spartans lost defensive lineman Jerel Worthy to the NFL but return pass-rushing threat William Gholston and linebacker Max Bullough. The Spartans allowed only 18 points a game last season.

PLAYERS TO WATCH

Boise State: WR Matt Miller. With Moore and running back Doug Martin both gone, Miller may have a bigger role to fill after catching 62 passes for 679 yards and nine touchdowns last season.

Michigan State: QB Andrew Maxwell. The Spartans are replacing a talented quarterback too. Kirk Cousins is in the NFL now, leaving Maxwell to make his first career start this week.

FACTS & FIGURES

Boise State went 24-2 over the last two seasons. Michigan State went 22-5. ... Friday will mark the 12th night game in the 89-year history of Spartan Stadium. Michigan State is 7-4 in its previous 11 prime-time TV appearances at the venue. ... Boise State lost all four starters from last season's defensive line. ... Mark Dantonio's 44 wins are the most for a Michigan State coach in his first five seasons. ... Robert Prince takes over as Boise State's offensive coordinator after Brent Pease left to take the same job at Florida.

San Jose State at No. 21 Stanford, 10 p.m. (Pac-12 Network)

Line: Stanford by 26

Series Record: Stanford leads 50-14-1

WHAT'S AT STAKE

Redshirt junior Josh Nunes makes his first career start at quarterback and begins the post-Andrew Luck era in Stanford's first game since a 41-38 overtime loss to Oklahoma State in the Fiesta Bowl on Jan. 2. Junior college transfer David Fales also will make his first start at quarterback for San Jose State, which made great strides last year, going 5-7 in coach Mike MacIntyre's second season after posting a 1-12 record in 2010.

KEY MATCHUP

San Jose State's run defense vs. Stanford's run offense. Luck was hardly needed in Stanford's 57-3 romp over San Jose State last season. The Cardinal piled up 141 yards rushing on 40 carries and the Spartans could do nothing to slow a physical offensive line.

PLAYERS TO WATCH

Stanford: RB Stepfan Taylor. The senior running back could probably be penciled in this spot every week, but he could be especially important with a first-time starting quarterback in the opener. With 1,330 yards rushing last season, Taylor became just the third back in school history to rush for 1,000 yards in consecutive seasons, joining Darrin Nelson (1977-78) and Toby Gerhart (2008-09).

San Jose State: Fales. Any chance the Spartans have for an upset will fall on Fales to do something special. He completed 61.8 percent of his passes for 4,635 yards and 37 touchdowns in two seasons at Monterey Peninsula College before transferring to San Jose State before spring practice.

FACTS & FIGURES

Stanford has won the last four meetings. ... San Jose State's last victory against a ranked team was a 27-24 win over No. 9 TCU at Spartan Stadium on Nov. 4, 2000. The Spartans are winless against 19 ranked teams since. ... San Jose State had six fumbles and lost three in last year's season opener at Stanford Stadium. ... The annual contest is still referred to as the Bill Walsh Legacy Game. Walsh, the Hall of Fame coach of the 49ers, graduated from San Jose State and had two coaching stints at Stanford. Walsh's last stint (1992-94) came when Cardinal coach David Shaw was a wide receiver. Walsh died in 2007.

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Japan's best-known toilet maker on Wednesday unveiled a "poop-powered" motorcycle that can travel as far as 180 miles on a tank filled with animal waste.

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Billed as the world's first waste-powered vehicle, the three-wheeler has a toilet in place of a regular seat and huge paper roll at the back.

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But as a young female model climbed aboard for a test drive Wednesday, toilet giant TOTO was quick to point out that she would not supply the "gas."

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"The biogas it uses as fuel is not made from human waste. It's made from livestock waste and sewage," Kenji Fujita, a company spokesman, told reporters in a Tokyo suburb.

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"We hope to raise awareness among customers about our green campaign through development of environmentally-friendly products such as water-saving showerheads and water-saving toilets," Fujita added.

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The company ? which makes toilets equipped with an array of features including heated seats, water jets with pressure and temperature controls, and ambient background music ? has no plans to commercialize the motorcycle.

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Bright Arctic clouds formed by exhaust from final space shuttle launch

ScienceDaily (Aug. 28, 2012) ? Naval Research Laboratory scientist Dr. Michael Stevens is leading an international consortium of scientists in tracking the rapid transport of the exhaust plume from the final launch of the space shuttle in July 2011. The team has found that the plume moved quickly to the Arctic, forming unusually bright polar mesospheric clouds (PMCs) there a day after launch.

Understanding the rapid transport of high altitude exhaust plumes near 105 km is providing new insight into the effects of winds at the bottom edge of the space weather regime towards improved forecasts of the co-located E-region of the ionosphere. This knowledge is critical for improving models of communication signal propagation and over-the-horizon-radar, explains Dr. Stevens, a Research Physicist in NRL's Space Science Division. Current theories suggest that the plumes are rapidly transported because of narrow, high-speed wind shears. These wind shears are also linked to the occurrence of so-called Sporadic E events, thus establishing a possible link between plume transport and the lower ionosphere.

During every launch, the space shuttle injects about 350 tons of water vapor from its three main engines off the east coast of the United States between 100 and 115 km altitude. Many studies have now shown that the poleward transport of this water vapor is much faster than global-scale models predict, and a few have furthermore shown that bursts of PMCs near 83 km altitude can result. These observations are forcing researchers to reexamine their understanding of global wind patterns in the lower thermosphere.

The long-term PMC record is also likely to be modified by increased space traffic, which is important because PMCs have been implicated as indicators of upper atmospheric climate change, explains Dr. Stevens. By assembling a suite of satellite and ground-based observations following the space shuttle's final launch, the NRL-led research team has revealed the nature of these shuttle clouds for the first time. The observations from both European and American collaborators show not only the rapid poleward transport of the plume and ensuing PMC formation, but that shuttle clouds are brighter than over 99% of all other PMCs and that the ice particles are larger at higher altitudes, which is the opposite of conventional models.

By allowing researchers to distinguish the shuttle PMCs from more typical clouds, these results will ultimately enable a search of the historical record to separate the anthropogenic PMCs from the natural PMCs.

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1. Michael H. Stevens, Lance E. Deaver, Mark E. Hervig, James M. Russell, David E. Siskind, Patrick E. Sheese, Edward J. Llewellyn, Richard L. Gattinger, Josef H?ffner, B. T. Marshall. Validation of upper mesospheric and lower thermospheric temperatures measured by the Solar Occultation for Ice Experiment. Journal of Geophysical Research, 2012; 117 (D16) DOI: 10.1029/2012JD017689

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Pretend play may not be as crucial to child development as believed, new study shows

ScienceDaily (Aug. 28, 2012) ? Pretend play can be fun for preschool children, but a new University of Virginia study, published in the current online edition of the journal Psychological Bulletin, finds that it is not as crucial to a child's development as currently believed. Pretend play is any play a child engages in, alone, with playmates, or with adults, that involves uses of the imagination to create a fantasy world or situation, such as making toy cars go "vrrooooom" or making dolls talk.

Based on a number of key studies over four decades, pretend play is widely considered by psychologists -- and teachers and parents -- to be a vital contributor to the healthy development of children's intellect.

However, the new U.Va. study -- a thorough review of more than 150 studies -- looked for clearly delineated contributions of pretend play to children's mental development, and found little or no correlation.

Much of the previously presented "evidence" for the vitality of pretend play to development is derived from flawed methodology, according to Angeline Lillard, the new study's lead author and a U.Va. professor of psychology in the College of Arts & Sciences. She said testers might have been biased by knowledge that they were testing children who had engaged in adult-directed pretend play prior to testing.

"We found no good evidence that pretend play contributes to creativity, intelligence or problem-solving," Lillard said. "However, we did find evidence that it just might be a factor contributing to language, storytelling, social development and self-regulation."

She said it is often difficult for psychologists to separate whether children who engage in pretend play are already creative and imaginative, or if the pretend play, often encouraged by parents or teachers, actually promotes development.

"When you look at the research that has been done to test that, it comes up really short," Lillard said. "It may be that we've been testing the wrong things; and it may well be that when a future experiment is really well done we may find something that pretend play does for development, but at this point these claims are all overheated. This is our conclusion from having really carefully read the studies."

Lillard emphasized that various elements often present during pretend play -- freedom to make choices and pursue one's own interests, negotiation with peers and physical interaction with real objects -- are valuable, especially with appropriate levels of adult guidance.

These conditions exist both in pretend play and in other playful preschool activities that encourage children to discover their own interests and talents, such as the method used in Montessori schools.

Pretend play is also important diagnostically for children between 18 months and 2 years old, Lillard said. A complete absence of pretend play among children of that narrow age range could indicate autism, and suggests that such children be evaluated for other signs of the neurological disorder.

A growing problem, she said, is a trend in schools toward intensively preparing children for tests -- often supplanting organized and informal playtime, leading to a debate over whether early childhood curricula should include materials and time for pretend play.

"Playtime in school is important," Lillard said. "We found evidence that -- when a school day consists mostly of sitting at desks listening to teachers -- recess restores attention and that physical exercise improves learning."

Regarding pretend play, she said, "If adults enjoy doing it with children, it provides a happy context for positive adult-child interaction, a very important contributor to children's healthy development."

Stephen Hinshaw, editor of Psychological Bulletin and a professor of psychology at the University of California at Berkeley, said, "The article by Lillard and colleagues is a game-changer -- a paragon of carefully-reasoned evidence that will challenge the play-based domination of the early-childhood field for years to come."

Lillard's graduate student co-authors are Rebecca Dore, Emily Hopkins, Matthew Lerner, Carrie Palmquist and Eric Smith.

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Bonanza of black holes, hot DOGs: NASA's WISE survey uncovers millions of black holes

ScienceDaily (Aug. 29, 2012) ? NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) mission has led to a bonanza of newfound supermassive black holes and extreme galaxies called hot DOGs, or dust-obscured galaxies.

Images from the telescope have revealed millions of dusty black hole candidates across the universe and about 1,000 even dustier objects thought to be among the brightest galaxies ever found. These powerful galaxies, which burn brightly with infrared light, are nicknamed hot DOGs.

"WISE has exposed a menagerie of hidden objects," said Hashima Hasan, WISE program scientist at NASA Headquarters in Washington. "We've found an asteroid dancing ahead of Earth in its orbit, the coldest star-like orbs known and now, supermassive black holes and galaxies hiding behind cloaks of dust."

WISE scanned the whole sky twice in infrared light, completing its survey in early 2011. Like night-vision goggles probing the dark, the telescope captured millions of images of the sky. All the data from the mission have been released publicly, allowing astronomers to dig in and make new discoveries.

The latest findings are helping astronomers better understand how galaxies and the behemoth black holes at their centers grow and evolve together. For example, the giant black hole at the center of our Milky Way galaxy, called Sagittarius A*, has 4 million times the mass of our sun and has gone through periodic feeding frenzies where material falls towards the black hole, heats up and irradiates its surroundings. Bigger central black holes, up to a billion times the mass of our sun, may even shut down star formation in galaxies.

In one study, astronomers used WISE to identify about 2.5 million actively feeding supermassive black holes across the full sky, stretching back to distances more than 10 billion light-years away. About two-thirds of these objects never had been detected before because dust blocks their visible light. WISE easily sees these monsters because their powerful, accreting black holes warm the dust, causing it to glow in infrared light.

"We've got the black holes cornered," said Daniel Stern of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., lead author of the WISE black hole study and project scientist for another NASA black-hole mission, the Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR). "WISE is finding them across the full sky, while NuSTAR is giving us an entirely new look at their high-energy X-ray light and learning what makes them tick."

In two other WISE papers, researchers report finding what are among the brightest galaxies known, one of the main goals of the mission. So far, they have identified about 1,000 candidates.

These extreme objects can pour out more than 100 trillion times as much light as our sun. They are so dusty, however, that they appear only in the longest wavelengths of infrared light captured by WISE. NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope followed up on the discoveries in more detail and helped show that, in addition to hosting supermassive black holes feverishly snacking on gas and dust, these DOGs are busy churning out new stars.

"These dusty, cataclysmically forming galaxies are so rare WISE had to scan the entire sky to find them," said Peter Eisenhardt, lead author of the paper on the first of these bright, dusty galaxies, and project scientist for WISE at JPL. "We are also seeing evidence that these record setters may have formed their black holes before the bulk of their stars. The 'eggs' may have come before the 'chickens.'"

More than 100 of these objects, located about 10 billion light-years away, have been confirmed using the W.M. Keck Observatory on Mauna Kea, Hawaii, as well as the Gemini Observatory in Chile, Palomar's 200-inch Hale telescope near San Diego, and the Multiple Mirror Telescope Observatory near Tucson, Ariz.

The WISE observations, combined with data at even longer infrared wavelengths from Caltech's Submillimeter Observatory atop Mauna Kea, revealed that these extreme galaxies are more than twice as hot as other infrared-bright galaxies. One theory is their dust is being heated by an extremely powerful burst of activity from the supermassive black hole.

"We may be seeing a new, rare phase in the evolution of galaxies," said Jingwen Wu of JPL, lead author of the study on the submillimeter observations. All three papers are being published in the Astrophysical Journal.

The three technical journal articles, including PDFs, can be found at http://arxiv.org/abs/1205.0811, http://arxiv.org/abs/1208.5517 and http://arxiv.org/abs/1208.5518 .

JPL manages and operates WISE for NASA's Science Mission Directorate, Washington. The principal investigator, Edward Wright, is at UCLA. The mission was competitively selected under NASA's Explorers Program managed by the Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md. The science instrument was built by the Space Dynamics Laboratory, Logan, Utah, and the spacecraft was built by Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp., Boulder, Colo. Science operations and data processing and archiving take place at the Infrared Processing and Analysis Center at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena. Caltech manages JPL for NASA.

More information is online at http://www.nasa.gov/wise, http://wise.astro.ucla.edu and http://jpl.nasa.gov/wise .

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Following Australia?s performance at the Olympics, which some say was less than acceptable, the head of the Australian Olympic Committee John Coates has advocated for increased spending on grassroots sports.

This is in line with the 2009 Crawford Report, which also advocates for increasing the proportion of total monies allocated to grassroots sports.

This is not a controversial idea, and one that perhaps most Australians would also support. Indeed, sports participation has many physiological and psychosocial benefits for young people.

Recently, Craig Foster has suggested that football is in a better position than most other sports to drive an initiative that is aimed at increasing the number and experience of youth sport participants.

Football has 360,000 participants nationwide from the ages of 5-14, thus making it the number one participation sport in the country for boys and number six for girls.

Further, FIFA, unlike any other major sporting body, has systematically undertaken scientific research which demonstrates the significant health benefits that are derived from football participation. These include positive effects on fitness, strength, skeletal health, self-esteem, social skills and quality of life.

The FFA has worked hard over recent years to overhaul the ?system? of youth football in Australia. Certainly the advances made by way of small-sided-games and the national curriculum have been substantial. However, these changes have served the sole purpose of generating players with a higher technical and tactical proficiency.

The ultimate aim, of course, is to have better players competing at a higher level, thereby lifting Australia to be one of the top footballing countries worldwide.

More importantly we have to ask how have these changes served to increase the positive experiences of our young footballers? How have they served to maintain and increase the participation base of football to ensure its competitive advantage in this space? And, how have they served the physiological and psychosocial development of young players?

The changes that have been made to the education of coaches in Australia epitomise the overhauls made by the FFA ?system-wide?. The community coach education courses have been enhanced through the addition of a coherent framework of technical and tactical education.

Thus coaches are able to produce more highly skilled and tactically astute players (assuming, of course, that the coach can actually pass on this information to players).

However, coaching is never this simple. Indeed, by maintaining a focus on technical and tactical knowledge, our coach education courses leave coaches absolutely unprepared to facilitate any meaningful personal gains for young athletes.

Where is the information on how to build a meaningful positive relationship with a young player? Where is the information on athlete development and skill acquisition?

Where is the information on communication and leadership?

These glaring omissions reinforce the narrow focus of the FFA at the exclusion of all else.

No coach ? young or old ? could ever walk away from a community coaching course feeling prepared to handle a team of young players. How do they deal with misbehaviour? How do they deal with bullying? How do they deal with the parents?

These questions remain unanswered in the service of trying to develop ?better? players.

But let?s face the truth, until coaches can be taught the necessary skills within the coach education system, Australia will reap no reward in terms of increasing its participant base, providing a better experience for young players, or (given that coaches will have no idea about how to teach the technical and tactical knowledge that they receive) even more skillful players.

The FFA must get this right. However, this will require a change of mindset. A change of philosophy. Great players, and great footballing nations, are not built solely and technically and tactical proficiency. They are built on a football culture.

The FFA needs to change the goal posts and realise that overhauling the ?system? can only be an overwhelmingly positive thing when those changes serve the vast majority of footballers in this country ? the young participants ? who will go on to form the backbone of Australia?s footballing culture in the years to come.

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Warm Arctic sets record for summer sea ice melt

WASHINGTON (AP) ? Scientists say critical ice in the Arctic Ocean melted to record low levels this overheated summer.

The National Snow and Ice Data Center reported Monday that the extent of Arctic sea ice shrank to 1.58 million square miles and is likely to melt more in the coming weeks. That breaks the old record of 1.61 million square miles set in 2007. Figures are based on satellite records dating back to 1979.

Data center scientist Ted Scambos says the melt can be blamed mostly on global warming from man-made emissions of greenhouse gases.

Scientists say Arctic sea ice ? ocean water that freezes ? helps moderate temperatures lower on the globe and is crucial for polar bears. Greenland has also had record melt this year.

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EGH Media visited Chillingham Castle, reputedly one of Europe?s most haunted locations. The guys teamed up with head ghost tour guide Graham Burney and produced a show full of psychic work, ghost stories and history all rolled into one.

Michael Voris spent a number of years working as a CBS affiliate anchor, producer and reporter, in various markets, winning multiple Emmys for his work in broadcast news. Join us as he talks about the impact of the "New Media" internet based programming.

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The Drew Show welcomes from America's Got Talent Singer Bria Kelly. Bria was selected out of Millions on YouTube to be a contestant on this season of America's Got Talent!

Buffalo welcomes Oscar winning actor, director, writer and musician Billy Bob Thornton to discuss movies, music an life. We also welcome members of the band Royal Southern Brotherhood.

Iconic filmmaker Spike Lee will be joining us this week on PDC Live!! to discuss his latest film Red Hook Summer, a venture back to the universe he created originally in Do The Right Thing.

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Parenting Advice (language warning) | Step Talk

OK, for those of you who have read my blogs, you know that my DH's grandmother83 lives with us. Not my decision. I am married to him, I signed up for SM world with SS5, and apparently that also means having DH's entire family force GM on us.

GM insists on making comments about DH's parenting of SS5. This irks my nerves to no end. The second I have a baby and she tries to give me advice, she is in for a world of fucking hurt.

I believe that you lose your right to give any parently advice what-so-ever when you kick your 16 year old grandson and legally adopted son (aka DH) out of the house when he is 16 for no reason. The bitch made him homeless at 16 for reasons no body knows, and thinks that she has the right to tell DH how to parent. We have SS5 eowe. I make a pitcher of kool aid on Friday and that is what SS will drink when he is hear, unless he specifically asks for something else. If SS just asks for a drink, have some kool aid. Every Sunday morning when we are having breakfast(and I cook a big sunday breakfast with pancakes made from scratch, eggs, and sausage) this woman feels the need to make some comments as to why don't we give SS milk.

DH gets pissed every time. SS has a glass of kool aid in front of him. I know it isn't the most nutritious thing in the world, but we are on a tight budget and only having him EOWE, it won't kill him. DH throws down his utensils, storms off to the kitchen making comments about "well, I guess I will stop eating my breakfast because SS needs some milk. Nevermind that he has a drink in front of him." Well, GM starts saying more things, you should give him orange juice (we don't have any, she sees my Sunny D which I take to work with me every morning. That is mine, don't offer it to anyone, I will become mega bitch if I run out before the week is over. This is due to the fact that my brother would have friends over when we were teenagers and they would wipe out my supply. I am now very territorial with my food.) DH comes out of the kitchen with a glass of milk for SS and a glass of my sunny D. Both are still sitting on the table, along with SS's glass of kool aid. Why, because SS didn't want any of it. GM just had to be a pain in the ass, so DH did this to make her shut up.

Did this make her shut up... NO! it made her bitch even more because now SS has too much to drink. SS would have had too much to drink with just one of the two things that DH brought out... why? Because you dumbass, HE ALREADY HAD A DRINK! ugh... I hate my life sometimes. I have been trying to cope with this, as best as I can. I am thankful I will be taking classes this semester, so I will get an extra few hours out of the house.

Thank you for letting me vent. I really appreciate it. I can't say anything to DH because it just pisses him off that I can't stand GM. When in reality, neither can he.

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Henson set to miss rugby season start

Gavin Henson could miss the start of the new English Premiership season after the former Wales three-quarter suffered a suspected fractured cheekbone in London Welsh's 23-17 friendly loss against Llanelli Scarlets.

Henson suffered the injury in a tackle by Deacon Manu in the opening minute and before being replaced shortly before half-time.

He now faces a fight to be fit to race Leicester on September 2.

"We're hoping for the best, but if it's the worst he's not the first player to get injured and we'll just have to be patient and deal with it," head coach Lyn Jones told London Welsh's website on Sunday.

Henson was taken to hospital and given X-rays and tests after he was tackled by Deacon Manu in the first minute of the match.

Jones added: "These are things you've got to deal with in rugby. You've got to deal with thunderbolts all the time.

"No player wants to get injured in a pre-season friendly because it's hugely frustrating because of all the hard work that's been done leading up to the start of the season."

The 30-year-old Henson was sacked by Cardiff Blues, his fourth club in little more than a year, in April over his drunken behaviour on a flight returning from a game in Glasgow.

Henson played an integral part in Wales' 2005 and 2008 Grand Slam campaigns but injuries and off-field problems have interrupted a career that also includes a tour of New Zealand with the British and Irish Lions seven years ago.

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Check out Samsung, LG, and Sony LED TV price in India

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Request Reprint | Print | About Author | Report Problem | Tweet This LED TVs are truly a totally new experience in the entertainment world. Entertainment now comes in a new version and provides ultimate viewing experience. There are plenty of reasons why people want to buy LED TVs for their homes. The LED TVs price in India is now a bit higher, but if you choose smaller screen, the prices can be much lower as compared to the larger screens. Although they are a little bit expensive, people love the clarity, the technology used to generate clear and sharp sound and looks that are unmatched to any other TV sets manufactured so far. Samsung LED TVs provide excellent quality TV sets that are very popular among the people who love home entertainment.

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You get various models in the LED TVs, which are smaller or larger based on the screen of the monitor. If you check out the range of LG, you will notice that they have good looking TV sets that are made to suit any d?cor. Apart from providing sharper picture quality, the LED TVs are very attractive to look and have a smart built to it. They are not the box type that people used to get many years back. They now come in sleek models, and are very thin. They have created a revolution in the entertainment world with their compact size and shape. The Sony produces super thin LED TVs that are great to hand on the wall and also place it on any top with the stand provided by the brand.

The LED TV price in India differs from brand to brand and due to advancement in technology the prices are definitely going to be more affordable. Samsung have already come out with their budget range and have built the sets without any compromise in the quality of display, while the LG have manufactured with the latest range of sets that will suit the various needs of the people. The TVs are also great for home theaters as the contrast ratio is great and provide real life images. Sony has more to boost of, they are slimmer and lighter.

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Essential Things To Know About Sportfishing |

Throughout time, sportfishing has been a traditions shared by a few historical ethnicities as a type of sustenance, job and an activity. Like anything else, you need to have the right details and suggestions to experience a good day fishing in your community body of water. This informative article supplies several strategies for anybody planning to go sport fishing.

When sport fishing, it may be beneficial to examine your sport fishing line. Make use of list finger and thumb to examine the spot on top of the connect, up to 18 ins. If you discover any locations that include knots, kinks, or frays, make the grade off the range and retie the fishing line on the hook in order to avoid any troubles although sportfishing.

Make time to look at the sportfishing range on a regular basis to be sure that they have not frazzled, knotted or kinked. When it is then cut out the bad piece and after that re-knot it onto the appeal. You may not want to be reeling in the species of fish only to achieve the line click.

Change the hues of the lure or lures you are using. Once you change the colors of the lures, you may be a new challenge in water. This may be ample to alter a sub-par sportfishing journey in to a fantastic sport fishing getaway. Distinct species of fish is going to be interested in various colors, so don?t forget to play with it.

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Nelson Shanks - Lines and Colors

I had the pleasure on Wednesday night of attending a figure painting demonstration by Nelson Shanks at Studio Incamminati here in Philadelphia.

Shanks is a well known and highly regarded American artist and teacher, known in particular for his portraits of iconic contemporary figures.

His work has been exhibited in numerous museums and prestigious galleries, and his commissioned portraits include U.S. presidents Bill Clinton and Ronald Reagan, Princess Diana of England, Queen Silvia of Sweden, Pope John Paul II, Luciano Pavarotti, the Chairman of the Board of the Museum of Modern and of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and many others.

Shanks has been a professor at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia and a visiting professor in Fine Arts at George Washington University in Washington, as well as conducting seminars at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and the New York Academy of Art, and teaching at the Art Students League in new York, the National Academy of Design and the Art Institute of Chicago.

His style is academically precise and refined, but vibrates with lively color and a sense of life that artists with a similar approach sometimes lack. Not only does he communicate the personality of his subject, sometimes in quite subtle ways, Shanks? feeling for the tactile presence of the objects surrounding his subjects often gives his portraits an undercurrent of the appeal of fine still life painting.

He studied at the Art Students League, additionally pursuing independent study with artists like John Koch. His skill and dedication earned him grants that enabled travel in Europe and study at the Accademia di Bell Arti in Florence with Pietro Annigoni.

Shanks? experience as a painter, his grounding in traditional art training and his experience as a teacher came together in the establishment of Studio Incamminati, an atelier style not for profit school in Philadelphia dedicated to instructing ?those who are progressing?, which is the meaning of the name.

The studio was co-founded with his wife, painter Leona Shanks, and grew out of a series of workshops conducted in the late 1990?s that indicated the need for the kind of immersive and dedicated instruction in ?humanist realism? this kind of atelier could provide.

Nelson Shanks?s dedication to the studio includes occasional painting demos, in which he does portrait or figure painting in sessions that attract attention and new students to the school.

The session that I attended with filled to capacity with a mix of existing students and paying visitors who, except for breaks, sat in silence, enrapt for the three hour session while shanks worked from the model. Starting with a blank toned canvas, he brought his study to the state shown in the image above, bottom, in what was probably less than two and a half hours of actual painting time.

My snapshot doesn?t do it justice, but the study includes a rich variety of color, particularly in the shadows, and a wonderful economy of brushwork. Watching someone at Shanks? level paint is like a condensed course of instruction in itself, and I recommend it to anyone who has the opportunity to attend a similar session.

You can get a rough idea of what his demos are like from a brief, time-compressed video on YouTube. In addition, Matthew Inness has an article about a demo at the National Arts Club in 2011, and painter William Secombe gives a description of a similar demo at the Art Student?s League from 2009.

There is also a video available on YouTube, The Portrait as Fine Art, in which Shanks briefly discusses his philosophy of painting and which includes nice close up views of some of his paintings, supplementing the limited selection and somewhat small size of the images on his website.

You can find some larger images of his work on the Art Renewal Center (and here).

In 2011 Shanks became only the second American painter for which there was a dedicated exhibition at the State Russian Museum in St. Petersburg. The show was later on display at the Russian Academy of Art in Moscow.

While in St. Petersburg, Shanks conducted workshops at the Repin Instutute. There is a video about the exhibition that gives additional brief views of some of his paintings (and offers a glimpse of the artist?s studio in Bucks County).

There are additional videos available on YouTube, with interviews and events that sometimes include scenes from painting demos. I?ve listed what other resources I could find below. There was apparently a collection of his work printed in 1996, but I can?t find much information about the book.

I admire the fact that Nelson Shanks was a staunch defender of the traditions or realist art during periods in which that was quite difficult. He continues to champion the teaching of those traditions and, through both his personal influence and through Studio Incamminati, works to bring the benefit of his experience to a new generation of artists.

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