2012年4月27日星期五

To get your socks knocked off with laughter by the hilarious

So many of the descriptions of Appalachian State wide receiver Brian Quick are that he is a raw player with outstanding potential. Well, the St. Louis Rams think he isn't far louis vuitton sunglasses sale from maximizing his skills. The NFC West club selected Quick with the first pick of the second round of the NFL Draft Friday night with the 33rd overall selection. He is the highest pick ever from Appalachian State, surpassing linebacker Dino Hackett, who held the distinction for 26 years after the Kansas City Chiefs selected him with the 35th overall pick in the second round of the 1986 NFL Draft. Quick is still developing his skills considering he didn't start playing football until his senior year of high school, having been a former basketball player and high jumper. The 6-foot-3 1/2, 220-pound Quick, from Columbia, S.C., rose quickly during his career at Appalachian state. He set school records in receptions (202), receiving louis vuitton men bags yards (3,418) and touchdown catches (31), collecting 71 receptions for 1,096 yards and 11 touchdowns as a senior while becoming a Walter Payton Award finalist. Quick is ASU's 23rd all-time NFL Draft pick and the seventh in the last five years He is considered a terrific boundary receiver, and capable of developing into a red-zone threat with his good size and a 34-inch vertical leap. To get your socks knocked off with laughter by the hilarious Jason Segel or play detective with John Cusack? This weekend’s box office battle is between two completely opposite movies that both ladies and gents can enjoy! The two films battling it out this weekend are The Bestseller louis vuitton shoes for men discount on sale 2012 blue Five-Year Engagement and The Raven. One a romantic comedy while the other a thriller mystery. Though the films look very intriguing there can only be one on top. So let’s take a look at both films and it break down! First up we have funny-man Jason Segal alongside the adorable and quirky Emily Blunt in The Five-Year Engagement. The film written by Jason and Nicolas Stoller, the duo that has brought us Forgetting Sarah Marshall and viewer fav The Muppets bring audiences a rom com about two love-birds and their unplanned long wedding engagement. Shortly after proposing Blunt’s character Violet gets a once in a lifetime opportunity that delays their wedding plans. As time goes by and more obstacles get in the way the engagement continues to be extended. Filled with tons of humor, excitement and Segal as the leading man you know this comedy will be filled with twist and turns and great laughs!

2012年4月26日星期四

Marino was the sixth quarterback taken in that first round

The Tampa Bay Buccaneers have selected Alabama cheap louis vuitton sunglasses safety Mark Barron with the seventh pick of the NFL draft. Barron will be plugged into a defense that was among the worst in the NFL a year ago, when the Bucs went 4-12 and allowed a franchise-record 30.9 points per game. Tampa Bay began the night with the fifth pick. But after Cleveland moved up one spot to No. 3 to ensure they’d get Alabama running back Trent Richardson, the Bucs traded down to No. 7 in a deal that also landed a fourth-round pick from Jacksonville. Cornerback Morris Claiborne also was high of the Bucs’ wish list. However, Dallas pulled off a deal with St. Louis to move up eight spots to No. 6 to take the former LSU star. Copyright 2012 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. For the first time in 29 years, the Dolphins placed their biggest bet in the craps game that is the NFL Draft on a quarterback. The Dolphins took Texas A&M quarterback Ryan Tannehill with the No. 8 overall pick in the draft Thursday night. Tannehill’s the first quarterback the Dolphins have louis vuitton hairpin used a first round pick on since they chose future Hall of Famer Dan Marino, who played more seasons and games than anyone in Dolphins history, with the penultimate pick of 1983’s fabled first round. Marino was the sixth quarterback taken in that first round. Tannehill was the third Thursday, behind expected Nos. 1 and 2 overall, Stanford’s Andrew Luck (Indianapolis) and Baylor’s Robert Griffin III (Washington). Tannehill had only 19 starts in college after converting to wide receiver early in his college career, then going back to quarterback in the middle of the 2010 season under then-A&M coach Mike Sherman, now the Dolphins offensive coordinator. A flurry of trades marked the early first round. Cleveland made a deal with Minnesota to move from No. 4 overall to No. 3, allowing the Browns to pick Alabama running back Trent Richardson. Minnesota took USC offensive tackle Matt Kalil. Jacksonville traded with Tampa Bay to move from No. 7 overall to No. 5 so the Jaguars could take Oklahoma State wide receiver Justin Blackmon. General draft talk had Tampa Bay liking LSU cornerback Morris Claiborne. But with Tampa Bay sitting at No. 7, Dallas jumped up to No. 6 overall via a trade with St. Louis and took Claiborne. Tampa Bay wound up used almost its entire 10-minute allotment, indicated the Cowboys move yanked the rug from under them. They eventually took Alabama defensive back Mark Barron. That left the table clear for the Dolphins to Louis vuitton for women shoes 2012 new arrival on sale black make the big bet on Tannehill, who’ll almost certainly sit this season behind Matt Moore and/or David Garrard.

2012年4月25日星期三

Weeden's path to this point was even more roundabout

Unlike a year ago, when an early run on quarterbacks caught most NFL draft prognosticators flat-footed, most have now resigned themselves to the notion that the QB count louisvuitononline might reach four before the first round is done Thursday night. And the first two passers are already penned in. Stanford's Andrew Luck will be the No. 1 pick, by Indianapolis, and Washington will take Baylor's Robert Griffin III second. It will be the first time quarterbacks have gone 1-2 in the draft since 1999. The drama swirls around where Texas A&M's Ryan Tannehill and Oklahoma State's Brandon Weeden will go, especially with Cleveland and Miami sorely needing quarterbacks. In the 2011 draft, shortly after Cam Newton was taken first by Carolina, there was an unexpected rush on the position, with Jake Locker going eighth to Tennessee, Blaine Gabbert 10th to Jacksonville, and Christian Ponder 12th to Minnesota. "Because the salary cap is now friendly in the first round toward these quarterbacks, and because everyone is in a feeding frenzy to get one, guys' values are getting pushed up," NFL Network draft analyst Mike Mayock said. Of course, much of a young quarterback's success depends on where he's drafted and the supporting cast that surrounds him. Last year, for instance, Texas Christian's Andy Dalton slipped into the second round — even past quarterback-needy Seattle at No. 25 — before being taken by Cincinnati with the 35th pick. Dalton wound up being the find of the draft, leading the Bengals to the playoffs. Fourteen of the Week 1 starting quarterbacks last season louis vuitton belts were drafted after the first round. However, most of the elite quarterbacks are snapped up quickly. "It's slim to get a quarterback late and expect him to be your franchise quarterback," said quarterback specialist and former NFL coach Steve Mariucci, now an NFL Network analyst. "Are there exceptions? Of course: Tom Brady, Kurt Warner, Jeff Garcia, Jake Delhomme, Tony Romo … "With quarterbacks, you can't bank on drafting sleepers. You'll end up getting fired." After Luck and Griffin are off the board, there isn't likely to be a lot of waiting around for the next two quarterbacks, even if some evaluators believe there should be. Much as he likes Tannehill's work ethic and potential, Mayock said he doesn't belong in the top 10 picks, and maybe not the top 20, yet he could go quickly — perhaps to Cleveland at four or Miami at eight. Mayock rates Weeden as a second-rounder, yet knows that he too might go much earlier. After an initial surge, there could be a lull in the quarterback craziness. Mayock projects Michigan State's Kirk Cousins and Arizona State's Brock Osweiler as third-rounders. Tannehill is among the record 26 prospects who will attend the draft and watch from the green room at Radio City Music Hall. For the second consecutive year, the first round will be broadcast in prime time, starting at 5 p.m. PDT. The second and third rounds will take place Friday, Fashion lv women shoes 2012 outlet discount white starting at 4 p.m. The event concludes Saturday with Rounds 4-7, starting at 9 a.m. The most intriguing aspect of Tannehill is that he spent much of his college career as a receiver before switching back to quarterback midway through his junior year. So he got just one full season at quarterback, although that kind of limited action didn't hurt the draft stock of Auburn's Newton or USC's Mark Sanchez, selected fifth overall by the New York Jets in 2009. Not surprisingly, Tannehill sees his wideout experience as a plus. "It helps me relate to receivers in a way that a lot of other guys can't," he said. "I've been in their shoes, I've run the routes, I've seen the adjustments, when you want the ball coming in and out of breaks. I learned a lot about playing quarterback through playing receiver." Weeden's path to this point was even more roundabout. He was a pitcher selected in the second round of the 2002 Major League Baseball draft, the first selection of the New York Yankees. He spent time in the Dodgers' and Kansas City Royals' organizations before quitting baseball and enrolling at Oklahoma State in 2007. "From a maturity standpoint, I've already been a pro," Weeden, 28, said at the scouting combine. "That's what I've been telling teams, and they agree with me. In baseball, it's a game of failure. I've failed, and I've had some success, and I've kind of ridden the roller coaster." A different kind of roller coaster will tick-tick-tick its way to the top of the hill Thursday night, with all sorts of drops, dips and twists to follow. Even for Luck and Griffin, the two players who know where they're heading, there's still some drama to come — or maybe feigned drama. "I do happen to know where I'm going, but I'm still burberry ties going to act as if when I hear my name called, 'Oh! Yes! I got drafted!'" Griffin said. "You want to soak up every moment of it, because it only happens once."

Jumping from rubber boats as they hit the shore

China has territorial disputes with the Philippines, Vietnam, Brunei, Malaysia and Taiwan across the South China Sea, each searching for gas and oil while building louis vuitton outlet up their navies and military alliances. China said last week the drill would raise the risk of confrontation. On Wednesday, Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Cui Tiankai said China was committed to dialogue and diplomacy to resolve the dispute. "We are certainly worried about the South China Sea issue," Cui told a news briefing in Beijing, saying "some people tried to mix two unrelated things, territorial sovereignty and freedom of navigation". The comments come before high-level talks with the Obama administration. China, which claims the South China Sea based on historical records, has sought to resolve disputes bilaterally but its neighbours worry over what some see as growing Chinese assertiveness in its claims in the region. "Location (of the drill) is irrelevant," Ensign Bryan Mitchell, spokesman for the U.S. Marines, told reporters. "These exercises take place on a regular basis. This year it happens to be in Palawan. The planning for this took place months ago prior to any events that are currently in the headlines." U.S. President Barack Obama has sought to reassure regional allies that Washington would serve as a counterbalance to China in the South China Sea, part of his campaign to "pivot" U.S. foreign policy towards Asia after wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Philippine military officials sought to play down the exercise. Lieutenant General Juancho Sabban, military commander for the western Philippines, said the drill "simply means we want to work together, improve our skills". Sabban's area of command includes Reed Bank and the Spratlys, a group of 250 mostly uninhabitable islets spread over 427,350 sq km (165,000 sq miles) west of Palawan. The Spratlys are claimed entirely by China, Taiwan and Vietnam and in part by Malaysia, Brunei and the Philippines. HUGE OIL, GAS RESERVES Proven and undiscovered oil reserve estimates in the South China Sea range as high as 213 billion barrels of oil, the U.S. Energy Information Administration said in a 2008 report. That would surpass every country's proven oil reserves except Saudi Arabia and Venezuela, according to the BP Statistical Review. A Philippine exploration firm, Philex Petroleum Corp, said on Tuesday its unit, Forum Energy Plc, had found more natural gas than expected around Reed Bank, where louis vuitton shoes Chinese navy vessels tried to ram one of Forum Energy's survey ships last year. The Philippines is due to open oil-and-gas exploration bids in Reed Bank on Friday. Vietnam reasserted its claim to the Spratlys and the Paracel islands, known in Chinese as the Xisha islands, further west of Scarborough Shoal in what it calls the East Sea. Self-ruled Taiwan, which China considers a renegade province, reiterated its claims over territories in the South China Sea and urged "countries concerned to exercise self-restraint so that peaceful resolutions can be reached through consultation". "CHINA SHOULD NOT BE WORRIED" Sabban said the military drill was not focused on China. "Never was China ever mentioned in our planning and execution," he told reporters. "China should not be worried about Balikatan (shoulder-to-shoulder) exercises." Nearly 7,000 American and Philippine troops were launched from U.S. and Philippine ships in the simulated amphibious assault to recapture an island supposedly taken by militants. Commandos came ashore from U.S. and Philippine ships in a simulated amphibious assault to recapture an island supposedly taken by militants. Jumping from rubber boats as they hit the shore, the commandos engaged in a mock firefight, making their way inch by inch from the beach to a navy facility to rescue "hostages" and recapture the base. Four days ago, commando teams rappelled from U.S. helicopters and landed from rubber boats in a mock assault to retake an oil rig in northern Palawan, 18 km (11 miles) off the town of El Nido on the South China Sea. The annual war games come under the 1951 Mutual Defence Treaty, part of a web of security alliances the United States built in the Asia-Pacific region during the Cold War. The drills are a rehearsal of a mutual defence plan by the two allies to repel any aggression in the Philippines. Hundreds of kilometres to the north, a Philippine Louis Vuitton shoes, cheap louis vuitton sunglasses sale, 60% off coast guard ship patrols near Scarborough Shoal, a group of half-submerged rock formations 124 nautical miles west of the Philippines' main island of Luzon. Philippine and Chinese ships are often in the same areas of the South China Sea, with two Chinese maritime surveillance ships a few miles away from the coast guard vessel and five Chinese fishing boats working the waters nearby.

2012年4月24日星期二

I know the togetherness of the organization

Joe Vitt used his first public comments as the monster beats face of the Saints’ coaching staff to accept some blame for the bounty scandal that has plagued the club’s offseason. Then he sought to clear the names of his players.

“At no time did any of our players ever cross the white line with the intention of hurting another player,” the assistant head coach said Tuesday afternoon. “That being said, I’m serving a six-game suspension for the spoken word, not the clenched fist.”

Vitt said his problem was the words he used in his motivational speeches when he was trying to urge defenders to play with the type of hard-hitting toughness that reduces an opponent’s will to compete. He said he was “on board 100 percent” with NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell’s player safety goals and would change the way he addresses his charges.

“Talking to players and the expectation that you have for players, it’s got to be different. I take full responsibility for that, and I’ve got to get Monster Beats Studio MLB Philadelphia Phillies better at it,” Vitt said.

Vitt is handling head coach Sean Payton’s duties while Payton serves a season-long suspension in connection with the NFL’s bounty investigation, which concluded that former Saints defensive coordinator Gregg Williams offered improper cash bonuses for hits that hobbled targeted opponents.

Vitt said the Saints would look to rise above swirling offseason distractions and keep expectations for their on-field performance high as the club seeks a fourth louis vuitton shoes straight playoff appearance.

“Understand one thing: We ain’t down. We are not down,” Vitt said. “We’ve got 41 wins over the last three years and we’ve got a great building full of players. We’ve got a great scouting staff. We’ve got a great administration. We’ve got a great owner. And we are looking forward to starting the season. Again, the excuses are out there for us not to perform. But we are all held accountable for our jobs.

“Anything that happens outside this building Ray ban sunglasses can never be an excuse for what’s taken place inside the building,” Vitt added. “Our players are working hard. We’ve had a great first week. ... Our players are focused. Our coaches are focused. Our owner is focused. Our building is focused. We owe it to our fans. Our fans have always been there for us. Now we want the people of New Orleans, Louisiana and the Gulf Coast region to be proud of us. We’re going to give them our best.”

Vitt said he had not spoken to Payton since his suspension began April 16, the longest he has gone in about a decade without speaking to a man he considers his close friend. Even as Vitt sought to maintain high expectations for the Saints, he did not diminish the sense of loss he burberry outlet and others around team headquarters have endured since their head coach cut off contact as ordered by the league.

“We’re going to miss his passion, his vision, his play-calling, his understanding,” Vitt said. “You know, Sean is like a father figure to a lot of guys on this football team. And you don’t replace that. Listen, Sean Payton’s record speaks for itself. They’re Hall of Fame credentials for the first six years of a career. And this is what Sean does. And there’s not a day that goes by that we won’t miss him, and that we don’t miss him.”

The last thing Payton said burberry bags before he left the building on his last day of work was simply, “Do you job,” Vitt recalled.

“Everybody in this organization will do their job,” Vitt said. “This is a roster that’s made up of character players that are accountable to one another.”

The Saints have endured a slew of bad publicity since louis vuitton handbags the NFL released findings of its bounty investigation March 2. Along with Payton and Vitt’s punishment, general manager Mickey Loomis was suspended eight games. The club is still trying to sign star quarterback Drew Brees to an extension, and he has skipped the first week-and-a-half of voluntary workouts. And this week, an anonymously sourced ESPN report alleged that Loomis’ Superdome booth was wired to allow him to eavesdrop on opposing coaches’ radio communications. State and federal authorities have begun investigating whether any wiretapping laws were broken, but Vitt called the allegations “ludicrous” and “irresponsible.”

Vitt, who joined the club in 2006, made it clear that for him, there remains no shame in being one of the leaders of the Saints, regardless of the way public oakley sunglasses impressions of the franchise may have evolved in the past few months.

“I know how we coach. I know how our players play. I know the togetherness of the organization, the togetherness of our team, how hard we work,” Vitt said. “So I have great peace of mind. I can’t be everything to all people, but I know in my heart what we’re about.”

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2012年4月23日星期一

The software client incorporates most of Mesh's features

New Orleans Saints general manager Mickey Loomis monster beats solo had the ability to eavesdrop on opposing coaching staffs, according to a report on Monday.

The ESPN program "Outside the Lines" was told that the U.S. Attorney's Office in the Eastern District of Louisiana was informed on Friday that Loomis had an electronic device in his Superdome suite that had been re-wired to give him the capability to eavesdrop on visiting coaching staffs for three seasons.

Loomis responded by email to Fox Sports' Jay Glazer, which Glazer posted on his Twitter account:

"This report on ESPN is absolutely false. I have a monitor in front of me in my booth that provides the league issued stats for the game. I have a small tv [sic] Monster Beats Studio MLB Chicago White Sox with the network broadcast and I have an earpiece to listen to the WWL- AM radio (flagship broadcaster) game broadcast.

"To think I am sitting in there listening and actually and or doing something with the offensive and defensive play calls of the opposing teams makes this story and the unnamed sources that provided the false information that much more less credible...it just didn't happen."

According to the ESPN report, sources that are familiar with game-day operations for the Saints said that Loomis had the ability to secretly listen for most of the 2002 season and all of the '03 and '04 seasons.

Loomis, who became the general manager of the team in 2002, was issued an eight-game suspension for his role in the bounty program that was brought to light in early March.

U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Louisiana, Jim louis vuitton shoes Letten, confirmed that he was told of the alleged eavesdropping on Friday and sources told ESPN that he has briefed the FBI about it. If the allegations are proven true, they could be both a violation of NFL rules and a federal crime, as the federal Electronic Communications Privacy Act of 1986 prohibits any person from intercepting communications from another person using an electronic or mechanical device.

The device was reportedly installed in the general manager's suite in 2000, when Randy Mueller served as the Saints' general manager. However, the sources said that Mueller only had the ability to monitor game-day communication of the Saints' coaching staff.

There’s a rumor floating about that the Samsung Galaxy Note, currently exclusive to AT&T, will be making its way to the magenta-colored carrier in the near future. The unique 5.3-inch handset has been making a lot of waves, and going from AT&T to T-Mobile would not require a lot of huge changes under the hood. It’s interesting to think about if nothing else, and there are a couple solid pieces of evidence to the rumor.

First off, as Tmo News pointed out, a Wi-Fi certification has been issued for a product with the name SGH-T879. According to the description, it has an 800×1280 resolution, which hints at a portrait-oriented device. Second, there are reportedly leaked pictures of the device which don’t designate a specific carrier, but show that it is a distinct device that is different than the Galaxy Ray ban sunglasses Note currently being sold at AT&T stores.

Another interesting point to this story is that Android phones really don’t like to cross carriers. Almost every major Android handset has remained exclusive to one service provider. There have been some exceptions, but that’s been the rule. The iPhone, meanwhile, is now available on three of the four major networks, giving it a huge distinguishing advantage. It’s no secret that Samsung wants to create the iPhone or Androids, and part of doing that would no doubt require cross-carrier support. So we’ll see what happens.

A couple of years ago we lamented the stated of Microsoft's cloud storage services. On the one hand, there was SkyDrive, with gobs of storage. On the other hand, there was Mesh, with file synchronization and remote access. Two separate products, when really there should burberry bags have been one.

And now there is. Microsoft has rolled out a set of new SkyDrive apps and new online capabilities to make SkyDrive the one-stop shop for file syncing and remote file access. On the software side, there are new clients for Windows and Mac OS X to sync files with the cloud, and updated versions of the Windows Phone and iOS clients (there's no first-party Android app, but Microsoft recommends a couple of third-party programs).

On the cloud side, there's are some major changes to availability. Under the old system, users had 25 GB of non-synced SkyDrive cloud storage, and 5 GB of burberry outlet synced Mesh storage. Now, there's just a single 7 GB of synced storage, with paid options to buy more space, starting at $10 for 20 GB per year, up to $50 for 100 GB per year. Though this increases the amount of synced storage, it nonetheless represents a reduction in total storage availability. However, any users that signed up for SkyDrive before April 22, and who have uploaded at least one file to the service, are eligible for a free upgrade to 25 GB. Existing users with at least 4 GB uploaded will pick up the 25 GB update automatically.

The software client incorporates most of Mesh's features. It performs file synchronization, and it also optionally enables remote file system access, allowing even non-SkyDrive files to be accessed via the SkyDrive site. With Mesh, we were critical of the way it lacked the simplicity louis vuitton handbags of Dropbox, with its prominently displayed "magic" synchronized folder. The new SkyDrive all but clones Dropbox's way of working, with a new special "SkyDrive" folder created in your user directory, and all files placed in that folder automatically synced.

A handful of Mesh features haven't made their way to the new client. Mesh offered limiting synchronization of settings such as Internet Explorer bookmarks. The new SkyDrive does not. Setting synchronization via SkyDrive will, however, be an important feature of Windows 8, so it's likely that this feature will return in some capacity. Mesh (like Dropbox) also offered syncing over LAN when it detected that machines could share files without going over the Internet. This capability has been dropped in SkyDrive.

Mesh also offered remote desktop oakley sunglasses access simlar to that found in Microsoft's Remote Desktop Protocol. This was a great feature, as it worked even on Windows SKUs that had no native remote desktop facility. It also worked without requiring any ports to be forwarded on routers, so it had zero maintenance overhead. The removal of this feature is a pity; even Windows 8 retains Remote Desktop's positioning as a "premium" feature, with neither the standard Windows 8 SKU nor the ARM Windows RT SKU able to serve as Remote Desktop hosts. Windows users may have to start looking elsewhere to fill this gap.

These latest changes to SkyDrive come hot on the hells of last week's updates, in which Microsoft added URL shortening, ODF support, and 300 MB in-browser uploads to SkyDrive.

The company is aggressively positioning SkyDrive as a superior alternative to Apple's iCloud, Dropbox, and Google's apps storage. With the new client, SkyDrive has become Burberry designer ties for men white on sale best a lot more useful to a lot more people, and Windows 8's SkyDrive integration is set to take this to another level.

2012年4月22日星期日

The company did not immediately comment on worldwide availability

CLAUDE GIROUX said it was obvious in the warmup, that he checks for something before each game Ilya Bryzgalov plays, "a secret" indicator that doesn't fail. Kimmo Timonen louis vuitton shoes spoke about his goalie's pregame calm. Danny Briere said he could see it in the dressing room, "There was something special in his eyes today."

Bryzgalov said there was indeed something in his eyes.

"It was 12 o'clock in the morning game," he said. "I woke up too early."

It was the only joke he told in a rambling, mostly disinterested 7-minute session at the postgame podium. Bryzgalov has gone from the most unpredictable quote in the Flyers dressing room to the most predictable one, from the guy who always seemed to speak with one foot already in his mouth to a guy who now speaks as if he has one foot already out the door.

Because the Flyers not only beat the team oddsmakers had favored to win the Stanley Cup with Sunday's 5-1 elimination victory over Pittsburgh. They found the formula by which they can win it themselves.

They blocked 40 shots in front of Bryz, who stopped 30 of 31 shots. All that kept him from a perfect game shutout was a full-ice power-play scoring rush by Evgeni Malkin in the second period after Sean Couturier lost his footing on a shorthanded try, creating a two-man advantage the other way.

Otherwise, Bryzgalov was that guy who nearly helped Ray ban sunglasses Phoenix upset Detroit two springs ago, the guy who recorded three shutouts and a 1.46 goals against average in an 11-game run with Anaheim back in 2005-2006. Rebounds popped yards from his crease, not inches. Dangerous pucks were smothered, not recycled.

"I've seen so many goalies when they see the puck great their eyes seem to follow every rebound," said Timonen. "Even when it goes to the corner they still follow it. That's when I knew he was focused and going to give us a big game."

Because of the huge shadow Giroux cast on this game a few early stats likely will be obscured. Like the fact that after his quick goal, after he urged his team, "Let's go!," the Penguins took seven of the game's next eight shots, threw Sidney Crosby and Malkin out burberry outlet together for a shift and on the power play, brought the heat down on the home team.

Nine minutes and 40 seconds into the game, the Pens were outshooting the Flyers 6-1. Twelve minutes in, the home team had just one more shot other than Giroux's goal. With the score still 1-0, Bryzgalov made a big pad save on Matt Niskanen's wide-open blast, found another puck from the point through traffic and - this might have been most important - deadened and covered pucks when it was clear his team needed a reset.

Because of the absurd shot-blocking total amassed burberry bags by the Flyers in Game 6, this also will be obscured. The Flyers had just six of their 40 blocked shots in the first period. "When your goalie plays well, you don't necessarily need to block shots every time," Timonen said, but it seems to work the other way, too.

The Flyers sacrificed because their goaltender made them believe it would matter. Ahead 2-0 after one period, they blocked 16 shots in the second period, and 18 in the final one. Rather than invite the Pens to rejoin the game as they have at times, the Flyers louis vuitton handbags played as smothering a third period as they have played all season - certainly against a team as talented as the one they faced in this series.

Goalies are measured two ways. By their ability, and by their resilience. "You know I think when you have a game like we did in Game 4 you reel it back in a little bit and that checks you right there," Flyers coach Peter Laviolette said. "I said after Game 5 that I really like how we played as a team."

Bryz was part of that effort. One game after being yanked, facing a deafening, hostile crowd, he allowed three goals and gave his team a chance to win it with that furious third period. Almost to a man Sunday, the Flyers said they used the energy from that period to fuel a full effort. You wonder if there was a disheartening goal allowed at the end of Game 5, if that energy would have been there for Game 6.

After Game 5, there was a lot of national talk about Pens goalie Marc Andre-Fleury finding his game. If so, it is reasonable to believe - hope? - that Bryz has found his. When his team needed it the most, in a series of record goals scored and wild momentum swings, he was steady, solid oakley sunglasses and at least when it finally ended, even a little sleepy.

"There's moments for everybody," Briere said. "Where you're just not there. And it was like that for Bryz today."

"Whatever he did this morning seemed to work," Timonen said. "So hopefully he can do that for many games to come."

Asus on Sunday started shipping its Transformer Pad 300 tablet in the U.S., with the company pitching the tablet as a gaming device and laptop replacement.

The tablet has a 10.1-inch Burberry designer ties for men white on sale best screen, Google's Android 4.0 operating system and a quad-core Tegra 3 processor from Nvidia running at a clock speed of 1.2GHz.

The tablet is priced started at US$379.99 for 32GB of storage and 1GB of RAM. Though most features are similar to those available in its predecessor, the Eee Pad Transformer Prime, the starting price is lower. Among the new features are GPS capabilities and the new OS is pre-installed.

The company did not immediately comment on worldwide availability.

The tablet is the first that does not have Asus' famous "Eee" moniker, which debuted in 2007 with the pioneering Eee PC 700 netbook. Asus is upgrading its tablets at a furious pace, and the new tablet comes just six months after it shipped the Transformer Prime, which was the industry's first monster beats studio quad-core tablet.

Asus also joins a bevy of companies pricing Android 4.0 tablets under US$400. Samsung's Galaxy Tab 2 10.1-inch tablet will ship on May 13 and starts at $399.99. The aggressive pricing strategy of Android tablets may be an attempt to take market share from Apple, which is expected to dominate the tablet market this year, according to Gartner. Apple's iPad is priced starting at $499.

The Transformer Pad 300's 10-hour battery life can be extended to 15 hours with an additional battery in the optional $149 keyboard dock. The dock has a full keyboard and a touch pad to make the tablet a functional laptop. The dock has Android-specific buttons for quick access to tablet functions, and also USB 2.0 and SD card slots.

The tablet weighs 635 grams (1.4 pounds), according to Asus. The display shows images at a resolution of 1280 by 800 pixels, and the Tegra 3 chip enables a strong gaming experience with 12 integrated graphics cores.

The 8-megapixel rear camera on the tablet can shoot video at 30 frames per second. There is also a 1.2-megapixel camera on the front of the tablet. A micro-HDMI port allows the tablet to be connected to TVs. For expandable storage, the tablet has a microSD card slot.

The Transformer Pad 300 has been advertised with 4G LTE, but this tablet does include mobile broadband connectivity features.

Asus is also bulking up its cloud offering with the tablet, offering 8GB of free storage on it Asus WebStorage service. The WebStorage service allows users to share Monster Beats Studio NHL Pittsburgh Penguins files and backup data to PCs.

Software on the tablet includes Polaris Office, which makes it easier for users to see Word, Excel, and PowerPoint files. An application called App Backup can save data to local or removable microSD storage.

2012年4月20日星期五

The Taiwanese firm also showed off two more devices

Dating will never be easy. And date-night movies will never be perfect. But if you go in with the right attitude - that is, notice the negatives but focus on the monster beats studio positive - “Think Like a Man” should make for a solid option on a Friday night.

Let’s assess the assets first: Tim Story’s affable rom-com is smart, funny and impossibly good-looking. Even in L.A., where the movie is set, you’d be hard-pressed to find so many gorgeous men and women hanging out together - let alone complaining that they can’t find love.

All of them are bonded by a common interest: Steve Monster Beats Studio NHL Pittsburgh Penguins Harvey’s (real-life) romance guide, “Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Man.” The ladies are following Harvey’s advice; the men are stymied by it.

Single mom Candace (Regina Hall) has to untie the apron strings for mama’s boy Michael (Terrence J). Mya (Meagan Good) won’t allow Zeke (Romany Malco) into her bedroom for 90 days. Kristen (Gabrielle Union) wants longtime BF Jeremy (Jerry Ferrara) to finally propose. And status-conscious Lauren (Taraji P. Henson) needs to decide if she’s willing to date a broke chef (Michael Ealy).

Watching all this frantic activity from the sidelines is Cedric (a hilarious Kevin Hart), who professes to be thrilled about his impending divorce.

If you’re wondering why I haven’t mentioned Chris Brown yet, it’s because he appears for about five minutes. He does a serviceable job in his cameo (as an obnoxious player), but focusing on him would be like focusing on the drunk who tripped over your table while you’re out to dinner.

In other words, we have better company to consider: louis vuitton shoes Every primary cast member is appealing, elevating the disposable plot — men and women are in constant battle, yawn — into a funny, sexy take on contemporary dating. Middling lines are delivered with sharp sass; tired stereotypes are ... well, still tired, actually (women manipulate and nag, men lie and evade). But at least the actors offer gentle twists that take away some of the sting.

What can’t be made palatable, however, is the ever-present sense that the movie's true goal is to promote Harvey's book. “Steve says” is a perpetual refrain, and Harvey himself shows up regularly to deliver his own advice - mostly clichés that combine “The Rules” with “The Game.” Too often, it feels as though we’re stuck inside an infomercial Harvey made about himself.

Still, if you can look past the annoying quirks, you’ll probably have a good time. As Steve says, sometimes, it pays to compromise.

Google partly lost a German copyright-infringement suit over how much it must do to remove illegal music videos from its YouTube website.

A Hamburg court partly ruled in favor of a suit brought by German music royalty-collecting society GEMA that argued Google doesn't do enough to monitor YouTube content. Google must implement features to detect violations if a rights holder alerts the company, Presiding Judge Heiner Steeneck Ray ban sunglasses said Friday in a ruling that gave both sides reason to declare victory.

"But YouTube isn't the perpetrator here, it's those people who illegally upload songs," Steeneck said. "That's why YouTube doesn't have to search all videos uploaded in the past. It only has to help detect videos from the moment it is alerted about possible violations."

The suit was filed in 2010 after talks between GEMA and Google on license fees for songs played on YouTube faltered. GEMA collects royalties for composers and songwriters. An earlier agreement between the two sides expired in 2009. Google has reached licensing agreements with about 40 collecting societies from other nations.

While Google maintained that that it provides enough mechanisms for rights holders to detect violations, GEMA sought a ruling expanding YouTube's obligations to any illegal upload in the past. The court ruled that YouTube's must add a word search to help detect videos. The current ContentID application, which allows searches for audio content, isn't enough, according to the judges.

McDonald's ever-evolving mix of affordable menu items and burberry outlet new offerings like the Chicken McBites is helping the chain solidify its dominance in the fast-food industry.

The world's biggest hamburger chain said Friday that its net income rose 5 percent in the first quarter. McDonald's Corp. said global sales rose 7.3 percent at stores open at least 13 months, with gains seen in all regions.

For the first three months of the year, McDonald's reported a profit of $1.27 billion ($1.23 per share). That compares with a profit of $1.21 billion ($1.15) in the year-ago period.

General Electric's first-quarter net income topped Wall Street expectations on a strong performance from the conglomerate's industrial businesses.

GE said Friday that its net income for the quarter fell 12 percent to $3.03 billion (29 cents per share). Excluding charges, GE earned 34 cents per share in the quarter, a penny better than Wall Street estimates.

The industrial and financial giant said its primary manufacturing operation has rebounded.

The earnings of $3.03 billion for the first quarter burberry bags compares with $3.4 million (31 cents) for the same quarter in 2011. Revenue slipped by 8 percent to $35.2 billion.

Amazon.com Inc. has started shipping the Kindle Touch 3G to customers in 175 countries and territories around the world, the Seattle company said Friday.

The device, which Amazon previously said would ship next Friday, is an electronic-reader with 3G wireless and a two-month battery life, Amazon said.Anticipation of HTC One X has gone through the roof. The recent news is that HTC One X is coming to AT&T on May 6. HTC fanboys can mark May 6 on their schedule as a day to buy One X as this time, it is the official launch date and not a rumored one. HTC is pricing the phone at $199.99 on a two-year contract terms. After the release, One X is going to be the first Ice Cream Sandwich-powered Android smartphone from the carrier.

Anticipation of HTC One X has gone through the roof. The recent news is that HTC One X is coming to AT&T on May 6. HTC fanboys can mark May 6 on their schedule as a day to buy One X as this time, it is the official launch date and not a rumored one. HTC is pricing the phone at $199.99 on a two-year contract terms. After the release, One X is going to be the first Ice Cream Sandwich-powered Android smartphone from the carrier.

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HTC One X has received a lot of spotlight due to its louis vuitton handbags quad-core Tegra 3 processor. But the AT&T version of One X does not pack the Nvidia's chipset as it is not compatible with 4G networks. The LTE phone packs Qualcomm's dual-core Snapdragon processor clocked at 1.5 GHz, backed up by 1GB of RAM. The phone has a 4.7-inch IPS LCD2 display with 720p display and 16GB of internal memory.

The HTC powerhouse packs 8-megapixel camera with LED flash support. It is capable of capturing 1080p video at 30fps. The camera shoots excellent quality images even in low light conditions. There is also a secondary 1.3-megapixel front-facing camera in the device. The device supports 4G network but in absence of any 4G network, the device will switch to the much-slower 3G network.

HTC One X is also AT&T's first device to feature built-in Beats Audio integration. Beats Audio was acquired by HTC in August last year for a price of $300 million. Beats by Dr. Dre gives a world-class music listening experience. Beats Audio gives distortion-free audio even at oakley sunglasses high volume. Rich bass enhancement and high volume is all you need, when listening to music or watching movies and videos. But to get most out of it, you will need a Beats-compatible accessory like Beats Solo HD headphone, Wireless HD Stereo Bluetooth headphone, Beats In-ear headphone or AT&T's exclusive Beatbox.

All in all, HTC One X is a beautifully crafted smartphone offering excellent features. The pre-orders for One X are opening from April 22.

The Taiwanese firm also showed off two more devices along with One X at MWC 2012 - One V and One S. T-Mobile will launch HTC One S. On the other hand, One V is reserved Burberry designer ties for men white on sale best for other carriers like Virgin Mobile, U.S. Cellular and MetroPCS.

2012年4月19日星期四

Luck will be far from the only new face in Indy

President Barack Obama announced Thursday he was awarding retiring University of Tennessee women's basketball coach Pat Summitt the Presidential Medal of Freedom—the louis vuitton shoes country's highest civilian honor.

"Coach Summitt is an inspiration—both as the all-time winningest NCAA coach, and as someone who is willing to speak so openly and courageously about her battle with Alzheimer's," Obama said in a statement one day after Summitt stepped down as the Lady Vols' coach.

"Pat's gift has always been her ability to push those around her to new heights, and over the last 38 years, her unique approach has resulted in both unparalleled success on the court and unrivaled loyalty from those who know her and those whose lives she has touched. Pat's coaching career may be over, but I'm confident that her work is far from finished. I look forward to awarding her this honor," the president said. The White House statement noted that Summitt "has taken Tennessee to more Final Four appearances than any other coach and has the second best record of NCAA Championships in basketball" and dubbed her "an unparalleled figure in women's team sports."

Andrew Luck will be the Indianapolis Colts' new quarterback.

A person with direct knowledge of the situation said Ray ban sunglasses Thursday that the Colts have notified Luck that they plan to take the Stanford quarterback with the No. 1 pick in next week's NFL draft barring some unforeseen event between now and then. The person spoke on condition of anonymity because the team has not publicly disclosed its plan.

It's hardly a surprise that the Colts are turning to Luck as the cornerstone of their massive rebuilding project. Luck was projected as the No. 1 pick in the 2011 draft before returning to school for his fourth season. He gave up his final year of college eligibility to enter this year's draft, which was dubbed the Andrew Luck Sweepstakes from the start.

Contract negotiations are not expected to begin before the draft, the person familiar with the situation told the AP. Will Wilson, Luck's agent, did not immediately respond to phone messages or text messages Thursday.

"We've exhausted the process," new Indy general manager Ryan Grigson told reporters Wednesday. "We've pretty much made up our minds and we're going to go from there. We feel good about it and we'll go from there."

Grigson acknowledged that the Colts made their decision "a little while" ago, though he declined to say whether the Colts would take Luck or Heisman Trophy winner Robert Griffin III of Baylor.

The secret lasted less than 24 hours. ESPN.com first burberry outlet reported that the Colts' had informed Luck they will take him. That would likely send Griffin to the Redskins, who traded a first- and second-round pick this year and first-rounders each of the next two years to St. Louis to move into the No. 2 slot.

Luck faces a challenging situation in Indy, which went 2-14 last season after Peyton Manning was lost with a season-ending injury that required neck surgery.

Manning was released March 7 and eventually signed with Denver, and Luck will now serve as Manning's successor.

He may get off to a rough start through no fault of his own.

"I believe Andrew may struggle early simply because of the surrounding cast playing with him," said Colts former vice chairman Bill Polian, acknowledging both rookies will have their share of problems in 2012. "It was nowhere near where Peyton's was, and he went 3-13. I think Andrew will struggle more because of the receivers around him. Only Reggie (Wayne) and Austin (Collie) are back."

Still, Luck was the obvious choice as burberry bags Manning's successor all along.

A pro-style pocket quarterback, Luck threw for 35 touchdowns last season - breaking his school record of 32 a year ago - and eclipsed John Elway's career record (77) at Stanford with 80 touchdown passes in only three years.

He finished with 3,170 yards passing, a 70 percent completion percentage and only nine interceptions without the benefit of an elite wide receiver. In a 41-38 Fiesta Bowl loss to Oklahoma State, Luck was brilliant again, going 27 of 31 passing for 347 yards and two touchdowns with an interception.

And while the Colts sent a larger contingent of scouts to Griffin's pro day, it was Luck who had a private workout for the Colts and traveled to Indianapolis for a personal interview. Griffin did not, Grigson explained, partly because the Colts had already made their decision.

What the Colts will get with Luck is a skilled player louis vuitton handbags who's had an extra year to mature from 2011, when even then he might have been drafted ahead of Auburn star Cam Newton.

"I tend to think because of my position as an AD at a Division I school that spending a full four years is going to benefit almost every player, not just from a football standpoint but walking away with a degree is important in today's world, too," West Virginia athletic director Oliver Luck, Andrew's father, said Wednesday. "The emotional development that comes with completing the cycle with the class that you came in with, I think that last aspect is very special.

"Plus, I think the vast majority of cases, it's oakley sunglasses beneficial to come back and play that third and fourth year in many cases," he added.

Luck will be far from the only new face in Indy.

Grigson replaced the father-son front office tandem of Bill and Chris Polian in January, then brought in new coach Chuck Pagano to replace the fired Jim Caldwell. Pagano has almost an entirely new staff, and some players have even found new spots for their lockers.

The biggest change, of course, Burberry designer ties for men white on sale best is not seeing No. 18 around town.

Two days after Manning's release, the Colts cut other veterans including defensive captains Gary Brackett and Melvin Bullitt, Pro Bowl tight end Dallas Clark and running back Joseph Addai. Longtime center Jeff Saturday, receiver Pierre Garcon and backup tight end Jacob Tamme all left in free agency.

Now, the Colts are looking to start fresh.

"Barring any unforeseen problem we're pretty sure what cheap monster beats headphones outlet direction we want to go. Barring any unforeseen event, we know what we're doing," Grigson said.

2012年4月18日星期三

Drogba lost his temper after Barcelona prevailed on away

The pressure was withering, two dozen shots whizzing louis vuitton shoes past, the team’s own control of the ball infrequent. But Chelsea knew that its patience and muscularity had given trouble through the years to Barcelona’s finesse.

“They don’t like to play us,” Roberto Di Matteo, Chelsea’s interim manager, said before Wednesday’s 1-0 victory in the first leg of a European Champions League semifinal.

Last month, Chelsea adopted a new style Ray ban sunglasses along with its new manager. The Blues abandoned the technical possession-oriented approach favored by Andre Villas-Boas, the former coach, and reintroduced its more familiarly aggressive, counterattacking long-ball style. Chelsea now seemed to get the ball upfield so quickly, said Cesc Fàbregas of Barcelona, “they are like motorbikes.”

On Wednesday night, Chelsea managed only one shot on goal but made it count. As the first half extended into two minutes of added time, burberry outlet forward Didier Drogba scored on a classic counterattack, giving the Blues a stirring but unlikely victory.

“When you score a goal and win a game, I think you deserve to win,” Di Matteo said. “Certainly they had more possession and a few more attempts at the target. But they always have that. So you need to be clinical when you take your chances against Barca.”

Barcelona, the defending European club champion, will host the return leg Tuesday. Many expected this team, widely considered one of the greatest ever, to have little trouble advancing. But Barcelona has not defeated Chelsea in their last six meetings. And the Catalans will have to confront a burberry bags vulnerability that was exposed again Wednesday.

As masterful as Barcelona can be with its mesmerizing passing, it has on occasion this season struggled to finish its chances. Instead of returning home with three or four goals, Barcelona could not find the net Wednesday despite controlling 72 percent of the possession, holding a 24-5 advantage in total shot attempts and a 6-1 edge on shots on goal.

Frustration began in the ninth minute when forward Alexis Sánchez hit the crossbar above an empty net and continued beyond 90 minutes when his replacement, Pedro Rodriguez, ricocheted a shot off the right post.

“If you count possession of the ball, we’re going to win every game,” said Pep Guardiola, Barcelona’s manager. But, he added, the object of the game “is to put the ball into the goal; that is the most difficult thing.”

Late in the first half, the steadfast Chelsea midfielder Frank Lampard stole the ball from Lionel Messi, who has now not scored in seven games against the Blues. Quickly, Lampard spotted Ramires, who found acres of space to gallop down the left flank with Barcelona’s defense caught out of position. Ramires crossed to Drogba, whose shot had enough power and direction to elude goalkeeper louis vuitton handbags Víctor Valdés and find the net.

Drogba is 34, and he and many of his teammates were thought to be too old and creaky as Chelsea played erratically in the English Premier League this season. But the Blues have now won 10 of their 13 games since Di Matteo became manager. Drogba delivered a stunning goal to begin a 5-1 rout of Tottenham in an F.A. Cup semifinal on Sunday. So Di Matteo stuck with his power over Fernando Torres’s speed against Barcelona.

“I thought I had to be fair, looking back on the game oakley sunglasses on Sunday, looking at the way we wanted to play,” Di Matteo said of Drogba. “I thought he was the right man. In the past, a lot of the public opinion was that these boys were over the line, too old, to play two games and to play at this level. I think they gave the answer tonight.”

Until he scored, Drogba had spent considerable time on the turf, complaining about fouls. But he is a player of embellishment as well as great skill, and his grievances found no sympathy from the referee, Felix Brych. Instead of pouting, Drogba remained Burberry designer ties for men white on sale best aggressive and delivered the winning goal.

In doing so, he created a celebrative moment and found himself in the headlines for reasons of achievement rather than villainy. When these teams met in the 2009 Champions League semifinals, Drogba lost his temper after Barcelona prevailed on away goals here at Stamford Bridge, cursed into the television cameras and called the Norwegian referee, Tom Henning Ovrebo, a disgrace. He later received a four-match ban for his outburst.

Wednesday, Drogba’s response was jubilance, not petulance. And his teammates, particularly goalkeeper Petr Cech, the back four and an unwavering midfield, remained serene beats by dre studio and organized, never panicking under Barcelona’s relentless attack.

“They do it against Real Madrid, they do it against A.C. Milan,” Di Matteo said. “The team was prepared to be patient and not get frustrated. The boys were really determined not to let them through.”

2012年4月17日星期二

Did we try to stir things up maybe last game

Three games into a series in which their opponents, louis vuitton shoes the Pittsburgh Penguins, have seemingly careened out of control, the Philadelphia Flyers are pleased, and maybe even a little surprised, that they are not behaving like the Flyers often have in the past.

“Usually, you’re used to seeing the Flyers start trouble,” Philadelphia forward Danny Briere said.

The Flyers lead the first-round playoff series, three games to none, and can eliminate the Penguins with a victory Wednesday in Game 4. Pittsburgh burberry outlet has allowed 20 goals in three games, and its special teams have been ineffective.

But that only begins to explain why the Flyers have gained Ray ban sunglasses such an edge. Before the series, the Flyers had discussed the value of playing hard, but clean, from whistle to whistle. They have done so. Pittsburgh has not.

“I’m glad our guys are working to stay in control with their discipline,” Flyers Coach Peter Laviolette said. “Again, there are things that we can do to be better. Perception doesn’t play into it for us — what’s perceived, or what’s happened in years past. This is our group, and our objective is to stay disciplined.”

On Tuesday, Pittsburgh forwards James Neal and Arron Asham had hearings in front of Brendan Shanahan, the N.H.L. vice president for player safety, for their roles in Sunday’s penalty-filled Game 3. Asham is likely facing a long suspension for crosschecking Brayden Schenn in the throat and punching him after he fell to the ice.

The N.H.L. suspended Pittsburgh forward burberry bags Craig Adams one game Monday for instigating a fight late in the third period Sunday. With the Flyers leading by 7-4, Adams thumped into Philadelphia forward Scott Hartnell from behind, hitting him in the back of the head.

Hartnell lost a black and orange necklace during the fight that he said has brought him luck for the second half of the season, which he finished with a career-high 37 goals. He had the necklace back Monday, and his wavy, auburn hair, pulled during the game, was in a bun.

“We’re trying to stay out of it,” Hartnell said. “We don’t want to get involved in a war of words or whatever. We’re playing the game the right way. We’re finishing checks, we’re keeping our elbows down.”

Their behavior has been uncharacteristic. The Flyers led the N.H.L. during the regular season with an average of 16.1 penalty minutes a game. They were tied with Columbus for louis vuitton handbags third in the league (behind the No. 1 Rangers) in fighting majors, with 57.

They have not shied away from scrapping with the Penguins. Pittsburgh collected 20 penalties for 89 minutes Sunday, but the Flyers collected 18 penalties for 69 minutes.

“I think a couple of their guys took liberties on our guys,” Hartnell said. “They weren’t trying to hit to be effective. They were hitting to hurt. That’s not the game of hockey. That’s not the way it’s supposed to be played.”

Kimmo Timonen, the usually placid 37-year-old Flyers defenseman, got into a first-period fight Sunday with Pittsburgh defenseman Kris Letang; both received game misconducts.

Philadelphia forward Claude Giroux, who has four goals oakley sunglasses in three games, said: “I think they’re trying to get some hits, get into our heads. They want us to stop playing the way we’ve been playing.”

The most visible Penguins player, the center and captain Sidney Crosby, was clearly flustered Sunday. He was also involved in a fight with Giroux and few other scuffles. At one point, he knocked away Jacob Voracek’s fallen glove as Voracek was about to pick it off the ice.

“Did we try to stir things up maybe last game?” Crosby said Tuesday. “Yeah.”

Hartnell said the Flyers had won “that battle Burberry designer ties for men white on sale best of discipline,” a hockey oxymoron. Hartnell, an 11-year veteran, said he thrived on physical play. He said he was not effective if he was not emotionally involved. It has been an emotional series, but the Flyers are not stirring it up.

2012年4月16日星期一

The largely unprecedented offer was issued in response to forecasts

The clubhouse was in turmoil Monday louis vuitton shoes morning as the team reported for its annual Patriots Day game, thanks to comments he made about third baseman Kevin Youkilis. By day's end, everyone involved — and just about everyone was involved — was professing some semblance of harmony.

"It is what it is," Valentine said after talking with Youkilis and second baseman Dustin Pedroia, who had some of the most pointed comments. "We're good," Pedroia said Ray ban sunglasses after meeting with Valentine, who is 10 games into his Red Sox tenure.

Earlier in the day, Pedroia said, "I really don't know what Bobby is trying to do. That's not the way we go about our stuff here. He'll figure that out. … Maybe that works in Japan."

The issue began when Valentine, who last managed in Japan, said in a television interview Sunday, "I don't think (Youkilis) is as physically or emotionally into the game as he has been in the past for some reason."

Youkilis, who did not play Monday because of a groin injury, said he met with Valentine but would not say what they discussed. He did say he was surprised and confused by the comments.

"I go out and just play the game," Youkilis said. "For me, it's not an issue."

Valentine said of that burberry outlet meeting, "I totally apologized. I said, 'Jesus, the last thing in the world I want you to think is that I'm criticizing you.' I should have been more specific."

But are Valentine's clubhouse relations an issue?

"Oh, God, come on," Valentine said. "We're big boys, and I'm sure he's going to get it. … I think the guys will get it. It's a good group of guys."

By the way, the Red Sox lost 1-0 to the Rays to end a three-game winning streak and remain in last place in the American League East.

Wesley Korir, a Kenyan citizen and permanent resident of the United States, won the Boston Marathon on Monday in a heat-slowed time of 2 hours 12 minutes 40 seconds that was almost 10 minutes behind the world best established here a year ago by Geoffrey Mutai.

It was the second-slowest Boston race since 1985, burberry bags as temperatures rising into the 80s slowed the leaders and may have convinced as many as 4,300 entrants to sit this one out. Mutai, who was hoping a repeat victory would earn him a spot on the Kenyan Olympic team, dropped out after 18 miles with cramps.

Instead, Korir may have won a ticket to the London Games.

"To me, I think running the Boston Marathon is an Olympic event," the two-time Los Angeles Marathon champion said. "I don't care what comes up after this, but I'm really, really happy to win Boston."

Sharon Cherop won the women's race to louis vuitton handbags complete the Kenyan sweep, outkicking Jemima Jelagat Sumgong to win by 2 seconds in 2:31:50. The women's race was decided by a sprint down Boylston Street for the fifth consecutive year.

Korir was the 19th Kenyan men's winner in 22 years. But he is hardly typical of the African runners who have come to dominate the event since Greg Meyer became the last American winner in 1983.

Korir attended college oakley sunglasses at Murray State — the Racers, naturally — before transferring to Louisville and graduating from the school with a biology degree. He is hoping to receive American citizenship within a few years.

The winners will receive $150,000 apiece. Korir and his wife, Canadian runner Tarah McKay, run a foundation in his hometown of Kitale and have been building a hospital in the memory of his brother Nicholas, who was killed by a black mamba snake at the age of 10.

A total of 22,426 runners started the race in Hopkinton in temperatures expected to be as high as 84 by the time the last of them finish their 26.2-mile trek Burberry designer ties for men white on sale best to Boston's Back Bay. That's about 84% of the registered field of almost 27,000, with many of the no-shows expected to take race organizers up on their offer for a deferment into next year's race.

The largely unprecedented offer was issued in response to forecasts that called for temperatures rising from 69 at the start to 81 by the midpoint.

The heat didn't seem to be a problem for Canadian Joshua Cassidy, who won the men's wheelchair race in a time of 1 hour 18 minutes 25 seconds cheap louis vuitton shoes for women that is the fastest in history. American Shirley Reilly edged Japan's Wakako Tsuchida during a sprint to the finish in the women's wheelchair division.

2012年4月15日星期日

No one in the league can make scoring look as easy as Anthony

There may or may not have been a playoff louis vuitton shoes statement made by the Miami Heat on Sunday at Madison Square Garden, but there certainly was a personnel seminar conducted by LeBron James and Dwyane Wade. Stylistically and statistically, they sent a pointed message to the Knicks on the virtues of all-stars who go out of their way to share.

“Doing it by yourself is for when you’re young, when you’re 22, 23,” Wade said after the Heat absorbed 39 points by Carmelo Anthony through three and a half quarters before limiting him to an after-the-fact 3-point shot down the stretch of a 93-85 Miami victory. “That’s for then. When you get older, you appreciate it more when you got other guys that can get the job done and you don’t have to have the ball 90 percent of the time.”

Since Anthony has been Ray ban sunglasses in the N.B.A. for eight years, same as Wade and James, shouldn’t he feel the same way?

Not that Anthony has formally made a request to dominate the ball; he just generally seems most motivated and productive when the Knicks’ offense is flowing like a river through his marvelously gifted hands. And lately, while Anthony has been on a scoring binge that has bordered on unstoppable, the popular narrative around the Knicks has been that this would be burberry outlet the most prudent approach for the playoffs, with a returning Amar’e Stoudemire best-suited for minutes off the bench.

In effect, so Stoudemire wouldn’t get in Anthony’s way. And so he could enjoy a few minutes at a time of relative freedom to shoot as much as he wishes without Anthony on the floor or Tyson Chandler cluttering up the paint. It all sounded nice except that pro basketball at the highest playoff levels is about the alignment of stars — or co-stars — and trying to attain that enlightened state of championship co-existence.

It has already been overstated a few thousand times that Anthony and Stoudemire have offensive skill sets that overlap and ultimately detract from one another. But think back to last season when on several occasions the same assessment was made of James and Wade.

It was said that they both burberry bags needed the ball on the perimeter; that neither player was terribly interested in moving without it. The last shot of a close game? James kept taking and missing it, leaving Wade to wonder why he had campaigned for the self-styled King to bring his talents to Miami.

“It’s kind of about the rhythm, when you come from a place where you are used to getting so many touches,” Wade said after he and James combined for 57 points and 19 rebounds in a vintage tag-team performance. “Now you have other guys on the team and you can go six minutes without touching the ball. And then when you do touch it, you’re out of rhythm.”

Not that the Heat are issue-free. Chris Bosh said: “Even we struggle to this day” with stars taking turns. Before Sunday, Miami had lost 8 of its last 11 road games, making one wonder if they were biding regular-season time, even more bored than flawed.

Until Miami wins a title, its cast of role players louis vuitton handbags will remain suspect. Beyond their Big 3 of James, Wade and Bosh, the rest of the team scored 20 points Sunday. But the Heat play defense well enough to tighten the screws on a virtual one-man team. And after the Knicks took a 79-75 lead on a basket by the quick-triggered J. R. Smith — a risky second option in Stoudemire’s absence — with 8 minutes 8 seconds left, the Heat lifted their pressure enough to inspire Anthony to say: “I don’t even know what happened.”

It happens to the most prolific of scorers — and Anthony is among them — when too great a burden is placed upon them. The high screen is suddenly played more aggressively. The assigned defender — in this case James — becomes more intense in one’s favorite isolation position, which for Anthony is on the left side of the floor.

He made 1 of his last 7 shots. Most of his attempts — like those of Smith — were forced 3-pointers. No one in the league can make scoring look as easy as Anthony but the arms and legs are bound to get weary in the latter stages of a 27-shot, 15-free-throw marathon in which Anthony scored about half the Knicks’ points.

Meanwhile, Wade broke loose for 8 of oakley sunglasses Miami’s last 18 points, while James contributed a couple of long jumpers. Dying along with the Knicks’ hopes to beat the Heat at least once in three games this season before possibly meeting them in the playoffs was the theory that Anthony is better off without Stoudemire.

Mike Woodson, the Knicks’ interim coach, apparently gets this. He has already said Stoudemire will reclaim his starting power forward position when he is recovered from his back injury. Anthony will go back to small forward. In a condensed period of a few games, they will just have to figure one another out.

“It’s not easy,” Wade said. “It’s an Burberry designer ties for men white on sale best adjustment but it’s a good adjustment to make if you can get it right. It makes it easier for you and easier for the team if you are able to do it.”

2012年4月13日星期五

HBO will offer free online access to its two newest shows

Since 2005, when the actors formerly known burberry handbags as Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie morphed into Brangelina, there have been near-constant rumors that the two are close to getting married.

On Friday afternoon, they got a little closer, though the news arrived with surprisingly little fanfare.

A picture posted at www.usmagazine.com of the couple with one of their six children revealed a diamond ring on Jolie's left hand. A rep for jeweler Robert Procop released a statement confirming that the jeweler and Pitt worked together on the purchase of the ring.

Later, Pitt's manager, Cynthia Pett-Dante, confirmed the engagement to People magazine. "It is a promise for the future and gucci sunglasses their kids are very happy. There's no date set at this time."

Pitt and Jolie clearly are both fond of marriage, having made a "promise for the future" three times between them. Pitt was married to Jennifer Aniston from 2000 to 2005 before he hooked up with Jolie, whom he met on the set of the film "Mr. & Mrs. Smith." Jolie was previously married to actors Johnny Miller (1996-98) and Billy Bob Thornton (2000-03). Both have said more than once that they have no plans to marry until same-sex marriage is legal, thus this could be a long engagement.

In other Jolie-Pitt news, a Thursday report at revealed that the couple plans to work together for the first time since 2005's "Mr. & Mrs. Smith." They reportedly are in talks to star in Ridley Scott's upcoming flick "The Counselor."
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When "The Five-Year Engagement" opens April 27, there oakley sunglasses will be plenty of Ann Arbor-spotting opportunities -- like the supporting role given to Zingerman's Delicatessen and Bakehouse.

The movie, which filmed in the Ann Arbor area last year, stars Jason Segel and Emily Blunt as an engaged couple who keep encountering speed bumps on the path to the altar.

In the story, Blunt's character finds out she's gotten a job at the University of Michigan for a couple of years. The film's preview includes several snowy scenes of Ann Arbor and a few glimpses of the U-M campus.

Zingerman's is featured in the movie because it's the place where Segel's character, Tom, works. There was footage shot where Tom, as a Zingerman's baker, is making loaves of bread.

The cast and crew essentially took over Zingerman's Ed Hardy sunglasses new arrivals discount sale CQEWQ145 Bakehouse on Plaza Drive for a day of shooting. They also filmed at Zingerman's Delicatessen on Detroit Street, according to Pete Sickman-Garner, Zingerman's service network marketing manager.

"When they called about this, we didn't know quite what to make of it because this was a different scale from the kind of filming we'd done before," he says. "But it went great. These people were real pros."

On Friday, a special screening of "The Five-Year Engagement" will be held at Ann Arbor's Michigan Theatre to benefit 826Michigan, a nonprofit writing center for children and teens. The VIP tickets are sold out, but $20 tickets are still available for the screening and a question-and-answer session with director Nicholas Stoller and producer Rodney Rothman.

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• New York police have arrested a man who they say broke in to Sean (Diddy) Combs' East Hampton, N.Y., mansion, the New York Post reported Friday. Queens resident Quamine Taylor, 30, reportedly entered the house through an unlocked door April 1. He was questioned then by police, but he initially convinced them he was allowed to be there. Taylor is in custody pending the posting of $2,000 bail.

• HBO will offer free online access to its two newest shows, says a report at. The Judd Apatow-produced "Girls," which premieres Sunday night, will be available Monday through May 14 on various sites, including and YouTube. "Veep," the political burberry bags comedy starring Julia Louis-Dreyfus, premieres April 22 and will be available April 23-May 21 on the same sites.

2012年4月12日星期四

Edwards denies having known about the money

Foreclosure auctions in Minnesota were down Ray ban sunglasses slightly during the first three months of the year, but there was an 11 percent increase in the number of people headed toward foreclosure.

"There are signs that there's another batch of foreclosures coming down the pike in Minnesota," said RealtyTrac's Daren Blomquist.

One in 312 Minnesota homeowners with a mortgage received either an auction notice or warning of an auction. Across the country notices were filed on 572,928 properties, or one in every 230 households. RealtyTrac doesn't break out the number of auctions.

The report comes in the wake of positive movement in the real estate market. Home sales in the Twin Cities have been up by double digits for the past several months, and in March the median sale price of all closed sales was up for the first time in nearly burberry handbags two years. Prices were up in large part because of a significant decline in foreclosure sales, which have been putting a statistical drag on home prices for the past several years.

Blomquist said the lull in foreclosure auctions was largely a result of the robo-signing scandal and a subsequent moratorium on new foreclosure actions, and noted that there's "definitely evidence of another round of foreclosure coming down the pipeline."

How that uptick in foreclosure notices will affect the market is unclear. Blomquist said that about half of all homeowners who receive notices end up going into foreclosure and their houses are sold at auction. What's more murky is how long it will take for those bank-owned listings to work their way into the market.

Ed Nelson of the Minnesota Home Ownership Center said that while there are a lot of positives in the housing market, including more cooperation from lenders, banks still need to do a better job of helping homeowners avoid losing their homes.

Earlier this year the Home Ownership Center said that while foreclosures across Minnesota last year fell 17 percent to the lowest level since 2007, the problem was shifting from the big cities to exurban and rural areas where homeowners might Oakley sunglasses not have access to services that might help them.

"Those struggling with their mortgages need to know that there is help available so that they can become part of those positive trends," Nelson said.

After years of investigation, denials and delays, jury selection began Thursday for the criminal trial of former presidential candidate John Edwards.

Edwards sat at the defense table as about 180 potential jurors filed into a Greensboro, N.C., courtroom. U.S. District Judge Catherine C. Eagles then asked Edwards to stand and face them. He grinned and nodded as the judge introduced him.

The trial had been scheduled to begin in late January, but was delayed after Edwards’ lawyers told the judge he had a serious heart problem that required burberry watches treatment. Compared with the quick-smiling candidate of four years ago, the former U.S. senator, now 58, appeared slightly gaunt in the cheeks but still had no trace of gray in his carefully parted hair.

Edwards faces six criminal counts related to nearly $1 million in secret payments made by two campaign donors to help hide the married Democrat’s pregnant mistress as he sought the White House in 2008.

“This is not a case about whether Mr. Edwards was a good husband or politician,” the judge said from the bench. “It’s about whether he violated campaign finance laws. ... The Constitution says trial by jury, not trial by burberry ties Internet or trial by gossip.”

Edwards’ parents and eldest daughter sat in the court as Eagles emphasized to the potential jurors their role in the upcoming trial and ordered them not to tell anyone, even their families, that they had been called for the Edwards case. She also advised them to put out of their minds any media coverage they had seen and to ignore any legal dramas they might have seen on television, because such shows may mischaracterize the law or burberry shirts for women cheap how a courtroom operates.

“You can watch Law & Order, Judge Judy, John Grisham; put it out of your mind,” Eagles said. “I will tell you what the law is.”

The jurors were then ushered to other parts of the courthouse to fill out lengthy written questionnaires. Their answers will be used to begin the screening process, set to resume Monday.

By the end of next week, the large jury pool is to be winnowed down to 12 jurors and at least four alternate jurors expected to attend each day of the proceedings. Opening arguments are scheduled to begin April 23.

The trial is expected to last six weeks, though the judge warned it could go even longer.

“There are many ways that on TV justice is not realistic,” she said. “One of those is that trials occur in an hour.”

The money at issue in the case flowed to Andrew Young, a former campaign aide who initially claimed the baby was his. Young is expected to be a key witness for the prosecution. The mistress, Rielle Hunter, may testify as part of Edwards’ defense. Nike sunglasses, cheap nike glasses sale, 50% off.

Following years of adamant public denials, Edwards acknowledged paternity of Hunter’s daughter in 2010.

A key question will be whether Edwards knew about the payments made on his behalf by his national campaign finance chairman, the late Texas lawyer Fred Baron, and campaign donor Rachel “Bunny” Mellon, an heiress and socialite who is now 101 years old. Both had already given Edwards’ campaign the maximum $2,300 individual contribution allowed by federal law.

Edwards denies having known about the money, which paid for private jets, luxury hotels and Hunter’s medical care. Prosecutors will seek to prove he sought and directed the payments to cover up his affair, protect his public image as a “family man” and keep his presidential hopes viable.

If convicted, Edwards faces a maximum penalty of 30 years in prison and as much as $1.5 million in fines.

U.S. marshals taped off a lane at the front steps of the courthouse so that Edwards and his family could exit the building without being crowded by louis vuitton bracelet the media.

Asked if he had any comment, Edwards gave a terse “No” and got inside an SUV waiting at the curb.

2012年4月11日星期三

No one needed a shot at redemption more than Smith

The battle for eighth place would not be determined burberry handbags by awe-inspiring defense or brilliant playmaking or any qualities that typically define great teams. This was, after all, a tussle for the Eastern Conference’s last playoff berth, a spot reserved for the flawed and the hopeful.

So it seemed only right when J. R. Smith — flawed, hopeful, often maddening — ended his disorienting night with the shot that beat the Milwaukee Bucks on Wednesday night and sent the Knicks home as the happy owners of Ray ban sunglasses eighth place.

Smith’s 3-pointer with 1 minute 4 seconds left gave the Knicks a 108-107 edge, a lead they never relinquished as they held on for a 111-107 victory.

“Definitely the biggest shot I’ve made since I’ve been here so far,” Smith said softly. “Especially on the road, in this atmosphere. A team Oakley sunglasses that we are batting for that eighth spot with. It’s big for us.”

The victory kept the Knicks (30-28) from falling into an eighth-place tie and losing the season series tiebreaker. Instead, they emerged with a two-game lead over the Bucks (28-30) and firm control over their destiny as they navigate the final eight games of the regular season.

Carmelo Anthony led the way with 32 points and 10 rebounds and hit a huge turnaround jumper down the stretch as the game tipped back and forth. But it was Smith who played the unlikely savior after Luc Mbah a Moute’s second-chance layup gave Milwaukee a 107-105 lead.

Smith had been erratic, even by Smith’s standards, missing 8 of 12 shots up to that point, and committing several glaring errors. But Coach Mike Woodson stuck with him, then called a pick-and-roll for Smith and Anthony that created the winning shot.

“I need J. R.,” Woodson said. “I’m a big believer in J. R. I told him that after the game. I’m in his corner and I’m going to do everything I can to see that he’s successful for this ball club. I think he has a talent and he showed it at the end of the game.”

The Bucks disintegrated down the stretch, missing eight of their last 10 shots, including all five attempts after Smith’s 3-pointer. The Knicks put the game away at the foul line, with two free throws from Steve Novak and burberry watches one from Iman Shumpert.

“It feels great,” Smith said of Woodson’s confidence in him. “He’s been sticking with me a lot for the last two games. Over and over, he’s been showing his confidence in me.”

Milwaukee’s flashy guards caused trouble for the Knicks all night, with Monta Ellis slashing his way to 35 points and Brandon Jennings adding 22. But Ellis, Jennings and Mike Dunleavy all missed 3-pointers down the stretch, and the Bucks blew an 8-point lead in the fourth quarter.

Anthony was dominant all night, despite burberry ties foul trouble, despite physical defense from Mbah a Moute, Larry Sanders and Carlos Delfino, and despite two hard fouls — one to his injured right wrist, one to his left fingers, which so angered him that he spiked the ball and earned a technical foul.

The stakes were well defined before tip-off. The Philadelphia 76ers (31-27) had beaten Toronto to further secure their hold on seventh place.

The players seemed to welcome the moment. In an otherwise quiet locker room, the only audible distraction was Frank Sinatra, crooning, “New York, New York” from Anthony’s mobile device as Anthony stretched out on a training table.

Neither team played much defense in the first half, which ended in a 62-62 tie after a series of fast-break dunks and layups burberry sneakers and some moments of preposterously sloppy play.

The Knicks were scorching to start the game, making 14 of 16 shots and as they raced to a 14-point lead. Their bench squandered it just as quickly, allowing the Bucks a 26-8 run in a seven-minute stretch.

Smith was not the only culprit, but his mistakes were perhaps the most egregious. He fouled Dunleavy on a 3-point try in the second quarter (an offense he committed again in the third quarter). He rushed a bad jumper after Bucks fans tricked him into believing the shot clock was running down (with a “five, four, three...” chant). Smith then missed a layup, committed a pointless loose-ball foul and got his jumper blocked before Woodson finally yanked him, with the Knicks trailing by 42-38.

In those critical final minutes, no one needed a shot at redemption more than Smith.

“Without a doubt,” he said, conceding, “I wasn’t having the best game all around. My individual defense was terrible tonight. It’s something I’ve got to keep working on and get better at.” Carrera sunglasses, cheap porsche carrera sunglasses, 50% sale.

Although the turnaround was tight, the Knicks’ 22 ½-hour gap between tip-offs — from 8:30 p.m. on Tuesday to 7 p.m. on Wednesday — was not the shortest this season. A number of teams, including the Nets, have played games scheduled just 22 hours apart, which is the minimum permitted under N.B.A. rules. The Knicks had just 20 hours, however, from the final buzzer in Chicago to tip-off on Milwaukee. “Ain’t nothing we can do about it,” Mike Woodson louis vuitton menswear said. “It’s been that way all season. Our guys understand it.” ... Jared Jeffries, who is playing despite a chronic injury in his right knee, is under a 15-minute-a-game limit, Woodson said.

2012年4月10日星期二

Quinn experienced a rainbow of emotions during the episode

It sounds like a shirtless Donald Driver burberry ties may become the norm on Dancing with the Stars – at least if his partner Peta Murgatroyd continues to have say in the matter.

"It worked for us tonight, so we're going to be doing it again for sure," the professional dancer told PEOPLE backstage Monday night during the show's rock-themed week, after she and Driver topped the leader board with 27 points for their paso doble.

As for Driver, 37, he has no issues with stripping down for the camera.

"I'm comfortable with my body, so I'm okay with it," he told PEOPLE. "We have to entertain the crowd and all the fans to make sure we can stay on the show, so tonight was entertainment."

Up until Monday night's performance, it was burberry outlet contestant William Levy who consistently wowed the crowd with his sexy routines.

"I think he did what he did and everybody was loving it, so we had to change it up a little bit," Driver says of his and Murgatroyd's inspiration behind the audience-pleasing ensemble. "We decided to really bring it all out and show the world."

When it comes to topping their dance to Jimi Hendrix's "Purple Haze," Driver isn't sure that will be possible, but he's going to give it all he's got.

"It felt good," he said. "We'll burberry shoes for men keep working hard."

Adds Murgatroyd, "I feel on top of the world. We're on top of the leader board. It's a really, really good feeling. We can sleep tonight, knowing that we've done the best we can possibly do."

We found out in the opening minute of the episode that Quinn's (Dianna Agron) spine was severely compressed in the crash, so she has no feeling in her feet and legs and will need to use a wheelchair. But Quinn took the high road, choosing not to blame anybody, especially Rachel (Lea Michele), and promising herself and her New Directions teammates that she will be walking—nay, dancing—at Nationals.

Unfortunately, Quinn experienced a rainbow of emotions during the episode that hindered her positive outlook: She yelled at Artie (Kevin McHale) that Ray ban sunglasses she wasn't like him and she would walk again, even though they spent a majority of the hour bonding, and she found herself snapping at Joe (Samuel Larsen) when he said he was praying for her. By the end of the episode, all was well with Quinn, and she led Joe to join New Directions finally. Who was shocked by that move? Nobody, but we liked to see "hippie Jesus" join the club anyway.

Our lives are now Oakley sunglasses separated into two categories: Before seeing Matt on Glee, and after. It's magical to live in a world where Matt "Living Disney Prince" Bomer is playing one of the most awesome Glee characters ever, Cooper Anderson. But not so magical for his brother, Blaine, who has had issues with him his whole life. And "Coop" is so full of himself, he doesn't even realize his acting lessons are really ridiculous. Oh, and we have a message for the Glee set and/or prop department: please send us all of Cooper Anderson's headshots and the giant wall of screens playing his commercial on loop. Thanks.
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Even though the brothers spent the whole episode burberry outlet mens belts butting heads, we did get two great musical numbers out of their feud. One being, of course, their duet to "Somebody That I Used to Know" at the end of the episode where the bros worked out their differences and (hopefully) left the door open for Matt to return. The other great number was Darren Criss' "Fighter." OK, we're just going to be real shallow here and say we loved it because of the boxing-shower combo. Thanks, Ryan Murphy!

The Cheerios coach now has a co-coach in Roz Washington (NeNe Leakes), which she is totally on board with. Just kidding, she loathes it. To win her head-coaching spot back, Sue (Jane Lynch) promises to deliver a National championship from New Directions. And since she recently found out her unborn baby girl is facing complications, we got a brief moment of Sue's humane side when she told the glee club that she wanted to be around them so her baby could soak up their "optimism." Then she went back to mocking Kurt (Chris Colfer) and all was right in the world. Dior sunglasses-cheap christian dior sunglasses 2012 online.

By the by, did anyone else find it weird that Will (Matthew Morrison) and Sue went from being at each other's throats over Booty Camp to Will and Emma (Jayma Mays) accompanying her to the doctor's office? We have whiplash over their kind of-maybe-sort of louis vuitton mens shoes friendship, but we suppose that's why we love those three together.