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Saturday, June 20: Chuck and Crew! My father-in-law and his crew of fearless fence-builders have been working hard, so I take them a big lunch so they won't have to stop and run to town for food. (Coincidentally, Ladd and Josh get wind of the food and crash the party!) See you this Saturday morning.
Saturday, June 13: Perfecting the Pantry. I make four recipes with primarily pantry ingredients. So much fun!
Saturday, April 18: Dinner Through the Decades! I dish on delicious dinners throughout the different decades of my life. Good stuff, Maynard!
Saturday, April 4: Freezer Fundamentals! While ranch work is going on outside, freezer work is going on inside! I share four more of my favorite freezer basics, which can be made into a whole bunch of different meals.
Saturday, March 28: Easter Weekend! Join me as I spend Easter weekend delivering Hot Cross Buns to friends, cooking the kids a springy lunch, decorating Easter treats with the boys, and getting potluck food ready for Easter Sunday. It's that time of year!
Saturday, February 14: Shipping Cattle! While my family ships cattle, I whip up a make-ahead dinner followed by a heavenly pancake bar for a late post-shipping breakfast. Good food all around!
Saturday, February 7: Kitchen Confessional – Chocolate! I spill the beans on four of my very favorite chocolate recipes. They'll make anyone's heart go pitter pat!
Saturday, January 25: Football, Football, Football! Join me on a football-centric weekend involving our small town's homecoming parade, my boys' Saturday games, and a Sunday evening of game film with Coach Ladd. Football is our lives!
Saturday, January 17: Chicken in Bulk! I take a trip to the supermarket to buy a whole bunch of family pack chicken…along with lots of things that go with it. If you're a little rusty on chicken-friendly recipes, drop by Saturday morning!
Saturday, January 10: Souper Good! I make some of my favorite soup recipes for various people in my life. Nothing says "I love you" like a nice, warm bowl of soup!
After a little break through the holidays, new episodes of Pioneer Woman begin Saturday, January 3! We'll kick off the new shows with a new installment of 16 Minute Meals—with a little bit of a healthy twist! See you Saturday at 10 Eastern, 9 Central.
Saturday, December 6: This Saturday night is the hour-long Pioneer Woman Christmas special on Food Network! Here are some key words you need to know: Kabobs, gingerbread, cowboys, roping, dancing, and eighties wigs. See you at 8 Eastern, 7 Central!
Saturday, November 15: Thanksgiving! Join me as I show you some of my very favorite Thanksgiving side dishes, from dressing to sweet potatoes!
Saturday, November 8: Perfect Pies! I make four pies in one day, each one simple, easy, and splendidly delicious! Get ready for the holiday season !
Saturday, September 13: Pasta Pronto! One of my favorite PW episodes to date, this show features four of my favorite quick-and-easy pasta dishes. Yay for noodles!
Saturday, August 16: Hitting the Road! Before the girls and I take off on a college trip, I stock the fridge with some ready-made food and snacks for the boys. Great ideas for make-ahead meals!
Saturday, August 9: Kitchen Confessional! In this show I dish (haha) on my favorite comfort foods of all time. Love these recipes!
Saturday, July 19: Engagement Party! My sister-in-law Missy and I throw a big engagement celebration for our good family friend, Haley. Prime Rib, gorgeous cupcakes, flowers, drinks, party favors…this'll be a fun episode!
Saturday, July 12: Takeout at Home! My girls and I love Chinese food, so I surprise them with an at-home dinner of all our favorites!
Saturday, July 5: 16 Minute Meals, All Day Long! I share 3 meals and a snack that take almost no time at all to make.
Saturday, June 7: Big Day at the Building! I cook lunch for the crew on the day we reveal the new corner entrance to the Building we're renovating in town. Great food, lots of excitement!
Saturday, May 31: Spring Burning! While the crew burns pastureland, I'm firing up the grill and making one of my favorite dinners…and desserts. Lots of excitement on the ranch in this episode!
Saturday, May 24: Essential Cooking Tools! I take you along on a shopping trip to a restaurant supply store (swoon) and show you all the cool things you can find there, from iron skillets to scoops to torches…and some delicious things you can make with them!
Saturday, May 17: Calf Working! The guys have such a long day of working calves that I wind up taking them breakfast…AND lunch! Fun show—lots of kids, calves and cowboys!
Saturday, May 10: Filling Edna Mae's Freezer! I cook up individual portions of delicious food for Ladd's grandmother, Edna Mae. All she has to do is heat it up!
Saturday, April 12: Pa-Pa's Birthday! It's my father-in-law Chuck's birthday, and we're throwing him a big birthday dinner complete with a Cajun Surf-and-Turf dinner and cowboy-friendly gifts. Hope you enjoy!
Saturday, April 5: Gathering Bulls! After the kids help Marlboro Man gather some big ol' bulls, they come up to the Lodge for a lunch of delicious comfort food. This is one of their favorite menus!
Saturday, March 15: B-Man! My older boy Bryce and I have dinner—including the best ice cream sundaes known to man—together.
And pssst. This meatloaf? Fugghetaboutit! So good.
Saturday, March 8: 16 Minute Meals…Around the world!
Saturday, February 22: Lighten Up! With Ladd and the kids away, I go into a little bit of a boot camp mode where I exercise a little more…and share some of the things I eat when I want to eat a little lighter.
Saturday, February 15: Shakespeare Movie Night! In this super fun episode of PW, Alex's homeschooling group heads to the Lodge for a night of Julius Caesar! I make fun Italian-inspired food (get it?) and we all have a great time together. Hope you enjoy this one—the food is delish!
Saturday, February 8: Us & Them! Tim and Missy come up to the Lodge for dinner…while the kids decide to have their own separate meal.
…And treats for the hungry athletes.
We almost didn't have enough!
Saturday, January 18, 2014: New episodes begin! After a short break through the holidays, a new batch of shows begins this Saturday, starting with "Bulk Buys," where I share a few of the grocery ingredients I buy in bulk…and the great recipes I can make from them. See you this Saturday!
Saturday, November 16: Thanksgiving! Last year I showed the whole Thanksgiving feast; this year, I take a slightly different approach and show all the glorious things you can do with Turkey Day leftovers!
Saturday, November 9: Scrumptious 16-Minute Meals! I love 16-minute meals more than anything, and this Saturday I'll be sharing three more of my faves!
Saturday, November 2: Tex Mex for Cowboys! While the guys wean calves, I make a big (translation: huge) Tex Mex spread of fajitas, beans, and cinnamon ice cream. This is some of my favorite food in the world!
Saturday, October 26: Sweet Deliveries! I'm so exited about this show, as I had such a fun time shooting it. I'm on the go throughout the whole show, delivering sweet treats to loved ones in my life…and walking you through the recipes along the way.
There are quick sleepover treats, tropical-flavored cookies…and these ridiculous chocolate desserts that are so good, they'll make you cry. See you Saturday morning!
Along with guitar-playin', singin' teenagers. Hope you enjoy the show!
Saturday, October 5: Moving Cattle! Ladd and the kids are moving cattle around, and I whip up a delicious pizza lunch with two different varieties, along with Lemon-Limeade and a yummy ice cream pie. You'll love the food in this one…good stuff!
Saturday, September28: Choppin' Down Cedars! Cedars are a problem on any ranch, and it takes constant maintenance to keep them at bay. Marlboro Man and the kids spend the day chopping down cedars and I make them a big spread of pasta, salad, and these hilariously simple cookie treats. Bet you can't eat just one!
Saturday, September 21: Our cowboy Josh and our oldest child are spending the day doing some miscellaneous ranch work, and to thank Josh, I make him a big ol' lunch…and a chocolate pie to take home with him. This is my favorite pie on the face of the earth!
Saturday, August 31: Building Pens! The guys tear out an old set of pens and the kids help them build new ones while I make a big Tex-Mex lunch to deliver to them on site. You'll love this menu—a real crowd pleaser!
Saturday, August 25: (Sorry for the confusion; this is next week!) Alex's Surprise Birthday Party! My 16-year-old (how did that happen?) daughter's friends come over for a big surprise, then we all feast on a big, beautiful pasta bar…and birthday sundaes. Sweet friends, good times.
Saturday, August 17: Dear Pioneer Woman! I answer questions about food, love…and washing dogs.
Saturday, August 10: Big House Cleanup! After some heavy rains, our homestead is in need of a little pick-me-up, so we spend an afternoon sweeping and tidying up…then we light a bonfire of branches and sticks. Dinner menu is fried chicken, potato salad, colorful cole slaw…and fun little key lime pies! Hope you enjoy, friends.
Saturday, August 3: Breakfast Delivery. While the guys are working calves, I whip up a big, hearty, stick-to-your ribs breakfast. Probably the most cowboy-friendly menu there is! So delicious.
Saturday, July 27: Simply the Best. I list lots of my favorite things around the ranch—everything from the Best Grilled Cheese to the Best Dimples!
Saturday, July 20: Fill the Freezer! I do a week of cooking to stock the freezer…starting with an epic supermarket journey with my boys. Hope you enjoy this one! I loved making this one.
Including these delectable black pepper potato chips!
Saturday, June 8: Pickup Picnic! To deliver to the cowboys and kids after a long morning of calf working, I whip up spicy roasted chicken legs, cowboy beans, deviled eggs…and the most decadent brownies in the universe. Lots of great ranching in this episode. Hope you enjoy!
A brand new season of Pioneer Woman premieres Saturday, June 1! Lots of fun episodes planned this time around, featuring the family, the ranch…and Charlie, of course. See you then!
And this cake, which is ta die fer.
Saturday, April 6: Edna Mae's Birthday! The kids and I surprise Edna Mae with a home-delivered birthday meal…including this multi-layer cake! We had a lot of fun.
Saturday, March 23: The whole family comes over after church for a big Sunday Brunch.
I make a big glazed ham, biscuits and ham gravy, a pretty and yummy fruit salad, and fun eggs baked in potato cups. Great Easter-friendly recipes!
And my sister-in-law Missy brings these gorgeous cupcakes. We had a delicious time.
Saturday, March 16: The calf-working crew comes by for a rib-sticking lunch of pork chops, the best green beans ever, a delicious hash brown casserole…and a yummy cobbler!
Saturday, March 9: Marlboro Man's coaching my football-playing boys and I'm making food to get them through not just their practice, but the big playoff game. Go, team!
Saturday, February 16: Cowboy Tailgating! While the guys work cattle, I whip up a tailgating lunch of hearty lasagna, delicious garlic cheese bread, and these luscious fried fruit pies. There's nothing like lunch on the side of a horse trailer!
Saturday, February 9: Ten Things I Love! Using list form (one of my favorite things) I go through ten of the things I love the most. From Bassets to horses…to cream-filled chocolate cupcakes, I'll walk you through all the things that makes my heart go pitter-pat.
Saturday, February 2: "Sixteen Minute Meals!" Who wants to spend four thousand hours making dinner? Not me, that's who! I mean whom. I mean who. Never mind. This episode examines three different (exceedingly busy) nights on the ranch…and the delicious throw-together meals that result. They really do take sixteen minutes.
Season 4 begins this Saturday morning, January 26, at 10:00 eastern/9:00 central! We have a big Ranch Games competition with Tim's family, and the events include a calf scramble, roping…and a goat milking competition between Missy and me.
The new CHRISTMAS episode airs Saturday morning, December 8 at 9:30 Central/10:30 Eastern and Sunday morning, December 9 at 7:00 Central/8:00 Eastern.
Hope you love the show. There are meat-a-balls, Christmas trees, chocolate treats, and Christmas cheer galore.
Saturday, October 6: High School Reunion! I have my best friends from high school out to the Lodge for our annual reunion and make lots of food to kick off the weekend. There may or may not be gift bags…and there may or may not be neon scrunchies.
Saturday, September 29: It's my oldest child's fifteenth birthday, so she has her three best friends over to hang out and have dinner. I make the food and by the end of the day, I think I'm fifteen again, too. Being a teenager is fun!
Saturday, September 15: Horses are front-and-center in this week's new episode! I may or may not embarrass myself by riding.
To send with the kids on horseback, I make yummy chocolate-dipped granola bars that are to-die-fer. Yum.
Saturday, September 8: The girls and I have pasta while Marlboro Man and the kids are out of town, then we all reunite in a big Burger-and-French-Fry-Fest.
Saturday, August 30: We have our good family friends over for a big spread of Mexican food!
Mango margaritas are involved. Amen.
Including these crazy, bedazzled cookies!
Here are photos from previous seasons/previous episodes.
Saturday, March 24: Rise and Shine: For this show, I took a slightly different approach and chronicled three breakfasts on three different days: a quiet breakfast at home by myself, a birthday breakfast for my father-in-law, and breakfast burritos for the cowboys.
Saturday, March 17: Triple Act!: In this episode, my mom and Betsy visit on the same weekend and we have a total girl-fest of food: Seafood pasta, spinach salad, olive cheese bread…and creme brulee. Yay for moms and sisters!
Saturday, March 10: Sleepover!: On this Saturday's episode, my girls spend the night at my BFF Hyacinth's house while her boys come to the ranch for the night. I made them breakfast food for dinner…and dinner food for breakfast.
It was a yummy and delicious sleepover.
And Marlboro Man took them all to cut down cedar trees, so he got some benefit out of it too!
Saturday, March 3 – Marlboro Man's Birthday Party: It's MM's birthday, and the kids decorate the Lodge while I whip up one of his favorite meals….and this ridiculously easy four layer chocolate cake.
It was a fun show to film! The shirt I wore is permanently stained with chocolate.
* I go feeding with Marlboro Man.
* I open gates for Marlboro Man.
* Because that's what ranch wives do.
* I make chocolate cake.
* I make chocolate frosting.
* The kids and I go to town and manage to shove 43 balloons into the back of my vehicle.
* My hair is lighter in this show. I decided to get highlights right before we filmed it and when I left the hair place I was convinced I was a platinum blonde.
* You probably will not notice.
* That had nothing to do with cooking. I just wanted to mention it.
* I make easy chocolate curls to adorn the cake…then Marlboro Man's candles melt them within seconds.
* Unfortunately, I have no leg to stand on when it comes to teasing him about his age considering I'm two weeks older.
* I make Chicken Parmesan for Marlboro Man's dinner, which makes me laugh considering he's a cattle rancher. Har.
* I make yummy blackberry ice cream with chocolate chips. It's in my new cookbook. It's very purple.
* The kids make Marlboro Man "gift certificates" for things like hauling off the trash, washing his pickup, etc. Sometimes we do this when there's nothing we can think of that he really wants or needs. It's a fun, homemade way to make a birthday special.
* Charlie smelled like skunk throughout the filming of this show.
* Not that you will notice this. I just thought I'd share.
</aSaturday, February 25 – Potluck Sunday!: >On this Saturday's show, Marlboro Man and the kids travel to two awesome Oklahoma spots to shop for everything from boots to chaps to winter coats to hats.
Next week, I'll feature one of the shops on my site. It's a fixture around these parts.
On the food front, the next day is a big potluck at our church, so I whip up comfort food to the max and Charlie helps me.
Saturday, February 9 – Chocolate!: In this week's episode, I make three of my favorite chocolate delights, putting a new twist on each one. Come to Mama.
Inside this jar of love is…well, you just have to try it.
Saturday, January 28 – The Big Game: The show highlights my husband's two best friends from college, Tony and Bill, who travel to the ranch to watch Arizona State (their alma mater) play Arizona (their arch rival) on TV. I make football food like guacamole, wings, and brownies, but the real fun of the show is the dudes.
Update: The PW Christmas show was a blast. We filmed at the end of November, then into December and the edit barely made it in time! But it was fun to actually film a Christmas special…at Christmastime. Loved it.
My kids and I are having fun. And chowing down.
Walter! Get outta my parsley.
Roping is not exactly my strong suit.
Fortunately, Food Network edited out my body-shaping camisole.
Marlboro Man would like me to hurry up and snap the photo so he can eat already.


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The Video Translation Process Has Never Been Easier
Tiffani Bauer
Former Video Producer at Descript. Accomplished editor and videographer. Fan of hibachi and women's basketball and knit hats.
Your films and videos do not need to be siloed by geographic region—the world needs to see them. Global audiences gobble up English language content filmed in the United States and Britain, while American audiences appreciate cinema from all over the world, with films from all over the world— including Mexico, South Korea, Japan, Italy, and India—showing in US theaters. Of course, international films must transcend language and cultural barriers, and that's where the translation process comes in. By translating films into a local language, you gain access to new audiences and can share your art with more of the world.
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When you think about video translation, your mind immediately goes to subtitles and awkwardly dubbed audio. For filmmakers, however, the first part of video translation is a nuanced process called localization which may end in either subtitles or voiceover. In localization, your existing script is translated not simply into another language word-for-word, but with care to make culturally appropriate changes to the dialogue and to fit the idioms of your target language. For instance, an idiomatic figure of speech in one language may translate to nonsense in another language—or they may be taken too literally. (We're talking about phrases like "at the end of the day" and "giving someone the cold shoulder.") After those cultural nuances are addressed in the script, it can be turned into subtitles or a script for dubbing the film.
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The simplest way to handle the translation process is to place translated subtitles on an otherwise unchanged video. By opting for closed caption translation, you allow audiences to hear the voices of the original actors—with their emotional inflections and cadence —rather than those of voice actors. You also don't have to hire a team to record new audio.
Dubbing involves hiring voice actors to record new audio in the target language, which then replaces the film's original audio. The dubbing process happens after the original film production is wrapped. In fact, dubbing sessions often take place in the country where the dubbed language is spoken. So if an American film was dubbed in Castilian Spanish for a Spanish audience, the dubbed audio would likely be recorded in Spain using Spanish actors.
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Transcribe your video. The first step in translating video content is transcribing the existing audio. You can do this manually by carefully listening to the audio track while typing, or you can use an automatic transcription service like Descript.
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Crosscheck with artistic collaborators. In the event that your film's original screenwriter speaks the language you're translating to, ask them to review the translation draft. If the writer does not speak the new language, find other artists who do to ensure that the translated draft is accurate and true to the original script. The original script passed through many sets of eyes before filming began. Your translated script should do the same.
Create your chosen translation formats. You are now at the point where you will create translations in your format of choice. If you opt for closed caption translation, you'll need text files containing the subtitles and timestamps for each piece of text. If you choose to overdub, you will have a professional voice actor record audio tracks.
Hire talent and set them in motion. Voice dubbing is real acting. Use the same rigor in hiring voice actors for dubbing that you'd use for hiring on-screen actors in the original language. While creating subtitles isn't the same as voice acting, you still want to hire a professional who can make text look elegant and professional on-screen—easily read without being distracting. Once you've hired the right people, trust them to do their work in a thorough and professional manner. For a voice dubbing session, however, plan to have a director in the studio to guide the recording process.
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The weather is finally cooling off and the days are getting shorter. One of the things I love on a crisp fall night is "breakfast for dinner". Some nights, I dig out the cast iron pan for pancakes and bacon and other nights I will shred potatoes for a cheesy potato and sausage frittata.
Last night, I wanted something different and savory for dinner. I used my trusty Cooking Light bookmark and found this cheesy omelet with a kick. I had all the ingredients already on hand. I just needed to make it and EAT IT! If you do not like a lot of heat, feel free to leave out or decrease the amount of red pepper flakes.
Combine first 6 ingredients in a bowl, stirring gently with a whisk.
Heat an 8-inch nonstick skillet over medium-high heat. Add 1 1/2 teaspoons oil to pan; swirl to coat. Add half of egg mixture to pan, and spread evenly in pan.
Cook the egg mixture until edges begin to set (about 1 minute). Slide front edge of spatula between edge of omelet and pan. Gently lift edge of omelet, tilting pan to allow some uncooked egg mixture to come in contact with pan. Repeat procedure on opposite edge of omelet.
Continue cooking until center is just set (about 2 minutes). Sprinkle half of cheese evenly over half of omelet. Loosen omelet with a spatula, and fold in half.
Carefully slide omelet onto a plate. Repeat the procedure with remaining oil, egg mixture, and cheese. Garnish with sage leaves, if desired. Serve immediately.


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Home / frontfantasy / Overvalued 2017 Fantasy Running Back: Devonta Freeman
Last week, I broke down why Latavius Murray was my undervalued fantasy running back for 2017, and now I will give my most overvalued running back.
Currently being drafted 11th overall according to Fantasy Pros, Falcons running back Devonta Freeman is going too high in my opinion. Freeman has been an elite fantasy player for each of the past two seasons, finishing as the RB1 in 2015 and RB6 last season, but he is a regression candidate for several reasons.
First of all, it's hard to imagine losing arguably the best offensive coordinator in the NFL will help out Freeman's fantasy production. Kyle Shanahan is now the head coach of the 49ers, and while his replacement Steve Sarkisian is a bright offensive mind in his own right, the switch could spell bad news for Freeman. Atlanta was the league's #1 scoring offense in 2016, and even though Shanahan's system is supposedly staying in place, Sarkisian will certainly change some things.
The biggest change—and the one that could most impact Freeman—is more touchdown chances for Julio Jones. With less than seven touchdowns per season since entering the league, Julio has been criminally underused in the red zone. Jones should be a machine in scoring territory as the most physically-gifted wideout in the game, but is scoring just one touchdown per 16.15 catches since 2014 (when Freeman was drafted). Here are the rates other elite wide receivers are scoring at over the past three seasons:
Dez Bryant: 6.26 catches per touchdown
Jordy Nelson: 7.22 catches per touchdown
Odell Beckham Jr.: 8.23 catches per touchdown
Mike Evans: 8.81 catches per touchdown
Allen Robinson: 9.14 catches per touchdown
Antonio Brown: 10.6 catches per touchdown
Brandin Cooks: 10.75 catches per touchdown
A.J. Green: 11.05 catches per touchdown
For Jones to be scoring at a much lower rate than the rest of these guys seems almost unreal. Steve Sarkisian has already said he wants to "maximize his opportunities" in the red zone regarding the all-world wide receiver, so Julio should definitely see an uptick in touchdowns in 2017. If that is the case, Devonta Freeman's production will be hurting.
After limited playing time as a rookie, Freeman has scored 14 and 13 total touchdowns in 2015 and 2016, respectively. Sark is going to continue to rely on his talented running back, but the touchdown numbers are looking at a decline with Julio expected to be a focus in the red zone. Also, keep in mind that in Freeman's RB1 campaign, it was a weak year for fantasy running backs.
David Johnson led the position with 313 fantasy points in 2016, which was 70 points higher than Freeman's 243 points in 2015. In that breakout season for Freeman, he averaged just 3.98 yards per carry. And people are quick to forget that he actually lost the competition for the starting job in the preseason, and it took a Tevin Coleman injury for Freeman to get his chance.
That is not to take success away from Freeman by any means (it took an injury to Drew Bledsoe for Tom Brady to become a five-time champion), but it would be ignorant to not take everything into account. Healthy in year two, Coleman's play last season made it tough to keep him off the field, as he averaged 6.32 yards per touch and 13.6 yards per reception. For comparison—using the same player as before—David Johnson averaged 5.68 yards per touch and 11.0 yards per reception in 2016.
Had Tevin Coleman not been injured in his rookie season, we might be talking about him—not Freeman—as an elite fantasy running back. The Falcons cut Freeman's touches by 16.8% from 2015 to 2016 in order to give Coleman more playing time, and the former third-round pick could cut into it even more this year. I actually wouldn't be surprised if the backfield sees a shakeup where Coleman gets more playing time than Freeman, as Sarkisian will want to live up to his predecessor, and he might view Coleman as the more explosive player.
I haven't even discussed the off-field concerns about Freeman regarding his contract, which date back to Super Bowl week. The week before the big game, the now-25-year-old voiced his desire for a new deal. What made Freeman bring it up then is unclear, but it wasn't a good look for him. Still, the team has said all offseason that they're working on an extension with their starting running back, but it has yet to get done.
General manager Thomas Dimitroff said he would like to get a deal done by tomorrow, but Freeman's agent has since met with the team and left, signaling a deal might not be too close to getting done. At some point, you would think the team would decide to end negotiations and let him play the season out so it isn't a distraction too deep into camp. As stated, they have a capable backup who I think is a better long-term investment anyway.
Furthermore, the Falcons couldn't have liked some of Freeman's comments last month about the Super Bowl LI loss. He said on Sirius XM Radio that "you can't dwell on the things that went wrong," but went on to say this:
"I'm just talking about from based off that game. Let's say it like this, if I would have stayed in the game—and I don't know why I got out the game, actually—but if I would have stayed in the game, I would have got MVP. I look at my stats and I see my numbers didn't lie. Look at my numbers."
Once again, not a good look at all. This sounds an awful lot like Marshawn Lynch's final year with the Seahawks, and he eventually retired after the season. Freeman obviously won't do that, but the two sides could split if they don't agree on a deal before the regular season starts. Freeman's comments could give the team reason to play Tevin Coleman more, too.
I have been fairly negative about Freeman here, but he is definitely a really good player, and should be a solid fantasy contributor for the third consecutive season. As a borderline top-five running back and first- or second-round pick, though, I am passing on him. I think Freeman will be more of a midrange RB2 in 2017, and wouldn't take him until the third round of my fantasy draft.
curry16MVP
lol he blew that block and blamed Shanahan.. i agree
celtics1986
yeah he's still going to be a good player, but maybe not top 5-6 in fantasy football anymore
maddengamer
That Julio stat is interesting. Could see Freeman taking a step down this year.


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These companies want to help erase wrinkles without needles
By Emma Koehn
Australian customers want to fight wrinkles, but the businesses smoothing the way to success with anti-ageing cosmetics say that few want to go under the knife.
According to IBISWorld, the country's cosmetic and plastic surgery procedure space is worth $1.5 billion a year, but close to one quarter of procedures in this space are "non-surgical", including skin treatments that don't involve things like injections.
Maria Halasz, CEO of Cellmid. Credit:Wolter Peeters.
Entrepreneurs that play in the 'wellness cosmetics' space say they're jumping on an upswing of customers who want the results of anti-ageing treatments but want a more natural or less intense option.
The nation's premium skincare product market is also approaching the half a billion dollar mark, worth $435 million this year and growing by 13 per cent a year, according to IBISWorld, powered by demand for organic beauty products.
'People don't like to be injected'
In the midst of this, a range of companies are adding anti-ageing products to their project suites. Biotechnology company Cellmid is working on therapies for chronic kidney disease in one part of its business, but selling anti-ageing and hair loss prevention products in the other.
Chief executive Maria Halasz says the company, which turned over more than $5 million last year, decided to secure licensing for the anti-ageing product Fillerina because it was clear customers wanted anti-wrinkle treatments but only a small slice of the Australian market was going straight to injectable treatments.
"It's about two things: people don't like to be injected, and then there's the artificial nature of the injection results," she says.
Customers are really only focused on two things in the anti-ageing market: wrinkle prevention and wrinkle erasure, Halasz says.
Cellmid's Fillerina products are topical treatments containing various sizes of hyaluronic acid molecules, designed to smooth out skin from the outside rather than having a substance injected.
Halasz says the product, developed in Switzerland, has undergone 30-day safety tests and has a good risk profile.
The products complement Cellmid's hair loss prevention product range, Evolis.
She says customers are increasingly going into pharmacies to buy their cosmetics and that Cellmid is well placed to provide an anti-ageing alternative in that space.
While not a complete alternative to the likes of Botox, the anti-ageing products do "complement" them and capture consumers who would never get more invasive treatments in the first place, she says.
'They want a more natural approach'
Another player in the anti-wrinkle space is medicinal cannabis company Bod Australia, which is working on a range of novel anti-ageing products involving hemp, as well as selling its Bioeffect skin range through local department stores.
Chief executive of Bod Australia, Jo Patterson.
Chief executive Jo Patterson says the company, which made more than $350,000 in revenue last year, is working on skin treatments including cannabis extracts which, while not yet legal for sale in Australia, are being developed in Italy to sell into that market.
The "sophisticated" anti-ageing product will include developing products including a cannabidiol extract.
For the local market, products using hemp seed oil and manuka honey are what the business is excited about.
"People are looking to alternatives that are less invasive, that have less down time. Things that are more in keeping with their attitudes towards life - they want a more natural approach," she says.
For Patterson, the company's foray into the anti-ageing space is all about the popularity of the "wellness" movement.
"We come to it from a more holistic perspective," she says.
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Susanna Liew Sow Yoke
'Abducted' pastor's family pleads for his return
Published: Feb 18, 2017 11:45 AM
Updated: 12:16 PM
My name is Susanna Liew Sow Yoke. I am 61 years old and a housewife.
On Monday, Feb 13, 2017, my husband, Pastor Raymond Koh Keng Joo, 62, was allegedly abducted in Jalan SS4b/10, Petaling Jaya, less than 100 metres from the Kompleks Perumahan Polis.
This was confirmed on Feb 14, 2017 by Selangor CID chief senior assistant commissioner Fadzil Ahmat.
On the morning of Feb 13, 2017, my husband left our Prima Sixteen Chapter Two home in Jalan 16/18, Section 16, Petaling at around 10am to go to the Puncak Damansara Condominium in Kampung Sg Kayu Ara, Petaling Jaya.
According to the police report filed by my son Jonathan Koh Szu Hao, 32, my husband left home at approximately 10am.
He then drove to Puncak Damansara where I last saw him just after 10am. He was on his way to a mutual friend's house in Kelana Jaya to deliver some 'belacan'. My husband never arrived at his destination.
He was 'abducted' in Jalan SS4b/10, Kelana Jaya, by at least five masked men while en route to our friend's home. The abduction took place between 10.31:42 and 10.32:39am according to CCTV footage, currently with the police.
My children and I are shocked, saddened and traumatised by the events of the past week. Today, it is almost a week since Raymond was abducted and we have heard nothing.
I believe that the people who took my husband from me are no ordinary abductors because of the following reasons:
They were masked;
The abduction was professionally and deftly executed, taking less than 60 seconds;
The abductors had money, or were backed by money, or by an organisation with money as the cars they used were expensive SUVs, at least one of which was a black Toyota Alphard;
The abduction was planned, timed and executed at an opportune moment, which suggests that they were waiting for my husband who drives an old Silver Honda Accord bearing number plate ST 5515 D.
Someone in the group calmly filmed the entire abduction while other masked members of the group re-directed the traffic.
According to witnesses, at least five masked men were involved.
According to CCTV footage, at least three black SUVs stopped in the middle of the road.
I did not learn about my husband's abduction until about 8pm when a mutual friend called to ask why my husband had not appeared for a 4pm meeting. I suspected something was wrongwhen he did not return home for dinner.
The fact that after almost a week there is only silence suggests that the abductors' motive is not monetary gain.
Since the abduction occurred in a residential area and in broad daylight, my family and I are prepared to offer a reward to anyone who can help shed light on this distressing incident.
My husband has been involved in Harapan Komuniti, a community work project which he set up more than 10 years ago and which involves giving free tuition classes to children and English lessons to adults.
I would like to appeal to those who have taken my husband to return him safe and unharmed to me and my children.
I would also like to appeal to any eyewitnesses to come forward.
I would also like offer a reward amounting to a maximum of RM10,000 for information leading to the rescue of my dear husband. Please WhatsApp Jonathan at 01139732670.


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Demographics: Male, 36, East Asian
Home state: Texas
Brief Profile: Completed 1º applications before having an MCAT score (and had practice scores 28-35), hence the extremely broad initial net. Narrowed down my list significantly to choose which 2º applications to submit.
-Bachelor of Music in Music Education
-Work experience playing/teaching music (worked 20+ hours a week through most of college)
-Pre-reqs mostly completed in 1 year; MCAT after 5 weeks of OChem; additional upper-level work completed after applying
-Shadowing in multiple specialties x 100+ hours
-Work in ER (part-time during last semester of undergrad, full-time now while part-time post-bacc)
Undergraduate college: Regional State School
Undergraduate Area of study: Fine Arts/Architecture
University of Texas, Houston
Summary of Experience: silent rejection
Summary of Experience: Rejected pre-2º
Long School of Medicine - University of Texas Health Sciences Center, San Antonio
Summary of Experience: Did not complete 2º application.
Pacific Northwest University
Touro University - Harlem
Summary of Experience: Did not submit 2°
Touro University - Mare Island
Chicago College of Mid. University
Philadelphia College - Philadelphia
University of Texas, Southwestern
University of Texas, Galveston
Western University of Health Sciences
Summary of Experience: Offered deferred admission for Class of 2015.
#18312 took the old MCAT and scored a 30 which is in the 79th percentile of all old scores. We converted this to a 509 on the updated scale which is in the 80th percentile of the updated MCAT. We also converted #18312's section scores as follows:
#18312 scored a 9 on the Biological Science section of the old MCAT which is approximately equal to a 125 on the Biological and Biochemical Foundations of Living Systems.
#18312 scored a 10 on the Physical Science section of the old MCAT which is approximately equal to a 127 on the Chemical and Physical Foundations of Biological Systems.
#18312 scored a 11 on the Verbal Reasoning section of the old MCAT which is approximately equal to a 129 on the Critical Analysis and Reasoning Skills.


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December – Mall of America is a buzz with happy holiday shoppers, looking for the perfect gifts and snatching up the bargains in over 520 stores, tax-free on clothing and shoes of course! The holiday décor is a must see, from the four-story decorated holiday trees, to the holiday-themed Nickelodeon Universe, where guests will find Santa Clause and the opportunity to have their picture taken with him. The Holiday Music Festival at Mall of America fills the hallways with songs of the season and holiday cheer.
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May – The Annual Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure at Mall of America takes place on Mother's Day, to raise money and awareness for breast cancer. One of the largest events in the country annually, Race for the Cure draws tens of thousands participants, in a sea of pink, supporting loved ones and friends fighting breast cancer. A must see while traveling in Minnesota in early May.
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On a cold morning in 1955, walking to Sunday school, I was drawn to the voice of Little Richard wailing Tutti Frutti from the interior of a local boy's makeshift clubhouse. So powerful was the connection that I let go of my mother's hand.
Rock'n'roll. It drew me from my path to a sea of possibilities. It sheltered and shattered me, from the end of childhood through a painful adolescence. I had my first altercation with my father when the Rolling Stones made their debut on the Ed Sullivan Show. Rock'n'roll was mine to defend. It strengthened my hand and gave me a sense of tribe as I boarded a bus from south Jersey to freedom in 1967.
Rock'n'roll, at that time, was a fusion of intimacies. Repression bloomed into rapture like raging weeds shooting through cracks in the cement. Our music provided a sense of communal activism. Our artists provoked our ascension into awareness as we ran amok in a frenzied state of grace.
Before he died, in the winter of 1994, he counselled me to continue working. He believed that one day I would be recognised for my efforts and, though I protested, he quietly asked me to accept what was bestowed – gracefully – in his name.
Last night I joined REM, the Ronettes, Van Halen and Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. On the eve of this event I asked myself many questions. Should an artist working within the revolutionary landscape of rock accept laurels from an institution? Should laurels be offered? Am I a worthy recipient?
I have wrestled with these questions and my conscience leads me back to Fred and those like him – the maverick souls who may never be afforded such honours. Thus in his name I will accept with gratitude. Fred Sonic Smith was of the people, and I am none but him: one who has loved rock'n'roll and crawled from the ranks to the stage, to salute history and plant seeds for the erratic magic landscape of the new guard.
I just smiled, and I noticed I was proud. One for the neighbourhood. My parents. My band. One for Fred. And anybody else who wants to come along.


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On Polixeni Papapetrou
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'Photographing is not about taking the world as an object but making it become an object, exhuming its hidden alterity under its pretended reality, to make it rise like a strange attractor and fix this strange attraction in its image.'
Jean Baudrillard, Because the illusion is not opposed to the reality
Descartes & Cie, Paris 1998
It was in discovering a work of the American photographer Diane Arbus that Polixeni Papapetrou felt her first great emotion in photography. The pupil of Lisette Model, Diane Arbus drew up a troubling portrait of America of the '60s notably by photographing people beyond the norm, the mentally handicapped, twins, transvestites, people of tiny stature. Without talking of direct influences, the work of the American artist constitutes a major source of inspiration in Polixeni's own work.
Polixeni Papapetrou is an Australian artist, born and living in Melbourne. Mentioning her nationality is an important fact because her work is inspired by nature,very present on this continent in its enigmatic dimensions, but it is also inspired by historical events that conditioned the Australian people. All her photographs tell a story with direct references to specific events.
Inspired by childhood and indeed by her own childhood, she draws us into a poetic world, surreal and dreamlike, where the references to art history and photography are a constant source of inspiration and where the influence of literature, with the notable inclusion of "Alice in Wonderland" by Lewis Carroll, reinforces her contentions in the matter of childhood.
In her series on lost children called "Haunted Country" from 2006, she reappropriates the iconographic codes of Australian painters like Tom Roberts, Fred McCubbin and Hans Heysen to refer specifically to the tragic history of children missing in the bush during the nineteenth century. Real or turned into phantasms, the illustration of these children lost in a hostile and inhospitable environment strongly affected the minds of many generations of Australians. With this series, the artist began to make work centered on fear, the anguish of disappearance and abandonment. She interrogates here how children can develop naturally in a hostile environment, all the while being dependent upon adults.
Polixeni pays particular attention to clothing that gives precise details as the reference points to historical events. Made mostly in Victoria, the images of the series Haunted Country highlight the psychological as well as physical appearance of anxiety. "The Wimmera" tells of the incredible disappearance of three children in 1864 who were found alive after nine days. In this work, she evokes the notion of survival. Here the children seem occupied by harvesting brush to build a hut to rest. We discover that very hut in the image of "Daylesford # 2" where three boys who disappeared in 1867 are asleep. "Whroo" evokes the waiting, the questioning and eventually the anxiety before the unknown. The trace of the return path is no longer visible. Head down, each child seems touched by the situation. They are paralysed by the prospect of their inability to find their home again.
In the series "Games of Consequence" from 2008, references to art history are less present. Here the issue is really the theme of childhood, play, loneliness and boredom. If again the scenes are always situated outdoors in a very present nature, the photographic device is mastered by Polixeni. Taking advantage of ambient light supplemented with flash and shooting on color negative in a photographic camera completes the modus operandi of the photographer. She accentuates the strangeness of nature. The resulting shadows give an additional strength at each frame. The little girl walking with a decisive step with her skipping-rope and with a disturbing black river in the background illustrates again the power behind her images. The scene of two young girls of which one is found tied to a tree represents the whole ambiguity and cruelty of children's games. The evocation of the theme of exclusion in "The Fall", where two young girls seem to reject a third from their games, illustrates the violence in the often conflicting relationship of a trio.
Childhood, adolescence, the passage between the world of childhood to maturity is at the heart of the photographs of Polixeni Papapetrou. It reminds us that children and adults do not live in the same imaginary worlds. If the artist first discovered the photographic work of Lewis Carroll before reading "Alice in Wonderland", she found in the character in Alice many similarities with her own history.
Like Alice, we penetrate the universe of Polixeni as if crossing into another space; we do not find abstract ideas in it, no boring moral, but a poetic universe in which a reader wears the mask of a bear with a schoolgirl uniform, where penguins are agitated and confabulate as ambassadors according their own logic. A world that resembles that of dreams. In the series "Between Worlds", created in 2009, we are positioned within that other space where children wear masks while recreating comical and absurd situations linked to the magic of theatre, as in the image of "The Players" where the reverence and salutations of the girls figure the childish games of 'you should be king and I the queen'.
The use of masks in all the images from the series 'Between Worlds' takes on an oneiric quality in the sense that the artist addresses the question of identity. Children or adults? Who is hiding behind the animal heads? We do not know and it ultimately does not matter. Ralph Eugene Meatyard, who used members of his family in his work, and Diane Arbus have directly influenced Polixeni in their work where the characters wear masks.
Unlike the serial and systematic approach of the Dutch photographer Rineke Dijkstra, who made her name with her portraits of teenagers on the beach and whose work subscribes to a documentary approach, Polixeni Papapetrou works rather in the form of sequences with children and adolescents who are close to her. The work of Polixeni Papapetrou subscribes to a poetic narrative photography where her highly constructed tableaux, linked to her own childhood, refer to a dream world and represent the whole theatricality of life.
Beatrice Andrieux
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If you missed the show Saturday evening in exotic Lee County, Alabama, you should be made aware that Auburn Jesus, while not showcasing his (…)
October 18, 2016 9:26 pm · By: graybellyofthebeast
After several weeks of being convinced we were down to a five-horse race, there were some dramatic charges from the middle and back of (…)
Weekend Forecast Back!
After going dormant for the early part of the 2016 season due to time constraints and a zest for not doing this, we're back in the (…)
Last week, I stupidly declared, like most of my declarations, that no SEC quarterback would be capable of making a run at Jevan Snead's 17 (…)
2016 Ole Miss Depth Chart As Told By The Recruiting Stars
Before the 2016 season started, I took a tour of awe through Alabama's depth chart, then after needing to lie down on the bathroom floor with (…)
While it doesn't look like anyone will be making a run at Jevan Snead's 17 interceptions in the 2009 regular season (20 counting the (…)
Ed Orgeron Makin' Commercial Magic Again
We're all more than familiar with the Hummer commercial that opened opportunities for then-Ole Miss head coach Ed Orgeron to join the (…)
zz The Belly of the Beast	08 Aug 16
A glimpse of young Bert's life
August 8, 2016 9:25 pm · By: TDS Staff