Transforming Your Résumé From Military to Civilian

<b style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: left;"><span id="cbArticle_lblByLine">Beth Braccio Hering, CareerBuilder.com writer</span></b><br /><b style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: left;"><span><br /></span></b><br /><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: left;">Duncan Mathison, co-author of "Unlock the Hidden Job Market: Six Steps to a Successful Job Search When Times Are Tough," recalls working with an ex-Navy SEAL who was trying to land a civilian job.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: left;">"He realized that most people thought his skills consisted of landing on beaches and blowing things up. Impressive skills, but not really needed in the business world," Mathison says. "As a result, we reframed his experience to highlight his abilities to lead small teams as well as creative problem solving and planning in the face of uncertainty."</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: left;">While civilian employers may respect military experience, they may struggle to see it as relevant to their workplace. The challenge for veterans is to present their background in ways that civilians can understand and appreciate.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: left;"><b>Talk the talk</b></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: left;">The first thing that must go is military jargon. Job titles and codes that are second nature to military personnel are like a foreign language to many hiring managers, so translation is essential.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: left;">Lisa Rosser, author of "The Value of a Veteran: The Guide for Human Resource Professionals to Regarding, Recruiting and Retaining Military Veterans," suggests converting military skills to civilian equivalents using a tool such as O*Net Online. "The service member can type in his or her Military Occupational Code and see what a civilian equivalent would be and some alternate civilian job titles. The civilian job description will also list skills, knowledge and attributes commonly held by someone in that position. So, for example, a 90A (army logistics officer) would be a logistician or, alternately, an integrated logistics support manager or a production planner."</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: left;">Armed with this information, Rosser then recommends job seekers "get busy on a site like CareerBuilder and search on the very general and the very specific job titles." Reading through ads will give the applicant a better idea of qualifications needed for various civilian jobs and will provide insight about key words to use on a résumé.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: left;"><b>Putting your best self forward</b></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: left;">"Military professionals are groomed to lead others and excel in a team-oriented environment," says Abby Locke, master résumé writer and personal brand strategist for Premier Writing Solutions in Washington, D.C. "Consequently, they find it hard to really market and promote themselves as effectively as they should in the job search process."</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: left;">Experts offer these tips to help veterans sort through their experiences when creating application materials:</div><ul style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 15px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 5px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left;" type="disc"><br /><li>Focus the cover letter on skills most pertinent to the given position; don't give a generic summary of everything you're qualified to do.</li><br /><li>Tailor the résumé to the specific job, and keep it to a maximum of two pages.</li><br /><li>Scour military performance reviews for relevant achievements (and to jog your memory).</li><br /><li>Use numbers, percentages, statistics and other concrete examples when possible to demonstrate competencies.</li></ul><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: left;" /><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: left;"><b>Education and training</b></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: left;">Locke notes that military professionals often have completed hundreds of courses, training assignments and certifications. Instead of turning the education section of the résumé into a laundry list, however, she recommends "cherry picking" to make sure the training that is most relevant to the given position is apparent.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: left;">Mathison suggests listing any training that is applicable to the job whether or not you have a degree or a certificate. "For example, you may have had one class in wireless communications and another in management out of 355 hours of training on a wide range of topics. In the résumé under a training or education heading, write 'More than 350 hours of professional development training including wireless communications and management.'"</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: left;"><b>Remember you're a civilian now</b></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: left;">While a veteran's military background will always be a part of his identification, it is important to keep in mind that hiring managers encountered for civilian jobs may not have the same thoughts or experiences.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: left;">"Everyone has an opinion about the war," says Michael Coritsidis, a career coach from Lido Beach, N.Y. "Keep emotion out of the equation, and stay neutral."</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: left;">Experts generally recommend avoiding potentially charged words such as "war," "warfare" or "weapons" (unless applicable to the specific industry). Likewise, it is better to concentrate on your skills and why you are the best candidate for the position rather than focusing on the military conflict or combat.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: left;">Remember, though, that military experience has helped you become who you are today, so bring confidence to the civilian job hunt.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: left;">"Most, if not all, learned skills can be transferred to any company or industry, whether it is around the block or around the world," Coritsidis says. "The armed forces also instill the highly regarded qualities of being all that you can be as well as being a team player. What company wouldn't want to hire a person who can communicate how their military skills and qualifications can save time, save money or make money for their business?"<i>Get the latest job search news and advice on CareerBuilder.com's job blog, "The Work Buzz," and follow us on Twitter at Twitter.com/CareerBuilder</i></div>

Transforming Your Résumé From Military to Civilian

Beth Braccio Hering, CareerBuilder.com writer Duncan Mathison, co-author of "Unlock the Hidden Job Market: Six Steps to a Successful Jo...

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OJ Brigance: Ravens Front Office Member Stricken With ALS A Source Of Inspiration

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><img alt="OJ Brigance: Ravens Front Office Member Stricken With ALS A Source Of Inspiration" src="http://www.inquisitr.com/wp-content/2013/02/OJ-Brigance.jpg" /><br /><br /><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">OJ Brigance was seen as one of the toughest players on the Baltimore Ravens team that won the Super Bowl in 2000, but, when the Ravens again took the title on Sunday, the former linebacker watched from the confines of his wheelchair.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Stricken with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) since his playing days ended, Brigance became a rallying point for the team in his new front office role. He was the team’s honorary captain in the AFC title game against the New England Patriots, and, when the team won, Ed Reed presented him with a game ball.</div><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br /></span><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">In the past season, OJ Brigance has been a behind-the-scenes force for the Baltimore Ravens, helping find and assemble talent as the team’s director of player development. But the former NFL linebacker took center stage as the Ravens defeated the San Francisco 49ers to win the Super Bowl.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Ravens players and coaches have looked to OJ Brigance as a source of inspiration throughout the team’s unlikely run to the Super Bowl, <em><a class="external" href="http://bleacherreport.com/articles/1514777-baltimore-ravens-dedicate-super-bowl-win-to-former-nfl-linebacker-oj-brigance" style="color: #cc0000; outline: none; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Bleacher Report</a></em> pointed out. He also provided one of the most iconic images of Super Bowl XLVII as he celebrated on the field in his wheelchair amid a shower of confetti.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">OJ Brigance first noticed symptoms of the disease in 2007 when he felt numbness in his shoulder. After noticing similar symptoms elsewhere, he looked into it and realized ALS, or Lou Gehrig’s Disease, could be the cause. Doctors later diagnosed him with the fatal and incurable ailment.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Brigance is now left with limbs that hang limp and muscles that no longer respond. He cannot speak and uses his lips and eyes to control a computer that speaks for him.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Even with the limitations, players still spoke highly of OJ Brigance and the work he did for the team.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">“There aren’t enough words to describe what that man means to me and to this team,” punter Sam Koch told the <em><a class="external" href="http://articles.baltimoresun.com/2013-01-28/sports/bs-md-oj-brigance-20130127_1_honorary-captain-nfl-teams-sam-koch" style="color: #cc0000; outline: none; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Baltimore Sun</a></em>. “Just seeing ‘Juice’ here with a smile on his face is inspiring. If I have to choose a word for him, it would be ‘powerful.’”</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Before the game, Brigance spoke highly of the players that propelled the team’s unlikely journey.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">“Super Bowl XLVII means so much to me,” OJ Brigance said though his DynaVox machine, “not because of the game but because of the journey it took to get here. That’s where the maturation comes. I predict a Ravens victory, of course. But there is no failure if you have done all you can do.”</div><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br /></span></div>

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2013 MVP Named in Puppy Bowl IX

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /><h2 class="article_subtitle" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-weight: normal; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: small;">A rookie took this year's most prestigious puppy prize, while brothers battled one another to prove their pedigree.</span></h2><h2 class="article_subtitle" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 22px;">From: </span>http://www.ign.com</span></h2><h2 class="article_subtitle" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;"><br /></span></h2><h2 class="article_subtitle" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">Marta, a 10-week old Schnauzer/Beagle mix playing in her rookie year in the prestigious</span><a class="autolink" href="http://tv.ign.com/objects/142/14233686.html" style="border: 0px none; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; resize: none; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Puppy Bowl</a><span style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">, has been officially named the Puppy Bowl IX MVP. Hailing from Omaha, this scrappy, shaggy sweetie came out of the gate as part of the 2013 Starting Line-Up at this year's Puppy Bowl. She clawed and pawed her way to glory with dogged defensive plays against mutts easily twice her size in double-canine-coverage, and also put puppy points up on the board with a triumphant charge in the first half. This proud pooch become the ninth recipient of the coveted Most Valuable Puppy award and demonstrated why this annual event is the must-see sporting event of the year for pet lovers.</span><span style="font-size: 11px; line-height: 24px; text-transform: uppercase;"> </span></h2><div><br /></div></div></div><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="360" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/XlVndo5RBCQ?feature=player_embedded" width="640"></iframe><br /><br /><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-right: 6px;">This was a high-scoring puppy bowl, with nine terrific touchdowns in total. MVP <a class="autolink" href="http://stars.ign.com/objects/159/159749.html" style="border: 0px none; color: #003399; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; resize: none; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Marta</a>took it to the doghouse in a run that also put her in contention for this year's Subaru Drive of the Day (alongside Aurora the Husky/Retriever for an endzone run in the third; the winner instead was Basset Hound Sally, who drove the entire length of the field with an assist from teammate and "platonic" pooch pal Harry.) Slobbering siblings Eli and Tuck tore it up together with a joint TD, making news unexpectedly as teammates rather than rivals despite these two brothers being the talk of the town going into this year's big Bowl game. High-stepping hounds Sally, Agatha, Unity, Elias, Aurora, Chestnut, and latecomer Butterscotch also smelled victory (and plenty more) with puppy touchdowns for each one of these frisky dingoes.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-right: 6px;">Each and every one of these canine competitors left it all on the field. Officials had to step in early and often for unnecessary 'ruff'ness as well as excessive cuteness (in a highly-debated 10-yard penalty that was extended to 15-yards because, well -- doggonit -- twins Daisy and Peyton were just that cute!), and unfortunately a flag was even thrown for a poopie penalty against the stinker Shepherd Eli. Puppy Bowl IX was one for the Hound Hall of Fame. Stay tuned to IGN for more information on Marta as it becomes apparent.</div></div>

Puppy Bow 2013 MVP Named in Puppy Bowl IX

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Beyoncé Silences Doubters With Intensity at Halftime

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font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 1.467em; margin-bottom: 1em;">But there was no way to anticipate that the reliably malfunction-free<a class="meta-per" href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/k/beyonce_knowles/index.html?inline=nyt-per" style="color: #666699;" title="More articles about Beyonce.">Beyoncé </a>arriving in New Orleans for her turn at immortality would be a vulnerable one. At the presidential inauguration ceremony last month, she sang the national anthem over a prerecorded vocal track, leading to a minor scandal, putting her on the defensive. Beyoncé, bionic, isn’t used to having her reputation impugned. Vulnerability is not her bag,</div><div data-key="SitSit" data-num="2" itemprop="articleBody" style="color: black; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 1.467em; margin-bottom: 1em;">She is, though, up to the challenge — in this case, the conundrum of how to make her Super Bowl XLVII halftime show, which she had been planning for months, not only a spectacle in its own right, but also a conclusion to the messy affair.</div><div data-key="AsfAat" data-num="3" itemprop="articleBody" style="color: black; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 1.467em; margin-bottom: 1em;">And so for 12 or so minutes at the center of the Superdome field on Sunday night, she balanced explosions and humanity, imperiousness with warmth, an arena-ready sense of scale with a microscopic approach to the details of her vocals. Amid all the loudness were small things to indicate Beyoncé was answering her skeptics, quietly but effectively.</div><div data-key="FtwAeo" data-num="4" itemprop="articleBody" style="color: black; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 1.467em; margin-bottom: 1em;">First, there was the voice, or rather, the myriad voices. After emerging on stage accompanied by a Vince Lombardi speech — “The spirit, the will to win and the will to excel, these are the things that endure,” and so on — she played with “Love on Top” like Play-Doh, stretching out some parts, tearing off little bits here and there, switching from fast to slow, all more or less a cappella.</div><div data-key="AteDBB" data-num="5" itemprop="articleBody" style="color: black; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 1.467em; margin-bottom: 1em;">At the end of “Crazy in Love,” she was virtually growling, giving that song a ferocity it has never before had. During “Baby Boy,” she maniacally screamed “dutty wine!” over and over again, and on “Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It),” her voice turned grimy, burrowing into primal Bessie Smith territory.</div><div data-key="WmsAtb" data-num="6" itemprop="articleBody" style="color: black; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 1.467em; margin-bottom: 1em;">What’s more, she filled the television screen, a human pneumatic drill of intensity, constantly bouncing and whirring. This is part of what set her apart from some past performers, whose songs were big enough, but whose attitude and presentation weren’t. At the beginning of “Crazy in Love,” she dropped to one knee, then sprawled on her back, continuing her choreography for the cameras in the sky.</div><div data-key="SoESoE" data-num="7" itemprop="articleBody" style="color: black; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 1.467em; margin-bottom: 1em;">She opened “End of Time” with ferocious stomping, flailed madly during “Single Ladies” and, during “Baby Boy,” was accompanied by a screen full of Beyoncés, arranged in careful placement like a <a href="http://www.vanessabeecroft.com/frameset.html" style="color: #666699;" title="The artist’s Web site.">Vanessa Beecroft</a> installation.</div><div data-key="BicRti" data-num="8" itemprop="articleBody" style="color: black; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 1.467em; margin-bottom: 1em;">Beyoncé’s image-restoration campaign actually began days before the game. On Instagram and Tumblr, she posted photos of casual moments between what were certainly strenuous rehearsals, including one in which she <a href="http://www.accesshollywood.com/beyonce-dons-a-can-i-live-sweatshirt-while-rehearsing-for-super-bowl_article_75673" style="color: #666699;" title="News article.">wore a sweatshirt</a> that read “Can I live?” On Thursday, she divebombed into her official news conference with a<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUT05IeHu4s" style="color: #666699;" title="The news conference.">sterling rendition</a> of the national anthem, for which she made the accumulated reporters and photographers stand at attention and which she concluded with the primo dirt-off-her-shoulder taunt, “Any questions?” (Maybe just one. Regarding the inauguration, one brave, or comic, journalist asked, “Did any sound come out of your vocal cords?”)</div><div data-key="TaBSrw" data-num="9" itemprop="articleBody" style="color: black; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 1.467em; margin-bottom: 1em;">These are Beyoncé’s little pokes. She’s not the sort to resort to vulgarity, or subversion, or insubordination. She retaliates with intensity and fervor, and the sort of wink that doesn’t invite a reply.</div><div data-key="HswSwn" data-num="10" itemprop="articleBody" style="color: black; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 1.467em; margin-bottom: 1em;">Her show was never going to be scandalous, even if a scandal was hovering over it. Certainly she would never be as risqué as Prince, who played in 2007, and who she said was her favorite halftime performer <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3pXHKkk6YYM" style="color: #666699;" title="The interview.">in an interview</a> with the NFL Network. She would never risk a malfunction, wardrobe or otherwise, that would recall the Janet Jackson-Justin Timberlake <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=npF1lkKEM9o" style="color: #666699;" title="YouTube video.">imbroglio of 2004</a>.</div><div data-key="TyBTyB" data-num="11" itemprop="articleBody" style="color: black; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 1.467em; margin-bottom: 1em;">(That year, Beyoncé happened to <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OhrrGu2rcZ4" style="color: #666699;" title="YouTube video.">sing the national anthem</a> at the Super Bowl in her native Houston, when Destiny’s Child was still a going concern, and she had yet to arrive fully into her mojo.)</div><div data-key="TmuLih" data-num="12" itemprop="articleBody" style="color: black; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 1.467em; margin-bottom: 1em;">The most uncertainty she allowed was the will-they-or-won’t-they chatter about a Destiny’s Child reunion during her set, although by showtime, it was clear it was happening. Late in her set, Beyoncé was joined by Kelly Rowland and Michelle Williams, her former sidekicks, for snippets of “Bootylicious” and “Independent Women Part I.”</div><div data-key="RaWRaW" data-num="13" itemprop="articleBody" style="color: black; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 1.467em; margin-bottom: 1em;">Rowland and Williams then helped Beyoncé out on “Single Ladies.”</div><div data-key="TwnTwn" data-num="14" itemprop="articleBody" style="color: black; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 1.467em; margin-bottom: 1em;">This was not only an act of generosity to her former group mates, and a bone thrown to longtime fans, but also a tacit admission that Beyoncé’s biggest hits as a solo artist — excluding “Single Ladies” and “Crazy in Love” — don’t have the caffeinated quality that makes for great halftime entertainment.</div><div data-key="DCbTts" data-num="15" itemprop="articleBody" style="color: black; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 1.467em; margin-bottom: 1em;">Destiny’s Child’s best songs were their most energetic, and the pyrotechnics the threesome had — both in harmonies and in the actual fire surrounding them on stage — were impressive. (Thankfully, they skipped the <a href="http://mashable.com/2013/01/11/destinys-chid-new-song-nuclear-listen/" style="color: #666699;" title="The song.">deeply temperate “Nuclear,”</a> the first new Destiny’s Child recording in eight years, which was released last month.)</div><div data-key="ARaARa" data-num="16" itemprop="articleBody" style="color: black; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 1.467em; margin-bottom: 1em;">After Rowland and Williams left the stage, Beyoncé brought the arena to a hush with “Halo,” the ethereal ballad that closed her set.</div><div data-key="HvsAmo" data-num="17" itemprop="articleBody" style="color: black; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 1.467em; margin-bottom: 1em;">Her voice sounded just a tad deflated here, but by design. After 10 minutes of extravaganza, she wanted to leave with something tactile.</div><div><span data-num="1" style="background-color: #f2f4f5; color: black; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px;">Beyoncé the machine had made her point.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px;"> </span><span data-num="2" style="background-color: #f2f4f5; color: black; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px;">This was proof of life</span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px;">.</span></div></div></h6></div>

Beyoncé Silences Beyoncé Silences Doubters With Intensity at Halftime

By  JON CARAMANICA  From:  http://www.nytimes.com Published: February 4, 2013 Jed Jacobsohn for The New York Times.  eyoncé opened her halft...

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Jealous!

<p>So jealous of my twin sister!  She is currently snowboarding her little heart out in Austria.  She travelled over the weekend with her husband and a gang of friends.  She sent me pictures of the large hillside chalet they have rented - it looks amazing!</p><p>Can't wait to hear all about the snow, the apres ski and the Jaegermeister stories(!) when she returns in a week.</p>

Jealous!

So jealous of my twin sister!  She is currently snowboarding her little heart out in Austria.  She travelled over the weekend with her husba...

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Get help for children before the cute lisp becomes cumbersome

<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKZ1GypMrms00_KSLn0fU0MgUbiEdwBh6K6EHnkFhYTmL7qovW6oQVEbvPZwHTOG_ZHgSAavCPfHtYYLmMmCx2OiZc7wfYYHbdjCQLDFYLpPihq7TbTW7QVuNxBuPqQcUfZ9HofOUpG0lC/s1600/2013-01-26+15.38.48.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKZ1GypMrms00_KSLn0fU0MgUbiEdwBh6K6EHnkFhYTmL7qovW6oQVEbvPZwHTOG_ZHgSAavCPfHtYYLmMmCx2OiZc7wfYYHbdjCQLDFYLpPihq7TbTW7QVuNxBuPqQcUfZ9HofOUpG0lC/s320/2013-01-26+15.38.48.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramblin%27_Wreck_from_Georgia_Tech" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Ramblin' Wreck from Georgia Tech">I'm a Ramblin' Wreck from Georgia Tech</a><br />and a heck of a teacher dear. ;-) My trip last week<br />to Atlanta has me thinking about the importance of<br />speech therapy and how I'm glad I got it for one of<br />my own children.</td></tr></tbody></table>Last week, I was at the Georgia Tech men's basketball game and sat in front of eight boys who were about ten. I admit, I'm a people watcher - but not really a people watcher but a people lover. Precious children with the world ahead of them just pull on my heart strings every time.<br /><br />As I sat down, the boys were getting settled and one of them commented.<br /><br /><blockquote class="tr_bq">"Hey, look, there's girls dancing."<br />"Hey, they don't have many clothes on."</blockquote>All at the same time all eight of them said.<br /><blockquote class="tr_bq"><br />"coooooool"</blockquote><br />(I guess they were just getting to the age that it was ok to say that.) We were sitting in some great seats that my Dad got us because he supports Georgia Tech's fundraising program. At halftime, they were debating what they would do and said:<br /><br /><blockquote class="tr_bq">"What do we do? Sit in our seats and be bored, or get up and go eat desserts and drink drinks and tell stories and have fun?"</blockquote><br />They promptly got up and left. Because I work with teenage boys, it was just so like the teens (and grown men), that it made me smile. I love that about the men in my life... they love to eat and tell stories...and I love to listen.<br /><br />But the little, extroverted boy in the white T-shirt with the lisp just cracked me up. After his halftime during which he must have had quite a bit of the chocolate and Coca-Cola, he came back talking a mile a minute. First, there was the Zaxby's Foul shot.<br /><br /><blockquote class="tr_bq">"He got the 'thaxby's thoul thot!' The 'thaxby's thoul thot!!'"</blockquote><br />Then, when they were shooting shirts in to the stands.<br /><br /><blockquote class="tr_bq">"Pulease help usth! We need uh t-sthirt."</blockquote><br />Finally, near the end, he talked to his friend with the Wake Forest Tshirt<br /><br /><blockquote class="tr_bq">"Dude, wake foresth losth - there is no way they can sthore 30 poinsth in the lasth sthecond."</blockquote>I wanted to turn around and say,<br /><br /><blockquote class="tr_bq">"Oh, do you mean the last six seconds?"</blockquote><b>It was so cute.</b> But this conversation came back to me as I was talking to a person who was discussing when and if kids need speech therapy.<br /><br /><h2>Cute can become cumbersome.</h2>One of my own children had a lisp as a child. Sure, it was cute, but I knew if we didn't do something at a very young age, that it would no longer be cute, it would be cumbersome.<br /><br />So, in first grade we found a VERY GOOD <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speech_and_language_pathology" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Speech and language pathology">speech therapist</a> and by third grade, the lisp was gone. My child no longer has the lisp and I'm so relieved and sometimes don't even think of it. But this Mom was saying that she wasn't sure that she wanted to get her child help because it was 'cute." Another chimed in about an older child she knew who still had the lisp and it was no longer cute, in fact, it was limiting her in what she wanted to do but she couldn't "fix" it.<br /><h2>Speech Therapists are important</h2>All of this comes together to mention the importance of good speech therapist. Teachers come in all sizes and shapes and speech therapists are needed, valuable people -- especially good ones. I've watched speech therapists in action and it looks like they are playing games. The difference is that the good ones actually are able to get results and the others do not.<br /><br /><h2>Partnering with parents and teachers to help children is important to correcting speech issues</h2>I recall with my child that the speech therapist actually met with me and my child's teacher and we had cues that we'd give my child when he/she would revert into the bad habits. We were all partners to help the child move forward and speak articulately. Our health insurance even helped.<br /><br />I'm writing this to all of you out there who work with children or have children of their own. There is an age that children do need help with their lisp or their <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speech_disorder" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Speech disorder">speech impediment</a>... the tough thing is that age is just at the edge of cuteness turning into a problem. I'm so glad that we got my child help for this.<br /><br /><b>Physical therapists and speech therapists</b> - you are teachers too and my hat is off to you. If more parents would realize that cute turns into limiting very quickly and the longer you wait from "prime time" for helping children overcome such things, the harder it will be and more expensive it will be to help the child overcome the issues.<br /><br />Physical and speech therapists -- remember your noble calling. Work with teachers and parents and remember that we're all on the same team.<br /><br /><h2>Be the adult because kids won't know why they need to change</h2>Far too many parents care more about being popular than being a parent. From experience, when I've gotten my children tutoring, physical therapy or speech therapy, or even shots - my children were rarely happy about it.<br /><br />Kids complain about such things because they literally don't see or hear anything wrong with what they are saying or doing. It is our job to see the big picture and long term and do the right thing by our children when they become adults.<br /><br />Remember your noble calling, teacher... parent...therapist.  You are "coooooool" and important!<br /><br /> <div class="zemanta-pixie" style="height: 15px; margin-top: 10px;"><a class="zemanta-pixie-a" href="http://www.zemanta.com/?px" title="Enhanced by Zemanta"><img alt="Enhanced by Zemanta" class="zemanta-pixie-img" src="http://img.zemanta.com/zemified_c.png?x-id=39702500-564e-4e9f-89c4-0e88e1cd4265" style="border: none; float: right;" /></a></div>

parenting Teaching Get help for children before the cute lisp becomes cumbersome

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I've got a secret wrapped in a riddle. What do upholstery, sparkles and a party of 20 have in common?<br /><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiiS3fOWXkLCcref0v9D7qN5XCIg3wWLohfVoXbKVA6TfJFBJSAFBCsg16I_rMbN3xLvlsi6TMwRJQv-oGHijBWd8wQQM_BGT3B3389vVicg_E1YWXf5AP2z9wXeI8ugue4hkDoaGTB2r1y/s1600/250579_208166459220561_132290533474821_530131_7231531_n_large.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiiS3fOWXkLCcref0v9D7qN5XCIg3wWLohfVoXbKVA6TfJFBJSAFBCsg16I_rMbN3xLvlsi6TMwRJQv-oGHijBWd8wQQM_BGT3B3389vVicg_E1YWXf5AP2z9wXeI8ugue4hkDoaGTB2r1y/s320/250579_208166459220561_132290533474821_530131_7231531_n_large.jpeg" width="212" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://weheartit.com/entry/16870682" target="_blank">source</a></td></tr></tbody></table>Come back on Wednesday and find out.

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Uninvited Guests Are Best

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_XrmC4arx2-RW2X9Anfl13iRWS41jzqcz5xv808_1w55fXysfomTi64KImuXXgu2TNZlacxkuLDySAsBwbsteylNQhiaciImj2He6MylBSAKRbtRCul96QQTKD74dWfjKI4l4hgQmAFc/s1600/hangover+sexy+woman.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="265" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_XrmC4arx2-RW2X9Anfl13iRWS41jzqcz5xv808_1w55fXysfomTi64KImuXXgu2TNZlacxkuLDySAsBwbsteylNQhiaciImj2He6MylBSAKRbtRCul96QQTKD74dWfjKI4l4hgQmAFc/s400/hangover+sexy+woman.jpg" width="400" /></a>CHEEEEEEEERS BITCHES!! WHAT’S WRONG?  DO YOU HAVE A SUPER BOWL PARTY HANGOVER?  WHAT A SHAME, BECAUSE I DON’T…<br /><br />No sirree Bob, I sure as hell don’t, and it is…NICE!!<br /><br />After a cold and brutal slog from 11-7 at the Beer Mine yesterday, I hopped into the Bagwine Mobile, cranked up some Scorpions, and set off for a Super Bowl soiree which was being held by my longtime, yet newly re-discovered friend, Nancy.<br /><br />Upon locating her cottage like abode which is safely and snugly nestled upon a road less traveled, I parked, popped the trunk, grabbed a couple of Colt 45’s from nippy bag, and walked toward the door of Casa de Nancy.<br /><br />Before I could reach the entrance, I was accosted by two diminutive dogs whose collective bravado was as large as their bodies were tiny.  While they nipped at my ankles, their simultaneous yipping and yapping provided a clarion call to Mizz Nancy, alerting her to let me in.<br /><br />And upon her opening the door, and I seeing the glorious face of my friend, I step by careful step, proceeded into her warm and welcoming wigwam of Super Bowl frivolity.<br /><br />Two seconds in and a set of misplaced fireplace tools which I helped Nancy to knock over later, I shunned my winter coat, pulled the Colt 45’s out and said, <i>“Hi Y’all.”</i><br /><br />After the lovely Nancy put one of my beers in the fridge, and as I was opening the other, she introduced me to the ensemble… <br /><br /><i>“Name redacted (ex-husband) and Name redacted (current boyfriend), this is Matt.”</i><br /><br />I stood there, and felt the crushing weight of societal hierarchies crashing down upon me as these two jokers eyeballed me, looked at Nancy, back at me again, and all while thinking to themselves…<br /><br /><i>“Well Ms. Vale…Another rooster in the henhouse.”</i><br /><br />And then?  Well…the Colt 45 tasted pretty good, so I got over that within seconds, and Nancy introduced me to her 18 year old son.<br /><br />I could tell quickly that her son Sam liked me, because within two minutes, he was calling me, Matt-Man.  He and I talked politics, sports, advertising, fiction vs. non-fiction, and well, we shared a smoke outside together. We bonded.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbPu28feP14xDCdqglquaPQZSEWZHiYQUchyFy6nhxDDiddnG4IW-m1tD-jqHxeWg4OCYJFbEuRM62vWy1E8nPJ2Q2WINdugIkeXBBKgvwJlxeWncby4I9Q3EU9RTZnFtXdCR27jQo0dU/s1600/Colt+45+Malt+Liquor+Billy+Dee+Willaims.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbPu28feP14xDCdqglquaPQZSEWZHiYQUchyFy6nhxDDiddnG4IW-m1tD-jqHxeWg4OCYJFbEuRM62vWy1E8nPJ2Q2WINdugIkeXBBKgvwJlxeWncby4I9Q3EU9RTZnFtXdCR27jQo0dU/s400/Colt+45+Malt+Liquor+Billy+Dee+Willaims.jpg" width="318" /></a>Ex husband and new boyfriend soon left, perhaps 20-25 minutes after my arrival which was kind of hurtful because it made me think…<br /><br /><i>“Are you leaving because you are offended that I smell like my Beer Mine customers and am beneath you, or are you leaving because I am so fucking AWESOME!!?”</i><br /><br />Uh-huh…I think we all know the answer to that…it was the Colt 45.  Beer Snobs.  I could tell immediately.<br /><br />Anyhoo…<br /><br />The tiny male dog, Oscar, began to hump my cold stiff shoe.  The lights went out at the Superdome, and the phone rang.  There would be a couple of Nancy’s friends stopping by after their AA meeting.<br /><br />So, here I am, sitting on the couch with her son, with a dog humping my foot, and a beer in my hand waiting upon the arrival of two AA meeting attendees, and I’m thinking…<br /><br /><i>“This is fucking AWESOME; I can‘t wait to tell Jayman!!”</i><br /><br />Upon their arrival, I found them both to be very nice, and I stayed til’ the bitter end of the game. Although…I kinda just held my final beer and didn’t drink it.<br /><br />Although I wish I could have talked to Nancy more as I haven’t seen her in nearly seven years, it was great to see her again, and meet her son, who while high strung, is a good guy, I had a good time.<br /><br />I want to thank good ol’ Nancy for <strike>caving into my demands that I be allowed to come over</strike> inviting me to her home, and sharing her kindness and that of her son with me.<br /><br />It was a nice time, but Nancy?  I need to come back…because Schmoop goes to bed early often, and I bet your boyfriend travels once in awhile, and after all…<br /><br />Your son did ask you midway through the fourth quarter of the Super Bowl…<br /><br /><i>“Mom?  Can Matt-Man stay all night?”</i><br /><br />I loooooove that boy!!<br /><br /><i>Cheers!!</i><br /><i>Matt-Man</i><br /><br /><a href="mailto:mattmaniws@ymail.com">mattmaniws@ymail.com</a><br /><i><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://twitter.com/MattMan_IWS" target="_blank">@MattMan_IWS</a></span></i><br /><i><br /></i> <i>P.S.  </i><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;">Also, Saturday night was an <i>EPIC</i> episode of <i>I'm With Stupid</i>. It started out with typical witty and charming banter between Jayman and Matt-Man and later turned into an ALL OUT WAR! That's right kids, Sunshine State Shirley and Justin both called in and IT WAS ON! Justin and Shirley went to war almost immediately. It was AWESOME! Check it out.</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;"><br /></span><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;"><object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.adobe.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=9,0,0,0" height="105" id="143577" name="143577" width="210"><param name="movie" value="http://www.blogtalkradio.com/btrplayer.swf?file=http://www.blogtalkradio.com%2Fplaylist.aspx%3Fshow_id%3D4353435&autostart=false&bufferlength=5&volume=80&corner=rounded&callback=http://www.blogtalkradio.com/flashplayercallback.aspx" /><param name="quality" value="high" /><param name="wmode" value="transparent" /><param name="menu" value="false" /><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always" /><embed src="http://www.blogtalkradio.com/btrplayer.swf" flashvars="file=http://www.blogtalkradio.com%2Fplaylist.aspx%3Fshow_id%3D4353435&autostart=false&shuffle=false&callback=http://www.blogtalkradio.com/FlashPlayerCallback.aspx&width=210&height=105&volume=80&corner=rounded" width="210" height="105" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" quality="high" wmode="transparent" menu="false" name="143577" id="143577" allowScriptAccess="always"></embed></object></span></div><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;"></span><div style="font-size: 10px; text-align: center; width: 220px;"><br /></div></div>

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Antonio Silva scores major UFC 156 upset with knockout of Alistair Overeem

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="background-color: white; color: #777777; font-family: arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: 13px;">By </span><span class="fn" style="background-color: white; color: #777777; font-family: arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: 13px;"><a href="http://sports.yahoo.com/author/maggie-hendricks/" rel="author" style="color: #a1abb2; text-decoration: none;">Maggie Hendricks</a></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #777777; font-family: arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: 13px;"> | </span><span class="provider org" style="background-color: white; color: #777777; font-family: arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: 13px;"><a href="http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/mma-cagewriter/" style="color: #a1abb2; text-decoration: none;">Cagewriter</a></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #777777; font-family: arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: 13px;"> – </span><abbr style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #777777; font-family: arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: 13px;" title="2013-02-03T04:34:21Z">15 hours ago From: </abbr>http://sports.yahoo.com<br /><img src="http://l.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/2zqQu2PvvZ1WyjvYIhcCNQ--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7cT04NTt3PTYzMA--/http://media.zenfs.com/en/blogs/sptusmmaexperts/160570320.jpg" /><br /><br /><div class="first" style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.450000762939453px; padding: 0px;"><span class="yom-figure yom-fig-right" style="clear: both; display: block; float: right; margin-bottom: 11px; margin-left: 20px; margin-top: 6px; width: 630px;"><span class="legend" style="color: #414141; display: block; font-family: arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.7em; margin: 5px 0px 0px; padding: 0px;">(Getty)</span></span>Antonio "Big Foot" Silva patiently fought Alistair Overeem at UFC 156, and then pulled off the biggest upset of the young year with a knockout win in the third round.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.450000762939453px; margin-top: 11px; padding: 0px;">The first round was more clinch-filled than expected, but Overeem definitely got his licks in. He used leg kicks and punches as well as fantastic movement to hold off Silva. Overeem also landed 13 body shots in the first round.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.450000762939453px; margin-top: 11px; padding: 0px;">Overeem went a different route in the second round, taking down Silva early in the round. After Overeem controlled and beat up Silva for much of the round, they were stood up and they finally started throwing at each other. Both fighters got in knees and punches until they were stopped by the round ending. As they headed to their separate corners, Overeem threw a look at Silva that seemed to say, "Bring it."</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.450000762939453px; margin-top: 11px; padding: 0px;">Silva complied. In the third round, Silva became aggressive and Overeem stood right in front of him. "Big Foot" landed a bevy of punches that first wobbled Overeem, and then sent him to the ground. Silva had to be pulled back by referee Herb Dean. The fight was stopped 25 seconds into the final round.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.450000762939453px; margin-top: 11px; padding: 0px;">“After I knocked him out I was yelling at him ‘Let’s go! I want more… come fight!" Silva said through a translator after the bout.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.450000762939453px; margin-top: 11px; padding: 0px;">This was Overeem's first fight since beating Brock Lesnar late in 2011. Overeem was given a title shot after the win, but lost his opportunity after pre-fight tests caused him to be suspended in Nevada. He was hoping for a title shot immediately upon his suspension, but had to beat Silva first. That title shot is not likely now.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.450000762939453px; margin-top: 11px; padding: 0px;">Before knocking out Overeem, Silva had experienced an up and down past few fights. He beat MMA legend Fedor Emelianenko, then lost to Daniel Cormier in the Strikeforce heavyweight Grand Prix, and to Cain Velasquez at UFC 146. After that, he scored a first-round TKO over Travis Browne.</div></div>

UFC Antonio Silva scores major UFC 156 upset with knockout of Alistair Overeem

By  Maggie Hendricks  |  Cagewriter  –  15 hours ago From:  http://sports.yahoo.com (Getty) Antonio "Big Foot" Silva patiently fou...

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Searching for the Super Bowl Start Time: 2013 Edition

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px;">Feb 3, 2013 at 1:59pm ET by </span><a href="http://searchengineland.com/author/vanessa-fox" rel="author" style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Vanessa Fox</a> From: http://searchengineland.com<br /><br /><div style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;">Surely every organization managing an event site knows at this point that people want to know what time things start. And that those potential viewers are likely to turn to Google to find out.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><a href="http://searchengineland.com/figz/wp-content/seloads/2013/02/start-time-trends.png" style="color: #555555; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><img alt="Super Bowl Start Time Trends" class="aligncenter wp-image-147212" height="493" src="http://searchengineland.com/figz/wp-content/seloads/2013/02/start-time-trends.png" style="border: 1px solid black; display: block; margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px;" width="608" /></a></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;">This year, Google just provides the answer right at the top of the page: February 3rd at 3:30 pacific.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><a href="http://searchengineland.com/figz/wp-content/seloads/2013/02/google-starttime-sunday.png" style="color: #555555; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><img alt="Super Bowl Start Time" class="aligncenter size-large wp-image-147207" height="459" src="http://searchengineland.com/figz/wp-content/seloads/2013/02/google-starttime-sunday-600x459.png" style="border: 1px solid black; display: block; margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px;" width="600" /></a></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;"><a href="http://searchengineland.com/when-is-the-super-bowl-start-time-the-nfl-finally-gets-it-right-110176" style="color: #555555; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Just as we saw last year</a>, the NFL understands what their target audience is looking for and has built a page that provides exactly what they need (that ranks first in the search results), as well as invites them to tour the rest of the site (which gives the NFL the page views they need – win/win!).</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;"><a href="http://searchengineland.com/figz/wp-content/seloads/2013/02/nfl-starttime.png" style="color: #555555; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><img alt="NFL Super Bowl Start Time" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-147209" height="496" src="http://searchengineland.com/figz/wp-content/seloads/2013/02/nfl-starttime.png" style="border: none; display: block; margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px;" width="537" /></a></div><h2 style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Tahoma, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 5px; padding: 0px;">Super Bowl Start Time: Search Results Through the Years</h2><div style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;">This query is a great example of how far search has come (both for search engines and for organizations who want to reach their audiences online). Let’s take a quick journey back in time.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;"><a href="http://searchengineland.com/can-searchers-find-the-superbowl-16396" style="color: #555555; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">2009 Super Bowl</a> - Google offers up the 2007 game (and Microsoft Live Search provides a Wikipedia result about the history of the Super Bowl).</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;"><a href="http://searchengineland.com/figz/wp-content/seloads/2013/02/2009starttime.jpg" style="color: #555555; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><img alt="2009 Super Bowl " class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-147211" height="301" src="http://searchengineland.com/figz/wp-content/seloads/2013/02/2009starttime.jpg" style="border: none; display: block; margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px;" width="500" /></a></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;"><a href="http://searchengineland.com/searching-for-the-superbowl-start-time-how-are-the-engines-the-nfl-and-cbs-doing-35451" style="color: #555555; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">2010 Super Bowl</a> -Google attempts to fix the problem of choosing either spammy results or spammier results (“So when is the Super Bowl 44 start time? What is the Super Bowl Time? Football fans all over America would be anxious for the game to begin on 2010 Feb 07 at Land Shark Stadium, Miami, Florida. The Super Bowl 2010 start time is pretty well set…”) to rank by adding a Onebox with the start time at the top of the page. (Bing mostly just provides the spam.)</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><a href="http://searchengineland.com/figz/wp-content/seloads/2013/02/2010starttime.jpg" style="color: #555555; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><img alt="2010 Super Bowl Start Time" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-147215" height="640" src="http://searchengineland.com/figz/wp-content/seloads/2013/02/2010starttime.jpg" style="border: 1px solid black; display: block; margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px;" width="425" /></a></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;"><a href="http://searchengineland.com/what-time-does-the-super-bowl-start-a-continuing-lesson-in-search-visibility-63633" style="color: #555555; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">2011 Super Bowl</a> – Google gives news organizations the benefit of the doubt, and puts Google News results above the Onebox that gives searchers the answer they are looking for.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;">Sadly, news organizations have decided that what works for churn and burn spam sites works for credible organizations with names that would hurt more to lose and thus began HuffPo’s tradition of crafting articles almost solely out of search queries (“Are you wondering, “what time does the Superbowl start?” It’s a common search query, as is “what time is the super bowl 2011″, “superbowl start time” and “superbowl kick off time 2011″, according to Google Trends the evening before the Super Bowl.”).</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;">Bing is also ranking pages with wisdom like “But a whole bunch of people don’t even know when the Super Bowl starts. As of noon EST today, here are some of the most frequent Google searches, based on the Google Trends site…”</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><a href="http://searchengineland.com/figz/wp-content/seloads/2013/02/2011starttime.png" style="color: #555555; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><img alt="2011 Super Bowl Start Time" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-147218" height="822" src="http://searchengineland.com/figz/wp-content/seloads/2013/02/2011starttime.png" style="border: 1px solid black; display: block; margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px;" width="500" /></a></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;"><a href="http://searchengineland.com/when-is-the-super-bowl-start-time-the-nfl-finally-gets-it-right-110176" style="color: #555555; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">2012 Super Bowl</a> – Everything changes, and the angels rejoice (or maybe that’s just me). Sure, HuffPo is still at it, and still ranking (“For starters, it’s two words, not one. “Superbowl” is an incorrect spelling”), and the Onebox on Google mysteriously goes missing, but the NFL creates a page that is intersection of target audience analysis and organization goals and builds it in such a way that it shows up for searchers.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><a href="http://searchengineland.com/figz/wp-content/seloads/2012/02/super-bowl-time-serp.png" style="color: #555555; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><img alt="2012 Super Bowl Start Time" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-110177" height="328" src="http://searchengineland.com/figz/wp-content/seloads/2012/02/super-bowl-time-serp.png" style="border: 1px solid black; display: block; margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px;" width="524" /></a></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;">By the way, that multiple spelling technique isn’t  isn’t just a Super Bowl strategy for the Huffington Post. Take a look at this <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/02/01/kanye-west-straitjacket-abu-dhabi-photo_n_2597925.html" style="color: #555555; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">article about Kanye West’s fashion sense</a> (“He had on a straitjacket (perhaps more commonly spelled “straight jacket”)…)”:</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><a href="http://searchengineland.com/figz/wp-content/seloads/2013/02/kanye.png" style="color: #555555; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><img alt="Kanye" class="aligncenter" height="138" src="http://searchengineland.com/figz/wp-content/seloads/2013/02/kanye.png" style="border: 1px solid black; display: block; margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px;" width="589" /></a></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">2013 Super Bowl</strong> – And this year, the NFL is once again meeting their audiences needs and Google has rewarded them by ranking them first. The Onebox is also back and above the news results this time. And Bing is also providing the start time at the top of results.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><a href="http://searchengineland.com/figz/wp-content/seloads/2013/02/bing-startime.png" style="color: #555555; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><img alt="Bing" class="aligncenter size-large wp-image-147238" height="575" src="http://searchengineland.com/figz/wp-content/seloads/2013/02/bing-startime-600x575.png" style="border: 1px solid black; display: block; margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px;" width="600" /></a></div><h2 style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Tahoma, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 5px; padding: 0px;">Who Should Be Ranking?</h2><div style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;">What about the organizations other than the NFL that should be ranking?</div><h3 style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 14px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">TV Guide</h3><div style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;">tvguide.com ranks for [what time does the super bowl start] but not for the slightly more popular [super bowl start time], which is a sign that Google still has work to do in truly ranking based on intent vs. the specific words in the query (and gives HuffPo a little ammunition in defending their choice to sneak in as many query variations as possible). I applaud TV Guide for understanding what their audience is looking for and providing answers, but they could probably do a better job of showcasing other content on the site that would appeal to this audience (right now, they include links in the article, but no images or video that would catch the viewer’s attention and encourage clicks.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><a href="http://searchengineland.com/figz/wp-content/seloads/2013/02/tvguide-starttime.png" style="color: #555555; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><img alt="tv guide starttime" class="aligncenter wp-image-147225" height="516" src="http://searchengineland.com/figz/wp-content/seloads/2013/02/tvguide-starttime.png" style="border: 1px solid black; display: block; margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px;" width="592" /></a></div><h3 style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 14px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">CBS</h3><div style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;">The game airs on CBS this year, but their site isn’t ranking for this query. Amazingly, YOU CAN WATCH THE GAME ONLINE ON THE CBS WEB SITE THIS YEAR (finally, finally, we live in the future), but cbs.com doesn’t rank for those searches either.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;"><a href="http://searchengineland.com/figz/wp-content/seloads/2013/02/both.png" style="color: #555555; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><img alt="Super Bowl Watch Online Live Stream" class="aligncenter size-large wp-image-147228" height="338" src="http://searchengineland.com/figz/wp-content/seloads/2013/02/both-600x338.png" style="border: none; display: block; margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px;" width="600" /></a></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;">My new favorite site, nfl.com, ranks for both (fortunately for CBS, they just link right over to cbs.com). What’s the problem? Same old story. The cbs.com home page links to just a pop up player with the live stream, and doesn’t have a real page available that search engines can index and rank. In fact, the only page on cbs.com that seems to mention the Super Bowl at all is the home page. And without JavaScript enabled, well, the page looks like this:</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;"><a href="http://searchengineland.com/figz/wp-content/seloads/2013/02/cbs2.png" style="color: #555555; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><img alt="CBS Without JavaScript" class="aligncenter size-large wp-image-147229" height="417" src="http://searchengineland.com/figz/wp-content/seloads/2013/02/cbs2-600x417.png" style="border: none; display: block; margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px;" width="600" /></a></div><h3 style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 14px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">San Francisco 49ers</h3><div style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;">The home page does list the start time, but as with teams in years past, that this is the start time of the game can only be inferred. The actual words that people are looking for aren’t there.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;"><a href="http://searchengineland.com/figz/wp-content/seloads/2013/02/49ers.png" style="color: #555555; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><img alt="49ers site" class="aligncenter size-large wp-image-147231" height="155" src="http://searchengineland.com/figz/wp-content/seloads/2013/02/49ers-600x155.png" style="border: none; display: block; margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px;" width="600" /></a></div><h3 style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 14px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Baltimore Ravens</h3><div style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;">To be honest, I can barely tell that from the Baltimore home page that they’re in the Super Bowl. Sure, they’ve got a hashtag, but this page looks designed for aesthetics rather than based on what users might want to accomplish.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;"><a href="http://searchengineland.com/figz/wp-content/seloads/2013/02/ravens.png" style="color: #555555; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><img alt="Baltimore Ravens" class="aligncenter size-large wp-image-147232" height="272" src="http://searchengineland.com/figz/wp-content/seloads/2013/02/ravens-600x272.png" style="border: none; display: block; margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px;" width="600" /></a></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;">So, it goes. In 2013, large organizations still don’t have the basics down and still aren’t connecting with their target audience as well as they could be.  Knowing what a hashtag is just isn’t enough.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;">But things are definitely improving. <a href="http://www.nfl.com/" style="color: #555555; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">The NFL</a> is getting it right two years in a row. <a href="http://www.cbs.com/" style="color: #555555; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">CBS</a> is offering live streaming on your pick of devices. And the latest offering by the Huffington Post is actually about the game, and not an ode to Google Trends:</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;"><img alt="Huffpo" src="http://searchengineland.com/figz/wp-content/seloads/2013/02/huffponew.png" /></div></div>

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padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Harbaugh's message to the team was simple: This is the way we got to the Super Bowl, and this is the way we win the Super Bowl.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The <a href="http://espn.go.com/nfl/team/_/name/sf/san-francisco-49ers" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #225fb2; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">San Francisco 49ers</a>' final meeting Saturday night, meanwhile, featured speeches from coach<a href="http://espn.go.com/nfl/player/_/id/27/jim-harbaugh" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #225fb2; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Jim Harbaugh</a> and wide receiver <a href="http://espn.go.com/nfl/player/_/id/1433/randy-moss" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #225fb2; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Randy Moss</a>, who knows the emotional pain of losing the Super Bowl as he did with the Patriots in failing to complete a perfect season in 2007.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Jim Harbaugh also introduced the 49ers to Colonel Jim Minnick, a friend he's had since the eighth grade. Minnick encouraged the players to leave it all on the field for their teammates, play together and be prepared to overcome adversity because nothing ever goes as planned, offering examples from his military career.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Visitors for the Ravens included New Jersey Governor Chris Christie and newly-inducted Hall of Famer <a href="http://espn.go.com/nfl/player/_/id/962/jonathan-ogden" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #225fb2; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Jonathan Ogden</a>, who played for the Ravens from 1996-2007.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Christie met with quarterback <a href="http://espn.go.com/nfl/player/_/id/11252/joe-flacco" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #225fb2; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Joe Flacco</a> in the team hotel. Both are New Jersey natives and graduates of the University of Delaware. Ogden's visit generated a lot of excitement in the lobby from fans and players alike.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">One 49ers player told ESPN that everybody is well prepared and ready for the game.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">"There is nothing but pure excitement,'' the player said.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The 49ers have no obligations until buses leave for the Superdome at 3 p.m. ET. Early buses for the Ravens will depart for the stadium at the same time.</div></span></div></div>

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The Puppy Bowl: Sunday’s other big game

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: georgia; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18.149999618530273px;">Posted by </span><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/maura-judkis/2011/03/04/gIQAUSQrnO_page.html" rel="author external" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #777777; font-family: georgia; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18.149999618530273px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Visit Maura Judkis’s website">Maura Judkis</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: georgia; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18.149999618530273px;"> on February 3, 2013 at </span><span class="get-the-time" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #999999; font-family: georgia; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18.149999618530273px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">9:45 am From: </span>http://www.washingtonpost.com<br /><br /><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 22px; vertical-align: baseline;">There are three guarantees of Super Bowl Sunday:</div><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-style: inherit; line-height: 28px;">There will be tortilla chips, so many tortilla chips.</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-style: inherit; line-height: 28px;">There will be commercials that will</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-style: inherit; line-height: 28px;"> </span><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/volkswagen-super-bowl-ad-accused-of-being-racist/2013/01/29/36d81e38-6a60-11e2-95b3-272d604a10a3_story.html" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: black; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-style: inherit; line-height: 28px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">give you pause</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-style: inherit; line-height: 28px;">.</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-style: inherit; line-height: 28px;">A few channels away, there will be roly-poly puppies with soft bellies and floppy ears,</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-style: inherit; line-height: 28px;"> </span><em style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; line-height: 28px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">widdle</em><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-style: inherit; line-height: 28px;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-style: inherit; line-height: 28px;">black noses and football-shaped toys,</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-style: inherit; line-height: 28px;"> </span><em style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; line-height: 28px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">squeeee.</em><br /><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 22px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 22px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">On Animal Planet’s ninth annual Puppy Bowl, which begins Sunday at 3 p.m. and airs on repeat for the rest of the day, you don’t have to pick a team to root for. The puppies always win.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 22px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="Gallery: Behind the scenes at the Puppy Bowl (Linda Davidson/for The Washington Post)" src="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/style-blog/files/2013/02/puppybowl.jpg" /></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 22px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/the-puppy-bowl-behind-the-scenes-of-tvs-cutest-show/2013/01/25/f7fe46f4-6642-11e2-93e1-475791032daf_gallery.html" style="border: 0px; color: black; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Gallery: Behind the scenes at the Puppy Bowl</a> </strong><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">(Linda Davidson/for The Washington Post)</span></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 22px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div style="border: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 22px; vertical-align: baseline;">I spent two days at the Puppy Bowl taping last November for Sunday Style’s <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/tv/inside-the-puppy-bowl-the-visionary-force-behind-online-cute/2013/01/28/0600875a-6191-11e2-a389-ee565c81c565_story_4.html" style="border: 0px; color: black; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">behind-the-scenes look at the cutest show on TV</a>, and its impact on Internet culture. A few things that you won’t see on the show: Anxious hovering of hedgehog parents, performance-enhancing drugs (read: catnip) administered to the kitties and this scene:</div><blockquote style="border-left-color: rgb(219, 219, 219); border-left-style: solid; border-width: 0px 0px 0px 2px; font-family: arial; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 5px 0px 5px 20px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div style="border: 0px; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 22px; vertical-align: baseline;">“I don’t know why, but everyone else refused to do this job,” said Jessi Baden-Campbell, the unlucky line producer for Discovery Studios, as she stepped onto the 10-by-19-foot “field” with cleaning solution in hand. She may be the busiest person in the Puppy Bowl. In minutes her services are needed again.</div></blockquote><blockquote style="border-left-color: rgb(219, 219, 219); border-left-style: solid; border-width: 0px 0px 0px 2px; font-family: arial; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 5px 0px 5px 20px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div style="border: 0px; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 22px; vertical-align: baseline;">“We’ve got a puker!” calls out a cameraman.</div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 22px; vertical-align: baseline;">And again.</div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“Someone made a touchdown right here!” calls out another, using a euphemism for a moment you probably won’t see on TV.</div></blockquote><img alt="Gallery: Meet the Puppy Bowl "athletes." (Adele Godfrey/Animal Planet)" src="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/style-blog/files/2013/02/puppybowl2.jpg" /><br /><br /></div>

The Puppy Bow The Puppy Bowl: Sunday’s other big game

Posted by  Maura Judkis  on February 3, 2013 at  9:45 am From:  http://www.washingtonpost.com There are three guarantees of Super Bowl Sunda...

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