- Fantasy
football dorks, now is the time to take notice of everything that every one of
your potential draft picks you’ll select next month when you and your league of
fantasy dorks hunkers down in someone’s man cave to pick players does, right?
Well, running backs are the first-round fantasy draft targets around the
fantasy football world and one of the top picks in every draft will be Houston
Texans star Arian Foster. Foster, Foster has run for 2,840 yards on 605 carries
(4.7 yards per carry) and caught 119 passes for 1,221 yards in two seasons
since taking hold of the Texans' starting job in 2010 and he should have a
great season ahead….just running on a different sort of fuel. Less than a month
before training camps begin, the former undrafted free agent out of Tennessee says
he's gone vegan. Foster, a thoughtful dude who approaches life philosophically
and has plenty of intelligent thoughts on a wide range of subjects, made the
announcement on Twitter last week. "Officially a vegan now. We'll see how
this goes. But week one down. So far, so good. Feels wonderful," he
tweeted. Not surprisingly, with the high volume of morons with Twitter muscles
lurking on the microblogging site had pointed opinions on the announcement and
even a seasoned Twitter vet like Foster was rankled. "People feel so
strong about meat and milk. I wish they felt this strong about peace," the
two-time Pro Bowler wrote in a follow-up tweet. As long as he shows up and
delivers another season of 2,000 total yards and 17-20 touchdowns, no one
should care what Foster eats, be it vegetarian, vegan, carnivore or a diet
consisting entirely of yams. Enjoy your soy burger and wheat grass juice,
Arian………
- The world is
creeping closer to the dystopian future sci-fi books and movies have long “warned”
us about. A few police departments
around the United States are now using a program called PredPol, which predicts where
future crimes will occur. The program marks a map of a city with small red
squares, each indicating a 500-by-500-foot zone where crimes are likely to take
place next. Much like a thermal-imaging map, it shows even more precisely where
cars may be stolen, houses robbed, people mugged, etc. It it calculates its
forecasts based on times and locations of previous crimes, combined with
sociological information about criminal behavior and patterns. The Santa Cruz
(Calif.) police department has tested the program for the last year and a Los
Angeles Police Department precinct has been using it for the past six months,
with promising results. Predictive-analytics software is the term for this
creepy, Big Brother-ish technology that sounds like a real-life rip-off of the
CBS hit drama “Person of Interest.” Those who have used it cite cost efficacy
in the face of shrinking budgets as a big reason the program is beneficial. "We
had to try something because we were not being offered more cops," said
Zach Friend, a crime analyst with the Santa Cruz Police Department. Oddly
enough, the technology used in the program was originally used for predicting
earthquake aftershocks and Friend contacted its creators after after reading an
article in the LA Times. Santa Cruz was in a bind, with a 30-percent increase
in crime and a 20-percent decrease in staff undeniably linked. The SCPD used
the software to estimate where home, car and vehicle burglaries might take
place and officers received printouts at the start of their shift. The result
has been a 19-percent reduction in burglaries over the past year. Still, Friend
realizes not every police department will jump on board with the program right
away. "Law enforcement agencies historically are conservative in their
approach to change. That includes to adopting all kinds of technology, from
computers in the cars to even radios," he observed. Maybe if they had more respect for
fictional crime fighters like Jim Caviezel and Michael Emerson, that would
change………
- Waaaait a minute. A basic cable TV drama about an
underachieving chemistry genius turned high school teacher who is informed he has
terminal cancer uses his expertise to secretly provide for his family by
producing the world's highest quality crystal meth isn't going to end its
second-to-last season on a happy, upbeat note? That shocking news has dropped
as the cast and producers of the gritty AMC drama “Breaking Bad” as the series’
fifth and penultimate season premieres on July 15. “It’s not going to end
pretty. It’s a bloodbath now, I’ll tell you that,” said cast member Aaron Paul.
After November's gruesome finale in which viewers saw the shocking face-melting
death of central character Walter White’s (Bryan Cranston)
drug-lord nemesis Gus Fring (Giancarlo
Esposito) and was floored by the revelation that Walt possibly poisoned a
young boy to save his own butt, anyone who didn’t know the ending would be
bloody and ugly just isn't intelligent….at all. “You can look forward to even
more crazy sh*t,” proclaimed series creator Vince Gilligan. “We’re
definitely going to see Walt winning more, and the question of season five is
what does it take to stay at the top? I think at the end of season 4, we see
that Walt has won. He explicitly says so.” Gilligan went on to say that viewers
can expect to see Walt struggle to stay on top in the drug game and Cranston
added that fans will “sh*t, uncontrollably, watching this new season.” Oh, and
there will be hookers involved and characters from previous seasons will also
resurface in some very dark storylines. White’s wife, Skyler, played by Anna
Gunn, has admitted her character will be breaking down emotionally this season
as she tries to make sure her family stays alive. Put it all together and it
should be one hell of a ride………
- Again, Japan and China? Really? You two are like 9-year
old boy and his bratty 7-year-old brother who can't just play nice in the
family swimming pool…..except in this case, the pool is the East China Sea and
no one is fighting over who gets the cooler water wings. No, Japan is pissed at
China
after three Chinese patrol boats were spotted in waters off disputed islands in
the East China Sea, over which both countries claim sovereignty. The coast
guard ship in the area gave a warning and the Chinese boats left, but Japan
still lodged a formal protest with China Wednesday, summoning its ambassador in
Tokyo. Better still, the drama unfolded as the two nations’ foreign ministers met
in Phnom Penh, on the sidelines of the Association of South-East Asian Nations
(ASEAN) meeting. Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi, who held talks
with his Japanese counterpart Koichiro Gemba, “reaffirmed China’s principled
position” and “stressed that the Diaoyu Islands and their affiliated islets
have always been China’s territory since ancient times, over which China has
indisputable sovereignty,” according to an official statement. The battle over
the sea and its referred to by Japan as the Senkaku islands, has raged for
months and heightened after Tokyo spoke of plans to “buy” the islands from a
private developer, a move labeled by China as a provocation. Chinese Foreign
Ministry spokesperson Liu Weimin proclaimed that reporters China “does not
accept the representation lodged by Japan” and insisted the three patrol ships “entered
into the waters under Chinese jurisdiction to conduct official duties in
accordance with Chinese law.” That official duty is allegedly to protect
Chinese fishing vessels in the area, although that probably isn’t the reason the
People’s Liberation Army Navy is planning to hold a drill in the East China
Sea, in waters off eastern Zhejiang province that are not part of the dispute,
this week, according to the Chinese Defense Minstry. Coupled with debates over
the South China Sea at the ASEAN meeting, China has suddenly become very
unpopular with its regional neighbors……….
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