The experienced Orange are perfectly content to wear teams down with their octopus-like zone defense.
He was effectively taking over an "octopus-like Vodafone, " said Global Insight anlayst Emeka Obiodu.
Syracuse's octopus-like defense has covered every inch of the court, eliminating passing lanes, consistently depriving opponents of easy baskets down low, and defending the perimeter with abandon.
Today the girls are draped in stinky fish--octopus, snail shells and crab legs--and being critiqued by the model host and industry insiders.
The menu runs the gamut, from pistachio-crusted tuna and grilled octopus to a pan-seared duck or braised veal shank.
Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen's 414-foot Octopus boasts a basketball court and a commercial-quality recording studio.
Walk past Athens' chichi boutique, bluntly called Rich Bitch--or watch middle-class Athenians enjoy a leisurely lunch of grilled octopus on Lykavitos Hill--and it's clear that new wealth is not just being made but enjoyed.
Yes, despite the image above of a half-octopus swashbuckler, this year's innovation isn't destructible characters.
Other captain's chair sits high atop the Octopus, 413-foot yacht armed with 2 helicopters and a 60-foot submarine.
The Easycard is currently in talks with smart-cards providers in other Asian countries, including Octopus in Hong Kong, Ez-link in Singapore and T-Money in South Korea.
BBC: Taiwan Easycard: Risks and rewards of your life on one card
Simon Andrews is an investment manager at London-based Octopus Ventures, specializing in technology stocks.
Just down the block is Ford's Filling Station (www.fordsfillingstation.net), a gastropub run by the crafty chef Ben Ford, who prefers whole pig feasts and oven-roasted octopus to fedoras and bullwhips (yep, his dad is Harrison).
Between them they keep alive a tradition that goes back centuries, a tradition celebrated on the plate in the form of stuffed mussels, marinated anchovies, octopus salad, deep-fried sea anemones, prawns with cannellini beans, and linguine with spiny lobster.
Using his Microsoft riches, Mr Allen has also accrued some of the typical trappings of billionairedom: professional sports teams, famous friends such as Bono, and a mega-yacht, the Octopus.
Similarly, when an octopus changes skin color in self-defense, such as by mimicking a poisonous sea snake, the decision may come not from central command but from the skin itself.
The bravest order is, as it happens, the most flavorful: a chopped salad of dime-size coins of chilled, braised octopus with chives and red peppers.
He fulfilled his desire as an adult, thrilling audiences with skeletons in a sword fight, a gigantic octopus destroying the Golden Gate Bridge, and a six-armed dancing goddess.
Microsoft ( MSFT - news - people ) cofounder Paul Allen's Octopus.
Unless you believe this special octopus has the gift of foresight, each pick had a 50-50 shot, as good as flipping a coin.
Then there is a room of wall-mounted hands lobster claws, bear paws, octopus tentacles, all fashioned by art students that hold his favorite wines.
WSJ: Welcome to a Hedonist World | Yevgeny Chichvarkin and Hedonism Wines
The octopus is a winner crispy on the outside, in a lemon-zesty chili sauce.
Creative dishes like the Mexican-Indian burritos at Chula Fused Foods or takoyaki, Japanese deep fried octopus dumplings at Yumi Takoyaki Co, are made by friendly vendors always happy to chat while they cook.
Dishes, which get their inspiration from southern France, northern Africa, Spain and Greece, include charred octopus (which seems to be on every Manhattan menu these days), lemon-saffron linguini, spiced swordfish kebabs and braised goat served with escarole and pumpkin seeds.
Start with the grilled quail with bacon and sage, then move on to the grilled squid and baby octopus salad with light herbs and lemon or the yummy grilled sirloin sandwich with horse-radish and thin crisp onion rings.
Veal sweetbreads bob alongside romaine-lettuce boats in a briny Caesar dressing, while a more classic combination of octopus and chickpeas, sometimes mushy together, retains the texture of both ingredients.
The photograph of Djimon Hounsou features the model-actor in profile, looking like a classical sculpture except for the dead octopus on his head, its arms dangling down like dreadlocks.
Octopus tentacles are braised and pressed together, then sliced, like deli meat, into a mosaic of cross-sections.
To accomplish this unique approach, Organon chemist Anton Bom came up with a molecule that resembles a hungry octopus, with eight chemical "arms" that can grab the muscle relaxant and trap it in a maw-like hole.
应用推荐