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« Zombies attack small screen in 'The Syfy cancels 'Caprica,' final 5 episodes » Matt Lauria on 'Friday Night Lights': 'I felt so privileged' Curt Wagner on 10.27.10 at 8:10 PM | no comments | Curt Wagner I patrol TV ... and other things. But mostly TV. I like my couch. Follow on: Facebook Twitter var retweet_source = 'showpatrol'; var post_title = 'Matt%20Lauria%20on%20%27Friday%20Night%20Lights%27%3A%20%27I%20felt%20so%20privileged%27'; Share Facebook (7) Retweet (13) Stumble Matt Lauria checks out RedEye at The Bourgeois Pig on Fullerton. The "Friday Night Lights" star is filming "The Chicago Code" in the Windy City. (Show Patrol photo) Matt Lauria misses his "Friday Night Lights" character, Luke Cafferty. The actor wrapped his scenes in Austin, Texas, on a Saturday in late July, hopped a plane to Chicago and began filming Fox's "The Chicago Code" (formerly "Ride-Along") on Monday. He's been working in the Windy City since then, living in Lincoln Park with his musician wife, Michelle Armstrong, trying out the local dining scene and riding bikes on the Lakefront Path. I met with Lauria Saturday to talk about the final season of "FNL," which debuted Oct. 27 on DirecTV 101. "Friday Night Lights" follows the football-loving town of Dillon, Texas, its two high school teams and Eric Taylor (Kyle Chandler), who has coached both the teams. Lauria hasn't played any football since wrapping "FNL," but during our chat at The Bourgeois Pig he got a bit sentimental about Luke, the running back who last year was forced to leave the champion Dillon Panthers team and play for Coach with the lowly East Dillon Lions. "I always felt a closeness to Luke ever since he got kicked off the team. I just kind of related to him somehow," Lauria told me. "I'm not a football player, but I just knew where his heart was and how that disappointment felt."

The first method involves removing or lowering the actual frequency of the instrument using everything from your TV's built-in equalizer to running your sound through an audio filter. The audio filter technique is used by audio and video editors to remove hums and buzzes from soundtracks. It works by identifying an exact frequency and removing it. Most vuvuzelas apparently buzz away in the key of B Flat. Bach composed his Brandenburg Concerto No. 6. in the key of B flat and it sounded nice. When soccer fans make B flats it sounds like angry bees.

The second method *apparently* involves noise cancellation. Found at antivuvuzelafilter.com, the idea is that you download an mp3 that directly counters the frequencies produced by the sound of the vuvuzela. You play it alongside the TV and the vuvuzela sound disappears. The makers explain it this way: Our specially designed Vuvuzela noise-cancellation sound is a wave with the same amplitude but with an inverted phase to the original sound.The waves combines to form a new wave, in a process called interference, which effectively cancel each other out - an effect which is called phase cancellation.Depending on the circumstances the resulting soundwave may be so faint as to be inaudible to human ears.

The Singing Cowboy was one of the country's most popular and prolific film stars during his career; he also gained fame as a radio star, producer and TV personality. Biographer Holly George-Warren traces Autry's lengthy career in Public Cowboy No. 1.

July 2, 2011 The British explorer may have been beaten to the South Pole, but the experiments he conducted along the way changed science forever. What Robert Falcon Scott achieved, says author Edward Larson, went far beyond what his peers accomplished.