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After sitting last week out on Dancing with the Stars because of a neck injury, Derek Hough is back and here to stay. "I feel good and my goal is to finish the season," he tells TVGuide.com "There are only a few weeks left and I'm going to try to finish strong." While he took a break, his BFF Mark Ballas stepped in to dance with Shawn Johnson, with whom Ballas won Season 8, and the three are back together again this week for their samba trio — which will bend, if not break, the rules. Why is Hough so intent on not playing by the book? Find out below. Plus: Is this his last season?
Dancing's Brooke Burke-Charvet: I have thyroid cancerHow's your neck?
Derek Hough: It's so much better. I was actually really worried because it wasn't getting much better until Monday. I was hoping to get back in by Saturday so Shawn would feel comfortable dancing with me by Monday, but it wasn't happening. But a couple reasons why I didn't dance as well, which is very unlike me in the first place — I usually push through and pain doesn't usually stop me — are because my neck had been bothering me for years and this was more intense than usual. And I didn't want to jeopardize the integrity of the choreography and hurt Shawn. It's Shawn's competition and I'm here to assist her to do the best she could possibly do. I don't want to have to sacrifice the choreography for me. Was it bittersweet watching her get her first 30 this season with Mark and not you?
Hough: Nah. I joked around with Shawn afterward. I said, "That's OK. I've had plenty." [Laughs] This is her first one this season, but I was like, "It's cool." She was really sweet and said, "I wanted to dance with you to get my first 30." Honestly, it's nice to be able to choreograph a dance and watch what you created instead doing it.And now you're back with Mark again for the samba trio. I'm assuming that was a no-brainer pick for you guys.
Hough: Yeah. We work well together and she obviously already knows him. We're like brothers and sister. It's very much a family affair for sure.How are the dances going?
Hough: Good. I'm very excited about both dances. They're two very different dances. [The Viennese waltz] — we're dedicating to veterans who are going to be in the audience and all vets for Veteran's Day. The trio is going to be something that hasn't been seen necessarily on this show.Are you breaking the rules again?
Hough: I don't know if it's breaking the rules, but it's one of those things where it's Season 15, and I feel like the audience has kind of seen everything, so it's like, what can we do differently and how can we reinvent something they've seen before? That's sort of what it is. ... Last season, for our trio, I did a Bollywood-themed samba, which had never been on the show before. And this season, they included Bollywood, so next season, maybe this will be another style they add. [Laughs]You're just pioneering so many things for the show.
Hough: [Laughs] I guess, if you want to call it that!
Dancing's Cheryl Burke: We're peaking at the right timeAre you cleared to perform the rest of the season?
Hough: Yeah, and I absolutely want to finish the season. I'm definitely going for it.You tweeted that you're going to need surgery and have put it off in the past.
Hough: Yeah, and what's happened in the past is that my neck is in bad shape and when I feel better, I tend to move on and not think about it. But this time, I need to take care of it. I want to do other projects. If I were to do a Broadway show or something, I would hate to have to pull out because of a neck injury.Has it been scheduled?
Hough: It's not scheduled yet. We're playing it by ear right now and see where we're at after the season and see the timing and all those factors.There are lots of rumors that this is your last season. Can you confirm anything?
Hough: I can't confirm anything. But no matter what, I'll always be part of the show. I'll always be on hand if they need me or want me. But I'm also interested in having time to pursue other things. I've taken a season off before, but to do something significant, I think you need more time than three months. But like I said, nothing is definite right now and I'll always be part of the show. I'm a strong ambassador for it and I'll always be here for it.Almost everyone picked you guys to win when the cast was announced. Do you feel pressure to win?
Hough: I don't feel pressure to win, but I feel pressure to do good dances. Winning — that's out of your hands, especially when the public vote and judges' scores are involved. All I can control is doing good work. We've done some memorable performances. Whatever happens, I'll always be proud of our dances this season.I like that you guys take the risk to break rules knowing that it's going to be worth it for the entertainment value and not complaining about getting docked afterward.
Hough: I feel like because it's Season 15, we have to push the rules. Quite honestly, I could've done routines that were less interesting, easier and ones the judges probably would've liked more in terms of [following] the rules, and we could've maybe gotten better scores. But I realized after doing the show for so long that the scores only last as long as the season. You can get a perfect score and get eliminated. After the season is finished, what lasts forever are the dances. I always tell my partners, "Let's not dance for scores. Let's dance for YouTube videos." Two years down the line, when you're sitting at home having a glass of wine and you stumble upon a video of your cha-cha, you're like, "Oh, my God! I loved that dance!" That's what I want.
Hough: Right. As a choreographer, I think our job is to hide weaknesses and show strengths. Everyone has different strengths. I know when Shawn first did the show, she maybe did two things that were acrobatic and I just wanted to see what else I could do to showcase her and her athletic ability. I've been trying to take advantage of that as much as I possibly can just because she can do them. It would be a crime to not do more with that. Having said that, we don't do them just to do them. They still have to fit in with the routine. I don't choreograph the routines around flips and tricks.My favorite moment this season was the look on your face when you learned your team freestyle song was "Call Me Maybe." You didn't even bother hiding your disdain. What was going through your mind?
Hough: [Laughs] Well, normally, when I get the music, I immediately get ideas. But with that song, I was just blank. There was nothing. It was just void — the abyss. I was like, "What are we going to do with this song?!" And also the other team got ["Gangnam Style"], which has this driving beat, is energetic and fun. Whatever they do, people were going to love it because it's such a fun song. With "Call Me Maybe," I was like, "Crap!" But we knew we had to do something that has a clear theme that's visual, and thankfully we did. But it didn't look good at first!On a serious note, Brooke [Burke-Charvet] announced she has thyroid cancer. What was your reaction when you found out?
Hough: Yeah, it was just shocking, I think, for everyone. It's one of those things that gives you perspective on life. Brookie B. is my girl. I can't think of enough words to describe her. She's one of the most amazing and strongest people I know and I know she will get through this. She's got our love and support, and we're behind her all the way.Dancing with the Stars airs Mondays and Tuesdays at 8/7c on ABC.


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Was It Something We Said?
Well now, the "Why did Caroline Kennedy Drop Out?" parlor game grows ever more interesting! The latest reasons being floated: nanny issues, tax issues, and all the dang gossip on this very website:
Just hours ago, the word was the Caroline Kennedy dropped out because of some secret, undisclosed "personal" reason. Now the Post cites an anonymous source "close to Gov. David Paterson" as saying the gov "had no intention" of picking CK, anyhow.
"She has a tax problem that came up in the vetting and a potential nanny issue," the soruce said. "And reporters are starting to look at her marriage more closely," the soruce continued, refusing to provide any specifics.
Gossip columns have reported for more than a year that Kennedy's marriage to Ed Schlossberg is essentially over, and the gossip site Gawker.com has reported rumors that she's been linked to New York Times publisher Arthur Sulzberger.
Kennedy denied any issue over her marriage in an interview with The Post last month. Aides to Kennedy and a Times spokesperson couldn't immediately be reached.
The Times is currently going with the nanny and the tax issues as the true reason for CK's downfall. They leave out the other part. Close enough.
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- We were writing about her special friendship with NYT publisher Pinch Sulzberger before she ever dreamed of being in the Senate!
- The NYT, coincidentally, got the scoop on her Senate bid.
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Early Christian Heresies
In our day, Oneness Pentecostals embrace Modalistic Monarchianism. The Jehovah's Witnesses subscribe to Arianism, a movement that is a later development of Dynamic Monarchianism. It is important to have a good understanding of church history so that we might not ...Read More
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Pagan Paths
Cat Treadwell — professional Druid and nature-mystic - gives us a perspective from the English countryside.
Upon this Stage
It's almost Solstice time - Summer here in the U.K. Which means, inevitably, that there's simultaneous water-limiting hosepipe bans in one part of the country, and flooding in another.
You may wonder why the British talk so much about the weather? Because it's a force unto itself. But we're a Nature-based spirituality on this page, so we can get away with it, right?
Anyway. With the Summer Solstice comes the inevitably publicity around Stonehenge, and the many thousands of people who go there to watch the sunrise. I've never been to that huge free-for-all, but have often been asked about it (this was last year). It's an event that people associate with Druids, after all.
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This week, the first call came in. From an international television station, asking if it would be possible to follow a Druid couple around for three days, to then condense the footage into a 20-minute show. The aim? To demonstrate that Druids weren't so strange after all, to debunk public perceptions, and show how 'normal' we are.
Media folk are often surprised when they get turned down. In today's world, it appears that everyone wants their '15 minutes of fame', and would jump at the chance to put their regular lives on hold to be filmed and displayed (generally with no preparation or remuneration).
I told the (very polite and interested) journalist that I doubted three days from my life would make very good television. Despite identifying as a 'professional' Druid, my life has the same non-events as everyone else, day-to-day: laundry, walking the dog, working, cleaning the house. Admittedly the work can be quite unique, but that's not something that I would wish to be filmed anyway.
Three days of filming a writer at work would be hilarious. Sponsored by coffee and heavily bleeped out. Anyway, I'm not fond of being filmed. It's too intrusive.
What struck me afterwards, however, is that assumption that I wanted to be represented in such a way. Either with the tag 'Druid' or 'normal' - or somewhere in between.
Again, perhaps it's a fault of the media age, but life cannot honestly be packaged easily into labelled boxes. Where it makes for good or bad TV, our lives are each so varied and different, evolving quickly with everyday events and changes that any footage, photographs or interviews are almost immediately irrelevant. 'Slices of life' indeed.
Whenever I'm interviewed (preferably live, so as to be unedited), I try my best to inspire, to give an indication of the variety of experience that Druidry holds. Paganism as a whole is a wonderful mix of paths, beliefs and practices - Druidry is just one, but in itself contains yet more worlds to explore.
Each of us views life differently. Our experiences are all different. We are each the sum total of our ancestral bloodline, our spiritual and physical makeup. We ARE all unique and special. Contrary to what Hollywood would have us believe, this means that if any individual life were to be accurately filmed and portrayed, it would take a while. Say, the length of that lifetime. And even then, you'd miss bits.
It's difficult for others to understand just how experiential Druidry (and Paganism) is. Capturing it in a photograph gives an idea. Showing us at work is actually more helpful than detrimental, these days - while not 'normal' (nor wishing to be!), we represent ourselves well to others, to show that there are people out there doing this, and it's OK to explore it. Giving that tacit permission is often the most powerful act that can result from media tarting.
Many people have a certain idea of Druids. Stonehenge may feature. But if we don't act to rework those key images, those associations, they will continue. One of the reasons that I do stand up publicly is to represent myself and others on this path as accurately as I can. I'm sure we've all seen those who're just in it for the brief fame and 'being on TV', but their words lack sincerity, ringing hollow. Packaged and mass-marketed.
Each of our lives is our own separate movie. We may not remember the beginning, nor be quite ready for the end yet, but we're the star. This doesn't mean it's all about us - it means we have responsibility to make it a story worth remembering. Are you the hero or the villain - or both? If you watched your life over, would you be proud?
As a wiser man than I said, all the world's a stage. We can make the decision to live it, bravely exploring, or sit passively by, apathetic and hopeless. We can live with honour and truth, riding the highs and lows, but knowing that we truly are doing our best, for ourselves, our loved ones, Gods and ancestors. That's a part of Druidry that is both simplest and most difficult to capture... ultimately, it has to be experienced.
Also this week, I received a portrait of myself and my partner, painted by a member of our Order. Taken mostly from photographs, he worked hard to capture us physically, but also magically, incorporating spells into the image to bring out deeper aspects of us and our relationship, who we truly are. The ancient technology of brush, oil and canvas does more in this way than any HD film.
We come to a turning point in the year, my friends. Where do you stand? What are you doing? What does this snapshot of life show?
When we come here again, at the Winter Solstice, will you look back on this chapter with pride and satisfaction? If not, there's still time for change...
Solstice Blessings x
Sunday, 17 June 2012
Cat, you make me laugh! Your response to the journalist who wanted to film three days in your life is exactly what I told a reality tv show producer early this spring: "your audience would be bored out of their minds." The best way to show that we are "normal" is to not feature us on Reality TV!
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ITN reporter arrested for filming Free Tibet demonstration
for those of you wondering if i'm sad about getting deported, i'm not. i'm happy to have my freedom and highlight the plight the media faces covering the olympics. since my return, i've now seen the mainstream media use aliased emails, code words for sensitive topics, and rely on anonymous internet drop boxes for posting timely stories. it's unbelievable that even olympic reporters must use spy-vs-spy tactics to file their stories.
in my video from t^2 not only do you see a protest, but at the tail end i was able to capture the assault of CBC's beijing correspondent. not only was he attacked, but his passport was pick-pocketed.
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within the past 24 we're hearing about an ITN reporter "arrested" with another group of Free Tibet protesters (though the chinese don't consider being led away being arrested). John Ray, "a fully accredited China correspondent", was detained for 20 mins and sustained minor injuries. below is the video, and i'm sure this will not be the last western journalist assaulted for covering protests in China.
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as it seems that my mind is unable to keep up with the flurry of updates surrounding this story, i want to lay out a timeline for reporters and fellow bloggers to clearly understand. i've seen a few miss prints and want to clear the air.
1 - 2 Aug Photos - Depart for Beijing, China from New York City.
3 Aug Photos - Walk around Beijing and see sites.
4 Aug Photos - Visit the Summer Palace.
5 Aug Photos - Visit the "Bird's Nest" and hang out in the Lake District.
6 Aug Photos - AM Banner Drop at "Bird's Nest" (Video 1 - Video 2) & the infamous ESPN blog post.
7 Aug Photos - Working day for RemixAmerica.org To-Do's and errand running.
8 Aug Photos - Visit to Tiananmen Square (Video - Crowd Control 1, 2, 3) & Opening Day (Videos - Elvis, Location, Crowd Control).
9 Aug Photos - Tiananmen Square "Die-In" (Video) and CBC reporter assaulted and passport pick pocketed (Video).
10 Aug Photos - Second Tiananmen Square protest, detention & deportation to USA (Video).
11 Aug - Arrival in USA (while in transit from LA, Chicago, and NYC, twitter updates are reflected on facebook wall status.) at 7.45 pm, steve spurgat notifies me that my f'wall updates no longer what i posted but instead are replaced my a code Fred Benenson blog post. (qik videos - Arrival in NYC, at Newark, Arrival in NYC, in Taxi Cab, Culture Shock)
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CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (AP) — Events in Cedar Rapids on Friday will mark the five-year anniversary of a devastating immigration raid at an Iowa meatpacking plant.
Immigrants and their families, church representatives, lawyers and other advocates will gather near the federal courthouse at noon for a ritual remembering the 389 people arrested during the raid of the Agriprocessors plant in Postville on May 12, 2008.
Event organizers say they'll then walk to Immaculate Conception Church for an interfaith service in which they will pray to reconcile with the federal officials who executed the raid, and call for immigration reform to protect future workers and families.
Most of the immigrants arrested were charged with identity theft, spent five months in prison and were deported. At the time, it was the largest workplace immigration raid in history.


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A change of heart
As a result of learning that their children were gay, both former Republican Vice President Dick Cheney, and now Republican U.S. Senator Rob Portman, have changed their position on gay marriage. They both now support it.
Isn't it a shame that the compassion and understanding that these two men so readily displayed to their own children could not have been extended years ago to the gay children of other parents?
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The financial crisis is a hoax perpetrated on Americans by Wall Street billionaires, many who receive huge subsidies but pay zero in taxes.
Pete Peterson, the Blackstone mogul of Wall Street, spent over $500 million in lobbying and advertising trying to overturn Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid and to give billions in tax breaks to corporations and the wealthy. Why?
In the past three years the U.S. deficit has fallen faster than any time since the end of World War II, as reported by the Office of Management and Budget.
Social Security has a $2.7 trillion surplus. It is funded by employers and employees not taxpayers. Remove the FICA cap so everyone pays on all their earnings not just the first $113,700.
Medicare saves billions by efficiently providing preventive services. Let Medicare negotiate drug prices like the Veteran's Administration.
Medicaid provides funding for three quarters of nursing home residents. Medicaid also provides for those with disabilities and the poorest of the poor.
The Republican's austerity agenda is drastically hurting working people whose wages have stagnated the last 30 years while the stock market is somersaulting one skyrocketing record over another.
The sequester is forcing thousands to part time work without benefits. Public employees are losing their jobs. Should your fireman lose his/her job so a hedge fund manager can continue to get a carried interest loophole (15% tax rate rather than standard 35%)?
We are losing our democracy. We have to get the money out of politics. Citizens United gave corporations unlimited funding of perpetual campaigns. There are 127 CEO's pushing for a "grand bargain" austerity budget. Citizens United 2 is McCutcheon vs. FEC, coming to the US Supreme Court this summer. Call every legislator this week. Numbers at www.senate.gov, www.house.gov, www.housemichigan.gov, www.senatemichigan.gov. Stop the bloodletting! Get angry!
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The 'job creators' of old
I always have wondered whether plantation owners in the south during slavery considered themselves to be "job creators."
Let's see. The people to catch slaves, transport them, sell them, use and abuse them. And of course, the people who get very rich because of them.
Seems to me that anyone who works for slave wages, full time, and can't feed their family is in the same boat. Do you think?
And lets not tax those plantation owners, because then they won't be able to continue this amazing exploitation. No kiddin'!
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Table service, good & bad
During a recent trip to Englewood, Florida and Watertown, NY, I was thinking about Rick Coates and his recent comments on the local waitstaffs. The local waitstaffs of Northern Michigan far exceeded anybody that waited on me in the seven days I was on the road. Chain restaurants, small bars, and local establishments, it made no difference.
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Interested in the health care debate?
Read the March Time magazine expose, "Bitter Pill." It's an eye-opener.
Liberal or conservative, all of us are subjected to the vagaries of the American health care system. Consuming greater chunks of our nation's financial resources or draining our individual assets, the cost of health care is a financial Armageddon waiting to happen.
The contentious health care debate has focused on the uninsured and on Medicare/Medicaid and who's going to pay. Time magazine asks a more obvious question: "Why does health care cost so much to begin with?" In other technologically-intensive industries, costs trend downward over time. But with health care costs, like death and taxes, we have become accustomed to believing that there is no escape.
A closer look shows a system rigged in favor of all players in the medical arena - except the patient. Sure, care is probably better than ever, but Americans still spend more on health care than the next 10 biggest spending nations combined. Are we healthier because of it? No. In fact, health outcomes are often worse. So, where is all this money going?
The short answer: rampant, unfettered profiteering in every facet of the system. Health care is big business, and there are many who profit handsomely on the misfortunes of the American patient.
We have health care lobbyists spending double what the military and the oil/ gas industries spend combined. We have congressmen beholden to these powerful interests, preventing negotiated drug prices. We have "nonprofit" hospitals paying multiple upper level executives more than our president. The litany goes on.
Obamacare will get more Americans into the system, but unfortunately it does little to address the real problem. Health care just costs too much and it doesn't have to.
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Best of What's Around, Dave Matthews' vision for an organic farm operation serving the local community, began as a CSA in 2002, but last year Matthews and his wife, Ashley Harper, announced on the farm's website that a "difficult decision as a family" was made: to cease operations.
For months, the Scottsville area operation has been dormant, the equipment languishing, the fields barren"Šuntil the Local Food Hub recently stepped in.
"The Matthews have always had a certain vision for a community-oriented working farm and learning place," says the Hub's Emily Manley, who says she doesn't know why the couple decided to stop its CSA.
"They approached the Local Food Hub to explore some opportunities," says Manley. "Turns out our goals and objectives were and continue to be in line with what they are looking for–- and vice versa."
The seventy-acre, certified-organic farm will now become the Hub's Educational Farm at Maple Hill, a place where food is grown for local distribution, and also a working classroom.
"This information sharing and hands-on training is an integral part of our mission to keep small farming sustainable," says Manley, "while also inspiring the next generation of farmers and local food advocates."
Manley says the greenhouse has come to life this spring with thousands of tomato plants and countless broccoli, cauliflower, spinach, and onion seedlings. "We're just waiting," she says, "for the frost date to pass so they go out in the field."
Asparagus is already sprouting, beets are in the ground, and berry plants have been composted.
"It's kind of like the calm before the storm," says Manley, "except for the chickens, which are always crazy."
Manley expects to see approximately five acres cultivated this year, and that 25 percent of the crop will be donated to a range of community soup kitchens, food banks, and pantries, including Blue Ridge Area Food Bank, the Haven, and Bread of Life. The remaining produce will be used for distribution through the Hub's warehouse to a variety of grocery stores, restaurants, institutions and schools in the area.
Unfortunately, Manley says they will not be operating as a CSA or any other direct-to-consumer model.
"This produce is being grown specifically to fill gaps in supply that our area farms are currently unable to fill," she says.
Manley says the farm will also enable them to test a range of different plant varietals and growing methods with the end-goal of sharing their findings with the local farming community.
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Hall of Fame football player David "Deacon" Jones, one of the Los Angeles Rams' heralded Fearsome Foursome whose outspoken persona and relentless pursuit of quarterbacks helped turn defensive linemen into stars, died Monday of natural causes at his home in Anaheim Hills. He was 74.
His death was confirmed late Monday by his stepson Greg Pinto.
Jones, who played for the Rams from 1961 to '71 and later for the San Diego Chargers and Washington Redskins, was the league's top defensive player in 1967 and '68 and was selected to the Pro Bowl eight times. He was named to the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1980
He was "without doubt the greatest defensive end to play in modern day football," George Allen, coach during many of his best seasons with the Rams, said during Jones' 1975 news conference announcing his retirement.
Jones, 6 feet 5 and 272 pounds, was quick and quotable, an obscure 14th-round draft choice from Mississippi Vocational College who did not stay obscure for long. "When I first came up, defensive linemen were dull as hell," he told The Times in 1980. "Some were great performers, but nobody knew who they were. I set out to change that."
He not only took great pleasure in tackling quarterbacks behind the line of scrimmage, he came up with the name "sack" to better describe it. Times columnist Jim Murray once said Jones "eats quarterbacks for a living.
And his signature move, a head slap that pulverized offensive linemen who tried to keep him from the quarterback, was so dangerous it was banned by the NFL.
"It was the greatest thing I ever did and when I left the game they outlawed it," hetold The Times in 2009. "I couldn't be more proud."
He said he gave himself the nickname Deacon after joining the Rams because there were too many David Joneses in the local phone book. "Football is a violent world and Deacon has a religious connotation," he told The Times in 1980. "I thought a name like that would be remembered."
Merlin Olsen, another member of the Rams' Fearsome Foursome who died in 2010, once said of his longtime teammate: "There has never been a better football player than Deacon Jones
David Jones was born Dec. 9, 1938, in Eatonville, Fla., where his parents ran a barbecue stand. He played high school football but didn't get a scholarship offer until a year after his senior season when he and two other high school teammates heard from South Carolina State in 1958.
"I had unusual ability, and I knew that," Jones told the Palm Beach Post in 2007. "I knew I could play the game, I knew I had the speed, the quickness. I just needed the training."
He played only one season at South Carolina State, sitting out a year and then transferring to Mississippi Vocational College.
"I left some problems in South Carolina," he told The Times in 1985. "I was mixed up in lunch-counter demonstrations then.... I had the water treatment and the dogs and all that stuff and even spent some time in jail."
A scout for the Rams looking at a running back spotted Jones and he became the 186th player taken in the 1961 draft.
Jones played right away on a dreadful Rams team that finished 4-10. They won only one game in 1962, but their defense was starting to take shape with Olsen joining the team as a rookie. Rosey Grier and Lamar Lundy were the other defensive linemen who formed the Fearsome Foursome.
The Rams didn't start to win consistently until 1966, when the defensive-minded Allen became coach. By 1967, they were 11-1-2 and began qualifying regularly for the playoffs.
Their success was built on a ferocious defense led by Jones, who was by then famous enough to be known as the "Secretary of Defense."
"He was fantastic coming off the ball," Bob Windsor, a tight end for the San Francisco 49ers, told Investor's Business Daily in 2007. "He had the greatest head slap anyone could have. Our right tackle Cas Banaszek had ice bags on his head after every game against the Rams.… Deacon hit him so hard."
Sports Illustrated writer Paul Zimmerman said Jones — whose 1996 biography was called "Headslap" — could split an opponent's helmet with his hands.
The man who invented the sack told the Associated Press in 2002 that he had more than 20 sacks in more than one season. But the NFL didn't chart them as an official statistic during Jones' career.
Jones' celebrity extended beyond the football field. He was a singer and acted in movies and television, and he was one of several former athletes featured in a series of light-hearted commercials for Miller Lite beer.
"When I looked at the things I was doing it wasn't like a job. It was all [an extension] of my football career," he told The Times in 2009.
The Rams traded him and two other players to San Diego in January 1972 in exchange for three draft choices and a player. He played two seasons there before finishing his career with Allen, his old Rams coach, Allen, in Washington in 1974.
Among Jones' post-football activities was a foundation that helped inner-city youths.
"Some people see players as heroes, and that's ridiculous," he told the Lincoln, Neb., Journal Star in 2007. "I played in a brutal game, but it was a business." In addition to his stepson, he was survived by his wife, Elizabeth, and a grandson.


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The Queen took a month to announce the name of her first-born son. Royal watchers were hoping that the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge proved to be rather more decisive.
Aides said yesterday (Tuesday) that the third in line to the throne would be named "in due course".
Such delays have almost become a part of royal tradition, with the public often left guessing for several days.
When the Duke was born in 1982, his parents waited a week before announcing his name, amid speculation that Diana, Princess of Wales, liked Sebastian and Oliver while her husband was hoping to call him Albert. Whenever it is revealed, the third in line to the throne is certain to be given several middle names, including at least one or two that have been passed down through the monarchy.
The Prince of Wales was christened Charles Philip Arthur George, while the Duke of Cambridge is called William Arthur Philip Louis.
The bookmakers favourite for the new Prince is George, closely followed by James. Both names, with six kings called George and two called James, would be considered suitably regal and traditional.
Henry, which is Prince Harry's official name, is also in the running, with Alexander and Louis.
The new parents are expected to take some inspiration from the Duchess's side of the family.
Although they do not have strong links to Carole Middleton's paternal family, the Goldsmiths, described by one relative as the "rough and tumble side of the family", they could choose to honour her father, Michael, or use Francis, which is the middle name of both her father and her grandfather.
Frances was also the middle name of Diana, Princess of Wales.
Charles Kidd, the editor of Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage, predicted that the young couple would select a conventional first name.
"I do think that Prince William is quite a traditionalist - that's my feeling," he said.
"The fact that he chose to use the royal dukedom (of Cambridge) and has followed royal precedent, I wouldn't be surprised if they use a name that is already familiar in the Royal family - something that has royal associations."
Midway through her pregnancy, the Duchess disclosed that she had several options for names and that her friends were giving her ideas.
"We have a shortlist for both (boy and girl) but it's very difficult. My friends keep texting me names," she said.
According to babycentre.co.uk, the most popular boys' names for the first half of 2013 were Oliver, Jack, Charlie, Harry and Oscar. George was the ninth favourite and James was 10th.
One thing that is certain is that the baby will become HRH Prince (forename) of Cambridge.
Justine Roberts, co-founder of Mumsnet, said it was hard to imagine the young members of the Royal family bucking the trend and "going left field" when choosing a name.
The Middletons were the future king's first visitors yesterday. When Mrs Middleton was asked as she left the hospital whether she had suggested a name, she laughed and said: "Absolutely not."
The Daily Telegraph


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Jason Wyatt, lead singer of country duo the Lost Trailers announced his resignation from the band Thursday (April 17).
There isn't bad blood between him and Stokes Nielson, his band partner. Instead, Wyatt simply wants to focus on restarting his solo career, focusing on the growth of his music production, songwriting, and artist development company, Jason Wyatt Productions.
"I really appreciate these last few years with the Trailers," says Wyatt. "I have loved playing to all of the great fans around the country. All I can say is stay excited … there's a lot more to come."
Wyatt joined the Lost Trailers in 2011, and they had several small hits throughout that period, including their first single with Wyatt, called 'Underdog.' Prior to Wyatt, the first version of the band had a Top 10 hit with 'Holler Back.'
In the next chapter of his shifting country career, the 'American Beauty' singer is signed on as a consultant and producer with 'American Country Star,' the Nashville-based national music competition for aspiring country artists. He is also working on his upcoming solo album, slated for a 2014 release in the 4th quarter.


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I was in a lecture not long ago given by C. Teleman and at some point he said "Well, since Riemann-Roch is an index problem we can do..."
Then right after that he argued in favour of such a sentence. Could anyone tell me what did he mean exactly?. That is to say, in this case what is elliptic operator like, what is the heuristic idea which such a result relies on? ...and a little bit of more details about it.
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That was the popular way to describe the social game maker's public trading debut, as King Digital's stock tumbled from the opening trade.
King US:KING shed 15.6% to close at $19, the worst trading debut this year, according to data from Renaissance Capital. The company priced its initial public offering at $22.50.
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"It almost stood no chance," he told MarketWatch. "It wasn't surprising. It's getting pounded." He said there appeared to be "a hope for a pop that never materialized" as "traders immediately pulled the trigger."
King saw strong demand in the days leading up to the IPO, even as doubts lingered over the company's growth potential. Some analysts said the company was too dependent on one hit and called King a one-trick pony.
Sweet compared the King IPO to that of another social gaming company, Zynga,
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According to Renaissance Capital, the average IPO pop on the first day of trading has been 22% this year, "far above the 13% to 15% norm."
Referring to King, Renaissance said in a statement: "Seeing the strong first-day pop, many of the pros put in for this IPO, but the interest in buying in post-IPO trading was not there. King has an amazing business but it cannot be extrapolated from current levels and the IPO price needed a greater discount."
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No comment: Sheriff mum after 90mph chase for graffiti suspect
On March 1, an Augusta County sheriff's deputy launched a chase that blew through eight red lights as it traveled through residential and shopping areas and hit speeds reaching 90mph, according to a story in the News Virginian. The chase resulted in the arrest, according to the story, of 18-year-old Sahvannah Nargi, who, along with Christopher Holcomb, allegedly spray-painted graffiti in Staunton. (In a related story by WHSV television, business owners breathe a sign of relief that two alleged vandals have been nabbed.)
And yet none of a Hook reporter's telephone calls placed to Augusta Sheriff Randall Fisher–- calls placed every day or two since the chase–- has been returned. A Freedom of Information Act request sent via email has gone unanswered.
In 1992, a chase by a Waynesboro officer named Joseph A. Thomas resulted, after Thomas ran a red light, in a collision which killed 19-year-old Rachel Zawhorodny. A jury, which was prevented from hearing testimony conjecturing a 67mph alleged speed, ruled in Thomas' favor in a civil trial.
One family endured the horror of losing a father and son in a controversial chase in front of Madison County High School in the early 1990s.
Last year, an 85mph chase on Charlottesville's residential Rugby Road nearly killed three people and caused over $100,000 in property damage, but Charlottesville Police Chief Timothy Longo declared it "reasonable based on the totality of the circumstance."
Then, on March 14 of this year, a short chase that began south of the Louisa County town of Mineral, with an initial alleged transgression of traveling 65 mph in a 45-mph zone, led to the death of a male front-seat passenger, 22-year-old James J. Wolf Jr., of Powhatan.
Police pursuits rein in many criminals. They also create death and destruction. The key question the Hook wants to ask Sheriff Fisher is whether he considers the grafitti suspect chase an acceptable risk.
The reporter has filed a Freedom of Information Act request for any relevant dashcam videos.
–updated 8:06am March 8 with report of 1992 pursuit death
–updated 3:56pm March 9 with report of Sheriff's unwillingness to respond
–updated 11:08am March 16 with report of death in Louisa
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Jimi, you take a very complex issue and try to make it sound so simple. What if the lunatic the cop shoppe is chasing is only WANTED for stealing a quart of beer at a local store just a few minutes prior to the pursuit beginning? Do you chase this lunatic at 90 mph when you already know who it is in the first place? :)
The bigger problem lies within the police chiefs and sheriffs themselves. Most will be more than glad to tell the public that they run their offices and make policy, not the public.
I think Longo did this most recently.... he said a Citizen Review Board was fine with him, but the bottom line was the fact that HE still ran his department.
quote: "Most people are probably not anti law enforcement, but anti police running over pedestrians in wheel chairs, anti shooting someone 60+ times, anti 90 mph chases and anti sending flying cars into occupied homes."
You forgot the part about the cop shoppe almost running over 2 pedestrians.... then locking them up for drunk in public after they shouted for the rookie to "slow the F*** down"! :)
Stop them at any cost. Preventing graffiti is certainly worth a few lives and some property damage. Hats off to the Augusta Sheriff's office they are ready to move to LA. I'll help buy them the tickets.
Well, as soon as the bad guys know that all they have to do is drive really fast and aim at a pedestrian to stop police intervention then all will be well....
One of the problems that I have with a number of posts here is the really negative attitude towards police officers. These guys do a hard job dealing with, at times, dangerous, unstable people - sure they screw up once in a while, but what would it be like without them ? In this specific instance, do they just ignore the violation (how many complaints would that draw about do-nothing police) ? At what point do they pursue ? If we had traffic cameras (something I think that many of the readers would oppose) perhaps they wouldn't need to pursue at excessive speeds.
I don't see anything wrong with holding police officers accountable for their actions in general, the catch all excuse of "without them we wouldn't have protection so let's overlook their mistakes blah blah" is really weak and doesn't hold up. They should be exemplary individuals because of their position of power, do we not hold doctors accountable when they screw up because "without them we wouldn't have heart transplants blah blah.."? Of course not.
That said, it's also really dumb to hold them to the same standards of say a heart surgeon, since their years of training hone their instincts to make snap decisions alone under pressure instead of learning how to precisely operate with hours of preparation and a full team with them at all times. They never have the same completeness of information and have to go with the most reasonable course of action based off of a few facts in second or two, and often are at a point where they are risking their own lives to save life and limb, which is not a state where the human mind can always make a perfectly calculated and informed decision.
Bookguy, how in the world do you come to the conclusion that traffic cameras, an already unreliable device, will help at all? Really, "clever" solutions typically add the most complication for the least payoff and the most horrid consequences down the line. Ask the Brits.
quote: "My friend Becky Zawharodney was killed back in the 80s in Waynesboro late at night by a speeding police car responding to a call that was a non-emergency."
Sorta like this video....
Cops horsing around and hit/kill innocent civilians at 94 mph....
Mertilator, you may or may not have a valid point about the streets in Stauton being dead at 2:30 a.m. The last time I was on Staunton streets at 2:30 a.m. was back in 1996. But it's certainly not normal in Charlottesville where the 85 mph pursuit took place a few months ago. The community is very lucky there wasn't UVA students returning home on foot from all the nightclubs and parties. And thank God there wasn't a motor vehicle coming through any of the intersections involved in te Charlottesville cop shoppe pursuit.
Central Virginia is riding on borrowed time. We haven't had a cop killed or a civilian killed in a high speed pursuit for a very long time. It's coming though, just a matter of time as these rookies turn the streets into a Nascar track after dark.
Ohh, I am here, Tim! :)
This is exactly why cop shoppe pursuits need to be banned. You can't trust these rookies out to figure out when a pursuit is justified and when it isn't.
Not one charged placed against the driver was worth the loss of human life. Combined with the fact they knew who the driver was already.
Once the pursuit exceeded the speed limt by 20 to 30 mph at any point, they should have backed off.
seems odd that the hook has not a single item on the county BOS meeting last night.....
Only a loser would take a cop job anyway.
Thanks. I didn't know the actual statistics had changed that much.
The question remains the same though. Should the cop shoppe be 22.22% black, or a 50/50 split?
quote: "Let's report the racial disparity in the Cville department with black and white officers..."
Al, the last I heard, Charlottesville was 12% black. This figure is most likely not accurate any longer, so let's jump it to 15%.
Do you feel the cop shoppe should therefore have 15% black officers? Or do you propose a 50/50 split?
Just curious.
As of 2000, CVille was 69.56% White, 22.22% Black or African American, 4.93% Asian, and down sharply from there. If anything, I'd guess that the Hispanic/Latino population has creeped up a bit.
Paging Gasbag... Paging Gasbag...
What a blow for justice the Augusta County Sherriff has landed on these miscreants. That's how it always starts, you know. First, they start spray painting graffitti, and before you know it, they're jacking banks and terrorizing the populace. Lethal injection would be too good for their kind...
Pete Deer
Paging Gasbag"Š Paging Gasbag"ŠTim Brown, thank you. I needed that laugh.
I tho't how stupid when I fist raed the headlines also. Then I read Mertilator. You have a point there. If they indeed know they won't get chased, indeed it would be a free for all. But if they did know the names anyway as Gas says. In my opinion, It was irresponsible. Staunton is dead at that time, Mertilator, but it only takes once. My friend Becky Zawharodney was killed back in the 80s in Waynesboro late at night by a speeding police car responding to a call that was a non-emergency. I'm not anti-law enforcement, what a hell this place would be with out them.
Come on back Rob Knolls. We love you. We promise to be good and judge fairly. We need you. You were good.
Ok since none of you have ever been on the roads at 2:30am it is dead in a busy area, much less any part of Staunton. Also yeah I'm sure it would be a much better result the criminals telling all their friends that cops aren't allowed to chase them so pretty much go do what you will and if you see the lights then it's easy to outrun them. Boneheads.
quote: "If we had traffic cameras, perhaps they wouldn't need to pursue at excessive speeds."
Huh? If the cop shoppe spots somebody driving a stolen car, how is a traffic camera going to help?
The key to allowing cop shoppe pursuits is to train the rookies as to when the pursuits are acceptable and when they aren't. I think somebody is dropping the ball in the training category. Not one crime was committed in Staunton that justified a 90 mph pursuit through city streets. Especially since they knew the suspect's name BEFORE the pursuit even began.
Maybe so but one time is hardly an epidemic and I mean it is Staunton. You don't harp on a guy who does something because under totally different circumstances it's dangerous.
wow the hook didnt like what i said about them , must have hit a truth. i say catch and tthrow em in the poky, letting scum get away sends a bad message. besides most of these artists are gang bangers. if you want them to be allowed to get awy then i want them to put pretty paintings on your homes
Let's report the racial disparity in the Cville department with black and white officers...
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Cops never think this through when it starts....They just turn the lights on and go and next thing you know it's like the chase scene in "The French Connection". There's really no more thought involved than a dog chasing a cat and by this I mean the whole thing relies on instinctive behavior. GB #1 is right....When not chasing someone on whose apprehension public safety depends, the chase should be broken off immediately once it gets crazy..
Most such chases end in a crash because the fleeing person's instinctive need to escape over-rides all other considerations and the cop's need to catch trumps sound cost-benefit analytic judgment.
but there's more! Free gas/vehicle in most cases, discounts to live in certain neighborhoods, free food at some establishments, and let's not forget the opportunity for side job security work.
Most people are probably not anti law enforcement, but anti police running over pedestrians in wheel chairs, anti shooting someone 60+ times, anti 90 mph chases and anti sending flying cars into occupied homes. All of this wonderful service and protection comes with no accountability because it is quite clear that law enforcement is above the law.
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What a cogent and coherent denunciation of all that is unholy. From your sophisticated reasoning, I am guessing you must be the Grand Wizard of the local Klavern.
Pete Deer
quote: "Only a loser would take a cop job anyway."
Why? With salary, benefits and overtime a local cop can easily make $60,000 to $70,000 a year.
I base this figure on a $36,000 starting salary, $14,000 in benefits and $10,000 to $20,000 overtime per year. (The $14,000 in benefits is probably a low estimate)


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The Art of Deduction
18th March, 15 Comments
By John Watson
About the Book
Most of the books that I chose, or am asked to review, are pastiches or books by authors who have studied the many adventures Holmes and I had together. Recently there have been a few books looking at specific aspects of Holmes' ability as the first consulting detective.
The most recent of these is entitled "The Art of Deduction" by Taz Rai and is a detailed analysis of Holmes methods against several well-known text books on logic and deduction.
It is a very well-researched book which quotes frequently and accurately from my stories to present the key skills that anyone wishing to emulate the Great Detective will need to master.
Rai tells me that in writing the book he began to realise the possibilities if the average person could acquire even a modicum of the skill possessed by Holmes. In many of our adventures together the most complicated problem turns out in the end to have an absurdly simple solution. Rai suggests that we can all learn from Holmes and that with the application of a little logic, rationality and observation, we can solve problems in our own lives without resorting to help from others.
Rai wondered as he read my reminiscences if it was possible to deduce and learn to think the way Holmes does. This triggered the idea of writing The Art of Deduction. He read all my stories again plus several books on logic and philosophy. He also conducted a survey to see what Holmes fans wanted and the result is the four parts that comprise his book.
He suggests that although everyone has a vague notion of logic, by reading my stories about Holmes cases, you can begin to understand what its benefits are. He believes it is important to read and understand logic and how Holmes uses logic in his work. If Holmes is thought of as a superhero then his superpower is logic, Rai suggests. He also believes that because we can relate to Holmes as being human also it is possible for us to attain some measure of his amazing gift. Many exercise in the gym to build muscles, lose weight, etc. and he suggests that the same approach can be applied with logic and deduction in the mind. Holmes is an example of what one can acquire, but to get there is not necessarily understood.
The book is in four parts.
Part One – A Study in Sherlock
The many facets of the personality of Holmes are analysed including the rationality of his approach to a case eschewing emotion, superstition, irrationality, and fallacies. His use of evidence, the scientific method and the acquisition of useful knowledge is discussed. We then look at his methods of abstraction and distraction, his immersion in lengthy chemical experiments, and then his intense concentration. Finally his vices.
The section draws on A Study in Scarlet, The Sign of Four, The Hound of the Baskervilles, The Abbey Grange, The Copper Beeches, The Norwood Builder, Silver Blaze, The Valley of Fear, The Boscombe Valley Mystery, The Mazarin Stone, The Man with the Twisted Lip and The Yellow Face.
Part Two – A Case in Logic
This looks at the science of logic and Rai suggests that if you read these pages you will be able to infer the possibility of a Niagara or an Atlantic from the knowledge of a single drop of water (as Holmes suggests in A Study in Scarlet). The heading of the one of the sections in Part One – Five Pillows and an Ounce of Shag – would be an appropriate setting for reading this section.
Again Rai draws heavily on the Canon to illustrate the application of logic including A Study in Scarlet, A Scandal in Bohemia, The Copper Beeches, The Yellow Face, The Sign of Four, Silver Blaze, The Norwood Builder, The Boscombe Valley Mystery and His Last Bow.
If you have ever wondered what the difference is between deduction and induction, what categorical propositions, categorical syllogisms, disjunctive syllogisms and the inductive force are then this section should make it all clear!
Part Three – The Observation Ritual
You see but you do not observe must be Holmes most common admonition, of me at least. This section deals with the need for acute and meticulous observation of detail. This is about turning the familiar saying about not being able to see the wood for the trees on its head and carefully observing the trees, branches and leaves before jumping to conclusions about the wood.
In this section he draws on The Norwood Builder, The Blue Carbuncle, The Stockbroker's Clerk, The Hound of the Baskervilles, The Reigate Squire, The Sign of Four, The Golden Pince-Nez, The Dancing Men, The Resident Patient, The Valley of Fear, The Speckled Band, The Yellow Face, and of course, A Study in Scarlet, with the unforgettable "You have been in Afghanistan, I perceive".
Part Four – The Sign of Holmesian Deduction
This section takes two of our cases – The Beryl Coronet and The Musgrave Ritual – and looks at how Holmes brings all his skills to bear on a particular problem.
As with most of our adventures, they follow a common pattern. The client arrives at states the nature of the case. Then there is the initial analysis of the problem from the facts known at that point. This indicates the need for further investigation before the denouement.
Epilogue – Real World Application
The final section gives us a real world example and takes us through the same stages as in Part Four.
In Summary
Even after many years working alongside Holmes on innumerable cases, I still struggle to apply his methods and get the results he can so easily obtain. Perhaps this is a question of innate ability coupled with intense practice. He has dedicated his whole life to it and perhaps that is what gives him the edge.
Nevertheless, this book is a very thorough analysis and maybe, just maybe, the application of the principles as Rai has laid them out may make it possible to emulate Holmes. I would be interested to hear from anyone who gives it a go and achieved some measure of success.
Finally, as you can see from the cases that are listed above (and I may have missed some), the book draws on many of our cases and it may be instructive to pick out those that Rai calls on more than others and read those ones alongside Rai's book.
About the Author
Taz Rai is a young Business Graduate living in Australia who has given up his day job to focus on his love of writing and on someone he clearly admires. He first read about Holmes when growing up as a child and Holmes' logical approach appealed to him. He says he doesn't have a favourite story (his book is full of examples from all over the Canon) as he says each story showcased something new about the character of Holmes.
His favourite Holmes and Watson portrayals are, predictably in these modern times , Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman. Their portrayals, particularly Cumberbatch's thinking or maybe I should say deducing machine, must serve to illustrate how difficult in practice, even with the aid of this book, it would be to emulate Holmes.
Where to obtain the book
Taz Rai's book is available from his website at http://www.artofdeduction.com where you will also find a few articles by him including one about the parallels between Holmes and House MD (also mentioned in the book).
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Where can I buy this book?
At the web address given towards the end of the article.
I've been interested in the prospects of Sherlock's skills in deduction.
At this time I'm still in high-school, but have devoted some time to strengthen my own capabilities. I understand it will take more than 'some time' to become as practical as the great detective but so far I seems to be… interestingly capable (of the smallest assumptions of course)
Has this book been published? Is it only available on the internet?
It is only available on the Internet via the link given in the article.
oh.. Thank You
Is this book's language English only?
I stay in India, can I still order this book?
If you dont mind does this book give me any gfknowlege on sherlock holmeses where abouts?


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Talk:Head Coverings
In the "Head Coverings in Church" link under "Non-Orthodox", I find it amusing that in the 1917 Code of Canon Law, men must have the heads of bears. magda 13:58, 30 Jan 2005 (CST)
- This amusing misspelling reminds me of the numerous hymns we have which want to refer to the past tense of "bear" (as in "to bear a child"), and use "bare." How many times have I heard it sung that the Theotokos "bare" our Lord? *shakes head* --Rdr. Andrew 21:05, 30 Jan 2005 (CST)