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...that is assuming that Tito makes it to the fight.
skimming the site the whole time i was thinking of fedors brother and not realizing we were talking Shlemenko
Well... Tito DID fight with a cracked skull!!
Bellator needs a "name" fighter to fight. So much home grown talent at this point. I'm not sure if Tito is a draw anymore. If this fight happens, Tito gets stopped within 3.
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Wow. Massive size difference.
Can i change my mind now?
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Bjorn Rebney: There will be a '30-35 pound weight disparity' between Ortiz and Shlemenko on fight night
It appears Alexander Shlemenko has no intention of putting on much weight for his PPV bout against Tito Ortiz.
Bellator CEO Bjorn Rebney revealed that the Russian middleweight champion will likely weigh just over 190lb. come fight night, which puts him at a significant weight disadvantage against former UFC light-heavyweight champ Ortiz.
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Shlemenko holds a 50-7 record in MMA competition and has been Bellator's middleweight champ since winning the vacant title back at Bellator 88. Rebney sees the Russian as fighter who can draw ratings, even going so far as to compare him to Ivan Drago from Rocky IV."It's 20 pounds on paper, but legitimately, Shlemenko walks around at 190." Rebney told Sherdog.com. "He's a guy who cuts four pounds, who stops eating big meals a day and a half before the fight to cut four pounds of water weight to make 185. He's a typical Eastern European fighter who's not interested in the cut. By the time that fight goes into the cage, you're probably looking at a 30-, 35-pound weight disparity between Tito and Alexander. I think that's what gives a lot of the punch behind that big fight that we've got coming up in May."
Bellator 120 take place on May 17 at the Landers Center in Southaven, Mississippi."That guy's going to turn over numbers, but it's the spinning back fists, it's his amazingly exciting style, coupled with the fact that he's got that whole Drago persona. Literally, we've had the guy signed for four years and I think I've seen him smile three times."
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This is probably gonna be the last comic for a little bit. I don't have a lot of time these days and I'm moving really soon, so my backlog of comics has run dry.
Sorry! At least it's a nice cliffhanger to end on.
Hey, friends! I'm trying to save up some money for some much needed computer upgrades. If any of my readers are interested I'm offering commissions to try and speed along the process. Here are some recent artworks I've done (if you want to see stuff that's not from the comic, that is)
If you want to see more stuff you can check out my deviantart or my Tumblr art tag. I work pretty cheap, you're looking at $25 for most digital stuff, or more for really complicated or involved pieces. As always you can just kick me a couple of bucks for the donation wallpaper if you want. Thanks for your time!
I opened an Etsy store selling prints of the valentine's day cards and the original paintings! check it out here!! please spread the word cause this is the first kind of merchandise or anything I've tried to sell from my comic or anything ever basically!
Yesterday's big project was these – a set of four watercolored Valentine's cards featuring Ellie and the gang. Of course Ellie refused to participate, but I still think they turned out pretty good. If anybody would be interested, I was thinking of selling prints of these! They would be about $5 for a set of all four. What do you think?
In an effort to clean things up a bit, the concept art and the Keeper of Mysteries pages have been removed, so you can read Ellie Starling's Very Long Walk uninterrupted from beginning to the current pages. These pages will go back up elsewhere on the site soon-ish. I really should have gotten around to this sooner!
I've posted this on my Tumblr with this week's pages, but in case you missed it: This week will be the last week of updates for 2012! But don't despair cause I've got a little something special planned for the rest of the year. Next week I've got a short story that should get y'all scratching your heads about some of the more mysterious elements of the story. That will update Monday, Wednesday and Friday. Then starting the 24th we've got behind the scenes sketches and concept art appearing all five days. We'll return to Ellie and friends (and enemies?) on January 1st. Have a good holiday season!


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Agree with you. Other than Vorbis, and maybe Wolfgang in several parts. I can't really think of a villain who is consistently 'scary' throughout an entire a DW book. Even the Cunning Man is more of an 'effect' than anything else, since he only physically shows up at the end of the book and has no lines.
Powerful villains, funny villains, annoying villains, boring villains, complex villains yes, but "scary' is hard to find. Maybe that's to Pterry's credit that for the most part, he refuses to give in to the old school version of the totally menacing, diabolically laughing villain and instead created adversaries who were the way they were because of their upbringing or culture, rather than simply a desire for power.


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Along with 3 restaurants, this smoke-free hotel has a 24-hour fitness center and a bar/lounge. WiFi in public areas is free. Additionally, a sauna, a steam room, and a 24-hour business center are onsite.
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In addition to a sauna, Renaissance Paris La Defense Hotel features a steam room and a 24-hour fitness center. Dining is available at one of the hotel's 3 restaurants. A bar/lounge is on site where guests can unwind with a drink. A computer station is located on site and high-speed wireless Internet access is complimentary.
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DENVER, COLORADO—By the time his motorcade pulled up to Magness Arena on the campus of the University of Denver at 6:40 local time Wednesday evening, October 3, the president knew he had 20 minutes to make a decision.
The campaign of his opponent, Governor Mitt Romney, had so deteriorated that, for his part, Barack Obama understood there was a sound argument on behalf of running out the clock and not taking any great risks. The president is typically a prudent man, right up until the moment he does something notably risky, such as ordering the mission that killed Osama bin Laden in spite of virtually all of his inner circle advising against it (except CIA Director Leon Panetta). Now, with only moments until the debate began, the president could anticipate what might well be moderator Jim Lehrer's opening question, for which the Obama campaign had prepared an innocuous response, counting on the near certainty that Governor Romney would offer a response even more useless.
But another, bolder answer, of which the president had not advised his prep team, had been forming in his thoughts for a while. If it was high risk, inviting media scrutiny, it also was high reward, a response that would be the most presidential thing anyone said that night and that would put Governor Romney on the spot, if not expose him as the fraud that the president had come to genuinely believe him to be. It would dominate all subsequent coverage of the debate and catch the governor off guard; Romney, the president remembered, is never worse than when he's off guard. If the Republican candidate didn't manage a very good rebuttal, the election would be over.
LEHRER: Mr. President, I don't need to tell you that the issue first and foremost on everyone's mind is the state of the national economy. You and your campaign, and some in the media, have accused Governor Romney of offering no specifics as to what he would do about the economy should he be elected president. But are you prepared this evening to offer specifics of your own?
THE PRESIDENT: Jim [dramatic pause], I am. The American people deserve no less from both Governor Romney and me.
I'll try to be as succinct as I can. But your question calls for a big answer, so I hope you'll bear with me as I try to respond in the allotted time.
I'm announcing tonight that, if re-elected, I will immediately call the House of Representatives back into session in order to raise the ceiling of our national debt. I would remind my fellow Americans that raising the debt ceiling is not a matter of the government spending more money. It's a matter of honoring a debt already incurred and thereby preserving our credit rating. I'm sure I don't have to remind everyone how, last summer, radical Republicans in the House held our economy hostage over this issue and how, as a result, for the first time in history our country's credit rating was downgraded.
Now we approach a similar debt-ceiling deadline at the end of this year. I'm here to tell you this evening that if the Congress again fails to fulfill its responsibility by November 15, I will exercise the powers enumerated in Article Four of the Fourteenth Amendment of the Constitution of the United States and raise the debt ceiling myself, through executive action.
It's not my preference to do it this way. My preference is for the Republicans in Congress do their job. If there are lawmakers who feel I'm overstepping the constraints of my office, let them challenge my action in court. But I'm not going to stand by and let the same people who almost drove our economy over a cliff four years ago, and who almost drove it over a cliff last year, do it again, hurting the country we love in order to advance an extreme ideology. I will take this action to bring a sense of stability to the world markets and so that no nation will wonder if the United States will default on its debt.
Of course, I could take this action right now and not wait for the election's aftermath. But since an election is upon us, I think the American people have a right to weigh in on this matter, which they'll be doing when they vote.
Next, on the night of the election I'll also call Speaker Boehner and invite him to the White House the following day. There, I'll offer the speaker the same broad outlines of the "grand bargain" that he and I discussed in the summer of 2011.
This was an agreement that would have cut government spending over the next decade by trillions of dollars. It was an agreement, I might add, that some in my own party weren't happy about. I'll resurrect this bargain in the spirit of the same bipartisanship that I tried to pursue during my first term, in the face of a monolithic and hostile Republican opposition for whom the only political priority, since the day I walked into the White House, has been my defeat in next month's election.
There will be, however, several new conditions to this package.
First, whatever entitlement reforms are agreed upon will be for the purpose of guaranteeing the future of Medicare and Social Security, both for those now receiving benefits and those now paying into these programs.
Second, the American Jobs Act is now part of this package. This law could and should have been passed a year ago when I sent it to Congress. It would create millions of jobs and not add to the deficit, and it incorporates many proposals that Republicans previously supported but have since opposed solely for the purpose of hurting me politically.
Third, the package will now include the extension of the Bush tax cuts for all family incomes under $250,000, and the elimination of those tax cuts for all income over $250,000, where the rate will rise four percent. Just to be clear, a family making $300,000 a year pays the same low rate on the first $250,000 and the higher rate on the income above that.
Jim, there you have a complete and comprehensive economic package. It's one that creates jobs, that cuts the debt and begins entitlement reform, that continues to cut taxes for working middle-class families as well as payroll taxes and taxes for small businesses, and that raises taxes modestly on people like me and Governor Romney who have done very well by the American dream and who can afford to give a little back to our country.
This is a package not for 47 percent of the American people, not for 53 percent, but for 100 percent. This is a package not for a country of "victims" and "freeloaders," as Governor Romney has described, but for an America of families fighting valiantly to make their lives better and their children's. This is a package different from the one that Governor Romney had advanced, to the extent that he's advanced one at all. His is a plan, such as it is, that cuts taxes for the very wealthy and raises defense spending that the Pentagon neither wants nor needs and eliminates the deficit at the expense of middle class working folks.
Tonight I invite Governor Romney to support my plan, or make the case that his is better, or make the case that he even has a plan.
What do you say, Mitt?
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I was going to say that the debt ceiling part would be a mistake, that people don't understand what the debt ceiling is or how it works, and that the statement would overshadow everything else you would have the President say.
Now I'll say the same thing, but also point out that the second comment exemplifies my point.
Beyond that, it would be an interesting proposal for the President to make.
Mon, 2012-10-01 15:47
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(But let's not lose track of the fact that a "grand bargain" won't bind future sessions of Congress, and that Republicans in Congress have historically used reductions in the deficit to justify slashing taxes for the rich or increasing spending for programs they favor. The speech might be good politics, but the policy issues are considerably more complicated than the recitation above.)
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I agree that it's a well written, forceful speech, but it's lacking in specifics, unless the economy can be fixed by rhetoric. I'm not sure the courage it would take to implement these proposals, much less say this in a debate.
1. Raise the debt ceiling by any means necessary. How is not throwing the economy off the cliff fixing it?
2. Broad Outlines of a Grand Bargain. You can't get more specific than tha...wait, what?
2a. No cuts to Medicare or Social Security. That should get the economy back on track.
2b. Resubmit an Act to Congress that was so light on specifics, the dems in the Senate wouldn't bring it to the floor.
2c. Raise taxes on people making over $250K. Prosperity, here we come!
"Jim, there you have a complete and comprehensive economic package." Sadly there are fools out there who believe this is a complete and comprehensive economic package.
This would be a softball for a competent politician. It is yet to be determined if Romney is that man.
Mon, 2012-10-01 20:51
Your first and last two paragraphs are succinct and reasonable, sub 1 suggests you consider yourself an expert on Economics? Sub 2a. suggests that you are in the upper 5% where the greed and selfishness have caused most of the present day problems. Sub 2c. is about as selfish as you can get, specifically when you consider that the greed and selfishness of people in your 'group?' is one of the major causes of this economic crisis.
Who was it who said? "For some much will be given; from them much will be expected:"
Tue, 2012-10-02 09:16
1a. I would just like more specifics as to how more debt and a not lower bond rating is going to fix the economy.
2a. The only way to ensure SS benefits, is to put more money into the pot, or slow the payout. So you can raise the retirement age, increase the payroll tax, remove the contribution cap, or use non-payroll tax contributions. I assume the only "viable" option that Obama sees is to squeeze more money out of people who actually pay taxes, so we're looking at the last two. So, you're increasing taxes on the wealthy, or piling up more debt. I'm not sure how increasing taxes on a portion of the population or adding to our already ridiculous debt fixes the economy.
2c. Again, please tell me how raising taxes on somebody fixes the economy. I don't want to hear selfish, fair or the right thing to do come out of your mouth. I want to know how my boss paying more taxes is going to spur him to hire more people or prevent me from losing my job.
Mon, 2012-10-01 20:40
If I had to guess who the majority of the readers were, it wouldn't be hard; I would say that 25% are Democrats (with few bothering to respond); 50% are Republicans (with a reasonable response); the remaining 25% are the rabid and ravening ultra-right or religious mania Repukes, who give the Republican Party a bad name.
Has there ever been anything more ridiculous in American politics than they?
Wed, 2012-10-03 14:08
And I would say you live your life in ignorance of reality. Let's pretend there is a great big money tree that grows all the money our nation would ever need, that would just solve everything now wouldn't it? But the reality is this, broke is broke and it makes no difference what ideology you support-- you can not get there from here. So, how about you go out and drivel to the 12 year old novoterepublican cat, and both of you can commeserate in your intellect, pound on your chest and say " nanny nanny boo boo, I sure told them." Let the adults in the room have a real discussion, here, I ' ll give you a cookie too so you won't have to pout about it. Go along now... go on.
delia ruhe
Mon, 2012-10-01 23:42
Tue, 2012-10-02 00:51
Tue, 2012-10-02 09:17
It's amazing how the hateful panic stricken democrat lemmings are so desperate to divert attention away from their disastrous failed criminal fraud of a President. Even their names "NevervoteGOP" are desperate shameless DOPE FIEND MOVES. The criminal organization of democrats have proven they are unfit and unworthy of running this Country or holding positions of power at any level of Government. Democrats are the party of waste fraud and abuse that fiend for power and tax payer dollars who cannot win elections on merit or honesty.
Just listen to their never ending stupidity and hate speech they spew about those they can never measure up to. They are worse than crack heads and drug addicts. These serial lying criminals don't want you to vote for the only person that is qualified, capable and worthy of the Office of the Presidency, Mitt Romney. What's new? This is the Communist Party USA caucusing party of criminal frauds who fight in every state for their 85% felon support base in hopes they be given the right to vote democrat from their prison cells.
Everything these creeps say is BS and irrelevant. They belong in prison not positions of power. They have been ripping off the American tax payers for decades. The American people do not need their party of waste fraud and abuse to survive, it is they that have proven they are only interested is using the American people fro their criminal organizations continued existence. They can go pound sand.
Tue, 2012-10-02 06:41
Nice try but Obama has had almost 4 years, 2 with a Democrat House and Senate to fix this mess he created, He did nothing but increase our deficit $4 trillion and take over health care.
The man has no idea how to work with Congress because he is an ideologue.
IF he wins we will get no tax cuts but tax increases, income and payroll. As a bonus we will pay more for healthcare. Further our debt will go up and our credit rating fall.
This article has no shame because it treats Obama's failures as if these failures do not exist. What about his campaign promises to us? Unemployment will not go over 8% and I will cut the deficit in half.
So dumb and dumber America forget Obama's failures, his empty promises (good at that you know), his disastrous foreign policy and dangerous change in the rules of engagement for our troops making them less safe. Forget all that and listen to the Reverend Obama preach the gospel of salvation to those who vote for bigger government handouts paid for by hard working American families forced down the road to Socialism and poverty. It is all about the money. Yours and more of it.
Tue, 2012-10-02 06:51
This is also my reply:
According to the U.S. Treasury, the debt of the U.S. government climbed by a total of $1,275,901,078,828.74 in fiscal 2012, which ended yesterday.
That means the federal government borrowed approximately an additional $10,855 for each household in the United States just over the past twelve months.
The total debt of the United States now equals approximately $136,690 per household.
Dave Eno
Tue, 2012-10-02 07:13
So Steve, in essence, this is what you're advising the president to say: "I'm announcing tonight that, if re-elected, I will immediately call the House of Representatives back into session in order to raise the ceiling of our national debt. I will exercise the powers enumerated in Article Four of the Fourteenth Amendment of the Constitution of the United States and raise the debt ceiling myself, through executive action. This is a package not for a country of victims and freeloaders. This is a package different from the one that Governor Romney had advanced."
By all accounts, any smart republican campaigner will cut and paste these misleading snippets and call them the president's words, and guess what? They'd be technically correct. I would advise Obama and his advisers to discountenance your "brilliant" idea. It is nothing but a Trojan gift!
Parrisia Papari...
Tue, 2012-10-02 09:53
Tue, 2012-10-02 09:54
This is just plain silly. It will never happen. Most of what he's saying Obama should offer could never pass and everyone knows it. What a winning campaign theme lets raise the debt ceiling for our already unsustainable debt. Obama has not made one. Old move yet. He's punting on all major decisions facing our country - debt, the economy, actually passing a budget, reforming entitlements, etc. I can't believe liberals act like Obama made some bold move on bin laden that anyone would have made. Plus he already had not pulled the trigger twice. Several advisors had to push him along, Hillary for example. What bold leadership.
Phil Horton
Tue, 2012-10-02 10:06
Tue, 2012-10-02 10:52
Tue, 2012-10-02 11:52
If Obama brings up raising the debt ceiling, Romney could turn that around by saying: "Constantly and automatically raising the debt ceiling would be no more effective in solving our national financial problems than a person, maxed out on credit cards, than announcing to the person's creditors that on November 10th he will formally and officially request an increase to his credit card limit." BIG DEAL !!!
Tue, 2012-10-02 13:34
You mean if Obama acted like a leader who takes responsibility people would want to vote for him? Not so fast. He's ducked for cover on Libya and the Middle East. He refused to meet with GOP minority leaders his first two years. He's made sure the stock market is fine and dandy (QE1, 2, and now 3) while the rest of us suffer inflation and higher costs of living and doing business.
The media doesn't report everything. They reference polls weighted unrealistically towards Democrats - above even 2008 levels. They don't report that independents are swinging heavily to Romney. And how many anti-Obama headliens have you seen compared to anti-Romney ones? The answer doesn't say as much about the two men as it does about the bias of those who write about them. If the GOP and Romney were what the media indicates, they wouldn't be a threat. Meanwhile they don't cover Al Qaida at work in the Middle East and instead focus on Romney's 47% remark taken wildly out of context, for which context you must turn to conservative media because you won't find it anywhere else.
Read both sides for balanced coverage because it doesn't exist in one place and both sides leave stuff out. How can you make an informed opinion on any topic if you consider only one point of view? You can't. Thanks for listening.
Dan Kimble
Tue, 2012-10-02 13:56
The author wrote: "The president is typically a prudent man, right up until the moment he does something notably risky, such as ordering the mission that killed Osama bin Laden in spite of virtually all of his inner circle advising against it (except CIA Director Leon Panetta)."
So, you are confirming that Obama's whole administration save one advised him NOT to take out Osama. Yet, most people concede that ANY president would have made the decision to take out Bin Laden......yet, it took Obama 8 months to act on the intelligence of where Bin Laden was. Bin Laden could have slipped away during that time that Obama and his administraition was dithering over an obvious course of action that ANY president would have taken....yet, you are confirming that Obama ALMOST decided against taking out Bin Laden.
Point two: An article I read pointed out that as soon as Bin Laden was killed, Obama started crowing about it to the whole world. If he had kept it a secret, the article points out, the administration could have taken the intelligence gathered at Bin Ladens compound, and gone around the world taking out the whole top tier of Al Quead operatives, before it was clear to them that their whereabouts had been compromised and that Bin Laden was dead. So, this, the article pointed out, was a major screw up, unnoticed by the press. We could have come close to wiping out Al Quada right there.
As to your fantasy debate....all you are proposing is that Obama once again blame problems on others. Raising the debt ceiling is just a SYMPTOM.......it shouldn't even have to be done. Obama said he would address the debt problem, but he walked away from it, as all democrats do....theirs is the party of increasing government control, increasing government handouts, increasing government payrolls, increasing gove't pay to gove't workers. All these things are expected from the democrat constituents, and the democrats will NEVER cut back on any of it....NEVER......so increasing government debt will be the same on Obama's second term if Americans are dumb enough to reelect him.
Having the need to raise the det ceiling is merely the admission that Obama has done NOTHING to try to get control of the DEBT BOMB....and many economic experts are trying to warn the nation that we are heading for a depression with a very soon to be exploding DEBT BOMB.
Tue, 2012-10-02 16:20
The Gwoe
Tue, 2012-10-02 18:00
Wed, 2012-10-03 14:14
Harsh- but will work: freeze SS benifits. Offer all those 40 years and older to opt out with a lump sum payment (to reinvest). tell the 18 years old that there FICA and employer match will go into a 401K instead of SS. The 18 year old will be allowed to manage that. Strike a new 'entertainment tax' of 10 percent (going to a concert, movie, football game-- new tax), that 10 percent tax goes directly to SS to fund it until everyone is out. If by chance there is a surplus, refund it to all tax payers.-- Harsh, reality, it will work.
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Do you ever have one of those ideas that looks great in your mind, but when you execute it, it isn't exactly what you expected? That happens to me frequently. Most recently, it happened last Saturday night. I thought I was going to do a great Superbowl Sunday tablescape. Reality didn't set in until I started taking the photos. I almost didn't post this, but I like to keep it real at BH&CwL. (I also didn't have anything else to post.) I'm partying with Cuisine Kathleen for Let's Dish Wednesday and Between Naps on the Porch for Tablescape Thursday.
Don't call the Tablescape Police. I know my utensils are not placed correctly. And what is that spoon doing in a corn holder? Well, the idea was that I had the white lines on the football field going across the table. (Anything for the theme.)
You have to use your imagination when you see my "goal posts". (When I was snapping pictures, I was laughing out loud, so some pictures may be a little shaky. At one point, I decided the white lines looked like I had unrolled toilet paper onto the table-it's really ribbon between the napkin on one side and the corn holder with spoon on the other side.) Hey! I could have called it the Toilet Bowl dinner - not very appetizing though)
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Wednesday, June 25 from 3pm - 6pm
Every 4th Wednesday of the month, the whole family is invited to the library to play board games, including Monopoly, Connect Four, Candy Land, Scrabble, Chutes & Ladders, Uno, and many more. Simply use your library card, or driver's license, to check out the games. All board games - including our new ones (Trivial Pursuit Family Edition, Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Don't Drop the Egg, Super Mario Brothers Checkers, and Apples to Apples Disney Edition) are provided by the Friends of the Ponte Vedra Beach Branch Library.
Little Ones Storytime
Wednesday, June 25 @ 10:15am
Meet Duffy the Storytime Bear around the parachute every Wednesday for quality time with your baby or toddler. Enjoy songs, stories, fingerplays, games, and so much more during this lapsit program. Want time to socialize? Stick around for the all new Duffy's Stay and Play, where parents and caregivers can chat and little ones can enjoy free play.
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Wednesday, June 25 @ 10:45am
Blocks and shaky eggs and building bricks galore! Stay after Little Ones Storytime for some time to socialize. Parents and caregivers can chat and little ones can enjoy free play.
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Wednesday, June 25 @ 11am
"Shake It Up" every Wednesday during a fun-filled hour of stories, songs, and crafts! We'll be using our eyes & ears to learn about senses! This program is geared toward a wide range of ages including families with toddlers, preschoolers, and elementary-aged children.
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HURLBURT FIELD — When Col. Jim Slife reaches the end of his two years as commander of the Air Force's 1st Special Operations Wing next week, he will be stepping away from what has been a pinnacle assignment in his career.
"I could walk away from the Air Force today and feel completely satisfied that I did everything and more than I ever expected to be able to do," he said. "This has been a dream job."
The 1st SOW, the birthplace of Air Force Special Operations, has a storied history from World War II's Doolittle Raiders to today. Slife said he was honored to command the organization that started it all.
About 8,000 active-duty airmen are stationed at Hurlburt Field, the fifth or sixth most populous installation in the Air Force.
It is also the branch's most deployed installation. Since 9/11, the wing's airmen have been deploying continuously to Iraq, Afghanistan and dozens of other locations around the world.
Demand for Special Operations airmen is greater than what they are able to provide, so the deployment pace stays steady no matter what is going on in the world, Slife said.
"We've got this enormous machine that makes that happen, that pushes airmen out, receives them when they come back and takes care of their families," he said.
It's a tremendous responsibility, a 24-hour-a-day, 7-days-a-week job that requires a commander who can pick up the phone in the middle of the night and make life or death decisions.
During Slife's command, the 1st SOW's airmen were called on to perform significant national-level high-visibility missions in which President Barack Obama had the final say, Slife said. He's proud of what they were able to accomplish.
He also faced the challenge of dealing with two aircraft crashes during his two years at the helm.
In the spring of 2012 a U-28 crashed in Africa and four airmen were killed.
"That takes a lot of emotional energy to be able to lead through that, to get through the grieving process and then deal with the mechanics of taking care of the families," Slife said.
The second crash last summer involved a CV-22 Osprey on a training mission at Hurlburt. Five airmen were injured, some significantly.
Slife said both events were traumatic, and the wing had to work its way back from it, to deal with the grief, but also look at any lessons that could be learned or if there were any safety concerns that needed to be addressed.
A lot of his job has involved taking care of airmen and their families to help them deal with the pressure and stress of constant deployments. He has supported programs that offer counseling and other resources to help airmen and families work through any issues they have.
Deploying for work, though, is what the special operations airmen love, Slife said.
"I often say, if you want to see air commandos, coming to Hurlburt Field is a little like going to the zoo to see the animals; this is not their natural habitat," he said. "The natural habitat for air commandos is somewhere out there doing their work."
Slife has been lauded by local officials for helping make the relationship between Hurlburt Field and surrounding communities stronger than it has been for years.
He said when he arrived he realized the time was ripe for building that bond. All he had to do was pick up the phone and reach out.
There had been a culture of secrecy at Hurlburt, but Slife realized there was a lot of what the 1st SOW does that is not classified and could be shared.
With that strengthened partnership, he was able to oversee the beginning of construction of an overpass on U.S. Highway 98 at the base's main entrance, a project that commanders had been talking about for more than 15 years.
One of Slife's main goals as a leader is to breed more leaders, something he realized the importance of after a continuing education program sent him to work at Microsoft for a year.
There, he observed that in the civilian world when new managers need to be hired, there is no one to promote. Companies go outside and look for people at other jobs who would be a good fit.
It's not the same in the Air Force.
"We have no choice. We have to grow our own," he said.
He said one of his greatest passions is developing people, putting his mark on the Air Force of the future through teaching, coaching and mentoring and giving airmen the chance to gain valuable experience.
"I want the next person I leave my fingerprints on to be better than me. Better trained, better educated, better experienced," he said.
Slife has been stationed at Hurlburt three times. He said to the extent his military family has a home, Northwest Florida is it.
His next assignment will likely be at MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa, where he will work in Special Operations Central Command.
It will have its own challenges, but will probably be less all-consuming, he said. He said he's given his all in his two years at the helm.
"There's a certain weight you feel when you are in command. You are always in command," he said. "My previous experience is when you walk away from it there's a great melancholy because you've become so associated with the organization, but at the same time you know the phone is not going to ring in the middle of the night requiring you to answer the call."
While he may feel sad to hand over the reins, getting used to not having the responsibility on his shoulders shouldn't take too long.
"I think it will take about three minutes," he said.
Slife will hand over command to Col. William P. West at a ceremony July 3.
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The MMQB's 2013 Predictions and Preview Spectacular
Our experts make their playoffs, Super Bowl and award predictions, with more thoughts on what we can expect in 2013
Peter King's Predictions
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|Super Bowl
|Wild Card
|1. Patriots
|1. 49ers
|Bengals def. Texans
|Saints def. Packers
|2. Broncos
|2. Falcons
|Broncos def. Bengals
|49ers def. Saints
|3. Bengals
|3. Packers
|Patriots def. Broncos
|Patriots def. Seahawks
|Seahawks def. 49ers
|4. Colts
|4. Giants
|Patriots def. Ravens
|Seahawks def. Falcons
|5. Ravens
|5. Seahawks
|Ravens def. Colts
|Seahawks def. Giants
|6. Texans
|6. Saints
Player Awards
MVP—Tom Brady
Offensive Player of the Year—Chris Johnson
Defensive Player of the Year—Geno Atkins
Offensive Rookie of the Year—Eddie Lacy
Defensive Rookie of the Year—Tyrann Mathieu
Coach of the Year—Sean Payton
Comeback Player of the Year—Robert Griffin III
So, has PK quit his weekly picks efforts because he wasn't very good at it, or are they hidden somewhere among all the verbiage from a show showing showboats talking to each other (MMQB the ongoing video saga)?
Thank you Mr. Klemke for the honorable mention of the Skins being the last ones in. To the rest of you clowns how do you not even mention the defending NFC East returning all but one starter on both sides of the ball with the league's number one "rushing" attack from last year and not even give them a wild card. The same team team that came within one TD (thanks Mr. Cruz) of sweeping the entire division last year and one key injury from beating Seattle in the playoffs and we can't even get a wild card? With one one of the NFL's most dynamic QB's and probably the best backup as well? All i can say is watch and learn your words wil be eaten.
Klemko has the Pack missing the playoffs, Vrentas has them winning the Super Bowl. I have no idea what to expect from us this season, it'll be a roller coaster either way.
The digs at the Jets are unrelenting. Falcons will have an easy win? Sure, let's wait and see, shall we? You think Rex forgot how to coach a defense?
I think for anyone blasting the Patriots pick, just look at the 2006 season.
That year, Tom Brady was throwing to"star" players such as Reche Caldwell, Chad Jackson, Daniel Graham and Ben Watson. Yet with a strong defense and running game, New England went 12-4, still made it to the AFC title game and was an interception away from making it to the Super Bowl.
There's a lot of logic in Peter's pick though it might not seem that way from all of the talent the Patriots jettisoned on the offensive side of the ball this off-season. These preseason picks are a crap shoot anyways. When in doubt, go with the team that you know is going to be there. Smart pick Peter.
watch out for Texans and Seattle.
This year will be,at least according to the Super Bowl website, a year of the first two's. The first time that two teams will host the game. The first time that two states will host the game. And as an added bonus,per the farmers almanac, the first time that the game will be played in two feet of snow.
With that in mind a Super Bowl prediction based on nothing of substance but simply a hunch.
Forty seven Super Bowls have come and gone without a host team taking part. The odds are that it has to happen sooner or later so why not this year. And while I don't mean to further dump on the NY Jets, I'm reasonably certain it won't be them. Although it is probably likely they will have named their starting QB by then.
That leaves my NY Giants to be both host and participant. As far as their opponent goes, the odds on a different subject are finally bound to change. There have been 348 brother combinations in the history of the NFL. That none have ever competed against one another on footballs biggest stage seems almost implausible. The odds on that ending have got to kick in sooner or later too. Perhaps last years Harbaugh Coaches bowl was just a little warmup.
This might have all happened a couple of years ago when Payton was still in Indy. But the the football Gods realized that 2013 would be the year of the Manning brothers Direct TV F.O.Y.P. commercial and decided to delay it till this year.
As far as the game itself is concerned, sadly for me as a Giant fan, the odds on something else are going against Big Blue. And that is that John Fox is due. An underappreciated coach finally gets over the hump.
Hail to the Redskins.
Buy the man a brew... for his prediction "Worst to first?" of the Browns! (I'm for Cleveland all the way, but don't you think KC is the obvious choice here? with their talent, easier schedule, and rejuvenatee Andy as coach?) HA!
He goes on to say, "The Browns could have a playmaking defense, and
their offense, though deprived of aerial weapons and depth, at least has
the right style of players for Norv Turner's highly accomplished
system." Again, I like the song he's singing, but just look at the predictions in this article -- The Browns are the only team in the AFC North NOT picked to win their division!
The AFC is a tough conference?
It's interesting that fantasy football roundups have fairly unbiased appraisals by players and team units(offense/yards, defense/pts. allowed, etc), but this article is the wildest stab at pure fantasy I've seen this season. We get it, you guys live in the Northeast! The Patriots haven't demonstrated a consistent defense in what seems like a decade or so... Providing Brady can light up 40+pts/game with mostly rookie skill players, it's a miraculous leap of faith to pick the Pats first in the AFC.... So record setting offense and non-existent defense in the NFC South equals home in December, but in the AFC East it equals superbowl Championship? Then there's that Buc's pick, not even Greg Schiano's mom is laying any cash on that! I expect the Ravens team we see this year will closely resemble the post-Cameron unit that blew through the playoffs.
Broncos and Ravens at the top of the AFC. The Texans need to start showing up for 60 minutes in road games against playoff teams! SF and Seattle in the NFC. NO will be there, Atlanta and Green Bay may make brief appearances, but neither has made themselves better since last year. The NFC East? Someone has to get 8 or 9 wins and take that division, but that's about all.
It would help if Peter would actually list how the Patriots, whom have a lesser running game, lesser OLine, lesser DL, lesser LBs, lesser DBs, lesser WRs (yes, this group is BETTER then last year's), lesser kicking game, lesser depth then the 49ers and somehow they're picked to win the Super Bowl & the 49ers are supposed to suddenly regress? The coaching is a push & the QBs are too within their systems (welcome to the 21 st century Brady). So what gives?
The Seahawks have yet to prove they can win on the road and until then, there's no way he can have them winning on paper, what's his justification? That suddenly Caroll will magically become a better coach then Harbaugh? He couldn't win in college against him even with double the talent, and he's 1-3 in the pros. So what's the justification? When they play that "big game" in Seattle, the Seahawks will have two of their starting DLinemen hurt or suspended for cheating & their great FA acquisition is out for that game too, so good luck with that. And they sure as hell aren't winning at Candlestick even if they have everyone.
So just goes to show that Peter's a homer because of his Patriot connections, cause if you remember, Caroll's a former Pat's coach that took them to the playoffs.
Better MMQB b/c no tedious writing. Keep it that way. It's the Web, not a paper.
This is retarted
So the Colts were the luckiest team in NFL history last year, becoming the first 11-5 team to have a negatuve point differential, went 8-1 in games decided by one touchdown or less (which, without fail, comes back to .500 over a period time with the exception of teams quarterbacked by all-time greats) and made no significant offseason additions that will improve the team drastically....and they not only make the playoffs but go to the Super Bowl! Klemko, you are a piece of work.
Why do the so-called most reliable football writers in the country wind up being so utterly illogical. Then you go to nfl.com and see articles on the most overrated players -- from the corporate arm of the NFL no less. Of course, not one of these predictions from ESPN and this place are even remotely accurate for the simple reason that pro football is the most unpredictable sport played today. My God, the Colts and Steelers in the Superbowl? Or making it a sport in itself to degrade Joe Flacco when he's won more games in the last 5 years -- 63 -- than any QB in the NFL. But they love their stats when the only one that counts is the one that says "W" and "L." Guess we'll have to put up with this again for another year.
Nobody picks the Bears? The best defense and special teams in the NFL. If they improve 20% on offense they can roll with anyone. And I'm a Colts fan. Seriously, the Steelers wont even make the playoffs let alone win that division. Wow, just WOw.
Across the board these picks are awful, culminating in Bob Klemko's abomination.
This site is unreadable. Whoever designed it ought to be fired.
These picks might be even worse than ESPN's.... That's hard to do...
hey wait, you used 'Redskins' in your article....here come the PC police. First and only time I click on this website. HTTR and you PC fools can watch your 'hits' bottom out as people realize what garbage this writing is.
PK is becoming so predictably white-bread: in his world, can anyone be more heroic than Tom Brady or Drew Brees? this is Monday Moaning Dunkin' Doughnuts news....I miss Dr. Z
plus you can't read these articles without an overhead projector
a lousy site that is befitting king's horrible writing
September SB picks are pie-in-the-sky, but these 'Odd Ends' are pure huckleberry:
Jenny's NFC winner, Green Bay: Rodgers' receiver-corps is lesser, run-game hoping for surprise and that once vaunted defense (White & Butler) now will let Kaep Krusader run about as far as Sheboygan, just gave pay-cut to their best D-man, AJ Hawk.
Robert's AFC winner, Indianapolis: Inspired play in '12 but Colts themselves probably dropped jaws on this pick. Luck looks like a gamer but his INTs & fumblitis show there's maturing in store. Pagano needs time to re-acquaint, put his stamp. In time.
With a ton of witty, smart and erudite sports writers around, why did Peter King ever hire Klemko? Nothing against his picks, but he hasnt written anything of value to this site. I am mystified. Compared to Bedard or Jenny Vrentas or Andy Benoit, he is pretty ineffectual in addition to being dull as a doorknob.
Maybe he is Peter's secret weapon, about to be unleashed on us unweary readers, once the season starts.
Looks pretty reasonable, except Denver and New England should be switched.
Griffin doesn't qualify for comeback player, as he was playing in Washington's final game last season. He didn't miss any games. Nice try though.
The 'Hoodie' has never won a SB that he didn't cheat in. His streak continues as the Pats don't reach the SB, but Denver does.
1. Texans
2. Broncos
3. Bengals
4. Patriots
5. Colts
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Ha. I love revisiting prediction posts.
@ukjets might as well he forgot or never knew how to coach anything else...just sayin'
Good calls all around!
@Gs1 on what planet do the pats have a lesser (sic) running game? 200 yds less than the 49ers, 8 more td's, and led the nfl in rushing 1st downs... Ridley and Vereen have another year of seasoning, and throw in Blount for short yardage and rz touches, you most certainly will see a top 5 rushing performance. They must have a poorer offensive line to put up those numbers right? Oh and I forgot to mention the 5 more fumbles the niners had. hmmm...
@Gs1 Carroll was the defensive Coordinator for the last SB winning 49ers team too! Much like the Ravens, Seattle didn't get it together until late in the season. Picking them ahead of the 49ers, given Harbaugh's record over the last 2 years is optimistic. The SIers all smoke that Patriots laffy taffy! Maybe coz they can't get good weed like we have out west? Just thinking out loud!
As is not knowing how to spell "retarded."
@Maplesyrup I agree, I like the Colts, but yeah, superbowl talk is a little crazy. They are good enough for a wildcard berth in a weak AFC though, but still a year or two away from seriously competing.
@JeremyJanishewski The problem with duh Bearssssssss is a shoddy O-line a,d a very horrible 2nd & 3rd string defense.
Are you a homer? I mean, NOBODY at SI even considered those losers.
@Boo-urns They're new layout is the work of someone who doesn't realize he's on the internet. Full page, full color backgrounds are the work of amateurs.
Testify! I don't follow football too closely but I could always hold my own in a football conversation just because I read Dr. Z. Now it's PK and the mini-PKs.
Speaking of missing good football writers: What happened to Don Banks?
@KeysSteven Rodgers' WR corps is lesser? They lost Jennings, who played 5 rusty games last season, and Driver, who had done absolutely nothing his final two years in the league. Keep stretching. Their D returns, Perry, Gibson, and Jolly, all bonafide run stoppers, and jettisons the awful Walden. AJ Hawk isn't nor has he ever been remotely considered GB's best anything... below average member of the D, actually. You clearly know nothing about GB.
@Marchoir He missed the Browns game. Also, Peterson was a candidate for Comeback Player of the year last year... but I agree with you, if you played that much the season before you can't really be a "Comeback" player. I designate that spot for a guy that was maybe out a whole year with an injury (Peyton last year) or someone that has been locked down on a horrible squad and then goes nuts-o on a new squad (maybe Steven Jackson this year?) Something like this...
@MMoney0021 You should write for this magazine.
@Kevin11 @JeremyJanishewski Seriously, is it so hard for adults to talk about sports without calling people garbage like homers and losers? Does that really make you feel better? Anyway, I stand by what I posted. Those "losers" have the best D and special teams in football. The O-line looks to be better with the 2 picks and 2 free agency pick-ups, they have some more talent at TE and more options at receiver with one of the best all purpose backs in Forte, and a strong power back in Bush for short yardage and goal line situations. They already had the number two QB-receiver duo last year with Cutler and Marshall. They finished 10-6 last year with a worse offense. Any opinions of your own you want to share, or do you just want to call me names from the safety of a keyboard?
@MarcSchenker@Boo-urns1) It's "their" not "they're". 2) Can't tell if you're kidding, so I'll assume you're not. This site is really unnavigable.The fonts and sizes are so large as to make this whole thing a mess to scroll through. I don't want to read 25 point font long text articles or have to scroll down 10 feet of screen to read a relatively short article.
@morejunk @Northof53rd Banks is the only reliable writer at SI by a long run. Of course they leave out his predictions.
@beekay31 @KeysSteven Nothing ("about GB")? That's a child's retort. And who said anything about Driver? Former great, but Don hasn't been considered part of "Rodgers' WR corps" in nearly 4 years. Just fact you mention DD in your bratty spew shows you're a GB (and TT) 'homer,' and pretty lame one, at that.
"(R)un stoppers" in a pro-Packers spew, after Kaepernick's run show in crunch time / PS '13?
If you'd just dropped Burnett's name (87 / 35), who edged Hawk in total tackles (81 / 39) in '12, I'd concede a point or two, but even that was beyond your grasp.
What's less than "know(ing) nothing about GB?'' That'd be "beekay31."
@MarcSchenker @MMoney0021 No he shouldn't, I hope that was sarcasm, because he has no idea what he''s talking about.
@Boo-urns @MarcSchenker I will work on my composition, Boo. I was in advertising and saw some great art directors in action and it boggles the mind that this magazine would get everything you said was wrong, wrong. It really kind of boggles the mind where these people get their artists.
@Northof53rd @MarcSchenker @morejunk Mad props to Wertheim (and Banks)!
@MarcSchenker @morejunk @Northof53rd
agreed; I do read him for NFL. and Wertheim for Tennis is also good
@SportsGuru @MarcSchenker @MMoney0021 To add to that, the "he has no idea what he is talking about", usually comes from homer fans that pick their favorite team to win the SB every year. Its why its called predictions.
@SportsGuru @MarcSchenker @MMoney0021 Considering 5 out of those 6 made the playoffs last year, a much improved KC team with an easy schedule, and a Bengals team who is bound to take a leap with Ravens and Steelers taking a step back. Your right, I have no idea what I am talking about. And I am not a Bengals fan.


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At the end of a dirt path winding gently south from the Old Sturbridge Village green, a worn yet tidy farmhouse sits humbly upon the land. For some 23 years of its long life, it belonged to one Pliny Freeman Sr., who settled here with his wife, Delia, and their two youngest children in 1828. Today this dark-red, gambrel-roofed home is open to visitors: the sparely furnished
"best" room with its family mementos, including Pliny's 1811 commission as a captain in the Massachusetts militia proudly framed, and his simple writing desk; a first-floor bedroom, papered in a bright, blue-striped pattern; the buttery and the kitchen, with its big hearth and iron implements, where so many meals for family and friends were prepared.
What remains when a generation passes? Personal keepsakes and household wares, perhaps, but if we're very lucky, words, as well: a family's own words, committed to paper, in all their unguarded intimacy, preserved and protected by the generations yet unborn. So it was with the Freeman family. From 1829 until his death in 1855, Pliny Freeman Sr. corresponded with family members near and far; 132 years later, a collection of the surviving letters was donated to Old Sturbridge Village by Kenneth Perrin, Pliny's great-great-grandson.
Sitting in the Village's research library one afternoon this past spring, I was afforded a rare privilege: As I held pieces of the Freemans' correspondence and turned the pages — Pliny Sr.'s neat and graceful hand, a ribbon of faded ink unspooling across once-sturdy paper grown delicate with age — I saw their lives revealed in all their vulnerability. I'd come upon that "low door in the wall" that serves as portal to both past and future; time receded, and in that moment, I reached back across the centuries to touch the spirit of this family. Taken together, these letters are eloquent testimony of the enduring bonds of family love; they speak to us as witnesses to the everyday joys and sorrows, triumphs and hardships, experienced by this typical New England farm family of the early 19th century.
Pliny Jr., in his early twenties, the family's second of their seven children, left Sturbridge in the spring of 1829 to seek his fortune in Parma, Ohio, where his uncle Samuel Freeman, Pliny Sr.'s older brother, had settled some years earlier. It was a difficult start for Pliny Jr., a housewright by trade, in that customers back in Massachusetts still owed him payment, leaving him short of funds and somewhat dependent on his extended family, as noted in this letter home, written in August of that year:
I was rejoiced in receiving the favour of your letter August seventh … I have not much at present to write. I am full of trouble as you may expect, after losing all I have, or rather all that I depended on to buy me some land or tools to work with. Without money or without tools I cannot find but little employment, but with good friends I can get along without any trouble at present. But I should like to … pay my way if possible.
The following spring, Pliny Sr. wrote his oldest son, Silas, a stagecoach driver living in Sutton, Massachusetts, to tell him of a further misfortune that had befallen Pliny Jr. over the winter—and to chide him for neglecting his filial duty:
I have been in expectation that you would call at our house before now. I hear nothing from you except that you were at Sturbridge once since I have seen you. We always feel anxious for the welfare of our children. I wish to inquire after your health, whether you have frozen your feet or any other of your limbs, how your business prospers, whether your dividends at your company settlements are favourable, but I see no opportunity to make these inquiries … Misfortunes often happen when we least expect them. When Pliny was returning from work on the nineteenth of January … he made a blunder in stepping over a log, dropped his broad axe edge upwards, and fell on the same which cut a gash in the calf of his left leg three-and-a-quarter inches long and to the bone … The letter was dated February 22, at which time he was confined to his bed—and had been ever since the cut—and was no better. Has had a surgeon two or three times from Cleveland. I hope we shall hear again soon … You must take some opportunity to call soon.
By May 1830, Pliny Jr. was mending slowly, and although grateful for the care that Samuel's family was taking of him, was still missing his family in Sturbridge:
I was happy in receiving your kind letter March eleventh. [I have had] the pleasure in reading it a number of times and expected that I should hear again in a short time. Yours was thankfully received April twenty-third—nearly two months. It seemed to me like two years … As it respects my leg … if you had been with me and lifted me from bed to bed as I have been and watched with me nights when my leg was the most inflamed, when poultices were applied once in two hours part of the time and sugar lead dissolved in water once in thirty minutes for three or four weeks, then you would have known more than I can tell you. I had made up my mind from what the doctor said that I must lose my leg; don't think I felt so low about it as [did] Uncle's folks. I had undergone so much with pain I thought that I would give away my leg to get rid of the pain … My leg is gaining slowly, can sit on the side of the bed with my feet on the floor a short time at once.


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