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By Bob Hertzel
For the Times West Virginian
While West Virginia played one of the most memorable football games ever played in the Orange Bowl, it has never played in THE Orange Bowl.
If this sounds contradictory, it is not.
When it was announced Sunday that WVU had been selected to play in the Orange Bowl game against Clemson, it marked the school's first venture into that bowl game, which is somewhat shocking, considering that Duquesne played — and won — in the Orange Bowl 74 years ago.
But we will get to that.
See, for many years the University of Miami played in the structure that was the Orange Bowl Stadium, and on the night of Oct. 2, 2003, one of the greatest regular season football games with two of the greatest plays was played by the Mountaineers and the Miami Hurricanes.
This, of course, was the game where Quincy Wilson took a swing pass from Rasheed Marshall on a third and 13 play with just two minutes to play, juked Vince Wilfork, who would become an NFL star, then bowled over and jumped over another NFL-player-to-be, Brandon Meriweather, en route to a 33-yard touchdown the likes of which have never been seen.
Moments later, however, on fourth-and-13, Winslow made a spectacular fingertip, diving grab of a Brock Berlin pass for his 10th catch of the game to keep a drive alive that would end in a game-winning field goal on the final play.
The Orange Bowl, of course, is no longer played in the rickety Overton structure that was completed the year after the 1936 Duquesne team played a New Year's Day Orange Bowl game with Mississippi State, winning, 13-12, on a desperation pass on the last play of the game.
To show how much times have changed, Duquesne was favored over Mississippi State that day the Orange Bowl in which they played cost all of $390,000 Depression-era dollars to build, or half as much as the revenue WVU brought in this season on beer sales in its stadium.
Certainly, few games have as rich a history as does the Orange Bowl, something Clemson is well aware of, considering that the Tigers wrote a page of it themselves when, in 1982, the Tigers defeated Nebraska, 22-15, in the 48th Orange Bowl to nail down their first national championship.
In that game Clemson rode the defense led by safety Terry Kinard and a 295-pound freshman middle guard who would go on to become William "Refrigerator" Perry of the Super Bowl champion Chicago Bears.
Perry is just one of so many famous players who first came onto the nation's radar in the Orange Bowl, beginning perhaps in 1953 when a backup quarterback from Alabama got some playing time in the first Orange Bowl game to be televised, playing late in the most one-sided Orange Bowl Classic of all time, Alabama's 61-6 victory over Syracuse.
He threw the touchdown pass that broke the Orange Bowl
scoring record and his name would become synonymous with big games, Bart Starr, the man who quarterbacked Vince Lombardi's Green Bay Packers.
Names really do jump out at you as you look back upon the history of the Orange Bowl, which began in 1935 when the Miami Hurricanes were matched up with Bucknell.
Bucknell? That Bucknell?
Yes, that Bucknell, and as you might expect, it was a mismatch, although you probably couldn't have guessed that Bucknell won the game, 26-0. It was, by the way, the first time The Associated Press transmitted a photo across America ... probably of Miami's red faces.
As we say, names make history and so it is that the Orange Bowl gained some of its luster in its second game, but not because Catholic University beat Mississippi, 20-19, but because in the press box writing about it that day was the great sportswriter Grantland Rice.
Names you don't expect to see? How about the 1945 game when a quarterback threw for an Orange Bowl record 304 yards while playing on the losing Georgia Tech team, a quarterback who would become a better coach and administrator, Frank Broyles.
Then there was the time Holy Cross went to the Orange Bowl, losing to Miami, 13-6, a game that had what might have been the Orange Bowl's most exciting finish. Tied at 6-6 with 10 seconds left, the Holy Cross quarterback threw a pass that was batted into the air and returned 89 yards for a touchdown.
The quarterback who threw the pass was Gene DiFilippo, who would go on to become athletic director at Boston College and be the man in charge when the Eagles jilted the Big East and jumped to the ACC.
Bear Bryant, Bobby Bowden, Bud Wilkinson, Tom Osborne, Bobby Dodd and Joe Paterno, all coaching legends, won national championships in the Orange Bowl, but perhaps the best and the worst coaching job was done by Clemson's legendary Frank Howard in a 27-21 loss to Colorado in 1957.
Down 20-0 at the half, Howard gave his team an inspiring speech in which he threatened to quit on the spot if he didn't get better effort from his team. Well, they fought back to take a 21-20 lead but for some unknown reason Howard opted to try an onside kick once he got the lead with 11:22 to go. Colorado recovered it and drove 53 yards for the winning touchdown.
And so it went, year after year, moment after moment, highlight after highlight. It is a BCS game because it's so rich in history, filled with controversy and upsets, far too many to recount at the moment.
Rest assured, West Virginia will go into the game trying to write a little history of their own, a rookie coach with a unique offense trying to spring an upset in what it hopes is its final game representing the Big East.
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Jeff Ross shoots Friendly Fire with Snoop Lion and Rob Corddry, and helps Nikki Glaser, Al Madrigal and Ralphie May put Valentine's Day and hipsters on blast.
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A common cold virus that packs a wallop is hitting kids hard this season.
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It's not just print that faces obsolescence. It's fiction itself.
The quote from which this post takes its title is by William Gibson, writer of Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? in a Wired article from June, 2005. He writes:
"Today's audience isn't listening at all - it's participating. Indeed, audience is as antique a term as record, the one archaically passive, the other archaically physical. The record, not the remix, is the anomaly today. The remix is the very nature of the digital."
It's cliché to say that the future is headed in the direction of recombinant, reused, rehashed, remade reality. Process (making the YouTube video) has vastly outpaced the value and quality of the product (a good video) itself. The modes of creative production are inherently more interesting than creative itself.
In other words, we are at a juncture in history where a fiction 'inventor' is just as intrinsically important to creative invention as a fiction 'cut-and-paster' or fiction 'developer' who can aggregate pieces of reality into a pastiche.
In other words, you don't need to be a writer to make writing. You need to be an aggregator.
A collector of interesting things. And then make interesting, aggregated content. More now than ever before in history. It's silly to debate intellectual property. That ship has sailed. Twitter is one continuous retweet.
When was the last time you were content to wallow in someone else's fictive world? The skills of a true original content creator (or 'fiction writer') have been democratized. Steven Johnson, founder of Feed magazine and an outspoken cheerleader of digital production writes, "one of the great joys of book reading — the total immersion in another world, or in the world of the author's ideas — will be compromised." And that compromise comes at the opportunity we all have to live in that world of ideas. Yet, at the same time, fiction is all we have that's truly our own. Reality belongs to whoever can grab the most.
We all own the words. We all own culture, music, film and art. It's terrific and unfortunate at the same time. And as content is slowly, incrementally replaced with 'versions' of reality, the author, inventor and creator is left to yell into the wind.
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After ten years of seeking a replacement for hundreds of Eisenhower-era tankers, the Air Force may have finally found a workable solution last week. On Thursday, Pentagon leaders surprised both teams competing for the prize — a program initially worth $35 billion that eventually could grow to $100 billion — by declaring Boeing's proposal was the "clear winner." The losing team, led by Airbus parent EADS, was stunned. Not only had it won an earlier competition to supply the new tanker, but some Boeing executives expected the European company to win this time too. So why did Boeing prevail in an outcome that government officials say wasn't even close?
In this case, the bottom line really was the bottom line. Boeing offered a very low price to build and own its plane, while over-confidence and maybe funding constraints led EADS to bid less aggressively. Since the two rival tankers had already satisfied 372 mandatory performance requirements, price determined the outcome and Boeing emerged victorious. In other words, Boeing won because EADS made a mistake — it failed to tap the European government subsidies that have allowed it to develop every commercial transport it currently offers to a sufficient degree so it could overcome the pricing advantage Boeing had from offering a much smaller plane. Smaller planes cost less to manufacture and to fly, but that has not stopped EADS subsidiary Airbus from beating Boeing on price in scores of commercial competitions. In the tanker contest, though, EADS either bid too optimistically or failed to leverage subsidies for some other reason, so it was out of the money.
Before I elaborate on how Boeing won, I need to dispose of one inconvenient truth. A big part of the reason why many people thought EADS would win the tanker competition was because I said it would, over and over again in the national media, in the months leading up to the award. Within minutes after the Boeing victory was disclosed, Politico put up a story on its web-site stating that expectations of a Boeing loss were driven mainly by my pronouncements on the matter. And the biggest newspaper in Alabama editorialized on Sunday that the Boeing win was "unbelievable" in part because "one of the nation's leading defense analysts" — me — predicted EADS would prevail. Obviously, I was completely wrong. So why would you take seriously my explanation of how the opposite of what I predicted happened?
The reason I'm still halfway credible on the subject is because I said all along that the Boeing plane was the more cost-effective solution to the Air Force's tanker needs. I simply assumed EADS would leverage the same subsidies that allowed it to aggressively market its commercial product line to also win the tanker competition. It wouldn't have been hard, because the Air Force methodology for comparing the EADS and Boeing planes actually understated the cost of owning the much bigger European tanker over a 40-year service life. Many people within Boeing assumed the same thing, which is why they were worried in the final stages of the tanker contest despite the fact they were offering a more economical solution to Air Force needs. But EADS didn't tap subsidies to the degree Boeing or I expected, so Boeing won in the kind of competitive climax that defense industry insiders call a "price shootout."
Boeing executives sensed during the preparation of final offers that EADS had become overly optimistic, in much the same way that Boeing itself had grown too confident in the earlier round of competition. They now think that EADS lost partly because of its own hubris. They're probably right, but I suspect something more is going on because concessionary pricing has been the centerpiece of the EADS tanker strategy since it first got into the competition in 2006. I'll come back to the question of why EADS didn't fully leverage its pricing power at the end of this essay, after I explain why it is so clear that cost was the reason Boeing won and EADS lost. But it's important first to demonstrate that Boeing won on the merits, because any protest EADS mounts to try to overturn the outcome is unlikely to prevail, and we don't need conspiracy theories floating around for the next 40 years about why "the better tanker lost."
The Air Force's aerial refueling fleet is unique in the world. Without it, U.S. and allied aircraft would have great difficulty sustaining operations in places like Iraq and Afghanistan. But by the beginning of the new century, the Boeing 707-type tankers that provided 90 percent of the aircraft in the refueling fleet had reached nearly 40 years of age, so Air Force officials began what they thought would be a routine effort to convert an existing commercial transport into a replacement tanker. A decade later, no new tankers had been built. An abortive effort to lease tankers from Boeing was killed by Congress, and then a competition to select a new tanker from between rival Boeing and Airbus offerings was overturned by the Government Accountability Office. By the time the Obama Administration was handed the responsibility for finding a new plane the aging tankers in the fleet were approaching half a century of age, and the new team at the Pentagon decided it had to come up with an acquisition strategy that was impervious to further delays.
Its solution was to craft a selection process in which there was virtually no subjectivity that might be challenged by the loser. Rather than weighing the performance features of Boeing and Airbus offerings, the Air Force developed a list of 372 mandatory performance requirements that each team must meet before they could submit a final bid. What this meant in practical terms was that unless one of the teams was disqualified, the key discriminator in the competition would be price. But price was defined to cover more than just the cost of producing the planes. It also reflected the cost of ownership over a 40-year lifetime, including fuel expenditures, construction outlays, and the relative efficiency with which each tanker could accomplish refueling missions. Those life-cycle costs were to prove pivotal in Boeing's eventual victory.
The tanker competition that began in late 2009 was a "come as you are" competition in the sense that the Air Force did not want to pay for the cost of developing a new tanker from scratch. So Boeing and EADS had to pick an airliner from their existing commercial product lineups and adapt it to the refueling mission. The mandatory performance requirements demanded that it be able to offload at least as much fuel as the 707-type planes in the existing tanker fleet while having a main flight deck available for cargo, passengers and other payloads. Boeing had long since settled on its twin-engine widebody 767 airliner as the best available airframe, since other planes in its line-up were either too small for necessary payloads or too expensive to operate. The 787 Dreamliner was not seriously considered because production capacity was committed to commercial customers far into the future. EADS selected as its offering a modified version of the much bigger Airbus A330, which weighed 28 percent more than the Boeing entry and burned correspondingly more fuel — in fact, over a ton more fuel per flight hour when fully loaded.
On its face, the A330 did not look like much of a bargain for the Air Force because it cost much more to build and operate than the plane it was replacing or the Boeing alternative. However, in the first, abortive round of competition with Boeing's tanker, EADS and then-partner Northrop Grumman had convinced Air Force evaluators that by doing refueling missions differently they could benefit from buying the bigger plane. That made a certain amount of sense since bigger planes typically are more efficient per pound of payload delivered. The problem, though, was that existing, smaller tankers typically returned from refueling missions with a lot of fuel still on board, so buying a much bigger successor required the Air Force to completely change its approach to aerial refueling. That became all too apparent when the Air Force tried to apply its scenario-based warfighting model to the rival tankers and discovered that the EADS plane couldn't accomplish some wartime missions due to basing constraints. Under pressure from Congress to keep the Northrop-EADS team in the competition, the Air Force made changes to its model that enabled the bigger plane to execute all the missions.
Northrop Grumman decided to withdraw from the tanker battle when it saw the Obama Administration's proposed terms for the second round of competition, so EADS elected to go it alone. Despite complaints from Boeing, the Air Force continued using the same modified warfighting model to evaluate the two tanker proposals — which was one reason why EADS thought its bigger plane had a shot at winning. But once the rival tankers met mandatory performance requirements the revised acquisition strategy was all about price, and there EADS faced a big challenge. First of all, the A330 typically sells for about $40 million more than Boeing's 767, which is a huge difference in cost when multiplied by the 179 planes the Air Force was seeking to acquire in the competition. EADS would need to tap billions of dollars in subsidies to price competitively with the manufacturing costs of the smaller Boeing plane. And then there were the post-production costs — the much higher fuel burn of the A330 over a 40-year service life, and the need to modify hangars and runways to accommodate a bigger plane. The only way Airbus could defray those costs for the Air Force was to offer an even lower up-front pricetag.
I am disappointed that such a trusted name like Forbes would publish anything fom this guy. His track record in this area is horrible. He predicted that Boeing would win the competition with Northrop. He predicted that Boeing's protest of that win would be unsustainable. And then he predicted that EADS would win the latest competition. I would place no value on anything this guy says.
I cannot believe the audacity that any internet pundit might carry toward having any kind of influence toward such an Federal Government contract award. Ha!
Having been closely involved (Seattle/Chicago; Washinton, DC; Paris) since late 1999? … there is absolutely no "wonder" that BA would/should "win" this contract "hands-down"! Ha!
To begin with this contract award to Boeing had to be. It's being funded by the hard working American Taxpayers. Our taxes need to stay in this country for jobs and profits for Americans. The big saving to the government by choosing Boeing will be in the long range from maintenance of the planes. EADS charges triple for parts that Boeing does. The 767 is one of the safest, proven and finest aircraft built. EADS planes have electron anomalies that can make the pilots and technicians work in distrust. Boeing has proven itself in the past. Parts logistics are a nightmare with EDAS as well as their EG support. Having worked on both types of aircraft there is no comparison. Boeing wins hands down. It's an American plane made for our American national Security and should always stay that way. The General and his support team that ran this cluster fxxx to replace the aging tanker fleet should fired due to incompetence. How many years has this taken and then almost to be sent back to the drawing boards by a very questionable leak of sensitive information. Bottom line, when the taxpayer is paying the bill the jobs, projects, infrastructures and profits need to stay in this country to put the money back into OUR banking system for support our States, counties and cities. The time has come for AMERICA TO TAKE CARE OF AMERICA.
I share the disappointment of jamstl that Forbes would print this garbage from Thompson. The ONLY surprise here is that EADS won the first bid. Apparently the DOD didn't follow the script in the first instance.
The "Chicago Way" kicked in, the original award was set aside, and then it was just a matter of arriving at a satisfactory contribution to the Obama Campaign's comrade organizations in time for 2012.
Boeing has NEVER brought a military product in on budget, so the cost overruns will undoubtedly make up the difference.
There you have it. I have said it in two paragraphs. Loren Thompson took 2000 words, trying to rehabilitate his first two guesses, and still couldn't get it right.
The KC-135 is NOT a "Boeing 707-type tanker." The Boeing 367-80 prototype first flew on 7/15/1954. From the Dash-80 then came the KC-135 which first flew on 8/31/1956. The 707 did not take flight until 12/20/1957, well over a year after the KC-135. The two evolved along different paths. The differences between the two are quite pronounced, especially in the fuselage dimensions.
Couldn't Boeing's low bid just be a means of getting the contract and later charge the government more due to expected cost overruns?
It's a fixed price contract so any cost overruns are on Boeing's dime. So the contract states the government will give Boeing a certain amount for each airplane. If Boeing is able to manufacture the plane at less than that amount Boeing keep's the change, but if it costs them more Boeing has to swallow the overrun.
Loren completed missed it. EADS' press conference revealed the relative pricing. Boeing won because they dived on price. EADS reduced their price by a sizable 10% from 2008. Boeing slashed their price 24%! That is an enormous number, especially considering that the 2008 bid was very competitive with Boeing dropping their price by 12.5% from their 2002 Lease Deal pricing. I have never seen a dive like this before.
The Pentagon including the CIA is the biggest organized crime outfit in the universe all controlled by the MIC like Lockheed, Boeing, Northrop, General Dynamics, Raytheon, Halliburton, McDonnel Douglas and about 1000 others domestic AND FOREIGN.
We were forewarned by Dwight Eisenhower and Thomas Jefferson.


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---- — SALEM — Kimberly Alicea expected her daughter to be born before the new year, but the new mom had to wait until after the ball dropped.
"I decided to just watch the ball drop in the middle of contractions," she said.
There were no champagne toasts or funny hats, but Alicea, of Peabody, was with family and her best friend to ring in 2013.
"We just hugged and said happy new year," she said. "We all cried because we knew the baby would be born minutes later."
But the minutes turned to hours and at 2:26 a.m., little Mirackle Fae came into this world at North Shore Medical Center in Salem, becoming the first baby born this year on the North Shore.
It came as a surprise for Alicea because her due date was Dec. 23. She arrived at the hospital the morning of New Year's Eve, but even then baby Mirackle was expected to be born earlier in the afternoon.
Yesterday Alicea called the birth of her first child a miracle because after being diagnosed with polycystic ovary syndrome at the age of 10, she was told it was unlikely she would be able to conceive.
"That is why I named her Mirackle," she said. "She is doing good. Surprisingly she is quiet; I expected her to be a screamer."
At Beverly Hospital, Emily and Flavio DeCastro of Gloucester welcomed daughter Kaia Camilla at 5:44 a.m. She was the first child to be born this year at the North Shore Birth Center, located at the hospital.
Baby Kaia weighed 7 pounds, 5 ounces. She has two brothers, Jacoby, 3, and Lucas, 1.
The DeCastros expected Kaia to be born before the new year, with a due date of Dec. 29. The two spent New Year's Eve resting and were sleeping when the ball dropped to ring in 2013.
The couple arrived at the hospital at 1:30 yesterday morning.
"It was a great surprise," Emily DeCastro said of Kaia being the first born at the hospital. "We weren't sure if it was going to be today or tomorrow."
They were given a ribbon that read "First Baby 2013," a gift basket, gift cards and flowers.
"She is doing great," DeCastro said. "She is eating and doing all the things she is supposed to be doing. And she is sleeping a lot."


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The Port Arthur News
Southeast Texas' golf history is full of talented players, interesting characters, success stories and even a visit from Byron Nelson for an exhibition at the old Pea Patch in the 1940s. There's also a dark side, and that's today's subject.
Back in the late 1950s, a flamboyant fellow named Homer Widener moved to Port Arthur from Corsicana, built the old golf course on Pleasure Island and became its head pro. PA, at the time, was a wide- open gambling town and Homer, a rough and tumble sort of guy, managed to get heavily involved.
As a golfer, meanwhile, he was a solid player who loved high-stakes games. He and a rising Port Arthur star named Marty Fleckman once won the prestigious Odessa Pro-Am. It was no secret that Homer and a Dallas pro named Earl Stewart used to get it on at times for some serious money.
But on Aug. 21, 1961, time ran out on Homer Widener. He was shot and killed by his brother, who would later be tried and freed on a verdict of self defense. There were those who suspected the brother made off with several thousand dollars Homer was believed to be carrying at the time of the shooting.
Nobody Widener's death harder than Jimmy Fetters, who was on the way to making his own mark in the golf world, first as a college player, then as a club pro who was a great friend and instructor for juniors. Fetters, in 1961, spent hours working on his game at Pleasure Island, caught Widener's eye and was getting plenty of attention from him.
On the night Widener was shot, he was supposed to coming to Fetters' home for dinner.
"Just as we were walking out of the golf shop the phone rang," Fetters recalls. "Homer said, 'let me get that.' It was his brother. Whatever was said changed his plans. He didn't make it to dinner. The next day they found him shot in his car in a church parking lot across from what is now a Waffle House near Hwy. 73."
The rest of the story is how the Widener shooting impacted other golf pros in Southeast Texas.
At the time, Johnnie Barlow Sr., was just finishing up construction of what was then Pinewood Country Club near Sour Lake. Barlow was all set to become Pinewood's pro, but never made it to opening day. He was offered the job as head pro at Pleasure Island, accepted and was still there when the course was closed in the late 1970s.
A couple of decades later, he and his sons would build a beautiful new course on Pleasure Island. Sadly, that course was wiped out a few years ago by Hurricane Ike.
Also impacted as a result of Widener's death was a young pro named Ed Campbell. Campbell was working in the golf shop at Beaumont Country Club at the time. When Barlow left Pinewood Country Club for Pleasure Island, Campbell applied for the Pinewood job and was its pro when the doors opened in November of 1961.
You can find him these days behind the counter of Port Arthur's Babe Zaharias Memorial Golf Course.
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Arbroath Abbey
Foundation of the Abbey
King William the Lion founded the Arbroath Abbey in 1178 in honour of the murdered St. Thomas, Archbishop of Canterbury. It was placed in the hands of the Tironensian order based in Kelso. King William granted his new Abbey independence from the mother house. He also showered it with endowments. These included the income from 24 parishes, a toft of land in every royal burgh, lands, fisheries, salt pans, ferries and of course Arbroath itself. The monks were permitted to set up a burgh, hold a market and to build a harbour. Even King John of England granted the Abbey the privilege of buying and selling goods anywhere in England, except the City of London, toll free.
The function of Arbroath and every other Abbey was to provide an ordered way of life based on the Gospel's teachings under which the monks could serve God and sanctify their souls. The monks did not work outside the Abbey. Their chief function was to perform the Divine Office.
The Declaration of Independence
Photo courtesy of Arbroath Pageant Society
Arbroath Abbey hosted the most significant event in Scottish history. On 6 April 1320 the Scottish Declaration of Independence was signed by the assembled Scottish nobility in Arbroath Abbey. The Declaration was addressed to the Pope who had given his support to Edward II and excommunicated Robert the Bruce. The nobles had to intervene in the dispute between the Bruce and the Pope. The Declaration explained how the Bruce had rescued the country from a dreadful situation and for this they would support him in all things.
The Declaration was an inspiration for future generations. The most famous quote is this:
"For, so long as a hundred remain alive, we will never in any degree be subject to the dominion of the English. Since not for glory, riches or honours do we
fight, but for freedom alone, which no man loses but with his life."
A reconstruction of this event was staged by the Arbroath Abbey Pageant Society during the 1940's to the mid 1980's.
The Abbey after the Reformation
The Abbey fell into decline and after the Reformation it fell into ruin also. Many of the monks remained in the declining monastery. For a number of years the Lady Chapel was used as a parish church. In 1590 Arbroath Town Council granted the stones and timbers from the old dormitory to be used to build a proper church. The Abbey became a quarry for cash conscious burgesses. Many houses still have interesting carved details which started life in the Abbey. It was not until 1815 that any steps were taken to preserve the ruins.
Stone of Destiny
The Stone of Destiny
Arbroath Abbey has one more important date in its history. On Christmas Day 1950 the Stone of Destiny was stolen from Westminster Abbey. On the morning of 11 April 1951 it was deposited on the site of the high altar where it was discovered by the Abbey custodian. Many believe it was not the original stone that was returned or that now sits in Edinburgh Castle.
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MaryAnn Cabibbo, Vice Chairman
Phyllis Cerel
Meena Jain
Nina Hunt, Acting Director
William Roberts, Secretary
Chuck Rockwood (arrived shortly before adjournment)
Wendy Rowe, Chairman
Richard Dunne, Selectman
Judith Moffatt
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Motion to approve June 27 minutes: (WLR1, PC2) passed unanimously
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Will be cutting back on magazine subscriptions
Suggestion by patron Michelle Cuff to start a donation tree to pay for magazines; Michelle offered to set it up. Nina will make a list of the magazines in jeopardy.
The Friends are going to meet to discuss regular monthly support. They are currently paying bills when asked. Bought anti-fatigue mats to go behind the circulation desk because it's always been hard on the staff and now they have to spend longer timespans on the desk.
Wendy plans to add a Pay Pal Button to the donations page on the website due to requests, if it's OK with the Friends. She needs Friends' permission to set up a Friends account with PayPal first, which includes giving PayPal their bank routing/account info.
Chuck's made progress with the appeal letter he has been working on.
We need to reevaluate how many Minuteman connections we need. Reducing the number would reduce our bill somewhat.
Just as busy as before the cutbacks, with obviously less than half the staff and half the hours.
The scaled-back summer reading program is progressing nicely
Governor hopeful Chris Gabrielli and former Sen. David Magnani are planning a visit on Thursday.
Custodial help plea and let them know that we need $88K more from Town Meeting before the end of September to keep open the possibility of certification
Per the MBLC we need to bring our municipal budget up to $250K to have a hope. The MBLC does consider health insurance appropriations to be part of the library budget if they are listed in a separate line item approved by Town Meeting. Doing this moves us 33k in the right direction thus the remainder needed is 88K.
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Directors Report
July 11, 2006
It's been an exciting, frustrating, tiring, exhilarating two weeks. So much is going on at the library with losing staff and changing hours.
Some of the positives:
We have had several donations by patrons totaling almost $600.
We continue to serve approximately the same number of people as they adjust to the new hours.
The Summer Reading program appears to be a hit even without the performers, something I was concerned about.
Some of the negatives:
Katherine is having difficulty finding time to get downstairs to catalog which is creating a small backlog.
Because of the small staff and no decrease in patronage, everyone is on the desk. We are struggling to keep up with the massive amounts of returns along with the customer needs.
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Tim Sack 28%
Laurie Clowers 21%
Peter R. Atwell (I) 17%
Hugh Carpenter 3%
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John Albert Gardner III appears in San Diego Superior Court on Tuesday March 9, 2010 in San Diego. A San Diego judge has postponed the preliminary hearing for the sex offender accused of murdering 17-year-old Chelsea King. Superior Court Judge David J. Danielsen on Tuesday rescheduled the hearing from March 18 to Aug. 4. Gardner is also under investigation in the death of 14-year-old Amber Dubois, whose remains were found Saturday 10 miles from the site where King disappeared. (AP Photo/John Gibbins, Pool)
A state assemblyman from San Diego has harsh words for the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation.
"It's an entity that is in need of an entire overhaul and reform,"said State Representative Nathan Fletcher (R) 75th District.
Fletcher has been following the case of John Gardner who's accused of killing 17-year old Chelsea King and is considered a focus in the investigation into the disappearance and death of 14-year old Amber Dubois.
"There's nothing we can do to bring Chelsea and Amber back, but we have to do everything possible to make sure no family has to go through what they're going through,"said Fletcher.
Gardner, a registered sex offender, had at least seven potential parole violations between 2005 and 2008. He only had one hearing for a violation in 2007 when corrections officials found him living too close to a daycare.
Gardner could have been sent back to prison, but corrections officials allowed him to stay on parole because he had found a new place to live.
"Corrections could have done the right thing and sent him back to prison where he would have fallen under new more stricter laws and he could be incarcerated today," Fletcher said.
Fletcher is pushing for more stricter rules when it comes to parole violations. He says if a registered sex offender violates any parole condition, he wants that offender automatically subjected to a formal case review.
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The Sabres made a wise move by extending young defenseman Tyler Myers for seven years and $38.5 million. That's an average $5.5 million salary for a gifted D who figures to be an All-Star and team anchor for years to come. If revenues and salaries continue to rise in the NHL -- a reasonable assumption based on trends in pro sports -- it will look like a bargain down the road.
Think about it. In the dark days of the Golisano era, a $5.5 million salary could have kept the likes of Daniel Briere, Brian Campbell and Chris Drury in Buffalo. They all wound up signing for much more as unrestricted free agents. That was five years ago. It's hard to say what Myers could have fetched if he had decided to play out his deal and hit the free market in another year. It would have been more than $5.5 million, and a lot more if Myers had another season like he did as a rookie. And who knows what $5.5 milllion will look like five or six years from now in the NHL?
Terry Pegula means business. He also knows it's good business to lock up your stars early, instead of waiting for their bargaining power to soar with the market. That's a lesson that was lost on Golisano in the first years of unrestricted NHL free agency.
The Bills should pay attention, too. This deal puts even more pressure on them to take care of their underpaid stars. The Sabres didn't want Myers to play another year while being compensated well below his talent and achievements. The longer the Bills do that to Ryan Fitzpatrick, Stevie Johnson and Fred Jackson, the worse it looks.


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Something to Believe In: Michigan Hockey saves the 2009-2010 Michigan Men's althetic campaign.
Michigan completed a two game sweep of Michigan State in the CCHA quarterfinals at Munn. Coming back from being down 3-2, Michigan dominated the game launching 16 shots to State's 1 shot in the second period alone. Michigan faces the winner of the OSU v. #2 Miami (OH) series, which is presently knotted at one a piece. Ohio State tied the series up last night with an OT winner, keeping their season alive. Great job by Red and the kids to skate out of Munn with a sweep!
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The Patriots are bringing former assistant Brian Daboll back to the staff, effective immediately, Bill Belichick told reporters during a conference call Monday.
Chiefs hire Packers' Dorsey as GM
The Chiefs announced during the first half of the Packers' game against the 49ers that they had hired longtime Green Bay personnel man John Dorsey as GM.
Pederson likes Chiefs roster; will evaluate QB
New Chiefs offensive coordinator Doug Pederson sees a beautiful swan in his inherited ugly duckling.
Chiefs hire Sutton, Pederson, nine assistants
The Chiefs announced several coaching hires on Friday to join Andy Reid's staff for 2013, including their new coordinators.
Chiefs better suited for 3-4 defense
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Reid, Chiefs were made for each other
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Reports: Chiefs agree to terms with Reid
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Chiefs, GM Pioli part ways
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Chiefs fire Crennel; Pioli safe for now
The Chiefs fired head coach Romeo Crennel on Monday, the team announced, but no determination has been made on the future of GM Scott Pioli.
Broncos rout Chiefs to earn top seed in AFC
Peyton Manning and the Broncos wrapped up home-field advantage through the AFC playoffs with a predictable 38-3 runaway over the Chiefs.
AFC West Spin cycle: Broncos taking care of business
Another typical week in the AFC West — the Broncos dominated, the Raiders and Chiefs fell and the Chargers took advantage of a weak opponent.
Luck breaks record, Colts clinch playoff berth
Andrew Luck threw for 205 yards to break the single-season rookie record, and the Colts beat the Chiefs to clinch a berth in the playoffs.
Kansas City agreed Tuesday to a four-year, $16 million deal with Fasano, a three-year, $12.6 million contract with defensive tackle Mike DeVito, and a three-year deal with former Saints backup quarterback Chase Daniel.||||||| Fasano had been with the Dolphins.
Fasano is active for the Miami Dolphins' game Sunday against Seattle.||||||| Fasano had been listed as questionable with a hip injury.
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The curious case of Wycliff Palu's yellow card
By Spiro Zavos, 18 Nov 2009 Spiro Zavos is a Roar Expert
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- Grand Slam rugby, Ireland Rugby, Jonathan Kaplan, Rob Kearney, Rocky Elsom, Rugby Union, Wallabies, Wycliff Palu
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Late in the first half of the absorbing drawn Test between Ireland and Australia, Wycliff Palu, the monster Wallaby number 8, was given a yellow card by the South African referee Jonathan Kaplan for allegedly making a shoulder charge on Rob Kearney, Ireland's fullback.
I use the word 'allegedly' because it was Kearney who made the shoulder charge on Palu while he was carrying the ball upfield.
Later in the Test, Kearney repeated the infringement with a shoulder charge on Rocky Elsom as the Wallaby captain dived across the line to score a try.
Kaplan is regarded as one the top referees in international rugby.
He showed no rugby nous or understanding, though, with both decisions he made: first, when he gave a yellow card to Palu and, second, when he did not give a yellow card to Kearney.
In the Palu incident, Kearney fielded the ball outside his 22. He decided to run the ball back rather than put in a towering kick.
Palu closed in on him.
Kearney raced towards Palu, turned his shoulder and smashed into Palu shoulder first (a shoulder charge in other words). Kearney was bumped to the ground and rolled forward, uninjured, with the ball firmly in his grasp.
Palu met the shoulder charge with his body square to the tackler.
He did NOT turn side on in preparation for a shoulder charge. Kearney's sudden explosion of speed caught him slightly unprepared. Kearney smashed into Palu's upper body at about the same time as the tackler was trying to get his arms around the runner.
Kaplan was behind Palu when the incident happened.
He saw Kearney bounce off Palu and presumed – incorrectly as it happened – that it was Palu who had made the shoulder charge.
With the Elsom incident, it was obvious that Kearney had used his shoulder to charge the Wallaby into touch. This should have been identified by the assistant referee, who was on the spot and the referee, who had a good view of the incident.
Kearney should have been given a yellow card, which probably would have ended Ireland's fight-back. And the Wallabies should have been awarded a penalty kick on the halfway mark after the conversion.
Given the Daniel Carter precedent, too, Kearney should have been put out for a week by an IRB judicial review committee to make up for the failure of the match referees to get the decision on the infringement right.
I have argued for some time now that too many yellow cards are wrongly handed out.
There should be a video replay before a card is handed out. The impact on the game of a yellow card warrants this type of accuracy.
As it happened, Ireland did not score with Palu off the field. But the Wallabies were well on top at the time, and with Palu breaking through the middle, they may well put more points on the board.
The irony about the curious case of Wycliff Palu's yellow card is that there were a number of slow-motion replays of Kearney's shoulder charge on Elsom while the video referee was working out if a try was scored or not.
Spiro Zavos, a founding writer on The Roar, was long time editorial writer on the Sydney Morning Herald, where he started a rugby column that has run for nearly 30 years. Spiro has written 12 books: fiction, biography, politics and histories of Australian, New Zealand, British and South African rugby. He is regarded as one of the foremost writers on rugby throughout the world.
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The Crowd Says (219) | Page 1 of Comments
November 18th 2009 @ 3:52am
Matt0931 said | November 18th 2009 @ 3:52am | Report comment
Spiro, although I agree with you in regards to the Palu tackle not being a charge I find it hard to swallow that Kearney shoulder charged Palu. Kearney clearly steps off his left foot and launches to his right and in doing so makes contact at an angle into Palu's arm but there's no way I can agree to call that a shoulder charge.
Below is the you tube link to the Palu tackle and the Kearney shoulder charge on Elsom which went unpenalised.
And below is the link to some stills of the Palu tackle. His arm may have been a touch high but as it clearly wasn't intentional the worst the ref should have done was give Palu a warning on his tackling and then moved on with the game.
November 18th 2009 @ 2:05pm
Uncle Eric said | November 18th 2009 @ 2:05pm | Report comment
Sorry Darwin Hammer but I think you should get your eyes checked. The only reason Palu didn't get his arms around Kearney was that the poor fellow bounced so quickly that Cliffy couldn't catch him. Want to see a shoulder charge? Get yourself a bigger TV screen and watch Kearney's hit on Elsom as he scored the try. Kaplan is, in my view, a poor referee (but he's no orphan there) and he salvaged the game for the Irish when he failed to penalise their scrum going down on the last play of the game.
November 18th 2009 @ 3:55am
Jerry said | November 18th 2009 @ 3:55am | Report comment
Spiro – re, the Kearney shoulder, it would seem to me that as it occurred before the try was scored a penalty on halfway following the conversion wouldn't be the correct call. That call is when an infringement occurs after the ball has been made dead – eg when the try has been scored.
November 18th 2009 @ 7:05am
mitzter said | November 18th 2009 @ 7:05am | Report comment
Corredct jerry, there are no 8 point tries in union and the restart with the penalty kick is only for infringements after the try has been scored.
Of course he could still give out a yellow card but there would be no penalty because advantage had been played ie the try
November 18th 2009 @ 4:59am
Jerry said | November 18th 2009 @ 4:59am | Report comment
I didn't think it was high, it hit Kearney on the chest and ball. It wasn't even a penalty, IMO. I don't think Kearney tried to bump off Palu, but you'd think he might try and be a bit more elusive when faced with a tackler who's about 20kg heavier than him.
As regards the Kearney/Elsom tackle, I think it probably should have been a yellow also given the one already awarded against Palu. Kearney had his arms tucked tight against his body which is the classic shoulder block technique. It was probably an instinct reaction as Elsom does take a step infield (in order to make sure he stays in play after contact) which meant Kearney probably got to him a split second before he'd anticipated. However, it was a pretty clear shoulder block – what would the call have been if Elsom had landed in touch?
You can't help but get the feeling that the refs are considering the outcomes, rather than the actions, in these incidents. Kearney gets knocked back by a big guy, so Ireland gets the penalty and a card is issued. Elsom gets hit by a smaller guy and still gets the try, so no further action is taken.
November 18th 2009 @ 5:32am
Matt0931 said | November 18th 2009 @ 5:32am | Report comment
'I saw and remembered it completely differently.'
Of course you saw it differently pothale. You are Irish and wanted him to be penalised. You were also caught up in the atmosphere at the ground which also helps with making up your mind.
By showing the replay again and again, just like the Carter tackle in Wales, is going to do nothing but wind up the locals.
Funny how even the Irish commentators thought the tackle was ok….
November 18th 2009 @ 7:26am
fox said | November 18th 2009 @ 7:26am | Report comment
"replays of the illegal tackle by Palu"
"it seemed to me to be a fair but hard tackle"
Those statements seem a little contradictory, pothale. The Palu tackle (as I have written in Spiro's match review) should be celebrated, not penalised. The only reason that it looked in any way borderline, as Spiro correctly points out, is because Kearney speeds up suddenly and into Palu and catches him in the motion of tackling a little early. You can see Palu's arms raised and motioning towards wrapping around Kearney, but he doesn;t get there a) because the tackle happens earlier than Palu originally expected (probably) and b) because Kearney flies back about 10 THOUSAND metres before Palu has a chance to wrap his arms around the far flung and flapping Kearney.
Fair hit, incorrect and shocking decision. Enough said on the matter. As for the Kearney incident well, players will do almost anything to sweep a player about to score into touch. I don't mind that incident, but I suppose in the name of consistency……..
November 18th 2009 @ 8:08am
BennO said | November 18th 2009 @ 8:08am | Report comment
"because Kearney flies back about 10 THOUSAND metres before Palu has a chance to wrap his arms"
Exactly. His arms are outstretched as he makes the hit and they wrap around briefly but because Kearney was flying so far back Palu couldn't grab him. Yet another terrible decision by Kaplan.
The correct decision was penalty Australia for Kearney not releasing the ball.
November 18th 2009 @ 1:51pm
Dublin Dave said | November 18th 2009 @ 1:51pm | Report comment
"The correct decision was penalty Australia for Kearney not releasing the ball"
Er, no. He wasn't tackled.
You know what a tackle is, don't you?
November 18th 2009 @ 2:03pm
Jerry said | November 18th 2009 @ 2:03pm | Report comment
He may not have been tackled, but he was on the ground and there was an Aussie (Stephen Moore) on his feet legally playing the ball. Though Kearney did actually release the ball, so it wouldn't have been a penalty regardless.
November 18th 2009 @ 3:06pm
BennO said | November 18th 2009 @ 3:06pm | Report comment
turn it up Dave.
He took 3 seconds to release the ball from going to ground to releasing it to Moore. Palu went into contest the ball and he didn't release. Palu was driven forward by the arriving Aussie forwards and still Kearney didn't release. Finally Moore ripped it out of his grasp as Kaplan arrived 3 seconds after he hit the ground.
November 18th 2009 @ 4:28pm
Cattledog said | November 18th 2009 @ 4:28pm | Report comment
Pothale, what Spiro has indicated is off the mark, but you do youself no favours at all by saying that tackle was illegal. Kaplan himself would, with hindsight and replays, have changed his ruling, except for a vocal, obviously uneducated on all things rugby crowd. You are taught to tackle using your shoulder and arms. A front on tackle of that nature can in no way be considered an illegal tackle (note I say illegal tackle and not shoulder charge as this is another form of illegal tackle). There was no 'intent' whatsoever from Palu. Tackling using the shoulder in that way is the norm. Kearney happened to bounce off him before he could wrap his arms around him. Kearney quite frankly ran into him incorrectly with poor body position and paid the penalty.
Kearney should have then been sent to the bin without question on his tackle (blatant shoulder charge) attempting to prevent Elsom's try. Be passionate about your NH sides, no problem with that whatsoever, but don't let emotion cloud your ability to be objective with your comments.
November 18th 2009 @ 4:53am
Dublin Dave said | November 18th 2009 @ 4:53am | Report comment
Spiro, that's a study in impertinence that betrays either a complete lack of knowledge of the laws of the game and an ignorance of how it has been played since time immemorial, or alternatively a compulsion to wind up supporters of any team outside of Australia. Congratulations! You've succeeded on the second count.
First off, "shoulder charging" is NOT the issue. There is no law against shoulder charging in the 2009 IRB Law Book. (available for perusal or download here http://www.irblaws.com/downloads/EN/irb_law_book_2009_en.pdf)
On the contrary, it is expressly permitted in the very first item under the section Foul Play (law 10) To quote:
"Charging or Pushing
When a player and an opponent are running for the ball, either player must not charge or push the other EXCEPT SHOULDER TO SHOULDER"
(My emphasis).
And to suggest that a ball carrier leading with his shoulder is an offence is just plain ridiculous. Any tight forward who ever lived and who ever took the ball in his hands has dropped his shoulder to try and make up with bulk and momentum what he lacks in twinkle toed running skills. There is nothing at all wrong with that and the laws permit it.
What IS prohibited under the laws is DANGEROUS tackling, in as many words. To quote again:
"Law 10 e Dangerous Tackling.
A Player must not tackle an opponent early, late or dangerously
Penalty: Penalty Kick"
There follows some examples of what constitutes dangerous tackling, such as:
"A Player must not tackle (or try to tackle) an opponent above the line of the shoulders even if the tackle starts below the line of the shoulders. A tackle around the opponent's neck or head is dangerous play.
Penalty: Penalty Kick"
or later
"Law 10 g Dangerous charging.
A player must not charge or knock down an opponent carrying the ball without trying to grasp that player.
Penalty: Penalty Kick"
There are various other clauses in this section covering such things as stiff arm tackles and playing a man whose feet are off the ground but it seems to me, not being a lawyer, that the key statement is the first one: a dangerous tackle is not allowed and it is up to the referee, guided by the explicit examples in the laws, to determine whether a tackle is dangerous or not.
Palu hit Kearney high and without using his arms. It is debatable whether he TRIED to use his arms or not, which is all that he is required to do under the laws. But he had hardly crouched at all and appeared to connect with Kearney under the chin. That IS an offence, as Law 10e makes clear, whether or not he intended to hit him that high. Kaplan was entirely within his rights to adjudge that as a dangerous tackle.
As to whether the later failed attempt by Kearney to tackle Elsom as he scored his try: that wasn't a charge, it was a good old fashioned push and it was qualified by the presence of another defender (I think O'Leary) coming up to tackle Elsom from behind. I don't think that could be interpreted as "dangerous charging" because he was clearly not trying to knock Elsom down but rather to shove him into touch.
These were two fifty fifty calls (to be generous) that went Ireland's way. The referee wasn't wrong in either of them.
Can we stop the whinging please?
November 18th 2009 @ 7:29am
fox said | November 18th 2009 @ 7:29am | Report comment
The laws were incorrectly applied in this circumstance, as is the point of the story. But thank you for googling the laws and giving us all a needless refresher course that reminds us of this.
November 18th 2009 @ 1:19pm
Dublin Dave said | November 18th 2009 @ 1:19pm | Report comment
I didn't "Google it" Fox. I referee at schools level and have a permanent copy of the law book on my system. I even read it from time to time. Clearly many people here haven't, so I don't think it's all that "needless" to point out what the laws actually say.
Incidentally, if you listen to Kaplan as he brandishes the card, all he says is "dangerous tackle", which is all he need do to brand it a foul. He doesn't say whether it was because he considered it high or because Palu didn't use his arms. The fact is, Kearney was hit on the chin and that is illegal, regardless of what Palu might have tried to do with his arms.
November 18th 2009 @ 2:09pm
Jerry said | November 18th 2009 @ 2:09pm | Report comment
Er, no. He did say "No arms".
Check this video at the 34/35 second mark. He also signalled 'no arms' rather than 'high tackle'.
November 19th 2009 @ 7:00am
fox said | November 19th 2009 @ 7:00am | Report comment
Yes Jerry you are correct, Kaplan made that stupid wrapping motion with his arms like he was limbering up for the next opportunity to blow his whistle and command centre stage.
November 18th 2009 @ 5:34pm
Cattledog said | November 18th 2009 @ 5:34pm | Report comment
And therefore you should agree that Kearney's charge on Elsom was illegal.
November 18th 2009 @ 8:23am
Tim said | November 18th 2009 @ 8:23am | Report comment
The penalty was given for a shoulder charge as indicated by Kaplan after the incident, not a high takle. That was not a shoulder charge.
I say Australia should wear black arm bands against Scotland to protest
November 18th 2009 @ 2:03pm
AC said | November 18th 2009 @ 2:03pm | Report comment
No, he was wrong on the yellow card. I'd suggest all the hoo-ha from the Dan Carter incident was at the forefront of Kaplan's mind as he was preparing for his whistle show, that 80k Irish packed Croke Park to see to be sure!
November 18th 2009 @ 4:33pm
Cattledog said | November 18th 2009 @ 4:33pm | Report comment
Sorry Dave, not 50/50 calls at all, Kaplan got it wrong on both occasions. By the way, how are the sisters?
November 18th 2009 @ 8:11am
Bill said | November 18th 2009 @ 8:11am | Report comment
Exactly!!! In a "text book" tackle the first contact the defender will make will always be with the shoulder and not the arms!
November 18th 2009 @ 8:03am
Matt0931 said | November 18th 2009 @ 8:03am | Report comment
Thats a pretty standard tackle then. When you tackle someone front on you often make body contact before you close your arms around them (if that makes sense).
November 18th 2009 @ 8:22am
BennO said | November 18th 2009 @ 8:22am | Report comment
It does mate, how else can you make a tackle? You're not going to gently wrap your arms around them and then go in with the shoulder are you? It's just not possible to tackle any other way. Palu's arms are around the back of the blokes body at the moment of the hit.
If someone looks at that on video and thinks it's a shoulder charge it just tells me they've never actually made a tackle themselves.
November 18th 2009 @ 5:56am
Davo said | November 18th 2009 @ 5:56am | Report comment
It was a great tackle plain and simple….and a legal one too. The fact Kearney dropped quicker than a Guiness on a Friday night and the fact that Palu is a giant Islander deceived Kaplan into making one of the many bewildering calls he came up with in this match.
For me the worst part is that this monster hit will likely further discourage fullbacks from running back the ball….something we dont see enough of in this age of hoisting high balls.
November 18th 2009 @ 7:34am
fox said | November 18th 2009 @ 7:34am | Report comment
Kat, there is no point arguing this. He'll defend his position until the end of time. If Palu had been Irish and made that hit they would be singing about it in the streets of Dublin and it would make all the highlight packages. He'd probably get a Guiness sponsorship. But no the picture of Kearney flying backwards is just too much for fragile Irish egos and so they will hold on with a white knuckle grip to the Kaplan ruling, as if his decision is divine. We are talking about Kaplan here for chrissakes……
November 18th 2009 @ 10:12am
fox said | November 18th 2009 @ 10:12am | Report comment
I do like guiness. I like the Irish as well. I respect the way the Irish play rugby and I have the utmost affection for O'Driscoll and various past players such as Keith Wood etc. I do rather suspect though on this issue that your judgement is clouded, regardless of what Spiro has written above – and I do not agree that Kearney had any cause for a case either for or against him. He definitely did not warrant a penalty for shoulder charging while carrying the ball, that's just hard running (and everyone lowers shoulders to tacklers when running), albeit met with a harder (and fair) tackle. But that is all from me on the issue. I won't nit-pick, as it doesn't change the result.


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