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Along with your study skills, your wellness is one of the most important factors contributing to your success at the University of Minnesota, Morris. "Wellness" is an active, ongoing process which involves becoming aware of and taking steps towards a healthier, happier, successful life.
Areas of Wellness at Morris
Mental Health
Information regarding crisis situations, counseling, consultation, and prevention services that facilitate students' academic and life goals and enhance their personal growth and well-being.
Physical Health
Morris provides an outpatient health care facility providing service to students, assuring them on-campus access to physicians and nursing staff, medical treatment, routine laboratory tests, immunizations, and some prescription drugs.
Safety & Prevention
At the University of Minnesota, Morris, we are committed to building a safe, respectful and healthy campus community.
Violence Prevention
Information and advocacy services regarding sexual violence, relationship violence and stalking - the program includes prevention and awareness education that addresses the roots of gender and relationship violence while fostering healthy relationships.
Wellness Center
UMM Wellness Center is a resource that will assist students in finding the resources and support that might be needed to be healthy and well. Our goal is to approach health and wellness holistically (physical, mental, social, and spiritual).
Healthy Eating
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#36:56 Dec 21st, 2011 | 30 notes
3:04am. On a glimpse of the night I caught with my bare hands the choices I did have. Alcohol riding the waves of your breath. You've been drunk of people your whole life, living from a story to another without even asking for it. I've been there, standing alone in a quiet room where I lived a life in a simple way, watching people pass by in the corridor but seeing no one knocking the door to come in. You're as the others, either for shyness or non-interest, and from the moment I met your eyes I knew that if I wanted to get your breath inside my room I'd need to push you in. And that implies to put a step out and fight for you with all I had. Guess what - I had my choices at 3:04am and I made my mind at 3:05am. The cowardice take by excuse the spirits in your veins - I wouldn't be another name in a list blurred by alcohol. I was not fighting for you that night, and I don't know if I will ever be able to fight for you, dear. You're not the easiest crush to have on anyone, you know.
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She has this old wooden trunk full of memories right behind her bed. She comes back in time again and again as if it was her own drug against all the broken dreams that follow her in those midnights spent alone. Every memory is perfectly tagged, so she's able to find the right one for the instant she's passing through or the feeling she wants to be eaten by. In her mess, she found the control that everyone knows she can't find in her life. What anyone knows is, in that old wooden trunk, covered by a nostalgic weekend by the sea, there's this little box. This little empty box she hasn't decided yet what it is for. It has your name on the lid. The problem is that she isn't clear about if it is for all the times that are coming or for the absence of those that weren't and won't be ever. From a time to now, every night, she watches that tiny box in silence, wondering what will be the answer to its enigma.
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I apologize if it caused any trouble, sir, but I needed to kiss this guy. And that necessity does not involve those extra-sugary feelings of "I'd rather die if I don't have him", but the real ones about a real girl whose life changed the day his eyes met hers. It's not like I'm different now - the dreamy magic-and-love-believer half-realistic girl Your Honor could have met years ago is still here. But this guy gave me life, sir - life. And it's because of that I did what I did.
I had this problem my whole life, Your Honor - I've had no diet but books my entire life. So I grew up knowing that love stories are just a cruel way authors have to become best-sellers. That none of them has a place in the real world. I grew up knowing I'd marry a common guy and have a common family, while waiting every single day of my existence for that man to appear - the only one who would make me feel everything I would want to taste. I just happened to know that love stories weren't for me, sir. And then he appeared. It's not as if he came singing to my house his own written songs, but he made me feel - and for someone who was panicking about the idea that she won't feel ever anything at all, that was everything.
Your Honor, this guy hasn't made me move to another country, learn a foreign language, change my hairstyle or have another likes, but he changed my life. He made me a little bolder, a little smilier, a little dreamier, a little everythinger. He intensified my existence as no one before. And it just happened that I needed to kiss him because I needed to know if it was like or love or lust or just the gratitude for making me alive again. I just needed to know if those green eyes would eventually leave me alone or were going to be my very own doom, Your Honor.
I needed to kiss this guy, sir, so yes - I find myself unavoidable irreparable and completely guilty of having kissed him without permission and regrets. Don't ever listen to my lawyer, sir - I'll take all the consequences because I deserve every single and one of them. Thank you.
well, let's be honest: if you're here for perfection, I'd gently ask you to leave. because she isn't. she is the kind of people who senses her life through every single cell of her body and has the uncontrollable desire to write about it and let the world answer if it has felt the same way ever. wherever she can, whenever she is able to. every single word is a raindrop of her very own storm, and you have to understand it. because, well: she's left behind her name and her language in order to scape from her body. it's about feelings, here - feelings, words and emotions. nothing more, nothing less. she'd try to be the whisper in your ear that tells you you should meet that girl on the front seat in the metro because of the stories she's hiding behind her lips or maybe that boy reading kafka because he makes your world spin a lot faster. she is here writing in english because she wants to leave her identity behind, like superman - yeah, she feels kinda superman sometimes. she thinks this is gonna give her some kind of freedom. maybe that's her main problem: the anxiousness for freedom she can't get rid of.
the grammar is gonna be wrong, the spelling incorrect, the vocabulary insufficient. but this is not about words, but words. so, I beg you to take a seat and some cups of coffee. promise me you're gonna listen to her carefully - neither me or she, we won't ask for anything else.

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(I)NTERVIEW: Michael Fedele
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Republican Mike Fedele has lived in Stamford since coming to Connecticut from Minturno, Italy with his parents and siblings when he was three years old. He grew up in Stamford, attended local public schools and attended Fairfield University.
In 1983, Businessman Mike Fedele founded the Stamford-based Pinnacle Group, which has grown into a national information technology firm that has created hundreds of jobs in more than 30 states.
Mike also began his public service in 1983, when he was elected to the first of two terms on Stamford's Board of Representatives. Starting in 1992, Fedele served for ten years as State Representative from the 147th district.
As a Republican legislator, Mike was instrumental in several important job creation bills including legislation to expand the role of Connecticut's community-technical colleges in job training and the phase-out of the succession tax. As a leader on the Insurance Committee, Mike played key roles in passing laws that banned drive-through deliveries and required insurance coverage for mastectomies and prostate cancer.
On January 3, 2007, Republican Mike Fedele was sworn-in as the 107th Lieutenant Governor of the State of Connecticut. Since becoming Lieutenant Governor, Mike Fedele has taken a lead role in state economic development issues and has met with hundreds of businesses, employers and workers across Connecticut. He has used his decades of experience as a businessman while meeting with firms in other states and countries to encourage them to create jobs in our state -- and his efforts have already brought new companies and new jobs to Connecticut.
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Usain Bolt had a meal of chicken nuggets before his world record 100 meter dash in the 2008 Beijing Olympics.
The day of the record-breaking 100 meter final Bolt said he "didn't have breakfast, woke up at 11, sat around watching TV, then had some chicken nuggets, slept for 2 hours...then went back and got some more nuggets!" The reason for the nuggets? Usain was afraid to eat anything else because he didn't trust the foreign food in China.
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As a farm machinery mechanic and writer, Dan brings a hands-on approach that only a pro can muster. Along with his In the Shop blog, Dan writes a column by the same name as well as the Shop Series for Farm Journal magazine. Always providing practical information, he is a master at tackling technical topics and making them easy for all of our readers to understand. He and his wife, Becky, live near Bouton, Iowa.
Some of you are already in the field. A friend in northern South Dakota reported he still had 3-foot snowdrifts in his yard as of last week. A lot of us are starting to see enough dry dirt on the hilltops to make us start thinking about spring tillage.
If you're desperate for some time in a tractor seat and use GPS-guidance systems to auto-steer or do prescription fertilization or seeding, now is prime time to check and prepare those systems for spring fieldwork. It may be as simple as turning on a display, programming an A-B line while driving down the gravel road in front of your farmstead, and confirming that everything works as good as it did last fall.
Or it may require transferring consoles, satellite receivers, wiring harnesses and control units between combines and tractor, or sprayers and tractors, then reprogramming those units for different widths, different receiver mounting heights, and different types of drawbar configurations. With luck you wrote all that information down last year. If not, plan on spending some time with the owner's manual.
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Winters came into Saturday night's Grand American Modifieds race at Stockton 99 Speedway with a lead in the points standings. But with double points on the line in the last race of the season, he had yet to clinch the track title, and second-place Michael Ostrowski was still in the hunt for the championship if he could finish five places ahead of Winters.
Ostrowski started in the No. 5 spot, while Winters started ninth in the 10-car field. Paul Henry of Groveland took the lead after Winters and Jeremy Jackson made contact, spun out and brought out the yellow flag on lap 9. Rick Anderson fell in behind Henry, and Winters recovered from the spinout to move into the into fifth place on lap 11, and eventually climbed into third place, where he finished behind Henry and Anderson. Ostrowski fell behind and was at the back of the field at the end of the race.
The third-place finish was enough for Winters to hang onto first place in points, based on a string of wins earlier in the season.
It was the last points race of the season in four divisions. Justin Philpott had already clinched the top spot in the NASCAR Western Late Model division, and he did not race Saturday.
Jeff Ahl of Lodi won the American Limited Stock Cars/Street Stocks championship. That was a tightly contested race between Ahl and Aaron Coonfield of Riverbank, but Coonfield was asked to leave the track following a confrontation earlier in the day.
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According to some rumors, Jeep is planning its big re-entrance in the pickups segment, with the new model being based on the Gladiator Concept revealed in 2005.
The Gladiator Concept was based on the Wrangler model and was fitted with an innovative mid-gate which helped the driver transport longer weights. The mid-gate concept is not new and it's borrowed from the Chevrolet Avalanche pickup.
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Santa Fe Photo-Intensive Workshops with Don Kirby Photography
Take your photography to the next level! Photo-Intensive workshops are tailored to the specific desires of a limited number of participants, working with Don Kirby for a day or more of concentrated photography. As the only student, or working with a small number of partners, you define the subjects, techniques, and materials to be covered during the workshop and also the pace of instruction.
An intensive workshop could include field work (composition, pre-visualization, camera operation), portfolio review, existing negative review, techniques for better negative exposure and development, the Zone System, hands-on B/W printing, and unsharp masking. Workshops can be extended up to five days, allowing full integration of the photographic process from composition, pre-visualization,exposure, development, printing, mounting and finishing the final print.
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Merry Christmas Ladies and gents. I hope you have a very happy holiday!!
My avatar is my first grandbaby!! Brantley 10-2-12
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The only bad days are the ones you don't get.
It's Christmas morning & I'm waiting for the kids to get up. DH is still trying to get the train to work, but at least he put the coffee on!
Merry Christmas everybody!!
Merry Christmas Everyone! It's snowing in Rhode Island!
Christmas Dinner is cooking and I'm taking a small break...
The kids were here this morning to open presents and have a huge breakfast....Grandbaby was wonderful....She got her 2 front teeth for Christmas....and I can't tell you how happy I am that she did....she has been teething fierce.
Merry Christmas to all my fellow quilters!!!
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U.S. Supreme Court's ACA decision raises questions about Medicaid
Health insurance coverage for some of America's poorest patients is uncertain following the Supreme Court of the United States' recent ruling on the Affordable Care Act (ACA), which upheld the majority of the law but rendered the Medicaid expansion provision optional.
Ruling that Congress had exceeded its power in threatening to withhold existing Medicaid funding to states that did not expand their programs, the court left it up to the individual states to choose whether to accept the additional federal funding for expansion or maintain their existing programs.
Coverage possibilities for poor patients in states that opt out are not yet certain. For instance, patients at 100 to 133 percent of the federal poverty level could be eligible for federal subsidies to purchase insurance through an exchange. But patients who are below the federal poverty level and are not already eligible for Medicaid would not qualify for subsidies and would likely remain uninsured.
According to a recent article in American Medical News, 13 states have announced their intent to participate in the expansion, while another 30 states remain uncommitted. Seven states already have said they will opt out of the Medicaid expansion.
Some of the states opting out also are seeking to tighten eligibility requirements for their existing Medicaid programs. They argue that the court's decision confirms they now have more flexibility to manage their state's program, American Medical News reports.
Kathleen Sebelius, secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, and Marilyn Tavenner, acting administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, both have said that the court's decision leaves intact all other aspects of the ACA that affect Medicaid.


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Boyd Anderson junior
Event/time: 100 (11.46); 200 (23.25)
Comment: Second at district, regionals and 4A state (100, 200); won 4A state team championship.
Dominique Edwards
Flanagan junior
Event/distance: Shot put (43-7)
Comment: Won district; third at regional/4A state; was second at state discus (132-4) and best was 135-11.
Julia Frederick
Coral Springs senior
Event/height: High jump (5-6)
Comment: Won district and regional third straight year; fourth at 4A state; signed with Georgia Tech.
Jamika Glades
Dillard senior
Event/time: 100 hurdles (14.02); 300 hurdles (41.79)
Comment: Won district; won regional/3A state (300); second at regional/3A state (100); signed with Miami.
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Congratulations to Stuart McLean, who has been named the winner of the 2014 Lifetime Achievement Award. McLean was praised for his many books, particularly the beloved Vinyl Café series (as well as radio show). Former winners of the award include Timothy Findlay, Margaret Atwood, Alice Munro and Stephen King.
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Dennis Lennox, Wikipedia vandal … I mean Cheboygan County Drain Commissioner has been charged with a one-year, $1000 criminal misdemeanor for allegedly sending 250 Christmas cards using county-paid postage, but including campaign literature in the Christmas cards, meaning that he was allegedly using taxpayer funds to finance his campaign. Lennox is expected to surrender himself to the Cheboygan city police by early next week.
A press release from Cheboygan County prosecutor Daryl Vizina said that Lennox had been asked to reimburse the county for the cost of the postage, but originally refused; however, once the criminal investigation began, he offered to pay.
Vizina said, "If this was any other citizen we would charge him, so we want to be consistent. If a employee at Subway was taking company resources for themselves, we would charge them."
Lennox, on the other hand, says that this is all a political vendetta from the Democratic prosecutor (Lennox is a Republican – although I've always thought that he makes our party look bad). Lennox said, "This is a Democratic political vendetta. I campaigned against this prosecutor, who is a Democrat, and I campaigned to get rid of this police department. I also campaigned against the judge. My lawyer will probably be the candidate who ran against her."
What's even more ironic is that Denny Lenny ran on a platform of abolishing the position of Drain Commissioner because it was a "waste of taxpayer money." He even went so far as to say, "There is nothing for the drain commissioner to do in Cheboygan County except waste taxpayer money." Well, that turned out to be more true than he originally intended us to think it was.
Lennox should be ashamed of himself – he has let down the citizens of Cheboygan County, and he has disgraced the Republican Party. For the sake of the Republican Party, Republicans across Michigan should come out against Lennox, somebody who has shown hypocrisy and dishonesty in the past.
This pretty much kills his chances of winning the race for the 105th State House District, but we'll just have to wait and see what happens.
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Repair Guide For Changing Samsung Galaxy S2 Charging Port Flex Cable/disassembly Video
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Did this video help you?
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didn't took off the motherboard, camera or any crap like that tho !
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Nadia Burton: +ETrade Supply I have the galaxy S2 SGH S959G. would this charging port for this phone fit my model? So far it all looks the same but I don't wanna buy the new part unless I know for sure. Please let me know!
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Moriah Reign: H E Y ! What is the name and artist of the first song??? PLEASE!
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Repair guide for changing Samsung Galaxy S2 charging port flex cable/disassembly video 4.8 out of 5


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Falcons coach Mike Smith was not pleased with the overall effort against the Baltimore Ravens.
Here's what he had to say after the game:
OPENING STATEMENT: Anytime that you go out and step on the field, the objective is to win the ball game. I think we did a lot of things that will takeaway from your opportunities to win ball games. You can't turn the ball over four times. You can't have eight or nine penalties for plus 100 yards. Two of them on defense that kept drives alive.
But with that being said, you look at different parts of the game and there were some very good things that took place in the ball game. We've got a lot of things to correct on both sides of the ball and in the kicking game. There were some positives. There was Dominique Franks with the punt return that he had there in the first half. He set us up in the red-zone. That was a real nice return.
ON THE PLAY OF THE FIRST-TEAM OFFENSE AND FIRST-TEAM DEFENSE: I think that they were very effective. They were very efficient. We did have a turnover in the red-zone. Offensively, you'd like to have those opportunities back. You definitely want to leave the red-zone with at least three points and preferably seven. I thought we threw the ball well. The protection held up and our running game was sufficient. We tried to do a no-huddle situation with every group tonight. I thought that when we were in no-huddle we did a nice job. Defensively, the first unit did some good things in terms of third down efficiency. You guys know the stats. They were very good on third down efficiency and played well while they were in there.
Again, guys, there was a lot of guys on this football that just aren't on the first- or second-unit that are going to have to play well for us at some point in time during the season for us to have the season that we want to have. That's the main focus of these first couple of preseason games, to see what those guys are going to be capable of doing.
ANY UPDATE ON DENT? ANY REGRETS ON HAVING HIM OUT THERE ON THE PUNT COVERAGE TEAM: He's a core special teams player. He's our base linebacker. He's going to have to play some special teams throughout the season. When you are a base player, you are playing about 45 percent of the snaps. No regrets whatsoever and I can't tell you about the other injury stuff because I haven't had the opportunity to have the follow-up meeting with the physician and the trainer.
ON HARRY DOUGLAS: Harry had an issue with his ribs from the work against the Tennessee Titans and we felt it was in our best interest to hold him out.
ON JULIO'S BIG DAY: Julio continues to progress like he did last year. I think he made some real strong catches. That was a great catch there in the end zone. He went over 100 yards in the short time that he was playing out there. I thought Roddy [White] did a nice job as well. I thought Matt [Ryan] threw the ball well.
ON THE PASS PROTECTION: Before I watch the film, it seemed like the pocket was clean for the most part when he was in there. Matt was 9 out of 13 for 155 yards, one touchdown and one interception. They did a nice job and there were some pressure schemes. Baltimore is a very aggressive defense. There were some pressure schemes and I thought that our guys handled it well.
ON THE PASSING GAME: We're going through this preseason and this offseason trying to continue to find what our guys do well. Tonight with the installation those were some of the things we wanted to look at. There was no game-planning done on this game at all. We are just going right along with what our installation. There will be no game-planning for the game next Thursday. The first time that we'll game-plan for our opponent will be the third and fourth preseason games.
ON FIRST DOWN PLAYS: I think it's going to be very important for any offensive team to get ahead of the chains. You get ahead of the chains by making big plays on first down. Sometimes, it's often overlooked that the third down efficiency for an offense is the most important thing. But if you can make first downs on first down or first downs on second down and never get to third down, it's usually a pretty darn good thing. That's something that I thought we did very well tonight.
ON THE BACKUP QUARTERBACK BATTLE: I think it's wide open. I think you saw after our first quarterback left, we had everybody else got an opportunity to do it. It will play itself out over the next three weeks. I don't think anybody has an advantage, who's up on the other one. We're going to let these guys put a body of work out there and we're going to evaluate it at the end of the preseason.
ON THE CHALLENGE: It was a bad challenge by Coach Smith. It didn't get reversed, so it was a bad challenge.
ON THE REPLACEMENT REFS: It was like any other preseason game in my mind. Everybody was out there for the first time playing games. We've got a lot of things that we have to correct, starting with us as a coaching staff.
Jacquizz and James Rodgers have a thick football bond
DE Lawrence Sidbury & WR Michael Calvin shine at Friday Nights Lights event
Falcons sign DT Conrad Obi (Grayson High and Colorado)
Michael Palmer is the No. 1 Y-Tight end right now
6 questions with rookie safety Charles Mitchell
A season of promise for White-Jones receiving duo
Matt Ryan rested for Thursday's practice; Vance Walker suffers undisclosed injury
Former Falcon Chris Doleman to be enshrined in Pro Football Hall of Fame
5 things you don't know about Hall of Famer Chris Doleman
5 questions with right tackle Tyson Clabo
Professor Ledbetter hands out first quarter training-camp grades for the rookies
Former Falcons running back Art Malone passed away, 1948-2012
New offensive coordinator Dirk Koetter say Matt Ryan is a Top 10 quarterback
Asante Samuel takes offense with notion that he's in steep decline
Falcons counting on Sean Weatherspoon's playmaking ability
Former Alabama linebacker Jerrell Harris turning some heads at camp
–D. Orlando Ledbetter, The Atlanta Falcons beat blog
August 10th, 2012
12:49 am
Keep working at it. it will come
August 10th, 2012
12:56 am
August 10th, 2012
12:57 am
Same ole' excuses!
August 10th, 2012
1:13 am
@Blake After re-reading the article I cant find an excuse anywhere. Happy Trolling!
August 10th, 2012
4:59 am
Dominique Davis was the best QB on the field Thursday night. Put him in with the first and second unit and see what he can do.
August 10th, 2012
7:11 am
@ATLER a.k.a. Dominique Davis's Mom — be objective even though it's your son
August 10th, 2012
7:30 am
[...] the Falcons starting middle LB is a "base" player and a key contributor on special teams. No regrets from Coach Smith. Probably. Hopefully Akeem is OK; he played really [...]
August 10th, 2012
7:39 am
I don't know that I'd call any of our other QBs backups at this point. Redman and JPW has been in this system long enough to perform at a higher level than they did. Neither deserves to be an NFL backup. Davis is basically a developmental QB at this point and should be kept as the 3rd QB. Bring in a veteran QB in place of Redman…send JPW home.
August 10th, 2012
7:54 am
1. The Scab Refs need practice. PLENTY of practice. 4 preseason games are not enough.
2. The backup QB situation needs to be addressed. Surely, they plan to pick someone up. JPW does not belong in this league. They are wasting valuable snaps with him on the team.
3. I hope this game lights a fire into the 2nd/3rd stringers. They cannot keep getting blown out like this.
August 10th, 2012
7:56 am
[...] Q&A with Falcons coach Mike Smith after the loss to the Ravens [...]
August 10th, 2012
8:09 am
You will continue this pattern of failure…fact….Saints own the NFC South…at least we're smart enough to not take preseason games seriously…..Falclowns are exactly that…CLOWNS….
August 10th, 2012
8:13 am
…first play of the game – Turner up the middle; second play of the game, Turner off tackle. Gee, and we got a new OC for this?
Bradley may give this effort an "A", yet I am glad that Smitty was watching the same game as me – those guys really sucked – just hope Smitty has some idea as to how to right this ship – looked exactly like the playoff loss last year when the second / third teamers were in there – no one had a clue, unlike the Raven second and third teamers – and that, folks, goes back to coaching and personnel decisions – are you listening TD?
August 10th, 2012
8:14 am
the Ravens have a coach and a personnel guy who knows what he is doing – Atlanta has nothing…
August 10th, 2012
8:23 am
1st team offense and defense looked good, defense was awesome i think, offense was good but redaonze int needs to be corrected plus matt ryan needs to stop staring down the dam WR as soon as he gets the ball!!
August 10th, 2012
8:24 am
o and jpw needs to find another job, football isnt for him in the nfl. Davis looked real good with 2nd & 3rd stringers
August 10th, 2012
8:28 am
Here we go again! Words, words, words, but no results. This is the way it is going to be: After preseason games TD, and MS " will not be worried" (as last year). At the end of December reality show begins, with multiple firing on 2nd Mondy of February 2013.
August 10th, 2012
8:30 am
I haven't watched your game yet, but I've read the reports, the big outcome seems to be Dent's head injury…on a related topic, Lofton had another outstanding game.
Saints' first team defense seems to be coming together, the first team looked good, the back ups not so much….seems to be the same for you guys. First team offense mailed it in last night.
I hear that y'all ran a screen with Julio that led to a score? LOL! Haven't seen that yet either, but sounds more like a sweep than a screen, close enough I guess, but I'll see.
Referees still stunk up the place, so nothing's changed there, and that has nothing to do with them being replacements.
August 10th, 2012
8:30 am
BTW – MS smiling again! Same smile as the one after losing to NYG in 1st playoff game." Again, Mr. MS: What i it to smile about???"
August 10th, 2012
8:43 am
@SeenThisB4…You must be an undercover Falcons fan since I see you always commenting on our blogs..tell me if im wrong please
August 10th, 2012
8:52 am
Seen, I notice you didn't talk about your teams first offense…….oohhhh yeah….they didn't score any point….well, unless you count the field goal kicker….lol…….fail. "da man" did complete ONE pass.lol
August 10th, 2012
8:54 am
CHILDREN constantly go on another team's blog and criticize them. Grown men don't waste their time going to the opponent's blog. All you little Aints trolls need to worry about your own team and stop hating on the Falcons. We WILL prevail against the Drews.
August 10th, 2012
9:07 am
It blows my ming how negative everyone is being about this one game. I was at the game and I can tell you with absolute certainty that the Falcons had VERY few drives ever as clean and smooth as the first one last night, especially in the passing game. Neither team had a guy that will see the field playing in the second half. I honestly beleive if that had been a real gam we would have put at leat 35 points, ON THE RAVENS!
August 10th, 2012
9:11 am
@Cejay: What's wrong, can't you read? I said that our first team offense mailed it in.
August 10th, 2012
9:15 am
Well said Coach.
August 10th, 2012
9:18 am
They were under 4 YPC last night for each back. Holes were not opened in the running game. Thought Baker and Reynolds looked much improved at times last night.
Someone got Redman killed.
Speaking of which, for Davis first effort he looked pretty good. JPW might need to go ahead and pack, and we should probably think about signing Rex Grossman or someone of that ilk to backup. I'm not very confident we could win games with Rojohombre.
August 10th, 2012
9:19 am
[...] "He's a core special teams player," Smith said. "He's our base linebacker. He's going to have to play some special teams throughout the season. When you are a base player, you are playing about 45 percent of the snaps. No regrets whatsoever." [...]
August 10th, 2012
9:22 am
First team offense and defense =A+
The rest of the team = no comment…
August 10th, 2012
9:23 am
Who were worse the replacement referees or the announcers ?????
August 10th, 2012
9:24 am
How long will it be before teams put their best cover guy on Julio instaed of Roddy? If Julio keeps having quarters like he did last night it won't be long. Then Roddy will get more passes again. I love our receiving corp.
August 10th, 2012
9:25 am
Would someone please explain Smitty's quote "Everybody was out there for the first time playing games. Who was playing games? He is still making the same excuse that the coaching staff has things they need to correct. Not to optimistic.
August 10th, 2012
9:27 am
Hear is what I thing about alst nites game
Flacons still sux for the most part.
2 many truenovers. What is wrong with Rayan? He threw strait 2 a Raven palyer.
JPW look like a high shcooler out there.
Redmond was no beter
The new guy gave up an INT 2.
Perrier Jerry is still a bust
Abrerham is 2 old and need 2 retrie
the DBs lo0k loss all the time.
2 many 3 and outs
This team will be lucky 2 finish 4 – 12
August 10th, 2012
9:30 am
That must be helluva of concussion Whaddya has!
That's crazy simpleton blogging!
Never ever put the name Rex Grossman in polite company… Rex is a QB room cancer and is just never going to get it (mentally)… Waste of salary cap space!
August 10th, 2012
9:34 am
The Atlanta first-string was better than the Baltimore first-string . . . the guys Baltimore is going to cut are better than the guys Atlanta is going to cut.
August 10th, 2012
9:40 am
JSS…concussion? Rex Grossman? Sounds like you're the one with the concussion. WTF u talkin about? Crawl back under whatever rock you came from.
August 10th, 2012
9:42 am
Don't know if D. Davis was the best qb out there, but he definitely was the second best behind Ryan. I think he deserves a shot at second string. Redmond hasn't shown me anything in years and for that matter, neither has JPW. I would run Davis out there behind Ryan and see what he can do with guys that can actually catch passes.
August 10th, 2012
9:43 am
The most important stat of the night…..1st team O vs 1st team D….Falcons win that battle EASILY 14-0.
If this were regular season, Falcons don't back off like they did last night…..final score probably 38-10.
August 10th, 2012
9:47 am
@Seen it was a wr screen to Julio Jones that led to getting into the red zone. Very nice play and something I don't remember seeing the Falcons run. I must admit I was surprised. Ryan looked very sharp with the exception of that pick, but hey he's not the only one who threw one last night. All in all the Falcons first string dominated the Ravens and most of the other guys won't see the field at all in the regular season. Same with you guys I'm sure.
August 10th, 2012
9:47 am
Blake……..Coach Smith was very honest in his view of the game. I did not see him issue any excuses. You must have been referrng to another team or another coach. Maybe you didn't read the article, who knows?
August 10th, 2012
9:49 am
I was about to break my TV when the ref kept calling us Arizona. Seriously the NFL needs to fix this dispute with the refs quick because I don't think this replacement crew can cut it.
August 10th, 2012
9:51 am
JSS, I apologise for uttering that name in polite company.
August 10th, 2012
9:53 am
I saw your one sentence, I was looking for your normal loooong diatribe…….but I guess there wasn't much to say
di·a·tribe/ˈdīəˌtrīb/Noun: A forceful and bitter verbal attack against someone or something.
August 10th, 2012
10:03 am
First teamers looked great…..@SeenThisB4 ya the Ain'ts didn't do to much yesterday..Dree Breezy was close to being put out for the season…
August 10th, 2012
10:13 am
Hate the helmet to helmet Akeem Dent suffered last night, other than that, the first team performed excellent. Chris Redman and JPW will be cut of they play like did last night again. Davis looked really good at 3rd. Defense looked ok but the second and third team have to work on tackling…good showing by the WR's, we have a lot of depth there…
August 10th, 2012
10:14 am
I dont know if anyone else saw but Baker got ABUSED yet again last night….
August 10th, 2012
10:17 am
@Flacons never learn. I think you should work on your New Orleans public school education before enlightning us on the Falcons. Perhaps you and SeenThisB4 can trade emails on the subject.
August 10th, 2012
10:17 am
Go win a super bowl then and only then can you poor suffering failcants fans can talk. It's amazing how a team that has never one anything it's fans continue to trash talk. Obviously you haven't read, your team is one of about 6 never to win a super bowl.
August 10th, 2012
10:18 am
Anoter thing if I see Tippytoes Turner take the ball and just fall forward for 1 yard Im goin 2 scream!
August 10th, 2012
10:18 am
Apologies. "enlightening"
August 10th, 2012
10:19 am
@ suggs
Shut up!
U suggs! LOLOLOLO!!!!
August 10th, 2012
10:26 am
…and the aints didn't even score a touch down last nite……and you're trashing us….what a joke you are !!!lol


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Dxomark Group-Test of five Super Wide Primes (Nikon, Zeiss, Sigma, Samyang)
Dxomark has been busy with new lens reviews, and perhaps the most interesting of their latest output is a group test of five super wide prime lenses from Canon, Nikon, Zeiss, Sigma and Samyang. They are all full frame primes, ranging from 14mm to 20mm. They are, in focal length order, the Samyang 14mm f2.8 IF ED, Sigma 14mm f2.8 EX, Zeiss 15mm f2.8 ZF.2, Zeiss 18mm f3.5 ZF.2, and Nikon 20mm f2.8 D.
This follows the usual Dxomark evaluation report with Introduction and measurements and comparative analysis and conclusions.
As with many comparisons, price is a variable and a meta-variable. Of all those, the lowest priced super-wide prime is the Samyang 14mm f2.8 going for $400 or less (eg B&H Photo) and the highest priced is the Zeiss 15mm f2.8 ZF/ZE going for around $3000 (eg B&H Photo)
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Has the time come for the U.S Second Amendment to be repealed or amended?
After yesterdays tragic shooting in Newtown CT and the worst year ever for firearm related deaths and mass killings , has the time for the US Government to tell the Gun Lobby it is over and repeal or amend "the right of the people to bear arms".
Should it be repealed on the grounds that when originally written it was for a smaller population to defend the "State" and meant for Muskets and flintlocks not semi automatics and military hardware, which makes it no longer viable on account of relevance to this day and age.
That Militia should be held to Law Enforcement agencies, Military and government controlled Para military agencies, with a show need, clause for people such as certain Primary producers etc.
Is it time to tell the NRA and the Gun Lobby there will be no more "collateral" damage no matter how much you donate to the "Party"
What would be the best way for the government to enforce such a law???
And please no Guns do not kill people, people kill people debates it was people who invented firearms in the first place.
The time has come to realise it is mainly our children who pay the ultimate price for lack of diligence in monitoring a problem that has been there for far too many years.
Closing Statement from Morgan Barnes
Firstly I would like to say I did not flag or delete anyone's comments I am perfectly capable of speaking for myelf however I did get frustrated and had some comments deleted myself.
As I write this President Obama has signed 23 executive orders inline with Colleen's post from yesterday from New York.
I have to admit I am a little disappointed that we could not of just discussed the issue in a more calm, critical and logical manner and be able to offer solutions as well as recognised the underling causes, as this is a forum for open ideas and thinking, Then again we are dealing with human nature.
To those of you from the International community thank you for your imput and allowing people to see the different views helds in different parts of the world on this subject.
I will not deny that the Constitution and The Bill Of Rights are the backbone of America, but remember it was written by man not given by god and man can take it away or amend it, if he really wants too.
I am a believer that in the 21st Century we should use it to advance humankind to address the problems of the world and improve it for all. It won't be easy but we have to start somewhere or we risk implementing our own destruction.
I hope that this be a positive start and and an even more positive step in which the US can show the way.
Once again I thank you all for your contributions
"In a progressive country change in constant : change is inevitable "Benjamen Disraeli
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Jan 3 2013: I find that the masses are easily manipulated in the framing of debates such as this. This debate has been framed around gun control which is clearly misguided. The events in December were carried out by a mentally unstable individual as all of these crimes are. Over 6 million guns were purchased in the USA in November and December yet there were not 6 million deaths, robberies or violent crime from these purchases so clearly a large segment of the population is not mentally unstable and can own a firearm responsibly. If a small group of people were walking the streets killing people by bashing unsuspecting victims heads in with hammers at random would we outlaw hammers for everyone?
The common denominator is that mass murderers that act in the fashion of these highly publicized events are insane or at least mentally unstable with a trigger event that sets them off on a killing rampage.
Most of us carry health insurance, however except in rare instances there is little or no coverage for mental health care on these policies. Maybe the Democrats can put forth a real solution to the problem with some sort of universal health care for those that are mentally unstable, Private insurance certainly does not want anything to do with this segment of the ill, and Republicans could see this as an acceptable compromise to prevent the further erosion of our second amendment rights.
Jan 4 2013: Steve,
We probably would not ban hammers because that is a tool that is used for something other than primarily killing people. Not really a very good argument in this discussion.
I agree that many mass murderers may be triggered by mental instability. If they were set off, and no guns were available, they may not be able to kill so many people.
I honestly do not perceive any "erosion" of our second amendment rights, with the banning of assault weapons.
Jan 4 2013: Colleen,
I am glad that we agree that mass murderers may (or is) triggered by mental instability and is an insane behavior.
If you group all kinds of firearms together do you really feel that firearms are PRIMARILY used for killing people? Or just assault weapons?
There are many legitimate uses for firearms, hunting , target shooting, competitive shooting, collectors, farm and ranch use and some say as a check and balance from a oppressive government etc.
May I ask how do you feel about the Assad Regime and the rebels fighting against this oppressive regime? Do you feel that the rebels should not be allowed firearms? The rebels are not an official military.
Additionally, I see by your picture and name that you are a woman. Not always but most frequently a women is easy prey for a stronger man with evil intentions, Are you willing to strip all women of the option to defend themselves from rape or mugging through the use of a firearm?
If you know firearms and can read Feinsteins propsal at her website, it goes far further than an assault weapons ban it almost outlaws all semi automatic firearms that CAN accept magazines over 10 rounds which would eliminate virtually all modern firearms both rifles and semi auto pistols.
Let's open the discussion a bit and look at the costs of society at large.
I agree that each year there are about 150 or so of these insane mass murders. Each of these are tragic, but as a society this is a price we ay for the policies in place as we speak.
The school shooting is a very emotionally charged topic, but all emotion aside. Society pays a higher price for the availability of alcohol to the public for deaths due to drunk driving, and we could look at many other examples, despite ever tightening laws.
I fully agree that the mix of the mentally unstable and a firearm carries a unpredictable result.
But again the proper action is the treating of the mentally ill not stripping the freedoms of the sane.
Jan 4 2013: Steve,
I did not "group all kinds of firearms together", as you may notice from my comment.
Yes, assault weapons are used primarily for killing.
I am aware of the many uses for firearms....did you check out my other comments? It might be helpful to you and the discussion:>)
The topic question is:
"Has the time come for the U.S Second Amendment to be repealed or amended?"
I suggest if you want to discuss the Assad Regime, you start another conversation.
Yes, I am a woman, and do not suggest stripping anyone of the ability to protect him/herself.
Yes....I agree...all emotion aside...this discussion is not about alchohol or drunk driving....you are trying to distract the topic.
No one is trying to "strip the freedoms of the sane". The suggestion is to ban assault weapons.
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For every cooking job there is a perfect tool -- and an affordable way to obtain it.
Nor should you pay retail if you can help it.
Meg Favreau, a senior editor at Wise Bread, a personal-finance blog, suggests shopping at thrift stores, discount emporiums such as Marshalls and TJ Maxx, and restaurant supply stores.
Recently she posted "10 things you need to stock a frugal kitchen" on My Money, the personal-finance blog of U.S. News & World Report. Those items are just the basics; as you step up your culinary game, you can add more tools.
Among Favreau's picks:
- A good chef's knife.
- Spices.
- Pots and pans, an oven-safe pan and food-storage containers.
- Measuring cups and spoons, and mixing bowls.
- Food processor and/or hand mixer.
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"Almost everything you need to do, from peeling vegetables to hacking up roasts, can be accomplished with a good chef's knife," according to Favreau.
I don't have a chef's knife; in fact, I don't know anyone who has one. What I do have is a partial block of knives my sister had quit using; she gave them to me when I moved to Seattle. I also have a 25-cent vegetable peeler from a yard sale. (Post continues after video.)
Some other things I got from yard sales: a 9- by 13-inch baking pan, measuring cups, a hand mixer, serving utensils and a couple of food-storage containers. Much of my storage, however, is done with bread bags, pickle or peanut butter jars and old yogurt or sour-cream containers. (Favreau does this, too.)
Tips: Let it be known you're furnishing a kitchen, since some people have items they no longer use. Check yard sales, including the "free" box. Repurpose bags, jars and containers.
A trio of Tupperware storage bowls had been languishing, unused, in my sister's garage. I use them as mixing bowls as well as for storage. If I need a really big bowl, I use my Dutch oven.
Speaking of which: You'll find pots and pans at thrift stores and yard sales, too; my indispensable cast-iron skillet came from a yard-sale free box. I actually went the retail route for a 6-piece set of saucepans, skillets and Dutch oven -- but they were on sale and I paid with a discounted gift card. (See "Get gift cards below face value.")
Tips: Pay for kitchen items with discounted gift cards bought online, or obtained free from rewards programs. (See "Free gift cards -- yes, really!" to learn more.)
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Don't rule out dollar stores. I bought my measuring spoons and some spices there. However, most of my spices come from Walgreens when they go on sale two for a buck, or from the ethnic market (which is what Favreau suggests). Mine is a proletarian palate; pricey spice would be wasted on me.
Here's where I think Favreau missed the boat: not recommending the slow cooker. It's indispensable for cooking dried beans, soup stock and all sorts of one-pot meals. I inherited a very basic model from my daughter when she got a super-deluxe one as a wedding gift. They go on sale regularly (best deals around Black Friday) and I frequently see them at thrift stores (plug in and test before buying).
Three final suggestions for outfitting the frugal kitchen:
- Check out The Freecycle Network -- You never know what you're going to find.
- Use a cash-back shopping site -- These include online coupons and free shipping codes along with a rebate. (For the how-to, see "Get paid to buy stuff.")
- Stage a swap session with friends -- The pal who used the pizza stone exactly twice might be really interested in your sushi mat.
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I agree a crock pot is a must have. Guys out there, I know what you you're thinking - "I'm a guy and guys in general don't cook". I'm a bachelor paying child support with a modest income, it's essential I save as much as I can where I can and cooking at home is a money saver.
My grocery budget is about $130 / month and that includes everything (food, dogfood / treats for my dog, cleaning supplies, razors, shampoo, soap, etc.) and I don't use coupons. The only way to really pull that off as a single person is to cook in bulk and learn to use leftovers. I can cook a whole chicken in a crock pot and literally have 10-12 different things I can make just off the top of my head. Lasagna is cheap and goes a long way, etc...
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LOUISVILLE, Ky. (BP)--The New York Times Magazine has published a heartbreaking article on yet another monument in the culture of death -- pregnancy reduction.
In case you have never heard the term, here's what pregnancy reduction is in a nutshell. When a pregnant mother is carrying two or more babies in her womb, she can choose to kill one or more of those babies while allowing others to live. According to pro-choicers, pregnancy reduction is a practice that began years ago to reduce health risks for women carrying multiples. Pro-choicers have also reasoned that pregnancy reduction increases chances for surviving multiples to make it to term.
But that was then, and this is now. What began as a misguided attempt to help women and (some!) unborn babies has now slid down the slippery slope. Now, the procedure is increasingly performed on women carrying twins. In fact, the Aug. 10 Times article focuses in particular on the increasing number of women who carry twins but, for whatever reason, only want one of them to live. The reasons for killing one and letting the other live range from finances to time management. The opening paragraphs offer a glimpse into one woman's pregnancy reduction:
"As Jenny lay on the obstetrician's examination table, she was grateful that the ultrasound tech had turned off the overhead screen. She didn't want to see the two shadows floating inside her. Since making her decision, she had tried hard not to think about them, though she could often think of little else. She was 45 and pregnant after six years of fertility bills, ovulation injections, donor eggs and disappointment -- and yet here she was, 14 weeks into her pregnancy, choosing to extinguish one of two healthy fetuses, almost as if having half an abortion. As the doctor inserted the needle into Jenny's abdomen, aiming at one of the fetuses, Jenny tried not to flinch, caught between intense relief and intense guilt.
"'Things would have been different if we were 15 years younger or if we hadn't had children already or if we were more financially secure,' she said later. 'If I had conceived these twins naturally, I wouldn't have reduced this pregnancy, because you feel like if there's a natural order, then you don't want to disturb it. But we created this child in such an artificial manner -- in a test tube, choosing an egg donor, having the embryo placed in me -- and somehow, making a decision about how many to carry seemed to be just another choice. The pregnancy was all so consumerish to begin with, and this became yet another thing we could control.'"
The rest of the article goes on to describe the moral quandary that these women find themselves in. The women seem to have a sense that killing a perfectly healthy baby while letting its sibling live is wrong. Their consciences trouble them, and they do it in secret without ever telling any of their friends. They cover their tracks even though they otherwise openly support abortion rights. So why the guilt about killing a twin but no guilt about killing a single?
I can imagine at least one answer to that question. The surviving twin will always remind the mother of what might have been. The surviving twin holds a magnifying glass up to the humanity of the child that was killed. The survivor is a living witness to what the human conscience already knows, and no inane euphemism (like "pregnancy reduction") can completely suppress what the heart knows to be true. Every single person -- born and unborn -- is created in the image of God. To kill innocent unborn human life, therefore, is a grave moral evil. And nothing brings that truth home more powerfully than a surviving twin.
This article makes one thing clear, even if only by accident. There really is no ethically significant difference between "reduction" and abortion. Both procedures subordinate the baby's right to life to the personal convenience of the mother. The Times article says:
"The reasons for reducing to a singleton are not so different from the decision to abort a pregnancy because prenatal tests reveal anomalies. In both cases, the pregnancies are wanted, but not when they entail unwanted complications -- complications for the parents as much as the child. Many studies show the vast majority of patients abort fetuses after prenatal tests reveal genetic conditions like Down syndrome that are not life-threatening. What drives that decision is not just concern over the quality of life for the future child but also the emotional, financial or social difficulty for parents of having a child with extra needs. As with reducing two healthy fetuses to one, the underlying premise is the same: this is not what I want for my life."
In other words, some parents have an inviolable plan for their lives that doesn't include the intrusion of an unwanted child. That child's right to live has to give way to the mother's right not to be put-out by the burden of caring for her child. This logic is morally bankrupt, but it is all too common fare today.
In this article, the euphemism "pregnancy reduction" is a ruse. It is a term that attempts to cover up a great moral evil. The expression plainly functions to deflect attention from an intolerable contradiction -- that one unborn child might be allowed to live while its perfectly healthy sibling is destroyed. But the covering is a fig leaf, and that is seen most conspicuously in the troubled consciences of the mothers and medical professionals in this article who have participated in this procedure.
At the end of the day, it's not just the euphemism that is the problem. It is the heinous evil that the euphemism is trying to hide that should scandalize us. Reducing a pregnancy means killing an innocent human. Just as we don't want to give in to the mores of a decadent culture, neither should we be complicit in covering evil with clever obfuscations. Such talk is a not-too-subtle throwback to an ancient method that humans use to justify sin -- calling evil good and calling good evil (Isaiah 5:20). Make no mistake. God is outraged at that, and we should be too.
Denny Burk is associate professor of New Testament at Boyce College, the undergraduate arm of Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Ky. This column first appeared at his website, DennyBurk.com
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