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Ford's strained debut concerns Henry Lee, a Chinese-American in Seattle who, in 1986, has just lost his wife to cancer. After Henry hears that the belongings of Japanese immigrants interned during WWII have been found in the basement of the Panama Hotel, the narrative shuttles between 1986 and the 1940s in a predictable story that chronicles the losses of old age and the bewilderment of youth. Henry recalls the difficulties of life in America during WWII, when he and his Japanese-American school friend, Keiko, wandered through wartime Seattle. Keiko and her family are later interned in a camp, and Henry, horrified by America's anti-Japanese hysteria, is further conflicted because of his Chinese father's anti-Japanese sentiment. Henry's adult life in 1986 is rather mechanically rendered, and Ford clumsily contrasts Henry's difficulty in communicating with his college-age son, Marty, with Henry's own alienation from his father, who was determined to Americanize him. The wartime persecution of Japanese immigrants is presented well, but the flatness of the narrative and Ford's reliance on numerous cultural clichés make for a disappointing read.
Publishers Weekly
Fifth-grade scholarship students and best friends Henry and Keiko are the only Asians in their Seattle elementary school in 1942. Henry is Chinese, Keiko is Japanese, and Pearl Harbor has made all Asians-even those who are American born-targets for abuse. Because Henry's nationalistic father has a deep-seated hatred for Japan, Henry keeps his friendship with and eventual love for Keiko a secret. When Keiko's family is sent to an internment camp in Idaho, Henry vows to wait for her. Forty years later, Henry comes upon an old hotel where the belongings of dozens of displaced Japanese families have turned up in the basement, and his love for Keiko is reborn. In his first novel, award-winning short-story writer Ford expertly nails the sweet innocence of first love, the cruelty of racism, the blindness of patriotism, the astonishing unknowns between parents and their children, and the sadness and satisfaction at the end of a life well lived. The result is a vivid picture of a confusing and critical time in American history. Recommended for all fiction collections.
Library Journal
Sentimental, heartfelt novel portrays two children separated during the internment of Japanese-Americans during World War II. In 1940s Seattle, ethnicities do not mix. Whites, blacks, Chinese and Japanese live in separate neighborhoods, and their children attend different schools. When Henry Lee's staunchly nationalistic father pins an "I am Chinese" button to his 12-year-old son's shirt and enrolls him in an all-white prep school, Henry finds himself friendless and at the mercy of schoolyard bullies. His salvation arrives in the form of Keiko, a Japanese girl with whom Henry forms an instant—and forbidden—bond. The occasionally sappy prose tends to overtly express subtleties that readers would be happier to glean for themselves, but the tender relationship between the two young people is moving. The older Henry, a recent widower living in 1980s Seattle, reflects in a series of flashbacks on his burgeoning romance with Keiko and its abrupt ending when her family was evacuated. A chance discovery of items left behind by Japanese-Americans during the evacuation inspires Henry to share his and Keiko's story with his own son, in hopes of preventing the dysfunctional parent-child relationship he experienced with his own father. The major problem here is that Henry's voice always sounds like that of a grown man, never quite like that of a child; the boy of the flashbacks is jarringly precocious and not entirely credible. Still, the exploration of Henry's changing relationship with his family and with Keiko will keep most readers turning pages while waiting for the story arc to come full circle, despite the overly flowery portrait of young love, cruel fate and unbreakable bonds. A timely debut that not only reminds readers of a shameful episode in American history, but cautions us to examine the present and take heed we don't repeat those injustices.
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Bon Voyage, Manuel
Filed under: News
Manuel Noriega's swarthy, acne-scarred mug will be missed in our fair city when he is released from prison Sunday.
Manuel Noriega
Where else does a corrupt, militant South American cocaine trafficker really belong anyway? Certainly not France. All of his friends are here.
The Federal Correctional Institution in South Miami-Dade, where Noriega has been held for the past 15 years, looks like a middle school campus. Located amid tracts of prefabricated housing and restaurants specializing in chicken, the pleasantly manicured warren of red-roofed bungalows hardly resembles a prison.
This past Labor Day the front doors were wide open, just begging for visitors and getaway drivers, so I decided to drop by to say goodbye. On a large field near the parking lot, prisoners in red uniforms played soccer, seemingly with no supervision.
The main office was abandoned. Portraits of our intrepid presidents hung on a wall behind a complicated, unmanned x-ray station similar to those found at airports. After waiting about a half-hour, I had a Wizard of Oz conversation with a pair of guards behind barred two-way glass. Apparently no one can see Inmate No. 38699-079.
Poor Noriega will probably have no one to play with over in France. Asked about the former dictator's extradition to her homeland, an ornery secretary at the French consulate in Miami insisted in a heavy accent that Mr. Noriega did not work there.
For everyone who had a ball during the Eighties, cry a tear for Manuel. And maybe try to slip him a baguette with a nail file in it — before it's too late. — Calvin Godfrey
Tied Down
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Martin Karp, Miami-Dade County School Board vice chair, is a bit colorblind. So he adds a careful splash of color to event attire by pairing one of his 50 education-oriented neckties with gray suits. During his 14-year elementary school teaching career, he collected the ties — typical teacher's holiday booty, which can also include cookies and mugs, both of poor taste.
Ties from the Karp collection are conversation-starters, like wearing a motivational message around your neck, he says. One is dotted with heads of former U.S. presidents ("It's actually a nice one. I've been complimented on it a lot," says Karp). Another shows children with linked hands in dreamy racial harmony ("That's really nice").
Karp's select neckwear caught the eye of Gov. Charlie Crist, who offhandedly remarked "nice tie" after seeing him at a Tallahassee press conference in late March. Karp unlaced the tie — which bore the equation 2 teach is 2 touch a life 4 ever — and handed it to the governor. Crist declined, telling Karp to keep it and send another by mail. If the governor was trying to say no in a roundabout way, it didn't work. Karp ordered a second tie online from Ralph Marlin (www.ralphmarlin.com), a company that sells innovative neckwear featuring designs such as the Three Stooges; the fall collection will highlight King of the Hill and Family Guy.
A couple of weeks ago, when the governor visited Miami, Karp tried to give him the tie again. Crist declined a second time, saying he couldn't accept anything worth more than $25, per state ethics rules. Karp looked up the tie's retail cost: a cool $14.99. "I thought, Geez, my ties are $14.99? What are people going to think about that?" says a chuckling Karp, who plans to ship it in the mail. — Janine Zeitlin
King of Wrong
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Joystick maestro Billy Mitchell first set the world record in the arcade game Donkey Kong in 1982, manipulating the popular gnomelike action hero Mario, dodging and hammering Kong's colossal barrels on his way to becoming named "Video Game Player of the Century" at the 1999 Tokyo Game Show. He was the first to record a perfect game in Pac-Man, and once logged more than 47 straight hours playing Centipede.
At the moment, though, the 42-year-old gamer from Hollywood is having technical difficulties. "My computer's not the best machine," he says, fumbling through his AOL e-mail interface. A Portland Website has just reviewed The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters — a newly released documentary about Donkey Kong in which Mitchell costars — and he's trying to author a response, saying his reputation has been tarnished by the film. He pokes at his keyboard with a single outstretched forefinger, making a steady clacking sound like an antique typewriter, like someone's technically challenged grandfather trying to log on to the Internet for the first time — not the gaming genius he has been perceived as throughout his career.
Mitchell clicks on a link and up pops the review he's responding to. At the bottom of the page, written in all capital letters, are the words I HATE BILLY MITCHELL.
It's a harsh review, but not an uncommon one. Since The King of Kong debuted this January at the Slamdance Film Festival, Mitchell has heard countless reports of how deceitful and villainous he appears onscreen.
The documentary, directed by Seth Gordon, opened locally last week at Sunrise Cinemas Las Olas Riverfront. Mostly it follows Steve Wiebe, a middle school science teacher from Redmond, Washington, who's on his own quixotic mission to become the best Donkey Kong player in the world. It seems like a reasonable goal, until Mitchell shows up as the film's mulleted scoundrel, thwarting Wiebe's efforts at every turn. He appears to plot to undermine Wiebe's scores, evading every chance to play in public, even pitting a sweet old lady against his rival. Audiences hiss at Mitchell's seemingly unprovoked malice as passionately as they cheer for Wiebe's naive resolve.
Mitchell says the image of him is simply not real. He insists he never avoided Wiebe or stood in his way.
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"I had been ignoring this for months," he says. "I can be called a bad guy — so what? But it really bothers me emotionally to have my friends and family get portrayed in a negative light. I want to do this so people know the truth."
For the record, Wiebe and the filmmakers say the movie captures Mitchell authentically.
"The idea that we hate each other is crazy," Mitchell says of Wiebe. "If I operated the way the movie says I do, I'd feel like I always need a shower." — John Linn

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On a recent morning, a "joke" turned up in my email, sent to me by a Tea Party guy who ships such stuff my way. Here's that joke:
A limo hits a cow head-on. The woman in the back seat, in her usual abrasive manner, says to the chauffeur, 'Get out and check on that poor cow.'
The chauffeur checks, and reports that the animal is dead. The woman says, 'Go tell the farmer in that farmhouse over there.'
Two hours later the chauffeur returns, inebriated, his hair ruffled, and a big grin on his face. 'My God, what happened to you?' asks the woman.
The chauffeur replies, 'When I got there the farmer opened his best bottle of whiskey, the wife gave me a meal fit for a king, and the daughter made love to me.'
'What on earth did you say?' asks the woman.
'I said, "I'm Nancy Pelosi's chauffeur, and I've just killed the old cow."'
"Don't you just love a story with a happy ending!"
If I had a dollar for every "joke" from right-wingers who hate Nancy Pelosi, I could buy my own chauffeured limo. There's a special brand of hatred reserved for liberal women, especially Congresswoman Pelosi. It is especially nasty in the way it focuses on age, appearance, and Pelosi's perceived "abrasiveness." It's deeply sexist, of course, since none of these right-wingers ever finds anything wrong with how Bill O'Reilly or Rush Limbaugh look, or sound. But an effective female politician is anathema to them, unless she can see Russia from her front porch.
Obama Derangement Syndrome is the race-based lunacy that makes so many Republicans think an anti-Christian Muslim socialist from Kenya is coming to take their guns, deny them health care, and put 'em in concentration camps.
But there's an equally fierce brand of loopy hatred directed at Nancy Pelosi that might be called Pelosi Derangement Syndrome. It's rooted in the fact that many of these mouth-breathing cretins are almost as threatened by strong women as they are by uppity blacks. One creep who shares his opinions with me on a regular basis, for instance, always refers to Senator Diane Feinstein as "Diane Fannystain." Ain't they clever? But it's representative of the misogyny and wit found among these people so riddled with hate that whatever particles of reason they may have once possessed have been whisked away in the wind blowing from hate radio and Fox "News." Nancy Pelosi is targeted for the worst of that hatred, probably because she is, a) a Californian, and b) represents San Francisco, a location the right wing associates with all the bad liberal stuff, starting with gays. Right-wingers reserve special venom for Pelosi because she was the first woman to hold the position of Speaker of the House, a role many of them think was meant to be filled by males, not by women who didn't know their proper place.
For instance, under a very unflattering picture of Nancy Pelosi posted on Facebook, a "high school graduate" wrote: "Get this disgrace out of my face." That comment was followed by one from a guy up in Newberg, Ore. He wanted to call the former House Speaker the "C-word," which, I guess, was his primary disagreement with her since he had nothing else to add. Another guy posted a picture of President Obama kissing Ms. Pelosi on the cheek next to a caption that read: "The only time you'll see a Muslim kissing a pig."
A racist jerk, displaying the kind of intelligence usually associated with racist jerks, opined: "She lies even more than a jigaboo on his way to jail."
Another guy wrote, "I can't stand to look at this scum," and still another called Pelosi "the Wicked Witch of Washington" and added a bit of poetry by calling Hillary Clinton, "her sister, the Beast of the East."
A guy in Kentucky was apoplectic about Pelosi's looks. He wrote: "If she's half as dishonest as she is ugly, she is the most dishonest person on the planet because she darn sure is the ugliest. She better hope nothing happens to Obama 'cause then she becomes the biggest and worst liar on the planet."
After that, it started to get really ugly, with a succession of people-men and women-expressing the hope that Congresswoman Pelosi be shot, or hung, or damned for all eternity. And as the hate escalated, so did the number of misspellings, and the ignorance.
"Let's hope this moon bat dies real soon." That was from "a Lutheran" from upstate New York. What is it that so many of these "Christians" don't seem to get about Christianity? Wishing for Nancy Pelosi's death seems foreign to the teachings of Christ. Some of those people chiming in with the Pelosi Derangement Syndrome even urged one another to pray for bad things to happen to her.
They wrote that stuff without even the tiniest sense of irony, or hypocrisy. And without due regard for the teachings of the guy who is on that cross so many of them hang around their necks.


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Sea-level rise maps and report details are available at www.nwf.org/chesapeake
WASHINGTON, DC -- If this Memorial Day weekend mirrors the last, about 350,000 people will cross the Chesapeake Bay Bridge, many to begin enjoying the ocean and bayside beaches of Virginia, Maryland, and Delaware.
Unfortunately, more than half of those beaches hang in the balance, as global warming accelerates sea-level rise and drastically alters the region's coastline, according to a new study by National Wildlife Federation.
"Our region's national treasure and the economy it supports may be unrecognizable within the lifetime of a child born today," said Larry Schweiger, president and CEO, National Wildlife Federation.
National Wildlife Federation's new study, "Sea-Level Rise and Coastal Habitats of the Chesapeake Bay," maps in vivid detail the dramatic effects of sea-level rise on the nation's largest estuary, which sustains more than 3,600 species of plants, fish, and animals including great blue herons and sea turtles.
If global warming continues unabated, projected rising sea levels will significantly reshape the region's coastal landscape, threatening waterfowl hunting and recreational saltwater fishing in Virginia and Maryland that contribute roughly $725 million to the region's economy. Seafood lover's take note: Chesapeake Bay waters produce some 500 million pounds of seafood worth billions of dollars each year, including blue crab, rockfish and eastern oyster.
"We've spent years working to save the bay, but unless we address global warming, it could all be lost," added Schweiger. "No single silver bullet will save the bay from the effects of global warming. We need action at all levels of government."
Coastal habitats in the Chesapeake Bay region stand to lose more than half of their ocean and estuarine beaches, according to the new sea-level rise modeling commissioned by National Wildlife Federation. The most imperiled places are also the most valuable for fishing, waterfowl hunting, bird watching and playing on the shore: Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge, the barrier islands of Tangier Sound, and Virginia's Eastern Shore and the Lower Tidewater region, including Norfolk and Virginia Beach.
The study also projects that more than 415 square miles of open water will replace undeveloped dry land and marshes--an area roughly equivalent to Fairfax County (Virginia), slightly smaller than Montgomery County (Maryland), or the size of Rocky Mountain National Park--based on a global sea-level rise of just over two feet (well within the range projected this century).
"We face the prospect of losing much of what we treasure about the bay--its beaches, wildlife, and prized fishing--unless we prepare for the sea-level rise that our new modeling shows will happen," said Patty Glick, National Wildlife Federation senior global warming specialist and lead author of the report. "This analysis goes well beyond simple inundation modeling. It documents for the first time the many landscape and habitat changes that will occur along the entire bay coastline if global warming continues unchecked."
Among the report's key findings:
Cutting global warming pollution two percent per year to meet an 80 percent reduction goal by mid-century will be necessary to avoid the most damaging effects of climate change, according to leading scientists. National Wildlife Federation is calling on federal and state officials to take measures to meet this goal by enacting legislation that cuts global warming pollution.
"We don't have time to waste," said Schweiger. "Our children and grandchildren are counting on us to protect what is important--including that Memorial Day trip to enjoy the shores of the Chesapeake Bay."
The National Wildlife Federation is America's conservation organization inspiring Americans to protect wildlife for our children's future.
Contact: Aileo Weinmann, National Wildlife Federation, 202-797-6801, firstname.lastname@example.com
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Weston Cage, wife Nikki Williams arrested for felony domestic violence
We just knew there had to be a bizarre Independence Day arrest, and Nicolas Cage's son Weston fits the bill. It seems he and his wife, Nikki Williams, were busted early Monday on domestic violence charges. We would told you about it yesterday, but we were still focused on barbecues and ballgames.
Nikki and Weston earned a trip to the cop shop when Williams went after her hubby with a bottle, cutting his arm, as well as punching him and threatening to jump off the balcony of their L.A.-area apartment, TMZ reports. Weston couldn't keep his hands to himself either, it seems, so they both earned some time in the cooler.
All of this happened after the pair got out of rehab, which they entered following that incident in which Weston had the tar beaten out of him by his dad's assistant, Kevin Villegas. Weston admitted he was staggeringly drunk at the time and had a long feud with Villegas, who was his former wrestling coach. It looks like Weston got cleaned up enough to decide he needed to settle that score with his wife and a broken booze bottle.
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To Paris, With Love and Red
By Sharon Harrigan
Cowboy Boots
November 08, 2011
Recently I had dinner with the French wife of one of my husband's colleagues, the prettiest woman I've met in the college town where I live. I complimented her adorable fitted two-tone dress and patent-leather pumps, and she responded: "I could never get away with this in Paris. You have to be so stylish, always the right shoes, the perfect hair." I was wearing a loose cotton shift and hiking sandals, my clothes, hair, and shoes a pale shadow of hers. So how could I ever live in Paris?
We will be spending the next academic year in the couture capital of the world, for my husband's sabbatical. Perhaps I should start preparing now, shopping for dresses with sharp darts and flirty hems and wearing stilettos, lipstick, and updos to the supermarket.
Half my life ago, I lived in Paris for half a year, through Columbia's semester abroad program. At twenty, I was as alluring as I've ever been, slipping into tight jeans like a mermaid, but I was always conscious of being the proverbial ugly American.
The French students at the University of Paris could pick me out in a crowd even before I opened my mouth. Maybe it was the red cowboy boots I adored (like all my clothes, a Salvation Army bargain), my denim jeans with flower patterns, or my home-made haircut. I didn't own a high heel, and my bag of choice was a Guatemalan hand-woven sack from a sidewalk vendor in Manhattan. It could have also been my flaming red hair. As I told someone I was planning to meet for the first time at a café: "I'm the one with red hair and red boots. You can't miss me."
Even when I silently shuffled through stacks at the library, guys propositioned me in English. Were my gauche clothes a signal of desperation? Or were American girls just known as being easy?
Back home, whenever I needed to go to Times Square, I was always careful not to dress too skimpily, lest I be mistaken for a hooker. But one look at the polished knee-high black boots of the Parisian putains along rue St. Denis made me realize I was not nearly well dressed enough to be mistaken for a French lady, even a lady of the night.
In Almost French, Sarah Turnbull, an Australian ex-pat, says, "One of the consequences of [the] pervasive beauty in Paris is that it makes leaving your front door feel like you're stepping onto a stage." It takes her a long time to understand why her French boyfriend is angry when she runs a quick errand in sweatpants. "The French are highly sensitive to aesthetics," she concludes. "Anything unattractive . . . can make them . . . irritable [and] unwell."
Adam Gopnik, in Paris to the Moon, explains the French obsession this way: "Couture is a romantic cartoon," he says. "The thing you feel in a couture moment isn't 'What a wonderful dress' . . . but, more simply, I'm in love."
But what women wear on the street, opposed to on the runway, must be elegant and understated. Turnbull says, "In Paris there is no. . . edginess. . . innovation. . . or irony. [French women] do not want to stand out." Unlike me, back then, visually screaming to be heard.
I didn't know then that nonconformity was part of my national identity. America is an individualistic society, and it took living in another country to make me realize how American I was. Not just my clothes, but also my words, as I discovered from the French poet Anne-Marie Albiach.
Through friends of friends I had snagged an introduction to Anne-Marie, and she offered me room and board. In exchange, I did the daily food shopping from outdoor markets and kept her company after dark, when her panic disorder made her afraid of being alone.
Anne-Marie hosted frequent dinner parties for other French writers and invited me to sit in. It was a thrill to hover at the fringes of these artistic soirées, eating the first course of radishes, crème fraiche, and fines herbes and skipping the lamb chops. Here I was, barely an adult, being introduced to legendary writers, and Anne-Marie was telling them I was an American poet!
"Very American," she said, and I wondered what that could mean. Isn't being American like being pregnant—you either are or you aren't?
"She has so many things in her work," Anne-Marie explained to her guests.
"Things?" I asked.
"Objects," Anne-Marie said. "You Americans are so concrete, so literal."
"Oh." Or maybe I said, "Ow." It felt like one of my objects had just flown across the room and hit me in the forehead. I had always thought of myself as airy and ephemeral, a descendant of Baudelaire and Rimbaud, a writer of reveries more than an American dream-er.
But Anne-Marie was right: I did have a lot of things in my poems. Toasters. Tenement buildings. Peanut butter sandwiches. I took William Carlos Williams (an iconic American poet if there ever was one) to heart when he said: "No ideas but in things." Anne-Marie's poems are full of concepts—ideas colliding with each other to create new meaning from the explosion. The English translation of her book, Mezza Voce, begins: "In the power of his geometric statements, he had perhaps established it at right angles to the irreversible."
I now see what an overgeneralization it is to say that Americans are concrete and the French are abstract. "Language school" poets in America, like Charles Bernstein and Jackson MacLow, can be as theoretical as any semiotician, and they look for inspiration to the pioneer of non-narrative literature, Gertrude Stein. Stein lived in Paris for most of her adult life but remained so loyal to her native land that she named her thousand-page chef d'oeuvre The Making of Americans.
If my hero Gertrude Stein could feel at home in Paris, why shouldn't I? She didn't waste time fretting about whether she had the right coiffure. Instead, she held Saturday soirées, gave Hemingway and Picasso aesthetic advice, and became the ultimate insider.
Perhaps it is because I am looking from the outside that I am intimidated by the loveliness of French women, imagining every one with a perfect chignon, no hair out of place, like Catherine Deneuve. Once I become an insider—walking my daughter to school and running out of toilet paper—the Parisian standard of beauty may start to seem normal.
And maybe if I were an outsider in America, I would be struck my own country's acute beauty, especially the vast and majestic landscapes that fascinate Europeans.
All you have to do is look at films by foreigners to see America the beautiful. The spaghetti westerns by the Italian filmmaker Sergio Leone feature long, slow moments of flies settling in the dust, as if with the wings of angels. Wim Wenders turns scenes of American schlock—chain stores, billboards, and freeways—into something novel and gorgeous through the blue tints and pinpointed attention of his lens.
When I move to Paris this time, I will be able to afford a professional haircut and won't need to shop for my clothes secondhand. But I will miss those red cowboy boots. They represent a time in my life before I had to wear suits to work and respectable mom clothes to the PTA, before I had to worry about looking my age or embarrassing my kids. A time when everything looked good on me, or so I thought, and all that mattered was freedom and novelty.
I loved those boots for their irony, a quality that meant more to me, in my recovering-punk-rock-groupie phase, than beauty. "Me? A cowgirl?" those boots said. "Are you kidding?" I was from New York City, where you could barely find a country music station on the radio. The boots also begged the question: Are we in Paris, France or Paris, Texas?
I am still an unaccessoried, un-made-up, ketchup-eating, drinking-coffee-while-walking, making-plans-on-the-fly Yankee. "I am what I am," Popeye said. Gertrude Stein expressed it more eloquently: "A rose is a rose is a rose."
After dinner with the French woman who claimed to be slumming it in her gorgeous outfit, I told my husband, "I'm too imperfect for Paris."
He didn't respond by voicing my thoughts: "There's still time to shape up." He just said, "You're perfect for me."


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Project Runway Season 10: "Candy Couture"
It's happened already! The traditional impossible, improbable materials episode found in each season of Project Runway: The theme/title of Episode 2 was "Candy Couture."
The guest judge for this episode was Dylan Lauren, Ralph Lauren's daughter, one of New York's most fashionable women, and owner of Dylan's Candy Bar, the world's largest candy store. (Episodes air at 9 p.m. EST Thursdays on Lifetime.)
The designers were challenged to make garments out of candy, wrappers or other items from the store. Don't you think candy, in all its colors, shapes, textures, etc., is a fun and creative media for design? (Much more satisfactory than a car interior or newspapers!)
The winner
Ven had delicious results with a pastel confection of all things, rock candy!
Rounding out the top three
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But still, remember previous seasons - Anya couldn't sew, Michael could only drape....but they were soooo praised! Glad Mondo finally made it.
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We too are already weary of Gunnar's paranoid attitude toward Christopher, but we all know this is Project Drama, so I'm afraid we may have to put up with more of that. We were thrilled to see Lantie go. Revamping clothing is not designing, and thank heaven the jury decided enough was enough after only two shows!
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In the meantime, I think Gunner's personality is embarrassing and atrocious. The way he picks on Christopher for no apparent reason is despicable. Heidi Klum thinks he's cute. Am I the only one who finds his arrogance and aggressiveness detestable?
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I liked the twist of having someone who grew up with a father that is a fashion icon.
They have not done the newspaper challenge in awhile--that is one of my favorite challenges.
Posted: 10:18 pm on July 28th
I believe Ven is a talented artist and should have won both challenges. That said, I am tiring of the constant rose theme that runs through each and every creation he puts down the runway, I would like to see something else from him.
Glad Lanti is gone, her lack of effort is overshadowed only by that sense of entitlement she carries on her shoulder.
She was an ungracious loser and I say good riddance to her.
I was thrilled to see Andrea on the show but then I saw her "creations". Her Holly Hobby asthetic is just dowdy and her models all look like raggedy ann dolls when they walk the runway. I don't look for Andrea to be on the show long.
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The Mexcellent Cheeseburger
My original and refreshingly cool and mildly spicy Mexican flavored burger. Delicious, simple and quick to prepare. Recipe makes three cheeseburgers.
1 lb. fresh ground ribeye
3 tsps hot sauce
1 tsp salt
6 2"x4"x1/8" strips of Monterey Jack Cheese
3 large English muffins split
1 avocado sliced lengthwise
1 can whole mild green chiles
3 tsp Dijon mustard
Season ground beef with hot sauce and salt, mixing gently, then divide and lightly shape into three large patties. Cook 4 minutes per side over medium high heat. Add jack cheese strips in a criss-cross pattern on the burgers and let melt. At the same time, place English muffin halfs on the grill cut side down and toast. Plate the bottom English muffins. Open an avocado and remove pit. Slice into strips lengthwise. and put three 1/8" lengthwise strips of avocado on each bottom half of the English muffins and mash into the nooks and crannies with a fork. Place the finished cheeseburgers on the bottom halfs. Top each cheeseburger with one whole mild green chile. Spread one teaspoon of dijon mustard on the top half's cut side then cover and enjoy!
The English muffin and the layering serve to keep the cheeseburger and toppings from slip-sliding away during eating thanks to the nooks and crannies. Thank you for your consideration of my creation for the 2006 Build a Better Burger contest. This is my first ever contest submission. I'll have to try the wine pairing suggestions and practice, practice, practice my recipe in the meantime. All the best, Andy, Media, PA


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It was a strange game all around.
The winning team didn't get a hit until the seventh inning. Chagrin Falls pitchers combined to plunk five batters. Berkshire loaded the bases twice late but missed the opportunities to take the lead. The game-winning run was scored after a balk.
All of that with the temperature below 40 degrees. Chagrin got just enough offense, though, to earn a 2-1 win over Berkshire in eight innings.
Leadoff batter Danny Spain started the eighth with a walk, moved to second on a passed ball and stole third. With one out and Tyler Kennedy in the batter's box, the home plate umpire called a balk to end the game.
Spain, who was among the area leaders with a .376 batting average and 18 stolen bases last season, scored both of Chagrin's runs. He led off the bottom of the first with a walk, stole second and ultimately scored on a Kennedy groundout.
"Danny does those types of things, and that's why we have him in the leadoff spot," Chagrin coach Michael Sweeney said. "He's able to put some pressure on the other team's pitchers and defense with his speed."
Both runs were scored without a hit. The Tigers went 22 batters before getting their first hit: a Connor Gorman single to lead off the seventh.
Chagrin (2-1) had a chance to bring home the winning run in that inning -- in which all three of their hits came -- but a baserunner was caught in a rundown between second and third to end the potential rally.
"We weren't very good offensively overall today," Sweeney said. "I feel like at some point, we're going to start to hit. We've struggled a little bit (earlier this year), and obviously we did again today with the cold weather. Their pitcher did a good job of throwing strikes and keeping us off balance. That's what it comes down to."
Berkshire starter Ryan Acker threw a solid five innings. The southpaw walked three -- including the first two he faced -- struck out two and didn't allow a hit.
"We're pretty thin on pitching," Berkshire coach Steve Smetana said. "So we had our top two guys go. They did an excellent job. We'd rather them win the game by putting the ball in play, but it didn't happen today."
Chagrin right-hander Bryant Kennedy threw five shutout innings. He gave up four hits, walked two and hit two batters. The Badgers had three runners on in the third, but Kennedy got a strikeout to end one of the several early scoring threats.
"We dodged a lot of bullets from them," Sweeney said. "It seems like they had guys on base all the time. In those pressure situations, we made some big plays. We got out of trouble a little bit. Defensively, we weren't that bad."
River Weinfurtner (1-0) picked up the win, striking out two in a scoreless eighth.
Trailing by a run in the top of the sixth, Berkshire (0-1) loaded the bases with none out and tied the game on an RBI single by No. 9 hitter Brandon Vandermass. Two runners were thrown out at home in the sixth, and another was picked off third to end the inning.
The Badgers, with the score still tied, loaded the bases again in the seventh but failed to bring the go-ahead run across the plate.
"We didn't do so well when it came to situational baserunning," Smetana said. "When you're (practicing) inside, it's hard to take the things you learn outside. Being our first day outside, you're going to make those kinds of mistakes. I just wish there weren't so many of them."
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But parts of the wake hit a 30-meter-long barrier of "reef balls." On the shoreward side of the man-made reef the water is flat calm, barely moving the sands, mud and vegetation lining the bay, creating the quiet habitat necessary for the recovery of bay life.
Like a proud parent, Jeff DeQuattro, coastal projects manager for The Nature Conservancy, smiles. "See, it works," he says.
The reef balls are part of the first project launched by 100-1000, which has set its sights on building 100 miles of oyster reefs and restoring 1,000 acres of coastal marsh in Mobile Bay. Led by the Alabama Coastal Foundation and Mobile Baykeeper, two community-based organizations long on volunteers but short on funding, 100-1000 hit a wall.
So the National Wildlife Federation and Alabama Wildlife Federation have partnered with a broad coalition by contributing $50,000 and $10,000, respectively to get the launch phase completed. The partnership also includes The Nature Conservancy and The Ocean Foundation.
The money will help 100-1000 buy and place reef balls and specially-bagged oyster shells to restore shoreline communities, allowing vegetation and fin fish to find safe havens and restore previously destroyed habitat for oysters to settle, grow and build new reefs.
The $60,000 grants were presented during Volunteer Appreciation Day at Helen Wood Park on the southwest shores of Mobile Bay, not far from Dauphin Island which was another nearby victim of the Gulf oil disaster.
Slogging through the mud, paddling kayaks, dragging bag after bag of debris to the designated trash truck, volunteers spent the morning cleaning the area. Ten tires were brought out of the water. An old computer monitor and rotted captain's chair joined the trash pile. A volunteer brought a three-foot square of fiberglass planking out of the marsh. There were muddy boots and pants and lots of smiles.
"Mobile Baykeeper amassed this group of volunteers that couldn't really be on the ground immediately after the oil spill, couldn't do the emergency response work," said Crystal Webb, National Wildlife Federation Oil Response Manager. "So this is a way for them to just get in the ground and get in the dirt and get in the water and do some of the long term work that has a direct, immediate impact," she added.
For the National Wildlife Federation, the 100-1000 project represents a real, working, doable action that impacts Mobile Bay wildlife in both the short and long term.
John Hammond, National Wildlife Federation Southeast Regional Executive Director said, "We believe the work that's being done here to reestablish a very important habitat and a number of wildlife species is important for coastal Alabama, for the Gulf Coast community at large and for the United States." He added, "These are private dollars, part of the money the American public has entrusted with us to do some good."


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Basil Buffalo Burger
I like simple, but tasty burgers. Basil is one of my favorite spices and buffalo mozzarella is so creamy, it really adds to the tecture in every bite.
1 lb.Very Lean ground beef (or sirloin)
1 Tpsp. Chopped fresh Basil
1/4 cup Itailian bread crumbs
salt / pepper to taste (I prefer very little)
Cooking spray for grill
1 package Buffalo Mozzarella
Butter for buns
1 package hamburger buns fixin's for burgers
Mix together first four ingredients, it's best to get your hands into it - it mixes so much better. I like blend these the day before I grill, it gives the basil time to come to full flavor. divide the mixture evenly, it will depend on how big you want your burgers, but I usually get 5 good size burgers out of this mix. Spray Grill before you get the coals going. Get coals good and hot. When you place Burgers on the grill let them get fired(We call it burning the burgers) for a minute or so, them move them to the side to cook more thoroughly. Make sure they are cooked thru before removing. Slice mozzarella 1/4 thickness and place on burgers while still hot. Place buttered buns on grill, breifly and remove to plates. Serve with fixin's. ENJOY.
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Hi Fran, I'm Dr. Deb. I'll do my best to help you today. I'm sorry that Baby's back legs are weak. I do have a few questions to ask about her first if you don't' mind:1. I'm assuming that this isn't a few problem, correct?2. Have x--rays been done of her spine or hips?3. Is she currently taking any medication or supplements?4. Is she losing muscle tone in her back legs?5. Does she drag her toes or legs when she walks?
There may be a slight delay after I receive your answers since I have to type up a response to you. Thanks for your patience. Deb
It started about 3 months ago and then she dragged her rear paws & Had to lift them forward the vet did x-rays and her spine is just fine she had 6 week of laser and no great improvement just walks like she has a board up her but also the chiropractor. said Baby's injury was just above where the x-ray stopped?? She is in good health for her age except for her rear legs...I have now stopped all treatment except for the dog walker 2 x a week and see what nature and time will do at this stage what would you recommend?
I am glad to hear your thoughts as I would not have her get surgery as I know she would not make it & she has had enough surgery as a puppy her front legs she had knee surgery and then she tore something in her right rear leg and has a plate in there also she has had several small surgery's for lumps from her Mast cell cancer which is under good control now and as you can see I love her dearly but guess I just needed someone else to tell me what I have all ready decided ad I have checked into the wheelchairs and my problem there is I have trained the last 3 Boston's to use a potty box and that des resent a problem but if thing get t bad I just might get her a cart. But one good thing is she has perfect teeth never cleaned and never any problem 's the only Boston I've had in over 60 years that had such good teeth........Thank you......Fran
Fran:You're welcome. Bostons are great dogs, for sure! That is pretty impressive that Baby has such clean teeth, especially at her age. Sounds like she has a pretty healthy mouth:) She certainly sounds like a survivor. I'm glad that you've not dismissedthe cart out of hand but have considered it. I personally think it's a viable option for her. The smaller dogs tend to do really well and if she's as smart I think she is, she'll learn to adjust to whatever arrangement you might need to make with a potty box. Good luck with her as you move forward. Deb
Thank you for the rating and bonus; it's greatly appreciated. I also wanted to wish you the best with Baby. This is a tough situation but at least you do have an option for her. Regards, Deb
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Tortuga bay located in Santa Cruz Island is also a favorite place for sea turtles (which gave the name to the beach), sea lions, marine iguanas, pelicans, flamingos and lava gulls which are endemic to the Islands and are commonly found along the shore of most beaches.
It takes around an hour walk to get to the beach. You'll be able to see beautiful birds including the famous Galapagos finches as you walk. The trail to the beach is paved and marked.
There are two beaches at Tortuga Bay, the main beach is used for surfing due to its strong waves. If you want to swim and just relax you can head to the west side of the beach where the waters are calm.
The beaches are separated by Red Mangrove. Exotic and endemic Plants of the Galapagos Islands are also all around the beach. As you walk around the Island of Santa Cruz make sure you visit the famous Lava Tunnelsalso named Lava Tubes.
A recommended one is the Tunnel of Endless Love, it is around 800 mts long and has this name because it has a heart figure at the top of it. These are natural tunnels and were formed by the lava flows from the volcanoes thousands of years ago.
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Memorial's Outpatient Psychiatric Services (MOPS) has moved from its current location at Lake Aspen Business Park (1460 N 16th Ave, Suite C, Yakima, WA 98902) to the 1 North wing of Virginia Mason Memorial (2811 Tieton Drive, Yakima, WA 98902).
Some of our patients may recall that MOPS used to be located on 1 North on the hospital's main campus. Patients formerly accessed the office from the parking lot entrance adjacent to the building's entrance. However, due to construction, this parking lot is not accessible. Patients are advised to use the hospital's front parking lot near the main entrance or the east parking lot across 28th Avenue. We also have a courtesy valet that would be happy to park your car, then retrieve it for you after your appointment.
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Memorial Outpatient Psychiatric Services
Memorial Outpatient Psychiatric Services treats adult patients for a broad spectrum of mental health concerns. Appointments are held in our office using HIPPA compliant video-conference technology with our providers who are located off-site. Our professional staff will collaborate with the patient, the patient's primary care physician and the patient's family in identifying the causes of distress and developing a plan to resolve those problems. The staff will then help patients to carry out those plans.
Problems addressed include:
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Well written, Joseph, and a great observation. In fact, our gratitude for those who have served in defense of this nation against all enemies, foreign and domestic, is so great that we have Veterans Day in their honor. And for those who in so doing lost their lives, the original intent of Memorial Day was to honor those soldiers.
There was a bill introduced in Congress in 1968 called the Uniform Monday Holiday Act that moved several holiday observances to Monday. An early draft included designating this day as Presidents Day in an attempt to consolidate the remembrance of both Lincoln and Washington, but it failed in committee. The final draft that passed into law designates this as Washington's Birthday. So, technically there never has been a holiday officially called Presidents Day.


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Country: UK
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Wolverhampton Eye Infirmary, Wolverhampton, United Kingdom
J AAPOS 16:49-52. 2012..To determine the accuracy of orthoptist referrals from a preschool-based vision screening program for children 3-4 years of age and to report the outcomes of referred children...
- Visual loss after cat scratchVictor Hu
Maidstone Hospital, Maidstone ME16 2QQ, UK
J R Soc Med 98:28-9. 2005
- Bilateral endogenous endophthalmitis after holmium laser lithotripsyVictor Hu
Birmingham and Midland Eye Institute, City Hospital, Dudley Road, Birmingham, West Midlands B17 7QH, United Kingdom
Urology 70:590.e13-4. 2007..This 55-year-old woman developed infections in both eyes 2 to 3 weeks after the lithotripsy, with a good response to appropriate antibiotic treatment...
- Non-progressive periorbital necrotising fasciitisV Hu
King s College Hospital, London, UK
Orbit 27:59-62. 2008..We report an unusual case of necrotising fasciitis of the eyelids with spontaneous limitation of the area of necrosis...
- The effect of aqualase and phacoemulsification on the corneal endotheliumVictor Hu
Department of Ophthalmology, Queen Mary s Hospital, Sidcup, United Kingdom
Cornea 29:247-50. 2010..To compare corneal endothelial cell loss after cataract surgery by phacoemulsification and by Aqualase...
- Scheimpflug imaging to determine intraocular lens power in vivoStephen J Turner
King s College Hospital Ophthalmology Department, King s College Hospital, London, United Kingdom
J Cataract Refract Surg 33:1041-4. 2007..To assess the feasibility of determining intraocular lens (IOL) power by measurement of the central optic thickness using clinically available Scheimpflug imaging (Pentacam, Oculus)...


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Any exp with the lead and copper remover fluids on the market today.. if so any that you recommend?
I moved on from Hoppe #9, it just didn't do the cleaning job for me.
If you are going to shoot lead, make sure all the copper is out of the bore before you start. Lots of good copper removers out there, most have ammonia in them. Don't use brass jags or brass brushes or you will get false positives.
For cleaning after shooting lead I first run a patch soaked with Ed's Red through the bore after shooting. I let it set overnight. If you don't want to make Ed's Red, Kroil is about the same stuff. Then I take a brass brush and unravel a couple of strands from a chore bore cleaner (get pure copper, not the copper coated) and wrap them around the brass brush. It cleans out any lead like you wouldn't believe. The Ed's Red wicks under any lead and softens carbon very well.
I don't tend to use plated. I can shoot jacketed cheaper. So I either shoot lead or jacketed.
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Affiliation: World Health Organization
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World Health Organization, 20 Avenue Appia, Geneva 27, CH 1211, Switzerland
Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci 356:1077-86. 2001..We conclude by discussing some of the research that is needed and steps that could be taken to reduce the continued spread of the infection...
- Trends in tuberculosis incidence and their determinants in 134 countriesC Dye
Stop TB Department, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland
Bull World Health Organ 87:683-91. 2009..To determine whether differences in national trends in tuberculosis incidence are attributable to the variable success of control programmes or to biological, social and economic factors...
- The impact of HIV/AIDS on the control of tuberculosis in IndiaB G Williams
World Health Organization, 20 Avenue Appia, Geneva 1212, Switzerland
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 102:9619-24. 2005....
- Measuring tuberculosis burden, trends, and the impact of control programmesC Dye
HIV AIDS, Tuberculosis, Malaria and Neglected Tropical Diseases, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland
Lancet Infect Dis 8:233-43. 2008..By 2015, every country should be able to assess progress in tuberculosis control by estimating the time trend in incidence, and the magnitude of reductions in either prevalence or deaths...
- Global monitoring of collaborative TB-HIV activitiesC Gunneberg
Stop TB Department, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland
Int J Tuberc Lung Dis 12:2-7. 2008....
- Criteria for the control of drug-resistant tuberculosisC Dye
Communicable Disease Control, Prevention and Eradication, World Health Organization, CH 1211 Geneva 27, Switzerland
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 97:8180-5. 2000..We discuss the implications of these results for World Health Organization policy on the management of antibiotic resistance...
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Stop TB Department, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland
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HOLLYWOOD star Demi Moore turned 50 on Sunday and celebrated by enjoying a
luxury trip to Dubai.
The stunning actress was also spotted at the Monte Carlo Beach Club in Abu
Dhabi with a group of close friends as she saw in her milestone birthday.
Demi reportedly sipped champagne and munched on seafood as she lounged by the
pool in the plush resort.
A source told Us Magazine: "Demi seemed to be enjoying herself – they all
It's a welcome break from life in Los Angeles for the star who is currently
embroiled in a messy divorce battle with Ashton Kutcher.
Demi has also had further stress in recent months due to falling out with her
daughters Rumer, Tallulah Belle and Scout LaRue.
Here we take a look at some of the highs and lows of Demi's life throughout
her 50 years.
Born Demi Guynes she married her first husband, musician Freddy Moore, in
February 1980 following a whirlwind six-month romance.
Demi's career began at the tender age of 16 when she dropped out of high
school to become a model, posing nude for Oui magazine in 1980.
She made her film debut in 1981 flick Choices before winning a role on soap
opera General Hospital.
In 1982 the role saw her make a return to the cover of Oui.
By 1985 Demi had a string of starring roles under her belt, but her personal
life took a turn for the worse as she divorced Freddy in August 1985.
In November 1987 Demi married again. Husband No2 was fellow Hollywood star
Bruce Willis.
In 1990 Demi was cast in arguably the most significant role of her career to
date when she appeared as Molly Jensen in heartbreaking movie Ghost.
The film – which starred Patrick Swayze as her dead lover Sam Wheat – saw Demi
pick up a Golden Globe nomination for Best Actress.
The flick was the highest-grossing of 1990, taking a huge $505million at the
box office.
Demi and Bruce both enjoyed huge success on the big screen as they started to
raise a family with the actress taking on roles for big-name movies
including A Few Good Men, Indecent Proposal and Disclosure.
The couple had three daughters together – Rumer, born on August 16, 1988,
Scout, born July 20, 1991 and Tallulah, born February 3, 1994 – before
separating in 1998 and finalising their divorce in October 2000.
In 2003 Demi met her third husband – actor Ashton Kutcher, who is 16 years
younger than her.
The couple got married in September 2005 and Demi's ex Bruce was even on the
guestlist for the lavish bash.
However, Demi and Ashton split in November 2011 after allegations that he
cheated on her.
In 1996 Demi was already considered one of the best paid actresses in
Hollywood when she received a record-breaking $12.5million to star in
The movie saw her baring all as she danced topless for saucy scenes.
Despite its financial success many critics said the film was disappointing and
it was considered a flop.
In 1997 Demi famously shaved off her hair to play a female Navy Seals recruit
in G.I. Jane.
The production was one of the last big roles the actress took on before she
decided to go more low-profile and take long breaks from acting.
The actress has always been well known for her good looks and enviable figure.
She is often complimented for looking far younger than her years.


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text: Or maybe I should say I do you deal with the excitement? We leave in 4 more days, our two kids (11/6) don't know about the trip, we are going to tell them at the airport, trust me the lies that have been told are going to cause a very lengthy visit to confession when we return! My brother and his are also flying in to spend the trip with us, his family has never been, his kids have never been on a plane (9/12), so you can see my excitement. I can't sleep, I am trying not to give away the surprise, but it is so hard. I can't down the days, then the hours! I am going loopy!!!!!!!! I talk in code when my husband calls or friends who know about the trip. I need help!!!!!!!!!!!!


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Louisiana stand-off ends peacefully
Thu, 04 Oct 2012 02:12:49 GMT —
An armed Louisiana, Missouri man whom authorities described as emotionally disturbed surrendered without a shot being fired Wednesday evening.
Louisiana police got a call shortly after 5 p.m. of a man with a gun on Martella Drive.
The quiet residential neighborhood is just up the hill from Pike County Memorial Hospital on the west side of the city.
The man was home alone and asked to speak with Louisiana Police Chief Rich Hughes, who diffused the situation without injury to the suspect or officers.
The Pike County Sheriffâ??s Department and the Missouri Highway Patrol provided assistance at the scene.
The unidentified man has not been charged.
The suspect was taken to an unnamed hospital and placed on a 72-hour mental health hold, according to Hughes.
Once the hold period ends, authorities will then decide how to proceed.


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Wonder how the Bucs depth chart might look in '10?
Coach Raheem Morris believes the Bucs may have collected as many as four starters from the 2010 draft class.
It's hard to argue with the guy who decides which players run out of the tunnel during introductions. You have to figure defensive tackles Gerald McCoy and Brian Price will win starting jobs, although Roy Miller might have a say in that.
At receiver, it's a certainty that Arrelious Benn and Mike Williams will have every chance to win starting jobs. (Sammie Stroughter will be the third down, slot receiver).
"What I really thought we did over this weekend was establish our upfront rush,'' Morris said. "That's where it all starts at – up front. We were able to establish our push. We were able to do that yesterday. We were able to get faster and get some speed receivers on the outside. We were able to get a couple guys that can run around for us and play a long time.''
Here then, is a guess what the Bucs lineup will look like come Sept. Feel free to make your own changes. Discuss.
LDE Kyle Moore
NT Brian Price
DT Gerald McCoy
RDE Stylez White
MLB Barrett Ruud
WSLB Geno Hayes
SSLB Quincy Black
RCB Ronde Barber
LCB Aqib Talib
FS Tanard Jackson
SS Sabby Piscitelli
RT Jeremy Trueblood
RG Davin Joseph
C Jeff Faine
LG Jeremy Zuttah
LT Donald Penn
TE Kellen Winslow
RB Cadillac Williams
FB Earnest Graham
WR Arrelious Benn
WR Mike Williams
QB Josh Freeman
P Brent Bowden
PK Conner Barth
KR Clifton Smith