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COLLEGE STATION, Texas -- The 10th-ranked Aggies make their SEC home debut this weekend, hosting defending SEC regular-season champion South Carolina on Friday and defending SEC tournament champion Auburn on Sunday.
Texas A&M enters the fray riding a streak of five consecutive shutouts for the first time in program history. The scoreless string for the Aggies' defense currently stands at a program-best 516 minutes.
The Maroon and White also own a seven-match win streak. It's the longest win streak for the Aggies since stringing together eight consecutive wins from Sept. 26 to Oct. 24, 2010. A pair of wins on the weekend, would give Texas A&M its longest win streak since registering 10 consecutive wins from Sept. 30 to Nov. 2, 2007.
During the current seven-match win streak, the Aggies have outscored opponents 17-1.
On Friday, the No. 10 Aggies host South Carolina in a 7 p.m. match with three featured promotions.
- The first 250 Texas A&M Students will receive a free SEC Inaugural t-shirt
- The soccer game will be one of the featured events for members of the Junior Aggie Club. Face painting, inflatables and other youth-friendly activities will be available.
- If fans become friends with Aggie Soccer on Facebook they can print a code to purchase a $3 ticket.
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On Sunday, Texas A&M hosts Auburn in a 1:30 p.m. match with a four promotions.
- All youth soccer players will be admitted free if they are wearing their team jersey.
- Members of the Aggie Soccer team will sign autographs after the game.
- Fans with a ticket from Saturday's football game can purchase a $3 general admission ticket.
- Whataburger will be hosting a Canned Food Drive benefitting the Brazos Valley Food Bank. Anyone who brings two or more cans will receive a free coupon courtesy of Whataburger.
Season and individual tickets for the 2012 home season are now for sale. To purchase tickets, please contact the 12th Man Foundation Ticket Center at tickets.12thmanfoundation.com, 979-845-2311 or toll free at 1-888-99-AGGIE. Tickets are also available in person beginning one hour before the match at Ellis Field.
Live stats for both matches this weekend on AggieAthletics.com. Premium subscribers to 12thMan.TV can watch both games live. Sunday's game will feature free live audio on RadioAggieland.com as the Zone HD Aggie Soccer "Match of the Week".
Not following @AggieSoccer on Twitter? Sign up or sign in now to find out what's happening. You'll stay up-to-date on the latest news and receive live in-game updates at each and every match.
In the fifth week of regular season polling, A&M is ranked No. 10 in the National Soccer Coaches Association of America (NSCAA)/Continental Tire poll, No. 7 in the Soccer Times rankings and No. 12 in the Soccer America poll. Florida State claimed the top spot in the NSCAA/Continental Tire poll, followed by UCLA, Stanford, Boston College and Duke.
The Aggies hit the road again for a pair of league contests next weekend. On Friday, A&M heads to Lexington to take on Kentucky who currently sits in first place in the Eastern Division after a 2-0-0 weekend, including wins over Florida and Mississippi State. On Sunday, the Aggies jouney to Starkville to face Mississippi State in a key Western Division match.
Texas A&M owns a 175-25-5 (.866) all-time record at Ellis Field (formerly Aggie Soccer Stadium). The Maroon and White have called the field home since the 1994 season, playing the inaugural 1993 season at Old Tiger Field. Since 2005, the Aggies have registered a 75-9-4 (.875) mark on the friendly pitch.
The Aggies posted a shutout in five consecutive games for the first time in program history. Texas A&M drew blood early when Annie Kunz scored on an assist from Meghan Streight in the seventh minute of action. With 15 minutes remaining in the first half, Streight sent a free kick in from 40 yards out and Shea Groom got a head on it 12 yards out for the goal and a 2-0 advantage. Kunz scored her second goal of the game, seven minutes into the second half, on an assist from Lindsey Witz. Allie Bailey capped off the scoring collecting a carom off her own shot and kicking it in the back of the net. Jordan Day made seven saves to pick up her sixth shutout of the season.
South Carolina, the defending SEC regular-season champion, enters the weekend at the bottom of the Eastern Division after mustering just one point last weekend. The Gamecocks opened league play at home with a tie against Mississippi State (0-0) and a loss to Missouri (1-0). Despite a 3-3-2 overall record, South Carolina's defense has been stout allowing just four goals in nearly 786 minutes of actio for a 0.46 goals-against average. Darien Vercilli (432 min./0.42 GAA) and Sabrina D'Angelo (353 min./0.51 GAA) have shared time in goal. Coryn Bajema has accounted for three of the Gamecocks' nine goals on the season. Courtney Angotti-Smith has two goals and a team-high three assists.
Auburn, the defending SEC tournament champion, enters the weekend at the bottom of the Western Division after failing to earn a point in the opening set of league action. The Tigers opened conference play at home with losses to a pair of nationally ranked teams in Missouri (2-0) and Florida (2-1). Tori Ball and Mary Coffed each have three goals to lead the Auburn (4-5-0) attack. Tatiana Coleman has a team-high four assists. Amy Howard has played all 819 minutes in goal and has 39 saves and a 1.21 GAA.
The Aggies 1-0 all-time against South Carolina and will be facing Auburn for the first time. Texas A&M won the lone meeting against the Gamecocks, 2-1 in overtime, in College Station. The game was tied for the first 76 minutes before South Carolina's Amanda Thurber scored to break the scoring seal. The Gamecocks appeared head for victory before Emma Smith notched an equalizer in the 88th minute of action. In the seventh minute of overtime, Amanda Burke tallied the game-winner on an assist from Laura Probst.
Each of the 14 schools in Southeastern Conference (SEC) sponsor women's soccer. The conference is split into two divisions: Eastern and Western. The Aggies, LSU, Auburn, Alabama, Ole Miss, Arkansas and Mississippi State comprise the SEC Western Division and Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, Kentucky, Missouri, Tennessee and Vanderbilt make up the SEC Eastern Division. The Aggies will play each of the other 13 schools in the conference this season, beginning with LSU on Sept. 14 in Baton Rouge, La.
In the 20-year history of the program, Texas A&M owns a 16-5-1 record against teams who were members of the SEC at the time and a 29-10-2 mark against current members of the SEC. The ledger includes a 13-5-1 mark against former Big 12 foe Missouri. The Aggies own winning records against Alabama (2-1), Arkansas (2-1), Florida (4-2), Kentucky (1-0), LSU (2-0-1), Ole Miss (1-0), South Carolina (1-0) and Vanderbilt (3-0). The only SEC team Texas A&M has a losing record against is Tennessee (0-1). The Aggies have never faced Auburn, Georgia, and Mississippi State.
The Aggies' 23-player roster features nine upperclassmen, 10 sophomores and 4 freshmen. A&M's squad is guided by seven seniors. The team returns eight starters and 19 letterwinners from a year ago.
The Aggies welcome four freshmen this season, in Janae Cousineau (San Clemente, Calif.), Kristi Leonard (League City, Texas), Karlie Mueller (Sioux Falls, S.D.), and Jackie Tondl (Omaha, Neb.).
With the 2012 No. 14 preseason ranking, A&M has been in the preseason national top 15 every year for 17 consecutive seasons. The Aggies have also consistently appeared in top 25 polls for the past 16 years.
The Aggies won their 12th-and-final Big 12 Championship during the 2011 conference tournament. With just 15 seconds left in the Championship match, Tournament MVP and then-freshman Kelley Monogue weaved through three defenders and ricocheted a shot off of the left post that found then-senior Megan Majewski at 18 yards from goal. Majewski fired with nine seconds on the clock and netted the 1-0 goal against Oklahoma State to win the tournament. The Aggies were the only school in the conference to earn a Big 12 Tournament berth in the 16 years of its existence.
Texas A&M, the reigning Big 12 champion, notched the second spot in the 2012 SEC Soccer Preseason Poll, after receiving 12 of the first-place votes for the SEC West and tallying 89 points overall. The Aggies were picked to win the Western Division and to finish behind Eastern Division favorite Florida, who earned 90 points in the poll. LSU received two first-place votes for the SEC West and was picked to finish second in the division, while Georgia was picked to finish second in the East.
Sophomores Kelley Monogue, Meghan Streight and Katie Perry and senior Beth West were named to the SEC Preseason Watch List on Aug. 8.
Monogue was placed on the Missouri Athletic Club (MAC) Hermann Trophy Watch List. The award is the highest honor in collegiate soccer and will be given to a winner on Jan. 11. The field will be narrowed to 15 semifinalists in late November, and three finalists will be named on Dec. 6.
The Aggies ranked No. 5 in TopDrawerSoccer.com's Preseason Rankings and placed three players on the publication's SEC Top 20 List. Monogue landed at the top of the list with a No. 1 ranking and was joined in the top 10 by No. 5 Perry and No. 9 West. The Aggies were the only team in the SEC to have three honorees on the list and one of only two schools with multiple players in the top 10.
Texas A&M head coach G Guerrieri ranks among the Top 10 in both winning percentage and victories among active Division I coaches. With a career record of 343-109-24 (.746), he ranks seventh in winning percentage (minimum five years as a Division I head coach) and ninth in victories. Among all coaches to ever coach Division I women' soccer, Guerrieri ranks eighth in winning percentage (minimum 10 years as a Division I head coach) and ninth in victories.
A&M face a difficult home slate, hosting 12 opponents at Ellis Field including seven SEC foes. The Aggies just finished a five-game homestand, the longest on this year's schedule, featuring two Top 20 teams.
A&M faced a tough non-conference schedule. The Aggies' seven games against non-SEC opponents include UC Irvine, San Diego (RV), UTSA, No. 16 Rutgers, Saint Mary's (Calif.), No. 16 Long Beach State and Central Michigan. A&M went 6-1-0 in non-conference action with the lone blemish coming in a 1-0 loss at San Diego.
Since the 2008 season, the Aggies own a 17-0-3 mark against in-state rivals, including an 11-0-3 record against their former Big 12 Conference colleagues. A&M went a perfect 3-0 against in-state foes in 2011, winning the three games by a combined 7-1 margin. This season, the Aggies won their lone scheduled match against a Lone Star opponent, 2-0 against UTSA.
The Aggies' 8-1, is tied for the third-best nine-game start in school history. In both 1996 and '97, the Aggies won their first nine games before losing game No. 10. A&M started 8-1 in 1999 and 2003 and 7-1-1 in 2005 and '08.
A pair of wins on the weekend would have the Aggies' tied for their best 11-game start in school history. A&M started 10-1 in both 1996 and '97.
• Annie Kunz enters the weekend tied for third in the league with 6 goals and ranked fourth with 0.67 goals per game.
• Kunz is also tied for eighth with both 12 points and 1.33 points per game.
• Meghen Streight is tied for the league lead with 5 aassists and ranks fourth with 0.56 assists per game.
• Shea Groom is tied for third with four assists and tied for ninth with 0.44 assists per game.
• Jordan Day leads the conference with a 0.33 goals-against average and six shutouts.
The three goals by Aggie opponents through the first nine games is the fewest in school history. The previous low was the 2003 season when Texas A&M yielded four goals through nine games. Last season, the Maroon and White allowed 18 goals en route to a 5-4 start.
Sophomore Jordan Day is tied for fourth in the nation in goals-against average with a 0.33 mark. She has allowed just three goals in 810 minutes of action. Day has recorded shutouts in six of the Aggies' last seven games. She now has 15 career shutouts and is the only player in school history to record five consecutive shutouts.
This year the Aggie Soccer Hour, Texas A&M soccer's weekly radio talk show, is broadcast live from Rudy's Bar-B-Que on Harvey Rd. in College Station every Wednesday from 7-8 p.m. Come and be a part of the show each week, listen locally on KZNE 1150 AM or worldwide on RadioAggieland.com. Each week, Aggie soccer play-by-play announcer David Ellis will be joined by head coach G Guerrieri, associate head coach Phil Stephenson, and Aggie players.
The Aggie soccer team will be on the tube four times this season. A&M beat Long Beach State, 3-0, in a Sept. 7 match featured as a NSCAA College Game of the Week on the FOX Soccer Channel. The Sept. 30 match at Mississippi State will be on Cox Sports TV, the Oct. 7 Florida game will be on ESPNU and the Missouri game on Oct. 25 will be on SportSouth/ESPN3. The CST and SportSouth matches will also be on ESPN3.com and the ESPNU match will be streamed on WatchESPN.
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World No Tobacco Day 2010
Smoking is Ugly: How the Tobacco Industry Deceives Women
WHAT: World No Tobacco Day—celebrated on May 31, 2010—exposes the dangers to women of tobacco marketing and secondhand smoke. It also emphasizes men's responsibility to avoid smoking around the women with whom they live and work.
WHEN: Wednesday, June 2, 2010, from 10:00 – 11:30 a.m.
WHERE: Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) HQ, Room A,
525 23rd St. NW, Washington, DC (Corner 23rd St. & Virginia Ave)
HOW: In person or online at: http://www.livestream.com/paho (available shortly before 10:00 a.m.)
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Construction and health-care jobs lead the way to 236,000 new payrolls.
It grew at an annual rate of ... 0.1 percent.
The central bank implemented the so-called Evans Rule.
The economy added 171,000 new jobs and proved that it's on the mend.
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Bulls' beat writer John Jackson believes that "Whether he's dealt before the Feb. 18 trade deadline or let go this summer when he becomes a restricted free agent, [Tyrus] Thomas' days with the Bulls' are numbered."
Thomas was recently suspended one game for cursing out coach Vinny Del Negro, who had benched him for a series of awful plays. He has tons of potential but it sounds like he'll be in the doghouse as long as he remains in Chicago.
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8th Apr 2009, 10:22 PM | #1 |
Breaking Bad
Anyone watching this?
i don't watch much TV (i think i only watch Dollhouse and The Office besides this), but this show is a complete and utter mindf_ck. i love it. i read a review a few weeks ago and started to TiVO it, but just started watching it two days ago. This is the greatest show since Twin Peaks. It's been about 16 years since i couldn't wait for the next episode of a TV series, but i'm back there. Wow - this sh!t rocks. |
8th Apr 2009, 10:34 PM | #2 |
This is the one with the guy from Malcom in the middle right?
I've never seen it myself, just the previews... Looks corny. |
8th Apr 2009, 10:36 PM | #3 |
hmm, I've been looking for a new show since I finished Dexter. I'll give it a shot and report back.
8th Apr 2009, 10:56 PM | #4 |
Yeah, the guy won an Emmy for it. He is f_cking batsh!t insane. Gets diagnosed with cancer and decides to sell meth in order to leave his pregnant wife and cerebral-palsy-stricken son some money. Of course, he goes down a rabbit hole. This show will f you up. It's that great!
9th Apr 2009, 12:36 AM | #5 |
Ok I just watched the first episode. I'm impressed! This is sick. Thanks Skold, looks like I got something to hold me over until the new season of Dexter premieres.
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I've been watching since the show first premiered last year and got hooked. This show is really ****ing good.
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Funk, if you cook i can sell.
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^ Link if anyone's interested. I ran across this by accident last week. It's a pretty crazy show for sure. |
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By accident?!? Looking for some blue meth on the net?
14th Apr 2009, 01:26 AM | #10 |
Ok I just caught up and watched all the episodes.
F*cking amazing show. Man it slows down at points with some long winded dialog, but it's ultimately rewarding in the end. Every scene has it's purpose, and they are all exceptionally acted. I just finished watching Sunday's episode, and I'm blown away. The interactions between Jesse and the kid (and the stoners), absolutely priceless. Touching stuff with that poor little kid. And Walt's scene with Gretchen at the restaurant, oh man. Go Walt! Once again, I thank you Skold. You have made my life so much better. Seriously shows like this and Dexter, they really make me happy. Everyone else go watch it NOW. Get off the forums, close IRC, and DO IT. |
14th Apr 2009, 02:03 AM | #11 |
I'll have to check it out. There arent many shows like that arent scifi but I'll give it a shot.
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14th Apr 2009, 08:03 AM | #12 | |
"I'll be any kind of mom you want for meth." "Skank! Skank! Skank!" Glad you like it man! |
14th Apr 2009, 11:17 AM | #13 |
Oh and what's going on with the stuffed bear in the pool and the various evidence items including what appears to be Walt's glasses? Obviously foreshadowing something that's gonna happen this season, perhaps the finale?
14th Apr 2009, 08:30 PM | #14 | |
Just watched the last ep again - there was a bag of Heisenberg meth left at the ATM robbery, and Jesse did not wipe his prints of the sledgehammer. We'll be seeing the ramifications of this in future, i think. Wow. Edit: Also, the mailcarrier can ID Jesse. He's ****ed. Last edited by Skold; 14th Apr 2009 at 08:54 PM. |
14th Apr 2009, 08:51 PM | #15 |
I <3 you Skold!
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14th Apr 2009, 08:55 PM | #17 |
Random gay statement :P
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What a sick episode! I actually got a bit emotional when:
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Phenomenal acting! Also I was cracking up at some of the dialogue. Something along the lines of:
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5th May 2009, 11:28 PM | #19 |
This show has completely ****ed me up. i am convinced my neighbors down the street steal ATM m machines. Don't get me started on goth landlords.
20th May 2009, 07:49 PM | #20 |
Just watched Sunday's episode and HOLY ****ING ****. The greatest, and most ****ed up, show ever.
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I have tried Remote desktop app in Store, and failed. So I think it is only for the internal network. However, you can use Remote desktop connection app included in Desktop mode to connect from the external network. I haven't tried on VPN, but with a domain address it has worked perfectly.
I have it working great. You will have to forward port 3389 on your router to the PC hosting the remote desktop connection. You will then need to connect to the computer using your routers public IP address. For conveniance I have setup of CNAME record on my host so I can connect to rdp.mydomain.com. It works really well. Tried to get a VPN setup instead but had trouble tunneling out of my college network.
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You have to set up a dynamic dns which is a web address the corresponds to the global IP address of your house. From there you need to have a static local IP address for your computer and port 3389 has to be forwarded.
I had my working really well but it randomly stopped working. Don't know why. I can remote into my college no problem tho.Thanked by: - 11-28-2012, 12:54 PM #8
I've been able to use the Remote Desktop app, as well as the desktop client, to successfully to log into my work network from home. Don't keep my home computer on when I am away so I haven't tried it there, although when I am at home I have been able to successfully just go through Homegroup to transfer files from my desktop to the Surface.
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This is a quote from Brevin Knight following Friday night's loss to the Sonics.
We win one game, we play well in another, and we think we've arrived. … We don't have stars on this team. We don't have anything. We need to work hard if we're ever going to win.
My question is which Bobcats player is getting under Brevin's skin ?
- Can't be Emeka, hes playing his ass off. In fact, through the first 5 games of the season Emeka is averaging 17.4 ppg, 11.6 rpg and blocking 3.6 shots per game. (Chew on those numbers Dwight Howard)
- Could be Raymond. Even though he didn't play in that game because of the rib injury he has been vocal in his playoff predictions for this season.
- It could possibly be Adam pMorrison. I could see how Brevin could be jealous of the hype that Adam brought when he came to the team, plus as soon as Adam gets adjusted to the NBA, BK will be sent to the bench.
- Sean May possibly, The problem with that is Sean May's role isn't getting enough minutes to cause those kind of problems on the court.
- Crash??? If there were some heat between Brevin and Gerald Wallace, that would be interesting, but not playing hard enough has never been Gerald's problem.
If anyone has any deeper insight into this, I'd love to hear it.


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TRENTON, N.J. – A former New Jersey mortgage broker admitted today that he participated in a mortgage fraud scheme which defrauded lenders and generated millions of dollars in fraudulent mortgage loans, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
Ara Mesropian, 39, of Paramus, N.J., pleaded guilty to an Information charging him with one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud. Mesropian entered his guilty plea before U.S. District Judge Peter G. Sheridan in Trenton federal court.
According to documents filed in this and related cases and statements made in court:
Mesropian admitted that from March 2008 to January 2009, he participated in a scheme to defraud mortgage lenders by completing fraudulent residential loan applications in order to procure millions of dollars in home loans. The loan applications contained material misrepresentations, including that borrowers put cash down at the closings and that the properties would be the borrowers' primary residences. The applications also showed inflated assets and earnings for borrowers. Mesropian admitted that he submitted the fraudulent loan applications to the mortgage lenders.
As a mortgage broker, Mesropian assisted co-conspirators Eddie Dukhman, 35, of Sewaren, N.J., and Frank Corallo, 38, of Maywood, N.J., who were previously charged by Complaint in connection with the scheme. Dukhman, with the assistance of two attorneys, arranged to purchase properties owned by financial institutions, commonly referred to as real-estate-owned, or REO properties. At about the same time, Corallo recruited other individuals to purchase those same properties.
Dukhman, Corallo, Mesropian, and other co-conspirators employed numerous fraudulent techniques to further their scheme – including falsifying financial documents, HUD-1 settlement statements and residential loan applications; causing borrowers to apply and obtain loans on properties that they did not own; and failing to record deeds with the county clerk.
The wire fraud conspiracy count to which Mesropian pleaded guilty carries a maximum potential penalty of 30 years in prison and a $1 million fine. Sentencing is currently scheduled for November 22, 2011.
U.S. Attorney Fishman credited special agents of the FBI, under the direction of Special Agent in charge Michael B. Ward; and the United States Secret Service, under the direction of Special Agent in Charge Jacob Christine, with the investigation leading to today's guilty plea.
The government is represented by Assistant U.S. Attorney Stacey A. Levine of the U.S. Attorney's Office Heath Care and Government Fraud Unit in Newark.
As for Dukhman and Corallo, the charges and allegations contained in the Complaint are merely accusations, and the defendants are considered innocent unless and until proven guilty.
This case was brought in coordination with President Barack Obama's Financial Fraud Enforcement Task Force. President Obama established the interagency Financial Fraud Enforcement Task Force to wage an aggressive, coordinated, and proactive effort to investigate and prosecute financial crimes. The task force includes representatives from a broad range of federal agencies, regulatory authorities, inspectors general, and state and local law enforcement who, working together, bring to bear a powerful array of criminal and civil enforcement resources. The task force is working to improve efforts across the federal executive branch, and with state and local partners, to investigate and prosecute significant financial crimes, ensure just and effective punishment for those who perpetrate financial crimes, combat discrimination in the lending and financial markets, and recover proceeds for victims of financial crimes.
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Politics of the United Kingdom
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The United Kingdom has some of the most complicated politics in the World. This is mainly because the British are so good at having loud, racist, drunken rants on trains or on buses that receive odd looks from passengers nearby. There are many recognised power groups in the UK. The main power group is the Constitutional Monarchy governing over a democratic oligarchy known as the Government of the United Kingdom. This has the most public support however other power groups include the IRA which as a large support in Northern Ireland, the official Government of Sealand, the trade unions which certainly do not have Ed Miliband's support and the Church of England.
edit Political Views of the UK
edit Lower Middle Class Liberal
These people usually have the views of atheists or agnostics and are liberal and centrist. They lightly support the Green Party or the Liberal Democrats and pretend that they are Church of England to everyone else. Every other class hates them for being too normal. They originated from the South-East of England from the higher-paid peasants and merchants and could have only done these professions as most are either Jewish or members of the Grand Conspiracy. Lower middle class people enjoy reading the Guardian or the Times.
edit Working Class Socialist
The core of Britain's industrial power (if only it still existed). Known as the unemployed oiks, these people originate from Yorkshire, Lancashire, Scotland, Cumbria, Wales and all the other places "up North." They enjoy complaining and always complain about the quality of life when sleeping in a pig sty such as Hull and immigrants stealing their jobs. Unlike their ancestors these people no longer have jobs because the politicians forgot to give them any. The only common thing they share with their ancestors is their smell, which is unchanged since medieval times. They support the Labour Party or the BNP and don't give a damn about religion. They enjoy reading the Sun, the Star and the Yorkshire Communist Party Manifesto leaflet.
edit Upper Class Tory
These members of the political and social society of the UK originate from third sons of Lords and have no titles despite speaking with a silver spoon in their mouth. They are disgusted at Lords who call them commoners and really want nothing to do with anyone below them. To try and isolate themselves from the rest of society they become politicians and all meet in the House of Commons to conspire against the House of Lords. They support the Conservative party or UKIP and read the Telegraph or Daily Mail. They are usually fundamentalist in their religious beliefs.
edit Monster Raving Loony
Monster Raving Loony's are, unlike in most countries, a respected and integral part of modern society. Under their now-deceased, eternal leader, Screaming Lord Sutch they wish to ban Mondays and produce a 99p coin. Monster Raving Loony's are the fastest growing political power in the United Kingdom and have been every since mental hospitals became too over-crowded and some of the patients were let loose. The UKIP party branched away from the Monster Raving Loony Party creating the "Swiveled-Eyed Loon Faction."


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According to sources, the Big Ten officials and Notre Dame officials have entered into talks that could drastically alter the realignment talk which has dominated headlines in recent days. One insider told FanHouse on Tuesday that the two sides are talking about the nation's biggest independent joining one of the most influential conferences to give the Big Ten its desired 12 members.
The source said the talks "could not necessarily" be described as negotiations but said if Notre Dame can be convinced to give up its long standing independence that things could move rather quickly. Another source familiar with the back-and-forth between Notre Dame and the Big Ten over the years believes all of the Big Ten expansion talk which began with commissioner Jim Delany's announcement last December has always been aimed at getting the Irish to join the conference.
The realization that the Big Ten's threat to add five members could trigger a reaction that would create four super 16-team conferences, and effectively put the squeeze on Notre Dame scheduling, has convinced Irish officials to again sit down at the table with the Big Ten. Earlier this decade the two sides explored the possibility of Notre Dame joining the Big Ten, but in the end the Irish opted to remain independent and enjoy a lucrative television deal with NBC.
Since then, the major conferences have shifted away from giving Notre Dame a full conference share of any BCS game it participates in and, in order to get to the national title game, the Irish have to go undefeated during the regular season.
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"Now Notre Dame has to be asking themselves who will they schedule in a four-conference,16-team (per conference) environment?" the source said. "They can maybe schedule the WAC, the MAC and Sun Belt Conference. The questions are: Is that less than what NBC bargained for and will those schools get to a BCS national championship game? I'd say no."
Meanwhile, there is a strong belief that if the Big Ten is successful in luring Notre Dame that it would no longer be interested in expanding from 11 to 16 teams. Currently, the Big Ten's expansion threat has leagues such as the Big 12 and Big East in complete disarray.
The Big 12 could be looking at dissolution soon if the Big Ten is able to lure Nebraska and Missouri, which would then cause a chain reaction that will see Texas, Oklahoma, Texas A&M, Oklahoma State, Texas Tech and Baylor or Colorado join the Pac-10 schools to form a 16-team conference. The Big East, in which Notre Dame's other sports compete, also likely would implode with Rutgers, Syracuse and Pitt also being targeted for Big Ten expansion.
Most experts agree that the formation of four 16-team conferences would be good only for television partners and fattening the pockets of those leagues. Geographically, there would be major issues plus the cost of travel -- especially for the non-revenue producing sports -- would shoot up significantly.
"The same thing has been stated by the SEC commissioner, the ACC commissioner and myself, that we'd hate to see the landscape change," Big 12 commissioner Dan Beebe said last week of the possibility of 16-team leagues. "We think 12 is an optimum number. We are prepared in case we need to change our membership but I think that is the number that works.
"Those of us who have been around the business for a long time feel like that's the number that works. I think it's a huge disservice to the student athlete if it grows to a bigger number where they have to go further and not have as much chance to win championships and have as much access to national championships."
Those worries all go away for now if Notre Dame and the Big Ten are able to come to an agreement.
The addition of Notre Dame would give the Big Ten and the Big Ten Network a football program with a global draw while also giving the league 12 members -- which allows for a lucrative conference championship game.
A phone message for Notre Dame athletic director Jack Swarbrick was not returned.
Notre Dame joining a conference also seems to resolve some of the issues that it will face down the road, chief among them are scheduling. Inside a conference, scheduling would not be a problem. And the conference payout of between $20 and $22 million in the Big Ten would be a significant bump from the exclusive NBC deal.
The key for Notre Dame is deciding if joining the Big Ten is worth giving up the mystique of independence.


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The scoring exploits of Landon Donovan are well known. Ninety-five goals in Major League Soccer puts him sixth all-time in league history and his 42 goals for the United States make him our country's all-time leading scorer. During the final round of CONCACAF qualifying for the 2010 FIFA World Cup, Donovan has scored or assisted on 12 of the USA's 17 goals, a remarkable 70 percent.


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JOHANNESBURG, Jan 29 (Reuters) - Anglo American Platinum Ltd has briefly delayed a restructuring that puts up to 14,000 jobs at risk to allow more time for talks with the government and unions.
The world's largest platinum producer, known as Amplats, agreed late on Monday to defer by two weeks a consultation on its planned layoffs which could amount to around 3 percent of the country's mining labour force.
Amplats wants to mothball loss-making mines as part of a turnaround plan that has drawn criticism from the African National Congress (ANC)-led government, under pressure to tackle high unemployment ahead of general elections next year.
A new cellphone video of the police shooting of 34 striking miners in South Africa in August emerged on Monday, another political flashpoint and a grim reminder of the mining violence that killed over 50 people last year.
Amplats Chief Executive Chris Griffith told Talk Radio 702 on Tuesday that talks with the government had been 'constructive.'
'What we agreed on is we would delay the consultation process,' he said.
The legally required consultation will now start on Jan. 30 instead of Jan. 15 and last for 60 days.
South Africa boasts 80 percent of the world's platinum deposits but producers have been hit by rising input costs, falling prices, safety stoppages and violent labour unrest.
Amplats' delay to consulting on the layoffs may give the company more time to sell its revival plan to the government or find alternatives, although analysts say other options would be limited.
'I don't actually know what they have achieved by all of this and I would be very surprised if anything changes,' said Justin Froneman, platinum analyst at SBG Securities in Johannesburg.
Amplats, which expects to post a loss for the 2012 financial year, says its outlined closure of two mines around the restive platinum belt city of Rustenburg is vital to restoring profitability.
'This is not about playing games. The company is in real trouble,' Griffith told the radio station.
Parent Anglo American, which on Tuesday announced a $4 billion writedown to its Minas-Rio iron ore project in Brazil, is under pressure to shore up margins and shareholders will want at least part of the Amplats' plan to go ahead.
Froneman said SBG Securities estimates the two mines to be put on 'care and maintenance' - which means an indefinite stoppage of production - between them had a gross loss of about 230 million rand ($25.58 million) last year.
Mining minister Susan Shabangu said Amplats had betrayed government trust earlier this month by announcing the plan to mothball shafts and lay off workers.
The African National Congress has been losing support in the mines as the ANC-linked National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) bleeds members in a turf war to the far more militant Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union (AMCU).
Rank-and-file perceptions of both the ANC and the NUM are that both have lost touch with the concerns of poor workers, in a country where unemployment officially runs at around 25 percent but most economists believe it exceeds 40 percent.
AMCU activists have vowed to shut all of Amplats' operations if the job cuts go ahead.
In a separate development, South Africa's third-largest gold producer Harmony Gold said on Tuesday it had made progress in talks with unions to reopen its Kusasalethu mine that did not restart after the Christmas holidays, threatening almost 6,000 jobs.
'We have made some progress today and we are one step closer to finding a sustainable solution. However, the mine remains closed until an agreement has been reached,' Harmony Chief Executive Graham Briggs said in a statement.
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