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The only charitable explanation is that Bobo wrote his column yesterday and it's a particularly ham-handed attempt at a joke. In "Freedom Loses One" he actually says that if same-sex marriage becomes the law of the land, it will be a victory for living in a society that induces you to narrow your choices and embrace your obligations. Now he's just fcking with us… Mr. Nocera, in "Investor Activism Gone Wild," says that if J.C. Penney succumbs to its financial troubles, a shareholder activist will shoulder much of the blame. Mr. Bruni likes it "When TV Takes Its Time." He says the answer to too many "Housewives" and too much forensic hullabaloo? The gentle tempo and steadfast puzzles of shows like Jane Campion's "Top of the Lake." Yeah, Frank. On the Sundance channel… We're on a fixed income and can't afford all those premium channels like HBO and Showtime, etc., etc., etc., so I guess I'm doomed to continue watching "Hoarders." (I file that one under "shit that makes me feel normal.") Here, FSM help us, is Bobo:
I don't think we've paused sufficiently to celebrate the wonderful recent defeat for the cause of personal freedom. After all, these sorts of defeats don't happen every day.
Over the past 40 years, personal freedom has been on a nearly uninterrupted winning streak. In the 1960s, we saw a great expansion of social and lifestyle freedom. In the 1980s, we saw a great expansion of economic freedom. Since then, we've had everything from jeans commercials to rock anthems to political conventions celebrating freedom as the highest ideal.
People are much more at liberty these days to follow their desires, unhampered by social convention, religious and ethnic traditions and legal restraints.
The big thinkers down through the ages warned us this was going to have downsides. Alexis de Tocqueville and Emile Durkheim thought that if people are left perfectly free to pursue their individual desires, they will discover their desires are unlimited and unquenchable. They'll turn inward and become self-absorbed. Society will become atomized. You'll end up with more loneliness and less community.
Other big thinkers believed that if people are left perfectly free to follow their desires, their baser ones will end up dominating their nobler ones. For these writers, the goal in life is not primarily to be free but to be good. Being virtuous often means thwarting your inclinations, obeying a power outside yourself. It means maintaining a balance between liberty and restraint, restricting freedom for the sake of an ordered existence. As Edmund Burke put it:
"Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites. … Society cannot exist unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere, and the less of it there is within, the more there must be without. It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters."
Recently, the balance between freedom and restraint has been thrown out of whack. People no longer even have a language to explain why freedom should sometimes be limited. The results are as predicted. A decaying social fabric, especially among the less fortunate. Decline in marriage. More children raised in unsteady homes. Higher debt levels as people spend to satisfy their cravings.
But last week saw a setback for the forces of maximum freedom. A representative of millions of gays and lesbians went to the Supreme Court and asked the court to help put limits on their own freedom of choice. They asked for marriage.
Marriage is one of those institutions — along with religion and military service — that restricts freedom. Marriage is about making a commitment that binds you for decades to come. It narrows your options on how you will spend your time, money and attention.
Whether they understood it or not, the gays and lesbians represented at the court committed themselves to a certain agenda. They committed themselves to an institution that involves surrendering autonomy. They committed themselves to the idea that these self-restrictions should be reinforced by the state. They committed themselves to the idea that lifestyle choices are not just private affairs but work better when they are embedded in law.
And far from being baffled by this attempt to use state power to restrict individual choice, most Americans seem to be applauding it. Once, gay culture was erroneously associated with bathhouses and nightclubs. Now, the gay and lesbian rights movement is associated with marriage and military service. Once the movement was associated with self-sacrifice, it was bound to become popular.
Americans may no longer have a vocabulary to explain why freedom should sometimes be constricted, but they like it when they see people trying to do it. Once Americans acknowledged gay people exist, then, of course, they wanted them enmeshed in webs of obligation.
I suspect that this shift in public acceptance will be permanent, unless it turns out that marriages are more unstable when two people of the same gender are involved.
And, who knows, maybe we'll see other spheres in life where restraints are placed on maximum personal choice. Maybe there will be sumptuary codes that will make lavish spending and C.E.O. salaries unseemly. Maybe there will be social codes so that people understand that the act of creating a child includes a lifetime commitment to give him or her an organized home. Maybe voters will restrain their appetite for their grandchildren's money. Maybe more straight people will marry.
The proponents of same-sex marriage used the language of equality and rights in promoting their cause, because that is the language we have floating around. But, if it wins, same-sex marriage will be a victory for the good life, which is about living in a society that induces you to narrow your choices and embrace your obligations.
It's been a while since I've served up a large plate of salted weasel dicks for Bobo, but this one deserves it. Here's Mr. Nocera:
William Ackman, the investor-activist who runs the $12 billion hedge fund, Pershing Square Capital, is like one of those guys you used to see in a certain kind of old-fashioned comedy. On one shoulder sits an angel, encouraging his better nature. On the other sits a devil, whispering temptation.
When he listens to the angel, Ackman does amazing things. He made a $25 million contribution to the Newark school system, an early and important match against the $100 million that Facebook's founder, Mark Zuckerberg, put up in September 2010. Yet unlike virtually every other actor involved in the Zuckerberg grant, who have been squabbling ever since, Ackman attached virtually no strings to his donation. He wants his money to be used to help Newark's schoolchildren — not to push someone's reform agenda.
Then there's his current Herbalife crusade. After making a $1 billion bet that the stock would fall, Ackman released a lengthy report alleging that the company was running an illegal pyramid scheme. I have been sadly constrained from writing columns about the Ackman-Herbalife battle because the company had the wit to hire my fiancée's employer, David Boies, after Ackman unveiled his attack. I was, as they say, "conflicted out."
But I will say this: Pyramid schemes are a hidden scourge, hurting millions of people seduced by their get-rich-quick promises. Until Ackman began agitating, the federal government had largely capitulated to the "multilevel marketing" industry (as it likes to be called), even exempting it from a law passed a few years ago specifically aimed at curbing pyramid schemes. Ackman has been heroic in taking on this litigious, well-financed industry. Not since Jim Chanos went after Enron has a hedge fund manager been willing to question whether a company was actually a criminal enterprise. That takes guts.
Also, his track record as an activist has been good; you don't get $12 billion in assets if you don't win more than you lose.
But there is always that devil on the other shoulder. A few years ago, Ackman took a position in Target's stock. Because of the recession, retailers such as Target were struggling. To get the stock up, Ackman began throwing out ideas that amounted to financial engineering. He then mounted an expensive proxy fight to get on the board, which thankfully, he lost. The stock has since rebounded. Target didn't need financial engineering; it just needed a better economy.
Which brings me to his latest retail foray, J.C. Penney. Is there a single word that can sum up what has befallen J.C. Penney since Ackman took a stake in the company? Yes: disaster.
J.C. Penney had long catered to lower-middle-class families searching for sales. Its chief executive, Mike Ullman, who had been at the helm since 2004, was widely viewed as solid, if a tad unimaginative. He had led J.C. Penney to some of the most profitable years in its history. But, by the fall of 2010, hurt by the same recession that hurt Target, Penney's stock was way down. That's when Ackman showed up.
Being a big-time activist-investor, Ackman could hardly allow Ullman to remain at the helm. Activists have to be, you know, active. Within a year, he landed the executive everyone in retail wanted: Ron Johnson, who had built Apple's retail business. Imagine: a Steve Jobs disciple was going to run downmarket J.C. Penney. What could possibly go wrong?
Pretty much everything. Johnson decided to eliminate the sales that had always been J.C. Penney's trademark and move to everyday low prices. He thus alienated the core J.C. Penney customer. He kept talking about how he was going to apply the lessons he had learned at Apple to J.C. Penney, even though the companies sold completely different products to completely different customers. As the core customers departed, Johnson and J.C. Penney didn't have the merchandise or cachet to attract a more upscale, Target-type customer. People abandoned J.C. Penney.
At the end of 2012, J.C. Penney announced that its revenues had fallen by a staggering $4.3 billion. It has laid off some 20,000 people. Walter Loeb, the former longtime retail analyst at Morgan Stanley who now blogs for Forbes.com, is predicting that its revenues will decline another 22 percent in the first quarter of 2013.
Lately, Johnson has brought back sales and devised a new strategy, revolving around "stores within stores" — selling merchandise much the way Bloomingdale's does. One of its ministores will be devoted to Martha Stewart-designed home goods. You may have read about that. Macy's, which says it has a contract that prevents Martha Stewart from selling housewares to other retailers, has sued. On the stand during the trial, I'm told, Johnson kept referring to his experience at Apple. Some people never learn.
The question is no longer whether Johnson will learn in time. If the quarter is as bad as Loeb is predicting, he'll be gone soon. The question is whether Ackman has learned anything. The next time the devil whispers in his ear, let's hope he doesn't listen.
And now here's Mr. Bruni, who enjoys classy TV shows:
If you haven't caught "Top of the Lake," a cryptic mini-series on the Sundance Channel right now, you owe yourself a peek, if only to behold and savor Holly Hunter, whose character is a mash-up of Pocahontas, the oracle at Delphi and Cousin Itt from "The Addams Family." She's all hair, her silvery mane accounting for easily half of her body weight and seemingly destined to sweep the ground. Perhaps when the character isn't providing terse counsel to the damaged women around her at an odd spiritual retreat, she moonlights as a broom.
Most of the women at the retreat, built from a network of colorful cargo containers arranged like gigantic Legos on the lip of the aforementioned lake, are on the lam from destructive relationships with men. One is on the lam from a destructive relationship with a chimpanzee as well. Still they can't help themselves. Their eyes rove to the scruffy local lads in the gorgeous patch of New Zealand where the story is set, and in the third of what will be seven episodes, a woman leaves her container to spend the night in the less Spartan digs of a lakeside drug lord. Minor spoiler alert: as she slips into his bed, he announces that he's impotent, and the day after, as they frolic sexlessly in the woods, he stumbles across his mother's grave, kneels in front of it and begins flagellating himself. This is a pretty good definition of a really bad date.
I'm mesmerized by "Top of the Lake," which is now halfway through its run, and friends who are watching it constantly bring it up. And what we're mainly responding to isn't the meat of the yarn, which focuses on the effort to unravel what happened to a 12-year-old girl who is about five months pregnant. It's the ancillary riddles and vaguely explained curiosities, like the interludes in Lego land. It's the gentle pacing. It's the way in which the mini-series, one of whose principal writers and directors is Jane Campion, insists on a certain opaqueness and bucks the bulk of what's on television, even in this golden age of the medium.
"Top of the Lake" belongs to a budding genre that several critics, including Alessandra Stanley in The Times and Matt Zoller Seitz in Salon, have called Slow TV. Stanley sagely noted the parallel to Slow Food, which rebelled against the metastasis of McDonald's outposts. Slow TV pushes back at the instant gratification and empty calories of too many elimination contests, too many reality shows, too many efficient, literal-minded forensic dramas that perhaps keep certain plot threads dangling but tie up the episode's main mystery by the hour's end.
The term Slow TV has multiple meanings, and has been applied to full-length chronicles of actual, incrementally unfolding events, like a ship's voyage, and to the practice of spacing out viewings of a fictional serial's episodes rather than watching them in a marathon session. But I think it's best deployed in the way Stanley and then Seitz, writing about such shows as "Treme" and "Game of Thrones," used it: to describe unrushed, atmospheric narratives.
Slow TV mines the pleasures of ambiguity, which are affirmed, as it happens, by one of the best movies I've recently seen, "Room 237," a documentary in limited theatrical release and on cable TV. The title refers to a detail in Stanley Kubrick's film adaptation of "The Shining," and the documentary recounts the riot of messages and meanings that obsessive fans have read into Kubrick's lone foray into horror.
It's a testament, hilarious at times, to the human genius for overanalysis. One "Shining" fan points to a German-made typewriter in the movie to support his theory that it's a Holocaust parable; another cites the feathered-headdress logo on baking-powder cans in a few scenes for his belief that "The Shining" is about the massacre of American Indians. A desktop paper tray is determined to be a metaphoric erection, and so on. The abstruseness of some of "The Shining" is arguably a flaw, but "Room 237" reminds you that only an artistic work that resists tidy explanation can accommodate such enjoyable flights of interpretive fancy.
Ambiguity has never been what TV values most, "Twin Peaks" excepted. But it was central to "The Killing," which highlighted an additional characteristic of Slow or Slowish TV, the willingness to wander off the main road and down an intriguing cul-de-sac, as "Girls" did in a discrete episode with Patrick Wilson as a guest star. Another HBO series, "Enlightened," partly redeemed its irritations with its habits of straying, and of lingering: on a sigh, on a glare, on a soulless office building. It cared as much for mood as for plot.
The same is true of "Top of the Lake," which preserves some enigmas, hirsute and otherwise, and surrenders others on its own timetable, making you wait and making you work. Just like life.


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The last few weeks were deeply disturbing for most Americans. Most were shocked by the pictures out of Abu Ghraib, pictures of scenes that are usually viewed only in pornographic movies. These pictures raised the question for many as to how American soldiers could commit such acts, while some questioned whether these soldiers are, indeed, a force for good in that country. In the ensuing frenzy, it has become clear that abuse of Iraqi prisoners goes well beyond what is depicted in those photos, is long-standing, and has been pointed out to US officials by numerous individuals and human rights organizations. While launching secret investigations of a few individuals, these officials did little to mitigate the overall climate of abuse.
As we were reeling from the impact of these photos, word came of the brutal execution by beheading of American businessman and hostage Nic Berg. Images of beheading, previously witnessed only by those choosing to view the most violent of horror movies, has entered our everyday world of work and family and spring flowers.
In response to these appalling events, some of us turn off the news, blot out the horror, and return to our daily lives. Others demand retribution, talk of the evils of Islamic fundamentalists, or of Islam itself, and of the need to eradicate this evil, down to the last Iraqi. This urge for retribution is a natural human characteristic, albeit especially strong in both American and Arabic cultures. "An eye for an eye" the Old Testament teaches. Of course, those who perpetrated this beheading also claimed the mantle of retribution, for the abuses in Abu Ghraib in their case. An eye for an eye can continue in a persistently escalating cycle of violence and horror.
While seeking out and punishing those few who committed this horrendous crime is a reasonable response, it in no way can justify the
Reflection requires us to look within ourselves, to ground our thoughts in an awareness of the potential for rage and violence that lurks within each of us. If the human race learned anything in the 20th century, it was that violence and "evil" are not characteristics only of those among us who perform loathsome acts, but that most, if not all, of us are capable, given the right circumstances, of committing acts of which we would be ashamed. The Holocaust taught us this.
Reflection also requires us to contemplate the other, the Iraqis. A just approach to
Three recent polls of Iraqis give a glimpse of what they want. A poll by USA Today and CNN, completed in early April — before that month's massive uprising and this month's prison abuse scandal — found that 56% of Iraqis wanted American troops to leave immediately, whatever the dangers. Fifty-eight percent felt that US troops had behaved either "fairly badly" or "very badly." And 67% felt that American troops were not trying at all "to keep ordinary Iraqis from being killed or wounded during exchanges of gunfire." These results included the generally pro-American Kurdish areas; in the non-Kurdish areas, people were even more anti-occupation. Remember, these results reflect Iraqi opinion before the past tumultuous month in which hundreds of civilians were killed in the siege of Falluja, and in which the Red Cross, the former Iraqi Human Rights Minister, and numerous others revealed they had been complaining of American brutality toward prisoners for many months, only to be met with silence.
Another poll conducted by the
So, Iraqis have spoken. They have told us what they want. If democracy means anything, it means listening to the will of the overwhelming majority. They want us to leave their country. They want us to let Iraqis decide their own future, with whatever international help they choose.
So at this time of horror, we can choose the path of retribution, acting tough and escalating our struggle with the major factions of Iraqi society wanting an end to occupation and the post-occupation
Stephen Soldz ([email protected]) is a psychoanalyst and faculty member at the Institute for the Study of Violence of the Boston Graduate School of Psychoanalysis. He is also a founder of Psychoanalysts for Peace and Justice, and maintains the Iraq Occupation and Resistance Report web page.

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Huskers continue bowl game workouts
Lincoln, Neb. - The Nebraska football team practiced for two hours inside the Hawks Championship Center on Tuesday in preparation for its New Year's Day Capital One Bowl matchup with Georgia. Offensive Coordinator Tim Beck met with media after practice for the first time since the Big Ten Championship Game.
Beck talked about the challenge the Husker offense will face when playing a stout Georgia defense. The Bulldogs boast the No. 2 pass defense in the SEC, allowing only 172 yards per game. Georgia also has one of the most dynamic defenders in the country in junior linebacker Jarvis Jones, the SEC Defensive Player of the Year. Jones is second in the SEC with 12.5 sacks this season, while leading the conference in tackles for loss (22.5) and forced fumbles (7).
"They are very athletic," Beck said of Georgia's defense. "They are a typical good SEC defense."
With senior I-back Rex Burkhead back and fully healthy, Beck likes the added dimension Burkhead brings to the already potent NU offense.
"It is great to see him back out here having fun," Beck said. "The injury was something on the back of his mind, now he is a lot more carefree, I am really happy for him."
With all of the senior leadership the Huskers carry this season, Beck hopes that the class goes out the right way with a victory in the last game of their careers.
"These guys lay it out on the line every week, they play really hard, and I am proud of them," Beck said. "I want to see them go out the right way."
Going into the Capital One Bowl with a 10-3 record, Beck believes beating Georgia would provide a huge boost of momentum going into next season.
"I think (a win) would be huge, Georgia is a great football team," Beck said. "It will get the bad taste out of our mouths and get us to 11 wins. Carrying that into next season, offensively we are young, we only are losing a couple of seniors and we are getting most of our guys back, so I think it would be something great to build on."
Beck also noted that graduate assistant Vince Marrow hopes to still coach in the bowl game even though he recently accepted a full-time assistant job at Kentucky.
Check back at Huskers.com for more coverage Thursday as the Nebraska football team continues to prepare for the Capital One Bowl. The Huskers and Bulldogs kick off at Noon (Central) on New Year's Day,
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You'll soon be seeing cars with a license plate reading, "I'm Cajun and Proud." It's the latest specialty license plate to be revealed Tuesday and by sporting one on your car you also help support the French immersion program.
House Bill 147 created the specialty plates and was passed by the Louisiana Legislature this past summer. Breaux Bridge State Representative Mike Huval, who sponsored the bill, says by purchasing the plate, you're supporting our region's French culture and heritage.
Huval goes on to say that the annual fee for the specialty plates is $15.00, with $11.50 of that going towards French Immersion Programs.
Below is a list of DMV offices that carry the "I'm Cajun…And Proud" plates:
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Definitely a fully loaded weekend of boxing! As always, this isn't everything that's on this weekend.
A lot of light heavyweight matches. A division that I like because 175lbers can be very strong, can have insane technical ability and still be very fast. Same thing for 168lbrs, but lt. heavy's are obviously stronger.
Tony 'Bomber' Bellew vs. Danny 'The Big Mac' McIntosh @ 175lbs - Even though McIntosh is the Big Mac, I think that Tony Bellew's the big name in this one. I'm not such a fan of Bellew's and think that if Cleverly fought him again, he'd beat him even more convincingly. Nonethless, Bellew/McIntosh should be an entertaining scrap.
Ismayl Sillakh vs. Denis 'the Pirate' Grachev @ 175lbs - I'm a big fan of Sillakh's. His well balanced and punishing win over the promising young Cuban boxer, Yordanis Despaigne, on FNF was an eye opener. Don't know much about Grachev, but he's undefeated and Syllakh should not look past him.
Javier 'el Abejon' Fortuna vs. Yuandale 'Money Shot' Evans @ 130lbs - Both guys are undefeated. Someone's '0' has got to go!
Thomas 'Tommy Gun' Oosthuizen vs. Marcus 'Too Much' Johnson @ 168lbs - The undefeated South African takes on the one defeat having Marcus Johnson.
Luis 'Orlandito' Del Valle vs. Christopher 'S.D. Kid' Martin @ 122lbs - This division was highlighted in last weekend's boxing (with these small guys, until they get to 135, for me they're almost all in the same divsion). Del Valle's undefeated, Martin's got one loss.
Joe 'the Future' Hanks vs. Marcus 'the Regulator' Rhode@ HW - Joe 'the Future' Hanks is young and undefeated. Rhode is either the sacrificial lamb, or a veteran test - more likely the lamb to the slaughter (or the spoiler).
Bernard 'the Executioner' Hopkins vs. 'Bad' Chad Dawson @ 175lbs - A rematch that should have fight fans interested. I know that I am.
Seth 'Mayhem' Mitchell vs. Chazz "the Gentleman' Witherspoon @ HW - Mitchell's the 'establishment' guy and Witherspoon's planning on raining on that parade. Could be a solid HW match!
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Vyacheslav Senchenko vs. Paulie 'Magic Man' Malignaggi @ 147lbs - Senchenko's undefeated, but the question is what was the quality of opposition and we all know that Paulie's been in there with some top names. Can Paulie make Brooklyn as proud as Zab Judah recently did?


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If you haven't registered to vote yet, the deadline is just a few weeks away.
Tuesday is National Voter Registration Day, and thousands of local, state and national organizations are mobilizing to make sure millions of people don't miss the chance to cast their vote in this year's elections. There are already more than 717,000 registered voters in Fairfax County, according to August statistics from the State Board of Elections.
Nationwide, an estimated 6 million people didn't vote in the 2008 elections because they either did not know how to register or because they missed the voter registration deadline.
The voter registration deadline in Virginia this year is Oct. 15.
Fairfax County's website has a lot of useful information for people who need to register or have questions about whether their current voter registration is valid. If you have moved from the address on your voter registration card or changed your name, you need to re-register. ( Instructions on how to do so are here.)
Here's information on how residents can register in time for the Nov. 6 elections:
- Fill out a voter registration form in person at the Fairfax County Office of Elections, 12000 Government Center Pkwy., Suite 323 in Fairfax. The hours are Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., with extended hours Thursdays from 8 a.m. to 7 p.m.You can call 703-324-4700 for 24-hour recorded information.
- Download a voter registration form from the State Board of Elections website, fill it out and return it to Fairfax County Office of Elections, P.O. Box 10161, Fairfax, VA 22038-8061. It must be postmarked by Oct. 15.
- You may also pick up a voter registration form at any public library, Department of Motor Vehicles office or several other locations ( listed here).
If you aren't sure of the status of your voter registration, you can check it by going to the Virginia Board of Elections voter registration status service site.
For more on this year's elections, click on our elections tab at the top of this page!


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Equal Parenting
Child Custody: Making Shared Custody The Right Of Every Child
Dr. Linda Gottlieb discusses the importance of a child's right to equal parenting time after divorce.
Parental Alienation: When The "Best Interest of The Child" Fails
Author and therapist Linda Gottlieb discusses the the negative consequences of a flawed divorce court system on children.
How Important Are Single Fathers?
Children need their father in their life and they eat up every second that he can give. Because he does not live in their house anymore, does not mean he is not needed. Nothing compares to the time a child of divorce spends with a father.
Why Is Equal Pareting After Divorce Important?
Below are excerpts from a few studies that back up my belief that equal parenting after divorce is what is in our "children's best interest."
Father Child Reunion: My Opinion
I've recently decided to create a category on the Divorce Support site dedicated to Equal Parenting, a subject that can't be covered without first reading Father and Child Reunion.
Shared Parenting Myths
Shared parenting refers to a joint custody arrangement where both parents share approximately equal parenting time. However, it is an option that is still widely misunderstood, as evidenced in these shared parenting myths.
Shared Parenting Legislation
Shared parenting refers to joint physical custody, where both parents share approximately equal parenting time and are equally recognized by the law as the legal guardians of their children.
Father's Rights Organizations
An annotated, alphabetical list of organizations that advocate father's rights and shared parenting.
Father's Rights and Child Abandonment Don't Mix
How successful will the Father's Rights Movement be if they continue to associate with angry men who blame women for their problems?
American Coalition for Fathers and Children
The members of the American Coalition for Fathers and Children dedicate themselves to the creation of a family law system and public awareness which promotes equal rights for ALL parties affected by issues of the modern family.
Fathers Unite
Dedicated to restoring justice and equal rights to both parents during divorce.


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A Tampa couple faces a charge of aggravated child abuse for leaving their young son strapped in his car seat for several hours.
The incident happened on April 16th, outside the family's home on 127th Avenue East. Investigators say both Alexander Rosario and Douceaymee Lopez-Alvarez thought the other had brought the 23-month-old boy in from the car. He remained there, strapped in his car seat, for about eight hours before the parents realized what had happened.
No charges were filed at the time, and the case was turned over to the State Attorney's Office. Thursday, the Sheriff's Office announced that Rosario and Lopez-Alvarez have been arrested on a charge of aggravated child abuse.
The 23-month-old has been released from the hospital. He and his siblings are in the care of the Child Protective Investigations Division.
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Postgame Notes - TCU 39, West Virginia 38
TCU 39, West Virginia 38
TCU Tops No. 23 West Virginia in 2OT
The Frogs rallied from 10 points down to force the game into OT
2012 Preview: Tight Ends Look To Impress
Competition strong at the position
Frog Student-Athletes Set for Commencement
Fifty-four Frogs expected to earn degrees Saturday
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Fifty-four Frogs expected to earn degrees Saturday
2012: Played in all 13 games and made seven starts ... started each of the last four games of the year ... leads TCU tight ends with seven catches for 80 yards ... averaging 11.4 yards per catch ... recorded his first catch of the year at SMU ... added another against Iowa State ... his one catch against West Virginia was a 25-yard touchdown grab on TCU's lone play of the second overtime ... made two grabs against Kansas State ... hauled in two catches in the Thanksgiving night win at Texas, including a career-long 35-yarder.
2011: Provided depth at the tight end position, appearing in all 13 games with four starts ... had two catches for 35 yards ... had an 18-yard grab against SMU ... hauled in a 17-yard reception at Wyoming.
2010: Played in 10 games ... recorded his first career reception with a 19-yard grab at Colorado State ... came back the next week with an 11-yard catch against Wyoming.
2009: Appeared in eight games ... did not have any receptions.
2008: Redshirted in his first season on campus.
High School: First-team All-State as a senior ... was also the district Most Valuable Player ... recorded 12 touchdown catches among his 32 receptions for 760 yards ... totaled 37 tackles and two interceptions on defense ... a first-team all-district cornerback as a junior when he recorded 40 tackles, including seven for a loss, to go with five interceptions, five forced fumbles and four fumble recoveries ... had 20 receptions for 500 yards and eight touchdowns ... also lettered in basketball and track and field ... was a regional qualifier in the 110-meter hurdles.
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The hearts of many in the Seaholm High School community are hurting this week after senior Collin Trask, 18, passed away Tuesday after a long battle with cancer.
Diagnosed in seventh grade, Trask suffered for several years from a medulloblastoma, a kind of brain tumor that lodged itself in Trask's brain and spinal cord.
After suffering a stroke on Jan. 15, Trask passed away around 6 a.m. Tuesday morning, according to his Care Pages profile. Trask turned 18 years old Jan. 16 and would have graduated from Seaholm this spring.
Trask is the son of John and Myra Trask of Troy. He also leaves behind his older sister Patty and his grandparents Jack and Dorothy Trask and Evelyn Gibbons.
Trask was a longtime hero in the Seaholm community, with students showing pouring out their support through candlelight vigils, fundraisers and on social media, using the hashtags #teamcollin and #prayforcollin.
In February 2012, the student newspaper Seaholm Highlander, which chronicled Trask's last few years, called him " the toughest kid at Seaholm."
"I think a lot," Trask told the Highlander in February 2012 about maintaining a positive attitude. "You have to realize that there's no reason to worry about things that are beyond your control, and just do things to make life more enjoyable."
A fan of Legos and football, Trask saw the Pittsburgh Steelers win Super Bowl XLIII in 2009, courtesy of the Rainbow Connection. And, in August, Trask met his baseball hero, Al Kaline of the Detroit Tigers.
During the final months of his illness, Trask was confined to his home and the hospital, though according to his Care Pages journal, he was able to enjoy his last Christmas with his family even though his health continued to decline.
"Christmas was the traditional time for the four of us," the journal reads. "We open gifts in the morning one package at a time. Taking turns so that everyone can see all the other gifts."
"In the days following Christmas, Collin has been able to enjoy playing a couple of the new video games he received and put together one of his Lego sets," the journal adds. "However, his energy level has been waning. He sleeps longer into the day and is up for shorter periods of time. He has had a few visits from friends, but needs to keep them much shorter."
Already, there's been an oupouring of support for Trask's family and friends on Care Pages and Twitter.
"Thank you for sharing Collin with all of us," Ruth Copley writes on Care Pages. "He was such a fine and brave young man. He was the strongest person I've ever known. He will always be a part of us and a part of each of us went with him."
"Collin Trask was a true inspiration," Scott Anderson tweeted Wednesday. "His strong battle taught me a lesson of courage and toughness."
A public visitation for Trask will be held from 2 to 8 p.m. Friday at the Desmond & Sons Funeral Home in Troy, at 2600 Crooks Rd.
A funeral service, meanwhile, will be held at 10:30 a.m. Saturday at the First Baptist Church in Birmingham, at 300 Willits St. Visitation begins at the church at 9 a.m. and a light luncheon will follow. Trask will be interred at the White Chapel Cemetery in Troy.
Memorial tributes may be made to the Rainbow Connection, at 621 West University Rd. in Rochester. Visit rainbowconnection.org for more information.
"We appreciate that so many of you have been earnestly praying for Collin," the last entry on Trask's Care Pages journal reads. "He is now free from cancer and free from pain. He is resting in peace at home with his Father in Heaven."


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Color Kinetics Incorporated announced the appointment of two new distribution partners in the UK. In addition, the company will support the local lighting industry as a new member of the European Lighting Designers Association (ELDA).
Color Kinetics' Q4 2005 revenues from European sales increased 102% year over year, including contributions from the UK market. Today Color Kinetics' lighting systems are applied in many notable local installations. Most recently they were used to light the beacon atop a 22-story residential tower in London's Tabard Square–allowing it to change color according to barometric conditions. As the atmospheric pressure changes, the color of the beacon changes, providing a measurement of weather conditions that is visible for many miles across the city.
Other installations of note include Plantation Place, Great Ormond Street Hospital, City Place House, and 27 Knightsbridge in London, the Corner House in Nottingham, and the Fruitmarket Gallery in Edinburgh. Color Kinetics' systems were also used to light the set of The X Factor–one of the UK's top-watched entertainment programs with an estimated 10 million viewers.
"We are very pleased with the sales growth achieved in 2005, and we look forward to working with our new distribution partners to make continued strides in 2006. We now have the broadest sales coverage in Europe in the company's history to date," said Neil Gamble, Director of European Sales.
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The area was completely roped off from the public, and authorities say the bomb was taken off site to detonate and dispose of it around one a.m. Sunday morning.
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"I just like to be free, up in the air," Duyane Hoffman says.
Hoffman spent more than 30 years of his life as a pilot, even flying during World War II.
"Here's a 22 year old guy going across the ocean," Hoffman recalls. "How lucky can you get?"
But last year, the 92-year-old thought his luck was running out.
"I began to run out of air when I was talking," Hoffman says. "I couldn't finish sentences. I'd have to take a deep breath."
Hoffman was diagnosed with aortic stenosis. Calcification caused the aortic valve in his heart to stiffen, preventing it from fully opening. His heart was having a hard time pumping blood to the rest of his body.
'The normal aortic valve for a normal patient should be more than 2 cm square that is bigger than a quarter coin," Jose Arias, M.D. , a cardiologist at Florida Hospital, explains. "People that have aortic stenosis, the aortic valve is so narrow, it's equal to probably the seed of an apple."
The only fix -- replacing his valve, but at Hoffman's age, open heart surgery wasn't an option.
"I saw the doctor and he said, 'Well if you can make it for six more months, we might have something for you,'" Hoffman says.
That something is the new TAVR procedure at Florida Hospital, which requires just a few tiny incisions.
(Doctors thread a catheter through a patient's leg and into their heart. A new valve and stent are sent up the catheter, where are a balloon expands, putting it over the old valve.
"It's really amazing going [from] a pretty invasive procedure, full chest open, stop your heart [and] now we are doing this deployment of a new valve in a beating heart," Dr. Arias says.
And the recovery time is minimal.
"By the end of the day, there was hardly any pain," Hoffman says.
He was back up on his feet in a week, and he doesn't plan on slowing down any time soon.
"Just keep going, that's all," Hoffman says. "I have no more plans to fly or anything like that."
Hoffman was the first person in Central Florida to have the TAVR procedure performed.
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Voted For Michael H. MichaudJust saw the debate. Levesque really has a temper, doesn't he? 19 car convictions since 1991! Only 9 were speeding, what were the others? He looked ready to fight Michaud in the debate. I would not want him in Congress disagreeing with someone and harming them. He obviously has a temper and is driven, but if he can't follow rules, how can he make them? How can he represent us when he is so obviously a person who does not go easily. To get effective legislatiJn done, one needs to be able to reach across the aisle. He's not the man for me!
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Despite some delays and the threat of heavy rain, fireworks lit up the Atlanta sky on Thursday.Folks anxious for some Fourth of July fun braved the wet weather at Lenox Square for one of the Southeast's largest displays. The event started with a heavy dousing, but that didn't dampen the spirits of diehards, some who sought shelter under umbrellas and tents.Although an early deluge delayed the opening act on the entertainment stage, a variety of musical acts got the show underway later in the night. While the crowd was thinned by the rain, many said they had come from communities that had cancelled or postponed their fireworks' shows. "We came from Carrollton because every fireworks, all out in the area there -- Villa Rica, Carrolton, Franklin and all those -- have been cancelled because of the weather," said Ronnie Lee. More than 5,000 fireworks were used in the 16-minute show. An apparent technical glitch midway caused about a delay for about 15 minutes, but the show concluded just after 10 p.m.
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The Marietta Daily Journal Tuesday reported (http://bit.ly/VYGu1a) McCullum, of Marietta, was walking on the train tracks near Whitlock Avenue Monday evening when he was hit by a train.
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Washington, DC— President Bush betrayed investors and damaged American markets by pressuring Solicitor General Paul Clement to steer clear of a pending U.S. Supreme Court case that may still provide shareholders with enhanced tools to hold negligent CEOs accountable for misconduct.
"This outrage is a presidential pardon for corporate wrongdoers," said Jon Haber, chief executive officer of the American Association for Justice. "It clearly establishes beyond any doubt that President Bush has no regard for small investors and will do everything within his broad powers to ride to the rescue of his corporate cronies."
The case, Stoneridge Investment v. Scientific-Atlanta, turns on the question of whether investors can pursue lawsuits to recover investment losses from investment banks, attorneys, accountants and other parties believed to have been involved in a fraudulent scheme involving their corporate clients. The Supreme Court is expected to consider the case during its next term. The outcome could determine whether victims of the Enron scandal can proceed with a $40 billion lawsuit against investment banks that dealt with Enron.
The Securities and Exchange Commission, which regulates the markets and is led by former Republican Congressman Christopher Cox, urged the solicitor general, who represents the administration's views before the Supreme Court, to file a brief in support of investors. Clement declined, after receiving word the president was opposed. Now the administration has 30 days to decide whether to support the defendant corporations or not participate at all.
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BROKEN or worn small electrical items could win one lucky Somerset resident a £100 prize during Recycle Week June 16-23.
The free £100 prize draw is being offered as an incentive for any adult taking in a worn or broken small electrical item to any of the county's 16 recycling centres as they deposit other waste during Recycle Week.
Small electrical includes anything portable or handheld with a plug or batteries or both.
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The £100 free prize draw has been organised by waste firm Viridor, which runs Somerset's recycling centres, and Somerset Waste Partnership (SWP).
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After completing years of training, earning their certifications, and memorizing more than 500 Pilates movements, aspiring instructors still aren't ready for recruitment at Vita Movement. Owner Patricia A. Robinson looks for one other crucial quality on potential résumés: adaptability. She and her highly trained staff members distinguish their teaching from rote instruction by making personal adjustments for each client. These modifications can be minute or broad, and cater to different fitness levels as well as conditions such as injury or pregnancy. In fact, Patricia specializes in pre- and postnatal workouts, regimens that have been featured on 9 News for their ability to reduce the physical stresses of motherhood. No matter the course, instructors keep a careful eye on their pupils' progress, displaying the keen attention to anatomical detail that helped them win the award for Best Pilates Studio on the 2011 Denver A-List.
The studio keeps its sessions intimate to better tailor its lessons. Reformers by Balanced Body line the brightly lit space, vying for attention with Wunda Chairs and other equipment in addition to a supply of mats, bands, and rollers. The machinery helps tone and strengthen bodies' "powerhouse," or core, relying on springs for resistance as students stretch into adapted Pilates motions. In addition to Pilates courses, such as jump-board and Reformer classes, students can partake in TRX suspension training and indoor cycling. Pilates Vita also acts as a boutique gym, granting members full access to the all equipment as well as three genie wishes that don't involve flying or the ability to eat 12 wedding cakes without getting sick.
A third-generation railroad man, Dr. John M. Birmingham wanted to honor his family's vocation with a monument to trains' role in American expansion. So in 1965, he purchased two early locomotives and refurbished the former Anaconda train station, originally built in 1894, to serve as his ticket office. Offering tours that showcase the area's rich history as a gold-mining hub, the Cripple Creek & Victor Narrow Gauge Railroad opened for business in June 1967.
Ever since, Birmingham's iron horses have chugged through the countryside from mid-May to mid-October every year. Four trains, each a 15-ton coal-fired locomotive, now complete a 4-mile, roughly 45-minute loop from Cripple Creek, past the Midland Terminal Wye, and back to the station, passing many historical mines on the way. Passengers find themselves transported back to the early mining days as a knowledgeable guide narrates the picturesque trip and serves up tidbits of local lore. The train stops briefly for photo opportunities at several points, including Echo Valley and wherever there's a sasquatch willing to give people bunny ears.
Within Game Shack's digital den, flat-screen TVs line the walls, flickering with the polygonal derring-do of gamers locked in virtual competition with titles for platforms including Xbox, Wii, and PC. While their plush leather video-game chairs make extended sessions as comfortable as they are engaging, Game Shack also brings games to life in their multi-floor, tiered laser-tag arena. Illuminated by black lights, players take aim at opponents against a tropical-themed backdrop depicting a moonlit waterfall, a spooky temple, and tiki men impersonating their favorite Bond villains. The party room hosts large groups for celebrations such as birthdays and special events, with party packages available that arm each member with unlimited laser tag and console gaming. Game Shack also hosts competitive-gaming events, with an official Elo-based ranking system that assigns seeding for tournaments. As players dash and game to their hearts' delight, the Snack Shack keeps them properly fueled with food such as pizza, hot dogs, chicken wings, Monster energy drinks, and sodas.
Fort Collins Classroom's teachers blend intensive instruction with hands-on practice in classes that range from nonprofit education to real estate to languages to paranormal studies. Between conjugating verbs, writing grants, or conducting a symphony of squeaky pens on a dry-erase board, pupils will often analyze research from prestigious institutions such as Duke University or the U.S. military.
James Hiromasa is an authority on krav maga, the self-defense technique that's used by the Israeli Defense Forces. He's on the krav maga advisory board, he regularly trains krav maga instructors, and he has received two krav maga certifications from the Wingate Institute in Israel. His wife, Shannon Lukeman-Hiromasa, also punched her way to two krav maga certifications from Wingate, and earned a CrossFit certification to boot. Together, they've pooled their krav maga, martial arts, and fitness expertise to not only open Colorado Krav Maga, but expand it to four locations. For an idea of the size of the operation, the duo and their staff's krav maga, CrossFit, and martial arts programs collectively combine for more than 55 classes each week, or one for every member in an orchestra.
Total Chaos Paintball brings video games into vivid reality, hosting colorful, officiated skirmishes on a 12,000-square-foot indoor battleground modeled after the Wasteland map from Call of Duty 2. Under constant pursuit by the opposing team, combatants duck down alleyways, hide behind urban debris, or outwit fast-moving opponents with quick presses of the pause button. The center can also simulate the stress of nighttime operations, killing the lights while a sound system broadcasts high-octane tunes to keep heart rates accelerated.


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Lightning Delays Starts of Soccer Season Opener
Kickoff is scheduled for 7:55 p.m.
Soccer Opens WSU Fall Season Hosting TCU
Cougars and Horned Frogs tangle, Friday.
Nicole Setterlund Among Nation's Best
TopDrawerSoccer lists Cougar midfielder in its Top 100.
Cougar Soccer Wraps Up Fall Camp
Washington State opens its season at home, Friday.
Nicole Setterlund Named Preseason All-American
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we are considering doing up a cottage we own in kildare , we currently live in meath.
My husband and I were given this cottage, outbuiling plue 3/4 acre.
We have had t building project comany have a look at the cottage ,stables for us and what they said and recommended to us was the following.
1) Knock all internal walls,chimneys as they are damp , this would give us a open plan to work with,
2) Roofs to be redone and raised currently the ceilings from floor to ceiling are 6ft so raise them another bit.
3)New sewerage system required which we knew.Planning Required for this
4) Take up the floors as they are damp and replace.
5) Inject Damp proof membrane into the external walls.
6)Convert the stables into living quarters ie bedrooms.Planning required
The cottage on its own stands at 1000sq foot.
Stables would give us about 400/500 sq foot
Extension of 40sq meters would give us about 400 sq foot.My maths aint great:)
We reckon our only problem may be with getting planning to convert the stables to bedrooms etc,we are not 100% sure. we are tryin to get the heritage office involved as the cottage is 90+ yrs old my husbands great grandfather was born there and its on his fathers land.
We have allowed a budget of 100k , do you think this is realistic ? the builders have said yes they would work on that budget and we have allowed abother 20k for the unknown.
Does an architect do the following ?
draw up the plans,
submit the planning for us
follow up on any problems with the planning gang
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Elderly Corringham resident hit by cruel distraction burglary
4:50pm Thursday 2nd January 2014 in News By Matt Abbott, Chief Reporter
A CALLOUS thief tricked his way into a vulnerable pensioner's Corringham home before raiding her bedroom and making off with her handbag and some cash.
At around 1.30pm last Friday - just two days after Christmas - the conman knocked on the door of the woman's bungalow in Lampits Hill Avenue and told her he needed to turn the water off in her home as a property down the road was flooded.
The woman, in her seventies, obliged and took the man through to the kitchen.
But when the thief instructed her to check the taps in the bathroom, he went to her bedroom, pocketed some cash and made off with her handbag, driving away in a gold Mercedes.
Dc Suzanne O'Neill, investigating the incident, said: "This man is somebody's partner, son, brother or potentially father and so we urge them to contact us with his name. We want him off the streets so that he doesn't have a chance to target another elderly, vulnerable person.
"We also hope that sightings of his distinctive car will trigger people into calling us with its location."
Police have released an efit of the man, is described as white, aged in his late 20s, is approximately 5ft 4ins tall and spoke with an Irish accent.
Anyone with information in connection with this burglary is urged to contact detectives at Grays police station on 101.
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They should surely be looking for uniforms, badges, ID... anything and if in doubt I'd make them stay on the doorstep while I called the relevant authority.
I refuse to believe that because people are over 70 they suddenly lose all sense of reasoning.
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ID cards need to be taken from the visitor and checked behind closed doors, a quick flash of a card means nothing!
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'No need for panic but be vigilant' says senior police officer
4:40pm Friday 8th February 2013 in News By Kathryn Snowdon, Senior Reporter
A senior police officer has warned residents in Bushey to be vigilant after a rise in burglaries in the town in recent weeks.
Seven properties have been broken into during the last week of January and first week of February. Police said although the recent spree represents a sudden increase in burglaries across Bushey, the number since the beginning of 2013 had been lower than in the same time last year.
Hertsmere's Chief Inspector, Dean Patient, said the recent numbers are a concern and they need the public's help.
Chief Inspector Patient said: "I want people to be vigilant and aware."
He added there had been a number of arrests in connection with these latest burglaries.
This year's crime statistics are level with last year's, which showed a 33 per cent reduction in burglaries compared to the year before.
Chief Inspector Patient said: "We are now back to neutral as before these most recent break-ins, we were on a reduction."
The most recent incidences are not typically taking place at night, which are commonly known as "creeper burglaries".
Instead, they are more likely to take place in the late afternoons and early evenings, predominantly by accessing people's gardens and conservatories.
Chief Inspector Patient said he did not want the public to panic but rather to be properly informed. He added that stopping the burglaries was being treated by police as top priority.
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Scientists counting clams on the Colorado River Delta say
the region has lost 95 percent of its biological richness since
Hoover Dam was built in the 1930s.
Environmentalists say a bill intended to speed up the dam
relicensing process at the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
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Patricia Mulroy, general manager of Las Vegas Valley Water
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The ratings for UFC 75 on Spike TV from this past Saturday, and they're pretty damn good.
According to Spike TV, the show drew a 3.1 overall (3 million total homes) rating for a staggering 4.7 million viewers (I think the are factoring in multiple people watching at individual homes). The telecast peaked at 5.6 million viewers during the main event featuring Quinton "Rampage" Jackson and Dan Henderson in a UFC vs. PRIDE 205 lbs. unification title match.
Looking at the breakdown of demographics, the show drew a 5.7 (1.6 million homes) when it came to males between the ages of 18-34; for males 18-49 it drew a 4.5 (2.5 million); and a whopping 6.2 (1 million) for males 25-34.
If the UFC can't bolster its sponsor roster with ratings like that, I'm not sure what else they need to do. UFC 75 was the most watched mixed martial arts event in North American history.
The show did very well in the key male demos against its competition. In the male 18-49 demo is outdrew Oregon vs. Michigan on ABC, NASCAR on ABC, Virginia Tech vs. LSU on ESPN, and Penn St. vs. Notre Dame on ESPN.
For males 18-34, it outdrew all those events with the lone exception being NASCAR.
Hey, here's a random thought pertaining to the UFC and Spike TV. Why not make the Michael Bisping vs. Matt Hamill rematch another edition of "Bad Blood" and televise it live and free on Spike?
i cannot imagine how showing one title fight and some "bad blood" or otherwise interesting matchups featuring TUF fighters a year in a free event could hurt their bottom line, not with spike ponying up dough. if it keeps making spike money, then ESPN and the biggies perk up. they love money.
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I wonder if this success will lead the UFC to air more PPV events for free on TV? Certainly this business model has worked for PRIDE/K-1 in Japan…
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Great idea with Bisping-Hamill. They could promote the hell out of that.
If they don't do an event in January (and it doesn't look like they will), that'd be a great bridge between the Dec. 29 and SuperBowl card.
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[...] Yet another stellar showing from the UFC. Here is a snipit from the information that Sam Caplan [...]
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I will say this, I don't think I have ever seen a fighter that was hated by so many (Hamill) fight a fighter loved by so many (Bisping) end up losing the fight but at the same time due to judges & Bispings disgraceful post fight speech, end up gaining more fans then he could have ever imagined.
Hamill from hated to loved, in a matter of 15 minutes! He even had the gaul to come into a English venue and a pro-british crowd with "born in the USA" and he still won a majority of them over by the time the fight had ended. From boo's to cheers. Really amazing.
Has this scenario ever played out before?
I have never seen the volume of response from 1 fight before. People lit up the message boards over this fight.
Spike could make a "bad blood" show because of that fight and it would get great ratings.
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Fans love winners. They don't care about nationalities.
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I bet that UFC75 was broadcasted live for free in a lot of european countries also..
Anyone know what countries in Europe that got it? (Here in Sweden it was live and free in a channel that reaches aprox 50% of the population).
Was it free in the UK?
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That Bisping – Hamill rematch for free at Spike ala Shamrock – Tito is a really good idea I hope that they do that.
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Why not just have them headline the Ultimate Fighter 6 finale on Spike? The coaches aren't fighting anyway.
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I believe it was on Setanta PPV in the UK. Generally the US PPV fight cards have been free on Bravo and the UK events have been available only on PPV. I heard that UFC programming is switching over to virgin, so who knows if they continue to get the american ppv's for free.
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January 21 will be observed as a state holiday in Alabama honoring the birth of Gen. Robert E. Lee, as has been the custom for more than a hundred years with closure of state and county offices. This is a holiday which should be meaningful to all Americans.
The Lee estate at Arlington, Virginia, was seized by Union troops during the early days of the War Between the States, and as an insult to the Lees they started burying dead soldiers in Mrs. Lee's flower garden. Today the one thousand plus acre estate is known as Arlington National Cemetery, a site that is revered by all.
The controversy over this private property seizure lingered long after the death of both General Lee and Mrs. Lee, finally being settled by a five to four Supreme Court decision after which the government paid a son of General Lee a pittance of $150,000 for the multi-million dollar valued property.
General Lee's citizenship was finally restored during the administration of President Gerald Ford in the 1970s. President Ford paid the following tribute to Lee with the following words.
"As a soldier, General Lee left his mark on military strategy. As a man, he stood as a symbol of valor and of duty. As an educator, he appealed to reason and learning to achieve understanding and to build a stronger nation. General Lee's character has been an example to succeeding generations."
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— My father was born in Toad Hop, Indiana.
For anyone living in the Wabash Valley area, you know where Toad Hop is -- on Darwin Road between U.S. 40 and I-70. For Madison County readers, you are just going to have to take my word for it -- Toad Hop is a real place, probably named in honor of the toads who hopped their way from the spring flood waters of Sugar Creek and the Wabash River.
One day, not long after my father passed away, I was driving through Toad Hop on my way to the mall. When I came to the four-way stop at the bottom of Larimer Hill, on an impulse, I turned toward the place my father said his boyhood home had once stood. Dad had once said the foundation of his parents' house could still be seen amid the wild blackberry bushes that were threatening to take over the place.
I stood in the middle of the dirt road and sure enough, I could see a lone gray stone sticking out of the briars and brambles. Seeing that piece of foundation somehow gave me a bigger picture of my father's life. I could imagine him and his sisters playing in the yard. Dad, always one for a practical joke, might have grabbed a few Toad Hop toads and threw them at his sisters. Or maybe he captured a garter snake and chased his sisters with it just to see how loudly they would scream. I know he never forgot his humble beginnings, and I felt connected to Dad while standing in the middle of that dirt road in Toad Hop.
The Old Testament can help us build a better picture of Jesus, giving us a stronger connection with Him. The Old Testament is the Bible Jesus read, the Scriptures He heard the rabbis read, the verses He memorized.
The Old Testament was Jesus' song book. In the synagogue, Jesus worshipped with the Psalms. Jesus used the poetry for inspiration and encouragement. He sang Psalms in Gethsemane and quoted the Psalms while He was dying.
The Old Testament is the story of Jesus, the story of the people who believed in Jesus, hoped in Jesus, anticipated the coming of Jesus. In some ways, their faith exceeds ours, for they had far less evidence of Jesus than we do, yet still they continued to wait for the Messiah.
So, here we stand, on the dusty road of our lives, looking back at our foundation. We can see where it all began. We can understand things about Jesus that people of the Old Testament could not. We have evidence of His work, His life, His death, His resurrection. We have a connection with Jesus that is bigger than we are, that surpasses all understanding.
Beginning with Genesis, we can connect with Jesus on every page of the Bible. Go ahead. Seek out your foundation and strengthen your connection.
Even in Toad Hop, it's all about Jesus.
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Carleton is the only school among the top 10 liberal arts schools (as ranked by U.S. News & World Report) that offers a full 10-game schedule and is eligible for the NCAA Division III Football Playoffs.
The Knights have 57 winning seasons and more than 450 victories in the history of the program. Over the last six seasons, 10 Carleton players have received All-Region accolades for their excellence on the field.
- Players and coaches are committed to building a competitive football program.
- The Carleton football experience strives for balance in academics, athletics, and social involvement.
- Multi-sport athletes are encouraged, with recent team members also participating in track & field, baseball, and basketball.
- More than half the players on the team will participate in an off-campus study experience during their careers.
COACHING STAFF (Alma Mater/Year):
Head Coach: Bob Pagel (Wartburg College/1992)
Recruiting Coordinator/Wide Receivers: Dick Tressel (Baldwin-Wallace College/1970)
Offensive Coordinator: Mike McHugh (Loras/2007)
Offensive Line: Dave Faust (Northern State University/1982)
Running Backs: Tom Bell (Moorhead State University/1971)
Defensive Coordinator/D-Line: Bill Livingston (Mount Vernon Nazarene/1999)
Defensive Line: John Ott (Bemidji State/1996)
Linebackers: Tom Menke (St. Thomas/2001)
Defensive Backs: John Kunelius (Southwest Minnesota State/2007)
Starters returning (Offense/Defense): 4/7
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RB Chris Madden (So./Kenosha, Wis./St. Joseph)
Second on the team with 797 all-purpose yards in 2013, also added 3 touchdowns
OL Eric Wittenburg (Sr./Eagan, Minn./Eagan)
Helped the Knights record over 1200 rushings yards and 2300 passing yards in 2013, team captain and four year starter at offensive tackle
LB Zach Heinrich (Sr./Champlin, Minn./Champlin Park)
105 career tackles and a team captain/three-year starter for the Knights
DL Luke Reppe (Sr./Northfield, Minn./Northfield)
Four year starter for the Knights, has recorded 125 career tackles and 10 tackles for loss
LB Mason Schnarr (So./Evansville, Ind./Francis J. Reitz)
Ranked third in the MIAC with 11.3 tackles/game in 2013 in his first season, also recorded 3.5 tackles for loss and 7 pass breakups
First year of football was 1883, making it the 10th-oldest program in Division III... Played in 900th game in 2011 season, becoming third Minnesota college or university to reach the milestone... Won eight Midwest Conference titles from 1922 to 1982, before joining MIAC in 1983… Captured MIAC title in 1992… Bob Pagel named program's 17th head coach on Jan. 6, 2012.


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Like Jimmy Buffett? Here's a song written for Saints fans... to a tune Miami Dolphins (and Jimmy Buffett) fans might be able to appreciate.
One State fan on fancred caught up with coach Mullen on the Road Dawgs tour, and Mullen told him that he and Meyer had caught a Buffett concert together recently. There's really nothing groundbreaking here, just the fact that I would have been interested to see those two together at the concert, hopefully singing "cheeseburger in paradise" at the top of their lungs.
1. I got to work Monday morning & had to pee. Every single stall was full of #PublicPoopers. Do people just hold it all weekend so that they can blow up the public bathroom as soon as they get...
Mark and Chris will be house-sitting for the next week or so. Good luck, gentlemen.
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Over 60 children involved in the Daviess County YMCA summer camp and Washington Catholic Cardinal Care participated in a disability awareness program Monday sponsored by Generations. This was the fourth year for the program, put on by Generations, that helps children gain a better understanding of what it is like to have a a disability such as blindness, arthritis, paralysis, or dyslexia.
AngelWorx coordinators and volunteers helped the children work through stations that focused on learning about disabilities. At one station, students had to attempt to maneuver around obstacles with a walker. The students also learned about first impressions and how those first impressions can often be wrong, during a session called "Don't Judge a Book by its Cover."
AngelWorx, a volunteer program sponsored by Generations, allows volunteers of all ages to participate individually or as a group. For more information about AngelWorx, contact Kim Fields, Daviess/Martin Co. Coordinator, at 812-295-2308.
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