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The concept of a garden as an "outdoor living space" has a lot to answer for. At the weekend, I was talking to someone who complained that all the birds seemed to have abandoned their garden.
Monday, September 19, 2011
The garden bird rant
The concept of a garden as an "outdoor living space" has a lot to answer for. At the weekend, I was talking to someone who complained that all the birds seemed to have abandoned their garden.
18 comments:
- Anne Wareham said...
The one way people seem to know to evaluate a garden is still how 'tidy' it is. This needs to change..
And deadheading? Do birds like seeds or what???
We have a long way to go...
- September 19, 2011 at 12:58 PM
- patientgardener said...
my bird population has vanished but thats due to my new cat being a real hunter and all the assurances I was given about getting a car not impacting on birds visiting garden not being true:(
- September 19, 2011 at 1:02 PM
- Liz said...
Nicely said; all too often BOP's, Corvids and Cats are blamed for the demise of song birds when in fact humans are by far the biggest thread to our common garden birds. So although yes Sparrowhawks and cats do catch birds, it's stupidity such as you describe that's the problem.
- September 19, 2011 at 1:10 PM
- petoskystone said...
am so with you on this one! some spend so much energy creating the perfect space just to destroy what they wanted to achieve in the first place. 'outdoor living spaces' have to be some of the most unwelcoming places ever...no birdsong, no rustling grasses, no cooling ivies.
- September 19, 2011 at 1:18 PM
- onebeanrow said...
Oh yes, yes, yes! It's so hard to get the idea across to some people that the wiped-clean, but "beautiful" garden is hell for birds. I'm all worn out trying to tactfully tell people that they have just gone and created a completely sterile habitat with their proud makeover (although the rats might like the nice dry area under the decking).
- September 19, 2011 at 1:31 PM
- Lucy said...
- September 19, 2011 at 2:42 PM
- Gardeningbren said...
Amen to that!
Stupid Human Syndrome..like that very much ;-)
Disney needs to take you up on your great idea by the way.
- September 19, 2011 at 2:43 PM
- organicgardendreams said...
Completely agreed!
- September 19, 2011 at 4:30 PM
- Harriet Rycroft said...
Oh don't get me started. I blame popular "garden design" in the media of the last 10-20 yrs - let's turn the garden into another room, all tidy, with telly, lights, music... so that we can pretend we're not actually outside at all. Lots of lovely hard surfaces we can paint and sweep and four "architectural" plants as a witty reference to all the natural stuff that would have been here...Grrrrrr
- September 19, 2011 at 5:38 PM
- flightplot said...
I don't have a garden as I live in a flat where the communal grounds are just grass, shrubs and trees which are tended on a minimum basis.
I scatter bird food out the front and see a variety of birds including chaffinches, blue tits, robins, blackbirds and sparrows all of which tend to flit in and out of the shrubbery.
I'm thankful that the grounds aren't manicured as I'm sure that I wouldn't see many of these birds if they were. Flighty
- September 19, 2011 at 5:47 PM
- Fairegarden said...
All we gardeners know the truth, a wildlife friendly garden is messy, for wildlife likes their gardens to be wild, not neat and tidy. This is a banner worth carrying forward, Victoria. Stupid Humans, indeed. It's all about habitat.
- September 19, 2011 at 9:38 PM
- Dobby said...
Unfortunately I have a huge flock of Jackdaws. Noisy, destructive and a pain in the backside! I don't put feeders out as I don't want to encourage them. So I built a wildlife pond instead!
- September 19, 2011 at 10:10 PM
- Owen said...
Hey Victoria,
I think there was a study recently by the RSPB that showed that cat predation actually hasnt had any effect on small bird numbers here in the UK- which is good to hear. As mentioned in your blog they believed habitat loss was the major cause.
Helen- when we moved into our old house there were birds all over the place- but as soon as the cats were allowed outside sadly for me(and wisely for the birds) they chose to feed elsewhere- i still feel guilty about that.
- September 19, 2011 at 10:47 PM
- Wife, Mother, Gardener said...
My husband groan and gasp at the first thing that seems to happen when a young couple buys a new house in our country: cut down all the "over-sized" (ie mature!) trees and shrubs around their property. Never mind that they would never have paid so much money for the same house had it not had those bushes when they first pulled up to it!!
At least we now have a yard that we can add to in order to balance things out. Last count, we have added over ten trees and over four dozen shrubs! And we live on a relatively small lot.
- September 20, 2011 at 5:07 AM
- Dawn/LittleGreenFingers said...
Now I'm feeling really awful as we cut down 30 conifers when we moved into our house - although to be fair, I've put in another 12 trees and plenty of shrubs.
If you want me, I'll be sitting over there on the naughty step.
- September 20, 2011 at 9:56 AM
- Hanna at Orchid Care said...
As far as I'm concerned, tidy well manicured gardens are boring even when they display a variety of fauna and a cornucopia of flora. However, I find that the gardens which are allowed to go wild, are much more difficult to tend. I know because I've experienced both in two different homes.
I'm not sure how accurate the statements about wildlife really are. I witnessed a variety of birds, butterflies, insects as well as rabbits, possums and raccoons in both my wild and cultured gardens. I don't think that creatures of the wild really distinguish between the different styles of gardening. They just want to have the plants there in whichever formation presented.
- September 21, 2011 at 3:50 PM
Poor birds. First the deadly dead-headers, then the paint'n'pavers, and now - the latest thing - the (human) urban foragers stripping the parks of anything edible.
- September 21, 2011 at 4:58 PM
- Helle (Helen) said...
I used to be rude - or forthright enough - to tell people that what they were doing was the reason for birds, slow worms or hedgehogs disappearing. Might as well talk to the wall, so I've stopped and just try do to do my best in my garden. Here, in Switzerland, the government unfortunately is pushing what they call "concentrated building" to stop the countryside being built over, which means that older houses are being pulled down everywhere and gardens built over. Try persuading anybody that good gardens might actually be more useful for birds and critters than the green "desert" i.e. farmland out, there is an uphill battle.
- September 21, 2011 at 6:41 PM

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Using a shovel in the carport and a mop in the living room, it will be days before Carla Johnson is able to clean up all the mud and water in her home.
"This is the stuff we have to go through. You can see right here, it was a foot deep," explained Johnson.
Room by room she and her family have been cleaning, even preparing to take out sheetrock, before mold starts growing.
"You can look on the floor, all the carpet we had to pull up all last night," Johnson said Monday afternoon.
All of the carpet in the Hidden Valley Lane home is soaked. The Jackson homeowner says flooding has been an issue for 10 years.
Sunday's flash flooding made Johnson's neighborhood look more like a river.
Water more than a foot deep flowed into nearby Big Creek, which flows about 50 yards behind Johnson's house.
"There's drainage, but it's not properly done. So, this whole street becomes like a big swimming pool or like a big tub. It's really frustrating," Johnson said.
The city says three crews were sent out Sunday to address flash flooding issues.
State Rep. Deborah Butler Dixon says she to is tired of waiting on something to be done. She believes Jackson and Hinds County leaders have forgotten about the people who live in her district.
The Raymond Democrat explained her position on Sunday afternoon, "I think we should call it like a disaster for these people to get some type of assistance over here, cause why they got to keep utilizing they insurance with something going on for the city of Jackson?"
A Jackson spokesman says the city has received grant funding from the Mississippi Development Authority to make drainage improvements along Big Creek. There is an environmental review underway and easements will be needed from homeowners to do work on the creek. Once the Corps of Engineers has approved the project, work can begin along Big Creek. The city estimates the drainage stabilization project will begin this summer at a cost of $500,000.
That's welcome news for Johnson, who does have flood insurance, but it doesn't mean she'll rest easy.
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Tomorrow China's leading luxury retailer, Lane Crawford, will open the doors to its brand-new Yabu Pushelberg-designed Shanghai flagship. A veritable designer mecca, the outpost is LC's largest property and stands to stock five hundred international fashion, jewelry, beauty, and lifestyle brands.
A buying team of eighty-five experts curated the store's comprehensive brand selection, which includes everything from Saint Laurent to Sacai to J.Crew. Lane Crawford is notable for introducing the latter into the Chinese market for the first time. Additionally, the three-floor store boasts a series of pop ups, and three homegrown labels—Helen Lee, Ms. Min, and Chictopia—will be carried in the flagship's Hub section, which aims to promote and nurture emerging industry talents. Lane Crawford is also set to implement its first e-tail meets in-store facet in Shanghai: Customers will be able to pick up and return Internet orders at a special concierge center, marking an innovative fusion between the online and the on-ground.
Lane Crawford plays a long-standing and important role in China's luxury goods landscape, with multiple branches already operating in other cities such as Hong Kong and Beijing. But Shanghai holds a special place in its heart. "Since the company opened its first store here in 1872, the city has been an important part of our heritage," said company president Andrew Keith. "We are thrilled to be back."


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Hello guys! I do not write much because I'm very busy, but I wanted to say that despite all the negativity that I'm going through these days because of the problems of my stomach, and for all the disappointments I've had in recent years by people, I knew that the my stomach problems were reduced by 20% and I'm happy for that ..! They are two months without facebook and have no dependencies on...
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Friday's, April 26, Good Question takes us to a road that sees far too many deadly crashes.
Roy Tomasch, from Lehigh Acres, asked us why SR-82 hasn't been widened all the way to SR-29.
He said, a four lane road would help heavy traffic during rush hour and let drivers pass with safer conditions.
We took that question to state leaders and found the answer.
SR-82 is a major corridor as it runs though three counties in Southwest Florida.
For this good question we went for a ride-along with Tomasch to see first-hand what he's dealing with.
Tomasch travels to FGCU four times a week for classes.
"You've got to take SR-82 from where we are in Lehigh Acres," explained Tomasch.
It is a drive he dreads.
"I think the drive does take years off your life in the end," Tomasch laughs.
Within a couple of minutes we saw why.
"If you look behind us right now, there's a motorcycle right on top of me," said Tomasch.
This is definitely not a good spot to pass, but he's going to do it," he said.
Double-yellow line or not Tomasch sees aggressive moves like that all the time.
"There you go," he said as a bike zoomed by.
"I feel bad for the people that are losing their life over it," he said.
Already this year, there have been four crashes on that section of SR-82, which injured 11 and killed one.
Traffic counts show 25,000 vehicles use it everyday.
"Today we do not see a need," said Joann May, from the Florida Department of Transportation.
But that's not enough to warrant more lanes.
"Right now it's not heavy traffic, it's not congestion today. But in the future do we see that occurring? Yes, and we're preparing for that," explained May.
So the answer to Tomasch's Good Question is yes.
The state is going to widen SR-82, but not for at least five years.
In 2016, the state plans to buy land to expand the road from Lee Blvd. to Alabama Rd.
The rest of the Lee County corridor and a section in Hendry County are still in the design phase.
And in Collier County, that process is slated to start in 2015.
"As long as it's on the books, I can't complain too much," Tomasch said.
Tomasch now has his answer – albeit not what he hoped to hear.
"It's not soon but it's a start," he added.
DOT's spokesperson tells us SR-82 construction isn't scheduled to start within the next five years.
That could change, though, if SR-82 moves up on the priority list.
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Hilary Brich says yoga has changed her life. So much so, "I quit my job."
She took up the practice for many reasons - health problems, physical ailments, "Midlife stuff" - but her devotion persisted and grew. She left the world of IT and in November, Brich opened GoGo Guru at 8289 Main St. in Ellicott City.
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The store manages to pull off "funky" and "serene" at the same time, offering a unique assortment of yoga apparel, as well as jewelry and gift items from Durance, a line of essential oils and other aromatheraoy products.
She also has her own line of yoga apparel.
"With yoga clothes," Brich said, "You either shop at designer stores or you shop at Target. There's really nothing in between." At the designer stores, you pay an arm and a leg and at the discount stores, the quality just isn't there, she said.
At GoGo Guru, Brich sells clothes with particular practices – hot yoga, hatha yoga, etc. – and different body shapes in mind, too.
Slender, athletic and 6-feet-tall, even Brich said she has problems buying clothes that fit.
"I want to cater to the whole community," she said. The store carries clothes from XS to XXXL.
And GoGo Guru works with vendors who also try to serve the larger commuity. "We only work with designers with social and/or environmental commitments," Brich said. "That can mean everything from being U.S.-made, or that a donation is made with every purchase, or that every step in the manufacturing process is organic."
The first month of business has been good, the Ellicott City resident said. "It's been mostly word of mouth and people who happen upon us because they're walking down Main Street."
Brich has been practicing yoga for four years and she currently teaches a class at Body Space in Columbia.
Yoga has helped her overcome some physical ailments, she said, and even helped her avoid surgery. Now she has a chance to help others find their way – comfortably – to yoga.
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Kevin Durant: The Best Player in the World
Kevin Durant led Team USA in winning the FIBA World Championship for the first time since 1994. He led all scoring against Turkey with 28 points and was the obvious leader of Team USA. This FIBA USA team was known as the "B-Team" after the stars of the Olympic team did not return. No Kobe, no LeBron, no Wade…no problem. With Durant leading Team USA to a gold, people are now wondering, how good is Kevin Durant? ESPN has even been answering the question of whether he now becomes the best player in the world. My answer to this…Yes!


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Steven Ray Johnson, 33, of Carbon Hill, was arrested March 6 for two break-ins at Club Pizza.
According to Carbon Hill Police Lt. Jason Richardson, officers received a tip Johnson was the one who had broken into the restaurant. From there, the police department obtained a search warrant for Johnson's car.
"When we did the search warrant on his vehicle, that's when we found the items that were stolen from there," Richardson said. "The first burglary was when the items were stolen from out of there. That's what we found in Steven's car, the tablets and stuff. That's why we could get him with receiving stolen property."
Club Pizza, located at 116 7th Street NW in Carbon Hill, was broken into twice — once in January and again in February. Richardson said Johnson stole tablets, scratch-off tickets, $500 to $700 in quarters and other miscellaneous items. According to reports, approximately $15,000 in damages were done to the store.
"He stole just odds and ends, like little flashlights that you can win out of the little machines," Richardson said. "... He broke into the side where the air duct was. He crawled through the air duct on the side and busted through the wall."
Johnson was previously charged with possession of methamphetamine. He has been charged with burglary 3rd, theft of property 2nd, receiving stolen property 2nd and criminal mischief 2nd.
A female is expected to be charged in connection with the second burglary next week.
"We're not going to tolerate stuff like this in Carbon Hill. We're here to protect the people and protect the businesses," Richardson said. "We're not going to let people get away with doing what they're out here trying to do. He [Johnson] just thought he could get by with it."
Johnson is being held in the Walker County Jail. Bond has not been set at this time.


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If you know anything about these fugitives, you can earn up to $1,000 by calling Crime Stoppers at (800) 780-TIPS. All information below courtesy of Crime Stoppers.
We're starting off our list with a 19 year old who has already established himself as a dangerous young man who is seemingly on a warpath to cause destruction and mayhem throughout Lee County. Aaron Martin is current on the run from the law for failing to show up in court following an arrest for burglary and providing false information to a local pawn broker. As a registered convicted felon, this definitely isn't Martin's first foray into the criminal element, with previous felony arrests at age 17 for burglary, kidnapping/false imprisonment, battery, then as an adult for larceny theft and resisting an officer. Just this year alone, he's been jailed three times already, and was finally sentenced to 7 months behind bars for burglary, fraud and dealing in stolen property. Now, not too long after his release, he's back on the lam. Martin is 5'10" and has several tattoos, including the phrase "No regrets, no love, no remorse" on his chest and the words "loyalty, honor and respect" on his back – obviously terms he chooses not to adhere to when it comes to abiding by the law.
And next up is a man with five warrants for his arrest, all stemming from his less than legal occupation of manufacturing and selling cocaine on the streets of Southwest Florida. Dennis McNutt is wanted for violating his probation on the aforementioned charges - which are just a few of the arrests he's added to his rap sheet over the years. McNutt has been arrested locally 10 times before – mostly for drugs and battery charges, with additional arrests in the Tampa area. This 53 year old fugitive spent nearly a year in jail recently for his actions, but apparently the time away from society didn't teach him any lessons. McNutt has ties to the Bokeelia and Matlacha areas, but may have fled the state. But even if he has left, deputies will gladly extradite him back to Lee County from where ever he may be hiding. McNutt is 6'0", 155 pounds and has tattoos of the word love on his left hand and blue dots inked on his knuckles.
And on the run is 29 year old Erica Melchiore, a woman trying to dodge charges of grand theft in Collier County. Last known to working as a service writer for a high-end car dealership, Melchiore has a history of battery, criminal mischief and passing off bad checks in the Hillsborough County area. Detectives believe she may be bouncing around from hotel to hotel in the Lee County area, in an attempt to avoid arrest, but that she is likely still around town. Melchiore is 5'4", 140 pounds and has several tattoos on her back.
And rounding out our list of fleeing felons is Dillon Predelus, accused of robbing a man at gunpoint at a South Fort Myers gas station Monday night. The victim told detectives he was selling a sound system to Predelus, but after the equipment was loaded into his car, and the victim was expecting to be paid, Predelus pulled a gun on the victim, at which point he ran in fear for his life. Predelus is no stranger to local deputies, having been arrested 9 times as an adult in Lee County. Among the charges he's been jailed for are battery, several thefts and burglaries, drug dealing, resisting arrest and grand theft. Born and raised in Lee County, Predelus is likely still here in town, and in fact was seen recently jumping out of a second story window. Predelus is 5'11" and has a tattoo of the words God's Son on his chest and the most appropriate tattoo of all on his right arm – and that's of the word Wanted – which is exactly what he is right now.
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Dietitians say there are food nightmares you should avoid because of empty or obscene calorie counts. WebMD asked dietitians to rank their favorite "food horrors."
We know that fried foods are not the healthiest alternative, but some are worse than others. Carnival and fair vendors seem to fry whatever they get their hands on, including candy bars, Twinkies and even butter.
Some steak restaurants offer a deep-fried appetizer that tips the scales at more than 800 calories, 58 grams of fat and 22 grams of saturated fat and more than 1,500 milligrams of sodium, according to WebMd.
Some foods that you may think are healthy for kids, really aren't. Dietitians said some of the biggest offenders are kids' fruit snacks that don't actually contain fruit.
Burgers seem to be getting bigger, and therefore higher in calories. Some fast-food restaurants are serving up burgers that burst out of the bun with more than 1,400 calories and 100 grams of fat.
Some restaurants serve appetizers that are bigger and higher in calories than some entrees on the menu.
Cheesecake is already calorie-laden, but when restaurants add toppings and other extras the calorie count gets even fatter.
A fruit smoothie may seem like a healthy alternative, but it may really be a diet-buster.
The food court at the mall is bursting at the seams with big burgers, fried foods and high-calorie desserts.
Restaurants are serving bigger portions and heavier meals, which means higher calorie counts.
Huge servings can lead to bigger waistlines.


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Ralph Lauren's Niece Jennifer Slapped with $2,700 Fine
Drunk airline passengers are nothing new, but Ralph Lauren's niece Jennifer Lauren apparently didn't handle her buzz very well.
The 41-year-old jewelry designer got hammered and caused quite a scene on Monday when she insulted and assaulted members of the Delta Airlines flight crew.
While flying back to the USA, Lauren caused an emergency landing in West Ireland and ended up in jail Monday night (January 6). She subsequently paid a fine of $2,700.
An air marshal named Tom Kennedy told the court Lauren called one of the female flight attendants "a f**king ugly, blonde b*tch," and pushed another worker "hard and knocked her hard up against the wall of the aircraft. The air hostess was frightened, but was not injured."
Once she sobered up, Jennifer hired a lawyer who told the court that Lauren was upset and embarrassed by her actions, caused by a reaction to alcohol and medication.
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The VisionMount HDpro™ Series XF228 was engineered with the custom installer in mind. Its pre-assembled interface and strong, ultra-light extruded aluminum wall plate allows the easiest and quickest installation possible. The QuickConnect™ system allows the mounting head to snap onto the arm assembly with one easy movement and unlock with the push of a button. ProSet™ post-installation height and leveling adjustments ensure TVs are always perfectly positioned after mounting. The XF228 arm assembly shifts left and right on the wall plate so the TV is always centered, even if wall studs are not. And the amazing FollowThru™ in-arm cable channel protects and completely conceals all cables without inhibiting movement, even through the elbow. Strong dual arms allow even the largest TVs to extend, retract, tilt and swivel up to 28" from wall with ease. Virtual Axis™ tilting technology allows effortless viewing angle adjustment with the touch of a finger. Universal mounting pattern fits virtually any 42" – 84" flat-panel TV up to 200 lbs.
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Great mount for Panasonic TC-P65VT50
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I paid a local company to install this mount for my 130 pound 65" Panasonic plasma. The install guys absolutely loved this mount - said it was one of the best they had ever seen. They made quick work of the install, and I am extremely pleased with the end result. I hope this mount will serve me well for years to come (even as I upgrade televisions over time).
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I used the bracket on my 60" Sharp Elite. It fit perfect and was easy to install. It was installed in a very tight space and I needed a bracket that would stay flush within my cabinet opening. It was very easy to adjust so that the TV sits perfectly straight within the space and easy to pull out straight forward for access behind the TV. The quality of the bracket is much better than I expected it to be. Great product.
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Use a lot bolts to hole this to the wall. The good things is there's a lot of mounting holes to give you options. For my 65" LCD it doesn't hole the downward tilt which I needed because I mounted it over my fireplace. I need to jury rig the tilt with a little piece of wood to hole the tilt in place or it would slide back to verticle. I would recomend this with caution.
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The foreclosure crisis is far from over. Millions of desperate homeowners are trying to dig their way out. They can't afford their mortgage and can't qualify for help. For many, the answer to their problems seems to be a short sale. The bank agrees to sell the home at a loss and the homeowner walks away, but that's not how it works. Homeowners across the country are learning the hard way the pitfalls of short sale.
Kent McCain wanted a piece of the pie, the American dream, when he bought his Fredericksburg home in 2004. For five years he and his family lived the dream. "Although we didn't have the million dollar home we had something of our own to call home," he remembered. "We felt like we worked hard. We deserved something ourselves."
Their kids were growing up and making memories for a lifetime. Then the real estate market crashed. Their sub-prime adjustable rate mortgage doubled from $1300 a month to $3000. The value of their home had plummeted. They found themselves buried in paperwork and tied up in red tape trying to save their home. The lender would tell them to do one thing while continuing to foreclose. "Over here they're now telling you 'you need to be three months behind" he lamented.
Trying to avoid foreclosure the McCains chose a short sale. The lender agreed to sell the house for less than the McCains owed. "I thought that would be the end of it. It didn't raise an eyebrow. We were still devastated though. We were like but at least we get out of it without having this big loan over your head," he said.
They were wrong. The house had a second mortgage, and although the second lien holder got a small payment in the sale, it went after the rest getting a judgment against them for 50-thousand dollars. The McCains felt backed into a corner. "They just want the money. Nothing else matters. Screw you, pay me. That's what it all boiled down to," he said.
Their realtor Dedra Brown sees this more often now. She had warned the McCains this might happen. Banks, more often the second mortgage holder, will sue homeowners for the remainder of the mortgage after a short sale. It's called the deficiency. In other cases the lender will drop a bomb days before the sale, demanding the homeowner bring cash to the closing table or sign a promissory note to close the deal. It's a shock to homeowners deep in debt. "They immediately star thinking where am I going to get this money? If I $10,000, I had $20,000, I'd be paying the money in the first place," Brown said.
Homeowners may not like it, but it's not illegal. In almost every state, including Maryland, Virginia and the District, the law allows lenders to collect the deficiency in a short sale or foreclosure. Some states limit the amount to the market value of the home or require the lender to follow certain procedures. The bottom line is the debt isn't necessarily forgiven.
What people don't understand in the process of getting a mortgage, you sign a note that makes you personally responsible for the amount that you borrowed," said Nick Vlissides, a real estate attorney.
In the wake of the robo signing scandal on foreclosures the number of short sales is expected to rise 25% this year, according to CoreLogic, a firm that monitors real estate data and trends. Vlissides says the best protection for homeowners is to negotiate. "You want to have it spelled out that it's forgiven because you're buying yourself a lawsuit in the end."
That's what "Liz" thought she did when she sold her District condo in a short sale. "It's a very confusing process because it's so many ifs ands or buts to it," said "Liz", who did not want to be identified.
Her first mortgage agreement clearly says she wouldn't owe anything else but the paperwork for the second mortgage did not, despite receiving a small payment from the sale and agreeing to release the lien. "They hounded me, the banks, the attorney," "Liz" recalled.
The mortgage, plus interest and attorneys fees totaled more than $50,000. Six months after the sale, the bank demanded payment. At first the lender agreed to drop the amount to $35,000 if she paid in a lump sum. "Liz" was flabbergasted. "I don't have the money. I'm working three jobs trying to make ends meet in the first place and I just don't have the money to pay them back," she told the bank.
The lender took her to court, agreed to drop her debt to $17,000. She'll must pay the loan back in monthly installments. It's $50 a month for the first five years, $75 a month for the next seven years and $100 a month until the debt is paid off. She'll be paying it off for the next 20 years. "I just feel like the bank is taking advantage of you," Liz felt.
The key real estate experts and attorneys say is to negotiate before the sale goes through. Not just with the first mortgage holder but the second mortgage lender too, if there is one. Vlissides offered some tips to people going through the process:
-Consult with an attorney to understand your options between foreclosure, a short sale or bankruptcy. Your local legal-aid society can provide a low-cost consultation for those with limited resources.
-Get everything in writing. The short sale agreement from both the first and second mortgage must clearly state that the deficiency is forgiven.
-If the lender refused to forgive the debt, try to negotiate the debt down to a manageable amount.
-Negotiate a payment plan you can afford and make sure it's at 0% interest
If a lender gets a judgment against a homeowner in court, the situation can grow worse.
"They can garnish your wages; they can garnish your bank accounts. They can record liens on other properties you might own, even properties in some jurisdictions you don't even own yet," warned Vlissides.
Ultimately it's the bank's call whether to forgive the debt or go after the shortfall. In the McCains case there was no negotiating. "We just wanted to weather the storm. Tell us how. We work everyday, we pay our mortgage. How do we salvage this? That was never an option put on the table," McCain said.
FOX5 contacted the Mortgage Bankers Association, which represents the mortgage industry, to get a response on what's happening with short sales, but got no response.
So why not just foreclose? Homeowners who do that can be on the hook for the entire mortgage. "There may be better options for you than a short sale, maybe bankruptcy is a better course of action, maybe going into foreclosure, it just depends on your particular situation," said Vlissides.
One option the McCains tried was to modify their loan through the federal government's Making Homes Affordable Program. The government had bailed out banks, but federal programs to help homeowners like the McCains avoid foreclosure have fallen short. "It was just chasing your tail running around in circles. At the end of the day they make it nearly impossible to save their home," McCain said. He tried every program he could find but found no help.
He's not alone. According to government reports, As of July only about 27% of the 2.5 million delinquent home loans were modified through the federal government's program. Then there's the Housing Affordability Foreclosure Alternatives Program. It was supposed to help homeowners avoid foreclosures through short sales. Participating banks agree to waive the shortfall but only 15,954 short sales were completed in the program.
Those statistics don't bode well for the millions facing foreclosure and looking to a short sale, as the way out. Homeowners often choose a short sale because it's not as detrimental to your credit score as a foreclosure. If the debt is wiped out in a short sale, that makes sense. When the debt is not, which is more often the case these days, homeowners may still end up in financial ruin. "For people who go through the short sale process, overwhelmingly most people have opted to file for bankruptcy," said Brown.
The McCains declared bankruptcy. They were unable to pay their mortgage and unable to pay the $50,000 debt from the short sale hanging over their head. The ordeal broke their hearts. "It devastated us. It was like a slap in the face. It was terrible. Absolutely the worst thing that could have happened," said McCain.
In the end, the house the family bought for $299,000 sold for only $90,000, less than a third of the mortgage. The banks lost a small fortune, but the McCains lost their home and their dream.
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2012 Public Health Law Conference: Innovative Community Policy
Cynthia Hallett, executive director of Americans for Nonsmokers' Rights, will speak today about tobacco policies at a Public Health Law Conference session on innovative community policy. The other presenters include Aaron Wernham of the Health Impact Project and Marion Standish, director of community health at the California Endowment. NewPublicHealth caught up with Ms. Hallett before the session.
NewPublicHealth: What is the focus of the panel discussion you're a part of?
Cynthia Hallett: We will be sharing some of our collective experiences on successful health policy efforts and some of the resources that would be available for others as they're thinking about what kind of health policies they want to try to pursue at the community level.
NPH: What will you be presenting about tobacco?
Dr. Lawrence Deyton of the FDA Center for Tobacco Products: NewPublicHealth Q&A
Last month at the Association of State and Territorial Health Officials Annual Meeting (ASTHO), attendees focused during one session on the progress made in reducing tobacco death and disease—and the significant room for improvement, as tobacco remains the leading cause of preventable death in the United States.
We caught up with Lawrence Deyton, MSPH, MD, director of the Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) Center for Tobacco Products at the ASTHO meeting to get his take on the value of tobacco control as a prevention strategy, as well as the role of state and local public health officials.
NewPublicHealth: What did you go to ASTHO to learn, and what did you share?
Dr. Deyton: State health officers are on the front lines of tobacco control. They see the impact in their communities. I went to the ASTHO meeting to both hear from them, and to explain where we are in tobacco regulation at the FDA and to invite the public health community to get more involved in the regulatory process by commenting.
The depth and breadth of my respect for the work state health officers do—and the budgets they have to do it with—is great. We'll want to see comments from all stakeholders, including folks from ASTHO, on our proposed regulations, because public health officials all have a very important view we'll want to hear about. They may have the data that could be important to support their recommendations.
NPH: What is the FDA Center for Tobacco Products doing to help prevent tobacco-related death in the U.S., and what do you want public health leaders to know about this work?
Many Colleges Banning Smoking on Campus
Public health experts hope high school juniors and seniors will add another question to their list as they begin to visit colleges this year: is the campus smoke free?
According to the Tobacco-Free College Campus Initiative—launched last month at the University of Michigan by the Department of Health and Human Services along with private, public and education partners—about 17 percent of colleges and universities in the United States already have tobacco-free (no form of tobacco allowed) or smoke-free (no cigarettes allowed) policies, and more schools are moving toward such policies.
Cynthia Hallett, executive director of Americans for Nonsmokers' Rights in Berkeley, Calif., says the trend toward eliminating smoking on college campuses began in the early 2000s. Before then, says Hallett, skepticism over student and faculty interest may have kept the schools from initiating policies against smoking. "With so many campuses now [outlawing smoking] and the growing number of resources available, such as model policies and guidelines for implementation and enforcement, it is becoming much easier for colleges and universities to initiate smoke- and tobacco-free policies," Hallett says.
Hallett says effective arguments to push colleges toward tobacco-free campuses include:
- Tobacco use initiation peaks from 18 to 25 years of age. College attendance could be a turning point in choosing not to use tobacco.
- According to a recent report from the U.S. Surgeon General, about 25 percent of full-time college students aged 18 to 22 years old were current smokers in 2010.
- The number of smokers who initiated smoking after age 18 increased from 600,000 in 2002 to 1 million in 2010.
- Progression from occasional to daily smoking almost always occurs by age 26, and curbing tobacco influence on campuses could prevent a new cohort of lifetime smokers.
Recent campus initiatives to help students stop or never start smoking include:
- The University of Kentucky has an aggressive tobacco-free policy, which was implemented in 2009. Current efforts focus on educating new students about the policy each year and using innovative approaches to smoking cessation including mobile apps. The university also has faculty and students who are part of the Tobacco-Free Take Action volunteer group, who approach smokers and request they put out their cigarette, and also offer resources to help the smoker quit.
- Harrisburg University of Science and Technology in Pennsylvania, only seven years old, has always been smoke free and its age gives it an edge over many other universities in that respect, according to a university spokesman.
- City Colleges of Chicago, which has 120,000 students, implemented a 100-percent tobacco-free policy across its seven campuses last month. The policy includes offering students a smoking cessation program called "Courage to Quit." The college system conducted a survey that found that 85 percent of students, faculty and staff respondents believe a tobacco-free policy would improve health for staff and students. The policy is the first component in City Colleges' overall Healthy Campus initiative, which will also include healthy and affordable food choices, green initiatives and healthy activities.
- In January 2012, University of California President Mark Yudof announced that all 10 University of California campuses would become smoke-free as of January 2014. University Student Health Services offers an individual tobacco cessation program that helps students identify triggers, reasons for quitting, and barriers to quitting as well as a variety of quitting techniques.
>>Bonus Link: Americans for Nonsmokers' Rights maintains a list of colleges and universities with smoke-free policies.
Study: High N.Y. Cigarette Taxes Help Cut Smoking Rates
New York's high cigarette tax—the highest in the country, at $4.35 per pack—has helped the state cut smoking levels dramatically for both adults and high school students, according to a new study in PLoS One.
The state's rate of adult smoking dropped by 28 percent from 2003 to 2010, while the national rate for the same period dropped only 11 percent. The rate for New York high school students dropped 38 percent from 2003 to 2011, compared to a national drop of 17 percent. There are approximately 664,000 adult smokers in New York.
While a clear contributor, a high cigarette tax is just one of the tactics that's helped improve the state's health, according to the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids. New York also has a comprehensive smoke-free air law, as well as prevention and cessation programs. Overall, these public health strategies have helped prevent more than 300,000 kids from smoking and saved approximately $11.6 billion in health care costs.
Despite the clear public health successes, Tobacco-Free Kids says more still needs to be done to help low-income New Yorkers quit smoking. While the study determined their smoking rate is also well below the national rate, 24.3 percent of New Yorkers earning less than $30,000 annually are smokers.
>> Read more on the study from the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids.
>> Read more on how tobacco taxes can help cut health care costs.
FDA Requires Tobacco Firms to Report Key Components of Cigarettes
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has announced that it will require tobacco companies to report on a range of toxic chemical ingredients, as well as back up any claims for "safer" tobacco products.
Both actions will have a public comment period, ending June 4, 2012, before the rules become final.
Under the proposed regulations, tobacco companies will be required to report quantities of 20 different ingredients associated with cancer, lung disease and other health problems on consumer-friendly packaging by the end of the year, and the agency plans to make the information available to the public in a consumer-friendly format by April 2013.
Tobacco manufacturers will also have to substantiate claims if they want to market a tobacco product as "less risky" to health.
>>Read a statement from the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids on the new rules.
>>Read more about modified risk tobacco products.
>>Read more about potentially harmful chemicals in tobacco products.
CDC: First Ever National Ad Campaign Highlights Horrors of Smoking
Can fear of the ill effects of smoking push people to break their cigarette addiction? That's what the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is banking on with its first ever national paid media campaign, "Tips From Former Smokers," which shows smokers who quit, but not before losing a great deal, including legs, fingers, a larynx and the opportunity to shoot hoops with their kids.
>>Read an UPDATE on the impact of the Tips From Former Smokers campaign in a dramatic uptick in calls to 1-800-QUIT-NOW.
The idea behind the new campaign is that the danger of smoking is usually talked about in terms of deaths of thousands or more. The new ads, according to the CDC, provide a perspective on real people who used to smoke and became ill as a result. Most of the people in the ads—none are actors—were diagnosed with smoking-related illnesses in their 30s and 40s; one was only 18.
The CDC is also counting on the campaign to counter promotion efforts by cigarette companies. "The tobacco industry spends $10.5 million a year—more than one million dollars every hour—to entice kids, keep smokers hooked and glamorize their deadly and addictive products," says Matthew L. Myers, president of the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids. "The CDC's campaign will tell the harsh truth about how devastating and unglamorous cigarette smoking truly is."
Surgeon General: What If Kids Never Started Smoking?
What if kids and teens never started smoking? They'd likely never start as adults and be extraordinarily less likely to die of lung cancer, heart disease, stroke and other conditions associated with smoking. That's the gist of a report released today by the Surgeon General, Preventing Tobacco Use Among Youth and Young Adults. It's the 31st such report by a U.S. Surgeon General, and the first since 1994 to give detailed information on smoking—and the related health consequences—by children and young adults ages 12 to 25.
"We have made progress in reducing tobacco use among youth; however, far too many young people are still using tobacco," says Surgeon General Regina Benjamin, MD. "Today, more than 600,000 middle school students and 3 million high school students smoke cigarettes. Rates of decline for cigarette smoking have slowed in the last decade and rates of decline for smokeless tobacco use have stalled completely."
The key driver for increases, according to the report, is ubiquitous marketing by tobacco companies, specifically targeted at children and young adults. "Messages and images that make tobacco use appealing to [young adults] are everywhere," says Dr. Benjamin.
Surgeon General's Report: Preventing Tobacco Use Among Youth and Young Adults
A new report, Preventing Tobacco Use Among Youth and Young Adults, released this morning, is the 31st report from the Office of the Surgeon General focused on tobacco use in the U.S. NewPublichHealth talked about the new report with Danny McGoldrick, vice president for research at the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids.
>>NewPublicHealth was on the ground as the report was released. Read more on the new Surgeon General's report on youth tobacco use.
NewPublicHealth: What does the Surgeon General's report tell us about progress in the fight to reduce youth smoking?
Danny McGoldrick: Well, unfortunately, it tells us that we're not making nearly the progress that we need to. While smoking rates declined dramatically between 1997 and 2003—by almost 40 percent—between 2003 and 2009 they declined by just over 10 percent, and we still have almost 4,000 kids trying their first cigarette every day. So while we've made some progress, we're not making nearly as much as we need to.
Addiction Incorporated: A Tobacco Whistle-blower and the Filmmaker Who Told His Story
A new film, Addiction Incorporated, gives viewers a look at the tobacco industry and nicotine addiction from the perspective of Victor DeNoble, a former industry scientist turned whistle-blower. DeNoble testified before Congress in 1994 that his research proved nicotine was addictive, contradicting the sworn testimony otherwise of the industry's chief executives. His testimony helped fuel lawsuits against the industry and contributed to eventual enactment of the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act. This 2009 law gave the Food and Drug Administration the power to regulate tobacco products and marketing.
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NewPublicHealth spoke with DeNoble and the documentary's filmmaker, Charles Evans, Jr., about their story.
NewPublicHealth: Charles, how long was the film in development and what prompted you to do the story in this way?
Charles Evans: I saw Victor on C-SPAN and was greatly interested in his cloak and dagger life at Philip Morris and I wanted to know more. I'm a film producer and thought it would make a good movie and actively sought him out, got to know more about him and about the work that he went on to do afterwards. In the late '90s he essentially just started talking to kids and to me that became the story. The story became a man who was determined to do good with science and the tobacco industry.
NPH: Victor, can you summarize the findings of your research at Philip Morris?
Victor DeNoble: When I went to work at Philip Morris, my job was to find a substitute drug for nicotine because nicotine causes cardiovascular problems. They wanted to find a drug that was equally addictive but something that wouldn't cause heart problems, but in order to do that we had to determine how addictive nicotine was. So we used classical rat models that determined drug addictions because rat brains are very similar to people brains, and we determined that nicotine was an addictive drug and that rats would work for it and it was not much different than other drugs of abuse like morphine, cocaine and heroin.
And then in a very surprising finding, around 1982 we discovered that there was a second drug in tobacco smoke that also was addictive and interactive with nicotine—and that drug is called acetaldehyde. What was interesting was that when you mixed acetaldehyde with nicotine, nicotine became more addictive.
NPH: Cigarettes have been called a finely tuned drug delivery device. Can you talk about what that means and how cigarettes are manufactured to maximize the delivery and impact of nicotine?
Tobacco Prevention Saves Money
Evidence is mounting to support the idea that proven prevention programs, especially those that help keep kids from smoking and help smokers quit, pay big returns by reducing health care costs:
- A newly published study shows that Massachusetts saved more than $3 for every $1 it spent on services to help beneficiaries in the state's Medicaid program quit smoking. (Also: read a related editorial.)
- Tobacco prevention programs could save an astonishing 14 to 20 times the cost of implementing them, according to a recent study in the journal Contemporary Economic Policy.
- A recent study published in the American Journal of Public Health (AJPH) found that from 2000 to 2009, Washington State's tobacco prevention and cessation program saved more than $5 for every $1 spent by reducing hospitalizations for heart disease, stroke, respiratory disease and cancer caused by tobacco use. Over the 10-year period, the program prevented nearly 36,000 hospitalizations, saving $1.5 billion compared to $260 million spent on the program.
"These studies send a powerful message to the nation's elected officials that disease prevention initiatives, including programs that prevent kids from smoking and help smokers quit, are essential to improving health and reducing health care costs in the United States," says Matthew L. Myers, president of the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids.
NewPublicHealth spoke recently with Julia Dilley, PhD, and officer with the Program Design and Evaluation Services Department in the Multnomah County (Oregon) Health Department and the lead author of the study published in AJPH about the findings.
NewPublicHealth: What were the key findings of the Washington State study?
Julia Dilley: The main thing we learned is that within a pretty short period of time the state [tobacco prevention] programs saved money.
NPH: Who should be looking at these studies?
Julia Dilley: Legislators and people who make state budgets. In Washington, for example, policymakers are making tough budget decisions, and they are not easy decisions to make. And I see them saying, well, we can do smoke-free policies and taxes, which are positive things to do, but programs cost us money. What we're showing is that you need all three to be effective. The investment will be a benefit in the short- and long-term. In Washington State, policymakers defunded the tobacco control programs for the coming year, but may be reconsidering them for the coming fiscal year, in part because of the study and because some state leaders did not want to cut the funding. Right now Washington is the only state without a state-wide quit line.
NPH: Given the economic realities of the moment, what is the best way to leverage tobacco control program funds?
Julia Dilley: There is always good work to be done in leveraging funds. One example is that the graphic warning labels for cigarette packs designed by the Food and Drug Administration have a referral number for the national quit line. That's a good example of a state not having to put as much of its resources in promoting state quit lines, if the authority of the FDA to require the graphic warning is upheld.
Weigh In: Has your state cut or added tobacco control programs recently?


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Warhol said that everyone can be famous for 15 minutes. Nerve believes anyone can be a sexpert for at least 30 seconds. In this series, we ask a certain segment of the population to school us on various sexual matters.
sex advice from mustachioed men
Anthony, 26
The guy I'm dating text-messages me five or six times a day. Must I text him back every time?
If it's not a question, don't text back. If it's a stupid question, don't text back. If he's really getting annoying, don't text back. Hopefully he'll get the message.
I recently started dating this girl, and I want to keep it casual (she knows this). But I have access to this beach house and I want to take her there for the weekend, just for fun. Can I do this without implying I'm looking for something serious?
I don't know the girl, but if you think she's a cling-on leave her home. If it's by a beach, then there's got to be some other tail. Take a friend and hit some bars.
How can a mustache improve my chances of getting a date?
It can't. If you're not getting any without one, you're not getting any with one. It can, however, very easily lessen your chances if not grown and maintained properly. It's gotta fit the face.
How does having a mustache affect your ability to perform cunnilingus?
My abilities are the same, but it will inevitably feel different for her. If she likes the way it feels, great. If it seems to bother her, try not too rub it on there too much. Same goes for nipples.
I've been dating my boyfriend for several years. Everything is still technically going well, but for me, the spark is gone. How do you break up with a significant other when you have no good reason to?
In any long-term relationship there are going to be ups and downs. Maybe your feelings aren't gone forever. Wait it out a little while — but not too long. You don't want to resent them for keeping you from being happy. That's when things get ugly.
I was drunk and kissed a guy at a bar the other night. I've never cheated otherwise. Must I tell my boyfriend about this?
Been there. If you're never going to see the dude you kissed again, let it go. If it's someone you know, you should probably tell.
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New Zealand has gone ahead of the world champions, the first time in their World Cup history that they've been ahead in a match.
New Zealand's only other World Cup appearance was in 1982, when they eliminated after three matches. A 93rd minute goal against Slovakia gave New Zealand a draw to open this competition, but it was only after Shane Smeltz flicked home a seventh minut dead ball play against Italy that the Kiwis were ahead for the first time in their World Cup history.
The goal came when a set piece was played from 35 yards out on the left flank, with defender Winston Reid flicking a ball against the chest of defender Fabio Cannavaro. The ball fell to Shane Smeltz behind the defense who flicked a right footed shot past Federico Marchetti for the opening goal.


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While it's the perfect app for engadget usual readers, it's also a great app to everyone who wants to keep up to date with technology news. Its UI is as clear as it should be, becoming one of its best points at all.
With this app, you can get quick access to the Engadget Podcast and use the in-app option to tip Engadget on breaking news, which can be shared via the usual social media wherever you're at. There's also a saving feature to bookmark articles and view while offline, which is deeply appreciated.
We wouldn't go so far as to say that Engadget is the best geek news site, that's up to you. What it's certainly true is that this app is up to it.
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Jacksonville Jaguars
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Garrard leads Jaguars past crumbling Cowboys 35-17
David Garrard tied a club record with four touchdown passes and ran for another while narrowly missing a perfect quarterback rating, leading the Jaguars to a 35-17 victory over the Cowboys on Sunday.
Garrard to start for Jaguars in Week Eight
QB David Garrard has recovered from a concussion and is expected to start in Week Eight for the Jaguars.
Jags DE Mincey breaks hand after being named starter
Jaguars DE Jeremy Mincey broke his right hand on the same day it was announced he would take Derrick Harvey's starting spot on the defensive line, according to the Florida Times-Union.
Jaguars cut QB Ramsey, re-sign LB Cutrera
A healthy David Garrard has allowed the Jaguars to cut QB Patrick Ramsey and re-sign LB Jacob Cutrera, the team announced Friday.
Jags bench Harvey, close book on 2008 draft class
The Derrick Harvey experiment is over in Jacksonville. The Jaguars benched the only remaining member of the 2008 draft class last week and promoted a lesser-known former Florida Gator — DE Jeremy Mincey.
Jaguars bench DE Harvey
Jaguars DE Derrick Harvey could go down as an NFL bust after being benched this week by head coach Jack Del Rio.
Garrard cleared to play Sunday
Jaguars QB David Garrard passed his post-concussion tests and has been cleared to play in Sunday's Week Eight game against the Cowboys.
Jaguars place ORT Britton on I.R.; sign OT Pears
The Jaguars placed ORT Eben Britton on season-ending injured reserve and signed OT Erik Pears on Tuesday.
Chiefs leave Jaguars' 'D' searching for answers
Todd Bouman kept the Jaguars close for almost three quarters, but the Chiefs' explosive rushing attack wore out Jacksonville's punchless defense.
Report: Jaguars ORT Britton likely done for season
Jaguars starting ORT Eben Britton is likely out for the season after suffering an injury to his shoulder in Sunday's loss to the Chiefs.
Chiefs run all over Jags in 42-20 win
Derrick Johnson returned an interception for a score and Matt Cassel threw two touchdown passes to Dwayne Bowe leading Kansas City to a 42-20 victory over the Jacksonville Jaguars on Sunday.
Jaguars QB Garrard will not travel to K.C.
Jaguars QB David Garrard returned to the team's facility on Friday but will not travel with them to Kansas City after suffering a concussion in their Week Six loss to the Titans, according to ESPN.
Jaguars going younger, more athletic in secondary
The Jaguars gave several veteran safeties their chance to fix the NFL's 28th-ranked pass defense. Now young guys like SS Courtney Greene will get their shot.
Garrard misses second consecutive practice
Jaguars QB David Garrard missed practice for the second consecutive day on Thursday after sustaining a concussion in Monday night's loss to the Titans. Backup QBs Trent Edwards or Todd Bouman are likely to start on Sunday against the ...
Los Angeles Mag-uars? It could happen
Could Magic Johnson be interested in owning an NFL franchise in Los Angeles?
The Jacksonville Jaguars have placed defensive end Andre Branch and running back Jordan Todman on injured reserve and promoted receiver Mike Brown, linebacker Brandon Marshall and tight end Isaiah Stanback from the practice squad. The team waived receiver Quan Cosby and fullback Will Ta'ufo'ou. The Jaguars (2-12) have one roster spot open, presumably to active linebacker Daryl Smith (groin) off IR.||||||| Branch (groin) and Todman (calf) were inactive for Sunday's game at Miami.


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