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14-year-old Wesley has been in the CPS System since he was 4.
"It's really hard to stay in one place until you get adopted which pushes it back further and further," he said.
Wesley marked his 10 year anniversay in Child Protective Services just a few months ago. When asked how that makes him feel, he answered honestly.
"Sad. I actually want to be in a forever home for really a long time," he said.
During his outing at Celebration Station in Mesquite, Wesley said he's grateful for his caseworker who's been like a mother to him.
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Cecilia Powers' eyes welled up at what Wesley had to say about her.
"He's been here for 10 years and it was my goal to find him a family by the 10 year mark and I'm a few months late, but I'm not giving up," she said.
Wesley is resilient. When you meet him, it's hard for him not to steal your heart. He is respectful, playful and fun.
"I love Wesley. I've traveled all over the state with him. I've been his caseworker for five years. There's no way that I would ever let any other case worker have him," he said.
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"He wants someone that's going to love him. He also told me before that he knows that they can get money for adopting him and he does not want them in it for the money. He wants them to adopt them because they love him," Powers said.
Wesley has taught Cecilia a lesson about strength. Now her hope is that he can share that love with his forever family, and not just his caseworker.


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Comments welcome.....I tilled in some more manure....Perhaps a layer of topsoil is next... Then the cover crop....Dave
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Not sure I'd spend the money, adding topsoil. Plant a cover crop, and see how it grows,before dumping any more money into it. Turning under a good cover crop, before winter, and planting winter rye, might be all you need. Maybe add more composted manure in the spring, if you can get it. Ed
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Hi Ed,Yep We been talking about the same thing....I've got a pretty good size manure pile...And I kinda contracted with a guy to keep hauling it away for him...I've got another garden that I'm doing the same thing to, so if I can get away with out top soil it would be great....Thanks, Dave
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North Carolina
4.3/5 rDev +11.7%
Appearance: Pours an espresso brown color with a rocky tan head; retains nicely and leavea a few squiggles of lace
Smell: Great aromatics, with dark fruit, whiskey barrel, smoke and burnt caramel
Taste: Dark fruit and caramel, at the outset; by mid-palate, the whiskey, vanilla and caramel flavors take over, along with a sour element that while, off style, I actually enjoyed; after the swallow, the flavors blend together nicely, with the sour aspect making a stand against the sweet flavors
Mouthfeel: Medium to full body with moderate carbonation
Drinkability: I really enjoyed this; perhaps the sour flavor is a flaw, but I thought it added a unique element
11-03-2009 00:38:45 | More by brentk56
4.55/5 rDev +18.2%
Pouring into pint glass.
Appeared very dark brown. A lite tan, thin ring of head wrapped the glass.
Aroma was a little bitter, a little hop charecter, with a rich malty almost chocolaty charecter. A pretty strong alcohol presence as well.
Taste was spectaculer! A smooth, rich malty chocolate flavor. A warming alcohol presence makes this a very comfortable beer to drink!
Mouthfeel was heavy, but smooth. Overall drinkablity is good, its a somewhat heavey beer, not for everyday, but a great evening, after dinner beer! I loved it!
10-30-2009 17:05:30 | More by buffettfan
4/5 rDev +3.9%
For starters, I don't have a lot of experience with Baltic porters, I don't think I've had more than one before this. The beer was black with a white head. Definite roasty aroma but with a hint of hoppiness. Taste was roasty but with more hop taste! Some chocolate and coffe hints through the roast. I have to say I'm surprised with the hoppiness that come through the robust malt flavors. What an enjoyable experience! The mouthfeel was nice and thicker than many other porters *yay* I get a little sick of watery porters.
09-22-2009 18:06:38 | More by Reneejane
North Carolina
3.93/5 rDev +2.1%
Thru the years I have thought of Arcadia to be hit or miss with there wares,alot of their "big" beers havent lived up to expectations that I had for them.
2008 version.Poured a deep cola color with a creamy toasted almond colored one finger head,aromas mainly of chocolate,dark fruit,and oak induced vanilla notes.The oak is much more pronounced on the palate with some vanilla and wood,dark fruit and bitter chocolate round out the flavors with a bit of sweetish alcohol showing thru more as the beer warmed.Its a solid Baltic porter but not mind blowing.
08-17-2009 21:10:08 | More by oberon
3.33/5 rDev -13.5%
GLASS: Sam Adams Pint Glass
TEMP: Cellared @ approx 50 degrees
Pours up a nice, deep, dark brown...almost black. Two-fingers of thick, creamy, light brown foam sit on top, where it just stays and stays. Lacing is pretty good.
Mild notes of coffees and chocolates. Nice hint of whiskey and oak. Mild touch of oxidation. Hints of brown sugar.
Instant coffee and cocoa powder, along with a mild roasty maltiness. Definite hints of whiskey, which is nice. Mild oakiness. I believe that the oxidation is bringing about a slight 'twang' that shouldn't be here. Not overpowering, but makes for an odd finish.
On the lighter side of full-bodied. Very smooth and nicely creamy.
This is very tasty, but I'd love to be able to try a fresh bottle, for comparison factors.
07-28-2009 04:06:34 | More by coldmeat23
4.4/5 rDev +14.3%
This is a 2007 Vintage, it pours with a nice strong tan head. The color is black with no noticeable highlights. Aroma is a sweet maltyness with hints of blackstrap molasse and a touch of roastyness. The flavor is clean with a well balanced bitterness and thin to medium sweet maltyness with hints of blackstrap molasses and a touch of smokeyness at the finish. The alcohol is very subdued in the aroma and flavor. This beer is a very good example of a porter and is easy to drink. They say it is aged in oak barrels which mellows the beer. The mouth feel is a medium body that finishes quick with some creamyness. The carbonation is perfect the head leave a beautiful lace on the glass. As it warms the smokeyness comes out more in the flavor also a touch of fruity sweetness in the aroma. If Porter is your favorite style this is the beer for you. I think this is a great beer very well made the brewer should be proud of this beer.
07-09-2009 04:58:28 | More by PorterJan
4.2/5 rDev +9.1%
I was looking forward to this as it was warming up on my coffee table for like an hour. I walked the dog for half an hour, came in opened it and it gushed over onto the carpet, some bills, and a nice long trail into the kitchen. Not sure why, maybe overly re-fermented in the bottle I think this one's like 2 years old. Maybe older. The label has a little fold over the "b", no idea what that means.
Super big foam. Smells really good. Woody, intense vanilla.
Tastes Sour, burning matches? Brett. Interesting. Some bitter vanilla. Some dry cocoa powder hints and maybe palm sugar.
I'm more annoyed that I lost like a quarter to a third of it. A good temperature, cool not cold. I waited long enough to open it but I think I needed a bigger glass to catch the fountain of deliciousness. Makes for a good drinking bottle but a sticky clean up. Surprising since it's not sweet.
While I'd drink it again, I'm not sure if I'd age another bottle for such a short time. I'd go older of drink much younger.
06-16-2009 03:13:07 | More by Dotcubed
New York
4.5/5 rDev +16.9%
The beer pours a dark brown color with a thick frothy tan head that slowly fades to lacing. The aroma is great! It has a wonderful malt nose that boasts of roasted and chocolate malts along with hints of vanilla from the oak barrels. The taste is awesome. It has a kick ass roasted and chocolate malt flavor. It's thick and rich with loads of malt flavor. It goes down silky smooth with a nice warm finish. The oak barrels really add a tremendous amount of complexity to this already tastey beer. The mouthfeel is good. It is a full bodied beer with adequate carbonation. This is a damn fine porter. Enough said.
05-16-2009 22:19:06 | More by WesWes
4.03/5 rDev +4.7%
Poured this 22 oz. brown bottle into a Sierra Nevada hops glass. 2007 vintage. The body was dark brown/black. Clear of sediment with a creamy, uniform head. A cap remained throughout.
Smell was woody and chocolatey. Hints of brown sugar. Aroma of a drawer full of screws.
Taste was woody. There was a nice initial tartness followed by a lingering light sweetness. Hints of molasses, but not much. Well balanced and flavorful. Very well hidden alcohol. Drying in the end.
Mouthfeel was medium to light in body. Adequate carbonation with a smooth silkiness. Overall a nice porter.
04-30-2009 13:29:10 | More by Cresant
North Carolina
4/5 rDev +3.9%
This poured a rich dark chocolate color with a light cocoa colored head. No light shines through at all. The head was not real thick, but lingered on top and left spotty lacing on the sides.
The aroma is really intriguing. I smell more of an oaky, Bourbon smell then a "beer" smell. There is just a slight, sweet maltiness in the background. The Bourbon aroma is not overpowering, but was surprising.
The flavor is really a melding of bourbon and porter, with neither flavor overpowering the other, but rather complementing the other. There is a bit of a chocolate maltiness under the bourbon flavor. The bourbon aspects do give this beer a bit of a sharpness and brightness.
The beer is medium bodied, but does leave a very dry finish, sucking the moisture right out the mouth.
Overall, this is a nice beer, definitely unique. I find that the oaky, bourbony flavors tend to overpower the "beer" flavors, but not necessarily in a bad way, given the intent of the brewers to create an oak-barrel aged beer. As far as oak-aged beers go, this is one of the better ones I have had, but that doesn't mean it is my favorite style. I also found that this beer was quite expensive at about $12 a bomber. I am glad I tried this, but wouldn't purchase another, especially at this price.
03-02-2009 23:04:16 | More by doppelmeup
New Hampshire
4.13/5 rDev +7.3%
Pours a three finger light tan head that leaves a good lace. Totally black color, no highlights. Oak nose. Good carbonation and heavy bodied. Flavor is smooth, some sweetness, with a good oak sharpness. Decent porter. 2008 vintage, $10.20 for a 22 oz bottle from Tully's Beer & Wine Wells, Me.
02-14-2009 00:27:38 | More by jdhilt
3.63/5 rDev -5.7%
The look of this beer was pretty good. I must say I was a little thrown by the label(the label didn't mention whiskey barrels). I'm not a big whiskey fan, so I was surprised when I tasted the hint of whiskey after my first sip. After my taste buds settled down I did enjoy it. Only one for this old boy. I really liked all the qualities it possessed, the dark color, the malty/whiskey taste. It left a nice warm feeling in my mouth. But only one.
02-10-2009 23:22:26 | More by MaineBirdMan
4.3/5 rDev +11.7%
I got this bottle in a trade with Nutbrown. Thanks Alan!
2007 Vintage
This pours a very very dark brown with just a bit of reddish hues showing when held up to the light. The head of foam tan is a good +1 finger and there's plenty of sticky lacing.
The smell has lots of things going on. I get oak, vanilla, dark fruit, and sweet malty goodness. Little bit of booze here as well.
The taste is quite sweet with lots of caramel malt and vanilla, light chocolate, some toffee, some oak(that one's growing on me) and a very light bitterness in the background that shines in the finish. Nice job there of not letting tyhis puppy get too sweet.
This on the upper end of medium bodied and it is fairly well carbonated. Very nice sipping brew.
Drinkability? It sure is tasty and has a very good mouthfeel so I'm going to say...very good. Maybe a bit stronger alcohol wise than the numbers say but that's not much of a gripe.
Thanks again to Alan for the chance to try another Baltic Porter and this is certainly an excellent one.
02-06-2009 01:41:18 | More by Bitterbill
4.2/5 rDev +9.1%
2007 vintage poured into a pint glass
A: Very dark brown/almost black with creamy tan head
S: wo, it smells as if i walked into a bourbon barrel, very bourbony and oaky. next thing i smell is vanilla, sweetness, and smokiness
T: bitterness attacks the pallet followed by a malty sweetness with vanilla and carmel overtones. some heat from the alcohol as the beer warms on the tongue. again the oak barrel aging comes through strongly on the taste...i like that.
M: medium to heavy body, creamy mouthfeel with mild carbonation, finish is on the slicker side.
D: this beer is a wonderfully complex brew but one or two glasses is going to be more than enough for me
Notes: working my way through their big beer series and now having tried this and their hopmouth I am excited to get to the rest of their big beer line-up
01-22-2009 02:09:11 | More by lamarr04
3.98/5 rDev +3.4%
Cheers to czoch75 for this one, thanks Clint!
Pours mahogany with 3+ fingers of rocky mocha head. Above average lacing & head retention
S: Bourbon notes & dark fruit
T: Sour mash, dryness & oakyness up front. More of the same, with some oaky & coca-cola vanilla notes & more sour mash & some dark chcolate as this warms. Finishes sour with vanilla sweetness 8 a bit of a booze kiss
MF: Medium bodied, low carbonation, smooth & sticky
Drinks prety easy, a pretty good crack at the style, needs more chocolate or dark fruit to make me happy. If you don't like sour mash you may want to avoid this one
12-28-2008 23:17:24 | More by russpowell
New Jersey
3.73/5 rDev -3.1%
A: Poured a dark, near black color with a light cinnamon/beige colored head that was creamy and well lasting but left little lacing.
S: boozy with an oaky alcohol aroma along with some vanilla and dry bitter chocolate.
T: a slight astringency. The beer was aged in 10yr old oak cask barrels that once held whiskey which is very noticeable in both the nose and flavor. A big alcohol flavor of whiskey. 7.8 abv but drinks much bigger greets you from the get go. There is some slight burnt malting and charred woodiness with an earthy bitterness as well. Some dark burnt sugars add just a hint of sweetness as well some dry vanilla creamer notes. The huge whiskey flavor is huge, perhaps a tad to much so and is comparable to dropping a shot in a 12oz glass of dark beer.
M: thin with light carbonation while the oaky vanilla alcohol flavor just takes over dominating the tongue.
D: Not bad but just way to much whiskey flavor in my beer to enjoy in 120z. Maybe if left to mellow a bit through aging this could be much more subtle and drinkable, otherwise while fresh was a little strong.
12-17-2008 00:02:35 | More by beerthulhu
4.43/5 rDev +15.1%
22 oz bottle. Standard cap. Fairly nice pressure sensitive label with some nice Celtic details.
Pours an opaque black body beneath a creamy head of dark tan that borders on moving into 'light brown' stature. The head retention is quite good, and it maintains a solid cap throughout the glass, leaving solid walls of lace as it goes.
In the nose the Bourbon is quite apparent; as is a bit of lightly charred oak. And there's also a very hearty helping of yeasty fruitiness that includes juicy red delicious apples, sweet red berries, a hint of melon, and even some coconut milk.
The darker, more roasty notes appear in the flavor, but they're also threaded through and through with the yeasty fruitiness, giving it a thinner, and more accessible character throughout. If this is "Shipwreck Porter", then it must have been a pirate ship loaded with gold, bananas, tropical fruit (melon, papaya), and cocoa. It's bright and vibrant, and full of flavor. It finishes dry with loads of fruit (apple, strawberry, kiwi) and cocoa.
The bitterness is balanced, and without being strong it's still firm. It lingers on the palate with melon and apple and a bit of Bourbon. It's almost exactly like Laird's AppleJack. Interesting!!!!
Overall, I was impressed at how drinkable this beer was given the hype. It finishes dry with loads of fruit (apple, strawberry, kiwi). Very nice! Certainly worth trying!
12-09-2008 04:54:18 | More by NeroFiddled
3.95/5 rDev +2.6%
Served on-tap at Teresa's Next Door in Wayne, PA.
Pours a dark black with a thin beige head. Aroma dominated by whiskey but also has hints of chocolate and coffee. The bourbon barrel aging results in a strong whiskey presence that is accompanied by malty chocolate, coffee, dark fruit and vanilla flavors. Very tasty!
11-28-2008 09:05:13 | More by corby112
4/5 rDev +3.9%
Bottle shows 2007 vintage on label, however label does not confirm abv. Listed here @ 7.8 2008 vintage is at 11%. I can say there is alcohol in the beer but just not how much.
Pours nearly black with a coffee two cream colored head. Retention is quite decent with some lacing left.
Oak character is quite strong but not overstated. Good amount of vanilla aroma. Roasted malt and a slight smokiness rounds out the smell quite nicely.
Once again the oak is very noticeable in the taste as it was in the nose. Coffee and maybe slight chocolate taste appear under the woodiness. Light vanilla flavor as well. Alcohol is slightly warming.
Medium to just shy of full bodied. Drinks very smooth. Lower carbonation but well suited.
Rather enjoyable and easy to drink. Though I would not want more than a bottle.
11-24-2008 01:36:08 | More by kzoobrew
3.8/5 rDev -1.3%
22oz bottle acquired in a couple of trades.
***This one was a gusher - poured all over my bar and left a nice trail all the way to the bathroom sink. Why do the majority of Arcadia beers do this (and why don't I remember that until too late!).***
Poured a dark, dark brown with a large sized off white head. Aromas of wood, vanilla, anise, and bourbon. Tastes of ligher wood, vanilla, brown sugar, roast, and light chocolate. For some reason, both the aromas and tastes reminded me a little of root beer.
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11-21-2008 00:49:51 | More by hopdog
4/5 rDev +3.9%
A- Pours a light black color with dark ruby highlights. The head is big and fluffy and tan in color. Some HUGE thick lacing is present.
S- Big chocolate aromas, cream, some buttery oaky aromas, some bourbon, some dark fruit is also evident.
T- Starts out a bit tart and almost sour, then moves into notes of chocolate, some bourbon and some oakiness. The finish has some coffee notes and is relatively dry.
M- The tart/sour initial twang is a little off-putting, but as it warms, it lessens. Carbonation is appropriate.
D- The initial slightly tart/sour note is a touch off-putting but this is a pretty nice bourbon aged porter.
11-08-2008 03:58:50 | More by Greggy
4.33/5 rDev +12.5%
Arcadia Ales Shipwreck Porter pours a stiff brown head over
an inky black brew. The nose is amazing- fruit, mocha, wood,
and alcohol- almost a port or madeira quality to it. The flavor
is likewise complex- big malt flavors, wood, dark fruits, tannin
from the oak barrels this stuff was stored in, and a bit of tartness
from that environment as well. Mouthfeel is full and round, with
a very long dry finish to it. Alchohol is a constant, if well modulated
presence, but it's only obvious as a warming effect. The bottle does
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to plan on staying in that night. This fine brew is not to be taken lightly!
08-05-2008 05:59:54 | More by shadow1961
3.68/5 rDev -4.4%
Appearance: Pours a near black body with some reddish hints to it and capped by a well-sized, beige head.
Smell: Dark malt aroma, predominately, with a touch of chocolate and molasses. Lesser notes of vanilla and oak. To my dismay, there's also a teensy, worrisome touch of sourness up in this bouqet.
Taste: Dark maltiness with tastes of chocolate and a few globs of gooey molasses. Restrained sweetness. some dark fruits. Minor hints of vanilla, oak, and light brown sugar. There's a noticeable bit of sourness within. All the flavors make a curtain call in the slightly warming finish.
Mouthfeel: Medium-bodied. Medium carbonation.
Drinkability: Not too bad beyond that sour twang in the flavor. I'm sure it's nothing a little tinkering and adjusting couldn't cure.
07-10-2008 19:25:23 | More by ChainGangGuy
4.08/5 rDev +6%
2007 vintage.
Has the liquid consistancy of a viscous brandy. Only a little head after the pour, but nothing at all after that. Light black to dark brown with brownie colored highlights. Nice color. Smells cacao mixed with blended whiskey, toasty oak and with jst a light splash of milk. Not to mention the alcohol you get with the whiskey smell. The taste carries more creamy notes. Marshmellows and vanilla. The blended whiskey comes in about halfway through. With toasted wood, and chocolate covered coffee beans in a smooth finish. Great cream and warming whiskey notes. Great to sip and pay close attention to while watching an episode of Miss Marple with my girlfriend.
04-30-2008 02:41:23 | More by scruffwhor
3.8/5 rDev -1.3%
Tons of carbonation bubbles come up through a deep brown brew with slight light around the edges. It has a light, billowy large cola head.
Nose is heavy whiskey, with some malts. Very oaky.
Taste is more whiskey, roasted malts, and alcohol warming in the throat. Heavy whiskey flavors are not really my style, but this seems to be well done and if you're a whiskey lover you'll enjoy this beer.
Mouthfeel is pretty good. Drinkability is ok but not great, because of the whiskey. Kind of a sipper, but still quite nice.
04-27-2008 14:19:32 | More by shivtim
Arcadia Shipwreck Porter from Arcadia Brewing Company
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It's a good problem to have, really. Instead of spending December looking back at the rookie busts — the first-rounders who didn't pan out — we're splitting hairs over who should win Offensive Rookie of the Year between three incredibly worthy candidates in the best year for rookie quarterbacks in almost three decades, and possibly ever.
Should it be Robert Griffin III, Andrew Luck or Russell Wilson? A few weeks ago, the Rookie Meter called Wilson the best-ever third-best rookie, but his last four games (four wins, 11 total touchdowns, two interceptions) have made this very much a three-horse race.
Unfortunately for the voters, a breakdown of the stat lines for the triumvirate doesn't help things much. Just take a look at the chart below.
Rushing numbers
Robert Griffin III
752 yards, 6 TDs
Andrew Luck
254 yards, 5 TDs
Russell Wilson
431 yards, 3 TDs
The trifecta is also rewriting the rookie record book. Griffin already broke Cam Newton's record for most rushing yards by a rookie QB in a season, will finish the campaign with the best-ever passer rating for a rookie and is likely to top Dan Marino's rookie-best 20-6 TD-to-interception ratio from 1983.
Luck broke Newton's record for most passing yards in a season in Week 16 and will add to it in the finale. He also has the most fourth-quarter comebacks in a season by a rookie all-time, with seven.
Wilson trails Peyton Manning's record for most touchdown passes by a rookie by one heading into Week 17.
So, who gets the nod — the rookie record-holder for passing yards (Luck), passer rating (Griffin) or passing touchdowns (assuming Wilson gets two vs. the Rams)?
Voters will be forced to nitpick, looking at all possible factors to try to set one rookie signalcaller apart. The Redskins and Colts are two of the league's most surprising teams, having turnarounds due in large part because of their rookie quarterbacks. The Seahawks had some backers as a potential playoff team, but few, if any, expected 10 wins, and Wilson wasn't even supposed to start.
Wilson does have arguably the best supporting cast — a top-five defense, the league's second-leading rusher and arguably the best O-line of the three QBs. As colleague Eric Edholm outlined in this week's "Shorts and Shells," Luck and Griffin are succeeding with unsung supporting casts.
Luck's interception total, completion percentage and passer rating are all knocks against him, and he has by far the most passing attempts (599, also a rookie record), but how does one ignore the fact that Luck has brought a team that went 2-14 in 2011 to the playoffs?
Last year's Redskins were a 5-11 squad, and their defense lost two key players, Brian Orakpo and Adam Carriker, to injury early this season. The 'Skins have a rookie at running back, an unheralded O-line and Griffin has been without TE Fred Davis, his leading pass catcher before Davis went down with a season-ending injury in Week Seven.
The order in this week's Rookie Meter remains Griffin-Wilson-Luck. One big advantage that Griffin will have with the voters is the benefit of a short memory. RG3 will be playing on national television in the final game of the regular season on Sunday night against the Cowboys, with the winner taking the NFC East. Assuming Griffin puts together a solid performance, and gets the win, he should take the award. However, the national stage could backfire on him — if Wilson or Luck has a huge game and Griffin flops in a loss, would voters use that as a reason to go a different direction?
As difficult as the vote will be, it has been a joy for all football fans to see these three rookie signalcallers perform at such a high level under extremely high expectations. And it's not just on offense — picking Defensive Rookie of the Year is no picnic, likely coming down to Bobby Wagner, Lavonte David, Casey Hayward, Luke Kuechly and Janoris Jenkins.
I will reveal my Rookie of the Year picks, as well as my All-Rookie team, in next week's final Rookie Meter of the 2012 season.
1. Redskins QB Robert Griffin III (first round, second overall)
Last week's ranking: 1
Griffin completed 16-of-24 passes for 198 yards, two touchdowns and one interception in the Redskins' win over the Eagles. He had a passer rating of 102.4.
2. Seahawks QB Russell Wilson (3, 75)
Last week's ranking: 2
Wilson threw four touchdown passes and one interception, and completed 15-of-21 passes in Seattle's Sunday night win over the 49ers. Wilson also had six carries for 29 yards and a passer rating of 115.3.
3. Colts QB Andrew Luck (1, 1)
Last week's ranking: 3
In the Colts' win over the Chiefs, Luck completed 17-of-35 passes for 205 yards, one touchdown and zero interceptions.
4. Redskins RB Alfred Morris (6, 173)
Last week's ranking: 4
Morris had 22 carries for 91 yards and a touchdown in Washington's win. He also had a 17-yard reception. Morris enters Week 16 with a 101-yard lead over Doug Martin for the rookie lead in rushing yards.
5. Packers CB Casey Hayward (2, 62)
Last week's ranking: 8
Hayward had six tackles, one tackle for loss, a QB hit and his 20th pass defensed of the season, tops among all rookies.
6. Seahawks MLB Bobby Wagner (2, 47)
Last week's ranking: 6
Wagner had nine tackles and a QB hit in the Seahawks' win over the Niners. He is third among rookies in tackles.
7. Buccaneers LB Lavonte David (2, 58)
Last week's ranking: 7
David recorded nine tackles, including his rookie-leading 19th tackle for loss, in the Bucs' loss. He is second among rookies in tackles.
8. Buccaneers RB Doug Martin (1, 31)
Last week's ranking: 5
Martin had 18 carries for 62 yards and seven catches for 57 yards in the Buccaneers' loss to the Rams. Don't read much into Martin's drop in the Rookie Meter — it's more of a testament to the play of the top defensive rookies.
9. Panthers LB Luke Kuechly (1, 9)
Last week's ranking: 9
Kuechly had 13 tackles, one for a loss, an interception and two passes defensed in Carolina's win over the Raiders. He leads the league in tackles and is second among rookies in tackles for loss.
10. Rams CB Janoris Jenkins (2, 39)
Last week's ranking: NR
Jenkins scored his fourth touchdown of the season on Sunday, returning an interception for six points. He also had six tackles in the Rams' win over Tampa. His total of 14 passes defensed ranks third among rookies. His four interceptions is tied for second behind Hayward for the rookie lead.
On the cusp (listed alphabetically)
Buccaneers SS Mark Barron (1, 7)
Titans LB Zach Brown (2, 52)
Bills CB Stephon Gilmore (1, 10)
Patriots LB Dont'a Hightower (1, 25)
Colts WR T.Y. Hilton (3, 92)
Patriots DE Chandler Jones (1, 21)
Vikings OLT Matt Kalil (1, 4)
Browns RB Trent Richardson (1, 3)
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James Durbin teaching Heavy Metal Concert 101 on American Idol 2011?
[Apr. 13]
American Idol, the television series, has a massive following in the United States and viewers are from a broad range demographic. James Durbin is teaching everyone Heavy Metal Concert 101 and rock music fan or not, it sure is hard not to like him. While only a small number of people watching the show have probably every been to a real heavy metal rock concert, as former Gen X head banger whose life partner is a Baby Boomer who has seen nearly every hit band and major rock star of note since the 1960s one thing was clear from our view-point. Durbin rocks the house not because of his raw talent but because he has studied his rock music history. That's our theory — the kid with the faux hawk is actually *gasp* an ACADEMIC.
Confused? Don't be.
Pay attention to all the little things James Durbin does on stage to involve and excite the live audience before, during, and after a song –
- from the way he moves around and makes eye contact with his audience (even though really he is simply frying his retinas being blinded by the stage lights)
- by the way he makes sure every corner of the stage gets a visit and that he takes advantage of strategically placed higher vantage points on and around the stage to elevate himself… done not to put the spotlight on his greatness but to give a better view to the audience in the back and to bring himself one step closer to the balcony crowd
- how he will point and wink at random sections of the audience — he's like Hillary Clinton in leather and chains, making sure that everyone knows he is both a real person and willing to connect with those little people who support him
- he ignores the judges except to occasionally flash them a sly smile while singing to amuse them — but will turn his head away on a dime to acknowledge someone who shouts out or waves a sign in his honor somewhere out in the crowd
- Durbin will always make time to personally recognize a child or youngster who is there for a handshake, fist bump, or autograph and his demeanor goes from crazy hard screamer to a confident and cuddly version of the Cowardly Lion from the Wizard of Oz right after he got his bravery medal and self-confidence
- As a competitor, he cares more about putting on a good show not only for the TV audience and celebrity judges but more for the very real live audience — and even if they never listened to a note of Black Sabbath, Iron Maiden, Judas Priest, Rush, Led Zepplin, or even Aerosmith (judge Steven Tyler's band) in real life they are totally responsive and moved by Durbin's charisma and professional enthusiasm
James Durbin has got a wicked good rock voice for sure and there is not doubt he will get a recording contract somewhere win or lose. The only thing that might hold him back is the lack of a band good enough to back him.
Fortunately for him, the American Idol staff and judges seems to already know what Heavy Metal fans intuitively understand already — that the toughest thing for James Durbin is going to be finding the right musicians to play with, as he is such a perfectionist (in the best of ways) and so fricking good at what he does as a singer that even the most seasoned rock musicians seem to fade a bit with the real star being…
Durbin, DuRbiN, DURBIN!
Rock on, young man — and thank you to the American Idol judges for letting this star shine on what otherwise has always been a traditional pop music top 40 hit finder.
While James Durbin might not win, he is already a rock star in this writers humble opinion.
Let's just hope he will be the opening act for a big name headliner like Ozzy Osbourne, the Rolling Stones, or even Aerosmith that can pump up the audience at a rock arena near us someday soon. We have teenagers of our own we'd love to take to see him so we can teach them what an old school rock concert used to be about.
It seems to us that kid has a lot of Steven Tyler (of Aerosmith), Rob Halford (from Judas Priest), Bruce Dickenson (of Iron Maiden), Robert Plant (from Led Zepplin), and Mick Jagger(of The Rolling Stones) in him. [He might even have a little Tina Turner and Kiss thrown in there for good measure but tempered with the machismo of Metallica and the light-hearted humor of DLR (David Lee Roth of Van Halen before Sammy Hagar took over lead vocals and the bands nickname changed to VanHagar, of course.]
But again, we digress — the point America needs to know is that we have a sneaking suspicion that is because he studied his rock music history like an academic student takes a course in college, falls in love with a genre, and elects to pursue the subject and topic with reckless [and sometimes feckless] abandon as a major.
Not only did young James Durbin listen to the lyrics and the killer rifts of classic rock and figure out how to mimic the greats of rock music history, he took things a step further. First he learned how to belt out Heavy Metal tones that raise the hair on your arms, peel the skin off your face, and curl your toes and then he watched how the lead singers actually honored the band while working the crowd. And he studied hard, which is why you will see that although he is just a singer that physically he emulates every physical action of the stage perfromance and arena rock greats from the way he holds a mike to the angle of his back bends to the gimme gimme wiggle finger moves when he is paying homage to whomever is doing a solo on the lead guitar.
You see, that is the deep dark secret about Heavy Metal rock music the common person might not know — that it is the band's interaction with the crowd that makes Heavy Metal what it is and always has been now. Once you realize that the way rock and roll lures you in is not with the songs or the words — it is a from of communal religion of inclusion.
That's right.
Rock and Roll may steal your soul by inviting you in and taking away all your worries and cares. You can be a misfit and fit right in. You can be born to be wild (or mild) and you are accepted as a part of all that is.
Scream along at the top of your lungs and dance by yourself in the aisles. Can't sing? Can't dance? It doesn't matter.
Because most truly great rock and roll musicians can't really sing or dance either.
What they do on stage is let their soul leak out through their bones. Once their insides spill out and engulf the crowd, it is only a matter of assimilation for a truly great singer to become a part of them… a trick James Durbin appears to already know.
He's like the Borg, only using old-fashioned glad handing and acoustics instead of Star Trek gadgets to win.
The boy with the goofy ears and getting a little thick already around the middle knows that whether he takes to the stage from a dark aisle in the back of a theater or comes blasting out like Hulk Hogan though a stage set designed to give him every bit of a professional wrestler's flair and pizzazz to make a dramatic entrance that he will — if he has to all professional levels of technical specification — rip the hearts out of the crowd.
Granted, after taking a big bite of their live and bleeding heart in order to Grok and bond he will give it back and suture them up with some kind words and one of those darling wink wink, point point, nod nod and "yeah, you caught my attention" shout outs — but still…
James Durbin is teaching Americans who are watching American Idol what the essence of Heavy Metal Concerts 101 is all about, and when it comes to studying music history and stage theatrics, this boy's hands are never idol.
And you want to know the coolest thing?
James Durbin is a green celebrity. He perfroms as well as he does despite (and because of the fact) he was himself an at-risk kid diagnosed with Aspergers (a high functioning from of Autism) and Tourettes Syndrome (a blurting disorder) after the untimely death of his father when he was just a young child.
Way to go, James.
You've got a big handful of fans of all ages out here rooting for ya to keep on rockin' no matter what the outcome might be for you in Hollywood on American Idol, winner or #winning — whichever way the show votes turn out.


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In the early part if the 20th century those immigrating to America daily by the hundreds became part of a process… a process born of necessity where not only surviving the trip was at times a gift of freedom in itself… assimilation and its batismal of fire affect purified the individuals self determined efforts, which has produced the durable, indelible and thriving existence of an American society.
This Americanized process of melting pot assimilation came with no guarantees for survival and was fostered by only the individuals Rights of freedom.
This process allowed and encouraged the individual to take matters into his or her own hands with a required first step to learn the English language.
As the passing days or weeks or months came and went individuals assimilating into the American culture becoming part of an ideal of freedom.
An ideal that was not only the fruits gained by individual self determination; sustained and built families that became the backbone for strength of community which are the stem cells of patriotism.
But not now; now there is no need to assimilate, and freedom has become the tools for immigrants to pickpocket American workers through a multitude of turnkey guarantees of government handouts… handouts that produce faith outside assimilation self determining effects. Thus, the entitled immigrant lacks any of the critical experiences for producing principled knowledge of freedoms true cause and its many duties of responsible citizenship.
Whereas the symbiotic relationship between the individual and government produces only entitlement feeding parasites where voting against those that threaten the host and its many feeding tentacles for latching onto… producing unaware imprison souls that shun the strength of family and seek strength found in communities of political empowerment, bordered under the concepts gerrymander, which has produced monolithic voting blocks that seek only sustaining the perpetuation of handouts. A Communities subsisting strength once found in the unity of family or ethnicity has become the guarantees of a generational existence on government entitlements.
Imagine if you will an ever expanding opening at the top of a straw, as the straw keeps on expanding so too does the birth increase down its lenth and the bottom of straw shrinks in size. America's assimilation was much like a spinning-wheel for a silk, where you have an abundance of material that is spun into a durable single-strand, and assimilation is what produced this.
From each individual that comes from family each member becomes part of their assimilation into the American culture. Today in America the orifice that one enters into assimilation has expanding and stretched halfway down the straw, and so what took year or months now takes decades to become part of a loosly woven existance of nominal self determination that begs and fights for the hind teat of a milk depleted sow that has become government entitlement. And this generational entitlment has produced a blanket from our American ethos that now has huge sagging holes in it, where what is produced is used like asphalt to fix a pothole, that will eventually have to be filled over and over again… unless the road fixed from beginning to end and is paved over.
We could say that this is the tolerance of our Rights and Freedoms at work, that this is the outreach of our greatness as an American culture, where our society becoming more socialist without the durability of the greatest America can produce and is the essence of our durability, which is the permanence our patriotism sought from a divine Blessing of a Creator, which is the determination of ability to become the greatest producing, consuming and most militarily capable nation on the face of the Earth.
Because assimilation was key in order for the individual to become an affiming strength of an American ethos; we do not force, and that's the word that must be used, FORCE the guarantees that came from the guarantees of the Blessing of the individual to self-determine… That are the gifts of Rights and Freedoms of Liberties pursuits. BUT our self-determination has become the byproduct of evil, where capitalistic pursuits, in essence have become that which forces out assimilation and paints those that by-in as slaves.
So our government in order to hide this slavery now has pursued the entitlement and empowerment for wealth redistribution in a more socialistic pursuit of assimilation, where class, race and situational hardship has become the expansion of monolitic devastation, that preaches about a faith that would be more appropriate for those dying from plague.
The underpinning which is the inertia or the force behind patriotism. Our military is nothing more than paid mercenaries from the spinning-wheel that can determine the persistence where it is exchanged in part of the economic engine. Our military are paid mercenaries, which are in actuality slaves that empower the masters of our government to use 3/5th of its citizens as quintessential meth-whores.
Freedom which was an entitlement from a self-determined Blessing and its empowerment through one's perceptions in the urgency to become an American citizen see a lesson where Freedom is everything but secured Rights and pursuits of happiness from the Liberties or power to self determine. Your not the patriot unless the key element of our nation is that which self-determines principles of liberties that are not Freedoms from Rights but the ability to be entitled to empower efforts as a form of sustaining life where what do, I expect my government to give to me when I can't afford it… and is the momentum of dissimilation the existence as an American.
American landscape and the way we see what has become producing new crops, crops that we've cultivated from our abundance, where now only exists an abundance of excrement as tree bearing fruit are not when walking through amber fields of grain, corn and farms where stockyards are full of cattle. America is a desert and looking the mirage is what we follow, until we find that were only being led and fooled by what we need as an ability sustain ourselves, which is from an attitude in our mind that is the hope and faith of our desperate clause of our circumstances.
And this is what we have come up against with our government it is a constant driving force, as class warfare is the equation of life: We are made to be desperate from the mirage of individual self determined success, and circumstances that are those leading us to one from one mirage to another is what our movement is trying to stop. When the ability to break free from this desert filled of miarage and into an oasis where plenty is a real manifestation of ones efforts has bees lost in the non exiting assimilation.
For American to become what it was the first steps on that path back to that road is to demand assimilation that once guaranteed only the opportunity not the outcome of reaping the fruits of labor. As long as our government allows those to access the largest of this nation and what it produces and not assimilate this country cannot and will not ever be on a path to creating greatness or a society of perpetual greatest and production known to mankind.
I will seize and cease this opportunity and tell you, yes… tell you as FANS what the reality of professional sports was and is today.
Now… I'm not going to give data to back what is going to be put forth here… but lets just say, in times such as these where the economics of everyday life require sacrifice, some of which is of the unspeakable kind… We as fans, if not the World look to sports as a means of escape.
Likewise, there are those moments when perseverance and adversity is a shared… through vicarious connections where those like the Babe points towards the outfield fence to summons the Gods and that a promise to little Johnny, bedridden in a local hospital is about to be made good.
Now the Babe, one of baseballs most prolific long-ballers has been said and proven to have played the game of baseball with a few alcoholic beverages bustling through his beefy veins or waiting for him in the dugout after a homerun trot around the bases… OH, and lets not forget, doing so under Prohibition.
Not withstanding… fans were not damaged from this knowledge, no, we were entertained, and these, these were the times… and no one even has suggested we place any of the achievements Ruth piled up under any type of scrutiny… and we shouldn't… because fans were allowed then and now to abandon the everyday toils and tribulations of life and imagine, dream and anticipate what the next game would bring.
Nonetheless…there are still those that thrive in the illusion of record holding, the so called 'purest', which are nothing more then anal retentive theorists of the glitzy accoutrements of record keeping… and yes, the legitimizers of record breaking performance, which brings me to "Charlie Hustle," Mr Pete Rose.
For years, ALL the years Rose played the game he played with the enthusiasm of a little leaguer, where the game was made better, not because of the records he set… it was by conpsicous effort.
BUT… Pete also liked to gamble, as much as Ruth liked to get drunk… and Rose to his detriment, included betting on baseball with his love of gambling and doing both while managing MLB.
Rose got caught, banned from baseball, denied entrence into its Hall of Fame and if asked, no one could or should challenge his love and respect for a game to which he gave his all, and along the way gave all us as fans those few precious moments to escape.
As for me, I pay to be entertained… I could care less about what the professional athlete does to keep his or her body on the field of play and competing at the level I laid-down my hard earned cash to see.
Though… I will also admit that the chasing and breaking of individual records has at times increased intrest, but this only allowed for a less subconscious and more cerebral attachment, which is as easily forgotten until the next day of life or anniversary bobble-head, statue or other type of special event is pressed into view… I pay to be entertained, not to look at or collect disfigured plastic heads flailing about on a spring made from an 8 cent piece of plastic.
Moreover… when I pay, I want to see those that compete at the highest level on the field, not sitting in the dugout or sideline or what have you… and I dont want to see them playing cheerleader using a team towel as a freaking pom-pom.
Therefore, if Ray Lewis, Armstrong, A-Rod, Bonds, McGwier… pick your favorite sports villain who dares to deliver the goods for those few blissful moments of escapism… by finding it necessary to spray, rub, ingest some type of substance to recover from injury or increase performance… Please, have at it… I'll even pay a few extra bucks if need be.
See… the bottom line is this, my total economic price for being a fan is largely based on how much guys like the aforementioned demand in salary, and while I know this, it still does not take away from the game or the allure of the likes of a Kaepernick… Which maybe would suggest that Tattoos should be a banned substance.
I want all to those who consider themselves a fan of sports, opera, art… whatever, to open your fanatic hearts and soul to realize that this moment in history is one of those rare moments where you will be able to say I was there, here, with this person or that one.
And then imagine how we all as fans become intertwined with our teams, their players and causes… win, loss, personal struggles… a binding dramatic relationship where a team becomes treated like one of our own.
This relationship is the building blocks of passions that become the cause and effect of family, which is the compelling aspects of all fans… This moment for fans of NFL football is a moment to be compelled and perceive, experience and bear witness to the birth of a new fanatic Nation of fans and a team of A RAVENS NATION.
This reality came into full view from trisecting events, thats center point was Ray Lewis. The early return from a triceps injury that was expected to sideline Ray at least 1 game into the playoffs… The first round playoff game against the Colts that would be played in Baltimore… The unexpected announcement of retirement at the end of the season.
When this trisecting event became known, I began to think and then build an equation that use these variables to projected the significance for both Ray Lewis and Ravens football, which established the necessity of a Denver playoff game as part of the equation.
As my son Chase and I worked on the scenario it was discovered that a playoff game with the Patriots would have to also be in the equation.
Finally, for the sum to be correct, a proof of sorts was needed and was found in the indelible recall of a 'first time ever' memory… Thus, a Superbowl that featured the 49ers was the only true choice with the prominence to produced this type of moment… a head coaching battle between brothers, on opposite sides of the field.
Also determined were the undertones of a Biblical or Mythological type battle of brothers, where only one could claim absolute fruits of victory.
This equation and product would settle all old debts and bring to fruition the legacy and greatness of Ray Lewis and additionally would legitimize for all fans of Baltimore NFL football… that they were part of this greatness… a indisputable nation… A RAVENS NATION.
To give some meaning to this equation and its product was reasoned a bit of history will be given below.
For those old enough to remember and for those that were there (like myself), when the surreal became real, and a "I was there moment."
A moment where time languished, fans gathered, not to watch a game or participate in celebration but to stand in the dark and cold one late March night. A gathering provoked by the spreading words of approaching plight, which came in the form of Mayflower moving vans… lined up in front of the Baltimore Colts training complex in Owings Mills.
When I arrived, bustling about were Baltimore County's finest that had begun to line the entrance of the Colts complex. A little further down, beyond the guard shack a well lit parking lot where 3 tractors and trailers standing ready to be filled.
All who gathered, curiously shuffled about trying to get a better view, when suddenly, out of the din of murmured speculations came the recognizable face of local sports commentator Chris Thomas in a determined and hurried panic like pace.
Passing through and beyond the fortified guarded entrance his weary face beneath the hood of a blue WBAL jacket came into view; visibly shaken and angered.
When all at once, with a sneer and lost look in his tear-filled bloodshot eyes came a proclamation none wanted to hear but expected: "they just took it down, they took it off the wall, Unitas's Jersey and loaded in the truck, its over… God dammit!"
You could feel the chaos in his voice and taste the bitter air leave his lungs; motionless, numbed from his words our vigilance made the sounds from the mixed precipitation that piled on brims and peaks of our Colt hats, which became the melodic chatting of Taps.
Dazed by disbelief our eyes transfixed with thoughts; captive eyewitness of an impromptu gathering of blue and white soaked souls that became hostages… made eyewitnesses to a funeral persuasion of Mayflower moving vans.
As billowing blackened diesel smoke pour into the dimly lit sky, each truck was readied, signaling to the football Gods the death of one of its greatest creations… yet, also promising new life at the same moment.
Life? Yes, life… as each trailer became the representation of both a tomb and a womb that would hold the collective body of our beloved Colts and breathe life-sustaining energy into the potential birth of a new NFL franchise in the city of Indianapolis.
A new franchise that would not only be just moved but would be bathed in the same colors and branded with our Colt trademark, which none of us there that night or the tens of thousands of fans that would wake in the morning to hear the news could have never fathomed… as the third and final van made the left turn on Bonita Rd and passed slowly out of sight, it would be the last time we could say "We are NFL football fans… fans of the Baltimore Colts."
With hands in pockets, where slumped shoulders bracketed our stoic stares of our heartfelt loss that seethed on the inside from rage of this dastardly, cowardly deed; choked up, numbed by aguish, our voices reduced to pasused whispers .
Over the next few months and years battles would be waged in a war to retain any piece of identity that allowed for a sense of dignity in our loss; battle after battle was lost, hopes faded and then were extinguished by lost efforts for expansion within the NFL.
But then something unexpected happened, a miracle of sorts, the CFL came to town and the Baltimore Stallions were born.
And it was from this most of unlikeliest of twists of fate where Cleveland Browns owner Art Modell a forefather of what has become organized professional football took notice. The Stallions were successful and most importantly, fans, which continued show up in ever increasing droves in support of the team.
With Modell facing problems similar to what had created our loss, Modell was compelled to realize that this proved that Baltimore was deserving of an NFL franchise.
Modell moved his team to Baltimore in late 1995… but the move came with one huge karma kicker that had the Football Gods smiling: The Browns' name, colors and history of the franchise would remain with the fans and city of Cleveland, that would also include all past records and attributions of its Hall of Fame players. There would be no stealing of iconic treasures or suckling from the teats of ill-gotten booty.
Now… There are bunches and bunches of stories and detail that could or should be given… But lets get down to business of how codifying cosmic tumblers were set in motion from Ray Lewis announcement of retiring and produced the impetus of singularity of a nation, A RAVENS NATION.
At the beginning of this season, by design or just a fluke of fate, Ravens ownership decide to break free from the comforts experienced by diehard Baltimore Colt fans and the Westminster practice location was no more.
This move made possible a furthering of the coalescing between fans of the Colts and present day Ravens. And if given the ability of hindsight, it could be surmised that one or some in the management of the Ravens envisioned the possibility that this could be Ray Lewis last year. That this was the year to break out and fire up the crucible, which is only used is for forging a singular and permanent identity.
Now, they had previous quantifiable success… that included a Superbowl victory and some Hall of Fame materials. Also, there were the Flacco, Rice, Reed, Suggs materials and a lot of emerging talent that are the hardening properties of consistency of success… and most crucial of all, they had the fire.
A fire with the heat and intensity produced by the passion of an eternal energy source, which is the embodiment of greatness that flows in all that is Ray Lewis. With his retirement announced, the potential to become one of few football immortals, the flame became white-hot with the intensity to melt and pour into a single mold a nation of fans that suffers from a split indentify.
This did not mean that we would forget our memories of Colt greatness; it just meant that the hue on the Unitas jersey would become little more purple than blue and the white a bit closer to black.
But for Baltimore there was a need for something more. For our iron to become steel old debts would need to be settled… with the game against Indy a known, only a Denver playoff would produce this opportunity.
The game against Indy was the unlikely success of a team from the potential of Andrew Luck… in the face of negativity swirling around the letting go of Manning, which was also Karma conflict with the Football Gods and fans everywhere.
This Karma deficit for Indy was leveled with Pagano's battle against life threatening cancer. So this battle and potential became the proportion found in individual perseverance… Ray Lewis in possibly his last game, which stakes were raised by the game being at home and battling an injury that could have been career ending.
Thus the battle then became: Career Ending Game and Triceps Tare VS Life Threatening Cancer Scare. With a realized Karma boost that favored any team playing the Colts under the disrespecting of Manning.
Consequently, the potential of outcome allowed Ray Lewis and the Ravens the ability to strike a deceive blow for all fans and would begin to cure the debilitating effects of our codependent identity.
The game against the Bronco's had many twits of potential. The fate of the Baltimore Colts was never made any clearer when Baltimore had the first pick of the 1983 draft and choose Stanford standout John Elway.
Elway did not want to play for Baltimore and snubbed Irsay and the Colts with threats to sit out the 1984 season if not traded to another team. Elway went to Denver had a Hall of Fame career and is now the face of management for the franchise.
Another potential was Payton Manning. Manning brought Indy into prominence and did so under a humble yet conspicuous reverence, which paid homage to his Colt heritage and Unitas that came with a visual respect of wearing of the icon Unitas trademark high-tops.
Elway who once snubbed Colt greatness now embraced it with the same self-serving interests. The Karma boost from Elway's good deed with Manning produced a net gain with fans but still there was a personal debt with Baltimore fan to settle.
Thus battle was between two greats of the modern era and this game was dubbed: Career Ending Game and Triceps Tare VS Career Ending Neck Repair.
In the end it would be a lightening bolt from the hand of Joe Flacco that would settle Elway's debt with diehard Baltimore Colt fans, which would go right through his heart and will forever haunt Elway. The 70-yard pass and catch, AKA "The Rocky Mountain Rainbow."
With all Baltimore Colt debt settled a connection was found for projecting the next game… Modell, Belichick and the Browns.
The game against the Patriots was for and about Art Modell and to settle the unknown riff with Belichick. Belichick was the head coach of the Browns when the team was moved to Baltimore and was promised the head coaching job but the day after the deal was finalized, Modell fired Belichick without explanation.
One can only surmise the reasons for the firing but the effort and record the Ravens have produced when playing the Patriots in the Belichick era suggests something more… more that would be the relationship between Ravens General and greatest battlefield warrior and his leader and team owner.
Ray Lewis and Art Modell have this type of bond that has extended beyond battlefield respect into a father/son bond… Like that portrayed in the movie the Gladiator.
Were whispers between the two of the Belichick riff has made Ray the protector of Modell's expressed feeling, which one can only guess were to not let Belichick win any game played agianst the Ravens… and after the Shannon Sharpe calling out of Belichick after the loss to the Ravens, the interview done for the Superbowl between Sharpe and Lewis should provide some insight of this awareness between Modell and Lewis.
Thus the game played would be: Respect and Actions to Defend and Honor Greatness VS Actions of Disrespect to Deny Greatness.
With a win against the Patriots, Ray Lewis will now end his career with the ability to become one of the few immortals, in a battle that will be the first of its kind, a Biblical type battle between to brothers where only one can claim victory.
A victory that has the potential to not only be remembered as a first between Head coaching brothers but also could replace the Baltimore Colts 1958 Championship Game known as "The Greatest Game Ever Played" and be the defining battle that ends all Baltimore football wars of independence and acceptance of our RAVENS NATION.
As I evaluate and define the battle against the 49ers it has been realized that this will be a battle that will be fought on many philosophical fronts and victory will greatly depend on the values and strengths that can define a team philosophy that will depend on the self-control of the head coach. There are 6 main factors of Virtue and Strength:
1. Wisdom and Knowledge
2. Courage
3. Love and Humanity
4. Justice
5. Temperance
6. Spirituality and Transcendence
In the above, Temperance is the value and strength where self-control resides along with forgiveness, mercy, humility and prudence.
This is where I find the difference between the strength of the Harbaugh's… Cohesive Team Philosophy. This is also where I find brother Jim's Achilles heel.
Jim Harbaugh was and is the personality of a high-strung quarterback and has an awareness of strength that depends on his QB experiences… which is the recognized Field General and where all ability for success reside. Lets also note that Jim played for the Indy Colts, and was the Head Coach at Stanford. Sure… he also played for the Ravens, and did beat the Colts thier first trip to Baltimore after the move… and yes, Jim did present that game ball to Johnny U after the game… BUT that just wont do it.
John Harbaugh on the other hand has a broad awareness of strength that does not depend but seeks strength, which is found in the unity of family… We live and play as a family… and the responsibility of Field General resides in each member of the team.
When this is realized, Temperance and self-control becomes relevant cause to project the appearance of Alex Smith… Lets not forget that Jim Harbaugh was labeled AKA "Captain Comeback" from his pro days. It is not clear if Kaepernick will be pulled or injured for the Smith appearance. For this game to become one of the greatest, A Smith appearance in the game is a double must; come with adversity… and must be at least a 3 score deficit that will come late in the 3rd qtr.
This comeback will fall short and will be at the hand of brother Jim loosing his self-control. Thus this game is dubbed: Temperance VS Intemperance – The Battle of Self-Control. Final score 33 – 27… Ravens WIN!


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---- — LAWRENCE — A 2-alarm fire burned over a couple of acres of woods on the south bank of the Merrimack River last night.
The fire was reported at around 5:30 and firefighters were at the scene for about two hours, according to Chief Jack Bergeron. A second alarm was sounded, which brought every available piece of apparatus in the city to Riverfront State Park.
Crews from Andover, Methuen and Lowell covered the stations while Lawrence firefighters suppressed the flames at the park, Bergeron said. The reinforcements put out a small brush fire on Ames Street, in the Tower Hill section of the city, the chief said.
The brush fire at Riverfront State Park did not cause any injuries or threaten anyone's property, Bergeron said. The recent dry weather has been conducive to brush fires throughout Massachusetts, he noted.
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4:08pm Saturday 15th February 2014 in News
CROOKS stole tools from car parked in Brightlingsea.
Thieves smashed the window of a white Austin Metro which was parked in Upper Road between 10pm on Saturday, February 8 and 10am on Sunday, February 9.
They stole grinding discs and several boxes of sanding discs, worth about £500.
PC Kevin Ward investigating officer, warned residents to secure theit cars and to make sure valuables are not left on show.
He added: "Opportunist thieves and as well as career criminals do not need an invitation to damage your property in order to steal. Anyone who saw this car being broken into should contact us."
Anyone with information should contact officers at Harwich police station on 101.
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