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Thunder president offers regional voice on women's football advisory body
BETH Taylor was born a generation too early to play football, so she did the next best thing and became a trainer on the field and a club president on the sidelines.
The 53-year-old has been at the helm of Bendigo Thunder since the women's club was established three seasons ago, having earlier been president and head trainer at Dunolly.
She now also helps steer the future of the game as a member of AFL Victoria's Women's Football Advisory Committee.
"Part of me always wanted to play footy," says Taylor, who was born and bred in Rheola.
"I grew up in a rural area where everyone played football in winter and I was the only girl in a grade of four boys at school, so I wanted to play, too. But you just couldn't do that back in the '60s."
Instead, Taylor played A-grade tennis and a couple of seasons of netball - but her passion for football remained.
When sons Robert and Andrew were still in junior teams at Dunolly, she finally got her chance to be more than just a footy mum.
"In about 2002, I was sitting watching Robert play and his team didn't have a trainer. I decided I'd go and do a course and be the trainer for the under-17s," she says.
"But the club said they'd pay for the course if I became the head trainer at Dunolly, so I did."
Taylor spent two years as club president in 2007-08.
She has been involved with Thunder since the team was just a seed in the minds of a group of passionate Bendigo people working on a Women in Sport project, who recognised that youth girls football was growing so fast in the region that a senior side would eventually be needed.
As Thunder's inaugural president, she's watched on proudly as "her girls" have exceeded all expectations since kicking off in 2011.
"We sat down at the beginning and said, if we can win a few matches and finish in the middle of the ladder in our first season, we'll be happy. Of course, we went on to make the finals that year, then won two premierships.
"That first one was my most memorable moment - it was like confirmation we had made it. Not that we had knockers, but we were a novelty for a start and it just proved there was a group of young women here who were serious about football and were prepared to go out and fight and come back with a premiership cup.
"It gave us some credibility within the football community in Bendigo."
In 2014, things have come full circle for Thunder and they are minnows once more.
The club has been promoted to the elite Premier division of the Victorian Women's Football League, though the step-up is proving tough and the side has lost its opening two matches by a combined total of 471 points.
It tried also fielding a second side in the entry-level division five competition, but struggled for numbers and had to pull the plug two weeks into the season.
While disappointed that things have not run as smoothly as hoped, Taylor remains extremely upbeat about the future.
"This is the biggest year since our first, and in many ways it is very similar to that first season because we are starting out all over again," she says.
"We always had aspirations of making championship division, but in about year five or six, so this has happened a little faster than we planned. It's probably a transition year for us.
"The VWFL has told us our challenges are not uncommon for teams stepping up into the top league and it usually takes a few years to consolidate.
"We know things will get better."
One of the main challenges as the club moves forward is to continue to provide for girls and women who are not quite at the Premier league standard.
Those not selected in Thunder's match-day team can still train with and be part of the club, and will have chances to play games against development squads from other Premier division clubs.
Plans are afoot for a six-week development program for under-12 girls in Bendigo and Thunder has committed its support to that. Players will be involved in skills sessions and as role models.
The club is also in discussions with AFL Central Vic about a local girls-only Auskick centre from 2015, and it intends to help run July school holiday skills sessions for girls in partnership with Bendigo Gold.
Taylor's regional links were a major reason she nominated to join the seven-member women's football advisory committee, chaired by AFL Victoria general manager Grant Williams.
The committee meets up to six times a year and was formed last year to support the transfer of responsibilities from the VWFL to AFL Victoria.
It aims to retain the traditions of women's football, advise on the growth of the sport and devise a strategic plan for its future.
This is our biggest year since our first, and in many ways it is similar to that season because we are starting out all over again.
"I wanted there to be a rural voice on the committee," Taylor explains. "When you look at women's footy on the map, the majority of teams apart from Ballarat and Bendigo are centred around Melbourne.
"Youth girls football is growing in rural areas like Wangaratta and Shepparton, so women's football in regional Victoria is a real growth opportunity and I thought it was really important to have that voice.
"Plus, I just love to get involved."
She says the committee includes current and ex-players, female umpires and administrators, and representatives of state government sport.
"There is a good range of skills and a good understanding of the game as it is today, and where women's football has come from. It is important that we don't lose sight of that."
Thunder will be involved in several exciting initiatives in 2014.
These include two premier division matches at the Queen Elizabeth Oval - a curtain raiser to the BFNL inter-league match against Gippsland this Saturday and a curtain raiser for Bendigo Gold later in the season.
Its last premier home-and-away match is expected to be under lights at Dower Park, after a game in the women's International Cup series being hosted by Victoria.
Taylor, who works at the Country Fire Authority as a volunteer support officer, is not the only member of her family with a hands-on role at Thunder.
Youngest son Andrew, now 24, is a club runner and has been at the club since its inception.
They both relish their involvement.
"I really love the club atmosphere and sense of belonging," Taylor says.
"It's the camaraderie around the place - everyone is mates and it just makes me feel good."
Taylor says she has always been passionate about sport in general and supporting women to achieve their goals, and Thunder provides the perfect opportunity to combine the two.
"We have never turned anyone away. If someone wants to be involved, we say 'yes, we can fit you in somewhere'."


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Simon Ramo's Parents Jewish?[edit]
As stated, I reverted myself over this issue after reading the Ramo interview here: http://www.ieee.org/portal/cms_docs_iportals/iportals/aboutus/history_center/oral_history/pdfs/Ramo244.pdf. If his parents were indeed Jewish, please state source. If no credible source is cited, I suggest reverting.Kibbitzer (talk) 23:38, 13 June 2009 (UTC)
Space Technology Laboratories spun off?[edit]
My research indicates TRW renamed STL to "TRW Systems Group" in May of 1965 [1], and that only the computer portion of STL was transferred to Bunker-Ramo. I propose modifying the "spun off" sentence to reflect this. Opinions? Overjive (talk) (talk) 18:25, 17 July 2010 (UTC)
- There was controversy and a congressional investigations here. TRW won the contract to do systems analysis oversight on Atlas (almost taking it away from Convair, where the missile was actually designed). The aviation industry forced TRW to divest itself of space related manufacturing that competed with them, because TRW had an unfair advantage as the systems oversight contractor. 18.104.22.168 (talk) 08:07, 13 May 2013 (UTC)
IEEE biography link is broken[edit]
I have not been able to re-locate his bio on the IEEE website. Meanwhile, here is an IEEE oral-history link: [3] Overjive (talk) 21:48, 20 August 2011 (UTC)
From Ramo article, Career, 2nd graph, first sentence;
"with Wooldridge concentrating on investment and general business aspects while Ramo led research"
From Dean Wooldridge article, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dean_Wooldridge, 3rd graph, 2nd sentence;
"with Ramo concentrating on investment and general business aspects while Wooldridge led research"
These two lines contradict one another and I just wanted to inform the leading authors so they may be corrected. Thank you. — Preceding unsigned comment added by JimmyBook (talk • contribs) 00:28, 4 January 2013 (UTC)
Father of the ICBM[edit]
Ramo tried to attach this title to himself, but it really never stuck. Karel Bossart is commonly known as the "Father of the Atlas". In fact, the Atlas missile was mostly designed before the Teapot committee and Ramo entered the picture. Using his political connections, Ramo got Convair ousted as the prime contractor on the ICBM project (which they had worked on since 1946) and took over systems analysis oversight. DonPMitchell (talk) 08:18, 13 May 2013 (UTC)
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I just spent a couple of days down in Miami Beach. I didn't take any of my handhelds, although I'm thinking that maybe I should have. We were on the 10th floor of our hotel, so I could have done pretty well on VHF. Maybe next time.
On the flight home, I happened to be flipping through one of the in-flight magazines and noticed that Plantronics is now producing a wireless headset for cell phones, the M1500. It has a range of up to 30 feet and its rechargeable battery provides 2.5 hours of talk time, 60 hours of standby time. The headset fits neatly over the ear, and it comes with an adapter that plugs into the headset jack of a cell phone.
I'm going to contact Plantronics about adapting this for amateur radio use. There's two ways to go: get them to sell me just the headset and build an adapter or get them to also design and build an adapter. In addition to the audio output, the adapter would also have to have a push-to-talk output. Also, I would have to design and build cables for the different rigs currently on the market. That might be kind of a hassle, as they all seem to use different connectors.
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Morgan, 53, arrived in Seattle carrying his personal belongings on his back. When he got a sleeping mat alongside 200 other men at St. Martin de Porres, a Catholic Community Services shelter on Pier 36 on Alaskan Way, it lifted another burden.
The shelter provided Morgan, a Real Change vendor, with a small cubby where he stores a backpack with enough clean clothing to last him one week. He keeps his other belongings locked in a Tacoma storage unit he rents for $45 a month after he lost his apartment.
For Morgan, having the storage cubby, which is about 1 foot wide by 2 feet tall, means he doesn't have to carry all his gear while he searches for work.
"How're you going to find a job carrying two suitcases with you?" he said.
Storage is a hot commodity for homeless people in the Seattle area. Shelters often provide lockers, but they're often full, with many other people clamoring for the space.
By providing city funding to create a locker program to expand existing storage for homeless people, Seattle City Councilmembers Sally Bagshaw and Bruce Harrell hope to help.
Bagshaw and Harrell announced their plans in The Stranger in February, citing similar programs in other cities, such as Portland, Ore., Berkeley, Calif., and Madison, Wis. They outlined several possibilities, such as creating freestanding lockers outside, providing space through a private storage company or working with local churches to build simple lockers across the city.
"Lockers are a powerful tool that can provide immediate assistance for an individual looking for housing and work," Harrell said in an email to Real Change.
Local social service agencies that provide a limited amount of storage space say this goes beyond helping with a job search. By giving people a place to store their gear, homeless people can go about their day without the stigma that comes from toting two backpacks or a black garbage bag.
"People see someone with a backpack or more than one bag, and they're instantly pegged as homeless," said Isaac Pace, who volunteers at SHARE's locker program in South Lake Union.
Pace said he's dropped off job applications with a backpack on his shoulder and was told that he would not likely get an interview because he appeared homeless. Shouldering the load, he feels unwelcome at parks and libraries.
Pace has a locker at the Bunkhouse, a shelter SHARE operates in the Rainier Valley. "If I get a job interview or I need to go to a school to talk to a school advisor, I can leave my belongings at a locker at the Bunkhouse," Pace said. "I can go in and be presentable and not look homeless."
But Pace said he needs more space. He wants to use one of the 151 lockers that SHARE provides in a building behind the Guitar Center in South Lake Union.
The lockers were salvaged from the downtown Greyhound bus station. But demand is high. Most of the locker programs around Seattle do not keep a running waiting list because it's too hard to track down people once their name is up. So whenever SHARE has an open locker, it's made available on a first-come, first-served basis.
Pace has missed out on a locker more than once. "When I hear that they have an opening, I get down there and it's already taken," Pace said.
Pace's persistence has paid off. He got access to a locker on March 1.
Years ago, when ministers at the Seattle Mennonite Church asked homeless people in the Lake City neighborhood what kind of help they needed, most people said bus tickets and storage. The church provided storage, a program that grew into God's Little Acre, a drop-in center for homeless people in Lake City.
Clients are always looking for more storage space, said Jonathan Neufeld, a community minister for the church.
"What's the alternative? The alternative is stashing your stuff outside, which somebody else may find and go through or find and throw away," Neufeld said.
When they carry garbage bags, duffle bags and backpacks, homeless teens and young adults who hang out in Westlake Park get dirty looks, said Ruth Blaw, director of The Orion Center, a teen drop-in center and young adult shelter at the foot of Capitol Hill.
Most local storage programs, including God's Little Acre, ROOTS Young Adult Shelter in the University District, the Orion Center and the SHARE program, are full.
In cities that provide public funding for lockers, demand is high.
"There's no such thing as enough space," said Michael Raposa, executive director of The South Pinellas County St. Vincent de Paul in St. Petersburg, Fla.
In 2007, the St. Petersburg City Council banned placement of personal property on public sidewalks and roads. To help the more than 2,000 people living outdoors and in shelters in St. Petersburg, the city council provided $35,000 for a storage program that can serve up to 275 people. The storage is accessible to users during set hours, 365 days a year.
"Our program has been hugely successful," Raposa said. "We have essentially eradicated all of the shopping carts in the city."
If Seattle is going to create a similar program, social service providers agreed that it needs to be staffed and located with other social services.
"I don't even know how one would manage this system if it wasn't embedded within a service provider," Neufeld of God's Little Acre said.
The locker programs often require supervision to ensure that people are not storing food or weapons, to screen for bed bugs and to figure out if anyone has abandoned gear.
But that shouldn't stop the city from pursuing a locker program, Blaw of The Orion Center said: "The need for lockers outweighs some of the technical challenges."
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This is the difference between Sam Hinkie and previous GM's like Billy King, Ed Stefanski, and Rod Thorn. Other than the Bynum trade, the track record of these three GMs is filled with making stop gap moves that barely moved the needle in either direction. From 2003-04 to 2012-13 the Sixers finished between 27-43 wins every year. When people talk about this being a long rebuild, just remind them that we went through ten years of basically walking on a tread mill at a speed not quick enough to burn away our love handles but just fast enough to make us not seek an actual diet plan. Our fan base is now quibbling over a wasted year as if three years is a long time to wait.
If you haven't seen the marshmallow experiment go check it out now. The basic premise is a small child is told that they can eat the marshmallow they have on their plate now, or they can wait for a couple of minutes for the adult to return with two marshmallows. Basically this is an early indicator of impulse control and success, does the child have the ability to wait and not devour a marshmallow now so that they can receive double the reward a short time later? Is the analogy obvious yet?
Last night the Sixers picked up the best prospect in the draft, and a guy who some called the most skilled prospect in the draft, and picked up additional assets that will help them draft for need in a couple of years. The first round Hinkie had last night could be hard to stomach if you want your marshmallows now, yes, but you have to visualize the potential reward. Embiid has the highest ceiling in the draft, if things work out in four years do you think we will still be bent up by him missing his rookie season? If Dario eventually comes over and in five or six years is a good point forward in his prime on a rookie contract, will we still stamp our feet and grovel about "the on court talent vacuum of 2014-2015"? This season is just a build year, no two prospects were going to come in and make this team a contender. Selecting different prospects for this year who could have played and made an impact might have made this year more exciting, but it wouldn't have given the team the highest possible ceiling. Sam Hinkie isn't in this GM-ing game to please marshmallow gobbling fans and journalists, he is in it to build a team with a legitimate chance to become the next dynastic NBA team, one that will do more then luck into the second round due to injuries. Listen to what he said last year after the draft:
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Dedem Hotel offers air-conditioned rooms and a rooftop restaurant with Marmara views.
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Give a woman a fish, she'll eat for a day. Comment on a woman's fanpost, and she'll come back and write another one. Isn't that how the saying goes? No? Dang it. Well, I'm back with another installment of what appears to be a series, but who knows. If you keep reading, I'll keep writing.
What inside you connects with soccer?
I watched baseball as a kid because it's what my dad did and still does. I watched football as a kid because I'm named after Kyle Field. I never felt like being a baseball or football fan required anything of me that felt like throwing myself off a cliff. Yes, that's dramatic; I'm a dramatic person. It was easy to be a casual fan of other sports for me, but I can't do that with soccer.
In the beginning, I made soccer part of my life because I dated a guy who was (is) obsessed with it. As you probably know, my #rapidsstory (let's make that a thing, please) begins and ends with my husband, because he's the one who made me aware that soccer even existed outside my high school JV2 team. I etched out minutes of my day to watch it on TV so I could talk to him about it. The more I did that, the more willing I was to carve hours out of my day to read about it online so I could understand it. Then I read some books. Then I bought some tickets.
At some point, it stopped being about impressing a guy and started being about fulfilling a need. A need in my person, in my soul, in my heart. But for what, exactly?
At some point, I hit a dividing line between doing soccer for someone else and doing soccer for me. I can't pinpoint it, but I can tell you that looking back, it started a lot earlier than I might have admitted then. Even reading my tweets from watching my first ever Rapids game, I definitely had glimpses of fascination. Since then, it's been nowhere but up. I own two scarves, a highlighter yellow Matt Pickens jersey (if you ever see anyone in Section 108 wearing one, it's me, I promise), and I spend too much time before games at Altitude Authentics.
Of course, love isn't just about merch, but that was the gateway drug. We have had a tradition of going to the first home game every season since I started paying attention to soccer (last year we had to do the second home game, because the first was postponed and we couldn't make it). We've spent more money this past year on tickets than I think I've ever spent on baseball tickets in my life. I freaking sang along with every single song at the game last Saturday, including my new favorite, which goes like this:
Drew Moor, Drew Moor, Drew Moor, Drew Moor, Drew Moor, Drew Moor, Drew Moor… Drew Moor, Drew Moor, Drew Moor, Drew Moor, Drew Moor, Drew Moor, Drew Moor.
That's sung to the tune of "Amazing Grace," by the way. I chanted, too. Soccer fulfills my innate need for community, for family.
If your version of soccer means that you show up to games sometimes and cheer when you feel like it and that's how you roll, okay. But I don't think you're getting everything out of it that it can give you. I used to be that person; partially because I was scared, partially because I didn't know how to begin, how to jump into the water. Give in. Sing along. Sway with the crowd. Raise your scarf, because apparently they aren't supposed to go around your neck. Scream. Let go and join the living, breathing organism that is soccer. Love it and it will love you back.
There's a lot to be said for being a casual fan. You get a lot less emotionally invested, which can definitely be a good thing if your team sucks. You probably spend a lot less money. It's definitely a smaller time investment. But there's a lot to be said for the opposite side, as well.
I am often told that I don't know how to half-ass anything, and I think that comes out pretty clearly in my soccer fanhood. I find that the more attention I give the sport, the more I need to give it still. It's very much a positive feedback cycle. When I sang my first squeaky, quiet bars of "Glory, Glory Colorado," it didn't take me long to jump in and belt out the rest of the song, because the rest of the choir lifted me up. To me, soccer is family, and why would I want to miss out on family?
But I want to know what you get from soccer. I already know how you got here (from last post), now I want to know why you stuck around. What does soccer mean to you? Tell me in the comments. Tweet it at me. Throw me a paper airplane. I don't care how, I just want you to let me know.


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Charles Krauthammer: Redskins and reason
Fifty years ago the preferred, most respectful term for African-Americans was Negro. The word appears 15 times in Martin Luther King's "I have a dream" speech. Negro replaced a long list of insulting words in common use during decades of public and legal discrimination.
With a rare few legacy exceptions, Negro carries an unmistakably patronizing and demeaning tone.
Similarly, regarding the further ethnic breakdown of Congress, you wouldn't say: "And by my count, there are two redskins."
I know there are surveys that say that most Native Americans aren't bothered by the word. But that's not the point. My objection is not rooted in pressure from various minorities or fear of public polls or public scolds.
Not because I took a poll of Roma to find out if they were offended. If some mysterious disease had carried away every gypsy on the planet, and there were none left to offend, I still wouldn't use it.
Let's recognize that that there are many people of good will for whom "Washington Redskins" contains sentimental and historical attachment - and not an ounce of intended animus. So let's turn down the temperature. What's at issue is not high principle but adaptation to a change in linguistic nuance. A close call, though I personally would err on the side of not using the word if others are available.
Choose whatever name you like. But let's go easy on the other side. We're not talking Brown v. Board of Education here.
Hail Skins.
Charles Krauthammer is a columnist for The Washington Post.
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Consumption and Economic Well-Being at Older Ages: Income- and Consumption-Based Poverty Measures in the HRS
AbstractAccording to economic theory, well-being or utility depends on consumption. However, at the household level, total consumption is rarely well measured because its collection requires a great deal of survey time. As a result income has been widely used to assess well-being and poverty rates. Yet, because households can use wealth to consume more than income, so an income-based measure of well-being could yield misleading results for many households. We use data from the Health and Retirement Study to find income-based poverty rates which we compare with poverty rates as measured in the Current Population Survey. We use HRS consumption data to calculate a consumption-based poverty rate and study the relationship between income-based and consumption-based poverty measures. We find that a poverty rate based on consumption is lower than an income-based poverty rate. Particularly noteworthy is the much lower rate among the oldest single persons such as widows. The explanation for the difference is the ability to consume out of wealth.
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The Colts knocked Denver from the ranks of the undefeated on Sunday, but Indianapolis lost Reggie Wayne for the rest of the season in the process. The veteran wide receiver tore his ACL late in the game.
Wayne has been one of the most consistent wide receivers in NFL history. Sunday's game was the 189th in a row he'd started, a streak which will now be broken. While his numbers had declined in recent seasons, Wayne was having an excellent season. He was Indianapolis' top receiving threat by far, catching 38 passes for 503 yards though seven games. Replacing Wayne will be a significant challenge for the Colts, as Josh Wilson of Stampede Blue wrote:
It also hurts the Colts as a team a ton. Reggie Wayne was far and away the best receiving option for the Colts. He was the best and the most consistent, catching at least 3 passes in 71 straight games - and counting. On the field, this is a devastating loss for the Colts. Off the field, this is a devastating loss for the Colts. Reggie was the team leader and the one who brought the passion to the team. Everybody respects him tremendously. He's their leader. He'll still be there and leading, but obviously it's different.
Brian Cushing out for the season
For the second straight season, Brian Cushing's season will come to an early end. Cushing will likely miss the rest of the 2013 season after tearing his LCL and breaking his fibula on Sunday. The injury came just over a year after Cushing suffered a torn ACL.
Cushing is expected to miss at least three months. The timeline could make a late-season return possible, but at 2-5 the Texans appear unlikely to make a push for the playoffs. The injury occurred when Cushing came free on a blitz up the middle before taking a shot to the leg on a cut block by Jamaal Charles.
Sam Bradford's 2013 season over due to torn ACL
The St. Louis Rams will have to scramble to fill out their quarterback depth chart after starting quarterback Sam Bradford tore his ACL on Sunday. Bradford scrambled to his right late in the fourth quarter and fell awkwardly along the sideline. He was then carted off the field and an MRI revealed the torn ACL.
Although Bradford wasn't having a huge statistical season, the injury is still a massive blow for the Rams' playoff hopes. At 3-4, St. Louis is still on the fringe of contention. Kellen Clemens is the only other quarterback on the roster and, as Ryan Van Bibber of Turf Show Times wrote, there are some hurdles in adding another QB to the mix:
The next move for the team is finding another quarterback to take Bradford's place on the roster. With just $250,000 in salary cap space, it's unlikely that the team will be adding a veteran ... and it's a pretty thin market for quarterbacks anyway.
Doug Martin likely out for the year with a torn labrum
The rough season in Tampa Bay got worse on Monday with the news that star running back Doug Martin is likely out for the season with a torn labrum in his shoulder.
Tampa Bay has not officially ruled Martin out for the season, although there have been multiple reports -- including one from Ian Rapoport of NFL Network -- which say Martin could be out for the year. If that is indeed the case, the 0-6 Bucs will have a hard time replacing the second-year running back. Martin has accounted for 75 percent of Tampa Bay's rushing yards and no other player has more than 57 rushing yards this season.
Bucs Nation summed up the situation in Tampa Bay well:
Things just went from bad to "God when will it stop?"
Tennessee owner Bud Adams dies
Tennessee Titans owner K.S. "Bud" Adams Jr. died on Monday at the age of 90. Adams was one of the co-founders of the American Football League and played a key role in the merger with the NFL. Originally the owner of the Houston Oilers, Adams moved the team to Tennessee in 1997.
Adams' impact on the NFL was obvious and Music City Miracles collected some of the reaction to the news from other owners, coaches and NFL commissioner Roger Goodell.
Nick Foles diagnosed with a concussion, Michael Vick likely to return
Nick Foles left Sunday's game and will be out for at least one week after being diagnosed with a concussion. Foles suffered the injury against Dallas and with Michael Vick inactive, the Eagles were forced to turn to rookie Matt Barkley.
Vick isn't 100 percent recovered from a hamstring injury, but he's still expected to return to the lineup this week against New York. Vick missed the mast two games due to a fairly significant hamstring injury. Foles played well in Vick's place in Week 6 before struggling on Sunday.
Bears will be without Lance Briggs and Jay Cutler for at least four weeks
The Bears lost their third game in four weeks on Sunday and now will be without two of their best players for at least a month. Jay Cutler suffered a torn groin muscle and is expected to miss at least four weeks while Lance Briggs is expected to miss between four and six weeks due to a shoulder injury.
Although Cutler has been somewhat up-and-down this season, he's played better under first-year head coach Marc Trestman. The Bears are on a bye this week, but the 30-year-old Cutler will likely miss at least three games, including two against division opponents. Josh McCown is expected to fill in while Cutler is out.
The 32-year-old Briggs will not need surgery, but is still expected to miss more than a month. Chicago has had significant issues on the defensive side of the ball this year and losing Briggs will only compound those problems.
Lester A. Wiltfong Jr. of Windy City Gridiron expects rookie Jon Bostic to play a larger role with Briggs out.
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Next weekend, the UFC is basically running a Welterweight tournament on pay per view. UFC 171 is headlined by the vacant Welterweight title bout between Robbie Lawler and Johny Hendricks. The co-main event is a battle between the former interim Welterweight champion, Carlos Condit, and rising star, Tyron Woodley.
When Georges St-Pierre vacated his belt after defeating Johny Hendricks at UFC 167, many fans wondered who the UFC would pit against Hendricks for the vacant belt. Most expected Carlos Condit to get the slot, but the UFC decided to go with Robbie Lawler, who is 3-0 since returning to the UFC.
When Condit was slated as the co-main event, it was to be expected that a victory over his opponent would garner him another shot at the Welterweight championship. The UFC made it official with this tweet yesterday:
Carlos Condit has been told by the UFC if he wins at UFC 171, he will get the next shot at the welterweight title #UFC171
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While this is certainly extra motivation for Condit come fight night, he has a tall task in front of him in Tyron Woodley. While the UFC would not confirm that Woodley would get a title shot with a win, you can bet your bottom dollar that he will attempt to impress the UFC brass enough to get his crack at the title.
As if this card was not already exciting enough, the co-main event bout has just that much more on the line now.
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"George Bush is not my neighbor!"
– Howard Dean, January 2004 Five years ago, George W. Bush finished the last good year of his presidency.
Things were looking up. The Democratic front-runners seeking their party's presidential nomination lauded the historic accomplishments in Iraq, particularly Saddam Hussein's capture.
Well, not all Democrats.
Perpetually angry, Vermont Governor Howard Dean not only disagreed with George W. Bush but detested him. In fact, it was that palpable sentiment that on Jan. 11, 2004 prompted 66-year-old Iowan, Dale Ungerer, to rise at a Democratic debate and question Dean.
Appealing to the spirit of the season, Ungerer asked Dean why he acted "crass" and did not treat the president in a neighborly way. He urged Dean to "please tone down" the heated rhetoric, invoking Scripture: "You should help your neighbor and not tear him down."
Dean was displeased. The physician-turned-governor leveled his finger at the senior citizen and ordered, "You sit down!" To raucous applause from a hall of screaming liberals, he shouted: "George Bush is not my neighbor! … It is time not to put up [with] any of this 'love thy neighbor' stuff!"
Ultimately, Dr. Dean's presidential bid failed, torpedoed by too many outbursts, most notably an infamous episode where he looked into the camera, clenched his fist, and yelped a primal scream, sounding like a disturbed man.
But Dean wasn't finished. Amazingly, Democrats had the audacity to tap him to run the Democratic National Committee, where Dean's revulsion of George W. Bush and "white, Christian" Republicans – which was Howard Dean's divisive description – could be channeled into a campaign to take the presidency and Congress by 2008.
Unthinkable as it seemed, it worked.
And now, his work finished, and Bush's destruction sown, Dean leaves his post with a Democrat having just been inaugurated president.
Let me be clear: I am not blaming Dean and the Democrats for President Bush's failures, which resulted in a stunning liberal takeover of the executive and legislative branches, with the judiciary to follow. A number of factors did Bush in: the body bags in Iraq in 2005-6, the drunken-sailor-like spending, a crashing economy, a maddening inability to respond to critics – including the most outrageous claims. The end result is a president with record disapproval.
That said, it is extremely difficult for any president – especially one who cannot communicate – to survive such a torrent of rage. It was reminiscent of the Left's insatiable abhorrence of Richard Nixon – an abhorrence that now seems to have been transferred to Sarah Palin. And the poisoning of the well, in Bush's case, began with Howard Dean.
Recall that this president was extremely popular after 9/11 and the war in Afghanistan, which began the longest sustained rally-round-the-flag approval of any president. Bush's remarkable popularity held into 2003. Then came Howard Dean, who turned a corner for the hard left.
Dean hoisted the lightning rod for enraged war opponents long before the war soured. He said unthinkable things. A vivid example – a marker – came in Dec. 2003, with Saddam's capture, which thrilled everyone but Howard Dean. "The capture of Saddam has not made America safer," Dean growled.
Naturally, the public disagreed: A Gallup poll before Saddam's capture showed Bush leading Dean 50 to 46 percent in a surprisingly tight presidential race, whereas the same poll after Saddam was placed in handcuffs had Bush ahead 60 to 37 percent.
Also disagreeing with Dean was Senator Joseph Lieberman, another Democratic presidential aspirant. "Praise the Lord!" cheered Lieberman. "This is a day of glory … and it's a day of triumph and joy for anybody who cares about freedom and human rights and peace."
Lieberman told the late Tim Russert: "If Howard Dean had his way, Saddam Hussein would still be in power."
It was a bad weekend for Dr. Dean: Newsweek reacted to Saddam's capture by, logically, making it the cover story, bumping the previously scheduled cover – on Howard Dean.
Nevertheless, there was an odd anger that Dean continued to stoke and harness. And as Dean began erupting in January 2004, the harshest salvos at Bush were launched. That month, MoveOn.org ran ads of Hitler morphing into Bush. "What were war crimes in 1945 is foreign policy in 2003," explained the tag line.
Also that month, Senator Ted Kennedy issued the most irresponsible, jaw-dropping allegation of the war period, claiming that Bush, who had 90 percent approval ratings before the war, had launched the war with a bunch of yahoos in Texas for political purposes. The Bush White House, charged Kennedy, was "mean-spirited."
The rage now flowed. An unhinged Al Gore emerged to endorse Dean; the father of Nick Berg blamed Bush for his son's beheading by Islamic terrorists; Ralph Nader denounced the "messianic militarist" in the White House.
Some people seriously argued that Bush fabricated claims of Iraqi WMD, after everyone in the world, from left to right, from Bill Clinton to Madeleine Albright, from the French to the Russians, had argued since the early 1990s that Saddam was hiding WMD.
I believe Howard Dean was the one who broke this mold.
Alas, the anger worked. Dean may not have taken down George W. Bush in 2004, but he played a major role in doing so four years later.
Now Howard Dean can return to Vermont where, if he can find a hill high enough, he will not see a single Republican congressman from Maine to Massachusetts. Thanks in large part to his hand, they're all gone, annihilated along with George W. Bush, who is most assuredly not Howard Dean's neighbor.
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The War projects to lower Israel's 2014 GDP 0.5% but will have little influence on foreign investors
It is in the nature of the Nations of the World to be hostile towards the Jewish People.
Hamas and Islamic Jihad are actually fighting to "liberate Jerusalem and all Palestine."
The bad news is that ISIS and Al Qaeda are on the Syrian Golan. The good news is that every terrorist in Syria is killing each other.
The congregants, Ethiopians spanning generations, were beaming with joy and pride.
The withdrawal from the Gaza Strip nine years ago did not enhance Israel's security.
How does a soldier from a religious home fall in love with a soldier from a non- religious kibbutz?
In 19th century entire ancient Jewish communities fled Palestine to escape brutal Muslim authorities
Responsibility lies with both the UN and Hamas, and better commitments should have been demanded from both parties in the ceasefire.
But the world is forever challenging our Jewish principle and our practices.
If this is how we play the game, we will lose. By that I mean we will lose everything.
Reportedly, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates have formed a bloc that seeks to counter Islamist influence in the Middle East.
One wonders how the IDF could be expected to so quickly determine the facts.
While there is no formula that will work for everyone, there are some strategies that if followed carefully and consistently can help our children – and us – gain the most from the upcoming school year.
In the 1980s, I was an unrefined adolescent from blue-collar Butler, Pennsylvania. I knew nothing and cared nothing about politics. I had no idea if I was a conservative or a liberal, Democrat or Republican, or much of anything else.
"In Bin Laden Announcement, Echoes of 2007 Obama Speech," declared the headline in The New York Times.
It's difficult to find a newspaper that has demonstrated a worse pro-Obama and anti-Bush bias than The New York Times, especially when dealing with the War on Terror.
Former president Jimmy Carter told NBC News last week that his work at home and abroad has been "superior" to other presidents.
"I feel that my role as a former president is probably superior to that of other presidents," Carter assessed. "Primarily because of [my] activism and the injection of working at the Carter Center and in international affairs, and, to some degree, domestic affairs."
The huge "9/12" protest in Washington was the latest expression of discontent over President Obama's leftward policy thrust. The discord is evident from the Tea Party movement to the chaotic town halls on health care reform.
What if an American president, on his own initiative, under no demands from staff or from supporters or opponents, set out to spend an unprecedented amount of money on AIDS in Africa, literally billions of dollars, at a time when the nation could not afford it, citing his faith as a primary motivation and, ultimately, saved more than a million lives?
Every American, obviously, has heard of Ronald Reagan, and Reagan historians have heard of Bill Clark. Clark was Reagan's close aide, who, more than any other, laid the foundation for Cold War victory.
What's the state of the republic one month into the Obama presidency? It's a state of deep confusion. Here are some polls to ponder. Brace yourself.
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Things were looking up. The Democratic front-runners seeking their party's presidential nomination lauded the historic accomplishments in Iraq, particularly Saddam Hussein's capture.
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Avon and Somerset Police have issued a statement following today's court case. Nicholas Lovell pleaded guilty to causing the death by dangerous driving of Ross and Clare Simons in a hit and run in Hanham near Bristol.
His partner Louise Cox has pleaded guilty to perverting the course of justice.
– Detective Chief Inspector Rachel Williams, Avon and Somerset Police
On Sunday January 27 of this year, Clare and Ross Simons needlessly lost their lives following a fatal collision on Hanham High Street.This collision was caused by Nicholas Lovell, a disqualified driver who got behind the wheel of the car and drove at speed, before losing control and striking the couple while they cycled.Nicholas Lovell then ran away from the scene in a bid to escape, leaving behind Louise Cox who then deliberately and callously set out to mislead police at the scene.
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– Detective Chief Inspector Rachel Williams, Avon and Somerset Police
The pleas entered today by both Nicholas Lovell and Louise Cox reflect that both have taken some responsibility for the deaths of Ross and Clare. While these pleas will never bring Ross and Clare back, I hope they go some way to providing comfort for their families.We now await sentencing on May 22.


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