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Wednesday, October 31, 2012
Happy Halloween; or, Okay, So I Didn't Choose That Title . . .
And there's the important qualifier: to my mind. Every year, it seems, somebody writes a Catholic apologetic for Halloween; three years ago, I was writing a Catholic apologetic for Halloween. And every year, people object, on more or less the following grounds (pointedly leaving out the Halloween is Satanic grounds, to which my response is merely No, it isn't):
1. People who celebrate Halloween -- publicly, in writing -- along with the rest of the post-pagan world make people who dress up in saint costumes feel like weirdos. This is mean and backstabby, coming from Catholics who ought to be supporting each other.
Well, okay. For my own part, I certainly didn't mean to be mean and backstabby, and I was taken aback -- actually, rather hurt -- by the vehemence of responses, by people whom I'd considered friendly homeschooling-forum acquaintances, to my own article, which I'd written first of all because it was a paid journalistic assignment I'd accepted because we needed whatever money I could make by writing, but also because . . . well, sometimes people who do celebrate Halloween with the rest of the post-pagan world feel rather alone in the sea of virtuous saint costumes. And it's not that we don't also dress up as saints -- we just do it on All Saints. Or, as is the case this year, on November 3rd, which is when our parish All Saints party happens. On Halloween, we do Halloween, for a variety of reasons beginning with the fact that of the American customs my then-not-Catholic children missed while we lived in England, Halloween trick-or-treating was at the top of the list. And ending with . . . well, the second objection, which is
2. People who celebrate Halloween publicly and in writing are distorting the Catholic faith for their own ends. They are claiming a Catholic baptism for things which are not inscribed in Catholic doctrine or tradition. In effect, these people are liars.
I've done a lot of thinking about this charge, which I hadn't really anticipated as I wrote my essay and which was the accusation that really stung. If I had anticipated it, I might have said this: There's a difference between claiming that you're doing a given thing because it is Catholic, and explaining that you're doing it for Catholic reasons. In hindsight I wish that I had considered this aspect of things more fully, because I would have said it more explicitly (which I think would have been far more helpful than simply qualifying what I'd said by some disclaimer that this is what my family does, but no other family is bound to do it).
There are, after all, plenty of events in our public life which have no direct, inscribed place in Catholic doctrine or tradition. Voting in elections, for example, has a fairly short and tangential pedigree in any religious tradition, and yet we don't abstain -- I suspect that most of us will vote next Tuesday, and that we will be voting not because voting is some kind of side-sacrament, or because it's meaningless fun, but because as Catholics, and for Catholic reasons, we view it as a duty. Likewise, I suspect that most of us will celebrate Thanksgiving, not because it's a Catholic feast (my parish doesn't offer Mass on Thanksgiving, though many do), but also not because it's just meaningless family fun, like a trip to Disney World. We'll celebrate it, I suspect, because it is Catholic, as well as catholic, to offer thanks to God by celebrating His gifts to us, and especially by celebrating the gift of our gathered families. Wherever a Catholic sun doth shine, after all. And actually, now that I think of it, if I had time, and if I'd actually ever been to Disney World with my family, I suppose I could also argue that one might have Catholic reasons for doing that, too.
So I think what I was trying to explain, and what I'd cheerfully explain again, is that we do Halloween the way we do not because we think it's just meaningless fun. The minute meaningless enters the game, we're in trouble. As Catholics and (hopefully) thinking people, we try not to do things meaninglessly, especially where our children are concerned. On the other hand, we don't do Halloween the way we do because we think it's a dogma waiting to be defined. It is not, contra the hyperbolic John Zmirak, a high holy day, and we know that. We do it the way we do -- with goofy costumes and pumpkins and trick-or-treating in the dark -- because we think that this experience, and the images of it our children carry with them, is a rich thing as a memory, as a significant family tradition in the unfolding of this season, and as a kind of mental icon, playing out the story of salvation.
Do I think everyone has to do it this way? Nope. I also don't think everyone has to have a Jesse Tree to have observed Advent. None of these things are mandates. The only mandates, in fact, have to do with sacraments, settled doctrine, and the Deposit of Faith; everything else is icing. I simply offer my take on this public observance in response to the saint costumes, which are, while good and lovely, rather emphatically not the only valid Catholic way to think about Halloween.
So: Tonight we'll go to the Vigil Mass, because I'm singing and other people are serving and reading. Then we'll come home and morph into a clown (or a cowgirl, or a cowgirl rodeo clown, we're not sure which) and Aragorn -- the teenager currently at home says he's too old this year and is happy to answer our door to trick-or-treaters -- and take off into the night with a gang of neighbor kids.
Tomorrow we'll go to Mass again, because we always go to daily Mass on Thursdays, and then hiking with friends who also take the day off school.
Friday is the at-home teenager's birthday, which he will spend at his new job cleaning the biology labs at the college. Hopefully he can also pop over to the monastery graveyard for a prayer; meanwhile, those of us staying home will visit one of our town's graveyards. No school again.
And then Saturday we'll revisit All Saints with our parish party, always a huge hit. So far we have St. Teresa of Avila . . . the boys are still debating, though the ten-year-old generally goes as St. Michael.
And that -- if I may invoke the term again -- is our Hallowmas, for better or worse, but never for no reason.
21 comments:
- Jennifer Gregory Miller said...
I loved your original article, especially the term Holymas. I also view the Halloween, All Saints, and All Souls as connected. Triptych is a great visual! Triduum might be a little presumptuous, but even that term works. The days all build on each other.
Growing up my mother was anti-Halloween, with all the negative ideas. It's taken a while for me to see that you can embrace simple secular pleasures (like you said, Thanksgiving). We avoid the scary and gore. Things that remind us OUR death ties in these days.
In my mind, it's the Mystical Body. Halloween celebrates or focuses on the Church Militant--preparing for the other two feasts, All Saints is Church Triumphant, and All Souls is Church Suffering.
I'm just rambling, but I do see the anti-Halloween is really Puritanism. We're Catholics!
- October 31, 2012 at 1:08:00 PM EDT
- Sally Thomas said...
Yes, I like that Church Militant thought . . . the Church Militant thumbs its nose at the Gates of Hell, which cannot prevail against it.
Funny how our childhood experiences form our parenting decisions, one way or another. I grew up "doing" Halloween and loving it, though there was never any more to it than superficial costumes and ghosties, which nobody took seriously. Some of my favorite childhood picture books were about very gentle little witches and ghosts, which I suppose some would argue were forms of soft satanic propaganda, but if they were, they sure didn't take with me.
I *might* have been tempted not to do Halloween with my kids -- for all I've written about it, it's not a holiday I can't live without -- except that of course we took our youngest trick-or-treating when she was small, because it was what EVERYONE, even all the Mormons in Salt Lake, did. It would never have occurred to me not to. And then in England she missed doing that. And then, by the time we were becoming Catholic, she was already a teenager, and I can just envision her response, and therefore that of her 4-years-younger brother, had I told them that this year, kids, we were all going as our favorite saints. Uh, mutiny, they would have said.
And then, all the Catholic homeschoolers we met at the start of our journey loved Halloween. It was refreshing to realize that there were religious homeschoolers out there for whom this wasn't a tortured issue -- before we began our journey into the Church, the only homeschoolers (besides ourselves) we had known well and hung out with were non-religious/Wiccan-ish, and obviously they had no problem with Halloween, whereas all the Protestant homeschoolers (whom we didn't know well anyway, because we really didn't fit in) did. This was a moment of, "Whew, Christianity *is* big and free after all." Like everything else about Catholicism, it was heady and exciting, like being let out of prison.
I have one Catholic homeschooling-mother friend who adores Halloween -- every year on Facebook she posts this (to me) completely gruesome picture of herself and a friend all in zombie makeup and streaming with blood. Not really my cup of tea, but I don't think her way of having fun with the day in any way compromises her faith. At any rate, that's certainly not my call to make. And I don't take it as a slap at me, either, with my relative squeamishness.
It is funny that I've written about this at all, because I don't really *love* Halloween, except that it seems part of this time of year, and not to observe it, especially in terms of giving out candy, really seems un-neighborly. But I have thought a lot about how being a Catholic doesn't so much mean that you just do Catholic things, as that the things you do you do for Catholic reasons. And that you don't do things thoughtlessly, thinking that they mean nothing at all, that they're sort of de-germified fun.
- October 31, 2012 at 3:14:00 PM EDT
I'm with you. Just before typing this, I sent a guerilla, a swordsman, and two witches on their merry way around the neighbourhood. To me Halloween is like Valentine's Day--it has religious roots but you can enjoy the current secular fruit without having to get all intense about the religious roots. And you can do so while avoiding the overboard secular manifestations such as demonic costumes or contraception festivals.
- October 31, 2012 at 6:30:00 PM EDT
What I find really lame are the so-called Harvest Festivals that some of the local Protestant churches put on. The kids dress up and get candy and play in moon bounces, and as far as I can tell there's nothing to do with any harvest--which in any case is pretty minimal here in the trim suburbs. It's as if Jews invented a Papa Hannukah in a blue suit who came down the chimney to bring presents.
- October 31, 2012 at 6:35:00 PM EDT
How can you not love the day before Christmas season starts? ;-)
- October 31, 2012 at 6:40:00 PM EDT
- Sally Thomas said...
OK, Jan, I'm glad I wasn't eating a pixie stick just now. Peanutbutter's a little harder to spray.
For what it's worth, my kids are out in a mixed group -- I sent a clown, Aragorn, and a guy in a coat and tie who wasn't going to trick-or-treat, but then changed his mind. Fortunately he didn't have to change out of his Mass clothes. A little while earlier he'd answered the door to some trick-or-treaters, and they had asked him what he was -- Harry Potter or something? I suggested that he say that he was going as an upright young mang, but he decided he was a college professor instead.
So, they're trick-or-treating in company with St. Tarcissius, St. Francis-or-Anthony, a generic priest, , a six-year-old calling himself Mouse-zilla, a pixie, and Dr. Who.
- October 31, 2012 at 8:25:00 PM EDT
- Sally Thomas said...
Also for what it's worth, it's not that I don't realize that some people dress up as horrible things and do horrible things on Halloween -- that the character of it, as a holiday of the night and with the element of fantasy, does not foreclose on the possibility of its appropriation for evil.
But then I consider that there are people who steal hosts from churches to perform Black Masses, and that that appropriation doesn't make the host evil, or the church -- just the people and their chosen actions. Where innocent things happen, evil stands close at hand looking for the opportunity to corrupt. What we can choose, as Christians, is to laugh in its face -- not to do it the honor of fearing that it will have anything to do with us.
The kids and I were talking about this in the car on the way home from Mass, and I asked them: if you worship something and hold it in reverence, you don't dress up as your object of worship for a lark (though it is kind of a lark to dress up as saints on All Saints -- but somehow that seems like a holy lark, and we don't worship the saints in any case, just try to put on some of their holiness).
So if the charge against Halloween is that it's Satan worship -- well, there may be serious Satan-worship out there, but it's not being practiced by Catholic kids in costumes running around in the dark with bags of candy. That would seem like the antithesis of worship . . .
- October 31, 2012 at 8:38:00 PM EDT
- Sally Thomas said...
Upright young *man*, not mang. In case you were wondering what a mang was, and why it would be wearing a coat and tie.
- October 31, 2012 at 8:42:00 PM EDT
- Sally Thomas said...
And it was our oldest we took trick-or-treating when we lived in Salt Lake, not our youngest, whose birth was still eight or nine years in the future when we were doing all this Utah trick-or-treating. I do not know what has gone whackado with my brain tonight (unless it's the red dye #whatever).
- October 31, 2012 at 10:45:00 PM EDT
- Lindsay said...
I, too, loved your original article, and I felt like most of the criticisms involved putting words in your mouth that you did not say, but I suppose that is neither here nor there.
We carved pumpkins, dressed up, visited one elderly neighbor and had wine and appetizers with the older bachelor professor neighbor and his colleague. It was a fun evening if not terribly traditional, though perhaps we are establishing our own traditions in this regard.
- November 1, 2012 at 8:49:00 AM EDT
- Sally Thomas said...
That sounds like so much fun. One of the things I do really like about Halloween is the neighborhood/neighborly aspect of it, though this is really compromised these days by the fact that people don't *walk* any more, but drive from house to house, which is so lame . . . and makes things that much less safe for everyone who is walking.
But I do like that I see people from the neighborhood whom I don't ordinarily see, since we're kind of on the edge of our sector of town, with a community college right across the street. My kids are abroad in the neighborhood and see other kids, but I often don't see them or their parents. So it's fun to connect, and I'd hate to be the dark, unfriendly house (though we were dark and unfriendly early in the evening because we were at Mass -- we had far fewer trick-or-treaters this year, starting late as we did, but then my husband said it was all kind of thin out there in the streets, maybe because it was the middle of the week).
The kids we got were mostly really small. I don't think we had any groups of teenagers, which was unusual and also kind of a relief, though I've never had anyone be rude to me. Some years ago, though, my younger children were handing out candy, and one bigger kid took advantage of their powerlessness to take half the bowl for himself . . . This year it was all very cute, polite tinies. And a lot of Frankenmoms. I don't much like dressing up in costume myself, unless it's for a play, but there were LOTS of gruesomely made up moms out there last night! I guess their kids didn't find that disturbing . . .
- November 1, 2012 at 9:19:00 AM EDT
it's not being practiced by Catholic kids in costumes running around in the dark with bags of candy
Exactly! My little boy wore a Darth Vadar, and my pre-teen was some sort of masked queen - and they are both good and holy children...well, they are children.
Interestingly enough, because I spent the evening with a friend in a bigger town, I bought and handed out much, much more candy as the two kids collected.
I have to say, the costumes were mostly just really cute. Little bears and Raggedy Anns, little girls wearing their big sister's cheerleading outfits. Not one Obama mask in the group of about 350 kids. Didn't president-masks used to be popular?
Weird thing? One of my eldest daughter's classmates was trick-or-treating in a suit and tie, with a young woman. He's 27!
- November 1, 2012 at 4:51:00 PM EDT
- lissla lissar said...
You know, my husband sort of dressed up as Aragorn, too- he wore the wool coat I made him which is based on Viggo Mortenson's leather duster. I don't think he wore a sword, and it's a pity he doesn't have long hair anymore, but still Aragornish.
We sent out two giant squid, a frog, and a space butterfly. The non-squids were confused. In our neighbourhood it's still normal to go door-to-door, which is what the squidoids and Aragorn did.
I've always loved dressing up, and Halloween's the only holiday where it's socially acceptable. It's been fun making my kids their costumes, and next year i'm dressing up, too.
I was dimly aware as a teenager that some Christians agonised about Halloween, but I had a confused defense of it somewhat similar to Sally's, although a little more based on "Free Candy!", plus a deep belief that as long as you put inordinate amounts of work into your costume age should be no bar to trick or treating.
Also, 'mang' is the ojibway word for loon.
- November 1, 2012 at 8:15:00 PM EDT
"I've always loved dressing up, and Halloween's the only holiday where it's socially acceptable."
Lissla, you would love Cologne during Karneval season. Everybody dresses up for several days, to attend multiple parties, parades, and dances, and elaborate costumes are much admired.
- November 1, 2012 at 10:45:00 PM EDT
- Melanie Bettinelli said...
I loved the article when it originally ran and recall that I spent a lot of virtual ink defending it via email to some friends after posting a link to it to my blog. I grew up wearing costumes and trick-or-treating on Halloween and it wasn't until I was older that I was even aware that some people didn't do it. I thought they were odd. Finding out that Catholics don't do it confused me. I grew up going to Catholic school and everyone I knew went trick-or-treating.
I'm so glad we live in a neighborhood where people walk from house to house trick-or-treating just like we did when we were kids. I took two fairy princess and a construction worker to about a dozen houses nearest us. We could have gone around the block but my three-year-old might have tired and really I don't think the six and under crowd need that much candy. (Nor do I need the temptation. My resistance against chocolate is at a low since I'm pregnant.)
I love the idea of a triptych and seeing the three days as an extended contemplation of the last things.
- November 2, 2012 at 8:57:00 AM EDT
- Melanie Bettinelli said...
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- November 2, 2012 at 8:57:00 AM EDT
- Sally Thomas said...
Well, interestingly, our parish Holy Hour last night was a Holy Hour of Reparation for . . . Halloween. In general, I have to confess that although I do see the need for reparation for all kinds of things, I really don't like these super-directed Holy Hours, which feel very intrusive to me, when what I want to do is to be still before the Lord in the Blessed Sacrament, which is why I go to Holy Hour. So whenever I see those red books on the table outside the church, I'm predisposed to think, "Oh, no," though in principle I'm also generally not opposed to making reparation for various things that go on in the world.
All that to say, when Holy Hour started last night, and it became clear that Halloween was what we were making reparation for, I really thought, "Oh, no." Now,
a) I love and respect my pastor very much and give thanks daily that we have him. He is *wonderful,* and what he has done in nine years in our little podunky parish is hardly shy of miraculous. I'm grateful to have him for a confessor. In short, I want to be clear that I'm not complaining about him here or criticizing his judgment, though I'm about to try to parse my thoughts about this particular situation.
b) Said pastor made clear in his Holy Hour address that the reparation being made was, specifically, for occult activity which is said to happen on that night, and not for kiddie trick-or-treating -- though it was also suggested that the occult stuff "underlies" the supposedly harmless practices. It's this formulation that I want to pick at a little, for the sake of clarity and constructive conversation.
Here are my thoughts:
1. Conflation of Halloween with the occult is problematic in that, as I suggested in an earlier comment, evil doesn't invent. It can only stand by, waiting to corrupt some good thing which has come from God's hands. Satan did not invent Halloween as a "high holy day," or a Dark-Lord New Year, or anything of the sort, because Satan cannot make or ordain, but only appropriate. In other words, that day was God's, and ours, first, and they have appropriated it for their own ends. This is bad, obviously, and I see the need for reparation as a response to this reality, but on the other hand, it's also not our problem. Sending my kids out to celebrate the Eve of All Saints in a way that hearkens to all the medieval carnivals, mystery plays, and fasching, which have been part of the liveliness and color of Christendom for centuries, in no way implicates us, as Catholics, in occult activity, any more than receiving the Host at Mass implicates us in Black Masses, for which evil people have appropriated the Host.
(to be continued)
- November 2, 2012 at 10:46:00 AM EDT
- Sally Thomas said...
2. However, what most people hear, when the subject of Halloween and the occult comes up, is that Halloween and the occult are *inextricably* connected, as if the forces of evil *had* invented this holiday in order to snare unwitting Christians, so that if they let their children participate in Halloween at all, then they are pushing them into the arms of Satan. This is unfortunate, because it's untrue and divisive, as we have seen, and it puts those of us who let our kids trick-or-treat in the difficult and undeserved position of having to explain when we stopped being devil-worshippers. And then when we try to, everyone else feels accused of something . . . And that's when hell does laugh its bitter, unmirthful laughter.
I felt badly in particular because my kids have some neighborhood friends with whom they've trick-or-treated in years past, and I invited them to come with us this year not knowing that their parents had decided against it. I love them and respect their parental judgment, though I disagree with its premises in this instance, but boy, was that awkward. I hated that my kids put theirs on the spot, not knowing. *Why* must these things be so difficult?
- November 2, 2012 at 11:03:00 AM EDT
- Melanie Bettinelli said...
Sorry about the double post.
I lived in Salem, MA for many years where Halloween has got about as out of control as it can get. It's a bacchanalian street carnival where people come to be drunk and lewd and disorderly. It's a huge mess and a disruption to the whole community and in October I'm always glad we don't live there anymore, though in other ways I love the town. Salem also has a very public occult community-- all the bizarre associations with the witch trials. There are several local occult shops and bookstores, vampire balls and such events and frequent articles in the local paper featuring the local pagan/wiccan community. Our fellow parishioners even included a couple who were former witches and who became Catholic who give very good witness talks (and gave us a very nice Holy Family icon as a wedding present).
So I definitely get the idea of making reparation for all the occult stuff associated with the holiday; but I agree that making it into a public event at the parish doesn't quite sit right with me.
Our parish, which was located downtown in the midst of the streets that are closed to all but pedestrian traffic, does a holy hour and sometimes has done a "saint fest" with outdoor performances by Catholic musicians. It's not presented as anti-Halloween, however, but is meant to be a very public reminder of the Catholic roots of the holiday and an opportunity to reach out to people and for prayer. It was never presented as a "reparation" for the occult stuff; though in that case with all the very public face of Halloween, maybe it should have been. Unless you know for sure about specific occult events, though, it seems weird to me to assume they are happening and make general reparation for that assumed activity.
- November 2, 2012 at 12:11:00 PM EDT
- Sally Thomas said...
Wow, yes, I can see how Salem would be like that. Reminds me a bit of Glastonbury, in England, where our Cambridge parish used to go on pilgrimage -- there's the ruined monastery there, and all the Glastonbury Thorn legend, but then there's Planet New Age, which the town mostly seems to have become.
And I definitely don't mean to downplay the reality of occult practices and people's involvement in them. My husband used to work with a woman who was on the run from a Satanic group in which she had grown up -- she had to change her identity and everything, for her own protection. Apparently if they'd caught up with her they would have done unspeakable things to her (and this reminds me to pray for her, wherever she is). The demonic world *is* real. And of course one of our duties in prayer, devotion, and sacrifice is to make reparation for our own sins and those of the whole world.
I like the idea of that saint fest. Too bad our parish is way out in the country . . . trick-or-treaters aren't too likely to venture out that way! We're having our big All Saints party tomorrow night, and my kids look forward to that as much as they do Halloween, which I think is all right and proper.
- November 2, 2012 at 1:33:00 PM EDT
I dressed up in khakis, plaid shirt, eisenhower jacket and trucker cap and puttered around yelling "you kids get off my lawn!" It was pretty scary, just not all that unusual.
- November 2, 2012 at 11:01:00 PM EDT


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EAGER beavers, cubs and scouts in Bridport are seeking funds so they can continue to enjoy the great outdoors.
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The news broke today and the MMA world immediately had a collective brain melt when they read "Zuffa Purchases Strikeforce". Twitters blew up, text flew chaotically, and forum posters fingers trembled as they attempted to get the word out. The news apparently so massive that my mother picked up the phone to give me a call to ask what this will mean for the great sport of mixed martial arts. To be honest, I didn't even know she was a fan.
The move announced today by Zuffa is single-handedly the biggest news for stateside MMA history. Where the UFC has long flexed its dominance over all comers, Strikeforce had managed to quietly establish themselves as the number two promotion in the ever growing sport of mixed martial arts. Where UFC President Dana White had flashed his claws and placed vendettas on aspiring promotions in the past, he would rarely throw a nudge or an elbow in the direction of the San Jose-based Strikeforce. White has always claimed to have a solid relationship with Strikeforce CEO Scott Coker and now we will get to see just how friendly the two can be. The question on everyone's mind is "what does this mean?" and while the fan in me wishes the same, it will be a good bit before we see the outcome of the purchase.
In his interview with MMAFighting.com, Dana White repeats the phrase, "It's literally business as usual. Strikeforce fighters will remain Strikeforce fighters and Scott Coker does a great job with the promotion and we have signed a deal with Scott to keep him in place."
As it currently stands Zuffa has deals with Spike TV and the Versus network, and while it has been rumored that the UFC would look to move to a paid subscription feature network like HBO, thus far those deals have not materialized. With Strikeforce having a solid relationship with Showtime, Zuffa will now have a foothold in the paid subscriptions market and while White stated it would be "business as usual" and that "nothing will change," he did mention that there are "tweeks" that can be made to make the Strikeforce program more in line to the quality presentation that the UFC is known for.
"Believe me the last thing Showtime wants to see is me showing up on their doorstep. There are a lot of guys on that side of the table that don't like me. You have M-1 Global, Dan Henderson probably doesn't like me too much but that is Scott Coker's relationship to uphold," White stated.
One of the biggest factors on the minds of MMA fans is the potential for dream matchups between the best fighters on both rosters. White was also quick to put out those fires as well.
"There will be no superfights. When I say business as usual - we don't co-promote, even when we own the company."
Dana White has had very public beefs with several past UFC fighters that now fall under the Strikeforce banner such as Josh Barnett, light heavyweight champion Dan Henderson and Paul "Semtex" Daley, who was bounced from the UFC after a threw a post fight cheap shot at welterweight Josh Koscheck. White addressed the issue but remained rock solid on the issue with Paul Daley.
"Paul Daley will never fight for the UFC. Period. As for Josh Barnett he has a deal with Scott Coker and his contract will be honored. As I said, business as usual."
As the internet continues to buzz and twitter reactions continue to pour in from fans and fighters alike, there is no doubt that this announcement will change the current landscape of MMA as we know it. The official UFC Twitter just tweeted about ticket sales for Strikeforce: Diaz vs. Daley on April 9th and as I double take to make sure I'm still reading everything correctly, it will be a good while before I can completely wrap my mind around it.


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---- — SALEM — For more than a year, Charles E. Snow III, a man with a record of seven prior drunken-driving convictions, has denied responsibility for driving drunk and crashing into another vehicle on Route 128, pushing a mother and daughter 150 yards, sideways, down the highway.
He took the stand during his trial in August and claimed that the other driver had cut him off. He denied being so drunk he passed out in the back seat of a state police cruiser, or singing "Swing Low, Sweet Chariot" loudly in his holding cell.
A jury convicted him of drunken driving.
Yesterday, he forced the court to hold a second full jury trial on the issue of how many of those prior drunken-driving convictions could be held against him.
It took a Salem Superior Court jury less than 20 minutes to decide his Memorial Day weekend, 2012, arrest in Lynnfield was at least his fifth.
Then Snow, 54, of Salem, became remorseful.
"I'd like to apologize to the people that was in the accident," Snow told Judge Timothy Feeley yesterday afternoon. "I was really scared at the time. I was quite shook up. My heart goes out to those people. It must have scared the crap out of them."
He acknowledged that "alcohol has been a problem for me for many years. I thought I had it more or less beat."
Despite Snow's promises never to drink again, Feeley sentenced him to four to five years in state prison and fined him $2,000.
Feeley said it's hard to imagine that the two women in the Volkswagen Beetle weren't more seriously hurt after being pushed down the highway by Snow's Ford F-350 truck and then into the shoulder of the road.
A Lynn schoolteacher testified during the trial that the plow mount hook from Snow's truck was just inches from her head, and though she was covered in shattered glass, she received only cuts.
"Fortunately, and I think Mr. Snow agrees, the injuries to the occupants of the VW were very minor," said the judge. "I was frankly startled that the injuries were as minor as they were."
But for that, said Feeley, he would have gone along with prosecutor Kelleen Forlizzi's request for a 41/2- to five-year term.
Five years is the maximum penalty any repeat drunken driver can face, whether it's a fifth offense or a 15th, under Massachusetts law.
Forlizzi showed jurors court documents from Massachusetts and New Hampshire detailing six of Snow's prior convictions, starting in 1983 with typewritten docket pages from an old court record book and continuing through 1998 with a conviction in Dover, N.H.
She then pointed to other records, including Snow's criminal history, driving history and his own applications for reinstatement of his license (which was, despite his record, valid on the day of the crash), to show that the convictions all belonged to the same person, Snow.
She told the judge after the trial that records from a 1980 conviction that appears on his record were no longer available.
Defense lawyer William Martin, who pointed to a long gap between Snow's last drunken-driving arrest, in 2005 (a charge he beat later in court), asked for a shorter, 21/2 to four-year term.
Martin had urged jurors to look skeptically at the records for details that aren't consistent, such as Snow's various addresses around the North Shore through the years, telling them, "You are the gatekeepers."
Before jury selection yesterday, Snow asked the judge to postpone the proceeding, which had already been delayed from a September date, so that he could challenge the validity of his 1998 guilty plea in the New Hampshire case, on the grounds that he didn't have a lawyer.
The judge denied the request, pointing out that because the New Hampshire case was treated as a misdemeanor, he wasn't entitled to an attorney. Besides, the judge said, even if that case were not part of the record, there were still at least four priors, enough to support the charge of a fifth or subsequent offense.
Snow has been in custody since the accident and received credit for more than 520 days he's been awaiting trial. He will have to serve about three more years before he can seek parole.
Courts reporter Julie Manganis can be reached at 978-338-2521, via email at email@example.com or on Twitter @SNJulieManganis.


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I recently shared a very memorable experience with my dad. I snuck up to visit him at a nursing home North of Omaha to watch the Chiefs/Steelers game. He had just been released from the hospital and had no idea
I was coming. I had sold my tickets to this game as I was going to watch Nebraska vs KState and to see him. It was one of the best decisions I have made.
We watched the game in his room and he was as sharp mentally as he had been in quite some time. We enjoyed the game immensely and it was the first game we had watched together since 2005.
The day after I left my dad took a dramatic turn for the worse and we laid him to rest yesterday. I will always cherish the fact we spent a great afternoon together watching the Chiefs and him sitting on the edge of his seat as OT started.
My dad and I immensely enjoyed watching the Chiefs together on TV or via the phone during the 90s after seeing them be so poor in the late 70's and all through the 80's. We both felt our loyalty had finally paid off.
I sincerely hope the Chiefs make the moves to become a relevant franchise again so many other father/sons will enjoy watching them together.
I am hoping one of you may be able to assist me. I have contacted the Chiefs to ask them if I could get a copy of the Steelers/Chiefs game over a week ago and have not heard from them. Do any of you have a contact that may be able to assist me?


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Friends in high places?
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Critics of a travel protection company that's been disciplined in two other states but not in Tennessee despite numerous complaints believe the lack of action is due to the owner's political connections.
For a fee, Crossville, Tenn.-based Trip Assured Inc. agrees to protect travelers against losing their money on trips they have to cancel or interrupt due to medical and other emergencies.
The company does business throughout the United States, sometimes through affiliated companies, and people in other countries also can apply for its plans, according to its Web site.
Trip Assured has been ordered by insurance regulators in North Carolina and Texas to stop selling insurance without a license after receiving and substantiating fewer than five complaints, The Tennessean newspaper reported.
However, the company continues to operate as it always has in Tennessee, despite more than three dozen consumer complaints since 2002. The complaints say Trip Assured withheld payment for illegitimate reasons, and at least 20 were closed with the notation "not satisfactorily resolved."
Critics believe nothing has been done because the company's owner, Edward McKinley "Mack" Johnson, is a longtime friend of former U.S. Rep. Bob Clement. Clement's wife, Mary, runs the Tennessee Division of Consumer Affairs, which has received the complaints and is part of the Department of Commerce and Insurance.
Clement, who is now running to become the next mayor of Nashville, called Johnson "a personal friend" he's known for nearly 30 years. Johnson and his wife, Debbie, each donated $500 to Clement's mayoral campaign.
Sylvia Resnick, a 79-year-old free-lance writer in Orange, Calif., complained to the Tennessee consumer affairs office a few weeks ago.
"If that isn't collusion, I don't know what is," said Resnick, who said she's been out more than $5,900 since canceling a northern European cruise in May because of back problems. "I feel the state will let it wash over."
Paula Flowers, commissioner of the Department of Commerce and Insurance, said her department has been investigating the company for about two years. But the department's attorneys are still trying to clarify if Trip Assured's products meet the definition of insurance.
Johnson contends he's not selling insurance.
"We sell travel protection plans, and some of them include insurance products," he said. "We are what we are, and we make it real clear exactly what we are."
However, Terry Dorman, the North Carolina Department of Insurance's chief examiner for unlicensed plan investigations, said Trip Assured made a voluntary agreement with the state last September to get an insurance license or to sell only products underwritten by a licensed company.
He said the agreement was a settlement that allowed Trip Assured to continue doing business in North Carolina.
"The company certainly gave the impression it was selling insurance," Dorman said. "The name itself, Trip Assured, conveys that impression."
Texas issued an emergency order against the company July 31 after investigating "three or four" consumer complaints and discovering the company wasn't licensed to sell insurance, Department of Insurance spokesman Jerry Hagins said.
Johnson said Texas officials appeared to be confused about the nature of his company's products, which, according to a Trip Assured news release, "consist of insurance and non-insurance components bundled in a single comprehensive package."
As for political influence, Mary Clement said she recused herself from all official dealings with Trip Assured to avoid any appearance of impropriety, and her husband said he has done nothing on behalf of the company.
But Claude Fender, a former Commerce and Insurance investigator, said Bob Clement called him two years ago to argue that Trip Assured wasn't selling insurance and shouldn't be investigated by the department.
"That's just not true," Clement said.
Flowers also said no one has ever approached her about going easy on Trip Assured.
"It's just not the case," she said. "I wouldn't put up with it anyway."
Hi and greetings to you. Even though Mack is my brother and he has a nack for making money and he knows how to play the game of making money. But if he is doing something that is illeagle anywhere, then he should pay the price.
I have read a lot of stories in the media on this subject. Doesn't anyone at the Tennessean have a real job? If you had half a brain you could tell this is politically motivated against the Clements, and/or someone really wants to get this Johnson guy bad!!! Move on to some real news!


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It's a strange world we live in, this 2012. We have all these communication tools that allow us to instantly connect with each other, communicate in good and bad ways, and do it with millions at a time. The problem with these tools is that they can be used to bring down social opprobrium by "crowdsourcing," which is what happened to Erin Calipari last night.
Andy Hutchins of SBNation and Alligator Army along with several other sites and people last night teed up this tweet from Erin Calipari in response to a now-deleted tweet from a Syracuse fan that mocked Coach Cal by suggesting that somebody bake him a cake for all his vacated Final Fours. The Daughters Calipari are notoriously and endearingly protective of their dad, so Erin struck back the Twitter way, with a pointed assault on the offender's coaching staff (Both her tweet and the tweet that provoked it have since been consigned to the bit bucket, but screenshots live forever in the case of her tweet):
Now, is that a little on the tasteless side? Yeah. Could this attempt at humor been made more cleverly and less jarringly? Definitely. But is it offensive? Not really, except possibly to Bernie Fine's family and Syracuse fans everywhere, which was pretty much the point. Is this an argument for taking more care when you write stuff on Twitter? Whether it is or not, that's always a good idea. [Update: I did forget to mention she later apologized for the tweet, calling it "inappropriate."]
This all started in response to a Billy Donovan's wife baking him a cake for his recent signing of a couple of five-star players. Frankly, I think that recalls a simpler time before Twitter Madness infested our culture, but apparently some find it goofy, or felt like it could be used to poke fun at Florida. Whatever.
Anyway, back to Erin's Politically Incorrect Tweet. Andy Hutchins' piece that was the spark for this commentary goes on to gently reprove Erin's twitter comment:
There was probably no good way for Calipari to make fun of Syracuse by way of mentioning potential child molestation without stepping in something, but, to be fair, this doesn't reflect poorly on her father, king of epic humblebrags and head-scratching shoutouts. It does, however, reflect poorly on her that she thought that she was being witty, and it reflects somewhat poorly on the Kentucky fans who flocked to defend her.
For my money, this is a random display of situational political correctness and using it to take a shot at John Calipari, which is exactly what touched off this entire imbroglio. Now Erin finds herself in the unfortunate position of having to defend herself from these kinds of "Mr. Reasonableness" attack, which are quite frankly off base and intended to use her to embarrass other people for whom these "reasonable" people hold some animus, or wish to mock -- in this case her dad.
Everyone is (or should be) familiar with "Chester the Molester" jokes from back in the 1980's, and even though child molestation itself is no joke, neither is death, rape, insanity, or many other life events that wind up constantly in our humor. Does "are you insane?" offend those with mental handicaps? Possibly, but that hasn't generated enough opprobrium for it to be placed off limits yet.
But now, Hutchins and others are trying to place humor about child molesters off limits and bring down the wrath of Twitter on Erin, and with yesterday's reminder of the Penn St. Horror the subject of most of the conversation, child molestation is front and center. What happened at Penn St. wasn't funny in any respect, and so our nerves are now very raw and attuned to the depredations of that particular evil.
Just to help Hutchins and the others out, child molestation jokes, despite the problems at Penn St., are still very much mainstream, and not just in the very young and inexperienced sector of society. This is a piece by political writer Michael Kinsley, a man of no small note:
"Outsourcing" has become such a dirty word that it's hard to believe there could actually be something called the International Association of Outsourcing Professionals. What next? The Society of Professional Child Molesters?
Kinsley's commentary was neither as pointed nor as personal as Erin's jibe, but it was made only two weeks ago and it points out that jokes about child molesters are not off the social reservation yet. Not only that, the effort to put it off limits is reminiscent of every other campaign for political correctness, and just as misplaced.
Does anyone remember the "niggardly" scandal that got a Washington DC staffer fired for using a completely context-appropriate word, "niggardly," because it sounded too much like the N-word? Yes, that happened. "Niggardly" means, very simply, stingy or miserly. I once used it at work and my boss looked at me as though I was crazy. After I informed him that this hole in his vocabulary was a problem for him, not for me, he of course agreed that I was fully correct and he was hypersensitive.
My advice on this? Just stop it. Stop trying to enforce political correctness because current events have sensitized you to a particular issue. Stop writing looking-down-the-nose blog posts at young people making tasteless jokes defending their famous parents, unless it's truly socially unacceptable and not just ripe for the picking. Using Erin's youthful inexperience to try to embarrass her father is wrong, unfair, and reflects poorly on those doing it.
And for God's sake, stop trying to destroy humor by trumping up mock offense every time it becomes possible or clever. It's unworthy, idiotic, and it harms our discourse. Political correctness is one of the most offensive and pernicious trends to come out of the 1990's, and I wish heartily for its earliest demise.


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The global economy is slowing sharply and is at far greater risk of recession than was thought just months ago, with Europe's debt crisis creating "fertile ground" for a rapid collapse, the International Monetary Fund warned Tuesday.
In a sobering trio of reports on growth, public debt and financial stability, the agency described global trade and investment as waning and depicted the world as perhaps one shock away from a serious downturn. The epicenter of the economic turmoil remains the euro zone, where political leaders have not committed the money needed to prop up weakened governments and banks, thereby threatening to create a cycle of "self-perpetuating pessimism" that could undermine the recovery, the IMF said.


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Our warm air is short lived. Expect winter to return on Wednesday.Video Transcript
is back. Today will be a bit breezy through the afternoon, but it's a nice southerly wind. highs will be in the low 60s. It is a great afternoon to get outside or even fire up the grill tonight. Tomorrow more clouds build in ahead of the rain that gets here late Tuesday night.... but highs will still be in the mid to upper 60s in the afternoon. The next system arrives in the early morning on Wednesday when were warm enough for rain to start the day. But temperatures plummeting as colder air moves in that rain will give way to snow by mid morning. I'd expect rain, maybe some sleet briefly, then snow. Some accumulation is possible, right now it doesn't look like a big snow...maybe a couple inches max. The warmer ground will defintely help that out. Stay tuned as this system is still two days away and the snow could go up or down based on the eventual track. The snow is gone on Thursday morning but the cold air will stick around, The high on Thursday is only in the 20s! We rebound a little bit back to the 40s for the weekend. FRIGHTENING COLLISION FRIGHTENING COLLISION
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ICC Match Referee Andy Pycroft did not have trouble handing Harbhajan Singh a level 1 offence punishment as the Indian off spinner pleaded guilty.
The second Test at the Shere Bangla National Stadium saw Harbhajan Singh not only return to the field but also, saw him kick one of the advertising boards at the boundary line, in frustration over a misfield.
Harbhajan pleaded guilty to the crime for violating the ICC Code of Conduct.
Ind Bang T 2 Day 2 Stumps: Tendulkar, Dravid Prop India into Decisive Lead
Ind Bang T2: Rahul Dravid Suffers Broken Jaw After Fine Century; In Hospital
Ind Bang T 2 Day 1 Stumps: Ordinary Performance from Bangladesh, Mahmudullah Shines Again
Was Shakib Forced to Kneel to Apologise for Responding to the Board Chief's Barbs?
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Ind Bang T 1 Day 4 Stumps: Gambhir Chases Bradman's Record, Bang Chase India's Big Target
Ind Bang T 1 Days 1,2,3 Lookback: When Sehwag's Words Hit Him Back, Ton Man Sachin Rescues
Shakib Says India Not as Good as Australia, South Africa
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There's no reason the kids should have all the fun, or drink all the cocoa! I love trying liqueurs in my coffee, and in this case I used a hazelnut liqueur (DeKuyper's was on hand) to mix with both hot cocoa, and a little brewed coffee leftover from breakfast. I also made the cocoa a little smoother with some white chocolate – I only had an ounce left in the box so next time I might try a stronger white chocolate cocoa!
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After selling out our Hall of Merchants last year, we are set to have a bigger and better hall for 2014. As with our past years, the 2014 Hall of Merchants and Artist Alley will feature exhibitors, vendors and artists from comics, gaming, anime, manga, collectibles and more. Come be a part of our third year!
We are always interested in new dealers, vendors and artists. Please check vendor registration and our artist alley registration for more information about pricing, included amenities, and more. There are limited spaces with electric outlets available so be sure to get your application in early.
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NY mostly ignored reports warning of superstormBy MICHAEL GORMLEY
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In this Oct. 30 photo, the South Ferry subway station in New York City is filled with seawater and debris from Superstorm Sandy.ALBANY, N.Y. More than three decades before Superstorm Sandy, a state law and a series of legislative reports began warning New York politicians to prepare for a storm of historic proportions, spelling out scenarios eerily similar to what actually happened: a towering storm surge. Overwhelming flooding. Swamped subway lines. Widespread power outages. The Rockaways peninsula was deemed among the most at risk.
But most of the warnings and a requirement in a 1978 law to create a regularly updated plan for the restoration of vital services after a storm went mostly unheeded, either because of tight budgets or the lack of political will to prepare for a hypothetical storm that may never hit.
Some of the thorniest problems after Sandy, including a gasoline shortage, the lack of temporary housing and the flooding of commuter tunnels, ended up being dealt with largely on the fly.
I dont know that anyone believed, acknowledged Gov. Andrew Cuomo last week. We had never seen a storm like this. So it is very hard to anticipate something that you have never experienced.
Asked how well prepared state officials were for Sandy, Cuomo said, not well enough.
It wasnt as if the legislative actions over the years were subtle. They all had a common, emphatic theme: Act immediately before its too late.
The 1978 executive law required a standing state Disaster Preparedness Commission to meet at least twice a year to create and update disaster plans. It mandated the state to address temporary housing needs after a disaster, create a detailed plan to restore services, maintain sewage treatment, prevent fires, assure generators sufficient to supply nursing homes and other health facilities, and protect and assure uninterrupted delivery of services, medicines, water, food, energy and fuel.
Reports in 2005, 2006 and 2010 added urgency. Its not a question of whether a strong hurricane will hit New York City, the 2006 Assembly report warned. Its just a question of when.
A 2010 task force report to the Legislature concluded: The combination of rising sea level, continuing climate change, and more development in high-risk areas has raised the level of New Yorks vulnerability to coast storms. ... The challenge is real, and sea level rise will progress regardless of New Yorks response.
The Disaster Preparedness Commission met twice a year some years, but there are gaps in which there is no record of a meeting. However, some administrations, including Cuomos, convened many of the same agency heads to discuss emergency management. But even under Cuomo, who has taken a much greater interest in emergency management after three violent storms in his first two years in office, there are still three vacancies on the commission.
Richard Brodsky, a former New York Democratic assemblyman who was chairman of the committee that created the 2006 report, credits administrations with making some improvements to the plan in recent years, such as requiring a specific plan to protect and evacuate the infirmed and to save pets.
But on two issues related to Sandy prevention and recovery they did almost nothing, Brodsky said. If Goldman Sachs was smart enough to sandbag its building, why wasnt the MTA smart enough to sandbag the Battery Tunnel?
Sandy flooded both tubes of the Brooklyn-Battery Tunnel, now called the Hugh L. Carey Tunnel, which was one of the major and longest transportation disruptions of the storm.
Among the other crises Cuomo and New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg faced on a daily basis during Sandy were the shortage of temporary housing, which continues, the long disruption of electricity and gasoline, generators in health care facilities swamped by floodwaters, restoring power from swamped electrical infrastructure and repairing commuter rail lines.
The warnings touched on many of these areas, but mostly in a broad way with few specific directions for action. Some areas, such as a shortage of shelters in New York City and repairing commuter rail lines quickly, have improved in recent years to some degree, but other areas such as making sure health facility generators are on upper floors are newly realized problems forced by Sandy, according to the former legislators.
What youve got here is a great number of consequences that were foreseeable, but unforeseen, Brodsky said Prevention is politically less sexy than disaster response.
There was another obstacle to enacting calls for more preparation: funding. The state and city were each facing $1 billion deficits from a slow economic recovery before Sandy hit.
As your budget shrinks, the first thing that goes out the door is emergency management, the first thing, said Michael Balboni, New Yorks disaster preparedness point man in the Republican-led Senate and in the Democratic Spitzer and Paterson administrations from 2001 to 2009.
To take the 1978 law and really enable it, you need to put a ton of money behind it and there was no political will to do it, said Balboni, now heads an emergency management firm in Manhattan.
Cuomo is now asking the federal government for more than $32 billion to cover the immediate costs triggered by Sandy, and another $9 billion for preventive measures to better protect the area for the next big storm.
The Cuomo administration insists that it has had robust emergency planning and clearly made important changes after tropical storms Irene and Lee slammed much of upstate and threw a scare into New York City in 2011. The administration created three regional disaster logistics centers and conducted training and exercises and before Sandy took extensive preparatory steps learned from Irene to preposition equipment and top staff and National Guard troops around the state.
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LGFSTT(?) Jeff Francoeur's new teammates at AAA El Paso have some fun with him at his expense.
Another great argument for automated plate umpiring. Hopefully thirty years from now the new whippersnappers will be saying, "yeah Maddox had a great WHIP and FIP but that was because those old dinosaurs had to use their eyeballs instead of off-the-self technology. If they wouldda used the UMP Laser 2035 he wouldda been just another stiff".
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Mark Shapiro, Cleveland Indians president: "When we assess talent acquisition, we factor in all variables relative to a player's performance -- tools, character, personality and medical risk are among the main areas of evaluation. "Sexual orientation has not and never would be an area of consideration, and it certainly would not prevent us from acquiring a player we felt could help the team be in a better position to win a championship."http://msn.foxsports.com/mlb/story/major-league-baseball-execs-open-to-signing-gay-player-021014
I'm glad the Tribe re-signed this guy. He was one of the great stories from the '13 squad. He might never be a starter in the majors but at least he helped us get one of the Wild Cards
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Important paragraph: "The midfoot shank on the sole provides torsional rigidity and enhanced support but is also a shout-out to the two most important places in Paul's life. On the right shoe the shank is embedded with a map of the downtown LA area surrounding Staples Center. The left has a map of the area surrounding his alma mater, West Forsyth High School in Clemmons, N.C., a small suburb of Winston-Salem. 'It's one foot in the past and one in the future,' [the designer] said." In other words, LA is the future of CP. I love reading this stuff.


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(LONDON, KY) - On 01-18-2005 Kentucky State Police at the London Post was contacted by the Clay County Detention Center to investigate the death of one of the inmates.
After a detailed investigation by Detective John Yates it was discovered that Martin Tillman, age 47 of Onedia, KY, was lodged in the Clay County Detention Center on drug charges by the Manchester Police Department. Mr. Tillman was booked into the detention center at approximately 0600hrs and, was discovered having problems breathing at approximately 0617hrs by the staff at the Detention Center.
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There are many free agent linebackers us Buc fans have been conversing about:
And so on, so forth. So. What is the current status of any of these players?
Currently, we all are high on the above two. Although I believe Curtis Lofton has more upside and more potential given his current age. Just as ESPN NFC South blogger Pat Yaskinskas reported about Carl Nicks, signing Curtis Lofton would extremely weaken the Atlanta Falcons and enhance our Defense.
Jason La Canfora of NFL Network reported that the Buccaneers made him an offer and he has yet to sign. However, I would not be so sure. Given La Canfora's previous claims, he has been quite wrong most of the time. Examples: Peyton Manning to New York, Vincent Jackson to the Redskins (not even mentioning the Buccaneers), not to mention he bet his life on Mike Sherman becoming our head coach. Regardless, Curtis Lofton is currently in New Orleans for the weekend. He will explore their facility once more and has yet to book a trip to Tampa.
As for Stephen Tulloch, he has not currently heard from the Buccaneers and it looks like the Bucs have minor interest in Curtis Lofton and none at the moment for Tulloch.
While there are rumors for Okoye, expect nothing to occur. He is not worth spending the big bucks on and is past his prime. The Bucs are better off spending their money more efficiently through the draft now as Mark Dominik concluded his press conference last week.
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Valentine's Day is for the lovers, but what about the Freaks? While they don't have celebrated holiday, French Montana might be able to satisfy them (pause). On the latest single off his Bad Boy debut album, Montana connects with producer Rico Love, who samples both Chaka Demus & Pliers' Murder She Wrote and Li'l Vicious and Doug E. Fresh's Freaks. The end result features all the bells and whistles you'd imagine, from relentless clapping to a boisterous air horn, which is perfectly suited to both counterbalance Montana's nonchalant approach and accentuate guest Nicki Minaj's ever-changing, eccentric flow. Fans awaiting Montana's Excuse My French will have to sit tight as it has been moved to a May 21 release.
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SKY SPORTS will show exclusively live coverage of the speedway's Elite League, the highest level of competition in the UK, for the next five years thanks to a new deal announced today.
The new agreement made with the British Speedway Promoters Association means Sky Sports viewers will be able to watch live coverage of speedway's Elite League through the summer months, and every season until 2019.
The agreement made with the BSPA comprises of a minimum 25 meetings a year through the summer from March to October featuring the 10 teams from the League starting with the Elite Riders Championship at Coventry on Friday 21 March featuring Great Britain's very own 2013 World Speedway Champion from Wolverhampton Tai Woffinden competing against some of the top riders in World Speedway. The deal also includes exclusively live coverage of the Premier League plus other selected individual events.
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You wouldn't think that, with 4 remixed versions of the Meshuggah song "Future Breed Machine" and 1 Live version of it, you could listen to this over and over again and enjoy it everytime. But you definitely can. "Future Breed Machine" to me, is a great Meshuggah song, but not one of my personal favourites..But i can still listen to this, and keep coming back to it, because it's Meshuggah. And they really make great remixes of their songs too.
The first song "Sane", is the exact version you'll hear on their 1998 album "Chaosphere"..so to fans who already have "Chaosphere" there's nothing new there. And to fans who maybe don't own "Chaosphere", "Sane" is a good 'sample' of what that album sounds like. In my opinion, their best album to date.
The second song is the Live version of "Future Breed Machine", recorded in Umeå, Sweden in May 1997. It's actually the only Live song of theirs i have ever heard, and it truly blows me away with how tight they are on stage as well as in the studio. Nothing is out of place here, and they really capture the intensity of the show too.
The "Mayhem" version of "Future Breed Machine" starts off slow, and then on comes the crushingly heavy slowed-down riffs. Believe me, the riffs mixed with Jens Kidmans screaming, really define how heavy Meshuggah are/can be..even if this is a remix of the song "Future Breed Machine". This song in many ways, reminds me of the "Concatenation Slomo Remix" that can be found on the Meshuggah "Rare Trax" CD, released in 2001. They're both equally as heavy, i think.
The "Campfire" version of "Future Breed Machine" is basically a short, amusing (At first), version of the song that can really get tedious after the first few listens. I don't know who sings it, it's definitely not Jens Kidman, but they do get really annoying after a while. But it shows that Meshuggah do have a sense of humour, and don't take themselves too seriously like some other Metal bands.
The next two songs that follow are techno remixes of "Future Breed Machine", that are actually pretty listenable. Both go over the 6 minute mark, and it's hard at times to really pick out which parts of "Future Breed Machine" are in there..sometimes there's no connection at all..but both are good experimental tracks. The first one almost sounds like an atmospheric Godflesh, if you know of that band, with how Jens Kidmans screaming vocals are heard at particular times during the song. And the second techno remix (Which i think is better) sounds more advanced and technical..almost like Autechre in a small way. It also has Jens Kidmans screaming vocals in it too, at certain times.
So, if you really like the song "Future Breed Machine", then i think you'll thoroughly enjoy this E.P. If you're like me, and find it's a great song but it isn't one of your favourites, then you'll obviously still enjoy it as well.
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Get out the way: Matt Heeks charges through the Cambridge lines on his way to scoring, as Steve Hamilton (right) looks on David Whittam
After a turbulent summer, Rosslyn Park's Matt Heeks is enjoying a new lease of life at Priory Lane.
The scrum half left Championship outfit London Scottish after falling out of favour and had to drop a level to find regular first team rugby with Park in National League One.
However, having started in every league game so far this season – scoring two tries and helping Park to fifth in the table, Heeks is happy again.
The 24-year-old is also helping Park rewrite the record books as Saturday's 32-14 win was their first ever at Cambridge.
Heeks said: "I am pleased with how things are going, we've got a really good bunch of lads here and they are all gelling very well.
"I could not be happier. I've started every game this season. It is good to be back playing and I am enjoying my rugby again.
"I'm learning new things all the time as well because the coaches here are first class."
Park controlled Cambridge and the match from start to finish, with Charles Broughton's brace of tries added to by Hugo Ellis, debutant Sam Katz and Dom Shabbo.
And Heeks believes Park have the strength in depth to build on the convincing win when Coventry visit Priory Lane on Saturday.
He added: "There were about eight changes for the Cambridge match and that just shows how strong the squad is.
"We have slipped up on a couple of occasions – especially against Cinderford – and Jan [Bonney, head coach] has been using training to change a couple of things and stop those silly mistakes that can affect a game.
"In the draw against Cinderford, those mistakes cost us points. That was disappointing. But we spoke about the Cambridge game during the week and we knew that if we did our jobs we should win."
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