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Congressional Democrats began to set their own terms on Sunday for a plan to rescue the nation's financial institutions, including greater legislative oversight of the Treasury Department, more direct assistance for homeowners and limits on the pay of top executives whose firms seek help.
The Democrats' demands came as Treasury Secretary Henry M. Paulson Jr. blanketed the Sunday talk shows to promote the Bush administration's $700 billion bailout package, emphasizing that it was needed not just for Wall Street, but for all Americans. He urged Congress to move swiftly to approve a "clean" rescue plan without tacking on extra programs.
"I hate the fact that we have to do it, but it's better than the alternative," Mr. Paulson said on "Fox News Sunday."
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1. Craig Goodrich wrote:
Now wait a minute. The underlying cause of the Bust of '08 was the Boom of the 90s, when the Fed kept the prime unreasonably low, thus pumping huge amounts of cash into the economy. The cash went into the dot-com boom and then the housing boom; when they busted, we started to see real inflation as the money went into consumption.
"Recapitalization" is just a term for pumping yet more money into the economy. Have we really all forgotten that the New Deal managed to prolong a sharp recession into a decade of depression by wildly floundering around to avoid the "financial realignment" that would have been required? Is a quart of beer the best cure for a bad hangover?

"May the father of all mercies scatter light, and not darkness, upon our paths, and make us all in our several vocations useful here, and in His own due time and way everlastingly happy."
2. AnglicanFirst wrote:
"Congressional Democrats began to set their own terms on Sunday for a plan to rescue the nation's financial institutions, including greater legislative oversight of the Treasury Department, more direct assistance for homeowners and limits on the pay of top executives whose firms seek help."
The Democrat's left leaning leadership seems to always emphasize what will give their party an advantage in the political struggles of Washington, DC rather than what is good for our country.
"...more direct assistance for homeowners.." is an effort to make the government the 'sugar daddy' of all of the potential Democrat voters who can't qualify for home ownership on the basis of their income and may be in a low income situation because of their long-term lethargy and lack of personal accountability/responsibility. Would you lend very large amounts of money to people who are at high high risk of defaulting on their loan contracts? Both parties sat by while this occurred. Three senior federal money managers, Freddie Macv/Frannie Mae, who were running the federal para-governmental loan apparatus leading up to this crisis were very well known Democrats.
"...limits on the pay of top executives whose firms seek help." This I agree with except for one condition. If you want top level technical leadership then you must be competitive in the salaries that you pay for that leadership. Low pay often equates to sub-standard leadership. Again referring back to Freddie Mac/Frannie Mae, one of the culpable Democrat leaders earned $90,000,000 in six years as the country drifted into this financial disaster.September 22, 9:40 am | [comment link]
3. John Wilkins wrote:
Cap on salaries is ludicrous. There are better ways to set rules. Rules should have been made while the finances got more complex. what we had was people making a lot of money by taking advantage of products nobody understood.
The danger of the bailout: giving money to all those people who should have known better. Instead of being penalized, they will be rewarded.
Of course, those people who will get all this taxpayer money, will demand that their own taxes be low.September 22, 11:03 am | [comment link]
4. Sick & Tired of Nuance wrote:
So, what is it when those of us who put 20% down on a house they bought under market value and financed with a 30 year fixed at 5.75% are now stuck paying for the criminal activity of CEOs who are still getting multi-million dollar BONUSES for nearly destroying, not only their individual companies, but the entire economy?
As I said on another thread, I hope we return to 70% tax brackets for the wealthy and I hope things become so regulated that a CEO has to fill out a government form in triplicate before he can use the executive washroom. The deregulation has directly lead to the enslavement of my great grandchildren to pay off the TRILLIONS of dollars of debt that these buffoons have placed on all of us. Meanwhile, Lehman's folks get a $2.5 BILLION BONUS!!!
I was a Regan Republican. I worked hard. I invested. I saved. I voted against my personal economic interests to support the Republicans. I got taken [along with the rest of the common folk] by the biggest fraud ever pulled on the American people. And those that did it are getting bonuses. Sell the "free market" crap somewhere else. There is no "free market". I am paying for it. My great grandchildren will be paying for it. The government is "we the people" and we are now paying through the nose for the recklessness of the elite. I hope the people wake up and the seething anger goes beyond mere recriminations. I hope we have some real social justice…like 1917.September 22, 11:09 am | [comment link]
5. Harvey wrote:
John Wilkins,
6. Katherine wrote:
See this article. A bill was offered in 2005 to rein in the Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac mess. It was obvious to many that the situation was spinning out of control. Democrats killed the bill. Voting against it were Sens. Obama, Clinton, and Dodd. One of three co-sponsors of the bill? Sen. McCain.September 22, 12:29 pm | [comment link]
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How to ruin a relationship or repair one? by amy
Chapter 1
How to ruin a relationship or how to repair one?
I Do Not Own Inuyasha
Kagome was engaged to Sesshoumaru for a month, he had just announced their engagement to their friends and family.
She worked as a fashion designer for Gucci, a newly graduated graphic artist that was up and coming, Sesshoumaru was also an up and coming vice president for Taisho Corporation.
She decided to visit him on his lunch break that she knew he took in his office.
She rode the elevator to the thirteenth floor, having a key to his office.
When she arrived on his floor, she went past the secretary's desk and was about to use the key when she found that the door was open….
She silently walked through the door, only to see 2 women on him with his pants near his ankles…
One woman was going down on him the other was passionately kissing his mouth and playing with his nipples…
But he was encouraging them,
"Rougher, harder, treat me like the bitch I am."
After seeing him betray her, she silently left,
"Good luck, Sesshoumaru"
Then she went back to her office and drew some of the gorgeous dresses, purses, and wallets Mr. Gucci ever saw….
After work she went to see Touga, his father, who was at the mansion in his study, it was all mahogany flooring, desk, and chairs, with tan rug.
When she parked her car in the front, she knocked on the door, where she was met by a maid,
"Who are you here to see?"
"I am here to speak to the Inu No Tashio on a personal matter."
So the maid asked her to wait in the outer lobby while she asked him if he would see her,
"What is your name?"
"Kagome Higarashi"
Then she recognized her as the older master's intended and led her to the study…
Once she was in the study, Touga asked her,
"Why are you speaking to me and not my son?"
"Sir, he was with 2 other women in his office, they were pleasuring him and he was happily encouraging them, saying,
'rougher, harder, treat me like the bitch I am'".
"Why don't stay for dinner, he no longer visits me…"
So she stayed for dinner.
They had chicken infused rice, with beef tips and root veggies with fruit for dessert….
Of course she drank pineapple juice throughout dinner, but it tasted different…
Touga had mixed 2 vials of his own blood into each drink making it taste stronger than normal…
By the time dinner was finished she needed to sleep over, she was so exhausted….
As he helped her to one of his guest rooms, she was already beginning to change…
The next day she left with a concealing watch on her wrist and a smile on her face, she felt revitalized.
Fast forward 5 years,
Kagome has become vice president of Gucci Inc. and he is considering her for President…
Meanwhile, Sesshoumaru was still vice president under his father, as he asked him to lunch…
When he arrived he met him at the door,
"So son, how has life been treating you?"
"Lousy, Kagome still won't speak to me!"
"That is the very reason; I asked you to lunch, I have heard news of her."
As they sat down to lunch,
"Kagome is vice president of Gucci Inc., he is even considering her for president…."
"Father, is this true?"
"Why don't you visit her in her office, it is lunch time…"
So he went to their 13 floor, got off the elevator, and passed the secretaries desk, to find an open door….
What he saw blew his mind, Kagome had 2 females pleasuring her, one had her tongue so far up her clit all she could do was moan and whimper, the other was kissing her passionately and sucking on her nipples, as her blouse and bra were gone, as well as her underwear….
All he could was look and wonder,
'That is why she hasn't called me, she is getting her pleasure elsewhere…as I did before she cut me off…."
Then instead of leaving, he took a seat, unzipped his pants, and watching what the ladies were doing to her, he masturbated using his hand, coming at the same time as Kagome….
When Kagome saw him, she covered up her chest and pulled her skirt down….
But it was too late, he had seen her take her pleasure, and not be ashamed of it like a full demon would….
That was when it happened, he saw through her concealing watch and found a gorgeous full fox demoness, with 4 tails, perky ears, auburn and white fur with her tails having the same color and her eyes….
They were the most beautiful shade of sea green, like the color of the sea rolling into the sand….
He decided then and there he must have such a magnificent female; she needed more than female attentions….
So he said,
"Will you allow me to take you out to dinner tonight at Taisho's, I will pick you up at 7:00, business attire is not allowed."
"Why should I?"
"For the sake of old times, I miss you!"
So she left work with him, riding in his limo, as she directed him to her apartment in Tokyo Towers…
When she got out,
"I will see you at 7:00 PM, you can pick me up at apartment 551…."
Then she left his car, with an unconscious sway of her hips that were addicting to watch…
'She had made her way in the world, all without him…'
Kagome chose her midnight blue strapless beaded dress that was off the shoulder, with her blue sapphire earrings with matching necklace, and high heels.
She had already showered, washed and dried her hair as well as styling it into a chignon with little wisps of hair framing her face….
The finishing touch was a dab of Chinese red lipstick, and then it was 7:00 on the dot.
As her door bell rang, she walked to her door and opened it slowly…
"Come in and sit down, I will just get my purse."
As he looked at her apartment, it was tastefully decorated in black and brown, including her wallpaper design that was a series of crowns and tiaras surrounded by diamonds….
She had her entertainment center, television, music center, and leather couch all in the middle of her living room, lower than the rest of her apartment, almost sunken but very comfortable…
He could also see her kitchen, it was large, with an island, a stove, refrigerator, and a gourmet cooks dream- all the cooking utensils to make a small feast, in the middle of her kitchen….
Now her bedroom and lavatory were not so easily seen, a man would have to be invited in to see these rooms, and he would be that man….
When she rejoined him, she had a smile on her face as well in her aura….
"Shall we go, we don't want to be late!"
He would love to be late, if it meant he could be with her!
But he put his mask in place,
"My limo is downstairs."
As he took her arm and walked out the door with a smirk on his face…
He was thinking,
'Why did she leave me? What did she see that pissed her off?'
As he asked her,
"Why did you cut off all contact with me?"
"Simple, I visited you at your lunch hour and found you being pleasured by 2 ladies and you were saying,
'harder, rougher, treat me like the bitch I am'".
You were apparently extremely pleased with what they were doing, so I left feeling that you wouldn't miss my company since I couldn't please you like they were….
Sesshoumaru was thinking,
'She saw me being pleasured, and left, I wonder if she spoke to father'
As they arrived at the restaurant, he asked for the most secluded table in the back of the restaurant, possibly a booth…
So he escorted her through the restaurant, smelling all the men's arousal as he smirked all the way to the booth, where he could seduce her in private….
When the waiter arrived he ordered a steak with a baked potato and a salad, Kagome ordered the same, they both wanted their steak rare not well done…
As he looked at her, he thought
'She is perfect for me, as a wife and mother she will always love me if I behave, if not she will beat my ass as she should….'
When their meal had arrived, he said
"Bring me the strongest demon sake with 2 glasses and keep it coming until I say stop"
Then the waiter went to the kitchen and put in the order,
"Booth 51 wants the strongest demon sake in the house, and let it flow…"
So the waiter fulfilled his order, bringing their drinks allowing sake to flow like wine….
By the time dinner was over, they had gone through 5 bottles of demon sake, both were feeling a little tipsy, and then he ordered dessert for both of them, black forest pie.
Over dessert they consumed 4 more bottles of demon sake, both of them were clearly drunk, which was fine with him as long as she came home with him….
As he called for his limo, he said
"You, my little vixen will know what real pleasure feels like before the end of this night…"
So he took her to his father's mansion, found a guest room with the widest futon and most space to move and removed her concealing watch so he could truly see her….
She was unready for him to do so, and tried to cover herself, as he took off her dress and stopped her by pulling her hands above her head, saying
"Don't hide your beauty from me, my beautiful demoness, let me pleasure you and mate you this night, will you let me?"
"Yes, If you can stay faithful my dear Sesshoumaru, I can't live with your lack of it."
So he said,
"My dear Kagome, I will do anything to love you and our pups only, even if my father has to help me."
So she mated him that night, receiving more pleasure than she had ever felt.
He took his time, slowly kissing her lips in a slow, passionate way, until she was melting in his arms, begging him,
"Just fuck me already, stop teasing me!"
"As you wish, milady"
So he turned her around, with her ass held high as well as her tails, he rammed his blood filled phallus pushing further and further into her channel, until he broke her barrier and seated himself fully in her channel ,reaching her cervix filling her with his cum, tons and tons of it….
At the same time he bit he shoulder, drinking her blood and riding her orgasm and his until the ocean dried up, then he cleaned up her wound and withdrew….
Then it was her turn,
She threw him on the bed, roughly taking his member in her mouth, taking him like he was a wild animal, making him howl like a dog in heat that has lost control….
Once she felt he was hard as stone, she rode him rougher than any lover he had ever had, making him black out with the pressure, he came 5 times, after his fifth release, and she increased her pressure by squeezing his cock, milking him dry….
At the same time , she bit him on his shoulder drinking his blood riding out both of their orgasms until he was milked dry then she cleaned his wound, and they fell asleep, this was on a Friday…
When they were both absent for 3 days, his father found them in his home, mating each other until he cleared his throat and said,
"So you found out my little secret, son, I gave her my blood two vials per glass of pineapple juice, and she drank 10 glasses of it at lunch with me after you betrayed her trust, and she gradually changed overnight until she was a full fox demoness….."
"Why did you do this father?"
"With her being a demoness, she will live as long as you, and you will appreciate her not fooling around on her or else she will beat you to a pulp ad keep you in line, that is why my a son."
"Explain why she has gone so far in business?"
"Her being a demon, she was and is smart enough to use her natural assets that are why Gucci would elevate her to President, ask her assistants if you don't believe me?"
He had already seen her with her assistants, remembering how her face glowed with pleasure, as she moaned and whimpered with pleasure just as he had when she had seen him, they were now even…
"Father, help me to never cheat on Kagome, for I almost lost her once, thanks to my stupidity…"
"Has She marked you, son?"
"Yes, she has"
"Both of you step forward, and let me bless your mating, touching your mating marks, imbuing both of you with the faithfulness I shared with your mother until she died…"
So they accepted his help, and in so doing were connected to him for the rest of their lives, extending his life as well as theirs.
With his blessing, they were the most faithful couple in business, in fact they both shared an office in her building, sharing each other's negotiations, looking for loopholes especially any marriage or concubine phrases deleting them….
With both of them working together, both of their businesses prospered, making more money over the centuries than most did alone…
But that wasn't all they did, they thoroughly enjoyed mating season, taking the whole week off from work, going to his den in the mountains…
Every mating season they renewed their vow, to never cheat on one another by re-mating each other with the same enthusiasm as their first mating…
They would arrive in his den, tearing each other's clothes off, while they passionately kissed each other, but he always won the battle for domination…
Throwing her to the furs, kissing her passionately, then moving to her nipples as he sucked on them hard so that she moaned , screamed and whimpered,
"Just fuck me already, stop teasing me!"
"As you wish, Milady!"
As he was about to fuck her , she pressed her lips to his member, sucking him so hard he almost passed out, losing all brain function, as he howled,
"Harder, rougher, fuck me like the bitch I am"
"As you wish, Sir!"
She threw him to the bed, kissing him so passionately that the sun would look cool, blowing his mind and knocking him senseless…
After she had him as hard as diamond, she rode him like a wild animal squeezing his cock, milking him dry, as she bit him on his shoulder drinking his blood, riding out both their orgasms and remembering the words of Touga….
Then it was his turn, taking her in the ass, for the first time, making her feel full as he seated himself all the way into her cervix, loving how her tails felt against his skin turning him on…
Those tails were dangerous, as he went in and out of her pussy, they had his blood boiling as he picked up the pace, going further and further into her cervix, spilling his seed directly into her cervix…
Then he bit her shoulder, drinking her blood, riding out both their orgasms, as the sea rolls out with the tide, they fell asleep afterward….
After a week of only eating and fucking, she was pregnant, this was in their first year …
Sharing an office came in handy, especially when she was pregnant, while they took care of papers, helping each other to finish in half the time, so the other half could be spent giving his wife his youki, for going to the doctor (Dr.Niyako) for check-ups, and making love to his mate anytime, anywhere, and any place including the hall, the office, their kitchen floor……
This went on for five months until her water broke 2 weeks before the pup was to be born,
"Father, send a limo her water broke and the pup comes…"
So his father sent his fastest limo with the understanding that she was going straight to the hospital(St. Andrews) and they needed an escort to clear traffic….
So the police helped Touga out ,and brought his son and his bride to the hospital, as Sesshoumaru stepped out of the limo, a nurse already had a wheelchair waiting for her, unfortunately she tried to flirt with Sesshy and caught the raw edge of his anger,
"Woman, if you don't move your senile old butt and get my wife inside so she can have our heir, I will personally sue the hospital for your slowness and non-professionalism"
This reminded the nurse, that her duty was to take care of his wife, as she sped up with the wheel chair, handling all the paperwork, as her husband used his demon speed to speed her to the delivery room, making her comfortable in her gown….
He used his cell phone to call the doctor, who said,
"I am in the building, at the end of the hall, I will be there in a few minutes, where is the midwife?"
"She hasn't arrived; please find her, my wife's water is broken!"
So the doctor found her taking a coffee break not answering her beeper,
"Get your ass in room 131, or I will personally fry your butt and ass until you can't reproduce"
So midwife Kitty ran to 131 with the doctor on her tail, apologizing to Dr.Niyako and the Taisho's including Sesshy's father, Touga.
Kagome had 3 healthy boys all looking exactly like their father, with long white hair, amber eyes, magenta strips under their eyes, on their eyelids, as well as stripes on their thighs, on their wrists, and ankles, but the only stripes that showed were the ones on their faces….
Did I mention they also had their father's pale skin, strength of character and body, his skill in fighting, and were the apple of their father and grandfather's eyes!
All of her pups were full Inu, even if they didn't look exactly like dad!
As time went on, they birthed many pups, usually directly after mating season and a 5 month period of living in each other arms and hearts….
Now in truth they never aged on the outside, but they did get old- mainly over a thousand plus, so when they retired their sons and daughters took over with their mates, and they blessed them the same way Touga had helped them.
After they mated with their partners, they had them step forward touching their mating marks and giving them the faithfulness that Touga had for his mother – until death do you part….
By the way just because they retired doesn't mean they stopped having children, or re-mating in his den, in fact after they retired they lived in his den, making love and babies until they died late in 8036.
They also were able to meet all their grandchildren as well, even after they passed on, they watched them from Youkai Valhalla, where his father was reunited with his wife, Izayoi.
The end
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Mark your calendars for the Sox vs. Indians finale in Chicago.
Assuming the Chicago White Sox can maintain their season winning percentage of .571 heading into that last weekend, they will have won 91 games.
Assuming the Cleveland Indians can maintain their winning percentage over the past 10 games, heading into that last weekend, the Tribe will have won 92 games.
That's right...if we win our next 27 straight games we'll have a shot at repeating in the Central. How sweet it is!
On a serious note, I will be very satisfied if we can simply play spoiler to the White Sox that weekend. Especially after Ozzie made the comment that the Sox were at a disadvantage to Minnesota since they only to get play Cleveland six times in the second half.


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LP Monday Message: Feds, stop harassing the Campaign for Liberty!
Posted on Jul 19, 2010
July 19, 2010
Dear Friend of Liberty,
The Federal Election Commission is harassing and maybe even threatening to silence the Campaign for Liberty.
This is an attack on free speech and an attack on another organization working to promote freedom.
The Campaign for Liberty was founded by Congressman Ron Paul after his 2008 presidential campaign as a way to continue organizing the grass roots activists who helped that campaign. Although Congressman Ron Paul holds office as a Republican, he's often ostracized by his party's leadership for holding libertarian views. He's also a Lifetime member of the Libertarian Party, and he was the 1988 Libertarian Party presidential nominee.
I'm glad when Ron Paul is willing to ignore party allegiance to fight for principles of liberty.
I personally don't think our freedoms will be secure until government is seen as the problem, and a majority of Republicans, Democrats, Libertarians and others are fighting over the best and fastest ways to dismantle government programs. So I'm not going to criticize or get in the way of people working through other organizations, when they're working towards the same principles of liberty and limited government that the Libertarian Party supports.
And I sure don't appreciate the federal government using its enormous power to silence dissent. I don't know if the Campaign for Liberty broke any laws. Campaign finance rules are incredibly complicated, and they usually benefit incumbents. I'm against most of those unconstitutional laws in the first place. According to the Libertarian Party platform section 3.6: "We call for an end to any tax-financed subsidies to candidates or parties and the repeal of all laws which restrict voluntary financing of election campaigns."
According to the Campaign for Liberty's website: "Our mission is to promote and defend the great American principles of individual liberty, constitutional government, sound money, free markets, and a noninterventionist foreign policy, by means of educational and political activity."
Additionally, their website states they neither support nor oppose candidates for public office, but they do put candidates on record and report their positions.
Who knows, maybe the Campaign for Liberty will be out there exposing hypocritical Democrats who support the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and hypocritical Republicans who vote for TARP bailouts and Medicare expansions. Perhaps some of our over 170 Libertarian Party candidates for U.S. Representative will benefit.
I sure hope so.
The Campaign for Liberty has a "Declaration of Support" page here. I plan to sign it. (Please note, the page asks for a donation after signing. I neither encourage nor discourage you from giving financial support to the Campaign for Liberty.)
Wes Benedict
Executive Director
Libertarian National Committee
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Even though Michelle Wie is still young, she's been around the golf scene for what feels like a very long time. That's what happens when you burst onto the scene at age 13. Wie has had her ups and downs, but she's also matured from a skinny, trailblazing but controversial kid into a mature, very popular and major-championship winning LPGA Tour star.
1. Major Breakthrough: Wie Wins 2014 US Women's Open
2. Michelle Wie Wins in Hawaii at 2014 LotteIt's her third LPGA win and her first home-state victory: Michelle Wie won the 2014 Lotte Championship with an outstanding final round performance.
3. Michelle Wie Pictures
Our index of Wie galleries available here on About.com. Some date back back to when she was a mere 13 years old, and new galleries are listed here as we add them to the site.
4. Michelle Wie Biography
Tracy Kolenchuk; used with permission
Get a look at the life and career to date of Michelle Wie with this biographical profile. It includes her high points - and low points.
5. Michelle Wie Glamour Shots
One of the photo galleries of Michelle Wie here on About.com focuses not on her skill at golf, but on her skill in front of the camera. This gallery of "glamour shots" includes Wie dressed up and attending functions, as well as taking part in photo shoots.
6. Michelle Wie QuizIf you're a Michelle Wie fan who enjoys trivia, then try your luck with this quiz. The questions cover Wie's career from her earliest days in golf through her first LPGA victory.
7. Golfer Michelle Wie's Early Years
We wrote this article back in October 2005 - doesn't it seem like Wie has been around forever? - and it takes a look at many of Michelle Wie's achievements during her earliest years in golf. Her earliest appearances in LPGA and PGA tour events, for example. Yes, it's an old article, but it's a good chronicle of how Wie was viewed when she was still only in her early mid-teens.
8. Photo Gallery: Wie's First Win
Photos from the 2009 Lorena Ochoa Invitational, where Michelle Wie earned her first LPGA Tour victory.
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Sit everyone down to talk about the changes you want to make regarding meals and physical activity, recommends dietitian Isoldi. "Parents often find that their kids are more receptive to the changes when they're expected. Including the children and allowing them to have a voice in the planning stages will have an impact—and promote a successful outcome."


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zzzzzzzzz..................zzzzzz.........zzzzzz...........z did someone say somthing?zzzzzzzzzzz.......shes ooooooo sooooooooooooooo boring and doesnt help if you need it.....zzzzzzz
Not very interesting and very soft-spoken. Take notes to keep yourself awake.
hard class. if you don't like theology this is not the class for you. reading is boring. text is irrelevant. class is hard to follow. falling asleep in class happens at least once a period.
DWC 201 2nd yr
She seems funny and nice in class however, if she doesnt really like you she'll grade all of your tests and papers harder. Plays favorites. Awful to try and take notes from.
An absolute gem. Always willing to go the extra mile to help her students; extremely easy-going and approachable. PC is really going to be losing a true asset when Professor Bonney leaves this year.
CiV 201-202
By far the sweetest lady I have meet. She genuinely cares about her students. It is so sad that she will be leaving cuz I definitely would have loved to have taken a theo. core with her. I'm just very happy that I have been able to have her for civ. Thanks Ms. Bonney
Great person, nice understanding teacher. Related to students well. She will be missed tons next year!!!
Civ 201-202
the sweetest lady who is more than willing to help her students with a smile. not always the clearest, but i feel as though she has improved immensely. i didnt have her for seminar, so i cant justly rate her as a grader, but i wish i had her for seminar. (hint hint...) highly recommended
Very clear and precise, did not "fluff" up lectures, and was more than fair with grading.
Fair teacher, nice lady, questions are usually easy, lectures can be boring sometimes, but always in a great mood and def loves to teach and loves her students
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loved this class!
"obviously here b/c of hubby " That seems like an unfair comment/judgement to make. She's a very good teacher and has a great classroom relationship with her students. The material is not always extremely engaging, but she does the best sh
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Easy grader-tells you what to study for the exam (even if its not theo)puts time aside in the afternoon to answer ?'s b4 the exam day-puts everything you need to know for the exam in bold-no need to do the readings-BUT shes soo unclear,lectures r pain
Ms Bonney was one of the best professor for theology class. She was clear, the material was boring, but the class never seems long cause she was cool. I thought the class was on the easy side.
an average professor. asks questions directly from handouts. worst problem is the way she lectures!! speaks way too slowly with a monotone voice and trips up on words. then rambles for 3 minutes saying how out of it she is.
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Marquette News, Marquette Recruiting, Ray Mernagh
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By Ray Mernagh
Marquette seems primed, maybe more than any other Big East squad in that 5-10 league position, for next-step status. The still-Warriors (at least to this writer) have gone to three straight tournaments, including last year's Sweet Sixteen appearance. Buzz Williams and his staff have explored just about every corner of the country, not to mention every level available to them, in recruiting and have managed to infuse the Jesuit-run institution with talent capable of playing at a high level.
But with the recent commitments of 2012 face-up big forward Steve Taylor (Chicago/Illinois' top prospect in his class) and 2013 man-child Deonte Burton (a Milwaukee city kid now balling for Jason Smith at Brewster Academy) Williams seems to be locked in on bigger and better accomplishments in seasons 4, 5 and 6 of his tenure. Throw in 6'8″ transfer Jamil Wilson, eligible this season, and a return to Marquette's glory days, when they were beating Carolina for championships, seems doable (fast forward to 2:18 on the youtube for a breakdown from my mother's all-time favorite announcer). It's funny because just last Spring, if you listened to the experts, it appeared as if Williams might be ready to catch the first thing smoking out of some remote airfield in Whitefish Bay.
At the end of last season there was indeed some worry among the faithful that Marquette's most popular coach since Al McGuire might head back closer to his Van Alstyne, Texas roots. AD Steve Cottingham though, before stepping down, locked Williams up with a deal that not only compensates him for what he's achieved so far, but also pays him the kind of money that comes with the understanding that bigger things are expected going forward. And Williams, again maybe more than any MU coach since McGuire, seems to understand that Marquette can be a real special place when it comes to building a basketball program.
McGuire managed to rack up a record of 295-80 while winning two National Titles. For the armchair editors out there let me make it clear that I'm counting Marquette's 1969-70 NIT Title as well as their NCAA Title. If you're asking why all I can say is A) the Warriors were 26-3 that year and B) you need to bone up and learn some college hoop history because the NIT was a huge deal at that time (unlike what it was by the time a Tom Crean coached squad got drilled by Western Michigan years later).
To be fair, Crean did a fantastic job at Marquette, whether it was pushing for improvements at the University in terms of facilities, getting the Dwyane Wade-led bunch to the Final Four, or shepherding the program into the Big East. Then he bounced for Indiana, leaving Marquette hearts everywhere pained with his "It's Indiana, It's Indiana" quote.
But for all the debate about the way Crean left, there remains one fact (in addition to the ones listed above) that should keep him on the +side of the ledger with his former fan-base: He hired Buzz Williams. If Crean hadn't plucked Williams to come join his staff from New Orleans, who knows what happens with Marquette basketball the last few years. Hires are always dicey, you never really know — until you know — and at that point it's either one of two scenarios: Glad we got that right or What the hell were we thinking?
Ultimately the credit goes to Cottingham for pulling the trigger on the Williams hire, and, since we're discussing the recently departed one, has there been a better interim hire in college sports administration than Cottingham was in 2007? Talk about stepping up in times of adversity, Cottingham saw them through Crean's departure, made the ballsy choice to hire an assistant he knew was right for the job and then got the hotter-than-July coach to re-up with a sweet deal that, given Cottingham's legal mind, no doubt protects MU financially.
Now, it's Williams' baby, and judging from the talent he has currently in the program, and the future duo that just may attract a prime-time big to join them, the Texan plans on raising the baby right. Let's start with the kid I'm most familiar with — Deonte Burton. Saw him for the first time in the spring of 2009 I believe. A friend of mine, who at the time was a JUCO coach pointed him out and said "this kid's a left-handed Dwyane Wade Ray!" Yes, I swear to God that's the comparison he made. And, for a 13 or 14-year-old kid, it was an apt description. Burton kind of glided/stalked his way all over the court. Each rebound the kid corralled resulted in a DeJuan Blair type "thwack" sound emanating from his hands meeting leather. He found cutters with beautiful passes and flat-out overpowered kids 4-5 inches taller before dunking on them. He reminded me of a combination of Harold Miner and Wayman Tisdale, but that was a few years ago. What's Burton like now? For that I hit up Antonio Curro, a veteran scout and owner of the NY2LA Scouting Service, to fill us in.
"Burton is a huge get," says Curro, "in that they land a top 25-50 national recruit wing with a college ready body, power, athleticism and toughness who continues to improve his perimeter game and explosiveness. Taylor is a high profile talent from Chicago with size, length and range who just knows how to play." Jason Smith, the coach at Brewster Academy, says Marquette put a lot of work into getting a commitment from Burton.
"Marquette had been recruiting Deonte for about a year," says Smith, "Tony Benford was his lead recruiter." I asked Smith what part of Burton's game has grown since he got to the hyper-competitive and talented program at Brewster?
"He's really improved his perimeter skills and will continue to improve in that area over his last two years of high school." So with Taylor and Burton on the way over the next few years, the future is pretty bright at Marquette. Could Williams and his staff, who a lot of folks believe have collected a team that will win 25-plus games this year, be ready to finally grab a difference-making big? It's a tricky question, because there just aren't that many "elite" bigs to go around. But Curro, with his eyes firmly on the future classes of 2013 and 2014, thinks it could easily happen.
"The 2013 class is so deep in both Illinois and Wisconsin," says Curro, "you're talking probably 9-10 high major interior guys between both states and then Texas' 2014 class is loaded as well. The way Buzz and his guys get after it recruiting they'll be checking on a lot of them." The upcoming season is full of promise due to the returners like DJO (first-team Big East guy IMHO), Jae Crowder, and the always-improving Chris Otule and Junior Cadougan.
Vander Blue had his freshman struggles but he's still very capable of breaking out, plus Williams has some appetizing newcomers in his freshmen class. The guy who should be the newcomer with the greatest impact though is the 6'7/6'8″ Wilson, who started an awful lot of games his freshman season at Oregon and was a top-30/50 player nationally coming out of high school. "He's an athletic wing who runs the floor and can beat you inside and out," says Curro. "If Jamil Wilson works the way he should work to get better, the sky is the limit for the kid. He has a 7-foot-plus wingspan and he can fly and shoot the three." Several folks I trust believe Wilson, if he works over the next few years, will eventually be a first-round pick.
So Marquette fans should be as geeked-up as their coach is when he sees DJO tip-dunk on some poor kid's dome. Character, toughness, and fun have been the things that come to my mind often as I've watched the last three Marquette teams play. How much they can continue to be about those things as they add to the talent already there will determine whether they continue to trend upward as a program.
If I were a betting man I know one thing — I wouldn't bet against them trending in the positive direction. The coach is as obsessed with getting the most out of his players as any coach in the country. It will be a fun group to continue to study.
September is here and individuals and fall recruiting are right around the corner.
October is the start of practice.
November is game time.
I can't wait.


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SEATTLE — TOMO News has given an animated spin to the announcement that undercover police will be dressed as 49ers fans at Sunday's game in an effort to keep boisterous football fans from brawling with each other.
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This animated video is ridiculous. All that is shown is excessive use of violence between the hawks and niner "fans" and the undercover cops macing, arresting, beating, etc. When it looks like its "needed" and isn't. Complete with a guy pretending to shoot himself in the head. Are you kidding me?? Get freaking real. I get that this is animated but it could have been produced in a more respectable manner.
SPD escalating conflicts, making bad things worse, making movie-esque violence from bar-room confrontation, no, sounds pretty much like standard procedure.
TOMO news??
Just think the cops can dress up like a 49er fan start a fight by accosting or may be pushing a Seahawks fan around then when the Seahawks fan defends himself he gets arrested and taken to jail… I just think that SPD will be the aggressors here.
Kevin H
I cannot believe that Q13 News would post this! By posting this, you're condoning the violence and portraying Seattle Seahawk fans as abusive. Shame on you Q13 for your poor choice in stories to post on your news site.
See how the fans are visioned as de-evolutionary pigs while the players are presented as super human heroes and these fans sing along in good cheer and play the part. I don't believe this industrial machine has only inflicted brain damaged the players alone.
As if the SPD doesn't have enough to do. So you pay ALL that money to come to a Seahawks game while the local pigs troll their own fans. I'm sure we will have no abuse here.. yeah right. Enjoy the free games on the tax payers dime.


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LETTERS From J. Gibbons, Ryde:
I WRITE to draw readers' attention to an extraordinary tipping point in the UK economy which has passed almost unnoticed.
The Office of National Statistics has stated that more than half (52 per cent) of all UK households received more in total benefits than they paid in total tax in the year to April 5, 2012.
What has received no attention at all is that what applies to households may also apply to voters, or may do so soon if the trend continues.
So we may have a situation where most voters have an incentive to increase taxation on workers to give more benefits to the non-working, and that a party which tried to bring back fairness (sanity is the word that first came to mind) would be voted out. This situation is partly due to demographics, e.g. people living longer. Partly it is due to government not tieing levels of benefit (inversely) to levels of unemployment.
It seems clear that a country which has 90 per cent of the population working and ten per cent not working can afford one level of benefits while a country which has ten per cent working and 90 per cent not working can not afford anything like the same level.
I fear we are in for interesting times.
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Saudi Arabia moves ahead with Riyadh metro plans
July 29, 2013 12:38 by kippreport
The Saudi Arabian government awarded $22.5 billion in contracts to three foreign-led consortia on Sunday for the design and construction of the first metro rail system in the capital city of Riyadh, according to Reuters.
The project, which will involve six rail lines, extending 176 kilometres, and carrying electric, driverless trains, is the world's largest public transport system currently under development, according to Saudi officials.
The design work will start immediately and construction will begin in the first quarter of 2014, the government said. The project would be completed in 2019.
The project "will be a major driver of employment and economic development," says Ibrahim Bin Muhammad Al Sultan, head of the government body overseeing the project. "It will also help to reduce traffic congestion and improve air quality."
The U.S. construction giant, Bechtel Corp, heads a group that won a $9.45bn contract to build two lines, the government announced. Its partners include Germany's Siemens Aktiengesellschaft and the U.S.-based, AECOM.
A consortium led by Spain's Fomento de Construcciones y Contratas, including France's Alstom Transport and South Korea's Samsung C&T Corp, won a $7.82bn contract for three lines.
Italy's Ansaldo STS headed a group that won a $5.21bn order. Its partners include the Canadian firm, Bombardier and India's Larsen & Toubro.
Last August, the government approved a $16.5bn plan to modernise the transport system in the holy city of Mecca, as well as creating a bus network and a metro system.
It is also building several other rail systems, including a 2,750-kilometre line running from Riyadh to near the northern border with Jordan.
Saudi officials said that Riyadh's population was projected to grow from 6 million to more than 8 million in the next 10 years, making the metro vital to ease congestion and pollution in the capital's streets.
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Trek 11: Comparisons with the Lord of the Rings
A lot of concerns I've read about the new movie remind me of my thinking about the Lord Of The Rings movies when they came out.
I was disappointed with the first movie of the LOTR trilogy because it departed in obvious ways from the book. I could accept that a book doesn't necessarily translate into a good movie without changes, but there seemed to be needless changes in what Jackson turned out.
However, at about the time of the release of the second movie I saw the first movie again on DVD and I listened to Peter Jackson's commentary, in which he explained why some of these departures from Tolkein's work had been done. I still don't think he needed to change as much as he did, but I could see his point in a number of instances. I still felt he was too keen on shock, horror and monsters (as his other movies bear out), and I didn't agree with his determination to have long action scenes to keep teen boys entertained, but he did tighten up the pace of the story quite a bit from the book, and did remain largely faithful to the book and its themes and its descriptions of the world of Middle-earth, and overall I decided he did a better job of the movie than I had originally given him credit for.
So how does all this relate to the new Trek movie?
I see some parallels. We have an existing concept and canon that is well known and very loved by its fans; a movie-maker who is attempting to translate this to the screen while introducing changes that will be true to the original while still being fresh and modern; a lot of people who are concerned that he will make a pig's breakfast of the canon or the style, props, uniforms or general appearance of things; and a general concern that he may not turn out a movie that is 'Right'; that is, True to Star Trek.
One result of Jackson's LOTR was a division among the fans; some people were displeased with the movies because of how they differed from the books and how Jackson went about telling the story; others, many of whom had no previous commitment to the Tolkein's books, accepted the movies as stand alone stories and loved them, not least because of the afore mentioned shock, horror, monsters and action scenes.
We may see a similar result with Abram's Trek; I expect that many among the existing Trek fans will hate the movie or at least find many faults, but a whole new group of fans (brought into the cinema by intensive publicity while having no previous interest in Star Trek), may love the new movie as it is, and won't care about how this Star Trek relates to the old anymore than most of us care how Christopher Reeve's Superman differs from that of George Reeves, or even Kirk Alyn.
I reckon Paramount is banking on the new fans to refloat the franchise and be a whole new generation of Trek fans, much larger in number, to fill their coffers.
What kind of Trek Abrams produces is yet to be seen and he's giving few clues; reports say that he is aiming to be true to Roddenberry's 'vision' of Star Trek, but whether this means just a general sense of optimism about the future, or if it means embracing Roddenberry's well-documented atheistic humanism and the belief of the upward perfecting of humankind with no religion except Self, is yet to be seen.
Jackson's Lord of the Rings, despite his changes or because of them, was a definite winner for New Line Cinema and it breathed new life into Tolkein's Middle-earth. I think it's safe to say that, whatever changes Abrams is introducing into Star Trek, Paramount is counting on this movie being a similar winner for them.
Uhura - "And here I thought you were just some dumb hick who only had sex with farm animals."
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Good Post! I agree with much of what you outlined here.
Heres the deal.....movie making is an industry like any other and it is about making money period.
It is like flipping a house, you have a budget, you have a cast of players(contractors) and you have your projected profit margin. If all goes according to plan and you make good money, then you buy another house and flip it again. If you lose money then you look at other business opportunities. This is comparable to many industries.
Make no mistake it is Abrams job to flip this house and make a huge profit period. Now he is a hugely creative guy as are his people, but make no mistake he is going to pull out every stop to make this a success. I'm sure he cares on a personal pride level about Star Trek and crafting a fine film and the like.
It is easier to look at who he is not making this movie for:
He is not making it for the die hard fans specifically but he knows he needs to draw them in and will say whatever they want to hear to achieve that. He knows that if the story is
pure canon that the masses will not understand. Frankly I think appeasing everyone is impossible and he knows this.
He is not making this movie out of his pure love for Trek although he does enjoy Trek and now that hes onboard will do all he can to have it be successful because thats his JOB.
The execs at Paramount are bottom line thinkers and are only interested in the maximum numbers and profitability period. They could give a rats *** about Trek if it makes little or no money.They would drop it like a brick and never look back. They understand that they have to get more than just the fans to drink the koolaid and JJ abrams is a hot commodity at producing these results.
JJ also know this is big career risk so he absolutely wants a blowout success again in his quiver.
Remember the Emerich/Devlin team and them being touted as the next big thing with movies like Universal Soldier,Stargate,Independence day and how it seemed everything they touched turned to gold. Then they took the big risk with remaking Godzilla. Well
that turned out to be a nail in the coffin for them didn't it.
If Directors,writers,producers etc. lose the ability to make the money for studio they will
not be working. JJ knows this and is going to target the largest possible audience with this film.
None of this means the film will not be great as I think it will be but the diehards need a
bit of and open mind and not be putting every little thing under a microscope, because in so doin I can almost guarantee you will be disapointed.
If it was Peter Jackson rebooting this, then I could imagine STXI to be more like LOTR.
Here's my $.02 - this sort of controversy erupts anytime a much beloved work of fiction is interpreted by a creative team other than the author or team that originated it. Consider:
- Who's the better Bond - Connery or Craig?
- Was there any better team to author the Fantastic Four than Stan Lee and Jack Kirby?
- Did the X-Men (or Spiderman, or Incredible Hulk, or Batman) movie adaptations "sell out" the comic?
Then, there are some works that are just too iconic to "re-boot". Thank God we have never seen updated screen versions of "Casablanca", "Gone With the Wind" or "The Maltese Falcon".
Having been a Trekfan long enough to have participated in the first letter-writing campaign to save "Star Trek", I was of two minds when I heard the news about the new movie - "Fantastic!" and "Dear God no!". A lot of the early comments by those involved on the creative team did little to allay my fears - anyone remember "This is not your daddy's Star Trek"?
Trekmovie.com did an interview with the creative folks and cast last week. Taking their comments in the context of what little we know about the plot of the film, I'm feeling a little more comfortable with how things seem to be shaping up. My interpretation of their comments leads me to conclude that Abrams and Co. are:
a)seriously interested in preserving the core of TOS, namely Roddenberry's vision of human potential, the elements of the characters and their relationships, the essentials of design;
b) updating what they view as the "supporting details" i.e. the look of the Entrprise, costumes, props, where the Enterprise was built, etc. This is where "purists" like myself feel the new film might be treading on thin ice. I feel it is a calculated effort on the part of Abrams and Co. to expand the appeal of ST to a wider audience who might be turned off because they believe their cell phone is more advanced than Kirk's communicator; and,
c) acheiving all this while respecting the millions of fans that have come to love ST and its visions of the future over the years.
Perhaps the storyline will include some explanation for the different "look and feel" between TOS and the film. After all, we will see Spock teamed with a younger version of himself but on an Enterprise that looks decidedly different from the one on which he served. I cannot imagine that he would not be curious enough about the changes to explore them and offer a plausible reason for the difference. At last, that is my sincere hope.
But if the history of these kinds of adaptations shows anything it is that if they are successful, the source of their inspiration will also grow in popularity: how many people were moved to read Tolkein's trilogy after seeing Jackson's adapation? I have nephews who, once they found out Spiderman was a comic before being a movie, demanded more, more, more. So to, hopefully, with Star Trek.
great, yea im a new trekker, and I first got hooked on the animated series becuase my parents had a vhs tape of it. And the movie should be such a block buster it might promote new fans to search out the old show and watch it. So I agree whole heartedly
Damn it Jim, I'm a cleric, not a warrior
Having loved LOTR since high school, way back in 1975, I was very wary of the movies....but when I walked out of the first movie with my oh, so patient husband who utterly hates all such things....I said "I know what I want for Christmas in a few years: the complete set of Lord of the Rings DVDs"....I was BLOWN AWAY by Peter Jackson's wonderful work...
so...if this movie is a comparable experience then it's going to be amazing.
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I imagine it will be like the wrath of khan compared to the motion picture.but LOTR no,apples and oranges
It's not a matter of who's better, or what ship looks the coolest.
It's about the MESSAGE of Trek. Even if Trek was done by Muppets, if the MESSAGE is there...that's what really matters.
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Very cool news that a group of independent filmmakers (with programming skills) have developed a firmware update to the Canon 5D Mark II digital SLR. According to the team:
The software in video mode has limitations, even after the recent 1.1.0 upgrade from Canon that fixed the most glaring manual exposure "bug".
That's where Magic Lantern comes in -- it turns your 5D Mark II into a 5D Mark Free. We've written extensions and widgets that fix many of the annoyances in working with the 5D Mark II on a film or video set. Our first set of fixes are targeted at the audio limitations of the camera, but there are some video enhancements included, too:
* On-screen audio meters
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* Zebra stripes (video peaking)
* Crop marks for 16:9, 2.35:1 and 4:3
They've released the Magic Lantern firmware under the GPL and are seeking donations, programmers with ARM assembly or embedded systems skills, and folks who don't mind risking their expensive 5D Mark II cameras.
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Reading the 5D-II forum, the response has been quite positive. I'm not a lawyer, but the EULA seems to have terms and conditions that restrict the work done by the Magic Lantern team. This begs the question, what should Canon do about, or as a result of, Magic Lantern?


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Rangers lose to lowly Oilers in 6,000th game in franchise history
The Rangers did not want to celebrate the 6,000th regular season game in franchise history this way.
The team dropped a 2-1 decision to the Western Conferece-worst Oilers in a match Thursday night at the Garden.
"We just weren't as sharp [as needed]," Brad Richards said. "We have to do a better job."
Even though the Rangers finished with advantages in shots on goal (36-31) and attempted shots (65-51), most came off the rush and were relatively easy stops for Ben Scrivens (35 saves).
"He was good," Marc Staal said. "We didn't have a lot of secondary chances, missed some good shots. I think you [have] to get in front of a guy like that. He's playing well and I don't think we had enough traffic, causing rebounds and scrambles. He played [well] but I don't think we did enough consistently to score more [than one goal]."
While Scrivens was putting on a show, Cam Talbot attempted to match the Edmonton netminder save for save.
As good as Talbot and Scrivens were, neither were impregnable. Ryan Smyth gave the Oilers a 1-0 lead 2:56 into the first period with his eighth of the season. Edmonton's lead lasted until Derick Brassard scored 22 seconds into the second period.
The game remained tied after Brassard's goal until Nail Yakupov ripped a slapshot from the slot with 1:38 left in regulation.
On the play to set up Yakupov's game-winner, the Oilers forecheck would not allow the Rangers to leave the defensive zone and Sam Gagner found the 2012 first-overall pick with a no-look pass from along the goal line for the one-timer.
"The winning goal was five guys on the ice getting beat to loose pucks and [the Oilers] protecting the puck and finding an open man all alone in the slot," head coach Alain Vigneault said. "We were trying to block the shot and it goes off our stick and in. There were five puck battles and we lost them and it ends up in the back of our net."
There is no time for the loss to marinate as the Rangers meet the Eastern Confernce-leading Penguins Friday night in Pittsburgh for their last game before the two-week Olympic break. The Rangers will send seven players to Sochi: Rick Nash (Canada), Carl Hagelin and Henrik Lundqvist (Sweden), Mats Zuccarello (Norway) and Ryan Callahan, Ryan McDonagh and Derek Stepan (United States).
"It's a big game," Staal said of the game in Pittsburgh. "They are a good team and we have to move by this and learn from it. We have to be better and try to get a win."
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AUSTIN, Minn. (KTTC) -- One year after a fatal car accident claimed the lives of two young men, the driver of the vehicle is being charged.
Jason Fredrickson, 44, of rural Elkton, is facing multiple counts of criminal vehicular homicide. According to the complaint, Fredrickson was driving 120 miles an hour under the influence of alcohol at the time of the crash.
According to the criminal complaint, Fredrickson's blood alcohol content was more than point-one-two at the time of the crash.
Fredrickson was drinking on Feb. 25 last year with Jacob Moe, Luke Unverzagt and their wives at a bar.
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Luke Unverzagt was found ejected from the vehicle and pronounced dead at the scene.
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A state patrol accident reconstruction concluded he was going 120 miles an hour before the car went airborne and went through two poles and a tree.
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'Cloud Atlas' Movie Review
In recent years originality has taken more of a back seat in mainstream cinema, I mean yes there have been numerous films that have continued to push the boundaries of certain genres, but you rarely see a film these days that is different and brave enough to bring something new to the big screen. So is 'Cloud Atlas' that film or is it just another big budget mess that's trying to hard to be something different?
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What Tampa Bay Fans Are Saying About Gerald McCoy
Generally speaking... on the scale of brute power vs. greasy speed, McCoy falls squarely on the side of speed. That's not to say McCoy can't get pressure through a power move/bull rush. He can. What he does is explode off the line and get on the outside shoulder of his blocker and get into the pocket quickly. He probably boasts the quickest first step out of any interior defensive lineman in this draft and possibly in the past 3 or 4 years. As we all know, quick, pocket-collapsing DT's are a premium in the Tampa 2, so, at first glance, McCoy's speed through a single gap would put alot of pressure on opposing guards in one-on-one matchups and would likely draw help from an offensive linemate, freeing up a lane for the quick Geno Hayes to blast into the backfield. That simple chain of events would likely cause the opposition to keep a running back in the backfield to chip the linebacker, taking another receiving threat out of the play. That's the ripple effect that an impact defensive lineman can create.


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Florida State had a light practice yesterday and as is customary on Mondays, Fisher wasn't available to talk as he addressed things earlier in the day via his press conference. To see what the 'Noles' coach had to say, see my comments in this post.
I'll say it again, but your heart goes out to Jacobbi McDaniel. He was playing very well and had earned the starting job before dislocating and breaking his ankle. I will note that while I don't anticipate him needing to sit out 2012, he does have a red-shirt option available for that year. McDaniel has played through a lot of injuries during his time at FSU and he was badly misused by the previous coaching staff because FSU had no depth.
Speaking of depth, here is the only FSU depth chart that also shows the players lost for the season.
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Florida Gators suddenly running on empty - UF - MiamiHerald.com
The rumors of Ronald Powell considering a transfer abound.
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Takes a look back at Virginia's huge upset win over the Yellow Jackets from the perspective of fan in the crowd. Virginia ran like crazy on the Jackets. That won't happen against FSU.
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A great note on Mickey Andrews and the defense that worked for him for many years. So well, in fact, that teams really started changing up their offenses. The Eagles are determined to play this defense this season, and it works better in the professional ranks because teams aren't going to run any spread option.
I can't believe that this is as new as people are making it out to be. I remember being at a Florida State practice in the 1990s and seeing Mickey Andrews telling his guys to use a technique on passing downs that looked a lot like the "wide nine." Except he didn't call it the "wide nine" or anything else fancy. He simply told his guys to take as much room as they needed and to "kick ass."
Further, it's not going to happen in the pros, but if anyone tried this at the lower levels you'd see coaches immediately going to plays that option off of this single minded defender, be it the veer, the speed option, the shovel option, or even the inverted veer. All that "track stance" stuff wouldn't do him much good, and his wide alignment would mean the other blockers would be up on the rest of the defense.
Grantland Blog: The 49ers and the 'Wham' Play | Smart Football
On Gore's first big run, with just a few seconds left in the first quarter, the 49ers lined up in a "trey" set with a wide receiver to each side and a tight end and wing or "H-back," Delanie Walker, each lined up to the right. The goal of the "wham" blocked run play was to leave Suh unblocked. As shown below, Walker's job was to perform the "wham" block on Suh as he crashed upfield — a surprisingly simple block because Suh would be so focused on getting in the backfield that he wouldn't see it coming. This freed up the other linemen to block Detroit's linebackers, which they did.
Reorientation: Jacory Harris finds his mojo (Miami's mileage may vary) - Dr. Saturday
Jacory Harris is a different QB. Miami has a very good offensive line, arguably the best back in the country, and they are using them. As such Harris is throwing less, but throwing much more efficiently. In fact, Harris has been the best QB in the conference. And it's not close. Credit their new staff for evaluating the pieces on hand and deploying them in the best possible way. We laughed when they said Harris had outplayed Morris and when healthy would be the starter. And we were wrong. If only Jacory could figure out a way to stop the continued bleeding from the poor recruiting. This will still be Miami's best year for a long while.


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NASHVILLE (BP) -- Three times more Protestant pastors plan to vote for Mitt Romney over Barack Obama in the upcoming presidential election, and Romney's Mormon beliefs are a factor for only a small number of pastors, according to a new survey.
The survey conducted by LifeWay Research Sept. 26-Oct. 3 found that 57 percent of Protestant pastors plan to vote for Romney compared with 17 percent for Obama. Twenty-two percent are still undecided.
The breakdown is similar to what it was in 2008 when John McCain challenged Obama for the presidency. A survey conducted by LifeWay Research in October 2008 found that 55 percent of Protestant pastors planned to vote for McCain compared with 20 percent for Obama and 22 percent undecided.
The survey also found that Romney's Mormon background has had little to no influence on pastors' voting intentions. A majority of pastors (82 percent) who plan to vote for someone other than Romney say their decision was not at all related to his Mormon faith. And 60 percent of undecided pastors say their hesitation has not at all been influenced by Romney's faith.
"The historical significance of the first Mormon candidate nominated for president does not appear to alter pastors' political positions," said Scott McConnell, director of LifeWay Research.
A 2011 LifeWay Research survey revealed most pastors, some 75 percent, do not consider Mormons to be Christians.
"If agreement on matters of faith was a necessity for pastors' voting decisions, Romney would have little support from pastors," McConnell concluded. "In fact, Romney's Mormon faith has led very few pastors to select a different candidate or remain undecided."
The strongest indicator of voting intentions among pastors is their political party preference. Fifty-two percent of Protestant pastors identify as Republican, 16 percent as Democrat and 23 percent Independent.
Eighty-two percent of pastors who identify as Republican plan to vote for Romney, while 80 percent of pastors who consider themselves Democrat plan to vote for Obama. Forty-seven percent of pastors who are Independent plan to vote for Romney.
"Another strong indicator of voting intentions is whether the pastor self-identifies as mainline or evangelical," McConnell said. "Self-identified evangelical pastors are predominantly planning to support Romney."
Sixty-six percent of pastors who are self-identified evangelicals plan to vote for Romney while 9 percent are for Obama and 22 percent are undecided.
Forty-four percent of mainline pastors plan to vote for Romney. Twenty-eight percent support Obama, and 25 percent are undecided. The Republican candidate, however, has gained support from mainline pastors since the last election. In the 2008 election, only 36 percent of mainline pastors planned to vote for McCain. Thirty-seven percent supported Obama, and 24 percent were undecided.
Voting intentions also had regional differences. Pastors in the Northeast (28 percent) are more likely to vote for Obama compared to those in the South (14 percent) and West (15 percent).
Pastors in the South (60 percent) are more likely to vote for Mitt Romney compared to those in the Northeast (50 percent).
In 2008, it was younger voters who flocked to the polls to cast their ballot for Obama. But young pastors are actually less likely to support him. This year, 14 percent of pastors age 18-44 support Obama, compared to 21 percent of those age 55-64 and 23 percent of those 65 and older who back the president. Twenty-six percent of pastors age 18-44 are still undecided.
"It's clear pastors are not selecting a spiritual leader for the United States when they vote for president," McConnell said. "They are selecting the leader of the executive branch of government. The study shows a significant majority of pastors prefer the direction, policies and values of Mitt Romney."
The survey included telephone interviews with pastors at 1,000 Protestant churches.
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When your son starts to use the fireplace poker as a lightsaber you know it's probably time to childproof the fireplace.
A fireplace is an enjoyable part of any home, but it can pose a number of dangers to a baby or small child. The heat from the fire and surrounding surfaces can cause burns, and the sharp edges of the hearth or fireplace tools can cause further injury, so you need a way to prevent your children from accessing the fireplace. Childproofing it eliminates these dangers while still allowing your family to enjoy the space.
- Store matches, lighters or gas ignition keys in a secure location out of the reach of children. A childproof container that you keep on the mantel would work. You can also keep them in a locked drawer in a separate room
- Lay a foam hearth cushion over the brick or stone fireplace hearth. This protects children from the sharp edges of the hearth stones and from the impact of falling.
- Surround the fireplace area, including the hearth, with a fireplace gate. These gates keep children and pets away from the fireplace and hearth. They come in a variety of colors, so you can match them to your decor.
- Store fireplace tools, such as stoker and ash pans, inside the gated area so that children cannot pull them down on top of themselves.


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Schools, hospitals, courthouses and all kinds of commercial businesses -- Kingham Construction has been buildling East Texas for decades. Wednesday, funeral services were held for the company's patriarch.
J.E. Kingham passed away on Sunday at the age of 88. Kingham served as chairman of the board of the J.E. Kingham Construction Company.
He set the stage for four sons to work in the company, first learning the ropes as laborers when they were teenagers. Today they're in administrative levels.
Kingham, a veteran of World War II, was widely known as a quality builder around East Texas.
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