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The show, which is a salute to "Sin City", will feature the classic Las Vegas sounds of Frank Sinatra, Barry Manilow, and Elvis Presley.
It will also feature the sounds of current Vegas headliners like Celine Dion, Elton John, and Shania Twain.
There are various other acts in the show besides music, and it will all feature local talent of all ages from the city of Bluefield and other neighboring areas.
The show will premiere February 15-17, and February 22-24. For more information on tickets and show times, you can call the Summit Players Theatre Box Office at 304-325-8000.


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Rolando McClain has officially signed a one-year deal worth $1.1 million with the Baltimore Ravens after passing a physical, according to an official release from the team. The base salary is worth $700,000, with another $400,000 possible with playing time incentives.
McClain, 23, is looking for a second chance in his professional career. He was selected with the 8th overall pick in 2010 by the Raiders, but struggled to produce in Oakland amidst coaching changes and front office departures.
"It's a move that can't go wrong and I'm looking forward to playing in Baltimore as the Ravens run the same or very similar defense as I was a part of at the University of Alabama," McClain said.
He will get that second chance in Baltimore. The Ravens are one of the best teams in the NFL at developing linebackers, and there is no denying McClain has the natural ability to be a quality player at this level. He is expected to compete with Josh Bynes and Albert McClellan for playing time in training camp.
In 2011, it seemed McClain was on his way to breaking out. He appeared in 15 games, recording 77 tackles and five sacks. A concussion kept him out of a handful of games this past season, as did a two-game suspension for conduct detrimental to the team.
As the Raiders head in a new direction as a franchise under general manager Reggie McKenzie, they felt McClain would be best served suiting up for another team.
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"The Race is a firm believer that the MVP and Coach of the Year awards, with rare exceptions, should go to men on different teams (having the MVP makes a coach's job a little easier, right?). So far, we like Gregg Popovich for COY, so this is more of a "best player on best team" vote. The Spurs really are the MVT."


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Typically, the only sound that physically levitates objects is the scream from your vocal cords beating against the screen when that thin-extrude doesn't work. Perhaps there's another way to use soundwaves to manipulate geometry? Scientists at Argonne National Laboratory (ANL) are successfully using an acoustic levitator to develop pharmaceuticals. Using the device originally developed by NASA to simulate microgravity conditions, the team is suspending individual droplets of solutions to ensure it stays in an amorphous state. How could this be applied to CAD?
Acoustic Levitator
What if you could locate physical bits of liquid matter exactly where it needed to go in order to form a larger object, completely controlling what could and could not solidify? Too crazy? In developing the drugs, the ANL scientist found that some of the solutions were solidifying in their containers, so…
In order to avoid this problem, Benmore needed to find a way to evaporate a solution without it touching anything. Because liquids conform to the shape of their containers, this was a nearly impossible requirement — so difficult, in fact, that Benmore had to turn to an acoustic levitator, a piece of equipment originally developed for NASA to simulate microgravity conditions.
Levitating the samples allows them the solution from crystallizing. How does it work?
At certain points along a standing wave, known as nodes, there is no net transfer of energy at all. Because the acoustic pressure from the sound waves is sufficient to cancel the effect of gravity, light objects are able to levitate when placed at the nodes.
Wielding a device that positions amorphous matter isn't to far of a stretch. 3D printers apply similar principles, albeit without floating the extruded plastic across soundwaves… OK, maybe it's a bit of a stretch to apply the idea of suspending beads of liquid with the reverberations from your 'Master and Commander' soundtrack. More than likely though, this could be used in the development of new materials.
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CSci551 Computer Communications, Spring 2013
The subject of this course is computer communication protocols. The emphasis is on conceptual issues in the design and implementation of computer internetworks.
Class Meeting Time: 10:00am - 11:20am MW
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Cook Time: 1 hour
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1 1/4 cups all-purpose flour
1/2 teaspoon salt
2 tablespoon butter, cut into small pieces
2 tablespoons canola oil
2 – 3 tablespoons cold water
2 teaspoons canola oil
16 asparagus spears, trimmed to 4-inch lengths
1/4 teaspoon salt
1 cup reduced-fat shredded Jarlsberg or Swiss cheese
3 large eggs
3/4 cup low-fat (2%) milk
Pinch ground nutmeg
To make the crust, combine the flour and salt in a food processor; pulse until blended. Add the butter and oil and pulse until coarse crumbs form. Add the water through the feed tube, 1 tablespoon at a time, and pulse until a soft dough forms. Flatten the dough into a disk; wrap in plastic wrap and refrigerate at least 1 hour.
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Line the pie crust with foil or parchment paper; fill with pie weights or dried beans. Bake 15 minutes; remove the foil and weights. Return the crust to oven and bake until dough is lightly browned, 5 – 10 minutes longer. Cool the crust on a rack 10 minutes. Reduce the oven temperature to 350°F.
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ALEXANDRIA, La. (KALB News Channel 5) The Hope House and the Alexandria Mall Chic Fil A are teaming up to provide school supplies to children in need.
Customers receive a free chicken sandwich when they donate at least five dollars worth of school supplies.
The Hope House currently houses 20 homeless boys and girls from the area.
Hope House leaders say the school supply drive helps their kids start the year on the right track.
"We just really want to thank the public for participating and coming out and supporting us and supporting these children because so many of them come to us and they don't have things that they need to start school. And this gives them the support that they need to go and strive to do well in school," said Shafer.
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For even the most fiscally savvy, managing your finances can still be a headache.
Many students who graduate from high school are not prepared for all the financial pressures of their new-found adulthood.
So, Holmen High School in Wisconsin is requiring the class of 2013 to take a personal finance class to graduate.
The syllabus includes learning about credit scores and managing your debt.
Students also use a computer simulation where they practice budgeting and making major purchases.
For today's "Feedback at 5:00," we asked what you thought of the requirement.


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Other tools and approaches
Sustainable procurement is about far more than buying 'green' products: it embraces wider demand management, and contract management and also supply chain impacts. It's also about ensuring energy and resource efficiency as well as long term cost effectiveness .GBS are important tools in the box: but not the only ones.
A wide range of sustainable procurement training and guidance is available through the National Sustainable Procurement Programme.
We also support and encourage:
- EU Green Public Procurement programme (GPP)
Guidance and tools developed by the EU including the GPP standards for sustainable procurement. Read more…
- The Flexible Framework
This tool (xls download) and guidance (pdf) is a widely used self-assessment package which allows organisations to measure and monitor their progress against sustainable procurement. The package describes the activities that organisations may need to undertake and organisations to record their progress against the Flexible Framework's performance levels.
- Learning from the Olympics: sustainable construction procurement
The Government has published London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games – The Legacy: Sustainable Procurement for Construction Projects. You can read more about it in our SD Scene article.
- Treasury 'Green Book' guidance, including evaluation of environmental impacts.
Green Book available to download (pdf)
- Best practice case studies published in 2011 by the formere Centre of Expertise in Sustaianable Procurment.
Case studies available to download from National Archives
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- A scoping study on sustainable procurement tools and databases (pdf) that documents the wide range of procurement tools available, including a library (xls download) that catalogues and describes the function of the tools.
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How disappointing is this June call-up season? So bad, we are left waiting for the has-beens like Roy Oswalt, Manny Ramirez and Vladimir Guerrero.
Now that we are entering June, sometimes it is easy to allow the early season to continue to affect our opinions on players. For instance, we still might not think much of the likes of closers Heath Bell, Joel Hanrahan or Alfredo Aceves.
To win your fantasy baseball league, you don't want to merely draft with the rest of the crowd and cross your fingers, hoping your number has come up this year. You can do that -- slotting players by their past season's numbers or three-year averages -- but it just doesn't seem like a reliable way to win.
Chances are, there are some people in your life who spend a whole lot of their free time fiddling on the computer, tinkering with their phones in public settings, and yelling at the television when players perform poorly for professional sports teams that they supposedly hate.
This might still go down as Aaron Rodgers' year -- despite his mediocre performance on the road in Kansas City -- but Drew Brees' fantasy owners have to be elated their man is keeping pace. Heck, it could have been their man knocking out Rodgers' teams head-to-head in Week 15.
You want to know why it is so darn tough to win fantasy football titles: The sure things never are. And sometimes the lost ones wind up becoming your leaders.
If you have followed this space this season, you might recall the stubbornness with the prediction running backs would pay us back. It hasn't really happened to the extent we thought, but they sure did come through this week.
This is the make-or-break week. While some leagues are starting their playoffs, the vast majority are in that last week. Some teams are in, some out, but it's the ones on the edge that are on edge around the office. Trash talk has gone quiet. There's some that are like the Texans or Bears, hanging on, hoping to build around the injuries that have foiled their best-laid plans. Some are like the Bills, falling apart piece-by-piece and just hoping to back into the playoffs. Some are like the Dolphins, finding themselves in the second half and hoping they can sneak in past that guy whose team is falling apart. There are a lot of ways fantasy football is nothing like the real thing, but watching team owners chew down Pepcid is a reminder that it's very, very real if you're as passionate as most owners. Let's get to the Week 13 injuries:
The NFL needs to thank fantasy football. After a pretty entertaining Thanksgiving Day slate, the early Sunday schedule featured nothing interesting, unless you're watching players instead of the teams and bad matchups. Scrolling stats and fantasy scores keep us all riveted on thrillers like the Panthers-Colts, Bengals-Browns, Cardinals-Rams, Titans-Bucs, Texans-Jags, Jets-Bills and Falcons-Vikings. Fantasy owners don't know how meaningless these games were, they just know they need to squeeze a couple more victories out before the fantasy postseason. To fantasy owners, this week was more important than any one prior. It is fantasy crunch time. We break down each game every week from a fantasy perspective in the Fantasy Football Fast Forward:
Adrian Peterson's loss to an ankle injury hurts, but we might have found a new fantasy running back to go to in Kevin Smith. In street clothes just a few weeks ago, now Smith is in a Lions' uniform and his big game Sunday will get him in numerous fantasy lineups on Thanksgiving Day. Smith broke out in a barnburner against the Panthers with 140 yards rushing, 61 yards receiving and three touchdowns. That is the kind of production Jahvid Best owners have longed for while the former Lions starter has been dealing with post-concussion syndrome. The Lions and fantasy owners have to be wondering where Smith has been hiding. The secret is out now. Smith's problem will be a problem familiar to the Lions and five other teams this week: How do they bounce back in just a few days to play on Thanksgiving Day. Oh, Smith also gets the unbeaten defending champs that have a swarming run defense. That surely will present more of a challenge than the suspect Panthers run defense did. We will go into
Two men exit, one man enter: Michael Vick and DeSean Jackson have reached the maximum frustration level for fantasy owners -- the Eagles are a joke right now -- but at least we get Chris Johnson back to being a factor. You just never can know for sure how things are going unfold week to week.
This story is about how to know when to give up on a man, and when to stick with him.
FOXBORO, Mass. -- No one is going to confuse Eli Manning with Tom Brady, particularly us number-crunchers in fantasy circles. Manning just doesn't do it pretty and he doesn't do it all game, or all season.
Chris Johnson became the highest-paid running back in the NFL this season when he finally ended his holdout. He might be becoming the highest-paid backup running back.
We saw in four-plus quarters the Tim Tebow critics and avid supporters have their say. Tebow was mostly inept until very late, and his critics were readying their "I told you so's."
In this pass-happy NFL, it was a breath of fresh air -- fantasy relief? -- to see a revival of running backs. It has been long overdue.
Here is a buried aspect of the bye-week season: It makes jumping on the previous week's surprises a bit more tricky. You really have to be sure that one-week wonder isn't merely that and is capable of more big weeks going forward.
Usually we don't care about watching Lions games unless it is noon on Thanksgiving. Now, watching Lions games is must-see entertainment every week. Go figure.
Going into the weekend, it was said here it would be a telling week for running backs and rookie Cam Newton. Newton showed flashes of his burgeoning star, running backs rallied, but this writer's bust of the year, Jamaal Charles, looks done.
Week 1 is like Forrest Gump's box of chocolates: You never know what you're going to get.
EAST GREENBUSH, N.Y. -- My fourth and final week on the camp trail started in Houston (interesting Mario Williams stuff) and Dallas (Jerry Jones tried to sell me a very large stadium), continued with the transplanted Saints (that's a good-looking team) in California, veered south to the endless sauna that is Phoenix (Larry Fitzgerald is one happy Kolb fan), then red-eyed East into the path of Hurricane Irene, thus ending my month driving/flying to check out the post-lockout NFL. Stats of note about the journey:
While fantasy owners hold their breath amid the Revis-like holdout of Chris Johnson and the inactivity of Peyton Manning (neck surgery), we move on like NFL coaches do: Focusing on the players we have to work with right now.
The waivers trading deadline doesn't get the same pub of the July 31 one, but it is still giving us some juicy deals that impact fantasy leagues. Hall of Famers are switching teams and pair of struggling second baseman in their prime get swapped for each other.
This is kind of a grab bag of a health report as we get down to those late-round positions. The orthodoxy has been challenged a bit on the "last rounds" for K and DST, with some elite defenses calling for the "round early" strategy. It's tougher for TEs, where positional scarcity and a variance in style, both schematically and physically, makes an internal comparison more difficult.
It used to be that a QB was almost an afterthought in fantasy leagues. There were enough elite guys to go around that you could pass on the top couple and still give your team a chance.
This trade deadline is the reason you don't overreact to rumors and hearsay in fantasy. Most of it winds up being random noise and nothing to be worry about.
Three is the magic number in baseball. Three strikes, three outs, and now three weeks. That's how long it generally takes to get a decent lay of the fantasy land.
Congratulations! You are now headed to the fantasy football championship game. Some of you aren't, but follow along because you love the sport or have moved on to plain ol' gambling on games. You drafted well. You got a little lucky. You avoided the fantasy pitfalls. You made some great waiver moves. Your team stayed healthy. You made that last minute change that saved you a win. You listened to the right experts and you made up your own mind. It all came together and here you are, headed into Week 16 with a chance to win it all. So don't stop now -- what you've done up to this point has worked. Keep your foot on the gas. Take a look around the league and see what happened today and what will happen next week. Being there is an honor, but you want to win it all. You'll have to do what it takes. It will be on your mind all week, even when you're working -- so pilots and doctors, please be careful with that one, okay?
I must be crazy to be part of 13 real fantasy leagues this fall. That's 13 leagues of last-minute lineup changes in September, 13 leagues of stressful wheeling-and-dealing before the November trade deadlines and 13 leagues of agonizing over RB/WR-flex options during the playoff weeks of December.
Chicago 19, Detroit 14 We could've launched the season premiere of Fantasy Revelations with immmediate takes on Arian Foster, Hakeem Nicks or Chris Johnson; but let's focus on the game -- and play -- that'll be dissected for many years to come. Forget the fact that I'm a Detroit native, or fomer Lions employee (sad but true), or know people from Michigan who would donate a kidney if it called for the Lions winning a Super Bowl. The Calvin Johnson disallowed-touchdown with precious seconds left has now replaced the Tuck Rule Game as the most infamous officiating call of my lifetime (which predates Welcome Back, Kotter). Seriously, how many feet and how many knees did Calvin need on the ground to convince the refs he had scored? How many seconds left the game clock -- from the time Calvin put two hands on the jump ball to his post-catch celebration -- before anyone wearing a striped shirt at Soldier Field realized this score had to count, in the name of pure common sense?
Despite the Vikings' struggles this season, Adrian Peterson has remained a top fantasy back. He's had just three single-digit fantasy games, is the fourth-highest scorer in standard scoring leagues and got owners 12 points on Saturday. Twelve points isn't a great fantasy day, but it was a lot for a player who went out in the second quarter after rolling his ankle. Yes, Peterson is hurt, and it could be serious. Vikings interim coach Leslie Frazier said Peterson has a sprained ankle; further details should come out Wednesday. It's possible Peterson has the dreaded high-ankle sprain, but even a severe regular sprain could keep him out of the lineup this Sunday.
Ever feel like your fantasy football team is like a country song? I was at the Jamey Johnson concert last night and prior to him coming on, the DJ played "All My Rowdy Friends Are Coming Over Tonight." Most of America knows that as the song that was turned into the Monday Night Football song, but it reminded me that football and heartache are linked. It seems every country song is about heartbreak, loss, or missing out on something by just that much. Judging by some of the emails and tweets I get from fantasy owners, those songs might be less about women and more about fantasy football. Maybe if we could just play the song backwards, we'd have Ryan Grant back on the field, Sidney Rice would have never hurt his hip, and Brett Favre would be sitting on his porch in Mississippi. Okay, that last part of the song is the same either way I guess, but like a good country song, you can make something out of your pain in fantasy football. Yeah, my draft day included both Grant and Rice, but
We've adopted a fresh approach to Fantasy Revelations, one that'll focus on stars and hot-button topics. At the same time, there may be a reference or two to Todd Collins or Jimmy Clausen to balance things out.
A year ago I decided to stop saying no when friends asked me to join fantasy leagues. Managing a fantasy football team isn't that much work to begin with, and after doing research adding on an extra team or two didn't sound like a big deal.
Filling in for Jay Clemons is like pinch hitting for Ted Williams. I'll just try to stay within myself, try to help the team. I'm watching the games a bit differently than most, but maybe not. It's a modern media mix of RedZone on the big screen and my iPad for both looking up stats, chatting it up with my pals at Football Outsiders, watching my fantasy points tick, tweeting, and writing this entire column. (The laptop is charging from the weekend trip.) Here are my 10 -- make that 11 -- revelations from Week 4 in the NFL, ranging from stats to hits, from concepts to contact. Just be sure to check back in on Thursday when I get back to writing the Injury Report.
Minnesota 24, Detroit 10 The Vikings have come full-circle from Adrian Peterson's rookie campaign of 2007, when the club treaded water with a pedestrian quarterback, few receiving options and had little hope at the tight end slot. At least that's how things appeared on Sunday, with Brett Favre struggling again, Bernard Berrian (2 catches, 11 yards) and Greg Camarillo foundering, and Visanthe Shiancoe (1 catch, 7 yards) leaving early with an injury. That left everything on the capable shoulders of WR Percy Harvin (75 total yards, 1 TD) and Peterson (190 total yards), who busted loose for big yardage and bigger plays and saved Minnesota from an unfathomable 0-3 hole in the NFC North. The day was especially comforting for fantasy owners who watched Peterson fight a losing battle for sizable gains early on, before breaking the Lions' spirits with a pair of touchdowns -- one from 6 yards, and 80 for the other. Hard to believe the latter was Peterson's career high, not so much that it
Houston 30, Washington 27 (OT) The NFL can play out the rest of the 2010 schedule if it so chooses, but we've already found the Fantasy Event of the Year in the form of the sixth game in NFL history to boast multiple 400-yard passers. On one side, Matt Schaub (497 passing yards, 3 TDs) missed the hallowed 500-yard mark by one completion, but led Houston to perhaps its greatest comeback victory in franchise history. On the other sideline, Donovan McNabb passed for 426 yards and one touchdown, while making short-term stars of a relatively anonymous corps of receivers. For those who regret benching McNabb in Week 2 -- and I'm certainly guilty of that -- feel free to throw D-Mac back into the starting mix for Week 3. The recent concerns about his battered ankle and lack of timing with the 'Skins pass-catchers seem comically far-fetched at this point.
Back in the dark ages of injury updates -- you know, 2008, when I first started doing them here at SI -- it was much harder to get the speed of updates that fantasy players wanted. I'd get the info from one of my sources, write it up, send it in to the editors, and it'd make it up pretty quick. Today, the world moves at Twitter speed, where quick updates happen in milliseconds. It creates a problem as much as it creates an opportunity, with misinformation and worse, misinterpretation, happening at the same speed.
It's Fantasy Clicks tradition to do a mini-Revelations off the Thursday night NFL opener; however, it's not typically standard to make season-long judgments -- good or bad -- from one teeny, tiny game. And yet the verdicts might already be in with one all-world quarterback and one desultory receiver.
By now, you've undoubtedly read a few accounts from fantasy experts imploring you to drop Anquan Boldin from starting lineups this week, as a direct consequence of Darrelle Revis returning to the Jets (isn't it funny how $46 million can inspire someone to work again?). And while this sounds like good advice for the masses, in reality, it conflicts with one of the most unimpeachable rules of fantasy football: Never fear someone who skips training camp.
The glory of Fantasy Football is in the skill positions. The winning can be in what I call the "fantasy grab bag," all the other players, even the ones you don't pick. Don't pick? You look confused, my friend. Yes, fantasy games can be won or lost due to the play of offensive linemen, defensive players (even in IDP leagues), and even the lowly kickers. Aside from the freakish Devin Hester Bears teams, I don't know of any real advantage to any special teams, so we'll ignore them for the most part. The fact is that the guys up front can make or break the production of the skill players. A lineman goes down isn't important? Ask Matt Hasselbeck about that after he lost Walter Jones. A defender breaking down isn't important? Brian Urlacher's absence didn't just hurt the Bears on defense, it put them behind more and put pressure on Jay Cutler. In a fantasy world where information is everywhere and your grandmother understands you don't take Drew Brees in the first round, little advantages
For the sake of tradition, we present the ultimate guide for Points Per Reception leagues. Every section -- minus the salute to Tommy Kramer/Ahmad Rashad -- has one singular focus: To help you dominate your PPR drafts, which should occur after Week 3 of the preseason. But in case you've already scheduled a draft, here's the good word on PPR stars such as Andre Johnson, Brandon Marshall, Jamaal Charles, Reggie Bush, Percy Harvin, Dexter McCluster and the other Steve Smith, to name a few.
Let's start today's Fantasy Clicks with six too-close-to-call debates for draft day. And for the sake of consistency, I'll stick to the realm of standard-scoring leagues:
For those who don't have time to consume every word of the expansive Fantasy Football Preview, we'd like to present the SI.com 5-Minute Guide to Fantasy Football, in five parts. Think of it as a Reader's Digest approach to fantasy domination. And should you have any questions or comments, be sure to follow me on Twitter. Herewith, a quick look at running backs.
For those who don't have time to consume every word of the expansive Fantasy Football Preview, we'd like to present the SI.com 5-Minute Guide to Fantasy Football, in five parts. Think of it as a Reader's Digest approach to fantasy domination. And should you have any questions or comments, be sure to follow me on Twitter. Herewith, a quick glance at quarterbacks.
"No one ever got fired for buying IBM."
I'm thrilled to be back at SI Fantasy this year to give you all the information you'll need to make the best decisions for your fantasy football team. As you're getting ready for your fantasy drafts, your board is going to need adjusting based on the latest injury information. Think of me as the medical staff for your fantasy team. Just like your favorite team has trainers, therapists and doctors on staff, that's what I have on speed dial -- some of the best in the world -- to help you make informed decisions. Injuries can mean the difference between the playoffs and off-season golf for NFL teams. In fantasy football, it's even more important. If Vince Lombardi were here, he'd tell you that winning is the only thing, and in fantasy football, he'd be right. Here are 10 situations where you'll likely need to move a guy UP or DOWN your draft board based on his injuries:
There's really no justification in devoting 1,000 or so words to Brett Favre's reunion with the Vikings (I doubt he flew to Minneapolis Tuesday with the sole purpose of opening a K-Mart in Mankato and NOT returning for a 20th NFL season); but that's how today's Fantasy Clicks might shake out. So, if you instantly turn ill at the mere mention of Lord Favre's name on radio, TV or the Internet -- not unlike the time Kramer got seizures at the sound of Mary Hart's voice -- then here's a free pass for missing today's column, with the hope you'll be back on Friday.
I have a healthy respect/appreciation for Fanball magazine, especially its Cheat Sheets edition, which solely focuses on mock drafts -- standard-scoring, PPR, TD-only, TD-heavy, QB-heavy, distance scoring, IDP and defense and keeper leagues, etc. But that doesn't mean I'm in lock-step agreement with their rankings, or specific picks from a standard 12-team mock draft.
Jim Miller has become the nation's foremost ESPNologist. Over the past two years the writer has interviewed 472 subjects for his upcoming book, Those Guys Have All the Fun: Inside the World of ESPN. He and co-writer Tom Shales, the longtime Washington Post television columnist, have set a goal to chronicle ESPN from its scrappy beginnings to the infamous LeBronapalooza it hosted earlier this month.
Five years ago this summer, I wrote a piece that probably got more reader reaction than all 7,236 of the other stories combined that I've done since I started covering the NFL two decades ago. And that was just from family members.
Fantasy football is wildly popular because it's a) easy to manage, taking only a half hour of your time each week to get up to speed on the previous week; and b) totally inclusive, inviting players of all levels; and c) transient and completely matchup-based. Far less popular, fantasy baseball is a much more intimate undertaking. With games played nearly every day for six months, you develop a "relationship" with the players on your team, making it even more important to be comfortable with those you draft. To ensure you'll enjoy your team all summer while finding fantasy peace of mind, I've cobbled together a list of Eight Do's and Don'ts that can be applied to all types of leagues, whether they're one league or mixed, head-to-head or rotisserie style. Get familiar with them going into your draft and you should come out in great shape for 2010.
When USA Today became the first newspaper to publish detailed baseball stats in the early 1980s, it seemed little more than a fad with appeal to only the most geeky of readers.
Forget about baseball, football and the Academy Awards. The hottest new fantasy-league game involves the Supreme Court.
It's entirely appropriate that the NASCAR circus swings through Talladega over Halloween weekend. If ever there were a venue that gave drivers heart palpitations, visions of disaster and sweat-soaked nightmares, it would surely be the 2.66 mile-long behemoth in Alabama. With the restrictor plates reduced in size ( by 1/64th of an inch) this weekend, in order to prevent Carl Edwards' Ricky Bobby style crash in the spring race, the net result of this reduction will be a drop of between 12 and 15 horsepower, bunching the cars even more uncomfortably closer together than before.
Last Thursday afternoon, in what some may view as a sign of the apocalypse and others may deem encouraging news for the future of America's youth, more than a dozen 7, 8 and 9-year olds gathered in a living room in Aptos, Cailf., for the inaugural Aptos Amateur Fantasy Football League draft. Just like their adult counterparts, the boys wore baseball hats (and one coonskin cap), carried notebooks full of scribbled rankings (some even legible) and appeared to subsist entirely on Rice Krispie treats and beer (okay, so it was root beer). To watch them was to see a distorted reflection of the 20 million of us -- mostly adults, tending toward the obsessive -- who play fantasy sports, and, perhaps even to gain a little perspective.
Fantasy football drafts are firing up, and workplace productivity will soon grind to a halt as half the office spends half the day managing their rosters in an attempt to get the next Steve Slaton off the waiver wire. Just because you're not a football fan doesn't mean you have to be left out of the fantasy mania, though. There are all sorts of alternative fantasy leagues you can join. Why not try one of these?
Henry Olszewski was stoked in 2008 when he, along with millions of Americans, drafted New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady to his fantasy football team.
"Incredible" is how John Frisina remembers the moment he logged on to Fantasy Premier League and discovered he was beating nearly two million other competitors.
"Incredible" is how John Frisina remembers the moment he logged on to Fantasy Premier League and discovered he was beating nearly two million other competitors.
The biggest NFL draft weekend in NFL history is upon us. But there won't be any television coverage or analysis from Mel Kiper Jr. or scenes from the Dallas Cowboy War Room or disappointed Jets fans. And It won't be held at Radio City Music Hall in New York. But rather it will be held all over the world among the five million people who play fantasy football.
With no football to play for the first time in 18 years, former pro Ross Tucker is passing the time reading about his favorite sport. What follows are a few links to NFL-related articles he found and his take on them.
We want to believe in the happily-ever-after. That when the troops come home to the local high school band playing, families waiting, flags waving, the worst is over and they are finally free to begin tending to their lives, families and lawns. Everything that the American dream and the flag they've fought under is all about.
Sean Forman still remembers the final play of the final game on the final Sunday of the NFL season four years ago. And it still hurts.
The fifth annual SI.com Experts League drafted on Aug. 21 with 12 owners fighting it out for the title. Unlike the SI Mock Draft in the magazine, this league will be played out. You can track the progress of the league throughout the season here.
Last week's hidebound tract about the NFL's ongoing crime wave drew the following e-pistle from reader Dave Snow of Phoenix, Ariz, who happens to be the owner of the Arizona Snowmen fantasy football team:
As Major League Baseball does its best to honor Barry Bonds this week when he finally passes Hank Aaron as the all-time home run leader -- whether we like it or not -- it's appropriate at this time to take a quick look at this year's home run leaders to see if there were any surprises. To be truthful, most of the Top 50 home run hitters as of this week were predictable, but there were a few sluggers we didn't see coming.
With 10 weeks left in the season, it's way too early to start planning for 2008. Still, it would be fun to put together a short cheat sheet of top picks for 2008 and get a head start on next season.
The All-Star break is a great time for everyone to grab their second wind and prepare for the all-important stretch run. That's true for players, managers, general managers and fantasy-league managers. The "dog days of summer" are upon us, so it's time to get rejuvenated and motivated for the most important part of the season.
With the All-Stars named on Sunday night, I thought it would be fun to take a look at the top fantasy players at each position based on their performances in the first half and their rankings on Draft Day. You might be surprised to learn that you could have had a lot of these first-half stars late in your draft.
The All Star Game used to generate a lot more interest than it does now. The advent of inter-league play and dish network has taken much of the steam from the mid-summer classic. Years ago seeing an NL pitcher, like Steve Carlton, face an AL slugger like Reggie Jackson, was a novelty. These days players move around much more often and also face the other league in inter-league play. There is nothing new anymore.
The Internet has certainly changed the landscape of this part-hobby, part-obsession we call fantasy baseball. Overall, the change has been positive. Who misses the days of spending Monday's lunch hour with the USA Today sports section, totaling the weekly stats for their rotisserie league? Heck, today, if the live-scoring feature of your league's Web site misses a strikeout from your pitching staff, you shoot an E-mail off to your league commissioner making sure you get credit for that whiff in the morning.
As most fantasy-leaguers know by now, the key to winning your league title is having a great draft and making key free-agent pickups during the year. In leagues that allow trading, it also helps to swindle an owner or two out of some budding stars via trades, but other than that it's important to constantly scour the free agent list for golden nuggets.
ST. LOUIS -- Three appellate court judges took less than an hour Thursday to hear arguments from lawyers representing Major League Baseball and CDM Fantasy Sports in the latest fight over who owns the rights to player statistics. Hanging in the balance now is the future of the $1.5-billion-a-year fantasy sports industry.
With all the hoopla surrounding Roger Clemens' debut in The Bronx on Saturday, fantasy-leaguers may have missed all of the other key call-ups this week that preceded The Rocket. Yes, this was a big week of promotions from the minors and help is definitely on the way. Now the key is to pick up the right prospects for your fantasy teams.
Versatility is an elusive skill in fantasy baseball. Typically you will have depth at first base and in the outfield, but be thin at one or more infield positions. When one of your infielders has a scheduled day off, it's great to slide someone in from your bench for a start on a Monday and then again on a Thursday.
Be careful this week when you go to your fantasy league's free-agent list. Make sure you're selecting the right Ryan Braun. This Ryan Braun is capable of leading your team to a fantasy-league title this year, so make sure it says "3B, MILWAUKEE" after his name.
Last week SI writer Richard Deitsch interviewed MSNBC host Keith Olbermann for the magazine's Q&A. The broadcaster is joining NBC's Football Night in America this fall. Here are additional excerpts from their conversation:
For you golf fans who can't make it to the course, you can tee off whenever you have a few spare minutes with two new and relatively inexpensive golf video games: "Tiger Woods PGA Tour 07," now available for the Nintendo Wii, and "Infamous 18," a new fantasy golf game for personal computers.
Please don't confront with my failures I had not forgotten them. -- Nico, "These Days"
New England Patriots star Tom Brady is suing Yahoo over the use of his photo in an advertisement for fantasy football.
A 23-year-old leveraged-finance analyst, Excel spreadsheet in hand, is fighting to be heard over a raucous crowd. For three hours, 60 people have been bidding ferociously, occasionally peppering th...
NBC will air National Football League games this fall for the first time since the end of the 1997 season. And now, the network is also hoping to make a splash in the increasingly popular fantasy football realm as well.
When a judge ruled earlier this week that Major League Baseball and its players' union can't demand licensing rights fees from fantasy sports services, this was viewed as a victory for both the fantasy sports providers and millions of fantasy sports players.
Are you ready for some fantasy football?
The American male's obsession with sports is nothing new, but try this on for size: More than half of fantasy sports fanatics spend over an hour a day just thinking about their teams.
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DALLAS (AP) - A doctor has testified that a Texas mother who glued her 2-year-old daughter's hands to a wall also beat the toddler so badly that she suffered significant brain trauma and bleeding inside her skull.
Elizabeth Escalona pleaded guilty July 12 to injury to a child. The 23-year-old mother is being sentenced Monday. She faces up to life in prison. A state district judge will decide her punishment.
The doctor showed photos of the beaten child.
The toddler was in a coma for two days after the Sept. 7, 2011, incident. Police records show the toddler's siblings told investigators their mother repeatedly kicked the girl in the stomach and hit her with various objects before gluing her hands to the wall.
Police say Escalona was mad about potty training problems.
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QB: Romosexual, Jeff Garcia (just for fun)
LT: Flozell "the Hotel", Doug "the freak" Free
LG: Berger, Kosier
C: Gurode, Procter
RG: Bigg, Marten
RT Colombo, McQ
WR: Owens, Crayton/Austin, Stanback/Hurd
TE: Witten, Bennett, Curtis
RB: The Barberian, Bubble Butt, Tashard Choice
FB: Anderson
NT: Tank,
NT/DE: Ratliff, Spears
DE: Canty, Hatcher, Bowen
WOLB: D-Ware, Rogers
WILB: Thomas, Burnett
SILB: James
SILB/WILB: Carp
SOLB: Ellis/Spencer
OLB/pass rush specialist: Walden
SS: Roy "the Biscuit" Williams, Dowayne Davis
SS/FS: Ken "the Hammer" Hamlin,
FS: Brown, Watkins
CB: Newman, Henry, Pac Man, Jenkins, Scandrick, Oglesby
Special Teams:
LS: L.P. Frenchy
Punter: "the Terror from Down Under" McBriar
Kicker: The Folk Hero
WR Amendola
TE Hannah
FB Crosslin
WR Jefferson
DE Dixon
RB Alonzo Coleman
QB Richard Bartel
Garcia and T.O. together again. Maybe they'll kiss and makeup (I'm sure Garcia will enjoy that). ;)
I haven't been so impressed with Hurd's play of late in TC based on the Practice reports I have read. I think Austin will win the 3rd WR spot and maybe force his way to the 2nd spot by the end of the season. And to make it even worse for Hurd Stanback should get better as the season goes on, which will make it even harder for him to get a lot of playing time.
We don't really have a true SS besides Roy on this squad, add that to Davis's good play in TC and special teams potential, I should think with a good pre-season he will make the squad. If not Jefferson or Amendola will make it.
Kosier has always been just good enough in my book. We have always like Berger even though another team drafted him, and his strong play in TC will push him ahead of Kosier if he has a strong pre-season.
I honestly don't know what we are going to do with Carp. I'll be rooting for him though.


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January 23, 2014
Syria Shows Peril of Iran's Growing Power
Frida Ghitis, CNN
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If you want to see the impact of Iran's growing power in the Middle East, look no further than Syria. On Monday, three important developments occurred simultaneously: First, world diplomats scrambled anxiously to salvage plans for a conference on Syria scheduled to start on Wednesday. The "Geneva II" meeting almost went off the rails before it began, with Syrian opposition leaders threatening to stay away unless the United Nations retracted the invitation it had unexpectedly extended to Iran.
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Debt-burdened Cyprus Airways will try to minimise operational costs to the hilt by axing whatever is beyond the once happy-spending national carrier's means.
This is what informed sources told The Cyprus Daily, with one adding: "Cyprus Airways has to make itself the maximum possible low operational cost carrier to attract prospective buyers. And this means that staff will continue to be axed and departments will continue to be disengaged from the company.
First it was the catering and next in line is the engineering. In addition, rented premises will be minimised with various departments merging under one roof".
The same source also said that the European Commission has thrown a lifeline at CA by postponing a decision on its investigation over the legality of the carrier's increase of capital by €31.3 million. But the carrier's could still face closure.
If the decision which was due to be taken this month had been negative then the carrier would have to close down immediately. Because the money would have to be returned and the company coffers are totally empty.
The Commission's deferral was confirmed by Communications Minister Tasos Mitsopoulos who also warned though that the airline is still in a precarious position.
Because the Commission's decision could be negative and the state would still not be able to pay back all that money. It just buys more time to CA to find a money-rich strategic investor.
The ministry is currently looking into three or four alternatives that can provide temporary solutions. But a strategic investor has to be found to pump much-needed capital into the state carrier at least before the start of the peak summer season.
Management has sent the message that interested investors have submitted bids. Developments are expected in the coming months, with reports pointing to major decisions in early March.
In addition, CA has officially announced agreements with two major travel agencies, Top Kinisis and Xenos Travel on charter flights to the Greek islands in the summer, bringing in an extra €2.4 million.
Selling the night time slot at Heathrow Airport can hold the company until the summer, according to insiders.


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Archive for February, 2008
Obama Ad: "Ringing"Published by Peter Hauck February 29th, 2008 0 Comments Tags: ads, obama.
Barack Obama didn't waste any time responding to Hillary Clinton's 3:00 AM phone call ad. Here's his 30-second spot. Sound Bite: "When that call gets answered, shouldn't the president be the one -- the only one -- who had judgment and courage to oppose the Iraq War from the start. Who understood the real threat to America was al-Qaeda in Afghanistan not Iraq."
Will Somebody Answer That Damn PhonePublished by Peter Hauck February 29th, 2008 0 Comments Tags: clinton, obama.
Barack Obama doesn't think much of Hillary Clinton's 3:00 AM Phone Call ad. Sound Bite: "The question is not about picking up the phone. The question is what kind of judgment will you exercise when you pick up that phone." Meanwhile in Waco, Texas, Hillary is still talking about that 3:00 AM phone call: "We need a president who picks up that phone ready to decide." Sound Bite: "Senator Obama says if we talk about national security in this campaign, we're trying to scare people. Well, I don't think people in Texas scare all that easily."
More Music Videos For ObamaPublished by Peter Hauck February 29th, 2008 0 Comments Tags: obama.
Here's a music video -- "Si Se Puede! Obama Para Presidente" -- put together by some young Latino rappers. An earnest effort -- "Si Se Puede Cambiar" -- by Andres Useche.
"We Are One"Published by Peter Hauck February 29th, 2008 2 Comments Tags: obama.
Will.i.am of the Black Eyed Peas has released a new music video supporting Barack Obama. "We Are One" features a host of actors and musicians chanting the chorus "Obama, Obama, Obama" and testifying for their man in English and Spanish. Jessica Alba says she would "like the rest of the world to think highly of our amazing country." She'd also "like to see a cleaner earth for my child that I'm bringing into the world very soon." Oh, and a good part. Here's the earlier Will.i.am music video "Yes, We Can."
Clinton Ads: "Children" and "Dos Veces"Published by Peter Hauck February 29th, 2008 0 Comments Tags: ads, clinton.
This 30-second ad says our children can sleep safely at 3:00 AM because Hillary will be awake and answering the crisis phone in the White House. Good grief! Dos Veces This Clinton ad explains the "Texas Two-Step" for spanish-speaking voters.
Hillary on LettermanPublished by Peter Hauck February 29th, 2008 0 Comments Tags: clinton, letterman.
Hillary does shtick. Dave goes with the classic Danny Thomas spit-take. Another bit:
Senior Moment?Published by Peter Hauck February 29th, 2008 0 Comments Tags: mccain.
John McCain trips over his words yesterday, referring to himself as a "proud conservative liberal Republican" and promising to conduct a "dispirited" debate with his opponent. Ouch!
Equal Opportunity EllenPublished by Peter Hauck February 28th, 2008 0 Comments Tags: celebrity, clinton, obama.
Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama both did the Ellen Degeneres show this week. (Ellen says she likes them both.) Obama -- Part 1 They talk about dancing, quitting smoking, what he does on "Day One" as president (he meets with the Joint Chiefs of Staff to talk about how to get out of Iraq), healthcare and why he should be president. Obama -- Part 2 Clinton They talk about banning glitter (search me) and whether Hillary's been given a hard time as a candidate because she's a woman. Hillary says she plans to win Ohio and Michigan. Oops! "Wait a minute -- Ohio and Texas. I already won Michigan." Right -- that tough battle against "Uncommitted." Ellen tells her to "rock on."
Clinton Ad: "Fighter"Published by Peter Hauck February 28th, 2008 0 Comments Tags: ads, clinton, ohio.
In this 30-second spot airing in Ohio, governor Ted Strickland says Hillary Clinton is a "fighter." And "she's got great plans to create new jobs in every part of Ohio." Do Democratic voters actually believe a president "creates" jobs?
Viva Obama!Published by Peter Hauck February 28th, 2008 0 Comments Tags: obama, texas.
You'll be singing along with the mariachi band by the end of the clip. From Amigos de Obama.
Promise Me AnythingPublished by Peter Hauck February 28th, 2008 0 Comments Tags: obama.
Barack Obama tells a rally in Texas what he's promising to do as president -- and what he's not. Sound Bite: "I'm not making promises that I'm going to solve all your problems overnight . . . I'm going to promise that we're going to get America back on track so that we're going in the right direction investing for the future."
Gallup: Does Candidate Age Matter?Published by Peter Hauck February 28th, 2008 0 Comments Tags: gallup, mccain, obama.
Is John McCain too old to be president? Is Barack Obama too young? A recent Gallup poll (Feb 21-24) indicates that age may not be a significant issue in the general election. 20% of voters say McCain is "too old," while 13% consider Obama "too young."
Obama Ads: "Plan" and "Oportunidad"Published by Peter Hauck February 27th, 2008 0 Comments Tags: ads, obama, ohio, texas.
"Plan" Barack Obama goes all John Edwards in this 30-second spot airing in Ohio: "The deck has been stacked against" most Americans in favor of "Wall Street." But his economic plan will change all that. "Oportunidad" This spanish language ad airing in Texas highlights Obama's college tuition plan.
Obama on Farrakhan's SupportPublished by Peter Hauck February 27th, 2008 0 Comments Tags: clinton, debates, obama.
Asked about Minister Louis Farrakhan's support of his candidacy, Barack Obama says he didn't ask for it. He notes that he has denounced some of Farrakhan's past remarks and that he has spoken out against anti-semitism on the part of African-Americans. There's a great exchange between Clinton and Obama at the end of the clip on "rejecting" versus "denouncing."
Obama: NAFTA No GoodPublished by Peter Hauck February 27th, 2008 3 Comments Tags: clinton, debates, obama.
Barack Obama calls Hillary Clinton a flip-flopper on NAFTA in last night's debate in Cleveland. He says as President, he'll make "certain that every agreement that we sign has the labor standards, the environmental standards and the safety standards that are going to protect not just workers but consumers."


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On Friday, I started revealing my Local Favorites of 2012. If you want to see who I've reveal so far (all in random order, I don't do rankings), click on the Local Favorites link.
Castle Pines
"Bless This House"
I've been intrigued by Castle Pines ever since the band showed up at my office a couple of years ago with a CD-R of live tracks. The Corona band is producing some great indie rock and "Bless This House" is one of the gems of 2012.
EP opener "I Saw You on the Radio" is my favorite. "Strange Disappearance" almost has a U2-esque guitar tone to it.
You can hear the whole thing over at the Castle Pines Soundcloud page.
Here's "I Saw You on the Radio."


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Yeah, that sucks, bro. Really sucks. So close. So effing close. Yeah, the rest of us keep playing those picks over in our heads, too. Really sucks, man. This one stings. Stings bad. And New England is SO beatable this year....
Bet you didn't get much sleep last night.
You know, when Matt Cassel went down early in the year, I thought KC would still be tough, after all, they won their division last season. And Oakland... they beat us at Reliant before Campbell went down, but I thought they were still a lock to win their weak-ass division with Palmer. Didn't happen.
Chicago also won their division in 2010, and since Martz is such a system guy, I'd have figured that Hanie could have at least enough success to get them a wildcard berth. No such luck. And Manning.... you talk about being exposed. The Colts were so bad they even surprised themselves with the mess they put behind center for 4 months.
Somehow I'm sure no one is giving you as hard a time as you're giving yourself right now.
The fact is dude, you got us into the playoffs. You did enough to win some big games... to win our division. You brought home the gold in Cincinnati. You hit Dre with that 40 yard TD to seal the deal last week, right in front of my seats. I thought I was gonna lose it, right there in public. Did you notice Dre carried that ball off the field with him? Wonder how special it was for The Greatest to score his first postseason TD?
Ya know, I'm kinda wishing that you'd have had about 2 years on the bench before something like this happened. I can't help but think you guys would be hoisting Lombardi on Feb. 5th if you had....
When bad things happen, a man is always compelled to evaluate what's happened, so he can apply what he's learned. It's not easy, and it's not painless. But you gotta do it. Do it, bro. Be the massive student of the game for the next couple seasons. Soak it all in... push yourself to the limit. Pick Matty and Greg and Rick and Kubes brains until they tell you to shut up. Do it.
I keep thinking about Aaron Rodgers first couple years behind what's-his-name. Didn't turn out too bad for him, ya know? And I keep thinking about you, and all your brothers in steel blue, hoisting Lombardi... soon .


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14-0 in the first quarter, with 9:30 left.
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14-0 in the first quarter, with 9:30 left.
Green fumble! This is great.
Taitans ball.
Is this great or what. I love it, and everyone picked them to win, OH LAMBO MYSTIC what a buch of BS.
Packers suck!
Do all you Packer fans still think your a playoff team now!
wow, the packers do truly suck, i cant believe what ive seen tonight already. pathetic.
The lambeau mystique is over. Ever since that game against the Falcons in the playoffs it's been downhill for the mystique.
Farve picked off!
challenge my ass, thats a pick.
How could they overturn that!
That's so bogus!! I'd swear the league's trying to keep the game close.


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Why Some Women Still Feel Ashamed About Smoking Pot
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I've been smoking pot on and off since I was about 17. Throughout this time — we're talking 25 years— I believe I bought my own pot once. I have always relied on the men in my life to provide it for me. When I look back at my history with marijuana, I simply have no connection to the weed in my life and where it comes from (except for that boyfriend who filled two of our small closets with plants in 1997). Along with relying on men for it, I also don't discuss smoking with girlfriends. I wouldn't meet up with another woman to get high the way I would, say, for a glass of shiraz. There's probably only been a handful of times in the past 10 years have I gotten high with a group of women to simply relax.
Most of the men I know, on the other hand, get high. They discuss the product. They have multiple sources. They invest in smokeless inhalation devices like the Volcano and the portable Wispr. They speak about their weed machines like they'd talk about cars. Or computers. Or the way my Uncle Joe used to obsess over his ham radios in the 1970s. And while the country has more or less embraced the stoner way of life — new data shows that more Americans are getting high now than in previous years — the stigma around women smoking pot is still pretty black and white.
If you take a look at marijuana gender data, you'd think most women are following the Adam Ant rule of thumb — Don't drink, don't smoke. In Colorado, for example, 68 percent of medical marijuana registrants are males and in Arizona, 73 percent of approved applicants are men. According to the annual National Survey on Drug Use, conducted by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, almost twice as many men smoke than women (9.6 percent of men vs. 5 percent of women).
Here's the thing about women and weed: Women generally don't want to discuss their habit out of fear of being judged or compared to a cartoon. Think Milla Jovovich's stoner character in "Dazed and Confused" — she had no lines whatsoever and merely stared off into space, and, okay, she painted a Gene Simmons face on that statue. Worse, if you're a mother, you keep your weed habit secret because you don't want to be seen as a negligent parent.
Because when women unwind, we have been told that drinking should be our method of choice — Kathie Lee and Hoda still drink wine at 10 a.m., and no one balks. But just last year the entire Internet almost had a collective heart attack when "Motherland" author Amy Sohn wrote about her drugging escapades for The Awl in "The 40-Year-Old Reversion." The first paragraph goes like this: "Once a month I get together with half a dozen moms from Park Slope and Carroll Gardens. We call ourselves Hookers, Sluts and Drug Addicts." And this summer, a video of a group called the Marijuana Moms went viral after announcing they were "bringing glamour and exclusivity to marijuana use." The Huffington Post filed the story under "Weird News."
Though movies have portrayed men getting high in groups for decades (just this summer Seth Rogen and co. smoked their way through the apocalypse in "This Is The End"), there's a complete lack of women who smoke weed in pop culture, as Ann Friedman points out in New York magazine: "There are a few depictions of women smoking at home as a way to blow off some steam and bond with each other. In '9 to 5,' a film released back in 1980, Jane Fonda, Lily Tomlin, and Dolly Parton's characters get stoned together and fantasize about how they will exact revenge on their boorish boss. The 2012 lady-bromance 'For a Good Time Call' features heroines who regularly smoke. But the examples are few and far between."
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3Blind Item: Chris Brown Is A Bad Boyfriend
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This A list R&B singer has always shown he can be and is an a-hole, but even with his past track record this might have brought him to new levels of a-holiness. His now former girlfriend is telling everyone that for the past year she was forced to watch the singer have sex with at least one person a night if she wanted to stay with him. She put up with it because he would pay her and give her gifts and she always thought he loved her. In addition to this demeaning activity, he would also make her have sex with his friends because he was not always up for having sex with her. With other people yes, but not always her. I hope you see where I am going with this. When he couldn't perform with her he would yell and scream at her and blame her. He tried to not hit her. Most of the time.
You can see why I just went ahead and used Chris Brown's picture for this, right? There are tons of rumors going around that Chris just broke up with poor, poor Karrueche and that he's currently in St. Tropez with Rihanna. Chris' rep denies all of those rumors, but excuse me if I don't believe every single thing that a person who chose to promote this guy says.
Also, check out that last bit there, the part where Chris "couldn't perform with her," but he made her watch him have sex with other people? Remember those gay rumors? Snap.
As always, if you have any other guesses, feel free to throw them out there! I think I pretty much nailed this one though, so we could talk about how gross Chris Brown is instead.
July 25, 2012 at 4:30 pm by Emily
3 Responses to "Blind Item: Chris Brown Is A Bad Boyfriend"
Can you please stop writing about this guy? It's upsetting to hear stories like this, and the more he's in the media the more attention he gets, and the more stuff he sells (no logic, but true). Let's just pretend he doesn't exist.
Add Lindsay Lohan to that list!!
Please. She's just as much a douchebag as he is for putting up with that shit. If it even did really happen like that.


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Search for illegal immigrants angers advocates for reform
The arrests took place in Manchester and Nashua. A spokesman for Immigration and Customs Enforcement said three of the four were quickly released from custody and given a date to appear before an immigration judge.
The fourth - Rigoberto Obregon-Perez - was jailed on a warrant for failing to appear in court on a charge of drunken driving, and ICE has placed a hold on him, said Manchester police Lt. Maureen Tessier.
ICE said Obregon-Perez has a record that includes convictions of drunken-driving and disorderly conduct.
The arrests angered immigration reform advocates, who held a small protest outside the federal building in Manchester Monday afternoon.
A "prayerful protest" is scheduled for 4 p.m. today outside the federal building.
Eva Castillo, director of the New Hampshire Alliance for Immigrants and Refugees, said the two people arrested in Nashua attended a rally of about 100 faith, labor and community activists in Nashua on Saturday.
"Now, I'm scared for the people who spoke at the rally," she said.
She said the two who attended the rally are Edgar Granados-Torillo, 29, and his uncle, Arnulfo Granados-Torillo, 56. Both are Honduran. The senior Granados-Torillo has been in the country since 1997, and they only have a traffic violation between them, she said. Castillo questioned whether ICE spied on the rally in Nashua on Saturday; only immigrants with proper papers will attend today's protest in Manchester, she said.
"I don't want to run the risk of having anyone identified by these jerks," said Castillo, who is also a Manchester police commissioner.
ICE spokesman Ross Feinstein said the arrests had nothing to do with the rally, and the Granados-Torillo men were released from custody.
Feinstein said the arrests are part of an on-going enforcement action that involves at-large criminal aliens who pose a threat to the community.
"No one is being targeted indiscriminately," Feinstein said. "This is a very targeted immigration action. It's being done to people who have certain criminal convictions that fall into our priorities. We can't deport every person in the country illegally."
In Manchester, about 20 ICE and Manchester police showed up at a private party at El Mexicano Restaurant about 10 p.m. Sunday, said co-owner Lidia Rodriguez. She said agents pushed through the door, gave her sister a hard time when she started photographing them, and threatened to visit her restaurant continuously, a tactic that would scare away her customers.
"This is no good for my business," she said.
The other person who was detained, Ruben Mendez, 19, has been in Manchester for four years, Rodriguez said. He moved to Manchester to make money and send it to his family in Mexico, where his parents are in ill health, she said.
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Witness statement: Cop went in search of place to dump body
THE Home Circuit Court heard yesterday that Rushon Hamilton — the policeman charged with the October 2008 murder of 14-year-old Jhaneel Goulbourne — went in search of a location to dump a body.
The court was told that Hamilton's search took him to his home parish of St Mary where he was introduced by his brother to an acquaintance, Kemar Johnson, whom he later promised cellphones and cash for him to find a place where a body could be dumped.
When Johnson refused to assist, he was branded a coward by Hamilton, who, after his arrest, warned Johnson to keep his mouth shut, the court heard.
The evidence outlined to the 12-member panel of jurors was extracted from a statement given by Johnson to the police before he was killed by gunmen.
The statement was read into evidence by Detective Sergeant Conrad Granston, who had interviewed Johnson on June 8, 2009 as part of his probe into the October 24, 2008 abduction and murder of Jhaneel Goulbourne.
Goulbourne was abducted outside her Harbour View, St Andrew, home by men in a white bus, sometime following the filing of a complaint that led to Hamilton being charged with carnal abuse.
Johnson's statement is part of damning evidence given against Hamilton in the two-week-old trial. A witness has already testified that Hamilton confessed to him that he killed the teen at sea and dump her body. Another man had testified that Hamilton told him that he was going to "tek weh" the teen.
Still, the defence is claiming that there was a plot to frame Hamilton.
According to Johnson's statement, Hamilton told him, upon their introduction in St Mary in October 2008, that he was in trouble and, as a result, was not at work.
On another day, Hamilton and his brother, whom Johnson called 'Bull' in his statement, returned in a white Toyota bus.
"Mi ina some trouble. Mi haffi get rid of somebody but me want somewhere to dash weh di body," Johnson said in his statement that Hamilton told him.
"Dem man yah a bush man. Him must can find somewhere in Robin's Bay to dash weh the body," Johnson said a man named Sobers interjected.
According to Johnson's statement, Hamilton subsequently called with the same request and promised "to give me a food". Hamilton, the court heard, said the "food" would be two cellphones and money that someone had for him.
Johnson said he wasn't interested but that Hamilton kept calling.
On about October 22 or 23, 2008, according to the statement, Hamilton, his brother Bull and another man visited Johnson in the same white Toyota bus.
"See me badman friend yah," Hamilton said to Johnson about the man in the van. "Dem man yah a real killer. You see say you never haffi do nothing. You a gwaan like you a coward."
Hamilton, the court heard, then turned to his brother and said: "A dem man yah you say a badman?"
According to the statement, Hamilton subsequently told Johnson that he "got through with the client".
Yesterday, Hamilton's lead attorney Valerie Neita-Robertson sought to attack Johnson's character and Granston's handling of the investigation.
It was brought out then that Hamilton's phone went missing from Granston's car; that Granston never put Hamilton on an identification parade for Johnson to determine if he was in fact thethe person whom he said asked him to find a location to dump a body; and that Granston never questioned Sobers about his participation in the conversation of which Johnson spoke.
Neita-Robertson suggested that Hamilton's brother was actually called Bowler and that it was another man who was called Bull. However, Granston said he did not know about that.
The trial continues next Wednesday, when the Crown is expected to call its last witness.


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07/11/2013 21:57
Against the backdrop of unspeakable brutality raging in Israel's immediate environs, continued negotiations for Palestinian statehood reflect the abject failure of 'right-wing' advocacy.
A Palestinian waves a flag in front of the W. Bank Jewish settlement of Ofra, April 26, 2013.
Photo: REUTERS/Mohamed Torokman
The Palestinian people are an integral part of the Arab nation. The Palestinian Arab people believe in Arab unity... However, they must, at the present stage of their struggle, safeguard their Palestinian identity. Claims of historical or religious ties of Jews with Palestine are incompatible with the facts of history.
The partition of Palestine in 1947, and the establishment of the state of Israel are entirely illegal, regardless of the passage of time.
- Palestine National Charter, currently posted on the official United Nations website
The prime minister may believe his offer of Palestinian sovereignty in the West Bank is a "win-win" for Israel, but he is gravely mistaken.... An agreement with Abbas won't be the end of the conflict... there will be additional demands made on Israel and there will be rockets falling on Israel – but the heart of the Land of Israel, Judea and Samaria, will have been abandoned by Israel.
- Moshe Arens, "Where is Benjamin Netanyahu taking us?'
, July 9.
Every elected prime minister [since 1992]...has broken his word on how he would deal with the Arabs. [E]ach one of them has adopted an unexpectedly concessionary approach.
– Daniel Pipes, "Is Netanyahu Turning Left?"
The Washington Times
, July 5
With all the unmitigated brutality of the ongoing horrors across the Arab world, it beggars belief that the government of Israel is still actively engaged in continuing discussions in pursuit of a formula that will bring the country closer, and make it more vulnerable, to the source of these horrors.
Given the acts of unspeakable barbarity – the beheadings, the rapes and even occasional cannibalism – that have become the hallmark of Arab society in the post-Spring era, coupled with the disastrous failures of past attempts to cajole the Palestinian- Arabs in to a peace treaty by territorial withdrawal and political appeasement, it seems inconceivable that the notion of Palestinian statehood could still retain a shred of credibility.
Should be terminally toxic
Of course, the knee-jerk response would be to blame an inimical Obama administration, and its overly ambitious secretary of state, John Kerry, for applying undue pressure on the Netanyahu government to reengage Mahmoud Abbas in peace negotiations.
This is undoubtedly true – and equally irrelevant.
For while it is certainly correct that such pressure is applied, years of dereliction have not only facilitated its efficacy, but have invited its application.
For had there been any "right-wing" advocacy worth its salt over the past two decades, the idea of Palestinian statehood would have been so discredited that no self-respecting statesman would dare to embrace it. The fact that it has not been, is an enduring monument to the incompetence and impotence of the political "Right" in Israel – both in terms of its political parties and of its supportive civil society organizations. After all, given the irrefutable realties – past and present – any policy proposing further Israeli withdrawals to facilitate the establishment of a Palestinian state, should appear today so ridiculous that it would be terminally toxic to the career of any Israeli politician in the Zionist mainstream to be associated with it.
Likewise, in light of the horrific history of past attempts to implement the landfor- peace formula, that have left thousands of Israelis dead and tens of thousands maimed, any foreign politician, professing friendship for Israel, should know that pressure on the elected government of Israel to persist in such attempts would be greeted with such eruptions of public outrage that no incumbent leader could remotely consider complying with it
More perilous than ever
Of course, establishing a Palestinian state on the strategic highlands that overlook the Israeli urban metropolis has always been a wildly irresponsible proposal.
This was true even when Israel's regional neighbors were ruled by allegedly stable, relatively restrained autocratic regimes, that some hoped could exercise a moderating influence on the envisaged Palestinian state.
As unrealistic as that hope was then, today, with the spreading collapse, or at least, grave erosion, of central authority, and the ascendance of vehemently Judeophobic Islamist elements in nearly all nearby Arab states, whatever scant hope there might have been, has evaporated.
While some might see the internal melt down in Arab society as a positive sign for Israel, significantly reducing the military threat from regional state actors, there are profoundly menacing aspects to the phenomenon that are likely to sharply increase the threat entailed in any future sovereign Palestinian entity.
For as the centralized control of states over their territory decreases, and radicalization of the political climate within their frontiers increases, both their ability and their resolve to rein in renegade extremists will wane.
We are beginning to see a disturbing illustration of this in Sinai, where the entire peninsula is descending into a lawless haven for jihadi warlords and criminal gangs, evolving into a security nightmare for Israel, irrespective of decline in Cairo's military prowess.
Even the recent unseating of the Muslim Brotherhood-led government by the Egyptian military should give little cause for complacency. The dire state of the economy, the impending clash with Ethiopia over the Nile, and the possible suspension of US aid in the wake of what can be plausibly seen as a military coup are likely to leave the armed forces stripped of the strength and the stamina to impose law and order for any length of time.
East of "Palestine"
Little imagination is required to envisage the already wobbly regime in Jordan falling to radical Islamist elements, or at least succumbing to their influence and being coerced to do their anti-Israel bidding.
Moreover, it is far from implausible that Jordan could degenerate into a battleground between rival fundamentalist factions vying for control of the kingdom, or a patchwork of medieval desert fiefdoms ruled by Shari'a-compliant strongmen, for whom the Jews are the "descendants of apes and pigs."
Just as there was little that could be done to prevent the realities that arose in other Arab countries, afflicted by post-Spring fever, there will be little that can be done to prevent the realities that societal conditions will dictate in what would become the eastern neighbor to any future Palestinian state.
In a recent article (June 10), Guy Bechor, head of Middle East Studies at the Lauder School of Government at Herzliya's Interdisciplinary Center, described the situation emerging in the Middle East today as a reversion to the conditions that prevailed 100 years ago during the Ottoman era, of a vast borderless expanse, devoid of national borders, in which one can travel from "Iraq to Lebanon through Syria... without encountering a single policeman."
Even if this somewhat overstates the prevailing lack of control, it illustrates a point of major importance.
Palestine seamlessly welded
If a Palestinian state is set up in any configuration remotely coinciding with the pre-1967 lines, it is likely to be almost seamlessly welded not only to the present relatively benign monarchy in Jordan, not only to any more radical successor, but to all that lies – largely borderless – beyond that.
The only physical obstacle today separating Israel's heavily urbanized Coastal Plain from the realities of the Arab world, of which the Palestinians see themselves an integral part, is the limestone mountain range in Judea-Samaria, on which the Palestinian state is supposed to be constituted.
The establishment of such a state would adjoin almost immediately and directly link the eastern fringes of Tel Aviv with the greater Arab world, with all the attendant societal and security ramifications such a measure would entail.
Even in the unlikely event that Israel manages to negotiate maintaining a military presence in the Jordan Valley (something that would comprise a major violation of the sovereignty of the putative state), this would be no more than a temporary measure. Furthermore, it would be a more-than-somewhat hazardous undertaking for the troops involved, being deployed in a narrow, topographically inferior strip of land, sandwiched between the Palestinian state in the West, and whatever might prevail in present-day Jordan to the East – reminiscent of a giant Philadelphi Route in the pre-disengagement Gaza Strip bordering Sinai.
It is difficult to see how such deployment could be sustained – operationally or politically – for more than several years, at the end of which urban Israel would interface directly with the realities that pervade the Arab world.
Tantamount to enemy action?
Past attempts to promote the "peace process" with the Palestinians have had grim consequences. The nature of present events, unfolding across the region, can hardly serve as a source of greater optimism for success in the future. Quite the reverse.
More than ever the establishment a Palestinian state in any format vaguely approaching the pre-1967 lines is likely to place hundreds of thousands of Israeli civilians in mortal danger.
In light of past precedents, present circumstances and the high probability of a disastrous future outcome, pressure on the government to adhere to a policy that will imperil so many of its citizens should be considered tantamount to enemy action.
It is thus virtually inconceivable – or at least should be – that Israel's closest ally is doing precisely that. Worse, it is doing so not only without any protest from the government – but rather is being commended for doing so. Indeed, several seasoned analysts – like Moshe Arens, Daniel Pipes, David Weinberg – seem to sense signs of surrender in Netanyahu on this issue. Increasingly, he appears to be merely biding his time so he can choreograph his capitulation with media-complicit panache.
Abject advocacy
This failure, not only to rebut and ridicule a manifestly disproven policy, but to prevent what is emerging as its adoption by a government elected to oppose it, is a massive indictment of the efficacy the political "Right" in Israel.
This failure is even more staggering when one realizes that for much of the post-Oslo period the machinery of government was – at least officially – in the hands of Likud-led coalitions, which initially vehemently opposed any idea of a Palestinian state – and certainly a return to frontiers approximating the pre-1967 lines.
Yet, despite the irrational underpinnings of its political doctrine, despite the repeated practical failures of its policy prescriptions, despite its infrequent periods of control of the reins of formal power, the Left has inexorably imposed – and continues to impose – its ideology on the political decision-making process.
This dismal outcome must force the political Right in Israel to reevaluate its advocacy endeavor at every level.
Yes, I know that there are many extenuating factors, external to the Israel sociopolitical environment – hostile international media, foreign funding of left-wing NGOs and so on. But until the Right devises methods that at least attempt to neutralize them, these must be considered excuses, not reasons, for what is emerging as abject, historic defeat, with irrevocable – and inexcusable – consequences.
Kicking over a hornet's nest?
The fault lies with both the elected representatives of the Right and the activists in civil society organizations – and with many sympathetic philanthropists who have channeled considerable resources into endeavors that a priori could be identified – at best – as unproductive.
The advocacy efforts of the political Right have focused more on the tactical, rather than the strategic, on the tangible rather than the intellectual, on specific rather than general issues, on the symbolic rather than the substantive...
The Right appears not to have internalized the lesson of the disengagement i.e., "boots on the ground" mean little. Any "facts on the ground" without viable ideo-intellectual shields can, and will, be wiped off the ground with nonchalant ease.
I realize that I may well be kicking over a hornet's nest with this article. I also realize that hitherto I have offered little by way of constructive criticism. I hope to rectify this in coming columns.
However, given the results to date, it's difficult to avoid the conclusion that the advocacy efforts of the political Right have been incompetent, impotent and largely irrelevant to the policy-making process.
Martin Sherman (www.martinsherman.net) is the founder and executive director of the Israel Institute for Strategic Studies.
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