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Note - Former BE staff member Eugene Schelfaut (the guy with the all-time best pick % in staff history) is a guest predictor for this event. He also supplied the image for this post. Welcome back buddy!
Brent Brookhouse: I figured I'd be alone in picking Faber, but it looks like I'm not. This is the kind of fight that Faber thrived on at his best. Barao is capable and dangerous, but not so dangerous as to be able to keep away from Faber's wrestling and distance control in this fight. I also think Faber has the cardio of about four Baraos which will allow him to survive a tricky round one and two before running away with the decision over the later rounds. Urijah Faber by decision.
Fraser Coffeen: This is a winnable fight for Faber, and would finally give him that title that has been out of grasp for so long. It's easy to look at his recent title fight history and go with Barao here, but at the same time, Barao doesn't have the stand-up of Aldo or Cruz, or the wrestling of Brown. This is a tough fight to call, but I think Faber is crafty enough to pull it off. Urijah Faber by decision
T.P. Grant: Barao has some collected some real scalps in his seven years without a loss, but he has never faced a wrestler like Faber. The speed of Faber's shot and his scrambles I think will be the difference in the this fight. Barao has great striking, but way really made Aldo an impossible to solve puzzle for Faber was the reach advantage and that Aldo was as fast as Faber. I think Faber gets this on the ground and locks on a choke at some point. Urijah Faber by Submission, Round 4.
Tim Burke: When I first heard about this fight, I figured it was Barao's right away. After sitting down and analyzing it though, I've completely leaned in the other direction. My biggest thing is Barao's tank. He cuts a lot of weight (you can tell just by looking at pictures of him), and has slowed down late in fights before. Faber can go for days. Barao's going to have trouble with Faber's wrestling as well. I like Barao's standup, but Faber's crafty enough to not get blasted. I think Barao starts strong and fades late. Urijah Faber by decision.
David Castillo: Even though I think Barao has made real strides in his game, he looked so great against Pickett because Brad just got too wild. Faber, despite making some truly bone-headed moves, has never looked better as of late. His boxing continues to improve, and I think he'll be able to outbox Barao despite the reach disadvantage. I wouldn't be surprised if Faber wins the rubber match against Cruz, so this is no slight on Renan. Urijah Faber by Decision.
Dallas Winston: OK, well, I don't ever remember Barao gassing out, he might not strike in the same vein as Aldo but he's almost as deadly, I can't conceive Faber choking out a Pederneiras black belt and he easily shook off Jorgensen's takedowns, who has better wrestling credentials than Brown or Faber. I do feel that Faber is quicker and has a better transition game than any of those fighters or anyone that Barao's encountered, but when he can't frenzy on his opponent and has to stand and trade, he leads off his combinations with his hands dangerously low. I agree he's Barao's stiffest test but I'm still going with the phenom. Renan Barao by decision.
Eugene Schelfaut: Urijah Faber can control engagements for at least three rounds and seal a win in Barao's first 5 rounds affair. Faber's submission skills are up the the challenge on defense. Additionally, he will be looking for any attacks considered wild when it comes to the feet. I do not see a finish in either direction. Pockets of excitement frame a 49-46 unanimous decision win for Urijah Faber.
Staff picking Faber: Fraser, Grant, Tim, Brent, David, Eugene
Staff picking Barao: Dallas
Brent Brookhouse: Lombard is going to have the chance to shut up a lot of people and prove a big point. I don't see any reason to buy Lombard as an unstoppable wrecking machine yet. He's like a guy who has been beating high school chess club members and his dominance there has everyone expecting him to be able to compete at the grandmaster level. Boetsch isn't exactly a grandmaster level type guy in MMA, but he's a lot better than what Lombard has been dealing with. I just don't think Lombard's career has him ready for a fight like this. He looks good early, Boetsch doesn't go away and wears him out late. Tim Boetsch by decision.
Fraser Coffeen: I like Lombard's power and his aggression, but the lack of experience against top level opposition really gets to me. I think Boetsch's power will give him trouble, as will his ability to fight in the clinch. Lombard has a future in the UFC, but I just don't see him steamrolling the Barbarian. Tim Boetsch by decision
T.P. Grant: Tim Boetsch is tough to get a read on, who is he? The guy that showed up in the first two rounds against Yushin Okami or the man that came out in the third round? The guy who threw Nick Ring around or the guy who got caught in a hammerlock by Phil Davis? Boetsch has come out saying he isn't afraid of Lombard and will strike with him, but I kinda feel like Boetsch wants to grapple with Lombard. If he does stand with Lombard I don't think it ends well for Boetsch and even on the ground I'm not sure this goes Boetsch's way. Hector Lombard by KO, Round 2.
Tim Burke: The size difference is big for me. Lombard is a tank, but he's 5'9 and could make 170 if he would shed some muscle. Boetsch is gigantic for 185. Lombard is known for being strong and mean, but come on - he's in there with Tim Boetsch, who is stronger and probably meaner. Lombard's gone deep in fights on multiple occasions, but Boetsch can sap his energy if he can lean on him. I've never been a huge fan of Hector Lombard, and I believe he's in for a rude awakening in the UFC. Tim Boetsch by decision.
David Castillo: This is either gonna "expose" Lombard, or will tell us nothing. Boetsch had to really dig deep to beat Okami. It was a big win, but not the kind of win that impressed with his ability: Tim has always been a plodder, and I think that's what makes him a bad matchup. The early storm will lose him the first few rounds against Hector, and Boetsch probably takes the 3rd, but it's still Lombard's to lose. Hector Lombard by Decision.
Dallas Winston: Lombard's competition has obviously been shallower but he's fought a ton of UFC vets and annihilated them. Boetsch will definitely be his biggest and meanest opponent, but Lombard is an Olympic Judoka who's fought and finished D1 wrestlers in Ebersole and Taylor. While I don't think Lombard will bully him by any means, Boetsch shouldn't be able to bully him either and that's imperative to his style, whereas Lombard usually prefers to bang anyway. I just see their wrestling, clinch and takedowns as being fairly equal with a huge edge to Lombard in grappling/striking technique, quickness and power. Hector Lombard by TKO.
Eugene Schelfaut: Tim Boetsch should be proud of his 3rd round revival against Yushin Okami at UFC 144; however, that magic will not be able to show it self against Hector Lombard, as he will be unconcious before the 3rd round. This will be Lombard's first exposure to the UFC audience and the pressure will be on the make it a good showing. Hector Lombard by 1st round TKO.
Staff picking Boetsch: Fraser, Tim, Brookhouse
Staff picking Lombard: Grant, David, Dallas, Eugene
Brent Brookhouse: Shocked that there was a bunch of gambling money coming in on Jordan. Kongo controls guys like this with kickboxing or by leaning on them against the cage. Cheick Kongo by decision.
Fraser Coffeen: Kongo's fought tons of fights like this - rising prospect with decent stand-up. And he wins them all the same way. Unless he's gotten really old lately, I expect more of the same here. Cheick Kongo by decision
T.P. Grant: Going to echo Fraser here, a young brawling heavyweight is nothing Kongo hasn't dealt with before. Kongo is sneaky tough to takedown and good at escaping on the ground. If Jordan could come in with a gameplan to beat Kongo and execute it or just catch Kongo in a wild brawl, but I find it more likely Kongo wins. Cheick Kongo by KO, Round 1.
Tim Burke: This bout is kind of weird. Jordan's giving up a ton of height and reach. He hits hard, and Kongo's defense sucks, but that's a lot to overcome. He has okay wrestling, but Kongo's been in there with better than him. If it's kickboxing, Kongo wins rather handily. If Jordan takes it to the ground it gets more interesting, but not enough to sway me. Cheick Kongo by decision.
David Castillo: Kongo's frame is so misleading. He's built like Kratos, but with a mind like Forrest Gump (cage IQ-wise). Even as a kickboxer, Kongo can be hit or miss. There are times when he's a better functional wrestler, but Jordan will oblige him. Cheick Kongo by Decision.
Dallas Winston: I like Jordan's chances here. I believe Kongo should be the slight favorite but his striking defense and Fight I.Q. are concerns against a Greg-Jackson-trained and highly athletic fighter with diverse skills. I think Jordan can pull this off with intelligent movement to avoid staying in a clinch with Kongo or standing in front of his power shots. His agility should make him a viable takedown threat and he's smart in faking between level drops and power punches to lead his offense. Shawn Jordan by decision.
Eugene Schelfaut: Cheick Kongo is a man who fails to inspire great reaction either way for me. I just wish upon him a vague amount of ill and general displeasure. For better or for worse, he is an enduring member of the UFC's heavyweight division. And that does not look to change, for years, regardless of the result of his bout against Shawn Jordan. Is anyone waiting for Kongo to go on a tear after his loss to Mark Hunt refocuses his drive for the title? Kongo is just an entity which is there, and which wins more than not, and we just have to deal with it. I will feel another wave of displeasure as Kongo takes another victory here. Cheick Kongo by 2nd round TKO.
Staff picking Jordan: Dallas
Staff picking Kongo: Fraser, Grant, Tim, Brookhouse, David, Eugene
Brent Brookhouse: Ebersole's shtick just isn't for me. But he's the better fighter here. Brian Ebersole by decision.
T.P. Grant: Unless Ebersole is taking on a Top 15 Welterweight, I don't pick against him. Head's primary weapon is his jiu jitsu and Ebersole has already proven he can grapple with good submission guys. Ebersole is a veteran worth his salt and he earns a little more of it with a win. Brian Ebersole by TKO, Round 3.
Tim Burke: I'm not as big a fan of Hairrow as everyone else seems to be, and Head is a big 170. This is a tougher challenge than most people are expecting, and Head really does hit pretty hard, but Ebersole's experience will win out here. Brian Ebersole by decision.
David Castillo: I doubted Ebersole last time, and I still doubt him, but not against Head. Well, I do doubt him against Head, who can crack, and is no slouch on the ground, but since I keep getting every pick wrong that involves Ebersole, I'll finally stop picking against him. Brian Ebersole by Decision.
Dallas Winston: Head is a talented newcomer with great boxing, but he's shown a vulnerability to solid wrestlers with frenetic top-side striking. If it wasn't for Ebersole's impenetrable chin, I'd be wary of the upset, but his wrestling and ground and pound should see him through. Brian Ebersole by decision.
Eugene Schelfaut: Finally we are getting to the good stuff. Brian Ebersole is predictably off the center of things and has enough to win a decision. This win over James Head will be another rung toward Ebersole's eventual title shot. Believe it. Brian Ebersole by decision.
Staff picking Ebersole: Fraser, Grant, Tim, Brookhouse, David, Dallas, Eugene
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Chris Clements vs. Matt Riddle
Brent Brookhouse: I fully expect Clements to knock his block off. Chris Clements by TKO, round 1.
Fraser Coffeen: This should be a stand-up Fight of the Night style war. Which is a fighting style Riddle loves. I expect he'll get beat up at first, but stay in it to make it close. Only question is will he keep it close enough to take the win? I suspect he will. Matt Riddle by decision
T.P. Grant: Clements is a powerful striker and Riddle is going to stand in front of him and try to strike. That hasn't worked out for Riddle so far in his career, and I don't think it will this time. Chris Clements by TKO, Round 3.
Tim Burke: Matt Riddle on a main card in 2012. HAHA CALGARY. If Riddle wants to strike, he's gonna miss a lot and get tagged a lot. Clements is pretty easy to take down though, and that should definitely be Riddle's main weapon of choice. This is ridiculously off the board and I'm counting on something that's probably not going to happen, but I think Riddle takes him down and submits him. Seriously. I really said that. Matt Riddle by submission, round 2.
David Castillo: Riddle had modest promise at one point, but he's so in love with that bizarre standup of his, I expect him to screw it up again, and not give himself the best chance to win. Clements by TKO, round 2.
Dallas Winston: I give Riddle a lot of leeway for his experience and I think he's smart enough to understand his skills. I don't get the scathing criticism of him "being in love with his stand up" because he employed his clinch and wrestling in just about every fight but Pierson, who's a good boxer with a Greco background. Clements teed off on Wisniewski, who'd rather chew on a punch than avoid it, and was still taken down and put into vulnerable positions on the mat. Matt Riddle by decision.
Eugene Schelfaut: I find myself unable to not root for Matt Riddle. Chris Clements loses a mouth piece and a win bonus. And probably some self respect. Matt Riddle by 1st round KO.
Staff picking Clements: Grant, Brookhouse, David
Staff picking Riddle: Fraser, Tim, Dallas, Eugene
Brent Brookhouse: I figure Ring makes a mistake that costs him the fight here. I'll guess that mistake comes on the ground. Court McGee by submission, round 1.
T.P. Grant: Oh no, is it really already time for another Court McGee fight? I find nothing about McGee's fighting style interesting. I feel like Ring is the better athlete and gets a win here. Nick Ring by Decision.
Tim Burke: Ring doesn't fight that smart, but neither does Court. Ring's the more versatile athlete in the cage and hits a lot harder. The Calgary pressure might get to him, but I think he'll pull this out. Nick Ring by decision.
David Castillo: These guys are similar in how impressively average they are despite their modest accomplishments. I like Court in this fight. Nick seems to just get stuck on autopilot for lengthy periods of time. I've seen maybe 2 of his fights, so that analysis is probably wrong. Nick Ring by Decision.
Dallas Winston: Shit, is everyone being harsh or is it just me? Ring's only loss is to a former-205er, leviathan 185er and D1 wrestler in Boetsch, and he was still out-striking him and holding his own in the clinch early. I don't think any "average" middleweight could do that. McGee is a gamer but rather limited when he can't enforce his wrestling, and Ring had no trouble doing that before. Nick Ring by decision.
Staff picking McGee: Brookhouse
Staff picking Ring: Fraser, Grant, Tim, David, Dallas
Roland Delorme vs. Francisco Rivera
T.P. Grant: I'll take Delorme, he appears to be a real prospect. Roland Delorme by Decision.
Tim Burke: Yes, Delorme caught the Ninja of Love. But he was getting torn to shreds before he somehow caught Denis and submitted him. I doubt he can do the same to Cisco. First-minute KO. Francisco Rivera by TKO, round 1.
David Castillo: Gotta agree with Tim. I think Delorme got "lucky', and won't be able to duplicate that success against Rivera. Francisco Rivera by TKO.
Dallas Winston: I like Rivera's scary power but he's shown a trend for fading in later rounds and I'm not sure his takedown defense is up to specs. I'll take a chance on Delorme's chin, Judo and sub-grappling carrying him past a rough 1st round. Roland Delmore by submission.
Staff picking Delorme: Fraser, Grant, Dallas
Staff picking Rivera: Tim, Brookhouse, David
Brent Brookhouse: I'm legitimately angry that I'm going to have to watch this fight. Jimmo getting a spot in the UFC is a nightmare for people like me who don't have the option to "just not watch" his fights. Ryan Jimmo by decision.
T.P. Grant: Ryan Jimmo finally makes it to the UFC. And Zuffa has arranged for a soft landing place for Jimmo in Perosh, who is a solid fighter but is 40-years-old. I don't think Jimmo is going to have a great UFC run, in fact I think he is somewhat overrated but I do think he gets this win. Ryan Jimmo by Decision.
Tim Burke: Prepare to be bored, people. You think Jon Fitch is boring? Jimmo's nickname should be Valium. He seems like a nice dude, but he has zero finish. He barely beat Sokoudjou in one of the worst fights you'll ever see. He was supposed to face Glover Teixeira a couple of years ago, but waged a campaign against it and got MFC to change their minds. Wonder why. Anyway, Perosh is awesome and I really like him, but he's going to have a hard time getting Jimmo to the floor and he has some baaad striking. This is going to be some sort of weird karate display for 3 rounds, followed by a crappy robot dance. I'll be getting a beer. No matter what I pick, Go Hippo! Ryan Jimmo by decision.
Dallas Winston: Yes, that's right ... all those who enjoy a pleasant and respectful POV, just scan down to my neighborhood. I don't find Jimmo overly exciting but it's hard to discredit his phenomenal win streak. I've picked against Perosh regularly yet that clumsy and uncoordinated character always seems to find a way. I think he's implemented his unorthodox takedown game and insta-sub-finishes against opponents with better footwork, striking and range than Jimmo ... but Jimmo's takedown defense might prove me wrong. Anthony Perosh by submission.
Staff picking Jimmo: Fraser, Grant, Tim, Brookhouse, David
Staff picking Perosh: Dallas
Bryan Caraway vs. Mitch Gagnon
Brent Brookhouse: Going with upside over experience. Mitch Gagnon by decision.
T.P. Grant: Going with Gagnon here and not because of Caraway's misogynist twitter tendencies. It is because Caraway came off a pretty unimpressive of TUF and was unimpressive himself. Gagnon looks like a prospect that could make some noise in this weight class. Mitch Gagnon by Submission, Round 2.
Tim Burke: Similar fighters, but Caraway's got more big-fight experience and probably a little better submission grappling game. Bryan Caraway by decision.
Dallas Winston: Gagnon's brute aggression and fearlessness might win him this bout, but Caraway's a technical wrestler with excellent submission grappling. Gagnon has the better stand up and everything will hinge upon who wins the takedown war. Bryan Caraway by decision.
Staff picking Caraway: Tim, David, Dallas
Staff picking Gagnon: Fraser, Grant, Brookhouse
Antonio Carvalho vs. Daniel Pineda
T.P. Grant: Two journeymen Featherweights, both likely facing a cut if they lose. I'll take Pineda based on experience. Daniel Pineda by Decision.
Tim Burke: Pineda has more fights, but Carvalho has been around the game a lot longer. Carvalho is a black belt in BJJ and karate and has good judo as well. He admittedly looked terrible against Arantes in his debut, but Pato is a very good fighter. Pineda's go-for-broke style is going to get shut down by a smarter, craftier fighter and he's going to be frustrated for 15 minutes. I said that last time Pato fought too though. Antonio Carvalho by decision.
Dallas Winston: This a coin-flip for me. Carvalho is a technical machine with his kickboxing and grappling while Pineda is an offensive lunatic with no grasp of caution. From a style perspective, I'd normally side with the intelligent technician, but Pineda impressed me enough against Brown to believe that his ruthless onslaught will disrupt Carvalho's finesse and lure him into a brawl. Daniel Pineda by TKO.
Staff picking Carvalho: Tim, David
Staff picking Pineda: Fraser, Grant, Brookhouse, Dallas
Mitch Clarke vs. Anton Kuivanen
T.P. Grant: Kuivanen was a pretty highly regarded European prospect while Clarke looks kinda like a guy the UFC is going to bring in for the undercard of Canada shows. Clarke might wrestle his way to a decision, but I feel like Kuivanen either finds a submission or lands a big strike at some point. Anton Kuivanen by Submission, Round 3.
Tim Burke: Kuivanen is just better at everything. Sorry Canada. Anton Kuivanen by decision.
Dallas Winston: Kuivanen looked solid in his debut but understandably struggled with Salas' D1 wrestling. Clarke can't mirror that prowess and Kuivanen should have a strong edge standing and in the clinch with the submission defense and scrambling to seal it. Anton Kuivanen by decision.
Staff picking Clarke: Fraser, David
Staff picking Kuivanen: Grant, Tim, Brookhouse, Dallas


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April 7, 2014 Victor Anichebe News
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Anichebe, who has missed the last few games with a hamstring injury, was available off the bench for Saturday's match at Norwich City, although he did not make an appearance.
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March 29, 2014
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Anichebe (hamstring) was unable to pass a late fitness test and he will not play Saturday against Cardiff City.
Anichebe's next opportunity to play comes next weekend at Norwich City.
March 27, 2014
RotoWire Fantasy Analysis
Anichebe faces a late fitness test on his injured hamstring ahead of Saturday's match against Cardiff City, the club's official web site reports.
Anichebe has started the last three games for the Baggies, although he has yet to find the back of the net despite taking 10 shots in that span. His last two goals have come when he's entered as a sub, scoring against Liverpool on Feb. 2 and Chelsea on Feb. 11.
January 20, 2014
RotoWire Fantasy Analysis
Anichebe is available off the bench for Monday's match against Everton.
Anichebe has been battling a groin injury lately, but is fit enough to at least make an appearance off the bench Monday. The striker has one goal and one assist in 11 appearances this season.
December 27, 2013
RotoWire Fantasy Analysis
Anichebe is still struggling through a groin injury and isn't expected to play Saturday against West Ham, the Daily Star reports.
Anichebe has been battling a number of injuries this season and hasn't played since December 7 due to his groin.
December 12, 2013
RotoWire Fantasy Analysis
Anichebe is doubtful to play in Saturday's Premier League match against Cardiff due to an illness, the Daily Express reports.
Anichebe finally scored his first Premier League goal of the season against Manchester City on December 4 and he took six shots in his next match against Norwich last Saturday. Unfortunately, he won't be able to keep the positive momentum going this week thanks to the illness, although it certainly shouldn't be a long-term absence.
November 6, 2013
RotoWire Fantasy Analysis
Anichebe missed West Brom's trip to the Hawthorns last weekend due to a tight hamstring, but is expected to be available for selection against Chelsea on Saturday, reports Sky Sports.
Anichebe has had a slow start to the season with only one assist in five appearances.
October 18, 2013
RotoWire Fantasy Analysis
Anichebe (groin) is available for selection for Saturday's match against Stoke City.
Anichebe missed West Brom's last Premier League match, which came against Arsenal on October 6, but is good to go moving forward. The striker has made four appearances this season but has yet to play a full 90 minutes, recording one assist and failing to score a goal on three shots in Premier League play.


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Moscow's police –1000 of whom were deployed to enforce Mayor Yuri Luzhkov's ban on a Gay Pride March scheduled for today — have arrested Nicolas Alexeyev, principal organizer of the banned, first-ever Pride March in Russia's capitol, the Russian news agency Interfax has reported. Alexeyev was arrested while attempting to lay flowers at Russia's World War II-era Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Alexander's Garden, one of the city's largest parks, which runs the entire length of the Kremlin's west wall. The choice of the Tomb for the wreath-laying was designed to emphasize the links between the struggle against Nazi Germany and the fight for the rights of gay people. Ten other Gay Pride participants were also arrested at that time. Reuters later reported that Alexeyev was "dragged, bent almost double, away from the gates [of the Tomb] by two policemen."
Yevgenia Debryanskaya, a prominent lesbian movement activist, was also later arrested by police today near Moscow's city hall, at the monument to Yuri Dolgoruky (a 12th century ruler also known as George I of Russia), along with some dozen other Gay Pride marchers, after the demonstrators moved to the monument, police told Interfax.
"OMON anti-riot task force servicemen have now cordoned-off the square in front of the monument to Yuri Dolgoruky and are shoving those protesting the gay parade from the square," Interfax reported at 3:40 PM Moscow time. The OMON, frequently accused of abuses of power and repressive violence, was created as an anti-terrorist cum riot militia for the Moscow Summer Olympics in 1980, and continues to exist since the fall of the Communist regime.
A crowd of anti-gay protesters — many from fascist groups like the Russian All-National Union and the Union of Orthodox Gonfalon-Carriers, and the ultra-right and xenophobic Movement Against Illegal Immigration, and including many skinheads — which police estimated at 150, had been shouting "Sodom Won't Pass Here" at the gay marchers as they approached the Dolgoruky monument, Interfax said.
In a separate dispatch, Interfax reported that police put at 50 the number of those arrested so far in connection with today's Gay Pride events. Not only the Pride march, but gay meetings in connection with it, were banned by Mayor Luzhkov, while major Russian religious leaders called for violence against the gay demonstrators. There is as yet no word on whether any of the foreign delegates to the Pride events — including a number of European political figures — had been arrested.
However, the news agency Deutsche Press-Agentur reports that an openly gay member of the German Bundestag (Parliament), Volker Beck, was injured by the fascist anti-gay protesters in a scuffle. "There was no aggression from our side, we were simply there," Herr Beck told the DPA press agency. "It is unacceptable that the police offer no protection to gays on the streets." Later, CNN reported on its website via an Associated Press dispatch that, "as Beck was giving an interview before TV cameras, about 20 nationalist youths surrounded him and pummeled him, bloodying his nose. Volker Eichler, a gay activist from Berlin who witnessed the beating, said police did not intervene." CNN International aired a report by its Matthew Chance showing the arrest of Alexeyev and footage of the attacks by the anti-gay goons–a link to that footage can be found on the CNN website, in the middle of the text of their version of the AP report, by clicking here. (The BBC later carried video footage of the attack on Beck — and showed him afterward, dazed and shaken with blood streaming down his face. A link to the BBC's video segment can be found on their website by clicking here.) Beck is considered the father of Germany's domestic partnership law. The German news agency puts the number of arrests at 100. The BBC, in its first report on the events filed at 4 PM U.K. time, put the number of arrests at 70, adding that "Eyewitnesses said several foreign gay rights activists were beaten by [anti-gay] protesters." That seems to have been an understatement — late this afternoon, noted British gay and human rights campaigner Peter Tatchell filed a first-hand account from Moscow for U.K. Gay News of the violent attacks on the gay activists by the counter-protestors.
"We were immediately set-upon by about 100 fascist thugs," Tatchell said, "and religious fanatics who began pushing, punching and kicking us. They snatched flowers out of our hands and abused us with chants of 'No sodomy in Moscow' and 'Put the pederasts on the iron' and 'Russia is not Sodom'. We were pushed and carried like corks on a sea of fascist pushing and shoving." Read the rest of Tatchell's gripping account by clicking here.
And an e-mail I received from veteran Austrian gay activist Kurt Krickler, co-founder and Secretary-general of Homosexuelle Initiative (HOSI) in Vienna, and editor of its magazine, LAMBDA-Nachrichten, reports from Moscow: "Pierre from France [Pierre Serne, a member of the City Council in the Paris suburb of Vincennes and a staffer for openly gay Paris Mayor Bertrand Delanoë, whom he represented in Moscow] suffered so severe injuries in an attack of skinheads that he had to be hospitalised."
Krickler added that, "When leaving the site of the demonstration across the City Hall, I myself was attacked by four youth kicking me with their feet and beating me with their fists. I got a blow on my eye and could escape, and the aggressors ran away. I had a bad bruise at the eye, and a friend took me to a clinic where the doctor ordered an x-ray as he suspected the sinus could be damaged, too. Fortunately, no severe injury, besides a huge hematome on the eye."
A Le Monde report from Moscow says that also injured was Oscar Wilde's grandson, Merlin Holland — who gave the opening address at the international conference organized by Moscow Pride in conjunction with the Paris-based International Day Against Homophobia (IDAHO). Holland was repeatedly kicked by the fascist goons, the paper said. Le Monde quoted Jean-Luc Romero –an openly gay elected member of the Regional Council in the Ile-de-France region (which includes Paris) who is from Jacques Chirac's conservative UMP Party, and who witnessed the beatings — as saying, "The situation of the homosexuals in Russia is even worse than I imagined." Le Monde added that another member of Paris Mayor Delanoë's personal staff, Philippe Lasnier, was briefly arrested by police. The French daily quoted a Delanoë deputy mayor also representing the mayor in Moscow, Clémentine Autain, as saying she was shocked at how little the Moscow police did to protect the gay demonstrators from physical attacks by the hundreds of counter-protesters (whom Le Monde described as "ranging from groups of skinheads and Cossacks, to Russian Orthodox extremist priests and old ladies who threw eggs at the gay demonstrators.")
MosNews.com reports today that Mayor Luzhkov, in radio comments on Friday, cited "moral" reasons for banning the Gay Pride march and meetings. "I believe that such a parade is inadmissible in our country above all for moral considerations. People should not make public their deviations," Mayor Luzhkov said.
For background on all this, read DIRELAND's earlier post on the Moscow events by clicking here.
Doug Ireland, a longtime radical journalist and media critic, runs the blog DIRELAND, where this article appeared May 27, 2006.


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Different routes to same controller
27 September 2013 at 10:11pm
Hi there I'm trying to set up different routes with different parameters to different actions of the same controler.
The reason I#m trying this, is to achive a restfull api.
Here is my routes.yml, that doesn't seem to work:
Name: customroutes
After: framework/routes#coreroutes
'' : 'AppController'
'app//$Action/$ID/$OtherID' : 'AppController'
'api/mainsymptoms//$Short' : 'ApiController'
'api//$Action/$ID/$OtherID' : 'ApiController'
Normaly with the two api routes, I expect, to have one route for the mainsymptoms Actions with param('Short') and the standard fallsbacl to all other actions, but that doesn't seem to work.
So the question is, if and how I can achieve, to have different Parameters for different Actions of the same controller?
Re: Different routes to same controller
28 September 2013 at 1:22am
Have you tried the other way around? That is: the general one first, the specific one last? Later might overrule earlier...
Re: Different routes to same controller
28 September 2013 at 3:02am
Yes I tried it, but then, the first one also matches for action mainsymptoms. So that instead of having $Short set in mainsymptoms action, I need to read from $ID.
Is it also possible, to define routes, that include encapsulated relations?
Something like the following:
Re: Different routes to same controller
28 September 2013 at 4:46am
Out of interest I 'hacked' a default 3.1 site with the following settings (had no custom controller ready):
Name: customroutes
After: framework/routes#coreroutes
'test/something//$Short' : 'Page_Controller'
'test//$Action/$ID/$OtherID' : 'Page_Controller'
and added this to the Page_Controller::init() function:
foreach ($this->urlParams as $k => $v) echo "$k => $v <br>";
this is what I got:
Short => else
Action => nothing
ID => else
OtherID =>
(and a bunch of errors, but that's to be expected ) So that seems to be working as it should...
Re: Different routes to same controller
1 October 2013 at 7:16pm Last edited: 1 October 2013 7:16pm
The Problem is, that the controller doesn't seem to route to the correct Action.
Dumping $this->urlParams within the init method of my API Controller, I get the correct result:
array (size=1)
'Short' => string 'h' (length=1)
But as there seems no Action to be set, it always responses with a "Page not found" instead of opening the correct action.
So, how do I tell the Route, that on "test/something//$Short" something is the Action?
Re: Different routes to same controller
1 October 2013 at 9:38pm
Ok... I guess if 'mainsymptoms' is not an actual page, the example won't work because it is fixed and there is no matching Action parameter in the rule.
Obviously I could be all wrong, but I'm guessing your reason for this construction is so that in the mainsymptoms() funtion you can use a param called 'Short' instead of 'ID', as it's nor really an ID? Technically there is nothing against using $ID and $OtherID...
Re: Different routes to same controller
2 October 2013 at 12:06am
You are right, technically there is nothing against $ID and $OtherID, it just seems a bit ugly and is not that nice. My Idea was more to create a restful api like I'm able to in RoR, but it seems, that currently Silverstripe doesn't support that. So I have to go with $ID and $OtherID (or whatever I will call them) throughout the whole controller.
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Car brand marketing usually means slapping a badge on a tote bag and asking a thousand dollars for it, but Ferrari has gone one better by applying its badge to not one, but two theme parks. Ferrari and PortAventura Entertainment S.A.U have signed an agreement to build a second Ferrari-themed park, Ferrari Land, as part of the PortAventura resort and theme park outside Barcelona, Spain. Expected to open in 2016, the 7.5 ha (18.5 acre) site is billed as "an opportunity for the whole family to experience and discover the world of Ferrari."
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"After the success of Ferrari World in Abu Dhabi, we received many, many requests to develop new amusement parks," says Andrea Perrone, CEO of Ferrari Brand. "We carefully sifted through the various proposals and decided to accept [PortAventura parent company] Investindustrial's because it is a very solid plan developed by competent people that will bring the magic of Ferrari to Spain, a nation where we have many supporters and enthusiasts, and to which large numbers of tourists flock each year, in part thanks to PortAventura. This new licence further underscores our brand's presence in this area. Ferrari Land will delight the whole family and not just Formula 1 fans."
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Port aventura is located in a province managed by independentist & corrupted politicians, where Spanish language is forbidden.
The people from Spain will never go to this park.
So, who wants to have fun in such place?
And this area is an industrial zone: chemical, oil, .... Contamination, breath diseases,...
In Spain there are better places: malaga, sevilla, or cadiz, where is located a F1 race circuit. good weather, friendly people, and peace.
Will you go on your vacation, to a banana republic with your children?Miguel Alcalde
19th March, 2014 @ 09:54 am PDT
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Tuesday, September 10, 2013
new article on cassettes from the austin chronicle
this is a good article on tapes inclusive of history and lots of good stuff. http://www.austinchronicle.com/music/2013-08-30/the-return-of-the-cassette/
Monday, August 12, 2013
how to buy a cassette deck
there are two principle reasons you'll want to own a cassette deck.
Monday, July 15, 2013
Thursday, July 11, 2013
today's jam box
mixing mastering from four track cassette
so in the last couple months i've done two projects where the basics were cut on four track cassette.
Tuesday, June 11, 2013
the dictaphone, killer tape
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Before making their debut at the Verizon Center, Disney On Ice skaters will be in Georgetown at Washington Harbour Ice Rink on Tuesday, February 12, 2013 from 4:30 – 5:30 pm.
This special event will be an opportunity for children to skate with the pros, for guests to enjoy a meet-and-greet with Disney's most famouse Valentine's Day couple, and to welcome Treasure Trove to D.C.
Kids will enjoy sips of hot chocolate from Farmers Fishers Bakers and receive a special Disney On Ice-inspired Valentine's Day card.
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UPDATE: LONGVIEW (KYTX) - Gilmer Road in Longview is back open to traffic, according to Longview Police Department.
Monday morning, Gilmer Rd. was closed due to utility lines reportedly down across the roadway.
LONGVIEW (KYTX) - Gilmer Road in Longview will be closed both North and South because utility lines are across the roadway.
South traffic will detour to Delmar to Crystal. North traffic Crystal to Delmar. Please avoid this area as you start your Monday morning drive to school, work, or other destinations.
We will let you know when the roadway has been reopened.
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Because anti-racism is a stance we need to take.
He sees famous people.
First off, holy shit! There have been nine seasons of Teen Mom?? Four seasons of Teen Mom 1 and now the fifth season of Teen Mom 2.
God, Miley Cyrus is sooooooo cool, you guys. She's got more edge than that guy in U2 whose name is EDGE. Pulling out a marijuana
My Dad is a Bro. First came the BroBible.com Father's Day contest, then the Tumblr blog, and soon a book published by Simon & Schuster.
Ah, the ghosts of social media past. Curiously, MTV is "going there" with it's new dating show for 20-somethingss, The Hook Up. It's basically a dating
MTV's newest show takes on Bro culture in New York City, in the most unexpected way.
Look, the only thing worth talking about this morning is Miley Cyrus's disturbing VMA twerk-fest last night, in which she humped teddy bears, felt herself
Well, Miley Cyrus wins the award for the most WTF?!?!?!? performance of the night. Cyrus took the stage at the Barclay's Center to perform "We
This is what happens when no one—NONE OF YOU, DAMMIT—watches Zach Stone is Gonna Be Famous: MTV has doubled-down on its reality show offerings, ordering
Kennedy was the hottest MTV VJ in the mid-90s. She was such a cultural force that she was granted an audience with Michael Jordan and
Last December, I participated in this MTV panel/focus group/thing I'm now bragging about. Its main intention was to pick the brains
And the awkward moment of the night for a shitty award show no one cares about goes to... Aubrey Plaza, the 28-year-old 'Parks and Recreation' actress
A sex tape featuring the MTV star is being shopped to various porn companies, including Vivid Entertainment. Any guesses who it is?
Is your Dad a party animal who puts you and your friends to shame? Does he have an over-the-top personality as he flirts his way
Everyone's finally going to chill out over this list now, right?
Kanye isn't the only one who's mad about this stupid MTV MC list/publicity grab. BroBible footwear fashion consultant A$AP Rocky is pissed he's not Number 1
Even before that everyone started discussing the strange personal life of a Notre Dame Football player, MTV's 'Catfish' was making some pretty decent noise in
Flashes of "How to Make it in America." Will "Washington Heights" be able to channel the energy that comes with #thedailygrind, being #addictedtosuccess, and #thestruggle?
Society is really getting its act together, I tell ya.
"Catfish" was a documentary-style film that explored the complexities of falsified online relationships, showing how easy it is for people on the internet pretend they're
The VMAs are notoriously full of suck, but, interestingly enough, turned some heads this morning by adding the first ever Electronic Dance Music category. Obviously
In honor of Beavis and Butthead's return to MTV tomorrow night, we've created a helpful educational video to reacquaint yourself with the animated
Swag through the roof! Mopping the floor with all that swag! Swaggasaurus rex! "Swag" is the go-to hackneyed buzzword on everyone's lips these days. It's
Hey, remember those leopard-print pants Lil' Wayne rocked at the VMA's the other night? Yeah, those were women's jeggings. Yes, as in, jeans + leggings
As you're probably aware, last night was the MTV Video Music Awards. Lots of big things happened!
Thirty years ago today, at 12:01 a.m., MTV flipped a switch and began its broadcast with John Lack's immortal words -- "Ladies and gentlemen,
Watch a Trailer for MTV's 'Bridge & Tunnel,' the 'Jersey Shore'-Esque Show That Never Made It To TV
Once upon a time, oh, about two years ago, the orange-skinned pop cultural grim known as "The Jersey Shore" ceased to exist. It was a
"Beavis and Butt-head" are back! The last episode of the MTV animated classic ran on November 28, 1997, but on Thursday the animated duo triumphantly


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How People of Faith Voted in the 2008 Presidential Race
Evangelicals chose their candidate on a different set of indicators than did other voters. When asked their primary reason for supporting the candidate they selected, 40% of evangelicals said it was because of the candidate's position on moral issues. Only 9% of other voters listed that as their driving reason. Other significant reasons for evangelical voters included their candidate's political experience (23%) and his character (15%).
(Unlike other polls, Barna surveys classify a person as an evangelical based upon their answers to nine questions about their theological beliefs.)
Three-fourths of atheists and agnostics (76%) gave their vote to Sen. Obama, while only 23% backed Sen. McCain. That is a step up from the level of support Democrats have previously received from skeptics. In 2004, 64% of atheists and agnostics voted for Democratic challenger John Kerry.


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Introducing Irkutsk
Historic if vaguely seedy Irkutsk, 1090km southeast of Krasnoyarsk, is the nearest big city to glorious Lake Baikal, though it's still 70km inland. With some fancifully rebuilt churches and areas of grand 19th-century architecture it's well worth at least a brief stop. If your Russian is poor, Irkutsk has plenty of Anglophone agencies eager to help, and now has some real (if small) hostels too.
Founded in 1661 as a Cossack garrison to control the indigenous Buryats, Irkutsk was the springboard for 18th-century expeditions to the far north and east including Alaska, then known as 'Irkutsk's American district'.
As eastern Siberia's trading and administrative centre, Irkutsk dispatched Siberian furs and ivory to Mongolia, Tibet and China in exchange for silk and tea. Three-quarters of the city burnt down in the disastrous fire of 1879. However, the 1880s Lena Basin gold rush quickly saw its grand brick mansions and public buildings restored. Known as the 'Paris of Siberia', Irkutsk did not welcome news of the October Revolution. The city's well-to-do merchants only succumbed to the Red tide in 1920, with the capture and execution of White army commander Admiral Kolchak, whose statue has recently been reerected. Soviet-era planning saw Irkutsk develop as the sprawling industrial and scientific centre that it remains today.
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Depending on how you look at it, the Wisconsin-Virginia game announced Monday as a part of the 14th annual Big Ten/ACC Challenge will either be a dream or a nightmare.
For those who admire and respect what the Bennett family means to Wisconsin basketball, the coaching storyline makes the Nov. 28 tilt in Madison must-see television. To ESPN, the driver of the event, it probably gives an excuse to bury two slow-paced teams with one swoop.
Wisconsin ranked dead last in the country last season in adjusted tempo, averaging 58.5 possessions per contest. Virginia, coached by former UW assistant Tony Bennett, ranked 338th out of 345 teams (60.6). Yet the two schools combined to go 48-20, so the quality of basketball should not be in question.
The game will mark just the third meeting all-time between the Badgers and Cavaliers. Wisconsin defeated Virginia. 66-56, in a pre-conference tournament back in 1998 when Dick Bennett was still pacing the sideline for UW.
This fall's pairing was widely anticipated due projected conference finishes for both sides, not to mention the Bennett connection. Each program must replace all-conference seniors in UW's Jordan Taylor and UVa's Mike Scott. But both are expected to be very competitive in their respective leagues.
Yahoo's Jeff Eisenberg ranked the matchup the 6th most watchable among the challenge games.
The only head scratcher in the full Big Ten/ACC Challenge slate released today was Florida State hosting Minnesota, which appears to be an advantage for the ACC.
Merrill, Wis. native Paul Jesperson also will return to his home state for the first time as an opposing sophomore shooting guard. Jesperson was pressed into service late late season due to some defections from the UVa squad.
Wisconsin has a chance to even its overall record in the Big Ten/ACC Challenge, as well as help the Big Ten aim for its fourth straight victory after 10 straight losses to the ACC to begin the annual event.
Big Ten/ACC Challenge pairings
Tuesday, Nov. 27
Minnesota at Florida State
North Carolina at Indiana
North Carolina State at Michigan
Maryland at Northwestern
Iowa at Virginia Tech
Nebraska at Wake Forest
Wednesday, Nov. 28
Purdue at Clemson
Ohio State at Duke
Georgia Tech at Illinois
Michigan State at Miami
Boston College at Penn State
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Google Earth 7 now with 3D maps and guidebooks.
The new Google Earth 7 has already been launched and brings support for 3D image data of metropolitan areas around the globe, a feature available in the mobile version for several months.
Google Earth Features• Explore the 3D world with great detail.• Observe the terrain and the topography of the planet, constructions and buildings in three dimensions. Alternating between different data layers using the system, showing various types of information.• Maps always updated.• Performs searches of locations.• Look at the depths of the oceans, the buildings, the sky, planets like Mars or even the Moon.• Stroll through the streets with the Street View feature.• Measure distances or areas easily.• Access to historical images.• Different zoom levels for maximum detail.• Access guides to get you anywhere.• Includes a flight simulator.• Compatible with various GPS formats.
This new version includes a guided tour feature that lets you see the most interesting places and see many details without looking specifically. As you move around the map thumbnails created from touring and will dynamically update with interesting places, allowing a virtual experience more streamlined and detailed.
Users will notice that the zoom is inclined now to greater heights. This is to display three-dimensional images. Also new are the new tips in the beginning and the status bar. The terrain data is now open by motor
In addition to an incredible number of visits, Google Earth data update includes 3D views, Wikipedia references and more than one million photographs in Panoramic format.
Google Earth now include more than one hundred thousand tours of cities and popular sites on over 200 countries worldwide, in addition to making significant improvements in the existing tours.
New guided tours offer 3D views and information from Wikipedia references, and information to enrich the user experience when visiting virtually thousands of locations around the globe. More than one million photographs in Panoramio format, allowing observe a 360 degree representation of the chosen sites.
If you have Google Earth installed 7, either on your desktop version of Android or iOS, new tours are updated automatically, without user intervention.


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A north suburban man, partial owner of a hospice company, has been charged with health care fraud for improperly classifying patients into more lucrative care, according to federal prosecutors.
Seth Gillman, 46, of Lincolnwood was charged Friday with one count each of health care fraud and obstructing a federal audit, a statement from the U.S. Attorney's office said.
Prosecutors say that between August 2008 and January 2012, Gillman trained nurses from Passages Hospice LLC, which he partially owned, to look for signs that a hospice patient could qualify or "general inpatient care," which yields higher payments per day than routine care, federal prosecutors said in the statement.
Gillman, an attorney, knew that several patients were incorrectly being placed on GIP, some without a doctor's approval, prosecutors allege.
In one example, west suburban Lisle-based Passages billed Medicare for 1,443 days of hospice care, but the patient's son told investigators his mother was in no danger of dying until the last month of her life, the statement said.
Of 13 Passages patients, a government expert found their billed days for GIP were "improper and excessive," prosecutors said.
Gillman took $833,375 in bonuses for himself between March 2009 and April 2011 prosecutors said. He also made bonus payments to Passages' directors.
Prosecutors also allege the company gave $250 per patient to eight nursing homes in 2010 to place them on GIP.
Gillman was to have his initial court appearance at 3 p.m. Monday before Magistrate Judge Geraldine Soat Brown at the Dirksen Federal. If convicted of both charges, he faces up to 15 years in prison and fines of up to $500,000.


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...ahem, sorry... I mean.... YEAH BABY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
— Adam Caplan (@caplannfl) August 11, 2012
#Panthers announced they signed RB Jonathan Stewart to a five-year extension.
I apologize, I'm not quite sure what's come over me.
In breaking news the Carolina Panthers have reached terms with RB Jonathan Stewart on a new 5-year deal that will keep Stewart with the organization through at earliest the 2017 season. Terms have yet to be announced, but it should be fascinating to see how the Panthers construct the deal in order to keep both Stewart and DeAngelo Williams on the payroll long term. It's important to remember that D-Will has no guaranteed money following 2012, so it's reasonable to think they'll ask him to restructure a year from now, or elect to part ways.
For now, however, there's no point in worrying about Carolina's cap situation long-term, because we've been guaranteed another five years of stiff arms, gifs and plays from a man who has been a class act since arriving in Carolina.
The timing of the deal is wholly reminiscent of Ryan Kalil, whose contract was reached late in training camp too. This will ensure the Panthers already potent offense remains so for a long time. Congratulations to Jonathan Stewart for his new deal, and a much deserved pay day!
UPDATE: Here are the contract numbers. Less overall than DeAngelo, but with the opportunity to make $500,000 more in incentives.
Panthers RB Jonathan Stewart signed a five-year extension worth $36.5 million and a max of $42.5, including $22.5 million guaranteed.— Adam Schefter (@AdamSchefter) August 11, 2012


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Last year about this time Husker fans were asking questions about the quarterback position, most of them centering around Zac Lee and whether or not he would return as the starter in 2010. Lee took the brunt of the blame for poor offensive performance in 2009 (note that for later) and missed spring ball recovering after surgery because of an injury he suffered during the season.
As it turned out, Lee did not retain his starting role from the previous season. That job went to a rookie, redshirt freshman Taylor Martinez, who proceeded to single-handedly establish himself as the next savior of Nebraska football. His early season performance was so impressive that he was mentioned as a serious Heisman contender alongside Michigan's freshman quarterback Denard Robinson. Both players would suffer the same fate, as their sensational performances would come to a halt due to injuries.
Returning Starters: Taylor Martinez, Cody Green
If there's one enormous difference between 2009 and 2010, it's that Zac Lee ended his season with an exceptional performance in a 33-0 butt-kicking of Arizona in the 2009 Holiday Bowl while Taylor Martinez played poorly (along with the rest of the team) in a rematch against Washington in the 2010 Holiday Bowl.
Martinez was hounded for his performance late in the season, most of it coming in the way of off-the-field issues that were largely manufactured by a disappointed fan base. That's too bad, because when he's healthy, Martinez is easily one of the most explosive, dynamic players Nebraska has seen on offense in quite a long time.
Look at his output last season. Against Kansas State, he set a single game school record for rushing by a quarterback, going for 241 yards and scoring four touchdowns. The team had 451 rushing yards, the best total in seven seasons. Against Oklahoma State he became the first Husker in school history to throw for 300 yards and rush for 100 in a single game. Just in case this needs further emphasis, these are historic performances in a program that's been known for rushing the football throughout it's history.
Yet after all that, many fans are down on Martinez as the 2011 starter because of his aloof behavior on the sideline and because they heard way too many rumors about him or his father Casey Martinez.
Green has yet to meet anyone's expectations, despite having started several games over the past two seasons. He played well enough to win the game at Iowa State and played great against Colorado (10-13-80 for 2 TDs), but struggled with accuracy replacing Martinez against Washington, going 3-for-12 for 45 yards.
Interesting to note is that Green is 4-0 as a starter over the past two seasons. He has made some pretty decent plays, but has yet to find the steady output that comes with confidence and experience. It could be that changes with the change in the coaching staff. I wouldn't write off Green's ability just yet.
2010 Passing Statistics
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2010 Rushing Statistics
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These guys get the question mark for the sole reason that neither of them has taken a snap as a quarterback despite having been in the program for at least a couple years. Spano will enter the 2011 season a junior, walk-on Kellogg as a sophomore.
Kody Spano remains largely forgotten. If he happens to get a mention, it usually includes the phrase "hard luck", referring to his back-to-back knee injuries that have kept him off the field.
Kellogg remains the guy that people have seen play in high school, swear he's good,
Will either of these guys see the field? Probably not as long as the Husker offense continues to suck, i.e., not get a healthy lead on any opponent. Even then it should be apparent that live snaps will be given to other up-and-comers.
Brion Carnes, Jamal Turner, Bubba Starling, Tyson Broekemeier
Despite fans worrying about his original commitment - would he stay or would he go to Western Kentucky - Carnes remains the big unknown. He hasn't generated a lot of buzz going into spring practice, despite being the guy most likely to usurp both Martinez and Green as a starter. As a redshirt freshman, he's no longer really a rookie, he knows his way around the program, around Lincoln, and maybe even around defensive ends (hyuk!).
The 2011 Red-White Spring game may be the first real chance for Husker fans to gauge that likelihood, despite it being a glorified scrimmage and heaven knows we wouldn't put so much faith in such a silly thing as that.
Carnes' buzz has been stolen, as it always is, by the new kids in town - Jamal Turner and Bubba Starling. Turner is a dual-threat quarterback from Arlington, TX, whom no one knows a thing about other than he isn't Taylor Martinez. Turner was a highly-prized recruit, rated among the top 50 prospects in the nation.
Even so highly rated, Turner has a problem and that problem's name is Bubba Starling,. Starling is another new recruit whom fans know nothing about other than he's a highly-rated MLB draft prospect and if he comes to Nebraska to play football, he'll most likely be choosing the Big Red over at least a million dollars.
Tyson Broekemeier is a walk-on from Aurora, Nebraska who will, as they say, contribute to 'depth at the position'. That's not so bad - at least he's going to be on the team, something I could have only dreamed about.
2011 vs 2010
The Huskers enter 2011 spring football a little bit ahead of where they were last season - at least the projected starter will be gaining some practice time rather than recovering from off-season surgery. That's a big deal given that Tim Beck has taken Shawn Watson's position as offensive coordinator and will be doing who-knows-what with the offense.
Or it could be they're further behind. They are trying to learn what might be an entirely different offense, something that would put all of them on the same page. And each quarterback has serious question marks coming into spring practice.
Can Taylor Martinez become a leader? Can he find some confidence in his ability to win a game with his arm? Can Cody Green become an effective passer? Will Brion Carnes save us from the first two guys? If he doesn't, what about Jamal Turner? Will Bubba Starling turn down gobs and gobs of money to become a Husker, an answer that has way more to do with worrying about rejection than it does about finding a starting quarterback in 2011?
Finally, will whomever wins the starting quarterback job be able to put points on the board, a concept more important than ever given we're going into an incredibly tough season with only one proven running back?
Who will be the starter come opening day, 2011? It was a question Bo Pelini refused to answer all the way up to the first game of the year. I wouldn't expect anything different this offseason, if for no other reason that Pelini seems to enjoy driving all of us completely crazy.


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The first anniversary of the American invasion of
Nuclear Fingerprints
While American troops were dying in
Sometimes, a bit of hardware needs to be transferred, which is where Tahir came in. Indeed, at least seven countries are already known to have been involved in the Pakistani effort, which Mohamed ElBaradei, the head of the IAEA, called a "Wal-Mart" of nuclear technology and an American official called "one-stop shopping" for nuclear weapons. Khan even printed a brochure with his picture on it listing all the components of nuclear weapons that bomb-hungry customers could buy from him. "What
Another word for this process of copying would be globalization. Proliferation is merely globalization of weapons of mass destruction. The kinship of the two is illustrated by other details of Tahir's story. The Sri Lankan first wanted to build his centrifuges in
The War and Its Aims
But aren't we supposed to be talking about the
Proliferation, however, is not, as the President seemed to think, just a rogue state or two seeking weapons of mass destruction; it is the entire half-century-long process of globalization that stretches from Klaus Fuchs's espionage to Tahir's nuclear arms bazaar and beyond. The war was a failure in its own terms because weapons of mass destruction were absent in
The questions that now cry out to be answered are why did the United States, standing in the midst of the Pakistani nuclear Wal-Mart, its shelves groaning with, among other things, centrifuge parts, uranium hexafluoride (supplied, we now know, to Libya) and helpful bomb-assembly manuals in a variety of languages, rush out of the premises to vainly ransack the empty warehouse of Iraq? What sort of nonproliferation policy could lead to actions like these? How did the Bush Administration, in the name of protecting the country from nuclear danger, wind up leaving the country wide open to nuclear danger?
In answering these questions, it would be reassuring, in a way, to report that the basic facts were discovered only after the war, but the truth is otherwise. In the case of
It's important to recall the chronology of the Korean aspect of
Bush of course had already named the
In short, from June 2002, when the CIA delivered its report to the White House, until October 16-the period in which the nation's decision to go to war in
In sum, the glaring contradiction between the policy of "regime change" for already-disarmed
A New Leviathan
The answers seem to lie in the larger architecture of the Bush foreign policy, or Bush Doctrine. Its aim, which many have properly called imperial, is to establish lasting American hegemony over the entire globe, and its ultimate means is to overthrow regimes of which the
And so, even as the Bush Administration proclaimed
Richard Perle, who until recently served on the Pentagon's Defense Policy Board, seemed to speak for the Administration in an article he wrote for the Guardian the day after the Iraq war was launched. He wrote, "The chatterbox on the
In this larger plan to establish American hegemony, the
The reliance on force over cooperation that was writ large in the imperial plan was also writ small in the occupation of
Thus we don't have to suppose that the Bush officials were indifferent to the spectacular dangers that Kahn's network posed to the safety of the
The same pattern is manifest on an even larger scale. Just now, the peoples of the world are embarked, some willingly and some not, on an arduous, wrenching, perilous, mind-exhaustingly complicated process of learning how to live as one indivisibly connected species on our one small, endangered planet. Seen in a certain light, the Administration's imperial bid, if successful, would amount to a kind of planetary coup d'état, in which the world's dominant power takes charge of this process by virtue of its almost freakishly superior military strength. Seen in another, less dramatic light, the American imperial solution has interposed a huge, unnecessary roadblock between the world and the Himalayan mountain range of urgent tasks that it must accomplish no matter who is in charge: saving the planet from overheating; inventing a humane, just, orderly, democratic, accountable global economy; redressing mounting global inequality and poverty; responding to human rights emergencies, including genocide; and, of course, stopping proliferation as well as rolling back the existing arsenals of nuclear arms. None of these exigencies can be met as long as the world and its greatest power are engaged in a wrestling match over how to proceed.
Does the world want to indict and prosecute crimes against humanity? First, it must decide whether the International Criminal Court will do the job or entrust it to unprosecutable American forces. Do we want to reverse global warming, and head off the extinction of the one-third of the world's species that, according to a report published in Nature magazine, are at risk in the next fifty years? First, the world's largest polluter has to be drawn into the global talks. Do we want to save the world from weapons of mass destruction? First, we have to decide whether we want to do it together peacefully or permit the world's only superpower to attempt it by force of arms.
No wonder, then, that the Administration, as reported by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in these pages, has mounted an assault on the scientific findings that confirm these dangers to the world [see "The Junk Science of George W. Bush," March 8]. The
If the engine of a train suddenly goes off the rails, a wreck ensues. Such is the war in
Jonathan Schell is the Harold Willens Peace Fellow at the Nation Institute and the author of the recently published The Unconquerable World: Power, Nonviolence, and the Will of the People.
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Testimony get off to a late start on Thursday, but wrapped up early in the sexual assault trial of David Watson.
The jury heard testimony from two Lubbock police officers and a forensic nurse.
The forensic nurse said the only visual abrasions she found on the alleged victim were three around her neck, but she said they don't always find physical evidence of rape.
One LPD officer said he found a document titled "Death Con" on Watson's computer, which he says contained detailed, specific, private information about the alleged victim - one section was even titled "dirt."
The officer said they also found explicit videos and pictures of the alleged victim.
The officer said the document contained instructions to distribute information, videos and pictures all over the Internet if Watson was arrested, incarcerated or killed.
The document says to "make her pay."
The defense is arguing this is not evidence of planned violence or sexual assault against the alleged victim and that people react to being dumped differently.
Testimony will continue on Friday.
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