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|Ty Law voted into Patriots Hall of Fame
|05.19.14 at 6:47 pm ET
FOXBORO — In what might be a precursor to his ticket to Canton, Ty Law has been voted by fans as the 22nd person to enter the Patriots Hall of Fame, the team announced Monday.
The induction ceremony will be held on the NRG Plaza outside The Hall at Patriot Place presented by Raytheon on Aug. 1 at 4:30 p.m., just prior to the team's annual in-stadium practice for season ticket members. The outdoor hall of fame ceremony is free and open to the public. Patriots fans of all ages are welcome and encouraged to attend. In addition, Law will be honored during a halftime ceremony at the Patriots Thursday night game on Oct. 16 against the Jets.
Law joins Tedy Bruschi (2013), Troy Brown (2012) and Drew Bledsoe (2011) as the only players to be selected by the fans into the Patriots Hall of Fame in their first year of eligibility.
"Ty Law was one of the greatest players in franchise history and one of the premier corners in the NFL during his Patriots career," said Patriots chairman and CEO Robert Kraft in a statement. "The fans have helped validate that with this year's Hall of Fame selection. We have had an incredible run of success and the building blocks started with players like Ty. He was an important part of three Super Bowl championship teams. It will be an honor to bring Ty back to celebrate his career as he takes his rightful place in our team's Hall of Fame. I am sure he will deliver another memorable moment during his Hall of Fame ceremony, too."
In April, a 20-person nomination committee, comprised of media, alumni and staff, selected three candidates for consideration for the Patriots Hall of Fame. The three finalists were Law, Raymond Clayborn and Bill Parcells. Fans had a month to vote on Patriots.com for the candidate they believed was most deserving of hall of fame consideration.
Law spent 10 seasons with the Patriots (1995-2004) after joining the team as a first-round (23rd overall) draft pick out of Michigan in 1995. Law was a three-time Super Bowl Champion (XXXVI, XXXVIII, XXXIX), a four-time Pro Bowl player (1998, 2001, 2002, 2003) and a two-time All-Pro (1998, 2003) during his tenure with the Patriots. Law tied Clayborn's career franchise-record with 36 interceptions and finished with the most interception return yards in team history with 583. His six interceptions returned for touchdowns are also a franchise best.
Law had nine interceptions in 1998 to become the first Patriots player to lead the NFL in that category. He was a playmaker who played some of his best games in the postseason. He helped lead the Patriots to their first Super Bowl title in 2001 when he intercepted a Kurt Warner pass against the Rams and returned it 47 yards for a touchdown for the first points of the game. In the 2003 AFC championship game, Law intercepted three Peyton Manning passes while leading the Patriots to a 24-14 victory over the Colts.
Law was part of a record-breaking Patriots defense in 2003 that led the NFL in five key categories: opponents points per game (14.9), interceptions (29), fewest touchdown receptions allowed (11), opponents passer rating (56.2) and pass deflections (121) as the team captured its second Super Bowl title in a win over the Panthers. Law is a member of the NFL's all-decade team for the 2000s as well as the Patriots' all-1990s and all-2000s decade teams. He was also selected to the Patriots' 50th Anniversary Team.
Beginning in 2007, the Patriots started a new Hall of Fame tradition, inducting one player or coach each year. The process for induction now involves a panel of media, alumni and staff, who collectively nominate the players or coaches most deserving of induction. After the nominations are made, the committee votes and the top three tallies become that year's finalists. The Patriots then give their fans the opportunity to vote online to select each year's winner.
|Julian Edelman reaches two franchise milestones in win over Bills
|12.29.13 at 11:02 pm ET
FOXBORO — With all the injuries and departures that have taken place within the Patriots passing game following last season to this point in 2013 there remains one constant besides quarterback Tom Brady – wide receiver Julian Edelman.
Edelman continued his career-year Sunday, hauling in nine passes for 65 yards in the Patriots' 34-20 win over the Bills at Gillette Stadium. Of Brady's 14 completions, nine went to the fifth-year receiver, who completed his first full 16-game season since being drafted in 2009.
"I don't think there's ever been any question about Julian's skills or his toughness or his competitiveness. Yeah, you're right," said head coach Bill Belichick, when asked if playing in a full season helped Edelman's development. "This is the year he's been able to stay on the field and certainly his production has paralleled his time on the field. He's done a good job with his opportunities. He always practices hard, plays hard, prepares well. He's always a tough guy you can count on from that standpoint and this year he's been healthy."
Being healthy was one of the main reasons for his breakout year, which saw him catch over 100 passes with a 12-yard reception in the second quarter. He entered the game with 96 catches and finished with 105, good for sixth on the all-time Patriots list for catches in a season. He became the first Patriots player not named Wes Welker to reach the milestone since 2001 and Troy Brown.
"I don't know what the significance is," Edelman said. "I do know that we went out there and played a pretty solid game. There were mess-ups, which, I mentally was the guy who screwed up that formation in that four-minute offense situation. I'm a little bummed about that, but it was definitely a good team-win and it was good to clinch that first-round bye."
Edelman also eclipsed the 1,000-yard receiving mark with a five-yard catch in the opening quarter, becoming just the 10th player in franchise history to do so, as he finished the year with 1,056. While the accolades are special, Edelman maintains helping the team win is more important.
"I mean, it's cool and everything, but you really go out there and play for other things, like playing in the last game of the year and winning that game," he said. "We put ourselves in an opportunity to go one step closer to that. It is definitely kind of cool, just with the road; it's been a crazy road. It's definitely been kind of cool."
Playing in just 11, 15, 13, and nine games respectively in his first four years in the league due to injury or players ahead of him on the depth chart, Edelman's record-breaking day did have some special meaning to him.
|Wes Welker: 'I have been around long enough to know a tough guy when I see one'
|01.18.13 at 9:42 am ET
FOXBORO — Wes Welker isn't about to be intimidated – on Sunday's stage or any stage for that matter.
Goodness knows, people have tried.
There was the Ryan Clark hit in the Steelers game at Gillette in 2008. There have been numerous attempts by the Jets and Dolphins over the last five seasons. There was a big hit delivered by Texans safety Glover Quin in the second quarter of last week's game at Gillette Stadium.
Still, no one has succeeded in keeping Welker from standing up to punishment and running routes over the middle. He even has a shiner this week thanks to the punishment from last week's game.
But ask Welker if anyone intimidates him, and he laughs at you the same way he laughs at the defense trying to punish him.
"Intimidate me?" Welker replied Thursday when asked the question.
The reporter brought up the Clark hit from 2008.
"I don't know. I don't know about intimidating me or anything like that," Welker said. "There are guys that talk trash. There are guys that try to hit you and do all these different things but I feel like I have been around long enough to know a tough guy when I see one."
Does it fuel Welker?
"Sometimes, it just depends. Sometimes it's dirty or in bad taste," Welker said.
Welker stands 5-feet-9 and weighs just 190 pounds. Welker was reminded Thursday the NFL is played by enormous individuals. For those that aren't blessed with that kind of size, what does he use to overcome that?
"I think the two key things are being tough and being smart," Welker said. "Being able to take those hits and do all of those things and at the same time being smart and understanding what the defense is doing and being able to attack it in a certain way where you can maybe make those windows just a little bit bigger where you are not taking those hits and things like that. I would attribute it to being tough and being smart and really understanding the game." Read the rest of this entry »
|Troy Brown is right: Bill Belichick doesn't let his former stars beat him
|12.12.12 at 5:06 pm ET
Former Patriots receiver Troy Brown said this week on Mut & Merloni that Patriots fans shouldn't worry about former New England great Randy Moss giving the Pats trouble when the 49ers come to town Sunday. The reason? Because Bill Belichick won't let him.
"If there's somebody on that team that will beat the Patriots on Sunday, it will not be Randy Moss," Brown said. "He will not score a touchdown on Sunday night."
Brown explained that Belichick makes a point of it to limit his former players when they play again him.
"Just from what I know, when [Belichick] plays against former [Patriots] that have played for him, those particular players will not beat him," Brown said. "I saw him put two guys on Terry Glenn when he came back with Dallas to play here. We were going to win the game. It was just the fact that he didn't want Terry to catch a touchdown or make a big play."
Brown knows Belichick better than most people, and going through the game logs, it's pretty clear he has a point. Glenn, who made a name for himself in New England before talking his way off the team, had his least-productive game of the 2003 season when he played the Pats as a member of the Cowboys, catching just one ball for eight yards in a 12-0 Patriots win.
That stat line (one catch for eight yards and no touchdowns) was repeated by Moss when he played the Pats after they traded him to the Vikings in the 2010 season, suggesting that perhaps Belichick does indeed game-plan around star players who had played under him in New England. Here's a look at how some of the more notable Patriots from the Belichick era have fared against him after leaving New England.
Drew Bledsoe
-Nov. 3, 2002: 28/45, 302 yards, TD, INT
-Dec. 8, 2002: 32/51, 328 yards, 2 TD, 4 INT
-Sept, 7, 2003: 17/28, 230 yards, TD, INT
-Dec. 27, 2003: 12/29, 83 yards, INT
-Oct. 3, 2004: 18/30, 247 yards, TD, INT
-Nov. 14, 2004: 8/19, 76 yards, 3 INT
Lawyer Milloy
-Sept. 7, 2003: 5 combined tackles (3 assisted), sack
-Dec. 27, 2003: 8 combined tackles (4 assisted)
-Nov. 14, 2004: 15 combined tackles* (5 assisted)
-Oct. 30, 2005: 3 combined tackles (2 assisted)
-Dec. 11, 2005: 8 combined tackles (4 assisted)
Terry Glenn
-Nov. 16 2003: 1 reception, 8 yards
Ty Law
-Dec. 4, 2005: 5 combined tackles (1 assisted)
-Dec. 26, 2005: 2 tackles, interception returned 74 yards for TD
-Nov. 13, 2008: 3 tackles
Willie McGinest
-Oct. 7 2007: 2 assisted tackles
Randy Moss
-Oct. 31, 2010: 1 reception, 8 yards
Richard Seymour
-Oct. 2 2011: 3 tackles
It appears Brown has a point, as a couple of strong showings from Milloy and a pick-6 for for Law are the only bright spots on a rather lengthy list of games from star players. As for Belichick not letting those players beat him? Brown was right about that, too: In those games (there's some overlap due to Bledsoe and Milloy's time with the Bills), the Patriots went 11-2. Neither of those losses were the direct result of former Pats' big games, though Milloy sacked Tom Brady in the memorable 31-0 drubbing Buffalo gave the Pats to open the 2003 season, a game in which Bledsoe only needed a mediocre performance (17/28, 230 yards, TD, INT) thanks to Brady's four-interception day.
As the Patriots prepare for the 49ers, it's safe to say that Moss isn't the same player he was when he set the single-season touchdown reception record in 2007. He can "still run," as Brown noted, but history shows it should be a quiet night for him on Sunday.
|Troy Brown tries on his Patriots HOF jacket for first time and thanks fans
|09.13.12 at 2:41 pm ET
FOXBORO — Troy Brown took part in what's become an annual tradition on Thursday.
Every year, before the first Patriots home game of the season, new inductees into the team's Hall of Fame try on their red jacket for the first time in a photo op at The Hall at Patriot Place. Then, the Saturday night before the home opener, they are inducted into the Hall of Fame.
Among the highlights were his recollections of the time then-Patriots head coach Bill Parcells cut the Marshall product in final cuts before the 1993 season.
"It was something I deserved," an honest Brown said Thursday. "I didn't play very well in the preseason. I had the good fortune of talking to Bill for a long, long time at the National Football League Hall of Fame in Canton when Curtis Martin got inducted. We talked and we chatted for about an hour and talked about all those things and all those good days. He was really proud of the way things turned out for me after all that stuff, down to being cut. He was really happy about it and I've always had a tremendous respect for Bill Parcells and the way he went about doing things.
"He's a tough guy and he had his beliefs and he stuck with them, but that doesn't mean that I couldn't try to prove him wrong. It made me a better player, I think. It made me a better person and everything else. Being cut is not fun because I was out for over half the season that year. I came back and I lost my number ' I used to be Irving Fryar [No. 80] and I came back as Stanley Morgan [No. 86]. It wasn't fun. He kind of beat me up a little bit when I got back. Obviously, when the season was over, it's my second year and I'm still a free agent; I didn't know what was going to happen in the offseason and if they were going to sign me back or not. He did again and gave me another opportunity and it's been pretty good since then."
Here are the rest of the highlights from Thursday's Q and A at the Hall at Patriot Place, courtesy Patriots media relations.
Q: What do you expect your emotions to be on Saturday?
TB: I don't know. I'm usually a pretty happy person. I don't think I cry very easily. It just brings back a lot of memories and hopefully I'll see a lot of familiar faces that I haven't seen in awhile. I think this is a great way to cap off what everybody ' Bill [Belichick] was talking about a great career that I put together for myself with the help of so many people ' it's a great way to cap that off. I don't want to say bring it to an end or close it out, but just to cap it off. You can't get any greater honor than this when you're a Patriot.
Q: Do you feel like you can still play?
TB: Every once in awhile I do. I can call Bill [Belichick] up right now and tell him I have four of five good [plays] in me, but in all actuality it would probably be one play and I'm done but I could go out and block somebody probably.
Q: Vince Wilfork's description of you included the word leadership. How does that make you feel.
TB: It's great because when Vince came onto the scene with us, I think my leadership abilities had already blossomed. Before he got here, Vince didn't know me as being this really, really quiet guy in the corner. Kevin Faulk always talks about me as a leader even though I didn't talk a whole lot and do all those things, but for a guy like Vince to say that and to watch him play the game the way he does, I think [the idea] that some of the way I went about doing things rubbed off on him means a lot. You did your best to set a good example.
Q: You use the word blossom. How does leadership blossom? How did it work out in your case?
TB: For a long time I didn't realize it. I just talked about Kevin Faulk just now and I never really realized that he was watching me as much as he was. I was kind of the same way ' I watched a lot of guys, I watched everybody. Just how they went about doing things and things they said and did, I kind of learned from that. When you don't realize it, you just don't. When you finally realize what position you're in and how you have to be a good example for the rest of the guys to study and take care of their bodies and do all those things. I was probably in my 10th or 11th year, somewhere in there. Read the rest of this entry »
|Nick Caserio talks about introducing flexible rookies into the system
|07.28.12 at 6:50 pm ET
FOXBORO — On the heels of a story from Friday on rookie linebacker Dont'a Hightower and trying to balance how to best take advantage of his versatility against his overall professional development, Patriots director of player personnel Nick Caserio weighed in on the idea that you have to manage your expectations your expectations when you're faced with a rookie that has Hightower's skill set.
"Certain players learn at different rates," Caserio said before Friday's practice. "It's really whether or not they can take … really, you start let's say day one of training camp or the first day in pads, the installation goes in, you go out there, you practice that, you make the corrections, you come back the next day and there's going to be another installation that goes in.
"Are they able to retain the information from the previous day? Can they carry that over when you add multiples in? It's a matter of how the player handles that. If the player can handle more, then you can give him more. If he can't handle as much, then you give him less. You just try to find that balance between giving the player too much and letting him also go out there and be able to play and execute at an optimum level."
When it comes to introducing versatile guys into the New England system — and the Patriots brought in several this offseason, including Hightower, defensive lineman Jake Bequette and defensive back Tavon Wilson — there are different rules for different players.
"If they're in a specific role, the more multiples they can handle — whether it's in the kicking game, whether it's in pass coverage, whether it's run defense — then it's going to enhance their ability to get on the field," Caserio said. "Troy Brown was out at practice the other day. There probably isn't a better example of a versatile player really in all three phases of the game. Not everybody can do that. You start with a foundation, you introduce some concepts and some different things and see who can handle what. Maybe one player can handle more relative to another so that's just part of putting the team together and seeing who can handle what."
|Troy Brown's Q&A with the media from Tuesday morning
|06.05.12 at 2:05 pm ET
Here's the complete transcript of Troy Brown's Q&A with the media Tuesday morning.
TB: First of all, I thank each and every one of you for being here. I do appreciate it. I definitely want to say thank you to the many fans that voted and put me in this position. You guys feel free to fire away whenever you're ready.
When you look at this accomplishment and honor, do you get a little bit nostalgic for how things started for you with the Patriots? It's been almost a 20-year association you've had with the team now. 'Yeah, somewhat. You look back on it ' and I always look back on it ' where I started from and how shaky things were and how unsure things were for me for a long time wearing that Patriots uniform. I think it was like seven years in there where it was always pretty unstable for me. I look back on it now and I realize now how much the fans really did appreciate what I was doing when, at times, it seemed like some other people around the organization didn't seem to realize that. When it comes down to it, I always played hard for my teammates and played hard for my coaches no matter who it was and ownership and you really wanted to go out there and make our fans happy. I think that now that I realize how much they appreciated the way I played the game, it does make me feel really good.'
How would you rate yourself on the basis of natural ability? When you think of Hall of Fame, you think of supremely talented players. Where would you put yourself there? 'I was always athletic. I didn't have some of the skills that you see a lot of the athletes have. I could jump, I was quick, I could catch and all those types of things, but when it came to just flat out speed, that was something I had to work really hard at. I got better and I got faster and I think it showed. When I hit 28, 29 years old ' I was probably 30 years old ' I was running my best times ever in the 40-yard dash. That worked out in my favor. Maybe I don't have all the things that you would think a guy my size would have, but I think I read some quotes from Bill [Belichick] and it's kind of hard to make up for some of those things, but when you have the heart and determination to go out there and get something done and you go out there and you play the game like you love it, you can make up for a lot of things that you don't have.'
Did that make it more satisfying that you were able to do that? 'Oh yeah. I've loved football since I was a very tiny kid. I always figured out ways to be successful at it. Since I played Pee Wee Football, I always seemed to be on a team and surrounded with good people and good coaches. I was always able to go out and find a way to win games and that just came along with me. It's just a part of who I am; you always find a way to get things done. It does, it makes me feel really good to know that I had to continue to work to make myself better and continue to work to convince other people who were evaluating me that I deserved to be on their football team. Thank God for Bill Belichick, Charlie Weis and all those guys that gave me an opportunity there to be a starter in the NFL. It worked out for me and it worked out for them too, so definitely a big thank you to them also.'
When you retired, did you think that something like this, getting into the Patriots Hall of Fame, was only a matter of time? 'Yeah, those are things that kind of cross your mind from time to time. I'm not one that's big on accolades and all those things and praise. I did my job and I'm proud of what I did and how I did it. As a player, you get to see all those things: I saw Stanley Morgan go in, I saw Ben Coates go in and all those guys go into the [Patriots] Hall of Fame, Bruce Armstrong. Yeah, you think about all those things because I see it, I played with some of those guys and you're able to see them go in there. When you walk into the Hall of Fame and see the displays in there and all those things ' and me not being a person who's big on all those types of things, when you see somebody's personal stuff hanging up in there, yeah it does make you feel special and you want to be a part of that. Any human being would want to be a part of it, so it did cross my mind once I was done playing that maybe one day I would get to go back there and be in the Hall of Fame along with some of the greatest Patriots to ever do it, and I'm completely honored to be a part of that group now.'
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R.I.P. Frankie Knuckles, Godfather of House and one of the shapers of what music is today.
If you don't know Frankie, check out the Rolling Stone article and educate ya'self.
Behind ear plugs, ear buds, and beanie
The roar of the masses is still nonsense
If only subdued
Words stand out but fail to stick
A foreign language right at home
Currently Listening:
Spies on Bikes - Man Overboard
A musical journey. Immersive, dynamic, and unexpectedly good. One of the best albums I have listened to in a while. The way that it's structured, it doesn't fit nicely into any genre, which is one of the things that distinguishes it as a great album. Progressive beats are accompanied by guitar and coupled with some well done sampling to make something amazing. The song above, Long Walks and Recorded Talks, samples Woody Allen's Midnight in Paris. Who does that? This guy. Hats off to you sir.
No Answers Here. Just Some Thoughts.
by Shane Morris
We all want a simple answer for why our country seems to be coming apart. I wouldn't even venture to say it's "coming apart at the seams", because the seams are remarkably intact. We're staring directly at an implosion from within the core of our country. Democrats want to blame Republicans, and Republicans want to blame Democrats. Our two parties are at a complete deadlock.
The most alarming symptom of all this distress is just how little we have looked at ourselves, and how we, the people, have directly and deliberately sailed America onto a rocky shoreline. Pointing fingers has shown limited efficacy, and every single political pundit seems to have an answer for one, singular problem.
"We don't have enough money."
My grandmother used to spend long hours in her kitchen, and I remember our kitchen discussions vidly. Whenever we would strike an impasse, she'd say, "six in one hand, half a dozen in the other". Mawmaw's little saying has some weight here. All our current solutions fail to address a larger viewpoint of America, how we've changed over the past six decades, and what true economic growth really is. Perhaps it's just me, but I don't feel like creative games with carrying percentage points, different taxes on different people, or tinkering with arithmetic actually has value.
To boil everything down into something simple and easy to understand: America experienced an economic boom after World War II because we were the only country not recovering from being a bombed-out mess. America had no real head-to-head capitalist competition for the better part of four decades. It took the world about 40 years to recover and adjust.
Culturally, our economic prosperity allowed U.S. citizens to slack off, for lack of a better term. My parents were free to choose almost any career they wanted, because they were Baby Boomers, and fuck it, they could do whatever they wanted to do. There were a few blips on the radar (The Oil Embargo, Vietnam, disco…), but for the most part, Baby Boomers were free to choose just about any career. Largely, Baby Boomers ended up in manufacturing and finished goods markets. Under the Baby Boomers, the U.S. economy saw a trade surplus with almost every country in the world.
Everything was ostensibly on cruise control for two decades. Before the computer/internet revolution, technological advances moved much more slowly and information couldn't travel as quickly. As a result, our prosperity saw a continuation that would be unnatural in today's market.
Then came Generation X'ers. The first round of kids popping out of Boomers was born into an unnaturally odd political and economic landscape. These were kids born in the peak of the Cold War, while our only economic opponent was playing by a set of rules destined to fail. But hey, we did build quite a military, right?
So, setting aside the imminent threat of nuclear holocaust - Gen X'ers had parents who didn't really have the foresight of knowing computers would soon take over the world. Our education climate began to shift around this time, and unfortunately, our edge over the rest of the world started taking a hit.
Cultural differences are really important to understand here. In Europe and Southeast Asia, the "we'll rebuild everything and be better mentality" was pervasive. Children were indoctrinated into the mindset that they have to keep up with America. We, as Americans, were an economic and technological target for every capitalist nation in the world. That's a pretty damn big bullseye. The strangest part of that juxtaposition was our lack of awareness regarding this multi-national race.
Our non-competitive mentality was really something I began to understand as a child. "Everyone is a winner"… right? (Raise your hand if you remember this culture.) Across the Atlantic and Pacific, kids were being raised to actually compete and win in what would soon become the most competitive global economy, ever. There would be winners and losers, and in our country, everyone was about to be the winning-loser.
This is where technology comes into play. Sometime around the early 1980s, Japan won. After years of giving its citizens better educations, and pushing the most talented to excel in engineering, computer science, etc - Japan started putting distance between themselves and everyone else. Then it was Korea. Then it was China. In the early 1990s, Europe closed the gap. The United States was woefully unprepared for the technological revolution.
No sane politician in the United States will say it out loud, but we're years behind the rest of the world when it comes to science and technology, and things aren't getting better for us. People in positions of economic power knew it was happening as early as the mid 1980s. This is the first time we began to see the first of our three economic bubble collapses that eventually left the country ostensibly in shambles.
The 1980s saw the stock market rise into a massive bubble and then completely fall apart. Everyone thought they would get rich buying and selling pretend value on Wall Street. It didn't work out.
The 1990s saw our mini-tech bubble come and go with the Dot Com wave. Who knew you couldn't make millions of dollars selling pinto beans online? Everything came crashing down again. Our entire country seemed surprised.
Then, in mid 2000s, everyone started playing Monopoly - in real life. We'd just buy and sell each others houses until we were all millionaires. Where could that possibly go wrong?
For three decades, America tried gimmicks to catch up economically, and none of it worked. Not surprisingly, everyone else in the world kept on kicking our asses. The wealthy people selling these gimmicks to the middle class made off with quite a ransom. America's economy basically turned into a vulture, picking at its own intestines for food.
America's middle class had little real upward mobility to begin with, so "get rich quick" seemed like a decent enough plan to most people. It's not like they were actually educated enough to create competitive products in the world market, so getting lucky would just have to do. (Spoiler Alert: It didn't work.)
So what's really going on here? Well, if you're an economist (I'm not), you're probably going to get mad at me for boiling down our economy into a simple dichotomy. However, America's economy can really be broken down into two sectors: Goods and Services.
Right now, our services market is strong, because we have a preponderance of young liberal arts majors looking for interesting careers in fields like "Wilderness Therapy" or "Social Media Marketing" - you know, things that you don't need any real talent or skill to pull off. When it comes to nurses, hotel managers, servers, customer service, and just about every other internal market, we're totally set.
The problem we're looking at is really based upon the lack of goods we export. When you buy more than you sell, you go into debt. It's honestly that simple. When we think about why we're actually in debt, it has little to do with Obama, Bush, Clinton, or perhaps even Bush before that. Our economy and its spending levels were fixed alongside an assumed productivity and growth curve a long time ago.
We (incorrectly) assumed the line would keep moving diagonally up the chart, away from the rest of the world. When the world caught up, we started borrowing, under the assumption we could catch up eventually. The big problem here isn't the past four years - it's the past 40 years. The reason our old chart was moving upwards was because we could innovate at a higher level than the rest of the world. Local economies had worldwide impact. Now, things are different, and it's not because "the jobs were sent overseas by greedy corporate overlords". The jobs left because we never progressed. No one wants to say it, but we're not supposed to repeat the same things over and over again. If you don't grow, someone else will surpass you.
The reason we were great was because we had better educations, more refined logistics, and we could make better products. Eisenhower's freeways meant we could get products from Pennsylvania to Long Beach in two days. Our ports in Long Beach could reach around the world in a week. (Perhaps I should have prefaced that anecdote with "Once upon a time…")
When we talk about how we're the leaders of the free world, what do we really mean? Mid-pack in education? Perhaps we're talking about our electrical power grid designed for the early 1900s? If energy is truly the only real currency, why are we not empowering ourselves with more alternative energy sources?
In fact, let's ask a bigger question: Who the fuck said "alternative" energy anyway? Why is being a responsible, logical and pragmatic person an "alternative" way of generating energy? Perhaps I'm not 100% okay with being so reliant on a finite resource for almost everything on the planet. That's not an alternative viewpoint - that's just sensible and reasonable.
Today, many of you are going to step into a voting booth because you want something to change in your life. Right now is a good time to take a long hard look in the mirror, and ask yourself what kind of country you want to create. Realize that no presidential candidate on the ballot today has what it takes to completely shift the culture of America.
If you want change, it's not going to happen by asking representatives in Washington for more paperwork. Change happens from within. It happens when you say, "I need to get a lot better at math and science, because technology is the future, and that's where the new jobs will be." If solar power, high speed rail, wind, thorium reactors, portable computers, algae farms, nano-tech, and like a zillion other ideas are the future - why are we focused on pumping out liberal arts majors?
It's truly a wonder what can be accomplished in four years. I'm not talking about what happens The Oval Office. I'm talking about what happens in a classroom.
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I know I'll never see the day when we cast our flags aside. It's a fantasy I can only play out in my head. Humanity is changing, however. If it is to mature, it can no longer continue doing the same things it did in its youth. I see so much rancor and bitterness directed towards states and…


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Zombie Worms Crave Bone. Zombie worms, aka Osedax worms, were first discovered living on whale bones on the seafloor in 2002. Since then, scientists have discovered four other species, all of which get their energy from bones.
Zombie worms don't eat mineral bones directly; instead, they digest fats within the bone. However, their style of "eating" is quite different from ours because they don't have a mouth or a stomach! They secrete an acid from their skin that dissolves bone, freeing up the fat and protein trapped inside. Then, symbiotic bacteria living in the worms' bodies digest the fat and protein. How Osedax acquire nutrients from the bacteria isn't known: they may simply digest the bacteria, or nutrients are somehow transferred to the worm.
More on zombie worms at the Smithsonian Ocean Portal.
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- 11 September 2009 | Surfing
Surfing South Africa will position three Shark Shield devices attached to buoys at the backline of Nahoon Reef in East London throughout the 2009 Mr Price SA Open of Surfing which takes place this Saturday & Sunday.
Over 50 of South Africa's top professional surfers will be in action in the sixth edition of this Surfing South Africa PST event.
Local Lifeguards will replace the Shark Shield batteries every four hours which means that the electronic force field produced by these devices will be in place during every heat.
While beach breaks are not the most appropriate surf spots for the Shark Shields, protected reef breaks such as Nahoon and point breaks such as St Mikes on the KZN South Coast and Mossel Bay are ideal.
The Shark Shield devices are being used as an extra precaution and not because there is any threat of shark activity during the SA Open.
- 11 September 2009 | Surfing
It was a short nonetheless intense day of action with the Quarterfinals of the ASP WQS 5-Star Movistar Pantin Classic taking place in good quality three to four foot (1 to 1.2 meter) waves. The number of title contenders went from eight to four today, the best men of the day securing their berth into the Semifinals of the 22nd edition which will run tomorrow afternoon before the champion is crowned in front expected massive crowds.
After setting pace with a clear advantage throughout Day 3 of competition Thursday, defending champion Willian Cardoso (BRA) was once again unstoppable posting the day's best result to send solid surfer Dion Atkinson (New South Wales, AUS) packing. Finding a couple of clean right-handers to express his vertical forehand style, Cardoso metted a couple of high eight pointers to post the event's best score, 17.10 points (out of a possible 20).
"I paddled out there with a game plan as yesterday, thinking the lefts would be more consistent and offer more wall," Cardoso said. "Once out there, things changed fast and I was pretty stoked to get those two rides almost consecutively and get to relax early in the heat. It seems like things keep going well for me and to be in the Semifinals a second time in two years is really great."
Cardoso, ranked No. 18 before his Movistar Pantin Classic run, is already guaranteed to better his overall ratings' points total with his Semifinal run but will be a favorite towards a possible second consecutive title at Pantin when he paddles out in Semifinal No. 2 against consistent surfer Glenn Hall (IRL).
- 10 September 2009 | Surfing
A flood of enquiries about participation in the attempt to break the Guinness World Record (GWR) for the 'most surfers riding the same wave' have been received from Cape Town surfers for the event that will be held at Muizenberg on 4 October as part of the Earthwave global surfing and sustainable lifestyle festival.
"We've received dozens of enquiries about the Guinness World Record attempt at Earthwave next month," says Paul Botha of Kahuna Promotions, the founders of Earthwave. "After raising the record from 44 to 73 at Muizenberg in 2006, the Cape Town surfing community is amping to break the current record of 100 surfers on the same wave set at Earthwave Brazil last year."
The world record attempt is the highlight of the Earthwave global environmental initiative which has been expanded to a two-day beach festival on the weekend of 3 & 4 October. The 2009 event includes a longboard surfing event; demonstrations in the fast growing Stand Up Paddleboarding (SUP) discipline that will culminate in the Coreban Expression Session featuring some of the country's top exponents; free surfing lessons provided by the surf schools in the area with classes specifically for women conducted by the Roxy Surf School and a host of other fun beach activities for people of all ages.
Tens of thousands of Rands worth of prizes and give-aways have already been donated including a Natural Curve longboard shaped by Durban based SA champion Hugh Thompson along with surfing equipment and accessories from such famous brands as Billabong , Xcel, Palmers, Derevko and New Balance which will be used for Dig for Gold, raffles and other fund-raising competitions.
As usual the business community of the Deep South is heavily involved in promoting their products and services at Earthwave with early adopter David Jones from the Empire Café in Muizenberg challenging all other restaurants in the area to equal or better his donation of R250 cash and a meal voucher for R250.
Environmental initiatives at Earthwave range from providing clearly demarcated bins for recycling of paper, plastic, glass and other refuse to reducing paper usage by handling the entries and prized certificates for participating in the GWR digitally. Negotiations are in progress with Metrorail to allow all train passengers travelling to Muizenberg with surfboards to ride free of charge on the weekend while carpooling will be encouraged to further reduce the carbon footprint of the event.
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Denise Brown -- who became famous after OJ Simpson killed her sister, Nicole Brown Simpson -- is now in the eerie position of dealing with domestic violence again, and this time the alleged perpetrator is her son.
Sean Brown and his live-in girlfriend, Amy, were arrested at their home in Orange County, CA, for felony corporal injury on a spouse. Law enforcement sources tell us they received a call at 2:30 AM today, responded to the scene and noticed visible marks on both parties.
Both are currently in custody.
Denise founded the Nicole Brown Foundation to combat domestic violence.
It's OJ's fault.
What is wrong with you people? So now, someone's ex-sister-in-law's son is now a celebrity? Slow day hounding the real celebs? Couldn't find a single other thing to post?
In other breaking news, Harvey Levin's niece's sister's ex-mother in law's half brother got a parking ticket in Hampstead, New Jersey. No one was injured.
Poetic justice for Denise Brown. Loud mouthed BEEOTCH!
she is hot
Wasn't OJ found "NOT GUILTY"???
The Nicole Brown Foundation is a joke. Just a small portion of the actual money they receive in donations actually goes to the intended cause. How ironic that her own son would be accused of domestic violence
but they were such a ''sweet' looking couple too.
they better go to classes that his mother organized
for battered people..it is posted here because it so ironic.
deju vu..
TMZ are bottom feeders for any news.
She probably obsessed over the OJ thing so much that it interfered with her raising her son.
sorry jill, didnt mean to repeat some of your words.
you came in a second before i did.)"
They kinda look alike
Remember when TMZ had a slow news day last time? Every time that's ever happened we have to read stories like this. You're really reaching with this one. Maybe you should go enjoy the lull that leads up to the new year with your own friend and family. That's not a typo, you only have one friend.
OJ was found not guilty, so for the story to report "...after he killed his wife..." is just poor journalism. I know we all KNOW the truth, I'm just saying....
Ummm.....OJ was acquitted. So why wasn't it written "after OJ was ACQUITTED of killing her sister", yet this current woman beater is referred to as the "alleged perpetrator"?
"I thought this was America people!"
We all have our feelings in regards to the OJ Simpson verdict, but as not to offend anyone words should be chosen more considerably! That is all! PEACE!


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ASU, UA bounce back in 2014 NFL Draft
A year after an NFL Draft lowpoint for members of the Territorial Cup rivalry, things appear to be back on track.
Not a single player from Arizona State or the University of Arizona was selected in last year's draft.
It makes sense -- both programs were at somewhat of a low point, and both were breaking in first-year coaches, which may have led to an attrition of talent the previous season.
But the two schools combined for six draftees this year, and it doesn't look like that number will be declining any time soon.
UA running back Ka'Deem Carey and ASU D-lineman Will Sutton will be teammates in Chicago, while Sun Devils Marion Grice and Carl Bradford were selected by the San Diego Chargers and Green Bay Packers, respectively.
On the UA side, Marquis Flowers was selected by the Cincinnati Bengals and Shaquille Richardson went to the Pittsburgh Steelers.
While the rivalry game itself was lopsided in ASU's favor last season, there's no denying that the talent level as a whole is on the rise. Both rosters have several potential draftees in the coming years, and both are in positions to be competitive in the Pac-12 South division.
And Saturday, in the wake of the draft, seven ASU products signed as undrafted free agents.
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Paul Bettany (via jessybrunette)
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#38. Paul Bettany
(Wimbledon, Legion, A Knight's Tale)
Before I go much further, let me point out that Bettany should be 37 and Macca should be 38, but his picture is a .png and macca's is a .jpg so it saved Macca's before Bettany's and I wasn't paying attention until just now.
But whatever. Paul Bettany is amazing. He's not real, he's Chaucer, he's JARVIS, he's an angel bent on saving humanity and oh yeah, he's a warrior priest out to kick vampire ass and THOSE ARE JUST A FEW OF HIS ROLES.
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Sour grapes much? Both of Italy's Formula One teams had to switch drivers mid-season during the year: Scuderia Toro Rosso (because Sebastien Bourdais wasn't working out) and Scuderia Ferrari (due to Felipe Massa injury). However, due to the comprehensive ban on in-season testing, neither could put their replacements into the cockpits of their F1 cars until the following grand prix weekend. So STR's newcomer Jaime Alguersuari was thrown straight into the deep end to sink or swim, while Ferrari, for its part, has been unable to give a returning Michael Schumacher any seat time in the new car. Not that the Maranello squad didn't try – their request for a one-time exemption was opposed by Williams, Red Bull and Toro Rosso. Now a message has appeared on the Ferrari website lashing out at the junior Toro Rosso team.
The statement calls out STR – which, it's worth noting, has used Ferrari customer engines for these past three seasons – as a "team that hasn't won anything for years and yet didn't pass over the opportunity to demonstrate once more a lack of spirit of fair play", while noting that Ferrari had given its consent for an exceptional test for Alguersuari. Ouch. (For the record, though, Toro Rosso won the Italian Grand Prix last year.) We would have to assume the message was somehow posted by a rogue with access to the Ferrari website, but that only begs the question as to why, several days later, it still hasn't been taken down. Follow the link to read the message in full on the Ferrari website.
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Having recently tasted a few 2006 Brunellos, my thoughts turned to the reputation of Brunello and where it fits within the hierarchy of Italian wines. While there are some lovely wines from Brunello, it has never been one of my go-to regions in Italy.
This has as much to do with pricing as it does with quality. Sangiovese is a fantastic grape that produces tremendous wines, though I have typically gotten my sangiovese fix in Chianti or Rosso di Montalcino, which can also be great values.
All this got me thinking, what are my favorite Italian red wines? And why? Some may surprise you, but all are worth further investigation!
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You know the way you go to see a film that you've heard is crap, you have these really low expectations so the film turns out to be quite good. Well, not in this case. I thought it was going to be crap, and was I ever right? The start isn't too bad. We see Tom "Brain Lesion" Cruise asRead more


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Nailhead Trim To Top Furnishings Accents
Posted by Bill Esler | Posted: 11/15/2012 6:45PM
HIGH POINT, NC – Furniture with nailhead trim is enjoying a sudden surge in popularity, says the American Home Furnishings Alliance.
The classic accent, no longer limited to leather or upholstery, is now appearing in places where it's seldom seen – like wood furniture.
At the most recent home furnishings market in High Point, NC, nailhead trim had migrated from sofas, chairs and chaises to consoles, chests, and buffets, says AHFA.
It is also used in patterns rather than straight lines, it becomes a textural element to accessorize a traditional table, chest or console.
"The industry's top designers have embraced this as the new 'on-trend' embellishment," says Jackie Hirschhaut, VP at American Home Furnishings Alliance.
Hooker Furniture employed nailhead trim in consoles and chests to outline curves and add embroidery-inspired patterns.
Nailhead trim detailing also appears on Hickory Chair's Muse cabinet, and on Magnussen Home's new high-style Onyx bedroom collection with crocodile-embossed leather and chrome-plated nickel nailheads.
And HGTV HOME Furniture collection collaboration with Bassett furniture features a Mum table shimmering with nailhead. And nailhead trim outlined Taylor King's new "classically transitional" sofas and chairs this fall.
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Bill EslerBill Esler, Associate Publisher/ Editor in Chief, Woodworking Network Bill is responsible for editing Custom Woodworking Business and coordinating content for Wood Products , CLOSETS , WoodworkingNetwork.com, and related newsletters. Bill's expertise includes using innovative print manufacturing techniques to grow audience engagement, digital printing, purls, QR codes; and lead-generating webcasts, custom websites, and custom digital and print content. Read Bill Esler's woodworking blogs. He can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com or follow him on Google+.
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Lynne Sullivan has been named editor in chief of the Herald News and Taunton Daily Gazette. Most recently, she served as the news editor of the Herald News. Prior to that, Sullivan was the special sections editor for the newspaper. She has also worked for the Fall River Spirit and Hathaway Newspaper Group in Massachusetts.
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