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...it's appropriate for the President to comment on significant tragedies within the country he leads, even unsolved or unconcluded ones.
Of course, we know why he won't talk about it. It throws his own voting history into question. It highlights, in a very unflattering way, his position on human life.
As the pressure stays on, and the story comes to the attention of more Americans, some are no doubt asking how the Gosnell situation happened. How have we, as a nation, reached a point where something so horrific was taking place right under our noses?
I have a theory: we created this problem through our collective, national obsession with sex.
This condition afflicts people without concern for race or creed, and it dehumanizes us. It starts by disassociating sex from procreation through contraception. Whereas marriage as a social institution was once predicated upon the idea of family-building, providing a stable environment for the raising of those children that were considered the proper fruit of the conjugal act, there is now only state-sanctioned sex, accompanied by a handful of legal rights. Of course, many have wised up to the fact that the commitment of marriage is overrated if they can just as easily have sex in whatever adult, consensual arrangement they wish to enter into. Freed of the stigma of out-of-wedlock birth, sex has shrugged off its social taboos that once confined it to marriage. Fornication is the new normal. Virginity before marriage is increasingly considered cause for pity, even scorn.
The upshot of all of this is that people have, by and large, ceased to be lovers, though they may feel something akin to love. They have instead become "sexual partners" — objects for the provision of pleasure, merely to be discarded when boredom sets in, or when someone new, more exciting, younger, or more attractive comes along. Sex isn't for family anymore, so it certainly isn't for keeps. We have decided it's better to keep our options open.
And so we continue to objectify and devalue each other with bacchanalian abandon. Our casual views on sex have lead, unsurprisingly, to a society that is riddled with free, easily accessible pornography, which afflicts even those trying to live good lives and have healthy marriages. Talk to any priest about the sin he hears confessed most, and that one rises to the top of the list. Talk to those who have struggled with it, and the shame and helplessness that they feel in their encounters with this incredibly powerful appetite and the ease with which it can be fed, seemingly consequence-free, is apparent. But we know all too well that an erasure of web browser history does not similarly wipe clean the consequences for our souls, or, perhaps, for our humanity. Something inside us knows, even as our entertainment, educational institutions, and medical professionals try to assure us that porn usage and masturbation are healthy and normal, that something about these things is deeply wrong.
Still, in line with our national embrace of prurience, the FCC is now seeking to loosen decency standards for television and radio content. According to The Hill's Brendan Sasso, "The commission asked for input on how it should handle expletives and brief non-sexual displays of nudity. The rules only cover broadcast TV and radio stations—not cable, satellite or Internet content." The needle moves, gradually but constantly, toward depravity.
As we become increasingly comfortable with viewing other human beings as sex objects, we should not be surprised that human sex trafficking, too, is an enormous problem in the US. It is widely reported that the Superbowl is ranked as the single biggest sex-trafficking event in the world. The nation that is world-famous for fighting a war about slavery remains one of the biggest consumers of slaves — of which, there are an estimated 27 million worldwide, an all-time high.
Orwell knew when he wrote 1984 how important licentiousness was to the building and maintaining of a totalitarian society. Aldous Huxley showed us the same thing in Brave New World. From grammar-school "erotic play" to the pornographic "feelies," from the widespread distribution of contraceptives to the complete biological and psychological separation of sex and procreation, we were warned by these early-20th century literary prophets that it is sex, not religion, that is the opiate of the masses. As our liberties are taken away, we become increasingly sexually libertine, in seemingly direct inverse proportion. But who cares about religious liberty or the 2nd Amendment if the fleshpots are free?
If consequence-free sex is the norm, there are bound to be…consequences. Abortion and sex are inextricably related. You don't have the former without the latter. What happens when, despite our best application of scientific barriers to conception, nature still finds a way? What happens when, horror of horrors, a girl actually gets pregnant? We don't want them "punished with a baby," do we? Let's not kid ourselves: once we are accustomed to looking at people as objects, it's a whole lot easier to kill them.
This is how we arrive at the present moment. This is how we have come to Gosnell, and a media unwilling to talk about the nauseating evil he was capable of. As Charles Krauthammer recently said, "the fact that it's not covered is very easily explained. It puts the pro-abortion forces in a very bad light. It brings the issue of late term abortion starkly into relief." And our President, and most of the mainstream media, are abortion promoters.
We have suppressed decency for so long that we have effectively killed it. We have so accustomed ourselves to the selfish pursuit of pleasure and the avoidance of difficulty and inconvenience that we objectify human life without hesitation. We have so powerfully numbed our consciences to the reality of abortion that we can live with it, and in many cases, even embrace it. Even those of us who abhor abortion have no choice but to spend every day living, working, and continuing on as normal in a country that has eradicated the equivalent of roughly 17% of the current US population. 54,000,000+ children have been murdered since Roe. To put that in perspective: that's more than all the American soldiers killed in every war, conflict, and military operation we've been involved in since the American Revolution — by a factor of forty...


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With five years' residency under her belt, Dozal is essentially a denizen of the subdivision's version of Old Town, buffeted by the growth that followed it. She's seen Phase One reach buildout and Phase Two spring up further down the hill, the houses shrinking and getting closer together as developers try to wring a few more dollars out of the land. She watched as the promised community park turned out to be much smaller than an earlier proposal that was supposed to be located where rows of apartments now stand. She took note whenever the supposedly ironclad covenants were bent to suit the convenience of the developers--say, in order to install a satellite dish for prospective apartment dwellers.
"Originally, Rock Creek looked like a community people were building for the future," she says. "But now I see it being built faster, with less care and less thought. Most of the builders, they're here to build as quickly as possible and make what profit they can. They're not thinking how it's going to look twenty years from now."
Tired of living by the developer's rules, Dozal sold her first home in Rock Creek and bought a lot from Richmond down the block, upon which she proceeded to build her own home, serving as her own general contractor. She became active in a group revising the local architectural codes and joined in the battle against Superior Marketplace. As she sees it, the squabbles over covenants pale beside pressing questions about how to make the best use of the remaining land, how to attract responsible retail development, how to preserve Old Town and what's left of the natural setting that attracted her to the area seven years ago.
"For Rock Creek, the issues aren't really about the color of your home," she says. "They're about the way we continue to develop it. There's a feeling that if we don't do it, we're falling behind. That's true, I suppose, but that doesn't mean we should make stupid decisions."
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All of the model homes at Rock Creek have been lavishly furnished by top decorators. The intent seems to be not just to stimulate the stunted imagination of the prospective buyer--see, dummy, you can put your widescreen TV right here--but to soften the hot-off-the-assembly-line newness of the place, to achieve a cozy, lived-in atmosphere by providing a wealth of personal touches.
It works, up to a point. The cowboy hat resting on the desk in the faux-oak-paneled den suggests that the neighborhood cattle baron has just stepped out for a moment to survey his herd. The numerous photos on the walls of the family room, featuring Old World great-grandmas and weddings and baptisms, evoke an unbroken family history of propagation and triumph. The framed certificate of achievement in what is obviously a boy's bedroom promises that Junior will thrive in his new home, regardless of how he might have struggled somewhere else.
But after you visit three or four show homes, the effect can be disturbing. Whose great-grandma is that in the picture, anyway? Whose wedding? Whose certificate? It's all fake history, an appeal to a tradition that doesn't exist, designed to take your mind off the fact that what you're really buying is an empty shell like hundreds of others, with an unfinished basement and a pile of dirt out back for a yard. There is no past in the golden land, and little inclination to learn from the past mistakes of others.
But the golden land does have a future, one that's already being written by regional planners and developers responding to the accelerating pace of activity along the turnpike. It's being kneaded and shaped by Interlocken, which will bring a golf course, a spa, a luxury hotel and thousands of high-tech jobs to Superior's back door; by Flatirons Crossing, a mega-mall that will bring another 3,000 jobs and an estimated 20,000 car trips a day to the turnpike; by a dozen other major business parks, retail plazas and housing complexes rushing to fill the empty spots on the map. The result, planners say, will be that traffic volume and peak travel time on U.S. 36 will nearly double in the next two decades, hiking demands for a northwestern toll road linking 36 to E-470. That, in turn, would stimulate further development in its wake, swamping the current exurbia in an even more far-flung morass of strip malls and power centers, big-box olde townes and office campuses.
Some people don't see a future so bleak. The software engineers from Interlocken's Level 3 and Sun Microsystems office campuses could, after all, choose to live in Rock Creek, and thanks to the extensive bike trails in the area, they may not even have to drive to work. Superior town manager Williams says that he expects Rock Creek to turn into a "bike-to-work kind of place."
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Funny, funny stuff happens here.
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McKamey served Sullivan County Public School System as an educator and athletics coach, recognized as Coach of the Year several times during his career and honored for his outstanding leadership with the naming of "McKamey Baseball Field" at Sullivan East High School in Bluff City.
McKamey's political experience includes more than 20 years of service on the Sullivan County Commission and a term as Sullivan County mayor.
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A RUSSIAN region in Siberia has confidently proclaimed that its mountains are home to yetis after finding "indisputable proof" of the existence of the hairy beasts in an expedition.
The local administration of the Kemerovo region in the south of Siberia said in a statement on its website that footprints and possibly even hair samples belonging to the yeti were found on the research trip to its remote mountains.
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Kat is one of the most accomplished guitarists and singer/songwriters in the folk, Celtic and traditional music genres. Elating, moving, and amusing audiences with her beautiful blend of sweet melodies, gentle honesty and searing humor, Kat's music reflects a wide range of life's experiences with unusual clarity and authority.
In a clear alto with flawless intonation, Kat Eggleston goes straight to the lyrical and emotional truth of every word and every note. Her musings on home, childhood, and her father's garden are gems of direct, unassuming plainspokenness. Her narratives push hard at our senses and demand we return again and again to pick up the pieces we dropped on first hearing, expanding our comprehension of difficult, personal and universal experience
Kat has released five CDs to date, three of which are available from Waterbug Music, one from Redwing Music, and the most recent--Speak--in August 2009 as an independent release.
Also an actor, teacher and hammered dulcimer player, Kat has been a lead singer with The Otters and with Bohola, and recorded a duo CD with Kate MacLeod. She has played live and on recordings with David Bromberg, Bohola, the David Munnelly Band, Niamh Parsons, Jim Tullio, Tom Dundee, Dennis Cahill, Michael Smith, Brooks Williams, Andrew Calhoun, and many others. She has toured in Europe, Australia, Ireland, England, and Scotland as well as the U.S.
After nearly 20 years in Chicago as a performing singer-songwriter and musical theater artist (including two seasons in Michael Smith's "Snow Queen" at Chicago's prestigious Victory Gardens Theatre), she returned to her home community of Vashon Island in 2008 to be close to her beloved father, an inspiration for many of her best songs.
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Hi all. First post here. I have a Ruger Super Redhawk 44 mag, 9" barrel, with a Nikon scope which I use to deer hunt. However, I am bothered by the fact that my gun is soo loud, my ears ring if I shoot without hearing protection (which I do only when hunting). Does anyone have any experience with putting a silencer on a big revolver such as this? I would appreciate your thoughts or links to where I could get more information about this.
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It is useless, illegal in most States and should not even be discussed in this forum..We don't even know who this guy is.... Jim.............
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Hi Fish As posted by others here in the forum, the silencer is useless on a revolver, try a pair of electronic amplified ear muffs, something like these:Radians HE4B00CS Hunters Ear Muff w/Independent Volume Control Receiver & Amplifier, NRR 85 dB, Moss


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The dramatic images of a small plane crash in December that killed one person off the coast of Hawaii were made public today.
A passenger was recording video as the Dec. 11 crash occurred.
In the images, the Makani Kai Air's 2002 Cessna Grand Caravan turboprop can be seen about to hit the water. It descends straight down to the ocean and crashes on the surface.
Related: Survivor says Hawaii plane crash "like instant brakes."
C. Phillip Hollstein Jr., then 70, of Hawaii, was one of nine people on board.
The lone engine on the small plane had failed right after takeoff from the island of Molokai as it headed toward Honolulu, he told the Associated Press on Dec. 13.
The pilot, Clyde Kawasaki, who landed the plane right-side up, had done "everything by the numbers," Hollstein said.
"He set it up for the best crash-landing you could do," he told the AP. "There wasn't panic or anything. It was very orderly. It wasn't like any of the movies or the TV shows."
In the video, the passengers can be seen making their way out calmly. They clutched the wing to stay afloat. In two groups, they floated for an hour in choppy waters till they were rescued by the U.S. Coast Guard. Hollstein reportedly swam to shore.
One person died — Hawaiian health official Loretta Fuddy.
The owner of the Makani Kai Air said the plane had no previous problems.
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CAMBRIDGE, United Kingdom -- ARKeX has recommenced acquiring a multi-client full tensor gravity gradiometry (FTG) survey within the South Eastern Barents Sea. The survey, started last year but postponed due to weather, will cover 42,784 sq km over the proposed NPD licensing areas.
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Super first directorial effort for 3:10 to Yuma writer Michael Brandt features layered darkness upon a simmering foundation of secrecy and fear.
It is good to see Richard Gere again, not to mention Martin Sheen. We have to assume they had their choice of a hundred scripts before they chose this tightly wound spy thriller. They chose a screenplay written by the top-notch team of edgy anti-hero screenplays, Michael Brandt and Derek Haas.
In their previous underground indie hit, Brandt and Haas penned 3:10 to Yuma (along with Halsted Welles). The sweltering, dark anti-hero parade starring Russell Crowe and Christian Bale was, and is, a hit on the cult-indie circuit.
The Double exudes even darker undertones than Yuma. Old hands Gere and Sheen turn out to be remarkably able to don the suits of latter day paladins and twist the edginess dial to full-on.
Gere plays Paul Shepherdson, a retired CIA super-spook who claims to have neutralized the Soviet super-assassin code-named Cassius. When a US senator gets uppity with the anti-Soviet talk and is found with most of his head disconnected from his neck, aging CIA supervisor Tom Highland (Sheen) knows Shepherdson cannot resist.
The ex-agent is obsessed with Cassius and tormented by the possibility that the brainwashed monster might be on the loose. Something has to be done.
Rookie CIA spy Ben Geary (Topher Grace) is bright eyed and bushy tailed and dying for the chance to make his mark. More to the point, he wrote his Masters thesis on Cassius and has an encyclopedic knowledge of the man. He knows everything about him from his hat size to his favorite drink.
The brilliant, dedicated rookie is teamed up with the disillusioned, bitter veteran Shepherdson to find and take out the smartest, cruelest and best-hidden assassin of all time. A movie is born.
Plus, Ben Geary has a fantastically sexy wife and a darling child, who form the perfect target for a psycho killer. This injects a persistent kinkiness into the plot; a background of underhanded deceit and danger dealing with the highest stakes.
The plot has just the right amount of twists and turns, although some of them do not make perfect sense when put together at the end. Brandt and Haas may have overdone the whodunit angle when they simply could have relied on Gere to do the heavy lifting.
In his debut project as director, Michael Brandt has burst out of the gate like a thoroughbred. Of course, when it comes to actors in possession of the chops in this film, he probably stood aside much of the time. Even so, the film has a perfect pace and keeps up the tension until the very end.
The movie does this with only a few grisly scenes of garrote surgery, courtesy of the dreaded Cassius. Well placed and realistic, they carry an impact that is more coldly, white-collar political, rather than horror-slasher bloody.
The PG-13 rating is fair; this is not a gross production. Rather, it is a cool film with a message to convey. The message is that if you do not like Richard Gere and Martin Sheen before entering the theatre, you will when you leave. They are magnetic.
Lots of night shots, of course, gradually giving way to the light of day as the truth comes out. Great musical sound track with those dark, percussive beats dueling it out with the lonely and abstract strings.
A couple good flashbacks to cement the back-story in our minds and just enough distance to allow us to smugly reassure ourselves that it could never happen to us, ensuring a good, old fashioned intellectual spy-thriller. All the mystique and heart-rending tragedy with none of the bomb blasts, car crashes or machine gun fire that increasing substitutes for acting in these flicks.
A creditable beginning for new director Michael Brandt who definitely had the team on his side with this effort. One hopes he is able to stick with the intellectual noir and attract this kind of talent, in sound and cinematography as well as acting, in his greatly anticipated future films.
Directed by: Michael Brandt
Written by: Michael Brandt and Derek Haas
Starring: Richard Gere, Stephen Moyer, Odette Annable and Topher Grace
Release Date: October 28, 2011
MPAA: Rated PG-13 for intense sequences of action and violence, some disturbing images and language
Running Time: 98 Minutes
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Think-tank warns banks and regulators of critical infrastructure hole in the new US plan
London – 19 June 2009. The US Treasury's new regulatory foundation gives the Federal Reserve the authority to ask for massive amounts of information from financial institutions. The Fed will be charged with the task of raising the capital, liquidity and risk management standards of the systemically important institutions in line with international guidelines. As the banks operating in the UK have seen, this means tough new requirements that require them to proactively monitor their risks and report them to both their board and the regulators in real time.
PJ Di Giammarino, CEO of the JWG-IT Think-Tank, comments: "Given how far behind the international community the US has been, the bar has been raised for both the banks and the regulators very fast. The industry's complex information infrastructure will struggle to deliver in the prescribed timeframes."
Like the European Systemic Risk Council, the US will create an FS Oversight Council, comprised of all eight regulators, to identify gaps and make policy decisions. The Council will have the authority to gather information from any firm and refer emerging risks to the appropriate regulator. Unlike Europe, however, the US is silent on whether it plans to introduce a similar colossal new database. This means an embryonic US regulatory regime will be hit with a big data challenge from day one and could quickly fall behind international efforts.
"Those struggling to upgrade the Basel II risk infrastructures in US banks operating in the UK will be disappointed. Some had held out hope that the US might back away from the UK's data-intensive approach to liquidity risk standards, but this plan calls for the Fed to "put in place a robust process for continuously monitoring the liquidity risk profiles." It would appear unlikely that new invasive reporting can be avoided in 2010.
Di Giammarino continued: "As regulators ask for ever more invasive reporting across regions, clients and products, cracks will appear in the financial infrastructure. Neither the financial institutions nor their infrastructure providers are able to control risk at this micro level across the globe today. It is curious that such comprehensive plans could ignore decades of underinvestment in this industry's infrastructure."
"We remain concerned about the 'report first, ask why later' regulatory approach across the globe. Without a concerted effort from regulators to understand what data they are looking for, what they are planning to do with it and how good it has to be, the costs of implementing this new global regime could be enormous. Not only will the price quickly reach 10 digits, but the real economy's business environment could be eroded even further."
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At CEDIA Expo 2009, PPCwhose innovative products are behind the wall in more than 100 million homeswill present several new solution-based products built to address the needs of custom installers and their customers. Installers and users continue to report loose cables as a major problem in their HD experience. In keeping with its deserved reputation for innovation, PPC highlights its unique Locking HDMI Cable, a patented locking device that grips a port with three times the strength of conventional connectors, enabling average port retention of 12lbs. This exclusive cable not only delivers top-quality HDTV video (up to 1080p) and audio (Dolby Digital DTS-HD master audio and Dolby TrueHD), but it also provides unsurpassed reliability. Additionally, the cable features the distinctive strength and flexibility afforded by PPC's Perfect Flex jacket, and it can be installed easily without tools.
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what do you put on the wood veneer for the dash board is it varnish
what do you put on the wood veneer for the dash board is it varnish
Are you trying to restore it or just protect it?
Hi Dave
This is worth a read.
doing mine at the mo...
used a heat gun and paper scraper to gently melt the old plastic coating off the dash. Then using very fine sandpaper cleaned up the wood veneer. no cracks in the veneer yippee and it looks like this...
Next I bought rustins clear plastic coat. it is a 2 pack solution. mix 4 parts plastic coat to one part hardener and brush it on real thin. an hour between coats and get at least 5 coats on. then 24 hours after 5th coat wet and dry it back gently using 1200grade. then another 5 coats and wet and dry again after 24 hours. after this should need just a couple of coats to look factory fresh.
This stuff honks and is probably not good to breathe so I am doing mine in the open air and storing it all in the shed.
This is after the first 3 coats
I got the rustins mail order from - http://www.axminster.co.uk/rustins-c...ing-prod23018/
I bought a litre and am over half way through it.
Mix it up in an old jam jar, leave the brush in the solution and cover it up with cling film when you are not painting, this lasted 4 days for me so far
So far I am very happy indeed with the finish. I'll post pics of it finished hopefully tomorrow
p.s. because this is a 2pack solution it is essential that all wax, varnish and other nasties are removed from the veneer before painting. Rustins product came with instructions on this. My centre console radio surround had been varnished before and even though I was very thorough removing the varnish it has still coloured more dark than the rest of the dash which is all the same colour... I was also pleased to find that the glovebox lid and each piece either side are all from the same set..
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Stags and Range Rover Classics - I must be a loony
latest update. all coating now on, quick and very light rub down with 1200grade wet and dry and then polish with t-cut and it looks like this.....
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That looks really good Richard.
No offense to anyome who puts walnut on, but I think that what you have there looks the business
Ah! But it IS walnut. Triumph used American Black Walnut for the veneer. Unfortunately, in every Triumph on the road this has now faded/bleached to the orangey colour we are all familiar with. Occasionally NOS dashboard timber panels come up for sale and they are considerably darker than what we are used to.
http://www.woodveneeruk.co.uk/search.php and enter American Walnut
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Ahh...well yes I am corrected Dave!
I should have said burr walnut.
I have never really known what the wood was. When I first had my TR5 it was about 20 years old and the wood was broadly similar in colour to my Stag is currently.


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Leading up to SportsCentre's Year In Review on Christmas Eve, TSN and TSN.ca look back at each of the Top 10 stories of 2013.
Today, we look back at the Sea of Green in Regina - as the Saskatchewan Roughriders won the 101st Grey Cup in front of their passionate fans by toppling the Hamilton Tiger-Cats.
They said the script was written in green ink. After watching the BC Lions and Toronto Argonauts hoist the Grey Cup on home soil the previous two years, Saskatchewan Roughriders fans were hoping this was their year, the season of the 101st Grey Cup to be played in Regina.
The Roughriders' fast start and strong first half gave the province hope, with Darian Durant playing some of the best football of his career and Kory Sheets rushing on a record pace.
The team's second half struggles - a four-game losing streak after Labour Day - served as the obstacle for the heroes to overcome; with the Riders doing just that in finishing second in the West Division before advancing to the championship game in late November.
As if the Grey Cup couldn't hold any more importance, the Roughriders were welcoming back old friends Kent Austin, Andy Fantuz, and Henry Burris, now in black and gold as members of the Hamilton Tiger-Cats.
Austin led Saskatchewan to their last Grey Cup win in 2007 before heading south to coach college football. Fantuz was named Most Outstanding Canadian in that same Grey Cup.
The game itself was never very close, and that was just fine with the 44,710 crammed into the stands at Taylor Field.
Buoyed by a couple of fortunate bounces early, the Roughriders mostly dominated Hamilton that Sunday en route to an easy 45-23 win.
Sheets completed his magical season with nearly 200 rushing yards, two touchdowns and a Grey Cup MVP.
Geroy Simon proved he was still super with two touchdown receptions while fan favourite Weston Dressler and Jock Sanders also added scores.
And as for Durant, the QB who carried the perception he wasn't a big game player, he left with 271 total yards on offence, three touchdowns, and questions of his championship abilities forever answered.
It was the perfect ending to a yearlong journey for the Roughriders and fans of the team in Saskatchewan; all of them rewarded for making the event one of the loudest and most passionate in recent memory.
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Best Denver Answer to Brooklyn Denver 2007 - Sputnik
All the broke, arty types -- musicians, writers, etc. -- in New York can't afford to live in Manhattan. As a result, they flock to less expensive neighborhoods in Brooklyn, which is where hi-dive owner Matt LaBarge and his wife, Allison, once lived. In the fall of 2003, when the couple moved to Denver and took over the former Quixote's spot, they set out to create a hip space like the places they enjoyed in their old Park Slope neighborhood. Ones that served good food, good coffee and good drinks -- even late. Lo and behold, when you build a hip space, the hipsters will come -- and they have. Sputnik has an unmistakable vibe that attracts Denver's boho set, complete with messy-haired hipsters who've traded in their trucker hats for Castro lids. If you didn't know any better, you'd think you were in Brooklyn.


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The Guest House is a country retreat nestled on 6 acres in the quiet community of Sand Flat. Located only 15 minutes from First Monday Trade Days and the historic downtown Mineola, that offers shoppers a variety of shops from antiquing to a nature preserve.
This 1920's farmhouse, with its 9ft ceilings and wood floors will take you back to the good 'ol days. Master bedroom bathroom offers queen size bed, antique footed tub and pedestal sink, for your end of day relaxation.
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Fully-equipped kitchen (with basics such as sugar, salt, creamers, waters) front porch offers 2 porch swings and rocking chairs for you to enjoy your morning coffee and enjoy the sound of the birds.
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This location holds very dear memories to our family. We literally rebuilt this house from scratch. We bought the 54 acre property with this house on it. We were told that we just needed to tear it down. We saw the potential and decided to keep the house. After a couple of years of work, we moved in and have been in love with the property since then. We raised our two boys (men now) in this home. We have many memories here. We hope that you make some memories of your own here and that you enjoy it as much as we enjoy sharing our treasure with you. Our guests satisfaction is our priority.
We have decided to not install internet/wi-fi at our location. We believe that it takes away from your 'getting away' vacation. Come to truly relax and disconnect for a while. If you truly need an internet connection. There are two libraries and other facilities that have an open wi-fi connection.
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9:31 am 01/28/15--Mother Nature may not have delivered Killington the mega blizzard that the East Coast's biggest cities received, but she did drop a beautiful fresh coat of powder on The Beast, and there is a chance of more overnight. With seven inches of the white stuff in the last week, the turns are sweet!
Many natural favorites will stay just that way, including Great Bear and Devils Fiddle, but Supertstar and The Stash park will also remain untouched with plenty of pow. Not to say the grooming team won't get after it, you can expect silky soft corduroy from Cascade to Snowshed, along with Needles Eye which closes at noon for race training. Get it while it's fresh! Key lifts are scheduled from 9:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m. Killington Parks We've got 5 parks with more than 130 jumps, jibs, rails, and boxes plus a Minipipe to keep you lapping all day. Dont forget it is a POWDER DAY in The Stash on Wednesday! Get the lowdown. Killington tickets and passes are always valid at Pico Mountain, but they're closed on Tuesdays. Come this Thursday, be sure to check out our friendly sister just a few minutes west. Combined, the two resorts currently offer more than 200 trails totalling nearly 90 miles of open terrain which is, by far, the most terrain available in the East. Get the details at picomountain.com. Operating Day: 87


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Electronic Arts has announced Freekstyle 2002, a new game for the Sony PlayStation 2. Like SSX Tricky and NBA Street, Freekstyle is an arcade game that will be released under the company's EA Big label. Freekstyle lets players perform all kinds of insane maneuvers and stunts, and in total, there are eight riders to choose from, each one with his or her own style, bikes, personality, and outfits. Riders included in the game are freestyle sensations Mike Metzger, Brian Deegan, Stefy Bau, Clifford "The Flyin' Hawaiian" Adoptante, Jessica Patterson, and Greg "Albee" Albertyn.
There are nine different venues in the game, including Rocket Garden, Crash Pad II, Monumental Motoplex, and the ultimate big-air track Big Sky. Hidden paths and shortcuts challenge players, while special freestyle tracks will let players take their bikes anywhere they want to in free-roaming environments. More than 80 tricks are available in the game. By performing these moves, players earn points and turbo boosts, like in SSX Tricky.
Currently, there are four known game modes. They are circuit, race, freestyle, and free ride. In the race mode, players can also go head-to-head against a second player via split-screen.
While the previous games under the EA Sports Big label have been developed in-house, Freekstyle is being developed at Page 44 in San Francisco. The game is scheduled for release on the PlayStation 2 in spring 2002.


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1 The word of Yahweh came to me, saying, | 1 The word of the LORD came to me: |
2 Son of man, set your face toward the mountains of Israel, and prophesy to them, | 2 "Son of man, set your face against the mountains of Israel; prophesy against them |
3 and say, You mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord Yahweh: Thus says the Lord Yahweh to the mountains and to the hills, to the watercourses and to the valleys: Behold, I, even I, will bring a sword on you, and I will destroy your high places. | 3 and say: 'O mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Sovereign LORD. This is what the Sovereign LORD says to the mountains and hills, to the ravines and valleys: I am about to bring a sword against you, and I will destroy your high places. |
4 Your altars shall become desolate, and your sun-images shall be broken; and I will cast down your slain men before your idols. | 4 Your altars will be demolished and your incense altars will be smashed; and I will slay your people in front of your idols. |
5 I will lay the dead bodies of the children of Israel before their idols; and I will scatter your bones round about your altars. | 5 I will lay the dead bodies of the Israelites in front of their idols, and I will scatter your bones around your altars. |
6 In all your dwelling-places the cities shall be laid waste, and the high places shall be desolate; that your altars may be laid waste and made desolate, and your idols may be broken and cease, and your sun-images may be hewn down, and your works may be abolished. | 6 Wherever you live, the towns will be laid waste and the high places demolished, so that your altars will be laid waste and devastated, your idols smashed and ruined, your incense altars broken down, and what you have made wiped out. |
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You probably know Aliens: Colonial Marines as a chance for games journos to bust out the quips from James Cameron's genre-defying 1986 movie. You might also have heard it's a canonical sequel to that movie, and that its six-year dev cycle has been long enough for the darker voices in your head to start whispering: "Duke Nukem Forever." So now the Texas studio is finally dishing out precious hands-on time with Colonial Marines, what have we learned about those six years? Is it less of an Alien and more of a dinosaur?
Not even a little bit. Somewhere deep within Gearbox the coders have produced a very contemporary-looking bespoke engine, with some bleeding edge graphical tech in the form of a deferred lighting system. While you're walking around the Sulaco, the surface of LV-426 or anywhere else Colonial Marines will take you, the engine's rendering the out-of-frame part of that level before you arrive. When you do rock up to that pre-rendered area, all the cogs and pistons inside your Xbox 360 can focus solely on lighting in real-time. Cue tons of scary silhouettes dancing across walls, realistic light beams and a metric ton of atmosphere.
And that atmosphere is something we got to sample first-hand in the form of Colonial Marines' 8v8, first to 50 kills team deathmatch in a claustrophobic space station level oddly reminiscent of Rebellion's 1999 Alien vs Predator. Pitting marines against aliens, the gameplay's asymmetrical. The Xeno's viewpoint is third-person, which both aids quick progression through ventilation shafts, across ceilings and any other sneaky routes on the way to your soldier-buffet, and shows off some fairly ropey and hopefully placeholder Xenomorph movement animations. Your vision's augmented (again, like AvP) so you can see friends and enemies from afar in a kind of x-ray tint.
Life's much simpler as a marine. Poking out reassuringly in front of you is an iconic pulse rifle, complete with authentic high-pitched burst fire. You also have a motion tracker which uses the original skin-crawling beep sounds from the 1986 movie. It's far from a simple nod to the film, though - constant flipping back and forth between weapon and tracker is vital. It only takes a few dozen sneak attacks from behind to realise that.
What's really striking about the action, as we trade kills with the Gearbox devs playing as Xenos, is how the game's mechanics brutally guide both teams into behaving like their movie counterparts. Marines really do need to watch those corners, stick together, and anything else you might imagine Apone saying. Shotguns really do come in handy for close encounters - along with a brand new weapon we're given the option to use in the weapon loadout screen after each death. It falls somewhere between a pulse rifle and the super-powerful S.M.A.R.T. gun (which comes with an auto-aim function and can only be picked up from hard to reach locations in each level like a Quake railgun). It's the first taste we get for the level of creative licensing Gearbox is allowing itself with this game. So far, so safe.
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Our second taste of Gearbox's expansion of the Aliens universe is a little more controversial - and a lot smashier. It's a new alien type called the Charger, which introduces itself by filling the screen with its triceratops-like form, then pounding it into a pulp of failure and humiliation - much like L4D's Tank. He spawns every two minutes, turning the tide of what's otherwise a really close battle - there's never more than three kills in it as both teams race to 50. The other new alien type we're treated to (read: callously mutilated by) is the Lurker, a much closer relative than the Charger to the Xenos we're used to from the movies. His angle is stealth - moving quickly and silently before closing in for the melee kill.


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Brian Roberts Player Projection No. 92
Key Stats: Brian Roberts back injury ended a three-year run of over 100 runs or 30 or more steals. Those numbers don't go on trees – especially at second base. In fact only one second baseman (Chone Figgins) stole more than 25 bases last season and he had just 62 runs scored. So the key for Roberts not surprisingly in 2011, and based on how 2010 ended, there's reason for optimism. Roberts had 216 at-bats from July 23rd on. If his numbers were projected over 621 at-bats (his average from 2007 through 2009), he would have had a line of 78 R 12 HR 43 RBI 29 steals and a .287 average.
Skeptics Say: Even before hurting his back, Roberts seemed to be slowing down on the base paths. He went from 50 to 40 to 30 steals, and coming off of missing more than half the season he doesn't figure to get above 30 this year.
Peer Comparison: Alexei Ramirez's final line was 83 runs, 18 home runs, 70 RBI, 13 steals and a .282 average. He finished the season ranked 96th in Yahoo. Seeing the full 162 game projection of Roberts last year makes it easy to understand why ranking Roberts at around 95 makes sense.
Given the history of each player it is easy to understand why Roberts is ranked so far ahead of Ramirez on this countdown even though Ramirez plays at a thinner position. I would definitely take the over on 80 runs scored with Roberts batting leadoff for a full season. Taking the over on Alexei scoring 80 runs is a much more difficult call because we don't really know where he will hit yet. While Alexei will hit a few more home runs, the differential in steals (the more critical stat) will be bigger in Roberts' favor. Roberts also has the advantage in OPS and a huge advantage in doubles of that matters to your league.
Lineup Outlook: Luke Scott will be a key for the Orioles. His OPS climbed over .900 for the first time in his career last year, so there's reason to doubt that he can do it again this year. Even if Scott falls back down to where he was in 2008 and 2009, several Orioles are due for improvements including Roberts, newly acquired Mark Reynolds, Nick Markakis, and Adam Jones.
What They're Saying: Yahoo: #10 Second Baseman & #104 Overall; CBS Sportsline: #11 Second Baseman; Tristan Cockcroft of ESPN.com: #9 Second Baseman; FB 365: #14 Second Baseman; Couch Managers: #103 Overall
Projection: If Roberts is the 11th to 14th second baseman off the board, it's a steal.
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IT wasn't just his back that hurt his stats .. he had no real protection at the plate when he was playing. Jones is too immature and I doubt he will grow and Markakis had an off year. AND combined with the Manager the Os had up until Buck what did we expect?
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Agreed that the lineup led to his downfall too last year. That's why I'm projecting 92 runs versus the 78 he would be on pace for.
I think the lineup overall will be better especially if they can bring LaRoche in. That would give them three guys (LaRoche, Reynolds, and Scott) that can hit 25+ home runs and two other guys that won't be far behind (Markakis and Jones).
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MISSOULA - Next week, Missoula resident Lucy France will start as the University of Montana's new legal counsel, according to a press released issued today, replacing David Aronofsky, who retired at the end of 2012.
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France graduated from the UM School of Law in 1993, worked at a Missoula law firm and served since 2008 as director of the university's Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Office.
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