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Conservationists say the mine would pollute one of the state's most pristine areas. The Bad River in particular fear the mine would contaminate the sensitive sloughs where they hold their traditional rice harvests.
Company officials have suspended their plans, though, saying they want assurances from legislators of a definite end point in the state Department of Natural Resources mine permitting process, which can take years to complete. Republican lawmakers, who see the mine as a tangible way to deliver on campaign promises to create jobs, spent most of the last year working on a bill.
The 183-page legislation released last week would require the DNR to approve or deny an iron mine application within 360 days, eliminate challenges to DNR permitting decisions along the way and limit who can sue over permit violations. It also would ease standards for water withdrawals and redirect half of a state tax on ore sales that currently is earmarked for municipalities near mines back to the state.
Gogebic Taconite president Bill Williams said after that hearing that he appreciates Republicans' efforts to put "common sense" into the permitting process.
"Those are the things that get the project off the ground," he said. Williams said people should realize the approval process will be based on scientific merit, not on "emotional heartache."
It's unclear what will become of the bill. The jobs committee wasn't expected to vote on the measure Wednesday, although Assembly Speaker Jeff Fitzgerald has promised a full Assembly vote early next year. Meanwhile, Senate Republicans have created their own committee to consider changes to the mine permit process.
Rep. Mary Williams, R-Medford, took heat for scheduling the hearing in West Allis, a Milwaukee suburb some 300 miles from the Penokee Hills. Mine opponents and supporters alike complained they had to drive hours to be heard.
Republicans have said the location made sense because heavy equipment manufacturers that would benefit from the mine are based in the Milwaukee area. Milwaukee Association of Commerce President Tim Sheehy echoed that stance in written remarks to the committee, saying the mine will have a huge impact on those businesses.
"This is an opportunity the entire state cannot afford to pass up," Sheehy said.
Williams told the crowd that the committee held an information hearing on mining in Hurley, a town near the proposed site, in October - although the bill hadn't been released yet - and state senators who represent the mine area can call for a hearing up north if they choose.
Fitzgerald issued a statement Wednesday afternoon praising Williams for holding the hearing in West Allis.
"... It is clear from the testimony today," Fitzgerald said, "that this bill will not only lead to thousands of jobs in northern Wisconsin but southeastern Wisconsin as well."
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Posted: 12/01/2009 - Police say, after an extensive investigation, there was no rape in the Austin Building of East Carolina University on June 24.
Posted: 12/01/2009 - Police say, after an extensive investigation, there was no rape in the Austin Building of East Carolina University on June 24.
Updated: 11/30/2009 - Hotels and other businesses in Greenville are gearing up for a big weekend with the ECU Pirates hosting the Conference USA Championship game Saturday.
Updated: 11/30/2009 - If you have ever had to travel through Greenville you know what's it's like to be stopped by one of the CSX trains.
Updated: 11/30/2009 - Outgoing Greenville Council Woman Mildred Council says someone has hacked into her personal e-mail account and is sending out correspondence asking for money claiming to be her.
Updated: 11/30/2009 - Trooper Amanda Signs received a broken nose, multiple lacerations and bruises in the Thanksgiving Day assault. The trooper will have to undergo reconstructive surgery.
Updated: 11/30/2009 - Winterville police have charged Teresa Delong with 80 felony charges, including financial card theft, obtaining money by false pretense and financial card fraud.
Updated: 12/01/2009 - The lawyer for a man suing a New Bern television station and its chief meteorologist says a judge is expected to sign an order keeping the station in that lawsuit.
Updated: 11/30/2009 - The ECU Pirates will play before a national television audience Saturday. Tickets for Saturday's game are also on sale.
Updated: 11/30/2009 - Greenville is gearing up for a very busy weekend of football and festive holiday fun.
Updated: 11/30/2009 - The gunman got away with money from the restaurant's safe in the 1:00 a.m. holdup.
Updated: 11/30/2009 - Real progress starts Monday on improving backed up traffic at railroad crossings in Greenville.
Updated: 11/29/2009 - William Hopkins told police he was visiting a friends house when a male armed with a golf club approached him demanding money.
Updated: 11/30/2009 - Greenville police say they received a "burglary in progress" call. They say when they arrived, they found a woman and man forced open a window to try to enter an apartment on Johnston Street.
Updated: 11/29/2009 - Greenville police are investigating an armed robbery.
Updated: 11/27/2009 - Despite the winds and the cold rain early this morning, many brave, bargain-hunting souls camped out at the local Best Buy in Greenville to be the first ones to get the hottest gifts for Christmas.
Updated: 11/27/2009 - Experts say Black Friday brings in about 10 billion dollars a year and people across Eastern Carolina were taking advantage of the sales.
Posted: 11/27/2009 - Bargain hunters camped out and lined up around several local retailers for Black Friday!
Updated: 11/26/2009 - For many of us it's time to sit back, relax, and digest our thanksgiving feast. But for others, it's time to strategize because black Friday is tomorrow which means stores are slashing prices. But will the economy affect people's shopping?
Updated: 11/28/2009 - A man who authorities say assaulted a female state trooper on Thanksgiving Day has previous convictions for assaulting women and an officer.
Updated: 11/26/2009 - A silver alert for a missing Greenville woman has been cancelled after authorities say she was found.
Posted: 11/25/2009 - Holiday travel was keeping the Pitt-Greenville airport busy Wednesday as many college students are off to celebrate turkey day.
Updated: 11/25/2009 - Ellis Hunter died Sunday, a week after being shot twice during a fight on Main Street in Farmville
Updated: 11/25/2009 - It's the first time in 21 years that police cars in Greenville have sported a new look.
Updated: 11/25/2009 - Motor vehicle crashes are the leading cause of death for teenagers. WITN spoke to a father who lost his son in a crash, and he has a message for other parents.
Updated: 11/25/2009 - Authorities say they found seven sticks of dynamite in the refrigerator of a townhome on Vineyard Drive.


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The feature, called AutoRip, was launched in January for CDs. The company has said it has boosted music sales. Digital songs are stored in the customer's online storage account with Amazon. Songs received this way don't count against that customer's storage limit.
The new offer, announced Wednesday, extends to any physical albums bought on Amazon since 1998.
The digital songs can be played on a variety of devices, including Amazon.com Inc.'s Kindle Fire tablets, Android phones and tablets and Apple Inc.'s iPads and iPhones.
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The European Union's competition authority is opening a formal investigation of Amazon's European corporate income tax practices.
The European Union's competition authority is opening a formal investigation of Amazon's European corporate income tax practices.
The government called for the huge fine in 2008 if Yahoo didn't go along with an expansion of U.S. surveillance by surrendering online information.
BP was grossly negligent for its role in the 2010 Gulf oil spill, a U.S. district judge says, in a ruling that could add billions of dollars in fines.
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CORPUS CHRISTI - April is designated as Organ Donation Month in the United States. If you are like most families, the idea of organ donation will not cross your mind until one of your loved ones is diagnosed with a disease or has an accident that make one of their major body organs fail and put your loved one's life at risk. But it is vital that we as a community understand the importance and need of organ donation — it is truly a precious, lifesaving gift.
This story is repeated every day in America. According to the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network (OPTN) every 10 minutes another name is added to the national organ transplant waiting list.
And even though nearly 100 people a day receive organ transplants, many more die every day waiting for transplants that will never happen because of the shortage of donated organs.
Currently there are 112,657 patients waiting for an organ donation of which 1,800 are pediatric patients. Last year there were 21,354 organ transplants performed in the U.S. and there were 10,558 organ donors.
As you can see there is currently in America a great need for organ donation.
I want to share a real life story with you. In 1993, my wife and I learned that our daughter, Brandy, was diagnosed with Lupus at an early age of 9 years old. The lupus was attacking her kidneys. Dr. William Travis, a pediatric nephrologist who traveled from Galveston UTMB Hospital to Driscoll Children's Hospital each month to treat her, estimated that Brandy's kidneys would probably fail within the next 10 years.
Although my daughter did better than Dr. Travis expected, 12 years later in 2005 Brandy's kidneys finally failed. She was required to go on dialysis treatments three times each week in order to save her life. When it happened I was in shock. Even though I had known this day was coming for over a decade, I was not mentally or financially ready for the changes that were to quickly impact our family.
Once the doctors began to talk to us about the idea of a kidney transplant, my wife and I began reading and learning everything we could about organ transplantation and donation.We learned there were two possible ways for our daughter to obtain a new kidney. Either she could be put on a waiting list until a suitable match could be found from a deceased donor or a living donor would be willing to donate one of their own kidneys. Our family decided to test each of us for compatibility and after many months of testing we were told that we had two possible donors in our family — my oldest daughter, Amber, and I were compatible matches for donation.
I immediately decided to give my daughter Brandy one of my kidneys. It took almost an entire year after that before the transplant operation took place in San Antonio and on Oct. 26, 2006, Brandy received one of my kidneys. Within hours she was alert and energized. My little girl was once again smiling, joyful and happy. God blesses us in many different ways, but on that day He gave us our daughter back.
The new kidney gave my daughter the opportunity to have a normal life. I remember that not too long after the operation my daughter told me, "Dad, all my life I didn't know how sick I was because that was normal."
Today, Brandy is a second grade teacher and doing her part to change lives in her own way.
So this April, I hope you will seriously consider becoming an organ donor and give someone the ultimate gift — the gift of life. It is simple and easy to do — it takes just a second while renewing or replacing your Texas Driver's License. And make no mistake, by becoming a donor, you give the gift of hope to a family in need and you will make miracles happen. For more information about organ donation please visit www.organdonor.gov.
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Did You Venture Out to Shop at 12:01 AM on Black Friday?
I've finally caught up on my sleep after my first time in probably 10 years being part of an opening on Black Friday.
I've finally caught up on my sleep after my first time in probably 10 years being part of an opening on Black Friday.
I probably wrote something similar last year, but I feel the need to write about it again this year. I am thankful that in Maine, we don't have shopping for the most part on Thanksgiving.
Over the years, self service is creeping more and more into our lives. First, gas fill-ups and ATMs, then came the EZ pass, grocery self checkout and now DVD vending machine rentals and online shopping. Do you buy a lot online? Are we losing something here aside from a few jobs like our ability to communicate face-to-face?
Earlier in the halls here at work today I joked and said "tomorrow it is six months until Christmas." I got the usual groans and other responses normally given to saying that at this time of year or really any time of year aside from the late fall leading up to Christmas.
Yes, the topic of customer service. We love to complain and talk about which places have the worst but today, let's celebrate who has the best.
'The Moose is Loose' this afternoon (May 10) at the Marketplace at Augusta. Join me from 1pm to 4pm as we 'Celebrate Mom' and enter Mom into win a $500 shopping spree, gift bag of merchant gift cards, dinner for 4 at the Red Robin and 4 tickets to Regal Cinema.
Earlier this morning in my Facebook feed I came across some website asking if you were "man enough" to buy feminine products and that inspired this post. Let's have a little fun with this. Are there any items that you refuse to buy or are reluctant to pick up out of embarrassment?
How does the old joke go? "Is that a (blank) in your pocket or are you just happy to see me?" I have a feeling this guy is going to hear that joke a few times. Jonathan Hood of Manchester, New Hampshire is accused of putting poultry in his pocket and watching out of a grocery store.
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So, how has your "Black Friday" shopping gone so far? We're you out at midnight? Have you rested since you started? Every "Black Friday" I think of those who work retail. Yes, they don't have a chance to watch the clock or get bored but what a day I'm sure.


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This week on Minor League Report Braves FTW will take a look at Atlanta's AA affiliate: the Mississippi Braves.
Despite boasting one of the best starting rotations in the minor leagues, Mississippi is just 21-32 overall on the year and in last place in the Southern League South Division.
Randall Delgado is the biggest prospect to spend the majority of his time this year at Mississippi. One of the top arms in the Braves system, Delgado hasn't been as dominant in 2011 as he was last year. His ERA is 3.77 (mostly due to one terrible start) but his control hasn't been as good as last year.
While he wasn't on many prospect lists coming into the season, Paul Clemens leads both the team and the entire Southern League in ERA (2.08). Clemens doesn't have terrific peripheral stats but is in the middle of a breakout year and gives the Braves another talented young arm.
J.J. Hoover, who has made a couple of starts at AAA, is second in the league in ERA. Hoover is a terrific young talent although he is shadowed by some of the ace-caliber arms the Braves have. A potential third starter, Hoover has kept the walks down this year (although he struggled with control in his two AAA starts) and has a terrific 3.67 K/BB for Mississippi.
The other full-time member of the rotation is Brett Oberholtzer, a workhorse with terrific peripheral numbers (4.67 K/BB) even if his ERA is a little higher (4.10) than expected. Another guy who isn't as dominant as one of the Braves top prospects, Oberholtzer has a future somewhere at the Major League level.
Arodyzs Vizcaino (who was profiled by Will Brown this past Tuesday) recently received a promotion to AA and gives Mississippi a rotation full of future Major Leaguers.
The bullpen also has a couple of players to watch.
Billy Bullock, who was acquired from the Twins for Scott Diamond this past offseason, is a high strikeout reliever who could break out at any moment. Last year he struck out 105 batters in just 74 innings and he actually has a higher K/9 this year (13.3 to 12.8). While walks have been an issue, Bullock has the potential to be a shutdown reliever and is a great piece to have in the organization.
Another reliever to watch is Benino Pruneda. Like Bullock, Pruneda is a high strikeout pitcher who can be a bit wild at times. His 2.95 ERA and 20 strikeouts in 21 innings thus far in 2011 is promising, and Pruneda is gives the Braves already rich pitching system more depth.
While the Mississippi Braves pitching staff had tons of guys to be excited about, the hitting is about the polar opposite. The team is hitting just .252 as a whole and ranks near the bottom of the league in just about every major statistical category.
The team only has three players that are worth mentioning.
The highlight of the offense is shortstop Tyler Pastornicky (another player previously profiled by Will Brown). He is hitting .301 and has flashed some power and speed so far this season.
Mycal Jones is an interesting prospect to watch as well. Although his numbers aren't overwhelming (largely due to him playing only 15 games thus far) he has a terrific blend of power and speed. In the past, Jones hasn't hit for average or gotten on base enough to solidify his prospect status. This year, Jones converted to centerfield (from the infield) and might be the most "MLB ready" outfield prospect the Braves have. (A number of their AAA outfielders are too old for prospect status).
Coming off two good seasons, Cory Harrilchack was supposed to take another step forward in 2011 but instead has fallen apart offensively. He is hitting just .209 and has struggled in every category except walks. He has promise and may eventually end up in the Braves outfield if he can turn things around.
All in all, Mississippi is being held back by serious offensive problems. The five pitchers who make up their starting rotation all have a future at the major league level and the bullpen offers some high strikeout relievers who could eventually make an impact. However, Cory Harrilchak and Mycal Jones have a lot of work to do to solidify their prospect status, leaving Tyler Pastornicky as the only position player who is a sure thing to make it to the Major Leagues.


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If that is truly the case, then it is the consumers who are losing because we already
that 3dmark performance is not necessarily representative of performance in real-world games, and we already
that both NVIDIA and ATI can "optimize" their drivers for improved performance in 3dmark.
Chant the word "optimize" three times and maybe it'll come true, ok? :rollseyes:
That certainly seems like an overstatement. "Optimization" such as this can apparently only be done with a fixed camera view where we know exactly what will be rendered. So this is an issue that should not be evident in typical games. The Detonator FX 44.03 drivers have been tested by several professional reviewers, and their image quality and performance seem to be up almost across the board for the FX cards. Regular FX users have verified this too if you read some forum comments.
The clip planes "cheat" requires a fixed view angle to work. So do timedemos. Still with me? That isn't too complicated of a "cheat" to understand, is it? The fact that this "cheat" can be used in a game's timedemo more easily since they don't run at normal frame rates like 3DM does should be cause for alarm. Until we know for certain that Nvidia didn't also "cheat", say, UT2003's timedemos we should play it safe and rule out any scores based on these drivers. "cheat"
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Quantum-enhanced radar can't be fooled by electronic detection countermeasures
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The military use of radar has always had a yin-yang dynamic – as new forms of radar are developed, so too are new ways to jam them. A team of physicists at the University of Rochester has discovered how to defeat the latest active radar jamming methods by taking advantage of the quantum properties of photons. While this new anti-jamming technology cannot remove the false information, it provides an immediate alert that false information is being received.
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Spanish survives bilingual challenge.
A study of Cuban and Mexican immigrants now finds that most learn English well after living in the United States for about 12 years, although much larger and faster language gains occur in those who receive formal English schooling. As many as 50 years after immigrating, these people show no loss of facility with Spanish and still speak their native tongue about half the time.
"Our data suggest that if you immigrate as an adolescent or young adult with a good grasp of Spanish, an English-immersion program will accelerate new-language learning and won't damage Spanish knowledge," asserts Harry P. Bahrick, a psychologist at Ohio Wesleyan University in Delaware, Ohio.
Bahrick and his colleagues tested 348 men and 453 women, most of whom had immigrated to the United States between age 10 and 26. Nearly equal numbers lived in one of three locales: Miami; El Paso, Texas; or Midwestern towns in which Hispanics are a small minority. Testing of Spanish and English language skills took place between 4 months and 50 years after immigration.
Overall, scores on Spanish text comprehension, vocabulary, grammar, and oral comprehension held largely stable across 50 years of U.S. residence. Agerelated declines on these measures appeared in the oldest participants.
Volunteers readily identified "anglicized" Spanish words and phrases, such as "factorias" and "correctar." The use of these hybrid terms by many immigrants apparently does not interfere with their understanding of either Spanish or English, Bahrick's team contends in the September JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY: GENERAL.
Scores on English tests improved rapidly during the first year after immigration. English vocabulary recognition and category generation -- measured by the ability to name examples of clothing and body parts -- showed substantial gains over the next 30 years for each of the geographical groups; performance on tests of oral comprehension and the ability to distinguish real from made-up words increased slightly in that same time period.
After statistically controlling for the amount of postimmigration English language usage and formal English education, those who immigrated at age 18 or older displayed more English knowledge than those who arrived before age 18. This finding contradicts the widespread assumption that the ability to learn a second language declines with age after passing through a critical period for language acquisition in early childhood, Bahrick argues.
Conceptual similarities between English and Spanish aided English learning in older immigrants, who had larger Spanish vocabularies to draw on, Bahrick theorizes. Participants citing the most prior Spanish schooling and displaying the largest Spanish vocabularies learned the most English, he points out.
Native Spanish speakers may find it easier to learn English than native speakers of tongues with few conceptual links to English, such as Japanese, the Ohio psychologist holds.
Other data suggest a critical stage for learning to pronounce speech sounds in a language occurs early in childhood, according to Bahrick, although it is not clear whether there exists a key period for learning how to arrange clauses and other linguistic elements.
"This new study has far-reaching implications for bilingual education," says Morton Ann Gernsbacher, a psychologist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. "It should generate a lot of comment."
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With gritty and brutal honesty, Farley Mowat carries the reader back to the Artic regions in a follow up to PEOPLE OF THE DEER and A DESPERATE PEOPLE and the treatment/mistreatment of the natives by the Canadian government and church authorities. Mr. Mowat paints a vivid picture of the artic region and the various boondoggles designed to "help" the native peoples (which certainly parallels the wretched treatment of Native Americas in this country). What was particularly shocking was that much of this happened in the 1950s. While the subject matter can't always be defined as enjoyable, I did enjoy this armchair travel with the amazing Mr. Mowat.-Mamalinda
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Looking for a new keyboard on the cheap, but would love to go wireless? Enter the K360 from Logitech. Sporting a compact design, the K360 offers a reliable wireless connection and is touted as being able to last up to three years on a single set of batteries. It's not perfect, but at $20, it's impossible to go wrong with this keyboard.
A lot can be accomplished in three years. You could start a business, get married, have a child, build a house, watch the Lord of the Rings trilogy and walk across the entire United States. Or for the less ambitious, you could simply photograph yourself everyday.
However you plan to spend your next three years, you can be confident of one thing: your Logitech K360 wireless keyboard will be on the same set of batteries through it all. At least, that's Logitech's claim, and from using the keyboard the past couple of months, I have no reason not to believe it.
It can be said that an office keyboard is just an office keyboard, but that's not the case. I was at a Walmart a few months ago and spotted a $12 Logitech keyboard on the shelf, and thus figured it'd be a great purchase to tide me over until I could settle on a new gaming offering. For that $12, I received a solid keyboard, but the design was lacking and void of media buttons.
It's too bad that I didn't know about the K360, a once-$30-but-now-$20 offering that does include media controls, is completely wireless and is said to last an entire three years on a single set of batteries. Wait – a wireless media keyboard for $20? That's right.
I highlighted the important bits above, so for the rest of the page we'll take a tour around the K360 and discuss its design and features. First and foremost though, it must be said that this is a small keyboard; most others will be at least 20% wider. I don't exactly have the smallest of hands, so at first the keyboard's size was a little difficult to get used to, but as I mentioned above, I've been using this for two months, so you could say I've gotten used to it.
As seen in the shot above, the K360 is simple in design overall. Unlike a standard Logitech office keyboard, this one minimizes the amount of space between the keys and the inside, so getting it dirty on the inside with food crumbs or other dirt is going to be minimized. This design results in a different feel but an overall good one – it's most comparable to a laptop keyboard although it is a bit louder than most of those. A close-up:
Looking at the keys this way offers an interesting perspective. While they may look a wee bit too high above the plane (at least to me), they've for the most part felt perfect. If anything, I wish they were a bit quieter to type on, but that's a minor niggle in the grand scheme of things. The K360 isn't loud by any stretch (it's on par to a regular keyboard, I'd say), but with this design I expected it to be a bit quieter.
To the top-left are three media functions; previous/rewind pause/play and next/fast-forward:
On the opposite side are three more buttons, all related to volume control. As this is a wireless option, there's a button to turn the K360 off if you wish to save as much battery as possible. The keyboard does not go to sleep, so it's ready whenever you are. As a sub-$30 offering, it seems petty to complain about the lack of a "Stop" media button, but it is one I wish was included, because I've often needed it.
Because the K360 features a compact design, not all of the key arrangements are going to please everyone. If you make use of the arrow keys often, the non-standard size of the keys is likely to drive you up the wall. It's a rare day when I actually need one of these, but when I did (to move through a document with precision), I found myself hitting the wrong keys by accident without looking – so for some, using these might be a hands-on endeavor.
The F1-F12 and numpad top buttons all feature alternate functions that can be used in conjunction with the "FN" (Function) key. Similar to most notebooks, you must use the FN key along with another key in order to screenshot your desktop (Print Screen). All of the functions for F1-F12 can be customized.
The K360 takes advantage of two AA batteries (thanks, Logitech, for not making them AAA), which happen to be included. As the keyboard makes use of a small USB wireless adapter, it can be stored in the free area here in the event you need to travel with it.
Speaking of, here's the adapter in all its super-small glory:
You won't be pulling a muscle lifting this thing out of the box, but it's obvious that with its small size, it's going to be easy to lose. There's no easy solution there, so my advice is quite simply: don't lose it!
On the next page, we'll take a look at the SetPoint software used to configure the K360 and also close things up with my final thoughts.


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OWINGS MILLS, Md. (AP) - It was as if linebacker Ray Lewis, safety Bernard Pollard and the rest of the Baltimore Ravens' defense set out to provide a quarter-by-quarter demonstration of how they do business.
About 11 minutes into the AFC championship game against Tom Brady and the New England Patriots, Lewis drew a 15-yard unnecessary roughness penalty for a helmet-to-helmet hit that pushed tight end Aaron Hernandez's chin strap up near his nose.
Then, in the second quarter, linebacker Dannell Ellerbe gave New England another free 15 yards by hitting an offensive lineman in the face mask in response to an after-the-play shove.
Fast-forward to early in the third, and Pollard was flagged for his team's third personal foul of the day, thanks to a leaping hit against the helmet of receiver Wes Welker. Two plays later, Welker dropped a third-down pass.
And finally, a couple of minutes into the fourth, Pollard struck again. No penalty was called this time, but his helmet-to-helmet hit on Stevan Ridley resulted in a fumble and left the running back on his back, looking limp and helpless. Ridley left the game with a head injury, while the Ravens recovered the football and were on their way to next Sunday's Super Bowl against the equally aggressive San Francisco 49ers.
In an age of high-powered offenses in the NFL _ this season's games featured 45.5 points, the highest average since 1965 _ and increasingly safety-conscious officials, a pair of hard-hitting, oft-penalized defenses are meeting for the championship. Those second-half shutouts of the Patriots and Atlanta Falcons in the conference title games were only the latest reminder from the 49ers and Ravens that defense still matters.
Sometimes it isn't about some sort of newfangled, complicated Xs-and-Os defense, either. It's about players pushing it to the limit _ and, sometimes, perhaps beyond _ in a league that has been taking steps to rein in certain kinds of hits.
"Being physical? That's vital, man. That's what we live by," Baltimore cornerback Cary Williams said. "That's something that Ray Lewis established here back in `96, and we're going to continue to do that. It's been, I guess, in our bloodline. It's in our DNA. We don't bring in guys that's timid. We don't bring in guys that's not going to hit anybody."
What about San Francisco's defense?
"They're just as physical as we are," Williams replied, offering what in his mind is probably the highest compliment he could pay another team's players.
San Francisco defensive lineman Justin Smith deflected a question about whether his defense is as good as Baltimore's, replying: "I mean, we're just trying to win a ring."
Actually, that's probably better asked about the Ravens: Are they as good as the 49ers?
Opposing offenses scored 15.5 points per game against the 49ers, which ranked third in the 32-team NFL in the regular season. The Ravens gave up 20 per game, 11th-best.
The 49ers allowed only two touchdown passes of 20-plus yards, the lowest total in the league. Baltimore allowed six.
During the regular season, the Ravens were whistled for an NFL-high 19 personal fouls. Their team also was penalized more yards overall than anyone else.
The 49ers, for their part, tied for fourth with 15 personal fouls and ranked fifth in penalty yardage.
"When you go against a team that has that kind of reputation, and you can watch it on film, it definitely gets in your mindset and you know you have to deal with it," Ravens linebacker Paul Kruger said. "I'm not sitting here saying that we're intimidating everybody or anything like that. But you know we're coming to hit you, for sure."
Pollard put things a little more starkly.
This is a guy who has developed a knack for leaving injured opponents in his wake. It was his Week 1 hit on Brady in 2008, for example, that cost the star QB the rest of that season.
"For everybody, for fans, people who don't understand _ they want to say, well, I'm being a dirty player. Well, no, I'm not being a dirty player. I'm just playing defense," said Pollard, a seventh-year veteran out of Purdue. "And I ask you the question: If I came into your house, with your door locked, and I just kicked it down, and came to try to steal stuff, you're going to defend your house, am I correct? So that's the stand I take. We've got grass behind us. We've got the end zone that we have to defend, we've got to protect."


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2 cups Arborio rice
1 1/2 cups diced assorted colors bell peppers, (1-inch dice)
8 ounces andouille sausage, sliced diagonally into 1/2-inch thick slices
1 cup diagonally sliced green onions
Mix Cajun seasoning, garlic salt and ground coriander. Sprinkle chicken with 1 tablespoon of the seasoning mixture. Heat oil in open pressure cooker on medium-high heat. Add chicken; cook and stir 3 minutes or until browned. Add onions; cook and stir 3 minutes or until softened. Add water and green tea packets. Bring to boil.
Stir in rice, bell peppers, sausage and remaining seasoning mixture. Close lid. Bring pressure cooker to full pressure on high heat. Cook 5 minutes. Remove from heat. Let stand 5 minutes.
Run cold water over pressure cooker to release the pressure. Remove lid. Remove tea bags. Stir in onions.
Be sure to read the instruction manual that comes with your pressure cooker to familiarize yourself with the features of your cooker.
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