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Did you hear that the Fighting Irish are back among the elite?
Everyone keeps waiting, yearning for Notre Dame to explode back onto the national scene and take its rightful place back on the college football throne.
Enough already.
This Saturday against USC, and two other Saturdays this fall,
haven't left a good impression--once again.
Who else is tired of the embarrassment of praise heaped upon the Golden Domers?
It seems almost every year they're inked right into the top twenty and prognostications abound about the level of talent and upside the players that have been recruited possess. And almost every year the Fighting Irish fall back to earth from their perceived perch with a thud that can be heard by all. The coaches aren't immune to it either. From Bob Davie and a young and promising Tyrone Willingham, to the "genius" Charlie Wieis, and now Brian Kelly. All are just the right hires, and the best coaches to turn the program around. Not so far.
Look, it's not hard to get. Notre Dame is one of the best programs of all time with more tradition, history, and pedigree than almost every college program out there. What everyone should also get though is that the Irish have not been an elite college program since the days of Lou Holtz. If this hasn't sunk in, then pause to listen closely now--Notre Dame has been a mediocre program for almost twenty years. That's two decades for you math majors out there--enough to say that this is not just a down turn that all programs seem to endure. Instead, it is, and should be one of pure consequence.
No, ND fans aren't going to like this, but the situation is more like the aging athlete who has a significant drop in production and has to understand that the new normal is a realization that his body is just different now. The down cycle that the inhabitants of South Bend have been on has been one so deep that teams like Michigan, Oklahoma, and Ohio State have--in all reality, caught up in the historical monster program measurements. The team, that was the team, is no longer the same team.
And that's the point. The Fighting Irish are a different program now. A check on programs winning percentage since 1995 (according to football.stassen.com) shows Notre Dame not even making the top 25. Instead, it comes in at a cool 31st. Teams ahead of the Fighting Irish on this list are teams like Boston College (29), Louisville (28), Air Force (27),and Georgia Tech (25). The team just behind the ND is Iowa at 32. That's right, one of the most storied programs in history is now for walking in the same cloth as the Iowa Hawkeyes. While the Hawks have been solid over this same time period, it's not the neighborhood that Notre Dame fans long to be hanging out in. And their fans are ducking down the back alleys.
Yet for some reason, each and every year, Notre Dame is thought to be back and just a couple of recruiting classes away from contending for really big things. Enough is enough. It's time to start calling
this what it is, and reset the expectations that should be a product of where the program has shown it to be for an extended time. A mediocre, fringe-top 25
For the sake of college football, let's hope that this notion is dead wrong. Let's hope that Brian Kelly really does wake up the echoes and restore prominence in South Bend. After all, college football seemed better when the Fighting Irish were in the mix every year. But let's not get ahead of ourselves since the same history that has been on the side of those shiny, gold helmets have not been so kind in more than recent memory
If you're not on board yet, then welcome to the media bandwagon. Touchdown Jesus is ready to settle for some more field goals.
Week 8 Thoughts, Oct. 24
Cirminiello: Stanford deserves a
better ranking
- Fiutak: Why is Texas Tech
ranked behind OU?
- Harrison: Notre Dame still
hasn't arrived
Johnson: Stanford proved it's a powerhouse
- Zemek: The Big East in the


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Former Senator George Mitchell
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- Online Special: Israeli-Palestinian conflict
- May 7, 2001: When his commission issued their report, Sen. Mitchell discussed the findings.
- April 2, 2002: The personal animosity between Yasser Arafat and Ariel Sharon.
- April 2, 2002: Amos Oz, an Israeli author, on the violence
- April 1, 2002: The situation in neighboring Arab states and the latest from the West Bank.
- April 1, 2002: Henry Kissinger and Zbigniew Brzezinski
- April 1, 2002: Update: Israel Expands Incursion in West Bank
- March 31, 2002: Update: A Weekend of Violence
JIM LEHRER: Now, our Newsmaker interview with former Senator George Mitchell, architect of the Mitchell plan for bringing peace between Israelis and Palestinians. He headed an international committee created by President Clinton when the peace process began collapsing nearly two years ago.
The committee's recommendations, including a freeze on settlements and a crackdown on terrorism, were accepted a year ago by both Prime Minister Sharon and Palestinian Leader Arafat. They have also been endorsed by President Bush.
Senator, welcome.
GEORGE MITCHELL: Thanks, Jim, for having me.
JIM LEHRER: What's your reading of just how bad this situation is right now?
GEORGE MITCHELL: It's very bad in several respects. Of course, most immediately tragic is the tremendous loss of life and destruction of property that's occurring as a result of the immediate violence.
But also, I think is a very real concern — the potential for the violence spreading. You've just shown scenes in Cairo and Beirut and other places, and the possibility of a regional conflagration drawing in other countries is real and dangerous and something, which I believe we must address.
JIM LEHRER: Is that the worst case scenario for you at this point? That this thing really could expand? Do you think that's a real possibility?
GEORGE MITCHELL: I think it is possible. No one can assign numerical odds to it, but I think it is possible and I think it's something that does concern the administration and is one reason why I think you're seeing an intensification of American efforts in the region.
The governments there face a political problem. Indeed every government faces political problems, including our own, including the Israeli government and including the Palestinians.
But the Arab governments want, as a matter of their national interest and policy, to maintain good relations with the United States, and yet they confront very large majorities of their citizens who are angry and hostile to the United States because of what they perceive is our bias in the Middle East.
JIM LEHRER: So what you're saying is if something don't cool off pretty soon, the Arab nations may have to come in militarily on the side of the Palestinians?
GEORGE MITCHELL: Oh, I doubt they'll want to do that. In fact I'm certain they all don't want to do that but one can never predict the chain of events once violence is unleashed and one cannot rule out that possibility.
In fact, I'm certain that King Abdullah of Jordan and President Mubarak of Egypt, the Saudi rulers, the last thing they want is to get drawn into a regional war, particularly with a vastly military superiority… the vast military superiority which Israel has, but you can't rule anything out in a situation as dangerous and volatile as this.
JIM LEHRER: Has it been as dangerous and volatile before — to your knowledge — while you've been dealing with this?
GEORGE MITCHELL: Not in recent years. Obviously there have been several cases of outright war but not in recent years, no. It's very dangerous now.
JIM LEHRER: All right. In this context, does the Mitchell Plan, drawn as I just said two years ago, endorsed by both sides a year ago, does it still have relevance?
GEORGE MITCHELL: It does have relevance because it's really pretty basic and simple and we think self-evident.
What we said is that the only way they're going to resolve this is not by the use of force on either side but rather by ending the violence, rebuilding confidence through a series of reciprocal measures that require both sides to do things and then resuming negotiations.
JIM LEHRER: All right. Lay out briefly the reciprocal measures that each have to do under your plan to make this thing work.
GEORGE MITCHELL: Well, there are 18 of them, so do you want me to lay them all out?
JIM LEHRER: Give me some highlights.
GEORGE MITCHELL: You put one up on the screen — a freezing of all settlement activity by the government of Israel, which is a very, very critical issue to the Palestinians.
JIM LEHRER: Freezing meaning they don't have to eliminate them, they may have to get rid of them, they just can't build any new ones?
GEORGE MITCHELL: Stop construction. Stop building and expanding, even for so-called natural growth.
On the other side, we require a specific condemnation of the use of terrorism by the Palestinian Authority, by Chairman Arafat — major efforts to prevent terrorist activities, that is, to arrest, prosecute and punish those who are so engaged and to take affirmative action to prevent it.
For example, many of these incidents are triggered by individual Palestinian gunmen going into populated areas and firing on Israeli populated areas that are nearby. That induces a massive reaction by the Israeli military, which then induces the kind of cycle of violence you've seen.
Well, the Palestinians have to make a greater effort to prevent such gunmen from, in effect, initiating these activities. We called for a strong effort to cease incitement, hatred, the demonization of the opposition. We call upon the….
JIM LEHRER: How are they supposed to do that? How do you get somebody to quit demonizing the other?
GEORGE MITCHELL: Well, you stop doing it in schools. You stop doing it over television and radio that the government has an influence in. You ask those government officials who are within your authority to stop engaging in such activities. Those are some of the ways.
We also call upon the government of Israel to withdraw its military forces to the point that they were in in September of 2002 before this violence broke out; to lift the siege on the Palestinian areas; to pay to the Palestinians the taxes that have been withheld by the Israelis; to permit within the constraints of their own security needs some degree of commerce and employment.
What you have now is a devastating situation to both sides.
The Palestinian economy has been destroyed. It's simply been destroyed. The Israeli economy, which hasn't got that much attention, is also very badly hurt — huge expenses to its military operation — and almost total end of tourism — and a lot of other very difficult situations for them.
So, what we said is you've got to do something to arrest this downward spiral, this complete loss of confidence and this upsurge of hatred and mistrust and then get into negotiations.
JIM LEHRER: But it didn't happen. Both sides said, "Okay, fine, great, great idea, George Mitchell," but it didn't happen.
Now, I don't expect you to give us a complete history lesson , but why? Was it the two men? We had a discussion here last night that the animosity between Arafat and Sharon is such that it didn't naturally lead to an accommodation. Are there other factors? How would you analyze what happened?
GEORGE MITCHELL: Well, I analyze it this way.
First, their objectives are not the same. The Israelis have a state; they want security. The Palestinians don't have a state; they want a state — contiguous, geographically, economically viable.
The Israeli concern is that if they do everything that our report asks for– and they've said this to me, Senator, we'll do everything you want and we're likely to get six more suicide bombers in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem next week. In other words, their fear is that their actions will be seen not as gestures for peace but as signs of weakness that will only reward the past terrorism and encourage more in the future.
The Palestinian mirror concern is that they will do whatever we ask, stopping the violence, which now seems to be their only leverage, go through this whole effort of risking civil war by arresting their own people, and prosecuting them and so forth.
And what they will get is endless more years of discussion with a dramatic increase in settlements and settlers making the ultimate Palestinian state not only impractical but physically impossible because it cannot be geographically contiguous.
So those are their fears and that's what has to be addressed. You have to figure out a way to create at least a modest amount of confidence that if you take a step, the other side is going to take another step.
JIM LEHRER: Whose responsibility is it to create this atmosphere you're talking about, to take this step, take that step? What happens next, Senator, to make this work?
GEORGE MITCHELL: It can only be done by the United States.
JIM LEHRER: Only by the United States?
GEORGE MITCHELL: Only by the United States with the participation of the parties.
JIM LEHRER: The EU said today, forget it; the United States has failed.
GEORGE MITCHELL: I saw that.
JIM LEHRER: Russia, the U.N., Arab states need to get involved and the U.S. needs to kind of step aside. How do you respond to that?
GEORGE MITCHELL: In the making of peace, the first thing you must do is expunge the word failure from your vocabulary. It takes perseverance; it takes patience. And anyone can claim failure at any point short of success.
The peace negotiations in Northern Ireland, which I chaired, lasted two years. For the first 700 days, they could have been and were described as a failure. And on the 701st day we had a success.
So if you say things are going bad, it hasn't worked, there are setbacks, so let's quit, you're in effect ceding the ground to those who want to engage in violence, who are unwilling to compromise in any way. And the fact of the matter is… and I respect Prodi — I know him.
JIM LEHRER: This is the EU executive director.
GEORGE MITCHELL: Right. He's a former Italian prime minister. He's a fine guy, but the fact of the matter is he knows, everyone in the Middle East knows, that only the United States has the capacity and the ability not just to create the conditions in which an agreement can be reached by the parties but to enforce an agreement once reached.
And that's a very critical point. It's one thing we learned in the Balkans and we've learned in Northern Ireland.
It's hard to get an agreement; it's much harder to implement an agreement.
JIM LEHRER: Now, it's been suggested in the last 24 hours, Tom Friedman in The New York Times included said maybe we need to start thinking about a peace force in there. Once you negotiate and get an international peace force on the ground that's the only way you're going to keep these folks from killing one another.
Does that make sense to you?
GEORGE MITCHELL: It depends upon the circumstances. That was a very much-discussed issue before our commission.
The Palestinians asked us to recommend an international protection force. The Israelis opposed it. We concluded that if one or both sides does not favor the insertion of a force, it is almost certain to become itself entangled in the violence.
Now, we cited the fact that in the Middle East right now, there are third-party forces, including Americans, who are there with the consent of both and who are performing a useful function. But you have to have the right predicate for it.
JIM LEHRER: Let's get back a step.
How does the… at what level, how does the United States now exert what you believe is the only power that can make this work?
GEORGE MITCHELL: I believe the president and the Secretary of State are well aware of what's needed. You have seen in recent weeks a significant increase in the level and intensity of American involvement.
I think that is likely to increase even further in the days ahead. That plainly means direct intervention and action by the secretary of state and the president but only they can be the judges of when that should occur and under what circumstances.
They have to know that they're doing something is going to produce a result, and I think they do know that and I think they're going to go ahead and do everything possible to exert American leverage.
JIM LEHRER: Have you been in contact with… are you in contact with Secretary Powell or anybody at the State Department or anybody who is involved in this?
GEORGE MITCHELL: Yes, I've talked to Secretary Powell and others in the State Department.
JIM LEHRER: Do you get the feeling that they are… you do believe they are now aware it's going to take some high- level action or this thing isn't going to move?
GEORGE MITCHELL: Yes, I do.
JIM LEHRER: Have they asked to you participate in any way?
GEORGE MITCHELL: No, they've not other than to discuss it with them.
JIM LEHRER: If they did ask you to participate, would you?
GEORGE MITCHELL: I'm one of five members of a committee, former Senator Rudman was the other American. There were three Europeans, the former president of Turkey, the European Union in effect foreign minister, Javier Solana, and the then foreign minister of Norway.
Before we delivered our report to the president through the secretary of state we discussed this among ourselves and I was authorized to say to the president and secretary of state, which I did, that if they wanted us to, we would do anything further that we were asked to do under the circumstances.
JIM LEHRER: Does it make sense for something like… some group like yours to be involved in this at this point?
GEORGE MITCHELL: Well, I that I that the president and the secretary of state have to be given flexibility in this.
They have to be left to judge the right person, the right timing and the right circumstances. And I don't think they should feel any necessity of saying it must be this group or this plan.
As I said earlier, if you read our plan, it's basic common sense. It's not rocket science. You could call it the Lehrer plan; you could call it the Joe Jones plan as well as the Mitchell plan.
What's important is that it gets done.
JIM LEHRER: Senator, thank you very much.
GEORGE MITCHELL: Thank you, Jim.


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Upcoming Key NFL Dates
By: Derek Havens
Another exciting NFL off-season has begun as teams around the league look to make changes to their rosters for next year. Contract decisions, franchise tags, the draft and free agency will continue to keep league personnel busy for the next few months. Here are key NFL dates to keep in mind moving forward:
 – Feb. 20-26, 2013: NFL Scouting Combine, Indianapolis
 – March 4, 2013: Franchise Tag Deadline
 – March 12, 2013: Free agency starts
 – April 25-27, 2013: NFL draft
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The NFL Scouting Combine will bring this year's draft class more into focus. The players will go through a series of on-the-field drills that will be monitored by league personnel. The first group of players are set to arrive Feb. 20, and workout from Feb. 23-26. All group workouts will begin at 9 a.m. eastern during those dates.
Above and beyond the on-the-field drills, all players will go through: medical exams, orientation, team interviews, measurements, media interviews, psych testing and a NFLPA meeting.
Overall, the process should give league personnel and analysts a better idea of where a player may be selected as well as clear up any questions surrounding any player.
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Why is Bob Newhart Button Down Concert rated Not Rated?
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Comedian Bob Newhart recites some of his most famous comedy routines in this made-for-TV concert. While he is sometimes irreverent in his look at historical figures, certain occupations, and authority figures, the good nature of his jest is never in question. One sketch, where he talks about a group of women who are asked to identify a flasher, does include some mild sexual humor. Drunkenness is also attributed to an airplane pilot, and acted out during a retirement speech. The only violence alluded to occurs when a submarine captain causally mentions the loss of some of his men.


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A new generation of miniature biological robots is flexing its muscle.
Engineers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign demonstrated a class of walking "bio-bots" powered by muscle cells and controlled with electrical pulses, giving researchers unprecedented command over their function. The group published its work in the online early edition of Proceedings of the National Academy of Science.
"Biological actuation driven by cells is a fundamental need for any kind of biological machine you want to build," said study leader Rashid Bashir, Abel Bliss Professor and head of bioengineering at the U. of I. "We're trying to integrate these principles of engineering with biology in a way that can be used to design and develop biological machines and systems for environmental and medical applications. Biology is tremendously powerful, and if we can somehow learn to harness its advantages for useful applications, it could bring about a lot of great things."
Bashir's group has been a pioneer in designing and building bio-bots, less than a centimeter in size, made of flexible 3-D printed hydrogels and living cells. Previously, the group demonstrated bio-bots that "walk" on their own, powered by beating heart cells from rats. However, heart cells constantly contract, denying researchers control over the bot's motion. This makes it difficult to use heart cells to engineer a bio-bot that can be turned on and off, sped up or slowed down.
The new bio-bots are powered by a strip of skeletal muscle cells that can be triggered by an electric pulse. This gives the researchers a simple way to control the bio-bots and opens the possibilities for other forward design principles, so engineers can customize bio-bots for specific applications.
"Skeletal muscles cells are very attractive because you can pace them using external signals," Bashir said. "For example, you would use skeletal muscle when designing a device that you wanted to start functioning when it senses a chemical or when it received a certain signal. To us, it's part of a design toolbox. We want to have different options that could be used by engineers to design these things."
The design is inspired by the muscle-tendon-bone complex found in nature. There is a backbone of 3-D printed hydrogel, strong enough to give the bio-bot structure but flexible enough to bend like a joint. Two posts serve to anchor a strip of muscle to the backbone, like tendons attach muscle to bone, but the posts also act as feet for the bio-bot.
A bot's speed can be controlled by adjusting the frequency of the electric pulses. A higher frequency causes the muscle to contract faster, thus speeding up the bio-bot's progress as seen in this video.
"It's only natural that we would start from a bio-mimetic design principle, such as the native organization of the musculoskeletal system, as a jumping-off point," said graduate student Caroline Cvetkovic, co-first author of the paper. "This work represents an important first step in the development and control of biological machines that can be stimulated, trained, or programmed to do work. It's exciting to think that this system could eventually evolve into a generation of biological machines that could aid in drug delivery, surgical robotics, 'smart' implants, or mobile environmental analyzers, among countless other applications."
Next, the researchers will work to gain even greater control over the bio-bots' motion, like integrating neurons so the bio-bots can be steered in different directions with light or chemical gradients. On the engineering side, they hope to design a hydrogel backbone that allows the bio-bot to move in different directions based on different signals. Thanks to 3-D printing, engineers can explore different shapes and designs quickly. Bashir and colleagues even plan to integrate a unit into undergraduate lab curriculum so that students can design different kinds of bio-bots.
"The goal of 'building with biology' is not a new one - tissue engineering researchers have been working for many years to reverse engineer native tissue and organs, and this is very promising for medical applications," said graduate student Ritu Raman, co-first author of the paper. "But why stop there? We can go beyond this by using the dynamic abilities of cells to self-organize and respond to environmental cues to forward engineer non-natural biological machines and systems.
"The idea of doing forward engineering with these cell-based structures is very exciting," Bashir said. "Our goal is for these devices to be used as autonomous sensors. We want it to sense a specific chemical and move towards it, then release agents to neutralize the toxin, for example. Being in control of the actuation is a big step forward toward that goal."
The National Science Foundation supported this work through a Science and Technology Center (Emergent Behavior of Integrated Cellular Systems) grant, in collaboration with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the Georgia Institute of Technology and other partner institutions. Mechanical science and engineering professor Taher Saif was also a co-author. Bashir also is affiliated with the Micro and Nanotechnology Laboratory, the department of electrical and computer engineering and of mechanical science and engineering, Frederick Seitz Materials Research Laboratory and the Institute for Genomic Biology at the U. of I.
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On this week's episode, WEEI's Scott McLaughlin talks to Harvard coach Ted Donato and Boston College star and U.S. Olympian Alex Carpenter. Donato and the Crimson are off to a 7-1-2 start and are coming off road wins over Boston University and UMass-Lowell. The BC women's team is 15-0-1 and Carpenter leads the country with 39 points in 14 games.
We talk draft with the versatile Andy Hart from Patriots Football Weekly.
missed him last season was working as a pass defender -- they tried a handful of guys at that spot, including veteran Bobby Carpenter , but no one was able to stick. While Brandon Spikes made great gains in pass defense last season (surprisingly
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handed a gift when Seahawks punter Jon Ryan -- who otherwise had a superb game -- botched a snap and was tackled by Bobby Carpenter at the Seattle 24-yard line with 40 seconds left in the half. Then things got weird. Brady hit Welker over the
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Janik barely survived his last expedition to the dark continent of Xen'drik. But when he finds himself embroiled in a plot involving the Emerald Claw, the Church of the Silver Flame, and lost wonders of Xen'drik, his one hope at redemption is to return and face the horrors that once almost destroyed him.
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Jack Daniel's Tennessee Honey Whiskey Liqueur70cl / 35%
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Long awaited in the UK and with a big following in the USA, this is Jack Daniel's honey and whiskey liqueur. A mix of regular Old No 7 and a spiced honey liqueur, it's got spice, sweetness, floral undertones and a long smooth finish. Drink over ice, chilled or even in a cup of coffee - it's rather tasty.
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Tasting Notes by Billy A
Nose: Pungent honey right off the bat – a freshly opened jar of crystallised honey, with a touch of earthiness to it – fudge, biscuits (British ones), floral hints and some allspice.
Palate: Thick and oily texture, with dark caramel (both runny and solid shards), nutmeg and allspice. The flavours remain rich and dark, with sweet milky coffee, dark chocolate and demarara sugar lightened by some candied lemon hints. There's also, as you might expect, a rich and sweet honey undertone beneath it all – lightly pungent and floral, with a real honey flavour.
Finish: Spicy and sweet, with cinnamon heat, runny honey and vanilla fudge.
Comment: Not as sweet or sharp as most honey whiskey liqueurs, with real honey flavour, rich sweetness and gentle spice.
Tasting Notes by Lew Bryson for Whisky AdvocateThere's vanilla, cinnamon, and... oh, right, honey! The honey here is not shy, but not generic, either, there's a nice floral, herbal complexity to it. Drinks smooth and warm, not overly sweet for 35%, and the honey's here, as is some dialed-back cinnamon and a dash of cocoa in the finish. A late breath revives everything. The best of the American honey-whiskey drinks to date. 89 Points
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My favorite ever...half an half with a monster energy drink...simply divine
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Nasty, extremely sweet tastes like oure pancake syrup
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Great neat or on the rocks, but also in a cup of black tea. Anyone I tell about it, loves it.
Really nice with ice, if you ruin this with cola you don''t deserve to drink it
Really like neat and chilled from the fridge. I''m not a big drinker and usually mix old No 7 if I have a drink but this tastes really good freezing cold on its own.
I love with a passion singlemalts. I hate JD unless drowned in cola. Got this for Xmas. Its rather nice. Slight medicine smell n taste. Slight bite with a smooth satin sweetness with a fruit cake chewieness. VERY SURPRISED. Not sure i would buy it but more than happy with the gift. Thanks Mum.
I drink it served neat. It doesn''t taste as good or is as potent as Drambuie, but it''s a lot less expensive. I enjoy it!
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Tim Tebow might add a new job title to an already-lengthy list. The do-it-all backup quarterback could see time at running back in the New York Jets' banged-up backfield Sunday against the New England Patriots on Sunday. ''That's a possibility,'' coach Rex Ryan said Thursday. ''The thing about Tim - with him being a football player like we've always talked about - by playing quarterback, he knows all the positions. So, can you plug him in at running back? Can you plug him in at tight end or whatever? ''I think the answer is yes.'' The Jets are a bit short-handed at the position with backups Joe McKnight (sprained left ankle) and Bilal Powell (separated right shoulder) likely out for the game. That leaves only starter Shonn Greene and rookie Jonathan Grimes, who has yet to play, as the team's only running backs. Lex Hilliard is the remaining fullback after the Jets waived John Conner on Wednesday. Tebow's role has been limited in his first season with the Jets, but he has carrie...
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Felony warrants for Joseph D. McCoy are the focus of Crime Stoppers of Greater Youngstown this week:
Crimes: Failure to appear on charges of receiving stolen property and forgery.
Site: Warrant issued out of Mahoning County Common Pleas Court in Youngstown.
Description of subject: McCoy was last known to be living in Struthers. He is white, 20, 6 feet tall and 160 pounds with brown hair and brown eyes.
Contact: Call Crime Stoppers collect at (330) 746-CLUE. Callers do not have to identify themselves.
Reward: Up to $1,000 is given for information leading to the arrests and indictments of people accused of felonies in Mahoning, Trumbull and Columbiana counties.
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