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For DFLers who hope to keep control of Minnesota's state government in November, the primary race for state auditor was a contest that wasn't supposed to happen.
On May 31, incumbent Rebecca Otto took the stage to Journey's "Don't Stop Believin' " at the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party's convention in Duluth and accepted the party's endorsement. Three days later, Matt Entenza, a former state representative, DFL House leader and assistant prosecutor, filed to run against her.
"Everyone is scratching their heads," Otto said. "It's unexpected because I have a stellar record."
Many party officials were unhappy with Entenza's decision to enter the race. DFL chairman Ken Martin even called his "last-minute candidacy" an "insult" to party members.
But Entenza is quick to point out that plenty of top DFLers have headed to the primary without the party's endorsement. He says he decided late to run, in part, because he was waiting to see how Otto would frame her campaign.
"It was a decision I didn't make until I made it," said Entenza, who recently stepped down as an economic adviser to Gov. Mark Dayton to run.
Otto and Entenza are not just at odds over the party nominating process -- they also disagree about the role of the auditor's office.
Over her two terms in office, Otto says, she has won accolades from her peers across the country for her oversight of the $20 billion that local governments spend annually.
"I work so people can trust their government," Otto said.
But Entenza says he would do much more with the office if elected. He says the auditor should not only be involved in oversight but should act as a watchdog who can help shape policy.
"I think it is inadequate just to balance the books," Entenza said. "To me, that's the absolute minimum standard for the job."
Entenza is campaigning on protecting public pensions, making education funding more equitable and digging into tax breaks given to corporations. He says the data that the auditor's office collects on those issues can be used to improve policy.
Otto says her office already plays an oversight role in those areas. She says Entenza campaign promises are better suited to someone running for governor or the Legislature.
Otto says Entenza wants the auditor's post as a stepping stone to higher office.
"He's not talking about the job; he doesn't understand the job, and I don't think he really cares about the job," Otto said.
Entenza denies he is running to position himself for higher office. He says the state auditor once was an office that helped shape state policy, not unlike how the secretary of state pushed lawmakers to address online voter registration.
Entenza says his experience conducting forensic audits and prosecuting financial crimes in Hennepin County and in the attorney general's office makes him a perfect fit for the auditor's job.
"It's a funny form of flattery," Entenza said about talk of his political ambitions. "My opponent seems to want to flatter me to say I will do such a good job that I will automatically be considered for higher office."
Whoever wins the DFL primary Aug. 12 will face Republican Randy Gilbert, a former Long Lake mayor and city council member, in the November general election.
Also in the race: the Independence Party's Patrick Dean, the Libertarian Party's Keegan Iveren and Judith Schwartzbacker of the Grassroots Party.
Mining and the auditor's role on the Minnesota Executive Council, which approves mineral leases, are likely to emerge as issues in the fall campaign as the proposed PolyMet mine works its way through the approval process.
Otto might be vulnerable on those issues because of her 2013 vote against mineral leases for nonferrous mining. Otto says she cast that vote because the long-term costs of nonferrous mining is tough to gauge and she thought it was in the best financial interests of the state.
When it comes to PolyMet, Otto and Entenza have taken the same position as other DFLers -- that is to wait until all the studies are complete before making a decision.
Christopher Magan can be reached at 651-228-5557. Follow him at twitter.com/chris_magan.


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I am a big fan of the Bloody Mary. Does anyone have a suggestion of an inexpensive vodka suitable for the Bloody Mary?
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I am a big fan of the Bloody Mary. Does anyone have a suggestion of an inexpensive vodka suitable for the Bloody Mary?
Well with vodka there is always the "the cheaper and bigger the bottle" thought, but I use Smirnoff 100 proof for everything vodka related.
Agree with the Smirnoff 100 rec. Good stuff.
I also use Tito's, which has an oily component (distilled from corn) that suits a denser drink. Plus, you're supporting a Texan (if you're into that).
Might I recommend steeping a handful of cracked peppercorns in a fifth of vodka for your Bloody Mary? It will take it to another level, heatwise, and in a different way than adding jalapenos or tabasco.
BTW, Martian, I know I've mentioned one tasting effort before, but if you're interested in a holiday tasting with me, Grain Brain, mozilla, and possibly whiskeyhatch sometime soon, let me know via PM or here in this thread.
For value, if available, try Svedka, Vikingsfjord, or Polar Ice.
Polar Ice is a good value. That's what I use for my peppercorn infusions.
Monopolowa is a great vodka, cheap and w/ no advertising campaign much better than the price reflects. I"m not a vodka fan, but this is the bottle I keep around.
Everything posted so far is right on the money. IIRC, there are many different vodka flavors(not flavored vodka). Some are very Russian in style and others are soft and easy to drink or highly filtered. Some like the full force vodka(aka Russian) others like the American style(aka soft). How do you like your vodka? Then we can steer you towards that style.
However, I believe that the main theory is to get the best tomato juice. I always used Campbell's, top quality. V8 seems a little too watery to handle the spirits in a Bloody Mary.
Svedka is a good choice. Zing Zang mix is the best, if you don't want to make your own.
Zing Zang is pretty darn good! I think it was the habanero version. Um Um good.
I'll third the recommendation of Svedka. I prefer it to Smirnoff and it's cheaper.

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Kindergarten Activities - Geometry & Spatial Sense
Looking for geometry kindergarten activities?
The following preschool and kindergarten activities help children develop their understanding of objects and shapes in their environment and help them recognize and describe attributes of shapes.
The activities are easy to integrate into daily routines. As well as the suggestions below, read books that talk about shapes to your students and provide puzzles and posters with clearly illustrated shape pictures. Integrate geometry into your learning centers. I have placed posters illustrating shapes in my dramatic play center and observed children tracing the shapes with their fingers, copying the shapes at the play table and asking each other what a certain shape was called.
What geometry and spatial skills should I teach?
Once again, depending on where you live, learning outcomes regarding geometry and spatial sense kindergarten activities vary. Students are working towards:
- sorting a given set of familiar 3-D objects using a single attribute, such as size or shape, and explaining their sorting rule
- stating the difference between two given pre-sorted sets by telling the sorting rule used to sort them
- building and describing 3-D objects
- creating a representation of a given 3-D object using materials, such as modeling clay and building blocks
- comparing their representation to the original 3-D object
- describing 3-D objects using words such as big, little, round, like a box, and like an ice cream cone
Not sure what geometry vocabulary to teach? Read more...
Why give children sorting activities?
Sorting and describing 3-D objects helps students learn how to group objects. Students usually learn to first sort objects with one different attribute and then add more.
For example:
Show me all the red objects,
Show me the red triangles
Show me the large, red, triangles
Show me the thick, large, red triangles.
Visit more shape and space kindergarten activities on the following pages:
Attribute block - preschool and kindergarten activities
Sorting games
Classification games
Roll, slide, or both?
This kindergarten activity helps students notice similarities in objects that slide and objects that roll and is a good opportunity to use math vocabulary.
Tub of geometric solids
Ramp made of blocks and mat board. Build the ramp with a long piece of mat board and blocks taped together (see a similar ramp here)
2 Hoola Hoops
Word cards - Slide, roll, slide and roll
- Work with small groups of about ten students.
- Give each child a 3D shape.
- Have each child take a turn to see if their object slides or rolls down the ramp or does both.Let them try a few times.
- Put two Hoola Hoops on the carpet that are intersected like a Venn diagram.
- Students place objects that roll on one side, objects that slide on the other and objects that do both in the middle.
- Count how many objects in each category and record the number on a paper.
- Talk about which side has fewer and which side has more. Ask children why some did not roll or did not slide
Kindergarten activities with geoboards
Geoboards are an excellent hands-on manipulative tool for discovering the concepts of shapes, angles, measurement, area, and perimeter. Be sure to give the children time to play with the geoboards and elastics before trying to use them for a formal lesson.
1. Making shapes
Give each child a geoboard and a large elastic band and a picture of a square and have the students try and make one on with their elastic and geoboard.
Don't assume that this is easy for all students, some need you to guide their hands to begin with. Do this activity with various shapes and teach vocabulary, such as triangle, square, rectangle, corners and sides as the children form the shapes.
2. Copying pictures
Give children dotted paper (same number of dots as geoboard) with shapes drawn on them. With this kindergarten activity the students try and reproduce the pictures.
More geometry & spatial sense kindergarten activities
- Copy 3D shapes - Give students materials such as blocks or modeling clay and have them recreate an object, such as a tissue box.
- Cover designs with pattern blocks
- Left & right games and activities - Hokey Pokey
2D geometric shapes - Recognize, name, draw, compare, and sort shapes.
- Have sets of cut out laminated shapes in various colors and sizes.
- Use them in small groups and ask students to choose a small blue square, then have another choose a large red square.
- Have the students take turns asking a partner to choose certain shapes so they will have practice using geometric vocabulary.
- Let students trace the shapes to make pictures.


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Ryle Raiders Baseball: Tryout Information
All players who try out and make the team with be making a commitment to Ryle Baseball and their teammates for the entire season. The season begins February 15th and runs through the end of tournament play. This includes Spring Break and when school is out of session. Each prospective player should discuss this commitment with his parents prior to trying out. If the parents and prospective player feel a total commitment cannot be made that person should not come out for the team.
8th graders wanting to tryout will have a signup date at Gray Middle School in January. Students should listen to their school announcements as to when that day will occur. Information on tryout dates will subsequently be passed out via flyers. Any 8th grade boy who is in the Ryle district and does not attend Gray should contact Coach Roesel through email to obtain tryout information.
Winter workouts from December - February 15 are for 9th-12th graders only. 8th graders should work out on their own.
All players must have a physical on file with Mr. Demler in the Athletic Director's Office prior to tryouts. No one will be permitted to try out with a physical on file and there will be no exceptions. You will simply be sent home. No exceptions!
KHSAA Physical forms can be picked up in the A.D. Office, downloaded off the Ryle Baseball website, or by going to the KHSAA website at http://www.khsaa.org/ (click on 'Reports and Information' link at top of page, then look under 'General Reports and Instructions' and click on 'KHSAA Forms', then 'General Forms', then 'GE-4 Consent, Permission, Physical Exam Form' (.pdf). ALL PHYSICALS NEED TO BE ON THIS FORM, completely filled out.
All players must maintain a cumulative grade average of 78% during the playing season. No one will be permitted to try out with an overall grade average below 78% for the 2013-2014 school year.
All tryout dates are mandatory. All prospective players are required to attend all tryout sessions.
Ryle Baseball is a competitive sport and there is no guaranteed playing time. Playing time is solely determined by the Ryle coaching staff.All 8th graders, freshman, and sophomores will try out for the JV and Freshman teams.
Juniors and Seniors will try out for the Varsity team.
Important Dates
December 3, 2014 – Weightlifting in Big Gym upstairs.
Monday and Wednesday - Juniors and Seniors
Tuesday and Thursday - Freshman and Sophomores
February 16, 2015 – Open tryouts begin. All players should try out. Times TBA at lifting.
Febraury 18, 2015 - First cut for all teams. Cuts will continue following each practice until final teams are formed.
Febraury 28, 2015 - mandatory player/parent participation working concession stand at Xavier Men's Basketball game. Must be at Cintas no later than 11:30 a.m. Students must be 16 years of age and have proper ID.
March 7-8, 2015 – Ryle Field Cleanup Day. Time to be announced. Parents strongly encouraged to participate. If inclement weather, backup date will be March 14-15.
March 30 - April 5, 2015 – Boone County School Spring Break. Games will be played throughout the week and are mandatory. Any player who will not be available during Spring Break should not try out for the team.
April 18, 2015 – ACT Test Date. Players should attempt to schedule ACT test for another date if possible. If you must schedule your ACT test on this date, let Coach Roesel know as soon as possible.
May 18-22, 2015 – Varsity District Tournament.
May 25 - May 28, 2015 – Varsity Regional Tournament.
June 1-6, 2015 – State Championships, Whitaker Bank Ballpark (formerly Applebee's Park), Lexington, KY.


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Professor Kahn is a labor economist with interests in organizations and education. Her most recent work examines the impact of the Great Recession on employment across firms of varying quality. She finds that employment at low-paying firms is generally more sheltered than that at high-paying firms. She has also examined the consequences of graduating from college in a bad economy, finding surprisingly long-lasting, negative wage effects. Her related work suggests that college graduates who majored in more technical and higher paying fields are generally sheltered from this effect, but that was not the case during the Great Recession.
From 2010 to 2011 Kahn served on President Obama's Council of Economic Advisers as the senior economist for labor and education policy. She has also been a visiting fellow at Brookings Institution and is currently a Faculty Research Fellow at NBER and an IZA Research Fellow. She holds an A.B. in economics from the University of Chicago (2003) and an M.A. and a Ph.D. in economics from Harvard University (2008).
This year Professor Kahn will teach The Employee and Strategic Management and the Internal Organization of the Firm.
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The homeless person accused of throwing acid over a 23-year-old's face has told the Cape Town Magistrate's Court he can not recall anything about it.
Elix Fransman was charged with assault with intent to commit grievous bodily harm after the attack on August 30 last year. The woman, whose identity is being withheld for her safety, is from Zimbabwe.
She had acid burns to her face and left shoulder. Doctors performed plastic surgery on her face weeks after the attack. She still lives in Cape Town.
Prosecutor Valencia van der Berg alleged on Wednesday that he assaulted the woman in a minibus taxi en route from Sea Point to the city centre.
Fransman, who appeared dazed and confused, reiterated that he did not remember anything. He did say he was in a taxi en route to the city centre on that day, but remembers nothing else.
"I don't remember the woman. I don't remember what happened," he said.
Fransman, who said he had never seen acid, also said that he could not recall the day, April 10, on which the woman had testified in court.
"I don't know what happened on that day. I don't know her," he said.
Fransman, who is from Prieska in the Northern Cape, lives under the N1 bridge close to the Cape Town International Convention Centre. He said he had previously slept in Napier Street and worked as a parking attendant in Green Point.
He was arrested on September 2 last year and remains in custody. A confused-looking Fransman said police had come to him just after 9am on September 30. He could not answer Van der Berg when she asked why the dates differed. "Officers came in a private vehicle and I thought that they were coming to preach to us."
On September 2 police questioned him about the incident and he denied having any involvement adding that he was in hospital, his lawyer Desiree Sliers said.
Van der Berg asked him when and why he was in hospital. He replied: "I was in Somerset Hospital between the 21st and 23rd of August."
Magistrate Ronelle Oliver then asked him to explain when and where he was arrested.
He looked at Oliver, closed his eyes and said: "It was September 30 last year when police came to me while I was lying under the bridge. They said I must co-operate with them and took me to Cape police station."
He was held in custody for questioning and arrested the next day. He said police forced him to confess to the charges.
"They said they know I threw acid on the woman's face. But I did not." The case continues.
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Recipe: Applesauce Oatmeal Muffins
These applesauce oatmeal muffins are wonderful! I got the recipe a number of years ago from a friend….. every time I make them I remember why I begged for the recipe.
I hope you enjoy them as much as I did!
Recipe: Applesauce Oatmeal Muffin
All you need:
1 stick of butter
¾ cup brown sugar, firmly packed
1 egg
1 cup flour
½ teaspoon cinnamon
1 teaspoon baking powder
¼ teaspoon baking soda
¼ teaspoon salt
¾ cup applesauce
½ cup raisins
1 cup quick rolled oats
½ cup chopped nuts
All you need to do:
Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
Combine in a small bowl the flour, cinnamon, baking powder, baking soda, salt. Set aside.
In a medium bowl, beat the butter, gradually add the brown sugar.
Add the egg and continue beating.
Beating slowly, add a portion of the dry ingredients then a portion of the applesauce, then the dry ingredients, then the applesauce… until both are completely incorporated.
Stir in the oatmeal, raisins and nuts, mixing well.
Spoon into well greased muffin cups (about 2/3 full). This makes 12 muffins.
Bake for 25-30 minutes or until a pick inserted in the center of a muffin comes out clean.
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MBIA Board of Directors announces Nicki Polan as new Executive Director
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April 10, 2013
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Livonia, Mich., April 9, 2013 – At a special board meeting on April 8, the Board of Directors of the Michigan Boating Industries Association (MBIA) announced the official selection of Nicki Polan to Executive Director. Polan served as the Association's Interim Executive Director for the past 5 months and was Director of Communications for nearly 25 years.
"We are very pleased Nicki Polan has accepted the position of MBIA's Executive Director," said MBIA Chairman of the Board Jim Coburn, Coburn & Associates. "Nicki brings a wealth of experience and focused dedication to her new position at MBIA. We look forward to her continued leadership and success in the future."
"I'm pleased to have this opportunity to facilitate the future direction of our Association for the MBIA Board and Members, and," said Polan. "We have a strong staff, a dedicated Board of Directors, and loyal members at the foundation of this association, and we are all dedicated to helping our industry grow."
Polan joined the MBIA in 1988 and has earned a BA from Michigan State University and a Master's Degree in Management and Marketing from Walsh College in Troy, Michigan. Polan is a member of the Michigan Society of Association Executives (MSAE) and a graduate of the MSAE Academy.


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Lexington United Soccer Club (LUSC) is the culmination of years of effort by Town of Lexington Recreation Department employees, volunteer organizers, and parents.
Youth soccer began over 30 years ago in Lexington when the Town Recreation Department began a fall Saturday morning program for kids. Over the years, the Recreation Department promoted and nurtured the program, and expanded it to include older children as well as a spring program. Two independent soccer organizations, LYS (Lexington Youth Soccer) and LISC (Lexington Independent Soccer Club) evolved, representing both travel and in-town teams. Today LUSC (representing the merger of LYS and LISC) provides one of the state's most progressive soccer programs, providing a developmentally appropriate soccer program and game opportunities for interested Lexington children, a program that is a "fully-inclusive, age appropriate, child-centered, fun experience." *
LUSC is a community-based, inclusive, volunteer led and managed soccer club. LUSC provides the organization, guidance, professional coaching, and training for volunteer coaches at every level, thus enabling all interested children the opportunity to play soccer in Lexington.
In-Town Programs: There are many opportunities throughout the year to play soccer. All the in-town programs strive for a non-competitive atmosphere.
LUSC also runs winter and summer programs and clinics for all ages.
In all of the in-town programs, the atmosphere is non-competitive, and we strive to create balanced teams comprised of a mix of talents and skills.
Travel Programs: In the Travel program, offered to children in grades 3 – 12, we create teams based on the skills of players and enter the teams in the BAYS (Bay Area Youth Soccer) league divisions based on their ability relative to teams from other town soccer clubs.
LUSC is run by a 30 member Board of Directors, including a President, Vice President, Treasurer, Clerk and Division Directors for all of the age levels.
LUSC also employs a full-time Director of Coaching, Brendan Donahue. Brendan began work with LUSC during the spring of 2006. He has implemented a variety of drills, lesson plans, and manages the external professional coaching as to provide the most favorable playing and practice environment for all age groups.
*Michael Singleton, Head State Coach and Director of Coaching Massachusetts Youth Soccer Association, United States Youth Soccer National Staff Coach


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Fork Truck Challenge is now available for you to enjoy on your MAC/PC.
The game is a combination of simulator and a puzzle. All you have to do is to deliver a cargo to a destination. Simple, uh? But that where catch come in - what if your destination is obstructed by other cargo or is out of direct reach? What if you drop cargo and it smashes to pieces? The only way to find it out is to play the game. As you progress levels will became more and more complex, giving you less and less rooms to maneuver. To overcome this you have to think outside the box.


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Kovacevic: Say it: Penguins will win Cup
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It's been three years since Marc-Andre Fleury slid across to stone Nicklas Lidstrom and Sidney Crosby raised the Stanley Cup on that joyous June 12, 2009, at Joe Louis Arena.
Three long, lousy years.
Or, to put that in more painfully precise terms, it's been 101 games lost by Crosby to concussions and other stuff, 61 games lost by Evgeni Malkin to knee injuries and other stuff, and 60 games lost by Jordan Staal to two foot surgeries, three related procedures, an infection, a broken hand, a strained knee and • am I missing something?
Oh, yeah: Two Game 7 losses to inferior opponents on home ice.
Those might have hurt the most.
Anyone ready for a change?
Anyone ready for all that misfortune to take a hard Pittsburgh left?
I can name at least 20 individuals — notably the 10 who were in uniform that defining night in Detroit — who sure sound ready to generate that change, beginning with Game 1 against the Flyers on this great Wednesday for hockey at Consol Energy Center.
"The fire is there, for sure," Crosby said Tuesday after practice.
"This team's really hungry," right winger Craig Adams said.
"We've wanted it all along," defenseman Brooks Orpik said. "The desire was there even last year when we were playing without Sid and Geno. This year, it's just a little more realistic."
Sure is.
Everyone around town has been sharing their first-round predictions in recent days. Here's mine: These Penguins are going to win the Stanley Cup.
And when they do, few of us will even remember how they took out the Flyers.
I'm not suggesting it'll be easy. Clearly, it won't, based on the rivals' heated, mostly even back-and-forth this season. But I am saying there isn't another NHL team — not the Flyers, Canucks, Blues, Predators, Rangers or anyone else — that can match the Penguins' total package.
That was No. 1 in the league, led by the game's preeminent players in Crosby and Malkin and suddenly one of its preeminent wingers in James Neal.
Not many teams can claim seven players with 17 or more goals, and bear in mind that Crosby isn't among them. He had eight. Chris Kunitz (26), Pascal Dupuis (25) and Matt Cooke (19) all had career-high outputs in supporting roles.
Special teams?
The power play ranked fifth, the penalty-killing third. If your biggest problem on special teams is how to utilize the best player on the planet with the man-advantage, you have no problems.
It's got a star in Kris Letang, it's got good mobility and, while it's hardly rambunctious, I wouldn't cross the blue line with my head down against Letang, Deryk Engelland or Orpik. That's half the corps right there.
This is as tough as any roster, top to bottom, in franchise history. And I'm not talking about fights, which are rare in the playoffs. I'm talking Adams tough, Arron Asham tough, in-your-face tough.
OK, we'll see on this one. Suffice it to say facing the Flyers first should help.
Of the current top performers at the game's most important position, Fleury is the only one with a ring. That counts.
Add all this up, look at the rest of the field, and don't be afraid to say it: This team is built to win the Cup.
Not to take a round or two.
Not to reach the final.
To win it all.
The way most in this locker room see it, they should have challenged for the Cup every year since 2009. They should have reaped so much more from this blessed well of talent, and they would have had it not been for the curse of injury.
"I think now comes the realization, with these last couple years, that you don't know when you'll get the opportunity again," Cooke said. "You don't know when you're going to have a full lineup like this. You don't know when you're going to have all this potential like we have. You want to make the most of it."
He's right.
Now, dump the Flyers in five or six and get on with it. There's bigger business at hand.
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Erected around 9,000 BC, 6,000 years before Stonehenge, before even the invention of agriculture, this series of stone circles on a hill 15 km (9 miles) northeast of the town of Urfa have been popularly declared the "World's Oldest Temple." The stones' purpose has been subject to wide interpretation: Some believe this was a burial site; others, a place of ritual initiation, or that each circle belonged to a different tribe that gathered here for ritual and trade. What is clear, though, is that no one lived here, and that it would have taken hundreds of people to transport and erect the pillars. The site is formed by a series of circles and ovals formed by large T-shaped pillars of equal height, usually with two larger pillars inside. The pillars are thought to have held a roof. Many of the outer surfaces are carved, some are anthropomorphic, others depict the savage nightmares of a hunter-gatherer's life, such as snakes, foxes, vultures, scorpions, and wild boar. Most curiously of all,
the structures were deliberately buried when the site was abandoned. Four structures have been exposed since excavations began in 1995, and another 16 have been identified by geophysicists; excavations continue in spring and fall. The circles themselves are off-limits and enclosed by low fences, but visitors are welcome to follow pathways from which all are clearly visible. Take the old highway the D400 east from Şanlıurfa and look for the marked turning on the left just as you leave the built up area. This road continues about 15km (10 miles), crossing over the new highway. Shortly after this is a turn, left for the last few miles up the hill to the site. While the site is open year-round, many of the pillars are covered in winter for protection from the elements.
15 km (9 mi.) northeast of Urfa, Turkey
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Abdominal symptoms are prominent in disseminated Mycobacterium avium complex (MAC) infection. They include diarrhea, abdominal pain,
nausea, vomiting, and hepatosplenomegaly.1,2 We describe a patient with disseminated MAC infection who
had perforating appendicitis due to MAC.
Report of a Case. A 36-year-old homosexual man with
acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) presented for evaluation of a 4-day history of diffuse colicky pain, later located in the right lower quadrant of the
abdomen. Two months earlier MAC organisms had been
isolated from blood cultures, and the patient was receiving clarithromycin, ethambutol hydrochloride, ciprofloxacin hydrochloride, and clofazamine. His most recent CD4 cell count had been 0.03×109/L. Physical
examination revealed an axillar temperature of 36.6°C
(rectal temperature, 38°C), mild abdominal distention
with hepatosplenomegaly, absence of bowel sounds, diffuse abdominal tenderness, and a positive psoas sign. The
white blood cell count was elevated over baseline at
3.2×107L, with 0.74 neutrophils and 0.18 band cell
forms. An x-ray
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In the first year of its running, the National Lottery has brought nothing but disappointment for archaeology. Local dramatic societies, national opera companies, inner-city activity centres, all these and a thousand other `good causes' have found the Lottery's fat cheques filling their hitherto-empty bank accounts. But archaeology? So far, it has hardly seen a penny.
This exclusion from the Lottery's millions has always seemed rather strange, given that heritage is one of the five good causes eligible by law for Lottery funding (the others are sport, arts, charities, and the millennium celebrations). Yet of the UKP116m disbursed so far by the Heritage Lottery Fund, a mere UKP100,000 or so has been spent on a single excavation. And that - the uncovering of a fossil elephant at West Runton in Norfolk - was not even an archaeological project.
Now, however, it seems better news may be on its way. The doors to the Lottery's golden chambers are creaking open for archaeology, and may soon be flung wide. Senior figures at the Heritage Lottery Fund are privately saying they want to give more to archaeology, and the Fund's guidelines - which at present exclude most archaeological excavations - will be rewritten later this year. Consultations are now taking place on what kinds of project should be eligible, and it is likely that by next year certain types of research excavation and survey will be allowed.
To be fair, it was never the Heritage Lottery Fund's intention to exclude archaeology altogether. Taking its advice from bodies such as English Heritage, the Fund was anxious not to undermine the principle of developer funding for development-led excavations. It was also unsure whether purely research projects were eligible under the terms of the Lottery Act, which specifies that grants should go only to capital projects. The Fund's bold new intention of seeing research as a way of `creating an asset' (and hence as capital funding) is a measure of its goodwill towards archaeology and its desire to bring the subject into the fold.
Let it be said, the possible advent of Lottery funding provides a magnificent opportunity for archaeology - offering the chance of more public funding than the subject has ever seen before. But before archaeologists start throwing their trowels into the air in glee, they have to understand that Lottery funding would also bring with it an unusually challenging obligation.
It is all very well for funds from `academic' sources to be spent on obscure studies into the details of the past. But the people who finance the Lottery, not through taxation but for pleasure, quite rightly expect to benefit directly from projects that it pays for. As a result, archaeologists who apply for grants will, one hopes, be turned down flat unless they can argue a clear public interest in their propos-als. Self-important claims that all archaeological research is ultimately for the public good should be rejected out of hand.
Lottery money should only be spent on projects that enhance people's lives by opening their eyes to the historic environment in which they live. Decisions have not yet been made, but it is possible to hazard some guesses about what kinds of research might qualify. Projects that attempt to unravel the history of a place? Yes. Microscopic analysis of the composition of Roman paint? No. Investigations of entire classes of visible monument, such as prehistoric roads or medieval harbours? Yes. Studies of the symbolic use of space in the Iron Age? Again, no. The academic value of a project ought to count, but for Lottery money popular appeal must be the driving force.
It goes without saying that, for a project to have popular appeal, its results must be published rapidly in a form that captures the popular imagination. And here lies perhaps the greatest challenge of all for archaeologists, who - despite dealing with some of the most fascinating material available to the human mind - so often seem unable to make it interesting to anyone but themselves.
One of the greatest benefits of Lottery funding could, indeed, be that it forces archaeologists into a new way of thinking about archaeology, which will at once be more detached from the details of the subject and more in touch with ordinary human concerns. If all goes well, the Lottery could be the boot that kicks archae-ology out of its self-absorbed world, and turns it into the subject of genuinely wide public interest that it deserves to be.
Simon Denison is Editor of British Archaeology
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In spite of the wintry weather outside (it's snowing again), we've got a little bit of spring in our kitchen; the basil is sprouting!
You may remember that I signed up for the U of M Master Gardener seed trials for this summer and I got sent packets of turnip and basil seeds. (If you don't remember, you can read about it here.)
Although I really don't have a good setup for seed-starting, I was extremely interested in getting the basil. We love basil, and six varieties of basil just sounded like a good thing. Of course, I won't actually know which ones are which until the trial is over, because, to be appropriately scientific, it had to be a "blind" test. So the seeds were simply labelled "A" through "F."
My biggest fear was that they wouldn't sprout at all, but at this point I've got a minimum of six sprouts for each kind. So, knock on wood, we should have at least a couple of transplants of each kind to put out in the vegetable garden (assuming summer ever comes).
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Djaga Hostel
Vladimirsky pr. 15, San Pietroburgo, Russia, Distanza dal centro città: 0.4km
Djaga Hostel is located right in the heart of Saint-Petersburg, just a stone's throw from all major museums, attractions, shopping centre and buzzing night life and only in a 7 minutes walk from the central train station.
We know it's important to stay in a friendly, clean, safe and fun hostel with all the facilities you need at any time you like.
Our budget price includes staying, sheets, hot showers, WiFI, parking, luggage storage and all taxes. One price covers all. Starting at 600 rubles, these are the best-value beds in town.
Djaga Hostel is a true travellers paradise.
Providing so much for so little, Djaga Hostel is definitely the best deal you can get in Saint-Petersburg.
The staff are backpacking, bilingual, friendly and integrated with everything cultural. They can hook you up with parties and venues to suit all tastes and they'll put a smile on your face as they do it.
Additional info:
SMOKING: All dorms and private rooms are non-smoking.
LOCATION: Conveniently located to the sights and all public transportation. Museums, cinemas, pubs, bars, eating places, gardens and channels in a walking distance through the Djaga Hostel.
PARKING: FREE parking for our guests, from bikes till buses.
AIRPORT: Easily reached by public transportation, we can also order a taxi for your convenience if you prefer.
INTERNET: Internet is available through FREE WiFi.
KITCHEN: Fully equipped kitchen for the self-catering, Freezer, cooker, and so on.
Reasonable price,
unexpected quality,
friendly staff,
quiet, cosy and comfortable stay.
we offer you:
- free wi-fi internet
- free bed linen and towels
- free parking
- free staff advice and attention
- free tea and coffee
- 24-hours reception service
WE ARE LOCATED in the CITY CENTRE
Disponibilità e tariffePer visualizzare la disponibilità e i prezzi, seleziona le date e fai clic su "Aggiorna date"
Ostello Servizi & Politiche
- Reception 24 ore su 24
- Noleggio biciclette
- Parcheggio per biciclette
- Giochi di società
- Scambio di libri
- Prima colazione non inclusa
- TV via cavo
- Si accettano bambini
- Sala comune
- Carte di credito accettate
- Parcheggio gratuito
- Wi-Fi gratuito
- Asciugacapelli
- Docce calde
- Pulizia
- Accesso a Internet
- Cucina
- Biancheria inclusa
- Armadietti
- Deposito bagagli
- Nessun coprifuoco
- Vietato fumare
- Parcheggio
- IVA inclusa
- Macchine per tè/caffè
- Travel Desk per i tour
- Asciugamani a noleggio
- Asciugamani inclusi
- Lavatrice
Politica di cancellazioneQuesta proprietà ha una politica di cancellazione di 1. La mancata cancellazione entro questo intervallo di tempo si tradurrà in una penale pari alla prima notte di pernottamento.
IndicazioniMostra mappaNascondi mappa
From the airport PULKOVO:
- take a municipal bus to the closest metro station 'Moskovskaya' (20 min), then go by metro to 'Vladimirskaya' station (20 min).
From a train station:
- go to the nearest metro station (all train stations are above or very close to metro stations), then take a train to 'Vladimirskaya'.
From Metro station 'Vladimirskaya':
Djaga Hostel locates across metro station 'Vladimirskaya' 50 meters.
- You should turn left, cross Vladimirsky prospect and then turn right and walk 50 meters to the building 15. There You will see Djaga Hostel sign, Hostel will be directly from the street, code 15B, 4-th floor.


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LEXINGTON, Ky. (WKYT) - UK coach John Calipari went on a Washington, D.C. radio station Monday to promote his new book and he talked about the issue of playing time when it comes to next season.
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"We may play this like a pro franchise in that, there are rotations. As a starter you're gonna get this many minutes, as his backup you're gonna get this many minutes. You're gonna know when you'll go in the game. Then when you hit March you narrow it down to eight guys, seven guys you're playing. But throughout the year you just make sure you're a deep team, you can withstand foul trouble, injuries, anything else that goes wrong. So you play a lot of people and your whole drive is March".
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Actors: Angelina Jolie, Brad Pitt, Richard Bohringer, Niels Arestrup, Melvil Poupaud, Melanie Laurent, Sarah Naudi
Rated R For for strong sexuality, nudity, and language By the Sea follows an American writer named Roland (Pitt) and his wife, Vanessa (Jolie Pitt), who arrive in a tranquil and picturesque seaside resort in 1970s France, their marriage in apparent crisis. As they spend time with fellow travelers, including young newlyweds Lea (Laurent) and FranAois (Poupaud), and village locals Michel (Arestrup) and Patrice (Bohringer), the couple begins to come to terms with unresolved issues in their own lives.
Rating: (R) | Runtime: 2 Hours 13 Minutes
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Actors: Mark Ruffalo, Michael Keaton, Rachel McAdams, Liev Schreiber, John Slattery, Stanley Tucci
Rated R For for some language including sexual references. Starring Michael Keaton, Mark Ruffalo, Rachel McAdams, Liev Schrieber, Brian DArcy James and Stanley Tucci, Spotlight tells the riveting true story of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Boston Globe investigation that would rock the city and cause a crisis in one of the worlds oldest and most trusted institutions. When the newspapers tenacious Spotlight team of reporters delve into allegations of abuse in the Catholic Church, their year-long investigation uncovers a decades-long cover-up at the highest levels of Bostons religious, legal, and government establishment, touching off a wave of revelations around the world. Directed by Academy Award-nominee Thomas McCarthy,Spotlightis a tense investigative thriller, tracing the steps to one of the biggest crime stories in modern times.
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Actors: Helen Mirren, Bryan Cranston, Diane Lane, John Goodman, Peter Mackenzie, Roger Bart, Elle Fanning, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Louis C.K., Michael Stuhlbarg
Rated R For for language including some sexual references. The successful career of 1940s Hollywood screenwriter Dalton Trumbo (Bryan Cranston) comes to a crushing end when he and other Hollywood figures are blacklisted for their political beliefs. Trumbo (directed by Jay Roach) tells Trumbos story and his fight against gossip columnist Hedda Hopper (Helen Mirren) in a war over words and freedom, which entangled everyone in Hollywood from John Wayne to Kirk Douglas and Otto Preminger.
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Rated PG13 For for some intense violence, thematic elements, brief strong language and partial nudity. Suffragette is a powerful drama about the women who were willing to lose everything in their fight for equality in early-20th-century Britain. The stirring story centers on Maud (played by Carey Mulligan), a working wife and mother whose life is forever changed when she is secretly recruited to join the U.K.s growing suffragette movement. Galvanized by the outlaw fugitive Emmeline Pankhurst (Meryl Streep), Maud becomes an activist for the cause alongside women from all walks of life. Inspired by true events,Suffragetteis a moving drama exploring the passion and heartbreak of those who risked all they had for womens right to votetheir jobs, their homes, their children, and even their lives.
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September 08, 2012
Hamdpen-Sydney alumnus and current Christopher Newport University President Paul Trible '72 and his wife Rosemary visited campus on September 7th and 8th. President Trible is a former US Senator and in 1996 became the the fifth President of CNU. President Trible is also a former trustee of the College and he and Rosemary attended the James Madison Society and 1776 Society dinner which honored former trustees of the College and those who have included the College in their long term estate planning. On Saturday, President and Mrs. Trible joined Dr. and Mrs. Howard in the Stadium Lounge and watched as the Tiger's took down the Captains 42-20!
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The Michigan Department of Transportation is exploring whether to rebuild or find new use for the mile long I-375 freeway that runs along Detroit's East side, seen here on Wednesday, Nov. 13, 2013. / Jarrad Henderson/Detroit Free Press
The Michigan Department of Transportation is exploring whether to rebuild or find new use for the mile long I-375 freeway that runs along Detroit's East side, seen here on Wednesday, Nov. 13, 2013. / Jarrad Henderson/Detroit Free Press
Submit your ideas
Architects, urban planners, students and the public, heres your chance to weigh in on the fate of I-375. Send us your sketches, plans and recommendations for what to do with the I-375 freeway.
The Free Press will run the best ideas in a future edition.
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Redefining downtowns eastern edge
The debate over I-375s future provides just one opportunity for redefining the eastern edge of downtown. The fate of the Wayne County Jail construction site is another.
With construction of the new jail far over budget, county and state officials are trying to work a deal to move the jail and courts complex to the states closed Mound Road facility. Wayne County Executive Robert Ficanos administration has recommended selling the jail site to Quicken Loans founder and Chairman Dan Gilbert and his partners, who would redevelop it as mixed-used retail, residential and commercial space.
Taken together, the jail and I-375 projects hold the possibility that the eastern gateway to downtown Detroit could look considerably different five years from now than it has for half a century.
The I-375 transformation process
Detroits Downtown Development Authority sought bids from consultants to oversee the months-long process of examining the pros and cons of removing I-375. Will Tamminga, director of project management for the Detroit Economic Growth Corp., said DEGC staff will recommend one of the consultants to the DDA board in early December.
The chosen consultant will then work with a group of Detroit stakeholders, including residents and downtown employers, to study traffic counts and other issues. A recommendation on future action could come by mid-2014.
Tamminga said the goal of the study will be to balance all the various needs and opinions. We want to get it right, and thats why were looking for considerable input from experts and stakeholders and the community along the way, Tamminga said last week.
The group does not have details yet on how the public can provide input.
Edward Porter, 71, looks out onto I-375 from his living room in the Jean Rivard Apartments in Detroit on Friday. / Romain Blanquart/Detroit Free Press
Pastor Giuseppe Licciardi, left and music director Dino Valle of Holy Family Parish that sits on the edge of I-375 where a possible removal of the expressway and its replacement by a surface street is being considered in Detroit. / Romain Blanquart/Detroit Free Press
The Michigan Department of Transportation is exploring whether to rebuild or find new use for the mile long I-375 freeway that runs along Detroit's East side, seen here on Wednesday, Nov. 13, 2013. / Jarrad Henderson/Detroit Free Press
For the first time in a half century, Detroit could follow a national trend and remove aging I-375, cutting off express downtown access for tens of thousands of motorists a day in favor of a pedestrian-friendly parkway connecting Lafayette Park and Eastern Market with the central business district.
Turning the trench-like interstate that runs from I-75 near Gratiot south to Jefferson Avenue into a surface street would make for easier connections between residential areas on the east side and central downtown. Creating that walkable ambiance would come at the cost of high-speed connections on I-375 that suburbanites take to reach the Renaissance Center, Cobo Center and other downtown destinations.
Removing the 1960s-era freeway could sprout residential communities anew in the once-thriving historic black areas known as Black Bottom and Paradise Valley that were torn apart five decades ago by local freeway construction, the same as in cities across the nation.
The area could be developed into some combination of retail, parkland or mixed-use development. There could be several variations on the idea of a surface street. Or, ultimately, the freeway could be rebuilt as is, though that would buck a national trend of removing urban freeways in favor of pedestrian- and bike-friendly areas and greenways.
The City of Detroit and the Michigan Department of Transportation have formed a committee with local stakeholders, including development agencies and downtown employers, to study transforming I-375 into a surface street. The group will choose a consultant next month who will oversee the process of coming up with a proposed plan by mid-next year, at the earliest. Officials said the group would solicit public opinion but has not provided any specifics yet.
The coming debate over the future of I-375 could be integral in defining Detroits development priorities either as a destination for commuters and others doing business in downtown or as a place to do everything, including living, shopping, working, raising children and playing.
With the 50-year-old freeway and the bridges that cross it probably needing upgrades or repairs sooner or later, fans of walkable downtowns say removing expressways are a big plus.
I think that any opportunity to reconnect important parts of the city should be fully explored, said Tom Woiwode, who promotes the creation of greenways like the Dequindre Cut for the Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan. And the idea that theres a way to reconnect Lafayette Park and the Eastern Market to the central business district would be a very exciting prospect.
What benefits the city?
The stakeholders group includes major employees such as General Motors and Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan, which combined employ more than 11,000 workers in the RenCen and the nearby Blue Cross campus. The nonprofit Detroit RiverFront Conservancy, which builds and operates the RiverWalk, is also taking part.
I think we have several interests, said Tricia Keith, senior vice president and corporate secretary for Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan. Absolutely, as an employer, we want to make sure that our people can get in and out safely and efficiently.
But, she added, Its not only about getting people in and out of downtown. Its also about what benefits the city, what types of gateways we create that make it attractive to development. Taking all those things into consideration I think is key.
General Motors said in a statement that it supported the study. We are all keen to ensure that the future of I-375 takes into account the increased population downtown as well as accommodate any future development that may occur, the GM statement read.
Built in 1964 at a cost of $50 million (about $375 million in 2013 dollars), the freeway runs for slightly more than a mile with recent traffic counts registering 45,000 vehicles a day at I-375 and Lafayette.
Not everybody is so enthused about converting the I-375 corridor to a surface street for greater walkability.
Ed Francis, an architect who has lived in nearby Lafayette Park for some 30 years, likes I-375 the way it is now. He appreciates the ease of connecting to other parts of the metro area by hopping on the expressway. I get there in half a block, and I can get anywhere in the city in no time at all, he said Friday.
And the Rev. Giuseppe Licciardi, pastor of Holy Family Catholic Church, which borders I-375, said his suburban parishioners come to Sunday mass along I-375, exiting at the Lafayette ramp.
But he wasnt worried about removing the freeway, he said. When love is there, they can find the way.
National trend
Detroit is hardly alone in thinking of removing a freeway. Indeed, removing freeways from urban downtowns ranks among the hottest trends in urban planning today.
Milwaukee, San Francisco and Portland, Ore., have all ripped out part of their freeway systems, replacing them with parks or surface roads. Cleveland and other cities plan to do the same, and cities including Toronto and Washington, D.C., killed freeway projects before they could be built over concerns of damaging urban neighborhoods.
If half a century ago freeways were viewed as a way to promote downtowns by giving suburbanites easy access, planners today point out the negative sides.
Ian Lockwood, a Florida-based urban planner who has worked in Detroit, notes that I-375 and I-75 in Detroit helped destroy the thriving Black Bottom neighborhood along Hastings Street in Detroit, just as freeways sliced and diced cities everywhere.
Its no surprise that the suburbs around Detroit grew tremendously over the last several decades while the city declined. The highways are the conduit of that. They export value and people to the suburbs. Thats what they do, and they create automobile dependence, Lockwood said last week.
He was skeptical that the stakeholders group will get it right.
I think balance is the wrong word, he said. The word that really should be important in Detroit is priorities. If the priority is to make the downtown fantastic, then Detroit needs to stop evacuating it. They need to stop creating barriers. They need to start making these streets walkable again.
As to fears that GM and Blue Cross employees coming in from the suburbs would lose their easy connection to downtown if I-375 were removed, Lockwood said, They dont lose their access. They lose their high-speed access. Theres a difference.
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One of the most important community preferences for the Muncie Action Plan is to, "Develop a council of neighborhoods to build and support the capacity of neighborhood organizations."
Before we could develop a council of neighborhoods, we needed more neighborhood associations. We began with only four active neighborhood associations. Now, we have 26. There are about 40 neighborhoods in Muncie, so there is still work to do.
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Posted on: August 30, 2009 4:46 pm
Giants vs. Jets
I was at the Giants vs. Jets preseason game last night and noticed a few things that I would like to point out.
First, Mark Sanchez looked fairly poised, given that the Giants blitzed quite often. Although the Giants were missing Antonio Pierce and a few other key defenders, he held his ground and was only sacked once. He also didn't commit any turnovers, which is a great sign for the Jets.
Leon Washington also had quite a game. Thomas Jones continues to bore the crowd while Washington fights for every yard and gives the fans something to cheer about. I'm thinking of picking him up for my fantasy team if he continues to produce.
I honestly think that the Jets may be a contender this year. When you look at Rex Ryan's defense, their running game, and their potential for Sanchez, it is quite possible that the Jets could give the Patriots a run for their money. What they'll need is consistency with their passing game, and a #2 receiver to step up after losing Coles to free agency.
As for the Giants... I have very mixed feelings. Their very first drive was perfect, and I thought I was in store for a blowout. Eli Manning looked very accurate throughout the game, and looks as though he is comfortable throwing in the pocket. The offensive line also did a very good job with protection.
The Giants running game was also stellar, with all three running backs averaging very well. Danny Ware is showing that he really wants to get that #2 spot in the Giants depth chart.
Plus, how about David Carr and Hakeem Nicks! David Carr was able to run the ball successfully while still throwing for two touchdowns to Nicks, who looked fantastic except for a dropped ball early on. I'm really hoping he turns out to be a #1 receiver for the Giants in a few years.
Now for the bad. What in the world is wrong with the Giants receivers? Eli went 9/21 solely because his receivers could not catch the ball. Steve Smith, a usually reliable player, dropped a 90-yard bomb, which ultimately would have won them the game. Manningham looked sluggish and sloppy, while backup tight end Darcy Johnson couldn't hold onto the ball either. It looked like they became too comfortable with an early score. Boss remained consistent and Hixon didn't get many touches, so hopefully they can bounce back in the regular season, considering we won't see many (if any) starters in the fourth preseason game against the Patriots.
Overall, if the Giants were at full strength, I don't believe they would have given up as many points, but I wasn't quite happy with their performance. On the bright side, Hakeem Nicks and David Carr looked brilliant, and Eli continues to be consistent while his running game carries the load.
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Typical Jerry Jones
I'll preface this entry by saying that I despise the Cowboys more than any other team in sports history.
That being said, Jerry Jones' comments about his too-low video screen are absolutely ridiculous. He sincerely believes that having a video board that can be hit by punts during NFL games isn't that big of a deal. He acknowledged the fact that it will probably be hit during the regular season, but it's alright with him. Typical Cowboy arrogance if you ask me.
Apparently he did meet the speculations set forth by the NFL, and has it at least five feet above the league minimum height, but it still interferes with gameplay. I hope the league steps in and forces him to move the video board up higher, though I'm not so sure that he should be forced to pay for it. This is just one more thing that the Giants will have to deal with in the stadium opener in mid-September.
Category: NFL
Tags: Cowboys, Giants, Jerry Jones, NFL, Scoreboard, stadium
Posted on: August 26, 2009 2:39 pm
The "IT" Teams
After listening to The Herd on ESPN Radio and watching a few NFL.com videos, I've realized that there are only about 12 teams that really have "It" to win the Superbowl this year. Of course, I wouldn't have said that the Cardinals had "It" to make it to the Big Game last year, and look what happened. But anyways, here are the 12 teams (in no particular order) that I believe have "It" to make it to the Superbowl in 2010.
AFC: Patriots
NFC: Giants
The five teams in the AFC will no doubt dominate in the 2009 season. In the NFC, however, there are more teams because the talent isn't quite as good in that conference. That's why a team like the Cardinals or the Buccaneers could emerge throughout the season as a favorite. Here are the 10 teams that I believe do not have a chance to make it to the Superbowl.
AFC: Dolphins
NFC: Lions
I strongly believe that the Browns are a completely worthless organization, and would bet on the Lions winning more games than them. The rest of the teams seem to be in the position the Cardinals were in last year, and could possibly make a run if they become hot in the post-season.
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Posted on: August 24, 2009 4:49 pm
Draft Results
My PPR fantasy football league draft was last night, and here were the results:
Quarterbacks: Donovan McNabb and Matt Hasselbeck
Going into the draft I had wanted to grab Phillip Rivers or Aaron Rodgers in the third round. Rivers was taken the pick before mine, and Rodgers much earlier, so I was forced to take McNabb. As a Giants fan, this makes me a little unhappy, but he usually torments the Giants so it might pay off. I love Hasselbeck as a backup.
Runningbacks: LaDainian Tomlinson, Clinton Portis, Knowshon Moreno, Chester Taylor, Ricky Williams
I had planned on taking LT regardless, but did not think I would end up with Portis. He fell to the third round, so I had to. I am concerned about both my RBs being older and more prone to injury, so I picked up Knowshon as my RB3 in case he is a breakout player. The Chester Taylor pick was solely in case AP gets hurt, which would be a monumental plus for Taylor. Likewise, if Ronnie Brown gets hurt, Ricky Williams will get a ton more carries.
Wide Receivers: Reggie Wayne, Vincent Jackson, Devin Hester, Muhsin Muhammad, Miles Austin
I did not have a clue who I would pick as my WR1, so I just decided to pick the best on the board. Wayne and Calvin Johnson fell to me at the fifth pick in the second round, so I chose Wayne. I love how he has performed in preseason so far, and you don't get a more reliable quarterback than Peyton Manning. Vincent Jackson is a player that I strongly believe will be a top 10 WR this year, and had wanted from the beginning of the draft. Otherwise, I wasn't too thrilled with my other picks, especially Muhammad.
Tight Ends: Greg Olsen, Visanthe Shiancoe
I am extremely happy with these two guys, both have an extreme upside. They both have new quarterbacks who love to throw to their tight ends.
Defense: San Diego Chargers
Their defense seems to be back to 2007 form, where they were in the top 5. I'm really looking forward to their production.
Kicker: Matt Bryant.
I was the last person to pick a kicker, seeing as they're really not worth talking about.
I really don't know what to make of my team. I'm mostly scared by the age of some of my players and their proneness to injury. If they stay healthy, however, I think I can have a great year. One thing I do have to look out for is Week 5, where Vincent Jackson, the Chargers defense, LT, and Greg Olsen are on their bye week.
Category: Fantasy Football
Tags: Aaron Rodgers, AP, bye week, Calvin Johnson, Chester Taylor, Clinton Portis, Defense, Devin Hester, Donovan McNabb, Fantasy Football, Giants, Greg Olsen, injury, Kicker, Knowshon Moreno, LaDainian Tomlinson, Matt Bryant, Matt Hasselbeck, Miles Austin, Muhsin Muhammad, Peyton Manning, Phillip Rivers, PPR, Quarterbacks, Reggie Wayne, Ricky Williams, Ronnie Brown, Runningbacks, San Diego Chargers, Tight Ends, Vincent Jackson, Visanthe Shiancoe, Wide Receivers
Posted on: August 17, 2009 10:20 pm
ESPN's Overvalued Fantasy Players
I was watching the Giants game tonight and noticed something odd at halftime. On the top of the screen they had (I think it was Mike Sando's) "Top 5 overvalued players" for fantasy football this year, and I didn't agree with the top 4.
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Posted on: August 17, 2009 6:03 pm
Preseason Predictions
I know it's early in the preseason, but it's always fun to try and guess who will succeed and make the playoffs this year. I'll run down each division and then explain my Wild Card picks.
AFC East: New England Patriots. As much as I hate to say it, the Pats are back. Key additions to their defense are equally as important as Brady returning. One thing to watch for is Brady stepping up in the pocket. With his repaired knee going forward first, he may look uncomfortable following through, which could lead to more interceptions. I don't care who you are, ACL repair is serious business.
AFC North: Pittsburgh Steelers. Not only are they the best team in the division, but none of the other teams look like they have the material to challenge them. The Ravens lost key defenders, including defensive coordinator Rex Ryan. The Bengals have too many questions on both sides of the ball. And Cleveland... well Cleveland is a mess. Oh yeah, and the Steelers are the defending champions.
AFC South: Indianapolis Colts. While it'll be a tough battle, I strongly believe the Colts will return to dominance. They finished 12-4 last year, even while struggling with Peyton being injured in the beginning of the season. They do seem to have trouble in the playoffs, so I'm not saying they'll succeed in that respect. The Titans, and possibly the Texans, will give them a run for their money.
AFC West: San Diego Chargers. This is almost a no-brainer. The Broncos are a mess, the Raiders are run poorly, and the Chiefs are too inexperienced. Rivers continues to get better, LT is looking to return to dominance, and Shawn Merriman is back. Enough said.
AFC Wildcards: Tennessee Titans and Houston Texans. I'll admit it, I've jumped on the Houston bandwagon to make the playoffs. If Shaub stays healthy, they've got a very real chance to run deep this year. The Titans should be fine as well, and may even see a little improvement in Vince Young. I don't think losing Haynesworth will be too much of a detriment, because I believe the system made him good, not the other way around. The AFC South is going to be great this year.
NFC East: New York Giants. I'll admit this is 50% because I'm a Giants fan. I do, however, believe that they will have the top defense in the league due to their additions in Canty and Bernard. The Eagles have lost too many defenders in the offseason, and Jim Johnson has passed away. Every year Washington adds the biggest name player to their team, thinking it's fantasy football season, and falls short. Although many people are down on Dallas, I wouldn't count them out to challenge the Giants and Eagles for the division.
NFC North: Green Bay Packers. They could very well have a top 3 offense this year. Many people think their transition to the 3-4 will take a year or so, but they looked spectacular in preseason. If Favre goes to the Vikings, I'd be about 50/50, but I think the Pack has this one.
NFC South: Atlanta Falcons. This is a very tough call, because all four teams could legitimately win. The addition of Gonzalez will help Matt Ryan's short passing game, and hopefully Roddy White will end his holdout. If the Saints defense improves, they could be in this spot. In addition, if Delhomme pushes that playoff loss out of his head, the Panthers could do the same.
NFC West: Arizona Cardinals. I wanted to take the Seahawks as a dark horse here, but I can't do it. Fitzgerald and Boldin are just too good, even if Warner gets hurt. Their defense is underrated too.
NFC Wildcards: Philadelphia Eagles and Carolina Panthers. The Panthers defense and run game are enough to at least get them a wild card birth. The Eagles, despite their losses, are dynamic on offense.
Let me know what you think about these rankings! I often get too biased in my predictions, so feel free to let me hear where you think I went wrong! It's my first entry in this blog, so don't be too harsh!


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Indiana's win worthy of Crean celebration
By Jeff Goodman
Tom Crean can celebrate however he wants after this one. He could be yelling and screaming buck naked in the lobby of Assembly Hall and it would be fine with me (OK, I take that one back).
I mocked the Indiana coach last season after he went bananas in the lobby of Assembly Hall following a home victory over Illinois. However, Saturday's victory against top-ranked Kentucky? Well, that's worthy of a full-pledged party well into the night for Crean and the Hoosiers.
This may wind up becoming a defining moment for the Indiana program in the Crean Era - one that had some fans and many around the country questioning whether the Hoosiers would be nationally relevant again.
Kentucky was more talented at every single position on the court, but Indiana took control of the game in the second half, and after blowing a 10-point lead, got a 3-pointer at the buzzer from Christian Watford for the 73-72 upset.
The Hoosiers showed mental resolve.
This Hoosiers team has officially turned the corner. They hadn't really beaten anyone of note until now (Butler and N.C State don't quite count), but should make their way into the Top 25 for the first time since Kelvin Sampson was running things and making illegal phone calls in Bloomington.
It was nice to see Assembly Hall rocking again because the fans in Bloomington are rabid - and are deserving of success. Indiana doesn't blow you away, but now Crean has enough talent and experience to compete with the big boys.
Let's not get ahead of ourselves, however, and start proclaiming the Hoosiers as a clear-cut NCAA tournament team. The Hoosiers aren't going to challenge Ohio State for the Big Ten title. They remain undefeated, but still need to fare well in Big Ten play to ensure themselves of dancing come March.
Watford doesn't always show up, but it was Kentucky's Terrence Jones who played the role of the magician on Saturday, doing his best disappearing act with just four points and a lone rebound in the contest. Watford went for 20 points in the victory while freshman Cody Zeller, Will Sheehey, Victor Oladipo and Jordan Hulls all played well.
Crean has had a rough go thus far in his tenure, finishing near the bottom of the league each of his three seasons. Recruiting has certainly picked up in the past year or so and Cream got over one hurdle when he took down Butler's Brad Stevens last month. But this one was far more important.
Crean knocked off the No. 1 team in the land. The almighty John Calipari and the Kentucky Wildcats.
If that's not worthy of a party, I'm not sure what is.
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Since: Mar 16, 2007
Posted on: December 12, 2011 4:43 pm
Indiana's win worthy of Crean celebration
And what's up with that picture of the scoreboard reading UK 75, IU 70 anyway?
Since: Mar 16, 2007
Posted on: December 12, 2011 2:10 pm
Indiana's win worthy of Crean celebration
People who back a corrupt program hate. People who understand integrity do not. I can't use the verb I'd like to use concerning Kentucky. That's not hate, it's acknowledging the truth. For those morons who state that "[Crean} had to be 8-0 this point in the season or he'd have been sent packing" (CN2's "Inside Kentucky Sports" Insight Network 12/9/11). That same moron stated the the IU-UK rivalry "was dead". What a moron. But that's the way a program like Kentucky works. Their credo is "WIN AT ANY COST". I'd be willing to bet that not one of those Kentucky "thoroughbreds" has EVER seen the inside of a classroom at UK. I have never doubted the skill and athleticism of any Kentucky team. But Kentucky is a revolving door for the NBA. Nothing more .How many UK players graduate? I really don't care what detractors of Crean or IU think. IU is back, after three yearof pain and humiliation. The world of NCAA Division I Men's basketball had better take notice.
Since: Dec 12, 2011
Posted on: December 12, 2011 1:51 pm
Indiana's win worthy of Crean celebration
As an IU fan that was at the game, let me clear up a few things for people that can't seem to undestand. First, whether or not IU won that game, it was a great basketball game. If you disagree with that statement, you are either an embarrassed UK fan or simply do not like the sport. Next, Indiana beat Kentucky. This may seem like a simple statement, but it does mean a few things. Because it is not 20 years ago, the Indiana student body is not wrong in any way for rushing the court. We have been cellar-dwellars for the last few years, and the Hoosiers just beat the number one team in the country. They also beat a close rival. If that was any other set of schools, that would be fine, but people want the fans to "act like they've been there before". Well, chances are they haven't been there before, so how would they act like it? I am not proclaiming IU the best basketball team in the country, or even better than the Cats. But Saturday night, they won the game. That's all that matters, and the fans are allowed to (and should) party like its 1987. Wake up world- Hoosier basketball is back on the map.
Since: Dec 12, 2011
Posted on: December 12, 2011 11:38 am
Indiana's win worthy of Crean celebration
While being degraded over which basketball program you follow may seem like an insult to many, it is NOT something to be taken personally when those insults are coming from a KEntucky Mildcat fan. Since they obviously have not background in class, sportsmanship, honor, honesty, or for that matter, no knowledge of college basketball, why would anyone take them seriously.
And in a few years, when Calapari is on his way to ruin ANOTHER program, UK is enduring another set of sanctions from NCAA for gross misconduct and blatant cheating, IU will go on with the knowledge that our program doesn't need to buy wins....we earn 'em the old fashioned way.....By kicking UK in the butt and sending them home whining.
Since: Dec 5, 2011
Posted on: December 12, 2011 9:01 am
Indiana's win worthy of Crean celebration
Just try and enjoy your win without becoming obsessed. Haters gonna hate, that is true. You got 5 wins in the past 21 tries; enjoy it, don't start hatin..
Since: Oct 18, 2011
Posted on: December 12, 2011 12:34 am
Indiana's win worthy of Crean celebration
@ezcatchfishing...my point exactly...was that meant to be a counterpoint or something? Coach Cal even said that in the post-interview. I don't think you realize why I wrote what I did. It was in response to someone claiming the lack of fouling at the end of the game had nothing to do with the outcome. It's all would've/could've/should've and fun to speculate. Fact is what should've happened...happened. But it's fun to discuss the possibilities.
Since: Mar 16, 2007
Posted on: December 11, 2011 9:41 pm
Indiana's win worthy of Crean celebration
I have been an IU fan since 1975. I don't want to go into Knight's being back-stabbed and the corronbative action of the AD (I can't remember his name, nor do I care to) in his hiring of that Kentucky-level gangster, Sampson. The cowardly University president and his cronies tried to kill IU basketball tradition. It worked for three years. We're back. Take notice NCAA Division I Men's basketball. IU is back. Now about Crean. It is Kentcky thinking that says that Crean's job was in jeopardy because of his three-year purgatory. IU doesn't work that way. It takes time to resurrect a murdered program. Crean has done it, with honor and with dignity. Two things Kentucky doesn't understand the meaning of. I am not going to write what I really feel about Kentucky and its so-called tradition. I am not going
to address the idiots and their moronic babblings about making light of the Indiana student body celebrated a hard-earned victory, nor those denigrating Crean. Those who do so ARE idiots and their comments ARE moronic. IU basketball IS HONOR, IS TRADITION, and IS BACK. Kentucky nay-sayers can cry all they want. The final score was IU 73, Kentucky 72. Enough said.
Since: Dec 11, 2011
Posted on: December 11, 2011 9:23 pm
Indiana's win worthy of Crean celebration
Umm, yeah, true. We get to storm our FOOTBALL field like once a decade. Finally ending a streak of losing, even against a gnarly stinky crap team like UT had out there this year - and winning with a WR at QB - I'd say it was well-earned.
You think you can win 1 against Big Blue Nation this year, Vol-guy? Bring it..
Since: Oct 9, 2007
Posted on: December 11, 2011 7:55 pm
Indiana's win worthy of Crean celebration
Wasn't it Kentucky who just 2 weeks ago stormed the field after they beat a 5-7 Tennessee football team?
Since: Nov 27, 2006
Posted on: December 11, 2011 7:45 pm
Indiana's win worthy of Crean celebration
Coming from a student in the student section last night....everyone serisouly needs to lighten up. We rushed the court, big deal. How did that influence youre night in the least while you were sitting at home? Were you somehow personally offended at this notion that we rushed our own court? if so, I say again...lighten up. Ive been going to every game the past few years and we have been just awful, so no I personally have neevr "Been there before" Try to look at it from our view, thats if UK fans are capable of using that much brain power, and see that over the last 3 years we have finished at the bottom of the big ten and thats all I know. Now when we beat the #1 team in the nation at home on a national broadcast youre telling me to cool my jets? That idea seems classless to me. Youre still the same team and you can debate that you are actually better having lost that game. Remember its just a game, everyone is there to have fun, and I had a blaaaast.


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long waits on Netflix
Hi, anyone else experiencing aggravatingly long waits with some recent releases on Netflix? Such as, having
The Hurt Locker
Inglorious Basterds
long or very long waited since, well, whenever the frak it was that the DVDs were released (what, like a month or three now?)
I don't really pay attention to what I get when, so it hasn't been a big deal. I have over 200 DVDs queued up, so I'm always getting something, but it's annoying that Netflix is violating their own so-called policy...
Short Wait:
This means we don't have quite enough copies and the wait is usually less than 7 days.
Long Wait:
This means there is a serious demand for the title and the wait is generally less than 14 days.
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This means that there is extremely high demand, limited availability and/or a very long wait for this title. Usually the wait is less than 30 days, but could be longer if, for example, the movie is out of print or we are otherwise unable to secure additional copies.
A friend (who isn't a Netflix customer and tends to fly into an apoplectic rage at the mention of their name
and keeps nagging me to dump them like a bad habit) that my problem is those 200+ DVDs. If I deleted everything except
The Hurt Locker
Inglorious Basterds,
I'd get them asap. But there's two problem with that:
1) My Netflix queue is a handy way of storing all the DVDs I want to watch. Sure, I could cut & paste the whole thing into a word doc or some such, and then filter them back onto the list one by one, but it seems so clumsy and annoying to have to do all that extra work. But more importantly,
2) If that's the way Netflix works, they are morons and it seriously makes me reconsider whether I want to continue to be a customer. Obviously, they need to change the way their system spits out DVDs to match their stated policy or change their policy and be honest about it, and make sure their policy is being applied fairly equally for all customers.
I've been happy with Netflix so far, but now my happiness is draining away towards indifference, soon to enter a "looking around for good competitors to jump ship to" phase...
Anyone want to chime in on a) is the problem actually the length of my queue or is Mr. Netflix Hater just making up shit again; b) any other strategies that can kick DVDs lose more quickly; or c) any other companies I should investigate that have a wide ranging library (some sample titles from my queue to show the necessary range of movies and TV series:
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