text:
Nation's safety at risk
The world has dramatically changed for those whose job it is to keep Americans safe. The first line of defense is intel - the ability to ferret out the connections of people who would, say, try to set off a bomb in Times Square or Los Angeles International Airport.
At the center of this effort is the National Security Agency. For years it has amassed a trove of the records of all American phone calls and searched for links between people to identify terror suspects.
The once-secret program has stirred a furor that is playing out in the courts, Congress and the White House. On Monday, a federal judge ruled the NSA program was likely an unconstitutional invasion of Americans' privacy. On Wednesday a high-powered panel appointed by President Barack Obama urged the president and Congress to significantly curb the NSA's surveillance program. We understand why some Americans believe the NSA is running roughshod over their privacy. ... America's security is at stake. That's good reason to be wary of quick, deep curbs on intelligence-gathering. ... Those task force urged Obama to end the bulk collection of domestic telephone records and reform the court that oversees the program. The panel recommends that a third party, a phone company or another entity, hold bulk telephone records and that the NSA have access to that data only by court order. ... It wants to create an adversarial legal system by appointing a "public interest advocate to represent the interests of privacy and civil liberties" before the court. ...
Obama is expected to reveal in January what, if any, changes he will make. ... There are safeguards and there are straitjackets. Binding this nation's first line of defense against terror would carry substantial risk.
Chicago Tribune, Dec. 20
Obama must explain NSA actions
The independent review released Wednesday of the National Security Agency's spy programs puts the onus on President Obama. He has to explain to the American people how the collection of metadata and other spying techniques are necessary tools to combat terrorism, and if he can't, he's got to abandon them. ... The bigger question is whether the recommendations of the presidential panel go far enough in reining in the federal government's attacks on privacy, particularly as they affect Silicon Valley's tech industry.
The president said this summer that the NSA's surveillance techniques had stopped "at least 50" terrorist attacks. But the review said specifically that the NSA's techniques weren't essential to thwarting terrorists.
Protecting Americans from terrorist attacks has to be among the president's top priorities. But it must not come at the expense of one of our most basic rights. As Leon wrote, the federal government "may not hang a cloak of secrecy over the Constitution."
As a candidate for president, Obama promised he would revisit the Patriot Act to ensure there is "real and robust oversight" of NSA operations. He said he opposed the Bush administration's position on warrantless wiretaps because "it crossed the line between protecting our national security and eroding the civil liberties of American citizens."
The president has to fufill his promise or explain why he's changed his mind.
San Jose Mercury News on Friday, Dec. 20


text:
Posts Tagged 'Alfred Paquin'
1866 – David FLEWELLING (21) married Hannah JACKSON (19) in St. Clair County, Michigan 149 years ago. (3rd great-granduncle -m)
1879 – Norma ALL was born in Richfield, Michigan 136 years ago to Abraham All & Mary KNIGHT. (1st cousin 3x removed -m)
1881 – William WOOLSEY was born in Iowa 134 years ago. (husband of Clara TYE, 2nd great-grandaunt -m)
1886 – Hannah BOOTH (23) married Joseph ROBBINS (24) in Alpena, Michigan 129 years ago. (2nd great-grandaunt -m)
1894 – Fred GARDNER (25) married Cora VINCENT (19) in Croswell, Michigan 121 years ago. (1st cousin 4x removed -m)
1898 – Elisabeth LAPAN (19) married Alfred PAQUIN (29) in Linwood, Michigan 117 years ago. (2nd great-grandaunt -p)
1945 – William BENSON Jr. died 70 years ago in Duluth, Minnesota at 80 years old. (2nd great-granduncle -m)
1946 – Mary HOULE Lapan died 69 years ago in Saginaw, Michigan at 60 years old. (wife of Joseph LAPAN, 2nd great-granduncle -p)
If you have information about any of these people or if you would like more information, please contact me!

subset: commoncrawl


text:
Long Snapper
Height: 6-foot-0
Weight: 225 pounds
Class Year: SR
Hometown: Newport Beach, CA
High School: Newport Harbor
As a Recruit (profile)
Class: 2010 (High School)
Rating/Rankings: | NR
No Videos Available.
The Latest: Big weekend for Iverson — 5/13/2014
Long snapping in the NFL is a good gig, if you can get it. Ryan Iverson hopes to prove he is worthy of being one of 32.[details]
Ryan Iverson STATS
No Statistics Available.
Ryan Iverson College Videos
No Media Available.
No Bio Available.
Ryan Iverson Audibles
No Audibles Available.
Headlines from Rivals.com Network
Big weekend for Iverson — 5/13/2014, from BuffStampede.com
Long snapper commits to Buffs — 11/24/2013, from BuffStampede.com
Notes: Awuzie maturing as a freshman — 11/22/2013, from BuffStampede.com
Long snapper lines up Colorado visit — 10/31/2013, from BuffStampede.com
Liufau takes over at quarterback — 10/13/2013, from BuffStampede.com
Notes: Iverson prefers being under-the-radar — 8/28/2013, from BuffStampede.com
Buffs offer nation's top long snapper — 6/14/2013, from BuffStampede.com
Q&A: Neinas focused on special teams — 3/14/2013, from BuffStampede.com
ST Preview: Solid specialists in place — 3/7/2013, from BuffStampede.com
McKnight sets new receptions mark — 9/4/2010, from BuffStampede.com
Talented long snapper headed to CU — 4/4/2010, from BuffStampede.com
Ryan Iverson Scouting Report
No Scouting Reports Available.
Rivals.com is your source for: College Football | Football Recruiting | College Basketball | Basketball Recruiting | College Baseball | High School | College Merchandise
Site-specific editorial/photos �2012 Yahoo! Inc. All rights reserved. This website is an officially and independently operated source of news and information not affiliated with any school or team.
About | Advertise with Us | Contact | Privacy Policy | About our Ads | Terms of Service | Copyright/IP policy | Yahoo! Sports - NBC Sports Network
Statistical information �2007 STATS LLC All Rights Reserved.


text:
Our Church:
| About Us | What We Believe
| Our Minister |
Visitors | Contact Us/Staff
Ministries: |Children/Youth | Music | Christian Service & Outreach| Stephen Ministry |Avon Nursery School| Weddings |
Explore ACC: (Worship Schedule, Calendar, Events, Publications,1st Friday Dinners, History, Photo Gallery, and More)
|Church Tour: ◄ Back Next ►
Christian Education
Jennifer deSimas,
All Are Welcome!
Our children are marvelously and wonderfully made by God (Psalm 139:14). They are lively and talented, funny and compassionate and smart. But do they know how to be still, and converse with God? Are they comfortable with that silence? Are they involved in groups that nurture their spirits, people who are willing to share wisdom they've gained through years of living, conflict, sorrow? People who welcome them and love them just for who they are – bright little kids with years stretching out before them?
Sports teach strategy, strength and confidence. Music teaches collaboration, beauty and self-expression. Academics stretch our minds. All of these are good and necessary for the growth of any human being, but they don't help people grow their faith – that is not their goal.
Where can you stretch your soul? Where can children build inner faith and confidence that will carry them through times of sadness or conflict? What places, what programs exist only to nurture the spirit? Places like Avon Congregational Church, where families walk together on their faith journeys, where God's spirit shines through prayer and discussion, where children are cherished and parents find an understanding nod and smile. I'm grateful that ACC is such a place, and I'm so glad we are all together on the journey. Welcome back!
In Peace, Jennifer
Youth Groups
Our youth groups are inclusive communities that challenge a growing culture of self-absorption and superficiality. We gather for informal lunches, hike together, travel on service outings locally and out of state, meet to ponder issues of injustice, inequality and exclusion, and help each other navigate the middle and high school years. We also have a lot of laughs and fun! We Are:
· ACCtions: (ACC teens in outstanding new service) students in grades 9-12
· CIA: (Christians In Action) students in grades 6-8
· God Squad: Combined high school youth of ACC and West Avon Congregational churches. Occasionally we team up with other local churches for service trips and projects.
Faith Formation
Children's Chapel: Approximately once a month, all Church School children gather for Children's Chapel, where worship is similar to "big church" but with much more interaction and noise! We discuss topics such as holidays, beliefs, sacraments, prayer and more in a safe, open and loving atmosphere.
Christmas Pageant Church School children and youth participate in our annual Christmas pageant, a joyful, creative presentation of the story of Jesus' birth. Watch for pageant information in early November.
Bible Buddies: Third-grade Church School students (and children who are new to ACC) partner with sixth graders to learn how to use the Bible through games, crafts, cooking and more.
Confirmation Class: Classes begin every other September and conclude with the Rite of Confirmation. This is an activity-based program of faith formation open to church youth in eighth grade and above.
Community Service: We work together to follow Jesus' call to show love for others by sponsoring food, clothing, book and toy drives; collections for pet shelters, hospitals and homeless shelters; meal preparations for area soup kitchens; community outreach, and more.
Adult Education: Short-term, small-group studies on varying topics such as Listening for God in our Dreams, Mindfulness, Prayer, service opportunities, book discussions and more. Additionally, Rev. Martha Chenault teaches the Bethel Series, which provides students with a unique overview of the Bible through an immersive historical approach.
Church Library: Located upstairs in the sitting room, the Library offers children's books and family-oriented videos and DVDs as well as books on church history, Christianity, philosophy, life issues (marriage/work/raising children), biographies, devotional guides and prayer books and more.
Look at the Monthly Newsletter for information about recent activities and coming events.
Link to Church School Registration FormLink to Fuller Scholarship Information
The Faith Formation Ministries team envisions that all young people enrolled in the Avon Congregational Church School over a number of years will have a solid Biblical background including, but not limited to, the following:
Joy comes from giving of oneself, not acquiring for oneself.
Joy comes from cooperation, not competing to see who's better.
Joy comes from our faith in God, and gives us strength.
In addition, we teach our children…
The Board of Christian Education envisions that all young people enrolled in the Avon Congregational Church school over a number of years will have a solid Biblical background including, but not limited to, the following:
Church School: Our Church School students study the incredible stories of the Bible and learn the basic tenets of Christianity through classes, special events and community service. Our curricula are chosen for their relevancy to today's kids and how they help them apply Christian principles to everyday life. We welcome all questions and encourage dialogue as students nurture their emerging faith. Our teachers are completely at ease with discussions about the nature of God, Jesus and our challenge as Christians in a secular world. We also expect children's participation in the life of the church; we encourage them to participate in worship services (as ushers, acolytes or greeters), sing in the choir, and help with Coffee Hour or the annual Rummage Sale.
Nursery/Crib Room: A place for our very youngest friends to grow in God's love, the Nursery is for Newborns through Age 3. Parents are also welcome! An overhead speaker allows adults to follow the worship service while their children relax and play. For everyone's health, we ask that you keep your child home if he or she has a fever, runny nose, cough, vomiting, diarrhea, unknown rash, discharge from the eye, or an illness that has been treated with antibiotics for less than 24 hours. The nursery is open Sunday mornings from 9:45 until directly following the worship service.
Church School
Students in Pre-K through Eighth Grade are welcome year-round in the Church school while their parents attend worship. Children attend the first part of the service, and leave with their teachers after the Children's Message. During summer months, classes are less structured as we join in union services with our sister church, West Avon Congregational, UCC.


text:
I could SERIOUSLY go into debt with books and decorations alone....
My mom gave me a magazine that came for her today with books, games, and class decorations in it. I am ordering some stuff now. BUT I have had to limit myself BIG time. There is so much to choose from. I could totally spend WAY to much money on this stuff. How do you ladies keep yourself from going over board LOL
The site if your interested is called www.teachercreated.com
I agree...That's why I'm doing a Unit study for my 2 that are home..Even if my other 2 wanted to study with us I can adjust it for the older ones...I love to decorate for school as well..


text:
November 30, 2015
Houston County Commissioners are looking to approve services for the new Lucy Volunteer Fire Department.
Services will include things such as removing trees and filling dirt.
The county will vote on approval, the acceptance of a property donation, Monday. Officials say they went to accept because it can be used to store sheriff vehicles.
The property is the old Dixie Food Plant.
Click Here to access the online Public Inspection File
Viewers with disabilities can get assistance accessing this station's FCC Public Inspection File by contacting the station with the information listed below. Questions or concerns relating to the accessibility of the FCC's online public file system should be directed to the FCC at 888-225-5322, 888-835-5322 (TTY), or firstname.lastname@example.com.


text:
October 5, 2014
[life] 26 Times Waitrose Outright Ruined The Lives Of Decent People … 'It would be much easier if Waitrose kept the carrot batons next to the houmous.'
October 5, 2014
[life] 26 Times Waitrose Outright Ruined The Lives Of Decent People … 'It would be much easier if Waitrose kept the carrot batons next to the houmous.'
September 18, 2014
[scotland] This Is What It Will Be Like If Scotland Votes For Independence … 'Queen: You lost a whole bloody country, you dishfaced twat.'
September 16, 2014
[gif] The Thin Yellow Line … astounding animated GIF of a crowd leaving Wembley stadium. [via jzw]
August 11, 2014
[life] Britain On Instagram Vs. Britain In Real Life … amusing comparison of pictures of Britain on Instagram with real life.
February 21, 2014
[power] U.K. National Grid status … Statistics about the UK's electicity supply in near real time … 'Gridwatch was born, first of all to scrape the data off the BMreports site every 5 minutes and inject it into an SQL database where it would be easy to perform specific searches and do statistical analysis. Then, in a rather retro and humorous way, to display the data in terms of analogue instruments and moving graphs. This is pure personal amusement, I like dials and graphs.' [via As Above]
June 30, 2008
[water] Why I like Cryptosporidium … Mo Morgan reports in from Northampton on dealing with a contaminated water supply … 'It has reminded me of the value of tap-water. Not only is it there in abundance when I need it, but also that somewhere or other is a team of people in lab-coats ensuring that it's clean and safe. This is the first time in my life I've ever had to put even the slightest thought into whether or not the water's clean. The truth is, the vast majority of the time, it's exceptionally clean and safe thanks to an army of boffins and engineers I'll never meet, and whom I've never really thought about before. It's the oldest of clichés, but I am starting to appreciate drinking-water now that I don't have it.'
October 20, 2007
[blogs] Stephen Fry has a Blog — this is old news but it passed me by. He doesn't do brief blog entries: 'I don't seem to be able to keep things brief. So my advice is that you read it in bits. Or print it out and save it for a rainy day or a recalcitrant motion.'
October 3, 2007
[diana] 30 lawyers, 11 jurors and one angry billionaire – Diana inquest begins — Guardian report from the delayed inquest into the death of Princess Diana and Dodi … 'As he spoke, the coroner's words appeared in transcript on a screen above the court, like a teleprinter giving the Saturday football scores. The foreign words appeared mangled phonetically: Bastille became Bas eel, Orly transmogrified into Orally airport, Giovanni Versace appeared as January Verse Chi and, best of all, the paparazzi turned into pap rats.'
September 13, 2007
[maddy] Madeleine: a grimly compelling story that will end badly for us all — Jonathan Freedland on the McCann Case …
Suddenly we have to hold two entirely contradictory thoughts in our head at the same time. For the McCanns have now either suffered the cruellest fate imaginable – not only to have innocently lost their beloved daughter but also to have been publicly accused of a wicked crime – or they are guilty of the most elaborate and heinous confidence trick in history, deceitfully winning the trust and sympathy of the world's media, a British prime minister, the wife of the American president and even the Pope, to say nothing of international public opinion. One of those statements, both of them extraordinary, describes the truth. As a senior tabloid journalist put it to me yesterday: "They're either the victims of a horrible smear which they will never fully escape or they are cold, psychotic killers" responsible for the death of their own child.
September 5, 2007
[search] Chipwrapper — a search engine for UK newspapers (and BBC and Sky News). [via Pete Ashton]
August 15, 2007
[change] Chaos Theory — The Guardian on the changeover to Digital TV and our attitudes to large cultural changes like Decimalisation …
The world's first seven-sided coins started appearing in Britain's purses and cash registers on October 14 1969 – strange, alien lumps of cupro-nickel alloy that were greeted with instant suspicion. Bus conductors and Tory MPs fretted that the new 50 pence piece would be mistaken for the old half-crown, causing chaos. Secret documents released years later showed that the Decimal Currency Board – the body charged with decimalising the country by February 1971 – was terrified that the Queen might die before the changeover was complete, forcing it to introduce a whole new set of coins. And according to the BBC, a retired army colonel named Essex Moorcroft founded an organisation called the Anti-Heptagonists, dedicated to eradicating the new 50p on the grounds that it was "ugly" and "an insult to our sovereign, whose image it bears."
July 14, 2007
[blogs] Dave Gorman's Blog … 'I've given in to the way of the blog.'
May 14, 2007
[blogs] What Would A Group Blog by Daily Telegraph Readers be Like? — a collection of Links and Quotes from Blah Blah Flowers … 'So the UK entry for Eurovision was saved the ignominy of nil point by its few European friends left in Ireland & Malta… Cast Terry Wogan and the dead hands at the BBC aside and let another public broadcaster like Channel 4, or even Sky (yes Sky) be given the reigns to enhance the image of the UK in Europe.'
May 6, 2007
[funny] The Brain of Britain — amusing cutaway of what is in the brain of an Englishman … 'BACKBONE!'
May 3, 2007
[blogs] To The End Of The Line — another blog about the London Underground … 'This is a hugely self-indulgent, yet also dangerously ambitious, undertaking. Namely, to document my visit to every single working station on the London Underground. It'll take the best part of the year, so don't except regular updates. It'll also be far from objective, fairly presumptuous, and (hopefully) by no means earnest or exhausting.' [via Feeling Listless]
May 1, 2007
[blogs] Pole to Polar: The Secret Life of a Manic Depressive … 'A Guide to Being A Mentally Interesting Girl Navigating the Labyrinth of the NHS Mental Health Services.'
April 28, 2007
[weather] Rising Slowly – the original Weather Blog from Giles Turnbull.
April 26, 2007
[blogs] In which Weird and Inexplicable Things Happen Involving Letters, Trees, Front Doors and Keys — Dave Gorman on why he's changed his locks … 'It was about 9.30 on Sunday night and I and a friend were watching some TV and having a lazy time of it. Pizza was involved and bellies were full. I heard a key in a door and I heard a door opening and there was a moment before I realised that it was my door opening. Now… no one else should have a key for mine and no one else should be letting themselves into my house at 9.30 on a Sunday evening…' [via Feeling Listless]
April 25, 2007
[blogs] The Diary of a Nobody, as a daily weblog … 'This is a weblog version of The Diary of a Nobody, written by George Grossmith and originally serialised in Punch magazine in 1888 and 1889. Bringing Charles Pooter into the 21st century, his diary is now available as a selection of weblog-style RSS feeds which you can subscribe to…' [via As Above]
April 13, 2007
[bbc] spEak You're bRanes — a blog on the wit and wisdom of the BBC's Have Your Say Site… On the Falklands (I think!): 'when jim challaan was pm thay got to know some how that the agies where going to invade the fslklands and thats all he did was send a nuclear submaren out there and let the argentenas know that it was waiting for them but we all knew what happened then maggie did she do the same as jim no she let them invade and she was told the same as jim that thay were abought to invade and look what it cost us' [via The Daily Chump]
April 10, 2007
[film] Charity Screening of An Inconvenient Truth — Sashinka has arranged a screening of Al Gore's Documentary at the End of April for charity. Details below. Please support if you can by attending or if you're not based in London you can donate by clicking here. Thanks!
April 4, 2007
[press] The Ten Things Most Likely to be on The Daily Express Front Page — Currybetdotnet analyses the Daily Express so you don't have to … 'I've looked at just over 150 stories which have been published on the front page of The Daily Express during the first three months of 2007, and I think I've come up with the definitive list of the ten most important things that have happened so far this year. Well, according to The Daily Express, anyway…'
March 12, 2007
[blogs] Shaggy Blog Stories: a collaborative blog-stunt for Comic Relief — Mike at Troubled Diva is producing a self-published book of funny blog-entries from UK Bloggers for charity. (Submission deadline is 6pm tomorrow night – so don't procrastinate about entering!) … 'Occasionally, in my more delirious moments, I feel like the Anneka Rice of British blogging. At the Nottingham blogmeet on Saturday afternoon, I was tempted to run into the bar in a canary yellow jumpsuit, squawking "OK gang, we've got SEVEN DAYS to WRITE A BOOK!"' [quote from Mike's Progress Report]
February 21, 2007
[tv] 50 funniest Homer Simpson Quotes … 'I'm normally not a praying man, but if you're up there, please save me Superman.' [via Limbicnutrition Weblog]
February 18, 2007
[mail] You've got Mail! — Jon Ronson on Junk Mail … 'It is slightly chilling to realise there are rational, functional people up there employed to spot, nurture and exploit those down here among us who are irrational and can barely cope. If you want to know how stupid you're perceived to be by the people up there, count the unsolicited junk mail you receive. If you get a lot, you're perceived to be alluringly stupid.'
January 28, 2007
[politics] Downing Street E-Petitions: We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to replace the national anthem with 'Gold' by Spandau Ballet … 'What we specifically want to see, is that the National Anthem be changed in favour of "Gold" by Spandau Ballet. Further, we would like our National Olympic Committee to decree that Tony Hadley is the only person permitted to handle medal ceremonies where the National Anthem is played. We don't mind what he wears when he does this, but preference is given towards a a gold colured suit.' [thanks Phil]
[blogs] Feeling Listless: 'I was ten years old and owned a Raleigh Grifter.'
October 2, 2006
[google] Eric Schmidt to address Tory conference — the Chairman and CEO of Google is speaking at the Conservative Party Annual Conference tomorrow … 'Googling for policies?'
September 30, 2006
[books] An Evening with J.G. Ballard — a transcript of an interview and questions with the author of Empire of the Sun and Crash … 'At the end of the last century, people would ring me up and ask me my views about the future. I said I can sum up the future in one word — it's going to be boring. Vast suburbs that extend around the planet: utter boredom, broken by acts of unpredictable violence. The man in the supermarket who opens fire with a machine gun. And the suicide bomber, a man who has nothing, setting off a bomb in a desperate way to prove himself. The idea of meaningless violence, which I looked at in my previous novel Millennium People, has a huge appeal. I can understand that. It's in the roots of one's childhood — all children smash their toys. The trouble, of course, is that people get killed.' [via As Above]
September 26, 2006
[911] Meet the No Planers — The New Statesman visits with David Shayler who has become one of the the UK's prominent 9/11 conspiracy theorists. [thanks Phil] …
'These 9/11 truth campaigners merely add a supposedly scientific gloss to already existing conspiracy theories, trying to make the ridiculous seem respectable. In the process, they actually do a disservice to "historical truth". History gets reduced to a mysterious force beyond our control, and politics – real politics – is imagined to be the preserve of unknown, faceless puppet-masters whom we can never hope to influence. And the rest of us are reduced to the status of helpless spectators, searching amid the rubble of 9/11 and the aftermath of 7/7 for signs of truth and meaning.'
[headlines] Some interesting Evening Standard Headlines on Flickr: Headlines fron 1986 and Gay Bondage Classes on the NHS (from 1998) …
(My Evening Standard Headline Project continues here.)
September 24, 2006
Jonathan King on YouTube — King is posting a series of autobiographical videos to YouTube – perhaps inspired by Geriatric1927. [via linkbunnies.org]
September 12, 2006
[london] Dave Gorman is stopped and searched by the Police whilst taking a night-time picture of Battersea Power Station for his photostream on Flickr … '"Oh flickr!" said the WPC, stopping her form-filling for a moment. "I've got photos on there. Photos of my wedding from 7 weeks ago." "Really?" I asked. "It's good isn't it? Oh… and congratulations on 7 weeks ago." "Thanks," she said with a smile. "So… have you ever been arrested?" "Err…. no"'
September 9, 2006
[movies] The Queen Trailer — it's probably a very British thing but I'm really looking forward to watching Helen Mirren's performance in a film about the Queen's reaction to the death of Diana.
August 1, 2006
[murder] 39 Years After Boy's Murder, Police Arrest Two Men … 'It was almost 40 years ago that a young grammar school boy set off on a sunny Saturday afternoon to buy a geometry set, still wearing his distinctive uniform as he wandered down a rural bridle path nick-named Happy Valley. Harold Wilson was in Downing Street and the new car sensation was the Mark 2 Ford Cortina, but both were wiped off the front pages by what happened to 12-year-old Keith Lyon before he reached the village store at Woodingdean, near Brighton. In a brief attack, he was stabbed 11 times in the stomach with a serrated kitchen carving knife after a mob of older teenagers from a rival school jumped him, according to local people, then left him to bleed to death on the path.'
July 26, 2006
[london] The Hunt for the Killer Hairballs — great article about the men who flush out the sewers of London …
'Fat is the bane of flushers' lives. Millions of litres, from half-eaten breakfast dishes, chip-laden frying pans or fast-food joints, are tipped into sinks each day. Eventually they find their way into the sewers. They represent the effluence of affluence. They are the graffiti that the contemporary leisurepolis scrawls on subterranean environments. Thirty years ago the Thames, unloved and abandoned, created few problems for flushers; now, the river's banks are congested with clubs, boozy eateries and art-complex gallery cafés, all of them disgorging fat.
July 24, 2006
[property] Apartment for Sale, Manchester — an attempt to sell a flat using the blog format … 'Looking for a stylish, contemporary apartment in Manchester City Centre? Interested in cutting out the middleman and going for a quick, private sale? You're in the right place then!' [via Feeling Listless]
July 8, 2006
[7/7] Seeing isn't Believing — The Guardian on the 7/7 Conspiracy Theories … '"I'm not a conspiracy theorist," insists Dunne. "I was just trying to make a cohesive, coherent story from the facts."'
July 7, 2006
[7/7] Diamond Geezer on 7/7 … Aldgate, Edgware Road, King's Cross St Pancras, 30. '…it's just something I have to do every day. It's just another train. It's just another carriage.'
July 4, 2006
[7/7] The Mysterious Case Of The Non-Existent Train Time — a blog investigating the messy loose-ends in the story behind the London Bombings on July 7th last year … 'I have only one reason for starting this blog. It is to ascertain the facts behind the events in London on and since the 7th July 2005. I have made many attempts to ascertain a few simple facts (and therefore truths) about the events on that morning…'
June 10, 2006
[fruit] Innocent Drinks Blog — a blog from the popular Smoothies Company … 'We need somewhere to share our thoughts and to give other people a chance to comment on what we're doing. We need somewhere to post our pictures and tell our stories. We need somewhere to let off steam. We hear that there are these amazing things called blogs that help you do all of this.'
June 8, 2006
[history] Britain celebrates the Queen's Silver Jubilee — on this day in 1977 … 'All things considered, it was not a good day for the anti-monarchists. "We were going to have a proper meeting and then march to Buckingham Palace to proclaim the republic," the organiser of one stuff-the-jubilee rally, Terry Liddle, observed. "But unfortunately it was too cold and only five people turned up."'
June 7, 2006
[news] Ten things I learned by reading the Daily Express — one man reads the Daily Express so you don't have to … '7: There is insufficient police brutality.' [via Pete's Linklog]
May 24, 2006
[spy] Tomlinson v MI6 — the blog of a former MI6 agent who has a long running dispute with the UK's Secret Intelligence Service. '…readership has gone ballistic to the extent that I may run out of bandwidth this month. So suddenly, my long-standing dispute with MI6 is back in the public domain. Well MI6 have only themselves to blame for the creation of this blog…' [via PeterCooper.co.uk]
May 10, 2006
[business] What does Amstrad actually do? … '[Paul Tulip], who said of himself, "I think I'm brilliant", had not exactly done scrupulous research before going on the show. Quizzed on air about what Amstrad actually does, he replied with his usual stirring confidence. "Computers." "Amstrad doesn't actually make computers now," came the reply. "They distribute them," Paul tried, gamely. "They don't."'
May 7, 2006
[web] Hot Gossip — a profile of Popbitch from the Guardian… '[Popbitch] did introduce advertising on the site after three years and the annual revenue is now roughly £100,000, just about covering the costs of the server, technical support staff, legal fees and Camilla Wright's salary.'
April 24, 2006
[ukblogs] Park and Write — BBC News article about a blog called Wandering Scribe by a homeless woman living in her car in London … 'A woman becomes homeless, so she gets into her car and drives. Except she has nowhere to go – so she stays in the car, with all her possessions heaped in the back, sleeping in the front seats, parking in secluded streets. For eight months, no one notices her, because she makes sure she looks respectable, taking showers and even ironing her clothes in public places like hospitals. She has made herself invisible, out of touch from anyone she used to know – and keeping separate from other homeless people. But this is the information age…'
April 3, 2006
[property] Agents Diary — the blog of an anonymous Estate Agent somewhere in the UK … 'A dreadful day today, I realised at three-thirty that I hadn't left my desk, apart from one brief trip to the kitchen for a cuppa and two pisses. If I could get one of those colostomy bags and coerce one of those idle bastards to actually make me the occasional tea I could sit here permanently.'
March 25, 2006
[advertising] Teachers bemoan curse of the 'Lynx effect' … 'Dozens of teachers have complained to the Times Educational Supplement online staffroom about the menace of the "Lynx effect" – teenage armpits doused in the stuff. Messages indicate that although the Lynx habit often starts in primary school, 13-year-olds are the worst culprits. The potent aroma even drives some staff to open windows when pupils return from PE, because they find it hard to breathe.'
February 18, 2006
[fun] Tom Baker Says… … 'Hello. I am Tom Baker and I will be saying things to you by the magic of SMS.' [Related: Actor Baker becomes voice of text]


text:
法兰克福 MEININGER Frankfurt/Main Messe
Europaallee 64
You'll find us in the heart of Frankfurt's Europaviertel, close to the city centre. The main station is only one stop away on the S-Bahn rail system, and it is only two stops to the city centre.Frankfurt airport is within easy reach thanks to its excellent transport links. You can be sure of a good night's sleep because of our quiet location next to the Frankfurt Messe exhibition centre.
The hostel opened at the beginning of 2010. From outside it has a very distinctive look, while inside it is stylish and modern. The numerous common areas can be found on the ground floor. After a tiring day you can enjoy the relaxed atmosphere of our lobby and use the internet free-of-charge on your own computer or use one of our terminals for a small fee. Alternatively, sit in our bar and enjoy an apple wine - a Frankfurt specialty - and chat to fellow-guests from all over the world or have a friendly competition on our pool table.
If you want to save some money or just like cooking, then you'll love our modern, well-equipped guest kitchen. Here you can prepare your favourite dish while keeping an eye on your laundry in our washing machine.
You can sleep in single, double, shared or dormitory accommodation. All rooms have a private bathroom with shower, toilet, hairdryer and flat screen TV. You can leave your bedding at home as we include it in the price.
Free services and offers:
- WLAN throughout the hotel
- Lockers at the reception
- Bedding
- Towels (excluding dorms)
- Maps
- Electric Iron (just ask at the reception)
- Guest kitchen use
- Use of luggage compartment even after check out
And stuff available for a small charge:
- All-You-Can-Eat-And-Drink breakfast buffet for 7,90 Euro per person
- Late check out till 2pm for 10,00 Euro per private room
- Tickets for public transport
- Internet terminals
- Call Points for telephone calls
- Washing machine and dryer
- Pets allowed for 10 EUR per night
- Towels for guests in dormitories for 1 Euro
- Parking spaces (for a fee) - reservation is not possible
- Bicycles
A few important rules:
- Check In from 3 p.m.
- Check Out by 11 a.m.
- We operate a no-smoking policy throughout the building
- Maximum stay in dorms is 14 days
- You must be 18 or over to stay in a dormitory
PLEASE NOTE: For bookings of several beds in dorms, we do not guarantee accommodation in the same room.
Earliest check in time is 3pm on arrival date for all MEININGER properties. Of course guests can arrive before 3pm and leave their bags in our luggage room if required.
Our young and multilingual team is there for you 24 hours a day with help and advice. Under such circumstances, there is really nothing stopping you from having an unforgettable stay!
BOOKING FOR INDIVIDUAL TRAVELLERS, special cancellation conditions:
05.11.2014 - 07.11.2014
24.11.2014 - 28.11.2014
14.01.2015- 17.01.2015
30.01.2015- 04.02.2015
12.02.2015- 17.02.2015
04.03.2015- 07.03.2015
18.03.2015- 19.03.2015
24.03.2015- 26.03.2015
15.04.2015- 18.04.2015
04.05.2015- 07.05.2015
28.05.2015- 31.05.2015
14.06.2015- 19.06.2015
29.08.2015- 01.09.2015
17.09.2015- 26.09.2015
Cancellations received 0 to 21 days prior to arrival or in case of No Show will be charged 100 % of the total reservation amount. The total price of the reservation will be charged 20 days prior arrival and it is non-refundable.
09.03.2015- 14.03.2015
18.03.2015- 19.03.2015
24.03.2015- 26.03.2015
15.04.2015- 18.04.2015
04.05.2015- 07.05.2015
28.05.2015- 31.05.2015
14.06.2015- 19.06.2015
29.08.2015- 01.09.2015
17.09.2015- 26.09.2015
14.10.2015- 18.10.2015
19.10.2015- 22.10.2015
26.10.2015- 29.10.2015
Cancellations received 0 to 45 days prior to arrival or in case of No Show will be charged 100 % of the total reservation amount. The total price of the reservation will be charged 44 days prior arrival and it is non-refundable.
1. Bookings for groups of 12 or more: Any cancellations are permitted free of charge up to 60 days before the expected day of arrival for groups on the basis of multi bed rooms; respectively 45 days before the expected day of arrival for groups on the basis of single and double rooms. For cancellations made after this deadline, the following cancellation fees apply; these fees also apply for bookings made within this term:
a) For cancellations made 59 to 30 days respectively 44 to 30 days before expected arrival, 30 per cent of the agreed-upon total price will be due.
b) For cancellations made 29 to 10 days before expected arrival, 50 per cent of the agreed-upon total price will be due.
c) For cancellations made 9 to 1 day(s) before expected arrival, 80 per cent of the agreed-upon total price will be due.
d) Customers who either cancel on the day of their expected arrival or simply do not show up will be charged 90 per cent of the agreed-upon total price in full. Above cancellation conditions also apply if the number of persons is reduced at least 10 per cent within this period of time. A reduction of less than 10 per cent is free of charge until 1 day prior to arrival.
2. Booked meals can be cancelled free of charge until 8 days prior to arrival. Thereafter, a cancellation fee of 100 per cent of the agreed-upon total price applies.
你住过这里吗? 写一篇评论


text:
I couldn't even start it. When it first came out, and a biker, in a bike club with sneakers, just was enough to shake my head. I know there were other things that hubby & I were like, um, pass.
Quoting redneck_kids: That is on hbo right? If so can't watch it. :(
My DH calls me Bobby Elvis because I have curly hair and when I don't color it, you can see the white in my hair line...haha
Quoting WrongWayDiva: We are bikers too and laugh at Jax's shoes, but the writing and the story lines keep us coming back. Love me some Bobby Elvis!
Yes we have Netflix and I have seen all the episodes of Sons of Anarchy. I was hooked to and watched more than one episode at a time usually. Some of it I was like...do people actually live like this or is this completely made up? lol. It was a good show, Gemma is craaaazy.


text:
Welcome to WebmasterWorld Guest from 220.127.116.11
Forum Moderators: incrediBILL & lawman
Body feels a bit worn out.
50 IS old. Closing in on "retirement age", which with increasing federal budget deficits, is an age that likely will keep moving off into the distance, 68, 70, 7? Does that trend mean that I'm getting younger?
Whoopee! Got married when I was 21 because I figured with the hard drinking, out all night life I was leading I'd never make it past 30 if I didn't change my ways.
My folks are 80 and still going strong. Hope I got their genes. Go mom! Go dad!
Whoopee! I made it to 50!
Now it's time to slide down the other side. ;)
I'm old and I'm happy. Amen.
I have neither nor do many of my friends, to me it seems odd that people get married so young, most were still in their teens.
As you can imagine its caused a bit of generational friction.
Is this, marrying young, quite common?
Sounds like a daft question but I bet many people over a certain age (50) maried at a younger age than many today, or am I just kidding myself.....
I'm 24 now and have gotten used to my new reality . . . and actually it's not so bad after all. I've settled into a decent exercise routine and I'm in good physical shape - and now I'm no longer living on the verge of breaking my back, neck, or other sundry parts on a daily basis. Taken as a whole, life now is every bit as good as it was before, and considerably safer and more comfortable.
On second thought, go get me a rocker, sonny. After re-reading what I just wrote, I feel a little fragile. ;)


text:
Washoe County Treasurer P.O. Box 30039, Reno, NV 89520-3039 ph: (775) 328-2510 fax: (775) 328-2500
Please make checks payable to:
Mailing Address:
P.O. Box 30039
Reno, NV 89520
Overnight Address:
1001 E. Ninth St., Ste D140
Reno, NV 89512
Monday –Friday
8:00am to 5:00pm
1001 E 9th Street
Building D Ste 140
Pay Item In Cart
Is there a charge for duplicate bills?
Can I make payment by phone?
Can I pay with my bank using bill pay?
What credit cards are accepted?
What about debit cards? What are the fees?
How does the e-check option work? What are the fees?
How can I make a credit card payment?
Can I make an online payment if my credit card address is outside the U.S.?
Why is there a service fee added to my property tax payment?
Credit Card Fees (Customer pays service fees)
What do I do if I don't agree with the service fee to be charged?


text:
BenQ W7000 home theatre projector
This home theatre projector is bright and colourful
- Excellent colour performance
- Bright, even in cinema settings
- Good 3D depth and smoothness
- Far too sharp in default settings
- Slightly noisy fan
- 3D glasses feel cheap and flimsy
Bottom Line
BenQ's W7000 home theatre projector makes some small sacrifices -- lamp life, fan noise -- to create an excellent picture that's both bright and with great contrast. It's got plenty of extra features built in like picture-in-picture and video smoothing, and the 3D is bright and effective. If we were picking out a home theatre projector, the BenQ W7000 would be near the top of our list.
Price$ 3,799.00 (AUD)
Best Deals (Selling at 1 store)
- 700L Side by Side Refrigerator 2049.00
Special Offers
The BenQ W7000 is a home theatre projector that's a few hundred dollars cheaper than its direct competitors, but with picture quality and features to match or better them. We found its image quality excellent, with only a few problems disrupting our experience with it.
BenQ W7000: Design and setup
The big, black, glossy BenQ W7000 is designed for a dedicated home theatre — while you can run it sitting on a bench or home theatre rack, we'd recommend ceiling mounting it to keep it secure and correctly positioned. The centre-mounted lens has manual focus and zoom rings, and a horizontal and vertical shift mechanism lets you position the projected picture accurately.
We used the W7000's lens at a moderate zoom level. It doesn't lose much brightness at its widest setting, which can project a maximum image size of 300 inches — more than large enough for even an over-sized home theatre room. Focusing the image accurately was easy; the W7000's focus ring is very smooth and offers plenty of fine adjustment.
A similar circular control dial to the one we saw on the BenQ Joybee GP2 controls all the functions on the BenQ W7000. For anyone ceiling-mounting the projector, BenQ's remote control handles every function with ease. It's back-lit, and has dedicated buttons for changing picture modes, aspect ratios, inputs and activating the 3D mode: you'll only need to trawl through the menu rarely. With the remote control in hand we only needed to enter the menu on our initial setup; the dedicated buttons took care of everything we needed afterwards.
If you do need to enter the menus though, you're in luck: the layout is simple thanks to the use of tabs, and there's only ever one menu level. It's not possible to get lost in a labyrinth of sub-menus and the location of menu options is easy to remember.
BenQ W7000: Picture quality and performance
We had the BenQ W7000 projecting a roughly 100in image from a variety of sources: a Sony BDP-S580 Blu-ray player, an Apple MacBook Pro notebook, and a Microsoft Xbox 360 console.
Straight out of the box, the BenQ W7000 looks decent but unspectacular. Default sharpness in the Cinema mode (which offers the best overall default picture) is too high and the picture tends towards too green. These are easy settings to adjust though, and after doing some tweaking (lowering sharpening from 7 to 2 and dialing back green hues in the colour management, among other things) we found the BenQ W7000 a far more impressive projector.
After our calibration, the picture of the BenQ W7000 changed from decent to excellent. Skin tones especially looked life-like and accurate, easily beating out the vast majority of TVs and cheaper projectors that we've seen. Colours across the board were excellent, tending to be perfectly saturated while still having very fine increments of shading. These results are a testament to the quality of the BenQ W7000's DLP colour wheel setup. DLP colour wheels come with their disadvantages, though, and one of those is the occasional appearance of a 'rainbow effect' for a small proportion of viewers. We didn't experience any of this on the BenQ W7000, thankfully.
Black levels from the BenQ W7000 are good, with excellent shadow detail. During our go-to black testing scene, the opening sequence of The Dark Knight, blacks were almost perfectly black and we didn't notice any significant instances of loss of shadow detail. We tested the BenQ W7000 alongside the Panasonic PT-AE7000, which displayed very slightly more shadow and black detail, but it was a close race. With the BenQ's $300 price advantage we'd tend to choose it.
What is noticeable about the BenQ W7000 is the brightness of its projector lamp. At 2000 ANSI lumens we were able to get a usable picture from the projector even in a bright fluorescent-lit room, and while this isn't an excellent test it goes to show that the W7000 would be a perfectly capable home theatre projector in a room that's not absolutely dark. This brightness does come at the cost of a slightly noisy fan, though — for almost all of our testing we ran the projector in Eco mode to lower brightness and reduce fan speed and noise.
3D projection definitely takes its toll on brightness, though — this is when we had to have the BenQ W7000 at full power in Cinema mode. If even more brightness is needed, the Dynamic image mode gives an extra bump at the cost of colour accuracy and outright black levels. Brightness aside, the 3D mode of the BenQ W7000 was among the best we've seen on a home theatre projector. Projectors have lagged behind TVs in 3D smoothness and quality, but the W7000 is able to deliver a comparatively bright, clear, smooth image that has noticeable depth and reality to it. It approaches a good digital cinema projection in terms of both the depth and detail it can display: a function of our test screen size being four times bigger than a 50in TV, perhaps. The 3D glasses we were shipped with the BenQ W7000 are an optional accessory, and although they were a bit cheap-feeling and flimsy as well as being prone to fingerprints, they did a good job and we found the 3D a useable mode.
The extra processing nous required for the BenQ W7000 to display 3D also benefits 2D viewing, smoothing out fast motion content that would otherwise be jerky and jittery on a projector. This 'CFI' frame interpolation feature rarely misses a beat and we think it definitely contributes to 2D viewing quality on the W7000.
BenQ W7000: Conclusion
The BenQ W7000 is an excellent home theatre projector in almost all aspects: it's very bright, has great colour, and its 3D performance is definitely among the best. If you can run it in Eco mode to lower the fan noise (at the cost of some brightness) and can perform a few tweaks, its picture quality is very impressive.
Join the PC World newsletter!
Cool Tech
ASUS ROG Swift PG279Q – Reign beyond virtual world
Crucial® BX200 SATA 2.5" 7mm (with 9.5mm adapter) Internal Solid State Drive
AudioQuest NightHawk
D-Link TAIPAN AC3200 Ultra Wi-Fi Modem Router (DSL-4320L)
Samsung Gear S2
D-Link PowerLine AV2 2000 Gigabit Network Kit
Sony Xperia Z4 Tablet
Sony 75-inch UHD TV
Lexar® Professional 1000x microSDHC™/microSDXC™ UHS-II cards
Ballistix Tactical 288-Pin DDR4 UDIMM
Microsoft Surface Book
Lexar® JumpDrive® M20i USB 3.0 flash drive
Xiro Drone Xplorer V -3 Axis Gimbal & 1080p Full HD 14MP Camera
Apple Watch Sport
Gadgets & Things
Parrot Jumping Race Drone
Bang & Olufsen BeoPlay H6
Canon EOS M3
Jabra Sport Coach Wireless
FitBit Charge
Amazon Kindle Paperwhite
Lexar® Professional 1000x microSDHC™/microSDXC™ UHS-II cards
Bush Heritage II Connect
LG Nexus 5X
Seagate Seven
Sony Xperia Z5 Compact
Kobo Glo HD
Lexar Professional 2000x SDHC™/SDXC™ UHS-II cards
Lexar® JumpDrive® M20i USB 3.0 flash drive
Jawbone Up3
Family Friendly
Apple Mac Mini
Apple MacBook
Apple iPhone 6S
ASUS VivoPC VM62 - Incredibly Powerful, Unbelievably Small
Lexar® Professional 1000x microSDHC™/microSDXC™ UHS-II cards
Lexar Professional 2000x SDHC™/SDXC™ UHS-II cards
Microsoft Surface Pro 4
Panasonic Lumix DMC-FT30
Apple iPad Mini 4
Apple TV
Motorola Moto G (3rd Gen)
Bose SoundLink Mini II
Tesla Model S
Google Nexus 9
Stocking Stuffer
Parrot Zik 2.0
Microsoft Lumia 640
Rapoo P300 Power bank with torch -10400mah
Lexar Professional 2000x SDHC™/SDXC™ UHS-II cards
Toshiba 16 GB Duo USB
GoPro Hero4 Session
Microsoft Universal Foldable Keyboard
Sony SRS-X11
Lexar® Professional 1000x microSDHC™/microSDXC™ UHS-II cards
Beats by Dre Solo2 wireless
Jawbone Up2
Nikon 1 J5
Yeelight LED LightStrip
Oppo R7
PhotoFast iFlash Evo Plus
Lexar® JumpDrive® M20i USB 3.0 flash drive
Livescribe 3 Smartpen for Android
Christmas Gift GuideClick for more ›
Most Popular Reviews
- 1 Microsoft Surface Book review: The verdict on Microsoft's first notebook
- 2 Google Nexus 6P review: An outstanding multimedia machine
- 3 Microsoft Surface Pro 4 review: The notebook, reinvented
- 4 Motorola Moto X Play review: Excellent value for money
- 5 Sony Xperia Z5 Compact review: In a league of its own
Best Deals on PC World
Latest News Articles
- Sony's new liquid-cooled 4K home video projector delivers 5000 lumens of brightness, costs $60,000
- BenQ targets Epson with revamped home entertainment projectors
- LG's new Laser Display gives you 100in of full HD glory
- Win an iPad or a Samsung Galaxy Tab in the 2012 PC World Media Usage survey
- Vivid Sydney 2012 gets some love from will.i.am
Business Centre
The latest business news, reviews, features and whitepapers
Online Shop
Visit our shop for the best deals on hot products
Watch our video news and reviews from around the world
Comprehensive buying guides, features, and step-by-step articles
GGG Evaluation Team
Kathy Cassidy
First impression on unpacking the Q702 test unit was the solid feel and clean, minimalist styling.
Anthony Grifoni
For work use, Microsoft Word and Excel programs pre-installed on the device are adequate for preparing short documents.
Steph Mundell
The Fujitsu LifeBook UH574 allowed for great mobility without being obnoxiously heavy or clunky. Its twelve hours of battery life did not disappoint.
Andrew Mitsi
The screen was particularly good. It is bright and visible from most angles, however heat is an issue, particularly around the Windows button on the front, and on the back where the battery housing is located.
Simon Harriott
My first impression after unboxing the Q702 is that it is a nice looking unit. Styling is somewhat minimalist but very effective. The tablet part, once detached, has a nice weight, and no buttons or switches are located in awkward or intrusive positions.
Latest Jobs
- FTLinux Administrator & SME | NV1 clearance | $90-110K+ACT
- FTWeb Analytics Specialist - Leading Online siteNSW
- FTJunior Project Manager - NV1ACT
- FTSenior Developer / SharePoint SpecialistNSW
- CCMobile Application Development (iOS / Android)NSW
- FTOracle Technical Information Architect - Design & Hands-OnNSW
- FTSenior Developer / SharePoint SpecialistVIC
- FTWeb Analytics Specialist - Leading Online siteNSW
- FTFull Stack DeveloperVIC
- FTSenior Developer / SharePoint SpecialistWA
- FTSystems Administrator - Managed ServicesNSW
- FTNetwork, Systems and Server Engineer - Managed ServicesNSW
- FTBig Data Technical Architect - IoTNSW
- FTSenior Developer / SharePoint SpecialistQLD
- FTBig Data Platform Architect - IoTNSW
- FTProject Manager | Permanent role in Canberra | NV2 clearedTAS
- CCPHP / Drupal DeveloperNSW
- FTSenior .NET DeveloperNSW
- CCOnline Marketing Specialist | Global Search EngineNSW
- CCSiebel EIM Developer ideally with OBINSW
- CCPHP / Drupal DeveloperNSW
- FT1st & 2nd level IT support all-rounder | Bathurst | $60-65K+NSW
- FTJunior Project Manager | 3 months to perm | NV1 cleared | Canberra basedACT


text:
November 3, 2011
Replacing the cars usually lined up at the front of the building, an empty parking lot will now be the norm for Lorenzo's Pizza. As of Monday (?) the long-time pizza parlor and buffet has closed its doors for... November 3, 2011
Stories this photo appears in:
Owner: Economy squeezed Walla Walla's Lorenzo's Pizza out
Al Sella said the eatery he worked at since the mid-1980s became untenable, leading to its closure Monday.
WALLA WALLA -- Al Sella began working at Lorenzo's Pizza during his senior year at Walla Walla High School. After graduating in 1985 he continued to work at the pizza parlor and buffet, eventually buying the business from Loren and Sue Chestnut in 1996.
Use the comment form below to begin a discussion about this content.


text:
Francesco Maria Brancaccio
|His Eminence
Francesco Maria Brancaccio
|Bishop of Viterbo, Cardinal priest
|Diocese of Viterbo
|28 November 1633 – 9 January 1675
|Other posts
|Previously Bishop of Viterbo
|Created Cardinal
|28 November 1633
|Personal details
15 April 1592
Canneto, near Bari, Italy
|9 January 1675(aged 82)
Francesco Maria Brancaccio (15 April 1592, Canneto,[1] near Bari – 9 January 1675) was an Italian Catholic Cardinal.[2]
Brancaccio was born on 15 April 1592, the son of Baron Muzio II Brancaccio, governor of Apulia and Zenobia in the Kingdom of Naples. He was educated by the Jesuits in Naples.[3] He was ordained there as a priest in 1619 and was rose through local ecclesiastic ranks until 1627 when he became Bishop of Capaccio which was then within the Kingdom of Naples.
While a Bishop, he came into conflict with the local foot guards with whom he had a disagreement about local ecclesiastic jurisdiction.[4] When the disagreement was elevated to armed conflict, a castrato in Brancaccio's employ killed the captain of the guard. The Vice-King[5] ordered the bishop to stand trial and he obeyed; making arrangements to travel to Naples to give his account. But rather than travel to Naples he fled in a felucca towards Rome and upon arrival sought an audience with Pope Urban VIII to explain his side of the story. Urban agreed to defend the bishop and a furious Kingdom of Naples took custody of all the wealth and assets of Brancaccio's bishopric.
Pope Urban absolved Brancaccio of any crime and ordered that he be returned to Capaccio but the Vice-King opposed it and urged the pope to send him elsewhere.[4] The Pope, in need of more cardinals loyal to the Barberini cause, instead kept Brancaccio in Rome and he was elevated to the rank of cardinal in his consistory of 28 November 1633.
Now as a cardinal, there were few who would publicly speak ill of Brancaccio, though they may have wanted to. He was restored to his bishopric where he remained until 1635 when yet another conflict with yet another Vice-King saw him resign. While in Naples he worked closely with cardinals Francesco Boncompagni and Ippolito Aldobrandini.[4]
He became Bishop of Viterbo in 1638; then he became cardinal-bishop of Sabina (1666–68), of Frascati (1668–71), and finally of Porto e Santa Rufina (1671-75). He attended the papal conclaves of 1644, 1655, 1667 and 1669, which elected popes Innocent X, Alexander VII, Clement IX and Clement X respectively.[2]
Patron of the arts[edit]
During his time in Rome he formed the Biblioteca Brancacciana (which later moved to Naples and became that city's first public library - it is now part of the National Library of Naples) and housed the artist Salvator Rosa.
In 1642 Giovanni Gentile dedicated a teaching-collection of music entitled Solfeggiamenti et ricercari a due voci (Solfèges and ricercari for two voices - Lodovico Grignani, Rome, 1642) to him. The frontispiece gives him as "CARD. FRANCESCO MARIA / BRANCACCIO. / VESCOVO DI VITERBO" ("Cardinal Francesco Maria Brancaccio, bishop of Viterbo") and in the appendices is a canon in two voices "Cavato dalle lettere vocali del nome, e cognome / DELL'EMINENTISSIMO E REVERENDISSIMO / CARDINALE BRANCACCIO" ("Based on the vocal letters of the name and surname of the most eminent and most reverend / cardinal Brancaccio").
References and notes[edit]
- ^ Note: a quarter of which now constitutes the municipality of Adelfia
- ^ a b Catholic Hierarchy: Francesco Maria Cardinal Brancaccio
- ^ S. Miranda: BRANCACCIO, Francesco Maria
- ^ a b c Pope Alexander the Seventh and the College of Cardinals by John Bargrave, edited by James Craigie Robertson (reprint; 2009)
- ^ Note: usually a local count or other noble charged with the administration of the kingdom.
External links[edit]


text:
Each morning I plug into my iPod and dance in my backyard while the sun comes up. No one can see me since the yard is fenced, no one can hear me since it runs through my ear buds and I get a great workout dancing like I am a diva on stage - love it!
As I drive to and from work I dance to the music on the radio. It started with sucking in my stomach and stretching my back and has advanced to swaying, twisting and contracting my butt. The 45 minute drive doesn't seem so long, my back no longer hurts when I drive and I am wearing a smaller size pant.
Dance like no one's watching, love like your heart's never been broken and embrace your inner geek!
Keep moving. dance while you clean, cook, or dance to the commercials while you watch tv.


text:
Annual astronautical congress opens Oct. 2
The European Space Agency says the 57th annual International Astronautical Congress will be Oct. 2-6 in Valencia, Spain.
The European Space Agency says the 57th annual International Astronautical Congress will be Oct. 2-6 in Valencia, Spain.
Genetically modified rice from the United States has been found in the European Union, in violation of a ban on import, growth and sale of such crops.
A Japanese study has suggested that green tea consumption can reduce the risk of heart disease.
A U.S. researcher says the gap in measured cognitive ability between blacks and whites has narrowed by a least 25 percent since 1972.
A pilot ethanol plant has been built at the Danish Technical University in Lyngby, Denmark, to convert agricultural bi-products into the fuel.
British psychologists have launched a study to determine why some people who hear voices consider it a good experience, while others find it distressing.
Oil and water don't mix, and that could be the key to edible vegetable-based oil being the answer to contaminant clean-up.
Panasonic Computer Solutions Company today introduced three new business-rugged Panasonic Toughbook notebook computers: The ultraportable CF-W5, tablet alternative CF-T5, and the thin-and-light desktop replacement CF-Y5.
NEC Electronics today announced the industry's first 55- nanometer CMOS-compatible embedded DRAM (eDRAM) technology, UX7LSeD.
NASA's newest spacecraft at Mars has completed the challenging half-year task of shaping its orbit to the nearly circular, low-altitude pattern from which it will scrutinize the planet.


text:
Sanken Electric Co., Ltd.- Sanken Electric Co., Ltd., a leading global supplier of analog power semiconductor products, designs and manufactures a wide range of power management ICs, motor control ICs, LED lighting ICs as well as high quality automotive semiconductor devices and discrete components.
Digi-Key's library of more than 2000 exclusive PTM Online… On Demand® product training modules is a collection of training tools created with you – the busy design engineer – in mind. They are provided with the cooperation of participating supplier partners. From this one source, you can learn about the latest products and technologies, download datasheets, check inventory, contact our technical staff, and place an order for same-day shipment.
These modules are available in audio and non-audio formats and listed by supplier in easy-to-find alphabetical order. Simply locate the module that interests you and click on your format of choice. We hope you find these tools useful, and with new modules added continuously, we invite you to stop back often to see what's new.
= Updated Product Training Module - PTM = New Product Training Module - PTM
To view modules, you will need Adobe Flash Player 9, or greater, installed on your computer. Adobe Flash Player is available FREE from Adobe.
Additional Links
Brochures and Catalogs


text:
Cowboys Photos
20 free agents the Cowboys wish they could target this off-season
Photo: Jonathan Daniel/Getty Images
B.J. Raji, DT, Green Bay Packers. A major part of the 2010 Super Bowl team, the ninth overall pick in 2009 hasn't recorded a sack over the last two seasons.
To post a comment, log into your chosen social network and then add your comment below. Your comments are subject to our Terms of Service and the privacy policy and terms of service of your social network. If you do not want to comment with a social network, please consider writing a letter to the editor.


text:
I Can Do It Activity Book Sewing Pattern
|« Go Back
Customer Reviews for I Can Do It Activity Book Sewing Pattern:
November 16, 2015
Mary S
Cute ideas, but the book is done on back and front of the fabric. When you sew an item on one page, you see the stitches on the back. The instructions say that you can embroidery lettering, but this really would not work! I've started the book, but I am trying to decide whether I want to spend the time finishing it.
From here you can:


text:
Why do the Xbox360 wired controllers have that removable USB adapter?
View Single Post
September 28 2013, 01:00 AM
Capt. Vulcan
Vice Admiral
Location: PlanetExpress Ship
Re: Why do the Xbox360 wired controllers have that removable USB adapt
It's funny because the Xbox was the heaviest console ever and the least likely to be pulled off the shelf from a controller cord.
She's so great. I feel like I can almost remember the magical thing I did to make her love me. But I guess I never will.
Capt. Vulcan
View Public Profile
Send a private message to Capt. Vulcan
Visit Capt. Vulcan's homepage!
Find More Posts by Capt. Vulcan


text:
"The University of Illinois is also in turmoil. The university sports an Interim Chancellor, an Interim Athletic Director, and an Interim Football Coach; the game will be played at Soldier Field, making this an Illini Interim Home Game."
2009 - Reasons for Optimism?
As we sift through the ashes of the 2008 Michigan Football Season we're all wondering what this new era will bring. How do you set expectations for future seasons? What do you do on New Year's Day when there is no Michigan football to watch? Even though you know it is prudent to give Rodriguez time to mold the team, how much patience will you be able to show when Michigan loses to an inferior opponent in 2009?
So I set about trying to figure out how optimistic we can be for next year. I'm trying hard to find reasons to get excited for next season as opposed to bracing ourselves for another bowl-less finish. (Note to reader – your health and sanity would probably be better off if you set your expectations low for 2009 and even 2010.) Personally, I was a skeptic when they hired Rodriguez and was thinking 6-6 as the over-under for win-loss record but I got pressured into optimism by pieces like this before the 2008 season. So take this with a grain of salt:
Reasons for Optimism:
1. Time – Year number one in a coaching change is always going to be hard, no matter what school, coach, or system you're running. This year was going to be particularly tough with the returning talent level and the radical change in system. Another year in the program for the players will only help.
2. Depth Chart – When you're basically starting six freshman on offense, you're bound to fail. This isn't basketball where you can get away with that. In football experience counts for a LOT, especially on offense. They return EVERYONE (sorry Pat Massey) from offense. If you look at every position group you'll see that the only one that clearly suffers a loss is at DL. In twelve positions five of them should get definitely better and only two will likely be worse. That's reason for optimism.
Threet is more experienced, Sheridan never sees the field again, we have more than one division 1 quality QB in the depth chart. Forcier and Beaver are freshman, but they're division-1 talent, unlike Feagin and Sheridan.
Assuming no one leaves, the top six running backs return. The top four backs all lost significant time due to injury. That's not going to happen two seasons in a row. Even losing McGuffie wouldn't be the end of the world with three freshmen coming in.
The three starters return, two of whom will no longer be freshman. Robinson and Hemmingway should have been significant contributors but sat out the season hurt.
Koger will be improved as a sophomore and full-time starter, but the depth chart is thin.
Moundros was arguable the best offensive player this season and will be around again.
The top thirteen, that's right – THIRTEEN offensive lineman return. While some of them may be mediocre, a year of experience never hurt anyone. And now all of those red-shirt freshmen are available to challenge for playing time.
Unfortunately Lopata wasn't as good in 2008 as he was in 2007, but he was still competent. Turning the duties over to a true freshman or Bryan Wright is likely a downgrade in this position….but not definitely so. Lopata was only 10-15 and that's not a difficult percentage to match.
Anytime you lose three and maybe even four starters you're in for a rough transition. Vanbergen and Martin showed excellent potential, but they're still young and raw. The freshmen will be asked to contribute and that's not always a good thing at this position. If Graham does stay the down grade won't be significant, however.
Mouton got better as the season went on and will be a starter from day one. Ezeh is still mediocre, but he won't be any worse and might get a little better. The third spot is a wild card, but Thompson won't be hard to replace.
This was the most disappointing position on the field in 2008 so it is hard to think they could get worse. Warren should be better and Cissoko showed promise – at least as much as Trent. The nickel spot could be a wild card.
I suppose this could get worse with Stewart and Harrison departing, but I can't believe this unit could possibly play worse than they did in 2008. Our favorite punching bag will still be around and probably not any better, but there's hope that he learns from 2008. The other spot is a total wildcard, but it wouldn't take much to match Stewart's level of performance.
Is there a way to extend Zoltan's eligibility?
3. Turnovers – It simply cannot be possible that Michigan can match the turnover problems of 2008. If so, that will be the best ever documented proof that there is no all-powerful God. I honestly think that if Michigan would have performed at league average in the return game that they would have won two more games. The previous six seasons Michigan lost an average of 10 fumbles per year. This year they had 18. Imagine picking any 8 fumbles from 2008 and pretending they didn't happen. The parade of fumbles returning kicks cannot, and will not be repeated in 2009.
4. Schedule – It is hard to say what the level of competition will be in conference, but in 2009 Michigan won't be playing a top ten Utah team and will be playing Notre Dame, Penn State, and Ohio State at home. MSU loses their workhorse running back and doesn't have much else going for them. We replace Northwestern and Minnesota with Indiana and Iowa – probably an even swap.
5. Luck – This is a general term meant to summarize Michigan's performance in close games. In 2008 Michigan went 1-4 in games that came down to a couple of plays. They could have easily won the Utah, Toledo, Northwestern, and Purdue games. Assuming 2-3 more wins from these types of games is not unrealistic. On top of that, the Notre Dame and Michigan State games were decided by 5-8 plays and it isn't a stretch to think that Michigan could have won one of them. That leaves only the OSU, PSU, and Illinois games as blowouts. In all of those three games Michigan was within a touchdown at half time. Going 9-3 is highly unlikely, but looking at the 2008 you can see how 7-5 is possible.
Those are some fairly convincing arguments for why 2009 could be a fairly dramatic turnaround. The ceiling is probably 8-4, but the floor isn't 3-9 it is probably 6-6. But before you start looking for hotels on New Years Day, there are a couple of big reasons for pause:
• Beaver and Forcier are significantly better than Feagin and Sheridan, but they're still going to be true freshmen and that's never a recipe for success in big time college football.
• It is sadly quite likely that there will be unexpected defections by players who were going go be counted on to contribute in 2009.
• The defense was supposed to be solid in 2008 and was frankly quite bad. A year of experience by the coaches and some modest improvement at LB and S should help, but it is hard to make an argument that the defense will improve.
• Expecting improvement by the OL and WR is very realistic, but they were so inconsistent and poor in 2008 that it is hard to expect them to become above average by 2009.
What other reasons for optimism can you think of? Am I looking too hard at this, are there more reasons to be worried?
Please Read, I'm super cereal
Imagine starting a new job in an office and your job duties include generating 25 page expenditure reports for 12 clients that are critical to the survival of your company. You started the job on Monday, and are expected to have it completed by Wednesday afternoon. You are given a pen and paper instead of a calculator, and a typewriter instead of a computer. Now Imagine you are a construction worker and you start a new job where your duty is to move 100 yards of dirt from one job site to another by the end of the day. You are given a shovel and wheelbarrow instead of a dumptruck. Now Imagine you are Jon Bon Jovi and you are supposed to put on a concert in front of 173 rabid Sparty fans and instead of having Richie Sambora in your gay band you have Randy Marsh. Congratulations!!! You have now walked a mile in the shoes of RichRod. I am so incredibly disgusted by the shit this guy has had to take this year I could go on a puking binge until 2009's spring game. I am embarrased to have so many ignorant piles of ass calling themselves Wolverines. It is pathetic and sad the way people have abandoned and shit on this coaching staff and team. People wonder why McGuffie and others are going to transfer. What have people shown them this year to make them want to stay??? People throw shit talk around about RichRod getting fired. Why the hell shouldn't the man quit????? Criticism is one thing, but the personal attacks on coaches and players is beyond absurd. Wake up folks, Jesus Christ himself could not win games with the quarterbacks we had this year. Plain and simple. You can't win division I football games with less then Division III talent. This will be turned around, I have zero doubt. We will again be on top, and I don't want to see 1/2 of you bastards around when that day comes.
Season Part 1 and 2
WARNING: Very long and there is not much gold left to mine from this season anyway, but I'll break it in two since 1st part is most global and second more personal whatever.
Pt 1.
Anyway, it was a perfect storm of crappiness this season. The coaches were nearly impossible to evaluate given what they were working with, and the same will prob be said for '09 too. I think RR's offense will be unstoppable once they have the right QB to run it, I think he'll get the right QB to run it post haste, but that QB isn't on campus yet. RR has continued to recruit well against an avalanche of negative pub dating all the way back to his WVA break-up, so that is a good sign, and RRs opening up a FL pipeline is prob the most underrated story of his tenure.
UM's biggest obstacle over the next 2 years will be guarding against allowing the losing to infect the team. This IMO is what has happened to the FSUs and Miamis (better examples than Neb or ND IMO for multiple reasons). They were consistently outstanding for so long due to talent and consistently high QB level. They run into a few years where QB recruits are getting tossed and/or not panning out, and the result is some losses they never would have suffered. The ship didn't right quickly and now both programs (despite elite talent) continue to not only post poor records by their standards, but suffer multiple head-scratching losses per season. Why?
In the HBO mini-series "Band of Brothers", in one of the episodes where Easy Company is Bastonge, the first sergeant comes across a private attempting to scratch out a foxhole in frozen ground with his finger nails. He gets that guy off the line immediately and to the rear, commenting that fear is something they all deal with but must be done so in their own way, its a delicate balance as that outward fear can infect even a hardened combat unit.
The analogy I draw here is how players and programs react to lossing. These players are going to have to live with this losing and all the negative pub and shit surrounding it for the next year. The coaches are going to be on watch for the type of bad attitudes that can infect the team, and those guys will have to be run off or not offered a scholarship for their final season. Most of the team is going to stick it out and stick together and work harder than ever so that it never happens again. Problem is, its probably going to happen again next year. Not 3-9, but 5-7 or 6-6. Losses to OSU and who knows, maybe ND and MSU too. They'll have to hear all the shit about "is UM dead? RR isn't the right guy. Dantonio" etc. They'll have to go through absorbing another 5, 6, or 7 losses. Who among these players will have the strength to keep that hatred of losing burning white hot when they've been forced to deal with it so often (esp the young guys), and who among them is going to subconsciously relax just that little bit? Who in 2010 will be saying "here we go again"?
This is RR's biggest challenge. Not the recruiting. He's good at that, its M, and players want PT. Its not implementing the system. You could see the offensive system implemented fairly well this year. But breakdowns in execution along the OL, and no passing accuracy in the short game, and no running QB = death for this offense. It maybe able to over come 1 of those 3, but certainly not all of them.
RR's task of motivating these players and keeping that fire is what will be his biggest challenge. And if he rides these guys the wrong way, at what point do too many of the player start to buck and the team is lost to him? The bottom line is that there is only so much RR can do, 90% of it has to come from within. There is only so much he can do and the rest is a crap shot, which doesn't exactly inspire confidence. The good news I believe is that the bounce a coach and program gets off a positive is much greater than the help other intangibles like tradition and coaching charisma can provide in bad times. Should these players pull it off over the next two years and bring home at least part of a Big 10 championship in 2010, I think things will be well on their way to being better than ever. Its just going to suck waiting for it all to play out.
Pt. 2
Its times like these (Lions working on a 18 game loosing streak, UM 3-9 season with second worst loss ever to OSU and 5 game losing streak) when I like to step back and take a peek at the all time scoreboard.
Since I came in in '76, I've witnessed the following championship seasons:
Tigers - 1984
UM Hoops - 1989
UM Football - 1997
Pistons - 1989, 1990, 2004
Wings - 1997, 1998, 2002, 2008
Shock - 2003, 2006, 2008
(ok, for the purposes of this, lets take the Shock out of there). That's 13 titles. In addition, we've had the following finals appearances:
Tigers - 2006
UM Hoops - 1991, 1992
Pistons - 1988, 2005
Wings - 1995
So since the time I was 8 years old, my teams have generated a shot at the title every 1.2 years and delivered every 1.8 years. Not many can come close to that. NY I think has 10 or 11 titles and Boston I believe has 8 titles in that span.
Without that perspective this would be a soul crushing sports year (even with the Wings/Stones poised to do major damage), with UM posting its worst football season of all time and the Lions working on their worst of all time, and by definition, one of the worst seasons in the history of the NFL. The Lions jumped out to a 17 pt lead at home, then surrendered the next 38 in a 38-20 loss. They've lost every way imaginable this year. Blown out early, blown out late, running out of the back of the endzone for a safety in a 2 pt loss to the Vikes. Amazing.
UM was down 7-14 at the half v. OSU. They failed to get any points the early INT and Odoms about to field a punt on OSU's side of the field, which he instead fumbled to take our amazing field position and give it to OSU. Taylor was comically held on Wells' touchdown run. Jamison literally had his jersey ripped off of him without a holding call against OSU all damn day.
But even if all the things that could have or should have gone right did, it wasn't going to be M's day. The M defense was just called on to answer the bell too many times dealing with terrible field position. It goes back to 4 things that are going to kill ANY team:
1. Starting a walk-on QB that didn't even have a MAC scholarship offer. What would Alabama's record be starting Nick Sheridan at QB? This occurred because Henne starting as a Fr scared recruits, Forcier then transferred when Mallett came in after Mallett scared off all good QB recruits for 2 classes, then Mallett left. That left one Fr. who was a top 10 drop back passer in his class, but drop back passers are useless in this offense.
2. 9 baby offensive starters. Starting QB, RB, C, and WRs all FRESHMAN.
3. Freak turnovers out of the coaching staffs' control.
4. Horrible special teams with the exception of the punter. Too often UM was forced to go 80+ yards to score and that is insanely difficult given 1-3 herein. Inability to return KOs and punts resulting in poor field position. On sat. McGuffie got killed on on KO return after a couple yards, Cissoko muffs and only gets out to the 17, Odoms fields 2nd half KO at the 13 and gets only to 24, Cissoko fumbles KO in second half to OSU. They took a 2nd half KO back 80 yards. Toss in a missed chip shot field. All-in-all, your average day at the office for M special teams. How many games you gonna win with 2 TOs in the kicking game and a missed FG?
Knowing all this, what is the coaching staff's culpability here? Long view, they could have tried to keep Mallett around. Did RR and staff's arrogance hurt them there? Hard to say. Mallett was widely considered something between malcontent and team cancer last year, and LC's last year was country club compared to RR's first. Instead of kissing Mallett's ass and hoping for the best, RR choose to use it as a message to the team (if you don't want to be here we don't want you) and forced the decision early in an effort to get Pryor. Prob right move. I also think the special teams blocking on returns was horrible all season which you could put on the coaches. As far as the fumbles, they worked on it like crazy and rotated players (all of whom couldn't hang on). You can't coach catching the ball back there and when you go through everyone and they all suck, it can't be on the coaches.
Short view, UM couldn't run or pass in the first half v. OSU, but Sheridan was so awful. They passed too much. After he bounced the first 5 passes of the turf they should have just said "screw it" we're going to try and run it at them all day. In fact, they should have gone that route from the jump before watching his bounce-pass clinic. At least the run has a chance of getting some positive yards (and shortens the game), as were you knew Sheridan's pass attempts were futile or worse (sack, int). He's been god awful all season outside of the Minni game. And what was with all the rollouts? I understand they must be passes he completes well in practice because they called so many. But they were terrible (longest loop on a rollout you'll ever see, he had to throw 15 yards down field just to bounce it to the LOS). If I was RR, I would have gone 70% run, 15% swing/screen pass, and 15% deep ball. Grind the ball and some clock, try to keep the CBs rolled up, and try to hit some big plays over the top where a miscue is either a inc or deep int. Loosen the S a bit and give yourself a shot at more big plays. We may as well make our INCs 35-40 yards down field rather than 1-3 yards off the LOS.
Also, when M got that INT in the 1st quarter, what should they have done? I love aggressiveness, but you've got to get pts there (and consider your QB). Once Brown went out I was just praying for 3. Try run it in and you're either in or get the FG. Instead, Sheridan losses yardage on 2nd down. After that I said just run it toward the middle of the field to make it an easier FG. Instead, Sheridan throws INC and Loppata misses a 35 yarder from the right hash. I think that's on the staff (not that it would have mattered).
Thoughts and Questions
This is my first blog entry ever. I feel strongly enough about things this year that I had to put some of this down. If you do make it all the way through, thanks for reading. It starts with general thoughts, many of which have been in other posts on this site. It ends with questions for the future. As a fan, I hope they all have positive answers. As a realist, I just don't know.
It's been mentioned on several other posts, but is this season the burning that must occur before the Phoenix can rise from the ashes?
Got a fortune cookie on Friday that said "You must taste the bitter to appreciate the sweet." (or something like that) Is that what's happening now? Is this Angry Michigan Hating God's way of showing us how spoiled we've been? A lot of fan's think we're entitled to 8-10 wins per season just because we're Michigan. They get pissed when we don't win the Big 10, or the national championship, or go undefeated. Maybe they needed to be shown that it takes a LOT to have the kind of success Michigan has had over the last 30 (or even 129) years. I know that seeing how the other half lives really does make you appreciate what you have. I joined the army after college (enlisted infantry early 2001, I was in basic during 9/11) and spent some time in Afghanistan and Iraq. And being there did more to make me appreciate life here in the USA than anything that I could have possibly experienced here. So, yeah, maybe you do have to be down before you can truly appreciate how great it is to be up.
On a related note, this season has made me a better fan. During the previous years, I'd casually watch games, and not know much more about the team than whatever ESPN or the News or Free Press would tell me. But ever since about mid way through 2007 I've been listening to sports talk radio (not necessarily a good source of info, but they sometimes get good stuff, plus hearing what other "fans" have to say is always interesting), reading any scrap of news I can about Michigan online (Rivals (whatever they have for free), newspapers, ESPN, CBS, Yahoo, MLive, and my new favorite MGoBlog). I think I'm doing this mostly because things are changing so much, and I want to know whatever I can. The knowledge that Michigan may take a while to return to glory helps temper my expectations, and dull some of the pain of losing.
Typical Michigan fans – I know a few people that are what most people would call a "typical" Michigan fan. They expect to win, no excuses. They have said that they expect RR to be fired after this year. They said he's brought the program down. After the OSU game, they said "there's another bad record he just achieved." They think recruiting is going to fall apart because of 1 bad year. They don't know enough about the program and the players to understand that this year was going to be bad no matter who the coach was. I try to explain it to them, but they just won't listen. If Michigan is less than 8-4 next year, they're going to be a pain to deal with (even more so than now). Hell, even if RR wins multiple national championships, they may never forget or forgive this year.
On a related note, those "typical" Michigan fans are kind of delusional anyway. Yes, Michigan has been THE model of consistency for any college football program. 33 straight bowl games, etc. However, we've won only 1 national championship in the last 50 years. We've always been on the cusp, but never (except once) reached the peak (and had to share that, so sparty and bucknuts won't give us credit for it). Over 50 years. And over the past 10 years, we've only been close once (2006). Did we want to continue that trend? (be really good-great, but only occasionally elite, and never "the best") Or did we want to do what it takes to get over the hump? Do what it takes to win it all? Finally get the "living in the past" monkey off our backs?
Expecting the loss – (I know jfs52 did a whole diary entry on this, but it's been on my mind, so I'm putting my own thought on it here)This is another thing I'm hoping will be in the past soon. Even when Michigan was good-great, I (any many/most fans) expected the loss. To anyone, especially the underdogs. Michigan favored by 20? Yeah, they'll blow it. Michigan ranked #2 in the preseason? They'll probably lose to Northwestern. Or Indiana. Or Illinois. Or anybody else that they have no business losing to. I was a freshman at Michigan in 1997. As great as we were that year, I was expecting something to happen every game. I was waiting for the collapse. Thankfully it never came (at least until the first 2 games of the 1998 season). But I've lived with that fear every game that Michigan was favored. I hope to let go of that soon.
What could realistically be called "success" next year? (6-6 may be realistic, but nobody would consider that "success". 12-0 would be success, but nobody would call that "realistic")
How good will the offense be next year? (Debated ad nauseum, I know.)
How much can you rely on a coach's history when he goes from a mid level conference to a big time conference? (Remember the offensive genius of John L. Smith at Louisville?)
How good will the defense be next year? (Losing the best part of the defense. The returning players are mostly "meh")
Does this team have the mental toughness necessary to win big? Have they been damaged by this year, and will there always be some doubt in their minds? (I ask because they've been up in most games, but blew it most of the time. They looked good in the 1st half against the top teams, but got blown away at the end.)
Is EEEEE Barwis not as good as advertised? If they've been up and blown it, is it because they're not as conditioned as we thought? (For the record, my hope is that he tore them down so much at the beginning of the year that they never fully recovered, and next year they're going to be fully recovered and blow the doors off the place)
Is RR still an "innovator?" (He invented the spread years ago, and he's taught it to every coach willing to listen. Does he have something new in the pipe? His play calling has been even more predictable that Lloyd. Hopefully just because the team was learning a new system.)
What recruits step in and play next year?
How much does not having the extra bowl game practices hurt?
How does the rest of the Big 10 shake out next year? (MSU=overrated, look good because conference is down. They'll drop some next year. OSU=??? When they're supposed to be up, they fall (08) when they're supposed to be down, they go to BCS title games (07). Illinois = supposed to be on the rise, but they stumbled this year, does it continue. NW and Minn = ?? lucky this year? Improving?)
Michigan Rebooted: How Do We Define Success?
Ok, that season sucked.
Bill Martin hit the reboot button and RichRod performed like Windows ME.
How do we define success going forward?
Martin's goal (as I divine the tea leaves) was to reinvigorate Michigan football and set it on track for another period of extended success. In other words, he needs better results than he would have gotten by staying within the tree and hiring Ron English or (the much-maligned at this time last year) Brady Hoke.
So far, his plan has gone in the wrong direction.
Rodriguez's goals (again, as I divine the tea leaves) were 1) to get out of the loonie bin that is WVU football politics and then 2) be a winning football coach at Michigan. Mission accomplished on item #1. With regard to #2, I give him credit for being what he says he is, a guy who's a football coach, without the megalomania that seems to be an occupational hazard.
Now, we have to add a third goal for RichRod, which is to restore his reputation. (Unless he gets it together, Mike Brown is not going to be putting together any shakedown packages.)
So getting down to brass tacks: given this definition of Martin's and Rodriguez's goals, what constitutes success and what constitutes failure? We talked about this in another thread. Some candidate reference points:
Average 9 wins per game over 6 year contract period = 54 wins, 51 to go, that's 10.2/year for the next 5
Average 8 wins per game over 6 year contract period = 48 wins, 45 to go, that's 9/year for the next 5
Hit the 10 wins/year mark and stay there with either no or very few deviations.
Win a national championship. Does we forgive all if he is @ .500 for years 2-5 and then wins a NC in year 6? If he averages 8 wins/year and gets one NC, is that any better than Lloyd Carr?
Added: Beat OSU at least twice in the contract term (that's improvement).
Added: Beat MSU 4 times out of 6.
Added: Beat Notre Dame 3 out of 6. (I personally don't really care that much about the ND rivalry.)
The Phoenix
I swear I saw it. I watched very closely, and even with my crappy internet feed of the game, I am 100% sure it was there. From the smoldering wreckage of Saturday, November 22, 2008, from the still-warm ashes, from the wanton destruction contained with the walls of Ohio Stadium, I saw a phoenix rise from the charred remains of this Wolverine football team. Amidst headlines proclaiming the death (or at least great fall) of this once-proud program, long-bitter ill-wishers reveling in the moment, and close friends protecting themselves under a sheet of sarcasm, this phoenix rose, unnoticed. And as the hate poured in regarding the "lost" season, its will grew stronger.
This was not the first time it had risen, after a passing. Previous occurrences took place in 1901, 1938, 1968. Each time, this phoenix has brought years of success and prosperity to the Wolverine program.
Once again, shall the Wolverines rise from the ashes. Once again, from the wrong end of jibes and ridicule, from idiot sportscasters and moronic rivals, shall the Wolverines shine again.
Patience and hope. Keep them close. A reward awaits from those who stay.
Michigan might be down, but she is not out.


text:
EverFocus is a leading manufacturer of a wide variety of surveillance equipment including cameras DVR's and control systems.
Everfocus is a true manufacturer conducting all their research and development as well as product assembly in house. This means that when you buy an Everfocus product it's not a third party product that has been tested and rebranded, it's made by them. This allows Everfocus to deliver high quality dependable units suitable for some of the most challenging environments in the world.
Based in Taiwan EverFocus has offices located around the world including the U.S.A (California & New York), Germany, China and Japan.
For warranty information click here: http://www.everfocus.com/warranty.cfm
EverFocus USA - California:
Tel: (626) 844-8888
Fax: (626) 844-8838
EverFocus USA - New York:
Tel: (631) 436-5070
Fax: (631) 436-5027
Sony is one of the largest names in the business when it comes to cameras. With a broad range spanning from CCTV cameras of all shapes and sizes to professional motion picture grade 4k units they have something for every application. Sony have been in the industry for a long time developing new and innovative ways to use technology and producing robust systems that are hard to match for quality and price.
The advantage of working with such a large player in the industry is the excellent support services they can offer their customers. From online FAQ's and forums to their dedicated phone support department they will be able to solve any issue in whatever mode you chose.
For warranty information click here: http://pro.sony.com/bbsc/ssr/services.servicesprograms.bbsccms-services-servicesprograms-warrantyinformation.shtml
Sony Broadcast & Business Solutions Company
Tel: (800) 883-6817
- Optional Ceiling Mount for CTPTA-N10 Mini Speed Dome
- Weatherproof Aluminum Construction Design
- Construction & Finish: Aluminum, Light Gray, Polyester
- Max. Load: 45lb (20kg)
- Environment: Indoor / Outdoor
- Corner Mount Adaptor for PTA-N37W and PTA-N27W, PTZ Speed Domes
- Weatherproof Aluminum Construction Design
- Pole Mount Adaptor for PTA-N37W and PTA-N27W, PTZ Speed Domes
- Weatherproof Aluminum Construction Design
- Construction & Finish: Aluminum, Light Gray, Polyester
- Max. Load: 45lb (20kg)
- Environment: Indoor / Outdoor
- Construction: Aluminum
- Finish: Light gray polyester powder coat
- Load capacity: 23 lb. (10 kg.)
- Environment: Indoor / Outdoor
- Wall Mount
- Plastic
- 118 × 80 × 182mm
- Inclined ceiling mount
- Plastic
- ?101×39mm
- Junction box, Aluminum alloy
- ?88.5 mm
- Construction: Aluminum alloy
- Wall Mount Bracket
See any errors on this page? Let us know.