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?Go easy on him, guys,? a Bills public relations man said. ?He?s got a little bit of a sore throat.?
Well, it?s always something with Mario. That?s what the Texans fans said when the Bills rolled out the money truck for the guy last March. He?ll be great in some games, barely visible in others. But one thing you can count on is an endless trail of complaints about nagging injuries.
This year, it?s his left wrist. Coach Chan Gailey mentioned the wrist before the opener. Williams confirmed it then. Evidently it?s still an issue. Williams mentioned it several times Wednesday. He didn?t even bother to use the stock athlete?s qualifier ? that he?s not making excuses. He was making excuses for his disappointing play.
?Um, it?s just a little deal going on,? Williams said, ?but we?ve already mentioned that before. It?s just lingering a little longer than I expected and I just (need to) get back out there and just try to deal with it and play better with it.?
The injury does appear to be a ?little deal? in the coaches? eyes. Mario?s wrist hasn?t been on the injury report all season. He said that?s because he plays and hasn?t missed practice. That?s true. Are we supposed to believe that a mild wrist sprain is the reason for his early struggles?
?Only he can answer that,? Gailey said. ?He?s been getting some treatment, but it hasn?t kept him from ever practicing or anything like that. I mean, we?ve got guys with ankles and knees and hips and shoulders, and everything that bothers you during the course of a season. How much, only a player can answer that. But it?s not enough for him to not make every rep in practice and do what he?s doing.?
Or to be on the injury report, I asked?
?No,? Gailey said. ?We don?t put every ankle and every sprain or ?shoulder hurts? or iced elbow. We don?t put that on every injury report.?
Williams is no stranger to the injury report. Over the past three seasons with Houston, he showed up for problems with his knee, thumb, elbow, groin (all three years), hip, shoulder and general illness. He missed the last 12 games of last season with a torn pectoral muscle. He was shut down late in 2010 with an inflamed hernia. He suffered from foot problems in his rookie season of 2006.
So the guy has a problem with injuries, both large and small. Football is a rough game. By the middle of the season, just about every NFL player is hurt in some fashion. I?ve always been careful about questioning players? injuries. It?s best to give them the benefit of the doubt.
But you can?t expect fans to be sympathetic when the presumed savior hides behind a minor injury after one of the most humiliating defensive showings ever by a Bills team. Trust me, there are players in that locker room who are rolling their eyes.
You didn?t hear Fred Jackson complaining about his sprained knee. He was back on the field in three weeks. That?s the sort of toughness that made Ryan Fitzpatrick call Jackson his favorite teammate ever. Fitz played with cracked ribs for a month last season and didn?t let on. Terrence McGee has been playing on a bum knee for years. You don?t think C.J. Spiller?s shoulder injury is lingering?
?I don?t expect it to hinder me all year,? Williams said, ?but it?s already been almost six weeks now. Like I said, it?s a little longer than normal, than expected. But yeah, it is what it is, and we?ve got to find a way to get through it and be able to play normally.?
The Bills expected more for their money, that?s for sure. Williams has nine tackles with a sack and a half in four games. He was a virtual non-factor when the Bills gave up 48 and 52 points to the Jets and Patriots. It?s getting hard to rationalize that performance from a supposed star.
?I think a lot of times, there?s a great deal of respect for him,? Gailey said. ?They chip him and put a couple of guys on him. They bang him over there. I think if he?d have been one-on-one a lot, we?d have seen a lot different.?
Really, Chan? People are watching the games. They can review them on-line. Joe Buscaglia, who covers the Bills for WGR, charted the game and determined that Williams had been double-teamed once in 29 drop backs by Tom Brady. He was single-blocked on all 11 running plays to his side.
Pats right tackle Sebastian Vollmer missed most of camp after offseason back surgery. He?s still not 100 percent. But he was healthy enough to shut down Williams. Austin Howard, an undrafted free agent making his second career start, manhandled Mario in the opener. Williams figures it would have been a different story if not for the sprained left wrist.
?I?m a hands-on player,? he said, ?and it?s all about power in my game. It?s just been a little odd having a little nick or whatever and not being able to use it to the full extent. But you know, you gotta play. When you?re out there on Sunday, you gotta play regardless of what?s going on. If you?re out there on the field, you?ve got to make it happen.?
Gailey seemed uneasy when confronted with the notion that Williams hadn?t been double-teamed against New England. He?s been reluctant to criticize the pass rush since immediately after the opener. But fans are crushing Mario.
?That comes with the territory,? Gailey said. ?Everybody understands that. I?m the object of criticism. Fitz is the object of criticism. Everybody?s the object of criticism when you don?t win.?
But when a team made you the highest-paid defensive player in team history, you?re an especially large target. When you start hiding behind excuses, the target only gets larger.
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LISBON - Riding a barrage of three-pointers from East Liverpool's Mary Davis, the Red Team grabbed a 59-50 over their Blue counterparts in the Columbiana County Classic on Thursday at Lisbon High School.
Davis, who garnered Red Team Most Valuable Player honors, scored a game-high 12 points in the contest, all of them coming from three-pointers. Davis' first two shots were both successful from beyond the arc, prompting her to test her hot hand a lot more from behind the three line.
"I wasn't really expecting it," Davis said. "It wasn't something I was planning on doing."
Davis would cool off as the game went on, however, making just one three-pointer after halftime. Instead, Red relied on the inside presence and field-goal shooting of Salem's Lindsey Foster, who scored all of her eight points in the second half. Candace Holmes, Davis' teammate at East Liverpool, also contributed all of her six points in the final frame.
"We never got together and planned anything out," Davis said. "We all just came and played how we wanted to play. It's always fun to get together with the people you've played against all year and see how it turns out."
Blue trailed just 25-23 at halftime, and despite making four three-pointers of their own in the second half, were never able to stop Red's accurate shooting. United's Courtney Hydrick, voted Blue's MVP, had eight points, while Leetonia's Nicole Mann also added eight.
Key contributors to Red's victory were Southern's Kati Hipsley, who scored nine points, as well as Salem's Ciera Trybend, who had eight. United's Sam Mathias held the coaching duties for Red. Blue received seven points a piece from United's Samantha Spitler and Wellsville's Monica Wilson. Southern's Corey Leek was the coach for the Blue squad.
RED SCORING: Morgan Newbauer (Crestview) 1-1-3, Alexis Marnejon (Crestview) 1-0-2, Mary Davis (East Liverpool) 4-0-12, Candace Holmes (East Liverpool) 3-0-6, Katy Crismon (Lisbon) 1-0-2, Pam Pierce (Lisbon) 2-1-5, Lindsey Foster (Salem) 3-2-8, Ciera Trybend (Salem) 4-0-8, Kati Hipsley (Southern) 4-0-9, Rachel Coil (Southern) 2-0-4 TOTALS: 25, 4-9: 59
BLUE SCORING: Samantha Bishop (Beaver Local) 1-0-2, Lindsey Roncone (Columbiana) 0-0-0, Logan Gatchel (East Palestine) 1-1-4, Brooke Gedeon (East Palestine) 3-0-6, Nicole Mann (Leetonia) 3-0-8, McKenzie Smith (Leetonia) 3-0-6, Courtney Hydrick (United) 2-4-8, Samantha Spitler (United) 3-0-7, Amanda Coles (Wellsville) 1-0-2, Monica Wilson (Wellsville) 3-0-7 TOTALS: 20, 5-8: 50
Three-pointers: Red 5 (Davis 4, Hipsley), Blue 5 (Mann 2, Gatchel, Spitler, Wilson)

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Liz Allen: Teen artists express themselves
One reason why Yassar Alfatlawi, 17, sunk her teeth into art is because her dad sketched pictures of horses for her when she was little.
Julie Rapela, 18, added art to her high school studies, in part, because her mom used to draw bunnies on the love notes she tucked into Julie's school lunches.
Yassar recently won first place and Julie won second place in the annual Martin Luther King Jr. "Day of Expression" poster contest sponsored by the Youth Leadership Institute of Erie.
I couldn't resist puns about these delightful Collegiate Academy seniors. Although they are passionate about art, they've chosen careers in widely different fields.
Yassar will major in biology at Gannon University and wants to be an orthodontist. She sees art in dentistry because "it enhances how people look."
Julie will major in accounting at Gannon because "I like to solve the problem," she says.
Yassar's dad, Jabbar, now owns a store, and her mother, Hanan, is a nurse. But when Yassar was little, her father worked long shifts at a Girard plastics company.
"My dad used to draw me horses before he went to work," she says. The drawings kept the two connected when they didn't see each other because of her father's work schedule.
The fourth of Jeffrey and Regina Rapela's six children, Julie was inspired to draw by her mom's interest in art.
Advanced Placement studio art teacher James Rinderle encouraged the two students to enter the MLK contest. "They have taken some very difficult challenges in both subject matter and medium over their high school years but always seem to be able to produce amazing works of art," he says.
Both used prisma pencils for their winning posters.
Julie's is a striking image of Abraham Lincoln, focused on his eyes and his lined forehead. "He just showed so much pain and strength," she says. The poster quotes from the Gettysburg Address: "And dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal."
Yassar studied various photos of King before drawing him with folded hands. "In the picture, he looked almost as if he was praying, which was perfect, since he prayed for equality," she says. Her two brothers helped pick the King quote she used: "Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter."
Whether fixing teeth or analyzing spreadsheets, both young women say they'll continue to create art. "It's a calming thing," Julie says. "I want my kids to be growing up and doing the same thing," Yassar says.
Their art will leave a lasting impression in Erie, too. Julie's poster will hang at Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine. Yassar's will hang in the PNC Bank Community Room.
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TAHOE/TRUCKEE, Calif. - Big Brothers Big Sisters of Nevada County and North Lake Tahoe is preparing to celebrate five years of mentoring in the Tahoe-Truckee area with an out-of-this-world bowl-a-thon and party Oct. 13, 2012.
Bowl Incline will be transformed into Area 51 as the Incline Village bowling alley plays host to the 3rd annual Bowl For Kids' Sake: Galaxy Bowl party/fundraiser from 3-8 p.m.
Community members are encouraged to gather a team of three to five people along with intergalactic costumes, face paint and any alien technology they can find lying around the house, then join in the fun as local emcee-extraordinaire Jim Simon, of the Porter-Simon Law Firm, entertains the crowd while community members compete to knock down the most pins and raise the most dollars.
Radio personalities from KTKE 101.5 FM will be in the alley, providing a space-aged soundtrack to celebrate Big Brothers Big Sisters' official five-year anniversary of opening their Tahoe-Truckee office.
"Our Bowl For Kids' Sake party is the perfect way to celebrate our five-year anniversary in this area," said Truckee Program Manager Peggy Martin. "I really look forward to being able to thank many of the community members who've supported us over the years - especially our dedicated Big Brothers and Big Sisters - and hopefully to reach out to some new friends who want to help us continue our mission of providing caring adult mentors to local at-risk youth."
Form your own team and sign up to raise funds for the programs Big Brothers Big Sisters makes possible. Even better, put your team together and then challenge another business, service club or group of friends to see who can raise the most money and have the most fun on Oct. 13.
For more information on forming a team, becoming a lane sponsor or volunteering visit www.bigsofnc.org and click on the "Galaxy Bowl" link, or call Peggy Martin at 530-587-7717.
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Big Brothers Big Sisters is also seeking businesses that believe in the agency's mission to help offset event costs of this event by becoming a Lane Sponsor. Interested businesses can join current sponsors Clear Capital, Juice Box Yoga, Ferrari's Crown Family Resort, the Hyatt Regency Lake Tahoe, Homewood Mountain Resort, Shearer Design, Sugar Bowl Resort, Dress the Part(y) and KTKE 101.5 FM by contacting the Truckee office at (530) 587-7717.
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Big Brothers Big Sisters of Nevada County and North Lake Tahoe (BBBSNC) is a chapter of Big Brothers Big Sisters of America, a national nonprofit agency dedicated to creating a volunteer base where every at-risk child and youth who needs and wants a mentor can be matched with a Big Brother or Big Sister. BBBSNC serves children in all of Nevada County including Truckee, as well as the North Lake Tahoe communities of Kings Beach and Tahoe City.
In October of 2007, Big Brothers Big Sisters of Nevada County (established in 1981) opened its Truckee office and began matching at-risk youth one-on-one with caring adult mentors in the Truckee and North Lake Tahoe area. Since that date the agency has served a total of 108 children. Currently there are approximately 16 local children in the Tahoe-Truckee region on the waiting list for a mentor and the agency must raise $1,200 to make and support each match. Funding raised at the Bowl For Kids' Sake: Galaxy Bowl bowl-a-thon will go directly to supporting the matches they already have, and funding new relationships for waiting Littles. For more information, visit www.bigsofnc.org or call 530-273-2227.


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The Joint Corp., a leading franchisor of chiropractic clinics is proud to announce the opening of their first clinic in Summerville in the Azalea Square Shopping Center. The clinic is owned and operated by L.S. and Elizabeth Carper with another planned for the West Ashley area in mid 2013.
Mr. Carper has an esteemed career in Healthcare including managing Columbus Group, which recruits top clinical talent for Acute Care Hospitals throughout the United States. Extremely well versed in traditional medicine, Mr. Carper was unable to help as he watched his wife suffer from chronic Carpal Tunnel Syndrome. After all traditional medicine failed to provide relief, she was referred by a physical therapist for chiropractic care. Within three weeks her condition completely went away. After extended research on chiropractic care, Mr. Carper realized there were viable alternatives to drugs and surgery.
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Mr. Carper is proud to announce the hiring of Dominique Cassetori, D.C. Dr. Cassetori received her BS from University of South Carolina Aiken and received her Doctor of Chiropractic from New York Chiropractic College. The Joint concept offers an incredible opportunity to help patients focus on health and wellness with the convenient hours at an affordable cost, said Dr. Cassetori.
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If you can believe her barbs, they're already married – and, in typical Hollywood fashion, divorced.
The Oscar winner hilariously dismissed rumors about her romancing the Captain America star, telling Entertainment Tonight, "You guys are a little behind."
"We've since married and it started breaking apart, so we separated," joked the Gravity star. "We filed for divorce, and I hope everyone can respect our privacy. But we're going to remain friends and share responsibility of the farm animals we've taken on, because you just can't abandon the animals."
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Columbia, S.C. - Stetson came from behind early and then scored a run in the bottom of the ninth inning to defeat North Carolina State 8-7 Friday afternoon in the opening game of the 2011 NCAA Columbia, S.C. Regional. The Hatters are now 42-18 overall on the season and 1-0 in the double-elimination tournament. The Wolfpack fell to 34-26 overall and fall into the loser's bracket.
Mark Jones (Bunnell, Fla.) led a group of four Hatters who tallied two hits each in the game. Jones was 2-for-4 with four RBI and a run scored. Jeff Simpson (Valrico, Fla.), Robert Crews (Port Charlotte, Fla.), and Nick Rickles (Loxahatchee, Fla.) each had a pair of singles.
NC State jumped out to a 5-0 lead with a run in the top of the first inning and four more in the third. The Hatters had to overcome some early jitters after making a key error and allowing a catchable pop fly drop safely into short left field.
"Instead of being good news-bad news, today it was bad news-good news. We started off looking like the bad news bears dropping that pop up and misplaying the pickoff at first. Then we finished strong. I am proud of our guys for fighting back and picking up a big win today", said Stetson head coach Pete Dunn.
After holding the Wolfpack scoreless in the top of the fourth the Hatters began their charge in bottom half of the inning. Crews singled with one out and Rickles singled with two outs before Jones Stepped in and muscled an 0-1 fastball over the wall in left field for his 5th home run of the season.
After scoring three in the fourth Stetson took it one step further with four in the fifth. Ryan Lashley (Lake Worth, Fla.) led off with a sharp single to right and then Mitchel Brennan (Orlando, Fla.) tied the game at five with a high blast that landed on top of the right field wall and bounced over for his second home run of 2011. Simpson and crews followed with singles and then moved up on a double-steal. Rickles knocked in Simpson with a sacrifice fly and Jones plated Crews with a single through the left side of the infield.
Down by two, NC State tied the game in the top of the seventh after Tucker Donahue (Coral Springs, Fla.) surrendered a walk and a home run to the first two batters. Jake Boyd (West Palm Beach, Fla.) took over and tossed the final three innings allowing no runs and giving up just two hits. He did not walk a batter, struck out six and improved to 9-1 on the year. Lindsey Caughel (Orlando, Fla.) started for the Hatters and allowed five runs on nine hits over 3.1 innings.
The Wolfpack brought in closer Chris Overman (Charlotte, N.C.) to keep the game even in the bottom of the ninth. Stetson had other ideas. With one out Ben Carhart (Royal Palm Beach, Fla.) singled to right and then gave way to pinch runner Sean Emory (Miami, Fla.). With Stetson's leading hitter at the plate Emory advanced to second on a wild pitch. Rickles then roped a 3-2 pitch through the left side for a base hit. It looked like Emory would stop at third as the drawn in left fielder was quick to the play, yet the defender allowed the ball to get past him and Emory was waved home with the winning run.
Overman suffered the loss and fell to 6-3 after giving up one unearned run on two hits.
Stetson will now play the winner of tonight's game between No. 1 South Carolina and No. 4 Georgia Southern. The game is scheduled for 7:00 p.m. The loser's bracket game will be played earlier in the day at 1:00 p.m.


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For the third time this season, Stetson University senior forward Sasha Sims (Fayetteville, Ga.) has been named the Atlantic Sun Conference Player of the Week, the league announced on Monday.
Sims shot 70% from the floor and averaged 21.5 points per game to lead Stetson to a pair of home victories last week. On Thursday, she scored a game-high 24 points in the Hatters 78-64 win over USC Upstate. She was 7-for-11 from the floor and 9-of-11 from the free throw line.
Sims then registered 19 points, seven rebounds, and three assists in the Hatters 91-62 win over ETSU on Saturday. She was 7-for-9 from the field, including one three-pointer, and 4-for-5 from the free throw line. The victory was Stetson's ninth in a row at home.
For the season, Sims leads the team and ranks second in the conference with a scoring average of 18.5. She also ranks fourth in the league in field goal pct. (.519), seventh in free throw pct. (.806), and sixth in blocked shots (1.0).
Sims's 1399 career points scored ranks fifth in school history, and her 137 blocks is tied for the school record.
It is Stetson's fourth A-Sun Player of the Week honoree this season. Sims was also selected on Nov. 25 and Dec. 23, while Brianti Saunders was recognized on Dec. 9.
Winners of two straight and five out of six, Stetson (10-5, 2-1 A-Sun) will visit Mercer at 7 p.m. Thursday night.


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A hotbox is an air-tight room or vehicle that contains one or more pot-smokers smoking one or more joints. The exhaled smoke and the smoke coming from the joint, unable to escape, circulates and thus is breathed in and is not wasted. Smokers in a hotbox may find themselves totally fucked beyond the point of speech after about 30 minutes. Hotboxing is an event that requires some amount of planning, but ensures optimal weed usage.
Guy 1: "Dude, my parents are on hliday and we're gonna hotbox my bathroom!!"
Guy 2: "SWEEET!"
Guy 2: "SWEEET!"
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a sealed car with marijuana smoke in it; stay in a hot box to get more high
ey man, lets get messed up tonight, lets hot box your car!
by suj March 21, 2003
when u smoke in an enclosed area so that it holds all the smoke
shit all we have is one j....so lets just hot box in phipps car and get high off those fumes
by brad p. nigga May 06, 2005
When you smoke in an enclosed area(Car, SAUNA, Tent, small room) and the smoke stays in the area and you are contnuously breathing in smoke... the purpose is to FUCK YOU UP! Have fun.
Smoke a blunt with all the windows up!
by Mike Lancea August 29, 2005
smoking marijuana in a vehicle or room until it is filled with smoke.
we smoked a blunt in the S500, it was hotboxed in 5 minutes.
by lex February 13, 2003
To smoke out a closed area.
Lets hot box that bathroom dawg!
by Jeff May 27, 2003
Smoking cannabis/marijuana in smallish inclosed space causing the smoke to fill the room and be reinhaled.the room often starts to heat up during the procces.Often done more by high/college students then older smokers.
Although many belive hotboxing gets you more high this is untrue.The active ingrediant in marijuana is THC. When you inhale the THC is absorbed by the aveoli in the first 3-5 seconds. Some say they get more high in a hot box this is a plucibo effect.
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Readers chuckled when Victoria's Secret put model Kylie Bisutti in her place this week.
On Wednesday, Bisutti alleged that she "felt like a piece of meat" working for the company, and added that she had to "play down my marriage … because I was supposed to be flirting with everyone all the time."
The lingerie giant fired back at the winner of its first-ever national model search, telling PEOPLE, "She was never a Victoria's Secret 'Angel' as defined by the terms of our Angel model contract."
"And contrary to Ms. Bisutti's claims, she was never offered any subsequent modeling contracts or opportunities with Victoria's Secret despite her multiple appeals for further work. She has repeatedly fabricated her work experience with Victoria's Secret – including a relationship that simply did not exist."
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Victoria's Secret Vs. 'Model' Kylie Bisutti Was Readers' LOL of the Week
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The death toll from Ebola in West Africa has climbed to more than 3,338 in six months, with 7,178 cases confirmed as of September 28, 2014, according to the World Health Organization.
Join us as Adventists around the world pray seven days a week at 7 a.m. and 7 p.m. for this crisis as well as on the designated special day of prayer and fasting, October 11, 2014.
Please pray for:
On behalf of the leadership and membership of the Seventh-day Adventist Church in its 13 world divisions, and indeed the more than 18 million members in 215 countries, I would like to express my deep concern for the people in West Africa who are living under the threat of the Ebola virus—particularly in the countries of Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Senegal and Nigeria.
I am urgently imploring all Seventh-day Adventists around this globe to make Sabbath, October 11, 2014 a special Day of Prayer for our brothers and sisters in West Africa and for the entire population in that region as they face this virtually unprecedented tragedy. Let us pray that God will put a halt to the spread of this virulent virus.
Having had the wonderful privilege of living and serving in West Africa with my wife and family for nine years, our hearts go out to the families of the more than 2,800 people who have already died from the epidemic. After news from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control, which projects that by January cases could number between 550,000 to as high as 1.4 million, coupled with a 71 percent fatality rate according to the World Health Organization, we are devastated by the potential of this outbreak to destroy lives.
I especially want the Seventh-day Adventist Church worldwide and specifically the church members of the West-Central Africa Division to know that we who serve at the Church headquarters are praying for you, and we are joined by a global family of hope in God's power to save.
There are many initiatives that are taking place on the part of the Seventh-day Adventist Church and its entities to assist in this extremely challenging crisis in West Africa. You will see or hear about these through ANN, Adventist Review, Adventist World, Hope Channel, Adventist World Radio and elsewhere.
On Thursday, September 25, 2014, the Adventist Development and Relief Agency hosted a prayer event in the Atrium of the General Conference building and were joined by many others via Google Hangout.
On October 1, 2014, the General Conference Ministerial Association will launch a global prayer campaign for those impacted by the Ebola virus. People around the world are expressing their support via social media through the hashtag #UnitedinPrayer.
On October 11, during 2014 Annual Council, there will be a live connection between the many world leaders who will meet at the General Conference headquarters in Silver Spring, Maryland, and Pastor James Golay, the president of the West African Union in Monrovia, Liberia. He will be staying in Liberia with our church members to encourage and support them during this very traumatic time instead of attending the Annual Council but will be connected electronically with the meetings. He will share with the world leadership a first-hand report about the critical situation in his territory of Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia where we have 33,000 Seventh-day Adventists. After the report from Pastor Golay there will be a special prayer emphasis for those living facing this devastating situation.
Please remember the special Day of Prayer on Sabbath, October 11, 2014, for West Africa as the population confronts the rapidly expanding Ebola challenge.
In all of this we want those in West Africa to know that, not only during the Sabbath prayer emphasis, but day-by-day, hour-by-hour, the people affected by this crisis will be lifted up in prayer to our Creator, Savior and Master Physician. Let us earnestly pray for the latter rain of the Holy Spirit and the proclamation of the three angels' messages, which will point people to Christ's soon coming when illness, diseases, the Ebola virus, fear and death will be conquered through God's almighty power to save for eternity. Even so, come Lord Jesus!
With kind Christian regards and sincerely yours,
Ted N. C. Wilson
General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists
July 9-16, 2014, we joined together online, praying for one of the kidnapped girls each hour. Thank you for joining us once an hour as we lifted up each of these girls by name. As the many days pass since their kidnapping, continue to choose a few girls from the list below to continue praying for in your time with God.
|Gloria M.
|Kauna K.
|Deborah P.
|Aishatu G.
|Rhoda P.
|Deborah B.
|Laraba J.
|Rebecca K.
|Saratu M.
|Ladi I.
|Ruth J.
|Naomi Z.
|Lydia H.
|Mary Y
|Naomi A.
|Rifkatu Y.
|Yana P.
|Deborah G.
|Hauwa M.
|Ruth I.
|Rifkatu S.
|Awa B.
|Lydia S.
|Awa J.
|Jummal J.
|Saraya A.
|Rejoice M.
|Na'omi B.
|Hauwa A.
|Ladi P.
|Ruth B.
|Hauwa I.
|Lydia E.
|Mary A.
|Kauna L.
|Saraya L.
|Hanatu I.
|Hauwa T.
|Hauwa B.
|Esther A.
|Mary M.
|Luggwa N.
|Esther S.
|Hauwa P
|Ruth A.
|Margret S.
|Saratu E
|Rifkatu A.
|Esther J.
|Mairama Y.
|Ruth L.
|Hauwa W.
|Mary D.
|Yana B.
|Rejoice S.
|Saraya P.
|Tabitha P.
|Esther U.
|Magret Y.
|Rahila B.
|Mairama A.
|Deborah A.
|Mary S.
|Na'omi L.
|Ruth N.
|Naomi P.
|Saraya S.
|Luggwa S.
|Maryamu W.
|Ladi J.
|Hauwa Y.
|Maryamu L.
|Jummal P.
|Mary K.
|Asabe M.
|Mary U.
|Rhoda J.
|Hanatu M.
|Saraya Y.
|Laraba M.
|Rahila Y.
|Gloria D.
|Yana Y.
|Tabitha H.
|Asabe A.
|Hauwa L.
|Laraba P.
|Aisha L.
|Saraya M.
|Maryamu M.
|Rebecca M.
|Tabitha S.
|Awa A.
|Rifkatu G.
|Na'omi Y.
|Saratu D.
|Maryamu B
|Hauwa S.
|Deborah J.
|Aisha E.
|Deborah S.
|Deborah M.
|Mary P.
|Ruth K.
|Yana J.
|Aishatu M.
|Esther M.
|Hauwa K.
|Rebecca L.
|Ladi W.
|Margret W.
|Hauwa H.
|Saratu A.
|Hauwa N.
|Laraba Y.
|Hanatu N.
Rarely do we witness a story emerging in news reports that is so universally abhorrent as the world has witnessed in the mass kidnapping of over 270 girls from a school in northern Nigeria. When armed militants from a terrorist group rounded up the girls it was first under the pretense of moving them to safety. But according to accounts of some of the 53 girls who escaped, they were threatened with both forced marriage as well as being sold into slavery.
While millions around the world have been moved to march and to protest and to join in a social media campaign calling for the safe return of the girls there are several key reasons for Seventh-day Adventists to lend their prayerful efforts to their plight.
This kidnapping is a single event that infringes on several highly held values of Seventh-day Adventists including religious liberty, violence against women, education and human rights.
Since the establishment of the International Religious Liberty Association in 1893 Seventh-day Adventists have fought for religious liberty, believing that every human being has the right to practice their religious belief or even to choose not to believe. It has never been a matter of whether the belief aligns with our own it has simply been the assertion that people must be free to practice and to choose their own faith.
The apparent forced conversion of these kidnapped girls from Christianity to Islam not only violates our principles of religious liberty, but also that of Muslims around the world.
In 2009 the Seventh-day Adventist Church launched the enditnow campaign to end violence against women and girls. The idea was to raise awareness of the fact that violence against women is an issue not only in the community, but also in the church. All were called to see this as unacceptable. The campaign raised nearly five hundred thousand signatures around the world in the process.
Every signature registered in the enditnow campaign can now become a voice calling for the freedom of the stolen girls.
Education is a value that the Seventh-day Adventist Church lives and demonstrates every day. With more than 1.5 million students in its 7,600 schools in over 100 countries around the world the Adventist church has demonstrated that the education of boys and girls alike is a matter of utmost importance.
For the Seventh-day Adventist the view on human rights flows from a belief that men and women alike were created in the image of God and because of this every human being must be treated with the dignity and respect that God's image deserves. God created humanity with the freedom choose. God takes this freedom so seriously that it extends to the ability to reject God himself, if we so choose. Whenever human freedom is treated with so little regard and human life with so much disdain we should all be moved.
As a church that has come to value religious liberty, education, human rights and that has encouraged awareness of the problem of violence against women, and has demonstrated these values in tangible ways we, we now issue a call to prayer.
Although none of the girls are a member of our faith community, they are still our sisters and our daughters. Whether we live near the West African country of Nigeria or on the other side of the planet, their families are our neighbors.
You are invited to join us in a campaign of prayer for the freedom of the kidnapped girls of Nigeria.
Seventh-day Adventist beliefs are meant to permeate your whole life. Growing out of scriptures that paint a compelling portrait of God, you are invited to explore, experience and know the One who desires to make us whole.


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Raised by the Breed, Nicholas Roman wants to stop the Eternal Order of Vampires from controlling his life, and using other males from his bloodline-including possibly his son-for their vicious reign. Only a beautiful vampire stranger can help him. But what are her true motives?
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(Note: There are no right or wrong answers in this open-ended quiz)
1. Which Mark of the Vampire paven are you most loyal to?
a. Alexander
b. Nicholas
c. Lucian
d. Gray
e. I haven't met him yet
2. Where would you like your favorite paven to bite you?
a. Neck
b. Wrist
c. Inner thigh
d. Below the breast
e. If I tell you I'd have to kill you
3. Where would your favorite paven flash with you?
a. Deserted sandy beach where we could be alone
b. Top of the Empire State building
c. In his bed in the Soho house
d. The lighthouse in Montauk
e. His home credenti. I want to see how he grew up.
4. If you were able to become a Pureblood veana, what food would you miss the most?
a. Pizza
b. Cupcakes
c. Chips
d. Salad
e. Nothing. My paven's blood is all I would ever want and need
5. Which veana are you most like?
a. Sara
b. Bronwyn
c. Dillon
6. If you came from/grew up in a credenti, where would it be?
a. New York City
b. New Orleans
c. France
d. Africa
e. Greece
7. If you could name a Mark of the Vampire book, what title would you choose?
a. Eternal Blood
b. Eternal Savage
c. Eternal Man Candy
d. Eternal Beast
e. Eternal Desire
8. Your True Mate is coming for you! He'd better have…
a. Flowers and candy
b. A trip planned to my favorite exotic destination
c. Bubble bath, candles and wine
d. His fangs ready and his pants off
Dear Reader Letter
Dear Reader, Friend, and Fellow Lover of Romance,
It's April, the beginning of Spring! Time for renewal and rebirth—the perfect time for Nicky's story to be told, and I'm so excited to share it with you.
First of all, I want to welcome you back to the "Mark of the Vampire" series. Since October when Eternal Hunger was published, I've heard from so many of you who enjoyed Alexander and Sara's story. You have no idea how wonderful it is to connect with you, hear your thoughts about Alexander and Sara, and your hopes for what's to come. My hope is that you continue on this journey with me, into the lives and loves of the Sons and Daughters of the Breeding Male. I promise it'll be one hell of a ride. : )
As many of you know, Nicholas's book, Eternal Kiss comes out this month, but the thing you may not know is that his story was quite a surprise to me. When I first wrote Nicky in Eternal Hunger I knew of his past in France, what he was forced to do as a balas (vampire child)—and I knew his current mistakes. But I had no idea they would haunt him as deeply as they do in Eternal Kiss. He is truly brought to his knees with grief and shame, and that horrible feeling of dread one gets when the world of lies they've created comes crashing down all around them. But of course, I wouldn't leave him in the sun alone to burn. There is someone out there who has the potential to save him, while also possibly being saved herself.
Eternal Kiss is a dark story. It really is. But it had to be to tell Nicky's story with truth and heart—and honestly, without the dark, how would we ever know to go searching for the light?
I truly hope you enjoy Eternal Kiss. Please let me know what you think by shooting me an email or stopping by my wild and wonderful, Facebook Author page!
Happy Reading,
P.S. For all those who requested it, Eternal Kiss will contain a glossary! : )


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on March 12, 2013 - 10:45 PM
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The Buffalo Bills are every bit as troubled by their quarterback situation as all of their fans are, and their general manager needs to be more careful about checking cellphone numbers when he's returning calls.
Those were the main take-aways from a series of prank calls that resulted in a recording made Friday of a phone conversation between Buffalo Bills general manager Buddy Nix and his counterpart in Tampa, Mark Dominik.
The recording was released Tuesday on the website Deadspin, which reported it had been obtained from two 20-year-olds who duped Nix into calling their cellphone.
The six-minute conversation foreshadowed the Bills' release Tuesday of quarterback Ryan Fitzpatrick, who was cut loose after refusing to accept a pay cut the Bills offered.
Said Nix to Dominik: "We're still struggling here with our quarterback. I say struggling. We're not really struggling. He's going to have to do something, or we'll have to."
Added Nix: "You can't afford to pay that kind of money to a guy that's fighting for probably a backup job."
And then Nix ended with this assessment of his quarterback situation: "We gotta get one somehow. Bad time to need it."
The crop of available unrestricted free agent quarterbacks is slim, and it's a below-average year for quarterbacks coming out of the college ranks. There wasn't much else of note revealed in the conversation.
How did two pranksters listen in on a conversation between two top NFL executives shortly before the start of the league's free-agency season? It took some phenomenal timing.
Here's the website's retelling of the story: The young pranksters initially called Nix's office claiming to be Dominik, and when the call was patched through, they hung up. Nix kept calling back the pranksters' cellphone, thinking it was Dominik's line. So the pranksters plotted to set the two GM's off on a game of phone tag.
Eventually Nix called back precisely when the pranksters were calling Dominik's office and were being sent through to his line. The pranksters put the two calls on speaker phone, recorded them with another cellphone and listened.
The Bills released a statement on the call: "We are aware of the report on Deadspin involving a phone conversation with Bills GM Buddy Nix. We have made the league aware of the report and are reviewing it with legal counsel."
The unidentified pranksters – Deadspin did not divulge their names or location – could be in for trouble with the law in New York and Florida.
In New York, the consent of at least one party to any telephone communication is required in order to record it. In Florida, it is illegal to tape or overhear a telephone conversation without the consent of all parties to the conversation.
"These kids shouldn't be doing any sack dances just yet," said Buffalo trial attorney Terry Connors.
"It's going to be subject to analysis, but there very well may be a number of state or federal statutes that have been violated, and it will be up to the various prosecutors to determine if there will be charges."
Illegally recording an electronic communication is a felony in New York. In Florida it's a felony punishable by up to five years in prison and $5,000 in fines, unless the interception is a first offense committed without any illegal purpose and not for commercial gain. In those circumstances, such an infraction is a misdemeanor punishable by up to a year in jail and fines of up to $1,000.
"If they can show the crime was committed in that state , it's an easier standard for the prosecution to prove," Connors said of Florida. "If I were their lawyer, I would tell them not to do any interviews and keep their mouths shut. I would lay low and hope that people let this pass by without any further activity."
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a really retarded show made by one of the best (most talented) skaters of our time or maybe ever. Ryan sheckler:The new Tony Hawk. He just happened to make a really stupid publicity move, and start up his own reality show, which made all the 12 year old girls scream, and now his fan base consists of, mostly goddigging whores, and not true hardcore, from the beginning fans because they have all been shoved out of the way because of his stupid golddigging bitches.
thanks for your time.
thanks for your time.
life of ryan is definately not as rad as i thought it would be...m :(
see: selling out
see: disapointment
see: selling out
see: disapointment
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2012 REI Annual Update
Contact: , 308-697-3486;
The new beef checkoff-funded 2012 REI Annual Update is now available. This year, the format has changed to a timeline layout and provides an in-depth look at long-term checkoff initiatives, one from each program area.
The Beef Checkoff Program was established as part of the 1985 Farm Bill. The checkoff assesses $1 per head on the sale of live domestic and imported cattle, in addition to a comparable assessment on imported beef and beef products. States retain up to 50 cents on the dollar and forward the other 50 cents per head to the Cattlemen's Beef Promotion and Research Board, which administers the national checkoff program, subject to USDA approval.


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Deborah L. Acklin
President and Chief Executive Officer, WQED Multimedia
Deborah Acklin is president and chief executive officer of WQED Multimedia, the nation's first community-owned public media company, also known worldwide as "Mister Rogers' station".
Ms. Acklin has served in multiple executive roles in public broadcasting, the cable television industry, and commercial broadcasting. At WQED Multimedia, she manages or has managed the operations, strategies, and fundraising to create original multi-platform content distributed across three television channels, three radio signals, an interactive Web-based learning channel, an interactive global media distribution portal, an education department, a publishing division, and PBS, NPR and their member stations.
Her tenure includes many achievements, including two consecutive Mid-Atlantic Emmy Awards for Station Excellence, given by the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences to a general manager of a commercial or public television station in Pennsylvania, Delaware, West Virginia and New Jersey. She also helped launch the first public television channel in Bermuda (CTV).
Ms. Acklin's own work has been honored with many awards including: a national Emmy award nomination for a documentary about the legendary Mister Rogers; seven Emmy awards (Mid-Atlantic); a CINE Golden Eagle; The Gabriel Award from the Catholic Communicators Conference; the Pearl Award from the descendants of the Warner Brothers; a film award from the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR); Associated Press honors for Best Newscast; the YWCA Tribute to Women Award in Arts and Culture; and an Outstanding Women in Science Award from the Women & Girls' Foundation.
Ms. Acklin is a sought-after speaker and frequent guest on radio and television programs, including Charlie Rose. She is active in the community on a variety of board and advisory boards including: The Pittsburgh Cultural Trust; The Three Rivers Arts Festival; Carlow University; The Steeltown Entertainment Project; The Winchester-Thurston School; and The University of Pittsburgh Institute of Politics. She holds a B.A. from Duquesne University and attended Harvard Business School where she completed the prestigious Advanced Management Program.
Darryl Ford Williams
Vice President of Content, WQED Multimedia
Darryl Ford Williams is the Vice President of Content for WQED Multimedia responsible for television, radio, interactive & education. She oversees the creation, development, production and delivery of all new and existing local, national, international and syndicated programming on all media platforms for WQED.
Prior to her arrival at WQED in December of 2004, she was the sole proprietor of the 15-year-old Ford-Williams Agency. Based in Pittsburgh, which was one of the first companies in the nation to focus on minority recruiting for major market television stations. She was also a sought-after speaker on issues related to minorities in the broadcast industry.
She has extensive background as a television news producer and news manager including responsibilities as managing site producer for CBS News in its coverage of September 11 at the Pennsylvania crash site of United Flight 93; coordinating producer for ABCTV's Good Morning America; executive producer at WJLA-TV in Washington, DC; and news producer at WBAL-TV in Baltimore and KDKA-TV in Pittsburgh.
In addition to her broadcast career, Ms. Ford Williams developed, wrote, produced and directed media campaigns and visual communications for business, political, educational and philanthropic entities and was a noted production management consultant to broadcast groups and television network affiliates across the nation.
Ms. Ford Williams' work was recognized with many awards throughout her career, including Emmy® Awards for The Combat Zone, produced for WJLA-TV in Washington, DC, WQED's "On Q Special Report: RX for a Healthier Community" and numerous Emmy nominations. She has been honored by the Easter Seals Society, International Association of Business Communicators, and the Pennsylvania Association of Broadcasters.
Active in the community, she has served on such boards and committees as the Mayor's Commission on Families; Urban Youth Action; the Pittsburgh Film Office; Pittsburgh Ballet Theater; Shady Side Academy; Program to Aid Citizen Enterprise, ASSET, Inc and she serves as an External Advisor to the University of Pittsburgh Clinical and Translational Science Institute. She is a member of the African American Chamber of Commerce of Western Pennsylvania; and the Pittsburgh chapters of Links, Inc. & Northeasterners. She is a graduate of Boston College with a BA/BS in Speech Arts.
Lilli Mosco
Vice President of Development and Membership, WQED Multimedia
Lilli Mosco is Vice President of Development and Membership at WQED Multimedia, a position she has held since January 2000. She is responsible for WQED's Membership Department; Development Department, which includes major, mid-level and planned giving, and the Foundations and Government Grants Department.
Under Ms. Mosco's tenure, WQED instituted a series of affinity clubs, including the WQED History Club, WQED Cooks Club, and WQED Presents Club.
She also instituted The Producer's Society, one of the system's first mid-level giving programs to provide personalized service to mid-level donors and to bridge the gap between transactional and philanthropic giving.
The start of her career at WQED began in 1990 and she left in 1995 to become Manager of Individual Gifts for Magee Womens Hospital Health Foundation, and returned to WQED in 1997 to become Director of Development. Prior to WQED, she worked for the City of Pittsburgh in labor relations.
Ms. Mosco has been a presenter on various fundraising topics at several PBS Development Conferences and has served on the PBS Development Advisory Committee.
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I think Kindl is simply nothing special. He's not notably good on either side of the ice. He shows occasional flashes of offensive brilliance, but he also shows spots of defensive ineptitude. He's large, but he doesn't use his size to his advantage.
I hope he'll develop further, but I'm not confident he'll do so.
Ericsson gets ragged on for poor play because he has the raw physical tools and (in flashes) the talent to be a bonified top 4 NHL defenseman. Kindl gets ragged on because he doesnt posses the skillset physically or technically as Ericsson and is smaller, a poor skater, less physical, and cant fight (something E gets no credit for despite being pretty decent at).
I'd like to see Kindl as part of a Jbo trade then sign a 7th dman off the scrap heap who has some size and grit to their game.


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Boston, MA – WCVB-TV Channel 5, The Stop & Shop Supermarket Company LLC, and Unilever are joining forces on Friday, September 21, to encourage Bay Staters to Stuff-A-Truck with canned goods and other non-perishables for The Greater Boston Food Bank (GBFB).
Throughout Friday, NewsCenter 5 will share stories about the increased need for emergency food assistance in our area and will air live shots from one of the collection site during the EyeOpener, Midday and early evening newscasts. Chronicle, WCVB's award-winning, nightly newsmagazine that airs at 7:30PM, will explore the changing face of hunger and show how for many Massachusetts residents just getting one good meal a day is a struggle.
Boston's newest radio station 101.7 The Harbor will broadcast from the Revere location 10AM to 12PM, followed by KISS 108's Romeo and street team from 12PM to 2PM.
During the Stuff-A-Truck event, people are encouraged to bring donations to one of the two participating Stop & Shop locations listed below. Look for the Stop & Shop big-rig with the Stuff-A-Truck banner on the back. Donations will be accepted from 5AM to 8PM on Friday at the Dedham location, and 10AM-2PM in Revere.
Stuff-A-Truck locations:
Stop & Shop
160 Providence Highway
Dedham, MA 02026
Stop & Shop
40 Furlong Drive
Revere, MA 02151
"Stop & Shop is proud to be a part of this collaborative effort to make a real difference in hunger," said Joe Kelley, president, Stop & Shop New England Division. "We, along with our partners, want to end hunger - year round and especially during the holiday season where it can be the hardest for many people. We greatly appreciate our customers and associates who help with this effort. Everyone can feel good that each donation will directly help someone right here in our community."
"Channel 5 is pleased to partner with the GBFB and Stop & Shop to not only call attention to the disturbing increase in the number of hungry adults and children in our community but also to raise funds and collect food to meet the immediate needs of our neighbors." said WCVB's President and General Manager Bill Fine.
"We appreciate the generosity of WCVB, Stop & Shop and Unilever in creating this Stuff-A-Truck event," said Catherine D'Amato, GBFB President and CEO. "Families that are struggling in this difficult economy will have something to eat because of their compassion, and the compassion of WCVB viewers and Stop & Shop customers. We thank everyone who participates and plays a role in ending hunger here in our community."
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NL Central Smackdown: 1st Basemen
I was going to try and get this up before the season started, but that clearly didn't happen for a variety of reasons. But that's no excuse to let the work go to waste. Basically I thought it would be fun to go through each position player in the division and the starting pitchers and see how we rank them. Who's the best now? Who will be the best over the next 3 years? I'll be using Baseball Prospectus's WARP-3 numbers for the most part, which includes both offense and defense and most importantly for this exercise, projections for the next three years. Once we get through the eight positions and the starting pitchers, I'll finish it off with a Bill Simmons inspired (ripped off) trade value chart.
Here are the ground rules. We're trying to figure out who you'd rather have on your team. Do your best to take your Cubs bias out of the equation if possible (that shouldn't be hard for some of you). But we're also trying to figure out who has the best players on the their team right now, so I'm going to use the players projected to get the most playing time this year. Sure, Jay Bruce will eventually take over center field duties in Cincinnati, but who knows when. The chart after the jump includes their 3-year WARP-3 averages (2005-2007) and their projected 2008-2010 averages.The final column, appropriately labeled "Rob's Rankings", are simply how I ranked them before looking at any stats. For the most part I was pretty close to what the numbers bear out. I should also note that I did my rankings before the season started.
We'll start off with the toughest and most talented position, the first basemen. Your gladiators after the jump....
|3-Year Warp-3 Average
|3 Year Warp-3 Projection
|Rob's Ranking
|Derrek Lee
|Prince Fielder
|5.62 (2 Years)
|Albert Pujols
|Lance Berkman
|Joey Votto
|Adam LaRoche
The Justification: I almost feel bad about ranking Lee fourth on the list with his hot start. Pujols at the one spot is a no-brainer, the best hitter in the game and his defense is vastly underrated. The 2-4 spots were then essentially coin flips. Berkman's about 6 months younger than Lee which doesn't mean much, but he can play a more than passable right field when needed. And personally, I just think he's a little better hitter. Lee certainly gets the edge on Fielder with the glove, but with Fielder just about to turn 24, I think most GM's would trade Fielder for Lee right now. Joey Votto is well on his way to making a name for himself, but he's still too much of a risk at this point. Adam Laroche fits right in with Pittsburgh and their long tradition of sucking ass.
I've put up a ranking poll and I hope all take a moment to put in their votes. What I'll do is add up everything once we get through all the positons and try to get a composite of who's the best team. I'm not exactly sure how I'll do the pitching. It would be pretty hard to rank 30 pitchers and then the bullpens. I might just do the bullpens as units or the whole staff and I'm open to suggestions.
You may be asking, am I ranking the best players for this year or for the next few years? Well that's a question that GM's face every day. Where's the line and where's the trade-off? So choose wisely...
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Very impressive list of talent -- Pujols, Lee, Berkman and Prince, plus the up-and-coming Votto. After Phat Abert, as you said, it's shades of grey and a matter of taste -- Lee for defense and speed, Berkman as a pure hitter, Fielder for youth and power.
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I'll cry out in response to Lee at 4th. I can see having him 2nd behind Albert Pujols, especially if you are unconcerned by Pujols's elbow issues and don't share my belief that some day his hamstrings will explode in a gory mess. But putting him behind Berkman and Fielder is, I think, unfair. I think you haven't properly accounted for the value of a phenomenal defensive first basemen. Lee is by far the best first baseman in the game today, may be the best I've ever seen, and he makes the rest of our infield defense look great. Lee saves runs, and as underrated as Albert may be defensively, Lee blows Pujols out of the water. I don't even want to talk about Fielder's defense. Berkman is okay with the glove, but not significantly better with the bat, so he ranks behind Lee too.
I myself ranked Lee 1st and Pujols 2nd, but I personally see it as a tie in which Pujols clearly wins with the bat and Lee clearly wins with the glove. Pujols would certainly win that contest if it weren't for my own concerns about his health.
PS. Anyone else see the note on RotoWorld that the Giants are considering shifting Zito to the bullpen? That made me laugh out loud. What a horrible direction that organization is headed.
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My completely non-expert and very biased opinion is that those defensive stats are very limited. I think defense is even harder to measure than offense and at some point you have to just trust your eye, even if your eye is not exactly professional. I see that you are ranking them according to their stats, but I see Lee's defense as a little bit intangible, or at least difficult to measure, and my eye tells me he's far better than Pujols, and the two of them are both better than rest of their competition. But, the way I'm looking at it, it's just a matter of opinion at that point.
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I can't say I expect Derrek to hit .335 with 40+ homers again, but another year of OBP near or above .400 and 35+ HRs seems possible. Meanwhile, I imagine that Pujols could see his production drop off if he starts to accumulate injuries. That elbow is going to need surgery at some point, and I see that as a major concern either this year or next.
My own unsupported opinion that Pujols will turn out more prone to injury than Lee helps level the playing field, if you believe it. Honestly though, if we're talking the next five years, I take Pujols. If we're talking the next two, I'm worried about that elbow. Who can predict which will be more durable over the next 8-10, except to point out that Lee is older?
Regardless of injury, I still think Lee's defense puts him ahead of Berkman and Fielder. I suspect, however, that Fielder is going to improve as a hitter, unless he lets his weight get (more) out of control. I also think he'll be best suited to DH shortly.
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Prince Fielder is a great player with a bright future but is not a complete hitter, yet. Lee, right now is a much better baseball player.
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I agree with Lee/Berkman/Fielder being fairly even, though I'd put Lee at #2 just because he's the most complete ballplayer. And for all the points Fielder gets for his youth, he should definitely lose some for his physical conditioning. He may be shaving productive years off his career with every mayonnaise-drenched Boca burger he inhales.
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Whoa - "sure-thing HOFer"??? IF he maintains his current production level for a few more years then yes he'll get in. But he's at just 864 runs, 881 RBI, and 287 HR. People would have said the same thing about Albert Belle when he was averaging 37 HR and 120 RBI for 10 years, but then he gets degenerative osteoarthritis in his hip and is done for good. You just never know. Is Pujols a likley Hall of Famer, sure, but if he retired today would he be in - no way.
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Just consider all the position changes he's already made and handled quite well.
This doesn't support your argument. Switching to easier defensive positions should not be a problem for MLB players. A successful position change, in and of itself, does not indicate defensive prowess. A successful position change to a more difficult position does. Let's remember we're talking about 1st basemen.
That all said, Pujols is head and shoulders above any other 1st baseman in this division. Ranking him lower than Lee is silly. Pujols is a great defensive 1st baseman as well.
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Probably get flamed for this, but
Yeah, that's right.
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Ha, I just saw Rob ranked LaRoche last.
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You know, in hindsight, I think I'd rather have Fielder than LaRoche... flip those two.
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Yeah, the more I think about it...
Hey Rob G.... any way you can just delete an entire thread? Or change the author name to 'Silent Towel'?
Just wondering.
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Sounds like lots of yall are drinking the DLee Cubs-Drank
Scott Hatteberg
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No way on fielder. He isn't a complete hitter. He maybe. But let's see him .320. I don't think he will. Also, no speed, so walking him is not nearly the penalty it is for Lee who can score on a double. And Lee plays far better defense.
Puljos by far then Lee.
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fielder hit 320lbs. sometime after thanksgiving/xmas i believe.
he's way too young to look like an old man. he's barely the player he was 2 years ago as his massive rock of a body is slowly turning into a massive flab of body.
his arms are even starting to get a little jelly and watching him cover 1st is just painful.
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So you would be happy if the Cubs traded D Lee for Berkman? I'm going to call BS on that. :)
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my sentiments exactly. Berkman handled Cf competently only a couple of years ago. He is a year younger and hits from the left side. I think Lou makes the DLee/Berkman trade today if it were offered. Lou makes a DLee/Fielder trade Yesterday if he had the opportunity.
aaron b - (no Murton?)
must be disappointed Matt Murton wasn't represented. Can't he be added?
Anyway, Scott Hatteberg is not a starter. Berkman is past his prime, fortunately for us. Pujols will most likely be a 1st ballot HOF. World Series ring, and the HR off Lidge, in addition to his consistent MVP-type numbers. Book it.
Re: aaron b - (no Murton?)
Not sure "5-6 months younger" really gives Berkman much of an edge in youth. Seems to be splitting hairs a bit.
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Kind of a Dickhead jab at me there E-Man. I put Hatteberg in there as the next guy I would take in the division. Berkman's ability to play a competent OF and Fielders 50 HR power and youth give those guys the edge. Obviously JMHO.
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A Dickhead jab? Are you a little sensitive, Dr.?
You can take a little needling, now and then right? Or, as another poster stated previously, unless you are related to Orange Guy?
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No Dickhead jab intended, Dr.
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No offense taken E-man. I probably overreacted.
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F U both. And you too, Rob. I reject and denounce all of you.
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I refuse to stoop to your level. Shame on you for asking. You have sullied this board with your question. Yes.
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I don't think you can do the "trade today" as a measure of players current potential, at least not when comparing Fielder to the rest of the field. Fielder is going to be relatively cheap and under control for a few more years, that means he will be a better value than Lee or Berkman, it doesn't mean he is the better player. If I was looking at building a franchise for the next 5-10 years, I'd want Fielder, if money isn't an object, and I want the most complete player for this year, then I'd pick Pujols, Lee, Berkman, then Fielder.
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I voted
Prince (I might have switched those two, I don't remember)
Pujols is a force. The only possible drawback on him is the elbow, which I really do see as a ticking time bomb, which, admittedly should have sidelined him for far longer than it has at this point.
But it does hamper my prospective argument for Lee, that all the statistics here are weighed down heavily by the hand injury that hampered his 2006 & 7 seasons. If you look at what Lee had done before Furcal, and now, when medically, he should be fully recovered, and it's hard not to consider him a better player than the numbers reflect.
But Pujols has the elbow, Berkman has the legs, and Fielder has his fat ass. The catch there is Lee's ailment is somewhat less likely to continue to be a problem moving forward. At least that's what my limited knowledge of sports medicine leads me to believe.
If Votto doesn't turn out to be a long-term stud, I have a hunch that he can still be counted on to be a long-term Cub killer.
LaRoche is capable of getting insanely hot for periods, but he's really not even in a class with the rest of these guys.
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But Pujols has the elbow, Berkman has the legs, and Fielder has his fat ass.
Nominated for comment of the day.
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I don't know about you but after reading that post, I got wood.
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Oh, and Rob, why don't you just admit the real reason we need to register to vote on TCR. It's so we can be called for TCR jury duty.
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That was before I read the post where Rob wanted actual opinions and I voted out of love and spite. For accuracy sake...flip Pujols and Berkman.
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Soler likely to return Sunday, Maddon says
Right now, I'd like to see the Mets first, Giants 2nd.
I believe that since most of the team from last years' NLCS is on the squad this year, they will really amp their game up even more to kick their ass in payback for 2015.
The Giants just do not have the depth in years past, and I think all things equal - and at Wrigley - they could handle them.
I do not want to see the Cards, period. Or their fans, media, or Joe Buck.
I don't want to play Braves in the first round. Any friggin team in the league can win 3 of 5..I hate the first round. Furthermore, I wanted to play the Marlins in 2003 and the Mets over Dodgers last year.
With that said in reverse order:
3. Cardinals: It will be devastating to lose in the first round, but even worse to their main rival. It is increased incentive for the Cardinals, especially after last year. Cards would have nothing to lose, Cubs have everything to lose.
2. Giants: Rotation in the playoffs scare me a bit, but what a lousy team.
1. Mets--because of the losses in the rotation
2. Giants--because they're not the team they were BUT they maybe have bullshit even-year magic?
3. Cardinals--because rivalry and not making the playoffs hurts them more than losing in the NLDS plus getting eliminated by them in the playoffs would make for horrible sports commentary next throughout next season.
Who's asking?
CLE/DET rained out last night already, possible rain-outs in New York (vs. Baltimore), Boston(vs. Toronto) and Philly(vs. Mets) this weekend too.
Not only games involving playoff spots that would need to be played, but any that involve home field advantage.
I got the first one! Second one I'm not even sure what even/odd betting is.
any opponent preference for NLDS?
Mets are down to 1 great pitcher instead of 4. Syndegaard may pitch Sunday which means if Mets win the WC game, he'd be set up for Game 1. There's a chance they clinch a spot by Sunday so he'd pitch the WC and then we'd probably get Colon for Game 1. They've certainly had the hottest bats over the last week and month out of the WC options.
A couple of Cub related puzzles.
Can't teach height and thinness
Hopefully Pirates don't call up A. Lincoln.
j.buchanan going friday...should be...baseball...or something like it.
Wow. I didn't know they could do that.
Nice for Willson, not so much for Addy.
Game is officially called...also officially a tie.
Stats count, no make-up date of course.
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As mentioned in my last post, we made a quick dash through La Parguera while checking out the area around Guánica. La Parguera is most famous for its bioluminescent bays, followed by its seafood. Our plans precluded sticking around until after sunset so we gathered contact info for later.
You can reach La Parguera from Lajas via Hwy 116, then take Hwy 304 on into town. Hwy 324 would take you from La Parguera to Guánica which is how we got there.
La Parguera is actually a sector of Lajas and falls within it's jurisdiction (Fixed/thanx Sdog). It even has its own police station and Post Office. The bay is part of the La Parguera Nature Reserve established in 1979.
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FINDLAY The recipe for a softball victory doesn't often include just two hits.
But mix in five walks and six errors by the opponent and makes it a little more palatable.
Add into it a heavy dose of Taylor Kirian and you have the makings of a celebration.
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New Riegel used that combination to taste a Division IV district final victory against Mohawk, 5-2.
"It's a great win. Any time you beat a team like Mohawk, who is always so well coached, it's a great feeling and a great win. I knew our girls could do it," New Riegel coach Jamie Lininger said. "I reminded them after the last game we played Mohawk that just because they have Mohawk on their shirts doesn't mean they're any different than us."
The win moves New Riegel (22-7) on to the regional semifinals on Wednesday, back at Findlay High School, where it will face Rockford Parkway.
While Kirian (20-7) scattered five hits and a walk while striking out three, what she'll be remembered for in the game is setting the Ohio High School Athletic Association single season record for home runs. The junior slugger smoked a 2-0 pitch over the left center fence to open the fifth inning and give New Riegel its final margin of the game. It was her 18th homer of the season, snapping the record set in 2010 by Buckeye Central's Melissa Hoffbauer.
"It definitely feels great to do it in a game like this but every hit counts," Kirian said. "I think this year I have more confidence, I'm a year older and when you have a great team behind you, you don't feel as much pressure so it's easier to hit them."
Her coach said she's a special athlete and is unsure why she's not garnering more attention at the collegiate level.
"I was so happy for her. She's such a good kid and a great talent," Lininger said. "I still can't believe that every Division I school around the country isn't knocking on the door right now."
Mohawk coach Jenny Weinandy said Kirian is a rare talent.
"She's always been a great hitter. She's done a great job on the mound and offensively. That's nice to have on a team, when you have a pitcher that can pitch and hit (like that)," Weinandy said. "You don't come across those pitcher-hitter combinations very much."
While Mohawk pitcher Julie Adelsperger was dealing in the game, the defense was reeling behind her.
Three errors in the third and a passed ball allowed the Blue Jackets to go from down one to up 4-1 without so much as a hit.
"No I can't (explain the defense). I think we're strong defensively. I honestly don't have words (for it)," Weinandy said. "It was just one of those games. One or two errors, that's fine. We talk about adversity and how you're going to handle those things but we never could come back from that."
The lone hits in the game for New Riegel came off the bat of Kirian and a double by Lauren Zoeller in the sixth.
Lininger said the errors were unusual to see from Mohawk.
"You don't see that very often out of them. I told the girls if we could limit our strikeouts, keep it around six or seven and just put the ball in play and we'd have a chance to win," Lininger said.
Mohawk (23-5) threatened in the bottom of the fourth. MacKenzie Sowers singled and Hannah Kieffer reached on an error. After the second out, Allison Price singled to center, scoring Sowers. Kieffer tried to follow suit and was thrown out in a close play at the plate.
Clara Adelsperger, Kieffer and Cambria Kohlenberg had Mohawk's other hits. Adelsperger's hit in the first inning drove in Kohlenberg to start off the scoring.
"I thought we started out really good that first inning," Weinandy said. "I knew New Riegel had a good hitting team and they hit and we couldn't get our hits going."
For Kirian, it was so much more than hitting a record-setting home run. It was about beating the Warriors.
"I've never beat (Julie Adelsperger) before. I've never beaten Mohawk before in high school so if feels great to finally beat them," she said.
Lininger said his team in the 10 years he's been at the helm has only beaten Mohawk once in the regular season but is undefeated against them in the tournament, going 3-0. The last win came in 2010 when New Riegel went all the way to the state tourney.
"I told them before the game that I've never lost a district final and I didn't plan on starting today," Lininger said.


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Serves 2 |
Prep Time 5 minutes |
Cook Time 0 minutes
1/2 cup orange juice
2 cups peaches, fresh or frozen
2 cup Edensoy Extra Vanillaor Edensoy Vanilla
1 tsp organic maple syrup
1 cup crushed ice
Place all ingredients in a blender and pulse several seconds. Place in glasses and serve.
American, Beverages, Breakfast, Edensoy, Good/High Protein, Low Fat, Low Sodium, Macrobiotic, Vegan


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