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Serves 10 |
Prep Time 20 minutes |
Cook Time 45 minutes
2 cups organic whole wheat pastry flour
1 tsp baking soda
1 tsp non-aluminum baking powder
1/2 tsp Eden Sea Salt
1 cup Edensoy Originalor Edensoy Vanilla
1 tsp Eden Apple Cider Vinegar
1/4 cup Eden Barley Malt Syrup
1/4 cup organic maple syrup
2 Tbsp Eden Safflower Oil
1 tsp pure vanilla extract
1 cup fresh cranberriesor Eden Dried Cranberries
1 cup walnuts, lightly pan roasted and chopped
1 Tbsp orange peel, grated
1/2 cup Edensoy Vanilla
2 Tbsp organic maple syrup
1 Tbsp Eden Kuzu Root Starch, dissolved in 1/3 cup cold water
Preheat oven to 350°. Lightly sift the flour and combine with baking soda, baking powder and sea salt. In a separate bowl combine the Edensoy, vinegar, syrups, oil and vanilla. Whisk to mix thoroughly. Let sit 1 to 2 minutes. Combine dry and wet ingredients. Fold in the cranberries, walnuts and orange peel. Pour into an oiled 9" or 10" cake pan. Bake 40 minutes. Prepare the icing.
Heat Edensoy, syrup and dissolved kuzu for the icing, stirring constantly until the mixture becomes thick and shiny, about 3 to 5 minutes. Allow the icing and the cake to cool. Spread the icing over the cake and garnish with roasted nuts.
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Building a brand is about bringing to life a personality that connects with your customers. Creating your visual identity, will make sure you say all the right things in just the right way - as well as looking pretty good.
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on January 10, 2013 - 12:01 AM
Amherst Councilman Mark Manna's seemingly new-found passion to "let the people decide" has resulted in a couple of wrong-headed turns on the subject of downsizing and, more recently, upsizing the Town Board.
The board downsized from seven members to six in 2011 – five council members and the supervisor – and is scheduled to go to five members in January 2014. The "people" spoke in 2010 when they overwhelmingly voted to downsize to five board members.
Manna, a longtime staunch opponent of downsizing, the other day decided going down to a three-member board was "inevitable" and pledged to put forth a resolution saying as much. But then he changed his mind on the number, deciding that perhaps keeping the board at six is better.
The short response is, no, it's not. But neither is whittling the number from six to just three members in a city-size town. Six doesn't work well because it sets up the possibility of tie votes. That isn't happening now as the board enjoys an era of good feeling, but that may not last into the future. The Town Board should drop to five members, as called for in the referendum.
Talk of further change is premature. But this is Amherst, and sometimes quirky situations have to play themselves out. Therefore, when Manna's resolution was discussed at Monday's work session, Council Member Guy Marlette pointed out a little detail. That is, if the board remains at six members, a citizens petition cannot be submitted to further reduce the board to three members. So, the number six suddenly started looking good.
Marlette suggested they ask residents if they are satisfied with a six-member Town Board. The proposal for a referendum, with Manna's support, sailed through with one right-sized dissent. Council Member Richard "Jay" Anderson chided Manna's frenetic changing of positions on the issue of downsizing.
Over the years, Manna voted against five downsizing proposals, calling downsizing "the democratic process to march ourselves to a dictatorship." The other day, he said three board members was not only "inevitable," it was advisable. And now six will do just fine, thank you.
Again, the voters have already voiced their opinion on downsizing. The Town Board hasn't even gotten to five members yet. That should be given a chance to work before further tinkering is attempted.


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Serves 6 |
Prep Time 10 minutes |
Cook Time 0 minutes
1/4 cup Eden Extra Virgin Olive Oil
1/2 cup Eden Pistachios
2 cups fresh basil, loosely packed, chopped
2 cups fresh parsley, loosely packed, chopped
2 cloves garlic, minced
2 1/2 Tbsp Eden Shiro Miso
1/2 cup water
Place all ingredients in a food processor or blender and blend until smooth and creamy. Serve with any Eden Pasta.
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SEIA President and CEO Rhone Resch released the following statement today:
"President Obama has made an outstanding choice to head the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC). Ron Binz has the experience and vision needed to help America ramp up the transition to clean energy sources, including solar. He also has a keen understanding of both the regulatory process and the complexities of today's electricity distribution system. What's more, he has been a true champion over the years of energy efficiency, renewable energy and the need to embrace innovative new technologies. SEIA applauds his choice to become FERC chairman, and we look forward to working with him on ways to expand solar deployment across the United States.


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Top Definition
To spit a freestyle, Flow.
C'mon dogg drop some knowledge for us.
door BRik 8 december 2006
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Can you define these popular missing words?
Can refer to beating someone either in a game, contest, or beating them to within an inch of their life.
Let's play Halo this weekend and I will drop some knowledge on you.
door JAK 4B 21 september 2010
to receive oral sex or the act of oral sex
josh-so did that chick at the party last night drop some knowledge?
ray-hell yeah! she gave me head on the ride to her place.
ray-hell yeah! she gave me head on the ride to her place.
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September 28, 2007, 06:05 AM
I am looking for any help and pointers on starting a local militia. I want to cover common defense but also do public relation work. My area does not have a militia and should have one. So any words of advice and pointers would help me help my community and help keep the state of Ohio a little more safe.


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Baby dick guy
Have a friend with a last name Garcia and you can refer to him as BDG. "Hey whatsup BDG?"
If you don't know anyone with the name Garcia, you can just say hey that's that baby dick guy.
If you don't know anyone with the name Garcia, you can just say hey that's that baby dick guy.
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Ashley gives Corey a bdg everyday they are together
লিখেছেন- foxtrot A.M 14 de জুন de 2011
Big Dicked Gentleman
Hey Erin you know that kid zack, he's a real BDG.
লিখেছেন- Dixie Normi5 7 de জুলাই de 2014
The screams of ghost attack victims in horror film that sound like orgasms. Also known as the Big Dick Ghost.
"Aaaahhh, ahhhhhh, aaaaaahhhhh."
"Wow that must be a BDG"
"Wow that must be a BDG"
লিখেছেন- Ally-B 9 de মার্চ de 2014
Big Dumb Glasses- Sun glasses girls wear that cover most of their face.
Did you see the BDGs she had on today? If only they covered all of her face..
লিখেছেন- getmoney29 29 de জুন de 2012
Acronym standing for "Beer Delivery Guy."
Usually worn on T-shirts by knuts.
Usually worn on T-shirts by knuts.
A: "Hey look I'm a Beer Delivery Guy!"
B: "Hey look at that dumbass, he's a BDG!"
B: "Hey look at that dumbass, he's a BDG!"
লিখেছেন- Gohn Gardenza 24 de অগাস্ট de 2007
When you have an exsiseve amount of sand in you vagina cavity.
I dont fell good I think I have BDGS. (Broke Dick Gundy Syndrome)
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Cheer on the top 25 sports movies ever
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Football season will come to a close this weekend, and no matter if your team made it to the Super Bowl, most of you will celebrate the event with friends, beers or other beverages and lots of snacks.
If you've been dubbed the party planner, don't panic. Super Bowl parties are casual and can be relatively inexpensive to put together. Follow these tips and you'll save money on everything you'll need from kickoff to cleanup.
Compare drink prices
Harris Teeter has some of the best prices on cases of beer this week. Brews by Budweiser, Miller, Coors and Yuengling are $13.99 per 24-pack of cans.
For craft beer aficionados, check out Total Wine. They carry six-packs of high quality brews for as low as $6.99.
You may want to opt for a keg if you're planning to buy more than six cases. Safeway on Reid Street is a favorite spot for many because they have some of the best deals on keg brews, with Keystone priced at $61 per keg, Miller High Life at $74 and Pabst Blue Ribbon at $76.
You'll also want to include nonalcoholic beverages, and soft drinks tend to be easiest for big groups. At Harris Teeter, you can get three 12-packs of Coca-Cola can drinks for free when you buy two 12-packs. Pepsi can drinks are $4.99 per 18-pack at Piggly Wiggly.
Buy practical food
The first way to save money on party food is to know what your guests will eat. Don't buy pre-packaged veggie or fruit and cheese trays. They're expensive and you'll end up throwing most of it away. Instead, aim for creative dips and finger foods.
Guacamole is popular and super easy to make. You'll need lots of avocados, which you can find for 50 cents each at Food Lion this week.
Pretzel crisps and hummus are one of my favorite combinations, and Publix has both items for buy one, get one free this week.
Tostitos chips and salsa also are buy one, get one free at Harris Teeter.
Wings and pizza are typical go-to foods for football fans, so you can find good deals on both this weekend. The 25-piece wing sampler is $21.49 at Kickin' Chicken, so if you buy two, that's about $4 cheaper than a 50-piece platter we saw at another major wings player.
Local pizzeria Andolini's is offering a "49ers Special" on Sunday, which means they're taking $4.90 off the price of any pizza, and there are no limits on the amount of toppings you can order.
"Pizza is one of the biggest Super Bowl foods, and we want to be included because we offer the best pizza in town," owner David Odle said.
D'Allesandro's Pizza is another local restaurant offering a Super Bowl special. When ordering online at www.dalspizza.com, use the coupon code "SUPERBOWL" to get $1 off your order.
Medium pizzas with up to 2 toppings are $5.99 each when you buy two or more at Dominoes. You can visit www.dominos.com to print out coupons to the store nearest you.
You could win a free large pizza from Papa John's by calling the outcome of the Super Bowl coin toss by midnight Saturday. Visit www.papajohns.com for more information.
Use paper products
Part of me wants to discourage using disposable tableware because I think it can be wasteful. At the same time, if you supply dishes to all your guests, you'll end up using quite a bit of water and time on cleanup. The best solution to this dilemma is to go for biodegradable and paper items instead of Styrofoam products, which can't be recycled.
Check The Dollar Tree first. They typically carry paper plates, napkins and utensils for $1 per package.
At coupons.com, you can print out coupons for $1 off Sparkle paper towels and Glad trash bags, so cleanup won't cost you as much.
Get group involved
If you're getting together with just your close friends, consider having a pot luck-style party. Ask your guests to bring a dish and a six-pack of beer or other drinks. If most of your friends have kids, plan to hire one or two baby-sitters and set up a supervised kids' area. It's a cheaper alternative to hiring individual sitters.
Most importantly, remember to enjoy the game and kick back with your friends. Some party hosts get so wrapped up in the planning process they end up checking the ice and rearranging the snack table the entire time.
Plan ahead and you'll be less likely to stress during the big game.
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Breakdown: Join Tahoe 'On the Hill' reporter Matt Hardy for a cruise down Lumberjack at Northstar Resort. Snow guns are going full blast and it is SNOWING! Lumberjack was groomed with new snow and new snowmaking
Northstar official report: 0" new snow overnight, 0" in last week
Tahoe Daily Tribune field report: Feels like winter! Groomed runs and a dusting of new snow are making for a great surface.
Liftline status: Big Springs Express gondola and Vista Chair weren't crowded at all this morning, and not likely to change until the weekend.
Weather: Snowy and windy today, with temps the low 20s
Snowcast: NOAA is reporting low temperatures for the rest of the week. The current storm is forecasted to produce 3-9 inches by midnight. There is another storm moving in on Friday afternoon through Saturday that could produce another 6-12 inches.
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The last lines of a Justin Timberlake song. May or may not be accompanied by a large black breast.
Watch the halftime show for Super Bowl XXXVIII
от Dave S. 04 февруари 2004
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Final words utterred prior to revealing Janet Jackson's naked breast.
"Gonna Have you Naked By The End of This Song!"...Shhhhrrrripppp!!! Boobage!
от Burrow Owl 02 февруари 2004
Is what Justin did to Janet during the superbowl halftime.
Justin: "gonna have you naked by the end of this song!"...*RIPP!*
от stergo 04 февруари 2004
a segment of lyrics from justin timberlakes song, "rock your body." the famous last words said before ripping off janet jacksons boob cover at the superbowl
In rock ur body, one lyric is, "gonna have u naked by the end of this song"
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Guy Fawkes: Remembering what?
"Remember, remember, the fifth of November, Gunpowder Treason and Plot."
This is a classic playground rhyme learned by every British school child. It marks an important event that took place 407 years ago today. But what's it all about?
Guy Fawkes Night (or Bonfire Night and Fireworks night) is celebrated in Great Britain on November 5. It commemorates the failed plot to assassinate King James I on November 5, 1605 at the official state opening of Parliament. The plan was to blow up the House of Lords, killing the King and all the dignitaries present.
Guy was arrested following a 'tip to the authorities while guarding 36 barrels of gunpowder that had been smuggled into the House of Lords. He, along with his fellow co-conspirators, was executed.
In the years following the foiled attempt, people lit bonfires and burned effigies of Guy Fawkes. To this day, people all over the UK commemorate with public or private firework parties and bonfires. Continue reading "Guy Fawkes: Remembering what?" »


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on February 10, 2013 - 1:00 AM
I was at McDonald's on the West Side of Buffalo when the guy in front of me tried to order a double cheeseburger.
The cashier spoke Spanish with the workers behind the counter, who wrapped and stuffed food into white paper bags.
When the guy said, "No pickles," the cashier replied, "No understand."
The man raised his voice, as if talking to his half-deaf grandmother, and shouted: "No pickles!"
My mind jumped to a chat I once had with an old Chinese woman. I was teaching an English class at Buffalo's International Institute. The woman approached me in the lobby with a question burning on her lips. She smiled, allowing a thousand tiny wrinkles to gobble up her face.
"Teacher, I have question," she began. "Pizza in America. It have cheese and small meat on top … small circle meat. Very red. What is call this meat?"
"Pepperoni," I answered. She looked at me in awe, as if my ability to pronounce this word was magical. "Pep-per-o-ni," I said, sounding it out again.
She gave it a whirl, at first failing and laughing at herself. Then she tried again, insisting that she get it right. Who knows? Maybe all this was prompted by a messed-up pizza order.
That night, I found myself wondering how to say pepperoni in Chinese. I'd been studying the language for a couple of years, but hadn't come across it (the meat is not common in Chinese cuisine). I hopped on Google Translate and typed it in. Seven characters appeared, and in Chinese, each character has meaning by itself. The literal translation was: "Meaning Big Advantage Spicy Flavor Scented Intestines." Taken as a whole, it meant "pepperoni."
This was not very appetizing to me and made little sense to my Western mind. The first three characters, "Meaning Big Advantage," had no apparent connection to pork, but then I remembered that in Chinese, the characters make the sounds Yi Da Li. This is how Mandarin speakers say "Italy." I was on to something.
The remaining four characters translated into English as "Spicy Flavor Scented Intestines," a very descriptive way of getting about "sausage." So pepperoni, when uttered in Chinese, is Italian spicy sausage, roughly.
I felt just as perplexed as the old woman who had asked me about America's favorite pizza topping. Our concepts of the same food were worlds apart. She must have been wondering what small red circular meat has to do with peppers – and "oni," whatever that is.
I pondered this as I waited in line for coffee. The man in front of me continued to bark "No pickles!" in vain at the blank-faced cashier.
As an ESL instructor, I felt the need to butt in. I thought about how a seemingly simple word like pepperoni gets broken up into multiple concepts in Chinese. I tried doing the same for the word pickle in English. When you break it down, what is a pickle, really?
"A pickle is a sour green vinegar vegetable," I said, exaggerating a sour expression with my lips and drawing one of the small round McDonald's pickles in the air with my index finger.
"Ah!" exclaimed the cashier, smiling. "Thank you."
She had pieced together a pickle. The work of an off-duty Buffalo ESL instructor was done.


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Beef at Boston Marathon
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The beef checkoff, through the Northeast Beef Promotion Initiative (NEBPI), is gearing up to participate in its sixth annual John Hancock Sports & Fitness Expo during the lead up to the 117th Boston Marathon. For more information about the Beef Checkoff at the 2013 Boston Marathon contact Jennifer Harrold at firstname.lastname@example.com or visit the NEBPI website for information to join Team BEEF!
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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Wednesday, January 8, 2014
A woman went out drinking with her boss, according to a police report, and said she didnt remember much after that. But according to the report, officers found her at fault in a collision with another driver that night.
When police arrived at the accident scene they found the female slouched over the wheel of her car.
The air bags were deployed from the steering wheel, and the passenger side curtain air bags were deployed.
The officer knocked on the window in an attempt to get the drivers attention, but got no response.
EMS was called and the officer opened the door, this time tapping on the womans shoulder to try and wake her up.
After a few moments she became conscious and her first response was to try and smash the airbag back into the steering wheel.
According to the report, other than that, she was unresponsive to questions from the officer. The officer then informed her she had been in a collision and she replied, really? She asked the officer if he could loosen her seat belt and he advised her to unbuckle it as normal.
According to the report, the officer watched her struggle for a few minutes to find the buckle and when she could not, he detached it for her. He kept her seated until EMS could respond.
At first the officer could not smell alcohol on her breath, due to the odor of the deployed air bags, however once removed from the car, the police report said the odor was evident, and EMS personnel confirmed they smelled it to.
She was transported to the hospital, and the officer searched her car for her paperwork. They could not find her insurance paperwork so she would be charged with that, but they found everything else and took that to the hospital and ultimately towed her car.
At the hospital, police learned she had told EMS she had a couple of glasses of wine with her boss downtown at dinner.
The officer informed her she was under investigation for DUI and she replied, Well, thats not good.
When the officer asked her if she would answer his questions, she said she would try, the report said.
She told him she did not even remember getting in the car. While talking with the officer, she fell asleep several times, the report aid.
She was unable to complete any field sobriety tests in the hospital bed and while unconscious, so due to the circumstances, she was arrested and charged with DUI.
Hospital personnel took a blood sample to test for alcohol, which she agreed to. Once she was discharged, she was taken to the county jail.
A divorced woman had to call police because her husband would not come get his things out of her house. She said they had been divorced for some time now and she had given him until that day to move out and get all of his things out.
She showed police a court document, signed by both parties, proving such.
It also showed she had full ownership of the residence and she wanted his things, including his truck, gone. She said if the truck was not removed she would have it towed.
So the officer called the man, in good faith, to remind him to come get it.
They got his voice mail and left a message.
The ex-husband later called police back. An officer explained to him about what was going on, but according to the police report, he refused to listen. He wanted to know when the so-called paperwork was signed. He continued to raise his voice to the officer.
The officer tried to explain that this was a civil issue and that if the man did not stop raising his voice, the officer said he would hang up. Which he eventually had to do.
Police were then called back to the house because the ex-wife said her ex-husband was yelling at her in her face.
When police arrived, the ex-husband rode by on a golf cart and said he wanted to show the police that his children were not being looked after properly.
According to the report, there were no kids at the residence. In addition, the ex-wife was able to show the officer proof of a restraining order she had against the man, as well as video from earlier in which the man was yelling at her, even after she told him to back away.
After all of this, the ex-husband was given one more chance to move his car before it got towed, according to the report.
He said he would and admitted to leaving the truck there to use as leverage against his ex-wife. The man complied and left.
Police were called to a local retail store because a woman was seen possibly shoplifting.
The loss prevention officer had the suspect in custody and explained to police that she left the store without paying for an extension cord, insect repellent, a gallon of tea and a sticker.
The surveillance video shows the woman in the self check-out line scanning all of the other items except those. She then placed the bags on top of the items she did not scan. They also had video from a few weeks prior of this suspect doing the same thing, which they also showed police.
The officer asked the suspect what happened and she said she did not realize the items were in the cart.
The video, however shows her looking right at the items as she sat the bags on top of them in an effort to conceal them, the police report said.
According to the report she told officers that she was in a hurry because her mother was sitting outside in the van and that she had Alzheimers.
The officer then walked outside to speak to the mother and asked her if she could drive and if she had a license. The mother said she did have a license and that she drove everyday.
She wanted to know why she was being asked these questions and when informed that her daughter was being arrested for shoplifting and that her daughter told police she had Alzheimers, she became very upset and offended, the report said.
She said she did not have that disease. At this point the officer returned inside and learned the store wanted to press charges.
The woman was arrested and taken to jail.
Stolen meds
A bartender had to call police because someone went into her purse and stole her ADD medicine.
She said there is no way her roommates would have done it and believed it happened at work. She said everyone at work knew she needed the medicine, according to the incident report. The police report said she admitted that her purse was not secure, but the she had cut a hole in the liner of her purse to hide the medicine bottle in.
She said she needed a police report to give to her doctor so she could get her prescription refilled.
Gotta pay
Police responded to a gas station due to a hold-up alarm. The clerk said she had not been robbed, but a customer caused a commotion.
According to the report, a man came in and started thumbing through a newspaper at the checkout counter. She told him he had to pay for the newspaper before he could read it.
The man then became upset and began to curse at her.
The report said that the man then knocked over a bag of chips and a display sign which cracked when it fell.
The man was still outside the store when police arrived and he admitted to throwing items at the checkout but only after the clerk refused to serve him.
He was placed on trespass notice from the store.
Interesting deposit
A teller at a local bank called police after receiving a deposit bag full of money and a ball of weed.
The deposit came from a local business, which police responded to. Police spoke to a woman who worked there and explained why he was there. He asked who was responsible for deposits and the woman said she was.
According to the report, the woman said she was in possession of the bag until she made the deposit and that she was the only one who had contact with the bag.
She showed the officer where she retrieved the bags which were all neatly stacked and wrinkle free. She showed him how she sealed it using the tamper free sealing tape.
The officer asked the woman if she currently smoked pot and, according to the report, she said no that she had not smoked in six months.
She then made reference to one of her kids who might have done it and the officer reminded her that she told him she used the tamper seal. According to the report, she then said, Yeah, I just dont understand how it got in there.
She denied doing it.
The lady at the bank confirmed it had not been touched or tampered with before being opened.
Based on the chain of custody of the deposit bag and the statement made by the suspect, she was issued a courtesy summons for possession.
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Source: Discovery News
quote: Fact is, global warming isn't a fact. There's not even a consensus, not while the data remains flawed and the studies remain political. There's also evidence, EVIDENCE, that points out the earth hasn't warmed a bit since 1998. So we choose to not belive that evidence and choose to belive the warming evidence? That's not science, that's still belief. You do not get to choose reality. In this case, since there's both evidence to support warming and to support cooling, we must conclude we don't know shit. And shouldn't do anything drastic until we do (which would include spending trillions on plant food sequestration).


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For Women Who Want The Ballerific Life!
Ladies Ladies Ladies (and a few gentlemen). In the world of "ballers" they must be fierce as at times. Let's play Baller Alert's own Hit or Miss. It's the battle of fashion. We want you to decide. (Please consider hair, makeup, and clothes.) Please do not answer with a simple hit or miss. Please tell us why you voted that way.
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The completion of Interstate 526 across Johns and James islands is poised to take a huge step forward as government agencies and elected officials haggle over the details of a revised project contract.
The South Carolina Department of Transportation Commission soon will vote on whether to approve the new contract, said Chairman John Edwards. The move will mark the first concrete step forward since Charleston County approved the project by the narrowest of margins in December 2012.
The commission's next meeting is Thursday, and the matter could come up for a vote then, Edwards said. The commission is leaning toward approving the new contract, he said, but county and DOT staffers still are working out legal issues, so the DOT's vote could be delayed until the commission's Jan. 16 meeting.
Updating the three-party contract, known as an Intergovernmental Agreement, is the next required step for the controversial project. In the project's initial $420 million contract, Charleston County was the project's sponsor, the DOT was responsible for building the road, and the S.C. Transportation Infrastructure Bank was responsible for paying for it.
But Charleston County now wants more control of building the road, and the price estimate has climbed to $558 million.
Several concerns are slowing the negotiation process, officials said, including the DOT's need to be certain that the road is built correctly if the agency doesn't manage the project; who would be responsible for cost overruns; and who would address claims for compensation from residents who live within 1,000 feet of the proposed project.
"We've got a couple of things to iron out," Edwards said. Even if Charleston County is allowed to manage the project, the DOT must have some kind of supervisory role, he said, because when the project is complete, the DOT would have to bring it into the state road system. "When we get to the end, we want a road we can bring into the system with no problems."
Paying cost overruns
DOT Commissioner Jim Rozier, who supports the completion of I-526, said, "I don't have any trouble with Charleston County managing it, but if the DOT is going to maintain it, we need a say in how it's built."
Rozier also said he thinks the county must agree to be responsible for cost overruns. "The DOT is not going to be responsible for that," he said.
Charleston County Council Chairman Teddie Pryor said he doesn't think cost overruns are an issue, because the county isn't going to run over budget. In fact, he thinks the county can build it for less than the DOT's estimate of $558 million.
"When you have a budget, you can't go over the budget," he said. And, he added, the Infrastructure Bank never has failed to provide enough money to complete a project it had approved.
The money for the project already is approved, Pryor said. The Infrastructure Bank initially approved $420 million for the road. In 2012 it approved another $130 to $150 million from money it will have available after 2017, he said.
Debra Rountree, the Infrastructure Bank's director of operations, said she's not certain whether her group will have to approve the amended contract. It depends how much it has been changed from the original version.
The amount of money approved by the Infrastructure Bank will be in the amended contract, she said. And the amended contract also will address cost overruns, she said, but she's not yet sure how overruns will be addressed.
She also said that the state's Joint Bond Review Committee must approve the final $130 to $150 million that the bank approved last year, and the final contract likely will be contingent on that approval.
The Joint Bond Review Committee's next meeting is Wednesday, but officials said they don't expect the additional money for I-526 to be on the agenda.
Compensation claims
At the local level, County Councilman Dickie Schweers said he remains concerned about the impact on county taxpayers of an amendment to council's December 2012 motion to move forward and build the road. The amendment involved property owners who live within 1,000 of the proposed road.
It stated that the county must make "good faith efforts to evaluate and consider claims made by residents for compensation due to the impact of the Mark Clark Expressway on their property." Many officials and county residents interpreted the amendment to mean property owners within 1,000 feet could be compensated for the drop in the value of their property.
Schweers said the project is supposed to be financed by the Infrastructure Bank. County taxpayers aren't supposed to have to cover any of the cost, but he's worried that taxpayers could be on the hook to cover the cost of compensation.
Schweers said council Vice Chairman Elliott Summey told the DOT Commission at its September meeting that the county was responsible for all the "quality of life" amendments." He thinks that could put county taxpayers on the hook to cover the cost of claims filed by property owners.
Schweers last month asked Pryor if he would schedule a public discussion on the compensation issue, but Pryor wouldn't agree to do that.
Already 66 county residents who live within 1,000 feet of the proposed road have filed claims for compensation for the drop in the value of their property. The claims total $8.5 million.
The vote to build the road "pivoted on compensation," Schweers said, and most people interpret that to mean financial compensation. If the county doesn't make an effort to honor those claims, he said, "We'll be going to court to fight our own citizens."
Pryor has said repeatedly that the amendment never meant that people would be financially compensated. The county simply will consider claims for damages if they are filed.
Pryor said he sought input from the county's legal staff when the amendment was crafted. The county never intended to issue checks for declines in property value, he said. And the amendment, as written, doesn't require the county to do that.
County attorney Joe Dawson, in an email response to questions on compensation, said, "No opinion was given to Council regarding whether the proposed amendment would require Council to pay for potential decreases in property values because the amendment did not require payments to be made or money to be appropriated."
He also stated, "The resolution did not state that it is the policy of Council to compensate claimants if a demand for payment is made; rather, it is a directive to county staff to look into such claims when they would otherwise have no obligation to do so."
Dawson didn't respond to questions on whether the county could be on the hook to pay property owners who filed claims. He simply referred to the above statement in response to those questions.
Edwards said the DOT will make sure in the new contract that it isn't on the hook for compensating local residents. The DOT won't agree to anything that brings financial liability to the agency, he said. "That's something we want to stay way away from. If Charleston County wants to pay that, that's up to Charleston County."
The proposed path of the Mark Clark Expressway looking from West Ashley toward Johns and James islands.×
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VIDEO: Taylor Swift Makes Surprise Appearance at Ed Sheeran's N.Y.C. Concert
Wearing an "I Heart Ed" shirt, Swift, 23, took the stage at the Brit singer's Madison Square Garden concert in N.Y.C. on Friday to sing their hit "Everything Has Changed."
Sheeran, 22, who's winding up a two-and-a-half-year tour promoting his debut album, was the opening act on Swift's Red tour of the U.S.
"I've traveled all over the country and I've seen some wonderful things and I owe it all to someone," he said as he welcomed his "good friend" onto the stage to a deafening road from the crowd.
Swift recently denied rumors that she's dating Sheeran. "I've never had such a close guy friend before," she told InStyle last month. "It's always kind of creepy because with a guy friend-girl friend situation, it usually feels like one person always wants more. That's not the case here."


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Quality Education in the Benedictine Tradition
May 8, 2012
Michelle Gil-Montero, assistant professor of English and director of creative writing in the School of Humanities and Fine Arts at Saint Vincent College, was featured in the Arts Beat section of The New York Times on Friday, May 4. The article reviewed the PEN World Voices Literary Festival, in which Ms. Gil-Montero was an invited participant. The article took note of her performance in a "translation slam" in which she participated with her husband, Roman Antopolsky, who is also a poet and translator. According to New York Times writer Larry Rohter, the slam, held at the Bowery Poetry Club, "was modeled on the poetry slams that have become popular in recent years, reaching even the White House." "A pair of translators are given the same text, in this case three days in advance, and asked to create their own versions in another language, which they read to an audience that can be appreciative or not," Mr. Rohter wrote. "It's partly intellectual puzzle, partly spectacle, and meant to be great fun for everyone involved." The event, sponsored in part by the Mexican Cultural Institute, was divided in two separate parts. In the second half of the program, two Spanish-to-English translators were given a piece of prose written by Naief Yehya, a writer born in Mexico City who now lives in New York. The text was about watching a bad and boring soccer game on television. "As they admitted later, the translators, Rosalie Knecht and Ms. Gil-Montero, were at a disadvantage because neither is a soccer fan," Mr. Rohter noted. "The differences in their approach started with the rendering of Mr. Yehya's title and continued throughout." "The biggest challenge, though, may have been how to translate the Spanish word, penitencia," Mr. Rohter commented. "Mr. Yehya's explanation of his motivation for enduring bad soccer games 'in a distant land' whose 'results matter little to me.' Ms. Gil-Montero went with 'penance' while Mr. Knecht chose 'penitence.' Ms. Gil-Montero ventured a guess when the question came up after the performance: 'I teach at a Catholic college,' she said, 'drawing laughs from the audience'." This complete article is available online: http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/05/04/translators-get-a-slam-of-their-own-at-pen-festival/
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2012 McLanahan Sand-Solutions Conference--Clean Sand, Comfortable Cows
2012 McLanahan Sand-Solutions Conference--Clean Sand, Comfortable Cows
Separating and bedding with clean sand is the theme of the 2012 McLanahan Sand
Solutions Conference to be held 14-15 November in Madison, Wisconsin.
If you are going to separate and bed with sand, the sand must be clean and the barn environment properly managed. This year's Conference is a "back to basics" look at design and management of sand bedded freestalls along with how McLanahan is raising the bar when it comes to sand recycling—that is, separation of cleaner, dryer sand. Of course, a discussion about sand bedding would not be complete without considering manure handling. See how sand lanes can be designed to produce clean sand and how to rehabilitate those that don't. Industry experts and producers will discuss proven sand-laden manure handling and separation systems made possible by closed-loop water recovery. See these systems for yourself as we tour four dairies where sand is separated and recycled with milk cows.
And have you ever wondered what ends up in an anaerobic digester after Sand-Manure Separation? Come find out from a digester cleaning expert with experience having cleaned-out more than twenty digesters.
This year's sponsors include: Foxland Harvestore, ISS, Komro Sales and Service, Veolia Environmental Services, and Wilcox Associates. For additional details go to: http://www.mclanahan.com/index.php?page=sand-solutions-conference-2012 or contact Renee Schrift, 1814.695.9807. Or click on the pdf of the 2012 McLanahan Sand Solutions conference brochure.
Day 1 (14 November): Dairy Tours
• Dutch Made Holsteins, Lake Geneva, WI, 400 cows, Closed-Loop Scrape Sand-Manure Separation System installed by Foxland Harvestore
• Prairieland Dairy, Belleville, WI, 1,200 cows, Self-Cleaning Sand-Lane installed by Komro Sales and Service
• Larson Acres, Evansville, WI, 2,700 cows, auger conveyance, Scrape Sand-Manure Separation, Sand-Manure Separation System, and dewatering screen
Day 2 (15 November): Speaking Program, Best Western Inn on the Park, Madison, WI
• Success with Sand and Sand Separation
Renee Schrift, McLanahan Corporation
• Maximizing Cow Comfort and Milk Quality with Sand
Dr. David Reid, Rocky Ridge Dairy Consulting
Proven Sand-Laden Manure Handling Systems: Conveyance and Separation Systems
Andrew Wedel, P.E., McLanahan Corp
• Closed-Loop Water Recovery Systems and Sand Lane Rehabilitation
Bob Komro, Komro Sales and Service
• Cleaner Dryer Sand
Rob Plank, McLanahan Corporation
• Integrated Manure System at Central Sands Dairy, Nekoosa, WI
Jeff Sommers, Central Sands Dairy, LLC & Wysocki Produce Farm, Inc.
• Digester Cleaning Following Sand Separation Systems—the Cleaning Process, What Veolia finds, and Safety
Charles Daniels, Veolia Environmental Systems
• Sand Bedding Facility Conversions
Producer panel including:
Dean Doornink, Jon-De Farms, Baldwin, WI
Ben Daley, Daley Farms, Lewiston, MN
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1. To pardon oneself, as to interrupt or get another's attention;
2. The amalgamation of the words "excuse" and "me", as spoken in urban environments.
2. The amalgamation of the words "excuse" and "me", as spoken in urban environments.
Scume, how much is this radio?
door NRebb 1 oktober 2010
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Although it has probably been accidentally and infrequently used for centuries by uneducated english speakers, this degraded form of "excuse me" came into widespread use in the middle class area of the city of chicopee circa 1993. Scott Reed and his friends apparantly recorded the expression for the first time while creating sounds to import into a computer game they were working on. It has since gone into history as an expression used when immitating a retarded person. The expression can still be heard in it's original dialect in the local "food bag" store near the Chicopee Country Club. The Slushy Artist still chants "Scu me...scu me....scu me" each and every time he pulls the slushy lever.
the original recording: "Scu me why my shed burning?"
door Harrison Reed 29 mei 2004
what began as an uneducated, ignorant form of "excuse me," the beauty bitches of richmond, va started using the term in excess after hearing it multiple times a day at their mutual place of beauty employment.
scu me, you got any samples?" "scu me, you not cute." "scu me, did i stutter?
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The phrase "fat and happy" couldn't be going out of style faster. From the strangely coincident ads for weight loss and antidepressants on dating sites, to public weight-control initiatives out of virtually every source (including celebrity chefs and the President of the United States), being overweight has never been so unpopular—or popular, since fully a third of American adults are considered obese.
Among others, the NIH Obesity Research Task Force (established in 2003) weighed in on obesity with their 2011 Strategic Plan, a follow-up to their 2004 Plan.
The five subsections of the report describe research into biological mechanisms, social correlations, group interventions, translation into policy, and measurement tools. The results of the research so far could be summed up as: "We have identified many biological pathways contributing to obesity, connected several social and cultural features to obesity, confirmed that coaching and weight loss help prevent obesity-related disorders, and have new information-gathering techniques and ways to better estimate the seriousness of the problem. We also have a very, very long way to go—back to the lab!"
It's not for lack of effort. At least 3,800 obesity-related grants have been distributed since 2007, a purse of billions of dollars. Over 600 mention obesity in the title. And, while the connection is certainly a stretch for some of them, they really do cover every imaginable association.
From the molecular to the mundane, hard science and soft science are applied to every level of the problem.
From the influences of single proteins to the role of neighborhood planning and sidewalk connectivity, the task force jumps across disciplines to answer a few important question: Why did everyone start putting on weight? How does the body respond to being overweight? What can we do about it?"
This leads to interesting experiments. Some Amish will have their gut microflora reseeded with different strains for the advancement of science. Everything from meditation to lactation will be examined in the context of obesity.
This myriad-pronged approach demonstrates both a move to personalized medicine and a desperate need to do something about the problem, soon.
The obesity problem has several parallels: One example of a similar program in the NIH is the Office of AIDS Research (OAR), established in 1988. A look at their annual strategic plans shows a route much like that of the Obesity Task Force—the OAR weaves together basic research, therapeutics, clinical outcomes, and epidemiology.
As with HIV/AIDS, obesity drew in federal, state, and local resources to combat a rapidly spreading epidemic with both behavioral and medical interventions. This raises another similar epidemic: smoking and lung cancer.
For all three, even the initial interventions were similar: "Don't do that," where "that" refers to either unprotected sex and intravenous drugs, cigarettes, or greasy, sugary foods and a sedentary lifestyle. It took a full thirty years after the initial 1964 quit-smoking advisory to halve the per-capita tobacco consumption rate. Unfortunately, in spite of other initiatives, taxes, and interventions, there has not been much further progress.
If smoking and HIV are any indication, obesity and its associated illnesses will persist at a significantly steady-state level even after numerous public interventions. That steady state will remain until research comes up with a solution independent of behavior modification—like a cure, a vaccine, a way to clean lungs.
Perhaps, for obesity, that might be a gut symbiote that detects excessive blood sugar or some obesity marker and shuts down absorption of sugars and fats in response. If AIDS is any indication, it will be years before this research produces any major treatments, and the big cure is even further out.
Obesity is here to stay until someone comes up with a permanent, human nature-proof treatment for it. In the meantime, behavioral treatments may save an entire generation from eating itself to death. So, pass the celery!
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As some of you may remember the King of the hill thread fomr way back when and eventually Aloy deleted it and thought hmm Ryz0n is giveing us 1 flame thread so.. why not a king of the hill thread.. isnt that why he locked it? flame? so no flame here if u need to flame go here..
if you may not know the rules.. here's how it works.
you take the hill in anyway means possible.no rules bars match! 21, except no flameing !!!! and the last person to post in this thread, before it gets locked wins. prize - > u win getting lucky at being the last one to post =p
ill start
soo i was walking on a nice suny day seen a very nice green hill with a delightfull bench all by it self on the top of the hill and took a seat.
(u have to try and take it from me. any way u want!)
GoodLuck, Have fun
Imperial Redcoat:Zorc is cool don't fk around brah.
Musketeer925:You get banned, and I walk up onto the nice thread [hill].
21 i then walk up the hill and threaten to delete all of your scenerio threads from your computer u then walk off the hill and i give u your computer back.. MY HILL
Gibson_LES_PAUL_GUITAR:i hack into Ryans account, ban you, and take the hill
I build a impenetrable castle on the hill.
I use my gatling gun in "Gatling wars" and destroy your castle thus you haveing to move away..
I then retake the hill and sit on my shiny new gatling gun
Supremacy: Level 29 MajorSkype: sergeant.roflcopter
Sergeant ROFLcopter:I go over to your house and murder you in your sleep and take a *** down each barrel of your Gatling Gun. I then bring out my Fully Upgraded Imperial Tractor and plow the hill into oblivion. No more hill.
Zorc NEVER SLEEPS!
thus you are all wrong... this is impossible.. you must of murdered an imposter Zorc and gatling gun.. and must of ran over the wrong hill.. therefore you are incorrect.
I delete the centre.
Gaia's hill
Prawny:I delete the centre. Gaia's hill
(If you're confused, Download Scenario Clash, play, and delete the Center. See what happens.)
Musketeer925: Prawny:
I delete the centre.
Gaia's hill +1.
(If you're confused, Download Scenario Clash, play, and delete the Center. See what happens.)
I delete the centre.
Gaia's hill
(If you're confused, Download Scenario Clash, play, and delete the Center. See what happens.)
i then rob a bank with my gatling gun and pay people ot build me a new hill.
I call Law Enforcement and you're arrested for countless crimes.
I set up Army Forces on the hill and it's mine.
i disguise myself as a military operative and plant highly explosive unarmable landmines on and all around the hill, where i sit at the unmined center with my kettle and smokes
moi hill
pickledonion: Lancener:Wtf is maphacking again? It's where you hack the map.
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Used when the cereal boxes talk to you, when you start flying and the therapist cant take your super-powers away.
Thorazine makes you go nappy.
di davemeistro 08 giugno 2005
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An awesome shot that will quickly get you fucked up. Made with Jager, peppermint liqueur and Bacardi 151.
Justin: Let's do a couple thorazine shots before we go dance to this Gwen Stefani song.
Stephen: Good call, girlfriend.
Stephen: Good call, girlfriend.
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The journey to this Super Bowl wound through bounties and replacement refs, eventually bringing the big game back to the Big Easy � with a replacement quarterback, a sibling rivalry and a grand exit for one of the NFL�s greatest players, clouded by the obscure healing powers of deer-antler spray.
It is a Super Bowl of comebacks, of firsts and lasts, and � if San Francisco wins � the best.
A win over the Baltimore Ravens today will give the 49ers six championships, matching Pittsburgh�s titles in the Super Bowl era. Unlike the Steelers, the Niners never have lost one.
Of course, they haven�t won one in 18 years, either.
�There�s a tradition with the San Francisco 49ers, but I think these guys are paving their own way,� said Hall of Fame receiver and three-time champion Jerry Rice. �They�re playing with a lot of swagger.�
Or as owner Denise DeBartolo York said, �We�ve come full circle, and the dynasty will prevail.�
New Orleans has come full circle, too. Ravaged by Hurricane Katrina in August 2005, losing a quarter of its population, abandoned by the Saints for an entire season, the city couldn�t imagine hosting another Super Bowl. But as New Orleans recovered and rebuilt, it envisioned staging what Patriots owner Robert Kraft calls �the preeminent sporting event.�
The NFL agreed it was time to return. And even if Commissioner Roger Goodell is despised here after slapping the Saints with suspensions and fines in the bounty scandal, the vibes from the French Quarter and Warehouse District this week have been supportive, even uplifting.
�It�s also terrific for us to be back here in New Orleans,� said Goodell, joking about voodoo dolls in his likeness. �Our 10th Super Bowl here, the first since Katrina, and it�s clear this city is back bigger and better than ever.�
There�s the tale of the head coaching brothers, Baltimore�s John and San Francisco�s Jim, the first siblings to face off in a Super Bowl. And Ray Lewis, the preeminent linebacker of his generation on his self-proclaimed last ride. (His farewell party was somewhat sidetracked for two days this week when Lewis waved off a report that he tried to get unusual products such as deer-antler spray to speed his recovery from an arm injury that sidelined him for 10 games.)
�There are so many storylines to this game that make it bigger than just the Super Bowl,� 49ers chief executive officer Jed York said.
Such as the Harbaughs plot about sons of a lifetime coach who took different paths to the top of the NFL.
John, older by 15 months, has made his career standing on the sideline with a headset. He�s the only head coach to win playoff games in his first five seasons; his quarterback, Joe Flacco, has the same distinction as he heads into his first Super Bowl. Jim Harbaugh was a first-round draft pick and quarterbacked four teams in 14 pro seasons before going into coaching. He was an immediate success at San Diego � the Toreros in the collegiate Pioneer League, not the Chargers in the NFL � and Stanford before the 49ers won a bidding war for him in 2011.
This week�s family reunion has been light-hearted, though that figures to change Sunday.
�It�s probably a little tougher emotionally,� John Harbaugh said of facing his brother. �It�s a little tougher just from the sense of I don�t think you think about it when you�re coaching against somebody else; it�s more about the scheme and the strategy. There�s a little bit of a relationship element that�s more strong than maybe coaching against someone else.
�I�ll have a better answer for you after the game. I�ve never been through this before. This is all new.�
And oh-so-new for the QBs, Flacco and Colin Kaepernick.
Flacco is no fluke, holding the career record for road playoff wins with six. But until outplaying Peyton Manning and Tom Brady this year, he hadn�t gotten the Ravens to the Super Bowl. He has eight touchdown passes and no interceptions in the postseason, padding a r�sum� that soon will make him one very highly paid quarterback. Flacco�s contract expires after this game; even with a franchise tag applied by Baltimore (13-6), he�ll make about $14.6 million next season.
�I think when you talk about winning as quarterbacks in the playoffs, I would think that all of them have Super Bowl victories,� Flacco said. �So that�s really the only one that matters, and that�s what we�re trying to get.�
Naturally, so are the 49ers (13-4-1), whose midseason adoption of the pistol offense to best use Kaepernick�s dynamic versatility added a dimension no one has been able to stop. The Niners might never have taken such a huge step had incumbent Alex Smith, amid his best season, not suffered a concussion Nov. 11. Kaepernick took over, and the offense took off.
Once Smith was healthy, he no longer was the starter. Jim Harbaugh gambled by sticking with the raw second-year quarterback who brought more game-breaking skills to the position.
Difficult decisions such as those sometimes are foolhardy, sometimes inspired. This one worked superbly, and Kaepernick stands one victory from joining Joe Montana and Steve Young as a 49ers� Super Bowl champion.
�It was tough watching this team do well and not being able to contribute,� said Kaepernick, more recognized before his promotion for his collection of tattoos than for his strong arm and sprinter�s speed. �For me, what kept me going was the fact that I might get an opportunity to get out there. When I did, I needed to take advantage of it.�
The 49ers hope to take advantage in the same Superdome where they were at their most dominant, beating Denver 55-10 in 1990 in the biggest rout the Super Bowl has seen.
The Steelers are recognized as the true powerhouse of the Super Bowl era, which nearly is a half-century old. Four of those titles came in the 1970s, with Mean Joe Greene and the Steel Curtain shutting down opponents, while Terry Bradshaw, Franco Harris and Lynn Swann were scoring on them.
But the last two were in 2005 and 2008, and they�ve been perennial playoff qualifiers, too. That kept them in the football forefront.
For the 49ers, the golden years of Montana, Rice, Young and Ronnie Lott ended with the 1994 season. They didn�t even make the playoffs from 2003 to 2010, and this is their first trip back to the Super Bowl.
Rice sees Super Bowl win No. 6 coming Sunday.
�I just think we had players who played well in the big game,� he said. �My best football that I played, I think, happened in the playoffs and in the Super Bowl. I think it�s the same with these players.�
None of whom, except for center Jonathan Goodwin and linebacker Clark Haggans, has won a title. That�s still one more ring than the Ravens have: Lewis is the sole NFL champion in Baltimore.
Lewis hungers for these teammates to taste their first title � and to do it in his last game.
�I�ve touched the Lombardi (Trophy), and I know how it feels,� the perennial All-Pro said. �For these guys who�ve made this journey with me to feel that, it would be the perfect ending for my career.�
Like Lewis, 49ers receiver Randy Moss also could be suiting up for the final time, although he hopes to play another year.
Grabbed off the scrap heap after his career spiraled into oblivion and no team would touch him in 2011, Moss didn�t do much on the field (28 catches, 434 yards) this season. His loudest headlines came this week when he proclaimed himself the greatest receiver ever; maybe he�s never seen Rice�s numbers.
Teammates say Moss was very influential as a mentor and teacher this season.
�Randy�s like my older brother,� said Michael Crabtree, who emerged as a top receiver in his fourth pro season. �An older brother you would have that�s been through a lot that you just can learn from just talking to him, watching him.
�He�s a legend, and I hope he�ll be here next year.�
Lewis won�t be. He�ll don the face paint, put on his No. 52 for the final time, then see if he can replicate the championship of a dozen years ago. ?�You can never top the first one because that�s an unknown feeling,� Lewis said before adding with a chuckle, eyes widening, �but a second one � that might be the only way you really can top it.�
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The Bobcats� had no problems with Whitehorse, even if they had problems finding the net.
The Ignacio High School boys basketball team (2-0) beat the Raiders from Montezuma Creek, Utah, 58-30 on Friday night at the Webb Toyota Basin Tournament in Kirtland, N.M.
But Ignacio head coach Chris Valdez said he wasn�t too impressed with the impressive at face value victory.
�We played horrible, but that�s all right,� Valdez said. �We shot terrible is really what happened.�
Adison Jones scored 11 for Ignacio, followed by eight each from Kelton Richmond and Justin Carver. Jones also pulled down eight rebounds.
�Adison shot pretty well when he shot the basketball,� Valdez said.
�When there was a rebound in his area, (Jones) pretty much got it,� Valdez said of the 6-3 high school quarterback with �long arms� and �fantastic position.�
But if the offense struggled, Valdez said the defense looked �pretty good.�
�We took the ball at will, but we missed so many shots from the outside,� he said.
�If we can carry over the aggressive jump-switching and physical play ... that�s going to help us (today),� Valdez said.
The Bobcats, who opened the season with a victory over host Kirtland Central, will play Shiprock today for the tournament championship.


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No. 12 MVB Completes Season Sweep of Ohio State
MUNCIE, Ind. – The No.12 Ball State men's volleyball team completed the season sweep of the No. 15 Ohio State Buckeyes with a 3-1 win (28-26, 22-25, 25-22, 25-20) Sunday afternoon at Worthen Arena. The last time the Cardinals had swept the Buckeyes in the regular season was during the 2002 campaign. Ball State was led by senior middle attacker Kevin Owens who fired off a season-high 16 kills.
With the win, Ball State improves to 17-5 on the season and 6-2 in MIVA play while Ohio State falls to 8-13 on the year and 4-6 in conference play. The Cardinals are on a 10-match winning streak, including nine consecutive victories in Worthen Arena. The nine-match winning streak at home eclipses last season's stretch of eight consecutive wins.
Owens was able to hit a blistering .800 hitting percentage behind 16 kills on 20 swings. The senior did not commit a single attack error and also managed four digs. Junior outside attacker Matt Sutherland registered a career-high 14 kills while sophomore outside attacker Marcin Niemczewski was able to tally his third double-double of the season off 13 kills and a team-high 15 digs.
Also tallying double-digit digs for the Cardinals were junior libero David Ryan Vander Meer with 12 and junior outside attacker Shane Witmer with 10. Senior middle attacker Matt Leske liked to do things in threes with three solo blocks, three assisted blocks and three service aces. The senior was also able to counter Owens providing eight kills of 14 swings.
Senior setter Graham McIlvaine had a match-high 50 assists to go with a career-high-tying six kills, two service aces, five digs and three blocks.
The Cardinals started off the match scoring the first four points of the first set off a Buckeye service error, an ace by McIlvaine and two attack errors by the Buckeyes. Ohio State would battle back to take the lead at 13-11 before errors would knot the set back up at 13. Ball State only managed a two-point cushion before the Buckeyes were able to capitalize on errors and take a 20-19 lead. Out of a timeout, Ball State would commit two more attack errors to give Ohio State the 22-19 advantage.
Sutherland and Niemczewski fired consecutive kills after the timeout to bring the Ohio State lead to one, 22-21. Two kills by Ohio State would give the Buckeyes an opportunity for set point at 24-21. Back-to-back attack errors would keep Ball State in the set and force Ohio State to call a timeout leading 24-23. Leske earned a service ace after the Buckeyes were out of rotation, to tie the set at 24-all. The set would be tied twice more as the Cardinals came out victorious off two kills from Sutherland and two Buckeye errors.
The second set saw 14 tied scores and four lead changes with McIlvaine, Niemczewski and Owens all knocking in four kills each for the Cardinals. Ohio State would call its first timeout of the set after three consecutive blocks by Ball State to give the Cardinals an 11-9 advantage. The Buckeyes would battle back and took a 21-18 lead off consecutive kills from Lutz and Michael Henchy. Ball State would tie the set at 22-22 after two kills from Owens, a kill from Witmer and an Ohio State attack error. Lutz would register two kills to give Ohio State a 24-22 set point opportunity that turned into a win after a Ball State attack error.
Owens rattled off six kills in the third set to help Ball State hit a .333 (16-5-33) for the set to Ohio State's .258 set three clip (13-5-31). The beginning of the set was close but the Cardinals were able to pull ahead after back-to-back Buckeye errors to take a 14-11 lead. Ohio State would come back and knot the set at 20-20, but it was all Ball State from that point. The Cardinals scored five of the final seven points of the set, earning the win off a kill from Leske.
It was all Ball State in the third set with the Cardinals leading throughout the set. Ball State hit a match-best .366 in the set (19-4-41) while Ohio State managed a .205 clip in the set (13-5-39). An over pass allowed Witmer to set up McIlvaine for the match-winning kill.
Ball State hit .285 for the match (62-21-144) while Ohio State registered a .254 percentage (56-21-138). The Cardinals hit eight service errors and earned eight and a half total team blocks. Ohio State held the advantage in digs, 55-53.
Ball State will head on the road for the first time in a month when it travels to No. 1 Loyola for an 8 p.m. match on Thurs., Mar. 27. Check ballstatesports.com for more news and information on Ball State men's volleyball.


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Also note that Sessions and Graham are up for election in 2014 and should receive emails supporting their opposition to specific pieces of legislation. Frankin and Coons are up for reelection in 2014 as well and need constructive arguments sent to them on why there's no reason for any of the elements to the proposed Feinstein AWB legislation to pass and why there are 800,000 a year to oppose it. No crude or coarse letters since those will do more harm than good.
NRA give Leahy a C grade on RKBA and letters to him should focus on the cost to his party the last time an AWB was put in place. Point out that unlike then the grassroots are heavily electronic now and the soaring sales on ARs represent even more people that increase the risk for his party colleagues if the Senate and House members vote on an AWB with the upcoming 2014 elections.
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I will start on letters to them tonight. That box of envelopes and roll of stamps was a good investment...
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What can be communicated to the pro gun Senators to keep the bill from leaving committee? The offices for Lee and Hatch have confirmed they will not vote for the bill but is there anything we can ask them to do while it is still in committee?
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A quick question, why are all the Republicans RKBA and the Democrats anti RKBA? I thought being pro gun was not a Republican or Democrat thing, do you think someone forgot to tell these senators that?
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I think someone forgot to tell the Democrat leadership that, personally.
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The region that you enter to the south and southeast of Corinth was known as the Argolid (Argolídha in modern Greek), after the city of Árgos, which held sway here in Classical times. The greatest concentration of ancient sites in Greece is found in this compact peninsula, its western boundary delineated by the main road south from Kórinthos. Within less than an hour's drive of each other are Agamemnon's fortress at Mycenae, the great theatre of Epidaurus, and lesser sites at Tiryns and Árgos.
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Cook Time 20 minutes
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15 ounces Eden Navy Beans, do not drainor Eden Garbanzo Beans
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A Langfield Avenue teenager described by Erie County District Attorney Frank A. Sedita III as "a clear and present menace to the safety of our community" pleaded guilty Friday to burglary, robbery and gun charges in three incidents last May and August.
Brandon Jones, 17, pleaded guilty before State Supreme Court Justice Penny M. Wolfgang to a felony burglary charge for the May 8 break-in at an East Ferry Street home and the May 30 gunpoint theft of a 1992 GMC Sierra in downtown Buffalo.
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Volunteers move pets to safety in Lebanon
26 July 2006
by Donna Abu Nasr (AP)
The dogs were moved by volunteers of the Beirut for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (BETA) from a shelter in Beirut's southern suburbs to an abandoned pig farm east of the capital. These pets might be considered lucky compared to animals left to fend for themselves by foreign and Lebanese owners fleeing the Israeli bombardment.
The U.S. Embassy and others told evacuees that pets would not be allowed on the ships and helicopters carrying them to safety.
"The embassies that evacuated their citizens from Lebanon made a mistake when they made no provisions for pets," activist Hania Jurdak said.
BETA is Lebanon's first animal welfare and rescue organization, established two years ago. The group rescues stray and abused animals and tries to find them new homes.
On Saturday, BETA made an appeal for donations on its web site "to get the animals through this period."
In Israel, volunteers were also trying to save animals abandoned by owners fleeing their homes in the north to escape Hezbollah rocket attacks.
"We took in about 200 animals, mainly dogs and cats," said Tamara More, general manager of the rescue organization Ahava.
She said volunteers are going into northern towns and cities to feed abandoned animals. There "are thousands of dogs and cats roaming the streets without anyone to care for them," More said.
When hostilities started on 12 July, BETA had 113 dogs and about 100 cats at the shelter near a Hezbollah stronghold in Beirut.
The dogs were moved to the hilltop farm in Monteverde, about 10 miles east of the capital, because they were traumatized by the shelling, said BETA co-founder Joelle el-Massih.
"They were stressed out and were suffering from diarrhea," said el-Massih. "We worried they would be hit."
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