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The Barwon Heads Golf Club welcomes Green Fee players to play Monday to Friday (excluding public holidays), and some Sundays (between 7 - 8.00 am). Green Fee players are ineligible to play within the Members' competition times : Tuesdays 8.30 am - 1.00 pm, Wednesdays 10.00 am - 2.00 pm and Thursdays 9.30 - 12.30 pm.
Please note: As part of the club's course development plan, two greens are being redeveloped per year.
Green Fees are $85.00 per round and Member's guests are $55.00 per round. Golf carts are available for hire through our professional shop at a rate of $45.00. Pull buggies are also available for $4.00 each.House guests who stay on a bed and breakfast rate are entitled to green fees at the Member's guest rate of $55.00 per round. Full-board packages include golf. It is worth noting that from time to time there may be special accommodation packages including golf that offer attractive savings. E.g. During winter, Sun-Thurs B&B packages include complimentary golf for up to two guests per room booked. Click here for more information.
Green Fee players must dress in a manner in keeping with the Club's standards.
To make a booking click here.
Sports clothes, tailored walking shorts with long socks with rollover tops are acceptable. Short socks are permitted in white but must be free of logos. Tailored pants are permitted and all shirts must have collars and be tucked into trousers or shorts. Denim trousers or shorts are not permitted at any time.
Neat casual attire is permitted in the Club House except for the Dining Room and Members Bar (after 6.00 pm) where gentlemen are required to wear a jacket. Soft spikes can only be worn in the Links Room and Verandah Bar. Denim trousers are not permitted at any time. Socks must be worn and shirts must be tucked into trousers or shorts.
Click here to view the club's etiquette and dress code leaflet.
The use of soft spikes is strongly encouraged on the course.


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Artist biography
Kenneth MARTIN b. 1905
Abstract artist in painting and constructions. Born 13 April 1905 in Sheffield. Began working as a designer and studied part-time at the Sheffield School of Art 1927–9; then, on a Royal Exhibition, at the R.C.A. 1929–32. Taught at the St John's Wood School of Art. Exhibited with the A.I.A. from 1934 and with the London Group from 1936; member 1949. First one-man exhibition at the Leicester Galleries 1943; contributed to the This is Tomorrow exhibition at the Whitechapel Art Gallery with John Weeks and his wife Mary Martin and exhibited at the I.C.A. with his wife 1960; retrospective exhibition at the Lords Gallery 1962. Worked direct from nature until 1948; first abstract paintings 1948–9 and constructions 1951. Has helped to organize several exhibitions of Abstract and Constructivist art since the 1939–45 war. Commissions include a stainless steel fountain for Brixton Day College 1961.
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haha, well I've rated your same avy and sig like 3 times now. lol
Uhm, how about a 4/10 for the avy and a 8/10 for the sig?
EDIT: Oops, I didn't see Brawny's post. hahahahahha
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What: Kid's Cookie House Building Workshop
When: Saturday, December 1st, 10am
Where: Batesville Area Arts Council Art Gallery, 246 East Main
What Else: Space is limited, pre-register early, 870-793-3382.
What: Annual Christmas Portraits with Pets Fundraiser
When: Saturday, December 1st, 10am-4pm
Where: Old Revenue Office, Town Plaza Shopping Center, Main Street, Batesville
What Else: Appointments must be made in advance. There is no sitting fee, just pay for the package you order. Photos may contain pets, kids, families or any combination. Christmas cards are available. These portraits make great gifts. 870-698-1265 or 870-613-3045.
What: Holiday Open House
When: Saturday, December 1st, 10am-1pm
Where: Cooperative Extension Office, 1770 Myers Street, Batesville
What Else: There will be demonstrations, displays and samples of holiday decorations, gifts, crafts and food. Admission is free. A booklet will be available for $1 with instructions and recipes for many of the items that will be demonstrated and shown.
What: Pictures with Santa
When: Saturday, December 1st, 10am-1pm
Where: Cedar Grove First United Methodist Church, 6 miles west on Hwy. 87 between Pleasant Plains and Floral
What Else: You will receive a free 5x7 portrait and pizza will be provided. Donations of canned goods are welcomed. Canned goods will be provided to Midland Elementary School. For more information, contact Reverend Nikki Pierce at 501-206-7780.
What: Festival of Lessons and Carols
When: Sunday, December 2nd, 4pm
Where: Christian Science Society, College and 18th Streets, Batesville
What Else: The event features traditional Christmas music interspersed with Scripture readings. Performers include organist Russell Stinson and the Lyon College Flute Choir, under the direction of Laura Stinson. The program will showcase the church's neo-baroque Flentrop organ. For more information, contact Chandra Huston at 870-307-7488.
What: Convocation: Davy and Peter Rothbart of Found Magazine Appearance
When: Tuesday, December 4th, 7:30pm
Where: Nucor Auditorium, Lyon Building, Lyon College, Batesville
What Else: The Rothbart brothers will bring their 'My Heart is an Idiot: Found Magazine's 10th Anniversary Tour' to Batesville, featuring more treasures from the magazine, shared by Davy, with music by Peter. For more information, contact Chandra Huston at 870-307-7488.


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Canyon football defeated San Luis Obispo 42-9 last Friday in the first round of the CIF-Southern Section Northern Division playoffs.
This Friday, the Cowboys get an Atascadero that made shockwaves by defeating No. 1 seed Palmdale in the first round.
Fortunate or not, the Cowboys travel far north for the game that begins at 7:30 p.m.
Canyon head coach Rich Gutierrez discusses the game ahead, last week's win, a defensive turnaround and record-breaking receiver Drew Wolitarsky.


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Session 91 - COBE and the Search for the Cosmic Infrared Background.
Oral session, Friday, January 09
The recently delivered COBE / FIRAS `Pass 4' data sets offer an improvement of almost a factor of two, over earlier versions, in the signal to noise of narrow features and the high frequency broad band emission. This is reflected in the improvements in the FIRAS maps of the thermal emission of dust, and of atomic and molecular lines from our local galaxy. These give important information about the ISM throughout the Galaxy. Besides their own intrinsic value, these signals must be accurately determined, and removed, in order to detect a possible isotropic far infrared background (FIRB). A definitive measurement of the FIRB requires estimating and removing the high galactic latitude foreground emission with a precision of at least 10%\. Simple models and assumptions (e.g. the universality of the foreground spectral form and the constancy of the dust to neutral hydrogen ratio) can yield a FIRB from the FIRAS observations. However, the expected variation in the astrophysics of the local ISM, and observed variations in the FIRAS high latitude spectra, complicate the achievement of a sufficiently precise removal of the galactic foreground.
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration / Goddard Space Flight Center (NASA/GSFC) was reponsible for the design, development, and operation of the Cosmic Background Explorer. GSFC was also responsible for the development of the analysis software and for the production of the mission datasets. The COBE program was supported by the Astrophysics Division of NASA's Office of Space Science.
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Remember back in January when Alison Fensterstock noted a new parody of former New Orleans resident Trent Reznor and his outfit Nine Inch Nails' music by comedian Freddie Scott, titled "This Is a Trent Reznor Song"?
We, like Rolling Stone, thought it was catchy and fun. Trent Reznor, who used to live back in the day in the Lower Garden District, not so much. Back then it was just a fun thing to hear, but as one can imagine with the visual aura that comes with all things NIN, you have to see it to believe it — or at least appreciate it.
That's why we were delighted to hear, again through Rolling Stone, that Freddie Scott has put a face to Trent's pain with an equally spot-on video spoof. Check out the video below, but here's a great take on it from RS writer Jason Newman:
"Scott opens the video with a recreation of the opening shot of 'Closer' — complete with identical photographic IDs — before showing black-and-white images of insects, sheet-covered cadavers and a silhouetted profile of the singer. Scott nails Reznor's serious visage in close-ups, even appropriating the singer's Bono-meets-mad-scientist glasses.
It's as if Mr. Scott is bucking to be the next Weird Al Yankovic. (There are worse things.)
Note: We swear we're not posting this because the recently announced NIN/Soundgarden North America tour appears to skip NOLA. We got our fill when they played Voodoo last November.


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New climate report out today
The CSIRO and the Bureau of Meteorology today released the State of the Climate 2012 report, an updated summary of Australia's long term climate trends.
The major finding of the report is that generally we're getting warmer. In Australia, both the land mass and oceans have continued to warm in response to rising carbon dioxide emissions from burning fossil fuels. Since Australia contributes about 1.3% of the world's CO2 emissions, what does that mean for the rest of the world?
The report shows that we've been warming up---both nationally and globally---for a long time. Despite 2010 and 2011 being the coolest years recorded in Australia since 2001, each decade has in fact grown steadily warmer than the last, all the way back to the 1950s. 2011 was the world's 11th warmest year and the warmest year on record during a La Niña event. Significantly, the world's 13 warmest years on record have all occurred in the past 15 years.
Sea-surface temperatures have increased in the oceans around Australia faster than the global average. Swinburne's own Centre for Ocean Engineering, Science and Technology has been looking at global trends in wind speed and wave height over the past two decades, and found that there has been a consistent trend toward increasing wind speeds at the same time that the oceans are warming.
So what can we expect from the weather in the future? CSIRO and Bureau experts predict an increase in the number of hot days and warm nights. Climate models suggest long-term drying over southern areas during winter and over southern and eastern areas during spring. And Melbourne's infamously changeable weather patterns look to continue: droughts are expected to become more frequent in southern Australia but periods of heavy rainfall are still likely to occur. So even though it has been raining enough to flood in many parts of eastern Australia, we're still looking at more drought in the future.
Rob Vertessy from the Bureau of Meteorology and Megan Clark from CSIRO discuss the report in an article in The Conversation. They were also interviewed on ABC News Breakfast this morning. CSIRO provides a list of the peer-reviewed references underpinning the report on their website---the findings are bound to be controversial.Image credit: flickr/nasa goddard photo and video


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This week our "Getting personal with ..." feature is on West Texas A&M quarterback Dustin Vaughan.
Vaughan, a 22-year-old, 6-foot-5 senior from Corpus Christi, led West Texas A&M to the NCAA Division II semifinals in 2012, was named the Lone Star Conference preseason Offensive Player of the Year and received the conference Offensive Player of the Week award Monday after he threw for a career-high 470 yards and six touchdowns Saturday in a 48-21 win over Western State in Gunnison, Colo.
Being named Offensive Player of the Week, what does that mean to you? "It's always awesome to receive an accolade like that, but you can only spend so much time thinking about it. When a quarterback gets that award, it's almost like the entire team getting that award because I can't do my job unless the offensive line does its job and the receivers do their job. Luckily, we were all clicking on good cylinders throughout the game on Saturday and hopefully we can continue that and even possibly get better from it."
What was it that got first you interested in football and being a quarterback? "I started playing my junior year in (Calallen) high school. I was a tight end, defensive end just looking for a place to play. I played part time so I split time at quarterback my junior year in high school and then I was starting my senior year. I just loved the thinking part of the game, the mental aspect.
"Obviously, as a quarterback you have to have that. You have to be interested in that side of the game to be a quarterback. I took interest, I love watching film, I love dissecting teams and seeing what their tendencies are, different things like that. The leadership platform it gives you also for your team and for the community and the people who watch you play, it's a great platform to be a good example."
With not playing until you were a junior, were you a big football fan? "Oh, I love football. I've always loved football. It wasn't exactly the sport I was aiming to play as far as a college career goes until junior and even senior year. Senior year was probably when it hit that it was a possibility."
Did you have any favorite teams growing up in Corpus Christi? "Like NFL teams? Yeah. I've always said I don't follow teams, I follow quarterbacks. I was always a Brett Favre fan. I loved the way he played. As far as on the field, his competitiveness, his willingness to do anything to win, I always loved watching him play. Although he got flack for interceptions and all those different types of things, he still competed and still had a great career.
"So I loved watching him, but I love Peyton Manning. His footwork is amazing. Just seeing him play with Denver and get seven touchdowns, it's incredible. So I just try to model my play on the field after those guys who have been successful doing it."


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Today's topic is inspired by a tweet from our friend Brad Biggs; today is the first day that players can be cut. With that and a looming uncapped year in mind, who do you think teams should be targeting as potential cuts? Click through to share your opinion.
78 replies , Last at 12 Feb 2010, 4:30pm by Dan
I think you'll see the most cuts on teams with lousy stadium situations... Raiders, Vikings, Bills and Jags.
A name? How about Bryant McKinnie?
I doubt McKinnie would be cut, just because they don't have anyone to replace him. He might not be a great LT, but he is still much better then anyone else on the Vikings roster.
Vasher's a given.
My somewhat-wild guess: Thomas Jones.
I'll also note that I outline a case for the departure of one player in this week's Quick Reads comments, and will leave it as an exercise to those non-ESPN Insider readers to guess who before tomorrow.
Well, who gets mentioned in Quick Reads? Quarterbacks, running backs, wide receivers, and tight ends.
Brees - no
Manning - no
Running backs:
Addai - still on rookie contract, right? I can't see it
Brown - ditto
Bush - ditto, but he makes a lot more
Thomas - he must be a bargain
Bell - if so, who cares?
Wide receivers:
Wayne - top-five wide receiver, consistently; I can't see it
Garcon - rookie contract
Collie - rookie contract
Gonzalez - won't be listed in the tables, still on rookie contract
Colston - still on rookie contract; seems weird to cut the one consistent target Brees has
Henderson - I suppose, though I doubt he makes much money
Moore - rookie contract
Meachem - rookie contract
Tight ends:
Clark - arguably the most-important non-Manning player on the Colts' offense; no way
Shockey - makes a considerable amount of money, somewhat injury-prone, not a top-tier tight end; the Saints have plenty of weapons, so he's not particularly important; (I think we have a winner here)
Thomas - like Bell, so what?
Bill's guess must be Shockey, no?
Isn't Bush going to be making 10M or something like that next year?
I don't see the Saints retaining him for that number.
I think Shockey is too valuable in Payton's schemes to be cut. Offensive production really dropped when Shockey couldn't play this year, and they use him a lot to confuse coverages.
Bob Sanders?
Are we including guys who wont get resigned/tagged? Or just outright cuts?
Hank Baskett
Had love for him as an Eagle, but the high school high jump champion just never materialized into a threat in the red zone. I was happy to hear he went to the Colts, but the emergence of Collie and Garcon leaves him to compete with Gonzalez. Three guesses as to where the front office sides there.
Jamarcus Russell. Tom Cable stays, Russell is just getting paychecks. A cap hit would be the only reason to not cut him.
Obviously Russell ought to be cut - he doesn't even deserve a back-up gig in the UFL - but I think Davis gives him one more chance. No use applying logic to anything that happens in Oakland.
Without looking it up, I am guessing JaMarcus' Lewin number was pretty awful.
I don't remember him being accurate in college, and he only really started for one year, so he didn't have many starts at that level.
Al Davis is one of the greatest guys in the NFL to watch (unless of course you actually want the Raiders to succeed)
He completed 60% and 68% of his passes during his final two years at LSU. I guess that shows what a couple first-round draft picks at receiver can do for you.
I don't think either of those guys have done anything in the NFL. Drafted early, yes, production at NFL level, not even close
Dwayne Bowe has been pretty good, particularly given the situation he's in.
My fault, I thought it was Craig Davis and Early Doucet for some reason.....
Bowe is a good player.
I think JaMarcus is just plain lazy and makes $60M guaranteed, so what if he gets cut to him....he still gets all that loot. "Bank, here I come" --last words heard muttered by JR right before the Raiders threw him from the 14th floor of their executive offices
Actually his Lewin forecast was to be an average starting the NFL I believe. A disappointment for a #1 pick, but not a total bust like he is.
Laverneus Coles seems like a likely cut from a cost-far-outweighs-production standpoint.
Agreed, although I doubt they'll do it soon as it might weaken their hand in negotiations with any free-agents or high draft picks at wr.
Jerome Simpson must also be on the bubble, although again I think he'll at least get one more training camp.
Hopefully Daniel "I can't catch, and when I do I fumble" Coats will be gone.
Plus one or both of the late-season NT signings Orien Harris and Hamburglar Smith.
Seriously, Hamburglar?
That one will always belong to Staff Sgt. Max Fightmaster.
I've always been a fan of Urologist Richard Tapper, MD. (Yes, real - in Toledo, OH.)
Is that his real name? or like Pork Chop Womack's real name is floyd?
Cuz his parents would rule if thats his real name
Look for most of the offensive linemen in both Washington and Seattle to get the boot. Gibbs and the Shanahans will bring in a mixture of undersized athletic rookies and Denver/Houston cast-offs. An Ephraim Salaam sighting is almost guaranteed, and both teams may well get involved in the bidding for Chester Pitts.
It's pretty hard to see the Chargers bringing back Tomlinson.
QB Browns (does it matter which one?, all of them should be cut), and DE Corey "Suck money" Williams, WR Donte "Drunk with Braylon ruin my life" Stallworth
Browns save 7m + 8m + 7m or so for dead weight.
It's already been reported that Torry Holt and Tra Thomas will be cut from the Jags. Another potential casualty is C Brad Meester, although that's just fan speculation due to age/contract/ineffectiveness/injuries, nothing reported there.
Bills: Whitner? First round bust and a lot of young talent in the secondary
Titans: L. White? Far less used, becoming obsolete
Vikings: Berrian? overpaid third option in an offense with great TE and two really good complimentary young wrs.
Texans: Time to start over with Slaton or go their separate ways (they may trade him though, despite fumblitis he's still young and has value)
Eagles Vick? Chargers LT? (just want to make sure I'm right on a few)
Whitner's a bust now? I know he's been hurt, but hasn't he been a stud when on the field?
Not in the least, 4 INT 1 sack career (4 years). Not the game changer a first rounder should be, not even the best safety on the team, and hasn't been hurt that much...missed 6 gms last year, but only 4 in the prev 3 years. Had a respectable rookie season but not a ton after that
White's an RFA, which means he's cheap to keep. They're unlikely to be able to find a comparable player for less money.
There's no way the Texans will cut Slaton. He's playing for peanuts and he clearly has a ton of ability. The Texans line was lousy at run blocking this season due to both starting guards spending the whole year on IR. Slaton regressed in his own right too, of course, and the fumbling was a serious problem, but he was very good in the passing game (including blocking, where he took a big step forward from his rookie season) and he still has major talent. Fumbling problems can be fixed - just ask Tiki Barber. Slaton may not start next year, and the Texans may well explore acquiring a new RB option early in the draft or in free agency. Slaton could conceivably find himself relegated to a Kevin Faulk/Reggie Bush type role if Arian Foster lives up to the promise he showed in limited time. But he will be on the team.
Vick's gone, but I guess it's just conceivable someone might trade for him.
I don't think Slaton will be dealt, but there needs to be a serious discussion in Houston about what went wrong with him.
I don't think there's much discussion to be had; he tried to play through a herniated disc and he was experiencing numbness. It didn't work out too well.
The real discussion is "who should be the starter?" and "will the Texans bring anyone else in?"
My view is this: the Texans will bring in a guy with the intention of starting him (most likely through the draft) if and only if they see the opportunity to add someone who they consider to be an exceptional value - this is not the sort of glaring need that might drive a reach, and the Texans' management have not shown much sign of an inclination to reach for need in any circumstances. I think the most likely scenario involves a late round or undrafted rookie being given the chance to compete with the current players but ultimately ending up on the practice squad, with Foster getting the most carries, Slaton the most touches and Moats seeing non-trivial amounts of time as well. I don't think any Texans back will be a particularly good fantasy option next year, but I do think the running game is likely to be much improved in terms of helping the team win.
at Super Bowl party yesterday someone threw out the possibility that Brandon Jacobs would be cut, suggesting a large bonus payment due. Seemed unlikely to me but I admit I don't know his contract details. Thoughts on Jacobs?
As a serious Giants fan, it wouldn't shock me. Jacobs looked slow this year, he's injury-prone, and he makes a lot of money. The Giants like what they have in Bradshaw, D.J. Ware, and back-from-injury, speed score champion Andre Brown. Even Gartrell Johnson (SD's Round...3? 4? pick last year) look OK in limited duty.
On the other side of the hand, the Giants coaches/brass vociferously defended him when he was criticized by the media and fans this year, he's a good locker-room guy, and they don't have a similar back on the roster (unlike most teams, whose rosters are replete with 6-4, 265-lb RBs).
While I agree he is injury prone and had an off year (he has said he was playing injured and in fact had surgery after the season), I'm not sure that he makes "a lot" of money.
In February 09 he signed a 4 year 25 million dollar extension, with 13 million in guaranteed money. He gets the 13 million no matter what they do with him. That leaves 3 years and 12 million left on his contract, which doesn't seem back breaking to me. The contract struck me us underwhelming from the moment it was announced.
In fact next year is actually his cheapest remaining year (3.65 salary), it would make far more sense to evaluate him next year (when there is a penalty to cut him) and cut him the next year (when there isn't) if he doesn't improve.
For the Bucs:
Michael Clayton. Huge contract, but he has worse hands than Braylon Edwards.
Byron Leftwich. Got benched after three games for being a statue in the pocket and supposedly doesn't have the work ethic or interest to mentor Freeman.
Derrick Ward maybe. He's been a total disappointment, but Cadillac might not make it through another year uninjured. Unless Earnest Graham is moved back to RB, he's needed at least as a back-up.
Damn, that Clayton contract is out-and-out lunacy. How did I miss that when it happened? What were they thinking?
That said, given that it was current management which made the deal, I find it hard to believe they'll take the loss of face implied in canning the guy after only one year.
I would guess Ward stays. Clayton can't be dumped fast enough. Plenty of talk that Jermaine Lewis would go, as he's having trouble staying healthy. I also expect Ronde Barber to be gone.
Also, there has to be somebody out there better than Jeremy "Penalty Factor" Trueblood at RT.
Ronde might be gone, but I think they'll keep him around another year, he's not that bad yet and our backups are all inexperienced.
I suppose with Jermaine Lewis you mean Jermaine Phillips. He might be gone, but our options at safety frankly suck. Sabby is the starter now, I don't think Phillips can be anything but an improvement.
Trueblood is interesting. He's decent as a blocker but the penalties kill his value. The problem would again be depth - there'd need to be a decent replacement player, and at this point the Bucs don't have one.
Yes, I'm a moron. Jermaine Philips. I guess it may come down to the "do they honestly take a safety at three (Berry)" like the mocks currently have it. Sabby had the worst year I think I may have ever seen in the secondary. Utterly pathetic. I would like to also imagine a world where Sims and Hovan are cut and replaced with . . . well, about anybody.
That's my preferred site for mock drafts (and Emmitt Smith quotes). They currently have us taking Gerald McCoy.
As for Ronde, I think he stays for the reasons Sanders mentioned. He's not who he was, but he can still play. There's also no one behind him. I figure he gets one more year but they also draft his replacement with one of the second rounders.
Phillips is gone. They really didn't plan on bringing him back last season. Piscitelli was indeed awful, but the optimist in me says that so was Jermaine Phillips in 2006 before he became one of my favorite players. I think we'll let Phillips go and take another safety in the draft to battle it out with Sabby.
I'd like to see them bring in a kicker who doesn't screw my stomach into knots at the sight of 45 yard field goal attempt.
Philips had stupid moments, but I'm of the opinion that "Piscatelling" should be entered into the football vernacular as a phrase to represent complete and utter incompetence in tackling, as in, "Hey, Darren Sharper totally Piscatellied on Hightower on the first play of the Saints-Cardinals game". If he played in a bigger market where people actually saw him play, he'd be much better known as being utterly godawful.
I'd be gloriously happy with McCoy. It all comes down to whether St. Louis can pass on Suh; yeah, they've got a bunch of picks on the defensive line, but the BPA is pretty clearly a defensive lineman at this point. Please please please take Clausen. I still think they'll take Suh, though. It's like the Lions a few years ago--"Gee, they can't take Calvin Johnson after taking all those other WRs, right? We'll get CJ! Oh, crap, they actually took the BPA rather than anything else."
It just seems to me like the rational thing all around is for St. Louis to trade down - most likely to Tampa but conceivably to Detroit - and draft whichever QB they like best (I prefer Bradford, but I don't think Clausen's at all a bad prospect either). Suh's awesome, but he has to be worth more to the Bucs than to the Rams.
The question is whether anyone is willing to move up. Aside from the #1 pick costing a lot of money, it's unlikely that the Bucs or Rams are willing to relinquish extra draft picks to move up - there's just too many holes to fill on both teams.
In a strong draft, I just don't see the Bucs trading up. It's a team with loads of holes and, as good as Suh appears to be, it's just not worth it to burn extra picks. I'm expecting Suh and McCoy to go 1 and 2, at which my ideal scenario is Tampa trades down to some QB-desperate team and gets more picks. And then trades down again, and again, and again, winding up with no first rounders and, oh, let's say seven second-rounders. Sure, that'd work.
As a rule, it's hard to trade out of the first overall pick just due to the weight of the contract. Considering all the uncertainty regarding a new labor deal, there's even more impetus to not jump up and take on a huge contract when you don't even know if you'll be playing the next year.
Adalius Thomas: No chance of not getting cut.
Shawn Springs: Most likely getting cut. He's the 3rd or 4th best corner, and hes making starter money.
I can't think of anyone else who would get cut, because it seems like everyone who has big money is expiring. Light will most likely be traded (1 year left, 4M, and hes going to lose his job to Vollmer). I could see Koppen getting cut.
Who's playing center with Koppen getting cut? Connelly, Wendell, or a yet to be signed player?
I could see Light getting traded, if he had trade value. I think he stays. Vollmer's going to be RT next year. Kaczur will either take over for Neal or be a high priced swing tackle, or cut in this uncapped year. Thomas, yeah, unless a team like the Jets, Dolphins, or Ravens wants to trade a low round pick for him.
Joey Porter (unless someone is daft enough to trade for him)
Jason Allen
Ted Ginn (Might make it, but he's an expensive punt returner)
Jason Ferguson (Aging & injury-prone, but who else do the 'Fins have at NT? *Crosses fingers for Vince Wilfork*)
Beyond that, possibly Gibril Wilson, but it's a young roster.
Phil Simms is a Cretin.
Contrary to what Cam Cameron might have you think, Ted Ginn does not return punts. He should be cut.
I believe Ferguson is a free agent this year. Gibril Wilson should see the chopping block.
Other players that should get cut (but probably won't): Channing Crowder, Anthony Fasano.
Karl, Miami
As a Giants fan I was sad to see Wilson go, he was good in run support and a passable starting safety (unlike CC Brown). He'd be far better as a run support role player/backup safety than an every down starter.
That said, he was grossly overpaid by first the Raiders and then the Dolphins and will likely be cut. I wouldn't be surprised to see him sign with the Giants at a reduced rate to backup Kenny Phillips (who somehow has arthritis in his knee two years into his NFL career)
Porter will be cut, we agree on that. But I don't think Allen or Ginn will be cut.
Gibril might be, but who knows. Do you just cut him even if you don't have anyone in place to replace him?
Thomas Jones, Kerry Rhodes (unless he tears up his contract and signs for way less)
Lito Sheppard (owed a $10 mill roster bonus)
Vernon Gholston (this is the 1-year get-out-of-jail-free card for team with top draft pick washouts- no cap to be hit)
Steelers: Willie Parker, though just because it doesn't happen this week doesn't mean it won't happen. They'll probably cut him whenever he requests it.
Limas Sweed, all depending on what his mystery illness was. He might be worth a last round pick to the right team, but if he can't get his head on straight in Pittsburgh, I can't think of too many other organizations that could support him until he's a starter. Plus, Wallace. Of course, if he is cut, he'll probably be picked up by NE and turn into a stud, a la Vrabel.
Darnell Stapleton, who might make a replacement level starter at RG in a zone blocking scheme.
Townsend & T Carter, both due to age and ineffectiveness. Two thirds of the proud 2009 Steelers "Tertiary".
Parker is a free agent, Sweed will get another training camp to try to make it but they'll bring in some competition.
Stapleton maybe, only if they draft an IOL
Townsend and Carter, I guess it's a possibility but I don't see them getting cut before camp either.
Actually I don't think the Steelers will have any casualties due to lack of a cap because they don't have any terrible contracts.
Kevin Curtis is a ghost. I won't be shocked if Westbrook(!) gets his walking papers, though it probably wouldn't happen until after the draft. Victor Abirmiri hasn't produced despite being given every opportunity to take the starting LDE job from Juqua Parker.
Hail Hydra!
Abiamiri is still very young, but just keep being injured. No need to cut him considering his contract, I think he'll have another shot this summer, and has a decent chance to end up as the LDE if he doesn't get injured again. Might Burgess part 2.
Curtis on the other hand probably already has the new Chicago playbook.
He's not that young; he's going into his fourth season. Moreover, he's only got 30 tackles and four sacks and he's never played a full season. You're probably right that he sticks because he's still on his rookie contract, but they get less from him than they get from Clemons and Parker so if the Eagles draft a DE, I have to think Abiamiri is the odd man out.
Hail Hydra!
I doubt they'd cut Westbrook before training camp, at the earliest. My suspicion is that they're hoping he retires on his own, but that seems like the same wishful thinking that they used with Dawkins. I wouldn't be surprised to see Macho Harris or Joe Mays cut - too many mental errors.
Joe Mays, maybe. He had every opportunity to take the starting MLB job and couldn't do it. I'm be shocked if they gave up on Harris that quickly. I'm obviously biased, but he was a rookie playing safety for the first time, and I don't think McDermott's constant fiddling with the roster helped his confidence much.
Hail Hydra!
Charles Grant, highly likely: He might still be facing a murder charge and, depending on the legal process, a four game suspension; he's injury prone, he dogged it for 14 games and severely underproduced; and his absence was entirely unnoticeable in the playoffs.
Reggie Bush, somewhat likely: Payton publicly voices support for Bush, but the numbers are aren't good even when he's healthy, which doesn't happen that often; it doesn't help that some foolish team will be willing to pay him more than he's worth.
Jamal Brown, possible: Brown technically wouldn't be cut, because he's a restricted free agent, but he might not be resigned because a young, two-time pro-bowl left tackle will command a big contract. he's important, but Bushrod was passable as a replacement and Brown is coming off a pretty serious injury that kept him out of the whole 2009 season.
Grant's probably gone.
Bush has scored more TDs for the Saints than any other player since 2006.
Brown won't fetch any trade value due to the injury, and might be gone if an OT can be found via the draft or FA.
So Grant and maybe Brown go, while Bush stays.
Sports talk radio and sports message boards are the killing fields of intellectual discourse.
Surely to goodness the right move is to place the original round tender on Brown, keep him on the cheap for a year to see how he recovers from injury, and pick up a first round pick if anyone really wants to take a punt on him?
I could see some big names being cut by the Seahawks in the offseason:
Deion Branch
Patrick Kerney
Are virtually locks to be cut. Also possible:
Walter Jones (though I'd hate to see it end like that for him)
Anyone on the offensive line not named Max Unger
Julius Jones (not that his salary is super huge)
Matt Hasselbeck
Walter Jones announced his retirement yesterday.
I'd like to see Bob Sanders and Marlin Jackson re-negotiated or resigned to incentive laden deals based on playing time. Right now Sanders is just too expensive to keep on the roster given how much time he misses. I don't know what the demand for him around the league would be if he was made available. Jackson is probably done with two straight knee injuries so it's unlikely but he's a popular Colt. Tim Jennings is also not good probably needs to go. Seems the Colts have given up on Ugoh so he may be gone soon though his rookie deal is still in place and his number is small.
Vinatieri should be gone I hope. too much to pay for an aging, injured kicker.
Colts are a team built around youth so there's not a lot of room for cuts. Manning's deal will likely be redone and there's a chance Saturday may retire.
I think Saturday will go one more year at least. The only way I want to see Bob Sanders on the roster next year is for league minimum + incentives based on games played, which I don't see happening. Vinatieri would be good to see go, I think Stover was just as good as he would have been this year and he was picked up off the street.
Falcons: happily, it's not easy to find an overpaid, underproducing veteran on the roster. I have issues with Michael Jenkins, Chris Houston, and Jamaal Anderson, but they are all under contract at reasonable salaries for 2010. Coaches might make tough decisions on Mike Peterson or Todd McClure, but the replacements might not be on the roster and I don't see the point of cutting any of these players before getting to 53 in August. So the Falcons could be very interested in some players getting cut loose now, particularly at CB. No crucial free agents either - assuming no labor peace, Norwood, Clabo (RT), and Dahl (RG) would all be RFAs. Man, it's like somebody in Flowery Branch planned ahead.
My guess: Antonio Pierce.
My Guess: Donte Stallworth
If the Jets do cut Kerry Rhodes, expect Cleveland to sign him ASAP!!! We need safeties and he is a good one.
I love Rex Ryan as a head coach. He will have like 30 of those Coors commericals when they fire him in a few years
Hey now, my guess was at least made on the same day that he was cut. :P
The Bears should also go after Rhodes. There should be enough interest in Rhodes - I expect him to get traded rather than cut.
Kyle Boller is about to be cut by St. Louis. (sorry Mr. Prejean!)


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Wolverine World Wide (NYSE: WWW ) will be one of the first companies to release its earnings for the quarter. But Wolverine World Wide stock has already anticipated strong results from the company next Tuesday, and even though analyst projections are calling for a decline in earnings from the year-ago quarter, massive sales growth should point the way to an earnings recovery in the long run.
Wolverine World Wide is part of the highly competitive footwear business, with its shoe offerings including its namesake Wolverine brand as well as Keds, Stride Rite, Saucony, and Hush Puppies. Let's take an early look at what's been happening with Wolverine World Wide over the past quarter and what we're likely to see in its report.
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$591.03 million
Change From Year-Ago Revenue
Earnings Beats in Past 4 Quarters
Why aren't Wolverine World Wide's earnings keeping up with its revenue growth this quarter?
Analysts have had mixed views on Wolverine World Wide's earnings prospects recently, cutting their estimates for the June quarter by $0.07 per share but boosting their full-year 2013 and 2014 consensus estimates by 1% to 2%. Wolverine World Wide stock has reacted favorably, rising more than 25% since early April.
The big move for Wolverine came last year, when the company made a $1.2 billion purchase of the Performance and Lifestyle Group of Collective Brands, the parent company of the Payless ShoeSource chain. The move came as part of a group deal with private equity companies that were interested in the Payless retail business, but it gave Wolverine ownership of the popular Keds, Saucony, Stride-Rite, and Sperry Top-Sider brands. The deal has led to the huge gains in revenue that Wolverine has seen, but it has also had an impact on earnings as the company works to integrate its purchase.
Even with that strategic acquisition, Wolverine faces a big challenge from competitors. Deckers (NYSE: DECK ) has had to deal with investors' skepticism about whether its UGG line of footwear can avoid the same fate that fad products from other companies have suffered in years past, but value investor Whitney Tilson notes that many UGG buyers see their shoes as a utilitarian rather than a fashion choice. Meanwhile, Saucony gives Wolverine an entry into the athletic shoe industry, but Nike (NYSE: NKE ) continues to dominate the industry with its strong gross margins. In order to disrupt Nike's strength, Wolverine will need to emphasize Saucony's focus on running shoes, aiming to capture business from runners who value attention to their specific needs rather than Nike's broad array of shoes covering multiple sports.
Wolverine has made some smart moves to try to boost its sales further. In April, the company won a $15 million contract for safety boots for the U.S. Navy, demonstrating its ability to tap niche opportunities. Moreover, marketing and distribution rights play an important role for Wolverine, with the shoe retailer having deals with Caterpillar (NYSE: CAT ) and Harley-Davidson (NYSE: HOG ) to sell footwear bearing the CAT and Harley brands. Those deals help Harley and Caterpillar with their own marketing efforts, boosting awareness in a long-term effort to spur purchases of their own products down the road, but they also give Wolverine an opportunity to broaden its appeal.
In Wolverine's earnings report, watch for discussion of how the company is doing integrating its Collective Brands purchase. Investors want to see the earnings bleeding stop, and better guidance going forward would do a lot to justify the big bull run that Wolverine World Wide stock has made recently.
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"The governor's actions are going to be immensely popular with all Penn State alumni," Desmond said.
Corbett, a Republican, said his office did not coordinate its legal strategy with state Attorney General-elect Kathleen Kane, who is scheduled to be sworn in Jan. 15. Instead, the current attorney general, Linda Kelly, granted the governor authority to pursue the matter.
Kane, a Democrat, ran on a vow to investigate why it took prosecutors nearly three years to charge Sandusky. Corbett was attorney general when his office took over the case in 2009.
Kane had no comment on the lawsuit because she was not consulted about it by Corbett's office.
State and congressional lawmakers have objected to use of the NCAA fine to finance child-abuse prevention efforts in other states. Penn State has already made the first $12 million payment, and an NCAA task force is deciding how it should be spent.


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Commissioners float new courthouse expansion plan
MEADVILLE -- Crawford County commissioners have a new plan to ease overcrowding at the Crawford County Courthouse.
Commissioners are considering expanding the courthouse in Diamond Park and building an administration building and parking lot nearby. They will detail the proposal during public meetings in Meadville and in Titusville in August.
The plan is to build a three-story building north of the courthouse, in a parking lot on East Center Street. County administrative offices would be moved from the courthouse to the East Center Street building.
Courtrooms and court-related offices would remain in the courthouse and in a two-story addition that would be built behind it. The old county jail and sheriff's house would be demolished to accommodate the addition.
Public and employee parking would be provided in a new lot east of the courthouse.
Total project cost, including property acquisition, construction and design, is estimated at $30 million, Commissioner C. Sherman Allen said.
The price tag is about the same as the cost of an earlier proposal to renovate a former Talon Inc. building on Arch Street as a courthouse annex.
"But the cost of that just kept going up and up," said Francis Weiderspahn, chairman of the Board of Commissioners.
Weiderspahn was a critic of the 2011 annex plan, proposed by a citizens' advisory committee, that would have moved court-related offices to Arch Street and renovated the courthouse for administrative offices. The new plan, Weiderspahn said, would keep county offices together in Diamond Park.
"When somebody needs to come to the county seat, everything will be within walking distance instead of 11/2 or 2 miles away," Weiderspahn said.
The county bought the former Talon building for $250,000 in February 2011. Plans to use the building as a courthouse annex are off the table, Allen said.
Commissioners will detail the latest expansion plan for the courthouse during special meetings at Active Aging, 1034 Park Ave., Meadville, on Aug. 11, from 6 to 8 p.m., and at Grace Fellowship Church, 2 McKinney St., Titusville, on Aug. 12 from 6 to 8 p.m.
Commissioners will hear public comments at those meetings before making a decision on courthouse plans, Allen said.
"We're trying to figure out our best option, the best way to go about this and how to get the best bang for our buck, and want to hear what people have to say about it," Allen said. "It's their money we're spending."
VALERIE MYERS can be reached at 878-1913 or by e-mail. Follow her on Twitter at twitter.com/ETNmyers.


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Keith Giles is an author, blogger and freelance copywriter in Orange County, California. WHAT IS SUBVERSIVE? It's a systematic overthrow of one system or power by those working from within. Jesus said the Kingdom of God was immediately accessible to all who follow Him. This is the Gospel message. This is subversive.
Wednesday, December 19, 2012
"Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest." (Matt.11:28)
As I've been reflecting lately on the Sabbath rest of God that we are promised in Hebrews chapter 4, and throughout the scriptures, it has occurred to me that this idea of rest isn't just about us.
Our resting place is in Christ, but where is God's resting place?
"Heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool. Where is the house you will build for me? Where will my resting place be?" (Isaiah 66:1)
We know that when King David wanted to build a house for God he was told that God would build Himself an acceptable dwelling place, and He promised to accomplish this through the Messiah who would come from David's lineage.
But when Jesus arrived there was already a very glorious Temple standing in the center of Jerusalem. So, what Temple did Jesus build? He built the acceptable house "not made with human hands" that is made of "living stones" - the Church. We are the temple of God. We are His resting place.
"In that day the Root of Jesse [the Messiah] will stand as a banner for the peoples; the nations will rally to him, and his resting place will be glorious." (Isaiah 11:10)Where does God dwell? In His Father's House, or in the household of God, which is the Church.
"I write so that you will know how one ought to conduct himself in the household of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and support of the truth." (1 Timothy 3:15)
"So then you are no longer strangers and aliens, but you are fellow citizens with the saints, and are of God's household." (Ephesians 2:18-20)
"Christ is the Lord over his own house, whose house we are if we hold fast our confidence and the boast of our hope firm until the end." (Hebrews 3:6)
So, while you and I find rest in Christ, the beautiful symmetry of this is that God finds His rest in us.
"If anyone loves Me, he will keep My word; and My Father will love him, and We will come to him and make Our abode (dwelling) with him." (John 14:23)
The beautiful thing, to me, is that I am resting in the One who is resting in me. His greatest desire is to find a home in my heart, and my joy is found in resting within His loving arms.
"And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, "Now the dwelling of God is with men, and he will live with them. They will be his people, and God himself will be with them and be their God." (Revelation 21:1-3)
You and I were made to provide an acceptable resting place for the Creator of the Universe. He has prepared a place for us within Himself where we can know we are loved and at rest.
Together, we rest in one another.
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German record producer Frank Farian sits in his cluttered office near Frankfurt, Germany, mulling the Great Milli Vanilli Caper. It was Farian, 49, who produced the group's Grammy-earning album, Girl You Know It's True, then signed dancers Robert Pilatus and Fabrice Morvan to lip-sync the vocals for the LP's videos. And it was Farian—judging by what the producer is saying now—who witnessed some of the most bizarre moments his fake-singer scam inspired.
Take that day in October when Pilatus, his ego inflated by the album's success, called to ask for a remix on an upcoming single. "He said, 'Make my voice louder,' " recalls Farian, "which was funny, when you think of it now, because it wasn't his voice."
Soon after, of course, Pilatus and Morvan were exposed as fakes and sent packing off to Palookaville. And now? Why, it's the real Millis stepping forth to get their due. Brad Howell, 46, and John Davis, 36, the expatriate Americans who were the principal vocalists on that original 10 million-selling LP, are about to appear (on disc and video) as singers in a new-and-for-real Milli Vanilli. This time they're teaming with Gina Mohammed, an 18-year-old daughter of Americans living in Germany; Icy Bro (real name Leonard Slater), a 20ish rapping GI stationed in Frankfurt; and Ray Horton, 25, another expatriate rock und roller. The album of newly written, '60s-influenced soul music—titled, appropriately, Moment of Truth—'arrives this month and has already attracted almost 3 million advance orders, boasts Farian, who is again the producer.
For Howell and Davis, such high visibility might seem strange indeed. Howell came to Germany in 1966 as a drummer with Wilson Pickett's band, decided to stay and now lives in Offenbach. Having collaborated with Farian for more than a decade as vocalist, percussionist and songwriter (he wrote four of the tunes on Girl You Know It's True), he is a longtime studio player and admits his middle-aged spread would limit MTV appeal. The idea of stand-ins like Pilatus and Morvan lip-syncing to his voice on videos didn't seem all that unusual. "I thought, why not let the young boys please the young people?" Howell says.
Davis, who is married to a German and has two children, was originally stationed in Germany with the Army in the 1970s. A bassist, guitarist and singer, he is another veteran studio man accustomed to his role. "You get used to it," he says. "You'd see this guy playing the bass on TV and then realize it's not him playing, but you."
The ploy is an old favorite of Farian's, who is a former chef, singer and disco manager. Born Franz Reuther in Kirn, Germany, he produced a 1976 disco hit titled "Daddy Cool," in which a dancer lip-synced on TV to Farian's vocals. "The practice of borrowing voices has a long history," he says unashamedly. "There are plenty of singers who can sing as well as Prince, but no one looks as good as Prince. That's the problem. Without TV, without videos and MTV, you cannot do business."
Even so, Farian contends that it was Pilatus and Morvan who first approached him looking for work as song-and-dance surrogates. "They told me if I had good music to perform, they were there," he says. "They had made the same offer to someone else only six months before."
With Pilatus and Morvan signed, Farian then completed taping the LP's vocals under security as tight as a NATO spy maneuver. Howell and Davis were allowed in and out of the recording studio only under cover of darkness, and they each recorded separately, unaware of the other's role. Even Gina Mohammed, who recorded backup vocals on weekends, ended up believing that Pilatus and Morvan were actually the stars. She later appeared on a German TV show with the pair and says that even "when I watched them getting the Grammy, I still thought they were the real Milli Vanilli."
Meanwhile, Pilatus and Morvan were kept just as much in the dark. Although they had met Howell in the studio once, neither had ever met Davis. The latter recalls being in Munich one day last year when the pair were busily autographing photos for fans. Davis puckishly requested one and says that Pilatus, when he handed it over, "did not know who I was and had never seen my face. I wasn't hurt. It was just very funny."
But the joke had worn thin by last year's Grammy Awards when Pilatus and Morvan, who owed so much to so many, thanked no one at all. "If you have any kind of respect for people and their feelings." says Davis, who watched the broadcast from his apartment in Nuremberg, "and you know other people are making you rich and they are not getting so rich like you, you can at least say thank you." Howell concurs. "They didn't have to mention names," he says, "just the people behind the scenes."
Even more upsetting was the faux Millis' decision to begin a 108-city tour last March. " 'I sent them a telegram forbidding them to do it," says Farian, "because I knew they wouldn't be able to last."
For his part, Davis now says he may sue the pair for lost income. "They were allowed to use our voices on the record, but not on the tour," he snaps. "Here I am with a wife and two kids, and they're tearing up hotels at the cost of thousands of dollars."
Farian believes the grand illusion failed because "the success was too big. The situation became monstrous.... [Pilatus and Morvan] wanted to sing on the second album. Their voices aren't that good. I couldn't fulfill that condition." In November, after learning about an upcoming book on the pair, Farian finally stepped forward and revealed all. "I'm relieved that the truth has come out," says the belatedly contrite producer. "It was a crazy idea, and I'm not going to do it again."
The fact is, of course, he may not have a choice—at least this time. The real Millis, with fame finally in their grasp and plans for a U.S. tour in the works, insist they'll hold him to his vow. "The dancers are gone," proclaims Howell. "Here come the singers."
—Steve Dougherty, Rhea Shoenthal in Frankfurt
Honestly (We Think), the Real Milli Vanilli Turns Up with a New LP And, This Time, No Video Stand-Ins
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Here are Monday's top headlines you may have missed:
Three hospitalized after crash
A 23-year-old man, 33-year-old man and 25-year-old man are hospitalized at Hurley Medical Center after the 2009 Dodge Challenger they were in lost control on a curve at Clio Road near Welch Boulevard.
Police said the 23-year-old driver was heading southbound on Clio at a high rate of speed when he took a curve to Welch too quickly, lost control, left the roadway and struck a curb.
Heavy downpour possible
The Flint area could see minor flooding and ponding on roadways after heavy downpours today, according to a hazardous weather outlook report issued by theNational Weather Service.
A moisture-laden, low-pressure system is strengthening as it moves into the area, bringing the potential for heavy downpours, mostly after 2 p.m.
Crime mapping tool
A new online crime mapping tool already used by Flint police will now be used in the city of Fenton, said Police Chief Rick Aro.
The department unveiled the website on Wednesday, Aug. 6.
Here are other stories you may have missed:
The Laundry in Fenton will launch new nanobrewery with five beers, four house cocktails
Recall effort leads to rematch for Gaines Township supervisor seat


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Creative Cursing Round 10: Bra Shopping [VIDEO]
Confused about the title? You'll have to watch to find out how the conversation took a turn for the weird.
Confused about the title? You'll have to watch to find out how the conversation took a turn for the weird.
Hungry? Lucy & Jesse talk about the foods that people tweet about most in each state, a man who had his ball bearings removed and those pesky filler words.
All couples fight. Sometimes over the dumbest things. Don't act like you haven't made a big deal about the way your spouse puts the toilet paper on the roll. Watch how Buzzfeed hits it right on the money.
It's football season! Take a break from obsessing over your draft line-up for a few minutes and check out some of NFL's most notable hocking products in these old, cheesy commercials.
I saw the show Sunday and it's well worth the $18 special event price to get in.
I was watching TV and that iPhone commercial comes on with that, "Go you chicken fat go" song and I was wondering what the deal was with that song, and apparently I'm not the only one. Here you go.
Ari Voukydis is a comedy writer living in Los Angeles and he was on Jeopardy! yesterday and he lost in the most adorable way possible.
I used to sit next to a dude here in the office who would constantly ask me questions, I'm assuming because he didn't know what that big black thing with the screen attached to it on his desk was.
I noticed a glaring lack of 'unknowns' in this week's installment of Your Town Tuesday on big brother radio station WJON.
I don't even remember what our senior prank was when I graduated, but this one tops whatever we did and probably whatever you did, too.
In a recent episode of the YouTube show Dude Perfect, Belmonte showed off his rolling skills.
It should come as no surprise that we're Googling 'rollerblading' more than anything. The damn things were invented right here in our state.


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I purchased this car used in 2010. It has been great. This car makes a great value if purchased used.
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Long distance transaction over the phone and internet has gone very smoothly to this point. looking forward to the car arriving next week!
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Got a new hip and could not get in and out of Mercedes 2011 SL-- sold my new 6 month old SL for a 2008 CL even got cash back.....What a joy the CL is ----a cut down Mercedes S- into a super luxury coupe---- a dream machine with guts/
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The History Data Service will hold a half-day workshop at King's College
London on 16th September 1999 at King's College London as part of the
Digital Resources in the Humanities Conference and the Association for
History and Computing (UK) Conference.
The workshop aims to present and discuss current good practice in designing
models of structured and semi-structured historical sources and documents -
an essential stage in the creation of digital representations of these
sources. The workshop will articulate and demonstrate those standards and
elements of good practice that are relevant to a wide range of data creation
situations, from student projects through to large-scale research projects.
Further information about the workshop is available on the website address
The workshop fee is Ł20 and workshop participants must also register for the
Digital Resources in the Humanities Conference or the Association for
History and Computing (UK) Conference. An online registration form is
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Terminator 4 Details Revealed
Posted on Wednesday, December 19th, 2007 by Peter Sciretta
Our friend Devin at CHUD has a bunch of new details about the upcoming fourth Terminator film, Terminator Salvation: The Future Begins. Most of the information below will probably be revealed in the trailers and pre-release advertising, and is not all to spoilerish. But if you want to be kept in the dark, stop reading now. Here are the main details:
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The New Orleans Center for the Creative Arts has nurtured a host of jazz superstars, including such noted alumni as Harry Connick, Jr. and Wynton Marsalis. The riverfront school is also responsible for Joel Harrison's Saturday (November 17) gig at the Maple Leaf Bar.
The Brooklyn guitarist has been passing lots of time in New Orleans since he performed at NOCCA in 2010 --- a concert that showcased works written as a Guggenheim Fellow and recipient of a jazz composers grant from Chamber Music America. Harrison's crack New York band soared through crisply arranged improvisations, and some notated works that showed the influence of classical composers such as Philip Glass and Olivier Messiaen. When the concert ended, Harrison and his colleagues went to Frenchmen Street.
"I fell in love with New Orleans thanks to that NOCCA show," Harrison said. "For a couple of years of I've been coming down to listen, to follow second lines, to check out the club scene and see what I could learn. And I found that I could learn a lot. "
New Orleans writer Tom Piazza further encouraged Harrison's passion for the city. The two men met at the MacDowell Colony in New Hampshire. On subsequent visits to the Crescent City, Piazza guided the guitarist to off-the-tourist-route events, including the annual St. Joseph's Day parade by Mardi Gras Indians.
"Tom and I were out on the street with the Indians, and he introduced me to Glen David Andrews. By the time we were done talking, I'd been invited to sit in with Andrews that night," Harrison said. "That felt like something that could only happen in New Orleans, where there is still a strong community feeling about music. Nobody in New York asks you to sit in on gigs."
Harrison has produced some heady music over the years, including an all-strings tribute to drummer Paul Motian, but he is open to all kinds of influences. At his NOCCA concert, for example, the program included a keening, spirit-charged work for solo cello (performed by NOCCA staffer Jee Yeoun Ko) and a blues-drenched account of the Allman Brothers' "Whipping Post."
"What I look for in music is exactly what New Orleans players deliver," Harrison said. "They know how to open a door inside you and make something happen. They give you ecstasy --- and that's why I'd rather follow a brass band down Esplanade Avenue than go to 90 percent of the New Music concerts in New York."
For his 11 p.m. gig at the Maple Leaf, 8316 Oak St., Harrison assembled some of the city's most notable improvisers: Matt Lemmler (keys and voice), Rex Gregory (sax), and Chris Severin (bass). Drummer Jamison Ross just won the prestigious Thelonious Monk Jazz Drumming competition. The program is expected to include works by Harrison and Allen Toussaint, some arrangements by Lemmler and a few New Orleans classics. Admission has not been set, but generally runs between $10 and $15. Call 504.866.9359 for details.


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Staff Reporter
Members of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) in separate drives arrested two Myanmar nationals along with 98,650 pieces of Yaba tablet after a gunfight with smugglers that left two BGB members injured with bullet in Teknaf upazila here early Sunday.
Commanding officer of BGB battalion 42 of Lt. Col. Abu Jar Al ZAhid said tipped-off that some smugglers along with huge amount of Yaba tablets were crossing Naaf River in a bid to enter Bangladesh from Myanmar, a BGB team conducted a drive in the area around 7am.
Sensing the presence of the BGB team, the smuggler gang fired bullets on them, leaving two BGB members -- sipahi Habibur Rahman and Habildar Lutfar --injured with bullets.
The law enforcers also fired gunshots which left Riadul Haque, 20, son of Sultan Ahmed Mangru Kawkhali Para in Mymanmar and a suspected drug dealer, injured while his cohorts fled the scene.
Later, the BGB men recovered three plastic wrapped small bags containing a total of 96,000 contraband Yaba tablets from Riadul.
The two injured BGB men were admitted to Teknaf Health Complex while the alleged smuggler, Riadul, was first taken to the same health complex and later shifted to district sadar hospital as his condition deteriorated.
BGB members in another drive arrested Nur Kamal,24, another Myanmar national, along with 2,650 pieces of Yaba tablets in Jadimora area of the upazila around 2.00am on Sunday.
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Fort Smith Athlete to Lead Training Program For 2010 Little Rock Marathon Informational Meeting Set For September 3
LITTLE ROCK, Arkansas (September 1, 2009) - Little Rock Marathon race officials announced that residents in Sebastian, Crawford, Franklin, Logan and Scott counties will have an opportunity to learn more about running or walking a marathon at an informational meeting on September 3 at 6 pm in the Ben Geren Regional Park Golf Course Club House at 7200 Zero Street in Fort Smith.
Tom Minton of Fort Smith will lead the weekly group training. Tom Singleton, Head Running Coach of the Little Rock Marathon Training Program, and Hobbit Singleton, Head Walking Coach of the Little Rock Marathon Training Program will be at the meeting to give an overview of the training program and answer questions. The Little Rock Marathon Training Program is presented by Heart Clinic Arkansas and KARK Channel 4. The program is a free running/walking program created to prepare individuals who plan to take part in one of the races next March and is a project of Little Rock Parks & Recreation. In addition to the marathon (26.2 miles) distance, schedules are available for the half marathon (13.1 miles), relay marathon (approximately a 10K), and a 5K. Schedules are available on the training section of the website.
The Little Rock Marathon (presented by Arkansas Democrat Gazette), Half Marathon (presented by Baptist Health), Relay Marathon, and Classic Rockers Final Mile will be held March 7, 2010. The Little Rock 5K Fun Run/Walk and Little Rockers Kids Marathon Final Mile, presented by Arkansas Children's Hospital and Today's THV, will be held March 6, 2010.
"Our training program is really a year round program," said Tom Singleton. "After the marathon the first year, the group never stopped training." "The training schedules are very do-able and are for every level of fitness," he said. "We had more than 1,600 people in last year's program. Our program caters to first time marathoners and first time runners/walkers (meaning they have never run a step)."
"To get people thinking about the marathon, we offer a pre-training program," said Hobbit. "The build up phase of the program will prepare a person to run or walk a 10K (6.2 miles). The Build Up begins in late August and will last six weeks. The official schedule for the marathon begins October 3 and finishes on marathon day." "Finishing a marathon requires remarkable determination," said Hobbit. "Whether you are a beginner or a seasoned athlete, there is a place for you in the Little Rock Marathon training program."
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1953 Bowman Color Complete Set (160)
Starting Bid - $800, Sold For - $2,115
20% Ex or better, 60% Vg-Ex, and 20% Vg (with a few slightly lesser). Very attractive medium-grade complete set of 1953 Bowman Color. The set has been very carefully assembled and is virtually crease-free, with even the lowest-graded cards being very attractive examples downgraded due to honest corner wear. We have selected three cards from this set to be graded and encapsulated by SGC. Keys: #1 Williams (Vg), 9 Rizzuto (Vg), 10 Ashburn (Vg), 18 Fox (Vg), 32 Musial (Vg), 33 Reese (Gd-Vg), 44 Bauer/Berra/Mantle (EX 60), 46 Campanella (Vg), 59 Mantle (VG 40), 65 Roberts (Vg), 80 Kiner (Vg), 81 Slaughter (diamond cut, otherwise Ex), 92 Hodges (Gd-Vg), 93 Rizzuto/Martin (Ex), 97 Mathews (no bottom border, otherwise Vg), 99 Spahn (Vg), 101 Schoendienst (Ex), 114 Feller (Vg), 117 Snider (Vg), 118 Martin (Vg-Ex), 121 Berra (Vg), 143 Lopez (Ex), 146 Wynn (Vg), 153 Ford (VG/EX 50), and 160 Abrams (Vg). This is a very attractive complete set of this classic 1950s gum-card issue in a grade representing an outstanding value compared to a higher-graded set, but without sacrificing exceptional visual appeal. Total 160 cards. Reserve $800. Estimate $1,500/$2,500+. SOLD FOR $2,115
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From Feb. 23 to 26, thousands of gifted prospects will be competing in a rigorous four-day trial that is the NFL Scouting Combine.
Over the course of the weekend, there will be a constant circuit of events, including the 40-yard dash, three-cone shuttle, bench press, broad jump, vertical jump and the fairly new receiving gauntlet.
For 32 NFL teams, it is the primary event leading into April's draft before they decide whom they want to select.
Each year, the makeup of the draft class is altered and unique in its own way. At this time last year there was a great deal of offensive talent being thrust into the league. There were quarterbacks, receivers and running backs lining virtually every round.
The Washington Redskins were able to revamp their offense at its core by adding Robert Griffin III (Round 1) and Alfred Morris (Round 6). The Colts were able to find Andrew Luck, Coby Fleener, T.Y. Hilton and Vick Ballard helpful as rookies.
In terms of identity, this year's draft class could not stray further from the one preceding it. 2013's class is heavy on the defensive side of the ball, and particularly thick in the trenches.
The San Francisco 49ers could emerge as big winners in this year's draft, but there are a few things they would like to see play out first. Continue through the following slides for a breakdown of what the Niners hope to learn at the 2013 combine.


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Which Music Streaming Service Should You Use at Work?
Which streaming service should you use as a soundtrack to your day?
Music while you work can be a lifesaver: It can pump you up for a big task (I wrote this entire article listening to Training Montage from the Rocky IV soundtrack); it can make busywork—like filing expense reports—far more tolerable; and it can help drown out the carping of bothersome co-workers, if that's your problem.
But loading hundreds of CDs onto your office computer seems like a silly idea. Yes, you could use a cloud-based "music locker" like iTunes Match, Google Play, or Amazon Cloud Player, but that would still lock you into the music you already have. Streaming services allow you to play almost any track whenever you like, and they don't clog up a hard drive with permanent music files. Below are a few options you have to put a soundtrack to your day.


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Nothing gives you more time to think of blog topics then sitting at a national car repair chain for 5 hours on the Friday before the 4th of July weekend while they don't replace the starter on your car. My 1996 Infinity with 358,000 miles on it left me stranded at a gas station yesterday and the car repair chain left me stranded in Wilmington, DE. It's tough to keep yourself entertained when you've run out the batteries on your laptop and portable XM player and are left with hard plastic chairs and Judge Judy on the TV. That's why I was thrilled when the guy in the Nebraska hat wanted to talk football. My daughter was on her way home for the weekend and I was wearing my K-State Dad t-shirt so he felt comfortable talking Big 12 football.
Aside from the usual discussion about how Nebraska moving to the Big Ten was all about money and the arrogance of Texas, the topic of the name of the Big Ten (and Big 12) came up. I don't know what their plans are. I found an entertaining article on this topic by Andy Staples. My favorite line from the story, "I know the Big Ten name has been around since Fielding Yost outcoached Leonidas at Thermopylae." The fact remains that everyone knows what you mean when you say Big Ten. The name has great market recognition and value.
I think it may be time to change it, but you need to pick something that is going to deliver the same market recognition. I've not had any great ideas come to me but I am sure that all of you can come up with something. So here's the plan. Send me your ideas for the new name. I will compile them and we'll hold a vote next week and rename (or not) the conference ourselves.
Please post your ideas here or email them to me at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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The Big 12 is proving that last year's sensational season wasn't a fluke. This conference is deep.
Real deep.
Conference play has already started and one Big Boy already has a conference loss. Will that be the end of their season?
Doubtful. It's highly unlikely anyone will run the tables in the Big 12. The way this conference is playing, every week is a war to get to the top. And stay there.
This week we have a consensus No. 1, but their road to a BCS bowl is riddled with land mines.
Let the carnage begin.


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Get house stamp, BJP dares PM
By Express News Service - CHENNAI
Published: 23rd September 2012 10:15 AM
Last Updated: 23rd September 2012 10:15 AM
Terming Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's address to the nation "deceptive" and "unconvincing", the BJP on Saturday challenged the UPA government to get approval of Parliament for its move to allow FDI in retail.
Addressing a press conference here, former party president, M Venkaiah Naidu, said the reason behind the Centre unleashing a flood of reforms was to deflect the attention of the people from the spate of scams plaguing the country. "The address of the PM was extremely disappointing to the extent that it was unable to convince even the UPA allies," Naidu said.
He said the Centre, by giving green signal to FDI in retail, had betrayed the parliament. "They made a mockery of the promise that a consensus would be achieved before introducing FDI in retail sector," he pointed out. Also, the reference to 1991 in the PM's address was ironic as it is the UPA that has now taken the country back to a situation similar to early 1990s, he said.
Referring to the PM's remark that some people were misleading the country, he wondered if this included allies of the Congress, such as the DMK, which had fully supported the nation-wide bandh called on this issue.
"Even Kerala Chief Minister has opposed the move. Sonia Gandhi has asked Congress-led States to provide 9 cylinders when PM argues 6 was enough. There is no consistency in their decisions," he said.
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If by "having success" with almond flour you mean "manufacturing varnish in your oven," then I can understand.
Remember - polyunsaturated fat is highly unstable, and nuts are generally some of nature's greatest sources of concentrated polyunsaturated fats. They are very susceptible to oxidation by heat, air and light, and grinding them into meals that increase the surface area an order of magnitude, then subjecting them to oven temperatures that cannot physically occur on the surface of Planet Earth is going to rapidly degenerate those fats.
Don't heat your nuts. Never cook with nut meals. You are literally making varnish in your oven. After all, paint thinner is traditionally heated flaxseed oil. You get that wonderfully hard, wood-protective quality with paints and stains because the fats are so fragile, when they get heated they turn into something like a glass coating. Nut and seed oils are fantastic to finish cast iron with while things like animal fats and olive oil yield poor cast iron seasonings. Know why? Because the nut and seed oils oxidize and leave that non-stick, glass-like coating while the stable fats do not oxidize and result in a poor finish. That's a reason to NOT consume those oils.
Coconut flour does not suffer from this. Bake away I say if you're okay with incorporating "fail-eo" foods into your diet. Coconut flour bread isn't outright toxic like almond meal bread can potentially be, but you're still eating bread.


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Seeing the Nazca Lines in Peru
By Paige, Nicaragua, July 2012
About 70 of the figures—clearly the oldest—are pictures of animals: a hummingbird, a monkey, a spider and many more, even one that looks suspiciously like an astronaut. Later lines are perfectly straight, forming roads, triangles, trapezoids and other geometric figures. They can only be clearly seen from above, and were rediscovered in the 1930s, with the advent of air travel.
Editor's Note: This recommendation was taken from our Peru Things to Do blog. Visit the original post to continue reading the full post and to learn more about things to do in Peru.


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Let's start with an important disclaimer: I've only had 15 minutes to play with the new iPhone 4S, so it is hard to make any lasting comment on the new device. That said, I have a number of first impressions. Yes, it's significantly faster. Web pages load really quickly, for example. Yes, the camera is clearly better.
And, yes, Siri — the new voice-activated personal assistant system — is an awful lot of fun to play with. After a few botched early attempts to activate Siri, the system started to understand my voice (glottal stops and all). The interaction was impressively conversational.


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By Brad Locke/NEMS Daily Journal
STARKVILLE – He took on a legend, hired arguably the most magnetic young head coach in the country, and presided over plans to continue building Mississippi State into a more relevant athletic entity.
Greg Byrne has been athletics director at MSU for barely two years, and yet his impact on the athletic program is an indelible one. He'll be leaving soon, with the last week of April marking the end of his brief but notable reign.
Byrne, 38, takes over as Arizona's AD on May 3.
In one last sit-down interview with the Daily Journal on April 6, Byrne reflected on his time as MSU's athletics director. His final days in Starkville are busier than usual, as he continues to go full steam in his current role while prepping – mostly at night – for his next job.
Part of his current MSU workload includes aiding President Dr. Mark Keenum in the search for Byrne's replacement. Byrne has not publicly endorsed a candidate – MSU is using a search firm – but said, "I've offered my opinion on a few things when asked and feel very confident that Dr. Keenum will get a very good AD here."
If Byrne does have a particular replacement in mind, he shouldn't be too put off if someone else is hired. He can respect a man's decision to follow his own instincts instead of taking the easy route.
Not long after assuming the AD's role from Larry Templeton, Byrne was faced with hiring a new baseball coach. Ron Polk – who is Mississippi State baseball, who put it on the map and has his name on the stadium – strongly lobbied for long-time assistant Tommy Raffo to take over.
Byrne, however, never blinked and hired John Cohen, a former MSU player who had turned woebegone Kentucky into an SEC champion.
Polk fumed and screamed and to this day will not speak to Byrne (or about him), but he supports Cohen, who has strong fan backing and just brought in the nation's eighth-best recruiting class, according to Baseball America.
"I obviously have a lot of respect and have a lot of love for coach Polk," Cohen said, "but I think Greg's a great leader, and I think he did a great job with our department. I think Arizona is very fortunate to get him."
Lots done in little time
Sure, it was a chance for Dan Mullen to get his first head coaching job, and in the SEC, no less. But to hear him tell, the strongest selling point for MSU was Byrne.
When Mullen was hired as State's football coach in December of 2008, he spoke of his late-night meeting with Byrne and how it convinced him Starkville was the right place to go.
"It's really too bad us losing him, that's really going to hurt our program," Mullen said. "And I know Dr. Keenum will find somebody good to come in and fill his shoes. But he and I had such a great working relationship that we could always bounce ideas off each other back and forth."
When Byrne was asked which accomplishments he's most proud of, his coaching hires were just one of many he mentioned. Byrne also talked about the basketball practice facility that's being built, the growth of the Bulldog Club, and the football season attendance record.
He said he was proudest of two things in particular: A renewed "sense of real pride" among MSU fans, and the football game against Jackson State last fall. That marked the first time an SEC school played a SWAC school on the gridiron; MSU won, 45-7.
"I was really proud of Mississippi State, as well as Jackson State," Byrne said. "I was proud of our state, that that game went as well as it did. And I'm not talking about the scoreboard, I'm just talking about the sense of community I think both schools felt.
"And when the Sonic Boom (JSU's band) played at halftime, that was pretty cool."
That last phrase – "pretty cool" – is a reminder of Byrne's youth. It never seemed a hindrance for the first-time AD, whose roots are out West but worked at Kentucky before coming to MSU in 2006 as head of athletic fundraising efforts.
With that youth comes boundless energy and enthusiasm, which can also be found in the programs Byrne has overseen. "Tireless" is one of the many buzzwords among MSU's coaches.
That trait has allowed Byrne, in his final days here, to keep working on the department's "master plan," which he called a "living, breathing document." It includes an upgraded track and field facility, improvements to Davis Wade Stadium and the football practice fields, a new golf practice facility, and whatever else might arise.
The plan is currently being developed through Sasaki Associates Inc. Byrne said they're in the data-gathering stage right now.
"There's always going to be another project, or there's always going to be something else," Byrne said. "That's why we have jobs."
Always learning
As sharp as Byrne is – he wanted to be an AD from childhood, because that's what his father, Bill, has been for years – he doesn't pretend to have all the answers. In his annual review with Mullen – the same day Byrne spoke with the Journal – both men examined areas where they could improve.
"If you ever get to where your list is that there's nothing to improve on, then boy, I'd be very scared," Byrne said. "(A)nd there's people in our industry that sometimes aren't very good about getting constructive feedback."
Upon his taking the Arizona job, there were some critics who said Byrne was just climbing up the ladder, unconcerned with how his departure might affect MSU. He has gone to great lengths to say that's not the case, calling his decision to leave "the most challenging decision I've ever made in my life."
He added, "Regina (his wife) and I both genuinely care about the university and the people, and we're going to continue to support Mississippi State and support the Bulldog Club however we can."
As if to put an unassailable stamp on his love for MSU, Byrne channeled Mullen's cocky side when asked what he'll miss most about the school.
"Besides the people at Mississippi State – the student-athletes, fans, our staff – I'm going to miss competing against, as coach Mullen calls them, 'The School Up North,' because I wanted to kick their tail in everything we did."
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Byrne highlights:
– Hired John Cohen to be school's baseball coach, replacing Ron Polk.
– Hired Dan Mullen to be school's football coach, replacing Sylvester Croom.
– Saw improvements at Davis Wade Stadium including new high-def jumbotron scoreboard.
– Saw football season tickets hit record high in 2009.


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"The View" paused on Wednesday for a special announcement -- the 30th annual Daytime Emmy nominations.
"If we are not nominated, this could be one of the most embarrassing moments on 'The View,'" Barbara Walters, 71, told her cohorts on the show. "And, on this show, that is saying a lot."
No fear, Babs: Her show picked up 10 nods.
The daytime women's gabfest was nominated for best talk show and for talk-show host -- for the combined talents of Walters, Meredith Vieira, Star Jones, Joy Behar and the now-departed Lisa Ling. They'll face competition from newcomers Dr. Phil McGraw and Wayne Brady when the Daytime Emmy ceremony airs May 16 on ABC from New York's Radio City Music Hall.
Last year's top soap winner, "One Life to Live," was overlooked this year in favor of "The Young and the Restless," "As the World Turns," "The Bold and the Beautiful" and "Port Charles." And though it was bypassed in such major categories as actor, actress and best drama, "All My Children" received more nominations than any other daytime show: 17.
Last year's game show winner, "Jeopardy!," faces competition in that category from "The Price is Right," "Hollywood Squares," "Wheel of Fortune" and "Win Ben Stein's Money."
For lead actor in a drama series, the nominees are "General Hospital"'s Maurice Benard and Anthony Geary; "Guiding Lights"'s Ricky Paull Goldin and Grant Aleksander; "Port Charles"'s Thorsten Kaye; and "The Young and the Restless"'s Doug Davidson.
"The Bold and the Beautiful"'s Susan Flannery, who took last year's award for lead actress in a drama series, was nominated again, alongside Nancy Lee Grahn ("General Hospital"), Kim Zimmer ("Guiding Light"), Eileen Davidson ("The Young and the Restless") and Michelle Stafford ("The Young and the Restless").
Which, of course, begs the question: What happened to "All My Children" diva Susan Lucci?
She wasn't even on the "pre-nomination list," according to Soap Opera Weekly Executive Editor Carolyn Hinsey, who showed up on "The View" to proffer her opinion. Hinsey said Lucci's presence on the soap was too limited last year to warrant a nomination.
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