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If you are an NFL team in the market for a safety – cough, cough, Green Bay Packers – then this is the draft for you. There may not be a position deeper in the 2013 NFL Draft than safety.
"There's a strong safety class," Chicago Bears general manager Phil Emery said. "In our minds, there are five or six starters in this class at safety and that's rare to me."
But, beware. The position isn't the easiest to evaluate, so while there are plenty of safeties worth considering – Texas' Kenny Vaccaro, LSU's Eric Reid, Florida's Matt Elam, Florida International's Johnathan Cyprien, Syracuse's Shamarko Thomas, just to name a few – evaluating them isn't exactly easy.
"I think it has become a little bit tougher to judge. And part of it is because of the way the game has evolved," said Minnesota Vikings coach Leslie Frazier, who played the position with the Chicago Bears in the 1980s and whose team drafted a safety, Notre Dame's Harrison Smith, in the first round last year. "There was a time when you could draft a safety and say, 'OK, we need a guy who can play close to the line of scrimmage and really be almost another LB. And another guy who can maybe play deep in the defense.'
"Well, in today's NFL, the way offenses spread you out, if you just have a guy who's one-dimensional, you can get exposed if he's a guy who can only help you in the run game but can't match up sometimes on running backs or tight ends. That can be problematic for your defense. So people are going, it seems, to more of the hybrid type safeties, to guys who have some cover skills and have some ability to play the football in deep defense but maybe not as aggressive in the run game. So it's changed.
"So when you're looking at safeties in the college draft, you're trying to find more cover ability guys than you are the guys who are the hard hitters."
In Seattle, general manager John Schneider, a former Packers executive, drafted both of the Seahawks' starting safeties in 2010: Earl Thomas, with the second of two first-round picks (No. 14 overall), and Kam Chancellor, with a fifth-round pick (No. 133 overall). Chancellor signed an extension with the Seahawks earlier this week.
"Really, it's kind of luck-of-the-draw for us. We drafted Kam in the fifth round, and we thought Earl could play corner or safety. And so I don't think we did anything special," Schneider explained. "But it's still the hardest position to evaluate, in my opinion, because those guys are playing so far off the ball. They can be multiple categories. It's a little bit easier at other positions. So you have to be very careful."
The cornerbacks are easier to evaluate, and in this draft, Alabama's Dee Milliner, Washington's Desmond Trufant and Houston's D.J. Hayden are the top corners in another area of great depth in this draft. The safeties aren't as clear cut, although Vaccarro appears to be the consensus top safety and should be drafted midway through the first round. After that, it's a matter of preference – and finding the right one.
"It's going to be interesting to see with some of the things that the offensive coaches did this year on the read option and things like that how are the defensive coaches going to adjust to that," Vikings general manager Rick Spielman said. "Safeties, because they're playing against move tight ends that are almost like big receivers coming out, do they have the ability to play man coverage against those type of athletes? I think the safety position, it's a good safety class this year as well. But it makes a difference on your back end, especially if that guy is going to be the quarterback of your defense from there."
1. Dee Milliner, CB, Alabama (5-foot-11 7/8, 201 pounds, 4.38 seconds in the 40-yard dash): Played as a true freshman in 2010 and had 53 tackles, seven pass breakups and one interception. … Played in nickel and dime packages as a sophomore in 2011 and had 27 tackles, nine pass breakups and three INTs. … Unanimous first-team all-American as a junior last season, when he had 54 tackles, 20 pass breakups and two INTs. … Has very good size and speed, with great ball awareness and the ability to be physical in coverage and against the run.
2. Desmond Trufant, CB, Washington (5-11 5/8, 190, 4.43): Younger brother of Marcus Trufant. … Started nine games at cornerback as a true freshman in 2009 and had two interceptions and returned a fumble 17 yards for a touchdown against Notre Dame. … Started all 13 games in 2010 and had 48 tackles, four pass breakups and one INT. … Had 64 tackles, 14 pass breakups and two INTs in 2011. … Had 36 tackles, nine pass breakups and one INT last season as a senior captain. … Athletic, confident, competitive corner with NFL bloodlines but inconsistent performance.
3. Kenny Vaccaro, S, Texas (6-0 1/2, 214, 4.62): Became a starter as a junior in 2011 and had 82 tackles, eight pass breakups and two interceptions, along with two sacks. … Led Longhorns in tackles with 104 last season as a senior, adding five pass breakups and two interceptions in 13 starts. … Athletic leaper who can match up in coverage and be effective as a centerfielder. … Has some character questions and maturity questions but still figures to be a first-round pick.
4. Eric Reid, S. LSU (6-1 1/4, 213, 4.51): Started three games as a true freshman in 2010 and had 32 tackles and two interceptions. … Had 76 tackles, three pass breakups and two INTs in 2011. … Had 91 tackles, seven pass breakups and two INTs in 13 starts last season, earning all-America honors as a junior. … Athletic, aggressive safety who covers a lot of ground and has phenomenal instincts.
5. Matt Elam, S, Florida (5-9 7/8, 208, 4.47): Played in 13 games as a true freshman in 2010 and had 22 tackles and one pass breakup. … Had 78 tackles, seven pass breakups, two interceptions and two sacks in 13 starts as a sophomore in 2011.. … Had 76 tackles, five pass breakups and four interceptions with two sacks and 11 tackles for loss last season as a junior. … Fast, tough, versatile safety who lacks ideal height but is impressive physically and can play both strong and free safety.
Xavier Rhodes, CB, Florida State; Jamar Taylor, CB, Boise State; D.J. Hayden, CB, Houston; Johnathan Cyprien, S, Florida International; Shamarko Thomas, S, Syracuse; J.J. Wilcox, S, Georgia Southern; Darius Slay, CB, Mississippi State; Johnathan Banks, CB, Mississippi State; D.J. Swearinger, S, South Carolina; Blidi Wreh-Wilson, CB, Connecticut; Tyrann Mathieu, CB, LSU.
"It was a regular day at practice. We were doing (first) team vs. scout team. They threw the ball my way. Me and the safety ran into each other. His knee hit me in my chest. I fell to the ground. It felt like I got the wind knocked out of me. When I was breathing, I just wasn't breathing right. Dr. Michael O'Shay (?) took me inside. He was asking me these questions and I was getting real cold. I'm looking around and I'm getting real sleepy. My left eye goes pitch black. I can't see out of it. I can see a little bit out of my left eye. I'm praying, 'Lord, help me get out if this one.' They rushed me to the hospital and did a scan on my stomach and my chest. They saw a lot of blood in my abdomen. They thought it was my liver or my spleen. The doctor said he was going to have to cut me open. I said, 'Okay, just don't mess my abs up.' So they cut through my sternum and saw the i(inferior vena cava), the main vein to your heart, was torn. He put some sutures, in stitched it back together, closed me back up and here I am today. I didn't think it was that serious before I woke up. I woke up and saw it on the news. Then I was looking at the scar and all these bandages and all these machines I'm hooked up to and I realized I was truly blessed. They told me what happened was 95 percent fatal. I'm truly blessed to be here right now." – Hayden, on nearly dying after rupturing his inferior vena cava in a practice collision in November.
Position analysis: Gone is 15-year NFL veteran – and likely Pro Football Hall of Famer – Charles Woodson, the defense's emotional leader who was released in a cost-cutting move on Feb. 15. Cornerback Tramon Williams, considered during the 2010 season to be one of the top 5 cover men in the league, still isn't the player he was before suffering nerve damage in his shoulder in the 2011 regular-season opener, and now cornerbacks coach Joe Whitt expects a four-way competition for the two starting cornerback jobs involving Williams, Sam Shields, Casey Hayward and Davon House. Tim has flown by and safety Morgan Burnett is now entering his fourth NFL season and a contract year, with coaches' Pro Bowl predictions for him yet to be realized. (He was the only defensive player to play all 1,259 snaps last season and ranked second on the team in tackles (137) while registering two sacks and two interceptions.Put it all together, and the secondary is one of the team's primary issues. Hayward was a second-round find out of Vanderbilt last year, and his arrow is pointing up. Shields, who missed six weeks with a sprained ankle, was great upon his return. House flashed in camp but had his season derailed by a shoulder injury that required offseason surgery. Williams was more like himself last year than he was in 2011, but he's still fighting his way back. The biggest question is at safety, where Burnett is in a contract year but the other spot is up in the air. Is it M.D. Jennings' spot to lose? Or is Jerron McMillian, a fourth-round pick from Maine last year, set to emerge? Both saw action while Woodson was sidelined with a broken collarbone, but neither truly distinguished himself. It remains a sad fact that this defense hasn't been the same since three-time Pro Bowl safety Nick Collins' career-ending neck injury in Week 2 of the 2011 season.
Draft strategy: The Packers certainly like to grow their own in the secondary. Burnett, Hayward, McMillian and House are all Ted Thompson draft picks, while Shields, Jennings and safety Sean Richardson are all original undrafted rookie free-agent signees. Williams and Jarrett Bush came into the league as undrafted guys with other teams and were signed or claimed on the cheap. It wouldn't be the least bit surprising to see Thompson nab a safety with his first pick – or see him trade back out of No. 26 and take a safety in the second round while accumulating an extra pick. The deep safety class certainly would lend itself to an addition there on Day 1 or Day 2 – last year's class, by contrast, was considered to be a weak one when Thompson took McMillian in the fourth round – but it would be rare for the Packers to use their first-round pick on the position. Only once in the last 20 years – when Ron Wolf traded into the first round to take Alabama's George Teague in 1993 – have the Packers taken a true safety in the first round. (1999 first-round pick Antuan Edwards started his career at cornerback, then moved to safety.) In eight drafts under Thompson, the Packers have drafted six safeties: Collins (second) and Marviel Underwood (fourth) in 2005; Tyrone Culver (sixth) in 2006; Aaron Rouse (third) in 2007; Burnett (third) in 2010; and McMillian (fourth) last year. But historically, the Packers have hit some second-round home runs at the position with Collins, Darren Sharper (1997) and LeRoy Butler (1990).
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|Satanic Ritual in Durham; Kidnapping,sexual assualt and more
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|~J~ is in Wonderland
|Jun 27 2008, 05:44 PM Post #1
~J~ is in Wonderland
Date Confined Date Released Statute Description Bond Type Bond Amount
6/27/2008 [incarcerated] AWDW SERIOUS INJURY SECURED $0.00
6/27/2008 [incarcerated] SECOND DEGREE KIDNAPPING SECURED $0.00
6/27/2008 [incarcerated] SECOND DEGREE RAPE SECURED $590,000.00
Date Confined Date Released Statute Description Bond Type Bond Amount
6/27/2008 [incarcerated] FELONY AID AND ABET SECURED $270,000.00
Word on the street is- this couple held another couple for about 2 months.
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|Jun 27 2008, 08:31 PM Post #2
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Yeah, something is afoot alright.
That's some serious bond.
Sick too.
|Bill Anderson
|Jun 27 2008, 08:31 PM Post #3
Hmmmm. Isn't Victoria Peterson somewhere in the mix?
|Jun 27 2008, 08:51 PM Post #4
|Pouring chicken blood over snips of hair?
|~J~ is in Wonderland
|Jun 27 2008, 09:02 PM Post #5
~J~ is in Wonderland
Joy Johnson is the 1chair or 1st vice chair of the State Democratic Party.
My sources are having a hard time getting any info on this. Hope to have something on the 11:00 news.
There was a teaser on WTVD. You guys can keep a check online.
I am off to bed.
|Jun 27 2008, 09:39 PM Post #6
This Joy Johnson???
Hillary Clinton: A proven leader voters can believe in
Herald-Sun, The (Durham, NC) - May 4, 2008
Editor's Note:Durham Democratic Party members Cathy Moore and Joy Johnson submitted this conversation in support of candidate Hillary Clinton:
Moore: Joy , I'm so glad you, a young person, are also supporting Hillary Clinton for president. I remember when Sen. Clinton was young, like Barack Obama is now. I remember when everything about Clinton, even her hairstyle, was criticized by Washington insiders. Her dedication, hard work and intelligence have won over many of her critics. That acceptance will make her a better champion for our issues, not compromise her.
Johnson : It was the first Clinton election that inspired me to get involved in politics when I was 14. I was very impressed with Hillary's participation in health care.
Moore: Clinton is the reason that the key question about national health insurance coverage is "What will it look like?" and not, "Will we have it? Hillary was instrumental in the passage of the Children's Health Insurance program, a first step to provide health insurance to all children. Her health insurance is the most comprehensive plan. It covers everyone through a choice of: Keeping your current plan, joining Congress's plan, or using a public plan. There will be tax credits to assist with paying premiums.
She has shown that she will continue to accept responsibility, to study and reflect on the issues and develop solutions to problems.
Johnson : Health care has always been an important issue for me since my mom has struggled with a pre-existing condition. Hillary's plan will provide severe sanctions for companies that exclude pre-existing conditions. Hillary has always believed that health care should be a "right, not a privilege." Sen. Obama claims that he will offer health care to anyone who wants it, but I believe health care should be for everyone, period. Hillary's plan will ensure that even if people are not thinking about the importance of health care, they will still have it if a time comes when they suddenly need it.
Moore: You and I have both been against the war in Iraq since before it started, for all the reasons most Americans are now against it. Clinton has a voting record of support for the troops with the best equipment and with medical care and other treatment when they return. She has the support of 30 high-ranking military officers. Her plan for withdrawal of the troops is another example of her maturity and common sense. Hillary plans to immediately convene a panel of military experts to come up with a plan, within 60 days, to deal with current realities on the ground that will safely remove the troops and Iraqi supporters of our military. She will require the return of private contractors and ban no-bid contracts. She is not making a bald promise to immediately remove the troops when that just may not be possible in January. This is important for North Carolina because of Fort Bragg, Camp Lejeune, and National Guard troops serving in Iraq.
Johnson : Hillary realizes the war in Iraq was a mistake. I also traveled to Iraq with a peace team; I have seen the damage the U.S. has caused to Iraq due to war and sanctions. However, I realize we did not get ourselves into Iraq in one day, so it will not be a quick and easy fix. Hillary will take the necessary steps needed to make sure we withdraw from Iraq in a safe and efficient manner that benefits both Americans and Iraqis.
Moore: In North Carolina, we have lost manufacturing jobs, and tobacco and cotton are no longer major industries. We need Hillary's policies and programs that support the middle class and will keep jobs in North Carolina. She wants to create "green" jobs. Sen. Clinton forecast the sub-prime mortgage crisis last summer.
Johnson : In North Carolina, we struggle to improve our education system. I recently spoke with a teenager who dropped out of school. No Child Left Behind hurt him because instead of focusing on how well he did on a test or quiz, it focused on whether or not he completed drill work and homework. Hillary realizes the importance of looking at each child individually with a partnership between teacher, parent and student rather than as a statistic, as she has stated in her book, "It Takes a Village".
Moore: Those of us who can remember real leaders should not be swept along. We must exercise critical thinking and look for specific policies and plans for financing and implementing them. The Republican administration has pushed us so far back that we cannot afford to be lulled into voting for another "nice guy", who may not have the skills to implement his ideas. We can hope for change, but with Hillary Clinton we know there will be change and what it will be like.
We have to nominate Hillary because she has the best chance in the long run to beat John McCain as she has specific plans for all the issues that confront us now and will benefit people over power.
We agree: Hillary Clinton is a leader we can believe in.
Johnson and Moore are Democratic Party officers and Durham residents.
Letters to the editor
Herald-Sun, The (Durham, NC) - October 6, 2007
Stith's flip-flopping
When it comes to fighting crime, Thomas Stith wants to have it both ways. In a recent brochure, Stith's high-paid Republican consultants have him saying he favors a "city partnership with schools and community groups to target at-risk children." Yet in March, while speaking to a Herald-Sun reporter, Stith questioned why the city was investing in just such program near the intersection of Driver Street and Angier Avenue.
With funds from the 2005 city bond, the former Holton School will be converted into a vocational school, recreation facilities and space for a health clinic run by Duke Medical Center. In an area suffering from crime, despair, and underinvestment, this project will bring activity to an empty and blighted building, as well as job skills and health care to residents living in difficult circumstances. It will shine a light into an area of Durham that needs it, and the activity will help drive out the criminal element.
Now that Stith is a candidate for mayor, his handlers see the value in endorsing a program like this. But in March, before he was a candidate, Stith opposed the investment in a struggling community. In November, Durham voters will see through his flip-flop on fighting crime.
Durham County Democratic Party
Description: Diana Palmer, Joy Johnson and Joy's husband, Joe.
|Jun 27 2008, 09:46 PM Post #7
Meet The Durham Dems
Of the 156,648 registered voters in Durham County (as of April 21, 2008), a solid majority of 96,336 are registered as Democrats (another 33,000 plus are Unaffiliated and frequently support Democratic candidates or causes). The Durham County Democratic Party represents the interests of this constituency to the North Carolina Democratic Party, which in turn represents the NCDP's interests to the Democratic National Committee.
Chair: Kevin Farmer
1st Vice Chair: Diana Palmer
2nd Vice Chair: Stella Adams
3rd Vice Chair: Joy Johnson
Secretary: Tracey Burns-Vann
Treasurer: Michael Byrd
State Executive Committee Members:
Stella Adams
Lavonia Allison
Tracy Hicks Barley
Diane Catotti
Cora Cole-McFadden
Karen Gray
Joy Johnson
Evelyn Lovett
Diana Palmer
Brenda Hill Pollard
Kristi Scott
Lanya Shapiro
Monique Velasquez
T.E. Austin
William V. (Bill) Bell
Ted Benson
Jeremy Collins
Joseph Costa
Kevin Farmer
Fred Foster
David Harris
Harris Johnson
Paul Luebke
Floyd McKissick
Milo Pyne
Ricardo Velasquez
Mike Woodard
|Jun 27 2008, 09:53 PM Post #8
Join Our Newest Committee:
The Issues & Action Committee researches issues of concern to the people of Durham and proposes ways to take action leading to their resolution. It seeks long-term solutions for problems facing the community, works with other areas within the party to identify these issues, helps identify positive solutions to present to elected officials, and provides accountability by tracking the implementation and success of the party's recommendations. Volunteers on the committee help with its initiatives, such as researching and writing resolutions, conducting research into policies and activities that have worked in other areas, sponsoring forums for debate, and maintaining contact with elected officials. Are you interested in being part of the Issues & Action Committee? If so, contact Committee Chair Joy Johnson at (email)
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|Jun 27 2008, 09:53 PM Post #9
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Look for Johnson's part to be downplayed.
|Jack Wade
|Jun 27 2008, 10:16 PM Post #10
I wouldn't count on that.
|Jun 27 2008, 10:36 PM Post #11
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|Jun 27 2008, 10:42 PM Post #12
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I defer to you.
I don't have anything but a second hand rumor. The 'T' word was used though - torture. Got my attention.
|Jun 27 2008, 10:52 PM Post #13
This looks like him.
A Shaman at birth?
Joy Johnson has been a political, peace and social activist since her early teens. She has devoted her life to peace activism and searching for proactive means to bring about world peace.
As a child, Joy had many spiritual experiences and always felt she was never alone due to the presence of spirit guides. As a teenager, she spent much of her time studying various religions, yet none of them felt right to her. After traveling to Iraq on a peace mission, she became more and more drawn to the spiritual energy surrounding her. The Indigo Dawn started as a vision during a meditation where she was clearly shown the enlightenment glyph and given the name Indigo Dawn. She decided to explore the New Age community more, and after taking a course in Reiki healing, experiencing past life regression along with direct guidance from her spirit guides, she confirmed that her destiny was to help bring about the New Age on Earth. Joy shared her vision with her husband, Joe; as a result The Indigo Dawn was founded to raise the vibration of energy on Earth.
In 2000, Joy graduated from Cornell University, obtaining a B.S. in Human Biology, Health and Society. Joy was born in Fayetteville, N.C., and grew up in Raleigh, N.C., where she attended Millbrook High School. In high school, she revived the N.C. Association of Teen Democrats after it had been dormant for 10 years and served as president for two years.
Joy serves as president of the United Nations Association of Wake County. She is currently third vice chair of the Durham County Democratic Party as well as vice president of the Young Democrats in Durham County. She is also a member of the Human Relations Commission of Durham, N.C.
Joy has traveled to Israel/Palestine with the Israeli Committee against House Demolitions to witness the conflict between Israel and Palestine on the ground. Before the 2003 war, Joy traveled to Iraq with the Christian Peacemaker Team to put a human face on the situation and to share with Americans the truth about the effect of the Gulf War and the imposed sanctions on the Iraqi people. Meanwhile, she speaks about her experience in the Middle East on a regular basis to any interested groups.
Rev. Joseph Craig has always seen the world through different eyes. He has known since a very young age that things were not as simple as those around him would like to suggest. By the age of 6 without even knowing the term for it, Joseph knew that this was not the first time he had walked the face of the earth. This level of understanding and reason is something that has continued throughout his life.
Joseph was always fascinated with magick and anything related to the topic. It was not until he reached the age of 14 that he came to the understanding that magick was real. This opened his eyes and his mind to the world as it really is. Everything that he knew without reason or explanation all of a sudden became clear. This started his study of self and his study of the occult.
A devout student of magick and of self-discovery, Joseph has turned the page and is teaching that which he understands and knows to others. Finally finding his true calling, he has pushed others to a level of understanding and reason far beyond what they currently were. Do not judge this young man by his age, for his soul goes far beyond this. Always a student, even as a teacher, he seeks to further his understanding and grasp those unseen threads.
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|Jun 27 2008, 10:58 PM Post #14
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You truly can not make this sh!t up!
Thanks for that info Baldo!
I've said before that Durham is the Fake Reverend Capital of the World!
Joy Johnson looks to be everything that Diane Catotti looks for in a woman.
Since this isn't the first time that Reverend Joseph Craig has walked the face of the earth, can we charge him with crimes he undoubtedly committed in his previous lives?
|Jun 27 2008, 11:02 PM Post #15
I wonder if they know Theresa Arico of Sacred Fire Fame?
Tony you need to copyright "You truly can not make this sh!t up!"
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|Jun 27 2008, 11:06 PM Post #16
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The first clue that you need to go on a Diet is when you have to kidnap people and hold them hostage to have sex with you.
Rule of Thumb: Never trust anyone that has started a Teen Democrats organization!
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|Jun 27 2008, 11:10 PM Post #17
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At first, I thought this was another Nifong thread!
|Jun 27 2008, 11:11 PM Post #18
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Looks like they forgot to do their Chakra/aura cleansing
|Jun 27 2008, 11:15 PM Post #19
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|Jun 27 2008, 11:19 PM Post #20
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No doubt, they are going to be the most popular couple on Cell Block D!
They made their Coven, now they can sleep in it.
|Jun 27 2008, 11:36 PM Post #21
DURHAM, NC (WTVD) -- A leader in the Democratic Party in the Triangle is charged in a bizarre sex crime.
Sources tell Eyewitness News it was a satanic ritual that got out of hand.
Arrest warrants allege Joy Johnson, a vice chair woman of the Durham County Democratic Party watched as her husband, Joseph Craig, beat and raped a female victim then kidnapped and beat another male victim with a wooden cane and a cable cord.
Craig is charged with second degree rape
The couple is out of jail on bond. They've been ordered not to have any contact with the victims.
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|Jun 27 2008, 11:48 PM Post #22
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A Satanic Ritual that Got out of Hand?
Don't you hate when then happens?
Who writes this sh!t?
Did someone Bond them out?
That's serious money to put up for these kooks!
|Deleted User
|Jun 27 2008, 11:59 PM Post #23
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I just spoke with the Durham County Sheriff's office and they told me they did NOT Bond out and .. "they didn't go anywhere."
The public number for that office is 919-560-0772.
I called because that seems like a high bond to make for people that seem like kooks to begin with.
So, who's right? I told them, after they told me each was there in jail, that WTVD says they were bonded out - and they checked again and said, "they didn't go anywhere."
It's possible that Durham doesn't know who they have in Jail, but I asked twice and told them of the Media reports. They took time to check again, but who knows...
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|Jun 28 2008, 12:21 AM Post #24
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Give Ray Gronberg credit
We can't have it both ways, give credit where credit is due.
Dem official accused in rape
By Ray Gronberg : The Herald-Sun
[email protected]
Jun 28, 2008
DURHAM -- Police have charged a Durham County Democratic Party activist and her husband with several felonies in connection with the reported physical and sexual abuse of a man and a woman.
The husband, Joseph Scott Craig, 25, of 2305 Albany St., has been charged with one count of second-degree rape, one count of second-degree kidnapping and two counts of assault with a deadly weapon inflicting serious injury.
He was being held Friday in the Durham County Jail, in lieu of a $590,000 secured bond.
Craig's wife, county Democratic Party third vice-chairwoman Joy Johnson, 30, also of 2305 Albany St., has been charged with one count of aiding and abetting a rape and one count of aiding and abetting an assault. She was being held in the jail in lieu of a $270,000 secured bond.
Police received their first report about the case at 6:26 p.m. Thursday, and reported arresting Craig and Johnson on Friday.
In arrest warrants, Durham police Investigator Ronald Guardino Jr. said the assault charges against Craig allege that he beat both a man and a woman with a wooden cane.
The kidnapping charge alleges that he restrained the man "for the purpose of terrorizing" him.
The rape charge alleges that Craig sexually assaulted the woman. Second-degree rape in this state by definition is vaginal intercourse "by force or against the will" of a woman, or with a woman who is "mentally disabled, mentally incapacitated or physically helpless." First-degree rape would include the use of a deadly weapon.
The aiding and abetting charges against Johnson allege she knew beforehand that Craig intended to assault the man and rape the woman. In each instance, she allegedly stood by and watched as he did so.
The warrant alleging the assault and kidnapping of the man said the offenses occurred from Jan. 1 to Friday. It was not clear Friday whether Guardino meant they occurred once or several times between those dates.
The rape and assault warrant alleges the offenses against the woman occurred from May 1 to June 1. Again, it was not clear whether Guardino meant they occurred once or several times.
Search warrants were not available Friday.
The first Police Department personnel to learn of the allegations were patrol officers in District 2, the operating district that covers Albany Street and other parts of northern Durham. Officer Justin Bell and his supervisor, Sgt. Dale Gunter, signed the original incident report.
A Police Department spokesman, Cpl. Martin Walkowe, said "it appears" District 2 patrol officers summoned detectives. Guardino is a District 3 detective but is part of an "on-call team" patrol units can call in to work cases that occur after normal business hours.
Walkowe added that the department's investigation is continuing. As of Friday, there had been no other arrests and no other charges lodged against Johnson or Craig.
Johnson has strong ties to Durham politics. Aside from her position as third vice chairwoman of the county Democratic Party, she is the party's chairwoman in Precinct 4, the voting district that covers much of the Watts Hospital-Hillandale neighborhood.
She is also the office manager of the People's Alliance -- one of Durham's three main political action committees -- and a December appointee to the city Human Relations Commission.
Johnson and Craig are business partners in a small company called Indigo Dawn Inc. The company's Web site says they founded the company to promote an "age of enlightenment" and "help others rise to a higher level of existence, quality of life and increased spirituality."
The site also says Craig is "a devout student of magick," and links to a separate Web site that claims he was "born a shaman," meaning he is someone who believes he can communicate with the spirit world.
Craig's listing on the separate Web site says he's a practitioner of "shamanic healing, guided meditations, past life regression, inner meditation, herbalism, rune magick, tarot and intuitive reading."
The first vice chairwoman of the county Democratic Party, Diane Palmer, is also an officer of Indigo Dawn, according to the company's Web site and corporate filings with the state.
A former party chairman, state Sen. Floyd McKissick, helped the company incorporate in 2006. He said Friday he was familiar with Craig and Johnson's troubles, but added, "as it presently stands, I have not been retained as counsel for either of them."
Johnson's Democratic Party ties have prompted discussion of whether the Durham district attorney's office can handle the prosecution.
District Attorney David Saacks said Friday officials there have already determined that District Attorney-elect Tracey Cline cannot handle the case. Saacks and Cline are both Democrats. But Saacks said it's possible he could take it himself because he has never run for office.
The other alternative, handing it off to the state attorney general's office, could also raise conflict-of-interest questions because Attorney General Roy Cooper is also a Democrat, Saacks said.
|Jun 28 2008, 12:45 AM Post #25
A former party chairman, state Sen. Floyd McKissick, helped the company incorporate in 2006. He said Friday he was familiar with Craig and Johnson's troubles, but added, "as it presently stands, I have not been retained as counsel for either of them."
Wasn't there a photo of him & Nifong at a Fund Raiser?
Nice job of reporting for the Herald-Sun! Ray was on top of this.
Edited by Baldo, Jun 28 2008, 12:46 AM.
|Jun 28 2008, 04:32 AM Post #26
Good question, Baldo.
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|JEZZZZZZZZZZZ sounds like a "typical" TP couple..I wonder if their business is in TP also......I also bet that they are "social friends" with a lot of the G88'ers......
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|Jun 28 2008, 06:51 AM Post #29
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|She is also the office manager of the People's Alliance -- one of Durham's three main political action committees
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|Here is an interesting formula...NC+Democratic Party+ Floyd McKissick + TP + "New Age anything" + Theresa Arico = G88'er.....
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|Jun 28 2008, 07:33 AM Post #31
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|Jun 28 2008, 07:35 AM Post #32
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Rumor is that they kept the man in a dog kennel for weeks.
|Jun 28 2008, 08:00 AM Post #33
Any shaman knows that aura cleansing and dreamscaping isn't easy work and sometimes requires extended periods of confinement and ritual beatings for success.
|Jun 28 2008, 08:27 AM Post #34
|Is Irving Joyner monitoring the case?
|Jun 28 2008, 08:37 AM Post #35
A former party chairman, state Sen. Floyd McKissick, helped the company incorporate in 2006. He said Friday he was familiar with Craig and Johnson's troubles, but added, "as it presently stands, I have not been retained as counsel for either of them."
Troubles?! I'd say ... with a capital 'T'.
(Good reporting, Ray, H-S.)
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Just another case of "white privileged" democrats kicking up another Durham scandal. You would think if they wanted to get into something really serious, they would have walked down 9th St. with an open container and relieved themselves in public.
I would love to see the client list of these two rejects. It may well be as interesting a read as CGM's black book.
|Jun 28 2008, 08:55 AM Post #37
Date Confined Date Released Statute Description Bond Type Bond Amount
6/27/2008 [incarcerated] AWDW SERIOUS INJURY SECURED $0.00
6/27/2008 [incarcerated] SECOND DEGREE KIDNAPPING SECURED $0.00
6/27/2008 [incarcerated] SECOND DEGREE RAPE SECURED $590,000.00
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6/27/2008 [incarcerated] FELONY AID AND ABET SECURED $270,000.00
|Jun 28 2008, 11:10 AM Post #38
What we want our community to be like:
A community can be more than a place where people live. It can be a place where people live well. We are committed to a community where all basic needs are met and each individual has the opportunity for a life of accomplishment, dignity and pride.
I can only imagine the self-righteous indignation that was expressed during the heyday of the Hoax. I expect silence now. Where are the marches, the community meetings in the Churches, and the "we are not going to let this stand as a statement of our community?"
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|Jun 28 2008, 12:09 PM Post #39
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|Jun 28 2008, 12:19 PM Post #40
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Political activist jailed for assault and rape
DURHAM - A vice-chairwoman of the Durham County Democratic Party remained in jail this morning, accused of assisting with an assault and rape.
Joy Johnson, 30, of Albany Street, is charged with felony aiding and abetting. Her charges were associated with more serious ones against Joseph Craig, of the same address, who is charged with assault with a deadly weapon, second-degree kidnapping and second-degree rape.
According to WTVD-TV, Craig allegedly beat and raped a woman, then kidnapped and beat a man with a wooden cane and a cable cord as Johnson watched.
Craig, 25, was at the Durham County Jail Saturday on a $590,000 bond. Johnson has a $270,000 bond.
allegedly beat and raped a woman,
where are the
|Jun 28 2008, 12:27 PM Post #41
And why didn't they send out six or seven units along with the watch commander to bust all this up.
Oh, wait. They're all patrolling Trinity Park.
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|Jun 28 2008, 12:47 PM Post #42
Where are the marches, the community meetings in the Churches, and the "we are not going to let this stand as a statement of our community?"
But,Baldo in the immortal words of New Black Panther leader Shabazz,Joy appears,like Crystal,to be "our sister and a goddess".
But Crystal's attested "divine" gifts are bi-location (while simultaneously dancing in the livinig room and bed room)and tri-location while simultaneously levitating six feet in(may be) both bathrooms and in one bedroom.
On the other hand,Joy,would (judging from her blurbs)would appear capable of cosummating sex on several different planes of existence simultaneously which is quantatatively even more remarkable.
To strike a more serious note,the phrase Indigo Dawn is an obvious hit at the famous Golden Dawn which included some of the most respected British artists and medical men of its day.It also included the infamous Allister Crowley and(in several,not all,its branches)a bevy of bizarre sexual practices,including multiple varieties of semen slurping and purported sexual intercourse with both inccubi and succubi(male and female demons).Do not be surprised at anything which may yet emerge along these lines.
With the ever accelerating tendency to legalize
what have previously been (at nearly all times and all places) regarded as sexual perversions, these groups have become increasingly public about practices which were formerly regarded as their most carefully guarded secrets.
Most of the groups involved descend from a Polish distiller named Jacob Frank and a surprising number since the 1770"s have a very decided political side to their activities.
By the way,I have always been one of the firmist opponents of the outrageous "Satanic" child abuse hoaxes which were promulgated in America(and afterwards the British Isles) during the later eighties and early nineties.Every one of these alleged cases proved an absolute fraud by people who obviously knew nothing about the subject they professed to be investigating. And to stay any further hysteria I want to say that I am a Thirty-Second Degree Mason and that my firstborn son is by a Jewess of a very old Moreno family.The conspiracy was neither Masonic nor Jewish,it was Frankist; but since Jews and Masons,equally, were both very smart and both very much left out of the new Enlightenment establishment ,the most disaffected groups were -at that time(not now)-very natural recruiting grounds for revolutionaries.
However,such groups do exist and have certainly promulgated themselves since prior to the French Revolution( I know through my extensive researches into older European and extensive manuscript sources behind the Golden Dawn-first guided by Mrs. W.B.Yeats ).
They started splintering into a hundred competing groups since the birth of the so-called Occult Movement in the 1880's and there is no hidden hand that at could possibly direct or re-unify the whole lot.
Still the Durham situation is far from unique and, if the Marxists posed the greatest intellectual threat,a surprising number of academic occult "authorities",to my knowledge,hold heavily vested interests in the materials which they pretend to be objectively evaluting.
Edited by Sydney Carton, Jun 28 2008, 01:30 PM.
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Isn't it scary that we have a media outlet reporting these people are out and free (on bond) - and that a Judge ordered them to stay away from the victims, while the Sheriff's office says they've been in the jail the whole time? The County computer system backs up the Sheriff's office too.
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A few questions the media could be asking:
Where is the Rape Victim Advocacy group to intervene on behalf of the alleged victims?
Where are the pot bangers and why hasn't Victoria Peterson suggested that the residence in question be burned down?
Has our self righteous literary genius Cash Michaels opened up a website so that we can all express our indignation and support for the alleged victims?
I am listening for the Listening Statement
Mr. Mayor are we going to have a convocation of emotional jargon to express our collective outrage.
Houston Baker, who are the real "farm animals"?
And Durham residents, you either have to clean up your drinking water or ask yourself just how long you can sustain the low lifes that run your city. If it's not in the drinking water, then the problem must be in the voting booth.
|Jun 29 2008, 10:14 AM Post #45
From abb's roundup:
Police hold warrants for activist, husband
By Monica Chen : The Herald-Sun
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Jun 29, 2008
DURHAM -- Police did not release a search warrant Saturday in relation to the arrest of a local Democratic Party activist and her husband on charges of kidnapping and rape.
Joseph Scott Craig, 25, of 2305 Albany St., was charged with one count of second-degree rape, one count of second-degree kidnapping and two counts of assault with a deadly weapon inflicting serious injury.
Craig's wife, county Democratic Party third vice-chairwoman Joy Johnson, 30, was charged with one count of aiding and abetting a rape and one count of aiding and abetting an assault.
The two were arrested Friday and currently are held in the Durham County Jail on a $590,000 secured bond for Craig, and a $270,000 secured bond for Johnson.
Johnson is involved with various political groups in Durham and Wake counties. In addition to her role in the Democratic Party, she is also on the city's Human Relations Commission, the United Nations Association of Wake County and the office manager of the People's Alliance, a major political action committee in Durham.
On Saturday, the organization was quick to issue a statement saying Johnson has been placed on indefinite leave without pay effective immediately.
"As you can imagine, we are shocked by these allegations," Page McCullough, vice president of People's Alliance, said in an e-mail.
According to arrest warrants, Craig allegedly beat a man and a woman with a wooden cane, restrained the man and raped the woman. The incidents with the man occurred between Jan. 1 and Friday. The incidents with the woman occurred from May 1 to June 1.
The warrants also alleged Johnson had knowledge beforehand of Craig's intentions and stood by and watched.
The couple are business partners in a small company called Indigo Dawn Inc., which sells New Age products and services such as past-life reconstruction, meditation CDs and oils and teas.
Johnson is the president of the company, and Craig, referred to as a reverend and "devout student of magick" on the company's Web site, is the vice president and treasurer.
Johnson was born in Fayetteville and grew up in Raleigh, where she attended Millbrook High School.
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|Jun 29 2008, 10:15 AM Post #46
Not that there isn't any kooks in Trinity Park but these strange people are not TP residents Michael. They live in what is called Watts-Hillandale.......which, politically and mentally, is very much like Trinity Park but less expensive.
Nothing wrong with a little kinky action but what is alleged, and I said that because the story sounds a little strange to me, goes a little too far.
What happen to just plain wife swapping from back in the day?
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|Jun 29 2008, 01:01 PM Post #47
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snip-and the office manager of the People's Alliance, a major political action committee in Durham.
On Saturday, the organization was quick to issue a statement saying Johnson has been placed on indefinite leave without pay effective immediately.
"As you can imagine, we are shocked by these allegations," Page McCullough, vice president of People's Alliance, said in an e-mail.
CGM made allegations (lies)
Where the hell are the now?????????
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|Jun 29 2008, 01:25 PM Post #48
Who knows maybe they received some educational pointers from Duke University's outreach?
The problem fell to Larry Moneta, Duke's vice president for student affairs, who said the performance "raised issues for discussion." Asked about the difference between the art show and the lacrosse team's hosting strippers, he said, "one served the purpose of personal gratification and the other had educational value."
Educational Value?
On the web site of the Sex Worker's Art Show it states the show entertains, arouses, and amazes. Clearly if Larry had watched the video of her "performance" one would question the educational value of sexual humiliation. Keva I. Lee is described on their web site as "ball-crushing, whip-yielding, nipple-torturing Dominatrix! She's learned the ropes and acquired more than a few tricks in her bag. She explodes and exploits stereotypes surrounding Asian women: dragon lady/ passive lotus flower, exoticism, fetishism, perpetual foreignness, language as a faux cultural barrier. She uses these stereotypes as an erotic tool for her own amusement and gain."
After listening to the cheers of the 300 Duke students as Dominatrix Lee in her revealing leather outfit rode her pet "pony", around with his dog leash and collar I wonder what lesson was Larry referring to? What was educational about watching a topless stripper singing a lewd song about a Cathlic Saint as she climbed a stripper pole? What value did a topless transvestite in a pool of kitty litter with a lite sparkler up his rear have? Liestoppers
Ideas do matter. Community standards do matter. What a community stands for does matter. When perverted behaviour is accepted and embrace by a University it does matter.
It is called Leadership, Integrity, and Morality. Something Duke University's Administration doesn't have.
Edited by Baldo, Jun 29 2008, 01:37 PM.
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Here are a few more (questions): Why wasn't anybody looking for these people during their captivity? How were the victims selected? Was their "missing" status ever reported and just not publicized? Why not? Did the perps specifically seek out a couple who would not be missed? If so, how did Joy assist with that effort?
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Top-call studio trumpeter Paul Cacia, who studied with Cat Anderson and Arturo Sandoval, materialized after a long hiatus to assemble his 10th album, his first in 15 years. It's a compilation of sessions he organized from 1991 through 2005, and the list of players will make name-droppers drool: Arrangers include Bill Holman, Sam Nestico, Pete Rugolo and Ernie Wilkins, with Cacia listed on seven of nine tracks.
There is a reverb-drenched arrangement of "Nessun Dorma," an aria from Puccini's opera Turandot. Only a canine critic can appreciate Cacia's stratospheric flights. Jazz-wise, "Take the 'A' Train" features tenorist Don Menza and trumpeter Snooky Young. Vocalist Jennifer Wood sounds at home on "Why Don't You Do Right," with pianist Paul Smith and trumpeter "Sweets" Edison. An excellent Rugolo chart on "Angel Eyes" includes trumpeters Pete and Conte Candoli and pianist Jimmy Rowles. There is also intense Latin percussion from Tito Puente, Victor Pantoja and Ray Armando pushing the studio-sized orchestra on "Love for Sale."
The centerpiece is another Rugolo arrangement: his own tune, "Overtime," with tenorist Pete Christlieb, altoist Gabe Baltazar, trombonist Bill Watrous and drummer Louis Bellson. Actually, there are more than a dozen soloists on "Overtime" (the only track with no Cacia solo), but no one seems to play more than 16 bars. A more serious shortcoming: total album time is 38 minutes.


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Injected Laura Webber with a medication that caused her to forget that she had killed Theresa Carter
Covered up the death of Theresa Carter and buried her body
Tried to inject Laura Webber with a syringe containing a medication to erase her memory
Rick Webber attended medical school with Monica Baird and the young doctors fell in love and planned to marry. Early in their engagement, Rick went on a mission to Africa and was presumed deceased following an airplane accident. Before his presumed death, Rick had sent a letter to Monica and ended their engagement.
While Monica grieved for Rick, she sought comfort in the arms of Rick's half-brother Jeff and married him. Ten months after Rick's presumed death, he returned to Port Charles and confessed to Monica that he was still in love with her. Monica returned the feelings but Jeff refused to grant her a divorce. Rick and Monica struggled with their feelings for one another but decided it would be best if they each moved on.
Rick started dating another doctor named Lesley Williams. Their relationship became serious and Lesley accepted Rick's offer of marriage. However, Rick and Monica still cared for one another and slept together while under quarantine at the hospital. Afterwards, Rick and Monica planned to be together but Rick changed his mind after Lesley's daughter Laura was involved in a car accident. Rick chose a future with Lesley and married her. Shortly after Rick made his decision, Monica announced that she was pregnant with Rick's child.
Lesley ended her marriage to Rick so he could raise his son with Monica. Rick and Monica tried to make their relationship work until it was revealed that Rick was not the child's father. He and Lesley remarried and became adoptive parents to a young boy named Mike and a teenager named Blackie Parrish. As Rick and Lesley settled into their new roles as adoptive parents, a woman named Ginny Blake came to town and claimed to be Mike's mother. Around the same time, Lesley was presumed dead in a car accident.
In Lesley's absence, Rick and Ginny bonded and married. Rick legally adopted Mike and Rick and Ginny had a child of their own named Rick Webber, Jr. Rick and Ginny left town to raise their family. Their marriage was later revealed to be invalid when Lesley returned very much alive after being held by Stefan Cassadine.
In 2002 Rick returned to walk Laura down the aisle. Scott and Rick worried that Laura would remember that while she was a teenager, she had walked in Rick and his mistress Theresa Carter together. Theresa panicked and attacked Laura. When Laura made a move in self-defense, she accidentally killed Theresa but blocked out the memory. Rick injected Laura with a medication which blocked out her memory of the event. Laura's boyfriend at the time, Scott Baldwin, walked in shortly after. Rick and Scott covered up Theresa's death.
When Laura started to regain her memories, Rick and Scott dug up a grave in the Scorpio's yard so the body would not be discovered. Despite their efforts, Laura remembered the incident with Theresa. As Laura started to panic over what she had done, Rick prepared to inject her with the same medication that had caused her to block out the memory. Laura believed that Rick was attacking her and they engaged in a struggle. Scott Baldwin walked in and hit Rick over the head with a candlestick. The blow to Rick's head was fatal and Laura believed for several years that she was responsible for Rick's death and slipped into a catatonic state.
In 2013, Rick's ghost joined Alan and Emily Quartermaine when they visited Monica and Tracy Quartermaine. The women were in the midst of a feud and Alan and Rick demonstrated how to make peace. Tracy and Monica followed suit and agreed to a truce. Afterwards, the ghosts of Rick, Emily, and Alan disappeared.


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The Austree, or "tree from Australia", is a hybrid willow botanically known as Salix matsudana x alba.
Promotional literature may sound too good to be true. While there may be some potential on Eastern Colorado farms and ranches for windbreaks, shelterbelts and erosion control, Front Range gardeners are advised not to plant the tree in their yards.
This willow, like other willows, must have plenty of water and will show dieback if it experiences any drought, summer or winter. Fast-growing trees, such as willows, are susceptible to storm damage. Willows have vigorous, extensive root systems that can invade and clog sewer lines.
If planted in the Denver area, homeowners also can expect the tree to be short-lived, prone to winter injury, chlorosis, bacterial wetwood, aphids and canker diseases. Many more desirable landscape plants are available.
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cleanupthismess2+ weeks old
Graffiti everywhere in my neighborhood. Who do I report this to? Everywhere I look in Santa Ana and especially within the vicinity of my apartment, there is graf. every damn where. Such an eye sore. I can't even read what these idiots are writing either.
Link to this answerMario Sun2+ weeks old
Today is your lucky day. Santa Ana has its own graffiti task force, kind of like Eliot Ness and the Untouchables. They focus on preventing graffiti, cleaning it up, and finding the perpetrators. For more information on the team, their services, or facts about graffiti, check out this link:
I hope your neighborhood gets cleaned up.
Graffiti everywhere in my neighborhood


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1. Helly Hansen North Marker 3L XP
From manufacturing to distribution, Helly Hansen's Ekolab garments, like this one, are designed to do minimal environmental damage. The North Marker uses a low-impact polyurethane waterproof membrane instead of a harmful fluorocarbon-based one, as well as recycled hardwear. plus: Lots of skier-friendly features: massive pit zips, a removable powder skirt, and a helmet-compatible hood. minus: Kind of boring-looking. [$325; hellyhansen.com]
2. Arc'teryx Sentry
Arc'teryx fused Gore-Tex's light, durable, bombproof, and breathable Pro Shell with a thin but toasty layer of PrimaLoft Sport insulation. The result: a jacket that's warm enough to endure brutal winds on the lift and light enough for athletic inbounds and sidecountry skiing. You get all the warmth of a big puffy with all the maneuverability of a sleek backcountry shell. plus: Pit zips a welcome relief on hikes. minus: The price tag. [$600; arcteryx.com]
3. Powderhorn Gunpowder
The Gunpowder's high-tech ceramic insulation supposedly adapts to temperature changes, insulating more in lower temps and less in higher ones. Hard to say if that's true, but we stayed comfortable in a variety of conditions. Add retro styling, a real down hood, and airy pit zips, and you've got a puffy that functions just as well as a day-to-day shell. plus: It's a puffy with a powder skirt, which isn't easy to find. minus: The zippers tend to stick. [$495; powderhornworld.com]
4. The North Face Jubilee LTD
The Jubilee combines a seam-sealed, waterproof-breathable Gore Performance shell with toasty PrimaLoft Eco insulation, so it's warm and dry. Though it's got the usual arsenal of features—pit zips, pockets galore, removable powder skirt, Recco reflector, goggle wipe—it's chic enough to wear to a martini bar. Maybe. plus: The removable hood fits well over a helmet. minus: A tad heavy for backcountry laps. [$549; thenorthface.com]


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RUSH: It doesn't fly, but do you know what it does? It will automatically parallel park itself. It will. It's got a built in female driver. It will automatically parallel park itself. And you know what else it does? Honest to God. It has sensors that sense bumps in the road ahead of it, and it adjusts the suspension before you get to the bumps, to be able to handle it. It's got all kinds of high-tech gizmo stuff like that. Yeah, it's really cool.
Where Do I Go to Complain About the Yahoo Weather App?
RUSH:Look, I don't want to make too big a deal about this, but if you're like me, you got a whole bunch of different weather apps on your iPhone, on your iPad. I mean, every time a new one comes out and looks intriguing, I get it. Yahoo not long ago, months, came out with a revised new weather app that was really cool. I mean, the weather information on it was fine, it's like anywhere else, radar, had the five- or 10-day forecast.
But what it did was via Flickr, like if you wanted weather for Chicago, when you scrolled to Chicago it would flash various pictures that people had taken, beautiful pictures from in and around Chicago. San Francisco, ditto, wherever. And it was fascinating. You almost run the app just to look at the various pictures that would pop up, rather than get the weather.
Well, this week they revised the app and made it universal so that it now works with the iPad. And now every picture is of the sky. For example, Las Vegas. I'm gonna go to Las Vegas soon, so I have Las Vegas in there. There are two different pictures of Las Vegas, two different casinos that pop up, that's it, and sometimes at night you just get a black and white picture of the sky. Here where we live, there are none. Every picture, day or night, is the sky or the moon. And over half the cities now don't have any pictures. They just use generic pictures of the sky, still mixed with Flickr.
This is so sad. It's so unfortunate. As I say, the Yahoo weather app, you would consult it just to get the pictures. The pictures were always fabulous from these places, and even small towns. If you wanted to check the weather in Green Bay for an upcoming football game, the pictures were submitted by people from Green Bay to Flickr, which Yahoo owns. And ever since they made the app universal -- it works on both the iPad and the iPhone -- the picture support has just, at least for me, vanished. And it's just a sad thing. It's just sad.
I'm not mad about it. I'm just curious. 'Cause I know that there are pictures from here. They used to show up before the app went universal. Now it's just the sky and various pictures of clouds. And how do I know that they were Palm Beach clouds? They could be clouds from Oshkosh. Anyway, I just wanted to mention that, 'cause I don't know how many of you are encountering the same problem.
Tune in Thursday for the Last Rush-Hosted Show Before Christmas
RUSH: Folks, that's it. Yeah, that's it. It's time to look and see if we had an extra busy broadcast minute, but we don't. We're outta here. But we'll be back tomorrow. And it'll be our last program before Christmas, last live program on Christmas -- at least by me -- so don't miss it. See you then. Thanks for being with us today