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Chapter 1 Summary
Shadow's Story
As American Gods begins, a man called Shadow nears the end of a three-year prison sentence. He is a big man who looks tough enough to get through a sentence without being harassed. He has done his time quietly, waiting to get back to life with his wife, Laura.
In prison, Shadow has taught himself to do coin tricks. At the prompting of his cellmate, Low Key Lyesmith, he also read a book by the Greek historian Herodotus. Low Key was transferred away from prison recently, and he left Shadow his copy of Herodotus and a nickel.
As Shadow's release approaches, he grows worried that something will go wrong. He calls Laura, who says everything is fine at home. He watches the goings-on in prison carefully, expecting some problem to blow up and hurt him.
A few days before Shadow's release, he is called to speak with the warden of the prison—a highly unusual occurrence. The warden explains that Laura has died in a car accident. Shadow is going to be released immediately for the funeral. In a daze, Shadow returns to his cell and packs.
Shadow takes a bus and then a plane toward Eagle Point, Indiana. On the way, he thinks about his first date with Laura. She pressured him to taste her drink, a strawberry daiquiri, and seemed thrilled when he took a sip. Shadow thinks, "Laura loved people to taste what she tasted." His thoughts linger on these sorts of little things, as if he cannot bring himself to think about the huge fact of her death. Still, it is clear he loved her deeply.
On the flight home, Shadow falls asleep and dreams about a man with the head of a buffalo. The man says, "If you are to survive, you must believe." This confuses Shadow even in the dream, and his confusion remains when he awakes. He stumbles out of the plane to find himself in the wrong airport. The desk agent tells him that his plane was forced to land early because of...
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Chapter 2 Summary
Shadow's Story
Shadow returns to his table at the bar, where he is in the middle of dinner. Wednesday joins him and asks him to accept a job as a bodyguard and messenger. When Shadow replies that he is planning to work at his friend Robbie's gym, Wednesday hands over a newspaper article. It tells the story of the accident that killed Laura—and it turns out that Robbie was driving the car. He is dead, too.
Feeling numb and figuring he has nothing to lose, Shadow agrees to take the job. Wednesday makes him drink three glasses of mead—a kind of honey wine. Shadow finds the drink disgusting, but Wednesday insists that it is traditional to drink mead to seal a deal.
During this conversation, the men are joined at their table by a tall, red-haired man who claims to be a leprechaun. His name is Mad Sweeney, and he performs tricks with large gold coins. Shadow—though he is good at coin tricks himself—cannot figure out how they are done. Sweeney claims he just grabs the coins "out of the air." They get drunk, and Mad Sweeney challenges Shadow to a fight. Shadow wins, and Mad Sweeney gives him a coin.
The next day, Shadow attends Laura's funeral. Laura's best friend and Robbie's wife, Audrey, also attends the service—but she spits in the corpse's face. When Shadow demands an explanation, Audrey provides one: "Your wife died with my husband's [penis] in her mouth, Shadow."
This news makes Shadow feel even number than before, and he remains silent during his wife's burial. After everyone else leaves, he stays behind, staring into the grave. Eventually he tosses Mad Sweeney's gold coin into the open grave.
Shadow cannot bear to sleep at his old apartment without Laura, so he heads toward the Motel America, where Wednesday has promised to get two rooms. On the way, Shadow is attacked and drugged.
Later, Shadow awakes inside a limousine. Across from him sits a fat, pimple-faced young man who demands to know what Wednesday is doing. Shadow says he does not know, but the young man does not believe this. He insists that Shadow give Wednesday a message:
You tell him he's history. He's forgotten. He's old. Tell him that we are the future...He has been consigned to the Dumpster of history while people like me ride our limos down the superhighway of tomorrow.
This speech makes no sense whatsoever to Shadow, but he promises to relay the message anyway. Then he asks to be let go. The young man drops him off not far from his motel.
Chapter 3 Summary
Shadow's Story
At the Motel America, Shadow gives Wednesday a garbled version of the message from the fat kid in the limo. Wednesday shrugs it off, calling the kid a "little snot," but says he wants to leave town as soon as possible. Shadow replies that he needs to get rid of Laura's possessions first.
That night, in his motel room, Shadow dreams that he is in a strange museum full of statues of people with mammoth heads or monster genitals. While he stares at the statues, a voice tells him that these are the gods of the past. They are dead because people stopped worshipping them and forgot they ever existed. The voice adds, "Ideas are more difficult to kill than people, but they can be killed, in the end."
Shadow wakes up terrified from this dream, and it takes him a while to feel sure he is back in real life. As he calms down, he sees a woman sitting on his bed. It is Laura, and although she is sitting up, she looks dead in the darkness. Strangely, she does not scare him nearly as much as the dream did.
Laura says she is still dead, and she cannot explain why she is able to walk around. She seems upset and asks Shadow for a cigarette. This confuses him because she quit before she died. "I did," she said. "But I'm no longer concerned about the health risks." Unable to argue with this, Shadow goes down the hall and buys a pack of Virginia Slims from a machine.
Back in his room, Shadow asks Laura if she really had an affair with Robbie. She admits that she did but says she never planned to continue the affair after Shadow got out of prison. The oral sex she gave Robbie in the car was meant as a goodbye, but it ended up causing an accident and killing them both.
During this conversation, the reader learns that Shadow went to prison for Laura's sake. Neither of them explains precisely what he did for her, but Laura thanks him several times. She also...
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Chapter 4 Summary
Shadow's Story
In the morning, Shadow says he thinks Laura's visit was a dream. Wednesday calls this "a healthy attitude to have" and asks if Shadow slept with her. Shadow says he did not, but he refuses to say whether he wanted to.
The two men drive to Chicago where Wednesday leads the way to a small apartment inhabited by a family of strange people with Eastern European accents. There are three strange sisters, Zorya Utrennyaya, Zorya Vechernyaya, and Zorya Polunochnaya. The first two sisters spend the day cooking and bickering about fortune telling, but the third sister sleeps the daylight away.
The sisters live with a relative, an old man named Czernobog, who calls Wednesday by the name Votan and speaks longingly about his former job in a slaughterhouse. He informs Shadow that there is an art to killing a cow with a single blow to the head.
Wednesday tries to convince Czernobog to help with a plan nobody explains to Shadow. Czernobog refuses, saying that his brother would help with a plan like that, but his brother is "gone." Shadow, attempting to be kind, asks if the two brothers were close. Czernobog seems confused by the question. "How could we be?" he says. "We cared about such different things."
As the afternoon wears on, Czernobog challenges Shadow to a game of checkers. Against Wednesday's advice, Shadow agrees to a bizarre bet: if Shadow wins, Czernobog helps with Wednesday's mysterious plan. But if Czernobog wins, he gets to murder Shadow by hitting him in the head with a hammer. In the end, they each win one game, and they agree that Czernobog must fulfill his part of the deal before killing Shadow.
Afterward, Wednesday talks to Shadow in private about the game. "That was good," he says. "Very, very stupid of you. But good."
That night, Shadow dreams of dying in an explosion. He awakes to find Zorya Polunochnaya,...
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Chapter 5 Summary
Shadow's Story
After leaving the home of Czernobog and the three sisters, Wednesday takes Shadow to rob a bank. On the way, Wednesday admires Shadow's silver dollar and tells him to be careful with an important gift like that. He comments that Lady Liberty, on the coin, was originally French—but then he adds that all Americans are originally from somewhere else.
Offhand, Wednesday says that it would be good if it snowed. He tells Shadow to think of snow, and Shadow does so. Eventually, Wednesday says to stop thinking about snow quite so much. Sure enough, the sky is full of clouds, and snow is beginning to fall. Shadow thinks this is a coincidence.
The bank is closed....
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Chapter 6 Summary
Shadow's Story
In the place of the gods, Wednesday's companions take on many forms. Mr. Nancy is still a black man with a moustache—but somehow, at the same time, he is also a man with three arms and a small brown spider. Shadow cannot work out how this is possible.
All of Wednesday's companions look dramatically different now, and Wednesday himself is a larger, prouder, with one gleaming eye. He is accompanied by a wolf and two ravens. Shadow—though he struggles to believe what is happening—recognizes his employer as Odin, king of the gods in Norse mythology.
Only about ten gods have appeared at this meeting, and Wednesday is disappointed by the poor turnout. They...
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Chapter 7 Summary
Shadow's Story
Shadow walks south for hours in the cold and snow. He hides from cars and helicopters because he worries he might be pursued for the murders of the men who attacked him. He feels numb, not only because of the freezing weather, but also because of the strange, upsetting experiences he has been having. He struggles to figure out what he wants from life, but all he can think is that he wishes "for none of this ever to have happened." If he could, he would go back to life before prison, when Laura was alive and things were simple.
After a long time, Shadow comes upon the corpse of a dead deer being eaten by a raven. "You shadow man," the raven says. Shadow knows that the...
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Chapter 8 Summary
Shadow's Story
Shadow goes out to eat with Mr. Ibis, who says that he and Jacquel have been in America for over three thousand years. They were brought by a trading expedition from Ancient Egypt. Shadow is skeptical, but Mr. Ibis says that people have been coming to America forever, from every culture. Scientists can't piece it together because they don't allow for the possibility that the impossible could be true.
Mr. Ibis takes Shadow to his house, which turns out to be a funeral home. There, Shadow meets Jacquel in human form. He is in the process of embalming the dead body of a teenage girl. As he works, he eats small slices of her heart, liver, and kidneys, but Shadow is not...
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Chapter 9 Summary
Shadow's Story
Shadow and Wednesday drive to Wisconsin. On the way, Shadow asks who the people were who kidnapped him. Wednesday shrugs and says they were "spooks" for the bad guys. Shadow observes that they seemed to think they were the good guys, and Wednesday agrees. Wars, he says, are always fought between people who think they are in the right.
Eventually they stop for dinner, and Wednesday tells Shadow stories about some cons he used to play to make money. Shadow notices that they are all two-man cons and asks if Wednesday used to have a partner. Wednesday says yes, and he seems regretful.
During the meal, Wednesday tries to seduce the waitress, who looks barely...
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Chapter 10 Summary
That night, Shadow dreams he is a child kept underground in the dark. When he is finally brought out into the light, he does not know what a knife is. He laughs at the glint of light on it. Then it cuts him open—a human sacrifice.
In the morning, it is terribly cold. Shadow has no winter clothes, no food in the house, and no car. He begins the walk into town to buy clothes and food—but he soon realizes the temperature is dangerously low. He grows so cold he is not sure he can make it all the way to town—or back to the apartment, either.
A police officer, Chad Mulligan, sees Shadow on the road and picks him up. Mulligan lets Shadow warm up in his car and then takes him to a restaurant for breakfast....
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Chapter 11 Summary
Shadow's Story
A few days after his trip, Shadow visits Hinzelmann's store. Every year, he parks an old car on the frozen lake. When the ice begins to melt, the car breaks through and sinks. People make bets about when this will happen, and they buy raffle tickets from Hinzelmann—each ticket tied to a five-minute window of time when the car might fall through the ice. Whoever guesses the closest time wins some money.
Shadow buys raffle tickets for a thirty-minute time window on a morning in March, and afterward, he tells the lake to melt that day, the same way he once told the sky to bring snow. But he doesn't really believe it will work.
After chatting with Hinzelmann,...
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Chapter 12 Summary
Shadow's Story
Shadow and Wednesday take a three-day drive to the Dakotas in a Winnebago that smells like cat. Everything goes fine until they come upon a roadblock set up to stop them. A car is behind them, in pursuit, so there is nowhere else for them to go.
Wednesday pulls a chalk-like object out of his pocket and writes something in strange runes on the dashboard of the Winnebago. Then he tells Shadow to drive off-road, and Shadow obeys. The Winnebago lurches out of the snowy day and into a strange, starry, nighttime place.
When Shadow takes this change calmly, Wednesday seems flustered. "Why don't you exclaim that it's all impossible?" he asks. Shadow thinks this...
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Chapter 13 Summary
Shadow's Story
One morning, Marguerite Olsen knocks on Shadow's door and invites him to dinner. She does not smile during the conversation, and she emphasizes that "this is a social gesture, not a romantic one," but Shadow is excited anyway. He has not been invited to a normal social event since before he went to prison.
That afternoon, Wednesday calls to say he is about to attend a meeting with the new gods, who are calling for a treaty. He sounds nervous, and he suggests that he may be killed. Shadow reflects aloud that the pain of death might not hurt a god, but Wednesday dismisses this:
If you move and act in the material world, then the material...
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Chapter 14 Summary
Shadow's Story
Czernobog and Mr. Nancy drive all night, with Shadow in the back of the car, putting distance between themselves and Lakeside. In the morning, they stop and speak to someone who calls himself Alviss, son of Vindalf. Alviss tells Czernobog and Mr. Nancy that he and his fellow dwarves are now willing to fight. None of them took Wednesday seriously before, but they never believed the new gods would kill Odin himself.
Shadow, Czernobog, and Mr. Nancy continue on, driving south. When they stop for burgers and fries, an unidentified person calls the restaurant's pay phone and offers to give them Wednesday's body. The speaker offers a truce for the occasion, but Shadow and his...
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Chapter 15 Summary
Shadow's Story
On Shadow's first day hanging in the tree, he feels very uncomfortable. After that, he feels worse. His whole body hurts. He hallucinates flashes of color, and he dreams about a man with an elephant head who hides a mouse in his trunk. "In the trunk," the elephant man says. He urges Shadow to remember this detail.
After a while, a thunderstorm comes, and rain falls hard on Shadow's naked body. He is terribly thirsty, so he opens his mouth and lets the storm wet his lips and tongue. He catches some water in the cup of his collarbone and slurps as much as he can. As lightning crashes overhead, he feels giddy with life—more alive than he has ever felt before....
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Chapter 16 Summary
Shadow's Story
When Shadow wakes up again, he is dressed but barefoot, standing at the top of a stone staircase. Zorya Polunochnaya appears and asks him to show her the silver dollar she gave him. He hands it to her, and she says that it has brought him out of imprisonment twice (once when he was kidnapped by the men in black suits and once, more recently, when he was arrested for breaking parole). Now, she adds, it will light his way into the dark. She lets it float into the air above his head, where it hangs, looking like the moon.
Zorya Polunochnaya offers Shadow two paths. One holds the painful truth, and the other holds comforting lies. Shadow chooses truth, and this seems to make her...
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Chapter 17 Summary
Shadow's Story
From all around, gods arrive at "the most important place in the Southwestern United States." This place is called Rock City, a roadside attraction that was once a holy site for the Cherokee Indians. The site is on a tall hill, and the Cherokee believed that any battling force that held that hill would win a war. This held true for them until the United States took it over and forced them away. It held true for the Union forces in the Civil War. Now, perhaps, it will also hold true for the battle between the old and new gods.
Gods arrive from everywhere, on foot and in every kind of vehicle. The old...
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Chapter 18 Summary
Shadow's Story
Chapter 18 begins in the voice of the narrator, who comments, "None of this can actually be happening." He suggests that it may be more "comfortable" for readers to think of the story "as a metaphor." After all, that is all religion is in the first place.
The story resumes with Shadow suspended in a place of nothingness. "Even Nothing cannot last forever," the narrator says. Whiskey Jack appears amid the nothingness and says Shadow was hard to find. "You didn't go to any of the places I figured," he says. He adds that Shadow will not be staying dead: "They are coming for you."
Shadow protests that he...
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Chapter 19 Summary
Shadow's Story
Shadow drives Mr. Nancy home to Florida. On the way, Shadow observes that Mr. Nancy looks gray-faced and sick. But no matter what Shadow says, the old god insists that he is not wounded and nothing is wrong. They chat about life, and Mr. Nancy asks if Shadow has learned anything from his experience. After musing on this question for a moment, Shadow replies:
It's like one of those dreams that changes you. You keep some of the dream forever, and you know things down deep inside yourself, because it happened to you, but when you go looking for details they just kind of slip out of your head.
At Mr. Nancy's house, Shadow feels...
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Chapter 20 Summary
Shadow's Story
When Shadow arrives in Lakeside—a town he never intended to visit again—he sees the old clunker car still sitting on the ice. But the ice is beginning to melt, and there are pools of water on the surface. Thin Ice signs warn pedestrians not to walk out on the lake, but Shadow does exactly that. He has to know the truth.
After a struggle, Shadow manages to break into the car's trunk. There he finds what he guessed he would find: the dead body of Alison McGovern, the girl who went missing in the middle of the winter. Shadow thinks of the stories of the other children who were lost. On some deep level, he knows that one child has died this way in Lakeside every...
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Postscript Summary
For a long time after his adventure with the gods, Shadow travels the world. At one point, he visits Reykjavik, in Iceland, where he simply wanders and watches the people. The women there are pale and pretty—the kinds of girls Wednesday would have liked.
One day, Shadow eats a meal in a restaurant, where a waiter asks if he is American. When Shadow says yes, the waiter wishes him a happy Fourth of July. At this stage in his travels, Shadow has forgotten the date, so he is surprised to learn that it is Independence Day. He thanks the waiter and reflects idly that independence is a good thing.
After his meal, Shadow walks around and sits down in a nice spot in some grass....
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Interesting that Arthur Brown is Bryce Brown's big brother. Could make for some interesting competition on the field.
I'd be thrilled if the Giants take an LB 1st or 2nd....but I'm totally resigned to more Reese dumpster-diving.
When it comes to linebackers, Reese sees special teams contributors, not dominating game-changers.
can't wait for the combine to see how big Arthur Brown really is..
I'd love OL and LB in the first 2 rounds. Its interchangeable for me in terms of position/round taken. I've been screaming for OL since the year GB took Bulaga (I think that was the JPP draft if I recall?) The problems only gotten worse. Woulda loved to replace KMac with a young stud. Never liked McClain as much as others that year, but def wanted Bruce Carter. He looked studly before the injury.
I do like Ogletree this year but who knows what Reese decides to do. Literally any position but QB, WR, and RB in the first would make sense. I'd even say TE and Saftey would be eyebrow raisers for me as 1st/2nd round picks.
So that would leave OL, DL, LB, and CB as postions I would think we should target in the draft. Supposedly this year is deep on DL so perhaps that gets pushed to 2nd or 3rd round even. That to me says LB, CB, or OL in the 1st and 2nd. That's how I look at it anyway.
Obviously if a beast DL or Saftey fell to 19 alla Prince I'd think we'd pull the trigger, but I think that the pick is LB, CB, or OL as previously stated.
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I am flipping back and forth between channel 2 and 5.
I will have to sit down and focus when it's time to watch the Yanks...
How many people lost money on the Pats game today?
I had Ronnie friggin Brown in one of my FF teams....and he was on the bench today!!! [:@]
Can't believe the pats lost to the Dolphins.....
haha, that's why I didn't play FF this year, it was driving me nuts last year!!!
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Giants Will Evaluate Offfensive Formula During BYE Week
Excerpt: "Martellus Bennett is fond of analogies. So, to explain the quandary the Giants offense must solve during this bye week, the tight end drew on his college basketball experience.
"If you're a jump shooter, and everybody's face-guarding you where you can't shoot the ball, you've got to start driving into the lane at some point or you're just going to be ineffective the whole game," Bennett said. "So we've just got to figure out, what's our drive to the lane?"
In other words, when the strength of a team is suddenly not so strong — i.e., a passing game that could formerly skip downfield at will — the players and coaches must find another way to get the job done. Finally hitting their bye in Week 11, the Giants have a chance to take a step back, much needed after they dropped their second straight game Sunday, a 31-13 loss at Cincinnati.
Coaches began self-scouting Monday, and offensive coordinator Kevin Gilbride said they would also study some of the hot offenses around the league for ideas to "galvanize" their unit. Players will be off until next Monday, meaning quarterback Eli Manning will rest his so-called "tired arm" for eight straight days. They hope the break makes a difference, but just how different will they be?
"I don't see us coming in and saying, 'Hey, we've got a whole new offense, and we're coming in and doing this now,' " said Manning, who hasn't thrown a touchdown pass in three straight games for the first time since his rookie season. "I don't see that's going to help anything. But there can be some different things we can get to that can help us out." Read more...
Giants' David Wilson Still Needs To Gain Coaches' Trust
Excerpt: "Wilson's season got off to a rough start when he fumbled on his second career carry and was subsequently put in Tom Coughlin's doghouse. He has a total of 18 carries for 89 yards – 40 of which came on his lone touchdown run of the season. He was in on just two offensive plays Sunday against the Bengals, though Coughlin today said the team planned on playing him more but the game situation dictated otherwise.
Giants coaches rave about Wilson's explosive running ability; they've seen what he can do at practice and on Sundays during kickoff returns. But that isn't the issue. The problem remains the other aspects of becoming an NFL running back and gaining the coaches' trust.
"He's got to be able to do all other things besides just running the ball," offensive coordinator Kevin Gilbride said. "It's not just running the ball when you're a running back in the National Football League. It's about catching passes, it's about blocking, it's about being able to protect the quarterback. All those things are taken into consideration when you determine whether a guy gets playing time or not."
Wilson, Gilbride explained, wasn't asked to do much else other than run in his three years at Virginia Tech. On the contrary, Doug Martin, taken one spot before David Wilson in April's draft, ran a pro-style offense at Boise State and has contributed immediately for the Buccaneers. He currently ranks first in the NFL in total yards from scrimmage at 128.7 per game and tied for fourth in rushing with 862 yards." Read more...
Giants' Tom Coughlin Sees Signs Of Improvement In Eli Manning
Excerpt: "But while coach Tom Coughlin is searching for answers to get his offense and his team back on track, he said he saw encouraging signs from Manning Sunday despite the 31-13 loss to the Bengals.
"There were signs that he's improving," Coughlin said today. "He's getting back to -- back on track. There were some signs there that were good yesterday. And we've just got to build on it."
What were those signs?
"I thought he threw the ball better and many times yesterday, he zinged it in there," Coughlin said. "Had the ball down the seam to Victor that should have been a touchdown."
That deep pass would have been a 38-yard touchdown, but Victor Cruz dropped the ball near the goal line as a defender came in to break it up. Manning's arm looked just fine on that play, despite a recent theory floated by NFL Films' Greg Cosell and ESPN's Ron Jaworski that he has a tired arm.
Coughlin acknowledged that, in the past few weeks, Manning has overall looked different "in some situations." He threw two interceptions on back-to-back drives while under so much pressure his jersey was being pulled, each setting up a Bengals touchdown and putting the game pretty much out of reach for the Giants.
"Oh, that was terrible," Coughlin said. "And he'd be the first one to tell you that. That was so foolish to try to make a play there. The one guy's got his shirt and just go down, take care of the ball, let us have another snap. Just take care of the football. I know he's always trying to make a play, and he has done things under those circumstances in the past that have worked out, but the percentages were just not with you when that happens." Read more...
Eli, Giants Confident At top Of Division
Excerpt: "There was no dark cloud hovering over the Meadowlands on Monday and no sense of doom among the defending Super Bowl champions. The Giants all knew the panic button had already been pressed outside their locker room.
Inside, though, they were perfectly calm — and enjoying their continued view from first place in the NFC East.
"I think we're still in good position," said quarterback Eli Manning. "If you had told us after 10 games we'd be winning our division, you'd take that every time."
"We're still in first place," added tight end Martellus Bennett. "Teams are fighting to catch up with us."
It's almost hard to remember in the wake of their hideous 31-13 loss in Cincinnati on Sunday, but the Giants (6-4) are still very much in command of the NFC East. That could change by the time they return from the bye in two weeks for a home game against the Green Bay Packers (6-3). But for the moment they still lead the division by 11/2 games.
So on Monday, that's what the Giants chose to focus on as they arrived for their last day of work before they took off to their bye week destinations. They weren't going to dwell on the two straight losses, their prolonged offensive slump or the fear of where their season might be heading." Read more...
Giants Expose Corey Webster's Failing To Cover For Misled Teammates
Excerpt: "Corey Websterdidn't blow his assignment. But he didn't help out his mates in the Giants secondary, either.
That was the message that secondary coach Peter Guinta had on Monday, one day after the Giants' 31-13 loss to the Bengals. Webster had been a key figure in the game's opening touchdown, a 56-yard reception by Bengals star A.J. Green.
Webster appeared to let Green run right past him at the Giants' 40, as if he expected help. "Corey did what he was supposed to do," Guinta said.
Thing is, Guinta added, Webster should have abandoned his assignment and stayed with Green when he realized he didn't have help. Another player, whom Guinta declined to name, was indeed supposed to pick up Green deep downfield, but most of the Giants' secondary had been fooled by a play-action fake.
Webster, the veteran in a Giants secondary that includes second-year man Prince Amukamara, rookie Jayron Hosley and journeyman safety Stevie Brown, should have covered for his mates. Webster initially called the play a "miscommunication." Guinta agreed but still expected more from his top corner.
"Corey's thing is he should have kind of realized what was going on," Guinta said, "and being the veteran guy, trying to protect the other guys, he should have been a little more patient ." Read more...
Myers: Coughlin Lays Blame On Eli
Excerpt: "has placed two Super Bowl rings in Tom Coughlin's safe deposit box and as a quarterback and coach they are as tied together in Giants history as Bill Parcells and Phil Simms or in NFL history as Bill Walsh and Joe Montana, Bill Belichick and Tom Brady, Vince Lombardi and Bart Starr.
But with Manning now stuck in an inexplicable five-game slump and playing like the often dreadful pre-elite Eli in back-to-back losses to the Steelers and Bengals, the Giants' annual second-half slump came with a new twist Monday: Coughlin is so frustrated that he used the words "terrible" and "foolish" in talking about Manning.
That's no rookie quarterback. That's a two-time Super Bowl MVP.
Coughlin may criticize his team's performance, but almost will never single out an individual. And while he emphasized the Giants' problems are hardly all about Manning, he didn't try to put spin on Manning's two interceptions in the third quarter in Cincinnati with defenders pulling at his jersey. They immediately led to Bengals touchdowns, stretching their lead from 17-6 to 31-6.
"Oh, that was terrible," Coughlin said Monday. "He'd be the first one to tell you that. That was so foolish to try to make a play there. The one guy has got his shirt — just go down, take care of the ball and let us have another snap. Just take care of the football. I know he's always trying to make a play and he has done things under those circumstances in the past that have worked out, but the percentages were just not with you when that happens."
Manning threw the first interception with 7:12 left in the third quarter. His next one came just 1:31 later, three plays into the Giants' next possession. That put the Bengals in position to have to go only 12 and 16 yards for two TDs. Was Coughlin stunned that Manning made the same mistake again so quickly?" Read more...
Kuhn's Season Ends With Torn ACL
Excerpt: "Markus Kuhn, the Giants' impressive German rookie who has helped them fill out a depleted defensive tackle corps, will miss the rest of the regular season with a torn ACL.
Tom Coughlin made that painful announcement on Monday, one day after the Giants' humiliating 31-6 loss in Cincinnati. Kuhn was carted off the field during the fourth quarter of that game and was taken for X-Rays on his knee.
Further tests revealed, as Coughlin said, "That poor kid's got an ACL."
Kuhn, a seventh-round pick out of North Carolina State and a native of Germany, had played well this season helping round out an injury plagued position. The Giants were missing defensive tackle Chris Canty (knee surgery) for the first six games of the season and Rocky Bernard has missed four games with an injured quad.
With Kuhn out, the Giants will likely turn to Marvin Austin, their second-round pick from 2010 who has struggled to earn playing time this season and was inactive for Sunday's game in Cincinnati." Read more...
Giants' RB Coach Says It Is Time For David Wilson To "Grow Up And Be A Man"
Excerpt: "David Wilson isn't playing much at all as a rookie, as the first-round pick from Virginia Tech has only 18 rushing attempts in the first 10 games. First-year running backs can get on the field fairly quickly – see Doug Martin for the Buccaneers – but Wilson hasn't been able to convince the Giants' coaching staff that he is trustworthy enough to put on the field.
"David has to learn you can't be just a runner, that's not what we do, you have to be a complete running back, you have to be knowledgeable, you have to be smart, you can't just accept your mistakes,'' running backs coach Jerald Ingram said on Monday.
Ingram cited Brandon Jacobs, Derrick Ward and Ahmad Bradshaw as running backs who sat on the bench until they learned the lessons that Wilson is struggling to master. Pass protection and blocking assignments are essential skills for a running back in the Giants system and until Wilson gets them he'll continue to sit.Even though he's a first-round pick.Coughlin: Eli Made "Terrible" Mistakes, But Not To Blame For Giants' Struggles
"Just because you're a first-round draft pick doesn't mean you're ready to play or they all would be great,'' Ingram said.
"It's about winning games, it's not a popularity contest. It's time for you to grow up and be a man now and see what you can do with the whole ball of wax. Until he proves that it's hard to stick him out there and feel comfortable.'' Read more...
Excerpt: "Eli Manning may be enduring one of the worst stretches of his career, but Giants coach Tom Coughlin refuses to put the two consecutive losses on his quarterback's shoulders.
"He's not alone," Coughlin said Monday. "We have a lot of people that aren't playing as well as they're capable of playing. That's gotta change."
Coughlin did not make any excuses for Manning, who has gone three straight games without throwing a touchdown for the first time since his rookie season, saying he was stunned by the quarterback's decision-making on back-to-back interceptions in Sunday's 31-13 loss at Cincinnati.
"That was terrible. He'll be the first one to tell you that," Coughlin said. "That was foolish. Just go down, take care of the ball, get another snap. I know he's always trying to make a play and he has done things under those circumstances in the past that have worked out but the percentages were not with him there." Read more...
Sullivan: It's Obvious QB Eli Manning Is Trying Too Hard
Excerpt: "You'd have to go back to the beginning of Eli Manning's Giants life to find a version of the quarterback anywhere close to the jumbled, mixed-up mess we've seen across these past few weeks. It was nine years ago, in his first NFL season, that Manning last went three straight games without a touchdown pass, a streak he matched in Sunday's dismal loss to Cincinnati.
But if history is the only proof we need to understand how completely Manning emerged from the wreckage of his difficult debut, then history is the reason Manning remains confident he can pull the Giants' offense out of the quicksand that's now pulling it down. The man who turned himself into a two-time Super Bowl MVP doesn't panic, not when his team is caught in another November swoon, not when his receivers are dropping sure touchdown passes, not when his offensive line is letting the pass rush sail through, not when his poor decisions lead to back-to-back interceptions.
He doesn't panic, but he does press.
And after a mistake-filled game Sunday in Cincinnati did nothing to erase the ugliness of the previous week's loss to Pittsburgh, the time has come for Manning to release the pressure valve of this lengthy, demanding season. As the Giants head into their long-awaited bye – this is the final week of the season for teams to get a week off – the man who carries the heaviest offensive burden is getting away from football.
Heading out of town for a few days with his family, Manning said Monday he would not be bringing any game tape with him and he wouldn't throw a football again until the team returns to practice Monday. And lest you think it's because of some vague reports of a dead arm, Manning shot those down with little more than a dismissive shrug. This is about a tired body and a drained brain, about a player whose 10 straight weeks of football were interrupted by a superstorm Sandy-induced evacuation from his Hoboken home.
How else to explain the successive third-quarter possessions Sunday when Manning turned, in the words of coach Tom Coughlin, "foolish?" Caught twice in the throes of an inevitable sack, Manning, so desperate to make something good happen for a unit that had just seen its most promising second-half possession end in a momentum-stripping fumble, flipped the ball forward before hitting the ground. Both times he was intercepted, and both times the Bengals cashed in with touchdowns.
Those were the final points surrendered in the 31-13 loss.
"I know he's always trying to make a play and he's done things under those circumstances in the past that have worked out, but the percentages are just not with you when that happens," Coughlin said. "I know how hard he's pressing to make a play. That's what he's trying to do. He's trying to make a play." Read more...
Giants' Report Card Through 10 Games
Excerpt: "Grading the Giants' season through the first 10 games:Running game: C-Inconsistency at its best – and worst – on the ground as the Giants continue to baffle with their production and lack thereof. When things are going well, Ahmad Bradshaw and Andre Brown have flourished with monster games. When things aren't – like now – the inability to run the football forces Eli Manning to press and the offense to become one-dimensional. Offensive coordinator Kevin Gilbride said Brown has earned more carries, so expect him to be more than just a complementary back behind Bradshaw, regardless of the latter's injury situation going forward.Passing game: C
Manning's slump is inexplicable at times, considering how well he and his receivers – particularlyPaterson native Victor Cruz – came out of the gate. Cruz is beat up a little bit, WR coach Kevin M. Gilbride said, and Hakeem Nicks has promised to be close to 100 percent after the bye. And although the notion that Manning has a "tired arm" is a bit foolish, his mistakes have been as well. The Giants' offensive line struggled in pass protection against the Bengals and it was an equal-opportunity drubbing up front as RT David Diehl, RG Chris Snee and LG Kevin Boothe took turns in allowing Manning to get roughed up. He was sacked four times." Read more...
Giants Being Patient With David WIlson's Development
Excerpt: "Offensive coordinator Kevin Gilbride is aware of the fans' desire to see the team unleash rookie running back David Wilson, the teams first round draft pick, in more plays with the offense.
Before that happens, the team needs to be certain that Wilson is capable of handling all the responsibilities that come with being on the field.
"He's got to be able to do all other things besides just running the ball," Gilbride said. "It's not just running the ball when you're a running back in the National Football League. It's about catching passes, it's about blocking, and it's about being able to protect the quarterback. All those things are taken into consideration when you determine whether a guy gets playing time or not."
Interestingly, Wilson, who thus far has 18 carries for 89 yards, was to have a greater role in the offense this past Sunday according to head coach Tom Coughlin. Those plans, however, were scrapped when the Giants fell behind and had to play catch up.
One thing does appear certain regarding Wilson, and that he's not quite a finished product as far as being able to contribute on a regular basis at the NFL level.
"Obviously, each week he's getting better, but there's a level of trust and a level of professionalism that hopefully he gets to," said running backs coach Jerald Ingram. "It's no different than when Brandon (Jacobs) was here as a rookie and didn't play, or Derrick Ward, or Ahmad Bradshaw. In practice, you have to develop a level of trust among your teammates as well as your coordinator to feel comfortable that you can be a complete running back.
Ingram noted that Wilson's 5-9, 205 lbs. size puts him at a bit of a disadvantage because there are concerns about his ability right now to take on the larger linebackers that he would have to face if given more of a full time role.
"Can David handle 250-lb. linebackers at his size?" said Ingram. "Strength, knowledge, knowing how to play the game at that level are all things we need for him to be comfortable with. We don't have any problem with him right now running the ball, but the rest is a process." Read more...
Nicks Moves In "The Right Direction" Sunday
Excerpt: "Hakeem Nicks is looking forward to having a week off to heal.
"It's going to be very beneficial," Nicks told ESPNNewYork.com. "I plan on coming back stronger than before."
The talented wide receiver has battled injuries all year and is welcoming the break to try and get closer to 100 percent. Nicks has missed three games with a swollen left knee and lingering problems from his surgically repaired right foot, and his production is on pace for career-low numbers.
Sunday, in the 31-13 loss to the Bengals, Nicks caught a team-high nine passes for 75 yards, by far his best game the five contests he's played in since returned against San Francisco on Oct. 14. Nicks has 36 catches for 465 yards with just one touchdown in seven games.
"That's definitely a start," Nicks said of his effort Sunday. "Going in the right direction."
While Nicks has played at less than 100 percent for the entire year, gutting his way through injuries, the wide receiver hasn't been able to play like he has in the past. Since grabbing 10 balls for 199 yards and a touchdown against Tampa Bay on Sept. 16, and then missing the following three games, Nicks had just 13 catches in the four games leading up to Sunday's loss.
Sunday, Nicks finally got into the groove, with the team targeting him frequently and using him in the game plan. He was targeted 14 times, especially in the short and intermediate passing game, and had more catches and yards than he had in the previous two games combined. Nicks only has two games this year when he's caught more than five passes or more than 53 passing yards." Read more...
GMen Evaluate Play To Prepare For Second Half
Excerpt: "The Giants will have this week off to rest during their bye, but the coaching staff will be hard at work to try and get the team ready for the second half. The Giants will be studying their own play from the first half, as well as breaking down tape from teams around the league to try and aid them.
"The coaches will start on our research of studying ourselves, we call it worst to best, we look at that, we look at ourselves, we'll self scout and then we'll go on to look at some of the teams that are very good in those particular positions," Coughlin said Monday." Read more...
Pope Finds Defense Account For Bennett
Excerpt: "Giants tight end coach Mike Pope tallied 35 pass routes forMartellus Bennett in Sunday's loss to the Bengals, and said Bennett was hit coming off the line on 19 of those routes. It's a sign the athletic tight end has become a player opposing defenses account for.
"He's not getting the free releases that he was getting earlier in the year, and getting through that five yards is a challenge for anyone that is any good," Pope said. "Anyone who they think can (hurt them) they are trying to batter him at the line of scrimmage and that wasn't case so much earlier in the year before he established himself as a threat."
After signing a one-year deal, Bennett has emerged as a reliable pass catcher for the Giants. He's second on the team with 36 catches and three touchdowns, and his 411 receiving yards are third on the squad. He's also delivered on his reputation as a solid blocker.
Bennett started the year hot, catching a combined 15 passes for 185 yards and three scores in the first three games. In the last seven games, though, Bennett has just 21 catches for 226 yards and no touchdowns. He's only topped 40 yards once in that stretch.
While Bennett hasn't been 100 percent since hyper extending his knee against Cleveland on Oct. 7, Pope said a high portion of the decline in production is opposing defenses making sure they don't allow Bennett to beat them. The tight ends coach added that he doesn't believe there has been any disconnect between Bennett and Giants quarterback Eli Manning. " Read more...
Doubting Thomas's Can't Doubt Tom
Excerpt: "Tom Coughlin saw the poor kid coming his way, a rookie defensive tackle named Markus Kuhn, and the coach of the New York Giants stepped up to console him. Coughlin had just broken the news -- no, not something he often does -- in his daily news conference that Kuhn was done for the season with a torn ACL.
"Sorry, big guy," Coughlin said as the two embraced, as the coach gave the seventh-round pick two hard pats on the back.
"I'll be all right," Kuhn told him."You will be all right," Coughlin said. "You will come back better.""That's right," the rookie said as he disappeared down the hall.Coughlin, noted tough guy, had just made his first compassionate move of 2012, and this back-room, small-picture scene reminded of his big-picture ability to connect with his team on a human level. Last year, with his Giants about to fall apart, with his team in dire need of the pass rush that forever defined it in good times, Coughlin sat down with the battered and beleaguered Justin Tuck and showed him that he cared.The Giants don't score their second Super Bowl triumph over the New England Patriots in five years without that sit-down, without Coughlin having that man-to-man with Tuck and coaching him right out of the grave.Can Coughlin do it again this year and find the one player or push the one button that will right the wrongs of his southbound 6-4 team?"I hope so, and I believe that will happen," Coughlin told ESPNNewYork.com on Monday. "Now, whether there's anything such as [the Tuck meeting] this year, I don't know. I think whether it's an individual or in the groups, I think the message is loud and clear and I think they got it today." Read more...
OLine Coach: David Diehl Will Be Just Fine
Excerpt: "It hasn't been the easiest of seasons for David Diehl.
The veteran right tackle has missed time with a sprained MCL, and when he has played, Diehl has struggled as he's allowed a handful of sacks.
As the team enters the bye, Giants offensive line coach Pat Flaherty believes Diehl will be able to sort it all out and pick up his play.
"He's a competitor," Flaherty said. "As most guys do when they go through an injury they miss valuable time. Even though he had a preseason, he was playing a new position, we also had him working at some guard. He just has to get more familiar with the right tackle position. I think he'll be just fine."
Diehl has drawn the ire of fans for his unsteady play this year, as the veteran has had difficulties. After playing at left tackle for most of his career, as well as left guard last year, the team moved him to right tackle for this year. He's only started four games, however, as he suffered a sprained MCL against Tampa Bay that knocked him out for three games.
While Flaherty, as well as offensive coordinator Kevin Gilbride, said there isn't any connection between sacks allowed and Diehl's play, the statistics show the team has given up more with Diehl in. In the four games Diehl has started, the Giants have allowed nine sacks. In the other six games, all with reserve Sean Locklear at right tackle, the Giants only yielded three. " Read more...
Eli Manning Won't Throw For A Week
Excerpt: "After Sunday's 31-13 loss to the Bengals, Giants quarterback Eli Manning said that he didn't thinka tired arm was to blame for his recent struggles.
With the bye week here, though, Manning is erring on the side of caution. Ohm Youngmisuk of ESPNNewYork.com reports that Manning said Monday that he won't throw at all until next Monday as he unplugs from the game. Coach Tom Coughlin said before the Bengals game that the entire team would get the week off and Manning is doing just that. He won't be watching any film for a few days either as he tries to refresh after a rough stretch." Read more...
NFC East Spin Cycle: Cowboys Closing The Game With Giants
Excerpt: "Should the Giants be concerned? They're now only 1.5 games up in the East after their second straight loss and the Cowboys' comeback win in Philly. The Eagles fell to 3-6 and Michael Vick was hurt, dropping them to a new level of desperation. The Redskins were on bye. Here's a look at what happened in the division in Week 10:
What we learned: The Giants' lead in the East has dwindled to a game and a half despite no other division team sitting above .500. With a second straight loss following four straight victories, the Giants fell to 6-4 and sounded some alarm bells in the process. It's a formula the Giants have patented — hot, cold, hot at the right time — in their championship seasons, so a November swoon isn't always something to fret over. But really, some ugly trends that have developed (a struggling passing game, spotty rushing and critical breakdowns on "D") go back prior to the two losses.
What's in store next: The bye comes at a good time, as this is a team that looks like it could use some recharging. Eli Manning reportedly has a "tired arm" that will earn some rest; his mechanics, and even footwork, have looked off the past few weeks. A defense that has been gashed in myriad ways will spend some time healing, but also looking at game tape to try to diagnose what's been going wrong. Zero sacks Sunday and a handful of blown coverages in allowing four TD passes — inexcusable numbers for this group. After the bye, there is no rest, at least as things appear now. Every remaining game is either a division contest or against a team in the playoff hunt, three at home and three away.
What the heck? What's up with Eli? Yes, it's the second week in a row we've asked that in this very space. And yes, it was not that long ago — 2010 to be exact — that Manning was mired in a slump that lasted most of a season. But coming off a championship season and a strong start in 2012, we are just not accustomed to this. It has been three straight games without a TD pass now, although to be fair, Victor Cruz dropped an easy one, perhaps dreaming too early about salsa. Manning's two INTs Sunday also led directly to 14 Bengals points, but also in his defense, the protection was lousy. After being sacked only seven times in eight games, Manning has gone down six times in the past two contests, including four Sunday. He was also hit four other times, and those two picks came on throws on which he was hit. "He was under duress a lot today," head coach Tom Coughlin said. Dave Diehl started a second straight game and was bad again Sunday. His sack allowed near the end of the first half was a rally killer after the Giants had good field position at the Cincinnati 14." Read more...
Refo: Giants @ Bengals, Week 10
Excerpt: "It's all gone a bit wrong for the Giants, hasn't it?They're losing, they're not playing well, and they're in danger of allowing the NFC East to become competitive. Not three things you would have thought after they beat the San Francisco 49ers so convincingly.Now, let's not just talk about the woeful Giants. No, this was a victory for the Bengals as much as a defeat for the G-Men. They battered the Giants' offensive line and took full advantage of excellent field position. I've had plenty of doubts about this team, but if they generate performances like this they'll be a problem for a lot of teams.
New York – Three Performances of Note
Not Looking Quite So Eli-te
There were moments against both Washington and Dallas where in hindsight you wondered if Eli Manning (-1.2) was about to experience one of his infamous slumps. Well, after the past two weeks its seems we're bang in the middle of one. His interception chuck to Pat Simswas, for want of a better word, daft. His throw that was picked off by Nate Clements was another awful decision. As Ben Stockwell said, it's good for quarterbacks to have short memories. It's not good for them to forget things all together.
Mixed Day for the Line
I literally had people phoning me up to bemoan the uselessness of David Diehl (+1.3). Our own Twitter account (@PFF) got in the act in a perfect demonstration of why what you see in real time, isn't always the same as when you carefully break down the tape and watch plays over and over again. Now Diehl was guilty of giving up a sack and three hurries, with the sack not being pretty at all as Robert Geathers breezed by him. However, apart from that he gave up just three more pressures and none of them at the kind of speed Manning couldn't do something about.
No, bigger problems came for Kevin Boothe (+1.0) who saved his grade with his run blocking, but had some real problems, giving up two sacks, two hits and another hurry. Geno Atkins tormented him (and Chris Snee to a degree) but you know you've had a rough day in pass protection when you get beat for a sack by Domata Peko.Chase-ing Down the Bengals' Running Game
Another player I've rarely had much good to say about in the past is Chase Blackburn(+3.3). He's a bit of a liability in coverage and has a habit of missing tackles, two of my pet peeves from linebackers. But give credit where it's due, because he made some nice plays in this game. Besides his forced fumble on special teams, he made three impressive defensive stops, the best of which came when he didn't let Kevin Zeitler lock his block on him at the second level, and then chased down BenJarvus Green-Ellis for a tackle for no gain." Read more...
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Upon completion of the District Leadership Program in 2004, she held several supervisory positions. She accepted the supervisory park ranger position at Crosslake in June 2011.
The meeting will be at the clubhouse of the Fifty Lakes Foundation, which is located at 40554 S. Eagle Lake Road (northeast corner of Crow Wing County Roads 1 and 3 intersection in Fifty Lakes).
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Original post made by Camejo, Menlo Park, on Apr 24, 2007
Obviously, neither of these guys are in a position to enforce the law locally. They need to resign.
This also explains why several houses of prostitution fronting as aroma therapy or massage parlors continue to operate.
But what's really amazing is the stupidity of these guys on two levels -- don't they realize that if they get caught, they're risking their jobs? And don't they know that prostitution isn't legal in Vegas -- only northern Nevada. San Mateo County can do better than these two clowns.
a resident of Mountain View
on Apr 24, 2007 at 3:17 pm
[Portion removed by Palo Alto Online staff.]
There is absolutely no reason this guy should resign. His statement that he believed this to be a lawful business is credible. He was charged with no crime.
a resident of another community
on Apr 24, 2007 at 3:21 pm
I live in SM Co. & this is just ridiculous. He & Bolanos, both police veterans, DID NOT know that an Asian massage parlor was a brothel? Puhlease. If they did, they should resign - more for getting caught than anything else, imo. Yes, in Vegas it's illegal, so they should've factored that in to their ill-conceived plan. If they didn't, they should resign - for being that naive! What's also troubling is the human trafficking aspect. I don't care about prostitution in & of itself. It's the trafficking issue that is so cruel & tawdry - & getting worse.
a resident of Crescent Park
on Apr 24, 2007 at 3:42 pm
They were charge with NO crime. If anything, having to answer to their wifes and family for being in a brothel, is going to be punishment enough!
a resident of Midtown
on Apr 24, 2007 at 7:01 pm
Perhaps they were just looking for a bowl of broth?
a resident of Duveneck/St. Francis
on Apr 24, 2007 at 7:30 pm
What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas?
a resident of Charleston Meadows
on Apr 24, 2007 at 7:48 pm
Absolutely no environmental laws were broken.
Laws of nature were obeyed. What's the fuss.
a resident of Barron Park
on Apr 25, 2007 at 2:02 am
Funny how the law does (or doesn't) get enforced when the violators are cops. Even if they weren't arrested, how do they explain the fact that they were at a brothel? If they don't quit, people in San Mateo County should recall them from office. No brainer!
a resident of Embarcadero Oaks/Leland
on Apr 25, 2007 at 8:48 am
Where in the article does it say "massage parlour"?
In any case, if all they wanted were massages, I'm sure their hotel had some sort of spa services.
a resident of Another Palo Alto neighborhood
on Apr 25, 2007 at 8:59 am
This is just another one of the situations where we are making a mountain out of a mole hill. They did not break the law. We may not like what they did, but it was never proved that they did anything illegal. We may not like them smoking or drinking (if they do), or what they do on their weekends off, but as long as they are not breaking the law, it isn't our business.
a resident of Another Palo Alto neighborhood
on Apr 25, 2007 at 9:04 am
it sounds like they were breaking the law. They were found in a brothel, which is an illegal place of business in Las Vegas. just because they were not caught in flagrante delicto with prostitutes doesn't mean they weren't breaking the law.
a resident of Embarcadero Oaks/Leland
on Apr 25, 2007 at 9:35 am
boys will be boys
here in hazard county
a resident of Mountain View
on Apr 25, 2007 at 9:43 am
So, they were breaking a low priority law, possibly unwittingly, possibly (probably) doing something that would be legal a short car trip away. WHO CARES?
a resident of another community
on Apr 25, 2007 at 11:25 am
Not so much because they had an itch they wanted to illicitly scratch, but due to the human trafficking factor. Law enforcement in SM Co. is totally aware of this particular issue - and it's a nasty one. Ignoring that aspect is what I think it extra disturbing. That, and that they were dumb enough to get caught.
a resident of Greenmeadow
on Apr 25, 2007 at 11:49 am
Sounds like the two officers were in "hot pursuit".
a resident of Mountain View
on Apr 25, 2007 at 4:29 pm
We Should Care-- that is not a totally unreasonable point, but would you, then, also disqualify a sherrif from service that wore Nikes, made in sweatshops, or ate Chinese food at many of the establishments that exploit their workers? Got their car serviced at a body shop that is a front for drug smuggling? Where do you want the line to be drawn?
a resident of Green Acres
on Apr 25, 2007 at 8:42 pm
If you actually read the article (what a concept) you'd see that they were outside the "business" and claimed that they were leaving because it was apparent it was not a legitimate business.
a resident of Woodside
on Apr 25, 2007 at 10:32 pm
people need to get their facts straight! Reporters are going to fabricate and emphasize unimportant details. No one was arrested, there were no charges. [Portion removed by Palo Alto Online staff.] These two men have families and friends.....who are we, or you to pass judgement???
a resident of another community
on Apr 26, 2007 at 2:06 am
The question that needs to be addressed is what did they do wrong? No! Granted they were in the wrong place at the wrong time. Thats not a crime! Las Vegas Police has closed it's investigation with no charges pending, no harm no foul.
Think about it, if they had sex on the job in their office and denied that it happened to the media they would qualify to be a democrat presidential contender.
a resident of Barron Park
on Apr 26, 2007 at 9:45 pm
Tonto, Joe and Eric need to get their facts straight. By his own admission, Munks was INSIDE the bordello when federal agents broke down the door and began their raid. He was even handcuffed. He was let go later. By his own admission, Bolanos had gone inside but was outside when the feds moved in.
You all are missing the bigger issues here -- Munks and Bolanos head a department that investigates sex crimes, is supposed to enforce anti-prostitution laws and runs a women's jail. How can they continue to do any of those jobs when they have offered such a laughable story about their own conduct?
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Original post made by Jack Hickey, Woodside: Emerald Hills, on Jun 1, 2013
Likewise, the Sequoia Healthcare District collects a portion of property taxes from residents of many of those same South County cities while providing benefits which significantly "spill-over" into non-taxed areas.
I have never advocated increasing property taxes, or any other taxes.
What I do advocate is providing voters with an opportunity to dedicate a fraction of their property taxes for specific purposes.
In the past, I have advocated the detachment of the (MROSD), suggesting that voters be given an opportunity to dedicate a fraction of their property taxes for specific use of San Mateo County Parks and Recreation. This would release a significant amount of revenue now flowing into Mid-Peninsula Open Space District.
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Property owners in Portola Valley, Menlo Park, East Palo Alto, Woodside, Atherton, Redwood City, San Carlos and Belmont take note.
The Midpeninsula Regional Open Space District(MROSD)spent $500,000 of your property tax dollars on a "visioning and priority-setting process". They are now conducting a poll to test the waters for a $200,000,000 bond measure to make the collective vision a reality.
Vision this: San Mateo without an open space district.
Originally established as the Midpeninsula Regional Park District,Web Link MROSD takes property taxes which could be supporting San Mateo County Parks and Recreation. It has acquired more than 60,000 acres of open space land. Recreational uses of that land are relatively non-existent.
MROSD should be detached from San Mateo County.
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United States Attorney Michael J. Sullivan; Peter Zegarac, Acting Inspector in Charge of the U.S. Postal Inspection Service in New England; Gary Mathison, Special Agent in Charge of the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Inspector General in New England; Robin M. Avers, Special Agent in Charge of Immigration and Customs and Enforcement in New England; Leo Sullivan, Special Agent in Charge of the U.S. Social Security Administration's Office of Inspector General in New England; James MacKay, Chief of the Saugus Police Department; Kathleen O'Toole, Commissioner of the Boston Police Department; and Leo A. Sacco, Chief of the Medford Police Department, announced that ITZA RUIZ, age 39, and HERIBERTO RUIZ, age 48, both residing at 226 Essex Street, Saugus, Massachusetts, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Rya W. Zobel to a twenty-three-count Indictment, charging them with Identity Theft, Bank Fraud, Credit Card Fraud, and Making False Statements in Documents required by Federal Immigration Law. The twenty-three count indictment also charged ITZA RUIZ with Student Financial Aid Fraud, Making False Statements in Loan Applications, Making False Statements and Entries in an INS Employment Eligibility Verification Form, and Misrepresentation of a Social Security Account Number. The Indictment also seeks forfeiture of the couple's marital home.
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HERIBERTO RUIZ aided and abetted ITZA RUIZ in committing these offenses, including personally applying for, and co-signing, the mortgage loan for their Saugus home.
Additionally, when ITZA RUIZ applied for U.S. citizenship, ITZA RUIZ and HERIBERTO RUIZ, her sponsor, provided false information upon which the Immigration and Naturalization Service relied in issuing ITZA RUIZ a green card.
The evidence would proven that the victim of the identity theft learned that her identity had been stolen when she attempted to obtain financing for a new car, and was subsequently denied that financing due to a negative TransUnion Credit Report rating that reported she had an outstanding mortgage of $317,382 for property located at 226 Essex Street in Saugus. The victim was able to track down ITZA RUIZ and HERIBERTO RUIZ through the credit report she had obtained, which listed telephone numbers and addresses for the debtors.
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Judge Zobel scheduled sentencing for June 22, 2005. ITZA RUIZ and HERIBERTO RUIZ each face up to 30 years' imprisonment and a fine of $1 million if convicted of the Bank Fraud charges, 15 years' imprisonment and a $250,000 fine on each count of Credit Card Fraud and Identity Theft, and 10 years' imprisonment and a $250,000 fine on each count of Making False Statements in Documents required by Federal Immigration Law. ITZA RUIZ also faces up to 5 years' imprisonment and a $20,000 fine on each count of Student Financial Aid Fraud, 30 years' imprisonment and a $1 million fine on each count of Making False Statements on a Loan Application, and 5 years' imprisonment and a $250,000 fine on each count of Making False Statements and Entries on an INS Employment Eligibility Verification Form and Misrepresentation of a Social Security Account Number. Following their release from prison, the defendants face up to 3 to 5 years of supervised release.
The defendants remain on pretrial release pending sentencing on a $25,000 unsecured bond.
The case was investigated by the Massachusetts Identity Theft/Financial Crimes Task Force led by the U.S. Postal Inspection Service with the assistance of the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Inspector General, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the U.S. Social Security Administration, and the Saugus, Boston and Medford Police Departments. It is being prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney Antoinette E.M. Leoney in Sullivan's Major Crimes Unit.
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