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This is a discussion on How would you handle this -- Mob Attack In Home within the Carry & Defensive Scenarios forums, part of the Defensive Carry Discussions category; My Rem 870 with 00 buck, backed up by my Kimber .45. We have "castle doctrine" here in Ohio. They enter my house, the threat ...
My Rem 870 with 00 buck, backed up by my Kimber .45. We have "castle doctrine" here in Ohio. They enter my house, the threat gets "stopped".
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In a case like that, or any home invasion as far as that goes, I'd forgo the AR unless it was the only thing available. My first choice would be a 12 gauge pump loaded with 00 buckshot. You'll take out 1 if not more with the first shot. The mob mentality is that they are anonymous. Seeing someone in the mob hitting the ground from a full load of shot will turn them into the sniveling cowards they are.
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I'm going to go clean my 870p now.
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i would agree with that...both my AR and Winchester Defender are close by and the Defender is loaded right now with 6 rounds of #4 buck....and M&P 9c is always with me.....
This is the reason my AR has 2 30rnd mags loaded w/HP .223 ammo and is always at the ready. Texas has a castle doc so the second someone crosses the threshold I start building a pile of dead BGs. I figure that by the time I am having to reload the pile should be big enough to block most of the doorway and allow me enough time to reload.
This is (unfortunately) becoming more and more common. I absolutely hate hearing about these stories, but facts are facts, and I will protect my family until my last breath on this earth, even if that means taking out someone else's teenage son. And I couldn't care less what race or color they are, white bodies stack up the same as black or brown at my doorway.
Thread: "How would you handle this"
The OP is being rhetorical, right? I ask this merely as the white m___________ker with the guns.
While the victim handled this at the lowest level possible, I would bet that it is not over.
Unless the community comes to the aid/defense of the victim, he will have to move sooner or later. It is not possible for an individual who must earn a living to protect his home/family 24/7.
"I do what I do." Cpl 'coach' Bowden, "Southern Comfort".
As far as the incident goes, this is one of those cases where even in states without castle doctrine in place (e.g. NC until 12-1), that an SD shooting would be pretty clear cut: armed mob kicks down door of family home to attack an otherwise uninvolved 3rd party for harboring two juveniles who were going to be mauled by the mob.
Go big or go home use to be the saying, now I would suspect that it would be "go big while at home"
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This will continue until we take our country back. This liberal, political correctness, and everyone is special has got to stop. We need to put teeth in the laws and their needs to be minimum jail time for this type of behavior. Surely they can come up with more than 3 people that had something to do with it. Wonder why our great liberal press didn't cover this. And how about the lack of coverage from Denver, Philidelphia, Chicago concerning these gangs that are targeting whites. What a different country we have now.
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this is happening more and more often.....what needs to happen EQUALLY as often is these thugs bust down a homeowners door and all of them get ventilated with his weapon of choice.........
pistol, shotgun, AR15, whatever.......i don't believe there is such a thing as going "overboard" in todays criminal climate
Most homes have a choke point at or near the front door, if they kick the door in use the choke point to pile up the bodies even with a 5 shot snubby.
In my thinking, to make a stand against a mob you have to out gun them in a tight choke point.
In Texas even your yard is considered a part of your area of protection for yourself and others against attack, and is a justified area of defense.
Point is in Texas the home owner could have cleared the mob out that was a threat even in his yard.
If I could not have handled the situation by my self, my wife would not hesitate to put the mob down.
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But they said such a concession applied only as long as the child had a realistic chance of achieving his or her career ambitions and the family could afford it.
Almost one in three Italians in their early 30s live with their parents. The problem is compounded by low starting salaries and university degrees that can take years to complete.
"Unfortunately we continue to be the mummy's boys of Europe," said Simone Baldelli, youth co-ordinator for Forza Italia, the party of the Prime Minister, Silvio Berlusconi. "The family, instead of being considered a fundamental cell for children's education and training, becomes a social safety net."
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COLUMBUS It was a far cry from the exuberance that greeted his opponent two days earlier, but John McCain was greeted politely by the national convention of the NAACP Wednesday as he praised the history made by Barack Obama.
"Don t tell him I said this, but he is an impressive fellow in many ways," the Republican nominee-to-be said to cheers from the crowd.
"He has inspired a great many Americans, some of whom had wrongly believed that a political campaign could hold no purpose or meaning for them," he said. "His success should make Americans, all Americans, proud. Of course, I would prefer his success not continue quite as long as he hopes."
Mr. McCain used much of his 40-minute speech at the Duke Energy Convention Center to focus on reform of public education, including his call for taxpayer-funded vouchers to help parents pay for tuition at non-public schools, an issue that divides the African-American community.
"For all the best efforts of teachers and administrators, the worst problems of our public school system are often found in black communities," said the Arizona senator. "Black and Latino students are among the most likely to drop out of high school. I don t have to tell you that. African-Americans are also among the least likely to go on to college.
"After decades of hearing the same big promises from the public education establishment, and seeing the same poor results, it is surely time to shake off old ways and to demand new reforms," he said.
He noted that Mr. Obama joined other Democrats in Congress in opposing Washington D.C. s voucher program.
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Mr. Obama made similar comments about vouchers before the 99th annual NAACP convention Monday night. Ohio has its own voucher programs focused on students in Cleveland schools and those in failing schools statewide.
Mr. McCain called for bonuses for teachers who choose to work in troubled schools and to reward those whom produce better-performing students.
Arlene Holt Baker, executive vice president of the AFL-CIO and the highest-ranking African-American ever in the union, said she believed Mr. McCain converted few in the audience. The AFL-CIO has endorsed Mr. Obama.
"He took the opportunity to, quite frankly, bash workers who are in education, our teachers," she said. "I do not believe we should be moving toward discounting public education. Public education should be funded adequately. Teachers should be compensated adequately so we d see more people coming into the system to teach."
Mr. McCain received the strongest responses from the crowd when he broke from his script to take questions from the audience, something Mr. Obama did not do Monday.
He criticized the Federal Emergency Management Agency s response to Hurricane Katrina and promised to fix and then fully fund No Child Left Behind education programs that he characterized as "a good start."
Last month s Quinnipiac Poll showed Mr. Obama with at least 90 percent support of blacks in key swing states Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Florida.
"I am a candidate for president who seeks your vote and hopes to earn it," he told the crowd. "But whether or not I win your support, I need your goodwill and counsel. And should I succeed, I ll need it all the more. I have always believed in this country, in a good America, a great America. But I have always known we can build a better America, where no place or person is left without hope or opportunity by the sins of injustice or indifference."
If nothing else, Mr. McCain won respect by making the appearance in front of an organization whose members lean heavily in support of his Democratic opponent. George W. Bush declined the NAACP s invitation to speak during his 2004 re-election campaign, although he did speak as a candidate in 2000.
Mr. McCain spoke before a crowd of about 2,000, much smaller than the crowd that overflowed into nearby Fountain Square in downtown Cincinnati that greeted Mr. Obama. Although his remarks drew polite applause and some laughter, some in the crowd stayed in their seats with their arms folded while others rose for a standing ovation when Mr. McCain completed his speech.
But he seemed to win points by making the appearance anyway.
"He s a candidate for president. That s the highest office in this nation. I feel any candidate, I don t care who it is or where he comes from, should come before the NAACP, the largest and oldest civil rights organization in this country," said Yvonne White, president of the Michigan NAACP and a convention delegate.
"It shows whether they care about the minority vote or not," she said.
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James, though, will have to make a choice between a current model and luxury because his budget won?t allow both. But as our contenders below illustrate, the former route isn?t necessarily a bad move.
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Hoping for a return in the return gamePosted by on April 16, 2014 – 11:12 am
Everybody remembers Patrick Peterson's wonderful rookie season returning punts — four touchdowns (and a fifth he should have had if not for a shoetop tackle by the punter in the finale against Seattle). Peterson averaged 15.9 yards a punt return, the Cards averaged 24 yards a kickoff return between LaRod Stephens-Howling and A.J. Jefferson and it was generally an effective use in Ron Wolfley's beloved "transition game." Obviously, the last couple of years, it hasn't been quite the same.
In 2012 Peterson's average fell to 8.4 yards a return with no scores. A dropoff was probably inevitable, but Peterson looked uncomfortable much of the time. The kick return game dropped to 23.3 yards a return, although finding a happy medium for effective kick returns in this day and age of big kickoffs and mostly touchbacks isn't an easy equation. Last season, Peterson's punt returns fell to 6.0. Kickoff returns were a mere 20.0, and former kick returner Javier Arenas often looked so frustrated he rarely could return one that he did so when he shouldn't, leading to poor field position.
It'll make for an interesting dynamic this season. Ted Ginn was signed to add speed in the receiving corps, but it's not hard to make the argument his greatest strength as a player is on kickoff returns (where he averaged 23.8 yards a return last season). He's also pretty good on punt returns (12.2 yards last year), and that will provide an option if Bruce Arians decides Peterson is better served focusing on being a Pro Bowl cornerback and remove the pressures of being the guy who everyone thinks might score a touchdown every time he fields a punt. Peterson doesn't want to give up the job, but we'll see how it turns out in the big picture.
The Cardinals' offense was doing much better at the end of the season and should be improved given the pieces that have been added. It wouldn't hurt if the kickoff and punt returns could chip in to the improvement equation.
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Rams aftermathPosted by on September 8, 2013 – 8:53 pm
It was toward the wrong end zone, and it was the Cardinals' defense instead of its offense, but it was difficult not to look at Tyrann Mathieu racing down the middle of the Edward Jones turf Sunday behind a breakaway Ram and not think of Steve Breaston.
In 2010, Breaston, the wide receiver, had a wasn't-gonna-give-up play after a Cardinal turnover, and a sure Rams TD was undercut when Breaston knocked the ball loose and into the end zone, where the Cardinals recovered. This time, it was Mathieu, flying up behind Rams tight end Jared Cook and improbably popping it loose – into the end zone, where linebacker Karlos Dansby jumped on it.
Honey Badger – remember, he's good with it again – said he was just always going to try and make a game-changing play, and that could have been it. Perhaps should have been. The Cards save seven points there and when they took the 11-point lead into the fourth quarter, you were thinking that should have been enough.
That wasn't the only déjà vu I had Sunday though. Watching running back Andre Ellington run that key third-down wheel route – and see him get wide open beyond the linebacker – reminded me so much of the one LaRod Stephens-Howling ran in Philadelphia in 2011 on a key third down during the Cardinals' game-winning drive that game. Ellington was in position to do the same – except the pass never really had a chance.
(By the way, Stephens-Howling tore his ACL Sunday playing for the Steelers and is out for the season. Brutal.)
The Cards won the Breaston game. The Cards won that Hyphen game. They couldn't win Sunday.
— We've had this discussion before, about Levi Brown. I'm guessing this won't be the last time. He didn't play well enough against the Rams. Got a holding call and was beaten three times by Robert Quinn for sacks. And then, after the game, Bruce Arians first said – before he even got a question – that he wasn't worried about his offensive line. Then, asked about Brown specifically, said Brown was his guy and made the point there was no one better to replace him with.
I know everyone says it should be Nate Potter, but Arians gave Potter a lot of opportunity in the preseason and Potter did not seize the moment (in fact, struggled at times like Brown did, mostly against guys deeper on the depth chart.) The way Arians talked Sunday, he feels strongly there is no one on the roster for which to bench Brown. Steve Keim is always looking for upgrades, but I'm not sure you're going to find a left tackle on the street. The Cards would have loved for one of those tackles to fall to seven in the draft, but it didn't happen. They took Jon Cooper, and yes, I am sure left tackle will be a point of emphasis next offseason.
— Carson Palmer looked like he had plenty left to me.
— Andre Roberts had the stuffing beaten out of him, and he held the ball every time. It may have been Roberts' best game as a pro.
— The Cardinals missed Daryl Washington. It's obvious to say a team misses a Pro Bowl player, but he would have been able to make an impact. Maybe been a better matchup for Rams tight end Jared Cook.
— Speaking of linebackers, Arians said John Abraham was fine. He didn't play a ton though.
— With 26 seconds left and the ball on their own 20 in the first half, it would have been easy for Bruce Arians to sit on the ball. But the man who says "No risk it, no biscuit" risked it, and Carson Palmer, after a completion, hit three straight long passes to set up a 50-yard field goal. Unfortunately, Jay Feely pushed it a bit wide right, painful in a three-point loss.
"We couldn't have executed it any better," Arians said. "You have to make that kick and that was the deciding factor in the ball game."
— Javier Arenas didn't play defense, but the veteran cornerback was in there to return kickoffs. It didn't go well. One time he fielded the ball deep in the end zone and was stuffed short of the 10-yard line. Another time, a return from deep ended up being fumbled, although the Cards fell on it.
"You have to make better decisions," Arians said. "Stay in there."
— We'll see how the Cards adjust this week. And we'll see if the Cards make any roster moves too.
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Considering AlfonsoPosted by on July 31, 2013 – 5:59 pm
Alfonso Smith first came to the Cardinals in April of 2010. It's been a journey back and forth since then. He's always flashed talent, but he could never get past guys with more glittering resumes like Tim Hightower/Beanie Wells/Ryan Williams/LaRod Stephens-Howling/Chester Taylor. Last year, in fact, he was released in favor of William Powell at the end of camp. But when Wells and Williams suffered more injuries, the Cards brought Smith back, and it is he and not all the others (save for Williams) who is still around.
Now, everyone is talking about Rashard Mendenhall's career comeback or what Williams can still do or what draftees Stepfan Taylor or Andre Ellington might be able to do. Smith still has an uphill climb to a roster. He knows this.
"Man, in the past when I was younger it would frustrate me and it would cloud my mind and I wouldn't perform to the best of my ability," Smith said. "Now I know sometimes things aren't in my hands and I just go out there and give it all I got and coaches, fans and y'all (in the media) see hey, I can play. I know those guys have proven themselves too. But I do have talent and I work hard and I am just as good."
It's hard not to notice him. You can argue he isn't always going against the top part of the roster, but Smith looks the part much of the time. And he practices like you'd expect — like he knows his time could be cut short at any point. The other day during 1-on-1 pass protection drills, Smith had a pair of doozies with linebackers Jasper Brinkley and Reggie Walker (below) when he doggedly battled in a setup that are designed to make it very hard for a back to be successful.
"I look at the defense that they are trying to take food out of my mouth, they are trying to take food away from my family," Smith said. "I take it very personal. When I saw Mendenhall and Ryan (Williams) go out and the defense kind of got the best of them, it pissed me off. That's like seeing your brothers getting in a fight. I just wanted to go hit the defense in the mouth."
The numbers say the Cards will keep at least four running backs. Keeping a fifth is usually a luxury. So Smith fights to see if he can stick around yet again.
"(Coaches) don't really tell me anything but I know when I do well," Smith said. "I grade myself hard. When I mess up one time out out of the whole practice, I'm like, 'Man, I've got to fix that because I know my window is not as big as theirs and my opportunities are slim.' That's all I can do."
Tags: Alfonso Smith, Andre Ellington, Beanie Wells, Chester Taylor, LaRod Stephens-Howling, Rashard Mendenhall, Ryan Williams, Stepfan Taylor, Tim Hightower, William Powell
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Honey Badger and Day 2 aftermathPosted by on April 26, 2013 – 10:30 pm
Well OK then.
So I was thinking it would have been interesting — very — had the Cardinals taken Manti Te'o in the second round. Instead, they traded out of the pick because they were looking at another inside linebacker in Kevin Minter, could get him later and get an extra pick, and it turned out they weren't as close to seeking Te'o as I might've thought. But hey, the Cardinals made up for it by going with the NFL Draft's other co-winner of the "huge story leading into the draft" player — Tyrann Mathieu.
There is little question Mathieu is a risk. And that's probably an understatement. But the Cardinals know that. They have Mathieu's mentor, Patrick Peterson, in the same locker room (and I would bet their lockers will be adjoining when all is said and done). Certainly, Mathieu can help. Bruce Arians talked about the ability for Mathieu to essentially be a secondary swingman, a free safety/nickel corner/cornerback that could stay on the field in all situations. It just feels like an all-or-nothing choice: He's either going to be a dynamic star, or he'll wash out because of his personal problems.
— It was fitting, I suppose, on the day LaRod Stephens-Howling officially found a new home with the Steelers, that his famous emotional conference call after he was drafted was surpassed by the tears flowing in Mathieu's call. I mean, the Hyphen only got choked up for an answer or two. Mathieu was so emotional I wasn't sure at first we were going to be able to understand him. I can't blame him.
— The addition of Mathieu, with his skill set, may seal the end of the Josh Cribbs possibility. Arians at the owners meetings even talked about adding Cribbs and how great it would be to put him and Peterson back together on punt returns to mess with the opposition. Friday, Arians talked about Mathieu and Peterson doing it. I asked GM Steve Keim if Cribbs was now off the radar. "That's something we have already explored," Keim said. "At this point, I really can't get any further into it, so I will leave it at that." Watching Keim say it, it sure didn't sound like Cribbs was coming.
— Kind of feel bad for Minter. His arrival got overshadowed quickly.
— Oh, we still have another day of the draft? Yes we do. And the Cards still have five players to take. Those first two picks in the fourth round are interesting. Now with two choices, I could see the Cards taking a flyer on one of the quarterbacks. Could they pull the trigger on Matt Barkley? I could see it. That extra pick is gravy; They were going to take Minter in the second anyway. So maybe Barkley or Ryan Nassib or Tyler Bray are in play. People loved matching Barkley and the Cardinals at No. 7 way back at the Scouting combine (which was foolish) but a fourth-round pick — one of two — could be palatable.
— The Cards likely will take a running back at some point. Johnathan Franklin is available. I know people bring up Marcus Lattimore and it is a great and inspirational story. But I know I wouldn't touch a guy who already has blown out two ACLs, especially a running back.
— I still expect the Cards to at least think about adding a pass rusher project tomorrow, and a pure speed deep threat receiver.
Tags: draft, Josh Cribbs, LaRod Stephens-Howling, Manti Te'o, Steve Keim, Tyrann Mathieu
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Cribbs still in playPosted by on April 17, 2013 – 9:17 am
Many have asked what is happening, if anything, on the Josh Cribbs front. Alex Marvez reported this morning that Cribbs is still on target to take another physical for the Cardinals "in a few weeks" and if Cribbs passes the physical, the Cards still plan to sign him. Cribbs is recovering from a torn meniscus.
It would be interesting to see if the Cards picked up anyone on draft weekend — with a pick or as an undrafted guy — who could fill a similar role as Cribbs. It's clear at this point LaRod Stephens-Howling, who remains unsigned, isn't part of the Cards' plans going forward. (Could that change if Cribbs, for instance, fails his physical? Maybe. Also a maybe if the Cards don't address running back on draft weekend. But right now, I don't expect to see the Hyphen here.)
Bruce Arians talked a month ago about how Cribbs could fit with the Cardinals. First he has to prove himself healthy enough, however.
Tags: Josh Cribbs, LaRod Stephens-Howling
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No Cribbs — at least for nowPosted by on March 19, 2013 – 9:06 am
Well, apparently the Josh Cribbs physical didn't go as well as it could have, which probably isn't a surprise by now since there was still no news about the Cardinals making a contract offer. This morning, there was a Will Burge report that he failed his physical.(Another report said he didn't "fail" the physical, but we may be talking semantics here.)
Then Mike Garafalo got in touch with Cribbs' agent, who said the free agent wide receiver/special teamer had just had an arthroscopic procedure to repair the meniscus in his knee and it wasn't yet healed. More interestingly was Garafalo's tweet of the agent saying that the Cardinals are expected to give Cribbs another physical "in a few weeks" and if he is healthy then, Cribbs should sign with the team.
A few weeks in the NFL is a long time. That will be after offseason work has started. Is it after the draft? Could the Cardinals make a move in the meantime to fill that role, making Cribbs the odd man out? Would that open the door wider for LaRod Stephens-Howling to return? (And for the record, I'm not saying Cribbs and the Hyphen are absolutely tied together. I'm trying to connect dots with skill sets.)
For the short term, though, the Cribbs questions can stop.
Tags: free agency, Josh Cribbs, LaRod Stephens-Howling
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Rashad Johnson comes backPosted by on March 12, 2013 – 10:09 am
The news first spread last night but it became official this morning, with safety Rashad Johnson agreeing to a new three-year contract with the Cardinals. Johnson was already taking playing time from veteran Adrian Wilson last year, and the pieces of this day came together over the past week — Wilson being released, and Johnson coming back to a probable starting job.
At the Scouting combine, general manager Steve Keim made it clear he was happy with Johnson's progress in the secondary and signaled the Cards' interest in working out a new deal.
"Rashad was a guy last year who I felt really improved," Keim said. "His cover skills, his consistency in the alley, coming to balance as a tackler, we felt he really, really improved. Where as in years past I felt like Rashad would fill the alley a little out of control a little bit and he learned to play with a little more patience, which I think served him well."
Free agency begins at 1 p.m. Arizona time today. The Cardinals figure to keep trying to bring back cornerback Greg Toler, who is letting the market set his worth. It's sounding less and less likely the team brings back running back LaRod Stephens-Howling (which is a bummer, because I would miss the Hyphen.) Of the Cardinals' other own free agents, other than perhaps linebacker Quentin Groves — and even on him I am not sure — I could see the Cards moving on in almost every case.
Tags: Greg Toler, LaRod Stephens-Howling, Quentin Groves, Rashad Johnson, Steve Keim
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No more Beanie, and new wideouts hit NFC WestPosted by on March 11, 2013 – 2:13 pm
I thought the day before free agency began was supposed to be quiet.
Instead, it most certainly has not been, not for anyone following the Cardinals. The Cards continued to make moves by cutting running back Beanie Wells — more on that in a minute — while NFC West foes Seattle and San Francisco set up trades for Vikings wide receiver Percy Harvin and Ravens wide receiver Anquan Boldin, respectively. Those teams were already set up for success and obviously, both players make them better.
(The deals, which can't be made official before tomorrow at the earliest, are different in nature, though. The Seahawks gave up a three-pick haul for Harvin, including their first-round pick, and will need to sign him to an extension. The 49ers gave up just a sixth-round pick because everyone knew the Ravens were going to cut Boldin, and that could very well be a one-year rental depending on why direction the Niners want to go in 2014. Boldin has one year left on his contract. The Boldin deal can't be completed before he takes a physical either, and that comes after he completes his trip to Africa with Fitz.)
In the meantime, the Cardinals let Wells go. Beanie always knew it was a likely result. He believes he can rebound from his knee problems at age 24 but they have dogged him for more than a year now. When healthy — heck, even when kind of healthy in 2011 — Wells could run over opponents with the best of them. He had some runs as a rookie on that 10-win 2009 team that made you wonder why he wasn't playing more. But when you don't catch passes or block tremendously well, when running is mostly what you do, you need to be able to do that often. He didn't miss a ton of games before last season but going forward, with a new offense, the marriage between the Cards and Beanie didn't make a lot of sense to continue.
Next at running back? Ryan Williams will get a shot, I'd think, depending on free agency. The Reggie Bush buzz will be floating out there until Bush signs somewhere. Maybe it's him. Maybe someone else. Maybe the draft makes sense. But if you are certain you will get a big name back there, remember the Colts and Bruce Arians rode Vick Ballard last year and no one knew who Vick Ballard was before that. There has been zero talk about LaRod Stephens-Howling so I'm not sure if he is still an option to be re-signed. The overhaul continues.
Tags: 49ers, Anquan Boldin, Beanie Wells, LaRod Stephens-Howling, Percy Harvin, Seahawks
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The speculation of free agencyPosted by on March 10, 2013 – 9:17 am
It doesn't matter when free agency starts, whether it is a "soft" opening like the NFL has tried this year or the normal start of free agency (deals can be consummated starting at 1 p.m. Tuesday) — there will be rumors and speculation. It's always tough to know exactly where it's coming from. Is the agent just trying to drum up a market for the player? Is it serious interest? Sometimes, it feels like the recruiting process in high school for an athlete — a player could have "interest" from Alabama and Michigan and LSU and Oklahoma, but was it a form letter sent out to dozens of players or was it a phone call from Les Miles?
(And yes, obviously an NFL player isn't getting a direct phone call from a team right now, because of the rules.)
So it's within this context that the news must be viewed of the Cardinals looking at cornerback Sean Smith, or interest in Reggie Bush, or return man Josh Cribbs. Obviously, the Cardinals are going to have to be active in free agency to a point, because they will need to fill out a roster that has shrunk through recent cuts. This is the new NFL by the way — Rick Gosselin notes 11 players who started 16 games this season have been cut already, along with three others who started 15 games (including Adrian Wilson.) It will be very interesting to see what kind of contracts are reached with many of these players on the market. The Ravens are looking for Anquan Boldin to take a pay cut, which he doesn't want to do. It's a tough time to be an older veteran, regardless of performance.
As for what might happen with the Cards, well, they'd like to re-sign cornerback Greg Toler and safety Rashad Johnson. There hasn't been much talk about free agent LaRod Stephens-Howling and the Bush news — if accurate — would not bode well for the Hyphen's return. Neither would someone like Cribbs. (It does seem like interest in Bush contradicts Bruce Arians' concept of a three-down back, but reports are Bush has become better all-around in Miami compared to his Saints years.)
This week will be fun to watch play out.
Tags: Anquan Boldin, free agency, Greg Toler, Josh Cribbs, LaRod Stephens-Howling, Rashad Johnson, Reggie Bush, Sean Smith
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Big week for Cards and any contract talksPosted by on March 4, 2013 – 11:32 am
On Saturday, NFL teams will be allowed to start officially talking to free agents for other teams. They can't officially sign anyone until next Tuesday afternoon, but the window opens Saturday. That means if a team is going to make a strong run at their own guys, this is the week to do so. So for the Cards, who I think would like to bring back cornerback Greg Toler and safety Rashad Johnson, talks would step up now, I'd think. Same with quarterback Kevin Kolb, assuming there will be talks.
(Although unlike Toler and Johnson and running back LaRod Stephens-Howling, Kolb can't suddenly start talking to other teams Saturday. He is under contract unless the Cardinals cut him, and thus cannot shop himself around.)
Again, and I go back to what general manager Steve Keim said a couple of weeks ago. This close to free agency, some players just want to test the market, unless their own team will overpay for the honor of not doing so. The market will set the price. Does that mean you could lose a player? Of course. Once he is free, any control of the situation is over.
One final point: Sitting with a little more than $5 million of cap space even before anything is done with Kolb or anything else buys the Cardinals some time. Kolb, who has a $2 million roster bonus due in another week or so, will have to be dealt will soon. The Cardinals haven't said anything to safety Adrian Wilson about his future (via Kent Somers) but again, because the team is under the cap and functioning with Wilson's current contract, it's hard to know if that means that Wilson is simply safe or that the Cards will talk to him later about a restructure or something else. I wouldn't be surprised at an influx of youth this season (more on that later today in a post) and so transactions might start following that path.
Tags: Adrian Wilson, free agency, Greg Toler, Kevin Kolb, LaRod Stephens-Howling, Rashad Johnson, Steve Keim
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Our thanks to Edward Feser for his review of The Mystery of Existence: Why Is There Anything At All? (Fifty Shades of Nothing, First Things , July 24, 2013). Our books limited mission is to build appreciation for the most baffling of all enigmas: Why is there something rather than nothing? In its shadow, all the big questions" Does God exist? Why the universe? Life after death? "are eclipsed.
We reprint roughly fifty items, ranging from Plato and Aristotle to Aquinas and Leibniz and then to modern physicists and philosophers, and we offer a wide variety of competing solutions: a blank is absurd; no explanation needed; chance; value/perfection as ultimate; mind/consciousness as ultimate (a subset of which is God or something like God).
One reprinted item is Roberts survey article Why Not Nothing? originally published in Skeptic magazine. In The Mystery of Existence , he has added a classification of nine Levels of Nothing, a response to contemporary confusion. Roberts intent is to get people thinking about Nothing, about why it is not the case that there is Nothing, and about what this existential analysis implies for ultimate reality. Roberts battle is with (i) philosophers who think Nothing is absurd, a fallacy of language, a false problem, and (ii) physicists who have defined for themselves a rather densely populated Nothing of laws, fields and forces with which they then go out and generate universes from nothing.
In any event, The Mystery of Existence is not about the clash between classical and modern/personal forms of theism (theistic personalism), a distinction that is anyway not directly on point in explicating Nothing (our limited mission again), since in either case, classical or modern/personal, God can be in some sense necessary. Furthermore, because no entity could exist unless it had already been possible for it to exist, any level of Nothing thats empty even of possibilities must therefore be denied.
In his friendly criticism, which we enjoy, Ed regrets that weve given so much room to contemporary philosophers of religion, for example Richard Swinburne and Alvin Plantinga, who argue for theistic personalism. Yes, youll also find some classical theism in the volume"Plato, Aristotle, Plotinus, Aquinas"but Ed is correct in that it fills only very few pages.
By theistic personalism Ed means the view that God is a Mind or a Being in a fairly straightforward sense. Classical theism is instead the kind of view that describes God not as a Being but as Subsistent Being Itself, in no way composed of parts, utterly unchangeable.
Eds criticism is an important one. We could plead that our volume tries to cover all the main ways, going back to Plato and ending with scientists such as Stephen Hawking, of reacting to the fact that theres a world instead of utter emptiness. Philosophy, theology, cosmology, physics, were all competing for room on its pages. Still, why so little about classical theism? Why such short shrift (Eds description) as calling classical theism puzzling?
Part of our answer will have to be that, even as Ed presents it, classical theism really is puzzling. Detailed discussion of it would have involved very deep matters. Aquinas himself never claimed to understand them fully " and our volume was aimed not at experts but at the curious reader, intelligent but maybe knowing almost nothing about philosophy.
Aquinas sees Gods properties as all of them ultimately identical. Gods goodness just is Gods power, for example, and that just is Gods knowledge, which in turn just is Gods existence; for Gods essence simply is to exist . Entirely changeless, God cannot suddenly alter through coming to know that the date and time are now such-and-such, and that so-and-so has now freely chosen to donate a kidney to a friend.
Aquinas may make some of this easier to accept through stressing that we speak of God only analogically. But doesnt that itself say that weve little idea of what were talking about, and that discussing it for many pages wouldnt alter this unalterable fact? Theistic readers of The Mystery of Existence may feel relieved when the personal theist Timothy OConnor tells them that while he, too, sees Gods goodness, power, and knowledge as intimately linked, he finds it very hard to be sure what Aquinas doctrine is supposed to come to.
Again, those readers may welcome Richard Swinburnes description of God as a spirit, a non-embodied person"a Being of the simplest possible type since Gods goodness, power and knowledge are all of them interconnected, and all of them infinite, but still definitely a Being instead of anything as hard to understand as Subsistent Being Itself (which Richard says is not an intelligible category). In fact, to Richard, the claim that the divine properties are identical to each other and to God depends on the somewhat arbitrary way one divides up the properties of a thing (how many properties one says that some thing has) " and that applies to all things, not only to God. And it remains extremely puzzling how a property can be the same as a substance in which it inheres. While the classical tradition might deny that God is a substance in some sense, it really has to (and sometimes does) affirm that he is a substance in a sense of a causal agent, and a causal agent must at least have power, a property.
All the same, we editors do try to throw some light on Aquinas theory. On page 103, we suggest that Aquinas may be influenced by Plato. As for Eds remark that Johns brand of Platonism is distinctive or even somewhat eccentric, i n Book Six of his Republic , Plato theorizes that The Good, itself a factor beyond being, is creator of all things known. John suggests that a possible way of interpreting Plato or extending Plato would be as follows. The need for a good world is unconditional; it doesnt depend, for example, on anyones being there to have a duty to create such a world. And this need may itself be creatively effective , responsible for the actual existence of things. Well, a creatively effective need wouldnt be a complicated reality like a Being who (i) was benevolent, (ii) had infinite power, and (iii) knew absolutely everything, including what it would be good to create. It would be a reality having the kind of simplicity that Aquinas attributes to God.
However, the very first thing for which such a need would be responsible might be a Divine Person, an Eternal and Infinite Being. Indeed, the unconditional need for such a Being to exist could be viewed as a part of Gods own nature, something explaining Gods necessary existence, rather than as something standing outside God and creating God. This idea is defended in our volume by A.C. Ewing, by Keith Ward (writing as Oxfords Regius Professor of Divinity), and by the physicist-turned-theologian John Polkinghorne. It can be argued that its fairly standard Platonic theism.
Heres something that puzzled us. While Ed notes rightly how could anything actually exist unless it were in some sense a possibility ? why does he seem to make God an exception to this rule? Even if God, instead of being a Person or a Being in a fairly straightforward sense, just is Subsistent Being Itself, doesnt it remain true that God exists ? And if so, why does Ed write that all possibilities pre-exist as ideas in the divine intellect? For what about the possibility of Gods own existence? How could this possibility itself depend on the fact that God existed so as to be able to think about it?
Thats not meant as any sort of knockdown argument. Asking why theres a world, not a blank, plunges us into very, very deep waters. The Mystery of Existence features three pages of quotations from famous figures taking the plunge. Perhaps the wisest words come from William James: All of us are beggars here, and no school can speak disdainfully of another or give itself superior airs.
For us, the bottom line is that the best way to appreciate the Mystery of Existence is to explore answers people have suggested to Why Is There Anything At All?
And if you dont get dizzy, you really dont get it.
John Leslie is University Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at the University of Guelph, Canada, and Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. Robert Lawrence Kuhn is the creator and host of Closer To Truth, the long-running PBS / public television series on science and philosophy.
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So, I know I am just playing follow the leader with the blog, but my favs so far are Venice and Weggis. Weggis looks so pristine. I hope Uncle Cookie feels better and that you stay well. Love Jess
Chillax in Weggis
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Sleeps 4
Bedrooms 2
Bathrooms 1
Pets Yes
"Poldark cottage was very clean, ..."Poldark cottage was very clean, well equipped, warm and cosy, and great location for catching up with old friends in the area, and very much appreciated that we could take all three of our dogs for a break as well. the recycling/ bins were not very obvious but that is a very small issue. would definitely recommend and book again.
- Off road parking
- Ground floor bedroom
- Open fire
- Smoke-free
- Garden / Patio
- Washing machine
- Broadband / WiFi
The property
Helston 4 miles.
A charming semi-detached cottage, converted from a 200-year old traditional Cornish granite barn, set in the peaceful and beautiful hamlet of Bodilly.
Less than five miles from the historic market town of Helston, this cottage has an upside down layout to take advantage of the attractive view of the garden, and the tranquil, rural farmland beyond.
With two bedrooms and a family bathroom, this is ideal for a small family, and with a very spacious open plan living area boasting a woodburning stove, all of the family can gather together in the evening to discuss the day's activities.
The interesting features include exposed beams, thick granite stone walls and a sunny balcony.
Set up a family tournament on the table tennis table in the stable yard, where there is also ample space in an adjacent barn to store bikes and outdoor equipment.
Within just twenty miles of your holiday home, you can find the wonderful St Michael's Mount at Marazion, the Falmouth Maritime Museum and a range of quaint Cornish villages including St Ives and Porthleven.
With all the attractions of Helston, the Lizard Peninsula and the dramatic Cornish coastal walks, this cottage makes for a unique holiday destination.
Upside down accommodation. Two ground floor bedrooms: 1 x double, 1 x twin. Ground floor bathroom with bath, shower over, basin and WC. Open plan first floor living area with kitchen, dining area and sitting area with balcony and woodburning stove. Shared use of utility room.
- Oil central heating with woodburning stove
- Electric oven and hob, microwave, fridge/freezer, shared use of washing machine, TV with Freeview, DVD, WiFi, selection of books, games and DVDs
- Fuel, power and starter pack for stove inc. in rent
- Bed linen inc. in rent
- Off road parking for 2 cars
- Bike storage
- Patio with garden furniture and BBQ
- Two well-behaved dogs welcome
- Sorry, no smoking
- Shop 4 miles, pub 2 miles.
About the location
Porthleven 3 miles; Falmouth 12 miles; Penzance 14 miles.
Helston lies at the western gateway to the Lizard Peninsula, a large area of downland fringed by a beautiful and spectacular coastline. Helston is a pleasant busy market town famous for its Flora Day Festival and the many stories and legends about the "Furry Dance" are told in the fascinating Helston Folk Museum. Nearby is the Poldark Mine, one of the best underground experiences in the south west and which tells of the widespread mining heritage of this area. Nestled in a tranquil setting is the National Seal Sanctuary on the Helford River, where there is plenty of entertainment watching seals play and feed. If it is thrill rides that excites you, then Flambards theme park will keep you amused all day and also has excellent living history experiences. Further afield is the harbour town of Falmouth to the east and Land's End to the west. Helston is a wonderful holiday destination offering plenty of attractions for the whole family.
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A tribute to the Bard and other area events
William Shakespeare died 398 years ago Wednesday. But his stories live forever.
On Sunday, the McCain Performance Series presents Shakespeare's most tragic tale, told with the beauty and splendor of the Russian ballet tradition.
The Moscow Festival Ballet returns to the McCain Auditorium stage to perform Shakespeare's timeless "Romeo and Juliet."
Set to Tchaikovsky's magnificent score and Petipa's majestic choreography, this enchanting tale will capture your heart.
Also on the program is "Chopiniana," known as "Les Sylphides," an elegant ballet inspired by the gorgeous music of Chopin.
For tickets to this 4 p.m. show on Sunday, call 785-532-6428 or visit k-state.edu/mccain.
Here's a look at other area events.
MPL Chess Club, 3:30-6 p.m.
Students are invited to learn, watch and play chess.
Manhattan Public Library.
Bellus Academy presents a Spa & Wellness Expo 2014, 5-8 p.m.
Join Bellus Academy for an evening of exploring the latest innovations in spa and wellness.
This free event includes exciting door prizes and access to exhibits by top health, fitness and spa professionals like Murad, Wella Salon Professional, Juice+, American Massage Therapy and more.
Featuring Joanne Berry with Bellus Academy, Lauren Snow from Associated Skin Care Professionals and Janelle Holen from Genesis Pure, as well as keynote speaker Dr. Joe Pace — who will encourage and motivate expo attendees to achieve their goals and position their business for success in the beauty industry.
RSVP Required at (785) 539-1837
Flint Hills Discovery Center.
MLA TALK Series Book Discussion: "Snow Falling on Cedars" by David Guterson, 7 p.m.
Manhattan Public Library.
KSU Theatre presents "The Importance of Being Earnest" by Oscar Wilde, 7:30 p.m. through Saturday. Also May 1-3.
For tickets, call 785-532-6428 or visit k-state.edu/mccain.
The Mark Chapman Theatre, Nichols Theater.
Guest and Faculty Artists: Robert Edwards, piano; Karen Large, flute; and Nora Lewis, oboe, 7:30 p.m.
All Faiths Chapel.
In-A-Chord, 7:30 p.m.
McCain Auditorium.
Turnpike Troubadours, 8 p.m.
Cost: $20.
The Wareham Opera House.
On The Spot Improv Show, 8 p.m.
Union Station, K-State Student Union.
Local Laughs: Open Mic Comedy, 9 p.m.
Aggie Central Station.
ZOOfari Tails: Porcupines in Love, 10 a.m.
Animal-themed stories and animal artifacts from the Sunset Zoo staff. Some programs include a live animal as well.
Monthly book give-away sponsored by Claflin Books.
Families who attend can be entered into a drawing for a free one-year Friends of Sunset Zoo family membership. (Drawing in December)
Manhattan Public Library Auditorium.
International Student and Scholar Services Coffee Hour: Honduras, 4-5 p.m.
Led by David Mejia-Zaccaro. Try food from Honduras and visit with international students and community members.
International Student Center.
K-State Relay for Life, 6 p.m. to 6 a.m.
Memorial Stadium.
The Manhattan Arts Center presents the musical "Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat" by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice, 7:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday and 2 p.m. Sunday. Also May 1-4.
Directed by Fred Burrack and sponsored by Friends of Carole Setser, CivicPlus, Meadowlark Hills, Manhattan Breakfast Optimist Club, ESB Financial and in memory of Charlotte Edelman,
To reserve tickets, please call (785) 537-4420 or visit manhattanarts.org.
Manhattan Arts Center.
Game Show Night for Teens, 5:30-8 p.m.
Compete in a variety of popular game shows.
Manhattan Public Library.
K-State After Hours: Mini Golf at Relay for Life, 7-11 p.m.
Memorial Stadium.
Hale Concert Series presents pianist Slawomir Dobrzanski, 7:30 p.m.
Cost: $30 adults, $10 students. For more information, call (785) 532-7442.
Hemisphere Room, Hale Library.
K-State Singers Spring Show: Fight or Flight, 7:30 p.m.
McCain Auditorium.
UPC Film: "The Lego Movie," 8 p.m. for $2. Also 7 & 9:30 p.m. Saturday and 8 p.m. Sunday for $3. K-State students and military receive $1 off.
K-State Student Union Forum Hall.
The Stand-Up Show hosted by Danny Neely, 8 p.m. Also featuring five comedians. Free.
Union Station, K-State Student Union.
Morris with Carswell and Hope, 9 p.m.
Aggie Central Station.
Library Card Day, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Kids can get a free book by showing that they have their own library card. Sponsored by Junior League of the Flint Hills. Suggested for preschoolers through 6th graders.
Manhattan Public Library
Tech Tuesdays: All About eBooks, 10 a.m.
An introduction to the Sunflower eLibrary, the Kansas State Library's eBooks, 3M and Freading, and other options. Bring your own devices and walk away with your digital library expanded.
Register online at mhklibrary.org.
Manhattan Public Library.
Riley County Historical Society Open House at Rocky Ford School, 2-4 p.m.
Rocky Ford School, a one-room limestone schoolhouse, was built in 1903. The building served first through eighth grade students in District 70 until consolidation with District 1 in 1938.
Although consolidation had been a topic of discussion during District 70 board meetings as early as 1921, patrons chose to rebuild the school after a fire nearly destroyed it in 1927.
Builder Fred Hulse used the original limestone during the reconstruction.
The school was added to the state and national Register of Historic Places in January 2012.
Tuttle Creek Boulevard and Barnes Road.
Theodore Roosevelt Elementary School Spring Carnival, 4-7 p.m.
Featuring food, games, a rock wall, inflatables, cake walk, carriage and train rides, face painting, balloon art and prizes. Tickets can be purchased at the door.
Theodore Roosevelt Elementary School.
Manhattan Parks and Recreation 2014 Senior Prom, 6-9 p.m.
A night of dinner, dancing, and live music featuring Bobby Layne & His Orchestra for ages 50 and older. Younger spouses or dates may also attend.
Cost: $25 per person. Tickets are available for advance sale only at the Manhattan Parks and Recreation Office, 1101 Fremont Street.
Houston Street Ballroom.
RollerBurn Showdown-Indoor Bike Racing, 8 p.m.
Auntie Mae's.
Juke Joint Jump with Gran Marquis, 9:30 p.m.
Aggie Central Station.
Jazz Brunch, 11 a.m.-1 p.m.
Bluestem Bistro.
KSU Men's Choir and Women's Choir, 3 p.m.
All Faiths Chapel.
Scott Senn, Jazz pianist, 6-8:30 p.m.
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The fact that Germany is almost single-highhandedly providing the money to bail out their bankrupt country didn't stop angry Greeks from burning an effigy of German Chancellor Angela Merkel in last month's election. But when the ballots were tallied, Greece had chosen parties that support staying in the euro zone.
For a few hours after that, financial markets cheered. Then reality set in: Investors realized that continuing to pour cash into dysfunctional Greece would only diminish the euro zone's chances of saving other beleaguered members, and Spain's borrowing rates soared to record highs.
The European situation is so bad that near-zero-yield U.S. Treasury bills are seen as a haven – even though they're issued by a country whose debt clock registers $15.8-trillion and is adding more than $1-trillion per year. The chances of slowing that debt clock are small: Social-program entitlements make up half of expenditures, so balancing the U.S. budget would mean cutting all other expenditures by a staggering 70 per cent.
In both Europe and the United States, the financial crises come down to a struggle between "takers" and "givers."
It's not a new struggle, of course. Austrian economist Friedrich Hayek summed up the problem in his 1944 book, The Road to Serfdom: "If you guarantee to some a fixed part of a variable cake, the share left to the rest is bound to fluctuate proportionally more than the size of the whole."
An April column of mine on this issue drew a lot of feedback. One reader forwarded an unattributed piece that put entitlements into perspective: "The folks who are getting the free stuff are mad at the folks who are paying for the free stuff because they can no longer pay for both the free stuff and their own stuff."
You don't have to look to foreign countries to see this in action. The "takers" turning against the "givers" exists in Canada, too, and nowhere is it more virulent than in Quebec, where student protests against tuition increases continue in support of their special brand of free stuff.
NDP Leader Thomas Mulcair demonstrates his own version of being "mad at the folks who are paying for the free stuff" by vilifying Alberta's resources which pay the lion's share of Quebec's $7-billion annual equalization payments.
Meanwhile, Quebec's university tuition fees are half of those paid by Alberta students.
Perhaps it's not surprising that Quebec's protesting students and Mr. Mulcair share the same outlook. It has become clear Quebec's paltry tuition increases are just a sidebar for the students' actual goal of replacing free-market capitalism with government-controlled socialism. And the NDP is, by its own definition, a socialist political movement.
Germany's post-Second World War history provides an instructive comparison of socialism versus capitalism.
When the Berlin Wall came down in 1989, West Germany had risen from the ashes of the war to become the world's second-largest economy, while East Germany was an impoverished wasteland. The difference was command-and-control subjugation in the East versus capitalism's freedom of enterprise and innovation in the West.
The same phenomenon is evident today in China, where relatively small steps toward free-market capitalism are lifting hundreds of millions out of abject poverty.
Given that it was just last century when socialism brought unspeakable poverty and despair to more than half of the world's population, how can it be that so many young people in Quebec apparently want to turn back the clock?
Here the timeless truth applies: Those who don't learn the lessons of the past are doomed to repeat them.
But how many students have been taught those lessons? Schools and universities not only fail to teach those sad historical lessons, but many teachers and professors espouse anti-free enterprise rhetoric.
In his book, nearly 70 years ago, Mr. Hayek noted: "The younger generation of today has grown up in a world which, in school and press, the spirit of commercial enterprise has been represented as disreputable and the making of profit as immoral …" It seems little has changed, and little has been learned, in the decades since.Report Typo/Error
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With the fall of the Cornwall reserve grade XI's first wicket at 75, 49-year-old Martin David Crowe strode on to the Papatoetoe Recreation Ground at 5.30pm to begin his quest to play first-class cricket after a 16-year absence.
It is an outlandish premise but one which has captivated cricket fans across the country and the world.
Dozens assembled for the occasion in the Papatoetoe clubrooms hoping to rekindle memories of arguably New Zealand's greatest batsman making test centuries as far afield as Lord's, the 'Gabba and Bourda. To get a chance to watch such skills again was to be experienced in person.
Crowe finished the day 15 not out as part of his team's 113 for one, a lead of four over Papatoetoe. However, he was disappointed with what unfolded.
It wasn't his batting. His perfect stance and MCC textbook stroke-making were still evident even if they seem retro in the modern game.
Such a technique comfortably accounted for the opposition attack, albeit with a couple of dropped catches; it was more the standard of the pitch and the excessive appealing.
"I have never experienced an hour's batting like that in my life; it's the slowest, deadest pitch I've played on. It's not what cricket's about as far as I'm concerned. That [block] needs to be dug up. It is shocking. It does nothing for any young kid playing. I hope that's an exception to the rule. They're better off not even cutting it. It didn't have a heartbeat for the poor bowlers.
"I don't mind it zipping around like when I played on doctored green tops for [Richard] Hadlee at Trent Bridge and Lancaster Park - but that's a great challenge when the ball's bouncing round your ankles. There's been slightly more action in Bulawayo.
"Then there's the behaviour - appealing for everything. It's worse than anything I've experienced in Asia. I told them I was disappointed. Carry on like that and you don't deserve decisions to go in your favour because you've got no respect for the game." Crowe put in a plea to be promoted to premier level as soon as possible to get a better standard of play and pitches: "It's up to the coach [Rex Smith]. He's decided not to play me so I'm going to bat as long as I can to get runs. I just feel I came back because I wanted the challenge of premier cricket. I got through things today and I'm not injured."
It was vintage Crowe as tension mounted initially ahead of the toss. He was mobbed by well-wishers as he headed out for a pitch inspection dressed in an immaculate long-sleeved cream sweater, flannels a tailor would be proud of and a Cornwall cap signifying his affiliation with that club since 1968.
A cardboard coffee cup warmed the skipper's hands as he allowed eager team-mates to remove the covers after a squall of westerly-driven rain delayed play for half an hour until 11.30am. The green baize-like strip glowing underneath left him in no doubt what to do if he won the toss. Unfortunately for the crowd that meant Cornwall fielded first when the coin fell in his favour.
Papatoetoe reserve grade were dismissed for 109, with Crowe setting attacking fields throughout. He stood at first slip, a position he had a mortgage on for the entire innings. Apart from the odd adjustment of what looked like a right knee support underneath the strides and a sometimes tentative running gait he looked in good shape. Papatoetoe had plenty of opportunities to score with a fairly open leg side in the early stanzas but Cornwall's bowling, notably through Oliver Pringle (three for 37) kept Crowe's aggressive fields relevant.
Cornwall batted not long after lunch. Again Crowe was blessed with an intuitive sense of PR as cameras were thrust in his direction, adding a surreal element to the reserve grade XI contest. Crowe donned his gear and a traditional bandana and warmed-up with a few practice shots. The cameras lapped it up as he showed the maker's name, a Gunn and Moore "Flare" to be specific. There must be a cheque in the mail for such golden publicity.
However, for most it was a chance to relive the past - injury and satisfaction permitting, it will continue over summer at a local ground near you.


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The US Food and Drug Administration is notorious for bowing to food-industry interests at the expense of public health. Consider the case of trans fats—whose damaging effects the FDA ignored for decades under industry pressure before finally taking action in 2006, a story I told here. Then there's the barrage of added sweeteners that have entered the US diet over the last two decades, while the FDA whistled. This week, Cristin Kearns Couzens and Gary Taubes, who has been writing hard-hitting pieces on the dangers of excess sweetener consumption for a while, have a blockbuster Mother Jones story documenting how the FDA rolled over for the food industry on added sweeteners.
As evidence of harm piles up, the industry is only accelerating its effort to keep government action at bay. Back in April, a Reuters investigative report found that the food industry had "more than doubled" its annual lobbying spending under Obama and had successfully pursued a strategy of "pledging voluntary action while defeating government proposals aimed at changing the nation's diet."
But the food industry isn't satisfied with just keeping the US safe for its junk products. As a new Reuters report shows, the industry is also actively seeking influence at the global level by cozying up to the World Health Organization, the public-health arm of the United Nations. The WHO is most known for its efforts to fight communicable diseases like malaria and AIDS. But the UN has recently charged it with focusing on chronic, diet-related ailments like heart disease and type 2 diabetes.
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Jacquie D'Alessandro grew up on Long Island and fell in love with romance at an early age. She dreamed of being swept away by a dashing rogue riding a spirited stallion. When her hero finally showed up, he was dressed in jeans and driving a Volkswagen, but she recognized him anyway. They married after they both graduated from Hofstra University, and are now living their happily-ever-after in Atlanta, Georgia, along with their very bright and active eight-year-old son, who is a dashing rogue in the making. Red Roses Mean Love is Jacquie's first book. She is currently working on her next historical romance for Dell.


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I have just read a really good blog post from a really good site. The post is called "Inspire Drive, Innovation, and Creativity: The 20% Project in the Classroom" and comes from "The Tech Classroom" blog.
"The 20% Project" is based upon Google's practice of allowing their employees 20% of their working week to work on ideas that follow their interests, concerns, beliefs, desires, and dreams.
The Google experience has seen a number of excellent ideas come about because of the freedom of employees to think, to be creative, to collaborate and bounce ideas off of each other. There is no fear of failure and no deadlines to meet. The results can be astounding and often are.. examples are: Gmail, AdSense, and Google News.
The exciting idea in this blog post is that it is taking this brilliant industrial/commercial concept and taking it into classrooms. The writer Kate Petty has included an excellent Evernote shared notebook entry in which she has a list of sources of schools that have already taken the first steps in introducing a "20% Project" in their schools.
I think that any school that has the bravery and innovative spirit to let their students have 20% of their time to explore personal projects will reap the benefits in terms of their student's increased motivation, skills and progression in research and study skills.
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The one guy is so good he made the Canadian world junior hockey team by doing the crawl. Or maybe it was the dog-paddle. Either way, Jonathan Huberdeau spent more time in a swimming pool nursing his sore foot than he did on the ice at the Calgary selection camp.
The other guy worked his game at practice every day and operated without much fanfare because that's what Mark Stone does. He's relentless, he wears on opponents. Huberdeau? He dazzles with speed and puck handling.
This is who they are: the grinder and the dazzler. And what they have to do for Team Canada is score goals. Not every goal, but enough to help their homeland contend for the 2012 gold medal. As important as it is for Mark Visentin to be solid in goal and Nathan Beaulieu to shine on defence, Huberdeau and Stone have to supply offence. They have to make plays, then finish them in their own inimitable way.
"I'm a two-way player with good offensive skills. Good vision. I'm more of a playmaker," said Huberdeau, the most valuable player in last season's Memorial Cup tournament with the Saint John Sea Dogs.
"I'm a big guy. I like to go to the net and score goals," said Stone, the Brandon Wheat Kings' captain and Western Hockey League scoring leader after 33 games this season.
Of the two, Huberdeau is the more eye-catching, not to mention a bit of a question mark. In early November, while playing in the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League, the 6-foot-1, 177-pound forward took a rival's shot off his right foot and later learned he'd suffered a broken bone.
For six weeks Huberdeau was on the shelf. Even after being named to the Canadian junior national team, the best he could do was rehab in a swimming pool to keep the weight of his damaged foot. When the final roster was picked and the players posed for on-ice photographs, Huberdeau donned his skates for the first time and moved leisurely about the arena. Since then he has skated hard in practice.
"I feel good right now," said Huberdeau, who was looking to play in at least one of Canada's last two exhibition games before the tournament opens Boxing Day. "[Team officials]want to be sure I can come back and not stress my bones."
The Canadian coaching staff was willing to take a chance on Huberdeau given a skill set that made him the third pick overall by the Florida Panthers last summer. Working him into the Canadian lineup will take patience and caution.
As for Stone, it's best just to let him roll. At 6 foot 3, 206 pounds, the Winnipeg-born forward has been dominating the WHL with his crash-bang, goalmouth charges. The thinking is this world junior tournament could be Stone's breaking-out party, a chance to flourish under the national spotlight.
In his early years with Brandon, Stone was overshadowed by Brayden Schenn and Scott Glennie. In his draft year of 2010, Stone hoped the scouts would be able to see his worth on a good team. Instead, the injuries piled up and he plummeted to the sixth round, where he was chosen by the Ottawa Senators.
"It was probably one of the most negative years of my life," Stone recalled. "I broke my thumb and missed the first 30 games of the season. I was knocked out in a fight and had a concussion for another three weeks. We had a pretty good offensive team so I was playing behind a lot of top-end players. It was a tough year."
The last 18 months, though, have been spectacular, and his general manager with the Wheat Kings expects more of the same with Team Canada.
"He's got tremendous instincts for the game, very intelligent player and that helps him compensate for his skating," Kelly McCrimmon offered. "That said, I'm impressed with just how much his skating has improved. The guys he plays with all play well because he gets them the puck, he gets open and he competes.
"I think [Team Canada coaches]will be getting everything they expect Mark to be."
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- Drawing Conclusions - [designed for grade 4] Read the story and choose the correct word to complete the sentence.
- Drawing Conclusions - [designed for grade 4] Read the story and choose the correct answer.
- English Learning Resources - use this EFL site to practice reading comprehension.
- Parts of a Newspaper - In this lesson you will: find what you're looking for in a newspaper, read headlines to predict what articles will be about and where you will find them in the paper, and match pictures with the right captions.
- Reading Charts and Graphs - In this lesson you will: read bar graphs, pie charts, and grid charts, review percentages in pie charts, and compare types of information shown in different kinds of charts.
- Reading Comprehension Online Quizzes - (Ignore the foreign characters, this is the right page) Choose a lesson from the left frame and then take the test. Score is instant. If needed, a practice is provided.
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- Reading Comprehension stories - Interactive quizzes for 6 stories. There are also quizzes on sequencing summarization of each story.
- Reading Medicine Labels - In this lesson you will: practice reading medicine labels for information about active ingredients, practice reading medicine labels for information about proper usage, and study vocabulary used to describe symptoms, dosages and types of drugs.
- Reading the Fine Print - Students read advertisements to practice reading critically.
- Scanning for Specifics - In this lesson you will: scan information by picking out key words, practice scanning, rather than reading every word, and use your scanning skills to find information from a chart.
- Science in the News - In this lesson you will: review vocabulary related to science, read articles and answer comprehension questions, and choose the best word to complete sentences from news stories.
- Science Reading Practice - Each paragraph is on a different screen and some of the difficult words are defined. After reading the article, you can take a short vocabulary quiz.
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History comes to life for students as they explore a virtual tour of President John F. Kennedy's Oval Office. This interactive online module features several multi-media presentations of historic aspects of Kennedy's life and administration. Students actively engage in learning about various topics related to Kennedy's presidency, United States history, and what it means to be president of our country. In conclusion, students will use an online digital photo editing tool to create their own Kennedy photo album.
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In this lesson, from Xpeditions, students study the ill-fated first mission of K-19, the Soviet Union's first nuclear-powered ballistic-missile submarine. Students learn about the Cold War and locate the key points of K-19's journey on a map. They consider the actions of crew members who risked their lives so that others might survive and contemplate the reasons why the story was kept secret until the end of the Cold War. Students conclude by writing a newspaper article about the accident at sea.
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I rushed back into town from my journalism conference just in time to help get the kids dressed and ready for a fun Halloween night. Jordan was SO excited to bring out her old princess hair from our 2008 trip to Disney World.
Jordan was so so so thrilled to be Pinkalicious. She loves the book and I think it's super cool that she and her brother were book characters this year. (Cameron was Harry Potter in his Quiddich robes)
The candy gathering process went MUCH longer than every before. I figured Jordan would give up before her brother… But not this year. We covered more portions of our neighborhood than ever before. We met more neighbors and even discovered a nearby haunted house that both kids were willing to explore. It was so much fun. Of course that means we have weeks and weeks of candy unless I just let them go at it until they hate candy forever. I haven't decided which direction to go with that. (And of course, I get to snack from it too!!)
Either way, I'm so glad to be back with the kids and enjoy their company after time away. I am very lucky to have in-laws who help out while I am gone for work trips… And a patient husband who is willing to put up with my absences from time to time. (Who even carved the pumpkins this year and that's been my job forever!)
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There are 1.5 million people in the UK with a learning disability, and while people with a learning disability have the right to vote, less than 20 per cent voted in the general election in 2005. Mencap is a leading UK charity that works in partnership with people with a learning disabilities. Policy and Campaigns Officer Mark Gale looks at Mencap's 'Get my vote' campaign launched earlier this year with the aim of helping to enable those with learning disabilities to have the opportunity to vote.
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