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Notes: And my longest Perry story so far comes to a close. This has been a fun, wild ride! Thanks so much to everyone who's been reading! I have another story planned, which will likely tie in with this one a bit. If you're curious about what the basic plot will be, please drop by my blog, Parkavenuebeat, at Blogspot!
"Well, Mignon, this case is officially solved and Flo's haunted house has been dismantled. It's safe for Howie and his parents to go home."
Mignon smiled. "Thank you, Hamilton."
"Oh, don't thank just me," Hamilton said. "I couldn't have done this without everyone else who got involved too." He shook his head. "Paul is getting a sizable check from my office. And he more than deserves it."
They were in Hamilton's office, where the case had been opened days earlier. Both Hamilton and Mignon were at peace with the outcome. Vivalene and Flo were both in jail. Their hearings had been set. And Hamilton had opened an investigation into the crooked judge.
"What about that poor man who was killed?" Mignon asked. "What was the purpose of that?"
Hamilton sighed. "As it turned out, that didn't have anything to do with our case, other than the killer himself. The victim was someone he had a grudge against. So he planned out the murder and finally put it into effect. And he mutilated the body in his hatred."
"That's abominable." Mignon shook her head. "I can't understand what enters the hearts of such people."
"I've been trying for years and I still can't," Hamilton said.
"Oh, how are the Petersons doing?" he wondered. "You mentioned that Douglas finally came clean."
"He did. Martha was more upset about Douglas having kept so many things from her then she was about his past," Mignon said. "But they're going to be fine."
"Good," Hamilton nodded. "Martha told me that she knew about the blackmail," he said after a moment.
"Yes," Mignon said. "What she didn't realize was that Douglas knew the woman blackmailing them.
"We were wrong about him withholding information because he was afraid of what would come out about him," she continued. "He was mostly using that as an excuse and a cover. He was mainly worried about Howie and what would happen if it got out about Vivalene's sister falling down the stairs due to one of Howie's toys. He didn't know she was even alive until he received a telephone call from a woman claiming to be Vivalene, directing him to the hotel where the real Vivalene was pretending to be Flo."
"And the person who called him was actually Flo," Hamilton finished. "I still don't understand what those women were trying to do."
"Douglas said that the faux Flo—Vivalene—wanted to discuss the price of the blackmail Vivalene had been making him pay. She told him that Vivalene was bored and had decided to go public with the story about her sister's 'death', of course leaving out the fact that it wasn't real. But there was a way to make them both go away for good."
"Handing over the treasure," Hamilton guessed.
"Yes. And Douglas finally agreed that it would be done, once he found it. He was made to promise that he would find it. I believe they thought he already knew and wouldn't tell them."
"I wouldn't be surprised," Hamilton said.
"How did Mr. Mason ever begin to suspect that they had switched places?" Mignon wondered.
"Well, he told me he started to get the idea when the girls themselves brought up the subject of impersonation. And he'd thought that 'Flo' acted the way Vivalene sometimes did when she was being aloof. He thought at first it just ran in the family. Then he started thinking maybe it didn't. It's all a confused mess. Their trials are going to be a headache."
"It's not a wonder.
"Do you know how Flo played her tricks in the Petersons' home?"
"That was really a piece of work," Hamilton said in annoyance. "One day when the Petersons were out, she had some of her men sneak in through the passage in the basement and slip things into secret compartments throughout the house, when they could find them. If they couldn't, they'd just cut the wall or ceiling open, stick something there, and fix it back, good as new."
"What kinds of things?" Mignon wondered.
"Oh . . . coolant coils to help with the cold spots . . . timed audio devices for the voices and shrieks. . . . Sometimes Flo snuck in herself to help things along. She was responsible for the scream Martha and Howie heard in the basement. She's as brazen and bold as her sister." Hamilton sighed. "I'm glad to hear this news about Douglas, though. That he wasn't just being cowardly and afraid of the information concerning him getting out, I mean."
Mignon nodded. "He made a bad choice in judgment, but he was always concerned for his family above all else. Apparently he honestly didn't believe Vivalene would abduct Howie."
"But she did. She confessed that she thought she could force Douglas's hand about the treasure if she was holding his son." The disgust in Hamilton's voice was clear.
"Have you captured the other man involved in the kidnapping?" Mignon queried.
"Yes," Hamilton said. "It took a while; the identification in the wallet Howie grabbed was fake. But the police tracked him down. He's confessed to everything he knows about what was going on."
"I'm glad," Mignon said.
"Oh, and he moonlighted for a while at Mr. Owen's barbershop," Hamilton put in. "He was the one who took the hair clippings for the voodoo dolls."
"I see. And what about Mr. Owen? You said Vivalene mentioned going to meet with him."
"She was just trying to throw our suspicions in his direction, since she knew we'd start looking into the barbershop." Hamilton moved a folder over on his desk. "How's Howie?"
"He's very happy," Mignon said, smiling a bit now. "He's always talking about how you and the others 'made the scary things stop.' He's even started to be more friendly with strangers."
"Oh really," Hamilton said in surprise.
Mignon nodded. "He's so excited, he wants to tell them about what's happened.
"How is Lieutenant Anderson?"
"He's doing very well," Hamilton said. "It'll probably take him a few weeks to fully get back on his feet, but he's home now."
That was an aspect of the case that still absolutely blew Hamilton's mind. Part of him wanted to say that the doctors had made a mistake, that Andy had never been dead.
And yet even he could not so much as try to say that was the explanation. Andy had described everything he had witnessed after his death in perfect detail. No one had told him. He had been there throughout the final twists of the investigation and the arrests.
Not to mention what had taken place earlier that night.
". . . That night, you said it was a miracle that Howie and I got away when we were being sniped at by Vivalene," he said.
"Yes. And you didn't even deny it," Mignon remarked.
"Well . . . I couldn't." Hamilton hesitated. "I heard a voice when I was running. It warned me out of the way just before I would have been shot in the back." He took a deep breath. "It was Andy's voice."
Mignon only quirked an eyebrow very slightly. "Then maybe in the future, Hamilton, you won't be so quick to dismiss things that seem to defy logic," she said.
"I still don't believe in voodoo, if that's what you're driving at," Hamilton was quick to interject. "Or that those dolls have any power. The most I'd be willing to give you is that if one of them is sent to an overly superstitious person, their sheer anxiety and belief that something will go wrong could cause their body to react likewise."
"That happens," Mignon conceded.
"But it isn't always what happens," Hamilton said. "That's the rest of what you mean, isn't it?"
Mignon just smiled. "There are many things in this world that you do not understand, Hamilton. The supernatural is one very large such category."
"Believe me, I'd be happy to never encounter anything supposedly supernatural again," Hamilton declared.
"That might prove difficult, if the Petersons ever locate that treasure," Mignon said.
Hamilton blinked in surprise. "What do you mean?"
"Douglas has finally seen both parts of the map," Mignon said. "And on the half Vivalene owns, it shows pictures of several objects that he believes are part of the treasure. One of them looks very similar to an ancient artifact that came into the possession of the Spanish many centuries ago. This artifact was said to bestow powers unimaginable upon the wielder."
Hamilton chuckled. "And Flo believed it," he said.
"Yes. And there is no proof that such an artifact doesn't exist."
"There's no proof that such an artifact works exactly as it's fabled to, either," Hamilton said. "I'm willing to admit that it, or something that looks like it, might be around. But it's probably just a musty old object that belongs in a museum."
"We will see. Douglas was considering not even trying to find the treasure, after all the trouble it's caused. But Martha convinced him that since they have the information from the other half of the map they should at least try. They could use the money."
"Do they know where to look?" Hamilton asked. "The top half of the map was pretty confusing."
"They have an idea," Mignon said, "but they're not sure. They're planning to try tomorrow." She rose. "Meanwhile, Hamilton, they wanted me to deliver a proposition to you. They thought it would be better this way rather than to spring it on you at the celebratory gathering tonight."
Hamilton got to his feet as well. "What do you mean?" he asked in surprise.
"Martha and Douglas both see how taken Howie is with you," Mignon said, "and how staunchly you tried to protect him. They're both grateful."
Hamilton raised an eyebrow. "Douglas doesn't hold any hard feelings, after what I said to him at the hospital?"
Mignon shook her head. "It made him admire you more," she said. "It did look bad for him, especially since he deliberately furthered and refused to refute the idea that he was just afraid for himself. He recognized that you were sincerely concerned about Howie's welfare when you lost your temper with him. When all was said and done, he had an idea. He and Martha discussed it and then brought it to me. They're hoping you will consider and accept it.
"They want you to be Howie's godfather."
Hamilton rocked back. Of all things Mignon could have said, that was something he had never expected in a million years. "They want me to what?" Mignon waited patiently while he tried to work that out in his mind. "Mignon, I hardly ever interact with kids."
"That doesn't matter to them," Mignon said. "They feel you handle Howie just fine."
Hamilton shook his head, overwhelmed. "I wouldn't know what to say or do."
"Then you could learn." Mignon looked at him. "Hamilton, I'm not telling you what to do. But it would mean a great deal to the Petersons. And Howie loves you. It would make him very happy."
Hamilton ran a hand through his hair. "It's a lot to take in."
"I know it is. But I believe in you."
"I'll think about it," Hamilton promised. "I'm honored that they'd think of me. I'm just bowled over at the same time."
Mignon smiled. "Then shall we go?"
Hamilton nodded, grabbing his hat off the rack. "After you," he said.


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Evaluation of the mechanical properties of dental adhesives and glass-ionomer cements
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Adhesives and lining/base materials should relieve the stresses concentrated at the tooth/restoration interface. The study aimed at comparing the mechanical properties of eight adhesives and six glass-ionomer cements (GICs). The adhesives were applied on dentin disks, whereas 2 mm × 3 mm × 2 mm GICs specimens were prepared in a teflon mold. Vicker's hardness (VH), elastic modulus (E), creep (Cr) and elastic work (We/Wtot) were measured with a micro hardness indenter. One-way ANOVA and Tukey's test were used to compare the mechanical properties within each materials' type and among the materials' classes. Enamel and dentin were used as references. Significant differences were detected within each materials' type and among the materials' classes and enamel and dentin. GICs were superior to adhesives in VH and E and showed a VH similar to dentin. GICs presented mechanical properties more similar to enamel and dentin than adhesives.

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I got my lunch and decided to sit by myself like every other new person and wait for people to come to me, but I guess today wasn't my lucky day because no one came to sit by me. I was the loner in this school.
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Rico,and all your proxies/aliases GFY!!<quoted text>
Your English as a second language hasn't taught you much, eh Comrade??
Funny how you've nothing to say about Romney's serial lies used throughout his campaign.
Like the Jeep lies, which caused GM and Crysler to call Romnney a liar.
Yes, revenge against the stupid fat cats is what Obama's talking about.
Romney is a fraud, and you're a foreigner who has no understanding of American politics. How could a Communist like you understand??
You can't even vote!!
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There are 1535930 comments on the Hampton Roads Daily Press story from Nov 5, 2008, titled Barack Obama, our next President. In it, Hampton Roads Daily Press reports that:"The road ahead will be long. Our climb will be steep," Obama cautioned. Young and charismatic but with little experience on the national level, Obama smashed through racial barriers and easily defeated ...
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#792738 Nov 3, 2012
"I'm here with bells on."
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#792739 Nov 3, 2012
Did you imagine I would open a link from you?
Yer a riot, fella.
#792740 Nov 3, 2012
Florida continues to look good for Mitt Romney. The Republican holds a 6-point lead in the state essential to his hopes of defeating President Barack Obama, according to a new Tampa Bay Times/Bay News 9/Miami Herald poll.
The poll shows slight tightening, with Romney's 51-45 lead down 1 percentage point from the Times' statewide poll a month ago. Other Florida surveys show a tighter contest and both campaigns are blanketing the state with appearances geared toward scraping together every last vote.
Still, nearly every key indicator in the Times' pre-Election Day poll reveals Romney's advantage in a state Obama won four years ago.
Florida voters trust Romney more to fix the economy and give him an edge, 50 percent to 48 percent, on who will look out more for the middle class a stark turn from past months when Obama and his allies unleashed a barrage of TV ads portraying Romney as an out-of-touch corporate raider.
Romney even has a slight advantage on foreign policy, with 2 percent more voters saying they trust him over Obama, who has faced criticism over the fatal attack on a U.S. consulate in Libya.
"I'm here with bells on."
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#792741 Nov 3, 2012
In that case, have two.
Quit trying to have it both ways. Either Obama is doing exactly what he should be doing, or you've been badly playing devil's advocate for weeks now.
Need the box?
#792742 Nov 3, 2012
Lying has taken on a new definition since Mitt started debating himself.
Since: Jul 08
We will not go gentle
#792743 Nov 3, 2012
Dick Morris? Didn't he already walk back his prediction that R'Money was WINNING? Didn't Michael Brown criticize Obama for working too quickly on the Sandy devastation? Must be something about show horses..."UAW Charges Romney With Profiteering From Auto Bailout
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At a press conference in Toledo, Bob King, President of the United Automobile Workers, will announce that his union and Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) have filed a formal complaint with the US Office of Government Ethics in Washington stating that Gov. Romney improperly hid a profit of $15.3 million to $115.0 million in Ann Romney's so-called "blind" trust.
The union chief says, "The American people have a right to know about Gov. Romneys potential conflicts of interest, such as the profits his family made from the auto rescue. Its time for Gov. Romney to disclose or divest.
While Romney was opposing the rescue of one of the nations most important manufacturing sectors, he was building his fortunes with his Delphi investor group, making his fortunes off the misfortunes of others, King added.
The Romneys' gigantic windfall was hidden inside an offshore corporation inside a limited partnership inside a trust which both concealed the gain and reduces taxes on it."
#792745 Nov 3, 2012
Obama To Poor Blacks Stay Poor
By Frances Rice
To his eternal shame, in order to acquire and maintain power, President Barack Obama has adopted
the Democratic Partys strategy of keeping blacks poor, angry and voting for Democrats.
Using the politics of poverty and race-baiting, Obama garnered nearly 96 percent of the black vote
that helped propel him to the pinnacle of power. That power is now being used by Obama to
accomplish his liberal agenda which includes wrecking our economy and weakening our national
defense, leaving us vulnerable to another terrorist attack.
Obama is trying to destroy our free enterprise system and change America into a failed socialist
nation with growth-killing tax increases, the take over of private businesses through bailouts and
trillions of dollars in irresponsible deficit spending on wasteful social programs.
Millions of jobs have been lost since the passage of Obamas Stimulus Bill that includes over 8,000
wasteful pork projects. That pork-laden bill will stimulate only the Democratic Party not the
economy, nor black communities. Incredibly, Obama turned a $450 billion deficit into a $9 trillion
deficit, and he is promising to spend even more, including $1.5 trillion on a disastrous governmentcontrolled
health care scheme. All of this uncontrolled, budget-busting deficit spending will send our
nation careening over an economic Clift into oblivion.
The tens of thousands of Americans participating in Tea Parties across this country peacefully
protesting Obamas socialist actions and policies are being mocked by President Obama and
derided as racist by his fellow Democrats and liberal media allies, all in an effort to silence average
Americans. Complaints are not allowed about the fact that under Obamas America, all Americans
will be dependent on the government for their well-being, just as are poor blacks.
While professing to care about the plight of the poor, Obama continues to take actions that keep
blacks impoverished, so he can use black grievances for partisan political gain. In his book Dreams
From My Father, Obama wrote disdainfully about blacks who complain about being poor, yet
continue to vote for Democrats like Obama who keep them poor. On page 147 of his book,
Obama described what he and his fellow Democrats do to poor blacks as plantation politics when
he wrote:A plantation. Black people in the worst jobs. The worst housing. Police brutality rampant.
But when the so-called black committeemen came around election time, wed all line up and vote the
straight Democratic ticket. Sell our soul for a Christmas turkey.
While in the Illinois Senate, Obama helped keep blacks corralled on the Democratic Partys economic
plantation when he provided funding for slum projects in Chicago, as was exposed in the Boston
Globe article that can be found on the Internet at:
That Boston Globe article shows how Obama provided millions of tax dollars
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#792746 Nov 3, 2012
Speaking of draft dodging scumbags..........how ya been, Nobraina??
Your lack of patriotism has been well documented here for 4 years now, including the fact you never served your nation..........
Of all the ignorant nitwits here, you're the most ignorant, and will be the most disturbed by Obama's reelection.
I'm lovin it!!
#792747 Nov 3, 2012
That Boston Globe article shows how Obama provided millions of tax dollars to his slum lord buddies,
including now convicted felon Tony Rezko who contributed hundred of thousands of dollars to
Obamas political campaign and helped Obama buy a million-dollar house in a shady real estate deal.
As president, Obama put a poison pill in the Stimulus Bill that kills welfare reform, so that tax dollars
can no longer be used to help the poor become self-sufficient through job training and child care
assistance. Instead welfare will, once again, become a government handout that keeps poor blacks
mired in generational poverty. Welfare has destroyed the black family, and Uncle Sam has replaced
the father in black urban homes.
After Obama worked to end the school choice opportunity scholarship program in the District of
Columbia that helps poor blacks get a better education, he produced a budget that, astonishingly,
eliminates the $85 million designated for the HBCUs (Historically Black Colleges and Universities).
In typical hypocritical liberal fashion, Obama is sending his own two children to a private school, while
kicking poor blacks out of that same private school and effectively sending the poor blacks back to
the failing DC public school system.
Waking up to the danger Obama poses to the poor and our economy, the National Black Chamber of
Commerce (NBCC) issued an alarming report showing that Obamas cap-and-trade mandates
designed by radical environmentalists would make American consumers poorer and the products
they buy more expensive.
The NBCC study found specifically that the cap-and-trade law, known as the Waxman-Markey
legislation, will cost 2.5 million U.S. jobs by the year 2030 and reduce GDP by $350 billion. Further, it
will reduce earnings for the average U.S. worker by $390 per year and reduce the average
households annual purchasing power by $830 per year. That report can be found on the Internet at:
http://www.nationalbcc.org/index.php... -
concerns-about-waxmanmarkey-cl imate-change-bill-costs-are-hi gh-but-benefits-areuncertain &
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#792748 Nov 3, 2012
Another study reported by the Heritage Foundation demonstrates that Obamas cap-and-trade, or
cap-and tax, law could be an even bigger economic disaster, raising electricity rates by 90 percent
and the price of gasoline by 74 percent. Only a hard-core liberal would be so wedded to his liberal
agenda that he would deliberately put that agenda above the well-being of the people in this country.
That report may be found at: http://blog.heritage.org/2009/05/22/epas-flaw...
Just as some black Republicans, including the NBRA, are fighting to help save black communities
from continued destruction by the Democratic Partys socialist policies, average Americans are in a
battle to save our country from being turned into a failed socialist nation by Obama and his Democrat
minions. With the liberal media refusing to hold Obama accountable and Democrats in control of
Congress, there is no check on Obamas power, except we, the people. Our only real weapon is our
Three cheers to the sensible people in California who, by an incredible 65-35 margin, said no to five
initiatives for higher taxes for irresponsible spending on feel good social programs that are wrecking
Californias economy.Tighten your belt, Californians shouted at their government, each citizen
wielding just one vote, but, oh, the impact of that vote. Remember also that no Republican in the
House of Representatives voted for that economy-wrecking Stimulus Bill.
Edmund Burke wrote:Nobody makes a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could
do only a little.
Those who wish to stop Obama and the liberal Democrats from destroying our traditional values and
plunging our nation into economic oblivion should stand up and be counted. Participate in Tea
Parties. Stop funding the liberal media by cancelling your subscriptions and turning off liberal radio
and TV programs. Protect your family dont buy those tin can hybrid cars produced by the unionrun
auto companies that were taken over by Obama with our tax dollars and awarded to the unions.
So, in 2010 and 2012 in order to save America do not vote for any Democrat. Just say no to
Obamas socialism. Believe me, our government will hear us, loudly and clearly, when we run the tax
and spend Democrats out of Congress.
Frances Rice is a retired Army Lieutenant Colonel and Chairman of the National Black Republican
Association. She may be contacted at: www.NBRA.info
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St. Croix valley
#792749 Nov 3, 2012
Zimmy rules!
#792750 Nov 3, 2012
Another right wing racist POS doing a stereotypical black shtick and stupid enough to think it fools anyone with half a brain.
You're an idiot!
#792751 Nov 3, 2012
getting sicker by the day!! Ugh!!
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#792752 Nov 3, 2012
Still beating the same stupid drum, eh Nobraina!!
Figures anyone who makes you look like the azzhole you truly are would be all lumped in together.
You're the one with multiple sockpuppets, many of which you've abandoned, like Galt, Queen Latifah, and your host of ebonics sockpuppets.
You've always been a loser, Tuesday will be yet another in a long string of losses.
I'm lovin it!!
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#792753 Nov 3, 2012
You are an idiot nuculur... You with a hidden ISP location in Wethersfield, CT and you with your childish avatar on Topix you dumbass .. nuculur a certified idiot4life, a self-loathing nitwit and coward at heart...
It's the culture...
#792754 Nov 3, 2012
There was no live video feed until some 2 hours after it started.
One person was listening to the audio feed.
Those are the facts as they have been presented.
#792756 Nov 3, 2012
The Kenyan calls for a revenge vote against whitey.#maumau
OWN GOAL: Obama campaign struggles to explain revenge remark.
Yeah, thats what you want to be doing on the weekend before an election. Can a campaign drop an October November surprise on itself?
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#792757 Nov 3, 2012
""President Barack Obama maintained a significant, 6-point lead over Republican Mitt Romney in the crucial swing state of Ohio, according to a new set of NBC/Wall Street Journal/Marist polls released early this morning. The result is unchanged from mid-October.
The polls also showed Obama ahead of Romney by 2 points in Florida, which is a virtual must-win for the Republican nominee.
Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/ohio-florida-p...
Try as you may, Nobraina, Romney is going to lose. He is well behind in early voting everywhere!!
You're a loser, so losing should come naturally to you!!
I'm lovin it!!
Saint Petersburg, FL
#792758 Nov 3, 2012
A sellout obama has spent trillions of of wasted tax dollars to rescue his cronie moneyed Wall Street interests and has left the people of Staten Island and other storm victims to their own devices, cold, hungry dumpster diving and dying...
For every good reason you lie and makeup lame excuses nuculur, Florida has a better reason to tell the truth... you retard... What is obama hiding?
$5 million dollars donated to a soup kitchen on Staten Island would feed the storm victims for a month...
$5 Million dollars to a charity of obama's choice, a soup kitchen or a storm crisis center to help victims from the storm, if obama releases his sealed records.. How simple is that loser?
Why is obama a sellout?
Why are you a nitwit?
It's the culture...
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Spielman talked with reporters for more than 40 minutes last week without giving away much of anything when it comes to the Vikings' offseason plans. All the same rhetoric was issued: they will talk with representatives for all of their pending free agents, they value veteran leadership and they will draft the most highly graded player left on their board when their first selection is up.
Spielman can issue that last sentiment with a straight face because of his method of grading players. Instead of assigning a sequential order of talent like draft fans often see in rankings by the media (Scout.com's can be found here), Spielman allows players at different positions to have the same grade, therefore giving him the choice of selecting several players left on the board that all have the "highest" grade.
But don't believe that the Vikings would pick just any position whenever they make their first selection. They don't need to supplement their defensive line with a high draft pick or a free-agent signing. They are stacked nicely there. The other side of the trench, offensive line, has to be a focus, even if Spielman wants to temper that expectation by saying that offensive linemen typically take more time than many other positions to blossom to NFL-ready.
"Just in general, offensive linemen take a little longer to develop," Spielman said. "It's just the way the game has developed in college. I don't think it's anyone's fault."
Spread offenses in college are part of the culprit, with Spielman saying that "99.9 percent of the time" offensive linemen in college are working out of a two-point stance. That requires time to transition to the NFL game, especially if the linemen are accustomed to working out of a two-point stance.
But don't believe that will automatically preclude the Vikings from taking an offensive lineman early. There are programs that run more of a pro-style offense in college and the Vikings have to prepare for the possibility that this could be Matt Kalil's last season in purple. If he doesn't rebound with a stronger and more consistent season in 2016, would they even want to bring him back?
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Sparano offered a clear picture of the type of player he wants. But linemen are coveted around the league, and Spielman believes teams are perhaps more hesitant to give up on offensive linemen than any other position.
"I bet you look at the people that are released, if a team thinks an offensive lineman has a chance he's probably going to get claimed, so you're very guarded on a guy who may not be ready but has upside but he's going to take time to develop," he said. "You want to try and keep those guys because if you get rid of those guys and you get injuries up front I think it really hurts your football team."
The Vikings already gave up on a couple of players that became starters elsewhere – Donald Penn and Mike Remmers among them.
Although they admit that Mike Wallace's 2015 season was a disappointment from a production standpoint, they aren't likely to keep him around at $11.5 million in 2016. Although they say they don't want to use injuries as an excuse on the offensive line, it's clear they need help there.
The Vikings will look at wide receiver and offensive line in the draft and free agency. Spielman can joke all he wants about looking at reporters' suggestions to see what the team needs.
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