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I'm not sure as to the question about if they kill the animals on site or let the processor do it. I never thought to ask that one. The owner did go into quite a bit of depth describing the halal practices to us and he is from Egypt so.....?
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I'm not sure as to the question about if they kill the animals on site or let the processor do it. I never thought to ask that one. The owner did go into quite a bit of depth describing the halal practices to us and he is from Egypt so.....?
It really only matters if they are not used to handling. If they have to be loaded with an electric prod into a trailer, and are stressed and freaked all the way to the processor, then put down in the trailer or a shoot, etc, as you can see, not so humane and lots of stress hormones coursing through the muscles! MOST places have a field butcher that comes out to the property and puts down the animal and does the blood letting, eviserating (removes the inards) and skinning. Then hangs the carcass and transports it to the finish butcher who does the cutting into roasts etc etc etc. But I have seen it done the first way as well, and if the animal is used to trailering and being led then they get led on with a halter and to them it is just another ride in the trailer, no stress, just as humane and nice. (like 4h animals that trailer to some shows for judging, they have to be comfortable with the trailer and whatnot, so going to the processor would be just like going to another show up until the lights go out).
Sorry if I am grossing anyone out, I am a huge Meet your Meat person. Former vegetarian for ethical reasons, now that humane and grass fed has taken off I can find sources I like and trust. But even then, I prefer to research actual ranches and processors not just grab anything with the organic label, etc. If I don't know exactly how it was raised and butchered I ain't buying or eating it.
*Edited to add* cursury google search shows that halal has alot to do with cleanlines but also that the name of god must be spoken during slaughter, the animal has to be hung to bleed out (thats pretty much always done) but it looks like they do a throat slit. No bullet to the head, which is my preference. It does say that the instrument must be sharp to ensure humane slaugher, but unless you hit and sever the spinal cord, and be REALLY SUPERHUMAN FAST ABOUT IT, in my oppinion, a bullet is always gonna be faster and more instant. The animal also CANNOT BE UNCONCIOUS, so yeah, having your throat slit while fully awake vs a bullet to the brain. I'll take the bullet. So I may have to ask about having my own butcher come do things and see what they say.Last edited by imgliniel; 01-12-2013, 10:14 AM.
The owner of Eden Tropics made a point of telling us about how the animal is in a calm, non-panicy state of mind, not seeing other animals killed and never seeing the knife. He did mention how severing the spinal cord ends any pain involved. The heart is still pumping to get the blood out but the brain has been unplugged. So I do think it is probably done on the property and then transported as a carcass for processing.
He also showed me the newest addition to their goat herd, only two days old and still a bit wobbly in the knees. So cute. He talked about delivering the kid, etc. I could tell he really cares for the animals and sees them as a part of the family. They all have names and he talks about their various individual personality quirks.
Well, the first part to get used from my meat purchase is the huge bag of bones and trim. I put the marrow bones back in the freezer but everything else went in the stock pot or rather several stock pots. I am going to have broth all winter.
I have made many a pot of stock in my time and I do not think I have ever tasted any better than this. Maybe it is something about the cow being fed on fruit and fruit tree trimmings. No idea. But it is seriously good.
Well, some follow up to add here. The bone broth was great and everything that I have made in the slow cooker has been really good but, I have to say it, the cuts that are cooked in any other way like steaks and chops are just plain tough. (And I do know how to cook a steak properly.) The meat has a good flavor but not a good texture.
I don't think I'll be ordering from Eden Tropics again. I am disappointed.
I will be slow cooking the chunks I still have and my friend is making head cheese out of the lamb and cow heads. That should be interesting.


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On Mon, 9 May 2005, Joshua N Pritikin wrote:
On Sat, 2005-05-07 at 14:03 -0500, William L. Jarrold wrote:I also agree with Josh's basic reactions. I noticed a few typo levels things and a few places things could look cleaner. I doubt I have time to go into that right now, but stay tuned.Here's the list I used: Jesus loves his father because Jesus is God's son.
Yes. Technically this might be better put as... Jesus loves his father. [q]...and then later, they can click on this and see why. I.e. they would see the premises which were:
Sons love their fathers. [p1] Jesus is God's son. [p2]Actually for deductions (like the above, and like "Vienna is wet.") we would want two conditions:
1) the believability of the conclusion alone (e.g. the participant would see q alone).
2) the believabilty of the conclusion in the context of the premises (e.g. the participant would we "q because p1 and p2".)
Vienna is wet.
Slightly better to say... "The city of Vienna Austria is wet."
Rivers are a kind of water. If water touches x then x is wet. The Danube is a river.
Slightly better to say... "The river Danube is a river." ...because this is prolly the way an AI (e.g. Cyc) would generate it.
The Danube runs through Vienna.
Slightly better to say "The river Danube runs through the City of Vienna Austria."
If a river runs through a region is touches that region. Hillary Clinton feels zero dislike for Bill Clinton. Hillary Clinton is married to Bill Clinton. Spouses love each other. Love is the opposite of contempt
Slightly better to say Love and contempt are opposite emotions.
if you feel emotion x and y is the opposite emotion of x then you feel zero amount of y.
Here might be better wording the normal people might be more likely to understand... Suppose a person is experiencing some emotion, call it EMOTION-X. Also, suppose that the opposite emotion of EMOTION-X is OPPOSITE-EMOTION, It follows from the above that they are experiencing zero amount of OPPOSITE-EMOTION. Actually how we word the rule could even be a variable...that is probably somethign for later.
..One wuick reaction is it would be nice if there were a clear line or some graphical and/or textual element that made clear the boundary between "what you already did and the next thing we want you to rate."Hrm, a thick line seemed too heavy so I placed seven "birsd" ~.~ as a divider. Maybe the birds are not heavy enough. Suggestions?
Sorry, I dunno diddly about such web design issues. Maybe do the separation with two tables? <....>
I think we should have half of the items be reversed items too.Reversed means adding "It is not true that ..." ?
Maybe. We should maybe try it several ways. The advantage of "It is not true that" is that it is easy to compute the reversed version(simply pre-pend a "It is not true that.."). For these pilot items, I kind of prefer painstakingly crafted reversals. See below...
Item 1 unreversed: Jesus loves his father because:(a) Sons love their fathers. and
(b) Jesus is God's son. Item 1 reversed: Jesus loves his father not because(a) Sons love their fathers. nor
(b) Jesus is God's son. Item 2 unreversed: Jesus loves his father. Item 2 unreversed: Jesus does not love his father. Jesus loves his father nnot because(a) Sons love their fathers. nor
(b) Jesus is God's son. Item 3: unreversed The City of Vienna, Austria is wet. Item 3: reversed The City of Vienna, Austria is not wet. ..Okay, I'm pooped gotta do the rest later. Bill _______________________________________________ Heartlogic-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/heartlogic-dev
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STARS: Brittney Skye, Gabriela, Georgia Starr, Melissa Lauren, Mia Bangs,
It has been a while since I've watched a Skeeter Kerkove movie. His stuff hasn't always been at the top of my list, but it's popular and often is at least interesting. Always a consummate pervert of the people, Skeeter is in tune with a segment of the porn audience that loves balls-out anal action, big fake tits, glam make up and a lot of sexual stuff that can leave me cold. For this movie Skeeter has collected some hot girls and is presenting them as cum-hungry rock groupies. That's a great backdrop for a porn flick if you ask me. We all love the idea of horny chicks willing to do anything to get close to someone famous. (Sadly porn critics don't draw many groupies. Hopefully there will be enough great action in this movie to make us all feel like rock stars.
Interestingly enough, the first scene starts without any tease at all. Brittney is all decked out in thigh-high black leather boots and a collar, but there isn't anything to lead up to the action. Scott Nails comes in and starts groping at Brit's hot parts. The camera work is really shaky here and I'm not sure at this point if that is the style of the movie or not. There is good and bad in the blowjob. On the plus side she doesn't gag or quack, but the camera angles are painfully bad. We spend the whole time looking up at the bottom of her chin or at the back of her head. I'm curious about this part because Skeeter's movies usually have better blowjobs than this. It's kind of a waste at this point. The angles are certainly better as she mounts his cock and starts slapping her body down against his. She breaks out a pocket rocket to keep her clit buzzing as he fucks her raw from behind. He rolls her over and slips his cock between her cheeks. Brit keeps the toy on her clit which does block our view of her pussy. On the other hand it really works for her and brings the energy level up a few notches. She gets on her knees and sticks that ass up high for some really hard anal that looks great. The big facial finish is also a high point for this opening scene. There are some issues, but overall this one is pretty good.
Gabriela is next and her scene also begins without any fanfare. She just gets right to the action. This time around the blowjob is much better with some good POV footage. I like this girl, but I wish Brit has been shot from the same angles because she would have really put on a show. Gabriela is nice looking, but her make up is a bit thicker than it needs to be. Other than that minor issue, everything is moving along quite well as he spreads her legs and starts pumping her little box. I like her energy and there are some really good shots of her in RC. With only her long white boots on, she puts on quite a show. The camerawork is better this time around though it does get a bit shaky during the transitions. After staying quiet for much of the scene she breaks out with a bit of dirty talk as he moves to her ass. They put on a great show as he bangs her flat onto the bed, working that ass really hard until he's ready to feed her a big load of hot cream. Though she isn't as hot as Brittney, this scene works on a different level and is quite good.
Georgia Star is a new girl who seems to have a nice big butt on her. There is a bit of tease, but not really enough to let us see what she's got. I would like to see a little more of her body before Otto Bauer takes over. He is one of the dudes in porn who believes that he has to talk from start to finish. If that turns you on then be ready to jerk yourself silly. If it doesn't then turn things down because he is relentless. Georgia tries to take over verbally as she gets fucked in the ass from behind, but she is no match for Otto in the running commentary department. Most of this scene is really well shot, but there are some shaky moments that probably should have been cut out during editing. In a pure gonzo flick they might have worked, but here they just make us wonder why someone didn't just tighten the action up in the edit bay. The anal action is pretty damn hot when she settles in and rides him in RCA. Georgia has a soft middle to go along with her big butt, but she certainly knows how to work her body until every inch of his meat is deep inside of her colon. I'm really impressed by the way this babe takes it in the ass and drinks his cum down like it's the sweetest thing she's ever tasted.
Mia Bangs does a very short tease and doesn't utter a word before she drops to her knees to start sucking cock. There is no background music and the camera work is a big wobbly as she beings to use her mouth in a very skilled manner. The low angle stuff isn't great, but there is a bit of POV footage that I liked. The best looking stuff in the scene comes when Mia is on her back and being fucked nice and hard. Her tits bounce all over the place as he fucks away. They keep shaking when she gets on top and goes to town. For the anal, Mia looks back and takes it deep. She does a good job in piledriver and seems to have quite a talent for hard anal action. It's a pretty decent scene with a bit too much movement for its own good. The pop on her face leaves her smiling and ends things nicely.
Melissa Lauren is up last and she's quite hot in everything she does. She tries to show off, but the wobbly camera style makes it tough to really enjoy what she's bringing to the table. As soon as she starts sucking we get the kind of sex that leaves me cold. Melissa breathlessly gags and quacks away on his dick rather than sucking on it. If you like this kind of sex then ignore my take and enjoy what's going on. He pumps away on her mouth and the camera shoots the action from between her legs. That just gets Melissa ready to get her ass blasted. The anal is a lot more interesting to me than the oral because it's just good sex without anything to get in the way. Some of the best footage of movie comes when she is on his lap and slamming her butt down to take every inch. Things get even better when she turns around to face the camera. Taking it in the ass is no problem for Melissa. She just keeps right on going until he busts a nut right on her face.
This is really kind of a different movie from Skeeter. There is lots of anal action of course and that is right up his alley. I wonder how fans of his work are going to react to this one. It's the same and yet different. There isn't any double anal. In fact there isn't a scene with two guys at all. There isn't a ton of A2M or other freak-show sex acts. I actually liked the sexual action in this movie more than in Skeeter's other work. The camerawork is the big question mark here. Sometimes it looks like it might be done on purpose. That would make sense if this were kind of a gonzo voyager movie. If that was the original intent of the movie then it doesn't come through in the final product. What we have is five simple scenes with nothing to bind them together so one can only judge the camerawork against other similar projects. As such it seems to be a bit shaky at times and I really think that some tighter editing would really have made this movie very solid. I think longer tease would have helped because it would have set us up for the often hot sex that this movie has to offer. So yeah it's pretty good, but I still wonder why the rock slut angle wasn't played up a bit more.


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It's Lady Gaga's new song. Watch out for her leg, her costumes and the whole shock culture.
Lady Gaga – Telephone ft. Beyoncé
Spot the product placements and culture references?
Today I realize
It's Lady Gaga's new song. Watch out for her leg, her costumes and the whole shock culture.
Spot the product placements and culture references?
Someone made this for an art course.
It's MOVITS! again. Quite enjoy this song too. Great style even though I don't understand a word.
OBS! Klicka "Watch in high quality" under "Views"
Äppelknyckarjazz är andra singeln samt titelspåret från MOVITS! debutalbum som släpps hösten 2008.
Director: Axel Söderlund | Vfx & Compositing: Tomi Tauriainen | Art Directing: MOVITS! | DOP: David Grehn | Producer: Johan Hannu | Label: Bdpop
This music style incorporates hip hop, rap and swing. It's MOVITS! from Sweden. It's refreshing and the video's worth watching.
Fel Del Av Gården är 3:e singeln från debutalbumet Äppelknyckarjazz som släpptes 26:e November 2008.
Director: Axel Söderlund | Vfx & Compositing: Tomi Tauriainen | Art Directing: MOVITS! | Steadicam: Nestor Salazaar | Producer: A-lite/Bohéme Music | Label: Bdpop/Bohéme Music
The band is from Luleå, Sweden, with an American hip hop style. And here are the translated lyrics by a Reddit user:
MOVITS! – Fel Del Av Gården (lyrics)
Coming from the wrong part of the yard, from the other side of the track
I grew up with gypsies
playing accordion
wanting to tell my future
while my dad emptied a bottle of explorer [cheap vodka]
taught myself to play guitar and those chords
djangos quintett playing from the grammophone
with second hand suits in the closets
and brass bands live every night in the garden
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Zacks: Analysts Anticipate TripAdvisor, Inc. (NASDAQ:TRIP) Will Post Quarterly Sales of $424.39 Million
Wall Street brokerages expect TripAdvisor, Inc. (NASDAQ:TRIP) to post $424.39 million in sales for the current quarter, according to Zacks. Seven analysts have made estimates for TripAdvisor's earnings, with the lowest sales estimate coming in at $418.00 million and the highest estimate coming in at $433.75 million. TripAdvisor reported sales of $391.00 million in the same quarter last year, which indicates a positive year-over-year growth rate of 8.5%. The business is scheduled to issue its next earnings report after the market closes on Tuesday, August 8th.
According to Zacks, analysts expect that TripAdvisor will report full year sales of $424.39 million for the current year, with estimates ranging from $1.62 billion to $1.66 billion. For the next year, analysts forecast that the company will report sales of $1.86 billion per share, with estimates ranging from $1.82 billion to $1.93 billion. Zacks' sales calculations are a mean average based on a survey of research firms that that provide coverage for TripAdvisor.
TripAdvisor (NASDAQ:TRIP) last announced its quarterly earnings data on Tuesday, May 9th. The travel company reported $0.16 EPS for the quarter, missing the Zacks' consensus estimate of $0.17 by $0.01. The firm had revenue of $372 million during the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $376.67 million. TripAdvisor had a net margin of 6.87% and a return on equity of 8.87%. The firm's quarterly revenue was up 5.7% on a year-over-year basis. During the same quarter in the previous year, the business posted $0.33 earnings per share.
A number of research firms have weighed in on TRIP. Stifel Nicolaus boosted their target price on shares of TripAdvisor from $37.00 to $40.00 and gave the stock a "hold" rating in a research note on Thursday, May 11th. Credit Suisse Group set a $45.00 target price on shares of TripAdvisor and gave the stock a "hold" rating in a research note on Tuesday, May 9th. Royal Bank Of Canada reaffirmed a "hold" rating and set a $48.00 target price on shares of TripAdvisor in a research note on Monday, May 8th. Cantor Fitzgerald reaffirmed a "hold" rating and set a $54.00 target price on shares of TripAdvisor in a research note on Wednesday, May 10th. Finally, Zacks Investment Research raised shares of TripAdvisor from a "sell" rating to a "hold" rating in a research note on Monday, May 15th. Eight analysts have rated the stock with a sell rating, seventeen have given a hold rating and one has issued a buy rating to the company. The company currently has an average rating of "Hold" and a consensus target price of $48.17.
Shares of TripAdvisor (NASDAQ:TRIP) traded down 0.92% on Friday, reaching $37.54. The company's stock had a trading volume of 2,360,005 shares. The firm has a 50 day moving average of $37.62 and a 200 day moving average of $43.73. The company has a market cap of $5.30 billion, a PE ratio of 52.80 and a beta of 2.35. TripAdvisor has a 52-week low of $35.34 and a 52-week high of $71.69.
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Institutional investors have recently made changes to their positions in the stock. Profund Advisors LLC raised its position in shares of TripAdvisor by 11.9% in the first quarter. Profund Advisors LLC now owns 42,933 shares of the travel company's stock valued at $1,853,000 after buying an additional 4,555 shares in the last quarter. DekaBank Deutsche Girozentrale raised its position in shares of TripAdvisor by 130.0% in the first quarter. DekaBank Deutsche Girozentrale now owns 8,539 shares of the travel company's stock valued at $385,000 after buying an additional 4,827 shares in the last quarter. Soros Fund Management LLC raised its position in shares of TripAdvisor by 1,269.2% in the first quarter. Soros Fund Management LLC now owns 249,280 shares of the travel company's stock valued at $10,759,000 after buying an additional 231,074 shares in the last quarter. Gulf International Bank UK Ltd raised its position in shares of TripAdvisor by 0.9% in the first quarter. Gulf International Bank UK Ltd now owns 34,810 shares of the travel company's stock valued at $1,502,000 after buying an additional 300 shares in the last quarter. Finally, Ariel Investments LLC bought a new position in shares of TripAdvisor during the first quarter valued at $3,061,000. Hedge funds and other institutional investors own 89.29% of the company's stock.
About TripAdvisor
TripAdvisor, Inc owns and operates a portfolio of online travel brands. TripAdvisor, the Company's brand, is a travel site. The Company operates through two segments: Hotel and Non-Hotel. The Company's Hotel segment includes click-based advertising and transaction; display-based and subscription-based advertising, and other hotel operations.
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Less than two months after Katie Holmes served the publisher of Star magazine with a $50 million libel lawsuit for their January cover story "Katie Drug Shocker," the legal wrangle has been resolved. According to a statement released today from Holmes' camp, the actress and American Media, Inc. have reached a settlement, part of which includes an apology printed in the magazine's May 9 issue and touted on the cover. The full statement reads:
Katie Holmes announced today that she has reached a settlement of her defamation lawsuit against American Media, Inc., publisher of Star Magazine. Ms. Holmes filed a complaint against the tabloid last month after Star published a cover story falsely suggesting she was addicted to drugs.
While the monetary terms of the settlement are confidential, American Media has issued a rare public apology to Ms. Holmes, which it announced on the cover of the May 9th, 2011 issue of Star, published today. The apology, which is also printed inside the magazine, reads as follows:
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In a statement, Katie Holmes said: "I'm pleased that this lawsuit could be resolved amicably and accept American Media's apology. With this dispute out of the way, I look forward to once again focusing my attention on my family and career."
Ms. Holmes' attorney, Aaron Moss said: "American Media did the right thing by apologizing to Katie, but this is a story that should never have been published in the first place. Her lawsuit should serve as a lesson to other tabloids that if they print false and defamatory stories about Katie, she will stand up for her legal rights."
A lawyer for American Media told EW, "Our only comment is that the lawsuit has been amicably resolved, and the statement in the magazine speaks for itself."
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A local chef helped children bake cakes at a church yesterday.
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North Atlantic Consumer Products – Product Supply / Maumelle, AR at Kimberly-Clark
Quality Senior Manager
Requisition No. 768008
Position Purpose
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From: Doug McDonald <>
Subject: [DNA] more on R1a WTY results
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2009 07:58:27 -0500
I've been looking at my R1a WTY results.
L168 is a plain SNP. It is an A in R1b and a G in my
R1a. Presumably A is ancestral or there would be
a reported SNP at this place in E or I.
L175 is an insertion of AAAAC. Actually is is
an (incipient?) STR. The R1b sequence is
GGGAAAAAACAAAACAAAACAAAACAAAACAAAACAGTAT while mine is
which means as an STR R1b is 6 and I am 7.
L176 is a del.
R1b is TTCTATCCTGTCTATCTAG and I am
None of these are in coding regions.
No word yet from Krahn about whether FTDNA will offer these
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Joined: 11 Mar 2005
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Posted: Mon Mar 21, 2005 10:49 am
Post subject: Antrell Rolle????
I have heard and seen that they may be taking Antrel Rolle in the draft which I laughed at, but then saw that not only are they looking to dump R-Dub but they mught trade Azumah to the jets, now would this be a real mind blow
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What do u think think we would get in return for Azumah?
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Posted: Mon Mar 21, 2005 11:51 am
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I don't know I would like to replace that 3rd rounder we lost but I don't htink a team will give up a 3rd for Azumah, maybe a 4th?
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Posted: Mon Mar 21, 2005 12:08 pm
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Where did you hear this news about us possibly trading Azuhma to the Jets...do you have a source?? Also, I think that pac man would be a better corner than Rolle. I think that Rolle would be better fit at free safety, a position he also played in college besides corner.
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"Elsewhere in the Bears' backfield, we're hearing unsubstantiated rumors that cornerback Jerry Azumah could be traded to the Jets. We ran this one by our official mole, who couldn't confirm it"
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Posted: Mon Mar 21, 2005 12:34 pm
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Wouldnt be totally against picking up Rolle but not at 4. He will probably have a better career than Jones, Rolle was a playmaking ballhawk in college kind of like Ed Reed light. If we cut RW then we will need Azumah for returns dont think its in our best interest to trade him. If we can trade down and get Rolle he would help our already good corners and could move to FS in a year or two. Brown is great but he is also injury prone. If we could pick up a third some how in that move down we could get Nugent in the second. JMO
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Posted: Mon Mar 21, 2005 12:53 pm
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Thats stupid, why would the bears trade Azumah. He is their leading kickoff returner who has been to the pro-bowl, he's our #2 CB behind Tillman, plus trading him would only create more holes in the bears this offseason. It would be a useless trade to break up such a dominant, young defense that will only get better,unless a SWEET deal would come our way.
Now if we were trading R.W. THEN that would be a different story, because I dont see us keeping him around much longer, not at the price we have him at now. I think Vashner is an EXCELLENT CB to cover the slot. I'm still not sold on him as the #2, nor am I sold on RW as a #2, so for us to trade away Azumah would leave a hole in the #2 CB spot. RW is OK at best, I think he gives to much cushion to opposing WRs. I didnt really see anything wrong with him at the saftey position, but then again I really didnt see anything right with him there either. He's an average CB at best with good punt return skills. Trade him if you can, cut him if you cant trade him.
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Posted: Mon Mar 21, 2005 2:19 pm
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I would be furious if they traded Azumah. As of now we have 2 MINOR holes on defense SS and OLB. SS can be bolstered by a second day pick and there are OLBs who will be cut after June 1st. I don't think replacing our third round pick is worth drafting a CB and having to wait a year or two to figure out if we can win with him. I mean I think it is kind of weird that Angelo who has done very well after the second round drafting wise would give up a third rounder for O-Gun. Because now it looks like he is scrambling to do whatever he can to recoup that pick.
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Posted: Mon Mar 21, 2005 2:34 pm
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I honestly believe the Bears thought they would end up with a much better record and the 3rd round pick would not be as important
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Posted: Mon Mar 21, 2005 7:36 pm
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Jack - I would see Vasher as the #2 CB, with Zoom at #3. It's hard to figure they would move 2 CB's in the same offseason, unless of course they have a sleeper somewhere for #4 CB.
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The only thing i dont like about Vasher being the #2 CB is that he isnt as dominant, i dont think he is that big, and isnt a vet like Azumah is. I remember Lovie saying that Azumah is the best slot cover man he's ever seen, but Azumah isnt playing in the slot CB, hes playing our #2 CB. Trade RW for what u can, otherwise cut his salary, and if that doesnt work, dump him, he's not worth as much as we are paying him.
"You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they dont play together, the club wont be worth a dime."--Babe Ruth
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Trade Him, he is overrated.
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Posted: Mon Mar 21, 2005 10:42 pm
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IMO I think Azumah is more valuable to our team than anything a trade would bring. I dont think anyone would give up anything more than a 4th rounder and Azumah is better than that
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Posted: Tue Mar 22, 2005 4:29 am
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Vasher isn't dominant?
Come again?
he led all the Defensive rookies in the league with 3 ints.
as much as or more than anyone else on our defense.
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Posted: Tue Mar 22, 2005 8:29 am
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I agree Canadian. This guy learned against Roy Williams and gets 5 picks in limited action as a rookie? We can dump RW, that's fine. But before trading Azumah, we should have a good #3, which is where he's best (IMO). His contract is up in a year, so if we extend him, we should do so carefully, as he shouldn't be paid a ton.
A point of note, Vasher led the Bears with 5 ints to Zoom's 4, 35 yd return avg to 32, 71 yd TD to 70 yd TD.
Zoom only played 12 games, so maybe he should start, but I really like Vasher (all 16 games, but very limited in the beginning of the season).
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The last of the 2000-plus articles that Keith Waterhouse wrote for the Daily Mail was published just a month ago. Appropriately enough, it celebrated the 50th anniversary of the publication of Billy Liar, his hilarious and engaging novel that became a hit play, a film, a musical and a television series. Although his principal profession and passion was journalism – and nobody did it better – it is for Billy Liar that he is likely to be longest remembered.
It was his second novel. His first, There is a Happy Land, was published in 1957, when he was 28. As he wrote in the Mail article: "A first novel is an indulgence, and is indulged; a second tells the world that you are re-entering the ring as a serious contender."
Billy Liar went through several drafts, one of which he left in a taxi and never saw again. What eventually emerged was the story of an inveterate fantasist who worked as an assistant to an undertaker, as Waterhouse once had. It was enthusiastically received, allowing no doubt that he was now a very serious contender indeed.
Not long after its publication the playwright Willis Hall – whom he had known as a youth in his native Leeds – suggested that they should collaborate to put it on stage. The play ran for 582 performances. Albert Finney took the leading role for nine months, to be replaced later in the run by Tom Courtenay. Its success marked the start of a long and fruitful collaboration between Waterhouse and Hall: together they wrote a dozen West End plays, as well as a number of film scripts.
Billy Liar made Waterhouse a wealthy man. "For a while I dabbled at being seriously rich," he wrote. "Hand-made boots from Lobb's, gold Omega watch, Calibri lighter, expensive casuals, mink in the adjoining wardrobe, hire cars everywhere, outrageously priced dinners at the White Elephant. Except for a daily bottle of champagne, for which I have retained the taste, such excesses soon palled."
All this was in contrast to his upbringing in a working-class suburb of Leeds. His father sold groceries from a barrow and his mother was a cleaning lady. The youngest of their four children, he attended Osmond-thorpe Council School and then Leeds College of Commerce, before quitting education at 14.
He took a job as an undertaker's clerk (J.T. Buckton and Sons – We Never Sleep); but his ambition was to become a journalist, and he sent articles on spec to the Yorkshire Evening Post. Although they went unpublished, the editor was impressed by his unflagging determination and offered him a job after he completed his National Service in the RAF in 1949.
This first aim achieved, he quickly reset his sights towards London. In 1952, when he thought he had gained enough experience in Leeds, he took himself to Fleet Street, knocking on editorial doors, until he was offered a post on the Daily Mirror. On the application form he was asked to state his ultimate ambition. His response was that he wanted to succeed Bill Connor, who wrote a much-admired column for the paper under the by-line "Cassandra".
But Connor was still going strong and Waterhouse was taken on as a reporter. Among his prominent assignments was to write a series in 1956 called "The Royal Circle". He argued that, three years into the so-called New Elizabethan age, "the circle surrounding the Queen is as aristocratic, as insular and – there is no more suitable word – as toffee-nosed as it has ever been". The court, he found, still consisted largely of peers and their relatives, old Etonians and Guards officers.
Iconoclasm was a theme that would permeate his writing throughout his career. Despite that one brief flirtation with the world of gold watches and mink, he was instinctively opposed to elitism, to pomp and circumstance and to pretension in all its forms.
Bill Connor died in 1967 but Waterhouse had to wait until 1970 before he was asked to take over the Mirror's twice-weekly column. He immediately made it his own, sometimes commenting waspishly on the issues of the hour and sometimes building a compelling and entertaining argument out of a seemingly trivial incident from his everyday experience.
He was against bureaucracy, especially the bureaucracy of petty officialdom: he wrote a memorable column one Christmas Eve, viewing the Nativity through the eyes of three wise social workers appalled by conditions in the holy manger and determined to take the new-born infant into care. He invented two shopgirls, Sharon and Tracey, whose indifference to their customers and their banal conversations illustrated what he saw as the vacuity of much of modern life.
He was also an enthusiastic campaigner for the correct use of English, and was asked to write a style book for the Mirror. Like all such manuals, it was more honoured in the breach than the observance among its initial target audience but, published later as Waterhouse on Style, it became a best-seller. He returned to the theme in a later book, English our English (and how to sing it).
One of his classic columns – the one that the Mail chose to reprint to mark his death last week – announced the formation of the Association for the Abolition of the Aberrant Apostrophe: "The AAAA's laboratories have identified it as a virus, probably introduced into the country in a bunch of bananas and spread initially by greengrocers, or greengrocer's as they usually style themselves."
Writing in 2004 in the British Journalism Review, whose readers had just voted him the best of contemporary columnists, he set out some of the requirements of his craft: "Along with the standard journalistic tools such as Nicholas Tomalin's rat-like cunning, plus the ability to read documents upside down, the columnist should not embark upon his trade until he has accrued a stockpile of information, useless or otherwise, that would shame a magpie's nest. Did I say useless? Nothing is useless to the columnist... An elephantine memory helps. The columnist should not only be a snapper-up of unconsidered trifles, he should remember where he put them."
By the time he wrote that, he had long left the Mirror for the Mail. The painful break with his old paper came not long after it was acquired by Robert Maxwell in 1985. In a reversal of standard protocol Waterhouse invited Maxwell and the editor, Mike Molloy, to lunch with him at a swank Mayfair hotel. It was a reflexion of his influence and prestige – and his notoriety as a luncher – that the self-regarding proprietor agreed to be his guest rather than his host.
Lunch was, for him, a ritual observance. In his Who's Who entry he named it as his sole recreation and one of his many books is devoted to the celebration of it. In a radio interview he stressed that the significance of lunch had nothing to do with what was eaten – the prawn cocktail, the steak, the Black Forest gateau – but that it "should be a holiday without the hassle of flying". Sometimes these well-lubricated mini-breaks would last well into the afternoon, which was why his daily routine involved doing most of his work in the morning.
Yet on this particular occasion the lunch did not bring about the hoped-for harmony between the tycoon and the columnist. Maxwell was too much the interfering proprietor for Waterhouse's taste, and when David English, the editor of the Mail, invited him to jump ship, he did not hesitate.
His switch of allegiance came at a seminal time in the history of the British press. Developing technology meant that newspapers no longer had to be printed where they were written and all the national titles were preparing to move away from their traditional homes in and around Fleet Street.
This meant the end of the old freemasonry, the exchange of opinion and gossip in long sessions in the local pubs. Like many newspapermen of his generation, Waterhouse felt that this aspect of the job had been central to it, and he mourned its loss. In 1990 he wrote: "The continuing debate was an essential feature of Fleet Street, the awful pubs were the forum where people talked and a lot of the talk was rubbish but we learned a lot from it too. This just doesn't happen any more. Now I have a computer, my stuff goes straight from screen to screen; I no longer need to go anywhere near Fleet Street."
For more than 20 years he continued to contribute his feisty, impeccable columns to the Mail twice a week, winning several professional awards as well as a CBE. He stood down last May, less than four months before his death.
Throughout his career he also kept up a prodigious output of books and plays – he told an interviewer that in his time he had written in every form except verse and advertising copy. His most successful play, after Billy Liar, was Jeffrey Barnard is Unwell, which he wrote in 1989, this time without Hall's input.
The fictionalised account of the misadventures of a notoriously bibulous real-life journalist and rake elicited a memorable performance from Peter O'Toole, and has often been revived. Waterhouse's last play, The Last Page, concerns the demise of the Fleet Street he loved, and is yet to be staged.
Given so demanding a work and social schedule, it was scarcely surprising that his personal life was seldom harmonious and at times chaotic. In 1950, when only 21, he married Joan Foster, and they had three children. As his fame increased the couple drifted apart and eventually divorced.
In 1984 he married Stella Bingham, a talented journalist. That too ended in divorce; but in the last decade of his life they came together again. As his health deteriorated Ms Bingham took it upon herself to care for him, and it was largely due to her ministrations that he was able to work right to the end.
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The decision to drop wrestling as an Olympic sport after the 2016 games in Brazil shocked and galvanized the wrestling community.
The IOC announced Tuesday its plan to remove the wrestling championships from the 2020 games. The move still needs to be voted on twice in order to become official.
The IOC's surprising decision to drop wrestling from its list of 25 core sports came after reviewing comprehensive criteria that includes TV ratings and fan interest. A final vote by the IOC general assembly won't come until September. Removing wrestling, a part of the modern inaugural Olympics in 1896, would open a spot for another sport such as baseball, softball, karate or squash.
"In the view of the executive board, this was the best program for the Olympic games in 2020,'' IOC spokesman Mark Adams said. "It's not a case of what's wrong with wrestling, it is what's right with the 25 core sports.''
The international wrestling community reacted swiftly to the decision. The move spawned grassroots movements as well as alliances such as the one forged between Penn State's Cael Sanderson and Iowa's Tom Brands.
Their teams appear to be on a collision course at the NCAA Division I Championships next month, but Sanderson and Brands, each former Olympic gold medal winners, have set aside their rivalry for a greater cause.
"I just think of the kids in our program that dream of being Olympic champions," said Sanderson, who won a gold medal at the 2004 Games. "And to think that now that's no longer an opportunity just so (the IOC) can stay fresh and continue to rotate sports and whatever their plan is, it's tough to think about."
Wrestling's best chance of remaining part of the Olympics is for the sport to successfully lobby the IOC to keep it.
It didn't take long for that effort to gain traction.
Petitions popped up on social media sites, and the Facebook page "Save Olympic Wrestling" had 5,000 followers by noon.
Sanderson and Brands, two of the sport's biggest names, pledged to work together, and Jake Herbert, a North Allegheny graduate who competed in the 2012 Games, said, "We're planning on showing the IOC that wrestling is it."
Herbert, recovering from shoulder surgery last month, said he did about 20 interviews Tuesday as part of a larger publicity campaign. His voice was among many that resonated with wrestling fans.
"We need to pull everyone in the world together and get everyone on the same page 100 percent. We need to come up with a game plan and fight for this," former gold medal heavyweight Rulon Gardner said in comments released by USA Wrestling. "We need other countries like Russia on board to help us. We can't let this sport die. We need to act quickly on this and do everything we can to keep this great sport alive."
Indeed, the effort to save wrestling as an Olympic sport won't just take place in the United States. The sport is immensely popular in Russia and Iran as well as some smaller countries in central Asia. Rich Bender, the USA Wrestling executive director, said his organization will be a "leader in the international effort to ensure that wrestling remains on the Olympic program."
"I hope this unifies the wrestling world," Clarion coach Troy Letters said. "They're going to see how much power we have when we're unified as a sport."
Letters, who starred at Shaler and won a national championship at Lehigh, helped Joe Williams train for the 2004 Olympics. Letters is among many wrestlers in Western Pennsylvania who have a connection to the Olympics.
Mt. Lebanon's Kurt Angle won a gold medal as a heavyweight at the 1996 Games in Atlanta. Herbert and Waynesburg graduate Coleman Scott represented the United States in the 2012 London Games.
Canon-McMillan coach Chris Mary keeps a pin commemorating the 1988 Games in Seoul in a box with other treasured collectibles.
Mary, who wrestled at West Virginia, was given the pin by his former college coach Nate Carr, whom he helped train for the Olympics.
"You would think there would be enough support (to keep wrestling as an Olympic sport)," said Mary, who last weekend guided Canon-McMillan to the Class AAA state championship. "But sometimes board decisions are hard to overturn."
Bender said almost 200 countries participate in wrestling. The fact there are more than 8,200 girls competing at the prep level in the United States, according to the National Wrestling Coaches Association, bolsters USA Wrestling's argument of how inclusive the sport is.
Because wrestlers are matched against one another by weight, Herbert said, competitors don't have to be a certain size to compete in the sport.
"Anyone can do it at anytime," Herbert said. "Isn't that what the Olympics is all about?"
The Associated Press contributed to this story.
Scott Brown is a staff writer for Trib Total Media. Reach him at firstname.lastname@example.com or via Twitter @ ScottBrown_Trib.