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"I believe in Matt. He's the quarterback of our football team. I've got no doubt about him. I think over the course of the last two years, he's won 70-plus percent of his starts. That's hard to do in this league. I feel very good about our quarterback. Our whole team has got to get better – that includes coaching and playing – for us to take the next step. And Matt is part of the team, but I've got a lot of confidence in him." – Houston Texans head coach Gary Kubiak, January 14, 2013
If the 2012 Texans season was a movie, that right there would have been your final scene – amid the broken glass of another playoff loss, head coach Gary Kubiak dusting off the same sales pitch he's been using for six years to try and persuade the media, the fans, and, deep down, maybe himself that Matt Schaub is the quarterback who can take his team and this city to the promised land.
This is where the story of the 2013 Houston Texans begins.
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The Rocky movies actually all started like this, remember? Each sequel of that saga started with the final scene of its predecessor, a reminder of where we left off and the gateway to the next chapter.
The contrast between the opening scenes of the Texans' 2012 season and their upcoming 2013 season is stark and noticeable, the difference between marching forward and being knocked backward.
If you remember, the Texans's 2011 season ended a lot like the first Rocky movie, the one where Rocky lost his title bout to Apollo Creed in a split decision, but in the process gained universal respect and planted seeds of hope.
Upstart, punch drunk, naively fearless after a hard-fought loss to Baltimore...that was the 2011 Texans!
Think back to the day after the Texans's playoff loss to the Ravens in January 2012. There was a quiet confidence about Gary Kubiak and this team. For the first time in most of their NFL careers, his group had finally tasted some success.
Having fought the Ravens tooth and nail with a rookie quarterback named T.J. Yates steering the ship, the general feeling was that this nucleus Kubiak and general manager Rick Smith had worked so tirelessly to assemble was simultaneously blossoming, like a superhero just discovering the fringe of his burgeoning superpowers.
Gary Kubiak after that playoff loss embodied that swagger:
"I've said this many times, and I think we can win any week right now, and that's very encouraging. I love the way our players came in here today. It was different than it has been. It's almost like they would've loved to have gone right back to work tomorrow on next year. That's important because I feel like they think they belong now... I think they're excited about the future and excited about the team."
Kubiak didn't say it back then, but he didn't have to. Many people thought the components of the Texans by the end of 2011 were good enough – the running game, the defense, Andre Johnson – that if Matt Schaub had been healthy for those playoffs, they could have gone to Super Bowl XLVI and played the Giants.
At that time, the 2012 season couldn't come soon enough. And eventually, it came.
And for the first 12 weeks of 2012, life was good. Matt Schaub was healthy again, the team was 11-1, and we anxiously awaited the results of the paternity test to see if, in fact, J.J. Watt was Jor-El's other son.
Then New England happened.
On a Monday night in early December, Patriots quarterback Tom Brady unleashed a barrage of touchdown passes (four in just more than a half, to be exact) that buried the Texans so fast, all that they remember is waking up the next morning face down in a pool of their own blood wearing only their Texans letterman jackets.
That loss triggered a downward spiral that saw Kubiak's squad lose three of their final four regular season games and eventually bow out in the divisional round of the playoffs again.
Central to the collapse was quarterback Matt Schaub, who was borderline terrible down the stretch last season, throwing one touchdown pass in the final four regular season games as the Texans went from a lock for a first round bye at Thanksgiving to a three seed before they even finished their Christmas shopping.
The Texans's brimming post-2011 confidence gave way to mild panic, and in an odd twist, post-2011's sentiment that Matt Schaub's absence kept the Texans from going to the Super Bowl was replaced with post-2012 blame that his presence did the exact same thing.
And therein lies the ironic existence of Matt Schaub, the "soft 18 against a dealer's face card" of NFL quarterbacks, just good enough to give you a chance to think you could go all the way, but in practicality not nearly enough to beat the two face cards that eventually await you in January. (For the record, in this blackjack analogy, Tom Brady and Aaron Rodgers are both blackjacks. Mark Sanchez is a 16, and the dealer has an ace showing on every hand for the rest of eternity.)
To fans, the NFL is a bottom-line business, and along those lines, since arriving in Houston in 2007, Texans fans have never fully embraced Schaub. It didn't help that his first two seasons were marked by repeated injuries (only 11 starts each season) and saddled him with a figurative scarlet "I" that he still carries to this day.
In 2009, Schaub had a season that may have been the perfect metaphorical arc for the Matt Schaub Experience. He led the league in passing yards (4,770, to be exact) amid a season where the Texans blew several games in the fourth quarter during a 5-7 start, before rattling off four straight wins to close out the season 9-7 and miss the playoffs on a tiebreaker.
To top it all off, after a mountain of largely meaningless yards that 9-7 regular season, Scorcese could not have scripted a more appropriate ending than Schaub's hoisting that season's Pro Bowl MVP trophy, awarded to the player deemed the best in a glorified sandlot game.
Any inkling that there was a greater good to the Texans's 9-7 finish in 2009, that it was some sort of building block to take "the next step" in 2010, was flushed down the drain with that season's 6-10 finish, a season in which Schaub threw for 4,370 yards that were even less meaningful than 2009's.
Even by 2011, when the Texans as a team had graduated from "beginner" to "intermediate" in the NFL swim class, Schaub was still a walking embodiment of the Peter Principle, just competent enough to eventually show his incompetence.
Since the beginning of the 2011 season, with Schaub as their starting quarterback, the Texans haven't lost to any teams that eventually finished the season below .500, so credit where due, Schaub generally takes care of task-oriented business like slapping around Jacksonville or Buffalo.
At the same time, six of the Texans's seven regular season losses over that period have been to eventual playoff teams, and those six losses were by an average of 16 points.
In short, if Schaub were a bus driver, his bus would run on time every day as long as the weather was nice. If it started to snow, his bus would probably wind up flipped over in a ditch and would be the top story on the evening news.
So where do we go from here?
If you ask most Texans fans, their underlying frustration lies not just with Schaub, but with the organization's unending patience from the top down, and while owner Bob McNair's decision to retain Kubiak after that 6-10 debacle in 2010 and bring in Wade Phillips as the defensive coordinator appears to have been the correct one, the team is still stuck at the divisional round of the postseason.
Like the first few years of the Kubiak Era, the team is again stuck in neutral; it just happens to be on the outskirts of River Oaks instead of, say, Baytown. (For purposes of this analogy, during the Dom Capers Era, the team was stuck in reverse, going 80 miles per hour, with Aaron Hernandez riding shotgun.)
If you're wondering just how abnormally patient Bob McNair has been with the combination of Kubiak and Schaub, consider the list of NFL quarterback/head coach combinations that have made the most regular season starts together since Kubiak and Schaub first combined forces in 2007.
It goes like this:
So to translate this chart into plain English, since 2007, only three head coaches and quarterbacks have participated in more games together than Gary Kubiak and Matt Schaub. Each of those three teams has more Super Bowl appearances than the Schaub/Kubiak combo has playoff wins.
For fun, I even included the next three closest combinations, so among the seven captured in this chart, all of them (except Schaub and Kubiak, obviously) have won Super Bowls since 2007, except New England, to whom I'm willing to give a pass based on their three Super Bowl wins prior to 2007 and their undefeated 2007 regular season.
TRANSLATION: Bob McNair is ridiculously patient. Like, certifiably patient. Also, I'm fairly certain that degree of patience means Bob McNair would be the coolest grandfather ever.
(Honestly, if McNair has let Kubiak and Schaub steer his billion dollar enterprise for this long being average at best, how much does a McNair grandkid get away with around Casa de Bob? Crayon on every wall of his mansion? No problem. Ten 50-gallon drums of spilled milk? That's OK! Burning the pool house down playing with matches? Hey, this isn't the first time we've seen an ox in a ditch!)
In the end, all that chart provides is simple empirical validation of the culture of comfort that the Texans have allowed to permeate the Kubiak Era with respect to Matt Schaub.
Pressure and accountability, at least from the standpoint of competition for the starting quarterback job, have been nonexistent in six seasons. The Texans have drafted two quarterbacks since 2007, one in the seventh round in 2008 (Alex Brink, yo!) and one in the fifth round in 2011 (T.J. Yates, double yo!). No threats, no grooming of the next potential starter, just a franchise with the quarterback position switch set to "DEFAULT" at 4,000 yards, 10 wins, and a second round playoff exit.
All criticism of Schaub gets liquefied and blended into some sort of vague , spatial critique of everyone on the team that sounds something like this: "Yeah, Matt needs to get better, but so does everybody else. We all need to get better. Matt knows that, and so everybody else knows that. We need to get better as coaches, too, and I know that, and Matt knows that, and everybody else knows that."
Also, most franchises would hold off on extending the contract of a quarterback coming off of a delicate Lisfranc injury, especially a quarterback with exactly zero playoff wins to his credit. The Texans, however, are not one of those teams.
Apparently enamored with the mere speculation that Schaub was the missing piece to a Super Bowl in 2011 (as opposed to, y'know, actually getting to a Super Bowl), the Texans signed him to a four-year extension with $29 million in guaranteed money just before the start of the 2012 season.
Because why make your perennially .500 quarterback who's never played in the postseason play with the healthy fear of a "contract" year? Well, because fear is scary. Fear is uncomfortable. Matt's got to be comfortable.
From a personnel standpoint, the Texans have assembled everything just the way Matt likes it. Armed with a top five wide receiver (Andre Johnson), a top five running back (Arian Foster), a top eight tight end (Owen Daniels), protected by the best left tackle in the game (Duane Brown) and with a shiny new weapon in rookie DeAndre Hopkins, you can make an argument that no quarterback in the league has better pieces around him than Matt Schaub.
And I haven't even mentioned a defense that includes the best defensive player on the planet (J.J. Watt), a healthy Brian Cushing and a number of quality veterans.
This is a good football team.
But life in the NFL is dictated largely by quarterback play. If the NFL season were a college course, then the play of the quarterback is like the final exam – it counts for at least 50 percent of a team's grade.
Up until now, Matt Schaub has had the Texans in what George Costanza would call the "meaty part of the curve – not showing off, not falling behind." His averageness has led the Texans to a couple above-average seasons. The question becomes "How long until above average isn't good enough anymore?"
And if the plan doesn't come together in 2013, and the team stays stuck in neutral, Texans fans deserve to know when change will come.
Everybody loves to win, but how much does Bob McNair hate to lose?
The Pendergast Method
Ok, time to dive into the game-by-game analysis using a little thing I like to call the Pendergast Method. Now, as I've said in previous years, typically having your last name in front of any "method" is good for your look. It means that you've either created something intellectual ("Class, open your books to page 120; today we will be discussing the Pendergast Method of factoring binomials.") or you've created your own name-branded way for your partner to achieve orgasm. ("She loves it when I go all Pendergast Method on her.")
Well, the Pendergast Method is both of those things!
It's smart in that it applies practical knowledge and probability trends to place all 16 Texans regular season games in figurative buckets with the sole purpose of arriving at an accurate prediction of win-loss record for the upcoming season. It's orgasmic in that it directly relates to football and last season came within one game of correctly predicting the Texans's record.
In other words, it's the only "method" that could be featured on both PBS and in Hustler.
So I got that going for me, which is nice.
Now, the aforementioned "buckets" in which we place the games go as follows:
Must wins: These are games that, to have any chance of making the playoffs, the Texans have to cash in on. Worst case, you can have one mulligan. (It's the NFL. Bad weeks happen. That needs to be factored in.) But lose two of these games, and you're probably not a double-digit-win team.
Coin flippers: Games that could go either way and will likely be played within one score. To make the playoffs, the Texans need to win more of these games than they lose.
Steals: Road games in which the Texans will likely be an underdog of five points or more against teams that they've historically struggled with or match up poorly with or that they have to play in a hostile environment in potentially adverse conditions. If you're going to be a playoff team, as a rule, none of your home games can qualify for this category, and you probably need to win at least one of these along the way. Also, if you're a really good team, you probably have very few "Steal" games on your schedule, and to that end, the Texans have just one on their entire 2013 slate, according to me.
So where do the games on the 2013 slate stack up when we start applying the Pendergast Method? Well, let's take a look:
Must wins, 7: vs Tennessee, vs St. Louis, at Arizona, vs Oakland, vs Jacksonville, at Jacksonville, at Tennessee
Coin flippers, 8: at San Diego, at Baltimore, vs Seattle, at Kansas City, vs Indianapolis, vs New England, at Indianapolis, vs Denver
Steals, 1: at San Francisco
In the event that this is your first season employing the Pendergast Method, I always like to go through the full disclosure of the previous season's results, and as you'll see, thanks to a season that saw the Texans emerge victorious over every sub-.500 team on their slate, while losing resoundingly to four playoff teams, I was pretty close!
Here are 2012's Pendergast Method designations:
2012 Must wins, 7: vs Miami, at Jacksonville, vs Tennessee, vs Buffalo, vs Jacksonville, vs Indianapolis, vs Minnesota
2012 Coin flippers, 8: at Denver, at New York Jets, vs Green Bay, vs Baltimore, at Chicago, at Detroit, at Tennessee, at Indianapolis
2012 Steals, 1: at New England
So in a season where they needed to win six of seven "must wins," split eight "coin flippers" and maybe steal one win, the Texans went as follows:
2012 Must wins: 6-1
2012 Coin flippers: 6-2
2012 Steals: 0-1
This is the classic ledger of a team whose nucleus has matured to the point that they either pound bad teams or find a way to win even when they bring their C- game against bad teams (think Jacksonville and Detroit overtime games). Unfortunately, because of a variety of factors, the Texans still have trouble on the big stage against good teams with great quarterbacks.
By the way, a 2013 regular season with this exact same profile – 6-1 in "Must wins," 6-2 in "coin flippers," and winless in "steals" – would mean 12-4 for the Texans.
Gary Kubiak would sign up for that right now.
Monday, September 9 – at San Diego
WHY THE TEXANS WILL WIN: There was a time not too long ago when Philip Rivers held the title of "best quarterback not to win a Super Bowl," kind of like the Lee Westwood of NFL quarterbacks. If I had to draw a Hollywood analogy, Rivers was like David Hasselhoff in his prime, a nice little acting novelty whom nobody took all that seriously, but everyone knew who he was. Unfortunately for the Chargers, in the last two seasons, Rivers has morphed into the version of Hasselhoff that went viral on the Internet rolling around drunk and shirtless making love to a cheeseburger while his daughter filmed him and uploaded him to YouTube. In other words, Rivers is sloppy, terrible and possibly making love to a cheeseburger. Turnovers will also be served on opening night.
WHY THE TEXANS WILL LOSE: The Chargers have a new head coach in Mike McCoy. If you don't know who he is, McCoy was the offensive coordinator in Denver in 2011 when John Fox decided to turn to Tim Tebow midseason and asked McCoy to tailor an NFL offense to suit his needs, which is like handing a producer the script for Breaking Bad and telling him that Pee Wee Herman has been signed to play Walter White. Well, somehow McCoy coaxed enough out of Tebow to help the Broncos make the playoffs and win a playoff game. Based on this evidence, McCoy might have an IQ of 275, which definitely means he could win an NFL regular season game against Gary Kubiak.
SPREAD IF THEY PLAYED TONIGHT: Texans -3
PREDICTION: Texans 27, Chargers 21
Sunday, September 15 – vs Tennessee
WHY THE TEXANS WILL WIN: Last season, Jake Locker was knocked out of the home game with the Titans early on a hit by Glover Quin, which meant Matt Hasselbeck came in to replace him. Texans defensive end Antonio Smith told me on my radio show the following Monday that the Texans were actually more nervous about their chances of winning the game once Locker was knocked out. In other news, Locker is the Titans's starter again this season.
WHY THE TEXANS WILL LOSE: The Titans still have running back Chris Johnson, and with him there is no in-between – he either runs for 248 all-purpose yards and three touchdowns or he mopes to 12 yards on nine carries and winds up eating chili on uStream later that night. He's the only running back in the league who I think gets PMS. If the Texans catch him on the wrong end of his running-back menstrual cycle, the Titans might hang in.
SPREAD IF THEY PLAYED TONIGHT: Texans -7 1/2
PREDICTION: Texans 31, Titans 14
Sunday, September 22 – at Baltimore
WHY THE TEXANS WILL WIN: This is a drastically different Baltimore team than the one that won the Super Bowl back in February. Anquan Boldin is gone, which means Jacoby Jones is the Ravens's number two wide receiver (never a good thing), and more than that, inside linebacker and future Hall of Famer Ray Lewis is no longer there to give his maniacal, howling pre-game speeches. That said....
WHY THE TEXANS WILL LOSE: .....Ravens quarterback Joe Flacco recently revealed that Lewis's pregame rants were the NFL equivalent of a nonsensical Ultimate Warrior promo in WWE: "If you listened to those speeches, a lot of them didn't even make sense. He meant everything he was saying, but I didn't know what he was talking about 90 percent of the time." I feel better now.
SPREAD IF THEY PLAYED TONIGHT: Texans +3 1/2
PREDICTION: Ravens 17, Texans 16
Sunday, September 29 – vs Seattle
WHY THE TEXANS WILL WIN: Last year, when he was mic'd up for the Ravens game, J.J. Watt told running back Ray Rice he's "eaten burritos bigger than [him]." Ray Rice is most definitely a burrito – round, firm and fully packed. Like Rice, Seattle quarterback Russell Wilson is small for his position, but he's shaped more like a spicy tuna roll. I'm going to guess J.J. Watt eats sushi, too.
WHY THE TEXANS WILL LOSE: That little spicy tuna roll also happens to be a quarterback with elite-level skills. The Monday of anti-Schaub phone calls to my radio show reminding me that the Seahawks got Russell Wilson "IN THE THIRD ROUND OF THE DRAFT" just seems to be destiny.
SPREAD IF THEY PLAYED TONIGHT: Texans +1
PREDICTION: Texans 23, Seahawks 17
Sunday, October 6 – at San Francisco
WHY THE TEXANS WILL WIN: If you're looking for a "team that we all think is going to be good, but could struggle early because of a gauntlet schedule," check out the 49ers's early-season slate:
Week 1 vs Green Bay
Week 2 at Seattle (Sunday night)
Week 3 vs Indianapolis
Week 4 at St. Louis (Thursday night)
Week 5 vs Houston
I mean, YIKES! Four playoff teams from last season and a division road game on a Thursday night. What the hell did Jim Harbaugh do to piss off Roger Goodell? (This is not a rhetorical question, by the way. Jim Harbaugh has done at least one thing to piss off every human being on earth. This is known. I want to know specifically what he did to Goodell.)
WHY THE TEXANS WILL LOSE: The only logical follow up to the "'Russell Wilson phone call' week from hell" is a week of anti-Schaub calls about the 49ers drafting Colin Kaepernick "IN THE SECOND ROUND OF THE DRAFT!!"
SPREAD IF THEY PLAYED TONIGHT: Texans +5 1/2
PREDICTION: Niners 27, Texans 17
Sunday, October 13 – vs St. Louis
WHY THE TEXANS WILL WIN: If you were making a scale of the most neatly coiffed and manicured NFL head coaches, Jeff Fisher would be at the "zero" end of the scale. With his Flutie-style mullet and indecisive facial hair strategy, Fisher is better suited for Duck Dynasty than an NFL sideline. Gary Kubiak, on the other hand, has a boxed-off buzz cut that is so damn angular and meticulous, it could double as a miniature work bench. Basically, Kubiak's hair is FDR's New Deal of hair; Fisher's hair is Obamacare. I don't know what any of this has to do with the game I'm just glad I got to share these thoughts with you.
WHY THE TEXANS WILL LOSE: The NFL quarterback draft class of 2010 is abysmal. The top four guys in that class were Sam Bradford, Tim Tebow, Jimmy Clausen, and Colt McCoy. The latter three are literally almost out of the league, so now it's up to Bradford to carry the torch. The odds just seem to dictate he takes a big step forward this season. Also, I can see their rookie slot guy Tavon Austin tearing the ass out of Brice McCain for, like, 10 catches for 179 yards or something.
SPREAD IF THEY PLAYED TONIGHT: Texans -6
PREDICTION: Texans 20, Rams 13
Sunday, October 20 – at Kansas City
WHY THE TEXANS WILL WIN: Because after having beaten the Rams the week before, this game will be for the Missouri state championship! (I don't think that Bob McNair would put a plaque shaped like the state of Missouri up in the Texans's trophy showcase, but it's not off the board completely either.)
WHY THE TEXANS WILL LOSE: Kansas City is my sexy pick to take the great leap forward this season. I know they were 2-14 last season, but they had maybe the worst quarterback play, the worst coach, and still they managed to put five guys on the 2012 AFC Pro Bowl team. In short, the 2012 Chiefs were like Ally Sheedy in The Breakfast Club, a schizophrenic, dandruff covered, rancid smelling mess. But with a little bit of makeup, a change of clothes, a shower and a new quarterback, the Chiefs now look like they have the chance to be decidedly average! Just like Ally Sheedy! Hell, they even went and got a boob job, bringing in Andy Reid and his ample 42 DDD cans to coach this spunky bunch! This will be a sneaky one for the Texans.
SPREAD IF THEY PLAYED TONIGHT: Texans -2 1/2
PREDICTION: Chiefs 19, Texans 17
Sunday, October 27 – BYE WEEK
BYE WEEK PREDICTION: Ed Reed leaves and goes somewhere other than Houston. That's a mortal lock. I'm pretty sure he's only flying in for games this season.
Sunday, November 3 – vs Indianapolis
WHY THE TEXANS WILL WIN: The Colts were winning games last year that they had no business winning and essentially used up all of their good will from the football gods for the next three seasons. (Note: I just realized you can't use the word "luck" when discussing the Colts, because any mention of that phrase comes across as a shoehorned attempt at a pun, what with their quarterback's last name and all. Chris Berman, I'm certain, disagrees with this.)
WHY THE TEXANS WILL LOSE: The game will be played on Sunday night, which means we have no idea what Texans team we will get. Seriously, watching the Texans in a prime-time game feels like a parent waiting for their high school senior to get home on a Friday night – you have no idea if the kid is going to walk in sober and quietly crash on the couch or if he's going to stumble in with vomit caked all over his shirt slurring the lyrics "I'm Pretty Good at Drinkin' Beer" by Billy Currington. Not that I've done that before. Let's move on.
SPREAD IF THEY PLAYED TONIGHT: Texans -4 1/2
PREDICTION: Texans 31, Colts 21
Sunday, November 10 – at Arizona
WHY THE TEXANS WILL WIN: This is the beginning of a stretch of schedule for the Texans that is the NFL equivalent of Kansas State's out-of-conference schedule. Seriously, Arizona on the road, then home for Oakland and Jacksonville. That's the NFL's answer to Savannah State, Wofford, and William & Mary. Bill Snyder approves! (Random prop bet proposal: Texans +3 1/2 wins versus combined wins between Arizona, Oakland, and Jacksonville in 2013...who ya got?)
WHY THE TEXANS WILL LOSE: Bruce Arians is a bit of a mad scientist, and quarterback Carson Palmer is just sneaky enough that if Arians mixes the chemicals properly, Palmer could have a big day. (Of course, there's also a 90 percent chance that the Arians/Palmer combination creates a turnover mushroom cloud that stretches from Glendale to Paradise Valley.)
SPREAD IF THEY PLAYED TONIGHT: Texans -3
PREDICTION: Texans 24, Cardinals 10
Sunday, November 17 – vs Oakland
WHY THE TEXANS WILL WIN: There is a decent chance that Terrelle Pryor is going to be the Raiders's starting quarterback. TROY McCLURE INTRODUCTION: "Hi! I'm Terrelle Pryor! You may remember me from such films as Tattoo Time: The Story of the 2009 Buckeyes and Oh Fuck! The Raiders Supplementally Drafted Me?" Pryor is pretty mobile and can't throw a lick; he's basically the right-handed, black version of Tim Tebow.
WHY THE TEXANS WILL LOSE: Back in 2011, the Raiders upset the Texans in Week 5 just days after longtime owner (and certifiable kook) Al Davis passed away. But unless Davis can somehow die again the week before this game, the Raiders aren't beating the Texans.
SPREAD IF THEY PLAYED TONIGHT: Texans -8 1/2
PREDICTION: Texans 41, Raiders 13
Sunday, November 24 – vs Jacksonville
WHY THE TEXANS WILL WIN: As I was writing this article, I turned to my co-host John Granato and asked him, "Can you name the Jacksonville Jaguars's head coach?" Normally, I would be asking him a question like this as a sort of a quiz just to keep it light and keep him on his toes. In this case, I was really asking him because I had no fucking clue who the head coach of the Jags was. And neither did he. And that's the new rule – if two guys who cover sports for a living can't name your head coach (even two idiots like me and Granato), you are not winning a division road game. Sorry, Jacksonville. You lose. GOOD DAY, SIR!
WHY THE TEXANS WILL LOSE: The answer, by the way, was Gus Bradley. Rule No. 2 – if your coach's name is "Gus," you're not winning a division road game. I SAID GOOD DAY!
SPREAD IF THEY PLAYED TONIGHT: Texans -10
PREDICTION: Texans 30, Jaguars 14
Sunday, December 1 – vs New England
WHY THE TEXANS WILL WIN: In last season's December game against the Patriots, the Pats's receiving portion of the box score looked like this:
Brandon Lloyd: 8 catches, 89 yards, 1 touchdown
Donte Stallworth: 1 catch, 63 yards, 1 touchdown
Aaron Hernandez: 8 catches, 58 yards, 2 touchdowns
Wes Welker: 3 catches, 52 yards
Danny Woodhead: 2 catches, 34 yards
If we play "Where are they now?" with that statistical sequence, in September 2013, it would look like this:
Street Free Agent: 8 catches, 89 yards, 1 touchdown
Cut by the Redskins: 1 catch, 63 yards, 1 touchdown
Inmate #174954: 8 catches, 58 yards, 2 touchdowns
Peyton Manning's New Bestie: 3 catches, 52 yards
San Diego Charger: 2 catches, 34 yards
Yes, literally every Patriot who caught a pass from Tom Brady in last season's regular season game is playing elsewhere, unemployed, or incarcerated.
WHY THE TEXANS WILL LOSE: Because Tom Brady.
PREDICTION: Patriots 30, Texans 28
Thursday, December 5 – at Jacksonville
WHY THE TEXANS WILL WIN: Because the name "Gus" will not have gotten any cooler in the two weeks since the previous game between these two teams.
WHY THE TEXANS WILL LOSE: It's a Thursday road game sandwiched in between games against the Patriots and Colts, and it's going to be played in one of the worst atmospheres to play football. Also, Jags owner Shad Khan has the resources to make sure the entire Texans offensive line catches a round of food poisoning before the game.
SPREAD IF THEY PLAYED TONIGHT: Texans -4 1/2
PREDICTION: Texans 23, Jaguars 7
Sunday, December 15 – at Indianapolis
WHY THE TEXANS WILL WIN: Damn the sports gods for smiling down upon little backwater sports markets like San Antonio and Indianapolis. In 1997, it was David Robinson going out with a season-ending injury for the Spurs that allowed them to tank one season, wind up with Tim Duncan and go on to win four NBA titles. Now Indianapolis, a sleepy little Midwest nothing of a town that stole this team from Baltimore in the first place, they enjoy the halcyon years of Peyton Manning, lose him for a season, go 2-14, and wind up with what might end up being a souped-up version of Peyton Manning in Andrew Luck. It's like when Emperor Palpatine was able to upgrade from Count Dooku to Anakin Skywalker as his Sith apprentice almost seamlessly, only Luck didn't slice off Peyton's head with a light saber. Other than that... Exact. Same. Thing.
WHY THE TEXANS WILL LOSE: In their history, even in 2011 when they were significantly better than every team in the division, the Texans have never swept the AFC South, and they've still never won a game in Indy. Even in 2011, when the Colts finished 2-14, they beat the Texans in Indy (Dan Orlovsky, yo!).
PREDICTION: Colts 24, Texans 19
Sunday, December 22 – vs Denver
WHY THE TEXANS WILL WIN: Because Indy's Count Dooku landed in Denver, and Count Dooku was easily the lamest of all the Sith.
WHY THE TEXANS WILL LOSE: If there's one area of the Texans's defense that's looked shaky since the second half of the 2012 season (including the 2013 preseason), it's the secondary, and unlike Tom Brady, Peyton Manning has a wealth of proven weapons in is receiving corps. In fact, he already had a wealth of proven weapons, and still the Broncos went out and got him Wes Welker. This would be like Derek Jeter inviting Minka Kelly over in the middle of a threesome, just an embarrassment of riches. This has the earmarking of one of those vintage Peyton 367-yard games he used to spin against the Texans back when he was with Indy.
PREDICTION: Texans 33, Broncos 28
Sunday, December 29 – at Tennessee
WHY THE TEXANS WILL WIN: The Broncos's big offseason pickup at wide receiver was Wes Welker. The Titans's was Kevin Walter. Trust me, playing the Titans will feel like a game of Pop-a-Shot does after shooting 30-footers in your driveway for two hours.
WHY THE TEXANS WILL LOSE: OK, I can't end the article without bringing up the 800-pound gorilla in the room – the Texans are a combined 1-5 in the final three regular season games of the last two seasons. It's funny, back when the Texans were playing meaningless games in December, Gary Kubiak was a monster. In fact, he finished the season with a win every year of his tenure until 2011, when he started making the playoffs. In fact, his regular season record after December 1 during his head coaching career goes like this:
2006-2010: 15-10
2011-2012: 4-6
And if we are looking to bring the theme of this whole piece full circle, therein lies one more shred of statistical evidence that the esoteric concept of "clutch" is either something the Schaub/Kubiak duo are still trying to master or perhaps subconsciously fear.
Ain't nothing to it, but to do it.
SPREAD IF THEY PLAYED TONIGHT: Texans -3
PREDICTION: Texans 19, Titans 17
To Sum Things Up
MUST WIN (7) – vs Tennessee, vs St. Louis, at Arizona, vs Oakland, vs Jacksonville, at Jacksonville, at Tennessee
I have the Texans, not surprisingly, winning all seven of these games. The only ones that make me even moderately nervous are the St. Louis game because I think they could be much improved, and Tennessee away in late December, because it's late December.
COIN FLIPPERS (8) – at San Diego, at Baltimore, vs Seattle, at Kansas City, vs Indianapolis, vs New England, at Indianapolis, vs Denver
I have the Texans going 4-4 in these eight games, including a loss to Kansas City that may surprise a few people.
STEALS (1): at San Francisco
I have the Texans losing their steal game because it's at the end of a brutal five-game stretch, it's on Sunday night, it's on the road, it's against an elite quarterback – really, there's no good reason to pick them (which means they'll probably win by three touchdowns).
So you do the hokey pokey and turn yourself around, and the Pendergast Method yields an 11-5 record, which probably would not yield a first round bye, which probably means another second round exit from the playoffs.
And lots of angry phone calls about Matt Schaub.
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BALTIMORE RAVENS UNDER 8 1/2 wins (-115) –
Seemingly every year going back for about a decade now, at least one of the two teams (if not both) that goes to the Super Bowl backslides significantly the following season. Here's the data (with following season's results in parentheses):
2000: Baltimore (10-6, lost div round), New York Giants (7-9, missed playoffs)
2001: New England (9-7, missed playoffs), St. Louis (7-9, missed playoffs)
2002: Tampa Bay (7-9, missed playoffs), Oakland (4-12 missed playoffs)
2003: New England (14-2, won Super Bowl), Carolina (7-9, missed playoffs)
2004: New England (10-6, lost div round), Philadelphia (6-10, missed playoffs)
2005: Pittsburgh (8-8, missed playoffs), Seattle (9-7, lost div round)
2006: Indianapolis (13-3, lost div round), Chicago (7-9, missed playoffs)
2007: New York Giants (12-4, lost div round), New England (11-5, missed playoffs)
2008: Pittsburgh (9-7, missed playoffs), Arizona (10-6, lost div round)
2009: New Orleans (11-5, lost wildcard round), Indianapolis (10-6 lost wildcard round)
2010: Green Bay (15-1, lost div round), Pittsburgh (12-4, lost div round)
2011: New York Giants (9-7, missed playoffs), New England (12-4, lost AFC Title game)
So if you're scoring at home, of the last 24 teams to go to the Super Bowl, the following season's results are summarized as follows:
12: Missed playoffs
2: Lost in the wild card round
8: Lost in the divisional round
1: Lost in the conference title game
1: Won the Super Bowl
I firmly believe taking the under on both of last year's Super Bowl teams is, at worst, a split scenario, and feel good enough to give both out here.
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NEW YORK JETS UNDER 6 wins (-105) –
Since about the time the Hard Knocks cameras showed up at Jets camp a few years ago, it's been a circus in New York. (Truth be told, it may have been a circus longer than that, but Hard Knocks gave us the pictures to prove it.) The last two years have spiraled wildly out of control for head coach Rex Ryan, from the boulder sized Mark Sanchez contract extension they've tied to the franchise's ankles, to the disastrous signing of Tim Tebow, to Rex's wife's foot fetish videos, to the most recent episode where he had a verbal spat over his inserting Sanchez into a preseason game behind the third team offensive line –- honestly, I could keep going. And going. And going. Just know, that the Jets are a mess, and you could let them add 2013 and 2014 together and they may not get to six wins.
OAKLAND RAIDERS UNDER 6 wins (-105) –
It's been a couple years now since the late Raiders owner Al Davis passed away, but his legacy lives on in a black and silver sea of ill-advised moves, questionable signings and off-the-field gaffes. The most notable of them this offseason was the trade with Seattle for Matt Flynn, who is best known for backing up Aaron Rodgers, parlaying two starts into a big-money free agent deal with Seattle where he backed up Russell Wilson, and then being moved to Oakland, where it appears he will back up Terrelle Pryor. (Matt Flynn is officially the Barry Horowitz of the NFL, jobber to young stars league wide!) I like to think that somewhere Al Davis is still alive, likely locked in a tower with blood spattered bandages wrapped all around the charred remains where a face once existed, kind of like Robert the Bruce's old man in Braveheart, running the Raiders through a puppet regime while quietly spending his own life insurance money playing online poker or some shit. It's honestly the most feasible explanation for some of the Raiders's moves the last two years.


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Thanks to the hard work from Swizzy Soft you now have the ability to read or write your Xbox nand in a userfriendly and effective way.A nandMMC V1.0 lets Corona 4GB users take advantage of some great functionality.
Highlights of nandMMC V1.0 are dumping the nand or writing an image to the nand.
That's a really high level overview so make sure you read the developer quote below and also be sure to read the readme file before you do anything.
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- Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 or later
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- An Xbox360 with Corona 4G Motherboard
- Administrator rights. You must run this application as an administrator!!
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- It'll dump your motherboards NAND to specified file, with specified size
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Does higher economic growth reduce poverty and increase inequality? Evidence from Urban India
This paper calculates select urban inequality and poverty indices and finds their policy linkages. In addition, the determinants of urban poverty and inequality are estimated by using data of 52 large cities in India. The main results show that higher city economic growth and large city population agglomeration are associated with reduction in city poverty and increase in inequality between cities.
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"Can high-inequality developing countries escape absolute poverty?,"
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Elsevier, vol. 56(1), pages 51-57, September.
- Ravallion, Martin, 1997. "Can high-inequality developing countries escape absolute poverty?," Policy Research Working Paper Series 1775, The World Bank.
- (No last name available), Himanshu, 2013. "Poverty and Food Security in India," ADB Economics Working Paper Series 369, Asian Development Bank.
- Edward L. Glaeser & Matt Resseger & Kristina Tobio, 2009. "Inequality In Cities," Journal of Regional Science, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 49(4), pages 617-646.
- Krugman, Paul, 1991. "Increasing Returns and Economic Geography," Journal of Political Economy, University of Chicago Press, vol. 99(3), pages 483-499, June.
- Paul Krugman, 1990. "Increasing Returns and Economic Geography," NBER Working Papers 3275, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
- Angus Deaton and Jean Drèze & Jean Drèze, 2002. "Poverty and Inequality in India: A Reexamination," Working papers 107, Centre for Development Economics, Delhi School of Economics.
- Angus Deaton & Jean Dreze, 2002. "Poverty and Inequality in India: A Re-Examination," Working Papers 184, Princeton University, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Research Program in Development Studies..
- World Bank, 2004. "India : Investment Climate and Manufacturing Industry," World Bank Other Operational Studies 14378, The World Bank.
- Jonathan Haughton & Shahidur R. Khandker, 2009. "Handbook on Poverty and Inequality," World Bank Publications, The World Bank, number 11985, September.
- Angus Deaton & Valerie Kozel, 2005. "Data and Dogma: The Great Indian Poverty Debate," World Bank Research Observer, World Bank Group, vol. 20(2), pages 177-199.
- Datt, Gaurav & Ravallion, Martin, 1992. "Growth and redistribution components of changes in poverty measures : A decomposition with applications to Brazil and India in the 1980s," Journal of Development Economics, Elsevier, vol. 38(2), pages 275-295, April. Full references (including those not matched with items on IDEAS)
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The Financial Crisis Of 2007 – 2008 A Review Of The Timeline And Of Its Causes
The present paper tries to present the main events which marked the financial crisis of 2007-2008 in a timeline of crisis development, without making any additional comments on them. In the second part, the paper reviews the most recent papers on the causes of the crisis and tries to give an integrate explanation for the root causes of the crisis, as presented by the reviewed authors. The paper is the first in a series of an extensive investigation regarding the development and the evolution of the current financial crisis.
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Narcisa Rizal (1852 – 1939), a teacher and a musician by profession, was the third child of Francisco Mercado and Teodora Alonzo. She married Antonio Lopez who was a school teacher in Morong, Rizal. They had nine children—Emilio, Angélica, Isabel, Consuelo, Leoncio, Francisco, Arsenio, Antonio and Fidela.
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Jul 08, 2013 - 1:23 pm
In April I was diagnosed with breast cancer nodule in my lung (third round with breast cancer). My tumor markers were 57. Then they climbed to 65 while on Xeloda. When my Onc took me off Xeloda and prescribed Arimidex I was at 78. After a month on Arimidex I am down to 55!
I made plans last week to go to Cancer Treatment Center of America in Chicago area. I don't know if I should still plan on going. Just when I had a plan of action, everything changes, LOL.
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Jul 08, 2013 - 4:58 pm
Hi Melissa,
I think it is wonderful that your markers came down. A second opinion never hurt if your insurnace will pay for it.
Jul 10, 2013 - 12:13 am
I agree, a second opinion does not hurt if your insurance pays for it. Glad that your markers went down.
Jul 10, 2013 - 10:37 am
is GREAT news. Like our other Sisters in PINK - I would suggest a 2nd opinion if insurance will approve. Take it one step, at a time.
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Movie review: 'Other Woman' likely is one of the worst films of the year
Let's see, where to start. How about the bowel movements? It's as bad a place as any.
This is the kind of shamelessly pandering movie that believes a gigantic, untrained dog is comedy gold. Pity the canine that plays Thunder the wonder dog, who leaves a giant present on a hardwood floor in one scene and seemingly smacks Cameron Diaz in the face with, um, proof he's a male dog in another scene. Oh joy.
Working from a nearly laugh-free script from Melissa Stack, director Nick Cassavetes makes matters worse with a number of awkwardly edited scenes (even a two-character conversation in a restaurant feels stiff and amateurish), and some of the most obvious and tired musical choices in recent memory.
The theme from "Mission: Impossible" during a supposedly comedic spy sequence? "New York, New York" as a hotshot character wheels his $300,000 sports car through the streets of Manhattan? "Love Is a Battlefield" because love is, you know, a battlefield? Come on. Are we making this movie for people who have never seen movies?
Here's your setup. Cameron Diaz plays Carly, a hotshot Manhattan attorney who hooks up with the dashing Mark (Nikolaj Coster-Waldau from "Game of Thrones"), a dashing and charming entrepreneur who looks like he just finished a GQ photo shoot even when he's rolling out of bed in the morning. He's devastatingly handsome, attentive and sensitive, and a veritable sex machine.
To the shock of Carly's obligatory wisecracking assistant (Nicki Minaj, murdering every supposedly sassy one-liner she delivers), Carly "clears the bench," as she puts it, i.e., she dumps all the other guys she's been seeing because Mark just might be the one.
And then, in a clunky, cartoonishly unrealistic fashion we've already come to expect from the film, Carly learns Mark is actually married, and she's "The Other Woman."
That's when this movie goes from harmlessly stupid to WHAT ARE THEY DOING.
Leslie Mann ("Knocked Up," "The 40-Year-Old Virgin") plays Mark's wife, Kate. Mann is a talented actress and she's been flat-out hilarious in a number of films, but in "The Other Woman," she's saddled with playing a character who appears to be clinically insane — and nearly every acting choice Mann makes seems to be the biggest, broadest, most desperate choice, which only makes matters worse.
When Kate learns Mark is having an affair, she reacts like a crazed child, heaving herself around Carly's office, scratching at the windows in hopes of finding a latch so she can jump, crying and whimpering all the way. It's an astonishingly unfunny scene, to be followed by a number of similar set pieces in which Kate gets drunk in public and/or makes a scene.
Even stupider: Kate behaves like a heavily medicated stalker on a sugar high as she obsesses about becoming Carly's friend. The two forge a highly unlikely bond and start plotting their revenge on the witless Mark. They follow him around, they spike his drinks and his shampoo with substances that will create humiliating physical side effects — and they even strike up a friendship with yet another Mark mistress, a
21-year-old bombshell named Amber.
The Sports Illustrated swimsuit model Kate Upton plays Amber, and Ms. Upton is so out of her depth at even the simplest line reading, she makes Brooklyn Decker seem like Dame Judi Dench by comparison. Not that Cassavetes does her any favors by shooting her running on the beach in a tiny bikini, in slow motion, of course.
If "The Other Woman" is supposed to be some sort of feminist revenge fantasy, it fails miserably. Even when poor, pathetic, crazy Kate knows her husband is a serial cheater and possibly a criminally dishonest con man to boot, she wavers. At one point, Kate dons her bridal dress and sits in the master bedroom, watching video of her wedding and having yet another complete meltdown. By the time she says, "I think I'm having a nervous breakdown," we're wondering when it started — in 2002? This is a very sad, very needy, hopelessly naive woman who breaks into stare-inducing cackles, throws up into her purse on one of the many occasions on which she gets hammered beyond belief, and develops girl crushes on the women her husband is sleeping with.
Nobody escapes this mess with a shred of dignity. If there were a cinematic equivalent of hand sanitizer, I would have raced for the dispenser the moment the idiotic "Here's what happened to all the characters!" credits started rolling.
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DTN/The Progressive Farmer reports:
Some U.S. agriculture sectors will be hit harder than others by a one-year ban on agriculture imports into Russia. The ban was announced Wednesday as a retaliatory measure by Russia President Vladimir Putin in response to economic sanctions by the U.S. and other Western countries due to ongoing military unrest in Ukraine.
In all, U.S. ag exports to Russia amount to about $1 billion a year. According to a report from Dow Jones Wednesday morning, the ban is most likely to hit U.S. shipments of soybeans, pork, chicken and nuts. U.S. meat and poultry exports to Russia totaled about $329 million last year, according to U.S. Census Bureau data. U.S. soybean exports to Russia last year were valued at about $157 million.
American Soybean Association President Ray Gaesser said in a statement Wednesday afternoon that Russia's actions will affect many U.S. soybean customers.
"Russia is a key trading partner for U.S. agriculture, and the Russian people are our customers like so many others in the world's emerging markets," he said.
"However, we would add that Russia, while very important, is only one of hundreds of our customers worldwide. By limiting his people's access to American soybeans and other products, he does a great disservice to his Russian countrymen and women.
ASA pushed hard for the establishment of permanent normal trade relations with Russia last year because of the significant growth and opportunity presented in the Russian marketplace.
"Soybeans are the biggest crop export from the U.S. to Russia, due in large part to that country's burgeoning economy and growing demand for meat. Sanctions and bans like the one proposed by President Putin serve only to hurt the Russian people by limiting their access to the food and products they need and want."
Gaesser said it remains to be seen exactly which products will be affected most by the Russian ban.
"While we certainly want to see a key market protected, it is equally important for American farmers to demand a higher standard from our trading partners," he said. "In this case, that standard is not being met and we urge President Putin to rescind this ban."
American Farm Bureau Federation President Bob Stallman said in a press release that Russia's ban was "clearly political."
"It is unfortunate that the biggest losers in this will be Russian consumers, who will pay more for their food now as well as in the long run," he said.
"America's farmers and ranchers would have been more surprised if Russia's leaders had not announced bans and restrictions on food and agricultural imports. They do so regularly for seemingly small reasons, and now they have to deal with sanctions imposed by our nation and others."
Mark Lambert, senior communications director for the National Corn Growers Association, told DTN in an email that recent declines of U.S. corn exports to Russia make the ban less significant than it could have been.
"We are monitoring this developing situation closely," he said. "As you know, they import little corn from us these days -- in fact, they are a net exporter of grain -- however, they do import significant amounts of other products like meat with a direct economic connection to corn. Stay tuned."


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A huge part of the annual New York Comic Con convention is cosplay (costume play), with thousands decked out as superheroes, villains, video game characters, and more. And just in time for any of you who still don't know what to be this Halloween (or an idea for future costume parties or events), a gathering of Marvel's X-Men cosplayers from this year's NYCC; along with who they are dressed up as.
First up, the X-Men's man of steel, Russian mutant Colossus. He has the ability to turn his tall, dark, and handsome physique into organic steel at will. Fun fact: His Ultimate X-Men alternative version is gay
The well-known Cyclops has optic blasts at his disposal, but it maybe tricky to mimic his eye visor (and have it glow like this cosplayer), but a pair of dark-red sunglasses could also work.
Mutant music star Dazzler can turn sound into powerful light beams (that she campily uses in concerts when not in battle). She and many of the X-ladies would be great for cross dressing, but, alternatively, male versions of these women could also be fun.
Gaining mainstream popularity with X-Men Origins: Wolverine, where he was played by hottie Ryan Reynolds, Deadpool's more mimic-able attributes include his mastery of sword and gun (a.k.a. having accessories!)
Emma Frost is always as evil as she comes off in X-Men First Class, in fact, today she is part of the X-Men team. A skilled telepath, she is also one of the more skimpily dressed mutants (this is a more clothed version of her. If she were a man, no doubt she'd be completely topless).
Gambit has always been a fan favorite, and was popular at NYCC. If you don't have time to put together the costume, there is a packaged one available. A simple version would call for a long brown jacket, a staff, and a playing cards.
Karma may be less-known by non-fans of the X-Men, but she is a telepath and one of the first major lesbian characters in comics. Read more on her and the recent happenings with other gay heroes here.
Lady Deadppol is a female counterpart of Deadpool from the alternate universe. This cosplayer did an interesting take on her, which is also an example of a gender-bending take on Deadpool himself.
Shapeshifting mutant villain/hero Mystique gives Emma Frost a run for her money on amount of clothing worn; especially her movie version from the X-Men film series.
Son of Mystique, Nightcrawler is a teleporter with demon-esque features who might be a hard costume to make, but this cosplayer makes it look easy.
The more creative look of the telepaths listed is Psylocke; who also is a master ninja. Her iconic purple locks is something to have fun with and an excuse to dye your hair.
Sassy southern belle Rogue's mutant power of absorption of other abilities, powers, and memories is not mimic-able itself, but her many green outfits and hair sure are. Pair up with a Gambit for a great couple/duo photo.
X-Men villain turned Avenger hero Scarlet Witch was another popular choice at NYCC. Her magical abilities can be attempted to copy, but you'd probably have more luck by just dressing like her.
The phasing mutant Shadowcat in the X-Men film series was more of a minor character, but in the comics she is quite central at times (today she is headmistress of the mutant's school). She also has the most awesome pet, a dragon named Lockheed.
Storm, as her name implies has power over the weather elements. A fan favorite, all of her outfits worn through the comics (and film) have involved a cape and her signature white hair.
The most famous X-Men Wolverine was the top choice for many X-Men cosplayers at NYCC. This fan in particular most resembled Hugh Jackman's Wolverine from the X-Men film series (even down to the cigar).


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Social Empire Complete Dragon Guide
Dragons are one of the strongest units in the game that are useful for the tournament strategy in Social Empire. In this guide, we will provide some insights to the various dragons that you can get in Social Empire. Please share this guide with your Facebook and Social Empire friends if you found found the guide useful, and check out the rest of our Social Empire guides.
The Social Empire Dragon Breeding Nest
The Dragon Breeding Nest is important for you to obtain the various lower level dragons in Social Empire. You will have to rank up your Dragon Breeding Nests before you can build and unlock additional Social Empire dragons. To rank up your Social Empire Dragon Nest, you will have to breed 10 dragons each waiting for 6 hours. You can also speed up the training time using Cash. It costs 3 cash to speed up the Draggy and 15 Cash for a dragon.
Rank 1: Red Draggy
Rank 2: Furious Dragon
Rank 3: Lightning Draggy
Rank 4: Stormy Dragon
Rank 5: Green Draggy
Rank 6: Sayan Dragon
Golden Bahamut and Red Bahamut Dragon
The Golden Bahamut Dragon and the Red Bahamut dragons are one of the Bahamut Dragons. These two Social Empire Dragons can be obtained from either a collection or from a purchase with real Cash along with the Red Bahamut Dragon. Once in a while you can purchase additional Social Empire Golden Bahamut and Red Bahamut with money offers.
For the collections consists of Golden Gem, Golden Scales, Golden Dragon Nail, Golden Feathers, and Golden Horns. The best places are the isle maps and Social Empires god maps that you can easily kill without losing too many units on. You can also consider to farm them from your treasure mine. It appears that 3 star isles have slightly higher dropping rate. The bottom line is that you should aim for isle maps which takes the least time and least casualty for you to complete.
The Social Empire Supreme Bahamut Dragon
The Social Empire Bahamut Dragon is one of the most powerful dragon in the game. It can be obtained after you have the Supreme Bahamut Dragon Temple. You will have to complete the following steps and wait 2 days for each step.
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May 8,
left to right: Nicole Riley, Caitlin Gavin, Dana Skorupa, Lionel
Noel, Tim Henault, Chris Furey.
Providence, RI--
The Rhode Island College Department of Intercollegiate
Athletics, Intramurals and Recreation held its annual Spring Banquet
at RIC's Donovan Dining Center on Monday, Mar. 8 to honor those
student-athletes who participate in varsity spring athletics. Each
sport gave out their Most Valuable Player Award.
catcher Tim Henault (East Greenwich, RI) was named the baseball
team's MVP. Henault has played in 34 games, starting all of them. He
is batting .377 (49-for-130) with 30 runs scored, ten doubles, two
triples, one home run, 31 RBI and three stolen bases. He owns a .508
slugging percentage, a .418 on-base percentage and a .995 fielding
percentage. Henault broke his hand after being hit by a pitch vs.
Eastern Connecticut on Apr. 29 and is out indefinitely.
He is a
psychology major with a minor in criminal justice and a 2003 graduate
of East Greenwich, Rhode Island.
Lionel Noel (West Warwick, RI) was named the men's golf team's
MVP. He averaged a score of 77.8 through five matches this spring.
Noel was the medallist in two of the club's contests this year, firing
a 77 vs. Wesleyan and MCLA on Apr. 13, as well as a 76 vs. Newbury on
Apr. 19. He tied with teammate Shawn Rebocho for medallist honors with
a score of 80 vs. Worcester State, Becker and Brandeis on Apr. 10. He
tied for fourth place with a score of 75 to wrap up the season at the
Blazers Invitational, hosted by Elms, on Apr. 28.
He is a
2005 graduate of West Warwick High School.
center Caitlin Gavin (Portsmouth, RI) was named the women's
lacrosse team's MVP. Gavin played in 16 games, starting all of them.
She had 97 goals and ten assists for 107 points. Her marks in both
goals and points are new school records for a single season. Gavin
also totaled 101 ground balls and 65 draw controls. She is currently
second in the nation (Div. III) in goals-per-game average (6.06) and
third in points-per-game average (6.689).
Gavin is a
physical education/health major and a 2003 graduate of Portsmouth High
pitcher Nicole Riley (North Providence, RI) was named the
softball team's MVP. Riley has appeared in
32 games, starting 25 of them. She is currently 24-2, a new school
record for wins in a season, and has not lost a game since Mar. 17.
Riley owns an ERA of 1.36 with 21 complete games, five shutouts, two
saves and has struck out 154 batters in 175.1 innings pitched. Riley
has been named the Little East Conference's Pitcher of the Week three
on the season. The Anchorwomen were the 2006 Little East Conference
Softball Regular Season and Tournament Champions and are set to
compete in the NCAA Div. III Softball Championships, beginning on May
She is a
secondary education major with a concentration in history and a 2003
graduate of North Providence High School.
Chris Furey (Cabot, VT) was named the men's tennis team's MVP. He
was 11-5 (.688) at number six singles and 10-6 (.625) at number three
doubles for 16.0 points on the season. He led the team in singles wins
and points, and was tied for the team lead in doubles victories.
He is a
biology major with a minor in chemistry and a 2000 graduate of Cabot
High School.
Justin Dalton (Warwick, RI) was named the men's outdoor track &
field team's MVP. Dalton earned All-New England honors in the 400
meter hurdles, placing fourth with a time of 56.44 at the New England
Div. III Championships on May 6. He earned All-Alliance/Little East
honors in the 400 meter hurdles, placing first with a time of 56.41,
as well as the 4x400 meter relay with a first place finish time of
3:24.95, at the Little East/MASCAC Alliance Championships on Apr. 29.
Dalton placed first in the 400 meter hurdles, fifth as part of the
4x100 meter relay team and second as part of the 4x400 meter relay
team with times of 57.07, 44.48 and 3:23.72, respectively, at the
Silfen Invitational on Apr. 22. He placed fourth in the 400 meter
hurdles and fourth as part of the 4x100 meter relay team with times of
57.18 and 45.65, respectively, at the Solomon Husky Invitational on
Apr. 15. Dalton placed second in the 400 meter hurdles with a time of
58.56 at the Bryant Invitational on Apr. 8. He placed first in the 400
meters hurdles with a time of 58.70, as well as second as part of the
4x100 and 4x400 meter relay teams with times of 45.80 and 3:26.40,
respectively, at the RIC Invitational on Apr. 1.
He is a
physical education/health major and a 2002 graduate of Veterans High
Dana Skorupa (Cumberland, RI) was named the women's outdoor track
& field team's MVP. She earned All-Alliance/Little East honors in the
100 and 200 meters, as well as the long jump with first place marks of
12.93, 26.27 and 5.37 meters, respectively, at the Little East/MASCAC
Alliance Championships on Apr. 29. Skorupa placed seventh in the long
jump with a leap of 5.01 meters at the Solomon Husky Invitational on
Apr. 15. She placed first in both the 100 and 200 meters with times of
12.83 and 27.03, respectively, and fifth in the long jump with a
distance of 4.84 meters, at the Bryant Invitational on Apr. 8. Skorupa
placed second in the 100 meters, second in the 200 meters and first in
the long jump with times of 12.30 and 26.30, respectively, and a
distance of 4.96 meters, at the RIC Invitational on Apr. 1. She placed
13th in the 200 meters with a time of 1:03.38 at the
Snowflake Classic on Mar. 25.
Skorupa is
an elementary education major with a concentration in special
education and a 2002 graduate of Cumberland High School.


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Carlson was born in Utah in 1947; he attended then University of Utah where he
received his BA and MA in English. He taught at the Hotchkiss School in
Connecticut for ten years, spending his summers fishing and backpacking and
writing in the West. He moved in 1981 and worked for the arts councils of
Idaho, Alaska, and Utah. In 1986, he began his university teaching career at
Arizona State University, where he eventually became Regents' Professor and
Director of Creative Writing. He is now the director of the MFA program in
Fiction at UC Irvine.
Liberal Arts Building, Room 136 3:00 p.m.
James Poissant's short story collection, THE HEAVEN OF ANIMALS, will be
published by Simon & Schuster in March, 2014. His stories have appeared
in The Atlantic, Playboy, One Story, The Southern
Review, Ploughshares, Glimmer Train, and in the New Stories from
the South and Best New American Voices anthologies.
in the former Soviet Union, Valerie Bandura received degrees from Columbia
University and the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College, where she
served as the Joan Beebe Teaching Fellow.
Cokinos is the author of Hope Is the Thing with Feathers: A Personal Chronicle
of Vanished Birds and The Fallen Sky: An Intimate History of Shooting Stars,
both from Tarcher/Penguin. The winner of a Whiting Award, Cokinos has traveled
across the world, from Greenland to Antarctica, in search of the stories of
science and history that inform his writing.
Sheehan is the author of two novels, History Lesson for
Girls and The Anxiety of Everyday Objects, as well as two short story
collections, Jewelry Box: A Collection of Histories and Jack
Kerouac Is Pregnant. Project Grant from the Arizona Commission on the Arts.
Ander Monson is the author of a host of
paraphernalia including a decoder wheel, several chapbooks and limited edition
letterpress collaborations, a website (otherelectricities.com), and five books,
most recently The Available World (poetry, Sarabande, 2010) and Vanishing
Point: Not a Memoir (nonfiction, Graywolf, 2010). He lives and teaches in
Tucson, Arizona, where he edits the magazine DIAGRAM (thediagram.com) and the
New Michigan Press.
This reading series is made possible thanks to generous funding from the Arizona Commission on the Arts, Northern Arizona University's College of Arts and Letters, and Northern Arizona University's English Department.


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Mayavaram Krishnamurthy Thyagaraja Bhagavathar
|Born Mayavaram Krishnamurthy Thyagaraja Bhagavathar
March 1, 1910(1910-03-01)
Died November 1, 1959(1959-11-01) (aged 49)
Madras, Madras State, India
Other names M. K. T.
Years active 1934–1959
Children M. K. T. Raveendran
Mayavaram Krishnamurthy Thyagaraja Bhagavathar (1 March 1910 – 1 November 1959), also called M.K.T., was a Tamil film actor, producer and Carnatic music singer. He is considered to be one of the most successful Tamil film actors ever.
Bhagavathar was born in the town of Mayiladuthurai in then Tanjore district of the Madras Presidency, British India. He started his career as a classical singer and stage artist in the late 1920s. In 1934, he made his début in films with the movie Pavalakkodi which turned out to be a hit. From 1934 to 1959, Bhagavathar acted in 14 films of whom 6 were box-office hits. Bhagavathar's 1944 film Haridas ran for three consecutive years at Broadway Theatre, Madras and created the record for the longest continuous run at a single theatre. Bhagavathar was arrested in 1944 as one of the main suspects in the Lakshmikanthan Murder Case and spent three years in prison before being released in 1947 after a re-trial found him innocent. Bhagavathar's career declined after his arrest and though he did continue to act in Tamil films after his release from prison, none of them did well. Bhagavathar died of diabetes at the age of 49 on 1 November 1959.
Bhagavathar was acclaimed for his powerful, melodious voice and the ease with which he could sing high pitch notes. Critics and film historians acknowledge Bhagavathar as the "first superstar of Tamil cinema".
Bhagavathar was a philanthropist and contributed for important social and religious causes. He was awarded a "Diwan Bahadur" title by the Governor of Madras for his contribution to the British war efforts during the Second World War but he turned it down.
Early life
Thyagaraja Bhagavathar was born in Tanjore. The native place of his family is Mayavaram, Tamil Nadu, British India. He came from a family of viswabrahmin goldsmiths. From his grandfather's time, his family had lived in Trichy, where Bhagavathar grew up.
Early films
In 1934, businessmen Lakshmana Chettiar and Rm Alagappa Chettiar and film director K. Subramaniam happened to watch a Hindu mythological play called "Pavalakkodi" in which Bhagavathar played the lead role of Arjuna. Thoroughly impressed with the performance, Chettiar planned to produce a movie based on the same story with Bhagavathar playing the lead role. The film was shot in Adyar and was a success. It helped launch Bhagavathar's career in films.
Bhagavathar's second film Naveena Sarangadhara (1935) was again directed by K. Subramaniam and was based on a play called Sarangadhara. Bagavathar's next film was his first own production film under the banner Trichy Thyagaraja Films, "Sathyaseelan" (1936). The film had the novel feature of two Bagavathars appearing on the same frame, though it was not strictly a film with Bagavathar playing a double role. Bagavathar, apart from playing Sathyaseelan, also briefly appears as a court singer himself in the film.
Rise to stardom 1937-1944
In 1937, Bhagavathar was cast in role of Bilwamangal in the film Chintamani directed by Y. V. Rao. Chintamani was a record-breaker and became the first Tamil film to run continuously for a year. Bhagavathar's songs in the movie were especially popular. The Tamil writer Kalki Krishnamurthy wrote that the film has made such an impact on the viewers that the housewife would sing the song Mayaprapanchattil from the movie while preparing coffee in the morning and her husband would sing Rathey unakku kobam in order to please his sweetheart.[1] However, the songs that were featured in the gramophone records produced by Saraswathi Stores were not sung by Bhagavathar as he did not have any business understanding with the company. With the profits obtained from the movie, the owners of Rayal Talkies constructed a theatre in Madurai and named it Chintamani.[1][2]
The very same year, Bhagavathar was offered the title role in the film Ambikapathy made by the American film director Ellis R. Dungan. The film was Bhagavathar's second consecutive hit in the year and broke records set by Chintamani. Dungan was, however, heavily criticized by the conservative Hindu society for introducing controversially intimate scenes between Bhagavathar and the heroine Santhanalakshmi. Bhagavathar played the role of Saivite saint Thiruneelakanta Nayanar in the 1939 movie Thiruneelakantar.
Most of M.K.T.'s songs were devotional with a South Indian classical base. Along with lyricist Papanasam Sivan, M.K.T. composed many songs, including "Unai Alaal", "Neelakanta", "Amba Manam Kanindhu", "Soppana Vazhvil Makizhndu", "Maraivaai Maraitha Odu", "Gyaana Kann", "Sathva Guna Bodhan", "Rajan Maharajan", "Krishna Mukunda Murari", "Naatiya Kalaiye", "Radhe Unaku Kobam Aagadadi", "Vasantha Ruthu", and many others.
M.K.T. made his début in the 1934 film Pavalakodi; in all, he appeared in 14 movies before he died. Most of his films were record-breakers. Thiruneelakandar, Ambikapathi, Chintamani were among the first highly successful Tamil films. Haridas, released in 1944, ran continuously for three years at the Chennai Broadway Theatre.
Later years
In 1944, M.K.T., actor N. S. Krishnan, and Coimbatore - based movie studio owner Sriramlu Naidu were charged in the murder of Lakshmikanthan; M.K.T. was acquitted and released in April 1947. Prior to his arrest, he was signed up to act in 12 more films, but he lost interest and the few movies he did make after his release were unsuccessful. Nevertheless, he still drew huge crowds at his concerts. He had lost almost all his wealth in his case defense.
Followers of the Dravidian movement, such as C. N. Annadurai (the founder of the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) political party and Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu), tried to entice him to their fold, but because of his convictions, M.K.T. remained apolitical and a staunch bhakta until his death. It is believed that his absence from the film industry provided a window for the Dravidian atheist movement to move in and establish themselves in the Tamil film industry.
Haridas box office record.
M.K.Thyagaraja Bhagavathar
|SoppanaVaazhvil-Sivakavi 1943
|Krishna Mukunda-Haridas 1944
|Manamatha Leelayai-Haridas 1944
|Rajan Maharajan-shyamala 1952
|Sathva Guna Bodhan- Ashok Kumar1941
|Dheena Karuna Karane-Thirnuneelakantar 1939
|Unnaikandu-Ashok Kumar 1941
|Amba Manam Kaninthu-Sivakavai 1943
|Maraivai Pudhaitha-Thiruneelakantar 1939
|Njana Kan Ondru-Chintamani 1939
|Nattiya Kalaiye-Sivakavai 1943
|Orunaal Oru Pozhuthu-Thiruneelakantar 1939
|Pavazha Mall-Thiruneelakantar 1939
|Bhoomiyil Maanida Jenmam-Ashok Kumar 1941
|Maname Nee-Ashok Kumar 1941
|Dhyaname-Ashok Kumar 1941
|Vallalai Paadum Vaayaal-Sivakavi 1943
|Vathaname Chandra-Sivakavi 1943
|Vasantha Ruthu-Sivakavi 1944
|Annaiyum Thanthaiyum- Haridas 1944
|Ennudal Thanil-Haridas 1944
|Manida Janmam- Rajamukthi 1948


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How long does it take a broken ankle to heal? I have been in a cast for nearly six weeks after having ORIF and have been cut on both sides of my ankle and have had plates and a lot of screws fixed in. Also suffered dislocation as well which I had to have a plate in also. I am due to go back next week to have cast removed. Have noticed by searching on the internet that alot of people get transferred to a boot. This wasn't mentioned to me. Is this the case. Your help would be very much appreciated.
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It sounds like you had a bimalleolar fracture-dislocation of the ankle. Also, since the surgeon elected to cast you for 6 weeks, he/she probably felt that the fixation was not secure enough to allow early motion.
In some cases, patients are allowed to weight bear immediately, within a boot or cast. Some are allowed to do early range of motion, which is one reason that an ORIF (open reduction and internal fixation) is done (the main reason is to get the bone back together of course).
But, every fracture has its own personality and thus has to be treated a little differently. It appears that your fracture pattern was significant enough, that even after it was fixated with the hardware, the surgeon wanted to be cautious. As such, you were placed in the cast for extra support.
You do not say if you have been allowed to weight bear in the cast of not.
As to how long it takes for an ankle fracture to heal, it varies. You have had a very significant injury, and the soft tissue injuries around the bones are probably just as significant, if not more, than the injury to the bone. And, it takes the soft tissues much longer to heal and be rehabilitated than it does to get the bones to unite.
The bones will usually unite around 6 to 8 weeks in an ankle injury. But, again, that is just the first step in recovering from a fracture. Once the bones are healed enough to withstand some stress, then activity is advanced, both in terms of weight bearing and in range of motion (ROM).
Total recovery from this significant of an injury may take as long as a year. You will not be totally laid up for that long, but it may take that long before you know you final result.
So, at your next visit, depending upon how the bones are healing, you could be placed into a fracture brace (boot) or be placed back into a cast. Some surgeons will continue with a cast, but allow the patient to start weight bearing in the cast. Others, will go to a boot, allow the patient to remove the boot and do ROM, but not weight bear. Some, will allow the patient to weight bear and do ROM.
It all depends upon how YOUR fracture is healing. Every patient will have a different post-op recovery. So, it is not a good idea to compare what happens in your case to others. You have had a very significant injury and, of course, will have a different course of recovery from someone who just broke the fibula.
So, whatever happens at your next visit, go with it. If you are allowed to start ROM, try to really work on getting that motion back. Don't weight bear any more than you are allowed.
With your injury, getting your ROM back is going to be the hard part. With the amount of soft tissue injury in an ankle fracture-dislocation, you are going to have a lot of scar tissue to stretch out. So, again, when you are allowed to start moving, really work on that aspect.
Good luck. Hope your ankle heals well.
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Seahawks searching for answers in run defense
Seahawks have given up at least 200 yards rushing the past two weeks, against teams featuring rookie running backs.
Seattle Times staff reporter
RENTON – At its best, the Seahawks defense is 11 moving parts working as one.
Just a single misstep by a player, though, can cause the whole thing to go awry.
"Everybody is tied on a string on our defense,'' said safety Earl Thomas. "When somebody messes up, it just opens up a hole and you get gashed.''
That's happened with alarming frequency the past two weeks as Seattle has allowed 200 yards rushing against both the Rams (200) and the Buccaneers (205), something the Seahawks had done only once during the 2011 and 2012 seasons.
The Seahawks have won the past two weeks but that doesn't minimize the urgency to get the problem fixed in time for Sunday's game at Atlanta.
"We've got to keep working hard at it,'' Seahawks coach Pete Carroll said Monday. "And it's a big, dedicated effort because we don't want to go that way.''
The task should be easier this week at Atlanta. The Falcons are last in the NFL in rushing at just more than 64 yards per game.
But then, the Rams and Bucs also ranked near the bottom in rushing entering their games against the Seahawks. And each featured rookie running backs (the Rams' Zac Stacy and Tampa Bay's Mike James), who each rushed for career highs as each team took the Seahawks to the wire despite being at least a two-touchdown underdog.
Thomas called it "a humbling experience'' and took a lot of the blame, saying that as the team's free safety he is in charge of making sure the back end of the defense is in proper spots.
"I've definitively got to play better to put the guys in better position to tackle better,'' he said. "I've just got to do a lot of stuff better.''
Carroll, though, said everyone shared fault.
"Unfortunately, we missed some reads on a couple of new plays that they ran," Carroll said. "They (the Bucs) did a nice job in changing it up and we weren't as sharp and the ball got out on us. ... We're just off a little bit and we have not fixed it in these two weeks.''
Carroll said he preferred to think of it more as a blip than a trend, noting that two weeks ago the Seahawks held the Arizona Cardinals to 30 yards rushing.
In fact, after that game the Seahawks ranked sixth in the NFL in run defense, allowing 91.6 yards per game, appearing to have made good on their offseason vow to improve. Now, Seattle has slipped to 19th, allowing 116.2 yards per game.
Seattle started K.J. Wright at middle linebacker and Malcolm Smith on the weak side against Arizona (and against Tennessee, as well, when the Titans rushed for 66 yards) with Bobby Wagner out with a sprained ankle. With Wagner back, Seattle has returned to its projected starting lineup of Wagner in the middle and Wright on the weak side.
Carroll said everything would be evaluated but noted, as did Thomas, that singling out any one spot as the problem is difficult.
Thomas said if there was a trend it was in facing runners willing to wait for plays to develop.
"Patient running backs,'' he said of what the Rams and Bucs had in common. "I think when we have an impatient running back we have a lot of success because we are so aggressive. Right now, that aggressive nature, they are using it against us.''
Carroll said center Max Unger and defensive end Red Bryant each suffered concussions against the Bucs. Because the Seahawks won't know until at least Thursday if Unger and Bryant will be available, they will have to prepare to play without them against the Falcons.
Lemuel Jeanpierre would start in place of Unger; Michael Bennett is Bryant's listed backup.
• Carroll said quarterback Russell Wilson "got hit pretty good'' but isn't expected to miss practice time this week.
• Carroll said WR Percy Harvin had a good rehab day Monday but that he is "not counting'' on him playing against Atlanta.
• Carroll said again that tackles Russell Okung and Breno Giacomini will likely return to practice Wednesday but that he doesn't expect Giacomini to play this week at Atlanta. By rule, Okung can't play until the Nov. 17 game against Minnesota.
|200-yard club
Seattle has allowed 200 or more rushing yards six times in the 57 regular-season games coached by Pete Carroll since he took over in 2010. Two have come in the past two games:
|Opponent, date
|Final score
|vs. Kansas City, Nov. 28, 2010
|Chiefs, 42-28
|vs. Minnesota, Nov. 4, 2012
|Seahawks, 30-20
|at Oakland, Oct. 31, 2010
|Raiders, 33-3
|at Tampa Bay, Dec. 26, 2010
|Buccaneers, 38-15
|vs. Tampa Bay, Nov. 3, 2013
|Seahawks, 27-24 (OT)
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The Union Area Chamber of Commerce will host the first of periodic speaking lunches with Joette Reidy, who helped spearhead a smoke-free law in Washington.
Reidy is the spokesperson for Breathe Easy Washington, a coalition that worked to educate the community on the dangers of secondhand smoke and advocating for the need for smoke-free workplaces.
The event will be held on Thursday, May 30, at Hagie's at noon. The cost to attend is $8 for Chamber members and $15 for non-Chamber members.
Chamber Executive Director Tammy Stowe said Reidy will talk about her experiences going through steps to help draft a smoking law in Washington and why she believes it is an important health issue for the community.
The efforts of Reidy, and others with Breathe Easy Washington led to a Washington city ordinance that prohibits smoking in restaurants, bars, businesses, workplaces and other public places.
In addition to public places, including private clubs, the act also prohibits smoking outdoors near bleachers and grandstands and around playgrounds.
The law does not prohibit smoking outside or in private residences unless they are used as a childcare, adult daycare or health care facility.
Since the law was passed, the council has made some changes, including allowing smoking, for demonstration purposes only, in a designated area of the Missouri Meerschaum Corn Cob Pipe factory.
The council also amended the distance that smokers must stay back from the main entrance and ventilation facilities of a building from 20 to 10 feet.
The full ordinance can be found on the city's website: www.ci.washington.mo.us.
Speaker Series
Stowe said this is the first of other speaking events that will likely be held during lunches.
The series was developed by Stowe and the Chamber board of directors.
"The board and I sat down and started thinking of ways to add value to membership, and to keep the community informed on issues that may affect it," she said.
Stowe said the speaking events will be at noon so those in the community may be able to easily attend during the lunch hour.
She said board members will take turns to find a speaker.
"They will present issues that are relevant to business owners," Stowe said. "Things that are important for the community."
For more information, or to sign up for the May 30 event, people may call Stowe at 636-583-8979 or email@example.com.


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Obit: Dovard Morris Brantley, s/o Harris & Ollie (Fulgham) Brantley
Services for D. Morris Brantley, 85, Ben Wheeler, were held at 2 p.m. April 16, at Edom United Methodist Church with Rev. Jeff Craft, Rev. David Johnson, officiating, under the direction of Eubank Funeral Home, Canton.
Burial was in Edom Cemetery, Edom.
Mr. Brantley passed away April 13, 2010 in Tyler.
He was born April 30, 1924 in Edom to Harris and Ollie Fulgham Brantley. He graduated from Van ISD in 1941, playing on the State Championship Basketball that year. After graduation he joined the US Navy serving in the Pacific Theater during World War II. After graduating from SMU he began a long career with the Dallas ISD in the Physical Education Dept, retiring as Director of Physical Education.
After retirement he returned to Edom and served two terms as mayor of his hometown. He was also very involved in the Edom United Methodist Church for more than 30 years, serving as trustee not only at Edom UMC but also trustee for the Tyler District UMC. He was also very active in the Edom Methodist Men's group.
He was preceded in death by his parents, brother, Shirley Brantley, sisters, Vivian Colley and Fairy Palmer.
Survivors include his wife of 34 years, Judy Brantley, Ben Wheeler; and other family members and friends.
Pallbearers were Elmer Joe McLean, Pat Fowler, Ron McDougal, Larry Murphy, Carlton Smith, Roger Maddox, Burt Rowlins, and Mickey Poteet.
Honorary pallbearers were Members of the Edom Methodist Men.
Source: Van Zandt News, Canton, Texas, Tuesday, April 20, 2010


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Is there any filter for reducing c/a that does not turn the subject object yellow?
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