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The departments of Communication Sciences and Disorders and Counseling and Human Development were approved in December to merge into the new Department of Health and Human Sciences. The new department will house programs for students majoring in speech-language pathology, counseling, social work, and family and consumer sciences (i.e., family studies, fashion merchandise and nutrition). Dr. June Williams is the interim department head and her office is in White Hall, Room 108. Dr. Williams can be reached at Extension 2309.


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Q: I have a great relationship with my best friend. My hope is that one day we will be more than just friends. We both care deeply for one another, but the thought of marriage is hard for both of us since we have been through a couple of marriages. Do we cherish what we have and not worry about commitment in the future, or is it time to move on?
-Beth F.
A: Hi Beth
A lot of people wonder about this if they're divorced or have been hurt in prior relationships. Having your future potential partner as your "best friend" definitely gives you a leg up and provides an excellent foundation for a more serious commitment. My personal and professional experience teaches me that relationships that are initially fueled by fleeting human desires, such as looks and passion, tend to lose their holding power as time moves forward. So you ask, "Do we cherish what we have and not worry about commitment in the future, or is it time to move on?"
I guess to a large degree it depends on what you both are looking for down the road. If one or both of you want to be married again, you must address this issue now. However, if you are both content presently and the thought of continuing as you are is acceptable to both of you, then I say don't worry about the future and enjoy what you have today. In short, there is no magic answer, Beth, but you do need honesty. Be truthful with one another about your aspirations regarding marriage and then let that guide your path forward. Wishing You Great Health,Dr. John H. Sklare

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SAN ANTONIO – It's not uncommon for NFL player's kids to become childhood friends. The chance of both of them meeting up once again over 10 decades later in the U.S. Army All-American Game is something much rarer.
"My roommate is Jake Golic," said kicker C.J. Feagles in San Anotnio on Sunday. "We grew up together when I lived in Arizona from pre-school to first grade. I hadn't seen him in 10 years so it's a big coincidence that we're rooming together."
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Mike Golic and Jeff Feagles both played with the Philadelphia Eagles from 1990 to 1992. The two will be reunited on the same East team this upcoming Saturday.
"It's awesome; it's a great honor to be here," Feagles said. "I never really experienced anything like this. It's really shocking for me."
Feagles was also surprised when UNC extended an offer so quickly when he took a trip there last June.
"The head coach at UNC, Butch Davis, recruited my dad out of high school and so they're family friends,' Feagles said. "He coached at Miami when he was there. They have a punter on scholarship and he's a senior. They're not going to have him next year so he called my dad and said, 'Hey, I heard your son is a punter. Have him come down and we'll look at him.' I went down there and had a tryout and they offered me on the spot."
That's all the 5-foot-11, 180-pound prospect needed to hear and he ended his recruiting process by committing to the Tar Heels just two days later. Though a try out to Boston College was planned the next weekend, Feagles cancelled the visit and hasn't heard from another school since.
"As far as I know, no one has even tried to come after me," he said. "It's cool because I fell in love with UNC the minute I got there. Until I committed, everything pretty much stopped. It's a pretty strong verbal."
It's obvious that Feagles' dad has been able to handle the big time pressure of playing in front of a national television audience as he's currently the starting punter for the New York Giants in his 20th year in the NFL. His son will play with millions of people watching for the first time in his career this upcoming weekend.
"I try not to think about it much," he said. "Once it comes, I don't know how I'll be able to handle it but hopefully it won't be that big of a deal for me."


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Ford Motor Company and Hastings Ford Lincoln Mercury partnered to help raise money in support of Young Life as a part of Ford's Drive One 4 UR School program.
The Hastings community put the pedals to the metal and helped raise $4,500 for Young Life by test driving a Ford, Lincoln or Mercury vehicle. Hastings Ford Lincoln Mercury worked with Young Life to host the one-day event April 23. Approximately 225 people raced down to the dealership, and for each participant who came from a unique household, Ford and Hastings Ford will donate $20.
Since the start of the program in 2007, Ford's Drive One 4 UR School program has raised more than $2.3 million for close to 700 high schools across the country and enabled more than 125,000 people to test drive new Ford vehicles. The monies raised during the Drive One events have helped fund extracurricular activities like sports and band booster clubs and Young Life, helping ensure these programs continue in local communities.
Cory Gibson, Area director for Young Life said, "A big thank you to all who came out to support Young Life. It was a blessing to see so many faces. When the community unites for a good cause, good things happen ... and this was one of those good things."
"We had an outstanding response from the community for this fundraising event. We are so thrilled that this money raised from test driving our vehicles can be used for Young Life." said Doug Erickson, Hastings Ford Lincoln Mercury.


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Beware of Speculative "Sure Things"
You would be hard-pressed to find an analyst or pundit who isn't bullish on gold and oil and bearish on the U.S. dollar. The agreement is virtually universal: the dollar is doomed, and gold and oil are rocketing up with no end in sight.
My contrarian instincts suggest the universality of these views dooms them to be almost certainly wrong. The NASDAQ would never drop below 4,000 (2001 pundits), the Dow Jones Industrials were heading to 100,000 (2000 pundits) and oil would remain cheap for a decade (1999 pundits). In every case the "standard model" of the financial/ mainstream analysts was exactly opposite of what eventually transpired.
But rather than argue, let's look at some charts, courtesy of frequent contributor Harun I. Let's start with oil, which just hit a key Fibonacci level at $92/barrel:
There are three large charts today; please view them at www.oftwominds.com/blog.html .
Next, here is gold, which also sports some divergences which suggest the euphoric speculation might be getting a tad overdone:
The much-maligned dollar, meanwhile, has declined to a key Fibonacci level, suggesting it might rear up out of its torpor and maul the complacent dollar Bears:
We should recall here that oil derivatives and futures contracts far exceed physical oil. Which is just a polite way of saying that rampant speculation can power oil higher independent of actual inventories and supply/demand. The same is of course true of gold; speculation in gold-based instruments can be independent of physical demand for gold.
In times of euphoric bullishness, the "solid fundamentals" are always touted ad nauseum. Yet when the price plummets, the fundamentals remain more or less in place. Were the fundamentals of the petroleum business horrible on August 16 when oil dipped to $67/barrel? No. Are they now 37% better, a mere 10 weeks later, now that the price has risen $25 to $92/barrel? No.
Will the dollar be debased to 27? If Fed Chairman Bernanke drops interest rates back to 1%, perhaps it will. But in the meantime, we should be alert to the old nostrum that nothing goes up or down in a straight line. The buck has dropped in a nearly straight line, and gold and oil have skyrocketed in nearly uninterrupted moves up.
Call me contrarian (or worse), but the charts suggest to me that big reversals are coming due this week. Maybe they will be brief interruptions in a trend; nonetheless, being on the same side as 99.99% of all the pundits, analysts and experts usually buys a one-way ticket to stunning (and entirely unexpected) losses.
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As a cheap food Connoisseur (poor person) I eat a lot of this basics range/ smart price stuff and unsurprisingly a lot of it is awful. What is a surprise is that these beans are pretty good. No one's going to say 'wow what amazing beans!' after eating them but people who think 'wow what amazing beans!' is something worth saying are best avoided anyway.
The beans taste pretty good, even if you microwave them (and if you do that the whole 'meal' takes four minutes at most to prepare). The sausages are perfectly edible, though considering what decrepit ingredients are in most expensive 'quality' sausages, you should probably do yourself a favour and not enquire as to what the specific ingredients of these are. If that makes you feel a little queasy you can just buy the beans by themselves, but don't you want some variety in your meals? Even if that variety is 'I wonder how much of this pig we can put in something, without going to prison'? I'll let you make your own minds up there.
33p is a more than reasonable price and the beans even come in a metal can ideal for storage. They can be stacked, put in a cupboard, raced down a hill, used to demonstrate to simpletons how a cylinder works, traced around to help draw circles, bashed with another object to make a slight noise, become the origins of an over rated Andy Warhol painting... the possibilities easily exceed the price.
As someone who's had to live off some slightly lacking meals of late, these beans and sausages were a refreshing surprise, and an indication that I may someday learn how to taste things again. Not a bad purchase. At 33p, you could do a lot worse. Although if you're buying 33p beans, you're probably not doing too great already.
well what can i say , asda smart price sausage and beans in a tin , i came across this while obvously shopping in asda, i looked at the tin and shuddered , surely this cant be edible for such little pennies, i walked away from the tin but found myself drawn back, sod it i only live once lets give this scary looking tin a whirl !!!
As with all smart price range products the tin has the basic label green and white with a picture of a bowl full of sausages and beans (like you would ever just eat it in a bowl like that lol).
i love sausages and beans on jacket potato so in goes my spud in the oven and about three quarters of an hour later i open my scary looking tin !, i empty it in the saucepan looks like nice thick sauce, with about 7 sausages, but the sausages have a some what strange look about them, greyness springs to mind and the sauce has a nucular tingey colour to it , but i brave it and heat the pan, ready in about 4 to 5 mins i pour the cheapo stuff over my jacket and sit down bracing myself to gag at any moment !.
Well im glad i brought them the sauce is lovely and thick perfect on a jacket potato and it tastes actually quite amazing lol SERIOUSLY, yeah the sausages look bland and they aint as firm as other leading brands of the same product but i proper enjoyed it, i enjoyed it that much that asda smart price beans and sausages in a tin have become my dirty little secret that i enjoy quite often, although i only admit that to close family lol,
All in all i would recommend this product as a cheap meal, yeah maybe its not that good for you and the salt might be high but hey ! what is good for us these days , as processed foods go i rate this big time !
Im always on the hunt for a bargain and i saw a tin of normal asda beans and sausages priced at 65p and then looked along abit to find smart price asda baked beans and sausages priced at just 26p for a 420g tin.
Very basic white and green packaging with a bowl of tasty looking baked beans and sausages in a orange sauce.
On the packaging it claims to have no artificial flavours and no colours,preservatives or hydrogenated fats.
Haricot beans (37%), water,sausages (17%),pork(56%), water, pork fat,rusk(wheatflour,salt),salt, sugar, mustard, ginger, pepper, coriander, nutmeg, sage, tomatoe puree(16%), sugar, modified maze starch, salt, paprika, rapeseed oil, clove extract, cinnamon extract and garlic oil.
I have to be in the mood for baked beans but my daughter loves them for lunch on there own or with toast in fact overall you can have beans with pretty much anything!!
I opened the tin to see a sea of orange sauce no beans i mite add, i delved into the tin to find those hidden sausages and beans to find very pale looking long and thin sausages and the very small beans followed, i found the beans to be very small and there werent enough of them.
I poured half a can into a bowl and cooked in the microwave as directed and to my amazement the beans and shells all stayed together which is 1 plus! The sausages appear to look very rubbery and they seem to taste like a salty mulshy fake sausage that i wouldnt even feed a dog!!
The beans were pretty tasty but i found there was more sauce than beans so for me i wouldnt buy these again, i think i will stick to heinz or the next time try the next asda ones up!!
For a budget there good there filling and do the job!!
I brought this tin of beans and sausages in Asda last week because I love them on toast and wanted to see what the Smart Price version are like because I quite like their beans.
The 420g tin I brought cost 26p and that's a proper bargain compared to the Heinz version because that is getting mega expensive at the minute. I wasn't mad keen on them though and I think they tasted very low quality, I could tell from the sticky look of the beans that it wasn't going to be very nice.
There are about 8 sausages in the tin mixed up with the beans and they are a bit longer and thinner than in other brands of these. They are proper pale looking and I wasn't very impressed with the look of them. The beans have got a majorly thick sauce and even though I didn't heat them for very long the sauce all disappeared so that the beans looked like they had been stuck together. They poured out of the pan in a loose lump, they tasted very mushy too and the sauce had a weird sweet but salty taste.
The sausages didn't taste meaty at all and have got a funny firm but squishy texture. They taste a bit smokey and have got a bit of a hot dog sausage flavour, not too much though and I thought they tasted mega bland.
For the price they make a quick meal if your not too picky about food like this. What I always think about is that this sort of stuff is not the healthiest anyway and this cheapo one from Asda has got to be even worse for me than the rest of them because it tastes and feels revolting. The beans get very salty as you're eating and they are not very nice to eat at all.
I had mine on toast and because the sauce is so thick and sticky it didn't help to make the toast go wet or anything. That might be a good point for you but I love my toast soggy with bean juice and that doesn't happen when you use these!
Beans and Sausages from a tin isn't something I eat often. My hubby quite likes this with Toast, but again we normally stuck to the brand named Heinz ones, as it's what you know. Then again priced at nearly £1 for the large tin it is kinda pricey. These cost a bargain 21p for the same sized tin, so was worth the try for the price alone.
The tin isn't that exciting looking. It is a 420g can which has a white label on it with the Asda Smart Price branding in the familiar green colouring. Smart Price is the budget brand of Asda and some of the things are pretty decent. There is no ring pull on the can, which is a little annoying, but I would expect that for the price of the item. There is a nice looking picture on the front of a bowlful of the Beans with some nice looking Sausages poking through the top.
You can cook this in the Micro, but I find that sometimes the Beans explode a bit when cooked this way. Much easier to empty this into a pan and that way you can time your Toast a bit easier as well for to cook this.
Per tin this has 480 calories and 14.8g fat, so team this with 2 bits of Toast and you have quite a few calories.
When I plopped this into the pan I saw that the Sauce was really runny and a medium orange colour. There was a lot of Beans. and 5 skinny small Sausages. When this was cooked the Sauce thickened up a bit, but was still quite runny. It doesn't bother me if the Sauce is runny, as I like this to soak into the Toast, but I still want the Beans to have a Tomato Sauce coating, which it did, but not much of a coating.
The taste of this is alright. It is Tomato-y, but not a rich tangy taste. The Sausages taste a bit cheap and processed, which I would imagine they are. and the Beans are quite small and hard.
I wouldn't seek out to buy this again, as it just wasn't quite good for me, but if you are on a budget and eat this kind of canned food then it is always worth the try - you never know you may like it!
I often buy tins of baked beans and sausages because I find them to be a hearty and filling snack when eaten on toast or poured over a jacket potato. It took me years to start eating them as although I have long since served them for my own daughters and now my granddaughters, the sausages have always appeared extremely synthetic and unappealing.
I started off buying the Heinz version but at over £1.30 a tin in my local shop it quickly became so expensive that it would have worked out cheaper to buy the excellent quality sausages from my friendly butcher, thereby defeating the object of buying them somewhat.
I was browsing the Smart Price range in Asda recently when I noticed their Beans & Sausages were just 20p for a 420g tin, although I wasn't completely trusting as at the time they had their Heinz ones on offer at 2 tins for £1 so I grabbed a few of those as well!
I'd already planned a jacket potato for my dinner so tried these out the very same day, pouring the contents into a saucepan and heating them on the hob. Well, I say pouring but what I really mean is that I slopped the beans into the pan as they came out in one loose lump similar to how dog food looks when it comes out of the tin. Obviously the sauce makes these wetter than dog food so they didn't actually assume the shape of the tin in the saucepan, but it was an extremely unappealing sight.
The beans look very mushy, the sausages are pale and very insipid in appearance and the tomato sauce is practically neon in colour! There is very little aroma to them, all I can really smell is the saltiness of the product and I found the lack of real tomato flavour to be rather worrisome.
Shall I tell you a little about the taste of them? Well, all you really need to know is that I ate three forkfuls of beans and one and a half sausages before tipping the whole thing (including my jacket potato) into the bin. These are absolutely foul. While heating the beans have turned extremely mushy in both texture and flavour, some of them look almost furry due to the way the outsides have fluffed up and stuck to one another. They are far too soft and Asda have obviously boiled the haricot beans to destruction before stirring in the equally appalling sauce, either that or they've used beans which are past their best in terms of quality.
The sauce is sticky and tasteless. That's actually not strictly true as it does have a flavour, and that flavour is salt. This is the saltiness tin of beans and sausages I've ever eaten, no wonder the meal seems so flavourless - it's because the salt has leeched out every morsel of flavour in the sauce and as it's the sauce which is holding the meal together this just serves to spoil the whole thing. If such a foodstuff can in fact be spoilt.
The sausages are not good either. As is usual for these tins, the sausages are very similar to tinned hot dog sausages in texture only these are completely lacking in flavour and have a horrible almost slimy consistency. They taste as far removed from pork as is possible and don't even manage to taste like poor quality tinned sausage, they're just 'there' with a slightly smoky flavour to add interest to an appalling tin of beans in my opinion.
I didn't expect a Raymond Blanc eating experience for 20p, but I did expect something edible. This awful Smart Price product is of the lowest quality possible and I shall never buy it again, of course tinned beans and sausages are not going to be a high quality meal but we buy them because they are a tasty change from cooking a meal from scratch. I personally would rather spend two hours sweating in the kitchen than try to cut corners with this particular product again.
If after reading this you still want to try these Smart Price Beans & Sausages the following nutritional information may change your mind. ½ a tin (including four small sausages) contains 240 calories and 7.4g of fat, which doesn't sound too bad until you think that if you were serving this as part of a main meal over a jacket potato then you'd probably pick out all eight sausages even if you couldn't manage the entire tin of beans and that would bump up the calories tremendously!
Not for me anyway, I'd rather be conned by the ever-increasing price of Heinz products that buy these again.
I really do love beans and sausages on toast for a quick meal so when I came across these ones priced at a mere 20p a can opposed to my usual paying out on Heinz for the same size can (usually priced around 94p) it seemed a very good deal and worth a punt in my eyes!
The Packaging:
420g can with a white and green label around it. On the front there is a photograph of the beans and sausages in a dish and I'm told they are Asda 'Smart Price' Baked Beans & Sausages In Tomato Sauce and that they contain no artificial flavours, colours, preservatives or hydrogenated fat. On the back of the can a full nutritional rundown chart is show, ingredients and allergy advice is given along with storage advice, cooking instructions, size being stated, contact details for Asda being given and finally there is a bar-code in there. Yes it is a basic enough looking can but it really isn't grim and it is informative enough.
Cooking Instructions:
Empty the contents into a saucepan and heat gently for 4-5 minutes stirring occasionally.
Me And The Beans:
So I popped some bread in my toaster and opened these up. I was met with what looked like beans in a rather runny looking orangy sauce and in the mix was 8 anemic looking floppy sausages. Never mind I thought as I looked at the rather wet mix and bunged it in the microwave without any hope of enjoying this soppy looking offering!
They cooked in the three minutes (in the microwave) as advised on the can. I went to empty the whole of the heated beans and sausages on my toast till I thought better of it. There was far to much orange sauce so I held some back as I didn't want to have to teach my toast to swim!
These were actually ok but economy in every respect. The beans were smaller than I'm used to seeing but of course the can was packed full of them. They were slightly mushy and bland and that wasn't helped by the really runny sauce. The sauce was thin and was more salty than tomatoey. I mean to me it just didn't taste of all that much...but still I still had the sausages to look forward to eh?!
Hmmmm well the sausages were slimy and rubbery and although tasted a little meaty were also rather lardy and smooth and again.... very bland. Yes this is a 20p filling can of baked beans and sausages but I doubt anyone could ever say 'yeah these are the best I've ever tasted'. They are not vile. They are too bland to be described as that! Ok if you really are skint they offer good value for your money though you only get what you pay for and no more than that but if your really on a tight budget then by all means give them a whirl!
Allergy Advice:
Contains gluten, wheat and mustard.
Nutritional Information Per 1/2 Can:
Energy: 240Kcal
Protein: 11.8g
Carbohydrate: 31.5g
of which sugars: 8.6g
Fat: 7.4g
of which saturates: 2.5g
Fibre: 5.9g
Sodium: 0.67g
equivalent as salt: 1.7g
Only available in Asda stores.
Like many people, I'm having to adjust to the rising price of food by dropping a brand, going from supermarkets own brand to the very cheap economy versions . Perhaps unlike many other people, I also have a fridge/freezer that broke, and haven't yet replaced it .
This means, in a nutshell, that if I want fresh food, such as a nice steak or some sausages, I have to make an individual trip each day to get them . Now, I have a corner shop, and in the tradition of corner shops it's overpriced and sells utterly rubbish food .
So, I've taken to stocking up my cupboards with tins as much as I can, particularly things I can just whack on toast or mash to make a decent meal.
Baked beans are brilliant . Beans in general are an amazing food low in fat, and stuffed full ogf protein and fibre. Thay also contain iron, folic acid, zinc and pottassium, all essential for healthy growth. And baked beans in particular are dirt cheap .
Of course, beans alone aren't much a meal - but when you factor in sausages , then thats a meal . And when a can includes sausages, well, that saves a lot of cooking time!
These come with the standard smartprice green and white label, and a picture of a bowl of hot beans and sausages. Personally, I think you need a little more added to make a meal - perhaps some mash or healthy green veg, but the illustration at least lets you know what the contents of the can look like .
Opening up the can, which costs a mere 20 pence for 420g, a huge whiff of sweet tomato sauce hits your nose . Spooning it out into a microwave container, I notice that there is actually a good amount of beans in this (some budget brands economise by upping the sauce levels and reducing the bean count) and nine little sausages . Thats pretty decent for a budget brand , and gives my daughter four sausages and me five . The can was just the right size for us, but if you can't use a whole tin, the packaging does state you can store it in an airtight container in the fridge for two days .
You can cook these either on the hob or in the microwave . Me being a fan of speed, into the microwave they went, for 2 minutes, before being stirred, nuked for another minute, and then left to cool slightly . If you choose to go with the hob method, heat for 4-5 minutes, stirring often, and make sure not to boil them.
When they were cooked, the tomato fragrance was the strongest . Eating them, the sauce was sweet, but not overly so. The beans were still fairly firm, and hadn't dissolved to mush, and actually had a pretty nice sweet tomato flavour to them, whilst also retaining their bean-ness.
The sausages were incredibly soft, very smooth, and lacked texture . They also, sadly, lacked flavour, which is surprising as the ingredients for the sausages alone listed Pork,Salt, Sugar, Mustard, Ginger, Pepper, Coriander, Nutmeg , and Sage as ingredients . I could not pick up on any of these flavours- they just tasted of some horribly smooth non specific meat - the best comparison I can give is a very poor quality polony sausage .
Nutrional info on the can is listed both per 100g and per half can, which I like, as I imagine half a can is a standard portion size . Per half can there are 240 calories, with 8.6g of sugar and 7.4 of ft . Nothing too terrifying there at all really .
Would I recommend these ? Well, they are only 20p, and for that, I really can't expect a premium quality sausage . My daughter adores these on toast, or thrown over a pile of mash. She loves the sausages, perhaps because they are so bland - she really isn't too keen on my 'real' sausages .
Personally, while I didn't rate the sausages, the beans were actually rather nice , and I would definitely eat them again. I will buy these again, but will probably give my daughter more of the sausages as she likes them .
I'm going to award this product four stars - for what you pay, it really is excellent value, especially at a time when I am really having to budget, not just to survive the credit crunch but also to save for a new fridge freezer! However, I do think the sausages could use a lot more flavour in them .


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The Portuguese has managed players who have had a reputation for simulation, such as Didier Drogba and Arjen Robben, but he insists he would chastise any of his current crop that were guilty of doing the same.
"I have told the players many times, I hate it. It is very bad," Mourinho said in the Telegraph. "And the search of a red card for another player is a disgrace.
"I haven't dropped a player because of it, but being strong and critical, I did it, yes. I spoke about it with Drogba and Robben.
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- Look who decided to make a trek out to the west coast! Bethenny Frankel was spotted this weekend enjoying the Farmer's Market in Malibu, California. I'm guessing the foodie in her really got a kick out of all the fruits and veggies. (Socialite Life)
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Friday night's regular season finale between Dunbar and Wilson will determine the second and third seeds in next week's DCIAA Stars playoffs, which means that the Tigers and Crimson Tide will meet in that game regardless.
Playing a team three times during a 11-game season is discomforting, mathematically at least. Wilson (7-3, 5-1) won the first meeting 13-6 in one of the league's better games of the year — a defensive stalemate that came down to the final minute of the fourth quarter. Replicating that type of performance, or at least trying to repeat that type of effort, has been an exhaustive task for both coaching staffs this week. And they'll have to do it again next week.
"I expect the best from them. And we expect to give them the best," Wilson running back Larry Frazier said. "Game time."
Frazier and backfield mate Abdul Adams were prepared for game time in last week's 55-42 win over Anacostia — they combined for 237 rushing yards on just 21 carries. Frazier (13 carries, 116 yards) ran for scores of 40, 8, 6 and 5, while Adams (eight carries, 121 yards) caught a 57-yard touchdown in the first half and capped his best performance of the season with a 48-yard scoring run in the fourth quarter to secure the win for the Tigers.
"Me and Larry, we work hard in practice to get better," Adams said. "We both sharing time, doing what we do, getting better. We're pushing eachother in practice, and it pays off in the game."
Dunbar (6-2, 4-2) shut out Coolidge 48-0 last week, the second win over the Colts this season. As they have done all season, the Crimson Tide won with a blend of strong running and special teams play — which produced a 95-yard kickoff return from Justin Barrett to open the game. Running back Malonta Patterson needed just 10 carries to rush for 141 yards, including a 90-yard touchdown in the second half, while Adisa Belfon added a 60-yard touchdown on his way to a 100-yard rushing day. Patterson needs just 92 yards to eclipse 1,000 yards this season; he's averaging nearly nine yards per carry and has scored 10 touchdowns.
The difference against the Tigers, at least according to linebacker Byran Ragland, is creating turnovers. The Crimson Tide hung with division leader H.D. Woodson late last month, creating three turnovers, a blocked punt and a recovered onside kick. Dunbar has produced turnovers in each game this season, Ragland said, except for one: the first meeting with Wilson.
That was our first game without causing one. It shouldn't be that hard," Ragland said. "There's not too much they can throw at us, that we haven't seen yet."


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Florence Walking Tour with David
Join us on the Florence Walking Tour and come on a exciting journey through the fascinating history and culture of one of Italy's most interesting cities, giving you plenty of opportunities to enjoy the many highlights.
The tour's highlight is probably a privileged access to Michelangelo's David at the Accademia Gallery.
What's included?
- Entry tickets & reservation fees
- Skip-the-line entrance
- Guaranteed a maximum of 6 participants per tour
- Local experts guides with good English skills
Discover the Birthplace of Renaissance
This three hour Florence Walking Tour begins in the political center located of Florence, Piazza della Signoria. Your local tour guide will introduce you to the fascinating history of the capital of Tuscany.
- Piazza della Signoria
- Ponte Vecchio
- The Duomo (outside)
- Basilica di Santa Croce (outside)
- The Bapistry (outside)
- Palazzo Strozzi
- The Accademia Gallery (Galleria dell'Accademia)
- Michelangelo's David
- Piazza della Repubblica
- Palazzo Vecchio
The tour is operated in English.
How do I get my tickets?
Shortly after your booking is complete your e-ticket send directly to your email, just print it out and bring it on your tour.
Where does the tour begin?
The tour departs from Café Rivoire in Piazza Della Signoria. Please show up 15 minutes before departure.
How long does the tour last?
The Florence Walking Tour lasts 3 hours.
Are there children's tickets?
Yes, children's tickets are available for children between age 7-17. Children under 7 are free, when accompanied by a paying adult.


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Ways to support the PTFA
The PTFA have a Rag Bag collection scheme on school premises (opposite the library) where you can drop old, unwanted (but wearable) clothes , shoes (paired) and handbags and belts. You can leave donations at schoold reception or, out of school hours only, drop in the bin in a bag/bin liner. All donations are valuable as we are paid by weight. The clothes are reused or recycled in a variety of ways and school benefits from simply getting rid of old unwanted items - perfect!! Since we introduced the scheme in 2015 we have raised over £200!
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The idea of Lucky Numbers is that you buy a number – you may buy as many as you like! Each number costs £1 per month. Every month two numbers are drawn and those numbers win a cash prize. Bonus prizes are also given at the end of the Christmas & Easter.
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Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Hartnett celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary Saturday.
"Gabby" Hartnett and the former Karen Simpson were married June 19, 1954, in Rockford, Ill. He was a former tool and die maker at Naval Air Station Jacksonville.
The Hartnetts have two children, Jodell Pfannkuche, St. Augustine, and Leslie "Larry" Jones, Jacksonville. They are grandparents of six.
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U.S. Ambassador Post in Moscow Vacant for Almost Three Months
With the U.S. facing one of its most trying periods in the relationship with Russia, the White House won't say if it's even close to filling the ambassadorship in Moscow.
The post has been vacant since Feb. 26, when Ambassador Michael McFaul, appointed to the post in 2011, stepped down to rejoin his family in California.
White House press secretary Jay Carney was asked whether the delay in sending a successor to Moscow is because Geoffrey Pyatt, currently U.S. ambassador to Ukraine, is first in line for the job.
"I don't have any comment on short lists or candidates for any position that's currently in need of being filled, except to say that a position like that is one that -- that teams in place to review personnel decisions act aggressively on, and that, you know, we will move on when the time is right and when everything is in place," Carney said.
He brushed off suggestions that, with Russian aggression on the rise, it's not a good idea to be lacking an American ambassador in Moscow.
"I think we have an excellent team at our embassy in Moscow, and I don't believe that that's been a hindrance. The fact of the matter is because of the crisis in Ukraine, we have had more high-level direct conversations between U.S. and Russian government officials probably in a short period of time that has been had in a long time," Carney boasted.
"As a general matter, the president and President Putin have spoken frequently. Foreign Minister Lavrov and Secretary Kerry have met and spoken frequently," he continued. "Unfortunately, Russia has against the will of the international community, the United States, the European Union, the G7 and pretty much most of the world, have decided to engage in practices that violate flagrantly international law that violate a sovereign nation's territorial integrity and that seem to seek to destabilize the free and fair presidential elections that have been called for May 25 in that country."
"So I can tell you on this personnel matter that it will be acted on as soon as the president is ready to name someone," Carney added.
McCaul announced at the beginning of February that he would leave after the Sochi Games. Russia invaded Crimea as soon as McCaul left the State Department.


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Pride Quotes and Sayings
Pride must die in you, or nothing of heaven can live in you.
– Andrew Murray
I'm so proud of you that it makes me proud of me. I hope you know that.
– John Green
With pride, there are many curses. With humility, there come many blessings.
– Ezra Taft Benson
Don't spend all of your time trying to FIND yourself. Spend your time CREATING yourself into a person that you'll be proud of.
– Sonya Parker
Philosophy triumphs easily over past evils and future evils; but present evils triumph over it.
– Francois de La Rochefoucauld,
Walk with your head up everyday like you own this world.
Ignorance and power and pride are a deadly mixture, you know.
– Robert Fulghum
We are rarely proud when we are alone.
– Voltaire
You need to take pride in what God has given you.
– Joel Osteen
I am not proud, but I am happy; and happiness blinds, I think, more than pride.
– Alexandre Dumas
All complaining comes from pride
The pride of aiming at more knowledge, and pretending to more perfection, is the cause of Man's error and misery.
— Alexander Pope
The truest characters of ignorance are vanity, and pride and arrogance.
– Samuel Butler
Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves; vanity, to what we would have others think of us.
– Jane Austen
Pride costs nothing, yet it is especially precious when it can be "purchased" at someone else's expense.
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'Cloud Atlas'
Grade: B+
Rated: R
Opens today
Starring: Tom Hanks, Hugh Grant, Susan Sarandon and Halle Berry
'Cloud Atlas" is a movie that you're either going to walk out of within the first 30 minutes or watch repeatedly in order to analyze the meaning behind every scene.
That should probably be enough to tell you if the film will be your cup of tea. "Cloud Atlas" may pride itself on frustrating the audience and clock in at almost three hours. At the same time though, this is also a beautiful and bewitching experience that will engulf anyone with a genuine admiration for ambitious filmmaking.
Somewhat reminiscent of a cross between Terrence Malick's "The Tree of Life" and Christopher Nolan's "Inception," "Cloud Atlas" is a risky, passionate journey that's deserving of in-depth study.
This adaptation of the novel by David Mitchel is made up of an all-star ensemble that includes Tom Hanks, Jim Broadbent, Hugo Weaving, Donna Bae, Hugh Grant, Susan Sarandon, Jim Sturgess, Ben Whishaw and Halle Berry. They all play multiple characters in six stories that are separated by time, location, and genre.
The narrative consists of period pieces set in the mid-1800s and 1930s, a conspiracy thriller in the 1970s, a modern quirky comedy, and two science fiction fables in the post apocalyptic future.
"Cloud Atlas" is a joint effort between the Wachowski brothers of "The Matrix" trilogy and Tom Tykwer of "Run Lola Run." They split up the work with Tykwer filming three stories and the Wachowski's filming the other half.
How all of these tales are connected is difficult to explain. Through clever editing though, the collaborating directors give the film a surprisingly fitting flow as we jump between each story.
The result is a mishmash of six incredible, epic short films for the price of one.
Whether you love or hate the previous work by the Wachowski's and Tykwer, there's no denying that the three are visually gifted directors. "Cloud Atlas" is no exception to their portfolios of great looking pictures composed of awe-inspiring sets, cinematography and effects.
But the standout revelation in the film is the Oscar-worthy makeup effects. Sometimes you can single out an actor without any trouble. Other times, they look like completely different people hidden under all the makeup. Weaving is particularly unrecognizable as an Asian man, a muscular woman that works in a retirement home, and a devious creature in the shadows that looks like the bad guy from "Leprechaun."
After a while, the film starts to become a fun guessing game as you attempt to decipher which actor is portraying which character. But the makeup never makes these stories any less involving or distracts from the performances, both of which are key to the film's success.
If there's one reoccurring fault with "Cloud Atlas," it's that the screenplay is a little too heavy on dialog. This is such a gorgeous movie that you'd wish there were more quiet moments that allowed time to stop and take in the atmosphere.
Regardless of its talky nature though, "Cloud Atlas" is still a strikingly crafted and innovatively structured outing from the Wachowskis and Tykwer.
A film as long, strange and expensive as "Cloud Atlas" seems destined to be a financial flop upon arrival. I wouldn't at all be surprised if some were to even hail it as one of the worst films of the year.
This is definitely going to be one of the most split movies for 2012, appealing to an audience of acquired taste. I for one though, am siding on the positive spectrum for the film's breathtaking visuals, inventive stories and prosperous collection of performances.
Hopefully more people will join me so "Cloud Atlas" will receive a worthy cult following.
• Ahwatukee native and Desert Vista graduate Nick Spake is a student at Arizona State University. He has been working as a film critic for five years, reviewing movies on his website, NICKPICKSFLICKS.com. Reach him at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Transcript: Gov. Walker's budget address
The following is the text of Gov. Scott Walker's budget address delivered Tuesday to a joint session of the Wisconsin State Legislature:
(The full 2011-2013 budget proposal can be found here.)
Each and every one of us gathered in the chamber today hold a diverse set of beliefs – beliefs that we are passionate about sharing - and that serve to guide our actions. Each of us has a vision for a better tomorrow in Wisconsin.
But we all share something in common -- an unrivaled passion for this state and the people who call it home. We all want Wisconsin to be the very best that it can be. Yet, -- because our experiences are unique and our beliefs diverse -- our paths may diverge as we tackle today's challenges. But even at the height of our differences, we can and must keep our promise to people of Wisconsin that they will always come first.
Democracy does not just expect differences, it demands them. It's the manner in which we discuss and resolve those differences that leads to bold solutions and innovative reforms. I ask that we continue to be mindful of our differences – as well our similarities – in the coming days, weeks and months. Above all, let us not lose sight of the fact that we were each elected to represent the people of this state by participating in our democratic process.
I applaud the State Assembly and those in the State Senate who are here today for not losing sight of that.
Over the past few weeks, a great deal of attention has been focused on Wisconsin. That's ok because freedom thrives each time there is a passionate debate in our society. Passion and civility can go hand-in-hand and that's what's on display here in Wisconsin.
But outside observers need to know that there is more to this state as well. Wisconsin is filled with outstanding workers and multi-generational employers. We have tremendous resources and amazing attractions. Most importantly, we have decent people in this state.
The good people of this state come from all walks of life – young and old, urban and rural, Democrat and Republican.
Recently, I learned of yet another story that affirms that sense of decency.
Some of our state employees at the Farm Center spent time with two brothers who jointly operate a dairy farm that was – literally - on the verge of financial collapse. One of the brothers was so stressed that he was considering some horrible options.
The Farm Center staff calmly walked the brothers through a variety options and got them through their immediate crisis. That day, our public employees not only helped someone's life, they may have actually helped save someone's life.
This story says a lot about the people of Wisconsin.
It certainly reinforces the financial strain that so many are experiencing across the state. Without a doubt, it shows the compassion of our people toward their fellow citizens. And it shows the professionalism of our public employees who really care about the people that they serve.
This is why we need to move this process forward and get this state working again.
I have been asked a lot over the past week about what happens next. Well, I'm an optimist. I believe that after our budget repair bill passes, tempers will cool, and we will find a way to continue to work together to help grow our economy. We will position Wisconsin to emerge from this economic downturn stronger than ever, with new opportunities for our workers and our families.
You see, for six weeks we worked together to pass bill after bill to show that Wisconsin is open for business. Most of our legislation received bipartisan support. It is my belief that we will soon get back to that type of cooperation in the Capitol.
We introduced a budget repair bill that is the first step toward addressing the long-term challenges facing our state - while laying the foundation for economic growth. The biennial budget I introduce today is built on the savings supplied by our budget repair bill – legislation, I might add, that we have already modified to address concerns expressed at the public hearing.
We need the savings in the budget repair bill because Wisconsin faces a $3.6 billion deficit. Too many politicians have failed to tell the truth about our financial crisis. They left Wisconsinites in the dark about the extent of our fiscal problems. The facts are clear: Wisconsin is broke and it's time to start paying our bills today – so our kids are not stuck with even bigger bills tomorrow.
This deficit did not appear overnight. Wisconsin got here through a reliance on one-time fixes, accounting gimmicks and tax increases. Previous governors and legislatures from both parties took money from our tobacco settlement. They raided more than a billion dollars from the transportation fund and $200 million from the patients' compensation fund. They increased taxes on the sick and set up shell games to draw down additional federal funds.
They relied on one-time federal stimulus dollars as if the money would be there forever – but it's already gone.
Wisconsin owes Minnesota nearly $60 million and some $200 million to the patient's compensation fund. In short, they governed for the short-term, with an eye only on the next election – not the next generation.
While families across this state were focused on making ends meet, the state government continued to grow well beyond our taxpayers' ability to pay. But the time has come for us to make the tough choices necessary to put our state back on the path to prosperity.
We must work together to bring our spending in line with reality. We were elected --not to make the easy decisions to benefit ourselves -- but to make the difficult ones that will benefit our children and grandchildren.
We need a commitment to the future so our children don't face even more dire consequences than what we face today. Together, we will change the way government works in Wisconsin. We will make it work for the people once again.
I have often repeated references to our state's constitutional lesson, that it is only through frugality and moderation in government that we will see freedom and prosperity for our people.
Our budget holds true to these principles by balancing the $3.6 billion deficit through permanent spending reductions and innovative government reforms.
Specifically, our budget reduces all funds spending by $4.2 billion, or 6.7 percent, and decreases the structural deficit by 90 percent from $2.5 billion to $250 million – the lowest structural deficit in recent history. That's over $2 billion we are saving from future obligations and for future generations.
That's worth repeating. Our budget reduces the structural deficit by 90 percent. In fact, it is lower than the last eight budgets presented by democrats and republicans alike.
Gone are the segregated fund raids, illegal transfers, and accounting gimmicks. Gone are the tax or fee increases. Our state cannot grow if our people are weighed down paying for a larger and larger government. A government that pays its workers unsustainable benefits that are out of line with the private sector. We need a leaner and cleaner state government.
As we decrease spending, we also increase flexibility so local government and state government have the tools to deal with reduced revenue. It's true we are reducing aid to local government by just over one and a quarter billion dollars, but we are providing almost $1.5 billion in savings through our budget repair bill. If the 14 Senate democrats do not come home, their local communities will be forced to manage these reductions in aid without the benefit of the tools provided in the repair bill. On the other hand, if the Senate democrats do come home, local units of government overall will actually see a net increase in revenue plus savings of more than $150 million.
Let me repeat that despite the reductions in our budget, local governments would gain $150 million overall in the next biennium – but only if the Senate is allowed to act.
While aid to local government represents the state's largest expenditure, the state's Medicaid program represents the area of fastest growth. Medicaid costs continue to outstrip growth in general fund revenues. Long-term care expenditures, in particular, are growing much faster than other areas of the budget. Coupled with the use of $1.2 billion in one-time federal funding – the state is facing an unsustainable budget challenge. A challenge in need of a serious and long-term solution.
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sandstorm | March 3, 2011 at 8:55 a.m. (report)
what was impressive is you never once saw the Koch brother's lips move.
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Here's the Cliff Notes version: Lies, Pandering, Posturing ad infinitum
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text: ......or am I being over cautious? As a few of you know I'm currently searching for a 3.2 DSG SB I quite like the look of this But a few things don't quite add up. 1) It's on for at least 4K over market value - that I can live with. Can't begrudge them trying to make a bit of cash and I'm expecting to haggle a bit. 2) It's listed as being a trade seller - this is what I have more of a problem with: - Pics taken by the side of the road, not at dealers. - Only a mobile phone number, no land line to the dealer. - No dealer website - No dealer address - "MG" is the name of the dealer - can't exactly find them doing a web search! - No other cars listed for sale by the same dealer - No mention of warranty, PX etc - Pretty poor description "basically fully loaded", dealers usually write a page of stuff! What do you think, steer well clear even if they can be beaten down on price? A few things just don't add up. Shame, looks like a decent car.


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"We're talking about 10% of the screens in the United States becoming digital. This makes it a very sizable toe in the water."
"We're talking about 10 percent of the screens in the United States becoming digital. This makes it a very sizable toe in the water."
"They scored exactly the same as our 'Princess Diaries' -- 91 percent in the top two boxes. So we've got high hopes for it. Families just loved it."
"It's hard to believe in this day of the freefall second weekend that we could hold up like this. It's fabulous. When you go back and look in the era of mega openings of $50-60-70 million, this is one of the smaller drops."
"The last time I saw a score like this was 'Remember the Titans,' which (did) $115 million. Having the next 12 days for word of mouth to percolate before we open (will help a lot)."
"We really thought starting the weekend that we would be somewhere between $16.5 million and just over $17 million on 'Jungle Book,' based on the way the matinees played out. You're probably looking at a conservative $1.5 million to $2.5 million differential just on 'Jungle Book' [and about] the same for 'Shanghai.' On 'Recruit' it probably cost us $1 million to $1.5 million."
"They went really well. We played to 88 percent capacity, an extremely high number. It was well over 60 percent female-to-male and scored 90 percent in the Top Two boxes (excellent and very good), which is terrific."
"I don't think those movies got the repeat business that summer movies got in other years. It's one thing to open big. But a true hit has to get the kids back for two or three viewings. After the summer, we were playing catch-up."
"It had been a chicken-or-the-egg situation. Exhibition said if there was content, they'd put in the equipment. Distribution said if there was equipment, they'd provide the content. We just decided it was time to start to do it to further the cause of the digital transition."


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Chalice of Harmony - Alistar without mana is useless
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Trinity - "On cast, increases your base AD BY 150% for one attack" = Mega DMG ; and movement speed
Frozen Mallet - ,+Health ,+Damage ,+Slow 40%
Phantom Dancer - Critical +30% ( WOW ) and movement speed :)
Infinity Edge - Critical + 20% ,Critical dmg + 50% ,Damage + 80
So... Spell -> Trinity + Crit = WTF?! Where did he go? ahh... i killed him
Aegis - Aura for a team
Heart of Gold - some health + 5 gold per 10s
Banshee's Veil - Nice effect
Randuin's Omen - Hp, armor, health regen and cc
Sunfire Cape - Armor, Hp, effect
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To complement their Tsimis recipe in The Mile End Cookbook, Noah and Rae Bernamoff offer another honey-sweetened vegetable dish: Brussels Sprouts.
Here they also call for roasting, but the sprouts are given a high-heat treatment, emerging from the oven blistered and crisp. And then instead of coating the sprouts in a honey glaze, they use that glaze to candy walnuts. A final flourish of sauteed Granny Smith apples completes the dish, balancing the bitter notes of the sprouts and nuts.
Why I picked this recipe: Walnuts and brussels sprouts are always a winning combination in my book; throw in honey, butter, and tart-sweet apples and I'm in early-fall heaven.
What worked: Candying the walnuts in honey was a neat trick, flavor-wise, as their sweet and slightly bitter flavor perfectly matched the caramelized sprouts.
What didn't: Nothing. Every step was spot-on.
Suggested Tweaks: I'd like more walnuts next time around, and I'd also cut the apples into smaller pieces.
As always with our Cook the Book feature, we have five (5) copies of The Mile End Cookbook to give away.
About the author: Kate Williams is a freelance writer out of Berkeley, CA. She is a contributor to The Oxford American and blogs at cookingwolves.wordpress.com.


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Why Liverpool Must Find Right Replacement Before Allowing Iago Aspas to LeaveJanuary 15, 2014
Liverpool forward Iago Aspas continues to be linked with a move away from Anfield this January, with La Liga sides Valencia and Real Betis reported to be interested.
The Mirror's John Cross claims the two sides have asked about taking Aspas on loan.
The 26-year-old arrived from Celta Vigo for a reported £7 million fee but has struggled with life at Liverpool so far, suffering from injury, struggling to adapt to the physical nature of the Premier League, and the form of Luis Suarez and Daniel Sturridge.
After starting the two matches against Hull City and Oldham in quick succession, it was back to the bench for Aspas at Stoke on Sunday, and with the return of Daniel Sturridge it looks increasingly less likely he'll be forcing his way into the starting XI any time soon.
Brendan Rodgers now has Suarez, Sturridge, in-form Raheem Sterling and Philippe Coutinho contesting the three forward positions in his side; Aspas is very much on the periphery.
The FA Cup tie at Bournemouth should provide an opportunity for Aspas, but aside from that, he looks like having an equally limited amount of playing time in the second half of the season as he has had thus far.
Aspas has certainly struggled to adapt to the Premier League, especially when used in a central role and lacking a physical presence of any sort.
Just catching up on my pass heat maps... Aspas made 0 accurate passes against Chelsea. First time this season any #LFC player has done that— Andrew Beasley (@BassTunedToRed) January 4, 2014
More than anything though, Aspas strikes me as a player who needs regular football to be anywhere near his best—something he was obviously getting at Celta Vigo and hence how he attracted the interest of Liverpool.
But regular football is something he is not going to get any time soon at Anfield, even more so if Rodgers' pursuit of Mohamad Salah is successful.
He scored his first competitive goal for the club in the FA Cup tie against Oldham, but is unable to build on that momentum, something he clearly needs.
A move away from Anfield to a side who can offer him a starting place would certainly benefit Aspas, whether that be a loan deal or permanent.
The problem is though, Liverpool can't really afford to allow Aspas to leave until they sign a replacement for him. An injury to either of Suarez or Sturridge would leave Rodgers with only one first-team forward and Aspas, as mentioned, should be used in Cup ties to allow the key duo some rest.
Potential Candidates
The January transfer window so far has been very quiet but the two attacking players most heavily linked with Liverpool are Salah and Burnley's prolific young forward Danny Ings.
Burnley are unlikely to want to sell their key forward midway through the season and the 21-year-old's price—£8 million according to The Daily Mail—could prove a problem for Liverpool, who are looking for smart, financially sensible signings.
Likewise, the price of Salah could prove the stumbling block. The Daily Mail claim the Egyptian is valued at £16 million by Basle but Liverpool are looking to pay little over half that.
A year ago, Liverpool made two extremely savvy signings with Daniel Sturridge and Philippe Coutinho arriving for a a combined price of £20 million, but finding such bargains now is seemingly proving much trickier.
Of the two, Salah would be more likely to have an immediate impact, providing strength in depth in wide areas, while Ings would replace Aspas as the Reds' third-choice striker behind Suarez and Sturridge.
Aspas' replacement needs to be a young player who is relatively happy to learn from the lethal duo and can take any chances he gets in the first team.
For Aspas, he's at an age where he should be performing at his peak, especially having enjoyed one of his best seasons last year for Celta Vigo.
A move would certainly be wise for all parties, but Rodgers is right not to allow it until a replacement is signed.