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Derrick Johnson Is More Than the Real Deal
Chiefs need to find away to get deal done with DJ.
Nick Athan
Posted Jul 27, 2005
As contract negotiations continued yesterday afternoon and evening to get top draft pick Derrick Johnson signed, the Kansas City Chiefs are just one day away from starting their training camp in River Falls Wisconsin.
Though Chiefs fans are excited to say the least and Warpaint Illustrated is ready to embark on our daily coverage of training camp, what happens in the next 24 hours could indeed shape the fortunes of this team in 2005.
As we reported yesterday afternoon
Derrick Johnson
and his agent Vann McElroy are working diligently with the
Kansas City Chiefs
to get the former Texas linebacker signed before the team heads off to River Falls, Wisconsin on Wednesday afternoon.
Getting Johnson in camp is paramount to this organization. Johnson's addition to the defense represents a changing of the guard. Yes he's a rookie but for the Chiefs who were fortunate to find him still on the draft board with the 15th pick, need him to be on the field tomorrow afternoon for their first practice.
From every account this off-season Johnson has shown not only a play making ability but a maturity that is rare in someone so young. Though the Chiefs will have a few question marks at linebacker; there is little doubt that Johnson will line up as a starter come opening day. That is unless he has a long contract holdout.
Watching him glide from sideline to sideline so effortlessly makes you appreciate his enormous talent. Since Johnson was drafted last April many have written about the impact that he'll bring to the this team like the late Derrick Thomas did back in 1989 when he was a rookie.
Those comparisons are unfair to say the least becasue Johnson is a more polished linebacker who can cover receivers out of the backfield, he can rush the passer; though he's certainly not as polished as Thomas but he's far more astute at stopping the run at this age of his development than Thomas was in his entire career. To his defense, Thomas was never asked to be a run-stopper but Johnson when he matures might end up being the most complete linebacker to ever don a Kansas City Chiefs uniform since Bobby Bell. Now that's pressure because Bell was one of the best if not the very best to ever play in the NFL.
That's why it's important that the two sides get a deal done today. McElroy is a solid agent and he's already publicly stated that he hopes to have his client signed today. The Chiefs history has been littered with bitter contract negotiations with their top draft picks but this is not the case this time. In fact, its not even close.
Like in previous years the Chiefs delay in getting talks started with McElroy were on hold until top draft pick quarterback
Alex Smith
signed his deal with the San Francisco 49ers on Monday. That opened the flood gates as more first round picks started to sign.
For Johnson and the Chiefs today signals what might end up being one of the most significant days in franchise history. Expectations are at an all-time high within the Chiefs fans base and within the organization. With the amazing off-season success that has led to the additions of
Patrick Surtain
Kendrell Bell
Sammy Knight
Carlos Hall
; the crown jewel might indeed be Derrick Johnson.
It's obvious both sides want a deal done quickly and let's hope after trading contract proposals several times yesterday that the groundwork is set for a deal that could be announced today. If the two sides are close, Johnson could be headed to River Falls while the two sides iron out the language and the millions of dollars that he's expected to pocket courtesy of his first NFL contract.
In other Chiefs news, the team is expected to complete a deal with Fourth Round Draft Pick Craphonso Hodge later today. That leaves only 6th round picks
Will Svitek
Khari Long
as the teams remaining second day draftees without a contract. Both are expected to complete their deals shortly and each should be in River Falls if not today by tomorrow.
As far as talks with free agent cornerback
Ty Law
, the Chiefs have cooled on the idea of brining him in and are currently not part of the NFL tour that has landed Law in Detroit and New York. The Lions have yet to offer him a contract and don't have the cap room to sign Law and their draft picks. They have been attempting to restructure some veteran contracts but its unlikely they can give Law the money he's demanding. Law was in New York yesterday and is expected to visit the Jaguars on Thursday before ending his tour with a stop in Pittsburgh.
It does not appear that Law will visit the Chiefs until the weekend at the earliest. That is of course if he still has an interest in talking with Kansas City. At this time, the Chiefs are laying low and I'm sure if Law does not receive a contract offer to his liking from any of the four teams mentioned; that his agent Carl Poston will contact Chiefs President and General Manager Carl Peterson and the two will decide if a visit makes sense for both parties in River Falls.
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April 7, 2011 at 12:48 PM ET
The news today that Japan was hit by a magnitude 7.1 aftershock nearly a month after a magnitude 9.0 earthquake and tsunami devastated the northeast coast is grim, but not shocking to experts.
"It is not surprising as part of the aftershock sequence to see a magnitude 7 plus," John Bellini a geophysicist with the U.S. Geological Survey told me today.
Generally, he said, for each lower magnitude you expect to see ten times the preceding magnitude. So, in this case, experts expect to see one magnitude 8 earthquake, up to 10 magnitude 7s, and many, many 6s, 5s, and 4s.
Hundreds of aftershocks
Indeed, hundreds of aftershocks have hit Japan since the March 11 earthquake, but few have been above 7.0. According to the USGS, an aftershock about 30 minutes after the main shock was a 7.9. There has been one other greater than 7.0 aftershock and many smaller ones. An 8 is still possible.
"You can still have it," Bellini said, "but as time goes by it is less and less likely each day and we would expect to see fewer 7s and fewer 6s." In fact, he added, "we've been seeing a lot less aftershocks for the last week than two weeks ago."
John Rundle, an expert on earthquake dynamics at the University of California at Davis, said a large aftershock, especially near a major city such as Tokyo, was among his largest worries when we spoke about earthquake clustering last month.
More to come?
The 7.9 aftershock about 30 minutes after the main shock, which was about 100 kilometers from Tokyo, could have been the 8 he was worried about, he told me today, but he doesn't think the city is in the clear.
"Tokyo has had a lot of seismic activity in the last month," he said. "The thing I worry about is one of those events being significantly larger than the ones they've been having."
New to his list of worries based on probability analysis is the southwestern Japan town of Nagasaki, which he says "has an elevated probability for a magnitude 7 earthquake in the next 12 months or so because it's had two magnitude 7s in 1968 and since the last one it has had about 10 magnitude 6s. So it would be about for a magnitude 7."
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Carol Shelton, Carol Shelton Wines, California's Sonoma County: I refuse to get the car washed from the end of August until harvest is complete—superstitious, I guess … We have cellar crew largely made up of volunteers, so we always have a big lunch each crush day to thank everyone for coming out to spend the day helping us. We usually do big tri-tip barbecue lunches. Our new Weber really rocks—6 burners, night lights, the works! We always have a big TGCIO (Thank-God-Crush-Is-Over) party, too, and everyone gets a t-shirt to commemorate their hard work.
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Read more »Baz Luhrmann has given the world one of the more original adaptations of the classic William Shakespeare play Romeo and Juliet with his movie William Shakespeare's Romeo & Juliet. The movie stars an up and coming Leonardo Di Caprio and Claire Danes who was riding the wave of her popular television show My So Called Life at the time. This movie is interesting to watch.
Read more »We always struggle with whether or not we are doing the right thing as we go through life and whether or not our life has any meaning. The hope that when we reach the end of our life that we can have a feeling of accomplishment and satisfaction is what drives people to try and succeed. But what if you got to the end of your life you realized that your life was empty and void of any real meaning?
Read more »Sometimes you need to leave the past in the past but when something was left as an open wound you have no choice but to try for closure. Wicker Park is a movie about a young man with his whole life ahead of him that puts a promising career on line to try and close up a part of his past. By the end of the movie he has to decide whether or not finding the answers to the past is worth risking his future on.
Read more »When you are in the wrong place at the right time you can sometimes wind up in the strangest situations you could ever imagine. Try to imagine being mistaken for someone you are not just because you did what you thought was the right thing and now it could end up being the biggest mistake of your life. Now try to imagine all of this happening while the center of the issue lies in a coma.
Read more »The best movies answer the questions that a lot of people are a little afraid to ask and most people don't want to hear. Sometimes a movie hits just the right combination of cast, crew, script, timing, and everything else that makes asking that question only a little easier but it even makes it one of the funniest movies of all time. When Harry Met Sally is one of those movies.
Read more »Some movies can make you feel like you are in an altered state when you are not and can make you not believe what you are seeing. Some actors can display a range and talent that is uncommon for any actor in Hollywood and makes that actor stand out among all of the other actor's in Hollywood. What Dreams May Come is one of those movies and Robin Williams is one of those actors.
Read more »How hard should you fight for something you know is right but everyone around you, including the people you love the most, are telling you that you simply cannot have it? How important is your own personal feelings of destiny versus the traditions that date back hundreds of years of your own people? How hard do you fight to win what is rightfully yours no matter what anyone else may think or say?
Read more »The movie Wings of Desire by Wim Wenders is definitely one movie that anyone who loves City of Angels would be interested in. This movie is what started it all. Many people who have seen City of Angels and the incredible performance by Nick Cage are not aware that it all began with Wings of Desire.
Read more »Witness for the Prosecution by Billy Wilder is a great movie that was taken from the famous play and book written by Agatha Christie. This movie is known for its amazing mystery story and great interesting scenes that keep a viewer glued to the screen. Witness for the Prosecution by Billy Wilder is an amazing movie.
Read more »Movies are a fun form of entertainment. The best movies tell wonderful and moving stories. There are many different types of movies that people can enjoy all year long. People go to the movies in the summer in order to beat the heat of summer and they often go to the movies to enjoy a warm holiday film. In addition, rainy days are days that were meant for watching movies at home.
Read more »Alfred Hitchcock is famous for taking even the most simple of plot lines and turning them into classic thriller movies and Vertigo is no exception. This thriller classic brings together so many simple elements into one plot line that the story is easy to follow but at the same time keeps the viewer guessing as to what will happen next. Don't close your eyes or you may miss something important.
Read more »Glam rock is littered with stories that turn into myth and the myth is almost always more outrageous than the true story could ever be. When you have young men dressing so feminine and acting so very strange it is an eventuality that not will stories and myths come out of that scene but legends will be born as well. Some of those legends do not appreciate the myths nor do they appreciate their mythical status.
Read more »What happens when you have everything in life you ever wanted and you didn't earn any of it? What happens when you take everything for granted, including the women in your life, until they start to feel like you are just pushing them to the side for your own use? What happens when you think you may have finally found love but you stand to lose everything? What happens when you are given a second chance but you are not sure how to use it?
Read more »Political movies can sometimes be boring or complicated and do not usually do well with the movie going public. But if you have a political movie based on a popular graphic novel and with a screenplay written by the writers of the Matrix then you just may have something people will get into. Add a hero in a mask and suddenly you have the makings of a hit movie on your hands.
Read more »Toy Story II is a fun little romp through an imaginary land where toys set out to rescue other toys from people. Much of the same devices that made the original Toy Story movie a success are here but there is also a lot of advertising and other references going on that you can catch if you pay attention. Not only do you get a glimpse at other Pixar movies but you may even catch a little Star Wars reference if you listen closely.
Read more »Sometimes young people find their existence is so boring and repetitive that they turn to illegal drugs as what they would consider a release from their everyday boring life. They go through all of the trials and tribulations that affect most drug users and soon they find that the life with drugs is worse than life without drugs. Sometimes the grass is not always greener on the other side.
Read more »Vampire movies and any of the old type horror movies are starting to make a comeback and while they are not exactly cleaning up at the box office they are making a profit. Lately most of the resurging vampire movies have been movies about battles between either different groups of vampires or vampires and other creatures. Underworld is a complicated love story that is set against the backdrop of a war between vampires and werewolves.
Read more »Wild Strawberries was a film written and directed by Ingmar Bergman. This was a film that was made way back in late 1957. Smultronstallet was the original Swedish title that actually meant "The Wild Strawberry Patch". This was a film that Ingmar Bergman actually wrote while he was in the hospital. The characters depicted in this movie were part of Bergman's regular cast that he tended to use a lot.
Read more »In the year 2004, there was a great psychological thriller movie made called Wicker Park. This movie was directed by Paul McGuigan, and was a remake made of the 1996 French movie called L'Appartement. Wicker Park never became a box office smash hit but was a great movie that came and left the theaters before it got noticed. It was a great movie filled with twisted plot caused by flashbacks to former relationships that the two main starts shared. Just because a movie is not number one in the box office, does not mean that it was not a good movie.
Read more »Some of the best movies of all time were written back in the day. The good news is, these movies remain classics to this point and on. One such movie would be, "When Harry met Sally" written by Rob Reiner. This was a romantic comedy staring Meg Ryan and Billy Crystal. It is a funny ride that follows the two main characters from the time they meet, to the time when they fall in love. This is a must see movie that will keep you laughing through the whole thing and leave you with a great feeling inside. To me, thats the mark of a great movie.
Read more »Thumbsucker is a very fascinating movie to watch and to also just read about what went into making the movie as well. It is an independent film that stars some very non-independent acting talent at a time when some of them were already Emmy nominated actors and established in their fame. The story is twisted and the presentation is very independent in its thinking and approach.
Read more »Many people know of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, the classic love story in which both main characters have so much love for each other, that they take their own lives. This story, written long ago, has been turned into a movie and updated. Surprisingly, for those who struggle with understanding Shakespeare's story, William Shakespeare's Romeo & Juliet by Baz Luhrmann offers the same dialog.
Read more »You don't have to be a child to love comic books and you definitely do not need to be a minor to enjoy the X-Men movies. X2 brings us back to the interesting story of the most famous mutants and brings us new characters to add excitement to the story. X2 by Bryan Singer keeps the story of our beloved mutants alive.
Read more »Growing up and being a teenager in high school are tough enough without having the added pressure of trying to find a way to fit in. But what if the way you find to fit in takes such a toll on your life that your family begins to feel that you are out of control? Thirteen examines a lot of subjects that are close to the teenage population in a frank speaking way that can make many people uncomfortable.
Read more »The Wizard Of Oz is one of the most beloved movies ever made but it is also one of the most complicated behind the scenes movies ever made as well. Many things went on during the making of the movie that didn't get widely reported and much of it could have stopped production at any time. There is even an urban legend that a suicide was caught on film during the movie and left in for the first few generations to see.
Read more »The Farrelly Brothers are the same people who brought you movies like Dumb & Dumber, Shallow Hal, and Me Myself & Irene. Their brand of comedy is unusual to say the least and their approach to movie making is certainly their own. The really interesting part about Bobby and Peter Farrelly is that their major motion picture career has really only just begun to flourish.
Read more »Lukas Moodysson is what many people would call an eccentric that listens to his heart and his soul when he is deciding what project he wants to do next. The movie Together, known as Tillsammans in his native Swedish, is a movie that won multiple awards for him and gained him a small following in the USA. Together is a interesting movie about human interaction and human relationship.
Read more »The movie Tombstone starring Kurt Russell and Val Kilmer has just as many twists and turns in the making of it as the real story it tells. Directors were changed, an actor turned director but was never given director credit, and the story was rewritten by a writer who had to be given producer credit because the Screen Writer's Guild would not allow writing credit to be given.
Read more »If you are looking for one of the greatest movies ever directed from Todd Haynes, then you need to check out Velvet Goldmine. This is a movie written back in 1998, that tells the story of a pop music star. The charter is mainly believed to be based on David Bowie's Ziggy Stardust and is set in Britain. The movie is based around the time when glam rock was big, which was around the 1970's. This was a great movie for the time period it was released in, and I think it is worth taking a look at if you have never seen it.
Read more »If you are looking for one of the greatest Spanish films that has been nominated for an Academy Award, then you only have to look at one movie, Volver. This was a great movie that was directed by Pedro Almodovar back in 2006. This movie was made to compete in the 2006 Cannes Film Festival. It would go on to win two awards, which were Best Actress and Best Screenplay. The good word did not stop there, it went on to be nominated at the 2006 Golden Globes, where yet again it was up for Best Actress twice.
Read more »To Kill A Mockingbird was a movie that had a huge chance for success right out of the gate because it was based on a Pulitzer Prize winning novel. The subject matter was a hot button topic at the time the movie was released and to make a story about racial tension during the civil rights movement was courageous to say the least. But it played well with Americans and became an American movie classic.
Read more »Buying a ticket to see Titanic in the movie theaters when it came out was almost impossible to do for weeks. People were being turned away and the ones that decided to wait in line were greeted with the spoiler "The ship sinks" from people leaving the movie. When it was made it was a headline grabber because of its cost and by the time it was done it was heralded as a masterpiece.
Read more »The Virgin Suicides is a story about mysterious love and the way that stories and myths can build over time even if there is nothing to prolong the story. It is about seeking the truth when you are not even sure if you want the truth and about trying to bring closure to the past. It is also a story about the frustrations of young love and how the love can endure for many years.
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I agree with Albatross; there's virtually no chance that the same judge who sent this case to trial in the first place, despite his stated misgivings, would decide to dismiss it now. But I wish we knew what else was going on this morning.
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Cellar/Tasting Notes "98-100 Barrel sample. The aromas are so rich and powerful, with great ripe apricots. There are honey, spice and beautiful sweet spiced pears. This is an extraordinary wine in an extraordinary year in Sauternes."
Cellar/Tasting Notes An inky/purple wine with an extraordinary nose of black raspberries, blueberries, acacia flowers, licorice and camphor, it is full-bodied, multi-dimensional and layered, with silky tannins, stunning purity, and a finish of 50+ seconds. This is an opulent, sexy, sumptuous style of wine to drink over..
Cellar/Tasting Notes "The 1986's enthralling bouquet of pineapples, sauteed hazelnuts, vanillin, and ripe apricots is breathtaking. Compellingly concentrated, its breadth as well as depth of flavor seemingly know no limits. This full-bodied, powerful, yet impeccably elegant d'Yquem should provide memorable drinking for..
Cellar/Tasting Notes RP: "Perfumed and pretty. Classy and elegant on the nose, with currant, light vanilla and a hint of lilac. Full-bodied, with ultrafine tannins and a long, long finish. All in finesse. Very impressive; could be the wine of the vintage."
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Spin it any way you will, beachrat, the question remains. Do you find his "crashing" behavior, his radical extremism, if you will, his out-side agitatorism, reprehensible or not? Don't slop another bunch of brbs about the other anarchists who also crash these events if you don't mind. What of your own pals actions? Reprehensible, or just another good old American having hisself some "fun"?
No spin at all Koilee. You're the one that suggested EQ was crashing "Peaceful" leftist demonstrations/gatherings. Since I know of no such animals, I was simply seeking clarification of what events you had in mind.
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Markopoulo is a small hamlet on the road between the two main villages of the island of Kefalonia, on the side of a mountain, enjoying a superb view of the sea. Each year, on the feast of the Falling Asleep of the Virgin (August 15th) a strange phenomenon occurs. During the religious services, small snakes, marked on their heads with a black mark like the sign of the cross, emerge near the bell tower, and make their way towards the church itself.These serpents enter the church through holes created for the bell ropes. They crawl over the furniture and over the people gathered there. They seem to make for the bishop's throne, and the icon of the Virgin in particular. These snakes, called "Our Lady's snakes" are harmless, and are welcomed by the people, most of whom will have come precisely to witness this event. They disappear after the celebrations as mysteriously as they arrived.
Except at this time of the year, the snakes are quite invisible. Local people go out in the evening to seek for them on the evening of the 14th, and tell the others when they have seen them, because it is believed that their appearance is a good omen, and forecasts a bountiful year to follow.
For example, older inhabitants say that in 1940 the snakes did not appear. During the following year, Greece was invaded by the Axis Forces; and the serpents failed several times to appear during the course of the Occupation. They also did not put in an appearance in 1953, the year when the island was struck by a catastrophic earthquake.
Many visitors have remarked upon the surprising behaviour of the snakes inside the building. Usually they avoid human beings, but at this time they seem uncharacteristically tame, and quite unperturbed at being handled.
When the village was attacked by the pirates of Barbarossa in 1705, the nuns in a convent there prayed to the Virgin to be transformed into snakes in order to avoid being captured. It is said that their prayers were answered, and a miracle took place. The pirates were appalled, when they entered the precincts of the monastery, to see the floor, walls and icons covered with snakes. Since then, the snakes have returned to the village at this time of the year.
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US presidential candidates face credibility test in 'town hall' debate
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THE every-four-years ritual of a national "town hall" style debate began as a nerve-racking experiment in live television.
Moderator Carole Simpson was so nervous about turning over the microphone to regular folks and their questions that she spent days mapping out the presidential candidates and their issues on "a zillion 3-by-5 cards," in case she had to take over the questioning herself.
"I was afraid these undecided voters from Richmond, Virginia, might get into this huge TV studio where they'd be seen by millions of people and they'd just freeze," the former ABC journalist recalls. "I wanted to be prepared."
No need to worry. The voters did fine. That "town hall" 20 years ago was such a hit that there's been one in every presidential election since.
The sixth will bring President Barack Obama and his Republican rival Mitt Romney to Hofstra University on New York's Long Island on Tuesday night to take questions from undecided voters selected by the Gallup polling company.
Debate coach Brett O'Donnell, who worked with John McCain in 2008 and Mr Romney during this year's primaries, says: "This is the one debate that belongs to the people."
It can be a tricky one for the candidates.
Mr Obama, especially, needs a forceful showing to recover from his leaden performance in the campaign's first debate. But he must tread carefully in an atmosphere more suitable for share-your-pain moments than aggressive attacks.
"You can't have this sort of all-out slugfest at a town hall debate," Mr O'Donnell said, so don't expect the fireworks of last week's Joe Biden-Paul Ryan vice presidential match.
Viewers want the candidates to show respect for those voters in the room, who stand in proxy for all Americans.
"You've got to connect with the person who's asking the question - look them in the eye," said Robert Denton Jr, head of the Communications Department at Virginia Tech. "It's about empathy and connection."
Mr Romney comes to the arena strengthened by his first debate. And the people-first format gives him a unique chance to overcome a persistent weakness: suspicion among some voters that he's too wealthy to relate to the middle class and the poor. But if Mr Romney fails to engage with his questioners, he could reinforce that impression.
That's what happened to President George HW Bush in the first televised town hall debate, a low moment in a failed bid for re-election. That 1992 event at the University of Richmond stands unmatched as an example of the format's risks and rewards.
Mr Bush was thrown by a woman's oddly worded question: How had the national debt personally affected the candidates? He stumbled through a meandering response, asked the woman to clarify and ended up sounding irritated and a bit argumentative: "Are you suggesting that if somebody has means the national debt doesn't affect them?"
Even worse, just as she began her question, TV cameras caught Mr Bush checking his watch.
That gesture would be replayed over and again as evidence that the president was indifferent and out of touch. "I took a huge hit," Mr Bush said years later.
When Democratic challenger Bill Clinton got his shot at the same question, he set the standard for town hall emoting.
Mr Clinton crossed the stage to stand before the woman, locked her in his gaze, and recounted the economic pain he'd personally witnessed as governor of Arkansas. "He just burst through the TV set," Mr Simpson recalls.
How did that town hall come about? Not surprisingly, Mr Bush had resisted the risky new idea. But Mr Clinton pushed it in negotiations with Mr Bush and the Commission on Presidential Debates because his campaign thrived on town hall-style events.
"It's the flesh and blood of America, so I love those things," Mr Clinton later told Jim Lehrer of PBS. "And I loved that one."
Mr Bush told Lehrer he hated debates, period.
Because candidates are free to walk about, town halls are body-language danger zones.
In 2000, Al Gore was ridiculed for striding unnaturally close to George W Bush as his rival spoke. Mr Bush deflected Mr Gore with a surprised look and curt nod, to audience laughter. In 2008, comedians emphasised Mr McCain's age by ridiculing the way he seemed to wander aimlessly about the stage while Mr Obama talked.
Then there are the questions. They tend to be broader and more straightforward than those posed by the old-style panels of journalists or the single moderators favored more recently. But they can be unpredictable. And while debaters often ignore reporters' questions and veer off to some other talking point instead, it's less acceptable to treat a citizen's question that way.
In 2004, President George W Bush took heat for failing to come up with a single mistake when a woman asked him to describe three wrong decisions and how he fixed them.
Town halls have lost some of their spontaneity. The 80 or so undecided voters chosen for Tuesday's event must submit their questions in advance and moderator Candy Crowley of CNN will decide which people to call on. She can pose her own follow-up questions.
In 1992, questions weren't screened in advance. Simpson walked through the audience Oprah-style and a producer signaled which person to talk to next, seeking a good demographic mix. She had no idea what the next person might ask.
"They were not the questions the media had been focusing on," said Simpson, who now teaches journalism at Emerson College in Boston. "They were asking about bread-and-butter issues that they were interested in - the education in their schools, the crime in their neighborhoods, the economy and jobs."
"We're still talking about the same things - the deficit, jobs, outsourcing," she said. "We'll probably hear some of the same subjects Tuesday."
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Another Time Warner post, I know. But this one is a little more specific.
Who here is actually on one of TWs high speed packages (Turbo/Extreme/Ultimate..) and what is your experience in regards to speed, reliability, and customer service when service goes down or tech problems arise? and do you get a better Tech response by getting these upgraded packages?
Anyone have thoughts on Verizon DSL Vs Time Warner's more expensive packages listed above?
I used to be on TW standard, hated the monthly issues with slowness and outages so i switched to Verizon. No Verizon issues really with outages (even during the hurricane and storms) but I'm not too sure I like that you are required to have a land line with them now (they no longer offer internet only plans)so I am shopping around.


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A new international trailer for Gangster Squad has surfaced - and you can watch the slick and stylish promo here on Orange Wednesdays & Film!
Here's the official synopsis for Gangster Squad;
Los Angeles, 1949. Ruthless, Brooklyn-born mob king Mickey Cohen (Sean Penn) runs the show in this town, reaping the ill-gotten gains from the drugs, the guns, the prostitutes and-if he has his way-every wire bet placed west of Chicago. And he does it all with the protection of not only his own paid goons, but also the police and the politicians who are under his control. It's enough to intimidate even the bravest, street-hardened cop... except, perhaps, for the small, secret crew of LAPD outsiders led by Sgt. John O'Mara (Josh Brolin) and Jerry Wooters (Ryan Gosling), who come together to try to tear Cohen's world apart.
Under the direction of Ruben Fleischer (Zombieland), Gangster Squad is a colorful retelling of events surrounding the LAPD's efforts to take back their nascent city from one of the most dangerous mafia bosses of all time. The film stars Oscar® nominees Josh Brolin (Milk, True Grit) and Ryan Gosling (Half Nelson, Blue Valentine) as the LAPD's Sgt. John O'Mara and Jerry Wooters; Academy Award® winner Sean Penn (Milk, Mystic River) as real-life mobster Mickey Cohen; and Emma Stone as Grace Faraday, Cohen's moll and the object of Wooters' attention.
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Sheriff: The *uncrowned* King.
Charles Stewart Parnell: Have you never felt there might be someone, somewhere who, if you could meet them, was the person that you'd been always meant to meet? Have you never felt that?
Charles Stewart Parnell: Ours could be a great love story, Katie.
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Dungey Set to Return in Seattle
Thursday, April 19, 2012 | 7:30 PMPress Release
Murrieta, CA – The Red Bull/KTM Team is excited to announce that all three riders will reunite at the Seattle Supercross this weekend as team rider Marvin Musquin returns to the West Supercross Lites Series joined by Ken Roczen and Ryan Dungey in the Supercross class.
The French rider, Marvin Musquin will continue his campaign toward a top three position in the overall point standings in the West Supercross Lites class while East Supercross Lites rider Ken Roczen will step up to the Supercross class aboard the KTM 350 SX-F.
In one of the most anticipated returns of the season, both riders will be joined by Ryan Dungey who will make his return to the Supercross class after sitting out the past six weeks healing from a broken collarbone. Dungey has been riding Motocross in preparation for his return to racing and after easing his way back has built up the confidence to make his return to the series this weekend.
"It will be great to have the whole team together in Seattle," says Red Bull/KTM Team Manager Roger DeCoster. "There is always a great atmosphere amongst the team and sponsors when all three riders are together and we look forward to producing solid results this weekend."
Look for all three riders under the Red Bull/KTM tent on Saturday, April 21st at Qwest Field.
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do you think kroc will stay out of the way
Get em Dunge !
i call kroc to podium
rv - rd - kenny
Great to have RD back!! If he comes back where he left off, he maybe able to steal a win. I don't think RV will let it go in Seattle for home town sake.
I also don't think he will let Vegas go because he is simply fast there and tasted success there. Allthough RD5 was pretty fast there last year.
It may be the race in between that Dungey has a legit shot at stealing??
Let's go Dungey! I want to see RV loose!!
Nice to have him back, I dont know how competive he will be, top 5 would be good safe start... I would prefer the RD's spend their time getting ready for the Great Outdoors, but they surely know better than I..
$@#t just got real! Let's get 2 KTM's on the podium, this just started getting exciting again!!!
KROC, Stay out of who's way?? Is someone not hurt???
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Dude Dungey wasnt even close to RV so I still say RV remains undefeated this season except for Vegas. Crazy stuff always happens at vegas. Kroc is no match for either RD or Rv on the 350. Honda should give Kdubs bike to Barcia and we will have a good race this weekend. I think barcia and Tomac are able to run the pace of RV on a 450.
@two250, you want to see RV loose? he is pretty loose on the bike, perhaps you mean lose? that won't happen.
@ dgizzy1, what would make you think Barcia and Tomac can run RV's pace on a 450, when nobody who regularly races a 450 can, without it being hazardous to one's health?
I bet JGR and Millsaps are bummed.
3rd- brayton,milsaps,or weimer
no podium for Kroc till he loosens up he did not look that impressive last weekend
It's nice to see an East Coast 250 rider step up to the 450's in the West. Has this ever happened before? Seems like it's always the other way around.
YES!!!!!!!!! the next 3 rounds are gonna be some what good with the west boys returning and dungey back. hopefully we will see a battle between the ryans :)
I think the only way we dream of a battle for 1st between the Ryans is if RV is coming off of an injury that sidelined him longer than RD. I'm all for a new face on top of the box and a great battle to get there but RD missing the last 5 SX's and practicing MX doesn't equate to battling RV1 for a race win . . . which is a bummer because other than having a healthy CR22 or JS7, RD5 is the guy to battle with the Champ. Either way it's great to have 2 more guys in the mix to make it interesting, i'd love to see both KTM's on either side of RV when the gate drops for the main . . .
Tomac and Barcia are able to run CLOSE to RV's pace early in their race before the track goes to poopy by the time RV hits the track. Don't start thinking they'll do the same on a 450 with some 15 laps more of deterioration to the track.
RV isn't "letting" any wins go as there are $300,000 of win bonuses sitting there for the taking. That doesn't mean no one can beat him, just that he isn't going to relax and let them.
It would be cool if Dungey could finsh the season in 2nd.
OH COOL, now people will stop complaining about not watching it becasue its boring. Get out if you dont watch becasue of it being on sided. GO DUNGEY
the 350 is a joke let roc ride a 450 the 350 will never ever suceed in that class it`s so stupid to even try .the alessi fluke was just that he got lucky.
sledhead344--the 350 is a joke?
Over the course of the 3 rounds that he raced it (Daytona, Indy & Toronto), Musquin beat every 450 racer outside of Stewart (only got to race against him once) and Davi Milsaps at one race or another while riding it.
Not bad.
"Dude Dungey wasnt even close to RV so I still say RV remains undefeated this season except for Vegas."
remain undefeated?
check the scoreboard bro: http://www.supercross.com/ryan-villopoto
Musquin was riding that 350 in the 450 class so well I was surprised that not more was made of it.
I hope Wilson will now end Tomacmania (i think hes a great rider but hes shaky and Wilson on a good day can smoke him...) ...and The new sheriff will continue to CRUSH anyone who trys to deal with him..just BECAUSE he can....the KTM's will fare no better. You could put em on 580's or whatever they make next week to try and get it done.....won't matter. That said I'm glad Dungey is back hes a great rider and may the best 250 man win...@red54... exactly, agreed..!!!!
Thank you RD, maybe we will see some racing this weekend ( I can watch now) it would even be better if Honda had Barcia out there. He has already wrapped up the lites title...so why not HONDA !!!! Lets ride!!!!!!!! LOL
whoa! supercross is finally worth watching once again! Best of Luck RD!
Shows a lil something on Dungeys part, to come off a injury, and still wrap up the SX season, instead of sitting out the last few. Champ. Now for the breaking news, .....J-Law is expected (by me) to head the charge into Seattle on the factory Hodaka. The timing is right.........
So Dungey will only win a race if RV "lets him" steal a win? You manage to insult both riders with that comment.
Live on SpeedTV, too. I know what I'll be doing Saturday night.
Glad Dungey is back, but people think he will just step right back in and have something for RV? All this talk of now it will be exciting racing......maybe by Vegas we'll see something. I won't be surprised if Dungey doesn't podium after a full 6 weeks off from racing. Anyone recall how rusty Canard was after he broke his collarbone before the season began? For the guys that haven't been watching because it's so boring, you might as well spend your valuable time on whatever else it is you do when the "boring" races are on.
RD will do very well, and be careful at the same time, so glad the injured one are starting to come back in !!!
This makes me a little more excited for SX. I didn't think Dungey would really want to come back for Seattle. To me it seems like he doesn't like the soil so much. I suppose it's racing though and that is better practice than winning on your own practice track. Good luck and let's hope for a healthier outdoor season!
Oh hell yeah!! Thank you RD!! He'll have a fight to the death with Milsaps. That dude is flat cooking now that he's healthy. Hopefully he didnt get too dinged up last week.
GO RD5! RD will be on pace and and I am excited to see Kroc put that 350 in front of the the majority of the 450s Marvin did a great job on the 350 as well. Excited to see him and tomac and wilson duke it out! will be watching live on speed!
Who in the Hell am I to say Ryan should or shouldn't come back so soon. He knows how he feels, not me. That said, If he feels that he needs to come back so as not to lose that (racing edge) before the Nationals, well then, I can see that. But, part of me would really like to see him not risk an early re-injury, so close to the outdoors.
I think it is damn cool to see Ken Roczen on a 350 though, (as long as he rides smart) and doesn't short sheet his outdoor possibilities with an injury.
The injury list this year has me flinching every second I am awake. Yikes!!!
It aint badmitton racing.
Win or lose at least with RD in it this weekend it will not be boring, cause RV has been on a runaway the last few weeks...now sorry to say that's boring to me and my fellow riders. If you all think the last few rounds have been good ...your kidding yourselves.Even the guys that are in the back, know its over and boring.Bring on the nationals,is what I have to say!!!
He's baaack......Go Dunge!!!!
"the 350 is a joke let roc ride a 450 the 350 will never ever suceed in that class it`s so stupid to even try .the alessi fluke was just that he got lucky."
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- Ohio - Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young ("We're finally on our own... / What if you knew her and found her dead on the ground? / How can you run when you know?")
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- I Can Explain Everything - T Bone Burnett ("The genius of France can be seen at a glance... / The French knew how to lynch" - careful, this one is tricky and probably means more than you think upon first hearing!)
- Dear God - XTC ("Your name is on a lot of quotes in this book / Us crazy humans wrote it, you should take a look / And all the people you made in your image / Still believing that junk is true...")
- King Heroin - James Brown ("Cause the white horse of heroin will ride you to hell / To hell / Will ride you to hell / Until you are dead / Dead, brother / Dead..." You just gotta hear James Brown sing it.)
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I'm looking for the lyrics and artist for a song that included the words "Here comes Armageddon". It was very satirical and funny. I think it was a 1970's song.
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Lakers coach Mike Brown has left Staples Center shortly before tipoff for undisclosed personal reasons.
Assistant coach John Kuester is currently coaching the Lakers against the Denver Nuggets on Friday night.
Brown is in his first season with the Lakers (37-22), who are in first place in the Pacific Division. He attended his regular pregame media gathering about 90 minutes before game time before suddenly leaving the building.
Kuester is a veteran NBA assistant who served as the Detroit Pistons head coach for two seasons from 2009-11. He was fired by Detroit last June.
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