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A blow to the Panthers WR corps was dealt today. WR David Gettis was placed on the Physically Unable to Perform list this week. This means that he's not ready to pass a physical and perform during training camp.
Last year, David Gettis tore his left ACL during training camp and was placed on IR immediately. Gettis was a viable candidate for the #2 WR position for the Panthers this year. In 2010, with murky QB waters, Gettis caught 37 passes for 508 yards and 3 touchdowns.
Luckily for us, with Gettis on the PUP list also comes the trade for Louis Murphy for a conditional pick (sources say the pick is a 7th-rounder). Murphy, a former Oakland Raider, had 75 passes for 1,130 yards and 6 touchdowns in his first two seasons with the Raiders. He suffered a groin injury last season, but should be good to go for the Panthers this year. (You can follow Louis Murphy on Twitter at @murph918).
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Angie Seaman of Hagerstown placed in the Top 5 in The Herald-Mail's Cookie Exchange Contest. (By Joe Crocetta/Staff photographer) |
Salted caramel hot chocolate cookies
1 cup butter, softened
1 1/4 cups white sugar
3/4 cup brown sugar
2 eggs
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
3/4 teaspoon cayenne pepper
1 cup cocoa powder
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
2 cups flour
36 chocolate-covered soft caramel candies (see cook's note)
1 cup finely chopped pecans (see cook's note)
1 tablespoon coarse sea salt
Cream together butter, and white and brown sugars in a large bowl until fluffy. Add eggs one at a time, then vanilla, blending well after each.
Add cayenne and blend very well to distribute evenly throughout cookie batter. Add cocoa, baking soda and 1/2 teaspoon salt. Blend well.
Add flour and blend until just mixed.
Scoop cookies in rounded teaspoons or with a cookie scoop. Push chocolate-covered caramel candy into the center of dough ball and ensure cookie dough is completely wrapped in dough.
Mix chopped pecans and sea salt in a small bowl. Dip half of dough ball into pecan mixture. Place dough balls nut side up on parchment-lined cookie sheet. Chill for one hour.
Bake at 350 degrees for 11 to 13 minutes.
Makes about 36 cookies.
Cook's note: Angie Seaman uses Hershey's Rolo Carmels in Milk Chocolate for this recipe. She suggests candied pecans as an alternative to regular pecans.
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That day the All Blacks nullified their opponents on the ground with ease; McCaw and Reid dishing out the damage in the loose forwards. Israel Dagg and Corey Jane produced the necessary fireworks on attack and fly half Aaron Cruden overshadowed the much hyped Quade Cooper.
The young Wallaby's poor display from 10 provoked delighted jeers from the crowd with every mistake made that night and there is no doubt that the nature of the comprehensive defeat (by 20 points to 6) will have hurt the Wallabies.
Although Australia had suffered a surprise defeat to Ireland in the pool stages of that competition, they had beaten the All Blacks in Brisbane only a month before, as they clinched the 2011 Tri Nations trophy and no doubt will have had real hopes of a repeat performance.
The Players' Thoughts
"It stings," Australian utility back Ashley Cooper said of the painful defeat back on 16th October. "But we have a new focus now and that's the Bledisloe... Australia hasn't held the Bledisloe Cup for more than a decade now and that in itself is enough motivation to play the number one team in the world."
While the Wallabies will be eyeing revenge, the All Blacks will be looking to keep their foot on the Australians' throat. As the number one team in the IRB rankings and current world champions, NZ won't want to suffer a fate similar to the last two World Champions (SA and England), who struggled in the immediate aftermath of their triumphs.
Kieran Reid looking to overpower the Wallabies up front in Bledisloe showdown. |
Number eight in the All Blacks' starting line-up this week-end, Kieran Reid, who sadly missed the final rounds of this year's Super 15 due to a rib injury, has a tough battle on his hands with in form Queenslander Scott Higginbotham, but has highlighted where he believes New Zealand can target Australia; the tight five.
"You play against Australia and that's the area you want to target them. We want to play our kind of game, which is all about starting with the forward pack and setting the standard there. The Aussies are very smart in what they do (though). You can't just turn up and expect to go with them. It's always hard to really dominate them, especially over there. They'll try to play with the ball a lot more and try to stretch you. It's a quick game as well so you prepare accordingly."
History on New Zealand's side
The All Blacks have won 12 of their last 14 matches against the Wallabies and considering the form of both nations franchises in this year's Super 15 (the Australian franchises largely struggled), it looks ominous. The All Blacks also come into the competition with a fresh injection of youth which has invigorated a slightly ageing side.
Young stars such as Aaron Cruden, Luke Romano, Brodie Retallick and Julian Savea will all have an impact on this tournament for sure, but in this match, don't expect to look much further than captain Richie McCaw and Dan Carter. The two have an incredible record together against the Wallabies, and that trend looks to continue on Saturday.
Australia need a big performance from David Pocock on the ground to get Australia in a position to win. |
For Australia, Wallaby fans will look to David Pocock to inspire them to victory in the same manner in which he almost single-handedly dismantled the Springboks in the 2011 RWC quarter final. It's a tall order, but the Aussies have a history of upsetting the odds.
Dumptackle Prediction
The Australian's have some serious dangermen out wide in Digby Ione and Kurtley Beale, while scrumhalf Will Genia can punish the smallest of mistakes, as Piri Weepu found out to his detriment in the Bledisloe Cup last year. The selection of Barnes at 10 though, with Anthony Fainga'a alongside him will not scare Steve Hansen's All Blacks.While Australia may have been able to beat Wales 3-0 in the June Series this year, one suspects that the All Black forwards will slowly get a grip of the match, following a bright start for Robbie Deans' men on home turf. Sydney does not hold the same fears for this group of All Blacks as it once did. The only query will be how well centres Sonny Bill Williams and Ma'a Nonu combine, in the absence of the injured Conrad Smith. All Blacks by 5.
The Teams
Australia: 15 Kurtley Beale, 14 Adam Ashley-Cooper, 13 Rob Horne, 12 Anthony Fainga'a, 11 Digby Ioane, 10 Berrick Barnes, 9 Will Genia, 8 Scott Higginbotham, 7 David Pocock (captain), 6 Dave Dennis, 5 Nathan Sharpe, 4 Sitaleki Timani, 3 Sekope Kepu, 2 Tatafu Polota Nau, 1 Benn Robinson.
Replacements: 16 Stephen Moore, 17 James Slipper, 18 Rob Simmons, 19 Radike Samo, 20 Michael Hooper, 21 Nick Phipps, 22 Drew Mitchell.
New Zealand: 15 Israel Dagg, 14 Cory Jane, 13 Ma'a Nonu, 12 Sonny Bill Williams, 11 Hosea Gear, 10 Daniel Carter, 9 Aaron Smith, 8 Kieran Read, 7 Richie McCaw (capt), 6 Liam Messam, 5 Samuel Whitelock, 4 Luke Romano, 3 Owen Franks, 2 Keven Mealamu, 1 Tony Woodcock.
Replacements: 16 Andrew Hore, 17 Ben Franks, 18 Brodie Retallick, 19 Victor Vito, 20 Piri Weepu, 21 Aaron Cruden, 22 Ben Smith.
Date: Saturday, August 18
Kick-off: 20:05 (11:05 BST, 10:05 GMT)
Venue: ANZ Stadium, Sydney
Referee: Alain Rolland (IRFU)
Assistant referees: Nigel Owens (WRU), Lourens Van Der Merwe (SARU)
TMO: Matt Goddard (ARU)
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Feb 2nd 2012 10:47AM (Joystiq)Huh interesting that her model wasn't badly butchered like Spyro's. Hmm I'm starting to get interested on this but only for a few statues.
Ghost Trick comes through the phone lines to iOS tomorrow
Feb 1st 2012 10:56AM (Joystiq)I have this gem on the DS already but would buy again for my iPad.
PSA: Limbo now available on Mac via Steam
Jan 15th 2012 2:46AM (Joystiq)God why do Macs have to be so expensive. I have been rather curious what feels like to own one I have used the Apple store units and they are awesome in my opinion but the price tag isn't what's the cheapest one now? Is there a difference between a PC and Mac?
'Run Roo Run' available now on iOS, from Scribblenauts dev
Jan 13th 2012 12:23AM (Joystiq)@jsx92 The main chapter levels are for casual players you need to try the Extreme levels then try to say if it still easy. Then there is the weekly challenges that the difficulty varies.
Dead Space 1 and 2 sliced down to $5 on Steam this weekend
Jan 13th 2012 12:20AM (Joystiq)Get these two amazing games now. I already had them but I decided to buy the pack to keep for trade at a later time.
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Jan 12th 2012 11:48AM (Joystiq)Sheesh give NFS a friggin break already and put out a new Burnout already (Not that sorry excuse you call Burnout Crash).
5th Cell introduces Run Roo Run, its new weekly iOS platformer
Jan 10th 2012 3:04PM (Joystiq)@Yuutuu That's what I am hoping too. I just hope they don't give Nintendo the cold shoulder. I see the developer posting on NeoGAF named Jackson. I'm surprised no one popped the question if there will be a 3DSware port.
5th Cell introduces Run Roo Run, its new weekly iOS platformer
Jan 10th 2012 1:51PM (Joystiq)Pretty cool game I'm interested in getting it but I hope there is a 3DS release for this on the 3DSware.
'The Wrath of the Lamb' will be The Binding of Isaac's only expansion, planned for inclusion with 3DS release
Jan 6th 2012 3:44PM (Joystiq)@Cirrus not yet Nintendo is taking a look at the nasty areas of the game before giving the green light. Also the religious aspect of it as well.
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St. Bernard Parish
St. Bernard Parish is one of Louisiana's great fishing communities. Recreational fishermen who visit invariably leave with a full ice chest. But with its immediate proximity to New Orleans, it has a long and exciting history. It hosted the greatest U.S. victory in the War of 1812: the Battle of New Orleans. It was at Chalmette Battlefield that Col. Andrew Jackson became a national hero. He defeated a British invasion at the head of a motley army of federal soldiers, local privateers, Choctaw warriors, and militias from New Orleans, consisting of both white Creoles and Creoles of color. You can get the full story at Chalmette National Historical Park. Though French culture is strong here, St. Bernard was named for the patron saint of the great Spanish governor of Louisiana, Bernardo de Galvez. It attracted a great number of Spanish "Isleños," immigrants from the Canary Islands, whose influence remains considerable.


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(English) Pintor y Escultor Mexicano Renato González: Irracionalidad artística
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Artistas, Collections, Collectors, Contemporary Art, Exhibitions, Bellas Artes, General
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Alicia Framis photograph of a naked man spikes traffic
We could have not imagined that the #5 "Pageviews" listing in our traffic report would be a photo of a naked man by Spanish artist Alicia Framis called: "8th June, female models have a day off, Madrid". We have had Picassos, Diego Riveras, Frida Kahlos, Gabriel Orozcos boost our traffic at any given day and it is expected to see an increase. This one really caught our attention as we were looking at the link trying to imagine what artwork could have been ahead of so many others that you would think of. You must see this image; it is a great photograph. Warning: if images of naked people offend you, do not open the link below.
Until Next Time,
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Marika Rivera died on Jan 14-2010 at 90 years old. Diego Rivera's daughter Marika Rivera was living in a nursing home and had advanced dementia. She was a talented dancer and actress of several small movies including "Darling", "The Girl on a Motorcycle" and "Hotel du Paradis" amongst others. Marika was born to Diego Rivera's lover – Russian artist Marevna Vorobieff and was known to have a strong and fierce personality. Farewell.
Alberto Giacometti's "Walking Man I" has reached the highest price ever paid for an artwork at auction. A life size bronze sculpture of a walking man was the subject of nearly ten bidders' enthusiasm that made them go loony on each other for about 8 minutes at the Sotheby's Impressionist & Modern Art Evening Sale in London. Giacometti's "Walking Man I" sold for $104.3 million dollars tonight breaking Picasso's world record for "Boy With a Pipe" which fetched $104.1 in 2004 at Sotheby's in New York. Sotheby's expected the sculpture to be sold for a maximum bidding price of $28.8 million. Giacometti's prior selling record was $27.4 million set at Christie's New York in 2008.
The Dallas Art Fair opens on Friday February 5th at the Dallas Fashion Industry building in Downtown Dallas Arts District. More than 50 art dealers from 15 cities will devote their energy into promoting the artists they represent. Having lived in Dallas for 15 years, it is energizing to see the art world morph from "barely there" to "all over the place". And not only that the art scene has grown exponentially but the quality is now superb. Dallas is quickly growing into a real cosmopolitan city especially after the renovation and development of what is now Victory Park; a new area near Downtown Dallas and walking distance from Uptown. If you have not been there, it is worth the visit. I will attend the Dallas Art Fair this weekend and will tell you all about it. Exciting!
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Design chief stresses shortcuts hurt style
After stints with Mercedes-Benz, Smart and Saab -- where he respectively penned the first-generation SLK, Smart Roadster and several Saab concepts -- Michael Mauer was named chief designer at the Porsche Design Studio in 2004.
Responsible for the design and styling of Porsche's automotive and industrial products, he's overseen such groundbreaking models as the Panamera GT and the 918 Spyder plug-in hybrid supercar. Now he's just unveiled the new 2014 Porsche 911 GT3 at this year's Geneva Motor Show, John LeBlanc sat down with Porsche's head pen to find out the changes he's incorporated with the rapidly expanding automaker's design department.
QUESTION: The last time we talked was at the 2009 Shanghai show, at the world première of the Panamera -- essentially the first Porsche you could call your own. What have been the types of changes you've made to Porsche design since then?
ANSWER: When I joined Porsche, we had one big design group, with interior and exterior designers together. But for me, interior design is extremely complex, and you need people with experience and committed 100 per cent to do an interior. So one of the first big changes was splitting up interior and exterior design. The rest of the changes have been mainly managing the growth of the studio.
Q: Although its roots are in central Europe, Porsche now relies on selling cars around the world. When recruiting designers, do you now look for people with more international experience?
A: The design team has always been very international, but we do have more designers with an Asian background. Not because we are designing for those markets, but because design education has made a lot of progress there. And I feel these design students are hungrier to show the world what they can do.
Q: With more Porsche models than ever before -- and more on the way -- are there external pressures to make your creative process more efficient and faster?
A: We certainly have more projects, but we've also grown more as a team. But one different approach than what I've recently seen with other automakers is that we still believe in physical models. You can shorten the process by skipping that phase, only use virtual-reality images. But looking at some of the production cars from our competitors, you can tell they've skipped the modelling part of the process. I see my job as to convincing people that (design models) are very important for a brand like Porsche.
For example, when I was at GM at Saab, it was like working on a design assembly line. It got to a certain point where the designers were no longer involved. We lost ownership. The project left the design department, and then you were sometimes surprised what the final car looked like when it hit the dealers 11/2 years later.
Q: How can you tell when this happens with rivals?
A: To me, it's the quality of the vehicle's surfacing. How the shapes lead in, how much tension they have. There are still things you can't assess and judge standing in front of a VR screen. We spend so much time looking at clay models, turning them and putting them in different lighting environments. And then, when we have the milled model in front of us, and you say, "Wow! How did we miss that detail or quality?" Then we go back into VR and see where we went wrong.
Q: Is there a particular example you can cite?
A: One of my favourite views is to sit in the driver's seat of a 911 Turbo and look out its side mirror. From there I can see the rear fender curve out from the car -- a detail I may not have seen in a VR image. If you take a little bit more time, if you do one more model, if you go to different parts of the world to see the car in different light conditions, then it's the whole package that becomes more mature.
Q: The new 911 GT3 and 911 GT3 Cup that are debuting here in Geneva, it's essentially a street-legal race car. Does the hyper-functionality of that vehicle change your design approach?
A: Even for our road cars at Porsche, functionality plays such an important role -- Cayenne, Panamera -- I mean, they can go as fast as 300 kilometres per hour. However, one difference with the GT3 is that we don't do as many models. It's not one year where you go to the left, and then you go right. It's a very evolutionary process. If you look at details like its rear bumpers or the centre-mounted exhaust pipes, the car remains relatively constant. We also have the experience from the racing department for the car's technical needs.
Q: Do you get more feedback from 911 GT3 customers than, say, 911 Carrera buyers?
A: Porsche is so different in that I have never worked in a company that gets so much feedback from all its customers -- not just the racers. On the GT3, though, it's not the quantity of the feedback, but the quality. These customers can tell you so much more detail on what they like and don't like.
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Washington State Just Legalized Marijuana
Put down the bong for just one fucking second, because Washington State voters are approving the legalization of marijuana by a 55–45 percent margin, according to Tuesday night's latest results from election workers. More election results will trickle in over the next two weeks, but by all accounts, MARIJUANA IS LEGAL.
First, this means that adults 21 and older can legally possess up to one ounce of marijuana starting on December 6. Holy shit, right? Don't smoke it in public, though. The law also requires the state to license pot growers, distributors, and stores. That part may be challenged by the federal government—but nobody knows for sure.
Colorado voters also just approved pot legalization with Amendment 64 by an eight-point margin.
But in Seattle, the night started out with plenty of skepticism.
It was 8:23 p.m. when Alison Holcomb, the campaign director for Washington's Initiative 502, first stepped up to the microphone, and she wasn't encouraging. The crowd assembled at Hotel Andra—a smart crowd stacked with lifelong pot activists and ACLU lawyers—shut the fuck up, fast.
Holcomb said, "At this point, we're trailing," Then: "Oh wait, never mind!" She'd been reading numbers for the state, minus King County. The crowd erupted in nervous laughter.
"You know what?" Holcomb said. "This is the point in the evening when I need a giant shot of tequila."
While the crowd hardly resembled your stereotypical T-shirted, tattooed, tie-dyed stoners, the banquet spread was a snacker's paradise of fried cheese and chicken kabobs, cucumber salads, and grilled pita.
People were already talking about next steps—how to tweak the Washington State Liquor Control Board into being the government mechanism to effectively end marijuana prohibition, which state politicians we can expect to step up and lead on implementing the new law, what the Feds will do ("They can invade us, they can sue us, they can ignore us," one gentleman, whose tattoos discreetly peeked out from under his cuffs, ticked off on his fingers). While they talked, phones and iPads were obsessively refreshed, waiting for those all-important King County numbers.
Suddenly, Holcomb returned to the mic. "We've got 62 percent of King County," she screamed, before the rest of her words were drowned out. Everyone was cheering. Fists were in the air! Eyes were shiny with tears! "I've been working for this moment every day for 40 years," said one activist, who'd traveled up from California to be in Seattle on election night.
"I am so proud, so humbled to stand among the voters of the great state of Washington who have on this day taken a historic vote," Holcomb said in her victory speech. "Ultimately, I'm most proud that despite controversy and uncertainty, Washington State exhibited tremendous leadership in reexamining a failed policy. Today, the state of Washington looked at 75 years of prohibition and said, 'It is time for a new approach.'"
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grower to processor add 25%
processor to retailer add 25%
retailer to consumer add 25% AND approx 9.8% local/state sales tax
without any markup for processor or retailer it would make a $200 oz. wholesale cost $428 retail to final customer, or 53% of the total. Add in markup which everyone will need to stay in business, and it will be more like $700 retail for an oz.
And you cant grow your own, unless you've got a $1000 bucks to throw at your license annually.
I'll stick with the black market thank you very much.
Weed (sorry *cannabis*) is legal! Be joyous! Be proud! A 40-year old, failed drug war is finally meeting real resistance from the people.
I, for one, could not be happier with the results on 502 and plan to celebrate accordingly.
How does one go on a road trip after (Dec. 6th) and not be fearful of a DUI? I mean, doesn't everybody bring a little for the road?
Don't drive stoned out of your gourd, because lets face it people, it messed with your reaction times.
Don't go hotboxing in your car at the park.
Don't go over board. Massive amounts of early life alcohol consumption can mess up your brain AND SO CAN POT. I believe it. Perma stoner. Dont do it.
With new power comes new responsibility -
the prohibition was essentially saying people can't be trusted to have good judgment.
Prove them wrong.
re;#5 the resolution according to the voters guide estimated wholesale prices at $3 gram, or $84 oz.
(I don't know what kind of crappy weed you'll get for that price, but after water, electricity, fertilizers, (man)hours to tend to the crops, it's really not enough for a boutique grower, so the scale will have to be huge in order to be profitable.)
If one uses an $84 oz. and the standard markup of 200% the model gets even more extreme:
grower to processor; $84 +25% = $105
processor to retailer ($105 x200%) +25% = $262.50
retailer to consumer (($262.50 x200%) +25%) +9.8% = $720.56 oz.
so there you have it, about 2.4 times what it costs now, which is about $250-$300 oz for good stuff.
fyi #5, very few people actually buy direct from dealer, there is usually at least one intermediary. I was using a $200 oz as a hypothetical example.
I'll consider it legal, when I can grow my own in my backyard next to the tomatoes, and smoke a joint on the sidewalk in between bands at the club.
Don't drive stoned out of your gourd, because lets face it people, it messed with your reaction times.
Don't go hotboxing in your car at the park.
Don't go over board. Massive amounts of early life alcohol consumption can mess up your brain AND SO CAN POT. I believe it. Perma stoner. Dont do it.
With new power comes new responsibility -
the prohibition was essentially saying people can't be trusted to have good judgment.
Prove them wrong.
Here is a thought. The cost of herbs on amazon.com is about $1-2/oz. Safron, famous for being a very expensive is $70/oz. Why in the world would anyone think that once legal, pot prices would stay so high? It might take a bit of time for economies of scale to develop, and the market to equilibrate, but the prices will fall despite the high taxes.
If prices fail to fall, big deal! It will be just like the status-quo for black-market growers and dealers, but nobody will be busted for possession any more!
No matter what your "resistance" is.
- first of all CONGRATS! and well done, while we here in holland are/where going backwards you took a bigger step than we ever took and you did it by populair vote (we never voted on our "gedoogbeleid")
- learning from each other; lets hope that now the US is taking this turn we here in Holland can finaly really legalize as well because as you might not know growing & selling wholesale is still very much illegal here, possesion (under 5 grams) & growing personal small amounts is decriminalised'ish (its all very complicated & still pretty fucked up if you read into our situation). based on this i also hope you will have a good look at the many things we did wrong and demand full to be really full legalisation.
- about DUI; even while here possesion is decriminalised and use is legal it is very much ILLEGAL to DUI, its also generaly considerd plain wrong to drive stoned, after all why should you when you can smoke without fear in private and even all public places where you can smoke? That said its virtually unheard of to get a citation for driving under the influence of THC, you only get pulled over if you break other traffic laws or drive otherwise dangerously and they only test you if you seem intoxicated. the focus of the cops is on alcohol, if you cant even be bothered not to keep your dope in plain sight orhave a car full of smoke or smell you kind of deserve to get drugtested and get the book thrown at you imho.
also while the blood test can detect very long time ago we A. have reasonable tresholds that decide what makes it a DUI and what not and B. they cant test your blood unless your saliva test is positive, the saliva test can only detect THC use in the last 12-24 hours and if you can show a medical weed perscription they wont go to a blood test at all.
- prices; like mentioned before commercial growing, import and wholesale are still very much illegal here and get tightly prosecuted. so as in completely illegal situations the supliers ask for a big proffit to make up for the risks.
sale to the public in the "gedoogde"("tollerated") coffeeshops is on the other hand almost unregulated ultimated laize-fare capitalism, the law sets limmits on how much one can buy but (as its not really legal) its not taxed besides the income tax the shop needs to pay.
prices for a good but not extraordinary (to dutch high standards) quality product are here are between 8 and 14 euro's a gram, i dont know what that exactly converts to but a packet of (heavily taxed) a-brand sigarets is about 7 euro's. As i think under full legalisation here the price increase in full heavy taxation would balance out with price drop by loss of the insane "risk-factor" price hike the dealers and coffeeshop keepers throw on it and the now legal and thus cheaper because more efficient infrastructure, transport and production, a gram of quality weed for the price of a pack of sigarets seems pretty reasonable and fair.
There is no 200% markup, where do you get this stuff?
grower to processor add 25%
processor to retailer add 25%
retailer to consumer add 25% AND approx 9.8% local/state sales tax
the resolution according to the voters guide estimated wholesale prices at $3 gram, or $84 oz
Grower == $84/oz
Processor == $84/oz + 25% == $105/oz
Retailer == $105/oz + 25% == $131.25/oz
Consumer == ($131.25/oz + 25%) + 9.8% == $164.07/oz + 9.8% == $180.15
So an ounce will cost $180.15 that sounds like an awesome price to me.
Here's a thought - Don't drive like an ass and smoke pot!
Don't drive stoned out of your gourd, because lets face it people, it messes with your reaction times.
Don't go hotboxing in your car at the park.
With new power comes new responsibility -
Prove them wrong.
I agree with you lilyahnia.
So while last night we passed marijuana legalization, possession of marijuana isn't actually legal until December 6th. Which means if you have a bag on you tomorrow, it's still illegal.
Even after December 6th it doesn't mean people should just go around smoking up all over the place. You wouldn't go around with a bottle of booze in your hand everywhere drinking it. I know it's exciting that this big step has been taken and celebrating is great but I believe users of marijuana need to show everyone that we can be intelligent and act adult with this legalization passing. This is just a rough start to something that may, overtime, become even better. We need to show this country and the world that marijuana is not a bad thing. Like what lilyahnia said: "With new power comes new responsibility."
Lay off the bud for a few minutes and educate yourself on the difference between a drug screen that looks for marijuana metabolites (like urine tests) and a blood test for active THC.
Active THC levels drop rapidly. That's why your high goes away. The DUI limit doesn't apply to inactive metabolites. Don't drive stoned. Period. Then you can chill out about driving to your dispensary while you're sober.
You're just not going to find anyone who will sell a product for the exact same price that they bought it for, just so they can collect the tax (for free), to give to the governor.
200% is a standard markup in all areas of business from manufacturer to distributor to retailer. The new shoes at the store did not cost $150 minus whatever taxes and duties to produce. They cost maybe $15 to manufacture including labor, the manufacturer doubles their costs to $30 to realize their profit when they sell them to a distributor who would then double their total cost including initial purchase, fuel costs, duties, fees and wages when the they in turn sell it to a retailer, the retailer then doubles their purchase price for final use sale, so they can cover things like rent, wages, utilities, electricity, wages, B&O taxes etc.. The system is part of the reason things cost so much.
The real question is why don't you understand this BASIC fact about capitalism, markets, and the driving forces of economy?
if you then test positive you can either choose to accept a "transactionproposal" for DUI, a sort of fine thats only further relevant in regards to your drivers license and doesnt give you a criminal record or you can contest your guilt which means that they will take you to police station and a trained nurse will perform the bloodtest. this is actually the same with the alcohol breath test, one can always demand a blood test but if after you still test above the limit you will almost always be prosecuted and your punishment will show up on your record.
Last thing thats relevant is of course "culture", smoking weed is here pretty much an accepted behavior for anyone above 16, so when it comes to weed & hash you have to make it pretty bad before the cops bother test you, just a single joint on your dash isnt enough in general. sadly racism is as always with the cops a factor, north african and black people get tested more than caucasians but still not nearly as much as young people with french or belgium numberplates (who are automatically assumed to be drug tourists.
long story short; if you dont drive stoned beyond oblivion/hotbox and can be bothered to trow your stuff in your glove box instead of keeping them on your dash you should be fine. With the amount of drunk or wired people on the roads the cops got better shit to do than test people for some THC.
You will never see a lone DEA agent going around busting individual people for possession. They only go after growers and retailers who are 'overdoing it' so-to-speak. You should be fine with the DEA unless you have a park or warehouse full of plants.
Both gubernatorial candidates (and many others) opposed I-502 on the grounds that it conflicts with federal law. That is, marijuana will still be illegal. So should we have waited for the feds to legalize it first? Done nothing, like good little boys and girls?
Maybe that would've been easier. But instead we asserted our independence like grownups, like People. We chose civil disobedience.
Civil disobedience, for those who don't know, is a "public, nonviolent, conscientious yet political act contrary to law usually done with the aim of bringing about a change in the law or policies of the government" (Rawls).
Governments rarely change from within. They are conservative by design, even when led by nominally liberal administrations. And so they should be, I think- we can't be constantly changing our laws all the time without good reason. But on the other hand -and this is vital- governments exist to serve the people. Hear that Jay Inslee? (He does- or says he does anyway.)
Since it is the people of Washington's demonstrated collective will that we should be free to ingest a non-dangerous substance (or not- as Rick Steves opines you don't have to be pro-pot to be anti-prohibition) we must stand by our historic initiative and risk the consequences of our concerted action. Easy to say: Joe joint-a-day won't get hassled by the DEA. Here's the tough part: Our elected officials MUST do what we have instructed them to- defy the feds.
Like the states repealed alcohol prohibition one by one in defiance of federal supremacy, so too have Washingtonians and Coloradans gotten the ball rolling on this one, and perhaps others will follow our courageous example like lemmings, like dominoes. Perhaps not. Maybe we've picked a fight with a 300 lb black belt and are about to get a serious smack down. But does anyone really believe that? The most likely upshot will be a bunch of media attention, a little backlash, then a laissez-faire federal attitude.
After all, D.C. is a long way away and very busy.
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It's funny how people assume it's a right to drive a car, especially the right to drive while intoxicated. If you're stoned, get a taxi or take a bus.
But you are right a grower can technically sell their product to anyone, don't have to follow the measure's dictated food chain. Possession will be legal in less than a month so hopefully our local dealers will stop being paranoid and just relax and start selling to more people.
As for this DIU BS, google you fools. Driving stoned vs. completely sober has no statisticaly relevent difference in accident rates.
Another point of fact for those of you saying that thc in blood over the limit described in I-502 means you are stoned...again, google is your friend. I can smoke @ 10pm, go to bed & test over the limit 12hrs later and I am stone cold fucking sober.
The dui limit for thc has NO BASIS IN FACT!! There is no study or science behind it. NONE, NADA, ZIP!
The presence of detectable THC in blood, saliva, hair, or urine is NOT proof of impairment. It is only proof that you have used a THC containing product. There is a difference people.
Now, driving drunk OR drunk AND stoned is a whole different thing.
You can't stroll around in the streets smoking it. People probably won't care, it just technically isn't legal.
I am sure that is very similar to the laws for medical marijuana usage.
If anyone is still wondering about federal response, just remember they said medical marijuana was OK even if they didn't make it completely legal. Read the official federal guidelines from 2009 here:
Since the federal guidelines were publishes my wife has been caught with marijuana twice without prosecution, they just took it away from her. Before the guidelines were passed they took it away and she was prosecuted.
So we are golden because of these federal guidelines and because the I-502 measure mirrors or is very similar to medical marijuana law (and roughly as strict or stricter).
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a goddamn WEED for Christ's sake! If your in it
for the money, FUCK OFF! Grow your own! Get a
regular job. Weed is a gift from God(or nature or whatever)not a business venture.
The measure doesn't stipulate a tracking system of any kind, nor does it stipulate how long an ounce of marijuana is supposed to last, so technically you can keep going back and buying more. But that may run you into other issues, including the chance of getting caught with too much on you then you get charge just like good-old days. So if you go to buy more leave what you have at home, so there is no chance of getting caught with more than an ounce at a time.
I just say legalize it and tax it. The tax will actually result in government revenue. Instead of putting non-violent drug users in jail, maybe we could put actual criminals who commit serious crimes like rape and murder in prison.
I live in Arizona and at least we legalized medical marijuana, but that doesn't go far enough.


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What up fools!?!? Sorry that I haven't posted in a few days. I was getting into the swing of things out here on The Bamboozle Roadshow. IT HAS BEEN AWESOME SO FAR! Here are a few highlights from the last couple of days -
First and foremost, let's start things off right with a picture of Corey's new style. This is now what he looks like... ALL THE TIME! -
This is the bus that we live on for the next 30 days. I LOVE IT HERE -
We ran into some of our good friends in Maryland rockin' some homemade Juicebox Dresses -
On our way down to the tour we stopped at Wal-Mart for some supplies. Marc made it very clear that if you don't like this t-shirt, than you don't like freedom -
The weather has been great except for 30 INSANELY RAINY minutes yesterday in West Palm Beach -
I met this guy... things got weird -
We are making great friends out here on the tour. I even redesigned the To Write Love On Her Arms logo for them -
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> 1. How long has this list been going for?
About a week, but only publicized a few days ago <g>
> 2. How many subscribe to this list?
110 as of this evening. I'm glad to see I'm not the only interested in this
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> 4. Dick Eastman mentioned this list in conjunction with his comment upon
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We are huge fans of new technologies here at Contrast Mechanical, both technologies that improve the way construction services are delivered and technologies that actually improve our clients' lives. I wanted to point out two cool new technologies in the latter category. Although we focus exclusively on commercial and industrial markets, and these are currently residential applications, I still think they show the kind of cutting edge solutions we will see in the coming years, especially with mobile optimized products.
Nest Learning Thermostat
This new thermostat is incredible. First, it learns from your temperature changes. No set temperatures or rigid programs. Instead, it remembers the temperatures you like and builds its own schedule – all you need to do is turn it up and down and eventually it takes over. Second, it uses sensors to detect when you are away and automatically, yes automatically, will turn down your heating or air conditioning. Moreover, it learns your schedule so it knows how much inactivity means you are actually out of your house. Third, it can be controlled from your mobile device – such as iPhone or Android – from anywhere.
Learn more at http://www.nest.com/.
This is a very new product. Essentially, this product fits over your existing deadbolts and allows you to lock / unlock your door from anywhere via your mobile device. It can also automatically detect when you are close via your smartphone and unlock automatically. Additional features include notifications when someone else unlocks your door and a vibration sensor that can alert you via your phone when someone is knocking. Don't worry, you can always use your trusty key.
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ATLANTA—Georgia Secretary of State Karen Handel announced the close of candidate qualifying for the Special Elections to fill state Senate District 22 and House District 122 on Friday, December 4, 2009 at noon. The candidates below qualified and paid the qualifying fee of $400 for the Special Election to be held on Tuesday, January 5, 2010. If no candidate receives a majority of the vote, a run-off election will be held Tuesday, February 2, 2010.
The elections are non-partisan Special Elections with no party primary. However, each candidate's party affiliation will be listed on the ballot.
The election for Senate District 22 will occur in a portion of Richmond County. The following candidates qualified for Senate District 22 and will be placed on the ballot in alphabetical order: Taylor Bryant Party Affiliation: Libertarian 1873 Engle Road Augusta, GA 30906
Hardie Davis Party Affiliation: Democrat 1026 Country Place Drive Augusta, GA 30906
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Sandra Suetta Cannon Scott Party Affiliation: Democrat 3413 Heather Drive Augusta, GA 30909
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Karen Handel was sworn in as Secretary of State in January 2007. The Secretary of State's office offers important services to our citizens and our business community. Among the office's wide-ranging responsibilities, the Secretary of State is charged with conducting efficient and secure elections, the registration of corporations, and the regulation of securities and professional license holders. The office also oversees the Georgia Archives and the Capitol Museum.


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Ronan Bennett
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Ronan Bennett (born: 14 January 1956) is a Northern Irish novelist and screenwriter.
Bennett was raised in a devout Roman Catholic family headed by William H. and Geraldine Bennett at 420 Merville Garden Village in the Whitehouse area of Newtownabbey, Northern Ireland. He attended the Christian Brothers Grammar School in West Belfast (generally known as St Mary's CBGS). In 1974, while still in school, Bennett was convicted of murdering Inspector William Elliott, a 49-year-old police officer in the Royal Ulster Constabulary during an Official IRA bank robbery at the Ulster Bank in The Diamond shopping area at Rathcoole, close to his Merville Garden Village home, on 6 September 1974.[1][2] His conviction was overturned on appeal in 1975 and Bennett was released from Long Kesh prison near Lisburn, Co. Antrim.[1] Later Bennett apparently displayed a sympathy towards the Irish National Liberation Army (INLA), which made its name after it killed Margaret Thatcher's Northern Ireland advisor Airey Neave in 1979.
Bennett then moved to London. In 1978 he was arrested for conspiracy to cause explosions and spent 16 months in prison on remand. Bennett conducted his own defence, and he and his co-defendants were acquitted in 1979.[2] He studied history at King's College London receiving a first class honours degree, and later completed his PhD at the college in 1987.[2]
Bennett lives in London with his family. His partner is Georgina Henry, editor of guardian.co.uk.[3] Since 2006, he has co-hosted a regular Monday chess column with Daniel King in The Guardian, which seeks to be instructive, rather than topical. Through test positions taken from actual games, their amateur and expert assessments of the possible continuations are discussed and compared. It has been supposed that Nigel Short's column was axed to make way for the new feature and the justification for this change has been the subject of some debate in chess circles.[4]
Bennett has published five novels and two non-fiction works. It was his third novel The Catastrophist that brought him into the public eye. This novel was set in the Belgian Congo just before independence, with the rise and fall of Patrice Lumumba as political backdrop, The Catastrophist is the story of a doomed love affair between novelist James Gillespie and a fiery idealistic journalist, Inès. Critics hailed the novel, which drew inevitable comparisons to Graham Greene, Joseph Conrad and John le Carré's African novel, The Constant Gardener. It was nominated for the Whitbread Award in 1998.
The Catastrophist is a bleak book about the impossibility of love and of political peace in certain circumstances. The central character, James, (who changes his name from the Irish 'Seamus' to the Anglo form when he moves to London) follows Inès to the Congo as the Belgian colons are preparing to leave and the Communist sympathiser Lumumba is about to be killed by a rival "tribe" vying for control (with clandestine US support). James writes some pieces for the Observer in London as the political situation gets much worse, and he becomes more involved because Inès herself is heavily engagé, reporting for the Italian Communist Party newspaper.
Their sexual relationship is handled with great frankness, and their love appears very real, but she moves away from him, into the cause, and takes a young African supporter of Lumumba as a lover. She asks James to help them escape as their lives become threatened by a dangerous CIA man and the black tribal group he supports. Despite his own bitterness about losing her, James refuses to tell the American and his African co-conspirators where Inès and her lover are hiding. He is jailed and badly beaten, but eventually the CIA man believes his story that he does not know where Inès is hiding, and lets him go. Inès consoles him with one final sexual act before escaping with her African lover.
The sub-text is about James' impossible task in holding a woman who throws herself into a cause that the detached novelist cannot join. There is considerable poignancy in the scenes where he realises that she has gone for good, and no longer loves him.
Bennett's fourth novel, Havoc, in its Third Year, was published in 2004. It is a dark tale of Puritan fanaticism, set in a town in northern England in the 1630s, in the decade before Cromwell and his Roundheads took over the kingdom. Havoc was also well received in the press.
Bennett was an uncredited co-author of Stolen Years, the prison memoir of Paul Hill, one of the Guildford Four who were wrongfully convicted in 1975 for the Guildford and Woolwich pub bombings the previous year. Bennett has also written several acclaimed screenplays for film and television, among them The Hamburg Cell and the controversial Rebel Heart. He contributes regularly to the British and Irish press.
In 2006, Bennett's new novel Zugzwang, was published week-by-week in the British Sunday newspaper The Observer. The novel was written in weekly instalments with new chapters being submitted to the newspaper close to publication date. Each chapter was accompanied by illustrations created by British artist Marc Quinn.
- The Second Prison (1991) – shortlisted for the 1991 Irish Times/Aer Lingus prize.
- Overthrown by Strangers (1992)
- The Catastrophist (1998) – shortlisted for the Whitbread Novel Award.
- Havoc, in its Third Year (2004) – winner of the Hughes & Hughes/Sunday Independent Irish Novel of the Year award.
- Zugzwang (2006)
- Stolen Years: Before and After Guildford (with Paul Hill, 1990)
- Fire and Rain (broadcast on Radio 4, 1994)
Feature films
- A Further Gesture, aka The Break (1997)
- Lucky Break (2001)
- Face (1997)
- The Hamburg Cell (2004)
- Public Enemies (2009)
- Love Lies Bleeding (1993)
- A Man You Don't Meet Every Day (1994)
- Rebel Heart (2001)
- Fields of Gold (2002)
- Hidden (2011)
- Top Boy (2011)
Short films
- Do Armed Robbers Have Love Affairs? (2002)
See also[edit]
- ^ a b "Ronan Bennett: From Prisoner to Writer". NPR. 3 July 2007. Retrieved 16 October 2011.
- ^ a b c Laity, Paul (27 October 2007). "The controversialist". The Guardian. Retrieved 16 October 2011.
- ^ Josh Halliday "Georgina Henry named head of guardian.co.uk", guardian.co.uk, 25 July 2011
- ^ Chessbase.com feature
External links[edit]
- 1999 interview with Salon magazine
- Zugzwang on The Observer website
- Bloomsbury author information on Bennett
- 1956 births
- Alumni of King's College London
- Irish people convicted of murdering police officers
- Irish republicans imprisoned by non-jury courts
- Living people
- Novelists from Northern Ireland
- Overturned convictions in the United Kingdom
- People from Newtownabbey
- Provisional Irish Republican Army members
- Republicans imprisoned during the Northern Ireland conflict
- Screenwriters from Northern Ireland


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The battery, SD card slot, and Micro-HDMI and Micro-USB ports are all behind a locking door on the right side of the camera. Battery life is good, being CIPA-rated for 310 shots. On the other hand, if you're going to be away from a power outlet for an extended period of time, you have little choice but to buy extra batteries; there is no option to charge via USB. That's not unusual, but with a rugged camera like the TS4 it's more of an issue.
One of the main attractions of the TS4 is the built-in GPS. Once you've turned on the receiver -- this can be done from the Q.Menu or from the main menu -- you can have the camera retrieve the GPS information for your current location. In tests this took anywhere from less than a minute to several minutes depending on how much open sky was above me. Once locked, the TS4 can display country, state, city, and landmark information and continues to update itself every minute. You can then go into the GPS Area Select menus and pick the correct information for your location.
For example, if you're standing in the middle of New York, it could quite possibly have a couple pages of landmarks to pick from. Also, you can choose to limit what area information is attached, in case you only want the name of the city, for instance. The area information now covers 203 countries or regions all over the world and more than a million landmarks in 82 countries or regions.
The camera also has an altimeter (with logging) and depth indicator, compass, and barometer.
Movies can be recorded with GPS data as well. However, the location information can only be viewed when videos are played back on a computer using the bundled software or directly from the camera connected to a TV. If you don't want to view your clips with those methods, you'll probably want to stick with the non-GPS AVCHD format option to save on battery life.
General shooting options | Panasonic Lumix DMC-TS4 |
ISO sensitivity (full resolution) | Auto, 100, 200, 400, 800, 1600 |
White balance | Auto, Daylight, Cloudy, Shade, Incandescent, Manual |
Recording modes | Intelligent Auto, Program, Manual, Sports, Snow, Miniature Effect, Beach & Snorkeling, Underwater, Scene, 3D Photo |
Focus modes | Face Detection AF, 1-point AF, 23-point AF, Spot AF, AF Tracking |
Macro | 1.9 inches (Wide); 1 foot (Tele) |
Metering modes | Multi, Center-weighted average, Spot |
Color effects | Standard, Black & White, Sepia, Vivid (in Program and Manual modes), Happy (only in iA mode) |
Burst mode shot limit (full resolution) | 6 shots |
As for shooting modes, a press of the Mode button brings up 10 options. Intelligent Auto has you covered with simple put-it-there-leave-it-there shooting, while Program gives you a little more control with options for ISO, exposure compensation, white balance, and focus and metering selections. If you want even more control, a Manual mode lets you pick shutter speeds and apertures as well as turn on exposure bracketing.
Then there are four active outdoor scene modes for shooting sports, underwater, beach and snorkeling, and snow scenes as well as access to 13 other scene modes. For the most part they are the ones you'd find on any point-and-shoot, but you do get a Handheld Night Shot that takes several 3-megapixel pictures in a row and then combines them into one image to reduce motion blur and noise and a Panorama Shot that makes it easy to capture 360-degree horizontal or vertical panoramic pictures.
The last spot in the mode menu goes to the TS4's 3D mode, which works by clicking off multiple shots as you move the camera horizontally across a scene and then picks the two best for overlaying to create a 3D MPO file that can be played back on 3D-enabled TVs, computers, and digital photo frames. The results are good, but your subject has to be motionless, as does everything in the scene. Any movement really kills the effect. It's a nice extra to play with, but it's still not a must-have mode.
Conclusion: Recommended (but not for upgraders)Owners of the Panasonic Lumix TS3 looking to upgrade for better photo quality or shooting performance should probably pass on the Lumix DMC-TS4. The design is the same, too, and it's just as rugged. Now, that doesn't mean new buyers shouldn't consider it. It still produces very good photos and movies for its class and it's a quick camera as well. Plus, the new shooting options make it an overall attractive package.
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UPDATED: NBC Sports Analyst Mike Milbury Charged With Assault of 12-Year Old Hockey Player
UPDATE 4:15 p.m.: Milbury's lawyer, Daniel Rabinovitz, just released the following statement about today's charges:
"Mike Milbury denies any allegations that there was an assault of any kind. He simply intervened in an altercation between his son and an opposing player. No one was struck, no one was injured and no one was threatened."
That is certainly in keeping with the unnamed family friend who spoke to Justin from Days of Y'Orr's earlier today. I wouldn't expect much to come of this charge. It's noteworthy, certainly, because of Milbury's past history with famous brawls and his on-air persona, but I doubt it'll amount to anything in a court of law.
UPDATE 3:15 p.m.: Our friends over at Days of Y'Orr just posted an exclusive side to this story. Apparently, a friend of the Milbury family who was at the game in question and saw the entire thing unfold. According to their source, who requested anonymity, Mad Mike may have just been simply defending his own son. Decide for yourself:
"Milbury's 12-year-old son was playing in the game. A kid (the alleged victim) from the opposing team kept trying to start a fight with Little Milbury because of who his dad is -- 'Hey, you're a Milbury. Fight me.' sort of deal. Sounds reasonable. Who wouldn't want to say they got into a fight with a Milbury? According to our source, Little Milbury isn't much of a fighter (not to mention fighting is illegal in pee wee hockey) and wouldn't oblige. The other kid kept going after him anyways. Eventually Mike had enough and went up to the kid, grabbed him by the jersey and [said] 'What the &$%# is your problem?' The kid's dad flipped out and reported it to police."
I'm not one to condone any kind of violence towards children, but if someone was incessantly going after my kid, I'd probably flip my lid too. Interesting.
According to WCVB-TV in Boston, Versus analyst Mike Milbury has been charged with assault and battery of a 12-year old boy.
The report states that the former Bruins player and Islanders GM allegedly assaulted the boy at Dexter School Ice Rink in Brookline last week.
Though he is currently an assistant coach for a local youth team, the report says the player in question was on an opposing team. NBC Sports did not immediately return a call requesting comment on Milbury's status with the company.
More details from a Boston Herald report:
"The incident allegedly occurred at the end of the Winter Classic between the Boch Blazers for whom Milbury coaches and his son plays forward vs. the Boston Junior Black Hawks. It is alleged that after Milbury's son and a player for the Black Hawks got into a scrape on the ice, Milbury charged out onto the rink and verbally berated and grabbed and shook the 12-year-old opposing player."
According to the Herald, neither Milbury's attorney nor the head coach of the Junior Black Hawks replied to numerous phone calls. Milbury will be summons to Brookline District Court to answer the charges, but there is no.
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1Colts_Fan writes:
My very first job was at whataburger. I worked at the one at staples that was all 50's with the old back of a car for a seat. I was very sad when they tore it down. I still will eat there so that says a lot. My best friend joined the military right out of high school. The first thing he wanted when he got back from boot camp was a whataburger. There is just nothing else like it. Kudos to them for appreciated a texas tradition ad especially for giving back to the community.
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