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VINCI 7" Tab II Touch Screen Learning Tablet (WIFI, 8GB)
VINCI Tab II was created as a new category of fun learning tools with the goal to engage, empower and educate children. By using a scaffolding teaching method designed by developmental psychologists, parents can encourage their children to participate in constructive play ... Read More
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VINCI Tab II was created as a new category of fun learning tools with the goal to engage, empower and educate children. By using a scaffolding teaching method designed by developmental psychologists, parents can encourage their children to participate in constructive play and promote early learning.
Unlike any other electronic toy or tablet, VINCI learning system grows with the child by offering the VINCI Curriculum, a step-by-step learning structure comprised of 43 learning subjects and 3 levels of assessment, which covers all 6 aspects of a child's developing mind:
- Thinking Skills
- Emotional & Social Skills
- Language and Literacy
- Math & Logical Reasoning
- General Knowledge
- Science
With WIFI and Parent Login, VINCI Tab II instantly switches to a regular tablet mode for high quality web browsing, emails, social networking and entertainment with HD video and music support.
- The only Android tablet designed, tested and FDA-approved for children 18 months and older.
- Patented safety handles keeps your child mobile, turning every moment into a learning opportunity.
- The VINCI Diary offers the Age Norm reference guide to track your child's progress and compose your child's personal story book.
- English, French, Spanish and Chinese language settings.
- 100% Android features available with a password-protected login.
- Comes pre-loaded with 6 learning apps, 3 storybooks from the VINCI Kids Library, 20 VINCI award-winning music videos and a free VINCI Diary after registration.
BONUS: Get 50 FREE apps for download when you buy VINCI 7" Tab II or the VINCI 5" Tab II M from Family Christian!
Product Details:
Ages: 18 months - 9 years
Screen Size: 7"
Screen Resolution: 800x480
Processor: Cortex A8 1.2GHz
Expansion Slot: Micro SD Card up to 32 GB
Battery: Rechargeable 6400 mAH
Battery life: 6 to 8 hours, depending on use
OS: Android 2.3.5
Pre-loaded programs: Google Play, Gmail, Skype. PDF Reader, QuickOffice, Map, Internet Browser, YouTube
Child Safety: Certified for FDA standard ASTM F963
Camera: 3 Mega Pixels (back)
MP3 / MP4: Built-in
Warranty: 12 Months parts and labor with normal use
Additional Information
- Product type: Default
- Format: Touch Screen (7" Screen)
- Release Date: Oct 30, 2012
- Height: 7.25
- Width: 0.62
- Length: 10
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This will be the continuation of the Survival series. In the last chapter all the characters grouped together and soon afterwards they went and rescued some members of their group that were being held against their will. A few members of the group went a rescued them. The place they were being held was a airfield that being garrisoned by remaining military personal. Luckily at that time the airfield was being attacked by zombies. The group managed to kill several of the military and zombies while managing to escape. Few members of the group were injured, some were killed. Once the battle was over. The group stayed a little while making sure thing flowed smoothly among the surviving people of the airfield and that they had a leader that would be able to lead. Now the group is deciding on where to go and what to do next. We are currently in airfield near Lumber City, Georgia.
Link to old OOC I would suggest reading season 1 of it. Just so you understand some of what has happened.
Finally after some time I along with a few other of the original members of the roleplay wanted to continue on.
People who were a part of the original roleplay are welcome to use their original characters if they please.add

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THE RP-7: Doctors at the William Lehman Injury Research Center (WLIRC) in Miami are testing the ability of a robot to help them better care for patients when a doctor is not available. View slideshow to see the RP-7 in action.
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Telemedicine has caught on over the past several years as an effective way to bring patients and specialists together via the magic of video conferencing. Unfortunately, most telemedicine setups require the patient to be in a room equipped with a computer, camera, microphone and monitor, so that specialists can remotely assess his or her condition. Could robots be the answer, providing both patient care and a view for specialists checking in from afar?
The William Lehman Injury Research Center (WLIRC) in Miami for a year has been experimenting with a budding type of telemedicine that uses a robot to let videoconferencing go mobile, allowing a specialist working from a remote location to see a patient (and for the patient to see the physician) from the moment he or she checks in for surgery through recovery.
A typical scenario would unfold as such: A patient is brought to the Ryder Trauma Center at the University of Miami's Jackson Memorial Hospital (where the WLIRC doctors work) by ambulance or helicopter. While the patient is en route, the trauma center checks to see if there is a specialist on site who can treat the patient's specific injuries. If there are none available and the specialist on call is unable to make it to Ryder in time, staff at the center wheel out the RP-7, made by InTouch Technologies, Inc., a Santa Barbara, Calif., medical robotics technology company. Once a specialist is located, he or she uses a laptop or PC to remotely connect via wireless broadband with the robot. After the connection is made, the specialist is able to control the robot's movement, possibly even meeting the patient at the door. From there, the specialist can autonomously drive the robot to operating rooms, intensive care units and patients' bedsides so he or she can monitor those patients as well as instruct nurses and residents.
View a slideshow of the RP-7 in action
The WLIRC doctors and physicians from the U.S. Army's Trauma Training Center (working at the Ryder Trauma Center) have been testing the RP-7, to see if the above scenario is realistic. The 200-pound, (90.7-kilogram) 67-inch- (1.7-meter-) tall metal medical man glides along on three spherical balls (rather than wheels) at a top speed of four miles (6.4 kilometers) per hour. As the Army's Web site points out, it "looks vaguely like one of the Daleks [robots] from Doctor Who with a view screen mounted on top."
Ryder is the only "level 1" trauma center in Miami–Dade County, which makes it difficult to find specialists to weigh in on all cases, particularly within the critical first 60 minutes after an injury, says Jeffrey Augenstein, WLIRC's director and the RP-7 project's principal investigator. "There is a shortage of trauma specialists in this country," he says. "You need to have a plan B to bring expertise from the outside to the point of care, where decisions often involve life and death."


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The 2nd graphic novel in a series of adventures set in the next 50 years in our Solar System. Love hard sci-fi? Help us make more!
All my life I've been inspired by science fiction. Because, at its best, sci-fi asks the hard questions about where we're going as a species.
I'm Jeffrey Morris. I'm a writer and artist. But I'm also a dude who looks to the future and tries to figure it out. In fact, I publish a blog about space, science, and tomorrow at FutureDude. I prefer sci-fi that's directly related to our future. Speculative stories that are based on the realities of science and technology. 2001, Blade Runner, and Firefly are among my favorites.
I've designed tons of spacecraft and tech in my day. I like the challenge of creating craft that might even be able to function if they were built. I've also written and published a couple of sci-fi books recently including the illustrated screenplay Slingshot that features a foreword by astronaut Buzz Aldrin. My relationship with him grew out of working with NASA over the past ten years to help them improve their public image.
As Gene Roddenberry is remembered for creating Star Trek, I want to be known as the guy who pulled off his own 'Solar System Trek.' Right now, I'm doing this via graphic novels. I love the comic medium, and want to reach an audience that normally doesn't read comics. There's nothing wrong with superheroes, they just aren't my mission.
I prefer astronauts, scientists, engineers -- real heroes. Characters that don't need magical powers to be cool. They keep it real while using their wits, guile, and keen intellect to survive out on in the final frontier of space.
My company FutureDude Studios is focused on bringing high-quality original sci-fi content to the world of print and digital comics. We're based in Saint Paul, Minnesota -- off the beaten path of mainstream science-fiction media production.
We try our best to make every story we tell at FutureDude Studios realistic and plausible. Our contacts with NASA scientists help to keep us on the straight and narrow, while we create great human stories -- most of which are set in the next 100 years within our Solar System.
With my very talented co-writer Ira Livingston, I've developed a series of sci-fi stories called the Daedalus Saga. The first graphic novel, Venus: Daedalus One was published in May, 2012. The story centers around an engineer named Dez Clarke and a team of explorers who travel to our deadly neighboring world. Venus is an awful place with scorching 900 degree temperatures, sulphuric acid rain, and a crushing atmosphere. Dez has designed a platform that can float above all of that and allow for research.
There to witness a historical geologic event, the scientists have brought along a number of exospheres -- cybernetic organisms with artificial intelligence. In our story, the exospheres are so evolved that they are lobbying for status as 'legally and functionally sentient'. You can imagine the tension that this produces between humans who see the exos as 'things' or at best servants. The adventure unfolds in intense and surprising ways, and has been praised for its handling of an AI civil rights struggle.
Here is a recent radio interview where I discuss the Daedalus Saga at large:
I produced and art directed Venus over a period of 18 months with the help of a team of talented artists including penciller, inker and colorist Chaz Truog. He's an industry professional with over 20 years experience working for both DC and Marvel on such titles as Spider-Man, Animal Man and Jurassic Park. Chaz was supported by Fuzzy Duck Studios and other members of my team like Fredrick Haugen and Cort Bechtell.
So, why'd Venus take so long? Well, it was basically a labor of love while we all kept our day jobs. I'm very happy to say that our diligence and follow-through worked out. An educational publisher, Tumblehome Learning, was so impressed by the science content in Venus that they published it earlier this year. It's currently selling well and already in its second print run.
Tumblehome focuses on educational sales to schools and libraries. And they're selling Venus internationally. There's already a Mandarin translation for the Chinese market. Talks are happening in Europe as well. In the midst of all of this, Tumblehome asked us for Mars: Daedalus Two -- the next story in a projected series of four.
Mars is set five years after Venus when Dez Clarke and the exosphere Alpha are forced to steal a nuclear rocket. They travel to the Red Planet to save a group of rogue exospheres who've uncovered an ancient mystery. During their journey, they visit some of the biggest geological features in the Solar System -- like Olympus Mons, a volcano the size of Arizona; and Valles Marineris, a canyon that, on Earth, would span the continental United States!
Mars: Daedalus Two goes deeper into the mysteries of artificial intelligence and explores the potential for extraterrestrial life. Tumblehome is excited to get it into even more distribution catalogs than Venus for Fall 2013. To make this deadline, we can't take 18 months again. This time we have to do the whole thing in less than eight! And, of course, we already started.
We've streamlined our production process for Mars based upon what we learned before, and can deliver an even more spectacular product in less time. Ira and I have already written the whole story, and I've created designs for spacecraft, rovers, and other technology. Chaz is over halfway through inking the first of four chapters. We're all moving with a purpose.
We need your help to fully fund all aspects, including coloring, lettering, layout, and pre-press. We have a supremely talented team on this project and, as you can see with the Venus graphic novel, we've already pulled it off once. We've proved we can do it. We're excited to do it again with Mars: Daedalus Two.
If you like, you can see more artwork from Mars at FutureDude Comics.
Take a look at the great rewards we're offering. Besides the digital and print editions of Mars, you can get Venus (with its new 2nd print run cover that features a quote from October Sky author Homer Hickam!). Also, we're offering original pages of art from both comics -- pencilled, inked, and signed by Chaz.
Do you want to be a part of the story? You can be drawn in as a character! As opposed to Venus which was an intense claustrophobic drama with five people on a small ship, Mars is a sweeping tale. We're going to meet dozens of new characters and one of them can be you!
We'll be recording video updates and interviews throughout the process and we promise to keep you regularly updated on the project -- in a way that's both fun and behind-the-scenes.
So, if you're a fan of what-they-used-to-call 'hard sci-fi,' then please consider joining us. And send this link to your friends. If we go beyond our goal, we've got a really cool idea for a new milestone -- an animated enhancement for the digital edition that will rock your socks off.
Thanks for reading this and for considering our project. I promise that you'll love Mars: Daedalus Two, and we truly appreciate the opportunity to create it and share it with you.
* Note that the 'digital' editions includes a copy for our FutureDude Studios app (for iPhone and iPad), CBR format, and PDF.
** Special thanks to Zen Darius for the tight music track in our project video.
Have a question? If the info above doesn't help, you can ask the project creator directly.
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Poster Session II - Friday, 11 May 2012
Material induced biological responses | |
P-81 | In vivo biocompatibility of fluoride and calcium phosphatic coated degradable magnesium sponges in rabbit femurs |
P-82 | Artificial extracellular matrices composed of collagen I and high-/non- sulfated hyaluronan affect osteogenic differentiation of human mesenchymal stromal cells |
P-83 | Electrochemical and scanning electron microscopic characterization of biomaterial surfaces with regular geometry dry etched in titanium |
P-84 | Controlled drug release from hollow and porous hydroxyapatite microspheres |
P-85 | Multiporous gelatin-coated b-tricalcium phosphate for hard tissue regeneration |
P-86 | Establishment of an in-vitro test setup exposing human osteoblasts to ultra high molecular weight polyethylene wear particles |
P-88 | LbL coatings on microstructured titanium alloy Ti-6Al-4V: |
P-89 | Characterization of nanoparticle-protein-interaction by ToF-SIMS, STEM and TEM |
P-90 | Influence of topographical and chemical stimuli of biomaterial surfaces on mammalian cell adhesion |
P-91 | Laser microtome for site-specific sectioning of the implant-tissue interface and subsequent qPCR analysis |
P-92 | Synthesis of a multifunctional peptide that promotes cell adhesion |
P-93 | Bone-implant interface on the nano-scale |
P-94 | Mixed-ceramic surface coatings of zirconia for medical applications |
P-95 | Study of stereochemical effects on integrin binding to RGD-class oligopeptides grafted onto biomaterials surfaces |
P-96 | Thin films biomaterials – mechanical rigidity and bioactivity |
P-97 | Changes in human adipose tissue-derived stem cell energy metabolic capacities during differentiation in vitro |
P-98 | Triggering symmetry of hematopoietic stem cell fate by materials constraints ex vivo |
P-99 | Materials in biology – new tools for the analysis of induced biological response |
P-100 | Dental pellicle – A possible breaking point for biofilms? |
P-101 | Anti-microbial implants coated with copper promote proliferation and osteogenic differentiation in mesenchymal stem cells |
P-102 | Anatase coating of blasted/etched titanium implant surfaces promotes metabolic activity and cell proliferation of human osteoblasts |
P-103 | Examination of acute local tissue response and copper release after implantation of copper-coated titanium implants in rats |
P-104 | FIB-SEM tomography of biological technical interfaces on the example of retinal tissue on a subretinal electronic chip |
P-105 | Facile and efficient control of bioadhesion on poly (dimethylsiloxane) by using a biomimetic approach |
P-106 | Anodization of Ti through block copolymer templates for nanopatterning of Ti implant surfaces |
P-107 | Cytotoxicity and antimicrobial activity of dental abutments with coating based on nanotechnology of silver particles – a pilot study |
P-108 | Responses of both Osteoblasts and Periodontal ligament cells seeded on titanium surfaces to Parathyroid hormone stimulationin vitro |
P-109 | Influence of cell source and adhesion substrate on growth factor responsiveness in primary endothelial cells |
P-110 | Qualitative assessment of different calcium phosphate types using time-lapse microcinematography |
P-111 | Mechanisms of Co2+-induced angiogenesis inhibition in vitro |
P-112 | Development of 3D spheroid culture systems on polymer brush surfaces |
P-113 | Influence of differently terminated graphene on cell behaviour in the presence/absence of fetal bovine serum |
P-114 | Effects of a plasma-polymerized allyl amine coating on the local inflammatory response induced by titanium samples treated with plasma immersion ion implantation of copper for antibacterial properties |
P-115 | Materialographic examinations of failed dental implants |
P-116 | Collagen type I and II electrospun scaffolds for meniscal cartilage repair |
P-117 | Interactions of bone and titaniumNew insights into the unique marriage of bone and metal. A. Wirthmann (New York, NY/US), C. Paulmann (Hamburg/DE) |
P-118 | Polymer coating of cochlear electrode surface – An option for improving electrode-nerv-interface and blocking fibroblast overgrowth? K. Wissel (Hannover/DE), A. Sen (Braunschweig/DE), A. Warnecke P. Aliuos (Hannover/DE), W. Dempwolf, H. Menzel (Braunschweig/DE) T. Lenarz, G. Reuter (Hannover/DE), U. Reich (Berlin/DE) |
P-119 | Comparison of growth and differentiation of mesenchymal stromal cells from bone marrow (MSCs) and adipose tissue (ASC) on hydroxyapatite granules |
P-126 | Morphological evaluation of soft tissues around HAp bioceramic implants loaded with autologous mesenchymal cells after implantation in subcutaneous tissues of experimental animals L. Berzina-Cimdina, A. Skagers, L. Feldmane, M. Pilmane, V. Zalite |
P-127 | Effects of nanotopography on cell adhesion C. Akehurst, K. Seunarine, N. Gadegaard, A. Ferrari (Zurich/CH) |
P-128 | Calcium channel expression in human osteoblasts J. Steffen, F. Kunz, J. B. Nebe (Rostock/DE) |
Mechanical control of cells | |
P-120 | Electromagnetic stimulation increases collagen type I synthesis of human osteoblasts on 3D scaffolds in a novel in vitro test set-up |
P-121 | The constant beat – cardiac myocytes adapt their forces by equal contraction upon environmental stiffening N. Hersch, B. Wolters, T. Jonas (Jülich/DE), N. Kirchgessner (Zurich/CH) |
P-122 | withdrawn abstract |
P-123 | Is liver fibrosis a pathology or a physiological mechanism to control proliferation and further metastasis of cancer cells? An in vitro study using entrapped cells in tumour-like microcapsules A. Leal-Egaña, U.-D. Braumann, A. Fritsch (Leipzig/DE) |
P-124 | Effects of cytoskeletal manipulation on mechanotransduction in mesenchymal stem cells P. Müller, A. Langenbach, J. Rychly (Rostock/DE) |


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"The dough for these cookies is what makes them exceptional. I always quadruple this recipe for the holidays. Most popular fillings are peach, apricot, raspberry and date. Use your imagination! This year I'm trying Michigan cherry preserves and cranberry marmalade. You better hide a few for Christmas day--- these are the ones that go first!"
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3 ounces cream cheese
1/2 cup butter, softened
1 cup all-purpose flour
1/2 cup any flavor fruit jam
1/3 cup confectioners' sugar for decoration
I have been making these delicious cookies for years and I found an easier way for me . I just roll them in small balls and make a thumbprint in them and fill and bake them ,when cooled I roll in powdered sugar, same great taste and much less work
This recipe seems like its missing something. No offense at all to anyone who posted it. I just found it extremely weird recipe. First of all, the dough has to thaw completely from the refrigerator over night. The "dough" is like a complete butter batter. Its like playing in grease. There is no way to shape them like on the photo. SO I made balls and put jam in them. Also, once they cool, they totally fall apart in your hand becuase its so delicate and the jam is to heavy for it. Most likely WON'T try this recipe again.....sorry....
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truly great, truly simple. .chilled for about two hours and to simplify, I made a "log" and rolled it in plastic wrap; just sliced, dolloped and baked. No rolling or unnecessary handling. Baked about 15 minutes though. and
This is a great recipe. My dough was great to work with, very flaky dough. Just what I was looking for. Was great with all my fillings! Thanks for sharing! I had to make cookies for the holidays so I tripled this recipe and it still worked great! I have learned through the years that I don't touch the dough with my hand except to transfer them and roll it. This prevented me from my warm hands making the dough gluey. Also this helped to make the cookies flaky. I could actually see the flaky layers when I bit into the cookies! YUMMY!
Jam, preserves, or pie filling won't work as well as a true fruit/nut pastry filling. Solo brand is excellent and never runs (unless you overfill). The recipe I use for the dough is 0.5 lb of butter and 0.5 lb of cream cheese with 2 cups of flour. If the dough is properly chilled, you don't need much extra flour to keep things from sticking. In years of making these pastries, the dough doesn't seem to suffer from a little extra flour - just don't over work/knead it to start or during the rolling out process.
I tried this recipe and I put Solo Almond filling instead of preserves. It knocked my husbands socks off.
These are the best Kolacky ever! They are nice and tender and flaky. I have always loved kolacky but I always thought that they'd be too dificult to make. However, I can't believe how easy they are to make! Just 3 ingredients, I can't believe I used to pay so much for only a few at my local bakery. I like to sprinkle them with powdered sugar once cooled and they are just PERFECT!!! I made them for the first time late last night, and they were gone by early morning. I am making them again today, however, this time I am doubling the recipe. Thank you for sharing this recipe with me! I just can't get enough of them!
Wow. I tasted the raw dough & it was not good at all. Put it in the freezer & did not have high hopes for a very good cookie. Let it thaw a little. Decided I was tired so I put powdered sugar in a large baggie, rolled dough into balls, threw them into the sugar, put the balls on a cookie sheet, smashed with my finger, added peach preserves to the middle of the cookie & wallaa . . . very tasty treat!
* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2,000 calorie diet.
Cream Cheese Kolacky
Serving Size: 1/30 of a recipe Servings Per Recipe: 30 Amount Per Serving Calories: 72 Calories from Fat: 37
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#3.) 13% wish they did more research before buying.
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Next month, experience the thrills of a Sherlock Holmes mystery... in the open air!
Tuesday 28th June at 7.30pm will see the Miracle Theatre Company present an open air performance of The Death of Sherlock Holmes in the magnificent, majestic setting of Caerphilly Castle.
It's a dangerous time for Sherlock Holmes: preparing for his final battle with the criminal mastermind Moriarty, he stumbles on a most ingenious crime.
Investigating a trail of rare botanical specimens and paranormal activities, Holmes is led from Baker St, via a suburban séance to the Swiss Alps, where his powers of deduction are stretched to the limit.
Discovering his own life is in danger, he is forced to enlist the help of Dr Watson and call on voices from beyond the grave to crack his ultimate case.
The Death of Sherlock Holmes stirs up all the ingredients of this brand new mystery, with a large measure of comedy, to bring audiences of all ages a period thriller with a sting in its tail!
Don't forget... bring your own rugs and picnic blankets, as well as all-weather gear in the likelihood of rain, or more optimistically, don't forget your sunscreen!
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Tickets for The Death of Sherlock Holmes cost £12 each, or £10 for concessions.
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Single picnic menus are also available. Picnics must be ordered at least one week in advance of the performance – picnics will not be available to purchase on the evening itself.
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The Suburban Avenger wrote:Denver?
I thought he'd be better off in Tennessee.
He won two Super Bowls and is the greatest player in Broncos history, which gave him the clout needed to take out his big balls and wipe them across Tim Tebow's chin.
Andy wrote:The Suburban Avenger wrote:Denver?
I thought he'd be better off in Tennessee.
They were ready to change the name of the team to the Tennessee (Whatever Peyton Manning wants). Crazy.
I thought Deadspin put it best about John Elway:He won two Super Bowls and is the greatest player in Broncos history, which gave him the clout needed to take out his big balls and wipe them across Tim Tebow's chin.
The Suburban Avenger wrote:Andy wrote:The Suburban Avenger wrote:Denver?
I thought he'd be better off in Tennessee.
They were ready to change the name of the team to the Tennessee (Whatever Peyton Manning wants). Crazy.
I thought Deadspin put it best about John Elway:He won two Super Bowls and is the greatest player in Broncos history, which gave him the clout needed to take out his big balls and wipe them across Tim Tebow's chin.
Thinking it over, if Willis McGahee can put up the kind of numbers he did last season, maybe Denver isn't much of a reach. Defense kept them in most of the games last season. I'd imagine Denver's next phone call is to Dallas Clark.
I've heard $95 million/five years for Manning. Drew Brees' agent has the most orgasmic of smiles on his face right now.
Doctor Detroit wrote:Tebow to the Jets? Mmmk.
Saints coach Sean Payton has been suspended for one year, former defensive coordinator Gregg Williams was suspended indefinitely, general manager Mickey Loomis was suspended for the first eight regular-season games, the team was fined $500,000 and lost two second-round draft picks (one in 2012 and '13) as a result of a bounty program conducted by the team during the 2009-11 seasons that targeted opposing players.
Saints assistant coach Joe Vitt also was suspended six games and fined $100,000. The NFL said in its statement that the suspensions for Payton, Loomis and Vitt are without pay.
Payton's suspension is effective April 1. Commissioner Roger Goodell will meet with Williams after the 2012 season and determine the coach's status.
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Andy wrote:Doctor Detroit wrote:Tebow to the Jets? Mmmk.
That is strange.
And Sean Payton just got reamed.Saints coach Sean Payton has been suspended for one year, former defensive coordinator Gregg Williams was suspended indefinitely, general manager Mickey Loomis was suspended for the first eight regular-season games, the team was fined $500,000 and lost two second-round draft picks (one in 2012 and '13) as a result of a bounty program conducted by the team during the 2009-11 seasons that targeted opposing players.
Saints assistant coach Joe Vitt also was suspended six games and fined $100,000. The NFL said in its statement that the suspensions for Payton, Loomis and Vitt are without pay.
Payton's suspension is effective April 1. Commissioner Roger Goodell will meet with Williams after the 2012 season and determine the coach's status.
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Lions great Lem Barney wasn't diagnosed with his first concussion until years after his Hall of Fame career ended, when an ophthalmologist looked into his eyes and saw spots on his brain.
"(He) told me that he saw where I had at least seven or eight concussions," Barney said. "One (spot) was as large as a silver dollar, and he said, 'You were out for a long time.' And there was about 30 minutes that I was out -- down at Tiger Stadium playing against the Bengals. It was just amazing.
"And then the other ones that he saw -- I can remember them. The ones I remember fondly was big Rufus Mayes from Ohio State, 6-9, 290, and he put his right knee right in the right temple when I came up to cut him down on a sweep. Next thing I know, it's like la-la land. Was out for a long time."
Barney is one of 106 retired players who filed suit against the NFL in Philadelphia federal court in January accusing the league of negligence when it came to treating and diagnosing head injuries. Similar lawsuits have been filed in Florida, Georgia and New York, some of which have been consolidated into one complaint.
The NFL is contesting the allegations, and commissioner Roger Goodell said at the Super Bowl last month the league is pioneering research "to make sure we understand all there is about brain injuries and brain disease."
Despite his legal claim, Barney, 66, considers himself lucky.
He hasn't suffered any of the debilitating mental diseases that have disabled many of his peers. He still works full-time in patient relations at Sinai Grace Hospital. And he's able to deal with the health problems he has -- he said he has been diagnosed with nerve conditions that cause tingling in his fingers, hands and forearms and limits him to 3-4 hours of sleep a night -- without the help of medicine.
"I call it blessed," Barney said. "It's that type of game. It's a lethal game. Again, as I tell people, 'Do you miss the game, Lem?' And sincerely, I don't miss the game."
In fact, Barney goes a step further.
"If I look at the game now and I look back on it retrospectively, if I had another choice I'd never played the game, at all, in my life," he said. "Never. Never. From all-city, all-state, all-conference, all-American, seven times All-Pro, I'm in eight Hall of Fames, it wouldn't be. It would be golf or tennis. I'm serious. Very serious."
A standout cornerback in 1967-77 with the Lions, Barney said the term concussion wasn't used during his playing days.
"I related concussions to boxers," he said. "I didn't put one and two together. You get KO'd on the football (field) like getting KO'd in the damn ring, it's a concussion. I didn't put that together because, again, no doctors from middle school through high school through college through the league called them concussions. They all called them dingers and stingers."
Now that he has seen firsthand how dangerous concussions can be, Barney, who testified at a Congressional hearing about the subject two years ago, said he worries about players like Lions running back Jahvid Best.
Best suffered two concussions last year, finished the season on injured reserve and has not been cleared by team doctors to return to football.
Lions general manager Martin Mayhew said Monday at a town hall meeting for season-ticket holders that he has "big plans" for Best this year and is "very optimistic" about his health.
Barney said if he were advising Best, he'd tell him to consider giving up the game.
"If he wants to play again, God bless him, but if he can come back and still be comprehensible and still be able to understand things and still live a real good life," Barney said. "I would tell him, if he's going to play, they've got to get some kind of special helmet for him because it's not going to take much longer if he keeps getting those dinger, stinger and bell-ringers as the boxers used to call them, or even the concussions, that he's going to be around here.
"I would tell him to maybe look at doing something else rather than coming back again after having those back-to-(back) concussions. It's a dangerous game. Like I said, I don't have anything against it, I just don't have anything for it now."
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Documentary filmmaker Sean Pamphilon, who directed the ESPN 30 for 30 film "Run Ricky Run," has released an audio recording he says is a speech Williams, the team's former defensive coordinator, gave to New Orleans players the night before the team lost to the 49ers in a playoff game in January.
The sample audio recording is a little less than four minutes long. The full speech was 12 minutes, according to Pamphilon.
Pamphilon was following the Saints last season while working on a documentary featuring former Saints special-teams player Steve Gleason, who is battling Lou Gehrig's disease.
Williams, who is suspended indefinitely by the league and is not appealing the penalty, can be heard in the audio recording instructing his defensive players to injure quarterback Alex Smith, running back Frank Gore, tight end Vernon Davis and receivers Michael Crabtree and Kyle Williams.
According to Pamphilon, Gregg Williams pointed to his chin while telling his players to hit Smith "right there," saying, "Remember me. I got the first one. I got the first one. Go get it. Go lay that m----------- out."
Williams uses one of his favorite slogans in the speech: "Kill the head and the body will die."
On Gore: "We've got to do everything in the world to make sure we kill Frank Gore's head. We want him running sideways. We want his head sideways."
On running back Kendall Hunter: "Little 32, we're going to knock the f--- out of him."
On Smith: "Every single one of you, before you get off the pile, affect the head. Early, affect the head. Continue, touch and hit the head."
On Kyle Williams: "We need to find out in the first two series of the game, that little wide receiver, No. 10, about his concussion. We need to f------ put a lick on him right now. He needs to decide. He needs to f------ decide."
On Crabtree: "We need to decide whether Crabtree wants to be a fake-ass prima donna, or he wants to be a tough guy. We need to find out. He becomes human when we f------ take out that outside ACL."
On Davis: "We need to decide how many times we can bull rush and and we can f------ put Vernon Davis' ankles over the pile."
When asked by ESPN NFL Insider Adam Schefter for comment on Williams' speech to his players, NFL spokesman Greg Aiello would not, other than to reiterate the Saints had been warned, saying, "Note for background these graphs from our March 21 press release announcing the discipline for Saints management."
The NFL had warned the Saints before the playoffs that it had reopened its investigation into the team's bounty program and the program needed to cease, but the warning apparently was ignored.
Saints coach Sean Payton was expected to testify Thursday during his appeals process that he directed Williams before the playoff game to ensure that no inappropriate conduct would occur, a source close to the process told Schefter.
Saints cornerback Malcolm Jenkins, in a post on his Twitter page, blasted Pamphilon for making the audio public.
His tweet: "Sean pamphilon is a coward and should be ashamed for taking advantage of Steve Gleason! How much did u get paid for that audio?"
Jenkins deleted the tweet later Thursday afternoon.
Pamphilon told Yahoo! Sports that he decided to release the audio because Williams' words, especially about Kyle Williams' concussion history, made him uncomfortable.
"Personally, suspension or not, it's probably best I'm never in a room with Gregg Williams and wonder if such an order crosses the lines of the aggressive, competitive spirit we all know and love about the sport and leans closer to a criminal act and therefore litigious matter," said Kenny Williams, Kyle's father and the GM of the Chicago White Sox, in a statement.
The film project Pamphilon is working on, "The United States of Football," he told Yahoo! Sports, "looks at the media's effect upon the way the game is played and celebrated, the proper coaching mentality and the effect of concussions and repetitive head trauma."
Said Pamphilon: "The thing that really got me was when he said the thing about No. 10 and concussions. I thought, 'Did he just say that?' That was the red flag for me. And then the comments by the Giants made it hit home even harder."
Giants players had said after their win over San Francisco in the NFC Championship Game that they had targeted Kyle Williams as someone who might fumble on big hits because of his history of concussions.
Thursday afternoon, Pamphilon released a statement on his film's website further explaining why he released the audio recording.
"If this story hadn't broken and been made public, I would not have shared this. I would not have compromised my personal relationships and risked damaging Steve Gleason's relationship with the Saints. I would have crafted these words and sentiments for another forum, perhaps years down the road. ...
"If it weren't for the fact I feel deeply that parents of children playing football MUST pay attention to the influence of men who will sacrifice their kids for W's, I would not have written this. ...
"Some will call me releasing this audio for fame or money grab. True haters will call it exploitation.
"People of character and conscience call it was it is: tru."
The Saints' defense certainly was in attack mode against the 49ers. According to ESPN Stats & Information, the Saints sent five or more pass-rushers in 30 of Smith's 46 dropbacks (65.2 percent). It was the second-most number of times the Saints used such pressure last season and their third-highest rate of percentage of rushers.
Despite Gregg Williams' tough talk, the 49ers defeated the Saints 36-32 in what turned out to be his last game as New Orleans' defensive coordinator. He left the team to become the St. Louis Rams' defensive coordinator before the NFL's penalties were announced.
At the time of the league's ruling, Gregg Williams apologized and said he took full responsibility for his actions.
Payton (suspended for one year), general manager Mickey Loomis (eight games) and assistant head coach Joe Vitt (six games) had their appeals heard Thursday.
After Vitt's appeal was heard, his lawyer, David Cornwell, was asked about the audio tape. Cornwell said Payton viewed Williams' comments as "a rogue coach about to get fired."
"He was fired two days later," said Cornwell, who also serves as executive director of the NFL Coaches Association. "He was on the way out."
But when Williams left New Orleans for the Rams in January, nobody with the Saints characterized it as a firing. At the time, Payton said it was apparent shortly before the season ended that Williams, with his contract expiring, was likely going to join new St. Louis coach Jeff Fisher, an old friend. The Saints and Williams never discussed an extension, Payton said then.
Cornwell said Loomis and Payton told Williams, "There's no place for this in this organization or this league" after the NFL informed the Saints that it had reopened its investigation.
The NFL, however, in its statement last month announcing the penalties for team officials, said the GM and coach made only "cursory inquiries" into the possible presence of a bounty program.
Pamphilon said Payton and Loomis were not in the room when the recording of Williams was made.
The Saints also were fined $500,000 and forced to forfeit second-round picks in the 2012 and 2013 drafts. Discipline for some of the Saints players involved is forthcoming. NFL commissioner Roger Goodell and league security met with NFL Players Association officials Monday to discuss the investigation and possible penalties for others.
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NEW YORK (AP) -- NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell has rejected the appeals of coach Sean Payton and other New Orleans Saints officials stemming from the league's probe into the club's bounty system.
After hearing from Payton, general manager Mickey Loomis and assistant head coach Joe Vitt last week, Goodell decided Monday to uphold his initial sanctions, which include Payton's suspension for the entire 2012 season. That penalty begins April 16.
The Saints now must find an interim coach from candidates including top assistants as well as retired coach Bill Parcells.
Suspensions of eight games for Loomis and six games for Vitt will begin when the preseason ends. Also upheld were the team's $500,000 fine and loss of second-round draft picks this year and next.
Goodell says he would consider lowering the financial penalties, and "modifying the forfeiture" of the 2013 draft pick.
NEW ORLEANS -- The U.S. Attorney's Office in the Eastern District of Louisiana was told Friday that New Orleans Saints general manager Mickey Loomis had an electronic device in his Superdome suite that had been secretly re-wired to enable him to eavesdrop on visiting coaching staffs for nearly three NFL seasons, "Outside the Lines" has learned.
Sources familiar with Saints game-day operations told "Outside the Lines" that Loomis, who faces an eight-game suspension from the NFL for his role in the recent bounty scandal, had the ability to secretly listen for most of the 2002 season, his first as general manager of the Saints, and all of the 2003 and 2004 seasons. The sources spoke with "Outside the Lines" under the condition of anonymity because of fear of reprisals from members of the Saints organization.
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Styled after the Volkswagen beetle, the Power Wheels Fisher-Price Volkswagen Beetle Barbie features realistic VW design, new fresh colors with Barbie graphics, and a working door for easy entry. The vehicle goes 2.5 mph in forward and reverse. So why choose Power Wheels? The first Power Wheels vehicles came rolling along in 1971. More than 30 years later and with over 25 million vehicles on the road to date, Power Wheels continues to be the #1 battery-powered vehicle brand in the business. Every Power Wheels vehicle is designed, manufactured and tested to the highest standards, meeting precise specifications and rigorous laboratory tests. They're built Fisher-Price tough and they're backed by a comprehensive One Year Bumper-to-Bumper Limited Warranty. Before they're produced, Power Wheels vehicles are put to the test by kids, both in the Fisher-Price onsite Play Lab and through the Fisher-Price in-home test program, to make sure they're age-appropriate, easy to operate, and of course, fun. We've got wheels for every driver, ages 12 months & up. From a Customer Service standpoint, Power Wheels has an extensive network of more than 300 nationwide Authorized Service Centers.
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Doesn't last
By Michelle
from El Paso, Tx
Comments about Power Wheels 1022146 Power Wheels Fisher-Price Volkswagen Beetle Ride-on - Barbie:
We bought this for our daughter for Christmas in 2011 and she used it for 2 times in 3 months before it started having problems. You push the gas pedal and sometimes it would go and sometimes it wouldn't. We got a new battery but it did not help. I am not going to ship this gigantic thing back to the company so the warranty was no good. I would never buy a power wheels without buying a replacement plan again.
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very cute vintage style
By Brooklyn
from San Diego CA
About Me First Time Parent, Parent Of Multiples (Twins etc), Stay At Home Parent
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its a realy cute toy but at first it was really hard for my girl to steer and accelerate and she outgrew it very fast and she lost interest in it i dont really recomend it because my kids got bored really fast i prefer the wrangler jeep
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I bought this for my daughter. We found it very difficult to get the steering wheel rod into the axle with the bracket alignement. Not only that but there was nothing holding it into place once installed. My daughter has repeatedly pulled the steering wheel out and now we cant get it back in! HORRIBLE PRODUCT!!!!
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Very pretty and looks durable.
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Got this as an early birthday gift for my now 20 month old daughter who will be two in July. I wanted her to enjoy it more during the spring/summer time instead of July when summer is somewhat almost over. It was easy to assemble, however, the stickers didn't go on too smooth, as they bubbled and crushed in some places. Overal, I am happy with it. She doesn't quite know how to use it, like pushing the pedal and steer, but she has the whole summer to learn. She loves getting in and out of it and takes her baby doll to sit with her. It looks very durable. I wish there was a horn, some music/sounds, a seat belt, and a compartment to put little toys though, even if it cost a little more. I am very happy I picked this one, as she will grow a little longer with it than the ones desinged for her age that are ok now but wont be too comfy next summer or the next.
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GOOD: perfect for a two year old! she loves to get in and out of it. great car! BAD: no horn and the stickers were all crushed and very hard to flatten out
Its fun but...
By cathysmom
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Our daughter loves this car and plays with it all the time. We love the this car but we don't like that the power runs out fast. The battery is to small for the size of the motor and the weight of the child. We also don't like that you have to charge it every day just to keep a good charge.
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not a good purchase
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I was very unhappy when i opened the box to see that the car was all put together That never happens ...That should have been my first clue that this wasn't good.But we went with it because it was in perfect condition the battery was even all the way charged so we thought well thats great.We went to re charge on christmas day and low and be hold NO CHARGER what are you kinding me.So I call the store were we bought it and they said bring it back and get another.Thats nice but not cool she cant ride it intell we go to the store hope they have one, and then put the car together charge it for 12 hrs and then she can ride it.This is really not how i wanted this to go hopefully next time the battery charger will be in the box. Check before you leave the store it will save you alot of aggrevation and time.
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I just bought this product for my middle child for Christmas open it up to charge the battery and put it together so she can see it put together christmas morning. Low and behold all the equipment is not even there. It is one day before christmas and I can't even put this product together. I am completely unsatisfied by this. Merry Christmas
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Do you think that CSS is one of the most creative tools in your arsenal? Are you faced with ongoing challenges of scaleability with CSS and thinking to yourself, "There as to be a better way?!" Modern UI development is faced with many challenges. Couple this with ideas like 'OOCSS' and the new 'semantic web', how can you solve one problem without creating new problems or compromising previous strategies? This meetup's goal is to bring together presentation layer developers and designers of dive …
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The Ocho is a new group that will focus on Windows 8 development in the greater Seattle area. The development opportunities around this new operating system are huge and the entry gate is wide. Come in with .NET experience, HTML/CSS/JS experience, C++ experience, or even no experience at all. Build an app and get it in front of millions of eyes. We'll split our time between training and actually writing code.
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A monthly meeting of WordPress users and devs. We welcome every proficiency level. Our purpose is to offer support and share information, best practices, techniques, tools and resources. Our members are bloggers, new users, graphic designers with basic HTML and CSS skills, developers new to WordPress, and experienced WordPress developers. Some of our members organized the first WordCamp Seattle in Sept. 2009.
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Arsenal chase Everton's Coleman
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Coleman is a Republic of Ireland international and has been in fantastic form for the Toffees so far this campaign. He is part of Everton's mean defense that has only conceded 13 goals so far this season.
If Arsenal are serious about challenging for the league this season it may take more reinforcements than a single defender. A position worth looking at would be up front - cover for Olivier Giroud could be crucial in case he picks up an injury later in the season.
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Maine: The Week in Review Blog Archive 2011
Nothing Says Christmas Like a Nice Skull
Submitted by Al Diamon on Thu, 12/29/2011 - 11:18am.As I may have noted before, I'm fond of skulls. In fact, I carry one with me wherever I go. I find it to be a convenient container for transporting my brain, eyes and other head-related organs.
Beet, Beans, Baseball and Beer: It's Christmas
Submitted by Al Diamon on Thu, 12/22/2011 - 11:25am.As a mature adult, I'm quite capable of having a meaningful discussion about beets without resorting to childish tantrums. Such as:
Beets suck, and I'm not eating them. I don't care how you cook them. I don't care if you coat them in chocolate. I don't care if you send me to bed without supper. I'm having nothing to do with beets, because, as I may have mentioned, beets suck.
Mayor-Elect Versus the Black Widows
Submitted by Al Diamon on Thu, 12/15/2011 - 10:56am.Lewiston had an unusual election this week, in which the candidates were a dead guy and a brain-dead guy. Bob Macdonald, the latter, won by a narrow margin and promptly went into wacky dictator mode, threatening his opponents with revenge.
The Fat of the Land Go to Sea
Submitted by Al Diamon on Thu, 12/08/2011 - 11:32am.It is not nice to make fun of people who are struggling with a weight problem. In fact, it's immature, insensitive and ignorant.
It is, however, also fun.
Which is in no way an excuse. I mean if this posting were only about me enjoying myself by blurting out hurtful comments about groups that I seemed to consider no more that fodder for juvenile humor, it would be, well … uh … pretty much the way it is now.
Attack of the Giant Tick
Submitted by Al Diamon on Thu, 12/01/2011 - 12:00pm.It is not the purpose of this website to unduly alarm the populace. Fomenting panic across the state would serve no useful purpose, and could result in riots, looting, and violence not seen since Occupy Augusta's recent visit to the Blaine House.
Deficits, Roosters and the Maine Black Bears: A Thanksgiving Mash Up
Submitted by Al Diamon on Wed, 11/23/2011 - 9:57am.The Maine Department of Health and Human Services (motto: Helping the Needy by Requiring Them to Fill Out Lots of Forms That Nobody is Ever Actually Going to Read, Although That Won't Stop the Bureaucracy From Finding Some Excuse for Denying Any Benefits) is running a big deficit.
Why Is Michael Brennan Hoarding Nuts?
Submitted by Al Diamon on Thu, 11/17/2011 - 12:06pm.I want to stress that I am not a conspiracy theorist. No matter how many times Fox News runs reports about how at least half the liberals in Congress are actually badly dressed woodchucks, I don't believe it. The New York Times can keep on exposing Republican presidential candidates as thinly disguised squirrels, but I'm not buying it.
Lewiston Gets Kicked – and Kicked Out
Submitted by Al Diamon on Thu, 11/10/2011 - 11:59am.In the wake of the Nov. 8 election in which Maine voters overwhelmingly rejected a proposed casino at the Bates Mill in downtown Lewiston, the mayor of that fair city, Larry Gilbert, and other supporters of the development gracefully accepted defeat.
Congress Asked to Outlaw Counterfeit Moose
Submitted by Al Diamon on Thu, 11/03/2011 - 11:20am.When people from away think of Maine, what's the first thing that comes to their minds?
"Isn't it winter there, like, ten months a year?"
"I think it's part of Canada. Or Sweden."
"Stephen King is the governor. Or the governor is some other psycho like him."
Which just goes to show that people from away are idiots.
Boldly Going Where No One In His Right Mind Goes
Submitted by Al Diamon on Thu, 10/27/2011 - 11:18am.AAA, the organization you call when your car won't start, has greatly expanded its activities over the years. It now sells insurance. It has a travel agency. It books monthly sex parties at the old Knights of Columbus hall in Sanford. And it installs devices in your car that monitor where teenage drivers are going and how fast they're traveling while they're getting there.


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Year: | 31st season Nordic Coach / 26th season Ski Coordinator |
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The 2012-13 season represents Cory Schwartz's 31st year coaching with the Nordic program and 26th year as the ski coordinator at UNH. During his tenure, Schwartz has led the Wildcats to 23 top-10 NCAA finishes, including back-to-back seventh place finishes ('84 & '85) within his first three years at the University and a 10th place tally in 2012. From 1989-96, Schwartz's teams claimed eight consecutive top-10 NCAA finishes, the most in school history.
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In 2012, Nordic team skier Liz Guiney earned EISA All-East honors, and she qualified for the NCAAs along with Elizabeth Izzo, Tristan Ramey and Erik Lindgren. The ski program merited a No. 10 national ranking, which was the highest among all UNH teams, in the final winter Division I Learfield Sports Directors' Cup Standings.
Schwartz was named Coach of the Year by the Eastern
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Let's constantly remind the board that district #1's commissioner,Doug Smith ,did NOT win by a clear majority but by only 44%.
This means that the "majority" of District #1 voters did not want Doug Smith and so therefore he does NOT REPRESENT the majority of Distict#1 voters and residents.
I am informed that Doug Smith's home was up for sale for for some time but when he decided to run he took it off the market and moved back in. Now that he has retained his seat ,the "For sale" sign is back up!
What is that all about?
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In other finally finished news, Carole has wrapped up her manuscript. The baby has been delivered so why not give Carole a stroller, er we mean a party.
So a chic event is in order, of course everyone is a bit fractured, with Ramona and Heather having serious tension amongst the fancy wallpaper (was it just me or was that wallpaper to die? Also the modern artwork behind Carole's head during the speech is all I've thought about for days. For days!). Heather decides to clear the air by point blank asking Ramona if she cares about people. . .that's a good start.
Of course, once Ramona slightly diffuses that situation another one quickly arises this time with her trusty foe Aviva.
How much of the fighting is programmed - It's hard to believe these women are so trite and have such empty lives that they only have time to host some inane party where they bicker about the most trivial of things. It seems the only way to avoid a fight is to never open one's mouth. Or are their real lives so boring that the producers have to have something going on. Who invites all their "friends" on a seemingly weekly trip to some lovely destination and then spend the whole time in cat fights? Sure you can come up with better things to film! It is a guilty pleasure to watch but watching them fight is growing old. Kind of like some of the old comedy shows that started out great and ended up with people yelling at each other all the time. Grow up ladies and show us what you are really about - if you are really about anything.
Aviva has problems out of proportion for the show. Between her phobias and agitation concerning Ramona and Sonja I do not see her continuing on. Her father will also not be missed. He is a liability any way you look at it. Happy to see snarky Reid leave also in light of his fat cougar comment. For the good of the show, Ramona and Sonja's drinking should be curtailed. The St Barts vacation caught their continuous inebriation on film. They went from comical to depressing (crying in the bathroom). I like both of them, but feel Sonja is floundering and in need of a steady job. Forget about the toaster oven and seek employment. Her personal life appears to be unstable, though she has a daughter to raise. At least now her relationship with her ex husband has improved. The Countess Luann seems to be vacant when it comes to making decisions regarding her business ventures. Getting caught in a big lie at St. Barts has not ruined her relationship with Jacques and for that she should be over joyed. She could improve her life immeasurable by buckling down and applying herself to a job...right now she is floundering. Carole is a little back biting on her talking head segments and should instead be more forthcoming with the other housewives. Otherwise she seems to be the stand alone star of this season. Both her personal and professional life are outstanding. Heather can be a little argumentative, but seems very upbeat most of the time. Her family and business life appear to be in harmony. I enjoy her and along with Carole seem to be the strongest housewives. I enjoyed this franchise despite Avivas out of control rages and look forward to next year's Housewives of New York.
The "lost footage" show was just more and more and more of Aviva's self-centered crap. SO tired of that woman, and her father. PLEASE don't bring her back....I love Carole and Heather, and I'll DVR the show and FF thru Aviva if you absolutely must have her.
lost footage? more like no footage, all of most of peoples segments were repeats and all of carole's were repeats as well
The reunion was boring. Maybe because the reunion on RHONJ was so dramatic.
I MISS JILL! she was an original. I didn't watch this season at first b/c she wasn't on it. I have been a fan of Oc since day one. so I have seen all the housewives from begining to end. Aviva is SO annoying. At least bring back Jill. At least jill didn't talk about her phobias all season and was defending Ramona and looking like a complete moran introducing her gross dad to everyone. Please bring jill back!! Cindy was extremly boring and Kelly always said she was being weird for the cameras. Alex was an a-hole along w her husband and RAMONA! Oh my god! I can't belive they're people out there that think jill is a A-hole and not Ramona. they are both A-holes! I don't get how you can keep one and not the other. If Jill was on this season it would've been so much better!!
tedandteddy Oh Ted, what are thinking. Jill changed sooo much, with each season - she got more and more mean, argumentative, fame-hungry, and self-obsessed, I couldn't believe she was talking to Andy like that on WWH. Thank GOD they did not bring her back ! Her appearance on WWH confirmed all her negative characteristics - and you could see it on his face. Thank YOu Andy and Bravo for getting rid of the toxicity ! RHNY is now a show we can enjoy again.
Oh my..is anything Jill Zarin's fault? Seriously, comparing her relationship with Bethany to Bethany's relationship with her husband? Andy looks like he wants to send her home early.
ESinAZ I had forgotten how much Jill annoyed me until I watched her complaining to Andy during WWHL. I can NOT take another season of Jill. That would be like locking me into a room with Aviva and Kelly.
Andy should invite Alex back just to send Botox Jill over the edge...all Botox Jill needs is one little push. Please oh please push her off the edge!
I think having Carole on the show made LuAnn more interesting. I find LuAnn's life with Jacques boring but this season LuAnn was more human and less stiff and boring. Ramona is Ramona you either like her or you don't... I happen to like her but she does make me cringe a lot though. I like the interaction between Sonja and Ramona but it gets old watching them. Carole is great! She communicates by writing and her blogs are fun to read. She nailed LuAnn and I have been waiting for someone to wake LuAnn up for years. LuAnn didn't appreciate Carole's blogs but they really did help LuAnn be a much more interesting person to watch. My favorite housewife is now Heather. I think she is very cool and brings a professional dimension to the show that I would love to see more of. I also like the friendship developing between her and Carole. Sonja is lovely and I am so sorry she seems to be suffering so much but she is clueless when it comes to business. I know Heather tried to help her but Sonja was acting too much like a spoiled princess to let her in. I felt bad for both of them. Heather because she basically was wasting precious time and Sonja because she was floundering and completely out of her element. I would love to see Sonja have a happy ending... Aviva, please don't bring her back... Please! I found myself fast forwarding through a lot of her scenes with Ramona because she was so out-of-line and I felt like Ramona was being relentlessly abused verbally by Aviva. Please don't get me started on her father, it was so disgusting to watch him I couldn't get to fast-forward fast enough. Please don't bring them back. It seems to me that both Aviva and her father have some deep seeded problems and the show is shining a light on them which will only make it harder on them. They both need therapy and I personally won't watch them become unhinged like Kelly B. Please don't bring them back!
How to describe this season - hum - interesting. Sonja is still my favorite - I think she would do well to put some distance between herself and Ramona. I actually agree with Aviva, Ramona looks better standing next to a drunk Sonja! Ramona is a fake. I do think she lacked class when she had George thrown out! Shame on her. Ramona also spends a good deal of time crying about how she was abused - seriously? She needs to get over it! I think she is just a troublemaker and she has a knack for turning the fans her way - this is how she beat Jill! That said, I also like Luann. I think she really messed up in St Barts and will have to pay for her behavior. That said, I don't think she did anything wrong with the "clothes" deal, Carole get over it. Carole wants to come off as polished and cool and trust me she isn't! I think she is sneaky.... What can I say about Aviva, I think she tried to apologize but Ramona was being Ramona. Do I think Aviva went to far - yes! She needed to move on to a new topic but after all this was her first season! Heather what can I say - you played it well with Ramona so she had no choice but be nice you - watch out!
Pl ease bring back Alex! Please,Please get ride of Aviva! She is a spoild brate. She married he likes Harry for his position and wealth.I no she would not have married Reid if he was common-poor as she seems too look down her very long nose at everyone.I am so.....Glad you got ride of Jill Z. She and Aviva are nothing with out their RICH husbands,and they use Charity events only to bring attention too themselefes. They are the Bigist phoenys! Love,XOXO Mary!
keep Carole and Heather !!! for sure its gotta be the end of Ramona, Sonja, and Luann, BORING BORING BORING - time to sunset those4 gals!! Aviva - could be ok with new RONY with Carole and Heather - lets get a new look on ROHNY!!
If George is going to be guesting on the show with his daughter, it seems only fit that he has a blog on bravo. I mean it's not Aviva's fault that he behaves indecently towards the women of the show. So please consider that I want to tell him off and have no voice to. Treating the women with no respect at all. I was offended by his behavior with Carole, Ramona and her husband. Voice him on Bravo Blogs
I have to say, this season was better because of the new ladies. I got pretty sick of watching Kelly's craziness and am glad Bravo saw fit to end her 15 minutes. It was sad to watch Jill do what she did to Bethanny last year, but it ended well for B.
Regarding the new ladies, I'm not crazy about Aviva. I was open to her story and found her honesty about her phobias intriguing. However, she does grate on one's nerves with her constant nagging about perceived insults. I guess Bravo felt that someone needed to fill Kelly's slot. Ramona and Sonja are still my favorites. RHONY is the best of the all the other Housewives. The RHONJ women are the worst!
The Reunion? We have three women, composed and in control, on one sofa, and three women, chattering incessantly, pointing fingers, and being disruptive. Who is who?
LuAnn: Resentful that there is a woman with a higher title than hers, and sees herself above being called on...anything, especially asking for clothes. Refuses to let criticism of herself drop, and has a deep need to criticize and belittle other women. Oh, and she brought the guy home.
Ramona: Carries her childhood tramas into every relationship she has on camera. Unreasonable, talking incessantly, and sees herself as the eternal victim, when actually, she's the instigator.
Sonja: Highly stressed, holding on tightly to past life, and engaging in reckless behavior unsuitable for a woman of her age. Sense of entitlement steers her in the wrong direction.
Heather: Calm, cool, collected, and able to cut through the nonsense to explain situations.
Aviva: Genuinely sorry, but unable to finish a sentence when constantly talked over by Ramona (who wants to hold onto being the victim) and Sonja (following Ramona's lead). Unused to being around women who live in a soap opera.
Carole: Calm, cool, collected, and under attack for calling out LuAnn's solicitous behavior. Doubt LuAnn will let go of her resentment of Carole, who is much smarter, more sophisticated, more elegant, and with more manners.
cehemiseI think you have your criticisms of the ladies all turned around or you are not seeing them for who they really are. I don't necessarily approve of Ramona or Sonja behaviour but they don't try to hide it. I think the other ladies are just too snooty and unreal and have their own agenda for the future of the sho.
Not trying to hide bad behavior does not excuse it.
I find the three new ladies to be an improvement. They're comfortable and interesting.
cehemise Wow - maybe we weren't watching the same show. My perceptions and observations about the women are almost the exact opposite of what you have described.
You hit the nail on the head. Such true descriptions of all.
Carole was especially wonderful. I hope she won't get sick of it all and quit.
Wow! What a season! Luvin carole n heather...Aviva was a disappointment. Not many surprises w Sonya... Not many changes w Ramona either, still tellin it like it is and lookin for trouble every chance she gets. Overall I enjoyed it and became a "holla" and "razzy" fan
@dclcnm Can't stand "holla" or "Yummie Tummie." Heather can promote the liver charity as much as she wants, though.
This was my favorite season of RHONY. Heather and Carole were a great addition. I haven't made up my mind about Aviva yet.
It would be interesting to have Aviva back next season seeing Bethenny's psychologist. Aviva certainly does bring out the reality TV drama.


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Petar Trifonov Named Head Diving Coach
BALTIMORE—UMBC head swimming and diving coach Chad Cradock announced today that former Bulgarian Olympian Petar Trifonov will join the Retrievers as the head diving coach.
"We are very excited to have Petar join our program," Cradock said. "He comes from a very diverse diving background, has a lot of great connections in the sport and he has an international background which is unique to any diving coach we have had in the past."
Trifonov has had a decorated diving career, winning more than 50 national championships in his native Bulgaria and culminating in an appearance in the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain.
After he finished his competitive career, Trifonov became a recognized judge and coach. He judged the USA Diving National Championships from 2001-05, and last year was a coach at the FINA Junior Diving World Championships.
Trifonov's coaching career includes stints at the College of William and Mary and American University, and he has been the associate head coach of the Montgomery Dive Club team in Rockville, Md., for the past eight years.
In addition to coaching at UMBC, Trifonov will be the head coach of the Retriever Dive Club, which will be geared for youth divers in the Baltimore area.
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From the bivy platform (sheltered, shaded and nice lunch and rope up spot), walk east along the base of the Beast until reaching its lowest point. White colored compact granite similar to that found higher on the creature's face marks the spot. Pitch #1: An easy bulge past a bolt leads to white rock steep slab past 4 more bolts to easier ground. Climb through fun horizontal sections past 4 more fixed pitons and bolts to a two-bolt belay. 5.9, 60m. From this lower ledge, 3rd class past bushes straight up to gray rock under the white horned creature's neck. 30m Pitch #2: Casual climbing past 1 bolt leads to a two-bolt belay at the Beast's neck. 5.6, 20m. Pitch #3: Climb past 10 bolts through and above the left horn up very fun not so beastie moves to a two-bolt belay. 5.10b, 45m. Pitch #4: Climb into the corners of the first roof. 1 piton, 1 bolt, and 1 thread protect the first beastly (pumpy!) bit and then continue up to a left veering hand crack under a steep roof to a bolt and then tip toe right to a two-bolt belay. 5.11a, 30m. Pitch #5: Move right and around the corner and find easy ground to the top and a two-bolt belay. 5.5, 20m. Walk off to the west gully.
Although the belays are bolted, most parties upon reaching the top may prefer to walk off to the north and follow a cairned western gully/trail back to the huge roofs sheltering the bivy platform at the feet of the Beast.
QDs, set of C3s and Camalots to #3 and set of Nuts. A few shoulder slings helpful. Possibly doubles 0.3 to 0.75 and 2.0. Belays are bolted.
We really enjoyed this route, and it would easily deserve three stars if not for the bit of third class after the 1st pitch. The quartz inclusions are a bit flaky, but the dark granite is superb (dare I say better than most of Little C?). It was quite visionary of James to check this one out, as it's not very attractive looking from a distance, but turns out to be a great route, and very well equipped. Go do it!
Don't need any gear until pitch 4. A single rack is more than enough, leave the doubles and C3s home. We accidentally solo'd pitch 2 and pitch 5 is just a short scramble. 3 and 4 are the good pitches. Lots of long slings for 4th pitch is a good idea.


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the only song i heard from this guy is sleep at night, which was pretty cool. i'll have to check out his other shit
Check out the "When I was High Remix" with Tech n Rittz...
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