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Fantasy owners in need of rushers could do worse than the Titans' Henry, who's coming on with DeMarco Murray hobbled, and Seahawks rookie Chris Carson.
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Le'Veon Bell has struggled the first two weeks but Field Yates says that this is the breakout week for the RB.
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Terry insists players are fully behind Grant
Captain John Terry insists the Chelsea players are firmly behind coach Avram Grant as the Blues prepare for the biggest 10 days of their chequered season.
Grant faces Liverpool in the first leg of the Champions League semi-final at Anfield tomorrow night hoping to take the first step towards erasing the memory of two previous defeats at the same stage of the competition in the last three years.
While Liverpool's preparation has been hounded by problems off the field, Grant's build-up has been blighted by suggestions that many of his squad will quit Stamford Bridge in the summer if the Israeli remains in charge.
Chelsea's season will be defined by two legs against Liverpool and a Premier League showdown with Manchester United sandwiched in between.
But the Chelsea captain was adamant that the spirit within the camp remains buoyant despite speculation that some of the squad were unhappy with Grant's managerial style.
'We are totally behind the manager,' confirmed Terry. 'It is bizarre because since Avram took over, one thing we've done is that if any players are unhappy or has a problem, we've all got together, as you need to do, and speak our minds.
'We speak openly and things are sorted out there and then within the space of 10 minutes.
'There are no people walking out the door and talking behind each other's backs.
'So all these suggestions are quite laughable actually. We get in a room, we talk and we solve the problems.
The last two semi-finals between the English clubs have been far from memorable in terms of attacking football.
The tactical strengths of former Chelsea boss Jose Mourinho and Liverpool's Rafael Benitez tended to cancel each other out.
But Chelsea are promising to go into tomorrow's game with an attacking style.
'We are coming here to win the game, we are not coming here to shut up shop,' boasted Terry. 'We are coming here to score goals and put the pressure right on Liverpool.
'Liverpool are very good defensively and going forward, so it is going to be tough for us in both directions.
'But the away goals we can possibly take back to the Bridge will help us in the long run.
'We do mean business. All season long we've shown great strength in depth in the squad with the players who have come in and kept us alive in the Champions and Barclays Leagues.
'We have shown great character and togetherness but it is about what we do tomorrow night and not what Liverpool do. We have got the players to go on and win the game and progress to the next stage.
'We have lost to Liverpool on the two previous occasions and that burning feeling is something that will never go away, but one thing that will ease it is to go on and reach the final and lift the trophy.
'That trophy is something I want to get my hands on as Chelsea captain and for the club to go down in history.'
He continued: 'We have had our ups and downs over the course of the season, we've had players injured and not ready and for me that has shown in the character of the whole squad not just in the starting 11.
'We have proved that whatever team is on the pitch, we have enough strength, character and big players to go on and win.'
Coach Grant, slammed for his monosyllabic press conference after their victory over Everton in the league last week, was more talkative this time around.
Mourinho twice failed to overcome the Reds at this stage but Grant preferred to concentrate on making history by reaching the final for the first time, rather than dwelling on past failures.
'We can make history and we will concentrate on this and not about anything else,' said Grant. 'We lost here twice but that is history and now we can create it. That is what is important.
'We have come a long way since we drew against Rosenborg and now we can create history - and this makes me excited.
Grant is delighted to have Frank Lampard back in the squad after the England player spent much of the last week by his mother's hospital bedside.
Lampard's mother, Pat, is suffering from pneumonia and Grant was full of praise for the player's bravery.
'I respect very much Frank and what he is doing for the club,' said Grant. 'It is not an easy situation. He has given everything for the club and trained by himself.
'I gave him all the freedom to do as he wanted. Sometimes there are more important things than football but he is available to play.'

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Friday, March 11, 2011;
Angela Ball, a secretary at the University of Maryland for almost 20 years before her retirement in 1983, died Feb. 23 at Washington Adventist Hospital in Takoma Park of pneumonia and other complications after a hip fracture. She was 92 and a resident of University Park.
Mrs. Ball started working at the University of Maryland in 1965 in the College of Physical Education, Recreation and Health. She retired as secretary to the dean of that college.
Previously, she had been a part-time secretary for Sears in Washington. From 1955 to 1965, she also wrote a weekly neighborhood column on West Hyattsville for the Prince George's Post.
Angela Hosinski was born in South Bend, Ind. She came to Washington in 1939 to work as a War Department secretary. She handled personnel paperwork for engineers working on the Manhattan Project.
In 1946, she received an associate's degree from George Washington University.
She was a member for more than 50 years of St. Jerome Catholic Church, where she also was a lector, a prefect of the Ladies Sodality and a member of the choir in Hyattsville.
Her history of the church, completed in 1959 and updated in 1986, received an award from the Prince George's County Historical Society.
Mrs. Ball edited the newsletter for a Knights of Columbus senior citizens club from 1983 to 2000 and edited the University Park newsletter for a decade.
She volunteered for 20 years with Meals on Wheels.
Her husband of 25 years, William Howard Ball, died in 1971. Survivors include four children, Joseph A. Ball of Blacksburg, Va., Caroline A. Ball of University Park, Michael O. Ball of Silver Spring and Gregory F. Ball of Baltimore; and five grandchildren.
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The State of the Financial Services Industry: New Game, New Rules, New Opportunities
National Black MBA Association Los Angeles Chapter
Friday, April 27, 2012 from 7:00 AM to 9:30 AM (PDT)
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Join the LA Chapters of the NBMBAA and UFSC for a thought provoking, enlightening discussion for senior banking and financial services professionals. Sponsored by Union Bank, this is a rare opportunity to get the inside scoop on the Financial Services Industry directly from our guest speaker out of the Washington DC Branch of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) Sandra L. Thompson, Director, Division of Risk Management Supervision, who will be joined by an industry panel of experts to discuss:
· The impact of the regulatory changes in the financial services industry on financial professionals and on consumers
· Career implications of the changes in the financial industry - Are opportunities in the financial services industry expanding or shrinking?
· Dodd-Frank Legislation
· Are any banks "too big to fail"?
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· Minority & Women Owned Contracting
· New Consumer Protection Rules
· Future of the community bank
Director Sandra L. Thompson is joined by esteemed panel experts:
Kurt M. Hocker, Executive Vice-President, Corporate Banking, Union Bank
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Friday, April 27, 2012 from 7:00 AM to 9:30 AM (PDT)
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Richmond Phillips sentenced for murder of Wynetta Wright, baby daughter
The former MPD officers who killed his mistress and left their 11-month-old daughter to die in a hot car in 2011 will spend the rest of his life in jail.
Richmond Phillips, who was convicted in January of fatally shooting Wynetta Wright and then leaving their young daughter, Jaylin, to die was sentenced to two life sentences plus 20 years in prison Friday.
Phillips will not have the possibility of parole.
Wright and her daughter were found dead in May of 2011, shortly before she and Phillips were supposed to appear in court for a child support hearing. Shortly thereafter, the 20-year-old mother was found dead inside Oxon Run Stream Valley Park.
Jaylin was later found dead inside a car in the 2400 block of Southern Avenue.
Thank you Jesus, because justice has been served," said Wright's mother, Wyvette Wright.
She says she's hoped for the death penalty, but she is glad the judge threw away the key
"He is the devil himself, there's no other way to put it. He was heartless, senseless, didn't care about nothing," Wyvette said.
Everett Tucker, Wynetta's father, added, " I just think he is a true monster. I don't believe he had remorse or anything for what he did. I just think he's a true monster."
During his trial, prosecutors spun Phillips, then 39, as a liar and a cheater who would do anything to conceal his mistress and child from his wife. Before the murder, he had served as a narcotics officer with the Metropolitan Police Department for eight years.
Tucker says the sentence lifted a weight, and he hopes his daughter and granddaughter can rest in peace.
"Two beautiful people," Tucker continued. "They still in my life, but they up here with the Lord right about now."


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NEW YORK ( TheStreet) -- Forget all the Apple ( AAPL) iPhone hype -- Samsung is setting the bar for touch-controlled business phones with the Galaxy S II ($199 with two-year contract from Sprint ( S)).The market has become downright flooded with large, bright, powerful, pricey, touch-activated smartphones for businesses, to the point where it is getting awfully tough to sift out a winner in a legit competitive analysis between, say, an iPhone, Motorola ( MOT) Droid Bionic and HTC EVO.
|The Galaxy S II is rapidly become the star in the mobile businesses telephony market.
The Galaxy S II offers probably the best mix of mobile business functions found in a touch-based smartphone today. Samsung deserves a huge round of applause for making a phone that seems smaller than it actually is. At first blush, the Galaxy seems like the average chubby cellphone: 5.5-inches diagonal overall, nearly 3 inches whide, roughly a half-inch thick. You get the idea. But when you touch the thing, the unit seemed practically delicate. It is done in a bulk-reducing, soft-edge case and is lighter than expected. But there was enough mobile real estate for a 4.52-inch diagonal screen that has got to one of the best-looking on the market -- bright, remarkably crisp, and the blacks are excellent. Tied with a fat, 1.2-GHz processor, the 4G Sprint network and support for oodles of business apps, this unit is an all-world business-class performer.


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Pushing An Elephant Up The Stairs
Pushing An Elephant Up The Stairs
Despite the efforts of eco-friendly activists, Japan is poisoning itself
By WAHEI TATEMATSU
Garbage is piling up everywhere. I sigh whenever I take out our household trash, which gets hauled off to the dump several times each week. But how many of us realize that our lifestyle, which produces so much waste, is a very recent invention? In Japan, we take care to sort our garbage, separating organic wastes from newspapers and magazines, from cans and plastic bottles. Yet in processing some of these wastes, the treatment facilities produce black clouds of dioxin, which in turn pollutes the soil. Children are increasingly afflicted with skin diseases, and we are all amassing poisons in our bodies. A process that will end in the elimination of our people has already been set in motion, as hormone-disrupting chemicals are reducing the sperm count of Japanese males. Other nations are poisoning themselves in similar ways, but considering that we produce far more garbage per capita than Europeans, we Japanese are clearly the leading consumers of the earth's resources.
My mother's ancestors worked in the copper mine of Ashio, in Tochigi prefecture north of Tokyo. Veins of ore were discovered there in 1610, and for nearly 300 years the mine went through cycles of prosperity and decline. Production vastly expanded in the 1890s and the first decade of the 1900s. During the Russo-Japanese War, the Japanese navy used Ashio copper in nearly all the shells it fired. Ashio, therefore, could be regarded as the most important mine in Japan's modernization.
But a heavy price was paid. Trees from the surrounding mountains were harvested recklessly to fuel the smelters or to serve as the walls and pillars of the mine shafts. The refinery emitted great clouds of sulfuric acid gas, which withered the trees and grasses of the woodlands. Eventually, the woods were finished off when fires set by villagers to clear their fields spread out of control. With the trees gone, the mountain topsoil was washed away by rain. The topsoil contained copious amounts of pollutants from the mine, which caused extensive damage when carried downstream by the Watarase river. Living creatures dependent on the river perished, and agriculture became impossible. The locals absorbed heavy metal particles into their bodies, suffering agonies similar to those endured by the people of Minamata, who were victims of mercury poisoning in the postwar decades. The Ashio copper poisoning was Japan's first large-scale environmental disaster .
This spring marks the fifth anniversary of the Committee to Make Ashio Green, a volunteer organization I helped found that plants trees and carries out related activities. A visit to Ashio now reveals both the prosperity Japan has enjoyed during the past century as well as the tremendous destruction that has been prosperity's flipside. We are not concerned about apportioning blame for the copper poisoning. To regain what we have lost, we must return to the starting point and begin the process of regenerating the land. I am collecting evidence of the destruction and hope one day to open a museum devoted to the environment. Meanwhile, I plant trees.
The committee's organizers have provided the topsoil required to get reforestation under way, but more must be done. I hope others will join us, bringing soil, saplings, shovels. Indeed, people are responding to the call. Last year, in spite of heavy rains that shut down rail service, 350 volunteers made their way to Ashio. They planted trees, getting thoroughly soaked in the process. Our efforts are humble, but it is the unstinting effort of volunteers such as these that makes me believe there is still hope for this country.
So far, only a small section of the mountain has been replanted. I recall a Buddhist parable: a rich man contributes 10,000 oil lamps to a temple, while an old woman, whose reverence for the Buddha is matched only by her poverty, offers a single lamp, all her means will allow. One night, a fierce wind blows through the temple, extinguishing all of the lanterns the rich man provided. Only one light continues to illuminate the Buddha, that from the lamp offered by the old woman, who had contributed from the depths of her heart.
This parable speaks to our situation today. I continue planting trees with my companions in my hometown. To do everything is beyond my capacities, but I will strive to accomplish all that is in my power as an individual. The copper poisoning incident will truly be resolved only when Ashio's valleys are green once more.
Wahei Tatematsu is a Japanese writer and a founding member of the Creative Conservation Club, an environmental group reforesting watersheds throughout Japan