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8-Year-Old Killed in Austin Hit-and-Run
Officials with the Texas Department of Public Safety are still searching for a hit-and-run driver responsible for the death of an 8-year-old boy in Southeast Austin, Texas.
About the Austin Hit-and-Run
- According to the Austin American-Statesman, the crash occurred around 10:30 p.m. Saturday night along U.S. 183 near Burleson Road.
- Juan Carlos Alonso, 53, and his grandson Yahir Vidal, 8, were waiting outside of their Ford Mustang after becoming stranded when their car loss control on a patch of ice.
- A northbound white Chevrolet pickup struck Alonso and Vidal before fleeing the scene.
- According to investigators, the Mustang was outside the lane of traffic and the white pickup was traveling at an unsafe speed.
- The collision left Vidal dead and Alonso injured.
Hit-and-Run Statistics
- Crash statistics reported by USA Today show that fatal hit-and-runs are on the rise.
- In 2011, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administraion recorded 1,449 hit-and-run deaths – a 13.7 percent increase from the 1,274 recorded in 2009.
- Over the same period, overall traffic fatalities fell by 4.5 percent from 33,883 deaths in 2009 to 32,367 deaths in 2011.
- The AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety estimates that one in five pedestrian fatalities are hit-and-runs and nearly 60 percent of all hit-and-run fatalities involve pedestrians.
- In order to combat these upward trends, some states have taken legal actions. Texas, for example, has upped the penalty for failure to render aid to second degree felony – the same type of felony as intoxicated manslaughter.
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Spring Festival of Change
Spring is a time where we see and feel a lot of changes happening around (and often within) us. We're taking this opportunity to make some "new year's resolutions" and try out some things we'd like to do better for our environment or for our own wellbeing and lifestyles.
We're hoping a few others - local groups, families and individuals - will join in on trying something new. This could be remembering to bring your own coffee cups for takeaways, starting a daily practice of meditation, breathing or exercise, changing your habits of buying (to fair trade, local, organic etc) or any number of things you'd like to change in your life.
Lucette (Lyttelton Farmers Market) and Selena (Harbour Co-Op) will be eating locally grown food for the month. Read about their experiences on their blog, Lyttelton Locavore.
Sarah (Waste Matters) will be on instagram collecting things that have made her smile - look out for #manymene (or add your own under that hashtag).

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ROCKVILLE, MD— Steve Joyce, president/CEO of Choice Hotels International, Inc., has assumed the chairmanship of the International Franchise Association (IFA).
"It's an honor to be chairman of the IFA, and I look forward to working closely with the IFA executive committee and board of directors as we represent and advocate for pro-growth policies that support the interests of franchisors, franchisees and suppliers," stated Joyce.
With a career in the lodging industry spanning more than three decades, Joyce has led Choice Hotels since 2008. Joyce has long been involved in the lodging and franchise industries and the global business community.
Joyce comes into the role of IFA chairman after previously serving as IFA's vice chairman. A long-standing IFA member, Joyce has held many additional leadership roles, including serving in the leadership chairs since 2011 and a board member since 2001, IFA Educational Foundation Executive Committee first vice chairman (2012-2013) and Franchisor Forum chairman (2003-2010). He has served on multiple IFA committees that provide guidance to the organization, including chairing the Long Range Planning Committee in 2009, as well as chairing the IFA 2014 Convention Committee.
"Franchising is woven into the fabric of American commerce," stated Joyce, "It is a uniquely American proposition, which provides a robust path for individuals to achieve the American dream. As chairman, I will continue our strategic focus to ensure that IFA is inclusive of both franchisees and franchisors, so that together, we can continue to build this important industry for our economy."


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PC/360 gamer and brand new wii user here. The thing actually seems worth something. How about that?
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Take the time to read the RULES! of the site, you don't wanna be sent to the Reading Room, or worse, Banned because you broke a rule of the site.
PLEASE BE AWARE THAT ANY MOD, WHETHER IT BE HARD OR SOFT, VOIDS ALL WARRANTY!!! Nintendo Warranty Information
Got a mod-chip? Thinking about a mod-chip? Then go HERE! for many of the answers you're looking for. Just know that you can just as effectively mod a system without a mod-chip.
Please take a look at this link for any answers to most of your questions/problems New Member Introductions [thanks ShadowSonic]
Got a Bricked or Semi Bricked Wii? Then look no farther than THIS! thread for the possible solution.
BUT!!! Before asking a question please visit THIS!and THIS! thread..... [thanks FAVS & trekster]
If your on the 3.1 - 4.1 System Menu then you may want to start HERE! [thanks Dogeggs]
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Wanna know what all this cIOS/IOS talk is all about....Then check THIS! thread out. [thanks Cressida]
Also take note that Nintendo has been putting some new drivechips in their systems that will disable playback of ANY burnt discs. To see if your Wii is one that has this new D3-2 chip refer toTHIS!page and cross reference your serial number. Please note that USB Loading is still functional even if you have this chip.
Want to find out a bit about USB loading, try THIS!link out [thanks gen3sf]
Any other questions/answers that were not covered, then please ask them HERE! [thanks ModderMan for the awesome site]
Please read, reAD, READ till your eyes bleed. Go over everything until your sure you can attempt these mods. You don't want a bricked Wii because of a step you might have missed.
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Tony Blair Protector of Elite PAEDOPHILE
NATO boss and Blair government insider Lord Robertson has "threatened" to sue Scotland's leading independent newspaper over internet allegations that he not only used his influence as a Freemason to procure a gun licence for child killer Thomas Hamilton, but is also a member of a clandestine paedophile ring set up by Hamilton for the British elite.
On 13 March 1996, Hamilton, armed with four hand-guns, opened fire on a junior school class, killing 16 children and one teacher before turning the gun on himself, shattering forever the idyllic 13th century Scottish town of Dunblane.
The controversy was certain to topple the Blair government, which has issued a D-Notice to gag the press from revealing the names of known paedophiles within the British executive, including at least two senior ministers; and the case highlights the government's antipathy toward the Sunday Herald and its brand of independent journalism that has, among other things, exposed the role played by the domestic security agency, MI5, in helping the IRA to carry out terrorist atrocities.
As reported by this journalist at Propaganda Matrix and Counter Punch, and by the Sunday Herald's Home Affairs Editor, Neil Mackay, the British intelligence services are actively engaged in preventing any further child sex revelations that could incite further hostility to an already unpopular Prime Minister and destroy the "morale" of troops who invaded Iraq. An intelligence officer told Mackay that "a 'rolling' Cabinet committee had been set up to work out how to deal with the potentially ruinous fall-out for both Tony Blair and the government if arrests occur."
Some commentators, mindful that one of Tony Blair's closest confidante's is a practising paedophile, are even suggesting that this particular scandal, and not Blair's repeated lies and fabricated reports in regard to Iraq, may well prove the downfall of a government mired in sleaze and corruption. The Sunday Times is reported to have obtained an FBI list of Labour MPs who have used credit cards to pay for internet child pornography, and Blair has responded by imposing a massive news blackout, failing however to stop the arrest of one of his most important aides, Phillip Lyon.
The latest allegations came to light following a campaign to lift the secrecy on the Dunblane massacre. Large sections of the police report were banned from the public domain under a 100-year secrecy order. Lord Cullen, an establishment insider, also omitted and censored references to the documents in his final report. Ironically, parents and teachers were advised to concentrate their efforts on a campaign to outlaw handguns instead of focusing on how the mentally unstable Freemason, already known by the police to be a paedophile, had obtained a firearms licence for six handguns. Hamilton allegedly enjoyed good relations with both local Labour luminary George Robertson and Michael Forsyth, the then Scottish Secretary of State and MP for Stirling. Forsyth congratulated and encouraged Hamilton for running a boy's club. Hamilton was also found to have exchanged letters with the British monarch, Queen Elizabeth.
The allegations concerning Lord Robertson's ties to Hamilton, and the possibility that the American intelligence services may be blackmailing Tony Blair into continued support for a U.S. invasion of Iraq, have been given fire by internet investigator and intelligence expert Michael Keaney:
"An additional, and potentially explosive, aspect of US leverage over Blair is the FBI's investigation of users of child porn websites which has already claimed a number of high profile scalps. [....] The biggest two fish that come to mind are indeed high profile: firstly there is George Robertson, who today has announced that he will step down as NATO Secretary General after four years and two months in the job. Were he to be fingered the fall out would be spectacular but short-lived -- he's been a long time out of the cabinet and is sufficiently distant from Tony to be regarded as not requiring the presentational finesse of a "rolling" Cabinet committee, whatever that might be. However, our second candidate is most certainly very closely identified with the prime minister, and retains a high profile [and] continues to operate at a very high level indeed, whether in Europe or even the Middle East."
"Peter Mandelson began political life as a member of the Communist Party, soon "seeing the light" and instead getting involved with the CIA/MI6-financed Socialist International youth wing and the Labour Party, through which he rose in parallel with his experience working at London Weekend Television with other A-list regulars like John Birt and Michael Maclay, now public mouthpiece of Hakluyt, the private sector spook outfit run by a bunch of MI6 types including the widow of ex-Labour leader John Smith. This sort of background and connections makes Mandelson very useful in the sort of corridors-and-alleyways diplomacy and networking that is the real substance of international relations and intelligence gathering. [....] If Mandelson is indeed the suspect, then the damage this could cause may fatally wound Blair."
"An interesting development that may, or may not, be related to this, is the publication of an article Observer by David Aaronovitch. He and Mandelson are longtime friends, having been together in the Communist Party and at London Weekend TV. Aaronovitch was, until recently, a leading political commentator for the Independent, on whose "international advisory board" (the standard vanity collection of august persons put together for the ego of newspaper proprietors like Tony O'Reilly and Conrad Black) sits Peter Mandelson."
"Whoever is on the suspects' list, we can see that already this 'rolling' cabinet committee is busy leaking stories that serve at least to delay the shock of the inevitable, eventual revelation, buying valuable time if nothing else. Thus you can depend on the Guardian to save the day for Tony, and here's some helpful tip-offs courtesy of MI6 that help to distract from what's really going on, whilst bolstering the reputation for integrity and financial propriety that has marked Blair's dealings with businesspeople like Bernie Ecclestone, Richard Desmond, Lakshmi Mittal, etc."
"This scandal is far more important that anything that has happened here in living memory, in fact I can think of no parallel for it. It certainly pisses all over anything that happened to Kennedy or was done by Nixon. I am surprised, given the gravity of this matter, that [an] attempt has yet to be made on his life, for surely we are dealing with desperate people here. It also explains a few strange things, such as just why T Blair & co. were so keen to ban all handguns, and why such obviously talentless nobodies like George Robertson have risen from being backbench nobodies a couple of years ago to Defence Secretary, and now Secretary-General of Nato."
"[....] Now where in this is there a national security risk so great, that documents part of the public enquiry are now state secrets to be held for 100 years? Funny kind of public enquiry. Why, when Thomas Hamilton's application for a gun licence was turned down, due to him being regarded as a man of unsound character [and] him being the object of several paedophilia investigations, did his MP, our friend George Robertson (now Lord Robertson, Secretary-General of NATO), write him a glowing character reference, and personally see to it that his application was successful, when he knew the grounds for the original refusal were because he was suspected of procuring boys for sexual services?"
"But the main thing is what might explain sections of the public enquiry are now under the hundred year rule. There are only three levels of secrecy in the UK for state secrets, the 30 year rule, the 80 year rule and the 100 year rule. Normal secrets, like Cabinet discussions, government papers, espionage, all that, are under the 30 year rule. Only a very small number of things ever reached the 80 year rule, particularly events in the Sudan with Kitchener in 1902, where it seems that an act of genocide was committed, and some things that happened 1914-18, as well as things like potential peace negotiations in 1941, and just about everything to do with the IRA (after all, people are still alive after 30 years) come under the 80 year rule. Of them, the darkest of state secrets, when the events of '02 were getting a bit close to their limit for comfort, a further class of secrets was created to last a hundred years, and tiny number of things were put in it - e.g. Kitchener in '02, some World War I things."
If the physiologically flawed [although Thomas Hamilton was these were the words of Tony Blair when speaking of Gordon Brown] Thomas Hamilton was the centre of a paedophile ring in Scotland that procured boys to people of the amongst the highest rank, and Tony Blair [and] Jack Straw covered this up by the Official Secrets Act (They would do the covering, as both the Prime Minister's [and] Home Secretary's permission is needed to put some something under the 100 year rule.) it is hard to see how they or their close colleges could possibly remain in office, even if they were never inclined to such flawed behaviour themselves. The government would fall."
That prospect seems to be energising a government now considered to be fighting for its political life, even to the extent of killing the review process by which some of the banned sections of the Cullen Report would be made public, arguing that freedom of information would somehow harm other abused children in Dunblane.
"It is important we make available, if it is at all possible, any information that is available about people in the public eye," said the Scottish first minister, Jack McConnell.
When Tony Blair took office following a landslide victory in 1997, few commentators would have suggested that this man would be willing to drag his country into a war of unjustified aggression against a people that have done no harm to the British public. Nor would anyone have surmised that a "Labour" government would hitch its political fortunes to a shabby cabal of fanatical neoconservative Zionists working to make real their much-touted biblical Armageddon. And no one could have predicted that Blair's nominally "freemasons" administration would transform itself into a licentious club of flamboyant homosexual cruisers and out-of-control paedophiles.
Alleged Pedophiles at Helm of Britain's War Machine
Child Sexual Abuse and the Shadow World of Freemasonry, Satanism, Illuminati, and Jesuits!
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interesting thread.
Everything will be OK in the end. If it aint OK, it aint the end.
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Well done for finding and posting this, I started a thread on this subject last year, after David Icke wrote a newsletter on it. Here is the link
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I believe Gordon Brown is implicated in this paedophile ring too.
But the main suspect George Robertson was shifted to Brussels when the rumours of his involvement with Thomas Hamilton first broke.
George Robertson now recieves a salary from The Cohen Group so he is safely protected by the Zionist bosom.
Fact: George Robertson was the referee on Thomas Hamilton's gun licence
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Why oh why is all this not out in the public?
These people should be on trial for what they have done.
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Pederast cocksuckers!
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I know some of you hate Ian Hislop and Private Eye, but in this issue ("Gotcha! Murdoch Goes Down With All Hacks") I've actually seen in print a reference to Operation Ore.
In the middle of page 7:
"The Sunday Times would like it to be known that- contrary to what Gordon Brown believes- it operates on a different moral plane from it's colleagues at the News Of The World. Which means it's hoping no one will notice that last week it appointed outgoing Screws (Their running joke to describe the News of The World- hayed joe) news editor James Mellor as deputy on it's newsdesk. This is not the first overlap between the two titles. In 2003 the paper launched a two-pronged assault on Peter Mandelson after News International acquired police files related to Operation Ore, the investigation into UK citizens who had used credit cards to download child pornography images from the internet according to a list passed on by US investigators. A Peter Mandleson appeared on the list.
Following a conference call between the two papers it was decided that well-spoken Sunday Times hack Paul Nuki should put the allegations to Mandelson. He caught the former minister without portfolio at a dinner party, from which he was forced to extract himself to provide his credit card details which proved that whoever the Peter Mandelson on the list might be, it wasn't him."
And... that's it. Of course, they never had the nerve to suggest Peter had more than one credit card. But this is the closest reference to Operation Ore I've seen outside of the internet. If my name was Peter Mandelson I would be involved in all sorts of illegal activity to rubbish his (and mine) name!
Wouldn't touch kids though... I'd leave that to the "experts".
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Female Trainee Support Worker
- Recruiter
- Missing Link Ltd
- Location
- City of Bristol
- Salary
- £18,070
- Posted
- 13 Sep 2017
- Expires
- 18 Sep 2017
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- Health Medical & Social Care
- Contract Type
- Permanent
- Hours
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Established in 1999, Next Link provides a range of domestic abuse support services to women and children within Bristol, BaNES and South Glos.
Next Link has been successful in the re- commissioning process to deliver Bristol's domestic abuse safe house and community support services. Our new integrated service delivery team is expanding and we have a number of exciting opportunities for creative and highly motivated women with a broad understanding of domestic abuse issues, complex needs and a commitment to providing a high quality inclusive service within Bristol.
Female Trainee Support Worker – Safe House Services
Salary Point 18: £18,070 (includes participation on out of hours telephone on-call rota)
Hours: 37.5 hours (Including some evening and Saturday working on a rota basis)
Location: Bristol
As a trainee within the integrated team, you will be supported to develop the skills, knowledge and competencies to contribute to and assist in the provision of high quality safe house accommodation and support to women and children who have experienced domestic abuse, with a victim centred approach, focusing on safety and recovery
The successful candidate will have:
- empathy with the needs of victims of domestic abuse and vulnerable women and the barriers they face
- the ability to build relationships with service users
- the ability to complete risk assessments, needs assessments and support plans
- the ability to learn new skills and a commitment to learning in the workplace
- an understanding of cultural diversity
CLOSING DATE: 9am, Monday 18th September 2017
INTERVIEW DATE: Friday 22nd September 2017
Next Link is a progressive employer and offers a pension scheme, up to 30 days annual leave (depending on length of service) and 3 extra holidays including International Women's Day in lieu. We have a commitment to training and development.
Next Link is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and adults at risk of abuse, and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
Next Link is committed to Equal Opportunities.
*All posts are exempt under section 7 (2) (f) of the Sex Discrimination Act 1975
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Question by JabreelB: how much do film producers get paid?
How much does the average film producer get paid?
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Answer by Lui$
Film producers are the ones that pay others. They get paid when the film starts making money. …..it depends how the movie is to the people who watch it if the movies a big hit the producer will get loads of money if not so big then the producer will get money but not as much as a big hit….and it depends on the rating of the movie. some can make hundreds of thousand. others millions. Just imagine, the average good actor might might only get literaly pennies off of DVD sales that cost 20 dollars.
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CCU theatre students present musical 'Anything Goes'
One of the great hits of the Broadway stage, "Anything Goes" is a shipboard romance set on an ocean liner bound to London from New York. Billy Crocker, a stowaway, falls in love with an heiress, Hope Harcourt, who is already engaged to Lord Evelyn Oakleigh. Others on board conspire to help Billy in his quest for romance, leading to such memorable songs as "Anything Goes," "You're the Top" and "I Get a Kick Out of You."
The all-student cast is led by Kimberlee Ward as Hope and Caleb Jernigan as Billy Crocker. Elyse Brown and Charlie Tingen are their understudies.
Also starring are Jackie Wiatrowski, Justin Ables, Jackson Bartolme, Robert Stetson, Shana Meyer, Ronnie Coco, Tyler Keller, Drew Taylor, Caleb Brannen, Meredith Gratton, Anna Sheridan, Eric Waters and Michael Lawrence. The Angels (backup singers) are Katherine Brown, Anna Saunders, Elyse Brown and Lamisa Daniel.
Male dancers include Jonathan Natterstad, Robert Wallace, Eric Hnatko, Conor Devoe, Taylor Wright and Charles Armstrong. Female dancers are Lexie Wohlfort, Gabby Harker, Jackie Irving, Katherine Brown, Sarah Burton, Rachel Hogan, Anna Sheridan, Elyse Brown, Lamisa Daniel and Anna Saunders.
Amiee Turner, a visiting professor, directs.
Performances are at 7:30 p.m. Nov. 3-4 and Nov. 9-12. Matinees are at 1 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 5, and at 3 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 12.
Tickets are $15 per person, $10 CCU and HGTC faculty and staff, alumni, Osher Institute of Lifelong Learning (OLLI) members and seniors (65 and over); and $5 for CCU and HGTC students and children under age 17.
For tickets, call the Wheelwright Box Office at 843-349-2502.


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Great Blog on Book Design
This is a great blog that looks primarily at book design. For each book that they review the designer writes a bit about his design process.
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This is a great blog that looks primarily at book design. For each book that they review the designer writes a bit about his design process.
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Illustrates again the importance of story. Relates to podcast by editor of wired on econtalk. Design thinking blog:
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The following posts suggest how a WordPress class site and blog could serve a variety of uses in a typical class.
Chronology begins at the bottom. . .
Key Features of Class Sites (beta):
- students and faculty can check in on class on iPhone and at computer (currently Blackboard courses don't allow mobile access)
- faculty can add announcements, assignments, or blog posts via email
- faculty can upload handouts, images, audio, and video via email
- student accounts can allow them to post text, links, images, audio, or video to blog as well (easy to turn on and off)
- blog comments can be turned on and off
- future posts can be set to appear during or after class
We're confident our first round of users will find additional uses (and needs). Like Blackboard, the Course Site is simply a class communication tool. You decide how best to use it.
For those who find poetry, especially Old English poetry, something of a puzzle, this may help the pieces fall together.
Posterous says they have fixed video upload links. I'll check when I get back to Abilene.
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Here are just a couple of the objects from the British Museum we'll be talking about in class next week. I look forward to reading the rest of your artifact posts.
For those who weren't able to open the Timeline 1 transcript, here is a PDF version.
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The first week of any class can be disorienting, nonetheless a hybrid course. As you move through the assignments in Module 1, here is a quick checklist to keep you on track. Feel free to leave questions below if you're not sure what's next.
Module Checklist
When they go into battle, it is a disgrace for the chief to be surpassed in valor, a disgrace for his followers not to equal the valor of the chief. And it is an infamy and a reproach for life to have survived the chief, and returned from the field. To defend, to protect him, to ascribe one's own brave deeds to his renown, is the height of loyalty. The chief fights for victory; his vassals fight for their chief. (Germania)
As Tacitus describes it, the comitatus becomes a heroic code which values courage in battle and allegiance to one's clan. The "brave deeds" of a warrior were then repaid by the "liberality of the chief" through gift-giving and the hospitality of the mead hall. The Germanic people honored such deeds and gifts in great poems and "ancient songs, their only way of remembering or recording the past." Within such a pagan or pre-Christian culture, these "brave deeds" promised the young warrior his only hope of being remembered and, in effect, of immortality.
For all the distinctions that Tacitus tries to draw between the "barbarians" to the north and his civilized readers in Rome, what is most intriguing is the similarities of world view to be found in the comitatus and the classical epic. Ancient heroes like Homer's Achilles or Virgil's Aeneas were equally committed to the ideals of courage, honor, and bravery in battle.
Watch the following clips from two films illustrating these competing world views, and be ready to discuss obvious differences and surprising similarities between the way each ties immortality to the memory of "brave deeds."
Comitatus Clips - view or download at iTunes U
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Johannesburg - Two teenage boys linked to the murder of two Soweto schoolgirls appeared in the Protea Magistrate's Court on Friday.
The matter was postponed to April 17 for the results of the multiple drug tests they took, Warrant Officer Kay Makhubela said.
The court was holding a preliminary inquiry in terms of the Child Justice Act.
Makhubela said the inquiry would determine whether the boys would go on trial.
The boys, who cannot be named because they are minors, were arrested in connection with the murder of Thandeka Moganetsi, 15, and Chwayita Rathazayo, 16.
The girls were found dead in a field in Dobsonville in February.
They were both in their George Khoza Secondary School uniforms when they were found with cuts on their hands and necks.
Three black candles and two new razor blades were found at the scene.
The murder was believed to have been linked to a satanic ritual.


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1. Re: SI_StillImage matching performanceMannamal-Oracle Aug 15, 2012 3:02 PM (in response to brianotn)Is it possible to run each query in a new session? If so, does that help?
Can you file a bug with Oracle Support?
2. Re: SI_StillImage matching performancebrianotn Aug 15, 2012 6:28 PM (in response to Mannamal-Oracle)Hi
Yes, running it in a separate session resets the execution time to 60 seconds so I'll file a bug.
Many thanks
3. Re: SI_StillImage matching performanceuser8668882 Oct 10, 2012 3:51 PM (in response to brianotn)It is indeed a bug with a fix in 12.1


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You can read just about everywhere about who's gonna be at the Grammys this year—who's performing, who's presenting, who's showing up wearing a gigantic hat to try to steal the spotlight, etc. But the more of these award shows we watch, the more we're interested in who's not gonna be there. Who among the pop elite will be conspicuous by their absence this Sunday on music's biggest night?
Well, we can't say for sure, since a lot of these guys might end up being gametime decisions. But if we had to bet, it seems like these guys are pretty likely to be no-shows, based on their lack of announced involvement in the ceremonies, and in some cases, their notable distaste at the way they've been treated by the Academy this year. This includes:
- Justin Bieber. The Bieb was infamously—well, notably, anyway—shut out this year when Grammy nominations were announced, sending manager Scooter Braun into a tizzy protesting the snub. Without an announced role in the ceremonies, or a new album to promote (well, aside from the acoustic thing that just debuted at No. 1 somehow), or even a reliable date to show up with now that he and Selena have split, we think it's pretty likely Bieber just takes this year off from the Grammys altogether.
- Kanye West. Kanye's always-tumultuous relationship with the Grammys (and pretty much every other award show) took its latest downturn when his and Jay-Z's "Niggas in Paris" was left off the Record and Song of the Year nominations. At a December show in Atlantic City, Yeezy ranted that his many Grammy wins came "all in the black categories," and said that after the "Paris" snub, "don't expect to see me at the Grammys this year, you know what I mean?!" We're gonna take his word for it on that one.
- Adele. No album, no performance, no nominations except for a Best Pop Solo Performance nod for a live version of "Set Fire to the Rain" that we doubt she's particularly invested in emotionally. Plus, she's got an even higher-profile gig coming up at the Oscars to prepare for, and a demanding young'n (and a probably even-more-demanding new husband) at home to worry about. Besides, for Adele in 2013, the Grammys are like been there, done that.
- Nicki Minaj. Short of the Bieb, no snub at this year's nominations was more pronounced than Nicki Minaj, whose Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded and its accompanying spate of singles failed to garner Her Minajesty a single nomination. Nicki claims she's cool with the shutout, but adds (without elbaorating) that she believes the Grammys had "a different reason for not nominating me," suggesting a deeper beef that may cause her to skip out on this year's ceremonies. However, with labelmates Drake and Lil Wayne up for statues and Young Money being notoriously team-oriented, a Nicki appearance for emotional support doesn't seem out of the question.
- Lady Gaga. Stefani appeared at last year's ceremonies but was mostly an afterthought, nominated only three times and losing all three. Without a nomination, a scheduled performance or any new music to promote (yet), and a recent media strategy that seems geared around keeping Gaga out of the spotlight for a minute, the woman who was not all that long ago the talk of every award show she showed up at seems likely to sit this one out altogether, saving her strength for her 2013 ARTPOP push.
- Any EDM Dudes. Last year's ceremonies involved live performances from Deadmau5 and David Guetta, as well as multiple major-category nominations for Skrillex, who didn't perform but was undoubtedly one of the night's biggest presences. This year? Well...Calvin Harris has one nomination for his work on "We Found Love," but otherwise, outside of the dance-specific categories, you're not gonna find any EDM heavy-hitters among the presenters, performers or major-category nominees. Has the dance bubble already burst for major award shows? Who will set the internet on fire by wearing a t-shirt advertising a peer artist's phone number this year, then?
Other potential no-shows: Pink, Usher, Pitbull, Ke$ha
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The U.S. space agency is holding a contest online to decide on the nickname for the next American module to be added to the International Space Station (ISS). You can vote on a name by visiting the agency's Help NASA Name Node 3 page on the Web.
The suggested names prepared by NASA are Earthrise, Legacy, Serenity, and Venture; but you can also vote for a name of your own choosing.
Until now, NASA has simply referred to the next American module as Node 3, which will contain much of the future life-support resources needed to serve an expanded crew of six aboard the ISS and will also house the European Space Agency's Cupola observation module.
NASA's current plans call for the shuttle Endeavour to carry the newly named Node 3 to the ISS in December as the centerpiece of the STS-130 mission. Astronauts will then attach the cupola and the node to the port side of the Unity Node, where it will be integrated into the ISS by the space station's crew.
Node 3 will be used to house equipment for the overall Environmental Control and Life Support Systems on the ISS. These include: the Oxygen Generation System, which will recycle used water into hydrogen and oxygen; the Atmosphere Revitalization System, which will scrub carbon dioxide from the air onboard; the Water Recovery System, which will purify waste water; and the waste and hygiene compartment, which will offer the crew sophisticated bathroom resources.
For the naming contest, which will run until 20 March, NASA requests that voters bear in mind the spirit of the space station's international mission of peaceful exploration. It notes that previous ISS modules have reflected that spirit in names conveyed by other nation's to their habitat contributions, such as Kibo (or Hope) from Japan and Zarya (or Dawn) from Russia.
Someone may come up with a better name than the ones suggested by NASA (and mount a huge write-in campaign for it), but we at Spectrum Online think that the contest is going to be a slam-dunk for the one entry that stands out in the minds of techies everywhere: Serenity.
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Right before Locke finds the body of the priest, he takes out his compass. However, he had previously given his compass to Sayid saying that he didn't need it anymore.
Parent issues ("Lost"'s recurring theme):
Locke was conned by his parents.
Locke says "Normally clothing would completely decompose within 2 years, but this is high quality polyester. Could be 2 years, could be 10". However, in "House of the Rising Sun", Jack says "It takes 40 or 50 years for clothing to degrade like this" when talking of Adam and Eve.
Episode title: The actual deus ex machina in this episode is Locke's dream of the crashed plane.
Numbers: 4
Locke mentions that they have been on the island for 4 weeks.
Numbers: 16
Boone says that the accident with his nanny happened when he was 6. Since he's now 22, the accident happened 16 years ago.
Island events in this episode take place on October 30th, October 31st and November 1st 2004.
Numbers: 8 and 15
The footballs are placed in aisle 8 for regulation, aisle 15 for Nerf.
The California driver's license for Emily Annabeth Locke (Swossie Kurtz) has an expiration date of 20 March, 1994 (presumably within a year or two of the flashback sequences). She has a Los Angeles, CA address, is 5'5", 115lbs, and was born on 15 October, 1940.
Locke gets hit by a golden Pontiac in the parking lot at the beginning of this episode. This car is the same make and model of the car that hit Michael in the episode, "Special."
Locke's mother, Emily, was a former patient in Santa Rosa Mental Hospital. This is the same institution where Hurley and Libby stayed.
The drug that was being smuggled on the plane that Boone and Locke found is heroin. This is the same drug that Charlie was addicted to. Additionally, we later learn that the people who were flying this plane were acquaintances of Mr. Eko, a tail section survivor who appears in the second season.
In this episode, Sawyer is seen reading the book "A Wrinkle in Time" by Madeleine L'Engle.
In this episode, there is a scene in which Boone hears the words "We're the survivors of Oceanic flight 815!" over the beachcraft's radio. Later, in the episode "The Other 48 Days", we learn that the person saying this is Bernard Nadler, the husband of Rose and a tail section survivor. However, the voice we hear in "Deus ex Machina" is not the voice of Sam Anderson, the actor who plays Bernard, because he had not yet been cast.
John Locke, the 17th century English philosopher whom the character in the show is named after, was friends with the Earl of Shaftesbury, Anthony Ashley Cooper. In the show, this is the name of Locke's father.
Locke gets a shard of metal from the broken machine in his right leg, but he was standing with his left side toward it when it shattered.
When Locke opens the door to the plane after it falls off the cliff, you can see an injured Boone with his eyes open, but after that he appears to be unconscious.
When Jack walks away from Sawyer the first time, his backpack changes between shots. At first, it's a normal, modern-looking backpack. When the shot changes, it shows Jack wearing an older one, made out of leather. The 'backpack switching' continues until he leaves.
When Boone throws the Virgin Mary statuette out of the plane, the torso and head are completely shattered. However, when Locke inspects it, the torso and head are intact and the feet are shattered.
As Boone is climbing up the cliff face on the vines/roots to the crashed plane you clearly see the climbing belt on the stunt man as he makes his way up the cliff face. When we have Boone in the shot there is no climbing gear to be seen.
Locke's mom says that Locke is the result of an immaculate conception because he has no father. The problem is that this is not what immaculate conception means. Many people believe that the immaculate conception is the birth of Jesus Christ by the Blessed Virgin Mary. This, however, is not the case. The Immaculate Conception is of Mary's birth and it is the dogma that Mary was born free from Original Sin.
Kate: (about Sawyer) Thank you for helping him. I know it's probably the last thing you wanted to do.
Jack: I didn't do it for him. (Jack turns to look at her and they share a moment)
Kate: That's it, get up.
Sawyer: What?
Kate: Get up. You're going to Jack.
Sawyer: Do I get a lollipop?
(About Sawyer's new glasses)
Hurley: Dude, it looks like someone steamrolled Harry Potter.
Boone: (in Locke's dream) Theresa falls up the stairs. Theresa falls down the stairs.
Jack: Have you ever had sex with a prostitute?
Sawyer: What the hell has that got to do with anything?
Jack: Is that a yes?
Sawyer (reluctant): Yes
Jack: And have you ever contracted a sexually transmitted disease? (No reply) I'll take that as another yes. When was the last outbreak?
Sawyer: Go to hell, Doc.
Kate: I know he deserved it, but -
Jack: He needs glasses.
Boone: She was my nanny. Theresa, she was my nanny. My mother wasn't around much. I needed someone to take it out on. My bedroom was at the top of this huge flight of stairs and I would sit in bed all day calling her on the intercom. One day she took a bad step, broke her neck. I was six.
(Jack walks up to Sawyer while reading)
Sawyer: If you're looking for a stool sample, you can forget it.
Jack: You've been reading a lot since we came to the island.
Sawyer: Okay, so what?
Jack: (serious) You uh, you've uh, got hyperopia.
Sawyer: (stunned) Hyperopia? That's uh, what is that?
Jack: You're far-sighted.
Boone: What is a Nigerian priest doing on an island in the South Pacific?
(Locke pulls a gun from the corpse's pocket)
Locke: I'm not so sure he's a priest.
Jack: I hear you're having trouble with your head.
Sawyer: What, now she got you making house calls?
(During Locke's dream)
Locke: You're late.
Boone: Late for what?
Locke: Late for work.
Boone: I think I'm done working, John.
Locke: I'm sorry, what?
Boone: This is useless. You can't open that thing up. You say you can but you can't.
Locke: Don't tell me what I can't do.
Jack: (to Kate about Sawyer) Look, Kate, I'd like nothing more than to check the guy out and make sure he's okay, but we both know all I'm going to get for my trouble is a snappy one liner, and if I'm real lucky, a brand new nickname.
Locke: (Talking to the hatch) I've done everything you wanted me to do. So why did you do this to me!?
(about the examination during which Jack discovered that Sawyer needed glasses)
Kate: So did you know before or after you asked him about his latest outbreak?
Jack: Well, I'd answer that but, you know, doctor-patient confidentiality.
(Jack holds up a pair of glasses)
Sawyer: Uh uh. No way.
Jack: Sawyer, it's not a fashion show.
(about Sawyer's headaches)
Jack: You're sensitive to the light too, huh?
Sawyer: You know what? I'm sensitive to you.
Boone: (to Locke) Have you been using that wacky paste stuff that made me see my sister get eaten?
Emily: Well, he said that was the only way you would give it to him. It had to be your idea. He told me where to find you. He asked me to go see you. I wanted to see you.
Locke: This can't be happening. This is a misunderstanding. This can't happen to me. He wouldn't do this to me. He wouldn't do this to me!
Jack: You picking up on a little Korean there, Michael?
Michael: Yeah, I'm pretty sure I know how to say: faster and idiot.
Boone: Oh, we're supposed to. We're supposed to find this, right? We're supposed to open it, right? Then tell me something, John, if we're supposed to open it, then why the hell haven't we opened it yet?
Locke: The island will send us a sign.
International Airdates:
- Denmark: May 13, 2005 on Kanal 5
- Greece: August 28, 2008 at 23.00 on ANT1
Although credited, Emilie de Ravin (Claire), Maggie Grace (Shannon), Malcolm David Kelley (Walt) and Dominic Monaghan (Charlie) didn't appear. For the first time, Dominic Monaghan didn't appear, and for the first and only time, Emilie de Ravin didn't appear, but still was credited. Plus, Naveen Andrews (Sayid) appeared, but had no lines.
Swoosie Kurtz (Emily) also worked with Naveen Andrews (Sayid) in the 1998 TV movie My Own Country, and, with Ian Somerhalder (Boone) in the 2002 film The Rules Of Attraction.
For a limited time, a recap video clip could be seen on the ABC website. Within the clip, the audio had been changed for the scene of Boone contacting outsiders with the Beechcraft radio. The Audio had gone from, "...there were no survivors of..." to, "No, we're the survivors of Oceanic flight 815!"
The idea that "...there were no survivors.." was originally supposed to be said over the radio before it was changed can be explained by the fact that we now know the outside world believes there to be no survivors of flight 815 (up until a certain point in time anyway).
A Locke-centric episode.
Continuing the show's fascination/obsession/allegory with games, we see Mousetrap, created by Milton Bradley more than 50 years ago.
Hurley: Dude, looks like someone steamrolled Harry Potter.
Hurley's comment about Sawyer's glasses is a reference to the spectacled protagonist of J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter series of books.
Episode title: Deus Ex Machina
The title stems from the Latin phrase deus ex machina (literally "god from the machine"). The saying, simply put, is defined as a person or event that provides a sudden and unexpected solution to a difficulty. It is a term from ancient Greek and Roman plays where one of the gods would suddenly provide a solution. The episode title is also the title of Chapter 48 of the book "Watership Down." (In a previous episode, Boone accused Sawyer of stealing this book from his luggage.)
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The American Indian His Life And Customs (issue No. 87)
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From the season's opening game, the San Diego State women's basketball team used its overwhelming speed and head-turning athleticism to collect victory after victory, earning a share of the Mountain West Conference regular-season title and a first-round postseason win.
But in the NCAA Women's Basketball Tournament, against the best team in the nation not to earn a No. 1 seed, it just wasn't enough.
Unable to play the game that had gotten them there, the 10th-seeded Aztecs fell to No. 2 Stanford 77-49 in the second round last night before 3,202 at Cox Arena.
With the win, the Cardinal (31-4) – which this week also happens to be ranked second in both national polls – advances to the Sweet 16, where it meets No. 3 seed Ohio State on Saturday in Berkeley.
Meanwhile, the Aztecs (24-8) find themselves as spectators.
But, addressing the media afterward, SDSU coach Beth Burns emphasized the pride she had in a team that overcame plenty of challenges throughout the year to do exactly what it set out to do.
"Our first goal is to just assemble a team and get respect," said Burns, whose team entered the game having won 17 consecutive games on its home floor. "I think we've done that. Our goal is to springboard from what we got against DePaul and learn from Stanford and take this dance further next year."
While DePaul two days earlier came at the Aztecs with talent as well as size, the Cardinal took that mix to a whole different level.
Not only did all five starters tower over the Aztecs, but the Cardinal bench featured three more players standing 6 feet 3 or taller.
Stanford also was more than prepared to contain the easy transition layups that were key in SDSU's win over the Blue Demons in the first round, stifling the momentum and offensive flow on which the Aztecs rely. Guards Jené Morris (14 points, six steals) and Quenese Davis (13 points, six rebounds) were the only Aztecs to score in double figures.
And with SDSU focused on double-teaming Pac-10 Player of the Year Jayne Appel, it had no answer for the athleticism of forward Nnemkadi Ogwumike.
Although the 6-foot-4 Appel didn't have her typical game, finishing with 12 points and 11 rebounds before fouling out with 6:42 remaining, the Aztecs gained little ground thanks to Ogwumike.
The 6-2 freshman had a breakout game, making 8-of-10 shots from the field, and 11 more free throws for 27 points to go with 13 rebounds in 37 minutes of play.
"We did as well as we could in a lot of aspects of the game, trying to keep them off the three-point line and trying not to let them get (offensive rebounds), but we really had no answer for (Ogwumike)," Burns said. "She is such a fabulous athlete and it's just remarkable she's just a freshman."
For the first six minutes of the game, the Aztecs stayed with Stanford, matching the Cardinal's combination of free throws and layups with its own mix of steals and three-pointers.
But with the score tied at 16-16, Stanford kicked off a run that included eight unanswered points and 15 of the next 17 over a span of nearly seven minutes. At the same time, SDSU was already struggling with foul trouble from starters Paris Johnson and Jennifer Layton-Bailes.
The loss aside, Burns said the players in her locker room were already talking about next year, and at least one Hall of Fame coach left Cox Arena having seen potential for further growth in the game on the West Coast.
"Everything is baby steps, getting to the NCAA Tournament, winning the first game," VanDerveer said of what she saw from the Aztecs over the first two rounds. "You can only do one step at a time, and this is obviously a very good first step."
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Today was the Senior Bowl. Just finished watching the game for the first time. For this first viewing, I focused entirely on the quarterbacks. Here's an abridged version of my notes for each QB:
* Looks like a pro top to bottom - holds ball high, great mechanics and footwork. Definite NFL arm.
* 100% healthy now and looks like totally different guy from the banged-up senior season player
* On-target on timing routes and fast getting ball out of hand
* West coast QB? Mayock thinks do. Definitely excelled with short & medium timing routes
* (Drive 1): Bad deep underthrow on 1st play - said in interview later that ball was slick and didn't come out cleanly
* (Drive 1): Nimble feet escaping rush and scrambling for 1st down, powerful sneak later in drive for another 1st down
* (Drive 2): On-time throw to post-corner but WR ran route too shallow and cut himself off
* (Drive 2): On-time throw on deep hitch, delivered before the break, right on back shoulder, touchdown, fantastic
* (Drive 5): Powerful delivery on quick slant
* (Drive 5): Great throw on seam for TD, delivered with pressure in face, threw the ball slightly behind in order to fit right into hole in zone and allow WR to adjust. Great.
* Helped himself a whole lot.
* First two drives went 3-and-out, largely from bad run game and poor protection. Frustratingly little to judge Locker on in 1st half.
* The pro-level tools are evident. Obvious NFL arm.
* Accuracy a BIG concern. Lots of throws just off-target. Thew skinny post too high twice.
* Started to come alive in drive 4. Couple of strong throws, but also couple of off-target throws that defenders could jump on.
* No wonder Mayock has such a problem judging him. All sorts of tools here, undermined by this accuracy problem.
* Is accuracy fixable? Locker still inexperienced working from pocket. Ripe for molding by a QB guru?
* Smallest 6'3", 225lb QB I've ever seen. Disappears in the pocket.
* Completed passes in wide-open lanes. Avoided throwing over the top of people at all costs.
* (Drive 1): High and off-target out on 3rd-and-4 ended drive
* (Drive 2): Good on-target PA rollout throw to deep crossing route, WR dropped it.
* (Drive 2): Picked off on deep pass underthrown, but was throwing it up on free play from defensive offsides. Bad throw but not a bad decision as McElroy knew it was a free play. Slid to the left to get out of pocket to attempt throw - again, avoiding throwing it over the line.
* (Drive 2): Good PA screen, again slid around rush before willing to throw.
* Injured throwing hand hitting it on lineman's helmet, struggled in Drive 3 due probably to injury, won't use it for evaluation.
* Great pocket awareness, excelled at avoiding rush
* Throws lacked power, did not look like an NFL arm
* (Drive 1): Too-high throw on WR screen, caught but slowed receiver for easy tackle
* (Drive 1): Off-target on curl on 3rd down, ending drive
* (Drive 2): Slooow throw on slant, got WR hit, no catch, throw was high and WR had to leave feet to go for it
* (Drive 2): Slowball on slot seam, ball didn't make it to WR, defender jumped all over it
* (Drive 3): Came alive a bit on this drive, delivered good ball on bootleg with defender in face.
* Good feet but overall the arm looked dead
* Disappointing outing
* A number of near-miss throws
* Wish we could have seen more throws. Arm looked more lively than advertised.
* (Drive 1): Touch throw down the sideline, just delivered too far inside
* (Drive 1): Nice medium range completion with pressure in face
* (Drive 1): Near-miss throwing off back foot on deep post
* (Drive 2): Great PA bootleg and on-target throw to receiver in tight coverage
* Left game early after taking hit to chest. Want to see more to judge
* I want this guy
* Smart, decisive, not rattled by pressure
* Inexperience in pocket biggest downside, ran Nevada's pistol for 4 years. Lots of read options.
* WHAT AN ARM. This may be an elite NFL arm if he learns better how to use it.
* Has the legs to keep plays alive.
* (Drive 1): Powerful throw running out of pressure on 1st play, delivered right to receiver, who bobbled it up in air for INT. Bad stat line but positive play for Kaepernick.
* (Drive 2): Powerful throw on slant. Mechanics slightly odd looking but delivers ball effortlessly.
* (Drive 2): Couldn't beat Von Miller on naked zone read to left - will have to learn that that won't work against NFL linebackers.
* (Drive 3): BANG! Throw to receiver sitting down in zone hole. Stepped away from sack and delivered a STRONG ball without a full step forward.
* (Drive 3): Fast completion to receiver on slant, got ball out quickly
* (Drive 3): Missed recognition of receiver breaking back to him on rollout, missed opportunity
* (Drive 3): Frustrating pursuers with his ability to keep play alive and make them run the width of the field
* (Drive 4): Great scramble to keep play alive, came back to other side of the field, delivered strong ball throwing across body, receiver dropped it
* Legitimate high ceiling prospect. Helped himself a lot. Definitely a draft-and-develop guy.
* 2nd rounder? Probably.
* Just a sensational arm, which wasn't on display as much at Nevada as he ran it so much (rightly so for college ball).
By far, the guys that looked the best were Ponder and Kaepernick. As of right now, I think both guys are solid 2nd round picks. Ponder is starting to look like the guy that we expected to develop into a 1st round QB, but injuries are a concern going forward (healthy now, but obviously prone to injury). Looking best for a team with an offense built on timing routes. Kaepernick looks like a guy that needs the kind of QB coaching Mike Vick has been getting in Philly. Superstar potential, needs to learn the game better. Big arm and big mobility but also high character and work ethic. Not going to flame out JaMarcus-style.
I don't know what to make of Locker right now. The tools still say 1st rounder. Somewhere, there's a QB coach watching his film that thinks he can solve the accuracy problem.
Andy Dalton, I can't wait to see at the Combine. I need to go back and watch the Rose Bowl again too. I feel like there's something there.
McElroy and Stanzi, I'm not really feeling.
Locker's the streaky one, right? He has to get in a groove before it all comes together ... ?
Saw plenty of McElroy this year, of course. Don't figure he's much more of an NFL QB than Brodie Croyle.
Kaepernick is this years Flacco/Cutler - I'm guessing he keeps rising as it appears he has the intangibles to go along with the physical tools. I wouldn't be surprised to see him taken in round 1. I'd see him going all the way up as far as Washington or Jacksonville.
Is the game up online anywhere?
The ProBowl's on Fox, so I don't believe there's a legal online stream.
That's crazy. I don't know if I can envision him going that high. But I can tell you with absolute certainty that everyone is pulling Nevada tapes right now to watch them again.
I've watched the guy for years, Nevada being a WAC school, and I didn't see it until I watched the Senior Bowl game. At Nevada, he ran so much and the passing game was all short spread stuff thrown to, well, WAC receivers. It was one of the NCAA's best offenses so it's hard to fault them, but it didn't show off the traits that will make him an NFL quarterback.
And some of these so-called expert draft websites have listed Kaepernick as one of their "losers" of the Senior Bowl. It made me understand why some of these experts end up so confused on draft day. They don't know how to isolate and watch for traits that an NFL player will need. One was talking about how great McElroy was. I guess when McElroy would complete a pass, they'd mark it as a positive play, even though there was plenty there to look at and say, "that wouldn't fly in the NFL". Or perhaps they just look at the stat sheet.
I didn't think Cutler/Flacco would go as high as they did, either - I thought they were both bottom 1st/2nd rounder guys. We'll see after the combine, I guess.
I totally agree with some of the analysis I'm seeing, though - I was wondering if these guys were watching the same thing I was, and I've only seen highlight clips and read senior bowl blogs. McElroy has looked decidedly mediocre - breaking his hand in the senior bowl may have actually helped him since he has a good excuse to miss the combine.
Now that it's been brought up, which analysts do you follow? Rob Rang at nfldraftscout.com seems like he knows what he's talking about, I usually start there. Mayock, of course. I'm not a big fan of McShay.
And McElroy isn't as small as Croyle was. So, who knows?
Croyle had an NFL arm though, he just wasn't big enough to survive the physical demands on a QB in the league. McElroy hasn't looked like he has the arm to me. If I am a GM, he is at best a Rookie FA.
I saw Locker play when he came out a few years ago to play Hawaii, and I really think he has the "it" leadership quality to make it in the NFL.
I don't know enough about the rest to comment effectively, but I always feel like the best leaders would make it at the next level.
But what do I know, I (as a Charger fan), thought Ryan Leaf would be 100 times better than Peyton, and that Mark Sanchez wouldn't even start a game in the NFL...
Legion, how would you compair Kaepernick to say Alex Smith? As I think he also played a nice spread offense and ran a lot during college.
I saw Locker play when he came out a few years ago to play Hawaii, and I really think he has the "it" leadership quality to make it in the NFL.
I don't know enough about the rest to comment effectively, but I always feel like the best leaders would make it at the next level.
Living in Lockerland (the guy is talked about non-stop in the Seattle area), I can confirm that his intangibles are top-notch. Locker's problem has always been accuracy in the pocket - oddly enough, he is usually better on the run. As Legion has alluded, he'll go to whichever team thinks they can coach that out of him.
Legion, how would you compair Kaepernick to say Alex Smith? As I think he also played a nice spread offense and ran a lot during college.
From what I've seen so far, Smith has a merely 'good' NFL arm, Kaepernick has an elite arm. Legion may comment more, but I'll have to hold off until the combine.
Also, another big difference between these two guys as draft prospects is that Smith's draft was a QB drought and Kaepernick's draft is stock full of them.
Yes, I remember Aaron Rodgers (who I liked much better, if only because he played in the Pac-10 :D) falling all the way to GB in that draft. I couldn't believe it then and I can't believe it now.
Of course, put Rodgers on that atrocious 2005 49er team and he may have developed Carr Syndrome too.
Lockout or not... this should be interesting.
The Doug Flutie Award for Breakthrough Performance...But Not By A Rookie (And Not Someone Named Terrence Knighton):
I know this is going to come as a deep shock to anyone who has ever read the NFL threads this year, but I'm going to vote someone else for this. Someone else who may or may not be a second-year QB for the Bucs. I know, deeply surprising. Anyways, Josh Freeman has more or less started a season and a half's worth of football, being he started the last nine games of 2009. For convenience's (and rhetoric's) sake, I'm going to break his career down into three half-seasons.
Half-season 1, 2nd half of 2009--158/290, 54.5%, 10 TD/18 INT
Half-season 2, 1st half of 2010--146/246, 59.3%, 10 TD/5 INT
Half-season 3, 2nd half of 2010--145/228, 63.6%, 15 TD/1 INT
And yes, before Legion says it, I realize that his INT rate smacks of David Garrard's a few years ago and is the sort of thing that is going to be unreproduceable, but his improvement was utterly ridiculous in year two. Oh, and before somebody says "it was the schedule", Tampa had about the same schedule strength as the Falcons and a harder one than the Saints, and Brees really had a shaky year.
Also, Brett Favre as Rat and/or Douchebag of the year . . . I think I have to go with Big Ben. Showing your junk is offensive, shoving it into someone who doesn't want it while an off-duty cop watches the door is repulsive. My only real regret of the Super Bowl is Clay Matthews didn't punch Ben in the junk hard enough to castrate him.
Okay, I guess it's time for me to start the pre...hey, wait a minute! Er...fine, moving on *grumbles*...
With the Super Bowl not even half a day behind us, the NFL season once again comes to a close. And once again, out of all professional sports, the NFL off-season is the most active of them all, with trades (hopefully), drafts (definitely), signings (possibly), and the occasional crimes against human decency (hopefully not). So, while most of us start to draft excuses to avoid spending too much time with our SO's on Sunday afternoons, football life goes on (maybe).
And what better way to start the off-season than to look back on the past season with...another awards show!
You know the drill by now. We're not honoring MVPs or that thing. Some awards you want, some you don't, and even some have practically nothing to do with football. Now, let's begin...
The Doug Flutie Award for Breakthrough Performance...But Not By A Rookie (And Not Someone Named Terrence Knighton): Every so often we see a player who's been languishing in the league without a shot at stardom, riding the bench while others get the reps and the glory. Then, one day something comes along to change that. An injured starter, a trade, a free agent signing few people pay attention to and with that, a star is born. Of course there were plenty break-out seasons by players this year from the likes of Arian Foster, Peyton Hillis, and the much talked about Michael Vick, but this year's winner should come as something as a shock. I too was surprised when I was looking over the stat leaders for the season and found his name at the top of the receiving list even after being in the league for eight seasons and constantly being overshadowed by other players at the position. It's surprising, considering what team he's on. Our winner this year is...Brandon Lloyd (WR, Denver Broncos). Yes, that Brandon Lloyd of those Denver Broncos. The team that benched Kyle Orton in favor of Tim Tebow. The team who fired its head coach Josh McDaniels and appears to be moving into rebuilding mode for next season. And yet with all the turmoil and futility that surrounded him, Lloyd ended up leading the league in receiving yards, near the top in yards per game, and had zero fumbles. On a team with a bleak 2010 season, he was its only bright spot and should be a target of trade offers and fantasy drafts in the off season.
2009-2010 Winner: Charles Woodson (CB, Green Bay Packers)
2008-2009 Winner: Michael Turner (RB, Atlanta Falcons)
2007-2008 Winner: David Garrard (QB, Jacksonville Jaguars)
2006-2007 Winner: Frank Gore (RB, San Francisco 49ers)
The "Who Dat?" Award for the League's Best Obscure Team Up Until the Playoffs: You know how it is. Other than your local teams (and unless you pony up for packages on cable and satellite), more often than not you'll end up seeing teams the networks think are the best. Sometimes teams that don't make the playoffs get all of the attention while some teams just calmly slide into the playoffs and finally make people take notice. Well, this team didn't exactly slide into the playoffs but at the same time they weren't getting much buzz outside of that Play 60 commercial. Of course, that was mainly due to a knock or two against them that bore out in the division round, but it amazes me that even though they were the #1 seed in their conference they weren't attracting that much attention. Our winner this year is...Atlanta Falcons. True, they were bounced by the sixth seeded Green Bay Packers, but they did have the second best record in the NFL behind New England, who also happened to have made an early exit from the post season. The Falcons are still not quite there yet and there's a good chance that their division rival Buccaneers can make it three in a row for the NFC South in this category, but for this year they get my nod.
2009-2010 Winner: New Orleans Saints
2008-2009 Winner: Arizona Cardinals
2007-2008 Winner: Jacksonville Jaguars
2006-2007 Winner: New York Jets
The "Don't Believe the Hype" Award for the League's Highly Overrated Team: Great expectations usually result in great disappointment. When you have a team with star talent, you're expected to make noise in the league. The good kind of noise, not the whining and complaining you generally associate with losing teams like the Raiders or the Rams. Sometimes, though, the hype just goes to a level that's way beyond eleven. In this year's case, the hype factor was probably in the forties, thanks in no small part to who was lining up under center for most of the season. Throw in the complete collapse of the team during the early part of the regular season, a bizarre trade for and cutting of a well-known wide receiver, and you have what's arguably a bigger train wreck than Dallas. Our winner this year is...the Minnesota Vikings. Yes, the Cowboys could have easily been this year's winner, but if you look at the past winner's list in this category below, expectations for them had to be tempered based on the team's lack of performance in the post season. But, with Minnesota, you had Brett Favre coming off one of the best seasons of his career, fall flat on his face, and end the year on the bench. You had the trade for Randy Moss which should have given the team a spark to go after their division rivals only to have it blow up in their face when now fired head coach Brad Childress spontaneously cut him. Throw in the roof of the Metrodome caving in and the craziness surrounding their attempts to have "home" games afterwards and this quite possibly is one of the biggest FAILs I've ever seen in professional sports.
2009-2010 Winner: Pittsburgh Steelers
2008-2009 Winner: Dallas Cowboys
2007-2008 Winner: Dallas Cowboys
2006-2007 Winner: San Diego Chargers
The Jim Mora Award for Spontaneous On-Camera Combustion: I both love and hate this category. I love it for the sheer insanity (PLAYOFFS?!) and quotability (I'M A MAN! I'M FORTY!) of it. On the other hand, I hate it because sometimes there's always a chance of not finding a winner in the ranks of the NFL, hence my bending the rules and looking to the college ranks a few years ago. Head coaches are getting more and more media savvy, more level headed even after getting their butts whooped ten minutes before the press conference begins. Since that was the case, I further bent the rules and extended it to players. After all, they go before the cameras, too. I also further bent the rules because I felt there was just one performance that couldn't go ignored. Our co-winners this year are...Derek Anderson (QB, Arizona Cardinals) and Bart Scott (LB, New York Jets). In the case of Anderson, it was after the Cardinals were thrashed by the 49ers on Monday Night Football and a reporter called him out for apparently laughing on the sideline. His repeated denials were met with further prodding, causing him to unleash a battery of "That's fine" and cap it off with "I put my heart and soul into this sh*t every week!" Whoa, chillax there, Derek. Fast forward to the divisional round and the Jets' surprising victory over the Patriots at Foxboro. ESPN's Sal Paolantonio served as the middle man between Bart Scott and studio analyst Tom Jackson, who was quite down on New York's defense. Scott clearly took umbrage with that assessment and rather than try to paraphrase him, I'll let him do the talking:
That line about nose bleeds seems to take on a different tone considering they were beat by Ben Roethlisberger in the AFC Championship.
2009-2010 Winner: Rex Ryan (Head Coach, New York Jets)
2008-2009 Winner: Mike Singletary (Former Head Coach, San Francisco 49ers)
2007-2008 Winner: Mike Gundy (Head Football Coach, Oklahoma State University)
2006-2007 Winner: Denny Green (Former Head Coach, Arizona Cardinals)
The Guiding Light Award for Soap-Operas that Never End: Once touted as a revolution in media, there is one unfortunate side-effect of the 24 hour news cycle; you got to report stuff for 24 hours. For channels like CNN and FOX News, it means wall-to-wall coverage of whatever Barack Obama or Sarah Palin are up to. For ESPN, particularly when we're in the doldrums of the off-season, where the only other sport of note is baseball that still has miles to go before the penant race, it means constantly hounding NFL teams about this, that, and the other thing. Occasionally, we find ourselves tormented by an ongoing story that torments our every waking hour. Even if nothing is really going on with it, we're still being beaten over the head by speculation and rumors. And with this year's winner, the drama started in training camp and didn't stop until the conference title game. Nine times out of ten, if this winner was referred to in a news report, it wasn't about what happened on the field. Our winner this year is...the New York Jets. Hard Knocks, Ines Sainz, Jenn Sterger, Sal Alosi, Michelle Ryan, F-bombs and alpha-hotels; practically everything other than the game of football kept this team in the headlines. I won't rehash what happened, but it seemed like week after week some new scandal came up, including the one with Sterger that stemmed from her encounters with Brett Favre back in 2008. But perhaps this team fed on it; the one week where all was quiet just happened to be the lead up to the AFC Championship game they lost to Pittsburgh. Perhaps next time they should keep running their mouths off and keep running into trouble.
2009-2010 Winner: Tim Tebow
2008-2009 Winner: Brett Favre
2007-2008 Winner: New England Patriots chasing the '72 Miami Dolphins
2006-2007 Winner: Terrell Owens
The Carolina Panthers Cheerleaders Award for Best Oogaba of the Season: This is another one of those awards that occasionally you have reach real far to find a winner, but at the same time, the effort is well rewarding, at least for me. Wardrobe malfunctions, cheerleaders getting rained on, bathroom hookups, and scantily clad women braving the frigid elements; sometimes you forget that there's a game going on. Well, in this case, this winner was about the interesting going on during the game. With the home team getting clobbered, anything else would be entertaining than what's going on. Our winner this year is...the lap dancer at Cowboys' game (NSFW). This lucky SOB certainly got his money worth with those front-row tickets. Special shout-out to SI swimsuit and Victoria's Secret model Marissa Miller for her yeoman effort in promoting the NFL in London. Now that's marketing.
2009-2010 Winner: New Orleans Saints fan with under-boob
2008-2009 Winner: San Diego Chargers cheerleader whose nipples inadvertently slipped out, AFC Wild Card Game
2007-2008 Winner: Three Green Bay Packers fans wearing bikini tops, Week 17 and NFC Championship Game
2006-2007 Winner: Tara Conner and Katie Blair (Miss USA and Miss Teen USA, 2006). See this thread for details.
The Dick Cline Award for Bad Decisions in NFL Broadcasting: Television revolutionized the NFL and the NFL gave a little back to it. After all, no single program annually draws as much attention (and calls for proclamations of national holidays the following Monday) than the Super Bowl. That isn't to say that it's all been good; for every couple of good Super Bowls, we get Heidi Bowls (to which the name of this award is in reference to). In the case of this year's winner, they fortunately did not go through (yet) with the idea they were entertaining, because the one instance they tested it out was horrifying. Even if the announcers were the NFL equivalents of baseball's Dwayne Kuiper and Mike Krukow, you'd still be rushing for the mute button because of what this network unleashed upon fans. Our winner this year is...FOX. During a game between the Seattle Seahawks and San Francisco 49ers, FOX Sports decided to do a little experiment: to play music during the game. The whole game. Constantly. During and in between plays. And this wasn't good music like classic NFL Films pieces or the Daft Punk soundtrack to TRON Legacy that ESPN used during Monday Night Football. It was horrible! Being bombarded like that without interruption during the course of the game is terrible and at least for me ruined the experience of watching. Since FOX so far hasn't done this travesty again, we can only hope they've abandoned this asinine idea.
The above section was written earlier in the post season, but upon viewing the Super Bowl broadcast, I felt the need amend this award. Truly, a horrid effort. An over-bearing montage of current and former players reciting the Declaration of Independence alongside ordinary folk (I bet that played well in the international markets), Christina Aguilera's butchering of the National Anthem, a generally lame assortment of Super Bowl ads capped off by the horrendously offensive Tibet ad by Groupon, the half-time show. Pile this on top of the usually bad broadcasting talents of FOX Sports and the disastrous situation at the venue; FOX should be damn glad that the actual football game was entertaining.
2009-2010 Winner: CBS
2008-2009 Winner: ESPN
2007-2008 Winner: NFL Network
2006-2007 Winner: NFL Network
Rat Boy's Rat of the Year Award: Finally, the granddaddy of them all, the one award that you really, really don't want to have any part in (though Nick Saban seems to be doing well right now). This award recognizes the worst of the worst, the most egregious acts that can possibly be committed by anyone affiliated with the National Football League. I'll spare you further preamble and announce that our winner is...Brett Favre. I'll also refrain from rehashing what I've covered to death in these threads, but in last year's Rat of the Year Award, I stated the following about our dishonoree Tiger Woods:
With fame and money comes temptation and Tiger clearly succumbed to that temptation and set a cautionary tale for all celebrity athletes including those in the NFL. Too often we've seen what abusing the lifestyle has resulted in and what Tiger's debacle proves that no matter what the public persona of a person is, everyone is still one (or about ten in Tiger's case) misstep from pissing it all away.
Certainly, Favre fits that description, the likable Southern man, the faithful husband and father, or at least that's how he was marketed before. Now, thanks to this scandal, it's all gone out the window. Obviously Favre got out of the situation with just a slap on the wrist from the league, not because the NFL didn't think he did anything wrong, just that his stonewalling the investigation prevented them from getting anything really incriminating. This certainly sends a bad message that all you have to do is lie and you'll get away with it, and that's what I find most troubling about this whole thing. True, his personal life probably suffered and the whole thing destroyed Jenn Sterger's career, but the next time an NFL player finds himself under league scrutiny, all he has to do is follow Brett Favre's pattern to get away with it. It's acts like that will get you the Rat of the Year Award.
2009-2010 Winner: Tiger Woods (Golfer)
2008-2009 Winner: Al Davis, (Owner, Oakland Raiders)
2007-2008 Winner: Michael Vick (QB, Philadelphia Eagles)
2006-2007 Winner: Nick Saban (Former Head Coach, Miami Dolphins)
Before I let you go, let's close the books on the last caption contest of the season:
It was easier to exaggerate an injury in Denver.
For those of you keeping score, here are the winners of the past season ranked by total number of said wins:
*Legion* - 2
MilkmanDanimal - 2
oldmanscene24 - 2
boogle - 1
Kush15 - 1
lostlobster - 1
Nightmare -1
Now hopefully there will be a regular season so we can do this again. *sigh*
Also, Brett Favre as Rat and/or Douchebag of the year . . . I think I have to go with Big Ben. Showing your junk is offensive, shoving it into someone who doesn't want it while an off-duty cop watches the door is repulsive. My only real regret of the Super Bowl is Clay Matthews didn't punch Ben in the junk hard enough to castrate him.
I didn't pick Favre because of the texting, I picked him for the cover-up, which like I said establishes a very troubling precedent. Big Ben at least cooperated and did his time.
Edit: And it gets worse for the NFL over those 400 seats since they knew about it last week.
Steps for staying out of trouble:
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2. Deny everything
3. If all else fails, refer to rule 1.
Steps for staying out of trouble:
1. Admit nothing
2. Deny everything
3. If all else fails, refer to rule 1.
4. If that fails, cry on TV and go to rehab.
B.J. Raji made a fight of it, but inaugural winner is Terrance Knighton (DT, Jacksonville)
Yeah, but can he dance like Raji? I thought not. Please try again next year.
"Seriously, I swear Terrance Cody's ass is THIS big."
Wait, is that not what we're doing here?
"Seriously, I swear Terrance Cody's ass is THIS big."
Wait, is that not what we're doing here?
If I could take back the rule I made about only doing this during the season, I'd make you the leader just so *Legion* drops back to second place.
The dirty, potentially lawsuit attracting details of Mark Sanchez's romancing a 17 year old girl. Now it's officially the off season.
Edit: More fun news; fans who got shafted during the Super Bowl are suing the NFL, the Cowboys, and Jerry Jones.
The dirty, potentially lawsuit attracting details of Mark Sanchez's romancing a 17 year old girl. Now it's officially the off season.
So am I a bad person because my wife was 17 and I 25 when we started dating?
More fun news; fans who got shafted during the Super Bowl are suing the NFL, the Cowboys, and Jerry Jones.
Yup. The more I hear the more I feel bad for those people, but mostly I want to laugh at Jerry Jones. He isn't seeing another Super Bowl at his stadium in his lifetime.


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India's Prime Minister Manmohan Singh looks set to double down on economic reforms, even as he faces a rebellion from a key ally that is likely to result in a no-confidence motion next week.
According to the Hindustan Times, on Thursday Singh formally notified a measure that will allow "multi-brand" retailers like Walmart into the market with foreign investment of up to 51 percent in local ventures--defying calls to withdraw the move from West Bengal's Mamata Banerjee, whose Trinamool Congress controls 19 parliamentary seats. Moreover, Singh plans to present additional reforms, such as settling an outstanding tax conflict with Vodafone and raising the cap on foreign investment in the insurance sector, in the near future, the paper said.
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The Trinamool Congress has indicated that once they have withdrawn support, they will push for a no-confidence vote, the news channel said. "According to the schedule we are going to the PMO around 3 pm and then we will go to President. We will go all out to protest against FDI, curb the price rise and launch a movement to withdraw diesel price hike, withdraw subsidy from the LPG and reduce price of fertilizers. Farmers are crying and people are crying.They should take fresh mandate or these actions are unethical," the channel quoted Trinamool Congress leader Mukul Roy as saying.
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