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Someone once coined the phrase, "The grass is always greener on the other side of the fence."
That old axiom fits any number of everyday life situations, but it is especially true for Ohio State football fans. They look at Oregon and its pinball-style offense, and they get all misty-eyed. They wonder why their favorite team can't score points in bunches. They wonder why the Buckeyes can't be that fun to watch.
Now with the Ducks on the horizon, fans wonder if maybe – finally – Ohio State head coach Jim Tressel will unleash his arsenal of weapons and allow his thoroughbreds to run free.
Many theorize Tressel has to open the playbook tomorrow afternoon. Oregon won 10 of its last 11 games, and scored 40 points or more in seven of its final nine contests. The only blemish down the stretch for the Ducks was a loss at Stanford, and the Cardinal had to score 51 points to pull that off.
There is another way, of course. Rather than trying to beat Oregon at its own game, Ohio State should not try to be anything but its normal self. Solid, straight-up defense coupled with a power running game and mistake-free special teams. No tricks, nothing fancy, just good old-fashioned fundamental football.
In other words, Tresselball.
All anyone every wants to talk about is the boring nature of that style of offense, yet no one seems to dispute the success rate of the basic philosophy. When the Buckeyes had their backs against the wall following the 26-18 loss at Purdue in mid-October, the team returned to basics and Tresselball carried OSU all the way to Pasadena.
After returning home from West Lafayette, the defense turned things up a couple of notches, the running game kicked into high gear and Ohio State closed out the regular season with five straight victories – including wins over Penn State and Iowa, both of which had 10-win seasons.
In vanquishing those final five foes, the Buckeyes outscored their opponents by a 155-48 margin. Moreover, OSU improved its running attack to the tune of an average of 257.8 yards per game down the stretch. Meanwhile, the defense allowed no team in those last five games to rush for more than 123 yards, and none of Ohio State's final four opponents – including Penn State and Iowa – cracked the 100-yard mark.
I've heard so many times over the past month how difficult it will be for the Buckeyes to beat Oregon if they don't pump up the offense. I really don't think that is necessary. One reason why the Ducks score so many points is because they have to. Their defense surrendered 283 points this season and gave up 33 or more points four times.
Ohio State really doesn't have to do anything differently on offense to beat Oregon. The one thing Terrelle Pryor and Co. cannot do, however, is turn the ball over. Give the Ducks' offense gift possessions and they will win the game. Short of that, the Buckeyes simply need to be themselves.
And when it comes right down to the nitty and the gritty, that's the way it should be. Since when should you apologize for doing what you do best?
** Ohio State holds a 7-0 advantage in the all-time series, including a 10-7 victory in the 1958 Rose Bowl. The teams haven't met since 1987 when the Buckeyes took a 24-14 win over the Ducks in Ohio Stadium.
** This will be the first meeting between OSU head coach Jim Tressel and Oregon boss Chip Kelly, who is in his first season as head coach of the Ducks. Tressel is 14-1 during his Ohio State tenure against first-year head coaches. The lone blemish on that slate came earlier this season against Purdue's Danny Hope.
** Tressel has a lifetime 27-10 record in the postseason, including 4-4 in bowl games while at Ohio State. He was 23-6 in Division I-AA playoff games while at Youngstown State, including national championships in 1991, '93 and '94.
** In overall meetings, the Buckeyes are 50-25-2 against teams currently in the Pac-10. In addition to being a perfect 7-0 against Oregon, OSU is 3-1 vs. Arizona, 2-0 vs. Arizona State, 5-1 vs. California, 2-0 vs. Oregon State, 2-3 vs. Stanford, 4-4-1 vs. UCLA, 9-13-1 vs. USC, 8-3 vs. Washington and 8-0 vs. Washington State.
** Oregon is 15-26 all-time against the Big Ten. In addition to an 0-7 slate against Ohio State, the Ducks are 2-1 vs. Illinois, 2-1 vs. Indiana, 2-1 vs. Iowa, 2-3 vs. Michigan, 1-3 vs. Minnesota, 2-2 vs. Michigan State, 0-1 vs. Northwestern, 1-3 vs. Penn State, 2-1 vs. Purdue and 1-3 vs. Wisconsin.
** Tressel is 3-3 all-time against Pac-10 schools. He is 2-0 vs. Washington, 1-0 vs. Washington State, 0-1 vs. UCLA and 0-2 vs. USC.
** Kelly is 1-0 all-time against Big Ten schools. His team won a 38-36 victory over Purdue at Autzen Stadium in Eugene on Sept. 12.
** The Buckeyes have lost three consecutive bowl games and are 18-22 overall in the postseason. The team's most recent bowl victory was a 34-20 win over Notre Dame in the 2006 Fiesta Bowl. Since then, OSU lost back-to-back national championship games (to Florida in 2007 and LSU in 2008) and dropped a 24-21 decision to Texas in the Fiesta Bowl last January.
** Oregon is working on a two-game bowl winning streak and is 9-13 overall in the postseason. The Ducks took a 42-31 win over Oklahoma State in last year's Holiday Bowl and were 56-21 winners over South Florida in the 2007 Sun Bowl. Oregon hasn't lost a postseason game since a 38-8 loss to BYU in the 2006 Las Vegas Bowl.
** The Buckeyes are making their fifth consecutive BCS game appearance and seventh overall. Oregon is making its second BCS appearance. The Ducks tallied a 38-16 win over Colorado in the 2002 Fiesta Bowl.
** Ohio State will be seeking to even its lifetime Rose Bowl record. The Buckeyes are 6-7 in previous trips to Pasadena, including a win during their most recent visit. OSU knocked off second-ranked Arizona State with a thrilling 20-17 victory in the 1997 Rose Bowl.
** Oregon is making its fifth Rose Bowl appearance and first since 1995. The Ducks are 1-3 in their previous trips to Pasadena, including losses to two Big Ten teams. In addition to the 10-7 loss to Ohio State in 1958, they lost by a 38-20 score to Penn State in 1995. The team's lone Rose Bowl victory came in 1917 with a 14-0 win over the University of Pennsylvania.
** The Ducks boast of a pair of Rose Bowl game records. Quarterback Danny O'Neil threw for 456 yards against Penn State in 1995, establishing the single-game record for passing yardage. And defensive halfback Shy Harrington grabbed three interceptions in the 1917 game against Penn to establish a single-game that has been equaled but never surpassed.
** Despite winning their respective Big Ten and Pac-10 championships outright, neither team seemed to garner much in the way of all-league recognition from their own conference coaches. Ohio State and Oregon had just one player each earn first-team honors on the all-conference teams voted on by coaches. For the Buckeyes, it was defensive back Kurt Coleman while Oregon's lone representative was tight end Ed Dickson.
** Kelly was named Pac-10 coach of the year in his first season heading the Ducks. Tressel has never been voted Big Ten coach of the year despite six league championships and one national title in nine seasons.
** Tressel is 35-13 against ranked opposition during his tenure at Ohio State. Kelly is 4-1 this season with the Ducks against top-25 teams.
** Kickoff for the 96th Rose Bowl Game is scheduled for 5:10 p.m. Eastern. That is 2:10 p.m. local time. The game will be telecast to a nationwide audience by ABC with the venerable Brent Musberger handling play-by-play duties with color analysis from former OSU quarterback Kirk Herbstreit. Lisa Salters will report from both sidelines.
** The game will also be broadcast by ESPN Radio on Sirius/XM satellite radio channels 120 and 140. The broadcast crew will consist of Mike Tirico (play-by-play), Jon Gruden (color analysis) and Shelley Smith (sideline reports).
** When Florida lost in the SEC championship game, it ended the Gators' winning streak at 22 games. Texas' win streak of 17 straight games is now the longest in the so-called Football Bowl Subdivision (aka Division I-A).
** Following the regular season, Texas rewarded head coach Mack Brown by making him the highest paid coach in college football. Brown became the first $5 million coach after having made approximately $3 million this past season. The university also included a clause that pays the coach an additional $450,000 if the Longhorns beat Alabama on Jan. 7 in the national championship game. According to reports, the bonus is more than 27 Division I-A head coaches made this entire season.
** Utah's win over California in the Poinsettia Bowl extended the nation's longest bowl winning streak to nine. You may remember the Utes scored a 31-17 upset win over Alabama in last year's Sugar Bowl.
** Utah's nine-game bowl winning streak is tied for the second-longest ever. Florida State won 11 in a row between 1985 and 1996 while USC won nine straight from 1923-45.
** With that Poinsettia Bowl victory, the Utes improved to 12-3 all-time in bowl games and their .800 winning percentage is the best in the nation of the 74 schools with at least 10 bowl appearances.
** When Mike London left Richmond to become head coach at Virginia, he became the seventh man to win a Division I-AA national championship and then move on to become a head coach at the I-A level. Only one of the previous six has gone on to win a Division I-A national title. That would be Jim Tressel, who won four I-AA rings at Youngstown State before guiding Ohio State to the 2002 national championship.
** The other coaches with I-AA championships to make the jump to I-A: Joe Glenn (Montana to Wyoming); Paul Johnson (Georgia Southern to Navy and then Georgia Tech); Jim Donnan (Marshall to Georgia); Jim Criner (Boise State to Iowa State); and Dave Kragthorpe (Idaho State to Oregon State).
** You could make the case that the jump from I-AA to I-A is a tough one. Tressel and Johnson have excelled, but the tenures of Glenn, Donnan, Criner and Kragthorpe each ended in termination.
** Finally, a word about Urban Meyer. I can only surmise that his reasons are legitimate for taking a leave of absence at Florida. My question is the timing of his announcement. If Meyer already knew he would be leaving the team after the Sugar Bowl, why didn't he wait until then to make his announcement? Or better still, why didn't he wait until after the national championship game? I understand there is stress in the fish-bowl world of college football. Universities do not hand out $5 million contracts with no strings attached. The pressure to win isn't an everyday kind of thing – it's an every second of every minute of every day kind of thing. Still, I can't help thinking some of the stress felt by such ego-driven coaches as Meyer is self-inflicted.
The old crystal ball got a little cloudy down the stretch, finishing 121-37 for the year with the straight-up picks and a lamer than lame 64-79-2 mark against the spread.
We decided to skip most of the bowl season because, well, most of it has been rendered irrelevant by the BCS. Secondly, bowl games are the last place you want to try and pad your stats because you never know how the teams (or individual players for that matter) are going to react after a protracted layoff.
Nevertheless, we'll take on the games that begin tomorrow and move on through the national title game.
Northwestern vs. Auburn: If history is any indicator, Auburn would seem to have the edge. The Tigers are looking for their sixth victory in their last eight bowl games while the Wildcats haven't won a New Year's Day bowl since 1949. NU has the momentum, however, with three straight wins to close out the regular season, including victories over Iowa and Wisconsin … Northwestern 31, Auburn 23. (11 a.m. ET, ESPN)
No. 16 West Virginia vs. Florida State: Everything points to a win by the Mountaineers, but the Seminoles can't let Bobby Bowden ride off into the sunset on a losing note, can they? … Florida State 34, West Virginia 31. (1 p.m. ET, CBS)
No. 13 Penn State vs. No. 12 LSU: As long as the Nittany Lions can hold onto the football, they can beat an offensively-challenged LSU team … Penn State 24, LSU 14. (1 p.m. ET, ABC)
No. 8 Ohio State vs. No. 7 Oregon: I am reminded once again of the old coaching adage that offense gets the headlines, but defense wins championships. The postseason losing streak ends … Ohio State 35, Oregon 28. (4:30 p.m. ET, ABC)
No. 3 Cincinnati vs. No. 5 Florida: We were pretty sure the Bearcats would have kept things close until the Urban Meyer situation was disclosed. Now, with Meyer and Tim Tebow both exiting the stage, we think the Gators will want to make a statement … Florida 41, Cincinnati 21. (8:30 p.m. ET, Fox)
South Florida vs. Northern Illinois: Look for the Bulls to rally around embattled head coach Jim Leavitt – unless, of course, the report of Leavitt hitting a player in the face is true. Even so, USF ought to have enough to beat the Huskies … South Florida 27, Northern Illinois 14. (12 noon ET, ESPN2)
South Carolina vs. Connecticut: Two teams that couldn't even finish .500 in their respective conferences and we can't have a playoff because of the sanctity of the bowl structure. Whatever … Connecticut 34, South Carolina 31. (2 p.m. ET, ESPN)
No. 19 Oklahoma State vs. Mississippi: Remember when the Rebels were supposed to be national title contenders? They'll show why in the first Cotton Bowl to be played in the new Dallas Cowboys palace … Ole Miss 37, Oklahoma State 30. (2 p.m. ET, Fox)
Arkansas vs. East Carolina: We're not sure we buy the whole concept of the SEC being the head-and-shoulders best conference in college football, but we do buy the concept that it is better than Conference USA … Arkansas 27, East Carolina 17. (5:30 p.m. ET, ESPN)
Michigan State vs. Texas Tech: The Spartans are 96th nationally in pass efficiency defense and 103rd in pass yardage defense. Pass-happy Double-T was the No. 2 team in the country in pass offense. Anything else you need to know? … Texas Tech 41, Michigan State 37. (9 p.m. ET, ESPN)
No. 6 Boise State vs. No. 4 TCU: If you have any doubt about these teams' legitimacy regarding the national championship picture, you owe it yourself to check out this game. It ought to be a pretty entertaining affair featuring two of the country's best … TCU 23, Boise State 21. (8 p.m. ET, Fox)
No. 10 Iowa vs. No. 9 Georgia Tech: Many teams around the country tend of have problems defending the Yellow Jackets and their triple-option attack. The Big Ten doesn't seem to have those same problems … Iowa 28, Georgia Tech 20. (8 p.m. ET, Fox)
Central Michigan vs. Troy: Between CMU quarterback Den LeFevour (3,043 yards, 27 TDs) and Troy signal-caller Irv Brown (3,868 yards, 22 TDs), the scoreboard at Land Peebles Stadium may resemble a Las Vegas slot machine … Central Michigan 47, Troy 45. (7 p.m. ET, ESPN)
No. 2 Texas vs. No. 1 Alabama: No one give the Longhorns much of a chance against the Crimson Tide, looking for their first national title since 1992. We just have this feeling, though, that Texas is going to pull off the shocker. The Longhorns are 7-0-1 all-time against the Tide and returning to Pasadena, site of their thrilling victory over USC four years ago. We think they can do it again … Texas 24, Alabama 21. (8 p.m. ET, ABC)
Here are the spreads: Northwestern (+8) vs. Auburn; West Virginia vs. Florida State (+3); Penn State (-2½) vs. LSU; Ohio State (+5) vs. Oregon; Cincinnati vs. Florida (-13); South Florida (-6½) vs. Northern Illinois; South Carolina vs. Connecticut (+5); Oklahoma State vs. Mississippi (-3); Arkansas (-8) vs. East Carolina; Michigan State (+8) vs. Texas Tech; Boise State (+8) vs. TCU; Iowa (+5) vs. Georgia Tech; Central Michigan vs. Troy (+4); Texas (+4½) vs. Alabama.
Enjoy the games and here's wishing you and yours a safe and prosperous new year.


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I know it was only yesterday that I was claiming my true love for all things snow. Yes, I threw around the word "Happiness" and how I was "present" with my kids. I even said "beautiful" and "Kansas" in the same sentence, which I believe is a first for me. Well happiness schmapiness…. that was yesterday and this is today and today, I am sick of the snow. I loved it for all of 24 hours and now I am 100% done with it, thank you very much. It can go back to Antartica, or where ever the heck it belongs because I am through.
Today, we were snowed in from school again, which is always great with me because I do love having my kids home. Instead of getting all sappy and all lovey dovey with the outdoors like I was yesterday, we stayed inside. We did not leave the house all day and today, we did what makes mama happy, which was spent time in the kitchen baking up yummy treats. I was still present with my kids, having fun, but I wasn't out freezing my tail off in the process.
So yes, I am fickle and maybe a tad bit indecisive and lead by emotion sometimes, but as my daughter likes to say "That's how God made me". Maybe I'll like the snow again tomorrow. Or maybe not. I do know one thing… these cookies using Hershey's Toffee Bits will be on my love list for a long time to come!
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On May 3rd the sun came out! I know shocking since we live in Washington right!!!
The kids were so ecstatic that they wanted to get their swimming suits on and run around in the new sprinkler.
This is the fire hydrant sprinkler I picked up for $4 at Value Village a few weeks back.
The kids had it on the setting where the top spins around and flings water in a circle. It also shoots water straight up.
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I sat on my bench and enjoyed watching them have fun. Zeke did come over to snuggle with me once he was finished.
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Interview with Mohammad Mirzamohammadi : Frank Scott: What is the main principle, idea and inspiration behind your design?. Mohammad Mirzamohammadi : I was inspired by the fact that although, the elegance of flowers has always drawn attention, not many design ideas have come from the untamed beauty of their thorns. .Frank Scott: What has been your main focus in designing this work? Especially what did you want to achieve?. Mohammad Mirzamohammadi : I chose to focus on seeing the usual undesirable thistle as a potential aesthetic element. I aimed to capture the organic roughness of the nature and depict it as pleasant as its more commonly considered fine components. .Frank Scott: What are your future plans for this award winning design?. Mohammad Mirzamohammadi : The birth of this design coincided with my attempt to co-found a jewelry company and since then, "Thorny Tulip" has been mass produced... .Frank Scott: How long did it take you to design this particular concept?. Mohammad Mirzamohammadi : I spent weeks from when the initial idea hit me, refining the design and prototyping the wax model to achieve an ideal form that fits comfortably and is aesthetically most appealing. .Frank Scott: Why did you design this particular concept? Was this design commissioned or did you decide to pursuit an inspiration?. Mohammad Mirzamohammadi : I was working on a floral design line and "Thorny Tulip" came about as a collection, while I was exploring different types of flowers. .Frank Scott: What made you design this particular type of work?. Mohammad Mirzamohammadi : Since nowadays, the modern designs are mostly abstract, I wanted to shift the attention from the unworldly and untouchable shapes to more organic forms that can be found in the nature. .Frank Scott: Where there any other designs and/or designers that helped the influence the design of your work?. Mohammad Mirzamohammadi : I cannot think of any design and/or designers that on a conscious level has influenced this design. .Frank Scott: Who is the target customer for his design?. Mohammad Mirzamohammadi : I wouldn't want to limit my audience by putting restrictions on target customers, and believe anyone depending on their taste and preferences might like "Thorny Tulip", but according to the focus group we held,the most likely consumers of this line were females ranging in age from 16-45 years old. .Frank Scott: What sets this design apart from other similar or resembling concepts?. Mohammad Mirzamohammadi : I believe what makes this design exceptional among floral jewelries is the creative depiction of the contrast between the delicate flower bud and its thorn wild nature. .Frank Scott: How did you come up with the name for this design? What does it mean?. Mohammad Mirzamohammadi : The naming process was very straight forward; "Thorny Tulip" literally characterizes this design, while the shape of the bud is a combination of a rose and a tulip. .Frank Scott: Which design tools did you use when you were working on this project?. Mohammad Mirzamohammadi : I started off sketching on paper and refining the design until it matured to a the level of my liking, at which point I made the 3D model using Matrix V.8 computer software. .Frank Scott: What is the most unique aspect of your design?. Mohammad Mirzamohammadi : I believe it is the lyrical and expressive forms make the design, international and worldly. .Frank Scott: Who did you collaborate with for this design? Did you work with people with technical / specialized skills?. Mohammad Mirzamohammadi : Although coming up with the idea and the main concept was mine, during the production and refining stages the insights and experiences of the production experts who worked closely with me became essential to the completion of this project. .Frank Scott: What is the role of technology in this particular design?. Mohammad Mirzamohammadi : This design has been modeled with Gemvision Matrix 8, 3ِD-printed in wax by Envisiontec 3D printer,and finally produced by casting process . Therefore I can say this process, at least to this level of accuracy, wouldn't have been possible without use of technology. .Frank Scott: Is your design influenced by data or analytical research in any way? What kind of research did you conduct for making this design?. Mohammad Mirzamohammadi : We applied a qualitative research method in which a group of people (focus group) were asked about their opinions towards "Thorny Tulip". .Frank Scott: What are some of the challenges you faced during the design/realization of your concept?. Mohammad Mirzamohammadi : I faced the dilemma of keeping the pointy form of thorns, while keeping the ring wearable and comfortable for the users. thorn element dilemma. During the prototyping stage, I realized that the challenge could be dealt with by careful placement, and paying attention to the angle of the thorns attached to the stem (ring). .Frank Scott: How did you decide to submit your design to an international design competition?. Mohammad Mirzamohammadi : Although I had researched the audience of "Thorny Tulip", I wanted to weigh the general idea on this design on an international level through A'Design which is a very prestigious design competition, and fortunately I was lucky enough to have my design value reinforced. .Frank Scott: What did you learn or how did you improve yourself during the designing of this work?. Mohammad Mirzamohammadi : I believe there is always something new to learn. Since I was facing the challenge of making this particular design practical, I had to learn the anatomy and ergonomics of the fingers better, and also figure out how to deal with the surrounding areas to make the ring comfortable to wear. .Frank Scott: Any other things you would like to cover that have not been covered in these questions?. Mohammad Mirzamohammadi : I just want to thank the A'DESIGN AWARD for shedding light on the importance of creativity, and emphasizing the design role in jewelry industry. .
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Michelle Obama Hilariously Breaks Down Why Melania Trump's Inauguration Gift Exchange Appeared So Awkward
The former FLOTUS also explained to Ellen Degeneres how Barack stepped in and saved the day.
DANVILLE, Va. (AP) — Vice President Joe Biden sparked a campaign commotion Tuesday, telling an audience in southern Virginia that included hundreds of black voters that Republican Mitt Romney wanted to put them "back in chains" by deregulating Wall Street. He later mocked Republican criticism over the remark while conceding he meant to use different words.
Campaigning in Danville, Biden said the Republican ticket wanted to "unchain Wall Street" by getting rid of regulations Obama signed into law two years ago. He added: "They're going to put y'all back in chains."
Romney later criticized Biden, saying the remarks were part of pattern of "reckless" comments by Obama's campaign and his surrogates "that disgrace the office of the presidency."
In Chillicothe, Ohio, as he ended his bus tour Tuesday night, Romney called Biden's comment "another outrageous charge" and added: "The White House sinks a little bit lower. This is what an angry and desperate presidency looks like."
Biden, speaking in Wytheville, Va., said he had meant to use the term "unshackled." But he did not apologize and mocked the Romney campaign for showing outrage.
"If you want to know what's outrageous, it's their policies, and the effects of their policies on middle-class Americans," he said.
Obama's campaign stood by Biden, saying the comments were a variation on remarks he makes often about the need to "unshackle" the middle class. The campaign said the metaphor was meant to counter Republican calls to unshackle the private sector from Obama-backed regulations.
But the remark still proved to be a distraction, prompting Obama deputy campaign manager Stephanie Cutter to issue a statement calling the Romney campaign's outrage "hypocritical."
"Let's return to that 'substantive' debate Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan promised 72 hours ago, but quickly abandoned," she said in a statement.
The flurry over Biden's remarks underscored what the Obama team knows is a constant risk with the vice president — that his penchant for speaking off the cuff can sometimes result in inartful or off-color comments.
In a less-noticed gaffe Tuesday, Biden told the crowd he was confident their support would help the Obama-Biden ticket carry North Carolina. He was speaking in Virginia at the time.
Still, Obama's campaign sees Biden as one of its most valuable assets. The Scranton, Pa., native has a more natural appeal to working-class voters in battleground states like Ohio and Pennsylvania. He also has willingly embraced the traditional vice presidential attack-dog role, often launching the campaign's most vigorous criticisms of Romney, and now Romney's running mate, Paul Ryan.
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The former FLOTUS also explained to Ellen Degeneres how Barack stepped in and saved the day.
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QUESTION OF THE WEEK- What should be done with the unfinished Landmark Hotel?
Rebecca McEntire: "I think it definitely needs to be finished. As far as what it should be, I'm not exactly sure, but it's kind of an eyesore right now. Something needs to be done, whether it's used with different offices or other vendors or even made into a hotel, something needs to be done to it."
Caroline Bruce: "I think we should tear it down because right now it's an empty shell, and it's not the best place to build a hotel. I know it would bring tourism, but it just isn't the kind of tourism appreciated. Right now, it's a big, ugly building, and it's not that great."
Joshua Hudson: "I think it should be torn down. It probably would save the city some money. The city pretty much wasted a couple million dollars putting this brick down here downtown, and the money could go to some better good."
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norris should appoint his new assistant (szakos) to personnally clean it up, someone must always clean up after norris
Don't tear it down, that would only add to the "throw away when your done" society culture that we live in. Let's recycle it in a unique and different way. Let's make some use of all that mortar and steel that's been used to put up that structure: instead of just tearing it down let's turn it into a public indoor park only one that's ten stories high and put all those outdoor musicians and venders into it, and put up benches, water fountains. It can be used by our public until someone with deep pockets comes along and has a better idea.
John, I agree 100%. Recycle and keep the height limit we have now. The Japanese have "sunshine laws" enacted (too late) after their building boom deprived people of the sky. We don't want that to happen here. Richmond's an hour away for anyone who wants to go - let's keep it there.
John and Bill I agree. I really like the idea of an indoor park. Maybe a decent movie theater as there is not ONE in this town and a fun resturant for the entire family, we loved David and Busters back home.
How about finishing it off as the new YMCA building? That way we could save the precious McIntire picnic shelter for the recreational pot smoking use it gets now. If Bob Fenwick opposes this, it would force him to admit that in crying "save mcintire park" he was acting only as a paid schill for Phil Wendell (ACAC)'s opposition to a new Y going in anywhere.


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CharlesMui necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 81 diseños de 34 diseñadores freelance.
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Remember the name Xenerchi. Remember the Asian health 'Zen' and 'Chi'. Possible slogan "Optimizing the Human Frequency". The logo needs to incorporate these concepts and ideas into the design.
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The Pittsburgh Steelers usually don't need too much luck in the playoffs, but until Sunday, they'd never faced off with Tim Tebow's faith.
Tebow connected with Demaryius Thomas on an 80-yard touchdown pass on the first play of overtime, just 11 seconds in, en route to stunning 29-23 win over the Steelers in the AFC wild-card game.
It was the quickest ending to an overtime game in NFL history.
Tebow finished the day with a career-high 316 yards passing, with two passing touchdowns and one on the ground.
As is the case in most Broncos games, the win didn't come easy. Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger, despite of a mediocre first half, fought back from a two-touchdown deficit at halftime.
After a Mike Wallace rushing touchdown and a Matt Prater field goal, Roethlisberger hit former New York Jet Jerricho Cotchery down the middle for a 31-yard score with 3:48 remaining, sending the game into overtime.
The momentum quickly shifted in overtime. On the first play of the extra quarter, Thomas caught a Tebow pass on their own 36-yard line and raced past Ike Taylor and Ryan Mundy into the end zone for the win.
While "Tebow time" was again at the forefront of the game, Tebow's torrid start helped fuel the win just as much as his overtime heroics. His 170 first-half passing yards were a high for the season.
With the win, the Broncos (9-8) head to New England for a second-round game against the Patriots Saturday night.


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Copa Sudamericana's opening round highlighted by Santiago vs. Libertad
Europe plays its two continental competitions simultaneously; the Champions League and the Europa League are both well into the qualifying rounds, and will come to a climax at the end of the season in a little over nine months' time.
South America does it differently. The first half of the year is set aside for the main event, the Copa Libertadores, with the second string competition, the Copa Sudamericana, kicking off this week and ending in early December.
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Graham woman enters Alford plea in stolen car sales case
A Graham woman was sentenced Tuesday as a habitual felon after pleading guilty to selling stolen cars to auto salvage businesses.
Anita Kay Lloyd, 39, of Thompson Mill Road, Graham, entered an Alford guilty plea — pleading guilty without admitting guilt — to three counts of obtaining property by false pretense and attaining habitual felon status.
She was charged in May with helping sell 10 motor vehicles to auto salvage yards on two dates that month and with helping steal a semi-trailer from a residence at Bellemont-Mt. Hermon Road and selling it to a recycling business on May 22, said Alamance County District Attorney Pat Nadolski.
Lloyd's criminal record includes Alamance County convictions of forgery of an instrument, felony intimidating a witness and breaking and entering in 2000, 2003 and 2005, Nadolski told the court.
In exchange for the plea, the state dismissed charges of felony forgery and felony uttering.
Defense attorney Todd Smith said the co-defendant, Kevin Coble, was the mastermind. He asked the judge for a mitigated sentence because Lloyd was employed as a dental technician and has three children. He also requested work release while in prison.
Superior Court Judge James E. Hardin Jr. consolidated the charges and issued a mitigated 62- to 87-month sentence. Any money earned through work release would be used to pay $3,500 in restitution she's obligated to pay with Coble.


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On May 9, 1862, Gen. David Hunter, in command of Union forces in coastal South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida, on his own authority freed the slaves in those states. Hunter's action was meant to bolster his position by encouraging pro-Union sentiment among the slaves, and to put pressure on President Abraham Lincoln to embrace immediate, uncompensated emancipation, instead of the gradual, compensated emancipation the President had advocated back in March.
Lincoln was not cowed. Ten days later, on May 19, 1862, he issued a proclamation countermanding Hunter's emancipation. It read:
Whereas there appears in the public prints, what purports to be a proclamation, of Major General Hunter, in the words and figures following, to wit:
Head Quarters Department of the South,
Hilton Head, S.C. May 9, 1862.
General Orders No 11.–The three States of Georgia, Florida and South Carolina, comprising the military department of the south, having deliberately declared themselves no longer under the protection of the United States of America, and having taken up arms against the said United States, it becomes a military necessity to declare them under martial law. This was accordingly done on the 25th day of April, 1862. Slavery and martial law in a free country are altogether incompatible; the persons in these three States–Georgia, Florida and South Carolina–heretofore held as slaves, are therefore declared forever free.
(Official) David Hunter,
Major General Commanding.
And whereas the same is producing some excitement, and misunderstanding; therefore
I, Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States, proclaim and declare, that the government of the United States, had no knowledge, information, or belief, of an intention on the part of General Hunter to issue such a proclamation; nor has it yet, any authentic information that the document is genuine– And further, that neither General Hunter, nor any other commander, or person, has been authorized by the Government of the United States, to make proclamations declaring the slaves of any State free; and that the supposed proclamation, now in question, whether genuine or false, is altogether void, so far as respects such declaration.
I further make known that whether it be competent for me, as Commander-in-Chief of the Army and Navy, to declare the slaves of any State or States, free, and whether at any time, in any case, it shall have become a necessity indispensable to the maintenance of the government, to exercise such supposed power, are questions which, under my responsibility, I reserve to myself, and which I cannot feel justified in leaving to the decision of commanders in the field. These are totally different questions from those of police regulations in armies and camps.
On the sixth day of March last, by a special message, I recommended to Congress the adoption of a joint resolution to be substantially as follows:
Resolved, That the United States ought to co-operate with any State which may adopt a gradual abolishment of slavery, giving to such State pecuniary aid, to be used by such State in its discretion, to compensate for the inconveniences, public and private, produced by such change of system.
The resolution, in the language above quoted, was adopted by large majorities in both branches of Congress, and now stands an authentic, definite, and solemn proposal of the nation to the States and people most immediately interested in the subject matter. To the people of those States I now earnestly appeal– I do not argue, I beseech you to make the arguments for yourselves– You can not if you would, be blind to the signs of the times– I beg of you a calm and enlarged consideration of them, ranging, if it may be, far above personal and partizan politics. This proposal makes common cause for a common object, casting no reproaches upon any– It acts not the pharisee. The change it contemplates would come gently as the dews of heaven, not rending or wrecking anything. Will you not embrace it? So much good has not been done, by one effort, in all past time, as, in the providence of God, it is now your high privilege to do. May the vast future not have to lament that you have neglected it.
It is not surprising that Lincoln countermanded Hunter's emancipation order. He had taken the same action the previous September, when Gen. John C. Frémont had tried to free Missouri's slaves of disloyal owners on his own authority. As commander-in-chief, Lincoln could not allow himself to be defied by general officers, which would threaten the principle of civilian control of the military.
Yet things were different with David Hunter in May 1862 than with John C. Frémont in September 1861. By Spring 1862, Lincoln was committed to emancipation. He merely disagreed with Hunter on the means. It is worth noting that in the last paragraph of his May 19 declaration, President Lincoln urged (begged really) the southern states to embrace his proposal for gradual, compensated emancipation, subtlety intimating at the end that his support for this idea was not open-ended. Clearly, Abraham Lincoln realized that his friend, David Hunter, might be right about the means by which emancipation might have to occur, even if Lincoln was not quite ready to embrace the idea of immediate, uncompensated emancipation. But the time was fast approaching.


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Italian-Americans wanted Mafia II banned because they said it portrayed offensive ethnic stereotypes. A European Parliament member wants it banned because it trivializes mob murders. I have a better strategy: STFU about banning bad games, and they'll eventually fade away.
Sonia Alfano, the MP in question, also is president of Italy's association for the families of Mafia victims. "It really, really hurts," Alfano, recently said in an interview. "We can't allow this to happen, our wounds are still too fresh." Her father was murdered by the mob. It doesn't matter that it was 18 years ago, her wounds will always be fresh.
No offense to Alfano or anyone hurt by organized crime; this is still another one of those arguments where someone assumes their victim status gives them the authority to say what is and isn't appropriate for the rest of society. We deal with that a lot in video games. The fact Mafia II was released in August and this concerns a game most people have already rented or returned smacks of a publicity grab.
Bloomberg has a longer and more thorough story whose net effect is to intellectualize whining.
Mafia Victim Families Fight Increasing Violence, Brutality in Video Games [Bloomberg via GamePolitics]


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The Harpers Ferry Historical Association has announced an academic symposium, sponsored by the Harpers Ferry National Historical Park and others, "John Brown Remembered: 150th Anniversary of John Brown's Raid," October 14-17, 2009, at the Harpers Ferry National Historical Park, Harpers Ferry, West Virginia. Plenary speakers include David Blight, Spencer Crew, and Paul Finkelman. The symposium will be held at the Stephen T. Mather Training Center with Keynote and Plenary sessions in the Curtis Freewill Baptist Church in Harpers Ferry, West Virginia. The full schedule is here.
Hat tip: Jay Stewart.
Wednesday, October 14, 2009
John Brown's Raid: The 150th Anniversary Symposium
Labels: Conferences and Calls for Papers
3 comments:
- Shag from Brookline said...
I hope there will be some live blogging someplace on this Symposium. Or the fairly prompt posting of papers on the Internet as was the case with the tribute to Prof. Horwitz last year.
- October 14, 2009 at 7:16:00 AM EDT
- Dan Ernst said...
Probably neither, Shag, although the Metro section of today's Washington Post carries an article on the first day's events.
- October 15, 2009 at 7:32:00 AM EDT
I had wanted to do some live blogging, but the conference center did not have wireless access. I am planning on typing up some of my notes, if anyone is interested, and depending on the situation I may be willing to share my paper.
- October 19, 2009 at 2:24:00 PM EDT
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Spawn toyline kick major ass!!!Wonderful sculpture, wonderfull details. Absolute stunning stance.With 2nd best, The sentinel. This sucka is Heavy!!! It huge! Great Details. Marvalouse pose.So yeah, Mcfarlane rule!
I voted 'Other' and wrote in Lord of the Rings, pretty much because of the TTT line. ROTK is utter shite in comparison.
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Poplar Spring Church ( Dodge )
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Poplar Spring Church is a place of kind Church belonging to the County of ( Dodge ).
The closest populated place is that of Lowery that is3.89 miles far from Poplar Spring Church.
Poplar Spring Church is also 4.78 miles far from the closest airport or heliport, the Eastman-Dodge County Airport .
The weather forecasting are available for the town of Eastman , that is 7.19 miles far from Poplar Spring Church .
The Zip Code of Poplar Spring Church is 31023.
Besides Poplar Spring Church in the County of ( Dodge ) there are the following places of kind Church . These are reported in what follows in alphabetical order:
Antioch Number One Baptist Church - Antioch Number Two Church - Auston Church - Bay Springs Church - Benevolence Church - Bethel Church - Bethel Church - Bethlehem Church - Chauncey Baptist Church - Chester Baptist Church - County Line Church - Dempsey Church - Drench Grove Church - Dubois Church - Eastman Methodist Church - Ebenezer Church - El Bethel Church - Englewood Church - Evergreen Church - Fair Haven Church - First Baptist Church of Eastman - Free Gift Church - Friendship Church - Friendship Church - Giddens Gift Church - Gresston Baptist Church - Gresston Church - Harpers Chapel - Hopewell Baptist Church - Hopewell Church - Isham Springs Church - Jaybird Springs Church - Love All Church - Lovely Grove Church - Lynwood Church (historical) - Macedonia Church - Middle Grounds Church - Milan Baptist Church - Mill Creek Church - Mount Annis Church - Mount Ararat Church - Mount Horeb Church - Mount Olive Church - New Austin Church - New Bethel Church - New Daniels Church - New Salem Church - New Union Church - Oak Grove Church - Ocmulgee Church - Old Daniels Church - Parkerson Church - Parkerson Gift Church - Pilgrims Home Church - Pine Level Church - Piney Grove Church - Plainfield Baptist Church - Pleasant Grove Church - Pleasant Hill Church - Pleasant Hill Church - Popular Spring Church - Providence Church - Rhine Baptist Church - Rock Branch Church - Roddy Church - Rowland Chapel - Saint Marks Church - Sand Grove Church - Sugar Creek Church - Sweet Home Church - Thankful Church - Vilula Church - Welcome Friend Church - Zebulon Church - Zion Hill Church - Zion Hope Church .
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I made a fifteen days trip with my wife and some other Dutch tourists, organized by a Dutch agency via the Ethiopian agency Greenland Tours.
We started in Addis, flew to Harar, spend two nights there, then drove to the south, with overnight stops in Nazareth, Dinsho, Goba, Awassa, Konso, Jinka, Mago NP campsite, Turmi three nights, Arba Minch two nights, then back to Addis.
Security = Ethiopia feels very safe. Never felt threatened. No thefts. Only town where I thought someone was following us in the street, and where I met an American man whose passport and money were stolen, was in Awassa.
Economy = Ethiopia looks booming! Everywhere you see new buildings being built. Road works to improve the infrastructure in many different places. There is more and more asphalt.
Harar = Lovely city to spent two days. Special atmosphere in those little alleys. Visited Rimbaud house and Harari cultural house. Good lunch at the popular restaurant "Cozy – pizzeria and coffee", about 50 meters away from the equally good and popular Fresh Touch restaurant (same side of the street), mentioned in your book on page 418. We went to see the "new hyena man". Weird to see, but still worth it. We stayed in the Heritage Hotel, was good. From the terrace of our hotel, at the end of an afternoon we saw a hyena walking between the gardens below. We payed 20 birr for a tuktuk ride from the city centre to our hotel.
Between Harar and Nazareth we visited the big khat market in Aweday.
Awash NP = saw crocodiles down in the river from the lodge near the Falls. In the park we saw kudu, wart hog, gazelle and many beautiful oryxes.
Nazareth Rift valley hotel = hotel looked nice, good restaurant, but the room we had at the second floor was shabby, dark and dusty and there was no water in the bathrooms during the whole evening.
Shashemene = lunch in restaurant Lily of the valley was good, they had special juices i had never seen before, maybe Caribbean/rasta.
Dinsho = spent a night in the Dinsho lodge. Made a log fire in the lounge, but after a while the whole lounge was full of smoke! At night temperature dropped to about minus 2 celsius. Next morning made a lovely walk with a very knowledgeable ranger. Saw wart hog and many endemic mountain nyalas, as well as francolins, white tailed ibis, bushbuck, yellow fronted parrot.
In the afternoon we drove to the very summit of Tullu Deemtu, 4377 meters, highest road in Africa. As far as I know, this is the only place in Africa where you can go above 4000 meters by car. (In my younger days, I used to hike African 4000+mountains: Kili, Mt Kenya, Ruwenzori, Meru, mt Cameroon, Toubkal Atlas, Karisimbi, …). Sanetti plateau is of great beauty. Ethiopia has such a huge diversity in landscapes, incredible.
We saw the Abyssinian wolf, mole rats, lammergeier, shelduck.
Spent the night in Webe Shebele hotel in Goba, very comfortable room. Condoms provided in the room!
On the right side of the road between Robe and Dodola, I visited the house of cave people in a place called Sebsebe Washa. You can see the rock from the road. The house is built against the rock, and once you are inside the house, you notice the house is connected to tunnels in the rock. I paid the owner a couple of birr to visit his house. Bring a torch light, cause it is very dark.
Awassa = spent the night in the very comfortable new Pinna hotel. Made a motor boat trip on the lake to the place where the hippos live, pretty expensive faranji prices.
Dilla = delicious mango and avocado juice in Rendez Vous restaurant.
From Dilla to Konso = I showed our driver the new road from Fisiha Genet to Konso, mentioned in your book and on our good Hungarian Gizi map, but he said the road was not good, he prefered to drive via Yabello.
Konso = Edget Hotel was pretty basic, no running water and no electricity when we were there, but the place is popular with locals, for a beer in the evening.
Omo valley = we visited villages and markets of ethnic groups like Hamar, Karo, Mursi, Konso, Ari, Dassanetch and Arbore. Price of a picture was mostly 2, 3 or 4 birr. Communication was difficult. I found a very basis Hamar word list on the internet, the people liked it when i spoke some of their words. That was always good to break the ice and make the people smile.
On page 533 you write that Arbore is "far more rustic and unaffected than many similarly sized towns in south Omo". Probably times have changed, because the Arbore people standing along the road, waiting to be photographed, were the most pushy. They surrounded me, kept on pulling my arms, etc, nothing bad, but far from unaffected. Lots of jeeps with tourists when we were there. We were one of them.
Turmi Evangadi camp site = showers were always working. Not a bad place to camp. Lots of bees though in the open air restaurant.
Mago NP = on the road to the camp site we saw baboons, dikdiks, guinea fowls. At the camp site lovely black and white colobuses. End of afternoon we made a game drive, starting behind the Colobus camp site, crossing the river by car, and then through high grass. So high that soon our main concern was not finding animals, but finding the track. I think we were the first car there since long. The armed scout walked ahead of our car, to look for the track. During two hours of game drive, we saw 1 dikdik, thousands of tse tse like flies and one sad lonely turtle, that was all. So dont go to Ethiopia for the animals, but for the people! And when we found that turtle or tortoise, our local guide who had been to the Mursi village with us, lift the poor animal from the ground, hold it above his head, put it back on the ground and then put his feet on it. I think Ethiopia has still quite a lot to learn as far as nature conservation policy is concerned!
Omorate = had to go to an office where an official checked our passports and wrote our names in a notebook. Local guide asked us 100 birr to cross the Omo river, two ways. Your guide book says "a few birr". Probably faranji price, we did not bargain. No police escort necessary.
Way back in Konso = had lunch in new Kanta Lodge, looks very beautiful, nice tokuls, nice garden. Extremely crowded, all the landrovers with faranji stopped there for lunch.
Arba Minch = lovely boat trip to see the huge crocodiles, very exciting, many fish eagles, goliath heron. Swaynes Hotel definitely misses character, isolated place, no locals, a small bottle of water costs one euro, and there was no running water for a big part of the day. Very nice atmosphere however in Tourist hotel in lower town, popular with both locals and foreigners.
Nechisar NP = saw baboon, dikdik, yellow necked francolin, Grant gazelle, ground hornbill, ground squirrel, kudu, Burchells zebra, and all five remaining Swaynes hartebeest, hundred procent score.
Humbo = visited the thursday big cattle market, not many tourists, people dont ask money for pictures
Tiya stelae field = worth a visit if you are interested in history. Very knowledgeable guide who opened the doors for us.


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June 10, 2015
"To them belong the patriarchs, and from their race, according to the flesh, is the Christ, who is God over all, blessed forever. Amen" – Romans 9:5
True Christian believers are the minority today. Few people know, understand and believe who Jesus of Nazareth truly was. Yet, we do know. He was (and is) God. The natural mind struggles with even beginning to ponder this. Even the regenerated mind has great difficulty. We agree with the Apostle Paul that "Great indeed, we confess, is the mystery of godliness: He was manifested in the flesh, vindicated by the Spirit, seen by angels, proclaimed among the nations, believed on in the world, taken up in glory" (1 Timothy 3:16). God became a man…and yet God continued to run this universe as God the entire time. You must be God to comprehend that.
"No one has ever seen God; the only God, who is at the Father's side, he has made him known" (John 1:18). God is not visible to us. We don't see Him. Yet, when people saw Jesus, they were looking at God in the flesh. Jesus declared to Thomas, "Whoever has seen me has seen the Father" (John 14:9). Think of it. The very God of Creation became a man and men of this world sat around Him and were His company and friends.
Some would try to persuade us that Jesus never declared Himself to be God. This is not true, however. The Jews of Jesus' day knew full well of His declarations of deity. They picked up stones to stone Him "…because you, being a man, make yourself God" (John 10:33). Jesus had just said, "I and the Father are one" (John 10:30). He said He was God…and He is.
Again, they sought to stone Him when He declared Himself to be God saying, "Truly, truly, I say to you, before Abraham was, I am." (John 8:58-59). Notice closely, Jesus did not say merely "before Abraham was, I was". He declared Himself to be timeless by saying "before Abraham was, I am"! He, as God, dwelled before time and is the Creator of it! As we have said, they knew full well who He was declaring Himself to be.
In his writing to the Colossian saints, Paul said, "For in him the whole fullness of deity dwells bodily" (Colossians 2:9). This is a striking statement! In Jesus of Nazareth, "the whole fullness of deity dwells bodily". He is God in the flesh! Remember, Paul saw Him on the road to Damascus with his own eyes (Acts 9). And yet, even having seen Him, Paul declared the difficulty for the human mind to comprehend this entire truth (1 Timothy 3:16).
Child of God, find comfort in this blessed truth. Jesus had the ability to overcome sin and death because He is God in the flesh. Our friend and our Savior is the Creator Himself! We believe the truth of our text verse which declares Jesus to be "God over all".
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People in recovery from
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This sunny weekend, wed like to give some thought to the news story that erupted last weekend. Unless youve been off world, youve no doubt heard that researcher Richard B. Hoover of NASAs/Marshall Space Flight Center released a paper via the Journal of Cosmology indicating the possible presence of fossilized cyanobacteria in certain types of carbonaceous meteorites.
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04.11.09:Did Ancient Comets give Earth its Seas?
Comets continue to be at the center of controversy concerning the early Earth and life. If you've been following our recent reports as of late, you know that opinions run the gamut, from ancient cometary impacts being relatively rare, to comets being crucial to life as we known it. Now, researchers at the Niels Bohr Institute in Denmark have scored one for the comet camp. Recent studies of ancient rocks in Greenland suggest that the primordial Earth may have undergone a massive cometary bombardment early in its history, about 3.85 billion years ago. Were talking waaaaay back in the Archean period, before life had even taken hold. The conclusion is based on our friendly elemental smoking gun, Iridium. Rare on Earth, what little iridium is found in the Earth's crust is almost certainly of extraterrestrial origin. Asteroid impacts generally distribute about 18,000 parts per trillion, while comets, due to a higher impact velocity and icy rock composition, produce amounts much lower, about 130 parts per trillion. The team found a ratio of 150 ppt, strongly suggesting that comets were the primary constituents of the Late Heavy Bombardment. This is a tantalizing clue in two enduring mysteries concerning the early Earth; how did we our get our large oceans, and how did life start? Looking out into the solar system, we are the only planet with a large surface covering of liquid water. Could it have been deposited by comets? That's a lot of dirty snowballs… there is some thought that life itself, or at least amino acids, known as the chemical building blocks of life, might have been deposited in the same fashion by a method known as panspermia. Not all scientists remain convinced, however, and for now, spinning cometary hypotheses remains a sure way to generate scientific controversy. Are we all comet-stuff?


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Former Hogs football player faces DWI charges
Ken Hamlin Arrested In Fayetteville During Homecoming Weekend
Former Arkansas football standout Ken Hamlin was arrested early Saturday morning in Fayetteville for driving while intoxicated.
Fayetteville police say Hamlin was stopped along Wedington Drive at approximately 2:50 a.m. after his SUV swerved between lanes multiple times. The official police report says Hamlin had watery, bloodshot eyes and smelled of alcohol.
After Hamlin failed a field sobriety test he was placed under arrest and taken to the Washington County Detention Center for booking, where he refused a breathalyzer test. He was released later Saturday morning on $910 bond. He has a court date set for December 14.
Hamlin played defensive back for the Razorbacks from 2000-02. He was selected to the Freshman All-SEC team in 2000, the All-SEC First Team in 2001 and the All-American First Team in 2002. He left Arkansas for the NFL after his junior season and set the school record for career tackles with 381.
The Dallas Cowboys selected Hamlin with the 42nd overall pick in the 2003 NFL Draft. He was named to the Pro Bowl in 2007.


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