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Nov. 5, 2013
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THE MODERATOR: We will take a statement from Coach Kelly, then we will take questions.
COACH KELLY: I know for both teams we're excited about getting away from the option offense that we have both seen over the last couple of weeks. Pitt/Notre Dame, exciting football games, especially in my tenure both in Cincinnati and here at Notre Dame. I think we all know about last year's game. I think what we're focused on is for our guys, one more step in the progress of our football team, and that is, you know, again, in November, playing better football.
Offensively we found a pretty good rhythm, offensively, over the last few weeks. We want to build on that. Defensively we want to get back to playing traditional football, get away from the option. We played extremely well against USC, and we want to build on that.
That's what we're looking for. We're playing a good defensive football team in Pittsburgh, Aaron Donald has been a one man wrecking crew, especially last week against Georgia Tech, against the option, he was a force.
We know about him from last year. Big, physical defensive line, and he will be somebody that we will have to game plan and find a way to slow down. He's in the backfield, very active. I think for him, you know, you have a powerful guy, but he's also extremely quick at the point of attack. He uses a lot of different techniques to get into the backfield, and we're going to have to — we were just talking about things that we will have to do to mitigate some of the things that he does.
Offensively, you know, two outstanding receivers, we know about Devin Street, been a consistent performer for Pittsburgh, year in and year out, somebody I'm quite familiar with, and their freshman, Tyler Boid, he had a great game last week and now gives them great balance in the passing game and Tom Savage, when I was at Cincinnati he was at Rutgers, big guy, can throw the football. Coach Chryst does a great job of wanting to display a physical presence on the offensive side of the ball. They're well coached, and, again, we have had some great battles with them and expect another very close, tough, hard nosed football game against Pittsburgh.
We go on the road. It's a nationally televised game, our guys are excited about that audience, and certainly for us another challenge as we go on the road. With that I will open it up to questions.
Q. How much more does Jaylon Smith know about what he's doing now than he did in week 1 and 2?
COACH KELLY: I would say that each and every week he builds on his knowledge base. That doesn't necessarily happen in all the players that I've coached in my years. Sometimes it takes a year to kinda digest everything and then come back that next year and you really see kind of a rise in your play. But with this young man, things happen to him, and they stick. He learns from mistakes that are made, and applies them the next week. He's an extraordinary player in the sense that an accelerated learning curve for somebody that experiences it for the first time and very rarely does it come back to hit him again.
Q. He seems to be in the right place for big plays. Is that a function of not necessarily being a good athlete but being a function of being a good athlete in the right place?
COACH KELLY: I think it's both, a function of his athletic ability — I'll take the reverse. He was halfway on the other side of the field when the reverse occurred against Navy. His athletic ability brought him back to the play, went from speed to power, after two people missed a tackle. I mean, really, Eilar Hardy and Bennett Jackson missed the tackle. He went from speed to power and made the tackle on the play but was all the way across the field, so that was a product of his incredible athleticism. But he also has a football sense that contributes to that development as well.
Q. Your defensive line, I think everyone thought Stephon, Louis and Sheldon
was a pretty good place to start for a defense. How much of a frustrating has it been when you have not seen that group at 100% health? COACH KELLY: It has been difficult. We played some good stretches of football, other than maybe the last drive against Arizona State, and USC. We put together some good football against some very good offensive football teams and never getting the three those guys on the field at one time says a lot to the group coming together. Then you lose Jarrett Grace, and we continue to play. I would like to look again at the development of some of the players that have come in and played really good football. The option is a different set of circumstances. We're looking at this weekend hopefully getting at least those three guys on the field at the same time. At what level of health, we will see where it is. I think everybody at this time of the year isn't at 100%, but I think we're getting close where we may get all three of them on the field at one time.
Q. You mentioned getting into a rhythm offensively. As you're grading your offensive efficiency, do you balance the opponent that you have just played where maybe you have physical advantages that you won't have in the next three games or is that irrelevant, you're just looking for execution regardless of who it's against?
COACH KELLY: I think each and every week you're trying to establish who you are and what you know you can do well against your opponents. You look at the Michigan State game, everyone was talking about why you couldn't run the football. Well, nobody has been able to run the football on Michigan State this year, so you try to do the things you can do the things that you can do, each and every week. We felt like we could run the ball against Navy and we did. This week it might be something else. So when I'm talking about the offense, it's knowing what we can do well, based upon what we're going to get. That's the ticket for me. Knowing what we can do, what we're going to call on in terms of pass plays, and what we're going to ask our offensive line to do in terms of the running game. I think we know what we can do when afforded that opportunity.
Q. You mentioned on Sunday moving guys around the front seven. You weren't ready to commit to it at that point. Are you going to make subtle changes? Does Jones become a next corner? Do you move a linebacker around?
COACH KELLY: I don't think anything drastic, really. Isaac Rochell, Jarron Jones, Justin Utupo, Anthony Rabasa are going to have to do some things for us, but the guys that have been in our defensive meeting room are going to have to be those guys that step up and perform in roles that are expanded.
Again, we're hopeful about Louis being able to play a role this weekend. He will practice today. We're hopeful that we're going to see more of Sheldon. He will continue to practice and see where that takes us. Then Stephon moving out to more of his natural role outside is going to be a benefit for us as well.
Q. With Louis, is conditioning a concern of yours or are you just going into the week knowing you're not going to get 50 plays for him on Saturday regardless of how healthy he is?
COACH KELLY: That's a good question. I normally would be concerned about the volume and maybe I am a little bit. He's worked really hard. He's been in at 7:00 in the morning, and that's really early for most people, but really early, and Louis would admit that's really early for him, too. He's really worked hard in these last couple of weeks to stay fit. He had a jug of water with him today, hydrating, I think he's committed to giving everything he can. He's committed to getting himself back here and doing the best he can to help our football team.
Q. On Sunday you were unclear about Ben's injury. Did you get clarification on that? What's the outlook?
COACH KELLY: It's an ACL, yeah.
Q. And surgery —
COACH KELLY: He will have surgery once that quiets down a little bit, probably a couple of days, and then we'll have surgery on the knee.
Q. Couple of weeks ago it seemed like Stephon Tuitt was the one that was hurt, now he's come into his own. How instrumental has he been the last couple of weeks playing like the guy everyone expected him to?
COACH KELLY: The option offense that we saw really minimizes what he can do for us. I think getting into a more traditional offense this week you will see more from Stephon. I think he can influence the game a lot more than, say, inside where they can simply block back or scramble block on his legs and neutralize. I think he will have more of an impact on the game this week in terms of what he can do with his size and athleticism than maybe the last couple of weeks.
Q. And Collinsworth?
COACH KELLY: The MRI came up clean. He has some neck issues and when I say "issues" spasms, facet joints, I don't want to get too in depth because I don't want to say something that's not medically correct, but it has to do with soft tissue and some joint areas and he will not practice today. We're hopeful that clears up, but I would say he's questionable right now.
Q. For a guy like A.C., who had shoulder surgery last year, maybe — is that not related, or you gotta be extra careful?
COACH KELLY: That was not brought up to me from our doctors or our chiropractor, Jerry Hofferth, who does the work with all our teams. They weren't concerned about any other pieces that were related to any other surgeries, because he's had back surgery as well. They thought this was isolated to the neck itself.
He was better today, but he's going to need another day before we know where he is.
Q. You talked about Hanratty and how aggressive he played on Saturday. Is he — presuming that Watt moves back in the starting lineup is Hanratty in the running for time at right guard in competition with Elmer?
COACH KELLY: No, he would not be. Steve would stay there and would continue to take the reps there. Conor would come in strictly for Chris or if there was another injury.
Q. You've played against — coached against Pittsburgh for many years, at Cincinnati as well. What are the common threads that run through that program regardless who is coaching them or where you're coaching?
COACH KELLY: Running the football has always been one of their trademarks, because they always had outstanding running backs through the years that we played them.
This year it seems to be more prolific in terms of throwing the football. Maybe that's a little bit different from last year. But they always just play us so hard, and before I got here two losses I think in overtime, difficult games that went to overtime. So midwestern team, tough, blue collar, physical, they don't seem to like Notre Dame very much, and they want to beat Notre Dame. I think it's one of those games where you know you're going to go in and it's going to be a fight. We're prepared for that.
Q. Obviously when you run the ball as well as you did Saturday the mix of running backs seems to work out and look good, but is that do you feel that you've reached the kind of three man mix that you were looking for? Provided that Folston doesn't take steps back, is he fully in the mix now in that position?
COACH KELLY: I would say he's fully in the mix. You know, I think you guys have all seen that each week changes, but I would say that barring any injuries, he is definitely in that rotation. I was pleased with all of the backs. Circumstances are such that Amir didn't get but one snap, but I was pleased with the way that George ran in his carries and obviously Cam, so we're pleased with the three of those guys and the way they ran the ball.
Q. Is Chris's injury something that you have to build the muscle around the PSL to strengthen the knee or what's the nature of that?
COACH KELLY: The PCL was torn only a week ago, and he still had pain. It was an issue of pain and there was inflammation in there. That now has subsided greatly. I won't talk for Chris relative to his own pain level, but that has definitely decreased. Talking to Rob Hunt this morning we don't have much information in there. Then the big piece is there is a feeling of instability without that PCL, and you have to make some adjustments along the way, in terms of how that feels. We really only got a chance to do some things with him on Thursday last week.
He felt okay on Thursday. I don't know that he really cut it loose on Thursday, and then Saturday in pregame when he really cut it loose, he felt deficient in the sense that he didn't feel like he could do some things and didn't want to let the team down.
I think with a full week of practice, which he will practice today, we think that he's going to be able to make the accommodations to be able to play at the level that he needs to play at. So I think this is both swelling out of there, pain now decreased and then making the accommodations.
Q. Is there maybe a thought that he would have had a better chance to play if he played tackle, where he has to do more lateral movement, where the knee would allow him not to have as much lateral movement?
COACH KELLY: I think it would be more difficult if he was at tackle.
Q. Question about defense. Seemed like in the Air Force game you could be a little more aggressive at times, but with so many new faces in there, against Navy especially in the second half, you have to stay in a base and not take any shots because you're not sure sometimes where they're going to be. Is that a reality when you have so many new faces in there?
COACH KELLY: To a degree. I would say that that wasn't the only reason. There could be a list of things. Execution on Navy's part, lack of execution on our part, you know, and I think — but they had four possessions, right, and we stopped 'em two out of the four possessions. We felt like we had a chance if we get lined up right on one of the other possessions on fourth down. We stop 'em three out of the four possessions in the second half. So we look at it in a different perspective relative to what happened out there.
But there are a number of factors that go to that. The bottom line is that we're past that and we feel like moving on to Pittsburgh we're pretty excited about geting away from the option for a year.
Q. In high school a lot of guys with the size of our offensive linemen might have played short time on defense and short yardage or goal line. Any guys who have come to you this week and said, "Coach, if you need me, I can give you a lift?"
COACH KELLY: Yeah, we have. You're talking about the depth on the defensive line? Yeah. Bruce Heggie is going to play a little bit. He will be with the defense this week, in an emergency situation, if we feel like we get a need there, so he will take reps with the defense this week.
Again, I think that would be more of an emergency situation.
Q. Speaking of emergency situations, did you consider either Hounshell or Matuska and where does that —
COACH KELLY: We made a decision not to reengage Chase Hounshell this year, so we made that decision last week.
That was made prior to the game. That never entered into the conversation. And we had already made the decision on Matuska not to put him in the game.
Q. Where is Chase, if you had to play him now, could he play in a game and be effective or is he just getting the rust off from not playing?
COACH KELLY: It's more the rust and reengaging into contact. The surgery that he had, I think we're at that point where we don't want to go 0 to 60 with Chase. As we want to, we're reengaging him into light contact, moderate contact to full contact, and we would like to take that out and space that out through the spring instead of jumping him into a full contact situation after a third surgery.
Using this analogy could be way off, but it's similar to somebody who is a pitcher and they have had surgery and you're putting them on a pitch count. We want to be careful and bring him along slowly. A doctor can say he's medically cleared to play; we get that. But Chase has worked so hard to get back, we want to reintroduce him into contact in that kind of setting.
Q. Tyler Stockton, your initial inkling to bring him back for a fifth year, he's a guy that hadn't played a lot, had one career tackle going into this year. What do you feel like you will get from him if he has to play extended minutes on the field?
COACH KELLY: We like the young man in terms of the locker room. He's a great kid, really like his personality, he's a team player. He's done whatever we have asked him to do, whether it's on scout team. Just a real good team player for us. He's also a big body. The one thing that we lack around here is sometimes the depth in those positions.
So we felt like he brought a lot to our program at the scholarship level, that 1 through 85, he brought value to this program.
Now, as it relates to the reps he's got on the field, he hasn't gotten a lot but when he's gotten in there. He's done what we've asked him to do. On Saturday he was able to go in there and do his job. He knows that he's not a guy that's going to play 30, 40, 50, so I think the last piece of that is that he's somebody that when we sat him down, we told him what his role was going to be, and he accepted that role. That's big for me, too, he's got to accept the role that we give him.
Q. With Lou, he's seen, obviously, I would say, the MRI and you guys have talked to him about maybe what his concerns are. Trying to put a fine point on it, what is it with Lou, the pain, concern that he may injury himself for the longer term?
COACH KELLY: The tendonitis is real, the tendonitis that he has will require the similar surgery that Greg Bryant had, so this is something that is chronic and will require attention at some point.
After the USC game he was in real pain and it was a real situation for him, coupled with the fact that the worst thing is to get reinjured the next week or the week after.
So this was a decision that, talking to Brian Ratigan, our team surgeon, and Rob Hunt it was best that he get a PRP, which puts you out for two weeks, which mitigated the pain that he had with the tendonitis, which now will allow him to go back in and play the game the way he can play it. We don't want him hobbling around and putting himself in harm's way. He feels good about it, and he knows he can help the football team.
Q. With surgery, is it likely going to push him out of spring play?
COACH KELLY: He's probably going to be limited in the spring, yeah.
Q. And then, from the kickoff coverage you talked about on Sunday, did you follow through with that?
COACH KELLY: I did, yeah. We did a full extensive look at it. There are some things that I've addressed and I would say this: Sometimes when you look at what you're doing, you're trying to do too much. When it comes to kickoff coverage, we were counting for probably a little bit too much out there, instead of getting the guys down the field and getting after the football. I think we were counting for the triple reverse pass as well as the double reverse pass and the lonesome end play all at once, instead of getting after it, and we will make those adjustments.
Q. Okwara sort of has become like the Steve Elmer on defense as far as the number of positions you have had to use him at. He was at the five last week, you have him listed this week as a back up. Can you talk about his progress and the various roles he has and where you feel his future might be best suited?
COACH KELLY: I couldn't talk to you about his future. I'm worried about covering kickoffs right now. Right now he's got some versatility as you know. His ability, his size, he's right now playing in our nickel package as one of our ends. He can get his hands on the ground, he has some athleticism and he can play in space. For the present he has the versatility like you mentioned, like a Steve Elmer that can play a couple of different positions. I haven't given much thought as to what that means moving down the line but right now he serves a great role for us in that he has that flexibility.
Q. In August you mentioned you just want him to get the PAT position down, because that was kind of a struggle. For him to evolve at a point where you have utilized him in so many areas, has that spoken to his own progress and development?
COACH KELLY: I'll be straight with you, on Romeo — and I don't want to get too technical. He needs to play football more. He needs to get more playing time. When he plays more football, he's going to be fine. The game is new to him. He wasn't brought up as a young man that played a lot of football. So each time that he steps on the field, it's new to him. He doesn't — he wasn't blessed with the football instincts. He's learning about the game every day and he's making great progress every day. You can see him growing as a player. So it's less about the technical stuff from me with Romeo, just every time he steps on that field, whether it's on the special teams assignment or whether it's play option as a 5 technique or in the nickel package, he just keeps growing. And I don't mean physically, I mean mentally as a football player. That's what he needs the most, and as long as he continues to do that, he's going to be fine.
Q. You talked about offense being at a different strength each week with a different area and the defense coming back —
COACH KELLY: I don't know if I said it was a "strength"
Q. Just in some areas —
COACH KELLY: No, what I said is that we know what we can do, and we know what we can't do. We know more about our strengths and weaknesses offensively, and that's pretty clear, and I think we know now where we're now nine games into it, we know who we are offensively and that is where we'll move forward. I don't think we're a strength in terms of being able to carry this team. We're going to need every piece working together.
Q. Special teams, the state of the union there, these next several games are expected to be maybe like last year where it comes down to a play here or there. Where do you see them right now over all?
COACH KELLY: Well, you know, here is what I told our team. I think we've got one of the best kickoff return guys in the country; we gotta get him free. We've got to do a better job on kickoff return, although George has done a great job we have to sustain some blocks. If we could sustain a block for another second, he's going to score a touchdown. So we spent a lot of time on special teams showing our guys if you sustain a block with a little more effort, you're going to get him loose.
T.J. Jones, that kid is fearless, he's caught everything. He will catch the football. Give him an opportunity to return a punt, he will return a punt for us.
So hang on to your blocks, hang in there. Let's not have a holding penalty behind the play, let's not have a foolish mistake. He's a heck of a return guy who is willing to do it. He's one of your best players, so let's get it done there. Kyle Brindza will kick field goals and win games, so now let's work on kickoff coverage, because we're going to need 'em this week, and then we're playing Stanford and BYU that have outstanding STs, so we need to pick up the game as it relates to STs.
Q. Collinsworth isn't available, where does the pecking order fall with safety, there? Does Max get into the mix?
COACH KELLY: Ira would be 3 and Max would be obviously 4.
Q. We have seen what Troy Niklas can do catching the ball; he had some good blocks the other day. Is that something he is improving on or has he been doing it all season?
COACH KELLY: He's been a good in line blocker, he's gotten better. In space he needs to continue to work, he had a holding penalty that cost us a touchdown, but he's done a nice job for us. He's him and Ben Koyack. I think Ben has been outstanding this year and his maturation from earlier in the year where he was just so so; he's really grown. His toughness, ability to stick his nose in there and block for us, has really risen. Both those guys in particular. I think Troy has developed in all those areas, and I don't think there is a bigger play in the game than on third down, Tommy Rees hitting Troy Niklas. We're down in the game, behind in the fourth quarter, and Tommy and Troy hook up on a very big third down situation. So Troy has been key for us.
Q. The win, it raised your record in the past 10 games of getting a win by a touchdown or less, which is obviously a good stat. Is it possible that you've had so many close games, appeared in 22 games, 10 games being so close. I think half of them — I know you don't like point spread but half of them you were favored by —
COACH KELLY: So are you saying I have not covered and you're upset about me covering? Is that the question? (Laughter.)
A. Just asking. You were in so many close games and some that people think you might not have — didn't expect to be close games. Does that bother you at all?
COACH KELLY: I guess I just look at the games differently than maybe the public views the games. Winning in college football is hard to do each and every week. Teams play us so hard. Guys from Navy in tears, grown men crying after a game they put so much effort and their soul into the game. It's hard to win.
I'm not discounting your thoughts, I just look at it differently. A 2 point win, a 3 point win, we just look at our team and want to get better as what we do, regardless of how we do it. We just want to get better.
Q. Is that one of the challenges? Playing Navy, it's a big game, this weekend Pitt, national TV, for them it's a big game, and I'm not discounting — Notre Dame is on National TV every week. Is it hard to get 12 games a season, a team emotionally ready to play with the same passion than maybe the team you're playing every week?
COACH KELLY: It's a challenge each and every week to play teams that are going to play their very best, there is no question about it, but that comes with the territory, and I knew that coming in. We have been fortunate so far that we're holding our own.
Our guys play and play hard. That's all I can ask from them. They play hard. It's interesting you bring that up, because one of the things that I heard before I took this job was that, you know, the other locker room was more excited to play than the Notre Dame locker room, and I said, what do you mean, and, well, they were all excited and yelling and screaming, well, of course, they were coming to Notre Dame stadium. And I can tell you this, before we played the game, our guys were excited about playing Navy. Our guys weren't sleeping, I didn't have to wake 'em up, they knew the challenge at hand.
Our guys compete, and I'll leave you with this to answer the question. There is a lot of pressure at Notre Dame, a lot of scrutiny, there were nine lead changes in that game against Navy, they were down in the fourth quarter, they had to come back in the fourth quarter, and they had to hold the lead.
Those kids can take that with them because that takes a lot to do those things. I'm proud of the way they competed and won that football game. More so than what they were supposed to do. What they did do was more important to me.
Q. Pigging backing off that, last week you talked about keeping things fresh and fun for the guys week in and week out during this part of the season. How much of an affect does Bob Diaco have to do with that? I know the guys see him as the energy guy on defense.
COACH KELLY: Bob brings energy every day, to the offense and to everything that he does. There is no question there is energy in the defensive meeting rooms every single day. When you get to, you know, week 9 and week 10, you have to be careful with the way you practice. That's the most important thing. You have to be judicious in your time out there. You have to make sure you get the game plan down. Big rah rah stuff is not going to do it, but focused and to the point is very important during this time of the season. Making sure your team is prepared but more importantly that will they're fresh and excited about Saturday!
So there is no tricks at this point. It's making sure your team is prepared and you're spending the amount of time on it in terms of getting them ready for Pittsburgh, but also making sure that they're fresh and ready to play on Saturday.
THE MODERATOR: Thanks, everybody.


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We told you last week that Annah Salter would be running the Robin Hood Half Marathon on Sunday 25th September in order to raise awareness of OCD, a disorder that her sister lives with.
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Diverting Money Into Speculation is Contractionary, Now Or Later
Fed Chairman Yglesias says:
I'm going to have the Federal Reserve purchase lots of stuff, with the quantities of the stuff, the nature of the stuff purchased, and the timing of the purchases done at my discretion. And I'm going to keep doing it until unemployment is down to 6.5 percent or so unless core inflation gets over 5 percent. If core inflation goes over five percent, then I'll conclude that my estimate [of what constitutes full employment] was off and we need to reconsider. But as long as inflation is below 5 percent and unemployment is above 6.5 percent, my conclusion will be that the Fed needs to buy more stuff and buying more stuff is exactly what we'll be doing.
Then what happens? It's like FDR and the gold standard redux. A minority of rich businessmen will think to themselves that this is a great idea, and revise upwards the quantity of potential customers for their products or services in the medium term and start investing to hire workers and equipment while idle resources are still cheap and plentiful. The majority of rich businessmen will think to themselves that this guy is an insane socialist who's going to produce runaway inflation, and will start ditching cash and low-yield dollar-denominated financial instruments in favor of some mix of foreign currencies, commodities, and concrete assets like bigger houses and fancier yachts. Both the majority who think I'm an idiot and the minority who think I'm a genius will be taking steps that boost real output.
I want to poke some holes in the notion that the actions of the majority in this hypothetical will assist in the recovery.
Let's take an extreme scenario: the majority takes all their money out of circulation and puts it into gold. Gold's the classic inflation hedge. Why shouldn't they buy gold if they think the dollar is going to be debased? Obviously, gold isn't going to absorb 100% of the cash currently in low-yielding financial instruments – but what if it did? What would be the economic consequences?
Well, that money would now be out of circulation. The Federal Reserve would have added a certain amount of money to the economy, by buying a variety of debt instruments. The sellers of those instruments, instead of putting the proceeds of their sales to work generating employment and income, stuffed it in a shiny yellow mattress. The Fed has expanded its balance sheet without boosting the economy in any way – but the market is aware of this expanded balance sheet, and aware that, eventually, it has to be unwound. And thus the net effect is contractionary.
As I say, this won't actually happen. So what if some of the money goes into other assets that are likely to perform well in an inflationary climate – oil, say. Will that boost economic activity? Quite the contrary. Because of America's dependence on oil as an economic input, a speculation-driven spike in oil prices would be an immediate negative shock to the economy. Now, if the rise in prices was driven by higher end-user demand, it might boost more investment in things like refining capacity. But if it's driven by inflation concerns, not so much. You might still get an increase in extraction efforts, and some increase in employment as a consequence. But mostly not; oil prices are high enough already that there's a lot of investment going on in this area. Incremental increases in the price of oil would probably just be a tax on productive activity that uses oil as an input, distributed into the coffers of entities who already own or lease oil properties. Again, the net effect is contractionary.
What about land? Surely increases in the price of land would be a good thing; after all, the collapse in the housing market is what got us into this mess in the first place. Well, don't be so quick. Yes, an increase in land prices would help alleviate the problem of so many underwater mortgages. But expensive housing is, all else being equal, a drag on economic activity, a barrier to establishing a household. Yglesias himself has pointed out that the insane housing boom of the 2000s was mostly a boom in land prices; the boom in housing construction was well within historic norms (albeit building went quite nuts in specific regions like California's Inland Empire and south Florida). In current conditions, reflating the housing bubble will alleviate the debt overhang, but it'll leave us with a new problem: housing prices that are out of line with reasonable expectation for future wages, which would either imply another crash in the future (which would precipitate another recession) or a long-term economic drag. Because the bottom line is: land as such doesn't generate much economic activity. As they say: we aren't making more of it. So rises in land prices, unlike rises in the price of, say, automobiles, don't create an incentive to produce more land more cheaply.
So how can speculative bubbles be expansionary? Why did we see strong NGDP growth in the middle of the 2000s, when this was substantially underwritten by the housing bubble? Well, because higher prices made it possible for incumbents to spend their increase in paper wealth through debt, and the combination of low interest rates, poor credit standards and exotic products made it possible to increase debt at little or no increase in the cost of debt service, at least for the short term (many of these exotic products raised the service cost substantially down the road). This produces a short-term increase in demand, but it's borrowed from the future. Now, that's fine – if you're borrowing to increase your earnings capacity in the future. Then you come out ahead. But that's not what we were doing in the 2000s.
The crash and subsequent recession are a consequence of the false growth of the 2000s. To the extent that monetary expansion fails to create real economic activity, but instead fuels speculation, it's creating new economic problems. Those problems might be immediate – if they amount to alternative forms of money stuffed in mattresses – or they might take a while to manifest – if we dig our way out of our problem by reflating the housing bubble, for example, then we'll have the bubble to deal with.
Chairman Yglesias, in other words, could, by pursuing an inflationary strategy, actually push the NAIRU up even as he pushes unemployment down. Instead of 4% inflation and 6.5% unemployment, he could wind up with 5% inflation and 8% unemployment. And then he has a problem.
I don't know how much of the monetary stimulus will "leak" into this kind of unproductive speculative activity, and neither does he. Some of it will. If very little does, then the Yglesias strategy will work. If lots of it does, it'll backfire – badly. But I do think it's a mistake to be sanguine that whatever the holders of cash do in response to rising inflation expectations will assist in the economic recovery.
And that's why I keep coming back to the need to tackle the structural problems in the economy. Among other things, tackling these will make monetary stimulus more effective – because they will provide a rationale for diverting money into productive activity rather than into speculation.


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United States Border Patrol interior checkpoints
The United States Border Patrol operates 71 traffic checkpoints, including 33 permanent traffic checkpoints, near the Mexico–United States border.[1][2] The stated primary purpose of these inspection stations is to deter illegal immigration and smuggling activities. After the September 11 attacks in 2001, they took on the additional role of terrorism deterrence.[citation needed] These checkpoints are located between 25 and 75 miles (40 and 121 km) of the Mexico–United States border along major U.S. highways; near the southern border of the contiguous United States. Their situation at interior locations allow them to deter illegal activities that may have bypassed official border crossings along the frontier. The checkpoints are divided among nine Border Patrol sectors. There are a number of these checkpoints near the northern border of the contiguous U.S. as well (such as in the states of New York or Maine), within 100 miles (160 km) of the Canada–U.S. border.[3]
Role of checkpoints[edit]
The checkpoints are described as "the third layer in the Border Patrol's three-layer strategy", following "line watch" and "roving patrol" operations near the border. According to the U.S. Government Accountability Office,[2]
Border Patrol agents at checkpoints have legal authority that agents do not have when patrolling areas away from the border. The United States Supreme Court ruled that Border Patrol agents may stop a vehicle at fixed checkpoints for brief questioning of its occupants even if there is no reason to believe that the particular vehicle contains illegal people.[4] The Court further held that Border Patrol agents "have wide discretion" to refer motorists selectively to a secondary inspection area for additional brief questioning.[5] In contrast, the Supreme Court held that Border Patrol agents on roving patrol may stop a vehicle only if they have reasonable suspicion that the vehicle contains people who may be illegally in the United States—a higher threshold for stopping and questioning motorists than at checkpoints.[6] The constitutional threshold for searching a vehicle is the same, however, and must be supported by either consent or probable cause, whether in the context of a roving patrol or a checkpoint search.[7]
Under US law, people who enter the US without inspection (EWI) can be subjected to expedited removal if they are found within 100 miles of the border.[8][failed verification] This power has been subject to heavy criticism by the American Civil Liberties Union.[9]
Documentation at checkpoint[edit]
No documentation is required at a Border Patrol checkpoint for US citizens; however, lawful permanent residents (LPRs) are required to carry their registration cards (green cards) "at all times" according to federal law.[10] People in a non-immigrant status should carry proper documentation. There has been heavy criticism of Border Patrol for arresting people in a non-immigrant status at checkpoints (especially in New York), even though the aliens are lawfully present.[11]
List of permanent checkpoints[edit]
- San Clemente - located 7 miles south of San Clemente on Interstate 5. --33°21′9.47″N 117°31′32.26″W / 33.3526306°N 117.5256278°W
- Temecula - located 24 miles north of Escondido on Interstate 15. -- 33°26′48.81″N 117°08′5.18″W / 33.4468917°N 117.1347722°W
- Highway 79 - located 1 mile west of Sunshine Summit.
- I-8 West - located 3 miles east of Pine Valley on Interstate 8. --32°47′50.41″N 116°29′47.28″W / 32.7973361°N 116.4964667°W
- Highway 94 - located 24 miles east of San Diego on California State Route 94. -- 32°39′50.81″N 116°49′6.76″W / 32.6641139°N 116.8185444°W
- Highway 78/86 - located just south of the intersection of California State Routes 78 and 86, just west of the Salton Sea, controlling northbound traffic only. -- 33°07′29.90″N 115°51′17.13″W / 33.1249722°N 115.8547583°W
- Highway 111 - located between Niland and Bombay Beach. -- 33°21′37.42″N 115°38′41.47″W / 33.3603944°N 115.6448528°W
- Highway S2 - located 7 miles north of Ocotillo and I-8 in eastern San Diego County on S2 (Imperial Hwy/Sweeney Pass Road) between I-8 and State Route 78
- Highway 78 - located just north of Olgilby Rd (S34),50 miles south of Blythe, and 40 miles east of Brawley. Controlling northbound traffic only.
- I-8 (eastbound only) - located 15 miles east of Yuma on Interstate 8. --32°39′35.44″N 114°21′50.26″W / 32.6598444°N 114.3639611°W
- I-19 - heading north from Nogales just north of Tubac. --31°39′41.75″N 111°03′40.27″W / 31.6615972°N 111.0611861°W
- Arivaca Road - heading northeast through Amado, located near mile marker 22 --31°43′33.8″N 111°04′46.8″W / 31.726056°N 111.079667°W
- AZ Hwy 286 - heading north from Sasabe to Three Points. --31°49′41.9″N 111°25′29.2″W / 31.828306°N 111.424778°W
- AZ Hwy 86 - heading east, off the TO reservation, before three points --32°03′52.9″N 111°22′29.9″W / 32.064694°N 111.374972°W
- Indian Highway 15 North of Sells near Kahatk. --32°33′03.4″N 111°55′44.8″W / 32.550944°N 111.929111°W
- AZ Hwy 90 - heading north from Whetstone to Benson --31°44′57.53″N 110°20′58.86″W / 31.7493139°N 110.3496833°W
- AZ Hwy 80 - heading north from Tombstone to Benson (at junction with AZ 82 west) --31°44′57.28″N 110°5′51.38″W / 31.7492444°N 110.0976056°W.
- US Hwy 95 - heading north from Yuma to Quartzsite 53.4 mi N of Yuma 33.259464, -114.243200 [12]
- AZ Hwy 85 - located 4.7 miles south of Why --32°12′08.7768″N 112°45′32.9724″W / 32.202438000°N 112.759159000°W
- AZ Hwy 85 - located 18.4 miles south of Gila Bend --32°42′52.9632″N 112°50′31.2972″W / 32.714712000°N 112.842027000°W
New Mexico[edit]
- I-10 West - located 22 miles west of Las Cruces on Interstate 10, between mile markers 120-121. --32°15′01.43″N 107°07′15.99″W / 32.2503972°N 107.1211083°W
- I-25 North - located 23 miles north of Las Cruces on Interstate 25. --32°35′49.6″N 106°56′41.6″W / 32.597111°N 106.944889°W
- U.S. 70 East - located 15 miles southwest of Alamogordo on U.S. Route 70, between mile markers 198-199. --32°45′55.34″N 106°10′54.26″W / 32.7653722°N 106.1817389°W[13]
- Alamogordo - located 30 miles south of Alamogordo on US Route 54, between mile markers 40-41. --32°31′42.97″N 106°1′42.08″W / 32.5286028°N 106.0283556°W
- NM Highway 11 - located 22.6 miles south of Deming on State Road 11, between mile markers 12-13. --31°57′52.01″N 107°40′45.09″W / 31.9644472°N 107.6791917°W
- NM Highway 185 - located 13 miles northwest of Radium Springs on State Road 185, between mile markers 25-26. --32°36′11.63″N 107°1′17.45″W / 32.6032306°N 107.0215139°W
- U.S. Route 62 – 33 miles east of El Paso. --31°49′34.6″N 105°55′04.8″W / 31.826278°N 105.918000°W
- Sierra Blanca - located between El Paso and Van Horn, 5 miles west of Sierra Blanca on Interstate 10. --31°11′29.84″N 105°25′46.83″W / 31.1916222°N 105.4296750°W
- Eagle Pass - located 11 miles east of Eagle Pass on U.S. Route 57. --28°47′50.45″N 100°22′5.34″W / 28.7973472°N 100.3681500°W
- Eagle Pass/Carrizo Springs - located 30 miles east-southeast of Eagle Pass, Texas on U.S. Route 277. --28°37′32.6640″N 100°03′32.6016″W / 28.625740000°N 100.059056000°W
- Brackettville/Uvalde - located 60 miles east of Del Rio, Texas on Highway 90. --29°12′57.9024″N 99°56′32.8452″W / 29.216084000°N 99.942457000°W
- Del Rio - located 25 miles north of Del Rio on U.S. Route 377. --29°42′48.4″N 100°49′45.9″W / 29.713444°N 100.829417°W
- Laredo - located 29 miles north of Laredo on Interstate 35. --27°54′17.85″N 99°23′37.59″W / 27.9049583°N 99.3937750°W
- Laredo 83 - located 35 miles north of Laredo on Highway 83. --27°59′13″N 99°31′39″W / 27.98694°N 99.52750°W
- Freer - located 16 miles west of Freer on U.S. Route 59. --27°46′26.79″N 98°50′44.09″W / 27.7741083°N 98.8455806°W
- Oilton - located 6 miles east of Oilton on Highway 359. --27°26′35.72″N 98°53′14.75″W / 27.4432556°N 98.8874306°W
- Falfurias - located 14 miles south of Falfurrias on U.S. Highway 281. --27°1′29.71″N 98°8′18.39″W / 27.0249194°N 98.1384417°W
- Sarita - located 14 miles south of Sarita on U.S. Route 77. --27°0′58″N 97°47′39″W / 27.01611°N 97.79417°W
- Hebbronville - located 1 mile south of Hebbronville on TX 16 S --27°16′58.7136″N 98°41′36.3840″W / 27.282976000°N 98.693440000°W
- Hebbronville - located 50 yards south on FM 1017 at "T" intersection of Highway 285. --27°17′48.3108″N 98°39′46.9872″W / 27.296753000°N 98.663052000°W
- Alpine - located 10 miles south of Alpine on Texas State Highway 118. --30°11′54″N 103°34′46″W / 30.19833°N 103.57944°W
- Brownsville - located on Boca Chica highway leading to Boca Chica Beach --25°55′24.6″N 97°22′18.8″W / 25.923500°N 97.371889°W
- Marfa - located 4.5 miles south of Marfa on U.S. Route 67 --30°15′06.43″N 104°02′57.88″W / 30.2517861°N 104.0494111°W
- Marathon - located 4.5 miles south of Marathon on U.S. Route 385 --30°08′16″N 103°14′18″W / 30.13778°N 103.23833°W
Other maps[edit]
An external (unofficial) Google Map of reported checkpoints can also be found here. This may list other checkpoints.
Tactical checkpoints[edit]
In fiscal year 2008 thirty-nine tactical checkpoints were in operation. Tactical checkpoints lack permanent buildings, and "support permanent checkpoints by monitoring and inspecting traffic on secondary roads that the Border Patrol determined are likely to be used by individuals in the country illegally or smugglers to evade apprehension at permanent checkpoints". A tactical checkpoint might consist of vehicles, traffic cones, signs, a portable water supply, a cage for canines (if deployed), and portable rest facilities.[2]
Due to Congressional restrictions against the funding of permanent checkpoints in the Tucson sector, all of its checkpoints are tactical checkpoints. These were required to relocate every seven days, amended to every 14 days in 2005. Due to the need for road shoulder space and restrictions on placing checkpoints near curves, the number of sites is limited, and the relocation in practice means that checkpoints are periodically shut down. In 2005, the median tactical checkpoint nationally was active for 2 hours daily, as opposed to over 23 hours daily for permanent checkpoints; however the Tucson sector's checkpoint on Highway 19 was active 22 hours daily.[1] A draft plan for the I-19 checkpoint in 2009 proposed to model it on the largest previous permanent checkpoint, the I-35 checkpoint north of Laredo, Texas, but would surpass it in size (18 acres) and inspection lanes (8 primary, 7 secondary). A number of community concerns were addressed, such as placement of canopies for dark sky restrictions for a local observatory, off-highway location, rumble strips, signage, and mitigation of traffic congestion. A community recommendation to "seek to mitigate noise" was to be "researched and considered".[2]
Effectiveness and criticisms[edit]
The fairly comprehensive and aforementioned GAO report entitled BORDER PATROL assigns mixed success to border checkpoints. Positive results include the apprehension of nearly 17,000 people in the country illegally at interior checkpoints in 2008. The report further states that, "More than 705,000 total Border Patrol apprehensions [occurred] along the southwest border in fiscal year 2008." The Border Patrol also "encountered 530 aliens from special interest countries, which are countries the Department of State has determined to represent a potential terrorist threat to the United States." There were also over 3,500 drug seizures at all southwest border checkpoints combined in 2008.[2]
Changes in 2008[edit]
Staffing levels were substantially increased in 2008. The Laredo sector, for instance, increased its number of agents from 1200 in 2007 to approximately 1636 in 2008. Upgraded infrastructure and technology increased deterrence and detection capability in the Laredo sector. Additions include cameras, license plate readers, and vehicle and cargo inspection systems (VACIS). Laredo also implemented a prosecution initiative in 2008. Named Operation Streamline, the goal was "to prosecute and remove all violators charged with illegal entry in target areas in the sector".[2]
A shortcoming cited by the same GAO report were the inaccuracies represented by the report's title. The report states, "Our analysis showed that the actual checkpoint performance results were incorrectly reported for two of the three measures in fiscal year 2007 and for one measure in fiscal year 2008. As a result, the Border Patrol incorrectly reported that it met its checkpoint performance targets for these two measures."[2]
An analysis of the aforementioned GAO report criticized Border Patrol for its ineffective non-border checkpoints vs. actual border crossings. It stated, "There were 704,000 interdictions at actual border crossings in 2008; however, there were only 17,000 interdictions at internal non-border checkpoints. This 17,000 figure represents 2.4% of interdictions, but it took 4% of agents to accomplish this goal." The analysis further states regarding the Tucson sector that, "Actual border interdictions numbered 320,000, but internal non-border checkpoint interdictions numbered 1,800. This means the number of interdictions per agent at the actual border was 116, but the number of interdictions per agent at internal non-border checkpoints was only 8." The analysis finally questions why the stated goal of DHS "is to detect and apprehend 30% of major illegal activity [at the border]." It asked why 70% of illegal activity is conceded at the actual border.[14][unreliable source?]
Some residents of Arivaca, Arizona, have stated they are regularly subjected to harassment, delays, searches, and racial profiling at the internal checkpoint near their community. They questioned the effectiveness of the checkpoint, and began monitoring it in 2014 to determine its effectiveness.[15][16]
Internal checkpoints have also been criticized for violating the Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution which prohibits "unreasonable searches and seizures", although United States v. Martinez-Fuerte has affirmed their constitutionality. The U.S. Border Patrol has stated: "Although motorists are not legally required to answer the questions 'Are you a U.S. citizen, and where are you headed?' they will not be allowed to proceed until the inspecting agent is satisfied that the occupants of vehicles traveling through the checkpoint are legally present in the U.S."[17]
See also[edit]
- Michigan Department of State Police v. Sitz
- Visible Intermodal Prevention and Response team
- Freedom of movement under United States law
- Border zone
- Immigrant warning sign
- ^ a b "BORDER PATROL: Available Data on Interior Checkpoints Suggest Differences in Sector Performance" (PDF). United States General Accounting Office. July 2005.
- ^ a b c d e f g "BORDER PATROL: Checkpoints Contribute to Border Patrol's Mission, but More Consistent Data Collection and Performance Measurement Could Improve Effectiveness" (PDF). United States General Accounting Office. August 2009.
- ^ Woodard, Colin (January 9, 2011), "Far From Border, U.S. Detains Foreign Students", The Chronicle of Higher Education
- ^ GAO cites: United States v. Martinez-Fuerte, 428 U.S. 543, 545 (1976)
- ^ GAO cites: United States v. Martinez-Fuerte, 428 U.S. 563-564 (1976)
- ^ GAO cites: United States v. Brignoni-Ponce, 422 U.S. 873, 881-882 (1975).
- ^ GAO cites: United States v. Ortiz, 422 U.S. 891, 896-97 (1975).
- ^ 8 USC 1357(a)(3)
- ^ "Are You Living in the Government's "Border" Zone?".
- ^ 8 USC 1304(e)
- ^ "Families for Freedom new report uncovers nearly 300 wrongful arrests by Border Patrol and almost $1 million in cash and other incentives" (PDF). January 30, 2013.
- ^ google maps
- ^ "Panoramio photo, US 70 East checkpoint". Panoramio.
- ^ "U.S. Internal Checkpoints a Failure", Libertarian Party of Hawaii, Honolulu, April 2012.
- ^ "Residents in Arizona Town Push to Remove 'Militaristic' Border Checkpoint". FoxNews. February 27, 2014.
- ^ Carcamo, Cindy (February 24, 2014). "Arizona Residents Begin Monitoring Immigration Checkpoint". Los Angeles Times.
- ^ Casares, Cindy (March 7, 2013). "Border Patrol Takes 'No' for an Answer at Internal Checkpoints". Texas Observer.
Further reading[edit]
- Osete, Jesus A., The Praetorians: An Analysis of U.S. Border Patrol Checkpoints Following "Martinez-Fuerte". 93 Wash. U. L. Rev. 803 (2016). [1]


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|Occurred : 8/23/2007 06:55 (Entered as : 082307 06:55)
Reported: 8/26/2007 2:18:33 PM 14:18
Posted: 10/8/2007
Location: Twello (Netherlands),
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Myself and 1 other, was driving to work on the morning of Thursday the 23rd of August. We were driving on the A50 in Holland ( The Netherlands ) , in the direction of Zwolle to Apeldoorn.
At approximately 06-55 , road marker 230.0 , we both spotted 2 lights in the sky ( around 10 o'clock , if you assume that looking straight ahead in my car is 12 o'clock ). It was a bright blue sky this morning . 1 light was higher than the other, and as a guess I would say 10 degrees above the other (not directly above).
The lights were extremely bright ( white ) , like a motorcycle's headlight , and stationary . As we both discussed what the lights could be , they just disappeared , like someone turning a light off. We kept on looking , but to no avail , we saw nothing again.
I am writing this , as I have never experienced anything like this before.


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Watch Boris Diaw's short film Easylife, starring Cedric the Entertainer
Boris Diaw's short film Easylife starring Cedric the Entertainer has been released, and you can watch it below.
The Utah Jazz forward, via France, is known for his diverse off-court interests, and found time in his schedule last year to write and direct an entire short film starring the iconic comedian.
The film is described as follows:
The story of a dad attempting to make his rebellious kid understand how easy his life is compared to some other kids in the world. To get his message across, he tells a vivid story of a little kid in Africa being turned into a child soldier.
Warning: there's some graphic imagery.
It's always cool to see NBA players get work done off the court, and perhaps more is on the way here. Diaw and the Jazz face the Clippers on Sunday in a winner-take-all Game 7.


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This celebration is growing like a weed in SE Colorado
Doc Jones was at his best on Saturday, swapping tales and helping out all over the campground at Boggsville. This party is getting bigger and better every year. It's nice that a lot of the townsfolk are chipping in to help out with the celebration. You can't help noticing the names of people and businesses all over the place. "The sponsors make cash donations to help with wagons and groceries," said Jones.
"He's doing everything he can to promote us," said Clara Lee Stafford. Her husband, Ed Stafford, is an enthusiastic backer of Jones, writing articles every time Jones has a gathering. This one at Boggsville is especially impressive, because it has everything: cowboy poetry and music, old time piano from Leon Davis, Spanish dancing, buggy rides, plowing with draft horses - you name it: if it had to do with the Old West and the frontier, it was there at Boggsville.
Looking especially good were the campfire peach cobbler, the biscuits and beer batter bread, and the potatoes, cut up fine and sprinkled with peppers. The meat was nice and tender, too. There must have been four times as many vendors as ever before.
Seen on scene - Boggsville Days
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I don't know what it is, but stories like this just make my day.
"SOUTH BEND, Indiana (AP) — A jury convicted a man Friday of killing his father, stepmother and two stepsisters 17 years ago inside their church parsonage home so he could attend some high school prom events.
The St. Joseph County jury found Jeffrey Pelley, now 34, guilty on four counts of murder after deliberating more than 25 hours since Wednesday. Pelley faces up to 260 years in prison when he is sentenced September 15."
260 years? Now that's what I call a Burn!.
"Prosecutors accused Pelley, a high school senior at the time, of using a shotgun to kill his father, the Rev. Robert Pelley; stepmother, Dawn; and stepsisters, Janel, 8, and Jolene, 6, in April 1989 at their home next to the Olive Branch Church of the United Brethren in Lakeville, about 10 miles south of South Bend.
Investigators said Pelley was angry because his father had grounded him for stealing and would allow him to attend only the prom dance, causing him to miss a prom dinner, a bowling alley party and an outing the next day at an amusement park outside Chicago.
Pelley was not charged in the deaths until August 2002, when authorities reinterpreted evidence. Pelley was living in Dade City, Florida, when he was arrested."
Oh these Protestant childen! So high-strung, no? Wonder what he stole. Mom's Prozac perchance? Nice delineation of punishment there. He could only attend the dance — not the dinner, bowling alley part and amusement park outing. So he killed them all. Yet he got away with it until "authorities reinterpeted the evidence."
So what was the problem with the first "interpretation"? He must have put on a really good "grief" show.
"Prosecutors alleged Pelley shot his family members on the evening of the prom, disposed of the shotgun and shells, took a shower, put his clothes in the washer and left for the prom.
Pelley's defense attorneys argued there wasn't enough time for him to have done all that and still make it to the LaVille High School prom.
They also said no one could commit such a gruesome attack and still act "normal" during the prom events, as his friends testified during the trial."
Hey, didn't anybody see Rope ? The killers in that Hitchcock classic figured out the time scheme and were the very figure of savoir faire as the corpse of their victim lay in a trunk in their living room as they held the chicest of parties. Pelley, apparently, acted alone.
"The defense also questioned the decision by investigators not to look for fingerprints at the crime scene.
Police officers testified during the trial that they didn't think they would find any usable prints and they thought it would be a waste of time because Pelley was their main suspect.
The shotgun used in the killings was never found."
Needless to say there's more to this story, and I for one will be keeping a sharp eye on the details as they unfold. Maybe there's a something to "explain it all," like recently-unearthed love letter Columbine killer Dylan Klebold wrote. But for the nonce there's a song that' s just about perfect for this occasion —
"It was Homecoming Night at my high school
Everyone was there, it was totally cool
I was real excited, I almost wet my jeans
'Cause my best friend Debbie was Homecoming Queen
She looked so pretty in pink chiffon. (Chiffon)
Riding the float with her tiara on. (Tiara on)
Holding this humongous bouquet in her hand. (Bouquet)
She looked straight out of Disneyland!
You know that Cinderella ride
I mean definitely an E-ticket. (E-ticket)
The crowd was cheering, everyone was stoked
I mean it was like the whole school was totally coked or something.
The band was playing 'Evergreen'
Then all of a sudden, somebody screamed:
Look out! The Homecoming Queen's got a GUN!!!
Everybody run, the Homecoming Queen's got a gun!
Everybody run, the Homecoming Queen has got a gun!
Debbie's smiling, and waving her gun
Picking off cheerleaders one by one
Oh! Buffy's pom poms just blew to bits
Oh no, Misty's head just did the splits!
My best friend is on a shooting spree
Stop it, Debbie, you're embarrassing me!
How could you do what you just did
Are you having a really bad period?
Everybody run, the Homecoming Queen's got a gun!
Everybody run, the Homecoming Queen has got a gun!
Stop it, Debbie, you're making a mess
Powder burns all over your dress
An hour later, ,the cops had arrived
By then the entire glee club had died – no big loss
You wouldn't believe what they brought to stop
Tear gas, machine guns… even a chopper!
Throw down your gun and tiara and come out of that float!
Debbie didn't listen to what the cop said,
She aimed and fired, and now the math teacher's dead!
Oh, it's really sad, but kinda of a relief,
I mean we had this big test coming up next week…
Everybody run, the Homecoming Queen's got a gun!
Everybody run, the Homecoming Queen has got a gun!
Debbie's really having a blast!
She's wasted half of the class!
The cops fired a warning shot and she dove off that float.
I tried to scream Duck! but it stuck in my throat.
She hit the ground and did a flip; it was real acrobatic.
But I was crying so hard, I couldn't work my Instamatic.
I ran down to Debbie, I had to find out.
What made her do it, why'd she freak out?
I saw the bullet had got her right in the ear.
I knew then… the end was near.
So I ran down and said in her good ear.
Debbie, why'd you do it?
She raised her head and smiled and said.
I did it for Johnny.
Johnny, well like whose Johnny? Answer me Debbie whose Johnny.
Does anybody here named Johnny?
Are you Johnny? There was one guy named Johnny.
But he was a total geek. He always had food in his braces.
Answer me Debbie whose Johnny.
Oh God this is like that movie Citizen King
You know where you later find out Rosemary was a slut
But we'll never know who Johnny is because like she's dead
Everybody run, the Homecoming Queen's got a gun!
Everybody run, the Homecoming Queen has got a
Everybody run
Everybody run the Homecoming Queen's got a gun!"


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These two women who made significant contributions to Georgia's history will be inducted into the Georgia Women of Achievement Hall of Fame on Thursday, March 7, 2019 at 11:00 AM at Wesleyan College in Macon, Georgia. The Georgia Women of Achievement Induction Ceremony is an annual free event held during Women's History Month and is open to the public. This year's event will begin at 11:00 AM in Pierce Chapel on the Wesleyan Campus and will be followed by a reception and seated luncheon in the stately Anderson Dining Hall, Wesleyan. The luncheon requires a reservation: https://www.georgiawomen.org/2018-induction-ceremony
Mary Dorothy Lyndon
(August 13, 1877 - April 5, 1924)
Wesleyan College Class of 1896
The first female graduate from the University of Georgia*
Born in 1877 in Newnan, Georgia, and reared in Athens, Mary Dorothy Lyndon graduated from Wesleyan College in 1896 as its first dramatic arts degree holder. She continued her education in dramatic arts and history at Columbia University in New York City. In 1911, Lyndon was offered a position teaching history at the Lucy Cobb Institute, in Athens, which permitted her to take summer classes at the University of Georgia, a male only institution. The University had a policy that those who desired to become teachers could earn credit during summer school.
Lyndon accumulated enough summer credits to earn the master of arts degree on June 17, 1914 - the first UGA degree awarded to a woman and four years before women were admitted to the University as regular students.
It was not until 1918 that university trustees authorized full admission of women and their inclusion in undergraduate studies — initially for a new program in home economics established by the College of Agriculture. During the 1919-1920 school year, Lyndon was nominated by UGA Chancellor David C. Barrow and then elected by the University board of trustees to the positions of associate professor of education and dean of women.
Lyndon taught classes in the Peabody School of Education, directed the Thalian Dramatic Club, helped organize the University chapter of the Phi Mu Sorority, UGA's first sorority (founded at Wesleyan College in 1852), and founded the Pioneer Club. Lyndon was active in the Athens community as the recording secretary for the Athens YMCA, secretary of the local Daughters of the American Revolution chapter, writer for the Athens Banner Herald, and Sunday school teacher at the First Methodist Church of Athens.
Both the local and University community mourned Mary Lyndon's untimely death from pneumonia on April 5, 1924. In 1936, a women's dormitory on the University of Georgia campus was named Mary Lyndon Hall in her honor.
Mary Lyndon was part of a long legacy of Wesleyannes, including her mother Lucy Yates Lundie Lyndon, Class of 1869, two sisters, Clyde Lyndon Lenoir, Class of1894 and June Lyndon Bocock, Class of 1905, and her sister-in-law Annie Margaret Miller Lyndon, Class of 1911 (married to Mary Dorothy's brother, Andrew Jackson Lyndon, Jr.).
*The University of Georgia became the nation's first chartered state university in 1785 and classes began in 1801. For more than a century, the University's student body numbered only a few hundred — all male. On June 17, 1914, Wesleyan alumna Mary Dorothy Lyndon, class of 1896, became the first woman to be awarded a degree from the University of Georgia. It would be four more years before women were admitted to the University as regular students.
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(February 1, 1898 - April 1, 2012)
Pioneer in pediatric medicine
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Kelly Cutrone and Her Mom Give Us Love Advice
Last month fashion publicist Kelly Cutrone released her latest book, Normal Gets You Nowhere, and she's currently working on an MTV pilot by the same name. The book is all about how embracing what makes you unique will help you succeed in relationships and your career.
The "Kella-Sutra" portion of the book details 10 sex-life rules to live by for young women, like share your fantasies or never fake an orgasm. When I asked Kelly about Kella-Sutra during a phone interview, she started thinking about the lessons her own mother taught her. Next thing I knew, she conferenced in her mom, Beverly.
Chatting with Kelly's mom, I learned that her love rules include: "Marry someone with a J-O-B." "Sex in cars is a bad idea. If you got a guy who can't afford a room you better ditch him!" And, "Don't have sex the first time. Then the whole relationship is based on lust, and that doesn't last." Decent advice. Once we got off the phone with her mother, Kelly had more to say on love and life.
TrèsSugar: You write a lot about how we fail to educate girls about sex in a positive way. What would you change?
Kelly Cutrone: Why are we sending our daughters to the Internet? I'm watching my daughter sexually awaken through Justin Bieber. That's all she talks about. I know he was born at 12:56 a.m. on a Tuesday. So I tell her, "I want you to be as devoted to yourself as you are to Justin Bieber." . . . I think girls are hyper-sexualized and it starts with Disney.
TS: So what do you make of the craze surrounding Prince William and Kate Middleton? Find out when you read more.
KC: Well, I think they're great. Very few royal couples get a love marriage. They're very young, sexy, cool. And great for the economy. They seem like they're standing on the same ground next to each other.
TS: It's safe to say you're a fan.
Kelly: I think it's nice to see sexy couples. Like Obama in the White House. The idea of George Bush Sr. and his wife was not a sexy idea for me. Then we have Weiner, so we can work out all our sexual porn fantasies.
TS: You talk about your love of European men. Do you think Europeans are more open about sexuality?
KS: I think that European men are more romantic and intellectual, while American men are more carnal. It could just be that they're different than us.
TS: What is the number one rule a woman should follow in her love life?
KC: The big one is if you're sleeping with a married man, you're helping him stay married. Same goes for a man in a relationship.
TS: What about friendships? What one rule do you think young women should apply to their relationships with other women?
KC: It's important to open up and listen to what our friends are telling us. I'm never around for the little stuff with my friends. I don't have a lot of time. I'm a mom. I talk on the phone all day for work. But if I know someone is going through a breakup, financial difficulty, trying to lose weight, trying to quit alcohol, or feeling alone, I try to call them up. I'll do everything to help.


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Art aficionado? World traveler? These two things go hand in hand famously. If you are traveling around the world, you would do yourself a favor to visit some of the best art galleries in the world. The world of art has been a part of history since it was first made in cave paintings, where a select few have been allowed to visit outside of France. As such, the worlds greatest art pieces are scattered in museums all across the globes. Many times, galleries will tour a show and you can see it at your closest gallery, but other pieces stay in their museums like tombs, forever. So if your goal is to see them all, you will have to leave your home turf. My uncle Tony who is now the owner of Roofing Service The Woodlands and is mentioned below, has given me the insight and motivation to get out and travel.
If you are interested in a the worlds largest, then of course the answer is in the U.S.A. The Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. The Smithsonian is actually nineteen museums and galleries and research stations all mashed together in a giant complex. There are many famous attractions in there, such as Dorothy's ruby shoes from the Wizard of Oz, the dresses of the First Ladies, and the original Star-Spangled Banner. The Wright brothers' flying machine is also there, along with the Apollo 11 command module. On the other end of the pond, again in France, you will find the world famous Louvre, in Paris. The Louvre is over two centuries years old, and used to be a fortress before being turned into a museum. I.M. Pei's piece, the pyramid, was considered an affront to the classic style by many, but has now become a main photo op, located in the front of the museum. The pieces found in the Louvre are considered to be some of the most important artistic contributions in the history of the world, and include the Venus de Milo, Winged Victory of Samothrace and of course da Vinci's Mona Lisa. After the Louvre, it has to be the Acropolis Museum in Athens, Greece. The Acropolis itself is a work of art, and a piece of history, built thousands of years ago. The museum famously has a glass floor that allows its guests to walk over the archaeological findings. The flagship attractions is the frieze of the Parthenon. On the other side of the globe, we find ourselves at State Hermitage, in St Petersburg, Russia. Although distant from the other cultural hubs of the world, the Hermitage still boasts an impressive collection of art, housing more than three million items. If you are at the Hermitage, you can see masterpieces from Eurasia, the Black Sea Littoral in antiquity as well as seeing piecse from Nicholas II's private collection. Coming in as our fifth museum, would have to be the British Museum in London, England. This museum, has historical items from all around the world, with its main attractions being the Egyptian gallery, with ancient artifacts from Egypt, as well as the Rosetta Stone itself. So if you are traveling the world, make sure to note some of these museums to visit and culture yourself with!


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The 1.4 million African immigrants residing in the United States in 2007 accounted for 3.7 percent of all U.S. immigrants. MPI's Aaron Terrazas examines their socioeconomic characteristics, where they live, and the category of admission of the African-born immigrant population.
This report argues that U.S. Customs and Immigration Enforcement's National Fugitive Operations Program is not operating in accordance with its legislative purpose of improving national security by apprehending dangerous individuals with existing removal orders.
This report assesses the performance of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) over the course of the agency's first six years, examines the effectiveness of the three core immigration agencies within DHS—U.S Customs and Border Protection, U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement, and U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services.
MPI's Muzaffar Chishti and Claire Bergeron report on immigration policy decisions facing the Obama administration, permanent residence for trafficking victims, US-VISIT's extension to U.S. permanent residents, and more.
The 1.0 million Korean immigrants residing in the United States in 2007 accounted for 2.7 percent of all U.S. immigrants. MPI's Aaron Terrazas examines their socioeconomic characteristics, where they live, and the size of the Korean-born unauthorized population.
This report seeks to understand and predict the potential impact of the economic crisis that began in December 2007 on legal and illegal immigration flows to and from the United States, and the likely effects of an economic downturn on the labor market performance of immigrants.
Drawing on several sources of survey data, this report will examine the major contours of American public opinion toward immigration and immigration policy.
MPI's Muzaffar Chishti and Claire Bergeron report on Arizona Governor Janet Napolitano's nomination to head homeland security, changes to the H-2A program, suspension of a refugee family-reunification program, and more.