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The Davidson County school system is applying for two state matching grants that promote safety.
The Davidson County school system is applying for two state matching grants that promote safety.
School districts, regional schools and charter schools were all invited to apply for funds for extra school resource officers and financial help toward panic alarm systems in schools.
"We cannot afford not to apply for the funds," said Davidson County Schools Superintendent Dr. Fred Mock. "It's an opportunity for us to provide more services. We're hoping for the best."
The school resource officer grant targets law enforcement in the elementary or middle school settings. The financial award will be matched on the basis of $2 in state funds for every $1 from local funds.
If awarded, the system could add six SROs at the middle schools, which is the maximum amount the grant covers. Currently the system has six SROs, who are stationed at the high schools, who are responsible for 20,070 students at the 36 schools in the system. Those officers travel among the schools in the high school's feeder pattern but have a small presence at the elementary and middle schools due to limited staffing.
The state will pay two-thirds of the salary while the system pays one-third, said Christy Slate, director of student services for the system. The district would be responsible for $14,000 for each SRO while the state will provide the remaining $28,000. Officials are using $42,000 as the base salary with benefits for the officers.
District officials thought there was a need to try and obtain additional officers at the middle school level who would be responsible for the elementary schools, too.
Some reasons listed in the application touch on the system's 2011-12 reportable acts of crime of violence being higher than the state average; fostering educational programs and activities to increase students' knowledge and respect for the law; having someone on campus to act swiftly and cooperatively when incidents occur; and promoting the safety of staff and students.
A big focus of the SROs will be to promote a better understanding of the social and cognitive development of students at that age, Slate said. She said they will be specifically trained on social interaction issues such as drugs, cyberbullying, Internet crimes and how those issues affect young students.
Those topics relate to what parent Kimberly Coates is dealing with right now. The mother of four says her seventh- and eighth-graders at Tyro Middle School have been harassed during the past three weeks on the popular social media site Facebook.
She felt helpless because the school officials and the SRO for the area were not able to provide any assistance because the behavior was not taking place on school grounds. Coates believes a student at the school created a fake profile and started making sexual comments on pictures that her son is tagged in on the site every day.
Coates said the person has stopped for now. She said it was bothering her son, and she just wanted answers because she didn't want anything to affect her student's learning.
Slate said the grant will help the system with situations such as Coates' and how to deal with the students involved. Slate noted that at times the school officials' hands are tied, however they want to do everything they can to make sure students have the best learning environment.
The total project amount is $277,200, and the system will only be responsible for $92,400. That money also includes the training. The system plans to use money from its current local current expense fund to cover its portion, if awarded.
Slate informed the board members that the grant only provides the amount for two years. The application deadline was Oct. 11, and the system has already submitted it.
The second grant will provide additional funding toward a panic alarm system, which all schools in the state will be required to have by 2015.
Lawmakers passed the requirement to ensure that all schools in the state have quick access to notify law enforcement in the event of an emergency. By the push of a button a signal would be sent out to promote immediate response in the case of an emergency.
School districts that receive the grant will receive funds based on $1 in state funds for every $1 spent in local funds.
Every school will have to implement the system, whether the grant is awarded or not, said Jay Temple, director for auxiliary services.
In the application, school officials have to outline where the button will be wired and placed. Each school will have to fill out an application that the district will turn in all at once.
Slate noted they are still researching the total amount. She said the panic button price can range from $300 to $1,000. School officials are still reviewing the amount of wire installation, which can vary for each school.
All the details of the application have not been released due to school officials still working on the application process that is not due until Dec. 1.
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Imagine if McDonald's picked up your bill any time you managed to eat 10 Big Macs in an hour or less. What if Wendy's replaced its wimpy Baconator with an unstoppable meat-based assassin that could truly make your aorta explode—say, 20 strips of bacon instead of six, enough cheese slices to roof a house, and instead of two measly half-pound patties that look as emaciated as the Olsen twins, five pounds of the finest ground beef, with five pounds of fries on the side? Morgan Spurlock's liver would seek immediate long-term asylum at the nearest vegan co-op.
Alas, this spectacle will never come to pass. McDonald's, Wendy's and the rest of their fast-food brethren are far too cowed by their critics to commit such crimes against gastronomy. But you can get a free dinner with as many calories as 10 Big Macs at the Big Texan Steak Ranch in Amarillo, Texas, if you can eat a 72-ounce sirloin steak, a baked potato, a salad, a dinner roll and a shrimp cocktail in 60 minutes or less. And if you're craving 10 pounds of junk food on a single plate, just go to Eagle's Deli in Boston, Mass., where the 10-story Challenge Burger rises so high you practically need a ladder to eat it.
Fast food makes such a savory scapegoat for our perpetual girth control failures that it's easy to forget we eat less than 20 percent of our meals at the Golden Arches and its ilk. It's also easy to forget that before America fell in love with cheap, convenient, standardized junk food, it loved cheap, convenient, independently deep-fried junk food.
During the first decades of the 20th century, lunch wagons, the predecessors to diners, were so popular that cities often passed regulations limiting their hours of operation. In 1952, three years before Ray Kroc franchised his first McDonald's, one out of four American adults was considered overweight; a New York Times editorial declared that obesity was "our nation's primary health problem." The idea that rootless corporate invaders derailed our healthy native diet may be chicken soup for the tubby trial lawyer's soul, but in reality, overeating fatty, salty, sugar-laden food is as American as apple pie.
Nowhere is this truth dramatized more deliciously than in basic-cable fare like the Food Channel's "Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives" and the Travel Channel's "World's Best Places to Pig Out." Watch these shows often enough, and your Trinitron may develop type 2 diabetes. Big Macs and BK Stackers wouldn't even pass as hors d'oeuvres at these heart attack factories.
It's easy to forget that before America fell in love with cheap, convenient, standardized junk food, it loved cheap, convenient, independently deep-fried junk food.
Yet unlike fast-food chains, which are generally characterized as sterile hegemons that force-feed us like foie gras geese, these independently owned and operated greasy spoons are touted as the very (sclerosed) heart of whatever town they're situated in, the key to the region's unique flavor and, ultimately, the essence of that great, multicultural melting pot that puts every homogenizing fast-food fryolator to shame: America!
Instead of atomizing families and communities, dives and diners bring them together. Instead of tempting us with empty calories at cheap prices, they offer comfort food and honest value. Instead of destroying our health, they serve us greasy authenticity on platters the size of manhole covers.
As the patrons of these temples to cholesterol dig into sandwiches so big they could plug the Lincoln Tunnel, they always say the same thing. They've been coming to these places for years. They started out as kids accompanying their parents, and now they bring their kids with them.
While such scenes play out, you can't help but wonder: Doesn't that obesity lawsuit trailblazer John Banzhaf have cable? Shouldn't he be ejaculating torts out of every orifice upon witnessing such candid testimonies to the addictive power of old-timey diner fare? And more important: Shouldn't we thank our fast-food chains for driving so many of these places out of business and thus limiting our exposure to chili burgers buried beneath landfills of onion rings? Were it not for the relative restraint of Big Macs and Quarter Pounders, the jiggling behemoths who bruise the scales on "The Biggest Loser" each week might instead be our best candidates for "America's Next Top Model."
Four years ago, when Super Size Me appeared in theaters and fast food replaced Osama bin Laden as the greatest threat to the American way of life, the industry sought refuge in fruit-and-yogurt cups and the bland, sensible countenance of Jared the Subway Guy. Today chains are still trying to sell the idea that they offer healthy choices to their customers; see, for example, Burger King's plans to sell apple sticks dolled up in french fry drag. But they're starting to reclaim their boldness too, provoking the wrath of would-be reformers once again.
Last summer, when McDonald's started selling supersized sodas under a wonderfully evocative pseudonym, the Hugo, it earned a prompt tsk-tsking from the New York Times. When Hardee's unveiled its latest affront to sensible eating, a 920-calorie breakfast burrito, the senior nutritionist for the Center for Science in the Public Interest derided it as "another lousy invention by a fast-food company." When San Francisco Chronicle columnist Mark Morford saw a TV commercial for Wendy's Baconator, he fulminated like a calorically correct Jerry Falwell: "Have the noxious fast-food titans not yet been forced to stop concocting vile products like this, or at least to dial down the garish marketing of their most ultra-toxic products, given how the vast majority of Americans have now learned (haven't they?) at least a tiny modicum about human health?"
Were it not for the relative restraint of Big Macs and Quarter Pounders, the jiggling behemoths who bruise the scales on "The Biggest Loser" each week might instead be our best candidates for "America's Next Top Model."
Culinary reformers around the country have been trying to turn such microwaved rhetoric into reality. In New York City, health officials have been attempting to introduce a regulation that will require any restaurant that voluntarily publicizes nutritional information about its fare to post calorie counts on its menus and menu boards. Because most single-unit operations don't provide such information in any form, this requirement will apply mainly to fast-food outlets and other chains. When a federal judge ruled against the city's original ordinance, city health officials went back for seconds, revising the proposal to comply with his ruling. If this revised proposal goes into effect, any chain that operates 15 or more restaurants under the same name nationally will have to post nutritional information on the menus and menu boards of the outlets it operates in New York City.
In Los Angeles, City Councilor Jan Perry has been trying to get her colleagues to support an ordinance that would impose a moratorium on fast-food chains in South L.A., where 28 percent of the 700,000 residents live in poverty and 45 percent of the 900 or so restaurants serve fast food. "The people don't want them, but when they don't have any other options, they may gravitate to what's there," Perry told the Los Angeles Times, gravitating toward juicy, flame-broiled delusion. Apparently, her constituents are choking down Big Macs only because they've already eaten all the neighborhood cats and figure that lunch at McDonald's might be slightly less painful than starving to death. And how exactly will banning fast-food outlets encourage Wolfgang Puck and Whole Foods Markets to set up shop in a part of town they've previously avoided? Is the threat of going head-to-head with Chicken McNuggets that much of a disincentive?
Suppose reformers like Perry get their wish and fast-food chains are regulated out of existence. Would the diners and dives we celebrate on basic cable start serving five-pound veggie burgers with five pounds of kale on the side? Only diet hucksters and true chowhounds would benefit from a world where the local McDonald's gave way to places serving 72-ounce steaks and burgers that reach toward the heavens like Manhattan skyscrapers. The rest of us would be left longing for that bygone era when, on every block, you could pick up something relatively light and healthy, like a Double Western Bacon Cheeseburger from Carl's Jr.

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In Washington, D.C., near a trash basket in the metro station, a ragged man played the violin. He wore jeans, a long-sleeved t-shirt, and a Washington Nationals' baseball cap. Near his feet was a hat already filled with some starter money. He played for 45 minutes in hopes of making a few bucks.
More than a thousand people streamed by. Twnety-seven stopped just long enough to drop in $32. Maybe they wanted to encourage him. Maybe they just felt pity.
It's a shame their eyes and ears weren't better trained, or their hearts more expectant of what might happen on an otherwise average day. The man lovingly playing his $3,000,000 Stradivarius was none other than Joshua Bell. Three days earlier he had also played Mozart and Schubert, but then to a sold-out crowd in Boston's Symphony Hall, where an average ticket went for $100, almost three times his take for the day.
It was an amazing event hosted by the Washington Post, "an experiment in context, perception, and priorities, as well as an unblinking assessment of public taste. In a banal setting, at an inconvenient time, would beauty transcend?"
We would have to say that on that ordinary day, it did not.
Which brings me to this otherwise ordinary day. What will we hear today? What will fill our eyes? If beauty shows up, will our hearts be ready to receive it? Will we even recognize it and slow down if only for a moment? What if God shows up?
In the movie, "Expelled," there is an interview with Richard Dawkins. Mr. Dawkins makes a comment worth noting. He says, and this is a very rough quote, that if he were to die and discover there was a God he would ask him the question Bertrand Russell first formed, "Why did you remain so hidden?"
One wonders if God will reply, "I was there and plenty saw, stopped, and listened. Why did you walk by without a second glance?"
Yes, it is difficult to explain suffering in this world, all the places where Hell breaks through. Yet surely it is just as difficult to explain good in this world, all the places where Heaven breaks through. It is difficult to explain the devastation of an Oklahoma tornado or wildfires crackling on the Colorado wind, destroying homes. It is even more difficult to explain the incredible out-pouring of help and sacrifice from so many who could choose to remain untroubled. It is difficult, of course, unless there is a God.
When Yuri Gagarin, the first Soviet cosmonaut, returned from his trip to space, it is said he remarked that he didn't see God in heaven. A Moscow-based priest responded, "If you have not seen him on earth, you will never see him in heaven."
"For since the creation of the world God's invisible qualities — his eternal power and divine nature — have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that men are without excuse." – Romans 1:20.
Rick Cupp is Minister of the Kenai Fellowship, Mile 8.5 Kenai Spur Highway, 283-7682. Sunday Bible Classes are at 10 a.m.; worship at 11:15 a.m. Wednesday meal is at 6:15 p.m. and Bible classes 7 p.m.


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Frankton Road.
Dollar Lake.
Gnarl Ridge.
The names would read like a travelogue of historic and quirky destinations in the Gorge, except that most of us recall that the names stand for something far more terrifying:
Destructive wildfires.
These were the place names given to blazes that happened locally in the past five years or so, damaging or threatening grassland, forests and property.
July 4 brings the five-year anniversary of the Frankton fire, in fact.
With July 4 comes the double-whammy of dry ground fuels and fireworks.
Don't be deceived by the Ranger District fire danger level pointing to "low" and the green section of the highway sign.
"Fire season is dependent on weather, and in the Gorge, that is variable," said West Side Fire Marshal Jim Trammell. "That doesn't mean we shouldn't be prepared. It's not if, it's when we have another fire similar to the Microwave Fire of two years ago."
Kiel Nairns, Forest Officer for the Oregon Department of Forestry, noted that so far, fire season looks about average for this time of year. "The recent rain we've had has put us back a little bit as far as extreme fire potential," said Nairns. "But there's potential for one large fire in the area."
Keep in mind creating a 30-foot "defensible space," free of dead vegetation, around all structures. All local fire agencies are happy to assist in advising people on how to do this, and other prevention steps.
Keep your local firefighters busy with calm conversations in your yard where they carry a clipboard and not a hose.
With July 4 comes increased fire risk. We're already hearing the fireworks go off; by the sound of them, they are the more powerful illegal out of state varieties probably purchased as close as Bingen just across the river.
It's not alarmist to point to the specter of the terrible blazes in western Colorado, and remember the "4 BE'S" as described on page B4.
Be Responsible
(Dispose of used fireworks and debris properly.)
Be Safe
(Never re-light "dud" fireworks; soak them in a bucket of water.)
Be Prepared:
(Place pets indoors, Always have water handy.)
Be Aware:
(Fireworks are prohibited on all beaches, city and county parks, state parks, and state and federal forest land.)
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Shopping Center Associates c/o Simon DeBartolo Group, remodel existing after hours formal wear store, Fashion Square Mall, $75,000.
First Interstate Charlottesville Ltd, install new wall sign (illuminated) for Kyoto Restaurant, $500.
Hollymead Town Center LLC, new restaurant, Sakura Japanese Seafood and Steak, $400,000.
Linda Blake Gayle LLC, non-illuminated wall sign, $350.
Pantops Court LLC, tenant upfit third floor for Freedom Home Health, $70,000.
Millwood Land Trust, Elizabeth M. Gildea et al., trustees, utility building for art studio/wood working shop/general storage/bath, $40,000.
South Pantops II Land Trust, Charles W. Hurt and Shirley Fisher, trustees, four-story apartment building with public amenity space/elevator, $4,900,000.
State Farm Mutual Auto Insurance Co, interior renovation, increasing amount of office space (decreasing amount of data processing space), $12,000,000.
Ganapati LLC, new Subway shop, $120,000.
PJP Building Three LC, tenant upfit for Easter Associates (financial investments office), $115,000.
MJH Foundation, office of the President, tenant upfit Martha Jefferson Hospital, IVF Lab, $220,000.
David H. Bass, demo house approximately 20 years old, $7,000.
Christian Aid Mission, replace freestanding cabinet sign for Christian Aid Mission (existing base), externally illuminated, $2,000.
Vineyard Estates LLC, entrance pavilion (not heated or occupied), $15,000.
Matthew Singleton, converting barn into recording studio, $100,000.
Jeanette E. Orrock, steel monopole antenna base station, $26,000.
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Jimco II LLC, tenant upfit, Kohr Brothers office space, $25,000.
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Back in 2012, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg passed an ordinance restricting the size of sugary drinks us free Americans can drink. This is another example of how liberals want to control how we live. That is the definition of a liberal. They know better than you and if you listen to them you will live a long and healthy life.
After reading Carlton B. Washington's guest column, "Is it a great day in S.C.?" in the Aug. 11 edition of The Lancaster News, I am wondering if he actually thinks he is going to get sympathy for his cause, basically to get more cash so he can give more to the Democratic National Committee?
We are writing on behalf of the Lancaster High School Junior Civitans Club. As you may know, Junior Civitans is an international club which provides services to the community in which it is located.
As Junior Civitans, we try to make a positive difference through our involvement in the community. This year, as part of our ongoing efforts to beautify the Lancaster High School campus, our club plans to purchase a specially carved wooden Bruin about 12 feet tall to be placed in the statue garden located beside the gymnasium entrance.
I am writing in response to John P. Lage's letter, "Liberals are destroying American," in the Aug. 7 edition of The Lancaster News.
I beg to differ with Mr. Lage because it is we, ourselves, who are holding ourselves back. It is not for us to judge anyone.
In the end, God will do it. It's in his word. You need to take time to read the Bible.
We, as a people, are not perfect. Jesus was the only man who walked this Earth who was and still is alive today.
Well sir, I recently applauded Mr. John P. Lage Jr. for his timely comments on recent issues, but I must say he seems to be a might off key in his article, "Liberals are destroying America" in the Aug. 7, 2013 edition of "The Lancaster News."
I have lived four score years, served 10 years in the military during two distractions, worked 30 years in two Fortune 500 corporations and frankly I was unaware that Liberals had ruined the morals of this great nation.
This is in response to Rudy Schmidt's rant printed on 7/31/2013.
Unfortunately, Detroit is now in bankruptcy. This is due mainly to population decline as a result of auto industry job losses and also political corruption, which can be found in the U.S. Congress and in many jurisdictions across the country.
Benefits for Detroit retirees are in jeopardy, but these aren't "free;" these benefits were earned, as are Medicare and Social Security.
Mr. Schmidt stated that Democrats are famous for their failed education system.
The sides of our roads in Lancaster County are a mess. I've never seen them as bad as they are now. I was pulling out of Riverside Grocery and Grill and a car was coming off the S.C. 9 Bypass.
The growth was so bad I could not even see the car. I called the highway department and was told the grass would be cut in a few days. That was more than a week ago and the grass is still not cut.
The same problems exist at Memorial Park Road and S.C. 9. Other people have made the the same complaint.
This is a really bad and dangerous problem.
In response to Phil Noble's column, "NC's 'Moral Monday': Coming soon to SC?" in the July 28 edition of The Lancaster News, two words that do not belong on the same page are "morals" and "Democrats."
Editor's note: Mike Timani, president and CEO of Fancy Pokket Corp., sent this letter to Larry McCullough, Lancaster County Council chairman. He requested the letter be printed in The Lancaster News.
Since deciding to establish my business in Lancaster County, I like to consider myself part of the community. For this reason, I follow the news for the area. I was surprised to read of the recent debate that took place during the July 8 County Council meeting.
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Sony released its Ratchet and Clank video games collection, which is a re-mastered version of the classic Ratchet and Clank games from PS2 in 1080p with 3D support. The collection includes Ratchet and Clank, Ratchet and Clank: Going Commando, and Ratchet and Clank: Up Your Arsenal. The Ratchet and Clank: Up Your Arsenal game allows for online multiplayer support. The collection also features full PlayStation Network Trophy Support. Players will also get a free 10th Anniversary Ratchet and Clank Avatar.
Sony also released LittleBigPlanet Karting. Players can get behind the steering wheel and get ready to race through tracks, discover unlockables in 3D environments, and battle in karting arenas. The game also allows players to pick-up items and weaponry and to customize tracks, karts, weapons, and Sackboy costumes using the in-game editor. Players have the option to download designs built by players around the world.
Sony also presents its Journey Collector's Edition for PS3. The Blu-Ray Bundle features exclusive titles, new content, and previously released digital content. The bundle also features a thirty-minute behind-the-scenes documentary about the making of Journey, creator commentary, three mini games from thatgamecompany, concept art, and screenshot galleries for all three games, original soundtrack, PS3 dynamic themes and wallpapers, PSN avatars including 8 exclusive new Journey avatars, official game trailers and developer diary videos, and reversible cover art.


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For those who have lost pieces of their past or had their voices diminished by disease, making "joyful noises" may be beneficial. That's what Ruthie Rosauer and Debbie Nordeen, facilitators of Side By Side Singing, believe.
For those who have lost pieces of their past or had their voices diminished by disease, making "joyful noises" may be beneficial. That's what Ruthie Rosauer and Debbie Nordeen, facilitators of Side By Side Singing, believe.
This new group-singing initiative sponsored by the N.C. Center for Health and Wellness has held two programs in Asheville, and will hold its first six-week program in Hendersonville starting Wednesday, Aug. 20.
Nordeen and Rosauer call their singing sessions "soul food for the brain." Nordeen majored in music education, and has taught voice, directed choirs and performed in musical theatre for the last 25 years. She is the artistic director for Womansong of Asheville, a women's community chorus. She began researching singing programs for those with cognitive challenges in 2012 after hearing about a choir made up of Parkinson's patients.
"I decided I'd like to be a part of a movement to create positive experiences for our aging population," Nordeen said, "and to help reduce social stigma for those living with cognitive disorders. With my background as a choral director, I naturally couldn't think of anything more powerful than singing together, because singing takes place in the now. Music is magical that way."
Retired from careers as an editor, economist and attorney, Rosauer says music is not just about making beautiful sounds.
"It can have therapeutic value," she said.
She plays clarinet with the Hendersonville Community Band and sings with Womansong. Her volunteer time with a musical therapist in a hospital setting led to an interest in how singing might help people with short-term memory loss, such as that which can occur with dementia, Alzheimer's and brain injuries. Since then she has done research on the many ways singing is beneficial to everyone's health.
Just about anyone can sing, Rosauer said, though many think they cannot. Studies show benefits such as the increase of antibodies and the anti-stress hormone hydrocortisone, decreased instances of depression, slowed heart rates and feelings of relaxation.
For those with dementia, additional benefits include short-term memory improvement, increased positive moods and improved sociability. And, because participants in these sessions are required to be accompanied by a care partner, Rosauer has been delighted by the unexpected joy many of those caregivers express at singing "side by side" with their loved one.
One caregiver said, "This experience has been something new that we can share together as a couple, and that means the world to me." Another said that a loved one who had not spoken much in the days before the singing session "sang every word in every song."
Sessions in Hendersonville will be open to another group of participants — those with Parkinson's disease. One effect of Parkinson's may be a stiffening of vocal chords. As a result, "voices get soft, speech gets slurred," Rosauer said, and tones may become flattened. Studies suggest that singing helps with volume, pitch, diction, vocal speed and posture.
As Rosauer puts it, "Deliberate variation of dynamic range will be incorporated ... to help those with Parkinson's improve their vocal control."
Vocal warm-ups and musical ice-breakers start each session. Lyrics are provided for the rounds and well-known songs that follow. The growing song list contains ones that participants most likely heard while in their teens and 20s.
"These are the songs they resonate with," Rosauer said. There are familiar popular tunes such as "As Time Goes By" and "Embraceable You," as well as hymns and folk and patriotic songs.
The singing lasts about an hour, Rosauer said, though often calls for "just one more" cause things to run over a bit. At the end, "while they're all feeling good and positive," she said, they hold a social time with refreshments for about 20 minutes.
Rosauer said that "over a dozen volunteers ... have helped make Side by Side the delightful experience it is," not only by helping with tasks such as sign-ins and handing out music, "but just as importantly by adding their voices to the singing."
"The results have been amazing," Nordeen said. "Many participants have remarked that Side By Side Singing is a high point in their week." She and Rosauer are now working on a how-to guide for people wishing to start singing groups in their areas.
Sessions in Asheville generally drew 45 to 50 people. The sanctuary at the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Hendersonville will hold many more if necessary. "The Unitarian congregation has been unbelievable," Rosauer said, providing not only space but extra volunteers and refreshments.
Weekly sessions, lasting from 1:30 p.m. until 3 p.m., are free and require no pre-registration. They will be held at the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship at 2021 Kanuga Road. Parking is free and the sanctuary is wheelchair-accessible.
No singing experience or music-reading ability is required. Participants must be accompanied by a care partner.
For more information, contact Ruthie Rosauer at 715-797-2260, or visit www.SideBySideSinging.wordpress.com.


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Lincoln County Board of Public Utilities officials, during Thursday evening's board meeting, agreed to discuss using an alternative water line material on the Phase VI project during a pre-construction meeting with contractors set for Monday.
Ronnie Braden, superintendent, said that beginning with the Phase VI program, he would like to get away from using copper lines and switch to PEX (cross-linked polyethylene) tubing. The copper, he says, was once the gold standard, but there are too many impurities in the copper now days.
Copper lines don't hold up the way they once did, Braden said. Several of the leaks repaired recently have been copper lines.
PEX tubing, he stated, is blue poly-type tubing that he hopes will last a lot longer than the copper lines have.
"The cost is one-third or less than copper," he commented. "Everybody is going to it."
Board members then voted to begin using PEX tubing instead of copper.
Last fiscal year, LCBPU had 393 line repairs at a cost of $287,000, Braden explained.
"These are all main line repairs," he said.
The system also replaced 167 meters at a cost of $32,000 last year.
Phase VI will include replacing old water lines with new lines on East and West Prospect Roads, Highway 231 from Prospect Road to Lincoln Road and on Ardmore Highway to Skinem.
In July, W & O Construction of Livingston, Tenn. was approved as the lowest and best bidder for the project at $2.750 million.


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|Climbing Type
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|Superb quality Sandstone
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|Western Cape
+/-30 Single Pitch Sport Routes. mostly vertical. about 20min walk up to the crags. All the climbing is single pitch. The rock is compact sandstone with great friction. Grades vary from 16/5 - 30/8a. This is really nice place to go climbing, the surroundings are stunning with the Palmietberg around you. When you have finished climbing, you can cool off in the Palmiet river below the bridge (jumping off the bridge is not recommended - there is a very "hittable" rock that usually can't be seen).
How to get there
Kleinmond is within an hour drive from Cape Town along the N2 highway or along the R44 coast Road (which is much more scenic. Get onto the N2 out of Cape Town, carry on through Somerset West and take the right hand turn towards Gordons Bay (after the Caltex petrol station on your right). Drive down the road until the end and then turn left (up a hill) and you will be on the coast road (the R44). Drive for about an hour until... About 5 kilometers after Betty's Bay you will come to a bridge that crosses the Palmiet river, the parking is 15 meters after the bridge on the left (you will have to pay a parking fee to park for the day) When going to Kleinmond it is recommendable driving via the coast road (from Cape Town) the drive along this road is very scenic and takes about the same amount of time as driving via the N2. To get to the climbing: Follow the path from the top right hand side of the car park and then branch left to go up the hill.
Fees & Permits
Sport Rack. 60m rope
Accommodation & Food
Kleinmond is the nearest town (carry on past the parking area for 4 Kilometers) there is a reasonable size supermarket there. There is a nice campsite at the base fo the climbing (at the parking area) and there are various B&B's in Kleinmond.
Contact: Kleinmond Campsite Details Caravan and tent sites; hot & cold water/electric lights/power points; laundry/shop. R128 per Tent-site max 6pax Tel: + 27 (0)28 271-4010/4541 Fax: + 27 (0)28 271-4100
Attractions & Activities
There is a nice river nearby to cool off in on those hot summer days.


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Simple modular development kits have been somewhat of a unicorn in the safari of hobby electronics offerings. Many have tried, but to date there have been no break away success story yet. B-Squares is a new contender in the running and they are adding solar power to the mix along with an Ipod dock and an attractive form factor.
Previously we had Buglabs take a shot at this genre of product and it appears that they are still around, but it is unclear how long they will stay with $699 to $1,500 (!!!) price tags. It is hard to imagine anyone who wants to tinker with blocks having that kind of cash to burn to do so.
Modular Robotics has their cute little cubelets which shrink everything down and add robotics into the mix with options for drive cubes and range sensing. Also, a far more reasonable price. These look like great educational kits for teachers that want to get young kids excited about engineering.
B-squares with roughly a $25 price tag per square right now hits a nice price point and are being very smart by leveraging arduino compatibility. (You can pre-order on kickstarter and help these become reality) These stand a good chance of being popular at places like thinkgeek.com.


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|3 years 22 weeks ago
|No trade
I might be mistaken, but I thought only 4 guys in the NBA had a no trade clause in their contract... Kobe, Dirk, Tony Duncan, and maybe Garnett (got it from SnT from Boston)...
|4 years 8 weeks ago
I thought the exact same thing!
|5 years 12 weeks ago
|Burke to Dallas
Dallas will probably be somewhere in the early teens and would have a dire need to go after a true point guard. They have Collison on an expiring contract and have Mike James as their back-up so they'll be in the market during both the draft and in free agency next year.
They are going to go after Chris Paul, but there is NO way he's going to sign with Dallas. So I think that the Mavs are either going to try to draft a true point guard OR they'll draft the tallest white guy available...
|5 years 22 weeks ago
|Posted from IPhone
My grandfather used to work for Bo and since he passed away a couple of years ago, my grandma has slowly been giving his stuff to my dad and me...
|5 years 40 weeks ago
|A 2 mile walk from your hotel
A 2 mile walk from your hotel might be better than the walk some people have to make after parking... Good call!
|7 years 17 weeks ago
|7 years 32 weeks ago
|High Def
I still blame ABC/ESPN for Denard's poor performance last week... forcing half of the country (or at least where I live) having to watch him in standard definition should be illegal and I'm sure caused some of those bad throws because of the horrible pixelation.
|7 years 32 weeks ago
|just an FYI
Although I don't know how this will affect how Iowa's defense approaches this week, I don't think Norm Parker will be at the game. I'm not sure if their defense has operated any different since he's been out and who has been calling the defensive plays during the game...
But I hope you are right with how Iowa approaches it!
|7 years 32 weeks ago
|How would the world know?
Is Hoyer taking camera phone lessons from Brett Favre?
|7 years 33 weeks ago
|Chicken Rings
My best is on chicken rings!
Those things were awesome when I was in high school. Of course I did always wonder what part of the chicken they came from.
|7 years 33 weeks ago
|So I understand that a lot of
So I understand that a lot of media and rival fans are saying that Denard hasn't played a tough run defense yet, but I wonder if it crossed their mind that the reason the teams we have played aren't ranked high nationally against the run because they have PLAYED against Denard.
I mean, when you play against a guy like Denard who shreds the defense for 200 yards on the ground by himself , isn't that going to cause the team to be ranked lower in run defense?
I'm not saying that any of the teams we have played are stout defenses, but I think that part of the reason that they are ranked where they are is in part to having played against Dilithium.
I can't wait for the next few weeks to see Dilithium run over teams that are ranked in the top 20 in run defense...
|7 years 33 weeks ago
|Seriously... ESPN really
Seriously... ESPN really missed the boat on this one... Anyway we can start a mass flood of emails to ESPN to petition and change their minds by Saturday? ha
|7 years 33 weeks ago
|That's what they call doing
That's what they call doing the "Lane Kiffin" now...
(I know he doesn't do it everytime but he seems to pick random times to try for it)
|7 years 33 weeks ago
|I think your 9 points vs 7
I think your 9 points vs 7 points thought might not be entirely accurate because it doesn't account for the possessions that Michigan will already be getting after the other team converts a field goal/td after we attempt the onsides kick.
I would think that if we convert 1 out of 4 then wouldn't the points look like this:
THEM - 9 points (3 possessions)
US - 28 points (4 possessions)
I mean you could even say, that if they stop us once and we only get 3 touchdowns (21 points) on the four drives and they get 3 field goals and a touchdown (16 points), we are still statistically at an advantage, if our defense can bend but not break more times than not.
But I do agree with you that is assuming a lot.
EDIT: You can disregard this as it appears I wasn't the first to bring this to light... That's what I get for having a thought to post, but then having to actually do WORK at work and postponing the post.
|7 years 36 weeks ago
|7 years 36 weeks ago
|The Heisman is pulling a
The Heisman is pulling a Denard pose...
|7 years 36 weeks ago
Some people may call these Michigan types -- bosses or managers...
|7 years 36 weeks ago
|I get excited about the
I get excited about the opportunity for Michigan to play in a bowl again, but can we hold off on the bowl predictions until we have 6 wins? Preferably after the Michigan State game...
One the ESPN predictions: My wife (a Baylor grad) has mentioned a few times about how Baylor* also shows up in ESPN's week 2 bowl predictions (it's pretty close to the highlight of her year when it comes to Baylor football since they haven't seen a bowl since '94).
*I remind her at least once a year about how Baylor was a part of Michigan's '97 national championship schedule...
|7 years 37 weeks ago
|Based on the History
Here's a great idea for a shirt...
Front: "Michigan Football"
Back: "Teaching the Irish how to play since 1887"
|7 years 37 weeks ago
|Warp Speed
Did anyone else see where Feldman mentions that Robinson's top speed could be "warp speed" -- If only he knew that was true and that Robinson is part dilithium...
|7 years 38 weeks ago
If you go make sure to sport the 'Worst State Ever' shirt too...
|7 years 38 weeks ago
|I actually do agree with you
I actually do agree with you about Tate being more of a threat in the air... If you look at most of Tate's special plays from last year, majority of them were from the air, but try telling that to the DE from Notre Dame last year who is still looking for his jockstrap...
|7 years 38 weeks ago
|That is one of the few
That is one of the few professions where someone can be wrong almost 50% of the time and still have a job... The other job that I can think of that is similar is working for the freep
|7 years 38 weeks ago
|Drew Henson
Anyone else notice that Drew Henson is listed as a commentator for the Norfolk St. vs. Rutgers game on ESPN3? Haven't seen or heard anything about him since he was cut by Detroit so it's good to see he's getting back into football.
|7 years 39 weeks ago
|What am I supposed to do now
What am I supposed to do now if I can't start my morning at work with the CTK video? I can't start working until after I've seen the video...
<sarcasm... well partial sarcasm>
-- BTW, thanks for posting these Boyz
|8 years 16 weeks ago
I completely agree... A rumor is actually getting information from a source close to the story... Just stating your own opinion on twitter is known as 'Navel Gazing' or 'Twiddling your dick'...
|8 years 32 weeks ago
|Yakety Sax and other comments
Two things:
1) I feel personally responsible for the turnovers in this game for some reason... A co-worker of mine was listening to ESPN radio here in Dallas and before every Wade Phillips press conference, they play the 'Yakety Sax' song. On Thursday before the game, I heard the song coming from his speakers... I feared that this was a bad omen but tried to forget about it*.
2) Right before Forcier was pulled, I remember the ABC sideline reporter commenting about how on the previous 3 and out, as Tate was coming off the field, RR was pretty frustrated and Forcier's response (according to the sideline reporter) was "I don't know what you want"... If true, this could have prompted RR's decision to sit Forcier (although I wish he would have put him back in with 1:40 left).


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UPDATE: Apparently this was staged for laughs, so no hating.
And suspiciously, by and large without rain...
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(Previously -- San Francisco.)
You can't make this up -- an "America Needs Romney" blimp crash-landed Sunday in a heavily Democratic area of Florida.
Rumor has it that all it needed was more hot air.
Christian Bale has arrived at Aurora, CO's Swedish Medical Center to visit many of the recovering victims of last week's tragic shooting.
A movement has been circulating on social media networks for Bale to appear as Batman, but it seems the actor made a tasteful choice to leave the cape and cowl at home. More pictures of the visit can be seen here.


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Aside from a brief plot description and impressive target trailer, Rainbow Six Patriots is fairly mysterious. Given its planned 2013 release, it's no surprise. However, creative director David Sears talked about Ubisoft's plans to incorporate moral dilemmas and emphasize physicality like never before.
"These sorts of things, we wanted to bring back, because if you read the original novel Rainbow Six, it's extremely physical. All of the Rainbow characters move with an almost wolf-like grace and aggression. That's not something we saw in Rainbow Six before, but it's something we're focused and committed to delivering this time."
In order to recreate the feel of the decade-old Tom Clancy novel, Ubisoft has to refocus their efforts on characterization. "What we were never achieving, really, was fundamental humanity and realization of our characters," Sears said. "They might look pretty good, but were they giving really human performances? Were we seeing top-notch animation?"
Beyond animation, the original novels are serving as inspiration for the ethical grays the game will explore. "[There] is this attitude in the original Rainbow that, we're going to do whatever it takes to get our man. We're going to save as many people as possible, and in order to do this, sometimes we tread a gray path," Sears said in a Game Informer video interview. "That's certainly at the forefront of this Rainbow Six. This is the idea that you may have to take a shot that could get someone, some innocent bystander, killed. Or you may take a shot even after a terrorist has surrendered. That's throughout all of the original novels, but it's not something you've seen in our series here at Ubisoft to date."


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In 2013 alcohol-impaired fatalities accounted for 22 percent of New Jersey's motor vehicle fatalities. The campaign is a concentrated national effort to raise awareness about the dangers of drinking and driving through high-visibility enforcement and public education tools, including posters, banners and mobile video display signs. Launched nationally in 1999, the program works to combat drunk driving during some of the busiest travel times of the year.
As part of the initiative, the Division of Highway Traffic Safety provides grants to local law enforcement agencies throughout the state to run the two-week campaign. North Bergen received a $5,000 grant to assist in enforcing the crackdown.
Law enforcement agencies participating in the "Drive Sober or Get Pulled Over" 2014 crackdown offer the following advice:
• If you plan to drink, designate a driver – someone who will not drink alcohol – before going out.
• Take mass transit, a taxicab, or ask a sober friend to drive you home.
• Spend the night where the activity is held.
• Report impaired drivers to law enforcement. In New Jersey, drivers may dial #77 on their cell phones to report a drunk driver.
• Always buckle-up, every ride. It's your best defense against an impaired driver.
• If you're intoxicated and traveling on foot, the safest way to get home is to take a cab or have a sober friend or family member drive or escort you to your doorstep.


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As we've discussed before, the practice of hydraulic fracturing to produce oil and gas has grown into a controversy being argued about in local townhalls all over the country all the way to the halls of Congress in Washington. Making matters worse, as usually happens when it comes to environmental issues, it's hard to sort out fact from fiction. Hydraulic fracturing and the issues surrounding it is no different. This controversy started years ago with environmental groups (without much actual evidence) claiming water well contamination directly caused by hydraulic fracturing. The issue boiled down to groundwater contamination and who was responsible for regulating underground injection activities. There was even an argument about whether hydraulic fracturing even qualified as underground injection according to clean water regulations. The controversy started in Alabama back in the late 1980's, but spread to other oil and gas producing states as state agencies, the courts, the EPA, and Congress struggled with the problem, passing around the hot potato to one another. As this issue gained attention, the rhetoric grew more heated. The industry, believing they were doing nothing wrong, dismissed the claims as unfounded, and anti-development groups tried to use the power of the courts and government regulation to shut down all oil and gas operations. The issue was partially resolved, at least from a regulatory point of view, when the Congress exempted frac'ing from the Safe Drinking Water Act in its 2005 energy bill, displeasing the environmental community, but establishing some permanence to the regulatory regime.
However, the rapid increase in recent years of shale oil and gas development, which is totally dependent on multiple frac jobs per well to be productive, has once again raised the public awareness of the issue. The documentary Gasland by Josh Fox raised the awareness in some cases to hysteria. He filmed several examples of landowners lighting the natural gas in the water coming from their faucets, implying that nearby oil and gas development was totally responsible, ignoring the fact that many water wells are completed in water bearing zones that contain naturally occurring biogenic gas. In simple terms, biogenic gas is associated with shallow formations, and thermogenic gas is associated with deeper strata normally explored by the industry. While there are some real cases of contamination from oil and gas operations, many are not, but Gasland ignored all those. In late 2010, some of the errors in the documentary were refuted by the Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission in an attempt to set straight at least some of the public record, but the industry generally dismissed all concerns, the normal response.
The problem with a complex issue such as hydraulic fracturing is that the public often panics over the wrong issues, and the industry panics about the money. Anti-development environmental groups focus on lighting gas from faucets, leaping to the conclusion that it comes from frac jobs applied thousands of feet below and miles away, using that false conclusion in an attempt to shut down all oil and gas operations, an unrealistic and zealous position that our economy and, indeed, our society, simply cannot tolerate. The industry, on the other hand, generally takes the position that it's just too complicated for the public to understand, denies that there has ever been any problems in the history of hydraulic fracturing when there has, constantly waving the money/jobs flag.
So, having framed the problem, is there an example of anyone in the industry trying to get in front of this issue rather than just fighting the environmentalists and regulators? Yes, there are several, but one notable company is Chesapeake Energy, who has been very active in establishing a program they call Green Frac, an effort to make hydraulic fracturing a more benign process. Recognizing the inherent risks to the environment, water resources, and, (let's be honest) their bottom line, the company has aggressively been working on several fronts to improve the frac'ing process and their transparency. Out of necessity due to water shortages in the Fort Worth basin in 2007, Chesapeake began an effort to recycle the water they use; they now call the progam Aqua Renew and use it throughout their operations to reduce water usage. They have also looked for more green solutions to frac issues, and have, by their own admission, eliminated 25% of the additives used in their frac fluids. Their CEO, Aubrey McClendon, has not been afraid to get in front of the public to talk about the tough issues, including the environment, natural gas for transportation and power generation to help us reduce our dependence on foreign oil. As an aside, one of the huge mistakes we make as an industry is hiding behind closed doors while we let lobbyists and corporate mouthpieces issue tightly controlled messages rather than speaking for ourselves. Aubrey breaks that mold by speaking openly to the industry and to the public, setting an example for the rest of us. You may not agree with all of his positions, but at least you hear from him directly.
Another company working to improve frac technology to limit its affects on the environment is a relatively new one called FracTech. This company is focused on more green ingredients to frac fluids and a strictly controlled environmental management system to minimize potential damage caused by hydraulic fracturing. FracTech just recently hired a former Chesapeake executive, Marcus Rowland, as their CEO, a nod to that company's visibility on this issue.
Hydraulic fracturing will continue to be a controversial issue for the near future until we, as an industry, get our arms around the real environmental risks and embrace the public's concerns about this necessary completion technique. If we do so, perhaps then some of the rhetoric will cool off so we can truly develop a long term energy solution (and regulatory framework) that not only provides for our country's needs, but also protects the environment for our children and their children.


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Submission + - MP3 Pioneers Launch New Music File Format (bbc.co.uk)
krou writes: Norwegian developer Dagfinn Bach, who worked on the first MP3 player in 1993, has unveiled a new music file format called MusicDNA, which can 'include things like lyrics, videos, artwork and blog posts, which will continually be updated, as well as the music.' The new file format has a number of investors, including German researcher Karlheinz Brandenburg, who invented the MP3. Labels Beggars Group and Tommy Boy have both signed on to use MusicDNA. Bach said: "We can deliver a file that is extremely searchable and can carry up to 32GB of extra information in the file itself. And it will be dynamically updatable so that every time the user is connected, his file will be updated." Brandenburg also added that he thought this was "one very nice way" of enriching legal music with extras for customers to enjoy.


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Moqui Framework is a seamlessly integrated, enterprise-ready framework for building enterprise automation applications based on Java. It includes tools for database interaction (relational, graph, document), logic in local and Web services, Web and other UIs with screens and forms, security, file/resource access, scripts, templates, localization, caching, logging, searching, business rules, workflow, multi-tenancy, and integration.
An easy to use, but still quite capable firewall for Netfilter/iptables.
A tool for optimizing JPEG files.


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No. 44; Updated November 2012
Click here to download and print a PDF version of this document.
Honesty and dishonesty are learned in the home. Parents are often concerned when their child or adolescent lies.
Lying that is probably not a serious problem:
Young children (ages 4-5) often make up stories and tell tall tales. This is normal activity because they enjoy hearing stories and making up stories for fun. These young children may blur the distinction between reality and fantasy.
An older child or adolescent may tell a lie to be self-serving (e.g. avoid doing something or deny responsibility for their actions). Parents should respond to isolated instances of lying by talking with the youngster about the importance of truthfulness, honesty and trust.
Some adolescents discover that lying may be considered acceptable in certain situations such as not telling a boyfriend or girlfriend the real reasons for breaking up because they don't want to hurt their feelings. Other adolescents may lie to protect their privacy or to help them feel psychologically separate and independent from their parents (e.g. denying they sneaked out late at night with friends).
Lying that may indicate emotional problems:
Some children, who know the difference between truthfulness and lying, tell elaborate stories which appear believable. Children or adolescents usually relate these stories with enthusiasm because they receive a lot of attention as they tell the lie.
Other children or adolescents, who otherwise seem responsible, fall into a pattern of repetitive lying. They often feel that lying is the easiest way to deal with the demands of parents, teachers and friends. These children are usually not trying to be bad or malicious but the repetitive pattern of lying becomes a bad habit.
There are also some children and adolescents who are not bothered by lying or taking advantage of others. Other adolescents may frequently use lying to cover up another serious problem. For example, an adolescent with a serious drug or alcohol problem will lie repeatedly to hide the truth about where they have been, who they were with, what they were doing, and where the money went.
What to do if a Child or Adolescent lies:
Parents are the most important role models for their children. When a child or adolescent lies, parents should take some time to have a serious talk and discuss:
If a child or adolescent develops a pattern of lying which is serious and repetitive, then professional help may be indicated. Evaluation by a child and adolescent psychiatrist would help the child and parents understand the lying behavior and would also provide recommendations for the future.
For additional information see Facts for Families:
#3 Teens: Alcohol and Other Drugs
#12 Children Who Steal
#33 Conduct Disorder
#43 Discipline
#52 Comprehensive Psychiatric Evaluations
#65 Children's Threats: When Are They Serious
#72 Children with Oppositional Defiant Disorder
See also: Your Child (1998 Harper Collins) / Your Adolescent (1999 Harper Collins)
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New film role.
Fans will recognize "One Life To Live's" Tonye Patano as the strong-minded mother (ex-Phylicia Evans) of Llanview's Destiny Evans (Shenell Edmonds). The actress is currently involved in a new film titled "The David Dance" as Mrs. P.
Based in Buffalo, New York the story surrounds a gay radio host named David, who's faced with a big decision when his sister asks him to be a father figure to her soon to be adopted Brazilian child. Don Scime writes, directs, produces and stars in the film alongside Jordan Baker ("I Just Want My Pants Back") and Antoinette LaVecchia, who has appeared as a nurse on both "Guiding Light" and "One Life To Live."
Patano has held longtime roles on "Weeds" as Heylia James, as well as on "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit" as Judge Maskin.
Remember Llanview's Oliver Fish? Tune in for Scott Evans on White Collar.
Someone is set to return to "EastEnders" just as someone else is leaving. Details in Soaps.com's Soap Scoop: UK/Australia Edition. Let your voice be heard by voting which Salem fantasy you want to come true for "DOOL's" Nicole in Soap Opera Fan Blog's Soap Opera Polls.
Join us on Twitter @soapoperafan, and Facebook. Come tweet and Facebook with us about "One Life To Live," all the other soap operas, "Dallas," "Glee," "Grey's Anatomy," "Vampire Diaries," and "Venice The Series."
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MADISON, Wis. – Madison police have arrested a man who allegedly beat a woman because he was upset with a Christmas gift she bought.
Police say the 23-year-old Madison man was arguing Sunday with a 30-year-old woman.
A police spokesman tells The Capital Times (http://bit.ly/ZHsJwf ) the man said the woman had been out shopping too long and had bought the wrong Christmas gift.
Officers were sent after getting reports of a man with a gun. When police arrived they saw a man running from the building. He jumped over a fence but was stopped by officers.
The police spokesman says people told officers the man allegedly battered the woman in a hallway of the apartment and that he was carrying a gun case.
Officers recovered cash, marijuana, ammunition and a 12-gauge shotgun.


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Dealer emblems on car
Posted 12 November 2003 - 03:24 PM
Just picked up 2004 Outback. I told sales guy to not put their dealer emblem on the back. (I am not their billboard). He said OK. When I pick up the car I see it had a dealer license plate holder on the back. No big deal. Took 30 seconds to take off when I got home. Then I see they put a "billboard" placard (size of a license plate) on the front of the car. When I went to take it off, I noticed that the bumper was probably not factory drilled for the license plate. From the looks of the holes, the dealer drilled two holes in my front bumper to install their little "billboard". (or used self-tapping screws more likely).
That irks me. I try to not get upset with little things in life, but drilling holes in my new car irks me. When I bought my house, the realtor didn't drill holes in my front door to install her nameplate.
I welcome opinions on whether to make a stink about it with the dealer or just deal with it. There is really nothing they can do to fix it short of replacing the bumper cover. That may be worse than just leaving it be.
Posted 12 November 2003 - 03:35 PM
Posted 12 November 2003 - 03:37 PM
Posted 12 November 2003 - 05:24 PM
Why are the holes not spaced right for license plates in the first place? This would have eliminated this ugly problem.
I never run a front plate!
82 Hatch, well it use to be....
01 Forester, with ugly screw holes in the bumper........
Posted 12 November 2003 - 05:48 PM
Dear (owner of the dealership):
Thank you for facilitating the purchase of my new Outback and for the nice chat discovering common acquaintances. XX sold me on the Outback in 1998 and did equally well in 2004. Hat's off to XX. I am sure I will enjoy this one as much as I did that last Outback.
I have a question for you… When you bought your house, did the realtor drill two holes in your new front door and hang their nameplate on the house? Didn't think so.
When you get your next brand new car, bring it over to my house so I can drill two holes that you don't want in your flawless front bumper. I can deal with the "XX(dealer name)" rear license plate surround advert. Even the "XX(dealer name)" sticker on the back is OK because it can be easily removed by the customer if they so choose. However, drilling holes in my new car to install a placard to roam around town as your billboard is overstepping the bounds of dealer advertising in this consumer's opinion.
Please don't tell me that it came that way from the other dealer. That's moot as all of the cars in your lot are the same way.
The unsold cars in your lot are not yours…You are only holding them until the owner shows up to claim them. Therefore, I disagree with your advertising approach that requires the defacing of someone else's car.
Picky issue, I know…but it's my new car ! I expect it to be flawless.
Posted 12 November 2003 - 06:54 PM
You DID get the agreement in writing? No, well threaten them with small claims court anyhow. If you live in a rear license only state, there was no reason for them to drill holes in the front of your car. Personally, I wouldn't have driven it off the lot, I would have said that's not MY car, mine has no dealer modifications.
Posted 12 November 2003 - 07:18 PM
Posted 12 November 2003 - 07:24 PM
Posted 12 November 2003 - 08:13 PM
hope it works out well...
Posted 12 November 2003 - 08:14 PM
Posted 12 November 2003 - 09:00 PM
"No dealer decals or badges on vehicle."
It worked.
I agree with a previous post, that the best thing to do would be to not accept delivery, if your instructions are not followed. Another approach might be to offer to keep the decals at a price, say $100/week, and see what the response is!
Posted 13 November 2003 - 08:54 AM
More then likely the lot attendent was told to not touch the rear plate/surround.....which he didn't.....however most lot attendents are younger, and are told to put those plates on everything.....so he/she was just doing what he was told.....
Glad to hear they're trying to make it right though....
Posted 13 November 2003 - 08:56 AM
Posted 13 November 2003 - 08:56 AM
Billy Bob, out there in his greasy overalls, with a drill, and a big grin.. drillin holes in the front of my car.. ummm don't think so.. if its required for a front plate to be mounted, i'd make them mount a factory license plate bracket on my bumper.. not just drill a couple holes and put self threading screws in there..
just my .02 i'd like to hear what they do to "make it right"
Posted 13 November 2003 - 09:00 AM
Posted 13 November 2003 - 01:41 PM
I can't believe how many people pay large amounts of $$$ and don't mind the dealer plates on the front and the big stickers on the back! I am glad to see my other Soob bros won't stand it!
Posted 13 November 2003 - 07:46 PM
Posted 13 November 2003 - 07:47 PM
Posted 13 November 2003 - 08:25 PM
With that in mind when the latest "Toy" was purchased from the local dealer, they asked to make sure the decals etc. were not installed on the Truck. When asked why they wanted it that way.
They simply said, "Considering how we tend to our vehicles and that we have a 'well known' desire to keep money in the community with being on city counsil that if anyone asks we can tell then directly. Word of mouth has a higher face value then anything you could stick on it."
You can bet I'll be using said reply *IF asked* when I buy a new car sometime in the future. :>)
Posted 29 October 2007 - 11:13 PM
Posted 29 October 2007 - 11:34 PM
I have yet to PDI an Outback though..
I don't know about the dealership that you bought your car from, but where I work, a PDI, which gets done before the car goes on to the lot, involves mounting the dummy plate and frame, front and rear, so where I work in order to get no front plate you'd have to pick your car out before it got the PDI done... (Although in Oregon the front plate is required to be "permanently attached to the front of the vehicle")
Posted 30 October 2007 - 09:43 AM
The owner of the dealership called within 20 minutes of my sending the fax expressing my opinion about drilling holes in my bumper. He said simply "bring the car in and we'll make it right." We are going to discuss options to do so when I get there.
You should have a big accident in his lot and somehow claim it was his fault.
I bet he never makes another unauthorized change.
My local Subaru dealer is either just really casual and not ambitious or just doesn't care. I can't believe he has a captive market, but I don't give him a hard time, since subarus have such a small market share. I'm glad there's at least a factory parts catalog in my community at all.
Posted 30 October 2007 - 05:23 PM
Oh, and we are not greasy Billy Bob's either. If you think all dealer tech's are greasy toothless a-holes you can screw yourself.
The dealer did what was required of them, and that Dealer Billboard that they put on the front is meant to be replaced with your liscence plate when you get real ones instead of the 20 day on. I don't think I've seen anyone driving around with a dealer placard in the front plate location.
Posted 30 October 2007 - 06:09 PM
Oh, and we are not greasy Billy Bob's either. If you think all dealer tech's are greasy toothless a-holes you can screw yourself.
Oooooh ... t-ouchy. our dealer doesn't have a greasy overalled Billy Bob either, he has a skin condition challenged tewnnysomethin' that looks like a tackle box exploded in his face.
Our Subaru dealership doesn't drill holes in the front bumper, and we ARE a two-plate state (although you REALLY haveto p!ss off a cop to get a ticket for no front tag). Since the car goes off the lot with a paper plate they leave it up to the OWNER of the car to accommodate the law ... or not (it's the Montana way').
They do apply a vinyl 'Dealername Subaru sticky, but will waive it if you ask, no argument.
I used angle brackets from the holes aleady drilled on the underside of the front valence, supposted by fender washers, and my plate 'floats' in front of the lower valence ... NO holes.
In 1950 my Dad bought a new Buick in San Antonio. He told them no badge on the trunk (in those days it was a chromed metal badge requiring two holes. When he went to pick up the car ... there was the badge. He said that's not my car, I don't have dealer adverts on my Buick, unless General Motors installed it there. They said no problem, we'll remove it, fill the holes and repaint the trunk. He said, no, my NEW car does not have any body damage
So they pulled another Super in the same (hideous) pale seafoam green and swapped trunks. Dad wasted an hour total but he got HIS car.
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The only proper response to you is............
And, in the words of the infamous Bosox......
Who are the Yankees?
The Yankees are the French of Major League Baseball. Arrogant, condesending, self-important. A former power who can not accept mediocrity.
Q: What has 400 feet and 3 teeth?
A: The first row of the bleachers at Yankee Stadium.
Yankee Stamps
Did you hear that the Post Office just recalled their latest stamps? They had pictures of Yankees players on them ...people couldn't figure out which side to spit on.
Yankee Fans on a Bike
Q: If you see a Yankees fan on a bicycle, why should you never swerve to hit him?
A: There's a good chance it's your bicycle.
Yankee fans and Sperm
Q: What do Yankees fans and sperm have in common?
A: One in 3,000,000 has a chance of becoming a human being.
Yankees in the Sand
Q: What do you have when 100 Yankees fans are buried up to their neck in sand?
A: Not enough sand.
Dead Dog and a Yankee Fan
Q: What's the difference between a dead dog in the road and a dead Yankees fan in the road?
A: There are skid marks in front of the dog.
Birth Control
Q: What do Yankees fans use for birth control?
A: Their personalities.
Two Bullets...
Q: You're trapped in a room with a tiger, a rattlesnake, and a Yankees fan. You have a gun with two bullets. What should you do?
A: Shoot the Yankees Fan.......Twice!
Money saving tip for Yankees fans
rather than waste more money on yet another replica hat, simply strap a large rubber ***** to your head. It'll be perfectly obvious to everyone who you support.
New York Fans on a Bridge
Q: A Yankee fan and a Jet fan jump off of a bridge. Who falls first?
A: Who cares!?
Eyes lit up
Q: How do you get a Yankee fans eyes to light up?
A: Shine a flashlight in his ear!
Driving with a Yankee fan
Q: Why is it good to be driving with a Yankee fan?
A: You can park in the handicap zone!
Big Foot and a Yankee fan
Q: What's the difference between Bigfoot and a smart Yankee fan?
A: Big Foot has been cited before!
Yankee's quick humor
Q: How do you make a Yankee fan laugh on Monday?
A: Tell them a joke on Friday!
Fax from a Yankee fan
Q: How can you tell if a Yankee fan just sent you a fax?
A: There's a stamp on it!
Yankee fans on your computer
Q: How can you tell if a Yankee fan has been using your computer?
A: There is whiteout on your screen!
Steinbrenner is lying?
Q: How can you tell when George Steinbrenner is lying?
A: His lips are moving!
Yankees marketing department
Q: What's the biggest challenge for the Yankees marketing department?
A: Literacy!
Yankees players showering
Q: Why don't Yankees players shower after home games?
A: Becuase veryone will just assume it's the city that stinks!
Chuck Knoblauch and Michael Jackson
Q: What do Chuck Knoblauch and Michael Jackson have in common?
A: They both wear a glove for no aparent reason!
Paul O'Neill in High School
Paul O'Neill is trying to graduate high school. His teacher says if you solve this math problem, you can graduate: What is 14-3? Paulie says 9, and the rest of the Yankees say, "give him another chance, give him another chance!" So the teacher says "Okay, what is 7+7?" Paulie says 10. The team members say "give him another chance!" The teacher says, "OK, what is 3x3?" Paulie says 9, and the rest of the Yankees say "give him another chance, give him another chance!"
Baseball Fans
Three baseball fans leave the stadium after a game and come across a dead, naked man with breasts lying in the middle of the street. After they call the cops, they each take off their baseball caps and place them on the dead man out of respect and to cover his private parts until the cops arrive.
The first fan places his Boston Red Sox cap over his left breast, the second places his Phillies cap on his right breast and the third fan places his Yankees cap on his pubic area.
The cops finally arrive, and the officers take statements from the fans to find out what happened. After explaining that they found his naked and covered him up with their caps, the cop went over to examine the body. He briefly lifted the Red Sox cap, and quickly replaced it; then he lifted the Phillies cap, and also quickly replaced it.
However, when he lifted the Yankees cap, he stared and stared for what seemed to be two or three minutes. Finally, he let the cap drop, walked away, wrote in his notebook, then returned and lifted the Yankees cap once again and stared for a long time.
As he was walking away the second time, the fans were curious and stopped him and asked him why he spent so much time looking at the man's genitalia, and he said, "It's the first time I've seen anything but an a**hole under a Yankees cap."
Jack and Jill
Jack and Jill went up the hill For a bit of hanky panky Jill
came back With a very sore crack Jack must have been a Yankee
Sitting on a stool
Q: How do you get four Yankees to sit on a stool?
A: Turn it upside down!
Pee Wee Herman is a baseball fan?
Q:What baseball team does Pee Wee Herman like?
A:The Yankees
Darryl's Crack
Yankees slugger Darryl Strawberry fouled a pitch off his foot on Sunday and now has a crack in his big toe. This is the first time that the name Strawberry and the word crack were used in the same sentence without it ending with his suspension.
Yankee Crack
Did you hear about Yankee stadium falling apart?
A huge beam fell through the deteriorating roof.
In fact, this was the first time the Yankees have had a problem with crack without it resulting in the suspension of a player.
Good ole Yogi
A couple of Yogi Berra's teammates on the Yankees ball club swear that one night the stocky catcher was horrified to see a baby toppling off the roof of a cottage across the way from him.
Yogi dashed over and made a miraculous catch - but then force of habit proved too much for him. He straightened up and threw the baby to second base.
Yankee IQ test
Q:what does your average yankee fan get on an i.q. test
A: Drool
Yankee hats
Q:why would an A's/Red Sox/Mets fan keep a yankee hat on the dashboard of his car?
A: so he can park in handicaped zones
Yankees and the Devil
One Day the Devil challenged the Lord to a baseball game.
Smiling the Lord proclaimed, "You don't have a chance, I have Babe Ruth, Mickey Mantle, and all the rest of the great Yankees up here".
"Yes", snickered the devil, "but I have all the umpires."
(on the topic:
Q: What happens to a baseball player who becomes blind
A: He becomes an umpire)
Pennant Fever
A Boston Red Sox fan, a Chicago Cubs fan and a NY Yankees fan were all in Saudi Arabia performing military duty for the US Army.
While off base, they were caught sharing a smuggled case of booze. All of a sudden Saudi police rushed in and arrested them. The mere possession of alcohol is a sever offense in Saudi Arabia, so for the terrible crime they were sentenced to death!
With the help of good lawyers, they were able to successfully appeal their sentence down to life imprisonment.
By a stroke of luck, a benevolent Sheik decided that they could be released after receiving just 20 lashes of the whip.
As they were preparing for their punishment, the Sheik said, "It's my 1st wife's birthday today, and she has asked me to allow each one of you one wish before your whipping".
The cubs fan was 1st in line (he had drunk the least), so he thought about this for a while and then said, "Please tie a pillow to my back." This was done, but the pillow only lasted 10 lashes before the whip went through. The cubs fan was carried away bleeding and crying.
The Yankees fan was up next (he almost finished an entire 5th by himself), and after watching the scene, said "OK please fix 2 pillows to my back." But even 2 pillows could only take 15 lashes before the whip went through again, sending the Yankee fan crying like a baby.
The Red Sox fan was the last up ( he had finished off the crate- given his allegiance, who could blame him), but before he could say anything, the Sheik turned to him and said "you support the greatest baseball team in the world, your supporters are the best and most loyal fans in all the world. For this you may have 2 wishes"
"Thanks, your most royal highness'" the Red Sox fan replied.
"In recognition of your kindness, my first wish is that you give me not 20, but 100 lashes".
"Not only are you an honorable, powerful man, you are also very brave," said the Sheik. "If 100 lashes is what you desire, then so be it. And your second wish? What is it to be?" the Shiek asks..
To which the Red Sox fan replied... "Tie the Yankee fan to my back."
Team Pride
Four baseball fans, each from a major league city, are climbing a mountain.
On the way to the top, each is arguing about how loyal they are to their team and what they would do for their team.
As the climb progresses, the odds increase. Upon reaching the top, the Mets fan shouts, "This is for the Mets," and hurls himself off the top.
Next the Brave fan yells, "I love Atlanta, this is for the Braves," and hurls himself off the mountain.
Suddenly the Red Sox fan yells "This is for everyone," and pushes the Yankees fan off .
Einstein at a Party
Albert Einstein arrives at a party and introduces himself to the first person he sees and asks, "What is your IQ?"
The man answers, "241."
"That is wonderful!" says Albert. "We will talk about the Grand Unification Theory and the mysteries of the universe. We will have much to discuss!"
Next, Albert introduces himself to a woman and asks, "What is your IQ?"
The lady answers, "144."
"That is great!", says Albert, "We can discuss politics and current affairs. We will have much to discuss!".
Albert then goes to another person and asks, "What is your IQ?"
The person answers, "51."
Albert ponders this for a moment, and then smiles and says,
Olympics in New York
(Not so much about the Yankees, but it sure explains the fans)
In an attempt to influence the members of the International Olympic Committee on their choice of venue for the games in the year 2020, the organizers of New York City's bid have already drawn up an itinerary and schedule of events.
A copy has been obtained and is reproduced below.
The Olympic flame will be ignited by a gasloine bomb thrown by a native of the city (preferably from the northern Manhanttan area), wearing the traditional costume of leather jacket, Yankee baseball cap and tattoo. It will burn for the duration of the games in a large armored truck sitting on the roof of the stadium.
In previous Olympic games, New Yorkers have not been particularly successful. In order to redress the balance, some of the events have been altered slightly to the advantage of athletes from NYC. These include:
Competitors will have to hold a VCR and a car stereo (one in each arm) and on the sound of the starting gun, a police dog will be released from a cage 10 yards behind the athletes.
As above but with added obstacles (ie. taxicabs, trash cans, backyard fences, shopping carts, ... etc.)
Barbed wires like those used in state jails are added, electrifying is optional.
Competitors in this event may choose the type of hammer they wish to use (claw, sledge etc) the winner will be the one who can cause the most grevious bodily harm to members of the public within the time allowed.
Crow bars, broken beer bottles and batons are used instead of swords.
A strong challenge is expected from the local men in this event. The first target will be a moving armored truck. In the second round, competitors will aim at a post office clerk, bank teller or Stop 'N Go cashier. The final round requires competitors sitting inside a car and driving by a residential area to shoot at their targets.
Entry to the boxing will be restricted to husband and wife teams, and will take place on a Super Bowl night. The husband will be given a bottle of wine while the wife will be told not to bring him any corkscrew when the New York Jets has just lost a touchdown. The bout will then commence.
DWI and bomber suspects are to be let loose for 30 seconds before law enforcement officers storm in. Batons and handcuffs are not allowed in this event.
Competitors will be asked to go to a college campus and steal an expensive mountain bike owned by a hillbilly on his first trip away from home. All against the clock.
As above but the bike will be owned by a defensive line backer of the New York Jets, who will witness the theft.
Amended to include mugging, breaking-in, flashing, purse snapping and drug delivering.
A safe route has yet to be decided since it is not likely held in the Central Park. The competitors will be issued with sharp sticks and bags with which to pick up litter on their way round the course.
Competitors will choose to be either thrown off from the Brooklyn bridge or thrown into the Whitewater. The first three survivors back will decide the medals.
Unfortunately this will have to be cancelled as the police cannot guarantee the safety of anyone walking the streets of Manhattan.
Entertainment will include formation rave dancing by members from the drug dealers, abortion advocates and gay & lesbian groups, sychronized rock throwing and music by the Army Sex Scandal Band.
The Olympic flame will be extinguished by someone dropping an old washing machine onto it from the top floor of the apartment building next to the stadium.
The stadium will be then boarded up before the local athletes break into it and remove all the copper piping and wiring, and the equipment such as the PA system, scoreboard, big screen ... etc.
The only proper response to you is............
And, in the words of the infamous Bosox......
And we still have like the 5th most WS titles.
That is great logic.....for a loser.Originally posted by PFSIKH@Feb 9 2004, 08:06 PM
And we still have like the 5th most WS titles.
Learn it
Live it
Love it
A little reminder for all you suck-ass Sawx fans...
and of course,
Can't wait for Schilling to start filling that left field net, or Pedro's first whiny DL stint, or Manny being Manny. And Nomar and Kevin Millar-there figures to be a happy bunch, dontcha think?
This century figures to be just as crappy as the last one for you Sawx fans. Take up fishing or something to do with your summer. Because you figure to be looking up to the Yankees AGAIN!
I say screw them both....
HAHAHAHAHAHA..........even my lowly Mets beat you in the WS............Originally posted by PFSIKH@Feb 9 2004, 08:06 PM
And we still have like the 5th most WS titles.
You guys will be better than 2003. Just don't get ready for the World Series parade yet.Originally posted by Mavrik@Feb 10 2004, 01:04 AM
I say screw them both....
JG - Like your Jets, someone on that team sold their soul to the devil for that title. It is obvious that collection has not been able to duplicate that success in any endeavour.
Bugg - So misguided. Actually since the 80s when the Sox did something to the second deck, which changed the wind pattern entering the park, it has been pretty hitter friendly. That was a concern of schillings he checked it out and if he signed the contract I imagone it will not be a problem. Same s**t different year and we were still 5 outs and a managers incompetence away from going to the WS. Now, that manager is gone and the closer problem is solved. Hey, if they go into the tank, I will pop in my copy of the Superbowl DVD and remember what a great time it is being a Patriot fan.
Smizzy - The same logic that Jets fans says...well at least we are undefeated in the Superbowl. That is flawed logic. The Sox are a victim of a tight playoff system. Can't help that.
Speaking of a tight playoff system, it is very possible that the 2nd place finisher to the Yankees this year will not qualify for the playoffs. The AL West is very close, and Seattle has the overall team, Oakland has the best starting rotation on the planet, and the Angels have a lot of stars. The Wildcard may be from that division.
Yankees in first. lmao .They will be lucky if they finish 2nd.
Yeah the Sox should be real good with Schilling butt-boy Francona managing. You trolls will be wishing for Grady Gump come July
3 pitchers-2 joined the Yankees, one the Sawx-
Vasquez-2003 NL 13 12 34 34 0 4 1 0 230.7 198 93 83 28 57 241 4 11 938 3.24 4.97 153
Schilling-2003 NL 8 9 24 24 0 3 2 0 168.0 144 58 55 17 32 194 3 4 673 2.95 4.67 159
Brown-2003 NL 2.39 14 9 0 32 0 0 0 211.0 184 67 56 56 11 185 856 5 5 1 2
Enjoy your Schilling hoopla, because once he starts giving up gopher balls, you'll be whining like little girls-AGAIN!The Yanks added 440+ solid innings of starters, and Schilling is coming off an injury-plagued year. Brown only led the NL in ERA, and Vasquez is a bulldog. I'll take the Yanks.
lmao injury plagued year. Do you even know what those injuries were? A broken hand and he had his appendix removed (hint: not common injuries). You should be more worried about Brown's injury plague (back=common) . Vasquez is unproven and will crumble under the pressure.
230 innings with a crap team and he goes .500 and strikes out more guys than almost anyone. Unproven indeed.
Brown's condition is always a cocnern. But he and Schilling are almost the same age, so that's a wash.
Bugg - That is one nice pick-up and potentially one nice pick-up. The only possible question for Vazquez is if he does a Jeff Weaver and cracks under the NY spotlight. I think he will be fine, but the Yanks are putting alot of eggs into the Kevin Brown basket. If he remains his injured self, it will be Moose, Vazquez, an enigma in COntreras and questionable Lieber. For the first time since the early 90s, the Yanks could implode with a spotty defense and fragile starting pitching. This could be a sub .500 Yanks team. Granted, George will buy a team before that happens. $300 million team salary.
The Sox were in the playoffs last year. How that *<cough...Aaron Boone...cough>* work out for you?Originally posted by PFSIKH@Feb 10 2004, 11:04 AM
JG - Like your Jets, someone on that team sold their soul to the devil for that title. It is obvious that collection has not been able to duplicate that success in any endeavour.
Bugg - So misguided. Actually since the 80s when the Sox did something to the second deck, which changed the wind pattern entering the park, it has been pretty hitter friendly. That was a concern of schillings he checked it out and if he signed the contract I imagone it will not be a problem. Same s**t different year and we were still 5 outs and a managers incompetence away from going to the WS. Now, that manager is gone and the closer problem is solved. Hey, if they go into the tank, I will pop in my copy of the Superbowl DVD and remember what a great time it is being a Patriot fan.
Smizzy - The same logic that Jets fans says...well at least we are undefeated in the Superbowl. That is flawed logic. The Sox are a victim of a tight playoff system. Can't help that.
BASEBALL IS HERE. BASEBALL IS HERE. Bring back JetBlowsox. BASEBALL IS HERE.
I give you credit man. You are passionate about your Sox.Originally posted by PFSIKH@Feb 11 2004, 12:55 PM
Bugg - That is one nice pick-up and potentially one nice pick-up. The only possible question for Vazquez is if he does a Jeff Weaver and cracks under the NY spotlight. I think he will be fine, but the Yanks are putting alot of eggs into the Kevin Brown basket. If he remains his injured self, it will be Moose, Vazquez, an enigma in COntreras and questionable Lieber. For the first time since the early 90s, the Yanks could implode with a spotty defense and fragile starting pitching. This could be a sub .500 Yanks team. Granted, George will buy a team before that happens. $300 million team salary.
A sub .500 Yankee team though? Cmon man. The offense is better. The bullpen is better. The rotation has questions but even if things go wrong is still good enough.
How about the Yankees BULLPEN? Really think about it. Scared yet?
The rotation has questions but it wasn't like they didn't have questions last year either. Wells and Clemens weren't very young. Pettite leaving is a huge loss. Chalk that one up to George being George, and I am not happy about it.
But 1st place is where they will finish.
I do want to thank you for starting this thread though PFSKISH. Because now I am PUMPED for baseball.
Max, We need spring training to get in midseason smack form.
As I said in the Sox suck thread, the offense better produce a 1000 runs because between your softball pitching staff and defense, you will give up 800.


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