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Just got my Trident Aegis case in blue today. I have always had an Otterbox Commuter case on all my prior smartphones. But as of right now, just the Defender is available for the 822, and it is too bulky... So, I decided to give the Aegis a try.Note that the Aegis is not two pieces, but just one. It is grippy in all the right places, but still slick enough to slide in and out of your pocket with ease.Two things I don't like about this case... The flaps for the headphone jack and the micro USB. I am just not a flap person. I cut them off my commuter cases, and I will be cutting them off this as well (as soon as I find my exacto...).I think the Otterbox cases in general are better quality, but the Aegis is almost as good. Of course, I will have to see how it stands up over time. Hope this helps someone debating on whether or not to buy it.pics....[IMG]://i954.photobucket.com/albums/ae25/mountainmanmike/FC64B336-ABB3-4EE9-8D9A-5222693A05FC-1880-00000206A39F899E.jpg[/IMG]
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Do the buttons work better in that case than in the OtterBox? I was pretty disappointed with the buttons in the OtterBox.
The buttons all work perfect. Since my OP, I have cut off the flaps. The case is perfect for me now. After running around with it for a few days now, I am really liking this case. Bonus is that a gold plated male headphone jack WILL fit with the case on. I don't think the same can be said for the Defender.
One other notable difference - when I had the 822 naked, it was uncomfortable to hold to my ear for long periods. The Aegis eliminates this. Very comfortable now.
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Just got an otterbox for my phone, it is bulky. I would have went with the Aegis case but I wanted a holster and its either otterbox or the other one on Verizon. If Trident makes one I'll definitely pick it up.
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I love my Trident case. If using a charging plate or stand, really no need to remove any of the tabs. No need to fiddle with them to get your device charged. And since I rarely use headphones, I also left my top tab over the earphone jack port.
My first comment would be in regards to the paranoid carriers and manufactures of our devices. In your charging port are 2 metallic tabs. Those tabs change color if they come into ANY contact with water. For example... You are making a quick run to the store and put your phone into a cupholder in your car. The same cupholder that you put a cold drink in the day before. If there is any water that collected in the bottom of that cupholder - you just dunked the bottom of your phone into the water. Most of the time it goes unnoticed. However, the H2O contact will cause the charging port tabs to change color and could possibly jeopardize your chances of a warranty replacement. The Trident case prevents this.
My second comment relates to headphone sound quality. Headphone manufacturers go out of their way to advertise and sometimes deliver on "gold plated jacks" for their devices. Better contact makes for better sound quality. By keeping the Trident case on your device, that earphone jack port stays covered, reducing the change of debris building up inside the port and possibly lowering sound quality. Yea, sounds like drama - but look at the gunk around the edge of your phone screen when you remove a case or switch out a case. Same gunk goes into the headphone port. Just sayin'.
I ordered an Aegis case as well as another no-name car from eBay. I'll post reviews of them both after getting some use out of them. The Aegis is coming with some other accessories including a belt case that it will fit in. I actually already have the same belt case that I bought a week ago. Its a cheap one with a metal clip and Velcro. But it fits the phone even with the OtterBox on it.
I hate Velcro for a phone case, so I did a bit of surgery, removed the Velcro and put on magnets. Also, I don't care for metal clips like this as they scratch belts. I have a clip from an old Nite Ize case that I love, and had already recycled it once from the Nite Ize case to another, and I may end up recycling it again.
Anyway, I am looking forward to trying out the Aegis.
My Aegis came today. I'll hold off on a full review until I've used it for a while, but my initial impressions are as follows:
I REALLY like the design of this case. The buttons work far easier, with far less pressure than with the OtterBox. It looks like it'll provide the protection that's needed/desired, and yet isn't as bulky as the OtterBox. The cover sticks out enough on the front side far enough that you can lay it face down and there's probably 1 - 1 1/2 mm of space between the screen and ground, so the screen is protected from face-down drops (unless something is sticking up). I like the attractive design (I have the blue). I can take or leave the covers for the USB and headphone jacks, but I wish the one for the USB would close/fit better. Maybe a bit of wearing it in will help. But it's not a big deal.
One thing I don't care so much for is that the rounded-triangle design on the back sticks out so that the phone doesn't lie flat. This is a pro and a con, but could have been better. The pro is that the rubbery blue part sticks out, for grip on the surface, vs the black plastic (not grippy) part. The down side is that if you lie the phone on a table to play a game or something, it's wobbly. They could have designed it such that there were three or four spots on the back with the grippy blue sticking out, but having it right in the center isn't the best thing, IMO. That's a minor drawback, though, but something to think about if you use your phone lying flat.
Those are the first impressions. I'll post pictures of the phone with case, and some with the OtterBox, when I get a chance.
Here are a few pics:
Here's a link to my SkyDrive where you can see more pics of both the OtterBox and the Incipio Feather case as well.
I also got this one in blue and after about a week I am loving it. I was able to get it online for $30 from a company called newyorkcellphone who also included a car charger, a stylus pen, radiation shield, and a belt clip case which fits the phone with the case on it. Most of the extras are cheap but all for $30 was a steal for the price plus I needed a new car charger as my other one had for many years and the plug was damaged as would only charge if the wires were in a certain place.
Have any of you tried this case with the wireless charging stand and back plate? If so does it work? Also does anyone know if the wireless chargers that T-Mobile or ATT have will work? I imagine they would and with the rebate T-Mobile is having might be cheaper to get one from them instead of Verizon.
FYI, in the pictures that I took comparing the OtterBox to the Aegis, I did take into consideration the issue of perspective, so I made sure that the "tops" in the pictures were lined up, so that you could see the differences in the height by looking at the "bottom" end (top and bottom in the pictures).
As for the wireless charging, there have been others that have documented positive results with the OtterBox, so the Aegis, being thinner, shouldn't have any problems. as for the ones at TMO or ATT, if you're talking about Nokia chargers (not sure if they sell any others - haven't looked) they're the same charger.
I saw that T-Mobile has a rebate for $60 for buying their charging plate for the 810 and the wireless charging stand together. It seems that T-Mobile only sells the charging stand, while Verizon only carries the Nokia charging plate, yet ATT has both.
I have really only seen the 822 charging backs sold from Verizon and have not seen them anywhere else like best buy or even the Microsoft store retail or online. Off topic but seems you know alot about the phones and stuff have you seen anywhere that has pre paid app cards? The only thing I have seen is the $5 app cards from the Bing rewards but not sold retail like the Microsoft points cards.
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Reiko makes a belt case that it fits in, and one came with my Aegis that I bought on ebay. Link above in post #18.
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I got mine yesterday, and can support all that is mentioned here, except that my USB flap fits pretty well once it is inserted into the port correctly (inserting it is a bit of a fiddle, but not too bad). Mine appeared to come with some sort of screen protector, but there were no directions for its application. Anyone else apply the screen protector? Where are the instructions?
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We ordered these cases a couple of weeks ago through Amazon. We like the case but did use an x-acto knife to cut the flaps off because they kept getting snagged on our jacket/pants pockets and one time even got tangled in my hair and I almost dropped my phone. Every case came with 2 kinds of chargers and a screen protector. The screen protecter fits well and goes on pretty easy (use a credit card to smooth out the bubbles, NOT the flimsy little piece of cardboard square they send with it), but the oil from your fingertips is really, REALLY, hard to wipe away. A soft cloth just doesn't cut it. Our search for good screen protectors continues.
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Green River Mayor Ed Bentley resigned effective Jan. 31. Mayor Bentley has been the mayor since he was elected by a landslide in November of 2005 when he ran against incumbent mayor Glen Dale Johnson. Bentley was involved in a court case involving his part in the shooting of a man in an armed robbery in Green River at the Comfort Inn. There was a high speed chase that followed and Bentley a highway patrol trooper at the time accidentally shot the man. All charges against Bentley were dismissed in Carbon County District Court. Bentley will be leaving the Green River area to pursue employment in Utah County.
This leaves Green River mayorless. Green River will go through the following procedure to replace Mayor Bentley: If a vacancy occurs in the office of municipal executive body the municipal legislative body shall appoint a person in the municipality who meets the qualifications for office to fill the unexpired term of the office vacated until the January following the next municipal election.
Qualifications are:
1. A resident of the municipality for at least 365 consecutive days immediately before the date of appointment.
2. Must be a registered voter in the municipality.
3. Must maintain residency within the boundaries of the municipality during the officer's term of office.
The person interested in being appointed to fill the vacancy may submit his/her name for consideration to Conae Black, City Recorder, until Feb.5, at 4 p.m. at Green River City Hall, 460 East Main Street. No other letters of consideration will be accepted after that.
The meeting to fill the vacancy will be Feb. 12, at 7 p.m. at the Green River City Council Chambers.
Councilman Dan Harrison will serve as Mayor Protem until a new mayor is selected.

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|Posted by Janet on October 04, 1998 at 16:14:15:
My grout lines are about 2/16 th of an inch. My countertops span over 16 feet not including the back splash. Honestly tell me how difficult will it be to take out the grout so there is room to put in what I was expecting. I was skeptical of the staining product they were going to fix the kitchen with and sure enough it did not work. What next. Thanks for replying quick the last time. I laughed because I do have a broken heart. Bye Janet
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By CRAIG ANDERSONEmery, Utah
Tourism is created when a traveler designates a destination and journeys on to the location. Accidental discovery of an area generates limited exploration and therefore few visitors.
How much area contrives the Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument and are the tourist facilities in place to support it? How does this measure in comparison to the San Rafael National Monument ("watch your language") and its tourist facilities? Is the monument a designation or does it need to be refined to become one?
Put on a pair of hiking boots, load the kids in the car and head out for the Staircase. Once you get into the area (large circumference around the Monument) ask the first "local" resident you see where to find the Staircase. This will surely elicit a few chuckles and a smirk followed by a well rehearsed answer, "There is no Staircase, you idiot. Everyone comes down here looking for "the" staircase. In all practicality it is "all" that area out there," as he points south and makes a big sweeping motion with his arm. Carefully make a visual examination of the area just pointed to, get back in the car and drive down the road. Keep driving as you continue your visual experience. After you have driven 50 miles, across some of the most spectacular scenery ever imagined you come into Bryce Canyon National Park. "Wow, where did everyone come from?" is the statement of the day. Ruby's Inn, a tourists dream of a hotel accommodation awaits the weary traveler. People actually have stopped here and are spending money. Lots of money.
It seem to be the general consensus of those mandated for the care of our county's well being, that they just don't want to "make waves." Every decision made concerning sensitive issues effects groups of people differently. Someone needs to step up, take the reins, make a decision and get the job done. "It's a dirty job, but someone has to do it." Whenever there has been a major development completed, it has taken an individual who doesn't care if he offends some of the people because of his decision. He does what his conscience tells him and gets the job done. Take for example, the national monument designation in Escalante. President Clinton didn't care who took offense he just did it. Now what is done from that point is up to the citizens. They can make hay or they can postpone the scenario for ever.
Capitol Reef National Park was designated a national monument in 1937. Some of the things changed for the ranchers and general citizens in the Wayne County area, for awhile. There was a little discontent of the people and adjustments were made.
In 1971, the monument status was changed at Capitol Reef to a national park. This also contributed to changes in the area. The cattle allotments in the park were purchased from the ranchers, but they survived. New irrigation systems were implemented to reap the most from the land in order to feed the cattle that were displaced. Investors were attracted to the area and a new approach to tourist attraction was incorporated by building motels, eating establishments and other facilities drawing more visitors to the area. Property values went up because of a big shakeup of the existing economy when Capitol Reef was made a national park.
What mode of existence is in store for the economy of Emery County? Are the directions of development, pursued by those in charge of overseeing the betterment of our livelihood, being wisely devised? Take a vacation, travel to other tourist designations and observe the necessities of economic development. Experience the realism of a tourist attraction and how it can benefit the local economy.


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❮❮ ❯❯Ralph Johnson Bunche
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1904–71, U.S.. government official and UN diplomat, b. Detroit, Ph.D., Harvard, 1934.
He taught political science at Howard Univ. (1928–40). In government service after 1941, he worked under the joint chiefs of staff and was a chief research analyst in the Office of Strategic Services. The first black to be a division head in the Dept. of State (1945), he entered the United Nations in 1946 as director of the Trusteeship Division. He became (Dec., 1947) principal secretary of the UN Palestine Commission and was awarded the 1950 Nobel Peace Prize for mediating the 1948 Arab-Israeli truce. He served as UN undersecretary general for special political affairs (1955–67) and undersecretary general from 1967 until his retirement due to poor health shortly before his death.
See study by P. Mann (1975); biography by B. Jakouvek (1989).
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Chapter 2
An angel rebukes Israel for not serving the Lord—As a pattern of future events, a new generation arises that forsakes the Lord and serves Baal and Ashtaroth—The Lord is angry with the children of Israel and ceases to preserve them—He raises up judges to guide and lead them—The Canaanites are left in the land to test Israel.
1 And an angel of the Lord came up from Gilgal to Bochim, and said, I made you to go up out of Egypt, and have brought you unto the land which I sware unto your fathers; and I said, I will never
2 And ye shall make no
3 Wherefore I also said, I will not drive them out from before you; but they shall be as thorns in your sides, and their gods shall be a
4 And it came to pass, when the angel of the Lord spake these words unto all the children of Israel, that the people lifted up their voice, and wept.
5 And they called the name of that place Bochim: and they sacrificed there unto the Lord.
6 ¶And when Joshua had let the people go, the children of Israel went every man unto his inheritance to possess the land.
7 And the people
8 And Joshua the son of
9 And they buried him in the border of his inheritance in Timnath-heres, in the mount of Ephraim, on the north side of the hill Gaash.
10 And also all that generation were gathered unto their fathers: and there arose another generation after them, which
11 ¶And the children of Israel did evil in the sight of the Lord, and served Baalim:
12 And they forsook the Lord God of their fathers, which brought them out of the land of Egypt, and followed other gods, of the gods of the people that were round about them, and bowed themselves unto them, and provoked the Lord to
13 And they forsook the Lord, and served
14 ¶And the
15 Whithersoever they went out, the
16 ¶Nevertheless the Lord raised up
17 And yet they would not hearken unto their judges, but they went a
18 And when the Lord raised them up judges, then the Lord was with the judge, and delivered them out of the hand of their enemies all the days of the judge:
19 And it came to pass, when the judge was dead, that they returned, and corrupted themselves more than their
20 ¶And the anger of the Lord was hot against Israel; and he said, Because that this people hath transgressed my covenant which I commanded their fathers, and have not hearkened unto my voice;
21 I also will not henceforth drive out any from before them of the nations which Joshua left when he died:
22 That through them I may
23 Therefore the Lord left those nations, without driving them out hastily; neither delivered he them into the hand of Joshua.


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The most under priced attraction in the area! 36 acres of family fun. See 300 classic, antique and muscle cars, including the country's largest display of Hollywood TV and movie cars! Experience the Military Combat Zone, a life-like battle scene with rare military vehicles and weapons. Shop 5 Antique Malls. Take a Haunted Trolley Tour. Enjoy great food in a Betty Boop themed diner and more. All in one location!
This 500-acre park offers vast formal gardens, picnic grounds, a top-ranked public golf course and two museums: Robert R. McCormick Museum and First Division Museum. Enjoy a wide variety of programs and events throughout the year, such as festivals, lectures, concerts and workshops.
The mission of the museum is to demonstrate the vital role railroads have played in the growth of the Chicago area as well as the United States through the preservation and operation of railroad and mass transit rolling stock and the display of related artifacts in a realistic setting. These exhibits provide an interactive, educational experience for visitors of all ages. We welcome all to our Museum and encourage you to join in our education, restoration and preservation efforts.
At one time, this was the world's largest gold structure. Now available for group tours (15+) and private event rentals. The six-story-tall, 17,000-square-foot architectural oddity is located in Wadsworth, Illinois and has to be one of the most bizarre homes ever constructed. It is believed to be the largest 24-karat gold-plated object in North America.
See a Wild West show and museum of Western memorabilia, then dine at Donley's Old West Steakhouse.
Spring Valley Nature Center/ Volkening Heritage Farm
135 acres, natural history museum, handicapped-accessible trails, 1880's living history farm and pioneer cooking demos. Cost for some programs.
Great shopping, dining and professional services are waiting for you in our picture-perfect downtown. Enjoy the turn-of-the-century buildings along Milwaukee Avenue or relax among the roses in Cook Park. Downtown Libertyville is a delightfully unique shopping and dining experience. With over 70 shops, boutiques, and restaurants, it's why we say "spend an hour, spend a day!"
The opulent Cuneo Museum and Gardens, located on 75 acres and dotted with formal gardens and statuary was the perfect setting for the wedding scenes in "My Best Friend's Wedding." The gazebo where the best friends were caught kissing was built specifically for the film, but Cuneo's owners liked it so much they decided to keep it permanently. Take a guided tour through the historic Mediterranean-style Cuneo mansion to see Renaissance artworks and lavish European furnishings.
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This museum is a replica of the first McDonald's restaurant opened by Ray Kroc on April 15, 1955. View an array of memorabilia, from the original kitchen equipment to the 1950s classic cars parked on site.
CITY:Des Plaines
Wild west displays and genuine cowboy memorabilia including train rides, horse rides, panning for gold, cowboy shows and more. Extensive antique phonograph and music box collection on display. Seasonally open April - October.
This original 1844 building was once a stagecoach stop, tavern, post office, town hall, and candy store. Completely restored by the Village of Gurnee, this historical home is reported to have been part of the Underground Railroad. Slaves would be housed in the basement or the barn. View artifacts from the Civil War, see the "Crystal Ballroom" where traveling guests would be entertained or the room dedicated to the family of a local man that died on the Titanic.
As an official Navy Museum, the Great Lakes Naval Museum's mission is to tell the story of the United States Navy, with particular emphasis on the Navy's only "boot camp" at the Naval Station Great Lakes.
CITY:Great Lakes
Lakeside Arts Park at The Dole
Lakeside Arts Park at The Dole is a 12-acre beautiful arts education center that features two award winning art galleries and the Listening Room a entertainment venue that offers year round performances. You can step back to a simpler time to explore the brilliance of a Civil War era architectural masterpiece, when you take a tour of the historic Dole Mansion. We are a gem of McHenry County that can be enjoyed now and with future generations!
CITY:Crystal Lake
Come visit our 30-acre antique theme park. Anchored by the nationally recognized Volo Auto Museum, the site also boasts great shopping in five separate malls selling antiques, unique gifts and collectibles. Over 400 dealers.
My Kind of Town Tours & Events
This company offers group cultural and educational tours. Reservations are required.
CITY:Highland Park
A historic 1800s family farm that is maintained in its original location. Programs depict settlers' lives with period accuracy.
CITY:Wood Dale
A "living history" farm depicting life in the 1890s DuPage County. Original structures, authentic recreations and livestock combine to make a realistic 1890s working farm.
The Sanfilippo "Place de la Musique"
Contact Visit McHenry County for information on tours. A private estate located in Barrington Hills, featuring the world's finest collection of automatic music instruments, including the world's largest theater organ. Private group tours or 40 or more. Charity gala events & concerts. A summer concert series and a Christmas concert supporting the Sanfilippo Foundation open to the public with pre-purchased tickets. Concerts include time to explore the Sanfilippo Collection. See website for details and tickets.
This original 1844 building was once a stagecoach stop, tavern, post office, town hall and candy store. Completely restored by the Village of Gurnee, this historical home is reported to have been part of the Underground Railroad.
Edman Memorial Chapel - Wheaton College
This large auditorium, seating more than 2400 people, is the site of campus chapels, concerts, commencements, and various community-related events such as the Artist Series.
Historical landmark situated on 60 magnificent acres in the Village of Lake Villa. Beautifully restored and renovated for weddings, banquets and private parties. Three-season tent accommodates up to 350 guests.
CITY:Lake Villa
This museum located on the campus of Wheaton College is devoted to the history of Christian evangelism and its influences on society. View rare artifacts, art and displays that include a powerful 3-D presentation of the gospel message.
Art, architecture, and garden tours of Howard Van Doren Shaw's summer retreat. The house and gardens, is listed on the National Register of Historic Places among examples of the Arts and Crafts movement in the country. It house 12 artists at a time.
CITY:Lake Forest
The Bensenville Park District and the DuPage County Forest Preserve have been working to restore this property and land. Fischer Farm is believed to be one of the oldest remaining homesteads in the county. Explore the buildings, touch the artifacts, and connect with history.


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More than four months in advance of the Douglas County School District board election, the buzz already is building.
Four seats are up for grabs on the now reform-friendly, all-Republican board in November, including those belonging to John Carson, Doug Benevento, Carrie Mendoza and Meghann Silverthorne. Carson is term-limited and cannot run for re-election.
Two candidates — Democrat Ronda Scholting and unaffiliated Nicholas Land — filed with the Secretary of State to upend Silverthorn. Barbra Chase Burke of Roxborough, also unaffiliated, has filed seeking the District B seat now occupied by Carson. No other candidates have yet come forward. Silverthorn confirmed she intends to run again. Benevento and Mendoza haven't yet put their intentions on the record.
Regardless, the campaigning to either retain or replace current candidates is underway. Some of it in public. Much of it behind closed doors.
The board's efforts at education reform - including a voucher program, dissolution of the teachers' union agreement and a pay-for-performance plan - have ignited controversy in the community.
The Douglas County Republicans in February set up an education committee with a stated purpose to "recruit school board candidates" and create "strategy for school board election." A second committee soon will begin interviewing potential board candidates.
Former board candidate and DCSD spokeswoman Susan Meek, who is often critical of the board and district, recently announced she'll devote her time to help candidates she supports get elected.
A group called Voices for Public Education, sponsored by anti-school-voucher plaintiffs Taxpayers for Public Education, this month started a series of pro-public education speakers' events slated to run between now and the election.
Another group, originally launched only as a Facebook page called Doug Co Champions for Kids, is sponsoring a series of public meetings designed to share the school district's viewpoints on various issues.
"I think there is so much misinformation out there it's having an effect on teacher morale," said board supporter Franceen Thompson, a district captain with the Douglas County Republicans and volunteer with DougCo Champions for Kids. "If we can just get the facts out there, and get a better understanding of what's going on, I think that will help."
Teachers' union representatives are speaking at private house parties about ongoing DCSD issues and the upcoming election.
"We talk about what's happening," said Brenda Smith, president of the Douglas County Federation teachers' union. "We present the information. We talk about our survey, the decline and the culture of climate, the number of teachers that have actually left."
The words of people on both sides of the county's education issues are serious and often dire in tone.
"Our education system in the county is really in danger," Taxpayers for Public Education president Cindy Barnard, a voucher opponent, said before author Angela Engel launched the Voices series June 18. "In Douglas County, due to our demographics, we are at ground zero for this experiment in public education."
"In my opinion, we can't afford to lose a single seat. Not one," Thompson said.
Statements both accurate and false are broadcast in public meetings and on a variety of Facebook pages.
During a recent Coffee for Conservatives meeting in Franktown, organizer Margo Knutson said the union and its affiliates plan to spend $8 million during the school board elections.
Smith said that's not accurate.
"The answer is, I don't know yet," she said. "But I think it's going to be a very interesting election.
"We are always looking for really good candidates. Teachers want a school board member that supports neighborhood schools."
Smith said board members often incorrectly point to the union as the cause of parent-led protests and meetings. The union's long-standing collective bargaining agreement with the district expired in 2012.
"That's what sells and they think that's what gives it negativity," she said. "Union or not, you have a very large population of teachers that are dissatisfied with the direction of the school district. They have a really hard time accepting that fact."
Douglas County Republicans chairman Craig Steiner said he will make details about the group's role in the election process public in about a month. Though most board candidates in past elections were Republicans, Steiner said, "We're not just of one mind."
"The school board's been doing a lot of good things over the last four years and those things are consistent with what we'd like to see happen in education," he said. "We'd like to see a school board continue to do those things, and we're looking for Republicans that are there to support the things the board is trying to do."
Advocates on both sides of the school district issues sometimes use the same phrases to explain their concerns.
Meek is among many concerned with recent district decisions who said she wants to restore the parent voice to the conversation.
Thompson, meanwhile, said the atmosphere in the school district has changed for the better under the current administration and board.
"Now I think parents have more of a voice than they've ever had before," she said.


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Edward Baig: The Kyocera Torque review
Don't repeat this stunt with Apple's iPhone or a Samsung Galaxy. But I took a cellphone, laid it on a road and drove a Honda Accord over it. The phone didn't show a scratch, much less suffer any other detectable damage. I made a call on it moments after.
The phone I subjected to this form of torture is the Sonim XP Strike, one of two rugged handsets along with the Kyocera Torque that I've been putting to the test. I placed the phones in my freezer. I submerged them in water. I dropped them on concrete. They survived!
You may not consider yourself the ideal candidate for a tough-guy cellphone. You don't take a phone white-water rafting or take it with you on the ski slopes. You're not out chasing storms. And you're certainly not going to drive over it like I did, certainly not on purpose.
Then again you've got small children who treat your phones like Frisbees, and you yourself are a bit of a klutz. C'mon, admit it: Your last cellphone was DOA after you clumsily dropped it in a puddle.
The Sonim XP Strike and Kyocera Torque, both sold by Sprint, are meant to tolerate whatever nature — or your kids — throws at them, at least within reasonable limits. The phones can withstand moisture, spills, dust, salt, shock, extreme temperatures and chronic klutzes, and are likely to come through unscathed if you drop them. Both meet a number of military standards.
The Torque goes on sale Friday for $99.99 after a rebate and two-year contract. It's an Android smartphone running Ice Cream Sandwich, not the latest version of Google's mobile operating system but one that can run just about all the apps you'd want it to. It's fairly thin considering its protective rubber housing, but at 5.5 ounces isn't all that light. It has 4 gigabytes of storage memory that is expandable via a microSD memory card; the slot is hidden under the removable battery. The phone has an impact-resistant 4-inch LCD touch-screen and two cameras: a 5-megapixel rear camera and 1.3-megapixel front camera.
Torque can tap into the fastest 4G cellular networks, though Sprint is something of an LTE laggard for the moment. You can use Wi-Fi for data. The phone is also NFC (Near Field Communication) capable.
Being a smartphone, Kyocera's device is generally more of a mainstream option compared with the $129.99 Sonim. Indeed, the XP Strike is the kind of ultra-rugged device that is likely to show up at a construction site.
Available now, the Sonim has a 2-megapixel camera and will play music (or FM radio), and you can use it for messaging. But it lacks a touch-screen and is definitely not a smartphone, so people who are app crazy should go elsewhere. XP Strike runs off a 3G cellular network and doesn't have Wi-Fi.
Both Torque and XP Strike are well insulated, but the Sonim is the tougher of the pair. It even comes with a three-year warranty that will outlast your cellular contract.
The chunky 6.5-ounce black and yellow phone is made of hardened rubber that is molded to a fiberglass casing. The 2-inch low-resolution display is protected by 1.5mm-thick Corning Gorilla Glass.
Waterproof headphone and proprietary USB ports sit beneath protective rubber flaps. You have to remove two screws to get at the Sonim battery, which promises talk time of more than 8½ hours and about 13 days of standby. For its part, Kyocera reports more than double the life on its bigger Torque battery. I was impressed with the loud and generally clear audio during Sonim calls. The ringer is loud, too, useful for people working outside in noisy environments.
Sonim says the phone is impervious to dust and microparticles and can operate between a temperature range of minus 5 degrees Fahrenheit and plus 130-degrees. The phone didn't even shut off after about 45 minutes in my freezer.
Kyocera claims the Torque can withstand extreme temperatures between minus 22 degrees and 140 degrees, for up to three hours. During the same frost-inducing test, the phone turned off, but the Kyocera came back to life after I removed and reinserted the battery.
I was able to use the Sonim as a hammer. But when I feigned anger and slammed Torque to the ground, some seals were compromised and one of the protective screws went missing, requiring me to postpone a water test until I got a replacement unit. It was still able to make a phone call. But it's also why I chose not to drive a car over the Torque as I did with the Sonim. My replacement Torque passed the water test and even rang and held onto a call while submerged.
The voice quality on Torque calls was quite good. In lieu of a traditional earpiece, Kyocera employs technology that eliminates the need for a speaker module. Instead, the display itself vibrates to create sound waves that are transmitted directly to the eardrum by passing through facial and ear tissue.
The phone did seem to lag a bit when I dialed out.
Both the Kyocera and Sonim phones can take advantage of Sprint's convenient Direct Connect "push-to-talk" feature, meaning you can hold a button along the side to use them walkie-talkie style.
Neither handset will win any beauty contest. Neither is as fully featured as many of the fanciest phones on the market. But then just about all those rival phones are nowhere near as tough.
The bottom line
Kyocera Torque
$99.99, www.kyocera.com
Pro. Rugged phone can withstand water, temperature extremes, drops. Android smartphone. Direct Connect. Excellent battery life.
Con. Heavy. A tad sluggish.
Sonim XP Strike
$129.99, www.sonimtech.com
Pro. Ultra-rugged. Can withstand water, temperature extremes, drops, even a car rolling over it. Direct Connect. Good voice quality.
Con. Not a smartphone, so not a great mainstream choice.
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Skip to comments.Mel Gibson Divorce Done: Wife Gets More Than $400 Million
Posted on 12/27/2011 7:22:42 AM PST by SeekAndFind
LOS ANGELES A judge on Friday approved a divorce settlement between actor Mel Gibson and his estranged wife Robyn, ending their 31 years of marriage.
Robyn, Gibson's wife of nearly 30 years and the mother of their seven children, is walking away with half his fortune, once estimated to be as high as $850 million (according to the Los Angeles Business Journal in 2006) in what is considered the biggest divorce payout in Hollywood history.
Because the couple didn't have a prenuptial agreement, Robyn, 55, was legally entitled to half of everything he earned during their marriage, People magazine reported.
Among Gibson's estimated assets: more than $600 million grossed by the film "The Passion of the Christ" alone; $100-plus million in real estate investments worldwide (he bought an island in Fiji for $15 million in 2005); and $75 million for film and TV projects for which Gibson, 55, executive produced.
Robyn Gibson will return to using her maiden name, Robyn Denise Moore, but other details of the divorce were kept confidential. The settlement becomes effective on Jan. 9.
Gibson, 55, and his wife married in Australia in 1980. They separated in 2006 after Gibson was arrested for drunken driving in Malibu, Calif., and made anti-Semitic remarks that generated headlines around the world.
The actor's wife sued for divorce in April 2009, citing irreconcilable differences following Gibson's relationship with Oksana Grigorieva, with whom he has a 2-year-old daughter.
The "Lethal Weapon" and "Mad Max" star pleaded no contest to misdemeanor battery following an altercation with Grigorieva in 2010, and was sentenced to three years' probation.
He recently settled a custody battle with his former girlfriend, agreeing to pay Grigorieva $750,000 and share custody of their daughter.
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Married for 31 years, no prenup, yea, that's how it goes. She wasn't someone who married someone famous just with the intent of it being a quick marriage with a big payoff.
Hope they are able to both move past the pain and bitterness and live happy lives.
its cheaper to keep her, as the song goes..
She has $400 million reasons to be happy.
He has a twenty something girlfriend.
Done and done.
From all I have read, Robyn has kept Mel from completely going over the edge, even after their divorce.
Well like they old joke goes...
Why are divorces so expensive?
They are worth it.
An instructor in a real estate Law class once laid out an instructive scenario on how much a man lost as he and his wife drove across state lines on a "move" from East coast ... to California.
Anybody got Robyn's phone number?
Does anyone really give a rat's a.. about this beside those involved. Why is it even news worthy?
The beauty of it is she gets $400 million AND gets rid of the jerk!
All if it happiness and removal of bitterness were only solved by such superficial things...
I know a lot of miserable folks who have lots of money, and more than a few miserable womanizers.
Rarely is happiness found in superficiality. Not saying wealth and beauty don't have their benefits, but doesn't mean all is coming up roses.
There is a Cougar I could go for.
She doesn't really get rid of him.
He's the father of her children. She will still have dealings with him for the remainder of her life. As her children grow older, those contacts with him will be less frequent and less important.
But, she'll never get back all of those years of her life. Nor will she be able to change who fathered her children. They're bound on this earth forever, whether she likes it or not.
There will never be a day of her life where she doesn't think of him and remember their marriage.
It is sad that it ended this way... especially for the children.
Who gets the dog?
That should be enough to keep her off food stamps.
Obviously she was the adult in the relationship...and she didn't want his name.
Yes obviously, I mean we only know what we see in the press which includes virtually nothing about her, but from that we know she is the adult. /s
He has a substance abuse problem. I seriously doubt it was a surprise to her after 31 years.
It's an unfortunate fact that a wonderfully sound ethics of happiness is not taught to our kids.
That Ethics, clear and simple, identifies virtues in the context of too much, too little or just right.
Patience, for instance, is one of Aristotle's virtues.
Not wanting his name, and wanting to divorce him isn't the point.
Divorce doesn't mean she'll ever be completely rid of him.
Too many people think that it is possible to walk off into a new life without the burden of their former spouse's life ever invading their own, because they don't understand that when there are children, the bonds of parenthood still bind them.
No, she won't be calling him in desperation begging for child support because she must feed the children and he is a deadbeat father who doesn't provide for his children's welfare.
But, he'll always be somewhere on the edges of her life. Her children will mention his name. He'll invade their thoughts at birthday celebrations. He'll take the kids on vacation and then they'll return to her home and talk about what they did with him. His ghost will always be there.
She'll have to share their hearts with him, forever.
He's gonna wake up one morning, look down at his prone body on the sheets of his bed, and wish to God he had worked harder to maintain his marriage of 30+ years.
Some of you say "nay" ... but when he is left all alone, his body ailing, his mind failing, he'll come to his senses and realize that a woman who stood with him for over thirty years was a 'keeper' and he is a failure for not realizing this sooner.
See my tagline ... marriage is a covenant, not a civil agreement. Covenant, not just an agreement to 'love' until love ends or one gets tired of the other or things aren't working the way the 'controller' wants or some new face flatters a faltering ego ... I pray for the souls of the Gibsons and their children.
The difference between a Saint and everyone else, is that a Saint lives and acts in a saintly manner. Mel Gibson failed himself here ... as the male, the man, the husband, he knows his responsibility to the marriage covenant. God help him to repent, do penance, and reconcile with God and his family.
For a family man, Mel always struck me as a bit too much at ease all dressed in studded black leather in many of his films.
"She has $400 million reasons to be happy.
He has a twenty something girlfriend."
Who, now that he hasn't the same load of cash, will probably move on. No fool like an old fool.
I'm sure not all of the years were bad. In 31 years, there must have been some good times.
"... and wish to God he had worked harder to maintain his marriage of 30+ years".
I truly hope for his sake that he gets his life/issues worked out. I truly wonder if he did... they couldn't reunite. (yeah, I know that is a long shot but stranger things have happened)
No dude....I got dibbs!!!!!
She is rid of him as a constant source of irritation.
Aren't most of their "kids" grown?...late teens or 20's?
His youngest with Robyn is ten years old.
The laws are so screwed up. She doesn't deserve 1/100th of his worth.
I'll bet she felt little joy, though. The money had always been hers, just as my husband's income is mine to use as household income. I'd bet she would much rather return to the years when they were a happy and whole family.
Agreed. And people wonder why marriages are down.
Poor kid...his life has been mixed up for a long time...thanks to good old dad!
I'm an adult child of divorce. My parents didn't divorce until me and my four siblings were in the adult ages of 27-50.
I know the pain that the mere mention of my father's name inflicted upon the heart of my mother, every single time his name was mentioned in her presence. A memory of him would bring her heartache.
There wasn't a day of my mother's life where her heart wasn't pierced by the knowledge that the love of her life had torn her heart and her world to shreds.
Divorce is never something your heart can ignore, no matter the age of your children.
When I talk to other children of divorce, the pain is still there for their parents, no matter when the divorce happened, and no matter how advanced in age they were when it occurred. It never ends. It isn't something you get over. These children can still see the scars that their parents carry, years later.
Modern society wants to make a marriage a partnership, it isn't, it is becoming one with someone.
Bless you.
Thank you.
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Skip to comments.(4th US Circuit) Appeals court: 'In God We Trust' slogan does not violate Constitution
Posted on 05/13/2005 10:48:34 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
RICHMOND, Va. The inscription "In God We Trust" on the facade of a government building in North Carolina does not violate the U.S. Constitution's guidelines on the separation of church and state, a federal appeals court ruled Friday.
A three-judge panel of the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals unanimously upheld a lower judge's dismissal of a lawsuit challenging the slogan written on the Davidson County Government Center in Lexington, N.C.
The inscription, in 18-inch block letters, was paid for with donations from individuals and churches in 2002. Lawyers Charles F. Lambeth Jr. and Michael D. Lea, who regularly practice in the center, filed a lawsuit a few months later, claiming the display violated the First Amendment and seeking its removal.
U.S. District Judge William L. Osteen ruled in May 2004 that the display "will not produce an excessive entanglement of church and state."
The appeals court agreed, noting that "In God We Trust" has appeared on the nation's coins since 1865 and was made the national motto by Congress in 1956. The motto also is inscribed above the speaker's chair in the U.S. House of Representatives and above the main door of the U.S. Senate chamber.
"In this situation, the reasonable observer must be deemed aware of the patriotic uses, both historical and present, of the phrase 'In God We Trust,'" Judge Robert King wrote. The court said the inscription would be unconstitutional if it served a religious purpose.
Lea said he was disappointed but was not sure whether he would appeal the ruling.
"The 4th Circuit got it exactly right," said James Redfern Morgan Jr., a Winston-Salem attorney who defended the county's governing board.
The U.S. Supreme Court is expected to rule in the coming weeks whether Ten Commandments displays on government property violate the Constitution's ban on "establishment" of religion. Last year the high court dismissed on technical grounds a case in which an appeals court ruled that the words "under God" in Pledge of Allegiance were unconstitutional.
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(Denny Crane: "Sometimes you can only look for answers from God and failing that... and Fox News".)
Wow! Sanity!
That stuff might be contagious.
I'm sure the DUmmies are in an uproar over this.
I'm no attorney but I would file this in the "NO DUH!" file.
(Denny Crane: "Sometimes you can only look for answers from God and failing that... and Fox News".)
It's a shame that we need a court to tell us this.
(Denny Crane: "Sometimes you can only look for answers from God and failing that... and Fox News".)
They'd have to tear down almost every building and monument in Washington to get rid of Christianity. Even the the judges at the SC have Moses and the 10 Commandments hanging on the wall above their heads!
Christian military Chaplin's can use the word "God" but they can't use the name "Jesus Christ" in the Navy - even though Christianity is based on Jesus Christ. 60 Chaplin's are petitioning our government on the 1st amendment. The military claims those of other faiths might be "offended".
I'm waiting for them to go after the Arlington National Cemetery. It's nothing but crosses.
(Denny Crane: "Sometimes you can only look for answers from God and failing that... and Fox News".)
(Denny Crane: "Sometimes you can only look for answers from God and failing that... and Fox News".)
So how much are these two lawyers going to have to pony-up for losing the case?
What would they want the crosses replaced with? Dolphin statues? That, of course, would be considered politically correct.
Yuk yuk. The Supreme Court?
For now we can claim this small victory.
My son just graduated from Navy bootcamp in March and several days ago we received his bootcamp yearbook. In it is a picture of a sailor and, behind him is a large figure of Christ helping him steer the ship through a storm. Beautiful!
Below it is the Navy Hymn.
"In God We Trust" are very powerful words. No wonder the 'Rats and others fear it. I think in the future if we ever move completely away from real money, it should be stamped on every item that is used to pay for purchases. :)
PETA would complain they were being exploited.
Sanity from the Courts! I guess they don't want what happened to the 9th circus after the Pledge ruling to occur to them. Though supposedly this court is more conservative.
I think one of the main factors that's made America great is we've always had a good balance between religious traditions and modern progress.
Makes sense to me thank you. Like you mentioned, Communism is the big one, because everyone is supposed to be "robots" to follow the prime directive of communism (everything belongs to everybody-yea right).
To support your theory, that is why China, NKorea,cuba?, right now try to ban any type of religions that try and blossom in their countries along with heavy censorship and (people owned-but really Commie dictator owned) media censors and manipulates everybody. Hope i got most the basics right ;) I know it's more complex than that.
Doesn't the ACLU somehow get paid, perhaps by the taxpayers, even if they lose cases? I get the impression they file suits to make money, even losing suits.
LOL... We've got a ways to go, since the insanity of the last few decades was contagious, too.
"In God We Trust" was Florida's motto before it was adopted by the United States.
I'm waiting for them to go after the Arlington National Cemetery. It's nothing but crosses.
What I am waiting for (and apparently the ACLU, nor that phony, Barry Lynn, or anyone else are afraid to challenge) is the United States Congress (THE SEAT OF OUR GOVERNMENT, NO LESS) opening each session with not only a prayer, but read by a CHAPLAIN.
Now how much more a violation of the separation of Church and State could one ask for? /sarc
Then of course there is the Supreme Court itself, which opens each session with "God save the United States and this Honorable Court!"
Why won't anyone challenge these institutions? What are they afraid of?
Of getting "bitch-slapped" so hard they would never recover?
I think yes.
Can you imagine the Congress being sued? Not even sure if it can be?
Never mind, the libs/dims/socialist would find some Fed Judge to take the case.
And if the Supremes were challenged, who would hear the final appeal? VERRRY INTERESTING?
You've broached a sore point.
As you well know, in the case of federal civil rights actions, the plaintiff's expenses are paid by the U.S. Government. That is, the taxpayers.
It is increasingly apparent that the ACLU is using this otherwise well-meant provision as a gravy train. If they need money to pay their staff or lobby against Republican politicians, they launch a "civil rights case" -- thereby creating a cash flow.
It's time the ACLU began paying its own way...
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Into the second year of The Rugby Championship, Argentina are well-prepared ahead of facing the Springboks at Soccer City.
Into the second year of The Rugby Championship, Argentina are better prepared than ever before ahead of facing the Springboks at Soccer City this weekend.
Case in point; they rested 21 of their leading stars back in June in order to prepare as best they could for a gruelling schedule against the world's top three sides.
This tournament will mark the end of the road for Felipe Contepomi – the illustrious fly-half cherished by fans in Bristol, Leinster and Paris as well as his homeland – who at 35 departs Argentinian rugby leaving it in a far better condition than when he made his debut in 1998.
No longer are the Pumas a group of players bonded together through an aggressive attitude and a scattering of talent. Their side for Saturday is packed full of class; Juan Imhoff, for example, is one of Europe's deadliest finishers.
Santiago Phelan will be aware of the pressure to pick up a first win in the tournament as Argentina's grace period continues to dwindle away, but he has the tools to do so.
The depth in Argentinian rugby has never been better, especially in terms of quality – yet when matched up against a side such as Heyneke Meyer's South Africa, they have a long way to go.
Last year's 16-16 draw against the Springboks in Mendoza was an indication that Argentina would not take as long as Italy have in the Six Nations to become competitive, but under Meyer the Boks are building something promising.
Saturday's squad is not simply a strong XV, but a 23 packed with talent – young and old.
Welcoming back Fourie Du Preez and Gurthrö Steenkamp into the fold adds experience, but the real excitement is around the youth bursting through – Siya Kolisi, Jan Serfontein, JJ Englebrecht and Willie Le Roux.
It still feels early to be expecting too much from Le Roux in Test rugby, but the 23-year-old from Griquas plays with time on his side and appears to know not only how to finish off any chances that come his way, but also create plenty for others.
That new generation will play an important role as elder Springboks begin to head overseas. Morné Steyn and Bryan Habana have both decided to France whilst Francois Louw has signed a new long-term contract with Bath. The policy of South Africa selecting European-based players, however important they are, may not last forever.
The core of a group to take South Africa through to the 2015 Rugby World Cup is growing in the wake of such an enormous loss of Test caps following the last RWC in New Zealand.
Now over a year in under Meyer's watch, South African fans will start to expect more. They should do anyway, because the Springboks have a very realistic chance of winning this year's championship – their first since 2009.
Players to watch:
For South Africa: All eyes will be on Duane Vermeulen, packing down at number eight in the absence of Pierre Spies. The Stormers back-rower missed a large chunk of the Super Rugby season, suffering a knee injury that has kept him off the pitch more or less since May. Coming into a Test environment on the back of very little match practice will be a considerable challenge for Vermeulen, but South Africa cannot do without his influence in the absence of Spies. Moreover, Vermeulen is a brilliantly industrious and powerful player in his own right.
For Argentina: Stepping in to make your international debut to replace the injured, and magnificent, Juan Martin Fernández Lobbe? Good luck. That is the task handed to young Pablo Matera against the Springboks. Having starred for the U20 Pumas in the Junior World Championship last year, Matera has enjoyed a rapid promotion into the senior squad, which underlines both that the Junior system is working and that he is some talent.
Head-to-head: Hard to ignore the two wily old-timers playing in the number 12 jerseys. Jean De Villiers and Felipe Contepomi combine for a total of 168 Test caps between the two of them and both will captain their respective sides on Saturday. De Villiers has always been regarded as one of the game's great runners, with Contepomi more renowned for his distribution and kicking. Both players are integral to their team's success and have earned each other's respect.
Previous results:
2012: Draw 16-16
2012: South Africa won 27-6 in Cape Town
2008: South Africa won 63-9 in Johannesburg
2007: South Africa won 37-13 in Paris (RWC)
2005: South Africa won 34-23 in Buenos Aires
2004: South Africa won 39-7 in Buenos Aires
2003: South Africa won 26-25 in Port Elizabeth
2002: South Africa won 49-29 in Springs
2000: South Africa won 37-33 in Buenos Aires
1996: South Africa won 44-21 in Buenos Aires
1996: South Africa won 46-15 in Buenos Aires
1994: South Africa won 46-26 in Johannesburg
1994: South Africa won 42-22 in Port Elizabeth
1993: South Africa won 52-23 in Buenos Aires
Prediction: The Springboks' time together during the June International series against Scotland, Italy and Samoa should stand them in better stead given their higher level of match practice, with Argentina coming into this one on the back of two warm-up matches against the Waratahs. Parity upfront is everything and the sense is that Argentina will just fall short. South Africa by 8!
The teams:
South Africa: 15 Willie le Roux, 14 Bjorn Basson, 13 JJ Engelbrecht, 12 Jean de Villiers (c), 11 Bryan Habana, 10 Morné Steyn, 9 Ruan Pienaar, 8 Duane Vermeulen, 7 Willem Alberts, 6 Francois Louw, 5 Juandré Kruger, 4 Eben Etzebeth, 3 Jannie du Plessis, 2 Adriaan Strauss, 1 Tendai Mtawarira.
Replacements: 16 Bismarck du Plessis, 17 Gurthrö Steenkamp, 18 Coenie Oosthuizen, 19 Flip Van Der Merwe, 20 Siya Kolisi, 21 Fourie du Preez, 22 Pat Lambie, 23 Jan Serfontein.
Argentina: 15 Juan Martin Hernandez, 14 Gonzalo Camacho, 13 Marcelo Bosch, 12 Felipe Contepomi (c), 11 Juan Imhoff, 10 Nicolas Sanchez, 9 Martin Landajo, 8 Leonardo Senatore, 7 Juan Manuel Leguizamon, 6 Pablo Matera, 5 Patricio Albacete, 4 Manuel Carizza, 3 Matias Diaz, 2 Eusebio Guinazu, 1 Juan Figallo.
Replacements: 16 Agustin Creevy, 17 Nahuel Lobo, 18 Juan Pablo Orlandi, 19 Mariano Galarza, 20 Julio Farias Cabello, 21 Tomas Cubelli, 22 Santiago Fernandez, 23 Horacio Agulla.
Date: Saturday, August 17
Kick-off: 17:00
Venue: Soccer City, Soweto
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Reese can get Tiki for $2000 a game!
Should be someone with upside out there to fill the roster spot. Addai may not even have any downside left in him lol.
No one remembers who came in second.
Brandon Jacobs, DJ Ware aren't doing much these days.
So what's with Bradshaw. Didn't see game or highlights of bengals debacle. Did he suffer more injuries to his already long list of ailments. And what tests has he taken and when are the results expected?
Football has been very, very good to us.
Even though 2013-2015 were 3 losing season's, we can console ourselves with this fact-
# of Super Bowl victories since 1985:
1-Chicago, St. Louis, Tampa Bay, Indianapolis, New Orleans, Seattle
2-Washington, Green Bay, Pittsburgh, Baltimore
3-San Francisco, Dallas, Denver
4-New York Giants!!! & NE
Let's make it 5 in 2016 so we can be on a LINE all by ourselves again!!!
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Israel Folau scored a hat-trick after 42 minutes as Australia bounced back by hammering Argentina 54-17 in Rosario on Saturday.
Israel Folau scored a hat-trick after 42 minutes as Australia bounced back by hammering Argentina 54-17 in Rosario.
The Wallabies were utterly unrecognisable from the side that left Newlands with their tails between their legs seven days ago, playing with an intensity that was too much for Argentina to contain as they racked up a national record winning score in a Rugby Championship/Tri-Nations match.
Folau was at the heart of everything good that Australia produced, taking his tally to seven tries in nine matches at Test level since making his debut against the British and Irish Lions back in June.
Granted the defence opposite them was more porous than in recent weeks, but the Wallabies have often come unstuck when it has come to finishing off their chances. There was little complacency in Rosario as they racked up seven tries.
Argentina were for the most part brutally disappointing. The intensity shown against New Zealand and South Africa at home, based around a ferocious defence and physicality at the breakdown, was at times completely absent.
The Pumas are developing a concerning habit of imploding when the pressure is on to pick up their first victory in The Rugby Championship. The arrival of a tarnished Australia team torn apart in recent weeks by their critics presented an absolutely golden opportunity.
As much as Wallabies were brilliant, Argentina were painfully lacklustre. It was the worst possible goodbye for a Pumas legend – Felipe Contepomi bowing out at 36 years of age.
Their inaccuracy was best summed up a ten-minute period of dominance with four scrum penalties on the Australian five-metre line, only to leave the ball loose at the back of the fifth scrum for the Wallabies to pounce and clear. When their execution needed to be perfect, Argentina spluttered.
Too often the hosts couldn't live with the pace of Will Genia and Quade Cooper controlling the gain line through flat passes and pace around the flat-footed Argentinian forwards on the fringes.
Australia have been undone by bright starts in recent matches but they struck first here, working the ball into space for Joe Tomane who freed up room for Folau down the left touchline for the first score inside three minutes.
Tomane then squandered another golden chance when he failed to find a man after bursting through once more, the home crowd muted by the Wallabies' early impetus.
The Pumas have had the best scrum in the competition and it was no surprise to see them earn a penalty from the first engagement. A clever kick through behind forced Cooper to concede a five-metre scrum.
A precarious position for the Wallabies saw them buckle under the first engagement and then the second a few minutes later from the same distance.
With the Wallabies warned, they were lucky not to concede a penalty try after their third indiscretion. James Slipper was sin-binned after the fourth but on the fifth Australia escaped through Genia's kick – a psychological blow far more damaging than Folau's early try.
Argentina's dangerous burst illustrated their confidence at running from within their own half – Marcelo Bosch and Juan Imhoff causing problems for the backtracking Wallaby defence until Julio Farias Cabello was penalised for entering a ruck from the side.
Enjoying more space around the fringes than they have been afforded in the tournament until Rosario, Australia flourished – particularly thanks to the reintroduction of Genia at scrum-half whose flat passes continued to unlock the defence.
An interception from the impressive Marcelo Bosch resulted in Argentina's first points from the boot of fly-half Nicolas Sanchez as the crowd came back into life, before the renewed atmosphere was snuffed out.
Openside Pablo Matera was sin-binned for a tackle without the arms on a rampaging Scott Fardy down the touchline, Lealiifano adding his second penalty as a result to give Australia a healthy ten-point advantage.
Their lead then became insurmountable. Folau slipped out of the tackle down the right touchline and combined with Genia to release Adam Ashley-Cooper for the Wallabies second score – Australia up 18-3.
Folau, everywhere in first half, then hammered the nail in the coffin. Rob Simmons pass found the superb full-back on a sweet line up the middle of the field and the tri-code convert galloped over round Juan Martin Hernandez.
The Pumas desperately needed something to take into half-time and it came from Bosch, skipping inside a hapless tackling effort from Folau with Sanchez converting to reduce the deficit to 15 points.
Folau then sealed his hat-trick immediately after the break on an inside pass from Cooper for a score that looked way too easy.
Martin Landajo snapped back with a score for the Pumas as Australia ran out of numbers defending their own line, but with the Wallabies still ahead 32-17.
The Wallabies were reduced to 14 Simmons needlessly checked Contepomi off the ball, but the Pumas misfired on a promising attacking lineout inside the Australian 22.
Michael Hooper put down a simple pass after Tomane again burst through space to keep the Wallabies honest, 15 points ahead but with too long left in the game to be complacent. Three points from a Cooper penalty helped their cause.
Tomane grabbed an opportunistic score to bring up the 40-point mark for the Wallabies as Contepomi departed to a rousing reception on his 88th and final appearance.
Benn Robinson bounced over for Australia's sixth score before Bernard Foley turned out the lights on debut with a breakaway try, racking up the half century to cap a miserable night for the Pumas in a far cry from the one-point battle between these two sides in Perth earlier this season.
Man of the match: For finishing the contest so early, Israel Folau takes the plaudits. A major weapon.
Moment of the match: Argentina's successive scrums with the Wallabies on the rack before they forgot one thing… the ball.
Villain of the match: For daring to body-check the retiring Contepomi, Rob Simmons is your bad guy.
The scorers:
For Argentina:
Tries: Bosch, Landajo
Cons: Sanchez 2
Pen: Sanchez
Yellow Card: Matera
For Australia:
Tries: Folau 3, Ashley-Cooper, Tomane, Robinson, Foley
Cons: Lealiifano 2, Cooper, Foley 2
Pens: Lealiifano 2, Cooper
Yellow Card: Slipper
Argentina: 15 Juan Martin Hernandez, 14 Horacio Agulla, 13 Marcelo Bosch, 12 Felipe Contepomi, 11 Juan Imhoff, 10 Nicolas Sanchez, 9 Martin Landajo, 8 Juan Manuel Leguizamon, 7 Pablo Matera, 6 Juan Martin Fernandez Lobbe (c), 5 Patricio Albacete, 4 Julio Farias Cabello, 3 Juan Pablo Orlandi, 2 Eusebio Guinazu, 1 Marcos Ayerza.
Replacements: 16 Agustin Creevy, 17 Nahuel Lobo, 18 Matias Diaz, 19 Manuel Carizza, 20 Benjamn Macome, 21 Tomas Cubelli, 22 Santiago


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WINNIPEG – The Canadian women's volleyball team showed improvement tonight in their second match against Cuba in this week's three game 'Super-Series', but their opponents proved to be too much to handle. The 24th ranked Canadians lost in straight sets to 6th ranked Cuba with scores of 25-19, 25-22 and 29-27.
Sarah Pavan (Kitchner, ON) led Canada for a second straight game with 16 points, while Tammy Mahon (Holland, MB) added 10 of her own. For the Cuban Team, both Gyselle de la Caridad Silva Franco and Yanelis Santos Allegne had 11 points.
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The three game Super-Series offers local fans a rare opportunity to see Team Canada's top line up face internationally top-ranked Cuba in Winnipeg for multiple matches. Both the Canadian (ranked 24th in the world) and Cuban (ranked 6th) National teams are showing off their A-Squads as the Super-Series is acting as part of their preparations and lead up to the World Championships taking place a few weeks later in Japan.
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HUNTINGTON-George Orson Justice, age 71, passed away Friday, Sept. 16, 2011 at his home with his family at his side. Orson was born June 1, 1940 in LaPoint, Uintah County, Utah, one of six children born to George Jennings and Esther Jerome Majors Justice. Orson married Karren Palmer on Aug. 15, 1959 in Huntington, Utah. Their marriage was solemnized in the Salt Lake LDS Temple on March 2, 1964. They were blessed with six wonderful children.
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text: Great thread, but i think your underestimating Minatos age at time of death, and overestimating Hirzuens age at the time he became Hokage. I cant remember the page chapter, but there is a flashback of the founding of Konoha in which Hiruzen looks really young when trained by Hashirama and Tobirama. By this timeline he would have been twelve and he looked 7-8 max. For Minato, we know he died before 30, but to say he was 21 is too young. I would guess 25-26, i know he was a genius but I dont think he was that powerful at only 21.


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After a post last night in which I called a high-yield muni ETF a buy after its terrible, horrible, no good, very bad year, my colleague Randy Forsyth reminded me: There's a lot to recommend mutual funds over ETFs in a market as illiquid and retail-centric as muni bonds.
The fact that managers can avoid buying mechanically in a market where such behavior gets penalized may be one reason they're better at beating the index in this niche, where a manager's discretion matters. About "penalized": Bloomberg News recently noted a record streak of price discounts for the most popular muni ETF, which, like most every muni fund, is facing investor outflows.
Whereas the great majority of stock funds are whooped by the S&P 500 over long time spans, only 60% of general muni mutual funds lagged the S&P National AMT-Free Municipal Bond Index over five years, according to S&P's SPIVA study of active managers versus benchmarks.
So you've got a good shot of outperformance. During a strong 2012 for munis, 71% of muni mutual funds beat the index, meaning they also bested iShares S&P National AMT-Free Municipal Bond Fund (MUB).
One of them was BNY Mellon National Intermediate Muni Bond fund (MPNIX) — by a small margin. The margin's bigger over a longer span, with the fund's 5-year annualized return of 4.4% comparing to 3.6% for iShares.
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Maybe a little.
Just been reading around and Viz pretty serious about this, just saying don't be surprise if a month from now all the other major manga pirating sites go down. I bought year subscription for SJA. Actually pretty good. They've been doing this officially for like two weeks. They'll get better at it. Only 2 weeks behind the Japanese release, I think they might catch up (if Japan lets them) when they go on 3 week break in April. I'm hoping SJA is highly successful so Japan will let them close the gap.
So year subscription entitles me ; able to read all the chapters that come out starting this week for whole year. And If I want to keep permanent records I'll have to buy the online volumes, but I don't think I'll be doing that since I rather have the graphic novel.
Some notes so far
-I want to turn off comments. I really don't give a f*ck what other people think when I'm reading.
-Site is a little busy. It's hard to find certain things.
-Would be nice if chapters were current.
-Would be nice if I could just pay the damn fee and read all the back chapters.
25 bucks ain't sh*t bet the lot of you spend that weekly on cig's and booze. And the 5 bucks for the online volume good deal too. When I buy them , they come out to like 9-12 bucks because of shipping and bullsh*t taxes.
Here's a example you guys can try out of SJA online reading, guess you could say its the working product.