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This amateur babe stays fit and eats well for her man. She's willing to do anything for him, including flash her thick booty and suck his cock outside in public. By the time they got home, Kylie's pussy was soaking wet and ready for a hard pounding.
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Leave it to those saucy Brits to finish off their picnic making an amateur porn. This babe Victoria started flashing her big ass in public and teasing, before she whipped out dude's cock and throatfucked it. Then watch how she bounced on that cock!
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If you're down with horny sluts with thick butts and zero inhibitions, try this homemade porno we got from these newlyweds having dirty honeymoon sex. Katrina gave her man a sloppy blowjob outdoors, then ran inside for a hard, nasty fuck on the couch...
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Dude won the lottery for any guy who gets off filming amateur voyeur porn. He caught this couple fucking in the living room right in front of the window, and filmed dude licking that pussy, then turning his girl over to pound her right in the ass!
Dude locked himself in a change-room of the skating arena and banged the fuck out of this hottie he picked up. This amateur hottie called her tits "the world's best boobs" and she wasn't lying! Angel was willing to be so dirty for a couple ...
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When your girl's ass is tighter than a keyhole, you better get balls deep in that juicy butt! Dude talked his girl Isabella into letting him take her first anal, and he gave her virgin asshole the wicked pounding he'd been dreaming about forever.
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Women and the Olympics – A history of firsts
Olympic Women
Thankfully, much has changed. Though not always perfect, today's Olympics are a beacon of equality. At the 2012 games in London, there will be no men-only competitions -- unless you count the line to the men's loo at Wimbledon.
Throughout the 20th and 21st centuries, there have been all sorts of firsts for women at the Olympics, and not necessarily by the names you know best.
Charlotte Cooper and Hélène de Pourtalès
England's Charlotte Cooper, who won the tennis singles competition in Paris in 1900, is generally celebrated as the first female Olympic gold medalist in modern times. However, some assert that the title should go to Hélène de Pourtalès, a Swiss sailor who was part of the gold medal-winning crew in the 2-3 ton class mere weeks earlier.
Sarah Frances "Fanny" Durack
Australian swimmer Fanny Durack was the first woman to win a gold medal for swimming -- at the 1912 games in Stockholm. She and fellow athlete Mina Wylie were initially barred from competing in the games by the all-male Olympic selection committee, and even by their local swimming club, but officials soon relented as long as they agreed to pay their own expenses.
Elizabeth (Betty) Robinson
American runner Betty Robinson was just 16 when she became the first woman to capture gold in an Olympic track and field event, winning the 100-meter race in 1928 in Amsterdam. A decorated college runner at Northwestern University, she also won silver at the 1928 games in the 4x100-meter relay, and competed as a member of the Olympic relay team in 1936.
Louise Stokes and Tidye Pickett
American sprinters Louise Stokes, from Massachusetts, and Tidye Pickett, from Illinois, were the first black women to represent their country at the Olympics. Following a tumultuous ordeal in 1932, in which they qualified for the Olympics in the 400-meter relay but endured segregation and were not chosen to compete in the Los Angeles games, both women made the Olympic team again in 1936. Pickett ran the 80-meter hurdles at the Berlin games that year, but Stokes was again left out of competition.
Christl Cranz
German skier Christl Cranz became the first female gold medalist in skiing in 1936 at the Garmisch-Partenkirchen Olympics, in the brand-new alpine combined competition. Cranz owned the 1930s and remains the most decorated female skier outside of the Olympics, with 12 gold and three silver medals in the Alpine World Skiing Championships (FIS).
Margaret Murdock
U.S. army officer Margaret Murdock became the first woman to win a medal in shooting at the Olympics (1976, Montreal). Not only that, she competed directly against men (separate women's shooting events were added to the 1984 Olympics). Murdock tied with her American teammate, Lanny Bassham. And though Bassham was awarded gold (a shoot-off to break the tie was not permitted), he pulled Murdock up onto the gold medal podium with him during the playing of the national anthem in a gesture of mutual respect.
Joan Benoit
American distance runner Joan Benoit of Freeport, Maine won the first-ever women's Olympic marathon during the Los Angeles games in 1984. Though Benoit forever holds that honor (and others, including the fastest time for an American woman in the Chicago marathon), many women paved the way for the event's Olympic acceptance. Take Roberta Gibb, for example, who in 1966 sneaked into the male-only Boston marathon field to record a time of 3:21:25. She had to hide behind a bush at the starting line to avoid being seen.
Nadia Comăneci
The famous Romanian gymnast wasn't the first woman to win Olympic gold in gymnastics, but she was the first to record a perfect 10 in Olympic competition. Her feat in Montreal in 1976 propelled her (and her coach, Béla Károlyi) to international stardom during a time when her home country was isolated behind the iron curtain. She defected to the U.S. in 1989, and has received the Olympic Order -- the highest award given by the International Olympic Committee -- twice, the only person to receive the honor more than once.
U.S. Women's Soccer Team
1996 was the first year that women's soccer became an Olympic event, and the U.S. team dominated, defeating China 2-1 before a crowd of 76,000 outside Atlanta. The team benefitted from the play of one Mia Hamm, who at the time was a recent high school graduate. Some of the Olympic team members had been playing on men's teams in preparation for making the national team. Today, interest in women's soccer at the Olympics is just as high, if not higher, than in men's.


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Louisville's fifth annual Tommie Smith Youth Track and Field Meet will be held Saturday July 17 from 11:00 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. at Central High School Stadium located at Muhammad Ali Blvd. and 15th St. The Tommie Smith Track and Field Meet is an Amateur Athletic Union (A.A.U.) sanctioned event.
The event is open to children ages 4 to 18. Register by July 14 at www.louisville.gov/Health. More than 400 children ages four to eighteen are expected to participate. Olympic Gold Medalist Tommie Smith will be on hand.
This marks the first year that a community-based organization, The 100 Black Men of Louisville Inc., is hosting the event sponsored by the Louisville Metro Department of Public Health and Wellness in conjunction with the Mayor's Healthy Hometown Movement. Aetna is also supporting the event.
The Tommie Smith Youth Track and Field meet is part of the larger Tommie Smith Youth Initiative in Louisville. The Metro Department of Public Health and Wellness, The 100 Black Men of Louisville Inc., the YMCA and Metro Parks are working in partnership to decrease the factors for childhood obesity and lack of physical activity among elementary and high school-age children. The initiative includes instruction on nutrition and physical fitness.
Children in YMCA and Metro Parks camps have been receiving instruction all summer and are invited to participate in the Tommie Smith Track and Field Meet on July 17. In addition, children in the YMCA and Metro Parks summer camps will have their own track and field meets on July 15, 22 and 23. The 100 Black Men of Louisville Inc. has been working with local and regional track clubs to attract them to the Tommie Smith Youth Track Meet on July 17.
Tommie Smith is the only man in the history of track and field to hold 11 world records simultaneously. He won the gold medal in the 200 meters at the 1968 Olympic Games. Smith gained worldwide prominence when he and teammate, bronze-medal winner John Carlos, raised gloved fists during the medal ceremony to protest racial discrimination in America. The photo of this nonviolent demonstration became one of the iconic images of the 1960s and 70s.
After a successful career in the National Football League and as a college instructor and track coach, Tommie Smith went on to organize track initiatives for disadvantaged youth in Oakland Calif. The clubs have had remarkable success, not only in raising physical fitness levels among participants, but also in raising academic performance. The Department of Public Health and Wellness began replicating this initiative in Louisville in 2005. Since then the initiatives have also been replicated in New Orleans LA and Washington D.C.


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GOOD MORNING DELMARVA - Mary Onley, known as "Mama Girl," is a self-taught artist who was born, reared, and still lives in her hometown of Painter VA on the Eastern Shore of VA.
Her lyrical sculptures, similar to paper maché (but without wire or other frame), consist exclusively of newspaper. They poignantly mirror the experience of being black in America. Onley's life bears similarities to the acclaimed black painter of the Harlem Renaissance, Jacob Lawrence (1917-2000), whose work appears in major museums throughout the country.
Both Lawrence and Onley came from families who labored on farms. Neither could go to school because the money they earned in the fields was crucial to support their families, and both discovered art as a way of resolving deep depression.
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You can enjoy a play written by one of America's greatest playwrights this weekend in south Georgia.
The stage is set at ABAC for Tennessee Williams' The Glass Menagerie.
The play focuses on a family from Mississippi trying to make ends meet in Depression-era St. Louis.
ABAC doesn't have a theater program but The Baldwin Players put on two plays per year.
The director of the group says there is plenty of acting talent on campus.
"A lot of our students come here and they've acted in high school, with their high school plays or they've been involved in drama clubs," said Dr. Brian Ray.
You can see The Glass Menagerie each night through Saturday at seven o'clock at Howard Auditorium.
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Cognizant of the public looking on, Tapp-Harper started to describe a sensitive strategy and got the "cut it off" sign from a smiling Batts.
Maj. Johnny Delgado, the commander of the Northwestern District, was also asked how a shooting could have occurred in his district despite the area being well-trafficked. Delgado responded that two officers were working a foot patrol beat just one block away.
"When you talk about putting people where the crime is, that's pretty close," Delgado, saying the deployment has generally helped tamp down crime in that area.
With strong support in the audience from his district, Delgado told police brass - and Rawlings-Blake, who joined the meeting during his time - that he needed more resources. The question came after Batts asked what had changed in the district to cause a spike in homicides.
"What we lost was very basic part of policing: we lost the ominpresence of cops," Delgado said. He explained that last year, he was able to identify eight "hot zones" in his district, and keep officers on them continuously. "This year, I haven't been able to do that," he said. In his district, "if you don't see a cop every three minutes, we'll have a problem."
Delgado said he's bracing for a seasonal spike in robberies in the areas around Reisterstown Plaza and described his plan.
"We have a lot of work to do," Delgado said. "Every day is not a perfect day. But we'll continue on our relentless pursuit to catch these guys and put them in jail."
In his first comments as commissioner last month, Batts said that while continuing to reduce homicides is important, he also wanted to emphasize quality-of-life crimes that affect a broader swath of residents. With homicides picking up this month, much of his attention has been focused on that area and so did Thursday's Comstat.
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... might as well jump right in and see how bad i break my neck. This first batch of sketches is what i threw down in the past two days after a long, long time of doing absolutely nothing.
i have a lot to learn (and re-learn) so i hope to show some improvement over time. i plan to add as much as i can in the hopes that i can get some feedback from any and all that might take the time to look in here.
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-this is pretty much my first doodle in CS2 with my new tablet. It would be an understatement to say that i have lots to learn here. Aside from that, the doodle follows the style of my charcoal sketches.
So what do you think? Please let me know...
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... this is my first stab at digital coloring in PS7 by following a tutorial at http://www.steeldolphin.com and using line art by Jimmy R. Vann.
Looking at it again i realized that i deserve a fat slap to the back of the head for my color selection... it's pretty lacking there.
... yet more craptacular sketches.
i'm really looking forward to my figure drawing class. i plan on soaking in as much as possible so that this lousy string of sketches can become a reference point to some improvement.
... this time i went with a reference and i think it helped a bit.
i'm planning on working some more on this one, so i'll post the next version before long.
... i'm pretty glad to be a part of an ssg and i'm looking forward to swapping feedback. But i can't help but to feel like the red-headed, chubby kid at the back of the class trying to keep pace with the rest of the group.
But i guess on the positive side of that, is there's no where to go but up.
Hey there!
I just finished looking through your sb here. I think you have a good start here and the photo ref'd stuff looks good. If you want suggestions you might want to try to do still life stuff. (like cups and boxes and such just the primay forms) It will greatly improve your understanding of the form. I'm a bit hard pressed for time right now, so i can't give any specific crits or comments right now, but will do so in the future when you update again. Can i ask how much you draw every day, and what are your goals?
Inkfish - thanks. Focusing on basic shapes seems like the way to go. Think i'll do that. No sense running helter skelter with the sketchbook when i need the basics.
i juggle a fulltime job and some freelance web design, so while it seems like i don't have a lot of free time, there is and i just need to DRAW!
i try and stick to at least an hour or 2 hours a day for sketching right now.
Eventually i want to just be good or at least hold my own with illustration. i figure this will help me with designing better web sites (visually) as well as give me back the rewarding feeling of creating art.
I wouldn't worry about that, we've all got a lot of learning to do, and more people will hopefully join the sketchbook, so we'll have a wide variety of styles and skill levels.Originally Posted by pogy366... i'm pretty glad to be a part of an ssg and i'm looking forward to swapping feedback. But i can't help but to feel like the red-headed, chubby kid at the back of the class trying to keep pace with the rest of the group.
But i guess on the positive side of that, is there's no where to go but up.
I think you're headed in the right direction. Drawing bones and muscle structures will help you improve. And your reffed work is coming out quite well!
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... a shameless attempt to color one of DaveTheOriginal's lineart images (thanks Dave). Cranked it out while at work... with a mouse and far too much coffee in the system.
Hey Pogy. The colorjob looks good so far.If you are aiming for cell-shaded colouring with this it looks good. If you want to make it look more real you might want to add some darker and lighter values to it in order to make it look more 3d, some shadows might help too.
... thanks Ink. i was thinking only of doing the cell coloring. Once i'm more familiar with my tablet and everything that goes with the brush settings in PS, i think i'll push my painting further.
I think, if you wanted to improve the cell-shading then you could also make those shades darker too. Right now the shading on the skull is really faint, even for cell shading.
I really like some of the gradients you used though, they help make it more interesting and the gradient behind the skeleton helps bring the focus onto him. Good job on that.
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Hey Pogy, I like what you're doing. You're at a beginner level but you're already going to figure drawing class. That's very good.
You need to have some finished drawings, I'm talking no references, that way you know where you're weak on. Or at least so WE know. It's very good to draw from reference, but you need to break from that just to see where you are and what you've learned so far.
Michael - thanks for the crit. Seems strange to be called a beginer at 35. - and a bit depressing.
i've normally just drawn what comes to mind. For now i'm thinking of working on figures, perspectives and proportions. i'd like to take that and apply it to a style that more suits me and allows me just spill my guts (so to speak) on the "canvas" but remain strong in the underlying structure.
thanks for takign a look!
Nice Skeleboy and nice colored BoobPatrol Girl :>
Nice ones, keep UP.
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when drawing hands and faces, break them down into simple shapes! there was a saying somewhere that you can draw anything from a sphere, a box and a cone or something similar, and its true! you can break down the hand into simple cylinder shapes to help you dfraw it in a more 3D way..same thing goes for the face- the cranium can be a sphere-ish shape, and so on....try looking at objects and trying to visualise the simple shalpes. just practice drawing these shapes n stuff-- when we have toruble with drawing its usually related back to basic stuff like this.
rodrigo - thanks brother. i've decided i need to fight the urge to draw other subjects when my basics are so lacking. i've picked up some books and online tutorials explaining what you pointed out.
i'm also positive that i can learn from your work there in your sketchbook.
So i'm doing shapes and trying to grasp the whole shading thing (it's always escaped me). Then i'll focus on the figure and work from there.
Thanks for the crit.
... while i should really scan in my sketches of basic shapes, i played around the tablet and PS with the brushes hoping to get the hang of what does what. The following craptastic doodles are the end result.
i promise to scan the basics in a day or two.
when painting digitally it's not a good idea to draw on white bg. When you start sculpting the form with light the whites tend to oversaturate your highlights, just a random tought for later
thats exactly wat i mean, im glad i helped. I spose you should post up some studies that you do as well from those books, it would be good to see how you progress with those! You have the right attitude, just keep at it
godrifle - true enough. i'll try that. i've never pushed myself with the concept of shading to convey mass and weight either. i think differnet angles and perspectives is the way to go.
Ink - that's why things don't seem quite right (along with other things i'm sure). Thanks for the suggestion, i'll defintely do that.
rodrigo - i appreciate it too! Any advice you float my way with life drawing and figures, it's a safe bet i'll be listening. i'm itching to just draw figures and anatomy, but i think i'll stick to just objects and basic shapes for about a week. i really need to get a handle on it before i move on.
Nice improvement so far, the tablet sketches are pretty fun.
Just make sure your don't focus too much on lines and neglect form and shape, that's something I used to do and I'm paying for it now
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staylor - i've realized that i go straight for details and ignore the basics and the overall shape. Something i have to get used to changing. No sense trying to tweak a pure pig of an image. Thanks.
afgal - thanks for checking it out!
Yo Im into back in the game, I dont have as much time as I wanted
so this is just a quikie, you need to work on you perspective construccion,
make more exersices of cilider bodies and simple geometric shapes,
and post more studies, so that we can see how you develop your self,
I like your imagination do keep developing that as well!!
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I created a git repo with a framework for testing Drupal sites using Capybara webkit and RSpec so any Drupal developers can just clone it and go.
The first question I'm likely to get here is "Why?" Drupal has its own testing framework SimpleTest which can be used for both Unit and Functional tests, so why try to use RSpec/Ruby? Also, SimpleTest has access to all of the Drupal-y goodness, why write functional tests in Ruby where those functions would not be available?
That's a great question. In my case I'm trying to run tests on a Drupal instance that is on a different machine. In my case I'm trying to run the tests from by desktop and hit my production web server which is on an offsite clustered server. Here SimpleTest wouldn't fit the bill. These tests allow me to take into account network latency and such.
Note, of course since these tests are not in Drupal, tests written and performed like this will not do the setup/teardown like SimpleTest. So I would strongly suggest only touching data on test websites.
First, test that ruby exists and is the right version.
I used ruby 1.9.3-p194 managed by rvm but I believe any 1.9+ version of ruby should work here with Capybara.
Next, clone my repo which is basically a skeleton setup ready to test Drupal using Capybara. In the repo I've included a file called default.config.yaml. You will want to copy that file to config.yaml. The Gemfile should be set up to install all necessary dependencies.
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Now edit config.yaml and change the values to match the Drupal site you are testing.
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Is it working?
I've included two sample tests, one which will just check to ensure the site can be hit and the second which should try logging in to your Drupal site using the values in config.yaml. I've tested this both on Drupal 6 and Drupal 7 and works out of the box on both.
Try to run the tests and ensure things work. Go to the root of that directory (drupal-capybara by default) and try to run it! (do not try to run this from inside the spec directory, you'll get errors.)
You should see something like the following:
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The warnings can be safely ignored. I am not sure exactly why they're there, something to do with the way the Capybara webkit code is with Mountain Lion. But it's just a warning and doesn't have anything to do with our web tests.
Note: The login test I included will only work if your system has not altered the login page. If something has changed the Log In button to say "Login" or "Go" or "Submit" or anything else, the test will fail. This is one of the downsides of trying to write tests for Drupal in a system that is not associated with Drupal – it cannot dynamically know about anything which has changed internal to Drupal.
** Capybara webkit can be a bit of a tricky beast to get installed on your system with dependencies and such. Jump to the bottom to see more details on some possible solutions.
Now test that tests fail correctly by changing your password in config.yaml to a bad value and run it again.
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You should see something like the following:
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Here failure is a good thing! Shouldn't be able to log in if the password is wrong. Don't forget to change your password back in config.yaml before moving on.
This isn't a full rspec tutorial as such, but with my example tests that should be a good start. I've included a third sample test of filling out a Drupal form in my code (specifically in spec/drupal_capybara_spec.rb, but it's commented out by default because that's kind of specific to the particulars of the site and I didn't want to send this out with tests likely to fail on most systems.
I should note, you can also run RSpec to get a nice HTML output. Just run the following:
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You should be all set and ready to write some tests!
Troubleshooting Capybara Webkit
Not to sugar coat things, I found Capybara Webkit pretty painful to get installed.
I'll help with the issues I overcame, but generally it will likely involve some googling and such as it's very dependent on the particulars of the system on which this is being run. For reference, I am on Mountain Lion (10.8.2) using ruby 1.9.3-p194. I also use HomeBrew to manage packages.
If you get the following error:
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Then it's likely qt is not installed on your system. I resolved this by running:
Mentioned above, but if you're on Mountain Lion you will likely see a warning such as:
but it can safely be ignored.
If all else fails and you cannot get Webkit working on your system, Selenium can be used instead of Capybara Webkit so all this magic still works, just using Selenium instead of Webkit.
Alternative setup with Selenium
To use Selenium instead of headless Webkit, simply edit the drupal_capybara_spec.rb file as follows:
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ST. LOUIS – Falcons middle linebacker Curtis Lofton led the Falcons in tackles with eight against the St. Louis Rams on Sunday.
"It just took us a little while to get into the groove," Lofton said. "But once we got it going, things started working out pretty good for us."
The Falcons held Rams running back Steven Jackson to 54 yards on 11 carries.
"It took the entire defense," Lofton said. "Everyone has to keep going after him and keep putting their pads on him. Everyone did a good job of that."
The Falcons are 8-2 and have the best record in the NFC. They are tied with New England and the New York Jets for the best record in the league.
"8-2 is great," Lofton said. "It was a nice road win. But we haven't played a complete game yet, so I guess that's next. We are in a good spot right now."
Next up for the Falcons are the white-hot Green Bay Packers, who pummeled Brett Favre and the Minnesota Vikings, 31-3, to improve to 7-3. The Falcons need to beat the Packers in order to garner the head-to-head tie breaker in the case the teams end up tied for the playoffs.
Homefield advantage will be key. It could mean the difference between a middle of January game in frosty Lambeau Field or a nice comfy game at the Dome.
It might be time for the Falcons to come up with that "complete" game.
"We know that we can play a lot better," Lofton said. "We haven't played a complete game. I think everyone realizes that. We have to try to put complete games together and start building off of that."
November 21st, 2010
11:13 pm
1st for 1st comment. good to be a winner!
November 21st, 2010
11:15 pm
A pretty good game but the Falcons will have to really turn it on to beat GB. Still in a good position though.
November 21st, 2010
11:21 pm
We survived and did well. Looks like the Rams are back. Good to be going home next week.
November 21st, 2010
11:29 pm
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November 21st, 2010
11:29 pm
Hope Abe's back because we need to make Mr. Rodgers very uncomfortable!
November 21st, 2010
11:39 pm
anyone see Harry Douglas today? Did he even play?
November 21st, 2010
11:45 pm
Good to see spoon out there for a few plays. Hope Abe will be back for GB. Nice all around game once the Defense got on track. And how about that clock management. Wow, the time of possession was great.
November 21st, 2010
11:46 pm
yeah HD played but you wouldn't have know if from his increasing abiltity to disappear in games. he's like a ghost
November 21st, 2010
11:55 pm
Hey bird fans what happened to enjoying the victory. Forget Harry Douglas for right now, what about how well Michael Jenkins played today. While Jenks is not HotRoddy, he did really well today.
November 21st, 2010
11:55 pm
Well now let me sat, that was a hell of game today. Next up is Green Bay so this is for you brother AAron Mr. Rogers this ant your neighborhood. If you don't know it be longs to Mr. Ryan's and Mr. Turner
so come on down and get yourself some. GO FALCONS
November 22nd, 2010
12:00 am
That he did sly ty. he had a really good game today and it was on time, but those drops by T G hurt for a while then the O got on track.
November 22nd, 2010
12:18 am
Let's order a new set of shoes for the Falcons most expensive CB. Left shoe: 'Earn your'. Right shoe: 'pay Dunta'. Packers coming to town – it's time to step it up, secondary.
November 22nd, 2010
1:22 am
Green Bay has ZERO running game, so the key will be to get pressure on Rodgers so he doesn't have time to pick apart the secondary. Also, gotta get Turner going early to maintain time of possession. Keep Rodgers on the sidelines!
November 22nd, 2010
1:33 am
Wow. Cannot wait for the Gang Green Packers ! ! ! !
November 22nd, 2010
2:02 am
This was one of the best games ever called by Mike Murlarkey. The falcons need to keep the no huddle going and let Matt Ryan make decisions at the line. I saw very little negative today except for Roddy uncharacteristically losing his temper once and Dunta being asleep at the wheel on a few plays. Special teams play today was solid. O line gave up zero sacks today. Overall solid effort on the road. I'm not sure what the 3 RB formations were all about since I think they netted 5 yards total out of that scheme. maybe this is something they are trying to build on for one big play in the future?
November 22nd, 2010
2:22 am
It's going to take an effort equal to, if not better than, the Baltimore game to beat the Packers. I am looking forward to the Green Bay game, especially if John Abraham can get healthy and back in the lineup.
November 22nd, 2010
3:53 am
I sure miss you guys.
November 22nd, 2010
7:28 am
Don't worry Keith, I'll send you an early xmas present like I have the last few years.
November 22nd, 2010
7:29 am
Don't forget about me Kurt!
November 22nd, 2010
8:02 am
Good win yesterday. But…does anyone else get the feeling the Falcons are playing up/down to the competition?
November 22nd, 2010
8:14 am
I like the Falcons but I really cannot see them beating Green Bay or Philly. The Giants have amazing speed on defense and they could not cover the Philly receivers. You saw what Philly did to us a few weeks ago – in the playoffs they will beat us twice as bad.
November 22nd, 2010
8:18 am
I am a Matt Ryan fan. BUT he made 3 bad plays in the red zone today that cost us three TD's and that can't happen against a good team if they expect to win. He threw a very short pass to TG at the 5 that was thrown too hard for any human to grab. Next trip down he didn't see him uncovered in the endzone. Next trip he tried to make up for that mistake by throwing it to TG who was blanketed by 3 Rams. Those mistakes can't continue to be made and also beat good teams.
November 22nd, 2010
8:22 am
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November 22nd, 2010
8:30 am
Since Fox Charlotte decided to show the flippin' Saints game and I had company in town I was unable to watch the Falcons/Rams at a bar so please bear with me…
Did I see on a "gamebreak" that #23 for the Falcons got burnt for another TD??? Please, someone tell my eyes were playing tricks on me. What is the breakdown on performance between #23 and #20 this season on coverage, TDs, yards after catch, etc.??
Some "shutdown" corner he has been. He's pretty much one step away from being Big Play Ray.
November 22nd, 2010
8:43 am
Worth another glance…
November 22nd, 2010
8:44 am
Dunta is just one step above placing a tackling dummy in front of the receiver and hoping that he will trip.
November 22nd, 2010
8:52 am
So…..Where was Perrier Jerry? Same with Witherspoon. I seen him in the game, but I only seen him NOT make plays.
Way to go Atlanta First Round Busts!
November 22nd, 2010
8:55 am
The coaching staff by focusing on fast developing routes, Matt Ryan with his quick release and the O line all deserve credit for stopping cold a good defensive pass rush. –We seem to be transitioning into a pass first to set up the run team as once again Turner and the run game was ineffective early in the game. Has Harry Douglas retired? Kudos to the long snapper, holder and PK as we have one of the most consistent kickers in the conferance. Special teams had a second straight excellent game. Hope Abe recovers soon, but remember he had a groin injury after the opening Carolina game two years ago and was out three or four games. Pass rush against the Rams was ineffective without him. Ryan needs to improve in one aspect: once again he overthrew a wide open receiver White on a long pass. Defense holding Rams to 17 is a B+.
November 22nd, 2010
9:01 am
PHIL- If you want to be picky, I agree with points 2 and 3. However, an NFL player, especially one the caliber of Tony Gonzalez must make that catch.
November 22nd, 2010
9:03 am
Nice victory Falcons. Ram QB prevented TD return of 100 or so yards after key interception at end. Things were about to get really scary. Falcon secondary needs tremendous amount of improvement. Too many blown assignments and mishandled interceptions. Falcon front needs to notch up pressure on QB. With or without John Abraham. Still not completely satisfied with offensive play calling. Falcons had no business allowing Rams to continue to hang around. Final score does not indictate closeness of contest. Another Matt Ryan overthrow for TD plus Roddy White drop on third down were not factors. Would be against quality teams like Green Bay Packers or New Orleans Saints. Glad Michael Turner squeezed out over 100 yards rushing with last burst. Deserved plateau. Defense saved day again with end zone interception. Becoming a habit. On top in NFC now but one or two losses can knock Falcons into middle of pack in a hurry. So it goes. Still no respect. Oh well. STENDEK
November 22nd, 2010
9:06 am
Hi Dean. Every professional team in Atlanta seems to make that mistake. Killer instinct never been present in city teams. Best. STENDEK
November 22nd, 2010
9:41 am
Looks like Joe Tess either found his spell check or posted under the wrong moniker by mistake.
November 22nd, 2010
10:21 am
You guys who are giving kudos to the special teams did not watch the game that I did … another STUPID step out of bounds penalty, more long returns, and then we almost got called for having an "illegal wedge" on our longest return of the day — the announcers pointed this out and were expecting a call on it. Gotta lock down our special teams play. Teams that go deep in the playoffs take care of this stuff.
November 22nd, 2010
10:24 am
I LOVE my Falcons, don't get me wrong, but if we gave up two touchdowns to a rookie QB, what is our pass defense gonna look like vs. Aaron Rodgers? Our pass defense has to get better. We can not afford to allow big plays vs. Green Bay. Crowd noise needs to be loud, our defensive front needs to pressure Rodgers and our safeties and corner backs better be covering the WR's and TE's like a blanket! Our defense better step it up a couple of notches if we plan on keeping the best record in the NFC and NFC South!
November 22nd, 2010
10:25 am
@ Jesse
Eitehr tlak football or leave. No need 2 call me names.
November 22nd, 2010
10:30 am
@ North FLA Falcon – Special teams were solid. The one long punt return should have been flagged….Weems was clearly being held at the point. The illegal touch was not a penalty….the refs picked up the flag during the TV timeout and the Rams started right where the ball was touched.
The Rams did what they could (nice young disciplined team) but they got mauled by a better team.
November 22nd, 2010
10:32 am
Joe Tess—–Peria Jerry made a huge play to stop Steven Jackson from making a third down run. He looked pretty good despite not being out there the entire game; which is the only way you would stop calling him a bust.
As for Sean WEATHERSPOON, it was his first game back from a knee injury. What did you expect?
November 22nd, 2010
10:33 am
Some of you fans (or what ever you are) are to %$#@@ sorry…"you keep drinking the Kool-Aid of ESPN, NFL Nework, Mike and Mike, desk top analyst, and sorry a$$ sports writers who have never played a down…..If I remember last year we beat a good Jets team in New York…and then you scare to death because the Ravens were coming to town to beat our BUTTS….so for you sorry doubtful so call Falcons fans check and FEEL if you still have some BA*&S…….
November 22nd, 2010
10:42 am
Move the Green Bay game to 4:15. Let the fans get home from church, down to the Dome, get all likkered up and then make it LOUD for Mr. Rodgers.
November 22nd, 2010
10:55 am
Nobody cares about the Falcons. The media is gushing over Green Bay, The New York Jets, and The Patriots.
November 22nd, 2010
11:00 am
@KOOL-AID drinkers…
Green Bay is not all that….keep in mind they have no running game… they're one dimensional that makes playing them a little easier…so just have your BUTT at the "ICE HOUSE" Sunday making as much noise there as you do on this blog….let me know if you and your party would like to join me in my suite with food and drinks…..
November 22nd, 2010
11:05 am
Dude, I am at every game! I would love to see the inside of a GA Dome suite!
November 22nd, 2010
11:19 am
@ Ueeediot and Everybody else
I been informed that its not my week to have the "Timeshare" suite at the Dome…but I'll let all of you know when its is…..I'm sorry.
November 22nd, 2010
11:21 am
oh well, the dream lives on…
November 22nd, 2010
11:24 am
@ Falconfan284
Witherspoon is a first round pick. I expect more better then he is giving us. He is a bust. Plane and simple.
November 22nd, 2010
11:36 am
If Atlanta beats Green Bay and Chicago beats Philly this week it's possible neither Green Bay or Philly will make the playoffs. The wild cards will be either Atlanta or New orleans and most likely Tampa Bay.I would love that to happen. I think Chicago and New York win their divisions.
November 22nd, 2010
11:57 am
Remember during the off season when everyone was all up in the air about getting rid of WR MJenkins, or replace him with HDouglas, as well as replace CB BGrimes and DT/DE JAnderson? Can you now see how stupid it is to make snap judgements based on emotions and/or uninformed opinions?
OC MMularkey has certainly opened up the OFF, and we're clicking. The only thing that keeps the Falcons from being considered an elite team by the masses is our DEF. While we certainly have the talent to be an elite DEF team, we don't have enough experience.
Other than DE JAbraham, DT JBabineaux and OLB MPeterson, none of our starters have 4yrs of experience, and the same goes for the majority of our backups. This is expecially true when it comes to the interior of our DL. DT CPeters is a rookie, DT PJerry is essentially inhis rookie yr, due to missing virtually all of last season, DT VWalker is in his 2nd yr, and DT/DE JAnderson is in his 4th yr and really coming on strong. OLB SWeatherspoon is a rookie, SNickolas is in he 3rd yr, and SAdkins is in his 2nd yr. This is essentially FS WMoore's rookie yr, due to missing all of last yr due to an injury, and SS TDeCoud is in his 3rd yr. CB BGrimes is in his 3rd yr, COwens his 2nd yr and DFranks his rookie yr.
Due to youth and lack of experience, the Atlantal Falcons DEF has a tremendous amount of room for growth, and will continue getting better as a result. We just need to add more depth.
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November 22nd, 2010
12:18 pm
"Witherspoon is a first round pick. I expect more better then he is giving us. He is a bust. Plane and simple."
what are you talking about. "give us" you are not a falcons fan. you talk garbage all day long. repeat the same junk about players who are busts. you have no idea what you are talking about. from the true fans to you, LEAVE. NO ONE CARES WHAT YOU THINK
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The Falcons are playing to their competition, and that's fine as long as they keep finding ways to win. If this, if that…..there are few COMPLETE teams in the NFL, so here's my IF……Give us and sho nuff shut down corner…..not another D. Hall (his big head won't let him be as good as he can be.) Even if it's someone older like a Charles Woodson with a couple of good years left in him. Someone to teach the younger guys. I like our D line, but they are young. Is Abraham a big help to these guys in the locker room? I'm not knocking him, it's an honest question because I don't know…


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By Adam Berliant
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There aren't a lot of good reasons to be a science fiction freak.
Sure, the genre gets respect, not to mention box office yield, but the poor innocent fans are still depicted as lifeless, dateless, and wearing Vulcan ears.
But, and we say this with love, sci-fi fans often deserve the reputation. Once people overhear some pale guy with wizard hair explaining how a light saber simply isn't possible, as the exposed plasma from the device would irradiate every living organism with a 5-kilometer radius, what are people supposed to think? "Sexy?"
Yet, part of being a sci-fi fan is being its harshest critic, and so we can't help ourselves. Its part of the fun to discuss what was and wasn't good science fiction. And to be clear, this has nothing to do with one's ability to enjoy a movie. Did anything in "The Fifth Element" make sense? No. Did it kick ass? Yes.
So, this list is dedicated to the sci-fi fan. It's our stab at the 10 incredibly dumb things that occurred in otherwise really successful sci-fi movies in recent times. Don't look for B-movies or classics here. This is where the blockbusters went wrong.
Imperial walkers attack the rebels
"The Empire Strikes Back"
Why it's so dumb: So, the same company that brings you the dark side of the force and the death star decides that tall, slow, off balance elephant thingies with laser beam-shooting tusks are the best way to ferret out the rebels from their underground fortress? Darth Vader may have been a patsy, but we all know he wasn't that stupid. If ever a huge planet destroying technology was the appropriate choice, this was it.
Why we don't care: Seeing the walkers come into focus in the rebel binoculars was the moment when "Star Wars" fans realized that "The Empire Strikes Back" might indeed be cooler than the original. That scene alone could be the reason we paid to see four more.
The aliens need "Signs"
Why it's so dumb: So many sci-fi fans have heard this one that it's almost bad form to mention it, but the blunder is pretty simple: Aliens navigate the vastness of space and find life on a puny planet. Then it turns out they need cornfields on that puny planet to point them to fresh meat. The only thing that made sense about the scenario is that the aliens wanted to eat Mel Gibson first.
Why we don't care: As every sci-fi fan can tell you, "I want to believe."
John Hurt feels better, so opts for breakfast
Why it's so dumb: "Oh, thank goodness the acid-blooded crab thing fell off my face. Hey, do I smell scrambled eggs?" Despite a ship full of highly-intelligent technical and science people, the crew of the Nostromo decides not to quarantine their alien-toting buddy long enough to make sure there were no problems along the lines of, say, stomach erupting alien babies.
Why we don't care: A hundred space horror movies later, including three more "Alien" flicks, a lot don't remember how terrifying "Alien" was in 1979. And while the movie was good and creepy up to this point, the "man gives birth" scene was the moment when the movie went from just scary to the scariest movie you had ever seen.
Skynet sends a new and improved Terminator
"Terminator 2: Judgment Day"
Why it's so dumb: There were at least 50 smarter, easier alternatives to whacking Sarah Conner and her unborn son other than sending back the hit-machine to the land of big hair. And after screwing up the first time, why would they try again after Sarah has had years to train both herself and her military mastermind child? How about sending a good old T-1000 back to Sarah's great, great, great grandmother's house around 1880? What would Kyle have used to fight? A musket?
Why we don't care: The relentless pursuer is a suspense theme predating the written word, and for good reason. "T2" felt like high-budget vindication for all of us who actually saw and enjoyed "The Terminator" the first time around.
Jeff Goldblum uploads a virus to save the world
"Independence Day"
Why it's so dumb: "Independence Day" had already lost all credibility when Will Smith climbed into an alien spacecraft and after a few moments, figured out how to fly the thing. But dumb turns to laugh-out-loud ludicrous when Jeff Goldblum conquers the aliens with a floppy disk, in an absurd homage to "War of the Worlds." He should have just stuffed a peanut butter sandwich into the disk drive. It would have had the same odds of working.
Why we don't care: Because we like absurd homages to "War of the Worlds." Part of loving sci-fi is recognizing moments that only other sci-fi fans will recognize. The only thing better would have been if Orson Welles did a voiceover for "virus uploading" rather than simply seeing the words on the screen.
Dr. Brundle tries out his fly machine
"The Fly"
Why it's so dumb: Jeff Goldblum's character is smart enough to defy physics and biology in every conceivable way, including appearing attractive to Geena Davis, but he isn't smart enough to keep his equipment free of household pests. But honestly, that's not the dumbest part. The dumbest part is that he rationalizes ever stepping into the thing. If Goldblum's "Jurassic Park" character were there, he would have said, "Don't be an idiot," and the movie would have been over.
Why we don't care: "The Fly" was a movie with the world's easiest gimmick: Watch a guy turn into a fly. There should be more movies like this. Watch a guy turn into a lobster. Watch a guy turn into an oyster. This is what science is all about.
Velociraptors come off like geniuses
"Jurassic Park"
Why it's so dumb: Jaws was a thoughtless eating machine and scared the swim trunks off of us, so why did we need dinosaurs fresh from the debate club? The book read perfectly well with the dinosaurs just being very, very hungry. The raptors, despite having acorn-sized brains, seemed to have no problem navigating a vast building they'd never been in before in order to corral Sam, Laura and the kids in the lobby. Maybe the T-Rex came in and ate them just for their severe lack of credibility.
Why we don't care: You'd be challenged to find a single person from the "Land of the Lost" generation who didn't love some part of "Jurassic Park." And besides, it was nice to see the computer generated image technology put to use in a ways other than aliens and terminators.
Agents throw punches at Neo
"The Matrix"
Why it's so dumb: Anything that happens to you in the Matrix happens to you for real, right? Thus verifying the theory that if you die in your dream, you're really dead. So why then do the Agents decide that shotguns and kung-fu are the best way to take out Neo? If the Matrix is such a savvy computer, wouldn't, "Neo is in New Jersey, good-bye New Jersey!" be a pretty obvious solution?
Why we don't care: Most sci-fi fans had read William Gibson's "Neuromancer" many years earlier, and "The Matrix" finally helped visualize what the hell was happening in that book.
Superman turns back time
"Superman: The Movie"
Why it's so dumb: This is the classic problem with any time travel plot. If Superman can turn back time, why not turn it back a few years, find Lex Luthor, and break a few fingers? Instead, Superman turns back the clock just enough to save Lois from a not-so-shallow grave.
Why we don't care: Actually, we do. This one is just too dumb.
Jodie Foster and company pass the alien MENSA test
Why it's so dumb: Intelligent creatures from across the universe go to great lengths to let humanity know they exist in an otherwise great movie called "Contact." Life from distant galaxies intelligent enough to capture our rays, translate them, then dramatically send us the blueprints for a wormhole machine, somehow found it necessary to put those blueprints on a flattened piece of origami.
Why we don't care: "Contact" was (finally) the insightful and thought provoking sci-fi movie fans had waited more than a decade for (with all due respect to "Species"). And most fans removed their Vulcan ears in honor of Carl Sagan while watching it.
What is the dumbest moment in science fiction history? Let us know at firstname.lastname@example.com
Adam Berliant is a long-time MSN Entertainment staff writer, who is still looking for an excuse to mention Godzilla Against Mechagodzilla in one of his columns. But we forced him to just put it in this bio.
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Since its founding in September 2004, nonprofit organization Rebuild Northwest Florida has performed structural retrofits on nearly 7,000 houses in the panhandle counties of Escambia and Santa Rosa. For most of that work, grant money from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) paid 75% of the cost; homeowners only had to pay 25%.
But now, a Department of Homeland Security Inspector General's audit of the non-profit's practices says that Rebuild Northwest Florida paid a hand-picked contractor too much to manage the work — and that some of the bracing added to roofs may be inadequate to resist the 130-mph design winds specified in the FEMA grants.
Assistant Inspector General Matt Jadacki's audit report is posted on the DHS website ("FEMA Hazard Mitigation Grant Funds Awarded to Rebuild Northwest Florida, Pensacola, Florida"). The audit says Rebuild Northwest Florida didn't put the retrofit work out to bid using FEMA-required procedures, but merely listed the job for two weeks in a single online business magazine. The non-profit only got one bid on the job, and awarded the work to that contractor for a fixed-price management fee of $280 per house. Later, the non-profit approved the contractor's request to raise the fee to $620 per house, without documenting or justifying the increase.
And the Inspector General says that a third-party engineering consultant's review of the bracing installed in some of the houses raised questions about the structural adequacy of the retrofits. "During our fieldwork," the report says, "we noted that hazard mitigation representatives within the FEMA Florida Recovery Office continued to have concerns that the design specifications for gable end bracing for homes over one story in height, or with a gable end wall width of more than 20 feet, were deficient and would not withstand wind loads certified by the engineer."
The auditor's recommendation: the FEMA administrator should disallow $878,200 of the contract expenses as excessive and ineligible; and the state should conduct an independent engineering review of the bracing in homes over one story in height or with gable ends wider than 20 feet, and order a re-work of the job if deficiencies are identified.
For its part, Rebuild Northwest Florida disputes the audit's findings, and the group's officials say they have no plans to re-do any of their work. In an interview with the Pensacola News Journal, Rebuild's chief executive officer, Garrett Walton, said he had put the report "in his rear-view mirror," saying, "Frankly, I'm not worried about it. I haven't done anything wrong, so what can they do but holler and fuss? We're moving on and trying to focus on getting houses done." (The June 23 News Journal story, "Raising the roof: Rebuild Northwest Florida denies audit claims of faulty work" by Carlton Proctor is now behind the paper's archive paywall.)
And Rebuild has an ally at the level of state government, the News Journal reported: the non-profit's former executive director is now the mitigation bureau chief at the Florida Division of Emergency Management. "[Miles E.] Anderson was hired as Rebuild's executive director in May 2006," the paper reported. "He returned to the Division of Emergency Management, where he previously worked, in the fall of 2007. On Feb. 17, Anderson wrote FEMA that the state division 'does not concur in any of the findings.'"
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