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By CARROLL ROGERS
FLOWERY BRANCH — If the Falcons are looking for things to draw on that are different from recent one-and-done trips to the playoffs, they could start with Michael Turner.
The Falcons' running back has carried the ball 222 times this season, well below his 301 total of last season, which was second-most in the NFL. That leaves him feeling that much fresher as the Falcons enter the divisional round of the playoffs on Jan. 13.
Entering the Falcons previous three playoffs trips, in 2008, 2010 and 2012, Turner had 376, 334 and 301 carries in the regular season, respectively. He led the NFL in that category in 2008 and 2010. In each of those three ensuing playoffs losses, Turner had no more than 42 yards rushing.
Turner rushed 18 times for 42 yards in 2008 against Arizona, 10 times for 39 yards in 2010 against Green Bay and 15 times for 41 years in 2011 against the Giants.
In first-year coordinator Dirk Koetter's offense, the Falcons don't use the power run game like they have in the past. But that means Turner is fresher, both by circumstances and by design.
"I tore my groin the last two years, one side one year, the other side the next year," Turner said. "So I don't have those problems coming into this year. I'm good."
The Falcons finished the regular season ranked 29th out of 32 teams in the NFL with only 87.3 yards rushing per game. But the three teams they could match up with next week, Washington (169.3), Minnesota (164.6) and Seattle (161.2) rank first, second and third respectively. The Falcons know they're not in that conversation anymore, but still see the importance of running the ball with success in the playoffs, using Turner up the middle and Jacquizz Rogers on the edge.
"I think we're our best when the run is working," offensive tackle Tyson Clabo said. "Now whether or not we're leaning on it, and running it every play, that's probably not going to happen. But when our run game is successful, four or five yards a carry, I think we're at our best at that point."
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January 3rd, 2013
4:17 pm
Groins or groin?
January 3rd, 2013
4:24 pm
Wouldn't a groin tear require a quick change of direction to cause? Just sayin'. I do hope Mr. Turner is a force in the playoffs as we wind down the clock up 10 or more points. Having a big back to keep the safeties up would help our offense.
January 3rd, 2013
4:31 pm
I would be runnin' slow, too.
So does this help or hurt his case for being on the roster in 2013?
I already got my eye out for potential draftees.
January 3rd, 2013
4:31 pm
Comparing his yds/game from this year to that of 2010 & 2011… it looks like the Falcons' offense would have been better in 2012 if he had a torn groin… just sayin
January 3rd, 2013
4:38 pm
Falcon's 1st and 10, Ryan hands the ball off to Michael Turner up the middle, he's stopped for a 3 yard loss. The Falcon's are now 2nd and 13. A sure way to be one and done in the playoffs is to stay with Micheal Turner the ball period.
January 3rd, 2013
4:44 pm
Antone Smith must be a bum is he cant get any carries on this team with the running backs we have, thats the only reason I figure he has not gotton any carries. We dont have the running game and it will hurt us big time in the playoffs.
January 3rd, 2013
4:44 pm
Agreed we cant allow turner to bog down this offense as he has proven to do constantly. We must utilize rodgers in the run game, if you wanna power it then please use snelling.
January 3rd, 2013
5:05 pm
Falcons final game of the season was just a preview of the
first game of the playoffs. Expect the same results. One
and done seems to be our theme song. (Or swan song)
January 3rd, 2013
5:12 pm
the old gray mule should be put down and turned to glue to hold his lowly aints together.
January 3rd, 2013
5:13 pm
I sure hope he is "Fresh and out of town" next season. The reason he has carried the ball 80 times less is not because of the offensive scheme, it si because he continues to run into the back of his linemen for a 2 yard loss. Very lucky if it is for a positive gain.
He was very good addition in his first 2-3 years, but the last two years he has been awful. Nothing personal, but I hope he is playing for someone else next year and I think he will be.
Everyone potential opponent for the Falcons's first round game are hoping and hoping that Turner carries the ball most of the time. Would you rather defend Turner running the ball or Ryan passing the ball? Enough said. Goooooooooo Falcons!!
January 3rd, 2013
5:14 pm
Unfortunately, he still has to run behind a below average OL.
January 3rd, 2013
5:27 pm
Torn groin??? Maybe he lost his balls or he just runs like it. The excuse that he has played less this year to make him fresher for the playoffs is a bunch of bull. He is not as good as Rogers and he knows it too. Time for him to move on.
January 3rd, 2013
5:31 pm
Draft the kid T.J.YELDON OUT OF BAMA.ROLL TIDE.
January 3rd, 2013
5:33 pm
January 3rd, 2013
5:37 pm
Uh, Joe. TJ is a freshman.
January 3rd, 2013
5:44 pm
Glue – -
Yep. I'm old.
Thing is, we've already been there and done that – –
over and over. Why expect anything different now?
I hate the Aints as much as any one. I've been
a Falcon fan since day one…..
I remember well when they went to the Super Bowl
and one of our stars, by his actions the night before,
turned their mind away from the game and they never
Win one, then tell me about it.
January 3rd, 2013
5:50 pm
I'm a huge fan of the Falcons leadership that came in 2008, which was the first year I bought season's tickets. And the last 5 years have been fantastic, particulaly when you consider where we were in 2007. However, I have to admit that I'm totally mystified by the Michael Turner situation. Even the casual fan can see that Turner has slowed down considerably in the last two years, and yet they still try give him the ball. Did you know that Matt Ryan has higher yards per carry than Micheal Turner this year? Where I sit in the Dome there is an audible groan whenever he is given the ball and we seem to be just throwing away downs. I'd love to hear a rational explanation for this. Like I said, I'm a huge Falcons fan but this one has me stumped!
January 3rd, 2013
5:53 pm
Turner is a problem.
The Atlanta Falcons have a much better chance of winning in the playoffs with Jason Snelling as the starting running back and bringing Jacquizz Rogers in to rest Snelling and provide a change of pace back.
Turner is a good guy and was very effective for 2 seasons several years ago. It is way past time to move on………we should have traded or cut him prior to this season (we would be a better team today if the Falcons had made this tough decision). Every carry Turner gets reduces the likelihood of the Falcons winning the football game.
Go Falcons!
Good Luck Turner…..PLEASE prove me wrong.
January 3rd, 2013
6:06 pm
Gray Mule
January 3rd, 2013
5:05 pm
Falcons final game of the season was just a preview of the
first game of the playoffs. Expect the same results. One
and done seems to be our theme song. (Or swan song)
Sure you hate the caints………………hope you enjoyed their season as much as I did. What a failure and dismal organization.
January 3rd, 2013
6:13 pm
Poor ol' SeenThisBFOUR lost his handle over at NOLA…………….hmmmm, wonder what handle he is coming up with these days………………roflmao.
January 3rd, 2013
6:14 pm
Am I the only one who sees Snelling running more effectively EVERY TIME he comes in than Turner does?
January 3rd, 2013
6:16 pm
What's Michael Turner's weight been the last 4 years he's been here?
January 3rd, 2013
6:16 pm
Hey Gray Mule, the caints sure did stink it up this year………….you could smell it all the way to the Bama line.
January 3rd, 2013
6:19 pm
Joe Flacco
January 2nd, 2013
9:59 pm
Cheer up guys, I will be posting my 5th straight year with a playoff win. I have no idea what it's like to go 1 and done. Matty Ice can you tell me how that feels?
Joe, why can't ya get to the big dance. I'd say too many interceptions and poor performance in the playoffs has a lot to do with it.
2009 you got past Miami and Tennessee then threw for a measly 141 yards and 3 interceptions giving the Steelers a trip to the Super Bowl.
Miami gave you 5 turnovers and you had a passer rating of 59.1 …..WOW!! Against Tennessee you managed to get only 9 first downs…………..Tennessee gave you the game with 3 turnovers and you were lucky to hit that winning field goal. But here's where it gets better. In the AFC Championship Game to go to the SUPER BOWL you managed an 18.2 Passer Rating to go along with those 3 int's, one of those a pick 6 to Troy Polamalu in the fourth quarter.
2010 Here you managed against New England a 10.0 Passer Rating, 4 of 10, for 34 yards, no touchdowns and 1 interception, the lowest rated game for a "winning" quarterback in a playoff game ever. New England gifted 4 turnovers to you along with the game.
Against the Colts you managed an incredible 48.4 Passer Rating, no touchdowns and 2 interceptions. A very comfortable 20-3 win for Indy as Baltimore committed four turnovers including your two interceptions. Good Bye Ravens in the 2010 playoffs.
2011 So the Ravens beat KC 30-7, a mediocre team at best in a mediocre division Kansas City giving up the ball 5 times.
Against Pittsburgh Jan 15th, 2011 A 61.1 Passer Rating. What happened Joe, you had a 21-7 halftime lead and let this one get away 31-24, another Steelers victory. You managed "3″ second half first downs…………..what's up with that…….???
Last year you beat Houston and had a 97.1 Passer Rating, 14 of 27, 176 yards, 2 TD, 0 INT not too bad Joe. You had some help from some Houston turnovers (TJ Yates threw 3 interceptions) on a short field. Only scoring 3 points in the 2nd half isn't really championship caliber football but you got the "W" in spite of it. You got sacked 5 times by holding the ball and only managed 11 first downs the entire game. I'm really impressed Joe.
Then you followed this up with a loss to New England………….whoops out of the playoffs. Joe, here is the thing. Your record is deceiving, you haven't played very well, hence an incredibly low playoff QB passer rating and no shot at the Big Dance. You have lived on your Defense and that is the only reason why you have the playoff wins that you do. Your defense has forced 25 turnovers in 8 playoff games, Just for perspective no team since the Eagles in 1989 has forced 50 turnovers OVER A FULL SEASON. And frankly you have done little with those gifts.
In those same years the Atlanta Falcons have faced either the NFC Super Bowl representative or the eventual Super Bowl Champion……………we've had no chump playoff games on the schedule. If you want to compare Matt Ryan and Joe Flacco let's see which one leads his team to a win at the Super Bowl……………..nothing else really doesn't matter.
January 3rd, 2013
6:22 pm
This article is depressing. The Falcons would be trying to knock themselves out of the playoffs if they largely go with Michael "Molasses" Turner & Smitty's signature "Prevent Offense".
Furthermore, the Falcons really do not have to reveal their offensive play calling restrictions by backfield substitutions. Keep Quizz and/or Snelling on the field! Snelling should have been getting more carries all season long to confirm what he can do – from what little we've seen, he is a big improvement over Turner in just running the ball alone.
In any case, Ryan's hurry-up offense offers the best prospects for winning. Besides higher-percentage play calling, it can curtail the prevent offense considerably.
January 3rd, 2013
6:30 pm
I'm pretty much the complete opposite of an expert on football, but it seems like telling everyone that Turner will run up the middle and Rodgers will run on the edge makes it pretty obvious what the defense should look for. I guess they probably would already know this from watching previous Falcons games, but even so….
January 3rd, 2013
6:36 pm
Once a playoff game starts for Atlanta, lets all hope they don't give the ball to Turner unless it is on a trick play. Reason for this is like we all know, it will be a wasted down and more than likely be for a loss too. Turner is washed up and we need a new running back on the team for next year.
January 3rd, 2013
6:42 pm
I sense a lot of negative vibe on this board..
There are 4 options, play your subs and win or lose we think, " No big deal, we are still the best"
Play your starters win or lose. We win and we are thinking we are great, unbeatable but we lose with our starters in the game and that's a BIG SLAP IN THE FACE, A WAKE UP CALL!
I don't think we have lost back to back home games with Ryan..
You combine that wake up call with a team that all season long has been put down as 0-3 in the play-offs and this team is going to come out hungry!
Also of the 3 teams we would face none of them have had any PO success in recent years..
ATL will soundly beat whomever we face in the divisional and host the Packers or 49ers at home for the Chapionship..
January 3rd, 2013
7:10 pm
OK, so he has an excuse as to why he was pretty lousy the last 2 years, but what was excuse for average roughly 1 yard a carry this season?
January 3rd, 2013
7:50 pm
"Michael Turner suffered torn groins last two seasons"
"and suffers from a bad case of slowness this season"
January 3rd, 2013
7:55 pm
I really just don't see Turner helping the Birds anytime in these playoffs or next year. Time to put him out to pasture and find a new powerback. Thanks for all you did but it's closing time. You don't have to go home Burner but you can't stay here…
January 3rd, 2013
7:58 pm
I agree Huh. He didn't address this year and he looked SLOWER than ever. Runs right into the D line and goes down unless the O line opens up a Grand Canyon like hole. THEN, and only then does he get his 14 yard run. My granny could get through a hole like that on her Rascal chair!
January 3rd, 2013
8:01 pm
Michael Turtle can use those fresh groin muscles to run water out to Quizz and Snelling during time outs.
January 3rd, 2013
8:09 pm
Does being fresh and healthy combat being fat and slow?
If we only had a running game this team could play deep into playoffs!
January 3rd, 2013
8:12 pm
It's possible, though unlikely, the Falcons will prove me wrong but I see EVERY team that is currently in the playoffs as playing better football right now. Honestly, were it a neutral field and my money, I'd bet on their opponent every time. The Dome will help – maybe. Didn't against Green Bay that time but…I see another early exit. And why does being realistic make us bad fans according to ESPN heads? I think we're smarter than the other towns and know where to better put our money.
January 3rd, 2013
8:43 pm
How can anyone in their right mind not see the body of work for Turner this year and believe that he has anything left in the tank. How the coaches keep giving him the ball, and creating second and long, or third and forever is hard to take. This guy is spent and how or why the coaches don't want to see that is beyond belief. Please please do not feed him the ball, if you do we will lose or Matt Ryan will be beheaded.
January 3rd, 2013
8:55 pm
Turner has been used the wrong way for a long time. If he's as healthy as he says he is-then it's time to use him in a running game that doesn't depend on running up the middle all the time. If you look at the Giants game in which the Falcons played their best ball-you could see that the Falcons were using Turner on slants where he got a head of steam before being tackled. Turner needs to be running in motion on every run play. It's simple physics: A 250+lb back like Turner has a natural advantage when running from a motion offense when handed the ball better than with no running start and handed the ball. Just sayin..
January 3rd, 2013
9:12 pm
I hear Steven Jackson may be available after the season. He would be a great addition when Turner is cut loose… Thoughts?
January 3rd, 2013
9:29 pm
Its really unbelievable that Snelling does not get more carries, he always gets positive yardage by moving forward. Turner is slow and he does this thing where he turns to the side and always loses yards. How can you be so big and not always get positive yards????
January 3rd, 2013
9:39 pm
The "D" is silent, and so are the nervousness of 0-4.
January 3rd, 2013
10:04 pm
veedub, I read that about Steven Jackson as well, and was thinking the same. Would be nice additions to sign Jackson and draft Barrett Jones to block for him.
January 3rd, 2013
11:24 pm
I'm more concerned about the Falcons STOPPING the run than running on offense. They ran effectively when they needed to aganst the Giants, and I think the lower number of carries for Turner has been part of a bigger plan. I really don't expect to see him come out tip-toeing in the playoffs, I expect the Falcons to be on a mission.
Falcons have four key defenders with significant injury issues (those that we know of, anyway). They need this bye week. Earning the bye is equivalent to winning a first-round playoff game without any of the physical wear and tear. Keep that in mind this weekend.The first round NFC games figure to be all-out physical wars; the team visiting Atlanta should be pretty beat up.
January 3rd, 2013
11:24 pm
Steven Jackson? That turd puffer. He's 29 closin' on 30. He done too. Seriously, ya get a 22-23 y/o back he's good for 8 years time to trade in for a new model. Turner's wheels are shot. TD knows it. Turner is gone watch.
January 3rd, 2013
11:27 pm
We've been handing off to Turner on 1st and 10 all season! The results have been 2nd down and 10 yards to go! We cannot afford that in the playoffs. We need to pass on 1st down. If it's incomplete…..we PASS AGAIN on 2nd down. If that's incomplete….WE PASS again on 3rd down! This is a passing league! USE it to our advantage! If we pass on 1st down and gain 7 or 8 yards, THEN we can run Turner for a couple of yards! Get my drift? I don't care how fresh Turner or the coaching staff thinks he is…….he's lost a step and is not the runner he was a few years ago…..plus our offensive line does better at pass blocking than run blocking! So USE our strengths!
January 3rd, 2013
11:28 pm
CTfalconsfan, is right. The Falcons will come out pissed off and havin' something to prove after that dismal showing against Tampa. Just watch, it's another great effort like against the Giants. They will be focused, betcha!
January 3rd, 2013
11:55 pm
Those kind of injuries happen when you are trying to play past your prime….FATHER OF TIME tackles us all !!
January 4th, 2013
5:35 am
I think we would all be surprised at what Turner could do with a solid O-line, all the more reason to run him to the edge rather than between the guards.
January 4th, 2013
7:22 am
Turner will eventually end up in our Ring of Honor, but getting back to reality, what difference does it make if Michael is healthy or not when he is average as unbuttered grits?
I truly believe if it wasn't for Michael's contract we would have seen more of Antone Smith this season than Turner.
January 4th, 2013
7:26 am
I think we're our best when the run is working," offensive tackle Tyson Clabo said. "Now whether or not we're leaning on it, and running it every play, that's probably not going to happen. But when our run game is successful, four or five yards a carry, I think we're at our best at that point."
Four of five yards a carry? I must have missed that.
January 4th, 2013
7:38 am
Expect a …………… Super Bowl Victory for the Falcons.


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'Spider-Man' Hits Refresh
Glenn Kenny, Special to MSN Movies
The reality of "rebooting" turns a little brutal with "The Amazing Spider-Man." The movie turns the web-spinning superhero over to an entirely new creative team a seemingly mere five years after the Sam Raimi-directed, Tobey Maguire- and Kirsten Dunst-starring "Spider-Man 3." That movie's piling-on of plotlines and supervillains alienated both the hardcore comic book-following constituency and less Parker-myth-fluent mass audiences but still managed to make a mint anyway. (The condition that allows this to be the case is, happily, not overtly the concern of this department.) Some deal with Marvel stipulating that the movie franchise remain fresh means that we now get a new "Spider-Man" origin story.
The new Peter Parker is kind of an alt-rock lite (he broods with Coldplay on the soundtrack) iteration of pop culture's most famous bookworm nerd: He skateboards, and has fluffy hair, and he's played with a well-calibrated mix of angst and self-aware smartass cool by Andrew Garfield, the Britain-born actor who made a big impression in "The Social Network." In this high school scenario, there's no Mary Jane Watson. The love interest here right off the bat is blond Gwen Stacy (Emma Stone, always charming and here a slightly more probable teen than she was in "Easy A"), whose police captain dad (Denis Leary) will, of course, prove an apt foil for Spidey once he starts fighting crime his own cheeky way and is, of course, misunderstood as a delinquent by the authorities.
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As more than one comic book maven/blogger/even actual writer has smartly observed, the first of the many problems with movie versions of comic book superhero sagas is that for some reason they're obligated to begin with the origin story, and that origin stories are by and large pretty boring. Comic book creators did not impose such restraints on themselves, necessarily; they would have an opening issue start in the middle of some exciting action, and then do an origin story in a flashback, or even as a special issue a little down the line.
But "The Amazing Spider-Man" is indeed obliged to retell a story most of us already know, which is that smart, sweet, nerdling Peter Parker gained the magnified powers of a spider after being bitten by a radioactive arachnid, and then tragedy struck, and he learned a lesson, and if his poor Aunt May finds out, she'll have a heart attack. One way that screenwriters James Vanderbilt, Alvin Sargent and Steve Kloves handle the redundancy/boredom problem is by actually adding more backstory, e.g., introducing us to Peter Parker's parents, whom pretty much zero number of fans of Spider-Man evinced any curiosity about for pretty much the 50 years that the character has existed, so that's exciting. The early-disappearing folks are, however, essential in spinning the web to connect various characters into a reasonably tight albeit somewhat (some might say "completely") predictable narrative, including the not-quite-mad-but-soon-to-be-quite-irritated doctor played by Rhys Ifans, who will turn into supervillain The Lizard (creative name, always dug it).
The question of how many times you're willing to pay money to see a guy become a superhero via spider bite and design a nifty costume has, in a sense, been already answered for you (the answer could well and always be: THIS MANY!), so all I can address is how well this story is retold. I have to say that while new director Marc Webb, who was hired on the strength of "quirky" "indie" "hit" "(500) Days of Summer," doesn't bring anything galvanically new to the table (not that he would have been permitted to had it even occurred to him), he and his cast do have a keen and enthusiastic grasp of what makes the main characters tick, and that certainly gets them somewhere.
A key example is a scene in a high school hallway after a newly empowered Parker gives some hell to a bully, and he's then emboldened to ask Gwen out and of course he's too tongue-tied about it, but they still connect. The scene, were you to read it on paper, is pretty abysmally obvious and cute, but Garfield and Stone are sufficiently engaging with it to make you at least consider not hating them/it. The corrupted ideals of the film's supervillain are similarly stock. But the movie does, improbably enough, move right along. Martin Sheen is a very good post-post-Camelot Uncle Ben, the action stuff is state-of-the-art, and so on. There are clunkers -- the attempted riff on an old joke from "Midnight Cowboy" will stink up the theater, if it actually manages to be heard -- but nothing to get hung about.
People who tell you this is a disgrace are ginning up outrage, and there are in fact better things to be outraged about. This is expert studio product, nothing more or less, and the extent to which you find it egregious is relative to the extent you find it unnecessary. My own feeling, at least from a reviewer's perspective, is that if you're not sick of superhero movies by now, this is a relatively decent one. Whether or not you should be sick of superhero movies by now really isn't any of my business.
Glenn Kenny is chief film critic for MSN Movies. He was the chief film critic for Premiere magazine from 1998 to 2007. He contributes to various publications and websites, and blogs at http://somecamerunning.typepad.com. He lives in Brooklyn.
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Hannibal police are searching for a suspect accused of shooting a Kansas City man on Monday night.
The Hannibal Police Department says it is looking Martez D. Peete, 25, of Hannibal, wanted in connection with the shooting of a 38-year-old Kansas City man. Based upon investigation, the incident appears to be isolated between the two men.
Officers responded to the 400 block of North Arch Street in Hannibal at 6:55 p.m. Monday, where they say the victim was struck twice. He was then driven to Canton by a friend, where he was found by Canton officers at an apartment in the 600 block of South 4th Street just before 8:30 p.m.
The victim was taken to Blessing Hospital with what are believed to be non-life threatening injuries.
Peete remains at large and may be armed with a handgun, officers say.
One Canton area residents says he is not surprised this happened in his block, because there has been trouble in the area before. But another neighbor says she can't believe something like this happened so close to her home.
"It's still shocking because you just don't realize, you take a small community like this and all of a sudden you get off work and it is just hopping with authorities, a man hunt and an ambulance going by," Brenda Allen, a Canton resident, said.
"It's just strange. It shouldn't happen here in town and our authorities are good about protecting the residents and keeping a watchful eye. Especially on this street. "
According to court records, Peete plead guilty to drug and weapons charges in 2007 and was sentenced to 8.3 years in prison.
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High School Football picks | Week 5
FELDY: Last week was a tricky week. Neither Phersy nor I saw Austin beating Winona or Mankato East winning for the first time in a couple of years. I still managed to pick up a game on Phersy; I'm 20-8 overall, he's 16-12. Lots of good games this week that could go either way. Here are the games to watch this week. Phersy picks first:
Rochester JM (3-1) at Rochester Mayo (3-1)
Albert Lea (0-4) at Rochester Century (1-3)
Plainview-Elgin-Millville (3-1) at Kasson-Mantorville (4-0)
Rochester Lourdes (3-1) at Byron (2-2)
Rushford-Peterson (4-0) at Chatfield (4-1)
Pine Island (3-1) at Triton (3-1)
St. Charles (1-3) at Kenyon-Wanamingo (1-3)
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PHERSY: Yeah, this is getting tough ...
Rochester Mayo 28, Rochester JM 22: This will be another classic in a long line of great games between these two schools. I've put a lot of stock in the Spartans this season, and hopefully, they continue moving in the right direction after the big win over Faribault.
Albert Lea 7, Rochester Century 6: Yep, I'm calling the upset. Injuries have ravaged an already thin Panthers team, and they have WRs playing quarterback.
Kasson-Mantorville 35, Plainview-Elgin-Millville 28: This is the best game of the week. KM has stumbled a bit, but the KoMets have survived to remain unbeaten. They'll get another tough test this week.
Rochester Lourdes 24, Byron 13: Lourdes bounced back last week after its first loss of the season. They have enough firepower to run past a dinged-up Byron club.
Chatfield 20, Rushford-Peterson 0: The Gophers' lone loss is a one-pointer to Caledonia. They've also had three consecutive shutouts. RP has a great defense, too, but the Gophers hold on.
Triton 24, Pine Island 16: This is a tough game to pick, but I'll go with the Cobras at home.
Kenyon-Wanamingo 40, St. Charles 39: Flip a coin ... I'll go with the home team.
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FELDY: Lots of tough choices this week. Might have to toss a coin a few times...
Mayo 24, JM 20: Mayo is finding its identity, starting to figure exactly what works for it and what doesn't. Plus, its line is improving each week, which will be crucial against a strong Rockets team. JM gets LB/QB Kaeleb Stangler back this week, which will be a huge boost. He'll give Mayo problems on both sides of the ball. This game is likely to determine the No. 2 seed in the Section 1AAAAA playoffs. Mayo wins this one -- but only if it can eliminate the penalties and mental mistakes that allowed Faribault to stay in the game last week.
Century 14, Albert Lea 8: Sounds like the Panthers will have a QB healthy enough to play this week. And there's some pride involved in this one; Century doesn't want to let Albert Lea get its first win of the year on the Panthers' home field.
Kasson-Mantorville 29, P-E-M 26: P-E-M is a 1-point loss to Rochester Lourdes away from being undefeated. The Bulldogs will be the KoMets' toughest test yet, but they'll pass it -- in a close one -- on their home turf.
Lourdes 24, Byron 16: What a stretch for Byron -- P-E-M, Stewartville and Lourdes in consecutive weeks. This SFA Red Division is difficult every week. The Bears get up for this rivalry game, though, and they'll give Lourdes a battle, but the Eagles' defense will hold off Byron in the end.
Chatfield 23, R-P 7: R-P is a strong team, unbeaten through four weeks, but Chatfield is borderline elite this season -- bringing a 4-1 record into the game only because of a one-point loss to Caledonia in a Zero Week game. The Gophers' defense hasn't allowed a point in September.
Pine Island 19, Triton 17: Pine Island has scored 98 points in the past three weeks; Triton has allowed 7 in that same span. Something has to give. This is as big a game as the P.I. program has had for some time. I think they'll be up for it physically and emotionally and I'll take the Panthers in what some might consider a mild upset.
St. Charles 28, Kenyon-Wanamingo 24: I flip-flopped a few times on this one, so the coin settled it: The Saints get their second win of the season, their first on the road.


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Singer Ashlee Simpson has shed her squeaky-clean image by swearing and flashing her underwear in an edgy video for her pop comeback.
Bing: Miley Cyrus dresses as Nicki Minaj for Halloween
Jessica Simpson's little sister is out to prove she's all grown-up as she prepares to release her single "Bat for a Heart," her first new material since 2008 album "Bittersweet World."
In a preview of the black-and-white video, Simpson can be seen showing off tattoos, dancing in her panties and pounding against the walls of a padded cell. And the lyrics to the track are far from wholesome, as an angst-ridden Simpson sings, "I'm out of my mind, running towards danger/ I'm gonna bang bang, f--- you up/ Twist you out inside of my head ..." "Bat for a Heart" is due out on November 21.


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- Use Illustrator to Create a Fun, 3D, Character LogoIn this tutorial we'll use illustrators 3D tool to create text with depth. We'll give the letters personality by placing them at angles and choosing a fun font. We'll add a crazy rabbit character and unify all the colors as we add simple shading. Lastly, we'll give this fun logo a sticker effect. We cover quite a bit of ground in this tutorial, so fire up Illustrator and let's begin!Read More…


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A perfect way of storing electricity generated by wind turbines has been elusive so far. Ideas like super-sized batteries, compressed air and levitra online without prescription hydroelectric storage have all been floated. One company though thinks the answer could be as simple as making ice.
Calmac has come up with a storage system called IceBank that uses the levitra without prescriptions energy generated at off-peak night-time hours to make ice. That stored ice is then used for cooling purposes during high-demand daytime hours. The company claims that reducing electricity demand for cooling can cut energy costs by 20 - 40 percent. That reduction also means fewer emissions from power plants.
This a great solution for harnessing wind power that might otherwise go to waste during night-time hours. And it's pretty low-tech - no need for lithium or rare earth minerals - just a souped up ice maker.
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Where I live, the difference in retail price between peak daytime and nighttime electricity is $.30/kWh (.41 summer-peak .11 off peak) with time-of-day billing. (And you wonder why Bakersfield was upset when smart-meters were installed with switch to TOD billing.) So 1m3 of water could store $28 per day of cooling energy!
Besides building air, the concept could be applied to other cooling, e.g. grocery store refrigerators. An ice tank inside could freeze water overnight so power can be shut off during peak use times.
The thermal energy and refrigerator heat-pump electricity aren't directly comparable, but the heat pump also doesn't need to work as hard with cooler nighttime temperatures.
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written by Jim, November 22, 2009
Danger of global cooling? You're joking I hope. Making ice involves moving the heat out of the ice chamber. It doesn't involve destroying heat.
The only potential risk of global cooling by this method is if burning fossil fuels is what's staving off the next ice age.
written by Moderngreenollie, November 22, 2009
Nice idea. Agree with the problem that ice isn't always needed, but at the same time, isn't conduction of electricity more effective when the conductors are cooled? So if it were kept at the generator it would also have that benefit, even if not needed elsewhere?
written by BruceMcF, November 23, 2009
written by Richard, November 23, 2009
Here's an off-set idea. How about putting all the ice in the polar ice caps. That might help stop the ice-thinning.
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It's a good, common-sense idea... but it's just nothing new.
Here are the locations of a couple facilities in Chicago if you want to map it and see aerial photos.
137 S State St, Chicago, IL 60603
448 S Franklin St, Chicago, IL 60607
written by Androo, November 23, 2009
Electricity in the grid may be the map of france with cialis most useful form for our generation capacity, but it's only useful because it's flexible - if you can't use that electricity to do anything (i.e. if there's no demand), then it's more useful to do something with it than to waste it. Hence, producing ice, heating molten salts, compressing air, charging PHEVs...all ways of buy cheap cialis without a prescription storing energy.
Industrial waste heat is only a usable resource for industry. Pumping water for cooling requires electricity (another medium of electrical storage, if you have sufficient infrastructure). Industrial scale flywheel storage would be extremely expensive, not trivially complicated, and has to deal with mechanical efficiency losses as well as electrical ones. It's certainly no magic bullet, which is why you haven't seen it implemented on a significant scale.
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Also, I don't know where the idea was promulgated that "the wind blows harder at night".
It depends on where you are and what your localized weather patterns are, but usually the subtraction of the sun's energy from the equation results in less kinetic energy, not more.
Every fisherman knows that the wind usually dies down in the evening and is usually calm in the early morning, but will generally pick up as the day progresses. It's not always true everywhere, but I think it it is usually true in a generalized way. Certainly not the opposite, as was suggested.
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Time to continue the "Road to MetLife Stadium", Jets fans. The MetLife Stadium AFC representative, the New York Jets, with Geno Smith coming off one of his best games of the year, heading down to Carolina to face Steve Smith, DeAngelo Williams, Cam Newton, and the rest of the 9-4 Carolina Panthers.
The Panthers come into this one having overtaken the Jets as the number one rushing defense in the NFL. It's always a tough matchup when your opponent has similar positives to you, so this game will be a tough one. For anyone not heading to the game in Carolina, here is where you can catch it:
In an interconference matchup, the game is televised by the road team's network, so the game will be on CBS in the local area. Greg Gumbel and Dan Dierdorf will call the game for CBS TV in the local markets.
As always, the game can be heard on ESPN radio, 98.7 FM, with our guys, Bob Wischusen and Marty Lyons, bringing us all of the action. Satellite radio listeners can hear the Jets' broadcast on Sirius channel 117, or internet player channel 821. The Panthers' broadcast can be heard on Sirius channel 112, or internet channel 804.
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Connecticut College is a leader in sustainability among campuses nationwide.
As a residential, liberal arts college, Connecticut College has developed a system of collaboration among students, faculty and staff to create a sustainable atmosphere on campus and within the New London community.
At Connecticut College, sustainability is a framework by which long-lasting solutions to local and global challenges are developed through understanding the connections among social equity, environmental stewardship, and economic well-being and including all three within all decision-making and strategic planning processes.
Campus sustainability efforts are rooted in the educational mission of the College. Efforts include integrating sustainability across the curriculum, educating the campus community, modeling sustainable practices and providing real-life learning opportunities for students.
Students play a huge part in developing and achieving sustainability goals, and an even bigger part in planning and implementing programs on campus.
To learn more about the College's sustainability goals, check out our Sustainability Plan.
Dishing Up Portland
September 22, 2014
Azul Tellez and Emily MacGibeney are the Office of Sustainability's Sprout Garden Fellows. Emily also served as a Waste Minimization Fellow in the office before going abroad for the Fall 2014 semester. They led a sustainable food initiative in Portland, Oregon this summer. Azul tells about their experience:
Emily and I spent the summer "Dishing Up Portland." With funding from Davis 100 Projects for Peace, we made fresh and local produce more available in East and Northeast Portland, Oregon. Our project involved cooking with the produce of small Portland farms, serving the food at community events, and leading free weekly cooking classes. We also handed out educational materials such as recipe cards and encouraged people to go on our website to learn more about organic food.
Emily and I became interested in food deserts, geographic areas where affordable and nutritious food is difficult to access, through courses we've taken at Conn and as garden managers for Sprout. We have found that working with fresh, local and organic produce is crucially important for our health, our creativity, and taking care of the environment. The unequal distribution of such produce is extremely unjust; all people should be able to make their own, informed decisions about the quality of the food they eat and have access to it.
Based on our educational and personal backgrounds, a major question preoccupied us: what can we do to increase consumption of healthy foods, particularly fresh and local produce, in food desert areas? "Dishing Up Portland" gave us the opportunity to test how effective a project like ours can be and to gauge East Portland's interest in and perceptions of cooking with local produce and other healthy foods.
Although Portland is known for its foodie culture and stellar restaurants, not all Portland neighborhoods are equal in that respect. Although big company stores such as Fred Meyers and Bargain Grocery Stores exist in East Portland, their organic brands are overpriced compared to the non-organic brands of food. They also have a meager selection of organic — let alone local — produce, making pre-packaged meals and low quality produce the main options for East Portlanders. Unfortunately, it simply doesn't make economic sense for customers to buy the $6 bag of organic wild rice over the $1.25 box of mac and cheese. Lastly, while East Portland does have a number of farmers' markets, people of lower classes often don't find shopping at farmers' markets worthwhile.
This is where we stepped in. We wanted to show East Portlanders that shopping at the farmers' markets and cooking with the produce that they buy there is worthwhile, from an economic, sustainability, and culinary perspective. The goal of Dishing Up Portland was to make cooking with local produce and other healthy ingredients such as whole grains and legumes feasible and not daunting. Over the course of the summer, we crafted six different meals that featured seasonal and local produce and whose costs prove that buying organic, fresh, and bulk ingredients is equally or less expensive than buying pre-made meals or conventional produce. We distributed this information at our class, our food cart, and our website, which provides readers with information to make navigating the eating-local and cooking-fresh process easier for people who have had little experience doing it before or who have never been pushed to take interest in it.
Overall, and thankfully, this general aim of our project was clear and successful. While our project was a hit among people who have a sense of the importance of sustainability and the fun of cooking, we were simply not equipped with enough time or experience to make our project reach people who do not. We hope that a local community organization will continue our efforts by using and growing our website as an educational resource.
It was a great summer. Check out our website www.dishingupportland.wordpress.com for more information about our project!
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Magasin 3. Selections from the Collection
30.11 1997 - 8.2 1998
* The exhibition comprised eighteen works, primarily sculptures and installations, but also video and photography by fourteen international artists. Artists included Sam Taylor Wood, Georg Baselitz, Richard Long, Walter De Maria and Bruce Nauman.
Mounted in collaboration with Magasin 3 in Stockholm.
* Catalogue (combined Danish/English, colour illustrations, 40 pages) with contributions by Christian Gether and David Neuman.
Claus Carstensen: Crossover
15.11 1997 - 18.1 1998
* The exhibition comprised 95 pictures (paintings, scanachromes, flags, works on paper and a mural executed especially for ARKEN's Large Gallery). Virtually all of the works were from the period 1994-1997. A recurring motif in the exhibition was Carstensen's 'cross breeding' of different themes and creators.
* Mounted in collaboration with the artist.
* Catalogue (combined Danish/English, colour illustrations, 120 pages) with articles by Christian Gether, Dorthe Aagesen, Simon Sheik and Mikkel Bogh.
The Hidden Pictures
20.9 - 16.11 1997
* The exhibition comprised 120 paintings, sculptures and photographs. The works were on loan from a number of public and private collections. The artistic focal points of the exhibition were the 1960s, '80s and '90s. The intention was to let the audience see important Danish works not usually on display. Artists included Robert Jacobsen, Per Kirkeby, Stig Brøgger, Mogens Andersen, Peter Carlsen and Joakim Koester.
Desire & Void: Contemporary Japanese photography
13.9 - 2.11 1997
* The exhibition comprised 92 works executed by twelve prominent photographers on the contemporary Japanese art scene. The exhibited works numbered a slide projection, a room installation of computer prints (colour xeroxes) as well as photographic prints on paper. Selection and hanging was based on the dialectical twin concept of "desire and void." Artists included Mariko Mori, Nobuyoshi Araki and Hiroshi Sugimoto.
* Curator: Peter Weiermair. Mounted in collaboration with Kunsthalle Wien.
* Catalogue (German, colour illustrations, 176 pages) with contributions by Gerald Matt and Peter Weiermair.
Museum Denmark
20.6 - 31.8 1997
* The exhibition comprised 192 works (painting, graphic prints, drawings, photography, sculpture, ceramics, installation art) on loan from 26 Danish art museums. Each museum had been asked to select a group of works representative of the museum's collection. The works were mounted chronologically, showing some of the trends in twentieth century Danish art as well as in the acquisition policies of Danish museums. Artists included J. F. Willumsen, Vilhelm Lundstrøm, Bjørn Nørgaard, Asger Jorn and Claus Carstensen.
* Catalogue (combined Danish/English, colour illustrations, 70 pages) with contributions from each of the participating museums.
ARKEN's collection
25.4 - 1.6 1997
* The exhibition comprised practically all of the hitherto acquired and deposited works in ARKEN's Collection, totalling 49 works (painting, sculpture, graphic prints, photography, video, installation art). This was the first public presentation of ARKEN's Collection. Artists included Dan Graham, Claus Carstensen, Per Kirkeby, Elisabeth Toubro and Peter Land.
Guillaume Bijl
31.1 - 31.3 1997
* The exhibition comprised eight works, five of which were large installations and the remaining three smaller compositions. Virtually all of the works in the exhibition were recent, i.e. made after 1991. One of the exhibition's main themes was the museum or exhibition and its role in modern reality.
* Mounting and publication of catalogue in collaboration with Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst in Antwerpen (MUHKA).
* Catalogue (combined Danish/English/French/German, colour illustrations, 136 pages) with contributions by Florent Bex, Stephan Berg, Frank Vande Veire and Guillaume Bijl.
Thorbjørn Lausten – LIGHT – PICTURE
27.1 - 7.6 1997
* The exhibition comprised five large light installations and a series of paintings. Moreover Thorbjørn Lausten had created an installation specifically for ARKEN's Large Gallery.
* Mounted in collaboration with the artist.
Bringing Out. New photographs by Per Bak Jensen
18.1 - 23.3 1997
* The exhibition comprised seven monumental colour photographs combined with two series of b/w photographs in smaller formats. They were recent works, focusing on Per Bak Jensen's treatment of the landscape.
* Mounting and publication of catalogue in collaboration with Esbjerg Art Museum.
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Leaders Circle Lounges are a benefit for all Leaders Circle Membership levels. During select intermissions* for concerts in the Robert N. Miner Auditorium, we invite Leaders Circle Members and their guests to skip waiting in bar lines and engage in good conversation with other music enthusiasts. Located in the Joe Henderson Lab off the first floor lobby, Leaders Circle Members enjoy a glass or two of complimentary wine or beer, tasty desserts from GreenCap Catering, savory nuts, water and soda. Just enough time to grab a bite to eat and meet like-minded jazz patrons before the second set!
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Four Westover High School students are charged in connection with a fight in the student parking lot during which police say a gun was drawn.
More arrests are expected.
18-year old Jerry Cauley is charged with two counts of possession of a handgun on school campus and possession of less than an ounce of marijuana.
17-year old Thomas Cainion is charged with intent to distribute marijuana on a school campus.
18-year old Joseph Behrend and a 16-year old are charged with possession of marijuana less than an ounce.
Investigators say they were involved in a fight at Westover about 10 minutes after dismissal and that Cauley showed a gun.
He was later arrested with two handguns.
"We're still not all the way clear on what the reason was for the fight," said Dougherty County School Police Assistant Chief J.C. Phillips. "We are getting conflicting stories. But needless to say there is no good reason for a fight, especially one that involved guns."
Meanwhile 11 people have been arrested in connection with a gang fight behind Albany High School Monday morning, that led to the school being locked down.
18 year olds Kenneth Kitchen and Quindathion Baldwin, and 17 year olds Shaquille Clark and Jeremy Fleming are the adults charged with affray and disrupting a public school. 7 juveniles were also arrested in what turned out to be a brawl between Black Gangsta Disciples and Rattler gang members.
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Full Circle Podcast Episode 32, The Year That Was…….Well Nearly!!
Full Circle Podcast Episode 32, The Year That Was….Well Nearly!!
In this episode Les brings everyone up-to-date with where he's been, there's a "Special Announcement" and the lads take a look back at 2012, "A Year in Tech"
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Into the car park slinks a dark green car, crawling like an injured dragon or, let's speculate here, as if the driver has had little sleep, and in the middle of a night-time crisis, is trying to find the correct car park. An impartial observer would have noted it was an old Rover, T-reg, and definitely in need of air in its tires.
The car park was empty, an occasional ambulance but that was it. Dark, eerie, is there anything more terrifying than an empty hospital car park at night? The dragon stops at the barrier and the driver takes a ticket. A heated discussion is taking place, the driver is gesticulating like a petulant child...
"Listen," I said, "I CANNOT believe that we have to pay to park. It's 3am, the car park is empty, my daughter is sick and these capitalist opportunists have the audacity to charge us two quid, DESPITE all my taxes and National Insurance contributions."
"Now is NOT the time," said my wife, so I shut up.
At the end of the day a couple quid isn't that bad. There are worse things to worry about. Mortgage negotiations for example, or buying a house off an old lady who is buying off another old lady and the contract exchanges are on hold while the two biddies bicker over who keeps which light fitting. Or getting a bit of chicken stuck between your teeth for three weeks.
So I stopped complaining.
Thanks for your concern. Don't worry, she's fine now, just had a nasty bit of croup.
My first question was answered above - so, I'll just have to leave you with the thought that perhaps your real calling is marching about with a socialist placard, picketing such invasions of the wallet.
.-= Tristan Robin´s last blog ..Things You Need to See, Things You Hoped to Never See... =-.
Socialist? I'm no socialist, just grumpy when tired...
I'm so glad the little one is okay now. And I can totally understand middle-of-the-night grumpiness over being nickel-and-dimed for parking. Though I suppose you don't call it that.
.-= Cate´s last blog ..I'm Done Running =-.
When I'm nickel-and-dimed it makes me furious as I only carry Sterling.
I'm surprised you made it out with your clothes still on. My daughter took her daughter to the emergency room for a cut on her chin that needed stitches. $1200 for about an hour at the hospital and another $800 to the doctor that spent 5 minutes super gluing the cut together.
Glad to hear your girl is fine. Hospital visits in the middle of the night are no fun.
.-= ellen abbott´s last blog ..a job done =-.
Well that certainly puts things into perspective!
Glad to hear your daughter is OK.
BTW My BFF let me keep the light switch.
.-= Pseudo´s last blog ..Contest =-.
Very kind of the BFF, light switches are very useful.
I have never heard of a hospital that charged for parking. Go figure!!
I hope your daughter is ok.
.-= blueviolet´s last blog ..I'm NOT That Old! =-.
Sadly they do here, drives me nutty.
Lots of illogical thing in this world and a great deal of them makes us grumpy... glad to hear the little one is fine.
.-= Minka´s last blog ..Where? =-.
Nothing is more illogical than a piece of chicken's desire to cling on to teeth.
Listen pal, you bought that car off of me as strictly 'sold as seen'. Maybe try losing a few pounds fae around your waist would possibly lighten the load. Besides.. your BMW is for family use, the Rover was meant to be for your midnight kerb crawls, no mercy dashes with sick weans.
.-= Jimmy Bastard´s last blog ..The Apple of my iPod =-.
I have a BMW?!
Croup, yuck. So did they send you home and tell you to open a window?
.-= Captain Dumbass´s last blog ..Tastes Like Chicken =-.
Something like that and in their eyes they told me to get a new car.
Certainly glad that your daughter is doing okay. It is a shame how people will squeeze every bit that they can out of other people.
.-= otin´s last blog ..Fableton =-.
Next time I'll drop them off, shoot round the corner and park somewhere sneaky.
I work at a hospital and I HATE HATE HATE parking in the stupid garages. But they're free here, so there's that.
Hope your daughter is doing alright, dear.
.-= OWO´s last blog ..This way for attention =-.
Garages? Not sure I get it, you mean you each have a little garage? Or is this private indoor car parks? Either way, as they're free you have no sympathy from me...
No. I suppose what we call a parking garage, you call a car park. This one is 6 levels of concrete parking for our employees and patients. There are three garages that belong to the hospital, but I park in the one that SUCKS THE MOST. You know, because my job is super important.
.-= OWO´s last blog ..This way for attention =-.
I understand. Being super-important myself I can attest that the world is against us.
It's all part of the universal symmetry, you have national health care...we have free parking at the hospital. It's a trade-off.
Incidentialy, my doctor, Dr. Imah Butchur, informs me that a three week chicken chunk in your teeth is ok, unless it turns green...in which case you'll have to pay the parking fee, and get help.
Well currently the chicken is suing me for neglect and claiming squatter rights so I'm not happy about it at all.
I didn't want to say any thing, but this has been my exact experience with chickens...you always run afowl of them.
My issue with chickens is that they are all about take, take, take. You never end up on the receiving end of a chicken's generosity, I'm not on any chicken's Christmas list and none of the chickens in my road even so much as speak to me, apart from the one stuck in my mouth of course. Which is a flamin' nightmare. I'm thinking of becoming a chickenetarian.
I've found myself not
I've found myself not patronizing places that don't have such offers.
These investigations into the body and mind will deepen as our meditation becomes an ongoing, continuous process all day long.
The other day, roadways near downtown Naples were under
K but I don't know what a Rover or T-Reg is? Dog? Dinosaur? but it needed air in the tires...hmmmm. CAR!
glad your daughter is feeling better sunshine.
.-= JenJen´s last blog ..Silk and Gravel, III =-.
I see from the comments that your little daughter is better. Nothing harder on the spirit that when a child is not well, so not well that you must go to the hospital. I hope the chicken comes out of your teeth in short order.
.-= Cheri @ Blog This Mom!´s last blog ..For the Now-Twenty-Three-Year-Old Hero Who Survived the Assault of John Albert Gardner in 2000 =-.
Me too, me too
Chicken are jealous because they HAVE NO teeth. So then, it's quid pro quo.
That's good, so my irrational fear of being stuck in a chicken's tooth can be ditched.
I'm so glad she's okay. Midnight hospital runs are always stressful, especially when they involve our children. And paying for parking just adds insult to injury.
I hope your week and your daughter improves. (and that you don't get the crud. I feel miserable. I might be the one off to the hospital tonight)
I'm a mad flosser; I never let anything get stuck between my teeth for more than a few minutes. Eww.
I can imagine Alice now, as she meets the Mad Flosser
Oh I got mad flossing skillz, yo. Mad. Flossing. Skillz.
But, I'm way cuter than the mad hatter.
Cleaner teeth, fo sho.
Maybe you'll luck out, and the first old biddy will pass on, and her estate (greedy children) won't give a fig about the light fixtures. That would solve everyone's problems.
So a little more permanently than others, mind you. But solved is solved, I like to say.
Solved is solved.
.-= Scope´s last blog ..Say WHAT? =-.
It's always possible!
Jeeez Mo. You just pointed out something good about us Yank's health care system...free parking at the hospital. Thanks, I feel better now.
.-= Mr. Charleston´s last blog ..For Men Who Leave The Seat Up =-.
My work is complete
Well mo, seems like you know now that hospitals don't charge for parking here.
I know what you mean though, I HATE being nickel and dimed, I recently looked at my cell phone bill and saw all these taxes for different areas I don't even live in. I complained and they looked into it, then credited me $300 for all the taxes they took out that they shouldn't have over years and years.
I keep imagining your daughter getting seen, then you have to walk up to a hospital cash register while they ring you up for all the stuff that was used (like the wooden throat stick, band aid, tissue paper,etc...).
You're alive?
I was starting to worry that you had been captured by some trailer-park folk.
It took me a minute to figure out the car park thing. Ahhh ... parking lot!
Croup is awful. My oldest son had to go to the ER for it more than once. Glad your daughter is better now!
.-= Twenty Four At Heart´s last blog ..Aliso Beach =-.
The poor princess was just struggling to breath properly.
Took my (26 year old) daughter to the Emergency room a few weeks ago. A four hour wait, two prescriptions which we had to fill at a 24 hour pharmacy, and a bill for $600 later, and she still had to go home and wait for her condition to "present". (another way of saying "it's not bad enough, wait a few more days so we can charge you even more to treat it.")
But at least the parking was free.
And now that the health care bill has passed, I'm waiting on the edge of my seat for Rush Limbaugh to flee the country...
.-= Cactus Petunia´s last blog ..unsolicited advice... =-.
It would be ironic if you guys started charging for hospital parking...
Actually, here in the U.S. the emergency care is free and the parking is $6,000.
.-= injaynesworld´s last blog ..injaynesworld it's the "Sunday Recap..." =-.


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Over the next 60 days, it will be a misdemeanor for anyone 17 and under to be unsupervised in downtown Greensboro after 11 p.m.
The Greensboro City Council reinstated the curfew in an emergency meeting Wednesday in response to recent violence and arrests. The curfew is in effect from 11 p.m. to 6 a.m.
The council met after a massive fight involving an estimated 400 people downtown Saturday night. Greensboro police arrested 11 people ranging in age from 16 to 20. Officers had to call in reinforcements and use pepper spray and a stun gun to try to get the crowd under control.
The city originally imposed a curfew in 2011 banning children under 18 from being out unsupervised from 11 p.m. to 6 a.m.


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Armenia, country of Transcaucasia, lying just south of the great mountain range of the Caucasus and fronting the northwestern extremity of Asia. To the north and east Armenia is bounded by Georgia and Azerbaijan, while its neighbours to the southeast and west are, respectively, Iran and Turkey. Naxçıvan, an exclave of Azerbaijan, borders Armenia to the southwest. The capital is Yerevan (Erevan).
Modern Armenia comprises only a small portion of ancient Armenia, one of the world's oldest centres of civilization. At its height, Armenia extended from the south-central Black Sea coast to the Caspian Sea and from the Mediterranean Sea to Lake Urmia in present-day Iran. Ancient Armenia was subjected to constant foreign incursions, finally losing its autonomy in the 14th century ce. The centuries-long rule of Ottoman and Persian conquerors imperiled the very existence of the Armenian people. Eastern Armenia was annexed by Russia during the 19th century; western Armenia remained under Turkish rule, and in 1894–96 and 1915 Turkey perpetrated systematic massacres and forced deportations of Armenians.
The portion of Armenia lying within the former Russian Empire declared independence on May 28, 1918, but in 1920 it was invaded by forces from Turkey and Soviet Russia. The Soviet Republic of Armenia was established on Nov. 29, 1920; in 1922 Armenia became part of the Transcaucasian Soviet Federated Socialist Republic; and in 1936 this republic was dissolved and Armenia became a constituent (union) republic of the Soviet Union. Armenia declared sovereignty on Aug. 23, 1990, and independence on Sept. 23, 1991.
The status of Nagorno-Karabakh, an enclave of 1,700 square miles in southwestern Azerbaijan populated primarily by Armenians, was from 1988 the source of bitter conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan. By the mid-1990s Karabakh Armenian forces occupied much of southwestern Azerbaijan, but the conflict had caused an economic crisis in Armenia.
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Armenia is a mountainous country characterized by a great variety of scenery and geologic instability. The average altitude is 5,900 feet (1,800 metres) above sea level. There are no lowlands: half the territory lies at altitudes of 3,300 to 6,600 feet; only about one-tenth lies below the 3,300-foot mark.
The northwestern part of the Armenian Highland—containing Mount Aragats (Alaghez), the highest peak (13,418 feet, or 4,090 metres) in the country—is a combination of lofty mountain ranges, deep river valleys, and lava plateaus dotted with extinct volcanoes. To the north and east, the Somkhet, Bazum, Pambak, Areguni, Shakhdag, and Vardenis ranges of the Lesser Caucasus lie across the northern sector of Armenia. Elevated volcanic plateaus (Lory, Shirak, and others), cut by deep river valleys, lie amid these ranges.
In the eastern part of Armenia, the Sevan Basin, containing Lake Sevan (525 square miles) and hemmed in by ranges soaring as high as 11,800 feet, lies at an altitude of about 6,200 feet. In the southwest, a large depression—the Ararat Plain—lies at the foot of Mount Aragats and the Geghama Range; the Aras River cuts this important plain into halves, the northern half lying in Armenia and the southern in Turkey and Iran.
Armenia is subject to damaging earthquakes. On Dec. 7, 1988, an earthquake destroyed the northwestern town of Spitak and caused severe damage to Leninakan (now Gyumri), Armenia's second most populous city. About 25,000 people were killed.
Of the total precipitation, some two-thirds is evaporated, and one-third percolates into the rocks, notably the volcanic rocks, which are porous and fissured. The many rivers in Armenia are short and turbulent with numerous rapids and waterfalls. The water level is highest when the snow melts in the spring and during the autumn rains. As a result of considerable difference in altitude along their length, some rivers have great hydroelectric potential.
Most of the rivers fall into the drainage area of the Aras (itself a tributary of the Kura River of the Caspian Basin), which, for 300 miles (480 kilometres), forms a natural boundary between Armenia and Turkey and Iran.
The Aras' main left-bank tributaries, the Akhuryan (130 miles), the Hrazdan (90 miles), the Arpa (80 miles), and the Vorotan (Bargyushad; 111 miles), serve to irrigate most of Armenia. The tributaries of the Kura—the Debed (109 miles), the Aghstev (80 miles), and others—pass through Armenia's northeastern regions. Lake Sevan, with a capacity in excess of 9 cubic miles (39 cubic kilometres) of water, is fed by dozens of rivers, but only the Hrazdan leaves its confines.
Armenia is rich in springs and wells, some of which possess medicinal properties.
More than 15 soil types occur in Armenia, including light brown alluvial soils found in the Aras River plain and the Ararat Plain, poor in humus but still intensively cultivated; rich brown soils, found at higher elevations in the hill country; and chernozem (black earth) soils, which cover much of the higher steppe region. Much of Armenia's soil—formed partly by residues of volcanic lava—is rich in nitrogen, potash, and phosphates. The labour required to clear the surface stones and debris from the soil, however, has made farming in Armenia difficult.
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