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The Honors Retreat marks the beginning of each new year and is an excellent way to meet upperclassmen, faculty, staff, and alumni. The retreat provides you the opportunity to become a member of the Honors College community before classes begin. Honors Retreat is an overnight retreat (transportation provided) at Camp Allen in Navasota, Texas.
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After nearly a century in business Bricker Tunis was broken into after a vehicle smashed into the exterior wall of the business. The vehicle collided with the store's metal security gate and became stuck there. The suspects entered the store but it appears no merchandise was stolen. Police say the vehicle driven into the building was stolen. VIDEO: Click on the video player above to hear from the store's owner, Arthur Bricker, in Fox 2's Maurielle Lue's reportBricker Tunis has been in business for 97 years.
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The Moot Court Program at Loyola New Orleans is built on consistency and excellence. The comprehensive program is designed to give students the opportunity to participate effectively in intramural and intercollegiate moot court competitions as well as future law practice. Students build and perfect the art of persuasive oral advocacy and the skills of proficient brief writing.
Beginning the first year of law school, students have the opportunity to take the Loyola Moot Court Course in effective appellate advocacy. Selections for Moot Court Staff positions are made following the course in an annual competitive intramural competition. Every participant is graded individually on each appearance before a bench of judges. Eliminations and selections are determined by these scores as well as persuasive writing skills.
The Moot Court Board, composed of seven third-year law students, is responsible for the organization, administration, and selection of these members. The Board also selects the competitors and coaches of the national teams who will compete with other law schools in the region and nationwide. Each year the Moot Court Program hosts the Moot Court Annual Golf Tournament and the Moot Court Banquet in conjunction with the regional and local legal communities. Alumni, local practitioners, and judges regularly partake in these events and competition preparation.
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Unified Model of Relative Rotation, Non-linear Dynamics System and Chaos Movement Analysis
The two end surface revolution axis relative rotation system and a kind of two qualities relative rotation system unified non-linear dynamics model are established, in the non-linear resiliency and the generalized damping force. And the chaos movement performance of unification system is studied, under weak cyclical strength condition as well.Key words: Relative rotation; Non-linear dynamic system; Chaos movement
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It's a good day to be a Central resident!
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Benzene Prices, markets & analysis
With a network of price reporters across Asia, Europe and the US, ICIS is fully equipped to keep you updated on everything that happens in the global Benzene market, whether you buy or sell Benzene or related products.
From daily and weekly reports containing price assessments obtained by our network of local reporters, to the news and analysis that put the market into focus, we provide the tools you need to make confident business decisions.
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Benzene overview Transcript
Benzene is one of the key petrochemical markets it feeds into a lot of different products. It goes into styrenics and the phenolic chain. It's used to manufacture a lot of different plastics, resins and nylon. So, as you can imagine, there's a wide range of factors that can influence benzene pricing.
And it's very much a global market as well, so you have to keep an eye on what's happening in Asia and in the US. Because it is so far upstream it is very closely linked to the wider economy and even currency fluctuations. You've also got to look at crude and energy values and volatility there.
In Europe supply is also a key issue so we have to watch turnarounds and shutdowns for maintenance very carefully just to see how that affects availability in Europe and ultimately pricing.
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Updated to Q3 2014
For US benzene, market expectations are mixed moving into the third quarter. Some trade sources have said they expect benzene prices to come down from highs seen late in the second quarter, while others expect the market to remain strong in the front month moving forward.
Participants added that the benzene market not may subside again until South Korea looks to send monthly imports of at least 70,000 tonnes a month.
However, the US hurricane season will still be in full swing, and could still impact the market.
Balanced availability in Europe is expected to keep prices from falling steeply. The European market is also expected to follow direction from the US, which is expected to remain volatile and dependent on import/export balance.
Supply condition for August cargoes in Asia will improve from July, given the four new benzene units, totalling close to 2m tonnes/year, which will come on stream in second-half July. At the same time, regional end-users continued to seek new August lots, although both downstream styrene and phenol sectors faced negative margins. Besides that, some traders were considering shipping August cargoes to the US despite an on-and-off open Asia-US arbitrage window because both May and June exports from South Korea to the US were nearly halved from March and April.
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About Benzene
Benzene is a colourless, refractive liquid with a characteristic aromatic odour. Its vapour is toxic and highly flammable. In cold weather, benzene solidifies to a white crystalline mass. It is slightly soluble in water, miscible with ethyl alcohol, ether, acetone, carbon tetrachloride, carbon disulphide, and glacial acetic acid (GAA).
Benzene is the largest volume aromatic petrochemical used to produce a number of petrochemical intermediates.
Ethylbenzene (EB) is the largest chemical outlet for benzene and nearly all is consumed in the production of styrene.
The second largest outlet for benzene is cumene which is nearly all consumed in phenol production with acetone formed as a coproduct.
The third largest outlet for benzene is cyclohexane (CX) which finds its way primarily into the nylon chain via caprolactam and adipic acid.
The fourth main derivative of benzene is nitrobenzene, which can be used to make aniline.
Benzene is used to make a number of other chemical intermediates such as alkylbenzene used in detergents, maleic anhydride(unsaturated polyester resins) and chlorobenzenes (engineering polymers).
The main sources of benzene are from the steam cracking or catalytic reforming of liquid petroleum feedstocks, primarily naphtha, where the benzene is recovered from the aromatics stream. Other processes are hydrodealkylation (HDA) of toluene and toluene disproportionation (TDP).
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Billboard reports that Dost is getting into film and TV scoring, starting with composing the music for MTV's new series Faking It. Dost says that doing this sort of work is "my career goal" and "my biggest ambition." The show, which premieres April 22, is a romantic comedy set in a high school in Austin, Texas, and focuses on two girls whose popularity goes through the roof when a rumor starts that they're gay. It isn't true, but the two decide to continue the charade because of their new social status.
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By Lt. Steve Rose
If life has taught us anything, it's taught us that life can hold a lot of unexpected surprises: some good, some not so good, and some just plain ugly. There has never been a rule book about all the things you probably need to know. Somehow, regardless of how many people have had similar experiences, there never seems to be a pass-down of even the really good things you need to know, at least in the real world.
There is no one "real world." My real world is different than someone else's. The real world to the upper crust may be no Starbucks within a five-mile radius while, two miles away, the real world means your meth dealer got popped by the cops and your connection just dried up. Either situation can be the universal bummer.
But I believe there are fundamentals, or absolutes, that most young people would benefit from hearing. Learning from others can be beneficial. One person may suggest: "Help those who are not as fortunate as you." I'm good with that, but would add: "Make sure you frisk them first."
While we all have different views, I'm sure there is a core group of absolutes. Some of my suggestions:
1. Make it a habit to foot-flush in public restrooms. (For those of us over 50, stretch first.)
2. Realize everyone gets silly-stupid behind the wheel. Use restraint. Remember, your road rage will quickly subside in a few seconds. Don't lose control and do something completely stupid that will come back to haunt you later.
3. Put your cellphone down. Literally. I got behind someone going 35 MPH on GA 400 in the left lane, talking on the cellphone. We don't multi-task that well.
4. Look people in the eye for a second or two.
5. When you pass someone on the street and acknowledge them, nod up but not down. Nodding up has a bit of swagger to it.
6. Start or join a neighborhood watch group.
7. Get off the popular bandwagon and make up your own mind on important issues.
8. Reduce the number of left turns you make during the day.
9. When someone breaks into your home or business, it's a burglary, not a robbery.
10. Get out of the city and suburbs from time to time. Go the mountains and see how nice people are.
11. If you have a gun, clean it and go practice with it. If you can't do that, sell it to someone who will.
12. Don't give crooks credit they don't deserve. They're morons and have no honor. They steal from you, me, their own families and anyone who leaves the opportunity for them to commit crimes.
13. You will NOT make millions from a land baron in a small foreign country. Banks will not request you send personal info on your email to keep your account from suddenly being frozen. Read up on scams.
14. Be politely skeptical. Don't be afraid of asking questions, but do buy the Girl Scout cookies — no questions asked.
15. Call the police when you see something suspicious. Most arrests are a result of a suspicious resident making a 911 call.
16. Go see the Gwinnett Braves and/or the Rome Braves play baseball. It's affordable and fun.
17. Go see the Atlanta Braves play, but bring a loan officer.
18. Enjoy your weekends or any other day off. Don't spend nice days inside. Hang out with friends and family and make the good days last longer.
19. Be happy and don't sweat the small stuff.
20. Finally, remember that everything short of death is just small stuff!
– View from the Cop blog
Editor's note: After a run of more than six years, this is Lt. Steve Rose's final "View from the Cop" post on ajc.com.
We invite you to explore our other blog offerings.
March 31st, 2011
5:20 pm
Excellent advice all around. To expand on #19:
Don't sweat the petty stuff. Don't pet the sweaty stuff.
March 31st, 2011
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Thanks for the advice! I love your blog!
March 31st, 2011
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I laughed outloud..My husband a 40 year veteran officer leaves home without gun and badge once-in-a-while…10 minute drive home…and he is the chief!
April 1st, 2011
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Very good, very true…
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This sure was hard to find today…c'mon AJC.
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Why is the link to your blog not on the blogs.ajc.com?
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By aspeidel on 7/19/2011
The Cafe Frida (on Amsterdam nr 97th) promises a great evening out with the girls!!! My friends and I recently visited Cafe Frida because we had heard about their sangria and beautiful outdoor seating, and we were not disappointed. The Sangria was FLOWIN' and we were certainly smiling and enjoying the sweet taste of such a great summertime drink. And the food that we ordered (from guacamole to queso dips to small tapas/bites) were all so flavorful and delightful. The staff was all very kind and welcoming and always attentive to anything we needed. They had great pairing recommendations and were very knowledgeable about the ingredients of each item (very helpful if someone has a food allergy). I highly recommend visiting with friends and sitting outside under their colorful backyard umbrellas for a wonderful evening!
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By lands on 1/10/2011
They had several great dishes The tortilla soup was good and the Variety of sauces was amazing Good Guacamole. Authentic glasses to boot
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By chocolatemousse on 11/1/2010
I had the best margarita here- it was made with jalepeno infused vodka. Pricey but actually worth the money. It had chili pepper salt on the rim as well. Food is authentic and delicious. Manager was very accomodating- letting us taste a few tequilas we were curious about, and talking about them knowledgeably too. A shame this place is overlooked by surrounding hyped up joints.
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By sorjuanaus on 6/4/2010
Cafe Frida, at Columbus Ave., and their new addition at Amsterdam Ave., is an unimpressive and boring restaurant, that lacks the rich flavors and spirit of Mexican food. As for the service, it doesn't help at all to improve the ratings, and the sanitary conditions are questionable as well.
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By qkiemonster on 12/3/2008
We went there since calle ocho was full for brunch. We were the first table and yet the service was inefficient and slow. The quesadilla was miniature (and cost 13 bucks!), there was no complimentary chips or bread basket, the servers were rude and impolite, and the food was so-so.
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By MexicaliLeo on 11/11/2008
What it lacks in charm, it rocks out in authenticity. Frida is the first and only place I've had legit ceviche made fresh when I ordered it in Manhattan. They served up a great assortment of varied chiles and had some tasty street-style fish & chicken served up shredded in a clay pot with warm homemade tortillas to pack them in to. The tequila selection is phenomenal and seems to intentionally lack Paul Mitchell's Patron label. Frida isn't Dos Caminos, but it's not a place to write-off either if you're a fan of true Mexican food.
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By BillieNYC on 10/19/2008
Complete waste of time and money. The restaurant itself is dirty and crowded. Service was slow and unfriendly. Worst of all was the food--guacamole was $11 for tiny portion and flavorless chips. The brunch was unappetizing and overpriced. Go to Cafe Ronda instead...same restaurant chain but completely different food and experience.
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were also full-time teachers. By the mid-1950s, there were still as few as six administrators,
some of whom still taught as well. (There were two deans by then-one of the faculty,
one of students-and an assistant to the president.) The lack of office space probably
accounts for this modest growth. Lodged in quarters of their own after the conversion
of the library, the administrators budded and branched to correspond with the growing
numbers of students. By 1967, there were eleven chief administrative officers, plus
thirty-two minions, secretaries, and sundry house carls. None of these lists count
the librarian, a position with faculty status, nor the college physician, nor the
anonymous and essential corps of maintenance men, who keep the school running.
A rise in the corps of instruction followed the growth of the student body. Only
at the end of the Blackwell era-1937-did sociology, in the person of J. Paul McConnell,
make its appearance. Between the wars, the faculty remained virtually the same size
and remarkably identical in personnel. In 1946-47, there were twenty-four members
of the teaching faculty (not counting physical education). Of these, nine had been
on the staff before 1926, and six more had been hired between 1930 and 1940. Of
the twenty-four, twelve were alumni of the college, and an additional seven came
from colleges within the state (three of whom graduated from the University of Richmond).
Only two of the twenty-four came from northern schools: Wesleyan and Lehigh. Thirteen
of the faculty had earned doctorates. Of the twenty-four, just one-third (eight)
had entered the service of the college in 1946 with the expansion of the student
By the mid-fifties, the faculty had grown to thirty-nine. The proportion of alumni
and doctorates (or equivalent) remained about the same. Nineteen alumni were on
the faculty, and there were twenty-one men with doctorates.
The end of the Moreland presidency (1967) saw a faculty of fifty-five full-time
teachers, half of whom (twenty-seven) had the doctorate or equivalent. The proportion
of alumni had fallen to under half: nineteen. Half of all the faculty had come to
the college since 1959. The large proportion of relatively new members of the faculty
may have contributed to the willingness of the faculty to change a curriculum that
had been in place since 1947. Interestingly enough, when the curriculum was last
changed, in 1946, half of the faculty had been at the college for about the same
length of time, eight years.
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That's a fine 36-0 win from the Titans and biggest margin in the club's history. The Raiders were potentially there for the taking today and the Gold Coast didn't show any mercy. The home side played a slick, expansive game and the Raiders were never in the hunt. The week had clearly taken a toll and without two of their best attacking players, never caused much panic. Suffice to say, they didn't defend particularly well either. In the end, the Titans far too good and the Raiders, having stood by their morals off the field, paid a price on the field. Jamal Idris was man of the match and looks in far better shape this season.
Fulltime and an easy day at the office for the Gold Coast. They demolish the Raiders 36-0.
McCrone tries a grubber - but he just kind of drops it and then boots it messily off the ground. Just got a toe to it before it hit the deck. They are checking for a ground after the Raiders chase but no dice. Titans to drop it out. No advance on their 36-0 lead and they have spent the past five minutes or so back at their end. Just three minutes to play.
Idris just BURIED Joe Picker.
Canberra, wait for it, dropped the ball. Titans back crashing it up the middle of the park. Now James is down injured and they've stopped play. Just taken a knock I think and there it is, a shoulder in the back after he passed the ball. Just under nine minutes remaining. Titans penalty and Learoyd-Lahrs on report.
Crowd is 12,267. You'd hope a few more locals turn up next week - been a great show from the home side. Where's the love for the Titans these days? Twelve thousand is a Waratahs crowd. It's 36-0 and the Raiders ON THE ATTACK.
Nearly another one for the Gold Coast but the last pass to Gordon comes unstuck. It's 36-0 with 14 minutes to play and to be quite honest, a half century isn't out of the picture. That would have taken them to the 40 mark but the final interchange of passing was a little too cute. And they've bombed another one! Brad Takairangi is butchering them left, left and left at the moment.
Sezer convets from the sideline. It's 36-0. Titans have busted the line on a whopping 10 occasions. Time for a drinks break. And boy, do the Raiders need a drink. Breezer anyone?
The Raiders turn it over comically up one end and the Titans score at the other. Kevin Gordon dives over in the corner and if it wasn't already, that's game over. Titans lead 34-0. Not a good week to be a Raiders fan. Hang in there folks. Hang in there. We got love.
Zillman away! Runs 80m and dragged down one metre short by Robinson. Nobody around and he tries to play it and this is a sin-bin surely. It it indeed. Robinson gets a 10-minute breather and that's basically the definition of a professional foul. Raiders down to 12 men. But the Titans lose it on possession one. Still 30-0.
No try. Still 30-0. The Raiders in with a theoretical chance but only 25 minutes left. But the Australians managed to take a wicket in India so anything is possible you'd have to say.
The Titans away again! Kelly in space, finds Myles who is dragged down 20m short. He's tangled up as he plays the ball and there's the penalty. Suspect that would have been a sin-binning if the Raiders weren't getting flogged. And we've gone upstairs for a potential Titans try to Ryan James but I don't like their chances. Still 30-0.
You know how some teams bounce back and produce a huge effort after a week of adversity? That's not Canberra today.
What about Dave Taylor chasing that kick? Sat up in the in-goal and Taylor was steaming down like a, er, coal train? Robinson stepped him easily but I'm amazed the big fella managed to pull up before the fence. And here's the Raiders hitting back? Nope. Takairangi forces it loose from Josh Papalii as he dives over. Nothing going right for the Raiders. Still 30-0 to the Gold Coast.
More room for the Titans but they spill the ball. Holes all over the Raiders defensive line. And on a sidenote, the Titans look like they've poached the curator from Augusta to prepare this field. Looks like you could putt from halfway. It's 30-0.
The Raiders have shown almost nothing this afternoon and will want to find something very special indeed to get back into the game. Unfortunately, both players capable of doing that are out of action. Could be a long second half. No change to the 30-0 scoreline. Titans have looked red-hot, in saying that. Albert Kelly looking the goods in the seven.
G'day folks. I'm swinging in for the second half after Lee Gaskin, one of Canberra's favourite sons and a man who has lifesize mannequin of Steve Jackson permanently in the passenger seat of the car, controlled the ruck in the first. The Raiders are down 30-0 (just the bounce of the ball really) and have given away a penalty in their very first tackle. All looking good. Very hot up here today. Breezers all round.
TRY: Are you kidding me!!! That's an incredible length of the field Titans try, and you can shut the door, this game is over. Idris picks up the crumbs of a high ball on his own line and takes off down the sideline. The big fella is galloping down and gets rounded up by Sandor Earl and Jack Wighton, puts draws both and throws an beautiful pass to Albert Kelly, who sprints away to score under the posts. Sezer converts. Titans 30; Raiders 0
The Titans will be putting hitting the tables at Jupiters later on tonight given their run of luck. A clearing kick gets a deflection, only for it to come off a Raider and the Titans get the scrum feed. Their luck finally runs out, losing the ball on the first for the Raiders to get out of danger.
A great chance for the Raiders goes begging, Jarrod Croker spilling the ball a couple of metres out in the face of a big shot from Idris. Suffice to say, nothing going right for the Green Machine.
TRY: More than a touch of doubt over that one from Srama. On the replay, Srama streches out but looks like he could be short of the line. The original call was try, so need to have proof he didn't score. Not enough proof so we get the green light and the Titans are just about home, even in the first half. Sezer converts. Titans 24; Raiders 0
TRY! Fireworks got off at Skilled Park for a third time as Matt Srama gives the Titans a sizeable advantage. The Titans hooker looms on the inside of Ash Harrison to sneak through some ordinary Raiders defence. The Raiders are all at sea, going to be a very long afternoon. Sezer hits the upright and misses. Titans 18; Raiders 0
I've got no idea how David Mead escaped the chasers and got back into the field of play. Sensational effort. Mead beats half a dozen Raiders to get back, before the Raiders give away a penalty to let the Titans off the hook.
We're off to a three-minute drinks break at the 20-minute mark given the extreme heat. Should be stern words in the Raiders huddle. Hold on to the ball should be the first one. Halftime is also extended to 15 minutes.
Call the fight off - it's more one-sided than when Sonny Bill beat up that car insurance salesman. Sezer shows great vision to spot Kevin Gordon unmarked out wide and grubber kicks for his winger, who touches down in the corner. The video ref is checking for obstruction against Greg Bird on Josh McCrone. It's no-try, and the first break of the day for the Raiders.
Dear oh dear. Reece Robinson takes the driver when he only needed the three iron, booming the kickoff from the restart over the dead ball line. Raiders gifting the game to the Titans.
Yet another close call from the Raiders, Kevin Gordon dropping the ball in a desperate attempt to score in the corner. But the Titans get a penalty right in front for a shoulder charge earlier in the movement. The referee doesn't know which player committed it, but has called it anyway. Sezer adds two more points to the lead. Titans 14; Raiders 0
Titans dominating all facets of the game, with an incredible 83 per cent of possession. That's not a typo. Raiders get off the hook when Kevin Gordon beats Edrick Lee to a high ball, but throws the pass forward when offloading. Just as I say that, Dane Tilse loses the ball only 30m out to put the Raiders under more pressure.
Yet another error from the Raiders, with Joel Edwards fumbling the ball as he attempts to stand up and play. Elementary mistake. The Titans are on the attack only 40m out. Massive danger signs for the visitors.
TRY: The Titans' blonde bomber, Greg Bird, justifies his ridiculous hairdo with the Titans' second try in the opening eight minutes. Kelly scored the first, but he sets up the second with quick hands to find a (pardon the pun) flying Bird. Ba, ba, chhh! Raiders in disarray off that error from Earl. Sezer converts. Titans 12; Raiders 0
An absolute shocking mistake from Sandor Earl, even without his peroxide blonde hair you can't miss that blooper. The Raiders winger drops a simple clearing kick from the Titans, giving the Titans a scrum 10m out.
TRY: The Titans are in off a lucky kick rebound, with Albert Kelly diving in under the posts. Greg Bird's grubber kick bounces off Josh Papalii, regathered by Brad Takarangi, who weighs up his options and finds an unmarked Kelly in a gaping hole. Perfect start for the hosts. Sezer converts. Titans 6; Raiders 0
In team news, the Titans are 1-17, while the Raiders are without Joel Thompson and Brett White, with Mark Nicholls and Joe Picker coming on to the bench.
Oh, and some guy called Josh Dugan. Let's see how Reece Robinson goes in the No 1 jersey.


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There are a lot of soccer fans in Chicago and the city wants to make sure all of them have a place to watch tomorrow's must-win match for the United States.
Chicago will hold a World Cup viewing party in Soldier Field after previous U.S. games drew tens of thousands to the city's lakefront Grant Park.
U.S. Soccer and the city plan a watch party on Tuesday afternoon at the stadium. Soccer fans can watch the U.S. team take on Belgium. Gates open at 1:30 p.m. and the match starts at 3 p.m.
World Cup Soccer popularity in Chicago has grown exponentially. The team has captured attention with its performance and these public viewing events are a hit with the kids. Fans wildly waved American flags and wore red, white and blue at Chicago watch parties in recent weeks for this year's World Cup. The earlier U.S. game against Portugal brought about 20,000 fans at Grant Park.
Butler Field, near Petrillo Music Shell, held the crowd comfortably in recent weeks but Soldier Field has amenities. The concession stands will serve food, drinks and beer. The large monitor is easy to see from the field and seats. Soldier Field has real bathrooms and offers shelter. The grass will be covered with plastic flooring.
Entrance is free, parking is not where regular Soldier Field rates apply.
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Hanley Ramirez was hit by a pitch during the 4th inning of the Los Angeles Dodgers' win over the St. Louis Cardinals on Sunday night. As you might remember, Ramirez was hit by Cards starting pitcher Joe Kelly in the first game of the NLCS last year and suffered a broken rib. Clayton Kershaw had finally seen enough.
With LA leading 3-1, runners on first and third and two out, Ramirez was drilled in the shoulder by a fastball from Carlos Martinez that was thrown in a very dangerous area.
Kershaw plunked Matt Holliday in the backside with his first pitch in the next half inning.


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Colin Kaepernick Does Not Care What You Think About His Tattoos
One face of the new-school NFL QBs, Colin Kaepernick opens up about the read-option, adoption and, yes, body art
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From now until the opening of training camps, The MMQB is running a series of our Greatest Hits from the site's first year. From July 2013, Peter King wrote about Colin Kaepernick's ascent to stardom.
TURLOCK, Calif. — On a hot May night in California's Central Valley, graduation night at Pitman High, eight police officers stand in a multipurpose room listening to instructions. One is an undercover cop. A couple are SWAT-teamers in bulletproof vests. Something very big is fixing to happen.
The officers are given their assignments by veteran detective Jason Tosta—they're told to make sure that no one rushes the stage and that the guest speaker enters and exits without being mobbed. "This was supposed to be a secret," says Tosta, "but now it's all over Facebook and Twitter, so I'm sure some people know he'll be here." The detail is told there was lax security at a grocery store appearance recently; people were pushing over displays to get to the guest, who had to make a hustling exit to escape the fray—only to be followed by three cars after he left.
Then Colin Kaepernick, quarterback of the San Francisco 49ers, walks in, accompanied by his parents, Rick and Teresa. Pleasantries are exchanged. Colin, Pitman Class of 2006, hugs a few of his former teachers. Pictures are taken. The cops brief him on what's about to happen.
In a moment of downtime before Kaepernick takes the stage, a couple of the officers have a chance to engage with him. Do they ask him what it was like to start in the Super Bowl, seven years after he took a photography class in the room right across the hall? How it felt to set an NFL record for rushing yards by a quarterback in a game—in the playoffs, no less? Whether he's daunted by following in the footsteps of Joe Montana and Steve Young?
No. They want to talk body art.
"Love your tattoos," Tosta, 42, tells Kaepernick. "I've got my family history running down my left arm. My mom had to have a heart transplant, so I've got a hand holding a human heart."
Kaepernick tells them about his post-Super Bowl tattoos. He had massive Polynesian tribal symbols done on both pecs, so that his upper torso is covered in a rubric inscrutable to most of us. "They represent family, inner strength, humility and spiritual growth," Kaepernick says of the images. He had the work done in San Jose three nights after the Super Bowl, sitting for six hours until it was finished at 2:30 a.m. The officers are at rapt attention.
New world out there. New quarterback for it.
Adopted. Biracial. Supremely tatted. A runner sometimes. A thrower sometimes. Colin Kaepernick, age 25, is the anti-Manning, and he likes that. A lot.
Not that Kaepernick—who played his college ball at Nevada, the only school to offer him a ride—has anything against the quarterbacks with the classic big-school football pedigree: Tom Brady, Peyton and Eli Manning, Aaron Rodgers, Matthew Stafford, Matt Ryan. But none of those quarterbacks was adopted at the age of six weeks. None had friends questioning whether he was white or black. None is being pursued by a birth mom he's not interested in knowing. None, apparently, has the same yearning to have 70% percent of his upper body covered in ink. None has rushed for 181 yards in an NFL playoff game. For none did his 10th NFL start come in the Super Bowl.
Now, after paying tribute to his retiring former football coach, after stopping to pick up pepperoni pizza at Little Caesars, and after dropping his mom and dad off at their house in Modesto, Kaepernick is in the back seat of an SUV, heading to his home near the 49ers' training facility in Santa Clara. It's past 10 p.m., pitch-black outside on California 99, and the 90 miles or so to cover means there's plenty of time for Kaepernick to talk frankly about himself and his place in the NFL. At the Super Bowl, when the world was trying to get to know him, he gave brief, vanilla responses in his press conferences; his longest answer might have been about 14 words. Now, he's got a lot more to say:
"I want to try to break that perfect football mold. I don't want to be someone who can be put into a category. I want to be my own person. I want my own style. I want to be someone who can't really be compared to anybody.
"And I want to have a positive influence as much as I can. I've had people write me because of my tattoos. I've had people write me because of adoption. I've had people write me because they're biracial. I've had people write me because their kids have heart defects—my mom had two boys who died of heart defects, which ultimately brought about my adoption. So, to me, the more people you can touch, the more people you can influence in a positive way or inspire, the better."
Great players can touch more people, and Kaepernick knows that half an NFL season does not make him a great player. But today's game sets up nicely for a quarterback with his tools: fast feet and a powerful arm. The movement toward a new style of quarterback is here. Pete Carroll, the Seahawks' coach, told me in January that the spate of young, mobile QBs "is the evolution of football—screaming at us." Ohio State coach Urban Meyer said of Kaepernick: "I mean, Wow! He's running 60 yards untouched? When was the last time you saw a quarterback run untouched in the NFL for 60 yards? People said, 'You can't do that in the NFL!' Yes you can."
During the ride back to the Bay Area, Kaepernick is enlightening when talking about the final, frustrating drive of the Super Bowl, the series he keeps playing over in his head. But it's all the other stuff that makes him a compelling protagonist in the world of football, and in the larger, more complicated world beyond sports.
Kaepernick was born in Milwaukee in November 1987 to a tall, athletic 19-year-old woman named Heidi Russo. She is white; the father, whom Russo has never identified, was African-American. A month after Colin's birth, Russo gave the baby up to a young couple from Fond du Lac, Wisc., Teresa and Rick Kaepernick, who'd lost two infant boys to heart disease and were pining for a son to join their two other children, son Kyle and daughter Devon.
For a while Teresa sent Russo photos of Colin as he grew, but it took such an emotional toll on Russo that, she has said, she asked Teresa to stop. Russo, in interviews over the past year, has said she wants to meet Colin and has reached out to him through social media, trying to arrange a meeting. He has declined, saying he feels he knows his parents.
"Do you feel you've drawn the line with her, and you just don't want to meet?" I ask him.
"I feel like I have drawn that line," Colin says. "I feel like it's been drawn for a while. The way things transpired at the end of the season and this offseason, that line just became darker. That's not going to happen. It's not something I want to do. Ultimately I know who my family is, and I know who my mother is."
Colin already wasn't inclined to have a relationship with his birth mother. He called it a personal decision. And he's been put off further by what he thinks is Russo's aggressiveness in trying to make it happen.
"People asked me to do interviews on it," he says, "and they asked my family to do interviews on it, and we turned them down and said, 'It's not a story. In the future, if I have a change of heart and I want to meet her, then it will happen.' The same interviews we turned down, she did. I felt like that was disrespectful to me, my family and especially my mother. I feel like if I go down that road now, I'm disrespecting my mother as well, and that's not something I'm willing to do. I know my mom would never tell me not to go meet her; she would help me do it if I wanted to. But in my mind, that's just not something I'm willing to do."
Kaepernick makes it clear he's "very grateful, very happy" Russo gave him up for adoption. "But past that," he says, "she wasn't the one who was taking me to football practice, she wasn't working 12-hour night shifts so she could be with me when I went to school and got home. I think people see what my birth mom did and say, 'Well, that was great, what she did for you. You should go see her and give her that recognition and be happy for what she did for you.' I don't think people realize the sacrifices my mother [Teresa Kaepernick] has made and what she has done for me, and what she has been through in her life to help me to get to where I am now."
In the middle of Super Bowl week, ESPN's Rick Reilly wrote a column headlined "A Call Kaepernick Should Make" that angered the Kaepernicks. Reilly has an adopted Korean daughter, Rae, who with the support of her adoptive family returned to South Korea to meet her birth mother. Reilly wrote about how healthy and healing he thought it would be for Colin to reach out to Heidi Russo and for the two to meet. "You can't imagine what it would mean," Reilly wrote.
"I know exactly what column you're talking about because someone sent it to me," Colin says. "He referenced his situation with his daughter. My first instinct was, Well, number one, it's none of your business what my decision is, and number two, just because your situation worked out doesn't mean it will work out like that for everybody else. The fact that he said [the meeting] brought closure to his daughter and she feels better about it now …. To me, there's no closure to be had. There's no benefit from it."
It's a strange situation. Kaepernick wants to tell the world, "This is a private matter. Leave me alone." But the game is public, and the media covering pro football is as intensely interested in the people who play the game as it is in the game itself. The bigger Kaepernick gets, the more intense that interest will be. How will he deal with it as his football star grows?
Kaepernick says his biracial makeup was never a big deal in his formative years in Turlock, mostly because his parents were open with him about it. "They were honest with me from the moment they had me. My parents always told me we could talk about it anytime I wanted to. I never really completely understood what it meant when I was young. To me, they were my family. I don't remember how old I was. But I said to her one day, 'Why is my skin darker than yours? I don't really look the same as you.'
"She told me, 'It's because you're adopted, but I wish I had pretty brown skin like you.'
"I never really thought much about it. Kids would say things sometimes, but my family just always loved me. That was the important thing to me."
Another column, by David Whitley of the Sporting News, made the Kaepernick family hot too. "Kaepernick is going to be a big-time NFL quarterback," Whitley wrote in late November. "That must make the guys in San Quentin happy." Quarterbacks, Whitley reasoned, are team CEOs, "and you don't want your CEO to look like he just got paroled."
"My mom has always been so-so with tattoos," Kaepernick says. "Like, 'When are you going to stop? Please don't get any more.' As soon as that article came out, she did a complete flip. She was like, 'How dare you judge my son for his tattoos! Do you even know what his tattoos mean? Do you know what they mean to him?' "
The SUV drives through the California night. No radio. Just Kaepernick on a roll.
"It blows my mind that people still think tattoos are just gang-related, or have negative connotations," he says. "So many people have tattoos because their family's been through something—you heard that police officer tonight—or it's a situation they've been through that's made them stronger, and they want to make sure they remember it forever. I don't think people fully understand how deeply people believe in their tattoos."
Kaepernick's dad was like many American fathers who despise tattoos, telling his son, "While you live under my roof you're not going to have a tattoo." Many of us have said words to this effect to our own teens. So Colin waited until he got to Nevada to start getting a series of religious-themed tattoos. "My first one," he said, "was Psalms 18:39." The scroll coming down his right shoulder quotes the Bible verse: "You armed me with strength for battle; you humbled my adversaries before me." Ever since, he says, "It's been a constant working piece.
"To me it's just another way to be different and try to separate myself as my own man. If I get judged for something like my tattoos, so be it. I was talking to a few of the Rams players [this offseason]. One of their defensive linemen told me, 'I love the fact that you started kissing your tattoos because of someone writing an article, basically showing everybody that you have tattoos and you're still a good person. I have tattoos and I get judged for them. You're really helping me change the perspective of tattoos.' "
And on the seventh day, he plays quarterback for the San Francisco 49ers.
The last time we saw Kaepernick on the field, he was failing, and flailing. Super Bowl XLVII, 49ers' ball at the Baltimore 5, third-and-goal. Game clock stopped at 1:55 in the fourth quarter. Ravens up 34-29.
"That's the play I'd like to have back—the play we had to call timeout," he says. "It was just a slow operation all the way through."
Kaepernick, set back about five yards from center in the Pistol formation, had the Niners ready at the line with 11 seconds left on the play clock. He started barking signals in the deafening Superdome. With five seconds to go he stepped forward, apparently adjusting the protection because of what he saw in the Baltimore defense. With a couple of seconds left on the play clock, coach Jim Harbaugh scrambled over to the side judge, and just before the clock reached zero the Niners got a timeout.
The players, though, weren't aware. The ball was snapped. Kaepernick took it and dropped back a step as running back Frank Gore darted left in front of him. Tight end Vernon Davis sealed off linebacker Terrell Suggs, who'd slanted inside from his spot on the right side of the defense. Gore and second tight end Delanie Walker blocked safety Bernard Pollard and could account for cornerback Cary Williams, at the goal line. One more Raven remained to be blocked: Ray Lewis. And here was right guard Alex Boone, pulling left, with Lewis in his sights. Colin Kaepernick, of the very new breed, versus Ray Lewis, of the old school, on what might very well have been the last play of Lewis's career.
But the showdown didn't happen. Kaepernick took two running steps toward the left flank before he realized the play had been blown dead.
Rewatch that dead play, and all you can do is dream about what might have been. The play-caller, offensive coordinator Greg Roman, told me last February, "Will it eat at me? Of course it will." He isn't alone.
Now it's silent both inside and outside the SUV—even the normal road noise seems gone—as Kaepernick's mind goes back to that play in February in New Orleans.
"I constantly think about it," he says. "I replay it. I rehash it. What could I have done better? If I got everybody up and got them set quicker, we wouldn't have had to worry about the play clock. The way the play looked to me, I don't feel there was anybody that was going to stop us from getting in the end zone . . . It looked like it could have been a walk into the end zone."
"You saw it the way I saw it?" I ask. "That there's a good chance it could have been you against Ray Lewis for the Super Bowl?"
"Yeah, I mean … There was a linebacker coming over the top—Ray—but I just don't feel that was something that was going to matter."
San Francisco didn't want to run the same play after the timeout, so Kaepernick ended up throwing his second of three straight incompletions to Michael Crabtree. On fourth down Kaepernick felt pressure and threw too high and far for Crabtree—who wrestled with corner Jimmy Smith getting off the line and couldn't get to the ball. It's doubtful Crabtree would have had a chance at the pass anyway, but Kaepernick didn't like that there was no penalty call against Smith. "I'm not going to comment on it, but you're asking the question for a reason," he says.
"How long," I ask, "did it take you to get over the game?"
"Still not really over it," he says ruefully. "It feels like something was stolen."
But look at what Kaepernick accomplished last year. When Brady and the Patriots fought all the way back from a 31-3 deficit against the 49ers to tie the game at 31 on a rainy December Sunday night in Foxborough, Kaepernick responded. He faced down a zero blitz by New England and found Crabtree for the decisive touchdown in a 41-34 stunner. "What a surreal moment," he says. "It was crazy, going to shake [Brady's] hand after the game, knowing we'd just beaten a guy who's going to go down as one of the greatest ever. I can't even remember what I said, or what he said."
By the time the playoffs began, no one knew quite what to expect from Kaepernick, who'd been running the crazy read-option maybe 20% or 30% of the time. Against the Packers in the divisional round, he kept the ball a lot, rushing 16 times for 181 yards. The NFL had been alive for 93 seasons, and no quarterback had rushed for that many yards in a game—ever. That game made Kaepernick realize what a crazy weapon his legs can be.
"It got to a point," he says, "where we could hear [the Packers' defenders] arguing while we were in our huddle. 'You're supposed to do this,' or 'You have to do this, then the other.' At that point, our offense was like, It's over. As soon as you start turning on your teammates, you're not going to be productive. You know you have them in the palm of your hands."
At Atlanta the next week, for the NFC title, Kaepernick ran the ball exactly once off the read-option . . . and got buried for a two-yard loss. His arm won that game. And in the Super Bowl, it pulled the Niners back after they'd fallen behind 28-6 in the third quarter.
Now? He'll miss Crabtree, out for at least half the season with a torn right Achilles. He'll need newcomer Anquan Boldin, stolen from Baltimore for a sixth-round pick, and last year's first-rounder, A.J. Jenkins, to pick up the slack. "I've trained and thrown a lot with A.J. this offseason, and his progress is fantastic," Kaepernick says. "Night and day from last year. And Anquan, he's such a man. So glad to have him." Roman trusts Kaepernick enough to have asked him his likes and dislikes this offseason, and he won't have the challenge of Alex Smith—traded to Kansas City before the draft—to worry about. The 49ers are Kaepernick's team, and they should be for years to come. Provided, of course, he doesn't get KO'd running around too much.
In San Francisco's final minicamp practice on June 13, before the team dispersed for its summer break, Kaepernick finished with five straight completions to five different receivers, taking the first-team offensive unit downfield crisply against the first-team defense.
"Colin," said coach Jim Harbaugh, "he's been on it all offseason."
Flash back to Kaepernick's appearance at Pitman High: Everything went smoothly—nothing out of the ordinary other than a few shrieks from graduates who were thrilled that the school's most illustrious alum had returned to pay tribute to his retiring former coach, Brandon Harris. The coach was stunned to see Kaepernick. The two walked off the stage together, back into the multipurpose room, and shared a rib-breaking hug. Harris took in the scene, perfectly orchestrated by the cops and a 49ers PR aide, right down to the police escort that would get Kaepernick back on the road.
"This is amazing!" Harris said. "Colin has . . . he has handlers!"
Outside, his parents climbed into the back row of the SUV, and Colin sat in the middle row. Three motorcycle cops, sirens blaring, led the way out, zooming past the stopped traffic, through a red light and onto Highway 99.
"This is one serious escort," Colin said.
"Anymore, we never know what to expect," Rick Kaepernick added, shaking his head. "But we're learning."
A few quiet minutes later, rolling down the highway, Colin went back in time. He was no longer the 49ers quarterback. He was a boy again, a son.
"Mom? We got any food back at the house? I'm starved."
Well, Teresa said, not really—not enough, anyway. So the SUV pulled into a Little Caesars, and Colin walked in to get a pepperoni pizza to go.
The kid behind the counter took the order, looked up . . . then looked up again before saying, "Whoa!" Kaepernick signed autographs for him and his pizza-maker, paid and thanked them both.
As Kaepernick walked out, another teen held the door for him—and didn't have to do a double-take. It was Colin Kaepernick, in the flesh. Only one word came out of the kid's mouth as Kaepernick walked by carrying his pizza box.
As humans we make our own decisions when we're able too. No one knows how a person feel when they're adopted, foster kids, etc... and to JUDGE people based own their decision from what they've experienced, lived and suffered through. I feel he's entitle to feel how he feels. If parents wouldn't have sex and make these kids and give them up. A lot of kids, young adults and adults wouldn't feel like this. I get how he feels and respect his decision, because I've been supporting homeless and foster youth the last five years and a lot of them are ANGRY and it's sad. He may come around and he may not. The LORD will work it out. His body ink is NICE!!!!
He may feel he doesn't need closure but covering half your body with ink says differently. It may not be an issue with the birth mother but he's got SOMETHING going on. I have no issue with tattoos; I'm talking about someone who has barely left skin visible from the waist up.
Wonderful article, I agree with Colin, his adopted parents are his parents.
that was a GREAT article, i wish there were more high character guys like him not just in football, but in life in general. nice work peter, and also great job with this website, best football writer out there
Great article Peter...
Can't wait till this dude ends up behind bars where he belongs.
Baltimore just had their GIVE ME Super Bowl. handed on a silver plater. I'm telling you right now. The ravens will NOT even make the playoffs in 2013-2014. my 49ers will yet again be back in the Super Bowl to set the record right. Colin Kap is here to stay & has the hottest Arm & Legs & Eyes in the entire NFL. deal with it & hate on those FACTS!... Colin was hotter then Faggo in the SB even though he was on the losing side of cheating/blind ref game. Faggo has not been what Colin is right now in his entire Miserable career. Colin FAST! Faggo Slow :( Collin Accurate Faggo Can't hit the side of a barn Colin Electrifying Faggo Boring to watch.
Someone should take away idiots computers so they cannot post mindless and uneducated banter on here. The 49ers lose a game and blame it on refereeing that didn't go their way. That is the definition of denial... and just like Colin Kaepernick there is no hope for these fools unless they accept what happened for what it really is and move on. Until that day, they will be known as cry-babies that didn't get their way and blame everyone but themselves.
When People have a Legit reason to complain its called Whining, lol. how about Legitimate Complaining?... well thats a new one. idiots like the ones on here calling it whining?... even if they see the Legit argument & complaints on TV they still call it Whining. talk about fools not wanting to believe what they just watched with their own eyes. so if they see a stabbing in person will they not believe their own eyes?... you could pull all kinds of crimes in front of these dumb asses. after all they REFUSE to believe what they ACTUALLY just seen, lmao.
OMG I'm so excited to see him play some more. GO 49ERS!!!.... Soon to be 6-1 on SB's. should been 6-0 right now in SB's if not for the no calls by the Stevie Wonder Ref's. no way the NFL was going to ler Lewis retire a SB Loser. the cards were stacked against the 49ers from the git go.
In the late 90's Allen Iverson started the tattoo craze for athletes. No one cares that Kapernick has tattoos. He needs to stop pretending that people do and like he is the only one that has the problem.
Kaep screws up and costs his team an opportunity to go ahead. So where's the thief? As the leader of your team show up when your teammates are counting on you and get the play in. Winners don't make excuses. Losers do. If you screw up, take it on the chin and don't say a game was stolen. Put the onus on your shoulders and come back next year hungrier. When Lee Evans dropped a game winning touchdown in the AFC Championship the year before, did we hear Joe Flacco blaming him? Or Billy Cudiff for missing a gimme field goal? Nope. Just take the loss and learn from it. Don't cry about it to the press.
This article should be the model example for all sports journalists - well done
9ers Qb. The Dolfins fan.
I have been reading PK for a long time and like him but he does tend to get Man crushes on certain athletes and then concentrates way way to much time on them
Odd that he keeps referring to what a great job his adopted parents did in raising him. Well, did they forget to teach him humility or does he just ignore them when theydid? This guy is so a stomach turning, turn off with his "Mr Me" attitude.
The number of posters here who feel the need to defend tattoos is comical. Tattoos are gangsta, punk trash. Guys in Heavy metal bands have tattoos. Convicts have tattoos.
I realize he has faith based tats. He seems like a nice kid. Why not just live it? Why try to make yourself look like trouble makers and freaks? The simple reality is that our kids are not likely to be pro athletes and will feel real and damaging consequences to making themselves look like this fool. They'll get paid less. They'll be denied opportunities. If you want to argue that, don't bother. It's reality and you're an idiot.
He's making it harder to help kids make good choices. He's promoting the gangsta punk culture.He's part of the problem.
Sounds like you have a death wish.
You, sir, are a teetard!
I hope you are joking. if not I actually feel sorry for you.
@Spedman24 don't hold your breath lol
@Spedman24 don't hold your breath lol
^^ 100% of Spedman24 being either a troll or a racist. Possibility of both.
@Spedman24 - IDIOT!
@Spedman24 For what? Did he do something wrong that you know about but no one else on the planet does? Didn't think so. STFU hater!
@Spedman24 What an idiot (that'd be you Spedman). Did you even read the article? Loyal family man who loves his family. Humble enough to show up and honor his high school football coach. As a 49er fan I know he does multiple fundraisers in the area. Working with his receivers about 7 seconds after the SB loss and displays a first to practice/last to leave work ethic. Judging someone because you don't like how they look says more about YOU than them.
Simply wow...
@MichaelEarlMcQueen Neither team will make the Super Bowl. Colin is a flash in the pan and Flacco is over rated and had a lucky year. Just like Cam was a one year wonder now teams know how to handle him. I seriously do not like either Colin or Cam with their stupid end zone acts. Cam thinks he is super man and Colin thinks he is super buff. Pretty classless in my view. They should act like they have been in the end zone before and show some class. Of course your calling Flacco, Faggo, shows you have even less class.
@MichaelEarlMcQueen dude put the keyboard down. you have the mental capacity of a chimpanzee. you shouldn't be allowed to operate a computer let alone watch sports or have a RESPECTED opinion. Just look at your commentary. It's childish and holds no factual weight. Just useless emotions. You sir are an idiot.
@MichaelEarlMcQueen I have to admit. You do such an awesome job of defining your position, that no reply is necessary. I applaud you!
@MichaelEarlMcQueen Seriously? If there was ANY conspiracy in the SB, I'd go with flipping the light switch when y'all were getting stomped 28-6.
@Hello1813 How do you figure Colin has the problem about his tats?... its others talking smack about his tats. he is just defending himself.
@RealityCheck52 you would have to be Stevie Wonder to not say that SB 47 was hand delivered to the Ravens by the blind refs. when your visible & bluntly cheated out of something so huge, you damn right you have a right to complain not only in the off season but the rest of your life. Cheating is cheated. so its funny to me when others call it whining. SB 47 is a legit complaint by the 49ers & their fans. your not blind. I'm sure you either hate the 49ers for your own childish reasons or your a Raven or Seahawks fan. you could be GOD'S team but if the ref's don't call any hold calls against the other team you can't have a chance to win. the ref's cheated so badly against the 49ers yet they almost pulled it out. can you Imagen if the refs would of called the game right. the 49ers would of stomped the dead birds in the ground & won by 20.
@RichBich Wow...I've never seen a more inaccurate judgement of someone. Did you even read the article?? Guessing not.
@RichBich What about him screams "me me"? Was it showing up to surprise his HS football coach? Or maybe his fierce loyalty to his parents? Maybe it was working with his receivers long before any organized activities had begun?
@muser Did you take a second to notice that his tattoos can't be seen when he wears a dress shirt or a long sleeve t-shirt? Or maybe you thought he was a topless model and his extensive tattoos would be there for all to see? And with a background in recruiting, I don't remember the last time I interviewed someone with their top off, so I think some tattoos that you can't even see won't deny anyone opportunities.
And what the heck is "gangsta punk culture"? Is that like a white hispanic?
@muser your commentary makes you sound much like an outdated old bat. No one will take your comments serious if you use phrases like "gangsta punk". Seriously, who says that? What's next, you'll tell kids to get off your lawn? Tattoos are a big part of world culture now a days. Get use to it or stay in your house and turn off the internet haha.
@Cartesian @Spedman24 There we go! The race card! The race card gets tossed so much it no longer has any meaning to it. Lame place to us it here as well. I noticed no one tossed the race card when Tebow was made fun of by the press and people for his religious views, yet RG3 and other players get a pass from the press when they get down on their knee after a score and do a little religious prayer. What Spedman24 said was dumb, but racist? Not in the least!
@vanonymous @MichaelEarlMcQueen There was no way the NFL were going to let Ray Lewis leave the NFL a loser. 49ers were screwed once they found out they were playing Baltimore. no winning for the 49ers even is Colin had 500 yards passing & 5 TD's. The ref's made damn sure of that. a light going off & on does not having any cheating to it. it just gives a team that is getting beat to collect their thoughts & play like that know they can & have all season long. but a ref not calling a Hold on Bruce Miller by 2 Ravens on the Opening Kickoff that gave the Ravens a bogus TD that should have came back is EVERYTHING in winning or losing. if that would of came back like it should have then the 49ers would of never had to try & come back at the end to win it. see?...
@MichaelEarlMcQueen Where do I start here... First off learn how to capitalize words at the beginning of sentences. Secondly 'Cheating is cheated'? What does that even mean? Did you mean to write "Cheating is cheating"? Thridly, "You're** not blind"
Also I like to highlight your comment on another post about being gay in the NFL. And I quote from MichaelEarlMcQueen "No 1 on earth will ever make me believe being Gay is a good thing to be. bible says not to lay down with same sex." Dude. Just look at the way you argue your point. You don't sound too smart.
Last the Ravens were HANDLING the 49ers. It was almost laughable how outmatched they were. Had it not been for that FREAK power outage the score differential would have been even greater. The 49ers are over rated and were outplayed in all areas of the game. And if you want to talk about no-calls, how about Navarro Bowman's no-call PI in the previous round vs. the Falcons to seal the game. Losers complain and make excuses. Winners win. It's that simple.
Hence the term whiner fans
@MichaelEarlMcQueen @RealityCheck52 You need a reality check. How about the lights going out when the 49ers were getting their asses handed to them. That's where the cheating was.
@matt37 @muser THANK YOU. muser doesnt seem in touch with reality or today's world AT ALL. There is no use in arguing with the idiot... we all know the saying. Arguing with an idiot is a effort in futility because they will drag you down to their level and beat you with experience. She/he can't even spell the word GANGSTER correctly... or grasp the concept of a tattoos. Cant teach an OLD dog new tricks. Just got to watch them wallow in their own crap until they bite the dust.
@RealityCheck52 I can tell all your co-workers at the sanitation department have cool ones just like yours!
@MichaelEarlMcQueen @vanonymous "a light going off & on does not having any cheating to it. it just gives a team that is getting beat to collect their thoughts & play like that know they can & have all season long"....
Right. Didn't help the '9'ers at all. <imagine emoticon with immense rolling eyes>
Picking out plays with "holding" is worthless, dude. Seriously, a conservative guess is I could find a legitimate "hold" on 60-70% of the plays in the SB. I'd much rather see a game where the ref's let them play.
@MichaelEarlMcQueen @RealityCheck52 The Ravens are a good team the best The AFC had last year but clearly the refs gave that game 2-them...The refs R- human don't think it doesn't get personal 4-them we have all seen it time & time again. The NFL has forgiven Ray Lewis and your right they weren't going 2- let him go into the Hall (which he deserves) without another super bowl win.... Joe has never had the kind of things that R-said about Kap said about him. Kap could of pitched in Major league baseball remember that he's not just a runner this dude can really throw. The 9ers will make history this year as the first team to lose the Super bowl & the next year 2- win it.
@MichaelEarlMcQueen @RealityCheck52 P.S. you called me IGNORANT and in the same paragraph stated you "did not read everything i typed". You then proceeded to make an assumption that all I care to argue are your grammatical errors. Do you see the irony here?
@MichaelEarlMcQueen @RealityCheck52 HAHAHAHAHAHAHAAH go to http://www.merriam-webster.com/ it might be of some use to you. Or go back to school. You have no sound logic or English skills.
@RealityCheck52 @MichaelEarlMcQueen your to ignorant to hold a conversation with. all you care about is correcting other peoples spelling & not about talking facts. shows your immaturity & how mush of a moron you really are. i did not read everything you typed. you really need to learn how to interact with others. nothing else from you will be read by me loser, kik
@MichaelEarlMcQueen @RealityCheck52 @BigSchtick Ravens are 2-0 in SB in their young history. Must sting to have that blemish on "your" teams resume. And let me guess you are not from the San Fran bay area are you?
@RealityCheck52 @MichaelEarlMcQueen @BigSchtick Being a sore loser is not a bad thing when you know your team got shafted by the refs. if the shoe was on the other foot & the ravens lost like we did to them there would be so much complaining & i would not blame them even if the 49ers beat them like they did us with the help of the ref's. I would know the ravens & their fans had a legit argument. i would actually come out & say "Yall got robbed" & " that opening kickoff by the 49ers should have came back."... i would say that right to a ravens face. sure i would be glad my 49ers pulled off a SB win like that even if the refs missed calls that Ray Charles could have seen but it would be a tarnished victory for my 49ers & myself to know that my team did not win it legitimately. that would be lingering the rest of my life knowing that my 49ers should be 5-1 in SB's & not 6-0 if we had win like the Ravens.
How can it be over and done with when fans like you make whiny posts?
By the way I doubt this will happen as the calls were not that egregious.
Here is a team that really did get screwed in a Super Bowl:
@MichaelEarlMcQueen @BigSchtick Its hilarious you are STILL losing sleep over phantom no-calls by refs. See how far that gets your fanbase. Just makes you look like sore losers... hence the name forty-whiners. For as long as there are fans like you, that nickname will stick. Good job buddy!
@BigSchtick @MichaelEarlMcQueen That whiner crap is over used & over done to death. it holds no water anymore. a Legit reason to complain is just that, LEGIT. so call it what you like. does not bother me 1 bit, lol. i call it like it is. my words are FACT. you can't see that because your either a Ravens fan oe just hate the 49ers for your own childish reason. sorry but calling it how it is :)
@RealityCheck52 Muser is probably younger than the father who failed to teach you about these things....
@muser @RealityCheck52 as you sit in your rocker in a retirement home that tax payers pay for... Ironic.
@RealityCheck52 A government job on par both fiscally and functionally with sanitation....
@muser actually I work for the US House on Capitol Hill, have a bunch of tatttoos and make more money than most people my age. But nice try. Seriously though, WHO THE HELL SAYS GANGSTA PUNK? Give your grandson back his laptop before you blow it up. I can see you shaking your cane at us through the monitor.


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When working with employees who grew up in another culture with a language different than your own, never assume anything.
That's true even if they can speak some English, says Jorge Delgado, farm support program manager for Alltech. Some tips to consider:
More detail on working with Hispanic labor
Language. Simply because a worker can understand some words or speak several words in English does not mean he or she can follow technical instructions or interpret what is said in meetings. If you are not bilingual, you need a fluent bilingual person on your team to be a bridge between yourself and your workers. "Train Hispanic workers well and they will perform well," Delgado says.
Bilingual job descriptions. "A lot of dairies have bilingual job descriptions but don't use them properly," Delgado says. "Make sure workers know how to read; otherwise, have somebody read it to him or her."
You need to enforce rules and objectives from the very beginning. These need to be discussed during hiring, and then constantly reinforced.
Train the basics. Never assume anything. "Most Hispanic workers haven't operated a tractor in their lives, don't know the right way to start a tractor, how fast they should go or how to read controls," Delgado says.
A bilingual trainer needs to start with the basics, even if a worker says he knows how to
operate a particular machine. "Have a training course where you teach them how to operate machinery before they drive inside the barns," he says.
Be fair. "Be a fair boss but not their buddy," Delgado says. Picking favorites creates confusion within the team and raises questions about who is really in charge. Be respectful; treat everyone equally.
Listen to workers. Workers lose enthusiasm for their jobs when they feel managers and owners aren't listening to their concerns and needs. Provide the necessary tools workers need to perform their jobs on time and as expected.
At the same time, don't tolerate poor performance because workers will come to believe such performance is acceptable. Workers who do not behave, show disrespect or threaten others should be fired immediately, Delgado says.
Define clear goals. To make workers accountable, clearly define how their performance will be evaluated. If you have goals for somatic cell counts (SCC), for example, you need to explain why SCCs are important and how lower counts are achieved.
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