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June Jones: Crazy About Autonomy Or Does He Have A Point?
The radical is no longer radical. What once was considered blasphemy in the FBS world has now become the new norm. Conference realignment, exclusive television networks and a playoff were once thought of as radical impossibilities. They are now realities. And with the recent shift toward autonomy for the "Big Five" conferences, well, the radical isn't so radical anymore.
One coach who is known for embracing the radical — at least on the field — has recently offered up a radical idea of his own regarding the growing chasm in college football off the field.
This summer, Southern Methodist head coach June Jones offered an idea that rivals his cutting-edge offense in terms of forward thinking. Jones believes that the have-nots of FBS college football should play their schedules in the spring instead of the fall. The idea may seem far-fetched today, but so did a college football playoff a few short years ago.
Jones defines the have-nots as members of the American Athletic, Mountain West, Conference USA, MAC and Sun Belt. No offense, Boise State. The Aug. 7-ruling by the NCAA regarding autonomy for the power conferences shows that the NCAA agrees with Jones on at least who are the have-nots. The NCAA Board of Directors voted 16-2 to approve a package of new measures that allows members of the ACC, Big Ten, Big 12, Pac-12 and SEC to change some rules that all of the NCAA has played by for years.
We clearly now have two worlds in college football. So is Jones' idea so radical? How would his idea work and should it be considered?
The Case For Spring Football Games
Let's first examine Jones' opinion before traditionalists dismiss his idea. According to The Dallas Morning News, Jones said in a recent radio interview that he can envision a spring season in college football.
Said Jones via the DMN:
"I'll go ahead and say it right now, I think the have-nots should go ahead and move to the spring just like the USFL did. I think that there's an opportunity to do a complete other side of that division, and I think that if we don't think that way as a group of have-nots, we're going to get left behind.
"I can see in five-to-seven years, possibly, the public would demand to have the two leagues play, just like I think the USFL had in mind, originally, of the winner of the USFL playing the winner of the National Football League."
Jones came from the USFL as a position coach for the Houston Gamblers and Denver Gold before breaking into the college ranks. This alone shows he is a forward thinker willing to take a chance on a new idea. Jones sees the big picture and the future landscape. The power conferences are moving on without them and Jones wants SMU and other similar schools not to be left behind.
Moving some season schedules to the spring would give these schools television exposure without competing against the big boys. That is, of course, what is shaping these changes. As it exists, primetime slots on the best networks are dominated by the Power-Five members. A coach could sell this to recruits. Live programming is what the networks crave and this idea would give consumers year-around football. Student-athletes could get to the campus in the fall and have an entire semester to adjust to college life without being thrown right into football. College football junkies would have their dream of year-round football.
If the idea were implemented, it would create a layer of football between the FBS and FCS. Does that layer exist now? Certainly, but the have-nots still compete with the big boys…at least on paper.
The Case Against Spring Football Games
The main argument against spring football games is tradition, plain and simple. Football is for the fall. Would TV viewers watch in the spring? The schools playing in the spring would have to battle the perception that their games don't matter and that "real football" is played in the fall.
Bowl games would be affected. The major bowls would be played as usual, but what would become of the myriad of other bowls? No one clings to tradition with more fervor than bowl officials.
The NCAA recruiting calendar would have to be revamped. If there were both fall and spring football, prospects would be recruited year-round with no lulls. The NCAA is strict on such issues and that is the major criticism of the idea.
There are also NFL Draft preparations to consider. NFL prospects playing in the spring would in the midst of their season during the NFL Draft evaluation period. Would NFL officials be open to a summer draft?
And what of scheduling? Who would Power-Five teams play outside of their conference slate? This move would require all Power-Five matchups. The TV networks would salivate, but would coaches agree to it?
The Winner
Jones is right. The schools he describes as the have-nots are being bullied. If they do not protect their interests, they will be left behind. That will take some drastic measures. Many schools could drop football due to expense if this trend continues. Most of the arguments for the status quo are logistical issues that could be figured out. For the good of college football as a whole, Jones is on the right track.
Some would argue that what Jones should do is win some more games at SMU, go to a better bowl and get into the playoff. SMU is in Dallas, the heart of Big 12 country. Perhaps some mid-major success could lead to an invite. It worked for TCU. Every school aspires to be in a power conference, but the coming changes are of a radical nature, meaning that a maverick like Jones will someday look prophetic. College football junkies rejoice — year-round football is coming.


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Vote for Bengie. Now. Go on. Ill Wait.
Let's get Bengie on the All-Star Team. He is the heart and soul of this Giants team. Even when he's struggling at the plate, Bengie contributes to every game – and every win — in ways that don't show up in the box score. No one is more respected in the clubhouse than Bengie.
It's time we do something for him – get out the vote. Tell all your friends. Vote as many times as you can.
Here's a great column by Paul Gutierrez, a writer for the Sacramento Bee (and the great Amy Gutierrez's husband). He captures perfectly why we should vote for Bengie.
SAN FRANCISCO – Walked into AT&T Park on Tuesday afternoon, was making my way to the press box through the bowels of the waterfront park when a stand filled with colorful paper caught my eye.
Major League Baseball's 2009 official All-Star ballot.
So I opened it up, gave it a once, twice, three-times over and punched out one "chad," the one pick I am most confident of seven weeks before the Midsummer Classic.
Say what? Atlanta's Brian McCann has better statistics, and Bengie's not even the best catcher in the N.L. West (paging the Los Angeles Dodgers' Russell Martin), let alone in his own family (St. Louis' Yadier Molina is all the rage)? Maybe. But while the All-Star Game's starters are rightly in the fans' voting hands, those same fans have the opportunity to do the right thing. That is, to vote Bengie in as the senior circuit's starting catcher.
"It would mean the world to me, amazing, a dream come true, the best," he said. "But the way I'm playing right now … " Molina's voice trailed off, and that was before the first update on All-Star balloting was released and he was not in the top five. Instead, Yadier led with 451,368 votes, followed by Milwaukee's Jason Kendall (383,773), Houston's Iv�n Rodr�guez (292,496), Martin (261,917) and McCann (227,564).
Molina has a vote in this corner, however, and more than a few in the Giants' clubhouse. Brian Wilson, who last year said neither he nor Tim Lincecum would have been All-Stars without Molina, has some advice for Giants fans.
"They should talk to fans from other teams," Wilson said. "They should get people from other states to start voting (for Bengie).
" 'Deserving' is a tough word. No one ever deserves to be an All-Star – you earn it … he's done everything in his power to earn it."
Sure, Molina's in a bad stretch at the plate, 2 for his last 34. But he got off to such a hot start that the most unlikely of cleanup hitters is on pace to hit a career-high 29 home runs with 108 RBIs.
Plus, his 314 putouts lead all big-league catchers, and the 10 runners he has thrown out are tied for third-most in the game.
And he deftly handles and massages one of the most-feared rotations in the game, as well as the reigning N.L. Cy Young Award winner in Lincecum.
But beyond Molina's numbers, there are the intangibles the two-time Gold Glover who has never been an All-Star brings.
"I hate to think, not that we're anywhere, but we would not be close to .500 without him," admitted manager Bruce Bochy. "He was carrying us for a while. Everybody goes through (a slump), and he's going through it now. Bengie's not taking it behind the plate with him, though.
"You can have a good game behind the plate without getting a hit."
Spoken like the catcher Bochy was.
"He has a different point of view on how to get guys out," said Giants pitcher Matt Cain. "I've had catchers that maybe want to make (hitters) look bad or do different things, but he just wants to get guys out. He doesn't care how – he's just like, 'Let's just get them out.' "
A decent assassin behind the plate who is also more than deserving of the nod? Get out the vote.
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VOTE FOR BENGIE! I agree with everything this article says, except the thing about russell martin (was anyone else shocked he's canadian?). They let you vote 25 times, but if you go into your internet browser settings and delete any cookies from mlb.com you can vote 25 more times, and so on, as long as you like. They gotta give us one all-star so lets make it Bengi.
Cmon, Joan. I read one paragraph and stopped:
1. Bengie, who we all love, does not deserve the ASG nod unless/until he improves his average. .253? Really?!? And you pick right now to beat the drum for the ASG? Poor timing, to say the least.
2. There is nothing about Amy G that is "great." She, along with Renel, is just plain mediocre at her job. She is the kind of hire that makes you wonder "if she were either not a female or had a more anglo surname, would she even have been given an interview?" She's dull; fortunately she's limited to puff pieces pregame with softball questions. I fast forward her now. Wish I could do the same for Renel when I'm at the park.
As I'm typing this message – my chest is beating quicktime/doubletime (very rapidly) because I'm sure it will strike a cord with many. I AM NOT VOTING FOR BENGIE ! ! ! There I typed it. It's the truth – I believe he is a great catcher, and a great hitter, but it's his running / lack of speed that hinders his status. He appears to be a great person in general but – one incident that sticks in my mind – a game in 2008 – I guess it was in Sep – BENGIE and SCOTT McCLAIN were both stuck on 2nd base and BENGIE points down as if to tell Scott (touch base) that was the funniest error I ever seen in my short lifetime of being a Gigante fan.! ! ! !
How about Aaron Rowand, or even Randy Winn? Both have been great…so has Molina, but Rowand has a higher OBP, slugging %, higher average and more extra base hits. Bengie is good too, but it always seems like more of a popularity contest with these things.


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PHILADELPHIA – They nearly did it again.
The Philadelphia Flyers almost rallied from a third-period deficit to win once against this season.
Instead, they had to settle for a shootout loss and one point in the standings.
After Wayne Simmonds tied the game up with 1:24 to play and forced overtime, Roman Josi netted the game-winner in the seventh round of the shootout to lift the Nashville Predators over the Flyers, 4-3, on Thursday night.
Had they been able to score in overtime – Matt Read hit the post – or taken the shootout it would have been the ninth time – matching an organization record - the Flyers ended up winning a game in which they trailed in the third period.
Still, the Flyers salvaged a crucial point and are tied with the Rangers for second place with 53 points in the Metropolitan Division.
"It shows a lot of character being able to battle back in the last minute there and get a big point in the grand scheme of things," Flyers goalie Steve Mason said. "We'll take that point and move on. It just shows a lot of character I think."
Despite making 34 saves and stopping the first four shots in the shootout, Mason pinned the loss on his shoulders. The Flyers goalie felt he should have stopped one of the goals in the shootout that would have handed his squad the victory.
"Nope, I am not a huge fan of (shootouts)," Mason said. "The guys gave me two opportunities to win the game and I couldn't do it, so I let them down tonight with that."
Flyers coach Craig Berube felt his goalie was just being too hard on himself.
Yeah," he said. "It's a team effort."
The Flyers also got a taste of what they could have had if the Predators didn't match the Flyers' offer sheet of $110 million over 14 years to Shea Weber two years ago. Weber, who missed the game due to an eye injury the last time the teams met in late November, faced the Flyers for the first time since the deal and had a goal and two assists.
With the Predators on a four-minute power-play thanks to a high-stick by Nick Grossmann in the third period, Weber scored on one of his patented missiles from the point to break the 2-2 tie.
"We did a great job as a team, Carter (Hutton) played well," Weber said. "He made a lot of huge saves for us and without him I don't know what the result would be."
However, Simmonds and the Flyers answered in the waning moments of the game. On a power play, Kimmo Timonen took a blast from the blue line that first hit Scott Hartnell and then went off Simmonds and into the net. It was the 16th goal of the season for Simmonds, who also had two assists and has 20 points over his previous 15 games.
After a series of flat starts in the past week, the Flyers started the game on fire for a change. Brayden Schenn scored 86 seconds in and the Flyers registered eight shots in the first five minutes. Andrej Meszaros got the play going by zig-zagging into the zone and shoveled off to Simmonds, who fell as his shot trickled wide. Schenn was there on the far post to knock home the puck.
However, the Flyers had just 12 shots over the next 35 minutes. They couldn't get much going on offense and the Predators seized momentum.
"They had a couple cycle shifts and then we took a couple penalties, they scored. Even before that though they had some cycles that I thought we didn't do a very good job of eliminating," Berube said. "Too much time in our end, and I thought the same thing in the second period at times where they had the puck too much in our end, we didn't stop the cycle and it kind of sucked the life out of us a little bit."
Eric Nystrom tied the game at 1-all 10:57 into the first when Gabriel Bourque's cross went off his leg and past Mason. The Predators went ahead 2-1 when David Legwand finished a pass from Mike Fisher on the power play with 3:25 to go in the opening period.
After a lackluster second period, Meszaros got the equalizer with 4.1 seconds left in the second period. Mark Streit found Simmonds at the blue line and he pass to Meszaros, who jumped into the zone. Meszaros sent a nasty wrister from just below the face-off dot top shelf by Carter Hutton.
The late goal only set up the drama in the third period and in overtime and the shootout.
"At least we got one point," Simmonds said. "Obviously you'd want to get two points, that's the ideal situation. But when you're coming from behind like that, again which we shouldn't have been, but it happens… it's better to get one point than nothing."Contact Eric Goldstein at 856-845-9478 or email@example.com


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Debora Keyes wants to give local teens the tools they need to become confident, smart and safe drivers. She wants to do more than just hand over the keys.
Im doing this because these students have to share the road with you, me, and other families, said Keyes, the new owner and lead instructor of Hows My Driving? School of Whidbey Island, located at 31780 Highway 20, Ste. 4 in Oak Harbor.
The last thing I want to see is another car wrapped around a pole.
Hows My Driving? School of Whidbey Island moved into its Highway 20 location in March and is currently registering students for its inaugural class beginning April 17.
Class sessions will begin every five weeks, which will make it the most frequent drivers education class schedule on the island, according to Keyes. The school will serve Oak Harbor, Coupeville and South Whidbey students, offering afternoon, evening and weekend times, as well as adult classes and private drives.
Keyes said she hopes to serve students who would have otherwise been left on long waiting lists.
The school will also serve a student population Keyes said often gets ignored: adults who still have yet to get a license.
Especially with the military there are many young people who never had a need to drive before, but now are wanting to, she said.
The school will offer a grand-opening rate of $279 for the basic class that meets the state minimum requirements of 30 hours class time and four in the car. The basic class will regularly be $299. If paid by cash or check its reduced to $289. The standard course of 30 hours in class and six hours in the car will be $379. The advanced course for drivers needing a little more instruction will be $456 for 30 class hours and eight hours behind the wheel.
Each student receives a binder of materials that they get to keep after class is over. Keyes is working with local merchants to offer gas cards and other car-related gift certificates to students who earn top test scores.
The schools information packet says, Our goal is to teach not only the skills needed to learn how to drive, but the desire to be a safe and conscientious driver.
Keyes has been a resident of Oak Harbor for 17 years and is an eight-year veteran with the Central Whidbey Fire District where she is a firefighter/EMT. She has also been a paraeducator for the Coupeville School District for the last two years.
She came to be a driving instructor after a friend approached her last year looking for candidates for Munros Driving Instruction, a school that at the time was expanding services on Whidbey.
To become an instructor she had to go through an extensive background and driving record check. She received 60 hours of classroom, instructor studying and car time. Her final was a 100-question test.
Keyes attended training with all the other Munro Driving instructors when the school came to the island a year ago, and she began teaching a few classes. Only, unfortunately for Keyes, the school was unable to expand as hoped and she was among those laid off.
After she was laid off, she realized she couldnt quit and started researching opening her own school.
I saw a huge need on this island for another driving school, she said.
She found the America, Hows My Driving? School in Kent and owner Dave Parthow who sold her his Maple Valley location outright. Keyes bought everything: the books, study materials, desks, chairs, videos and rights to the name. Parthow will remain a 10 percent owner of the Oak Harbor school for its first year. If things go well with the Oak Harbor location, Keyes would like to start a satellite office in the Freeland area to serve more South Whidbey students.
Keyes hopes to bring some of her emergency response training and connections into the classroom. She plans to invite firefighters and emergency medics to come talk about accident scenes they come across, maybe even backboard a student or two to let them know what it feels like to be a crash victim.
Keyes wants to remind students that a drivers license remains a privilege and not a right.
All the same, she continues to see the laws broken. Such as the intermediate license requirement that new drivers have no passengers in the car under the age of 20, except for immediate family, for the first six months.
They pile in, musics cranked and everyones chatting away, she said. How can they possibly focus on learning the rules of the road then?
She keeps a collection of newspaper article clippings that talk about all the car crashes on the island.
Theres been so many accidents on the island. The word safety seems to be something thats just thrown around these days, Keyes said. Unless you apply it to situations that really stick with them, and not just read it to them from a book, its obvious that some people just arent going to learn.
Mechanics are other people Keyes would like to see talk to her students.
So many of them know nothing about cars besides the fact they hop in, turn the key and go.
I love working with the public. Thats why I work as a firefighter and thats why I became an instructor, Keyes said. This is another extension for me to help people, and teenagers are great to work with they make me laugh so hard some times.
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Here's your weekly snapshot of notable topics on Wednesday's Portland City Council agenda.
Joint Terrorism Task Force report - The FBI's Joint Terrorism Task Force is back in the spotlight as the City Council considers accepting the third annual report. Last week, the City Council discussed the controversial report, which provides the only public discussion of the city's involvement in the terrorism task force, only briefly. Police Chief Mike Reese wasn't there, and City Council had additional questions on the topic. A formal vote is expected Wednesday.
East Portland park - Portland wants to buy a 7.5 acre parcel of land near the corner of Southeast Division Street and Southeast 148th Avenue, a park-deprived neighborhood. As Brad Schmidt reported this week, development is likely years away, but Commissioner Amanda Fritz said it's an important piece of land the city has eyed for years. The $2.2 million sales price comes in above the value of the land, according to a property appraisal.
Portland Timbers get flag - Major League Soccer's Portland Timbers continue to closely ally the soccer club's brand with the city. The City Council will discuss allowing the club to use the city's official flag for marketing purposes. Portland also made it easier for the Timbers to have a city-owned field named after the soccer team.
Wednesday's council session begins at 9:30 a.m. at Portland City Hall. The meeting is also available via live stream online.
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"I'm sorry, but most of the activities are finished for the day," theman says. "Come back tomorrow. We have 'Coffee Time' at 10 a.m." I'm signing in at the Piccadilly Community Center's reception, which doubles as its canteen. Leaning on one of the vinyl-coated tables, two guys in checked shirts are having milky tea and biscuits. There's a stand full of promotional leaflets: "Day Trip to Paris," "Discover the Internet." I have to insist: "Can I at least drop in to the 'Singing in Spanish' class?" Having promised that I wouldn't bother anyone, I enter aspace labeled "The Ballroom" where half a dozen elderly Hispanic ladiesare rehearsing folk songs. They are totally engrossed in their lesson, but not in a theatrical or demonstrative kind of way. They are simply enjoying being there, perfecting their ensemble under the attentive guidance of their young teacher.
Initiated by the highly unpredictable Swiss artist Christoph Büchel,the Piccadilly Community Center offers a full schedule of courses ranging from "Life Drawing" to "Mother and Baby Yoga" — all improbably set up within the blue-chip confines of Hauser & Wirth's gallery on Piccadilly. Several charities, including Age UK, WestEnd Children's Center, and Open Age, were invited to use thepremises built inside the space, and according to a gallery representative they have readily accepted the offer. "We have had a verypositive response from members of the community and beyond," she said. "People attend the classes from all over London, eager to utilize the free room here and classes taking place in an ideal location in central London."
On my way upstairs, I pass by the counseling and gym rooms. Daubs hang on the institutional pink walls and plastic flowers cram every corner. The installation is so convincing that I almost forget the dozens of polished exhibitions I've seen in this gallery. The carpet seems to bearthe marks of generations of orthopedic slippers. Pranksters have drawn afunny face on the meeting room's white board. In the prayer room, cheapstatuettes evoke vague ideas of universal spirituality. Going through these banal corridors doesn't feel like being on a film set: the experience is more like being thrown into the shooting of a real-life documentary.
Büchel is renowned for his immersive, hyperrealist installations. At Glasgow's Tramway last year, he set up a lugubrious laboratory inwhich a crashed aircraft looked like it was halfway through a dismantling process. Passengers' possessions were all individually labeled, while rows of seedy jails alluded to some sadistic experiment in progress. Like Robert Kusmirowski or Mike Nelson, Büchel could be seen as an heir of Ed Kienholz, but the amount ofdetail and level of accuracy involved in his practice distinguish him both from this artistic lineage and from his peers. In each installation, every single crack of paint is carefully composed to appear accidental — and the artist doesn't take this lightly. For four years, he was enmeshed in a bitter legal battle with MASS MOCA, which attempted to exhibit his unfinished installation "Training Ground for Democracy" against his will. Büchel's practice is far too precise toallow this kind of approximation — and the U.S. Court of Appeals in Boston finallyruled in his favor in 2010.
Büchel's open collaborations with non-artistic organizations further blur the boundary between the authentic and the made-up. At "Secession in Vienna," he invited a local swingers club, Element 6, to stageorgies by at night in the premises built for his show in the museum — atongue-in-cheek response to the scandal caused by Klimt's "pornographic" pictures at the turn of the century. In London, both the community center's users and exhibition-goers visit during daytime, which adds greatly to the installation's impact. Inhabited, the environment is not only an artistic proposition: it becomes the very object it is supposed to mimic. Büchel's piece might be the ultimate readymade, a fully functioning chunk of real life shoehorned into a gallery space.
A community center like this could be found pretty much anywhere in the country — except, perhaps, on the glitzy thoroughfare where it is located today. The piece functions as a "reality-check" for the polishedimage Central London is actively cultivating. On the top floor, there'sthe Geranium Charity Shop for the Blinds, and right across the room a Conservative Party Archive, which sells mugs and posters bearing Tory slogans, from "Smoke Baldwin's Security Mixture, Vote Conservative" of 1929 to the infamous 1997 "New Labour, New Danger."
Büchel has never been afraid of mixing art and politics. Three years ago, he turnedKassel's Fredericianum into a fair showcasing all the registeredpolitical parties in Germany, including the right-wing NPD. At London'sHauser & Wirth, his inclusion of grassroots political campaigning gives the installation palpable currency. The Piccadilly Community Center enacts the "big society" ideas put forward by the coalition government while underscoring the need for social services, threatened by the same government's erratic "austerity measures." When I finally left, the Spanish ladies had stopped singing.


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Pascal Marzan /John Russell: Translations
Russell's duo with French guitarist Pascal Marzan dates back to 2004, and typifies the links he has made with other musicians. The recordings here date from February 2007 and March 2010, in both cases recorded at Russell's home of the time, which helps to explain their relaxed, happy-go-lucky atmosphere. In his sleeve notes, Marzan gives a telling insight into the recordings, noting that the only sounds removed were "some unavoidable external noise and the subsequent bursts of laughter and discussion about music." The pair's shared love of the guitar and guitar music pervades the entire album.
On the recordings, Russell's steel-strung plectrum playing is heard on the left channel and Marzan's nylon-strung classical guitar on the right, allowing the different contributions of the two to be heard clearly and easily distinguished. Although the two guitars have very different timbres, they blend well as the complementary parts of a coherent totality. The natural playing styles of Russell and Marzan are very different, yet together they adapt to each other and find a common style that allows each to play fluently and freely. When they are in full flow, the music seems to pour out of them smoothly and effortlessly, making it simultaneously relaxing and exhilarating.
On the album's longest track, the 24-minute epic "Kuulilennuteetunneliluuk" (in keeping with Russell's internationalism, the track titles are taken from tongue twisters in various languages, some being English translations), the pair starts at a brisk pace, spurring each other on and exchanging phrases at speeds that demonstrate their mental and manual sharpness. The piece then settles down to a more sedate tempo, but the technique remains just as impressive. It never sounds as if the two are in competitionno dueling guitars herebut are both totally involved in an enjoyable and engaging game. As Russell says, "I find the duo a continuing delight." Yes, it shows.
By the way, if you do like guitars, Translations makes for compelling listening; if you don't like guitars, it could well change your mind.
Track Listing: Don't tease your cat; Eighty-eight beautiful canals; Nightwork; Kuulilennuteetunneliluuk; In Mr Niwa's garden, two chickens suddenly ate a crocodile.
Personnel: John Russell: guitar; Pascal Marzon: guitar.
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HFTA is fantastic software for its purpose. I use it extensively here. One thing that it DOES NOT do from my observation is model stacking distances. It seems to assume that you will get a combined 2.8dB gain at the center of the stack spacing. To confirm this, model 2 20M yagis with 5 feet of spacing on flat ground vs 2 20M yagis with 50 feet of spacing. Intuitively (and by modeling) we know that the 50 feet spacing will beat the 5 foot spacing. But on HFTA, the reverse is the case because it seems to think that the 2.8dB gain will occur at the center point of the yagis and that center point is higher at 5 foot spacing than at 50. I would try to understand the best heights for your antennas at the individual heights and then make the best compromise decision on tri-band stacking distance vs. information learned on HFTA for your individual location. Good stacking distances should also equal balanced individual lobe coverage of each antenna. A stack with one antenna at a bad individual height to the target area is not going to be a good stack. "Guying Rohn 25 at 20/40/60/80" why? Why not just buy 45G and guy it at 40 and 80 with 1/4EHS guys? Seems a lot simpler and probably cheaper. You had better use Philly guys if you are going to have 4 guys over 80 feet of tower. The RF reflecting off of that much close metal in the air is not going to help your "in practice" performance at all. Let us know how the project progresses. Ed N1UR _______________________________________________ _______________________________________________ TowerTalk mailing list email@example.com http://lists.contesting.com/mailman/listinfo/towertalk
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San Sebastian, Spain – I've been here before, for a combined city break/surf trip that became more about the pintxos and drinking after the surf ran dry.
This time around I thought I knew it all and walked into a bar on the main square to ask for the local sangria, a blend of coca cola and red wine served over ice. But I got it wrong and was served two glasses of luke warm white wine.
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Background: The combination of the severity of pediatric-onset inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) phenotypes and the need for intense medical treatment may increase the risk of malignancy and mortality, but evidence regarding the extent of the problem is scarce. Therefore, the Porto Pediatric IBD working group of ESPGHAN conducted a multinational-based survey of cancer and mortality in pediatric IBD.
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- Overall yields lower than last year; quality mixed.
- Weather challenges growers from spring to late harvest.
- Unprecedented world demand for Califoria walnuts has growers wishing for more walnuts to moderate high prices.
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In fact, the quality of the nuts was very good until rain moved into the Sacramento Valley on Oct. 6. That storm, which dropped about two-thirds of an inch of rain on his orchards, was accompanied four days later by a second storm. All together, Norene recorded more than 2 inches of rain in less than week.
That rain delayed the fieldwork and added to drying time for the nuts. What's more, the warm, humid conditions that followed lowered the quality and value of the crop.
"We ended up with a lot of walnuts on the ground," Norene says. "That hurt the color of the nuts, especially the Chandlers. Normally, about 90 percent of our Chandlers have the desirable light color. This year we were down to about 65 percent to 75 percent lights. This wasn't unique to my orchards or our neighbors. It was an issue this year throughout the industry."
The muggy conditions after the rains also increased mold growth, particularly in his Hartleys. However, except for three orchards, where he was going through a second time to glean any nuts still on the trees, he had had pretty much wrapped up his harvest by the start of November. So had his neighbors.
By then, estimates Norene, who is chairman of the Walnut Bargaining Association, about 90 percent of California's 2011 walnut crop had been harvested.
As the first week of November got underway, growers in Butte County were pushing hard to wrap up harvesting their walnut crop ahead of rain forecast for later in the week. Most of them didn't start picking the nuts until mid-September. That's at least three weeks later than usual, reports Joe Connell, University of California Cooperative Extension farm advisor.
In addition to creating some bottlenecks with harvesting and drying operations, the early October rain resulted in some darker nuts and more mold than growers would have liked, he notes. "But, after that, we had some great drying weather and growers were able to move along fairly well with the rest of the harvest," Connell says. "Although it may not be quite as good as last year, most growers are looking at a fairly decent crop this year."
Norene attributes the drop in walnut production that he and other growers experienced this year to the spring weather. "It was a little too cool and a little too damp for a little too long," he says.
Rains at the beginning and end of June, when the weather is typically dry, didn't help, either.
"Overall, our crop is down a touch from our three-year average,' Norene says. "Our early varieties were off significantly. Our Vinas were the most disappointing. They were off about 35 percent. However, our Chandlers were down only about 5 percent to 10 percent."


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I spent this morning testing and reconfiguring my ssb settings on my Orion with Ver 2.x firmware. I was uncomfortable on 160 ssb last night, I sounded distorted when listening to myself, and I had one guy tell me I sounded raspy. Cut my operation short and went to the house rather than continue. End result; I had to change my ssb settings considerably from that which worked on Ver 1.372. Specifically: 1. I reduced mic gain from "60" to "30" using a Heil HC4 element. Setting is much more critcal than with 1.372 2. I kept the SP at 4, but it does take off during non voice periods...Contest q's are short enough I am not going to worry about it. The longer you don't talk the worse it gets. I see zero watts out initially and after about five seconds of silence the rf out equals the power out setting. With SP off this does not happen. 3. Noticed that there is interaction between RF gain, audio gain and the monitor function. With my RF gain setting of about 50 last night, monitor will sound distorted at any point above about 20. Listening on a separate receiver verified that this distortion is NOT on the transmit audio. 4. Using the voice recorder, send 1, really hits the monitor hard. Much more gain than when speaking into the mic. Again, listening to a separate receiver the transmit audio is fine. I have zero complaints with Ver 2.x on cw. It is a terrific improvement over 1.372. With the above changes I think all will be well on ssb as well. I will battle test it tonight to see if my assumption holds up. 73 bob de w9ge _______________________________________________ TenTec mailing list firstname.lastname@example.com http://lists.contesting.com/mailman/listinfo/tentec
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CLEVELAND, Ohio -- The Cuyahoga County Prosecutor's Office has failed to hire enough minority employees and promoted assistant prosecutors based on their courtroom wins – creating "a sense of unproductive competition," a study concludes.
The 68-page assessment, commissioned by incoming Prosecutor Timothy J. McGinty last fall and released Friday, also criticizes former Prosecutor Bill Mason for being "detached from his upper-level management."
Contacted by phone Friday, Mason vehemently disputed the findings.
Mason, who left office last fall and is now in private practice with the law firm Bricker & Eckler, said he was very aggressive in recruiting minorities.
As for the report as a whole, Mason said he stopped reading "when it became very clear to me that it was very unprofessional and it was laced with inaccuracies."
Mason said the report was prepared by a transition team made up primarily of non-lawyers, some of whom have political axes to grind.
"I made that place a better place than I found it," Mason said, citing his creation of the Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force, a county crime lab, a cold-case unit and a mortgage fraud task force.
McGinty acknowledged Mason's accomplishments but declined to comment on Mason's criticism of the report, which was produced by a team that included local attorney and former FBI agent John McCaffrey.
On Friday, McGinty also released an efficiency study, conducted by the Justice Management Institute, that offers 73 recommendations for improving the prosecutor's office. McGinty said he has implemented some of the recommendations in both reports, or is in the process of doing so. Among them is a prohibition on office employees running for political office unless they take a leave of absence from their job.
The assessment also recommends that the prosecutor's office increase efforts to recruit minorities so that the racial makeup of the department better reflects that of the county.
The 2010 population of the county was 63.6 percent white, 29.7 percent black and 4.8 percent Hispanic, according to the report, and yet the prosecutor's office is 78.3 percent white, 18.5 percent black and 1.5 percent Hispanic.
The racial divide increases even more when only the office's 207 assistant prosecutors are counted, the report states, adding that of the office's 26 black assistant prosecutors, only two are men.
Staff members asked to review the report -- and whose comments are contained in a publicly available document -- take exception with many of the conclusions in the report, including the lack of minorities in the office.
They suggest a more accurate comparison of the office's racial make-up should be with the community of lawyers, not the overall population.
The assessment also suggests improving the way the office evaluates performance. One staff complaint is that promotions have been based on wins and losses – not the criteria spelled out in evaluation forms.
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A native of the suburban Detroit community of Livonia, Lewicki is back in his home area as a member of a Ferris State University hockey team competing in the Central Collegiate Hockey Association Tournament semifinals round at Joe Louis Arena in Detroit. It's Ferris' first trip to the Joe since the historic 2002-03 season. That was long before Lewicki put on the crimson and gold FSU sweaters as a collegiate hockey player.
At just 22 years old, Lewicki is a profile of courage as he has helped lead nationally eighth-ranked Ferris to its best season of hockey since 2003.
But, Lewicki's road to the Joe has not been without significant challenges. Indeed, his journey was justly recognized Thursday evening as he was presented with the Terry Flanagan Memorial Award in Detroit at the historic Fox Theatre. Lewicki was given the award by Flanagan's daughters. The honor is presented in recognition to a student-athlete for perseverance, dedication and courage in overcoming adversity. Perhaps no player is more deserving of such an honor than Lewicki, whose had to deal with the passing of his mother (Sue) to lupus and kidney failure a couple of weeks prior to the start of fall training camp during Lewicki's sophomore season in 2007.
Nothing in life prepares one for the loss of a parent. Lewicki, however, was comforted by a strong support system at Ferris that stuck with him - like an extended family - through all of the pain the loss of a loved one can cause.
"I owe a lot of thanks to the people at Ferris State, who were there for
support when I needed it," said Lewicki, who also has dealt with being born with scoliosis and having to work that much harder to overcome that physical challenge. "Life is precious and the loss of mom
has made me a lot more focused on what I do. I'm committed to giving it my all
each night I step out onto the ice."
Work ethic of Lewicki and the team
In recent years, Ferris State's hockey program has taken great pride in improving its work ethic to become the best physically-conditioned team in the CCHA and the nation. That desire started during the era of former strength and conditioning coach Dave Cencer and has continued under current strength and conditioning coach Whitney Bell. Lewicki, however, already was ahead of the curve, in many ways, with a second-to-none work ethic. That work was born of necessity, but also was a product of an inner drive to not be outworked.
Lewicki's story of perseverance is inspiring
Being presented the Terry Flanagan Memorial Award was another humbling experience for Lewicki, who also is a top-notch student-athlete (a three-time Ferris State CCHA Scholar-Athlete, a two-time recipient of the team's Scholar-Athlete Award and winner of the team's FSU President's Academic Award for highest cumulative grade point average). Soft spoken as always, however, Lewicki remained as humble as ever and shared credit with everyone around him.
"It's an honor to receive this award and I am truly grateful," Lewicki said after the awards ceremony in his home area as part of the CCHA's showcase weekend in the Motor City. "I want to give thanks to my family, my friends, my coaches and my teammates for the love and support I've received from them.
"This is a great thing that the CCHA does to hand out this kind of an award."
Daniels could be little more proud than to have a young man and hockey player the caliber of Lewicki come through his program.
Ferris coach would take a dozen players just like Aaron Lewicki
"If I was to design the ideal Ferris State hockey player, I would use Aaron as the model," Daniels said of Lewicki who is enjoying his finest collegiate season with career highs to date in, among other categories, points (23), goals (12) and assists (11). "He's an outstanding student and a tireless worker both on and off the ice. Aaron is one of our hardest workers everyday in practice and a leader in the locker room.
"I have never met anyone that knows Aaron from a teammate, classmate or professor who has ever had a bad word to say about him."
The Terry Flanagan Memorial Award is named in honor of the former Bowling Green State University assistant coach who passed away in December 1991
from cancer. The recipient of the award is selected by a committee comprised of
CCHA athletics directors and faculty athletics representatives.
For the 2008-09 season, Lewicki received Ferris' Jimmy Swears Courage Award presented to a student-athlete or member of personnel with the Athletics Department who, when confronted with a challenging life situation has persevered through dedication and determination to beat the odds.


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Chandler Crayton ( left) and D'Marco DeGross (right) place in the top ten at the Bellevue Christian Invitational just prior to the WESCO Conference Championships, where they then qualified for the 4A District Championships.
This marks the second trip to Districts for Chandler and the first trip for D'Marco. Both are seniors.
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(1) KRISTEN STEWART vs. (2) KIM KARDASHIAN
A clash of two transparency titans. Kanye clearly wishes we'd keep him out of it. Sorry, sir. Should've thought of that. RECONSIDER.
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Kristen all the way! Kim may be tacky but at least she doesn't look dirty, bored and pathetic in everything she wears (and as a matter of fact I think several of KStews outfits are pretty tacky aswell.)
Amen! And honestly, this particular selection of Kim's fuggery isn't even that bad, considering some of the unflattering crap she's worn recently (maybe the Fug Girls are giving her a pass on the obviously preggo outfits?). KStew's fug is just so dour and joyless, even though she clearly spent a lot of time with a stylist. And how many times could she wear the same nude slip/granny panties with a sheer top? It's both fugly AND repetitive.
They aren't eligible. Contest always only runs oscars to oscars.
Agree x3! I can't believe kim is crushing stewart. Stewart is a movie star who must have access to amazing designer pieces – NO EXCUSE. She looks dirty and unkempt and miserable. I think people are projecting their hatred of the kardashians into their voting.
Glimmer Bunny you said everything I was thinking. Kim is bad no doubt about it, but at least she owns it.
KS pales in comparison to the unflattering trash Kardashian wears. AND THOSE RUFFLE PANTS, OMG.
The ruffle pants clinched it for me. Those pants are like Kim K pointing to the bleachers and calling her shot. Fug Madness home run all the way.
the ruffle pants. omg. i…. just no. never.
i know … PUT A RUFFLE ON IT!
I feel strongly that KStew should be in the Final Four, but I cannot hate on anyone who voted for the ruffle pants. In a Fug Madness of worst single outfits, that might come up the winner (I'd put it in the Final Four with KStew's blue old-timey bathing suit, Rihanna's mesh bike shorts and, hmm, either the Biebs overalls or one of Zosia Mamet's worst pants. Or the first dress KimK is wearing in this slideshow. This is tougher than I thought.)
Vagkin. Vagkin clearly rounds out the Final Four of single outfits.
Even then, the ruffle pants with the cropped turtleneck (for it WAS cropped, even if you can't see it in this shot) would win.
I'm surprised that KStew isn't in the lead here… Her surly expression alone should put her well ahead of KKard.
I think this was the hardest one yet…….. I went with Kristen purely because of the nude/sheer dress…. but Kim is so so bad too. Bahahha Fug Madness, you have outdone yourself this year!
SO. HARD. I detest that skanky ho bag, Kim K. Everything she wears is fug. Her very soul, I believe, is fug. She is nasty incarnate. I want her to go away because she is a plastic, fame hungry, fuggly dressed, soul crushing mess.
However, KStew is a highly visible actor who should know better. She is on the world stage for actually doing something (admittedly, not that well but at least she didn't achieve her fame through a sex tape – AHEM, KIM). KStew has access to top designers and stylists and she be shutting it down on each and every red carpet. She fails at almost every turn. That is an unforgivable. You can AND should do better, Kristen. Fug fail, KStew FTW.
Jen310, my sentiments exact-a-mundo! K-Kard makes a career of bad taste and I am convinced she does not know better. K-Stew is an actress who should know better and possibly even has advisors telling her not to wear these hideous get-ups. K-Stew should reign supreme.
The transparent/lace/oil slick outfits on these two should win a special mention in FUG Madness … is there a category for worst stand-alone fug outfits?
A difficult choice. I never would have thought of those two as clothing kindred spirits, but there you go. I went with KStew, but I won't be mad at KKard if she takes it. Really, they're representing the same team, same brand of fug.
Do you know what I realized while looking through the archives for these two? KStew actually shows her undergarments more often than KKard. Think about that for a moment. How bad does your styling have to be if you're an A-list actress who is showing more bra and panties than Kim Freaking Kardashian?
I voted KStew. She has both the 'tasteless' and the 'terrible yet pretentious high fashion' things going for her.
THIS. Everything about this.
This is Kim all the way. Granted I've picked the loser in every other round but I'm right here. That outfit that, I assume, she wore when she audition for Tron looks a concept design from Nissan. There's never a moment when you can even pretend to try to empathize with what she's trying to do. P.S. I'm frowning while typing this. It totally works.
I just love Long-Suffering Kanye.
I hate KStew which is why I don't want her to win.
I argued vehemently in defense of Kristen Stewart during the last round, which exhausted me. I have no more to give.
But I will just quickly remind folks that if you search her, you'll see that she had some awesome clothes this year, as well, including a neon yellow mini-dress, a terrific LBD on Kimmel (I think), a perfect Balenciaga/ALC outfit of chic menswear slacks and a white button-down, just to name a few. I think she goes wrong in that for many of the red carpet events, she puts on whatever her stylist picks out; she's has basically admitted such. Her stylist had a bad year with sheer and lace, and should be punished accordingly. I have a hard time punishing K. Stew for it, given that I think she often looks great in clothes that seem more to her taste and personality; I can't really blame her for being easygoing and mellow about wearing clothes selected by her stylist, especially if she feels that she's not so great with clothes. It's not an excuse – just a factor I consider. Kim, on the other hand, is deliberate and purposeful in her choices and thinks she has great taste (that family's shtick is clothes and styling); in reality, it's putrid and comical, without a shred of self-awareness.
TL;DR – Kim K all the way.
YES. K Stew has admitted she doesn't know a thing about fashion. She also had some high moments this year, and looked a lot better this year than she has in the past.
Kim THINKS this is fashion. And on top of it, she thinks she is going to revolutionize the way a pregnant woman dresses. *eye roll* Just go for the maxis, leggings and loose fitting tops sweety, they are popular maternity clothes for a reason.
Exactly. Kim and her sisters own actual clothing boutiques yet she dresses horrendously. That doesn't make any sense and I do believe Kim thinks she looks fab. I have hard time voting for Kim because I don't want to further perpetuate her presence in pop culture, but the archives don't lie.
I have to agree. I don't hate Kristen. Along with the horrendous outfits, she's also worn some really great ones. Can you say that about Kim? I don't think so. Plus, even in a couple of the too naked ones, at least Kristen looked good. That naked Liza Minelli get up? You have to admit, she rocked it, as stupid an outfit as it was. Again, you cannot say that about ANYTHING Kim K wore. So Kardashian all the way.
K Stew may not know diddly about fashion, but even a child knows that you shouldn't look naked even after you've put on your clothes. I might give her a pass on random fuggery, but there is just SO. MUCH. UNDERWEAR.
I would argue that her visible granny panties were less offensive to me than seeing Kim K's flesh consistently squeezed into clothing at least three sizes too small (even before she was pregnant). That's grotesque. As Annie S. points out below, at least Kristen has the figure for naked, if one must be naked (which, let's be honest, was a trend this year and she is far, far from the only offender). Kim K. abuses her curves to the point of calling to mind yeast infections, bursting seams, and camel toes.
Agree with every last vowel and consonant of every word you say, Pantsonfire. YES.
I don't even KNOW how I'm going to vote Bieb vs Kim, though, I think I might implode.
Aw, Mel, a kindred spirit!
Yes. Also why I voted Kim.
Whoops! That was in response to pantsonfire.
Yes! I agree with all of you. I chose Kim K based solely on the fact that she is actually trying. Whereas KStew puts on whatever is handed to her.
You can always say no to your stylist.
This is certainly true. That's why this is a factor for me, but not a total excuse. There are many other things that went into the calculation for me, including that overall I find Kim K's fashion more offensive and like nothing she wears, but tend to like what Stewart wears. I do think it's fair to consider that Kristen Stewart doesn't pretend to be a fashion expert, and gamely has her share of hits and misses, probably based a lot on her relying on a stylist she trusts, versus Kim K. carefully selecting (and having custom made, in some instances) those heinously fugly clothes–it's conscious and deliberate. Is Kristen's trust misplaced? To some extent, yes. Bad decision there. But it's a matter of negligence rather than true intent, in my opinion.
I want Kristen to win this whole damn thing soooo much! Come on people, vote for Kristen! That last photo says it all!
I had to vote for Kim – KStew may have had a lot of bad, but she also had some good in there. Kim had no good whatsoever. I'm gearing up for a Bieber/Kardashian battle.
And by "good in there", I mean at other points during the year, not in this slideshow.
Kristin gets designer dresses flung at her and THESE are her selelctions?
I agree with pantsonfire, Kristen has some terrible outfits there, but at the same time she's worn things I've really liked. I even like the flowery dress that the Fuggirls think should be a mini. I voted for Kristen in every other round, but when up against the tragedy that is Kim Kardashian, Kristen loses. If what she wears is sheer and lacy and overly revealing, at least she tends to look okay in it. Kim's fug isn't flattering at all.
Agree with all of this – I liked that dress too. Kim, however, I've never seen look good in anything.
I REALLY wanted to vote for K.Stew – the chapless-ass pantsuit alone is worthy of a title, IMO – but at the very least her horrible, horrible stylist dresses her in stuff suited to her body type. She's young, she's thin, she's got great legs, and her clothes show those off, even when they're terrible. KK is a sartorial hot mess who has a great, curvy figure but insists on dressing like she's K.Stew's size. Which results in her looking dumpy, silly, and/or pathetic. Km for the win.
there is nothing difficult about this choice. KStew was styled in all of these looks. Kim styles herself…
I repeat: You can always say no. And if you don't, you're only hurting yourself.
The ruffle pants win every time. Every time!
I had no idea these two had such similar taste in clothing. I felt as if they equally deserve to win this round – so I went to the comments. As soon as I saw the Kard was winning – i knew what I had to do, vote for the Stew in the hopes of evening it out a bit. (Give her the recognition to which she and the granny panties are due.) That said – I can't believe how badly she's behind. (Pun intended).
KIM FOR GOD SAKE! Kristen has this uber-trendi style, that often comes on as off-putting, but at least she is trying to do something original and she own's the stuff she wears (in her own frowny-way), where as even though Kim has all the money in the world to put on her fashion, she looks tacky, trashy and trying-too-hard. Kim should own the fact that she has a figure and wear her own sizes.
And I see that as Kim presents just bad taste, Kristen presents fashion in avant garde way. So of course I voted Kim.
I was aiming for Kim until I went through them all again, and ended up voting for Kristen. She had so many unbelievably ugly outfits. Not just one or two mishaps, but reams of bad ones. And she, compared to Kim, ought to know better.
Just curious – why should Kristen know better than Kim Kardashian? Kim used to be a stylist and her family owns several clothing stores, as I understand it. Kristen has confessed to not knowing much about fashion; she's an actress, not a model or a fashionista.
This was hard because I think Kim is worse, but I wanted to vote Kristen because I'd really rather not see Kim in the last rounds. I just don't want to have to look at her anymore.
Still, Kim does deserve it, for her thorough devotion to her fug, so I voted for her anyway.
Not that it would have mattered! This is shaping up to be a real landslide.
I'm voting for Kim on the principle that Ke$ha was robbed. That would have been a far worthier matchup than this one. Go home, K Stew!
Amelia, I'm right there with you. K$ WAS ROBBED.
Kim ftw.
As some have said already, KStew had some good things this year. (And some really horrible jumpsuit/anti-smoking ad dresses/mint malarkey/underwear exposures)
Kim had nothing good. Those peplum pants. That thing in slide one that looks like licorice melted on a gothic fishing net. The hairy foolery in many incarnations and that stupid white dress (I think slide 19) looks like she stuck a Tegaderm bandage over a strapless dress. There is not one thing right.. Not to mention it is 98% unflattering as hell and makes her look horizontally and vertically the same dimension. And she's not.
Count how many time's KStew wore Chuck Taylors and one's choice will be clear.
I was totally voting Kartrashian until the last photo.
Me too! That last photo is so much aargh!
Had to go with Kim on this one, although Kristen made a good (bad) show. I will point out that although I agree that I have seen far too much of KStew's underwear this year, AT LEAST SHE'S WEARING UNDERWEAR!! Are we forgetting the infamous transparent-pants bare-ass shots of KK getting in/out of a limo not that long ago? While I heartily endorse Looking Into Pants, a necessary precursor is Looking Into Underpants.
Wow, that sounds really wrong…
LOL! Looking into Underpants!
for one if them it's red carpet choices, for the other just wannabe. Red carpet gives you stylists, designers showering you with free dresses and shoes, hairdressers, cosmeticians, jewelers, and THAT'S what you come up with?
Devastated…I am just devastated…Devastated…There are no words to tell you how devastated I am that Kristen Stewart will not make the finals. (Blanche Devereraux would understand though.)
I sort of feel like on clothes alone, they're tied. But Kristen has the benefit of being a size 2. Some of Kim's outfits probably wouldn't be that bad on someone smaller. It's just that nothing fits or is flattering. But still, when it's close, I give the bigger girls more slack since their job is tougher. So I'm voting KStew for a year of skankwear and bad hair.
Or…she could just go up a few sizes. It's not like they don't make those clothes in larger sizes. And if they're just inherently clothes that don't work on a larger frame, she should make different choices. She has many resources, including her family's line of clothing stores and is present at many fashion shows.
For me it came down to this: exposed underwear (the last slide) vs. The Ruffle Pants.
I gave it to Kristen.
This is the most difficult match-up ever! I honestly don't know who to vote for because their fashion crimes are equally heinous. Guess I'll have to toss a coin.
I have liked some things Kristen has worn this year, while I hate everything that Kim puts on her body. This one is easy for me.
Kristin sometimes looks good and occasionally looks great. Kim is all fug, all the time. Anyone who buys and wears a Cruella Deville skunk coat deserves to win, but I do love the look on Kanye's face.
The sad thing is, you just *know* some idiot will buy that stupid cruella DeVille skunk coat off Kim's "charity" eBay resale page. Just hope that that idiot doesn't live in your hometown.
UNLESS they are buying in order to burn it, in which case, I have a medal to mail out…
Kim revolts me, but in a can't-look-away-from-the train-wreck kind of way. She's like the super trashy girls I see at one of the upscale malls around here. They provide excellent people watching, and so in a way I never want them to stop.
Kristen's permasullen angsty teenager faces just make me want to forcibly wash her hair and put her in actual clothes. Nearly Nude Emo is not a good look on anyone.
That was like watching a fierce tennis game. My neck hurts. I gave it to Kim because the depth of her fug is contemptible, plus she has that heinous accessory, Kanye. Kristen's fug gave Kim a hell of a run for her rags and riches, though. Excellent commentary, as ush.
I think that this was actually the hardest decision I've made in my life. They both deserve the title. But! Kim's Kim Kostume took the cake for me.
Exactly right!
Arrrrggghhhhh! I went with Kristen, but am not mad that Kim is winning. Money can't buy taste. Srsly.
The damaged lung caption made me spill coffee on my keyboard.
Here's why I'm going with Kim all the way: Kristen is 22 years old. I know she has a stylist, but, whatever, I made some pretty terrible fashion choices when I was 22 and if I had had a stylist I would have more choices from which to make more terrible decisions. Kristen needs to tone down the see-throughness for sure but a few of her simpler choices are great. Kim is 32. Her face looks like a wet barbie doll.
Sometimes I really don't like what Kristen wears, but she does get it very right sometimes. There was a bright yellow dress she wore, another time a cropped white t-shirt and a cute skirt, etc. I think her style was really skewed after mini-coopergate, but overall I don't think her year was as consistently horrific as Kardashian. Kim just has horrible style 24/7.
Easiest vote EVER!!! I like half of what Kristen is wearing… I can't say the same about KK!
Voted for Kristin, but the pages took so painfully long to load I have to admit I didn't take the 30 minutes required to look at 22 photos. But Kristin gets the fug for wearing dresses that I can see her undies through. Kim doesn't have good taste, but lordy. At least I'm not peeking at her patooties.
I've worked out why I am finding it so hard!!
For me it's like the tortoise and the hare – K-Stew swiftly ran almost to the finish line early in the year with her lung-cancer/jumpsuit of horror/granny-pant-evening-gown triple play, but then kind of got distracted and started wearing some acceptable outfits… leaving the tortoise that is Kim to just toil away all year wearing heinous outfits, ultimately claiming a crushing victory.
Aesop's teachings have NEVER been so relevant to my life, tortoise Kim for the win!
Good lord, has there ever been a pair of competitors more evenly matched? Literally everything each woman wore I could see the other in, no problem. (Well, except maybe the fur. Kristen doesn't strike me as a fur girl.)
In the end I voted for Kim, because I get the feeling that at least half of the get ups Kristen wore, she wore because her stylist handed them to her, rather than being proactive and choosing something to wear herself. While that's still not a very good excuse – seriously, girl, I know you hate everything associated with the red carpet, but you could at least TRY to be professional about it – it's still not as grave a sin as deliberately choosing to clothe yourself in peplum pants and a couture carwash.
Truly unsavoury as they are, I can't 100% blame Kirsten for the visible granny panties. It's a stupid trend that designers created and stylists picked for half the celebrities out there this year. It's yucky, it needs to go away and it will.
Kim just wears ill-fitting, ugly, look-at-me-me-me monstrosities year round, every year. No contest.
How is Kim Kardashian blowing out Kristen Stewart?
I mean, I settled on Kim, but that was DIFFICULT. I mean, yes, the pants ruffle heard round the world (and I reiterate – if KATIE PRICE rocked a midsection ruffle better while WEARING A PANTOMIME HORSE ON HER ASS, you done fugged hard), but at least Kim never wore a see-through jumpsuit.
What pushed me was, incidentally, the pants. Apparently, Fug Madness is all about the pants now.
As an aside, if Yeezy isn't allowing his babye momma to wear anything that actually fits her, I'm not going to buy his album, I'm not gonna download that motherf'er, and I'm certainly not gonna shoot a bootlegger.
Speaking of all about the pants. Or no pants:
My Take-Away from this is: Neither Kristen or Kim is as Sexy as She Thinks She Is. That is All.
At least Kim smiles.
Kristin Stewart was the highest paid actress in Hollywood last year. She can afford to buy some taste. KKard is a tabloid goddess, why does anyone expect more from her.
Granny Panties ATW.
Thank you thank you thank you a thousand times for alternating the pictures! It was much easier to choose and not give up mid-way. Kim got my vote for overall tackiness. I think Kristen Stewart had a bad year, but transparent seems to be a thing right now and she was promoting three movies so was out and about wearing the latest trends. And she's never dull, except for her hair.
Kim just lacks …something. Restraint? Eyeglasses?
I cannot believe that Kristen isn't winning. I mean, Kim was bad (especially the ruffle pants), but Kristen's crazy sequin sheer crotch-tacular jumpsuit is so so so soooo fug.
Apart from her Hurricane Sandy Relief ensemble, KS doesn't look stupid. Naked and sour but not stupid. (And I have to put in an adore for pic 16)
However, the Kwaste of Kspace looks ridiculous in every single pic. I'm staggered that her taste is so appalling. I can't begin to imagine what opening her wardrobe(s) must be like.
Two wenches, equal in fuggery . . . yeah, this one boils down to, "Who annoys me the least?"
Jeebus. That slideshow was a whole lot of serious fug. A buffet loaded down with platter of bad idea after bad idea. I hope someone wears something pretty tomorrow so we can all get a bit of visual alka seltzer.
Kristin Stewart should have won this by a LANDSLIDE. I just don't get it.
I've never seen KStew look as good as in slide 16 when it looks like someone actually took the time to do her hair and makeup.
And now I feel like my mother: "See how pretty your are when you BRUSH your hair."
Honestly, I feel like these two, Beibs, and Lindsey should have been Final Four. That said, Kirstin still wins it for me- Kim at least doesn't look dirty and dour.
I have this policy that I won't vote for fuggery when the fugger is (a) crazy or (b) on the job. Nicki Minaj? It's HER JOB to show up places looking like a pastel clown. And since it's KimK's JOB to show up places looking like a blow-up doll, I opened this page assuming I'd vote for KStew.
Except … I … actually … kind of love several of KStew's outfits. She rocks that ridiculous pantsuit. I have no idea how. The bathing suit abomination is super cute on her. I don't know what's happening to me. Maybe her total lack of affect means that there's no "oh honey no" reflex?
As for KimK … she's wearing stuff that is not just ugly, not just trashy, but that is really, really unflattering. Her outfits are interfering with her work. Aside from the insane sexbot dress, that is, which is awesome and can stay.
the horror of it all … i seriously can't decide.
No contest–I found this one the easiest yet–has to be Kim, hands down. Even though her stuff is, I'm sure, expensive, it always, always looks cheap. She has more money than God, but it's wasted! At least Stewart has looked cute on occasion. Kim–NEVER!
Not even close. Kristen may be sulky and blah, but Kim is the driver of the train wreck known as the Kardashian family. It's a pretty damning indictment of U.S. popular culture that these non-entities have become (in)famous after achieving absolutely nothing. The one redeeming thing about the Kardashians is they make us Canadians feel a tad less guilty for having inflicted the Beeb on the world.
Was on the fence. Ultimately, I went with KK for the Fug.
My thinking: KStew really doesn't care. I mean, she puts on the dresses and the heels for events, but doesn't that hair say it all? It says "F.U., red carpet. I am doing this, but it's an afterthought." In real life, she is a tee, jeans and converse girl. Which is not fug, just normal. For the red carpet, she seems to put on what someone else has picked out for her. Sometimes good, sometimes great, sometimes incredibly fug. Ultimately, I can't fug her for having a bad attitude. KK, on the other hand, must spend LOADS of time trying to look like this. My god, she puts her makeup on with a trowel. There is A LOT of thought and time that goes into each and every fug.
How is Kristen not taking this? LOOK AT THE PANTIES AND SHEERNESS.
I missed the poll yesterday so I just went through the slideshow and thought Stewart was an easy choice. Surprised to see her losing by such a wide margin. They both wore a lot of terrible outfits, but hers were worse by a mile. I find her unattractive in general, which may have swayed me. On second thought, nope, it really was just the extreme clothing fug. Kardashian's seemed mild in comparison – ruffle pants notwithstanding. Hey, at least she can blame hormones for some of those questionable decisions.
Kim K has no talent and a perennially bad choice in accessory – Kanye. Also she wears fur.
How is one expected to choose between these two obviously impaired individuals? Both of them are pretty, and could be SPECTACULAR, given a good stylist–or even a good best friend who would pull them aside and say, "Honey, No. Just.No." These pictures make me sad for both of them, because they apparently do not have anyone in their lives who truly loves them and looks out for their best interests. Poor Babye and Future KSpawns.


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BOSTON - Carl Crawford will serve as a designated hitter Saturday in Fort Myers, where the Red Sox outfielder will play in a Gulf Coast League game.
The rookie setting will provide the first game-related test for Crawford as he inches back toward a return from wrist surgery and subsequent elbow problems.
Crawford has been throwing without difficulty. The DH assignment will not test his arm, where the concern is about the elbow and not the wrist.
The Red Sox are still avoiding a timetable for Crawford's 2012 debut with Boston. It is not expected before the all-Star break.
The club is also seeing some progress with reliever Andrew Bailey, who threw bullpen sessions Wednesday and Thursday. Thumb surgery sidelined Bailey in March.
He was acquired from Oakland to serve as closer, but Alfredo Aceves' success in that role means Bailey could return as a setup man.
Aceves leads the majors with three four-out saves. He has 17 in all.
Bailey is still at least six weeks away. The Red Sox would like to give him eight or nine innings in rehab games before activating him.
Aaron Cook will make his second rehab start for Pawtucket on Saturday.
The right-hander allowed three runs on seven hits in four innings against Syracuse Monday. Cook has been out since May 6 with a laceration in his knee.


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BRITs 2013: Zayn Malik and Perrie Edwards no-show
One Direction star and Little Mix beauty head home as bandmates hit Sony bash
Posted: Thursday 21 Feb 2013
Above: Zayn Malik and Perrie Edwards missed the BRITs 2013 after party last night
Above: Zayn Malik arrived at the BRITs 2013 with One Direction while Perrie Edwards joined Little Mix
Above: Perrie Edwards failed to join her Little Mix pals at the Sony after party last night
Above: Louis Tomlinson was joined at the BRITs after party by girlfriend Eleanor Calder
MAYBE they just wanted to enjoy each other's company.
Zayn Malik and Perrie Edwards were noticeably absent at the BRIT Awards 2013 after party last night.
The One Direction star and his Little Mix girlfriend decided to get an early night while their bandmates enjoyed the exclusive Sony bash at the Arts Club.
[ Related article: Harry Styles avoids Taylor Swift after the BRIT Awards 2013 ]
After arriving separately and sitting apart at the O2, the pair must have made a swift exit following 1D's successful night.
The couple could be keeping a low profile after rumours recently surfaced about Zayn cheating on his lady with a stripper.
But that didn't stop the other boys from celebrating their BRIT success.
Harry Styles enjoyed a boozy night with Radio 1's Nick Grimshaw, and even ended up joining the presenter on his morning breakfast show today.
[ Related article: Rita Ora risks double wardrobe malfunction at the BRITs 2013 ]
Louis Tomlinson was joined by gorgeous girlfriend Eleanor Calder, while Niall Horan reportedly left the party with American star, Demi Lovato.


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SPRINGFIELD – City Police are investigating the early morning breaking and entering into the Allen Street Package Store.
A man, described as black, around 40-years-old, about 5 feet, 10 inches tall and wearing a black shirt with a white square on the back, smashed the window of the store early Sunday and took several gallons of Amsterdam Peach Vodka. He then ran toward Kimberly Ave., according to a written statement from Police Sgt. John Delaney.
Police officers searched the area with dogs. A passerby told police a person fitting the description of the thief was seen in the area of 200 White St. Police searched the area but could not find him, Delaney said.
Police later found open bottles of the same type of vodka in an abandoned house on Crown Street, he said.
This case is under investigation by Sgt. Artie Dambrosia and Det. Matt Longo. Anyone with information can call the station at 787-6355 or Text a Tip anonymously via a cell phone by addressing a text message to "CRIMES," or "274637," and then begin the body of the message with the word "SOLVE."


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Houston is allowing only 1.8 red zone possessions per game and 1.3 the past three games. That's the stingiest rate in football. But the Texans do give up big plays. Still, it's a big reason to temper expectations when your guys match up against Houston.
The Titans are tightening up their pass defense by sacrificing their run defense. Coaches should always choose the slow death over the quick one. But it's not slow when Maurice Jones-Drew is gashing you twice for 80-yard TD runs. The last three games, the Titans are allowing a league worst 6.8 yards per rush attempt.
The Saints are allowing 5.2 yards per rush the past three weeks and the Vikings are at 4.9. Other struggling run defenses of late, relative to full-season numbers, are the Cardinals and Ravens at 4.8 and 4.5 yards per rush, respectively.
The Browns are the worst defense the past three games. But right behind them, more surprisingly, are the Giants and Falcons at an awful 8.8 and 8.4 yards per attempt (these totals all include sack yards).
Pass defenses performing much better of late than overall are the Chargers (5.1 YPA), Cowboys (5.5) and Jets (from a very good 5.1 to a ridiculous 4.3). I had to check the Packers twice, but they are at 4.8 YPA allowed of late, though that includes Sunday's four-TD shiv at the hands of Brett Favre.
The Giants are allowing a league-worst 2.3 rushing TDs per game the past three weeks. The Jets, Bengals and Patriots haven't allowed any.
The Giants also are allowing a second-worst 2.7 TD passes per game of late. Do not be afraid to play any Charger who you normally start this week at the Meadowlands. The Bills have not allowed a passing TD the past three weeks and the Steelers over this same span have cut their rate of TD passes allowed in half -- to a paltry 0.7 per game.
Now let's look at individual stats of note and make related recommendations.
Texans receivers not named Andre Johnson: We know you can't buy Johnson -- he's too good and too valuable. But who is going to soak up the majority of Owen Daniels 58 targets? (Daniels is out for the year with an ACL tear.) My colleague Mark Stopa says Kevin Walter. That's fine, but Walter is not available in the vast majority of deep leagues. So how about going really cheap with Jacoby Jones? I'd go three-WR if I were the Texans. Of course, they're not going to listen to me. But this would be my bet. Jones is a very gifted athlete and proven playmaker.
Miles Austin, WR, Cowboys: I've been a skeptic, but there he sits atop our leaderboard with eight catches of 25-plus yards. That's very impressive considering he didn't start half the season. He keeps producing and you figure that defenses would have adjusted by now. Tony Romo is a very good player, helping to extend plays and finding Austin on the dead run and thus helping him add lots of yards after the catch. Dallas is again a pass-oriented team.
DeSean Jackson, WR, Eagles: I can't conscionably tell anyone to sell him off this great distance-scoring run. But I can do the next best thing and advise you not to buy. Why? He has six catches of 25-plus yards and almost all of them have gone the distance. If there were more big plays that didn't go all the way, I'd buy his trend continuing. There's a good chance he's gotten randomly lucky. Even when you're wide open, the ball often doesn't find you (sacks, bad passes or just the QB not seeing you).
Louis Murphy, WR, Raiders: If you're in a deep league, you should note he has 49 targets -- not bad. Maybe he gets more comfortable as his rookie year progresses and stops dropping passes -- six against just 16 grabs. If JaMarcus Russell can make the huge jump to even mediocre, unlikely, I know, Murphy will be playable in deep formats.
Terrell Owens, WR, Bills: He did score last week and finally had some catches and yards (if you include the end-around TD). A lot of his problems are his fault. He leads the NFL with seven dropped passes. Of course, he famously had similar problems all of last year. Waiting for a better selling window is risky.
Dustin Keller, TE, Jets: If he didn't have such a big week, I'd say to buy him. But last week's game is most likely going to end up being a high-water mark. He's been targeted 49 times and has just 23 catches. Top tight ends should catch about two-thirds of their targets.


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[BORK! BORK! BORK!] Though it began serving dinner in 2008, the Scandinavian-inflected Broder is known to most Portlanders as a breakfast place. That's too bad. The dinner menu is both homey and playful, with items like a crawfish boil and fish cakes, as well as various "bords" for diners who prefer to graze. The Surf Bord is a selection of well-executed gravlax (salmon cured in salt, sugar and dill), pickled herring and smoked white fish served with housemade pickles and rye breads on a wooden board; it's delightful finger food. The Swedish meatballs in sherry cream and the lamb burger are worthy of attention. One of the treats of eating at Broder are the fixin's—from a mustardy rémoulade to crisp pickled beets and some of the best rye breads in town—which add depth to every dish. The long, casual dining room is adorned with charming Scandinavian decor. Service can be slow, but order yourself a flight of chilled aquavits (a distilled Scandinavian liquor with caraway, cardamom and anise; $15) and you'll hardly notice. HANNA NEUSCHWANDER.
Ideal meal: Fried fish bites ($8), Scandinavian shrimp salad ($11) and Broder's excellent Swedish meatballs ($11) is plenty of food for two to share.
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