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The Loser Papers 2012
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The Loser Papers 2012
It's time for another season of The Loser Papers. TLP are articles from the Redskins' vanquished foe's hometown newspapers. This is where you come to hear the other side of the story. You know, how their team lost a game they most certainly should have won. In honor of our new QB, here are RGIII (really good 3) articles from The Times-Picayune:
http://www.nola.com/saints/index.ssf/20 ... urpri.html
http://www.nola.com/saints/index.ssf/20 ... k_col.html
http://www.nola.com/saints/index.ssf/20 ... s_way.html
New Orleans Saints were surprisingly flat, perhaps overconfident, in loss to Washington Redskins: First take
Mike Triplett, The Times-Picayune
FIRST TAKE: Regular readers of this column know I'm going to be the last one to press the panic button after the New Orleans Saints' season-opening 40-32 loss Sunday to the Washington Redskins - a dreadful performance that wasn't nearly as competitive as the final score suggests. But the Saints don't have any time to waste if they want to make sure this season doesn't freefall into a repeat of 2007, when they started 0-4 under immensely high expectations.
Drew Brees throws under pressure, 1st quarter, at the Superdome in New Orleans, Sunday September 9, 2012.
The Saints (0-1) need to immediately put an end to the questions about whether Sean Payton's absence or the negativity of the bounty scandal had anything to do with this sloppy start - both the countless ones they'll hear from the media this week and any of those unmentioned internal doubts that might start to creep up if they start out 0-2 or worse.
For now, though, I'm still willing to chalk Sunday's game at the Merrcedes-Benz Superdome up as one of those random stinkers that we've seen once or twice every season. It felt so much like those trips to St. Louis and Tampa Bay last year, or the losses to Arizona and Cleveland the year before.
And just like in those games, the overriding issue may actually have been overconfidence and a lack of urgency.
The Saints focused so much this offseason on staying uber-confident throughout the bounty fallout. And they sure looked like a team Sunday that expected this game to play out just like all those other blowouts inside the Superdome last season when they were a perfect 9-0. As if they could just flip the "on" switch and cruise past the Redskins and their rookie quarterback Robert Griffin III, who wound up being much more impressive than all-world Saints quarterback Drew Brees.
Indeed, the Saints were on cruise control Sunday. They came out flat, lacked focus, lacked attention to detail, played sloppy, got pushed around on the offensive and defensive lines and made dumb mistakes (did we mention the penalties). Eventually the offense and defense started playing their best football, but it was too little and too late.
Brees, who was uncharacteristically off target Sunday, was the first to admit that the Saints didn't "deserve to win" with the amount of mistakes they made. And ironically enough, Brees said the emotions that went into this season opener may have backfired on the team.
The prevailing thought was that the Saints and the Dome crowd would be ignited by the start of a new season, the chance to put the bounty negativity behind them and the chance to revel in the Friday reinstatement of suspended players Will Smith and Jonathan Vilma, who took the field to lead the crowd in a raucous pregame "Who Dat" chant.
Instead, the offense went three-and-out on its opening series and did the same four times in its first six possessions.
"I think, obviously, there was a lot of emotion going into this game because of the events of the last few days. And it's the home opener and we're all just excited to get out on the field again and start the regular season," Brees said. "So at times when the emotions are so high, you get into the game and you can have a lapse because it's almost like you expend all your energy with those emotions as opposed to just being able to focus on the game itself.
"We recognize that from a game last year, if you recall the game against the Houston Texans, when Steve Gleason comes out and does the 'Who Dat' chant and that was all emotional for so many of us. And it took us a while to get going in that game, just like it obviously took a while for us to get going in this game, even though we kept saying, 'Hey, let's take a deep breath. Take a deep breath.' And unfortunately we just weren't able to rally."
http://www.nola.com/saints/index.ssf/20 ... urpri.html
Washington Redskins deliver rude wake-up call to New Orleans Saints
Jeff Duncan, The Times-Picayune
In a city famous for hand grenades and drive-through daiquiri stores, wake-up calls tend to be ruder here than other places.
Few, though, have been more alarming than the rousing the Washington Redskins delivered to the New Orleans Saints at noon Sunday. Their 40-32 upset was so complete and authoritative it effectively transformed the Saints' home opener into a four-hour cold shower at the Mercedes-Benz Superdome.
Football was supposed to be salvation for the embattled Saints after their troubled offseason. It was supposed to be the elixir for the club's angry and frustrated fans. Instead, it only made Bountygate and its far-reaching fallout all the more difficult to stomach for everyone involved.
"We played bad ball," safety Roman Harper said. "... We are so much better than what we did today."
The Saints spent the summer telling everyone they that the bounty scandal wouldn't affect them, that they had the leadership and character to overcome the loss of Coach Sean Payton, that the distractions would not derail them from fulfilling their mission of becoming the first team to play in the Super Bowl on its home field.
Then they came out and laid an egg larger than the Superdome.
Maybe it was coincidence. Maybe the Saints just picked an inopportune time to produce their worst performance in years. Maybe Drew Brees was right when he said distractions weren't a factor.
Or maybe, just maybe, this whole ordeal is going to be tougher than anyone, even the Saints themselves, anticipated. Maybe the Saints actually are going to miss Payton, Joe Vitt and Mickey Loomis on game days in ways they failed to comprehend when this whole sordid mess began back in March.
It certainly seemed that way against the Redskins.
For most of the afternoon, the Saints looked like a team that spent the offseason worrying too much about the wrong RG. While they were filing depositions, negotiating long-term contracts and filling sandbags to ward off Isaac, the Redskins were back in suburban Washington, D.C. scheming and prepping their rookie phenom, Robert Griffin III, for the task at hand.
The Redskins were the better prepared team in all three phases and it showed in their execution.
Redskins defensive coordinator Jim Haslett said he and his staff researched game film on the Saints' offense from as far back as 2007 to get a bead on their method of operation.
For three quarters, the Redskins executed the game plan to near perfection. They stuffed the Saints' rushing attack and forced three turnovers. They limited the big plays and got off the field on third down. They ditched pre-snap huddles to better keep pace with the Saints' high-tempo attack and had the audacity to defend their receivers with straight man-to-man coverage.
"We understood what was coming," Haslett said. "Now stopping them is another thing because they're so good but we played about as well as could be expected in this environment."
Oddly, it was the Saints not the Redskins who looked out of their element for most of the first half. Brees opened the game with three consecutive incomplete passes, sending stat geeks scrambling through play-by-play sheets to find the last time that occurred. They committed back-to-back false starts to kill another drive. And it didn't get much better in the second half.
The Saints did things they never do. They committed penalties and turnovers and failed to convert third downs. They threw incompletions at an alarming rate and went three-and-out more often than anyone could remember.
"That's not us," said Brees, who completed only 24 of 52 passes, his lowest completion percentage since 2006.
And defensively, they had no answer for RGIII. The Redskins surprised the Saints with an option-read rushing attack and a series of bootlegs that took advantage of the rookie quarterback's diverse skill set. All too often, Griffin had time to survey the field and pick out the matchup he wanted in coverage. He completed 11 of 13 passes for 182 yards and two touchdowns in the first half to record the first perfect passer efficiency rating by a rookie quarterback in an opening half in league history.
"There were no indications this would happen," Saints interim coach Aaron Kromer said. "... Each one of us, starting with me, needs to go back and look at ourselves and figure out what I can do better, what each individual can do better and how close we can stay."
The Saints can start by ditching the denial and admitting the severity of the situation. If Game 1 is any indication, this season is not going to be a flawless transition at all. It's going to be one of the biggest challenges any of them have ever encountered. And it's going to take a concerted effort to get things back on track, starting with this week of practice in preparation for a road trip to NFC South Division rival Carolina on Sunday.
Yes, it's only one game and there is a lifetime of football still to be played. Yes, as Brees noted, the Saints lost their opener last season and went on to finish 13-3. But this was different. This looked nothing like that loss to the high-powered Packers at Lambeau Field. This was the Redskins, with a rookie quarterback and a patchwork secondary in the Superdome, where, as Redskins Coach Mike Shanahan noted, the Saints were coming off one of "the best (seasons) in the history of pro football."
No, this was a wake-up call, and a rude one at that. We'll see if the Saints are ready to answer it or not.
http://www.nola.com/saints/index.ssf/20 ... k_col.html
Robert Griffin III has his way with New Orleans Saints defense
Peter Finney, Times-Picayune
Before Sunday's game, Drew Brees had a prediction. He said, "it's only a matter of time before Robert Griffin III takes the league by storm.''
Good prediction, Drew.
But did Brees think it would happen so quickly?
As early as the first quarter, by which time the rookie quarterback was 7-for-7 passing for 123 yards and a touchdown?
In the first half, after the youngster had thrown for 182 yards, had run for another 30, and had a hand in every point of his team's 20-14 lead?
By the end of the third quarter, at which point Griffin had thrown for 258 yards and two touchdowns, had his guys up 30-17, had the Saints' defense gasping for breath?
By the end of a 40-32 upset during which RGIII had gone 19 for 26 without a pick and had posted the highest quarterback rating - 139.9 - for a rookie quarterback in NFL history.
What about it, RGIII?
"Listen, I feel like I'm still a rookie,'' he said. "But after the game, my teammates kept telling me, you're not a rookie any more. That made me feel good.''
What made him feel even better were the post-game words of the losing quarterback.
"Drew Brees came up to me and said, 'I'm proud of you.' That's big of him to say. To get to the NFL, the pinnacle of it all, and win your first game playing against a Hall of Famer like Drew Brees, that's big of him to say after they had just lost a game," Griffin said. "I respect him for that and it's definitely No. 1 on my list. Shows you what kind of person he is.''
The final score showed you something else. Mike Shanahan, who won back-to-back Super Bowls in Denver, came up with an offensive plan for his quarterback that seemed to put Griffin at ease.
"It was a lot of fun out there,'' he said. "I think everyone was comfortable with the plan. The stuff we used made it easier for me to get into a rhythm, to settle down, early in the game. I think it's great for any quarterback to get a couple of easy passes at the beginning of a game so you can go out there and get into a rhythm."
Instead of chunking it deep every time Griffin merely kept throwing the high-percentage pass and completing them.
"Along the way,'' he said, "we were able to adjust to the adjustments. When I hit that long one for the first touchdown (an 88-yard hookup with Pierre Garcon) it was like storybook time. Makes you feel like you can do no wrong. Gives you a great confidence boost.''
Said Garcon of that play: "It's one we work on all the time and we got lucky. The Saints got caught out of position and Robert threw a great ball. I just caught it and ran. It was a game-changer. Great call by the coach. Gave us momentum.''
Obviously, the overall picture was an illustration of Griffin helping his cause with a steady arm and world-class speed. His mere presence, his elusiveness, made the Saints rush him with caution, sometimes giving him all the time he needed to find an open target.
"I thought Robert did an unbelievable job to play the way he did in his first game,'' Shanahan said. "The poise he played with and some of the throws he made were great. Just to execute the offense in this environment was impressive. He kind of bumped into the running back a number of times. The Saints threw a lot at us, a lot of blitzes. To come away with a win was a big plus for our guys.''
Keeping the Saints' offense from exploding was definitely a big plus for former Saints head coach Jim Haslett, now in charge of the Redskins' defense.
Haslett pointed to one stat: Limiting the Saints to 32 yards on the ground.
"When you stop the run, it puts you in position to put more pressure on the quarterback,'' he said. "And you've got to do that going against someone as great as Drew Brees.''
The Washington rush kept a quarterback who completed an NFL record 71 percent of his passes last season under 50 percent (24-for-52) for the first time since 2006.
"It's amazing some of the plays he makes,'' Shanahan said of Brees. "Playing from behind, his ability to stay poised, his footwork, looking at the field, and being able to avoid the rush are just some of his skills. You've got to get some turnovers.''
On Sunday, the Redskins got enough to defeat a team favored by a touchdown.
By Sunday evening, the losing quarterback was saying what you'd expect.
"We'll regroup like we always have,'' Brees said. "We lost the first game last season and finished 13-3. We have the mentality and the guys to do it.''
We shall see.
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Andre Carter wrote:Damn man, you know your football.
Hog Bowl IV Champion (2012)
Hail to the Redskins!
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I woke up this morning and checked the paper just to make sure what I saw was real. I still expect there to be many ups and downs this season but I sure hope we see lots of posts in this thread each week. Hail to the Redskins.
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From what I heard of the Saints, they played it with class. They said they knew what the Skins would do with Griffin and couldn't stop him.
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from the 30-17 poin t people kept congratulating me, I don't know how many times I said, that's drew brees, it aint over yet lol. I still cant believe griffin got us 40 pts!, and the defense played so well. such a bright future!
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cleg wrote:I woke up this morning and checked the paper just to make sure what I saw was real.
Lol. Yeah, I know what you mean!
Luckily the Skins managed to give a TD away with a blocked punt and dropped a definite interception in the game, that reassured me it was real cos we don't do that in my dreams.....
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Jeez the way these papers talk well the first two anyways you would think we went 0-16 last year and that we had RGIIInt QBing instead of RG3... Oh well I hope we can make quite a few more papers whine about there teams this year
Next week will show us really how good we will be since we've always played either up or down to our competition....Go Skins!!!!!
Next week will show us really how good we will be since we've always played either up or down to our competition....Go Skins!!!!!
Hopefully we will be reading more loser papers this season. I think that they absolutely miss the creativity of Peyton on the sidelines....but they have certainly had plenty of time to make adjustments as those penalities were not just handed out. Also, the Brees holdout may have been more problematic than the papers are letting onto, at least with the timing of the offense and accuracy in passing game.
But, we did not back into this win. For the majority of the game, we were the better team on the field. Whatever the reason for the Aint's, our O and D made plays more often than not. We do have playmakers on our offense, and we were without our #1 rcvr for most of the game.
Good win against a good time in their home.....hope this bodes well for the rest of the season.
But, we did not back into this win. For the majority of the game, we were the better team on the field. Whatever the reason for the Aint's, our O and D made plays more often than not. We do have playmakers on our offense, and we were without our #1 rcvr for most of the game.
Good win against a good time in their home.....hope this bodes well for the rest of the season.
A winning effort begins with preparation.
Failures are expected by losers, ignored by winners.
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Failures are expected by losers, ignored by winners.
Quotes by Joe Gibbs
The Washington rush kept a quarterback who completed an NFL record 71 percent of his passes last season under 50 percent (24-for-52) for the first time since 2006.
Wow, I missed that stat last night. I knew he had completed less than 50%, but didn't realize it had been that long since he'd last done that.
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After two weeks off, we come back with two from the Tampa Bay Times:
http://www.tampabay.com/sports/football ... 254211.ece
http://www.tampabay.com/sports/football ... 254253.ece
Tampa Bay Buccaneers fall to Washington Redskins 24-22 on last-second field goal
By Rick Stroud, Times Staff Writer
In Print: Monday, October 1, 2012
[DANIEL WALLACE | Times]
Robert Griffin III cuts away from corner Brandon McDonald during a 15-yard run to the Bucs 26 on the final drive, setting up the Redskins' winning field goal.
TAMPA — Robert Griffin III's helmet transmitter went out in the final drive Sunday, a situation the Redskins practice each week where he is forced to call his own plays. So he was prepared to improvise when it happened Sunday against the Buccaneers.
Trailing by a point with 1:42 remaining in the game, Washington's remarkable rookie quarterback calmly drove his team 56 yards to set up Billy Cundiff's 41-yard field goal that went just inside the left upright with three seconds remaining, giving the Redskins a 24-22 win over Tampa Bay.
Afterward, RG3 quoted a football movie called The Replacements.
"Great players want the ball in their hands when it's crunch time," Griffin said. "It's funny that I just quoted that movie … but that's how it really is."
Unfortunately for the Bucs, they keep following the same losing script.
For the third time in as many weeks, Tampa Bay lost a close game against an NFC East team that they could have won.
After hearing boos when it fell behind, Tampa Bay rallied from a 21-3 deficit behind a second-half surge from quarterback Josh Freeman and took the lead on Connor Barth's third field goal — a 47-yarder — to give the Bucs a 22-21 lead with 1:42 to play, electrifying an announced crowd of 58,191 at Raymond James Stadium.
Having already blown a lead against the Giants in the Meadowlands to lose by seven, and another at Dallas last week to fall by six, it looked as if the Bucs might finally break through under first-year coach Greg Schiano.
"The fact of the matter is we've got to finish it," defensive tackle Gerald McCoy said. "It doesn't matter if we lose by 100 or we lose by two. We need to win, and we've got to finish in the end. It's as simple as that."
History will show that the Bucs were 102 seconds from going 2-2 with one of the more thrilling come-from-behind wins in franchise history heading into the bye week.
Instead, Tampa Bay's defense collapsed under pressure and allowed Griffin — the Heisman Trophy winner out of Baylor, second overall pick in the draft and product pitchman — to pad his resume.
The loss dropped the Bucs to 1-3 and into a second-place tie with Carolina in the NFC South, already three games behind first-place Atlanta.
It also provided some redemption for Cundiff — who had missed field goals of 41, 57 and 31 yards — by kicking the winner.
"Because you lose at the end, you fail to finish," Schiano said. "But we really didn't do a bunch of stuff before that that put us in a position. I mean, we didn't play what I envision as Buccaneer football, smart football."
The Bucs, who had 10 penalties for 107 yards, lost because in critical situations they played it safe on offense and perhaps too aggressively on defense.
Quarterback Josh Freeman, who was out of synch in the first half, finished with 299 yards passing with a touchdown and interception.
He had a 65-yard bomb to Mike Williams (four catches for 115 yards) and a 54-yarder to Vincent Jackson (six catches for 100 yards and a touchdown), the longest offensive plays of the year.
But trailing 21-19 and facing third and 9 from the Redskins 33, Freeman hit a short pass to Tiquan Underwood underneath for 5 yards, which seemed more designed to get Barth closer for a field-goal attempt than to get a first down and use up more of the game clock.
"We were going to kick the field goal to go ahead," Schiano said. "That's what we were doing. I don't know if you can interpret it further than that."
Griffin, who passed for 323 yards, demonstrated poise and precision on the final drive. Taking over at the Redskins 20, he completed passes of 15 yards to Santana Moss and 20 yards to Fred Davis, then added a 15-yard scramble to the Bucs 26.
After a spike to stop the clock, a false start and a 7-yard completion, Cundiff hit the winner.
"You run a blitz and it was just wide open," defensive end Michael Bennett said of RG3's run. "I knew myself. I was like, 'I don't know if I should run this play or not, but I did my job.' I knew he was going to get outside. That's what he does. The edge was too short. The whole defensive line slanted."
In the end, Griffin had the starring role, and the Bucs were left with another bad film to critique.
"None of that matters," Schiano said. "It's what it is. What could be, what was, what isn't, really doesn't matter. We need to get better. I need to coach better. It starts with me and it goes down through the organization. We just need to get better.
"You want to win? You're close. Get better. You'll win."
http://www.tampabay.com/sports/football ... 254211.ece
Flashes of the Josh Freeman everyone wants
By Gary Shelton, Times Sports Columnist
In Print: Monday, October 1, 2012
By now, he had stopped the booing, and he had erased the deficit, and he had staked his claim to the fourth quarter.
For a couple of minutes there, at least, Josh Freeman had earned another look. Finally, it seemed as if a new coaching staff and its quarterback were speaking the same language, as if they finally trusted each other. Just like in the old days, Freeman seemed to be good enough to overcome the shortcomings around him.
The game was in the final seconds now, and Freeman had been turned into a spectator. He sat helplessly, looking on as Washington's brilliant rookie, Robert Griffin III, turned Sunday into his story, his comeback. When the Redskins' winning field goal was just straight enough to count, Freeman's head sagged.
Perhaps yours did, too.
The Bucs squandered a great many things in Sunday's 24-22 fall-from-ahead loss, but none of those seemed as important as Freeman's wasted performance. He had come back from an 18-point deficit, and from the fans' disfavor, and from the coach's distrust.
This was the Freeman that Tampa Bay had been awaiting. Finally, he was unleashed from the ultraconservative game plan that Greg Schiano had copied from Amos Alonzo Stagg, and he nearly made it pay off. In 18 minutes, he was terrific again, hitting 9 of 12 passes for 184 yards in that span, including a 65-yarder to Mike Williams and a 54-yarder to Vincent Jackson.
If that lead had held up, it would have been Freeman's first fourth-quarterback comeback since the Minnesota game on Sept. 18, 2011. It would have guaranteed that you would have watched Freeman highlights through next weekend's bye week and into the Kansas City game.
That would have been a nice change for Freeman, who has been more of a question than an answer lately. It could have been a nice turnaround moment. Instead, it is part of the latest disappointment in a 1-3 start.
"Losing is not acceptable," Freeman said. "There are no moral victories. I'm unhappy we lost. You can go back and you can point at any number of things."
For most of the season, it has been difficult to defend Freeman. He has played stiff and has thrown wild, and scrambling with the ball seemed to be a forbidden concept. For three weeks, the game plan seemed to be constructed with Freeman throwing only when absolutely necessary.
Worst of all, there seemed to be a disconnect between a quarterback and his coaches. Both Schiano and Freeman speak well of the other, but for much of the season, it has seemed as if they were into each other's heads. Freeman seemed to be trying too hard to play it safe, and the result was a robotic, mechanical look. Schiano seemed so concerned about Freeman's penchant for throwing the ball to the wrong jersey that he seemed to plan around his quarterback.
"He had some big shots to our receivers, made some big plays in the passing game," Schiano said. "That's what he's capable of."
Sunday, the Bucs came in determined to see it. For three weeks, they have stubbornly treated first down as if it were a run-only blueprint (even though many of those runs were for 2 yards or fewer).
This was different. The Redskins have struggled against the pass this year, so the Bucs came out throwing. On the day, their running backs got 15 carries; Freeman threw it 39 times.
Oh, it wasn't always pretty. There in the second quarter, the fans were displeased with Freeman. He threw a third-and-5 pass behind Williams. Boos. He threw an interception. Boos. Freeman held the ball too long on a sack on third and 9. Boos. He threw too short to Doug Martin. Boos. After a while, even those of us who want to believe in Freeman's future were struggling to do so.
Then came the final five minutes of the third quarter and the first 13 of the fourth, when the ball was in Freeman's hands, when he was almost good enough to overcome the missed tackles and the silly penalties and the soft middle of the Bucs secondary and everything else.
Was it promising? Of course it was. There is something to be said for a quarterback playing well in the big moments.
Was it convincing? Of course not. If you remember, Freeman was pretty good in the fourth quarter against the Giants, too. Then came the Dallas game when Freeman's passes wobbled as if he were throwing pingpong balls into a tornado.
What will the Chiefs get? We'll see. Sometimes, good football and bad football seem to be fighting for Freeman's soul.
For a while Sunday, the good football won. For a while, it was possible to hope again.
On a lost afternoon, maybe that is something.
http://www.tampabay.com/sports/football ... 254253.ece
Andre Carter wrote:Damn man, you know your football.
Hog Bowl IV Champion (2012)
Hail to the Redskins!
"You run a blitz and it was just wide open," defensive end Michael Bennett said of RG3's run. "I knew myself. I was like, 'I don't know if I should run this play or not, but I did my job.' I knew he was going to get outside. That's what he does. The edge was too short. The whole defensive line slanted."
Andre Carter wrote:Damn man, you know your football.
Hog Bowl IV Champion (2012)
Hail to the Redskins!
From this morning's Star Tribune:
http://www.startribune.com/sports/vikin ... 12931.html
http://www.startribune.com/sports/vikin ... 28171.html
http://www.startribune.com/sports/vikin ... 29111.html
Griffin III's late runaway overwhelms Vikings
The rookie quarterback capped off a Redskins victory with a sensational scoring run.
Article by: DAN WIEDERER , Star Tribune
Adrian Peterson picks up a big first down in the 1st quarter. Photo: Brian Peterson - Star Tribune
LANDOVER, Md. -- Twenty minutes after Sunday's magic show ended, a jubilant crowd bounced out of FedEx Field, still feeling compelled to praise the afternoon's headliner.
The chants were loud. They were impassioned. And they left the visiting Vikings with a pounding headache.
Indeed, Redskins rookie Robert Griffin III stole the show in his team's 38-26 victory, boosting his already sky-high popularity across the D.C. area.
For three hours, Griffin had all eyes on him yet showed extraordinary poise.
He was sharp with his throws and electric with his runs.
Most of all, he seemed to create an energy within his team and among the boisterous crowd. So much so, in fact, that Vikings star Adrian Peterson congratulated the 22-year-old quarterback after the game and walked away a believer.
"Looking into his eyes, he's got the heart of a champion," Peterson said of Griffin. "It's easy to see he's a great player. He's been blessed."
Like any grand finale at a David Copperfield show, Griffin's final trick Sunday appeared as effortless as it was breathtaking.
With 2 minutes, 56 seconds left, the Redskins clung to a five-point lead and faced a critical third-and-6 at their own 24-yard line.
And then came the snap and an aggressive Vikings blitz that never got home.
Linebackers Chad Greenway and Jasper Brinkley were knocked off course. Griffin saw an opening and darted through.
"We were putting a little pressure on him," Greenway said. "And he escaped. Really nothing more to say."
Cornerback Chris Cook, in coverage on Josh Morgan, was sealed by a block.
Safeties Harrison Smith and Jamarca Sanford were each a degree or two off in the angles they took in pursuit.
Suddenly Griffin sliced to the left sideline and seemed to hit a moving walkway.
The final 65 yards of his sprint created a celebratory mosh pit across the stadium.
"There aren't a lot of guys who play that position who can break a 76-yard run and not get caught," Vikings coach Leslie Frazier said. "That creates some issues for any defense. [He's] a heck of a young player."
Griffin had a hand in 36 of the Redskins' 55 plays. He ran 13 times for 138 yards and two scores. He also completed 17 of 22 passes for 182 yards, including a TD toss of 6 yards to fullback Darrel Young.
Early on, Griffin continually pinpointed passes to open receivers cutting toward the middle of the field, a vulnerability in the Vikings defense that the Redskins exploited time after time on four consecutive scoring drives.
Washington also addled the Vikings with heavy doses of play-action and a multitude of zone read looks.
"Sometimes it can be tough," Greenway said. "It's a little bit of smoke and mirrors with all their fakes and stuff. ... When they're carrying out the fakes, you've got to play the run. And as a linebacker, it's tough to do both. You've got to read your keys and play ball. You're not going to get them all obviously. So credit them for a good scheme."
Still, for as electrifying as Griffin's performance was, the Vikings also left Washington kicking themselves for a flood of squandered opportunities.
The offense marched into the red zone on its first three possessions and, after 13 minutes, held an eye-popping 146-7 advantage in total yards. Yet all three of those drives stalled, resulting in field goals.
"If you go back in time, I've said it after at least four games," Peterson said. "We have to turn those threes into seven. Today it finally came back and bit us."
The Vikings were also bitten badly by a pair of Christian Ponder turnovers. Ponder's final stats (35-for-52, 352 yards, two TDs) might look nice in the boxscore. But the fumble he lost deep in Vikings territory in the second quarter positioned Washington for a gimme TD drive: one play, 6 yards.
Worse, Ponder's interception early in the fourth was returned 24 yards to the end zone by former Vikings safety Madieu Williams on what the quarterback called "a fluke play."
It was certainly Ponder's worst and most costly throw, a good 5 feet over Michael Jenkins' head.
"The ball just slipped out of my hands, just sailed," Ponder said.
With that, the hopes of a fourth consecutive victory for the Vikings slipped away as well, the evening ultimately punctuated by that Griffin dash and the chants that might still be echoing through FedEx Field.
http://www.startribune.com/sports/vikin ... 12931.html
D.C.'s newest hero is a breath -- no, a blast -- of fresh air
Robert Griffin III wowed the victory-starved home crowd with his arm and his feet.
Article by: JIM SOUHAN , Star Tribune
Washington Redskins quarterback Robert Griffin III (10) dashed for a 76 yard fourth quarter touchdown over Vikings saftery Harrison Smith. Photo: Jerry Holt - Star Tribune
LANDOVER, MD. — Robert Griffin III doesn't understand the game. The kid's inexperience showed on Sunday.
Long after leaving the Vikings wind-burned and dizzy, Griffin strolled through the underground corridors of FedEx Field. Escalades and Suburbans rolled by, filled with self-described VIPs. Griffin, wearing baggy gray sweatpants, carrying a backpack and pulling a rolling bag, had to step out of their way, like a fan who had swiped a sideline pass.
Most NFL quarterbacks with Griffin's ability are followed by an entourage. Griffin almost got run over by someone else's.
"I just talked to him and told him, 'You have the heart of a champion,'" Vikings star Adrian Peterson said.
And the legs of an Olympian.
There have been running quarterbacks in the NFL who could do what Griffin did on Sunday, ending the Redskins' 38-26 victory with a 76-yard touchdown run during which he looked as if he were riding a souped-up Segway. There have been few who could run so well and pass so accurately while displaying such poise.
"He's unbelievable," Vikings quarterback Christian Ponder said.
After Griffin ran for 138 yards and two touchdowns and completed 17 for 22 passes for 182 yards and another score, the Vikings were left to wonder where to place the blame.
On Joe Webb, for leading the Vikings to victory last December and costing them a chance to draft Griffin?
On Leslie Frazier, for even trying to win that game?
Or on the doctors who cleared Griffin to play on Sunday, seven days after he suffered a "mild" concussion?
The concussion did not teach Griffin to avoid running, only to avoid running into other people's helmets. He rushed 13 times on Sunday, often on designed plays, but seemed more eager to find the sideline when he ran out of open field.
Early in the game, the Vikings easily corralled him. But when rookie running back Albert Morris started gaining ground, Griffin's play-action fakes and quick passes over the middle riddled a Vikings defense that before Sunday had smothered more experienced quarterbacks this season.
"He was the second pick in the draft for a reason," Vikings defensive tackle Kevin Williams said.
The Vikings' three-game winning streak ended for a variety of reasons. Their play-calling near the goal line in the first quarter was inept. Running plays in the red zone without Adrian Peterson and Percy Harvin on the field, at least as decoys, is silly. Jerome Simpson's back injury kept him out of the game and once again left Ponder unable to throw downfield.
It was Griffin who changed the direction of the game, and it was Griffin who finished the competitive portion of the festivities.
Before Sunday, there were two quarterback runs against the Vikings that belonged in the archives: Steve Young's stumbling, pinballing romp that ended with him wearing Joey Browner, and Michael Vick's Usain Bolt impersonation in overtime at the Metrodome.
Griffin earned his own display in the fourth quarter. The Vikings had cut the deficit to 31-26 on Ponder's TD pass to Kyle Rudolph. There was 3:36 left when Griffin took over at his own 20.
Jared Allen enveloped him for a 4-yard sack. Morris rushed for 8 yards, and the Vikings took their first timeout with 2:56 remaining.
The Vikings rushed six. Griffin sprinted up the middle. Vikings safety Jamarca Sanford angled toward him as if Griffin possessed average athletic ability. Griffin veered, beat Harrison Smith to the sideline and engaged cruise control as the fans chanted "R-G-3."
It was the longest touchdown run by a quarterback since Kordell Stewart went 80 yards on Dec. 22, 1996, and it gave him the fifth-best rushing total in a game by a quarterback in NFL history. He and Vick are the only quarterbacks since 1970 to rush for at least 130 yards and two touchdowns in a game.
"I got to enjoy the moment a little bit," Griffin said, before rolling his bag down the hall, and stepping out of the way of the Escalades.
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Ponder's blunders equal 14 points for Washington
In his worst game of the season, a fumble and an interception turned into Washington touchdowns.
Article by: MARK CRAIG , Star Tribune
Vikings quarterback Christian Ponder was sacked four times on Sunday, including this double whammy late in the fourth quarter. Photo: Brian Peterson - Star Tribune
LANDOVER, MD. - The Vikings' red-zone offense was awful, but Sunday's game at FedEx Field was lost on critical mistakes the Vikings made inside their own 20-yard line.
"We spotted them 14 points," quarterback Christian Ponder said. "It's tough to win that way."
Impossible was more like it in the Redskins' 12-point (38-26) romp.
Playing his worst game of the season, Ponder turned the ball over three times. Two of them came with the line of scrimmage at the Vikings 20- and 17-yard lines.
A fumble late in the second quarter led to a Redskins touchdown and a 17-9 deficit one play later, while an early fourth-quarter interception by former Vikings safety Madieu Williams was returned 24 yards for a touchdown and a 31-12 deficit.
Ponder completed 35 of 52 passes (67.3) for 352 yards, two touchdowns and two interceptions. But 199 of the yards and 20 of the completions came after Williams' pick-six put the Vikings down by 19 points with less than 13 minutes left in the game.
On the pick-six, Ponder was supposed to throw a fairly simple check-down pass to receiver Michael Jenkins.
"I have protection in the backfield and I kind of act like a running back and release for a check-down," Jenkins said.
"It's a little wrinkle we have. I ran to my spot, but I think the ball just kind of slipped out of Christian's hand."
Ponder said that's exactly what happened, which explains why the ball was thrown 5 or 6 feet over Jenkins' head.
It was such a bad throw that even the league's 31st-ranked pass defense could make the play.
"The ball just sailed on me," Ponder said. "I just had a couple misses. I didn't play as well as I should have."
Williams was asked if it felt any better coming against a team that released him before the 2011 season.
"Not necessarily," he said. "It was business as usual for me. It was nothing personal. I was there for three years, and I enjoyed my stay. I just wanted to come out and play well for the guys in this locker room. Give us a chance to win."
On the fumble, the Redskins blitzed both outside linebackers on first-and-10 from the Vikings 20. Running back Adrian Peterson was shoved backward in pass protection by Perry Riley coming off the right side. Riley stripped the ball and inside linebacker Lorenzo Alexander grabbed it at the 8 and advanced it 2 yards.
"Wish I could have scored," Alexander said. "But I had [Vikings left tackle Matt] Kalil all over my back.
"It was just being at the right place at the right time. Perry did a good job pushing the back into the quarterback."
Although it was Ponder's worst performance this year, he appears ready to move on because, quite frankly, even he wasn't expecting 16 winning performances.
"You just have to forget about it," Ponder said. "We do a good job of forgetting about it and moving on and just keep playing.
"I think for how young this team is, we show a lot of maturity. We've been here before. We lost the second game of the first quarter [of the season] and now we lost the second game of the second quarter. So we can learn from it."
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I can't stand when the other team says crap like, "we spotted them 14 points." No, you turned the ball over and we turned it into 14 points. The Skins turned the ball over as well IN Redskins territory but it only led to 3 points. Ponder is a joke. He also said the pick 6 was a "fluke play." How about being a standup guy and taking the blame for your crappy performance against a defense that forced you into errors. FU
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Well, the papers were a lot better than some of the comments I read on the Vikings websites. Hey, it impresses me when folks like AP, and Frazier, both compliment RGIII....thought AP had some strong complimentary words that I hope turn out to be true for a long, long time.
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There was a Vikings fan sitting behind me and the wife and after we all chanted RG3, she was like "F*%$ RG3!". I turned around and stared at her for easily about a good minute... she was like, "what?".. I said, do you really want that problem right here, right now? Wife just grabbed me and gave me "the look".. so I shutup and stood for the rest of the game to make it difficult for the chick behind me to see.
.. and yes.. "the look".. every wife/girlfriend has "the look".
.. and yes.. "the look".. every wife/girlfriend has "the look".
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langleyparkjoe wrote:There was a Vikings fan sitting behind me and the wife and after we all chanted RG3, she was like "F*%$ RG3!". I turned around and stared at her for easily about a good minute... she was like, "what?".. I said, do you really want that problem right here, right now? Wife just grabbed me and gave me "the look".. so I shutup and stood for the rest of the game to make it difficult for the chick behind me to see.
.. and yes.. "the look".. every wife/girlfriend has "the look".
Just another jealous fanbase who are realizing that their second year QB couldn't hold RGIII's jock....
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"A big chunk of meat" is how Meryl Streep describes the sprawling, combative dinner scene at the core of "August: Osage County."
In a career filled with sublime crescendos, it's a showstopper: a knockout feast of everything that has made Streep — perhaps you've heard this before? — the greatest American actress.
As Violet Weston in John Wells' adaptation of Tracy Letts' Pulitzer Prize-winning play, Streep is the pill-addled, venom-spewing matriarch of a large Oklahoma family who, after the funeral for her husband (Sam Shepard), fires all of her bitterness at her gathered family, from the head of the table. It's comic and caustic: "I'm just truth-tellin'," she says.
It's a tour de force that looks like fun for an actor, but what it actually took gets to the heart of Streep's considerable talent. The scene, 18 pages of dialogue (mostly of Violet), took nearly four days to shoot. As Wells' camera traveled around the table getting each individual performance (the ensemble includes Chris Cooper, Julia Roberts, Margo Martindale, Julianne Nicholson and Benedict Cumberbatch), Streep gave her full performance — varying it slightly from take to take — for each co-star.
"It just goes to the deepest part of what I believe about being an actor, that you have to bring it even when the camera's not on you," Streep said in a recent interview. "It was very hard to sustain 18 pages of ranting — of seething and waiting and then pouncing and ranting. To maintain your fury. It's great the first couple times you do it, you feel fantastic. ... But by the 12th or 15th or 30th time I had done it, I was flagging.
"I looked at it almost like an Olympic (event): OK. Everybody says you're so good? Well, (expletive) show me! Do it for Benedict Cumberbatch! Do it for Abigail (Breslin) down there at the end! Because now the camera is finally turning around on them and they deserve every bit of it. But that's acting. It's just what it is."
What's left to say about Meryl Streep? Her ability to transform into a role, adopting a constellation of accents over the years, has long been celebrated. Some have questioned whether her technique isn't too good — too controlled and calculated — but the force of her personality always comes through, endearing audiences to both the actress and her characters.
There is, of course, the litany of awards: 17 Oscar nominations and three wins; eight Golden Globes from 28 nominations, including one last week for "Osage County." Most of her statuettes were accepted with eloquence, humility and an unapologetic mischievousness. When she won her third Oscar for playing Margaret Thatcher in "The Iron Lady" last year, she dismissed the assumed reaction of "Her? Again?" with an eye roll: "But anyway."
Her stature, she says, is "the narrative that accompanies me like a caboose," shorthand for "oh, you think you're so great."
"It's not anything that's valuable," Streep says. "Increasingly, it's more of an obstruction to be gotten through. I'm not sure there isn't a point of critical mass where it's hard to have that stuff go away in order to be seen fresh as a character that you've poured yourself into. I don't know. I just can't seem to stop because I really like working. I'm just an actor. That's all."
What most bothers her about her lofty reputation is that it can get in the way of working with other actors: "Sometimes people watch me while I'm in the scene with them, instead of being with me, which is a really disconcerting thing. It's not good."
Those who work with Streep say she works hard to make it look so easy. Wells said when he first met with Streep about nine months before shooting, she was already working on the character. When rehearsals started, she was off-book.
"In some ways she doesn't get fully credited with how talented she is because there's a little bit of a dismissive thing which is, 'Oh, well, it's Meryl. You know it's going to be good,'" says Wells. "The assumption that you're always going to be terrific puts a tremendous additional burden on actually taking the risks that are necessary to continue what you're interested in doing as an artist."
Despite "the disgruntlement of some," Streep says, she insisted the cast live together in condos near the on-location set in Oklahoma to foster a familial connection. She and Martindale, who plays her sister, worked "late at night, over the big red" (wine) to make their gestures and speech similar.
The dinner scene, Martindale says, was "grueling" for Streep.
"She raised the bar so high that everybody was there 150 percent," says Martindale. "At the end of the film, she was exhausted. She was drained. She gave it her everything, I think. She does it with ease, or you think it's with ease."
Streep, though, denies any great preparation for Violet, a smoker with mouth cancer.
"You can't get ready to make a movie. A movie happens right in front of you," she says. "I've had sad and close contact with people who have cancer and are in pain, and I know quite a few drug addicts. And that's all I needed to know. I didn't do any prep in that way. But I'm old, so I come with a big bag."
Though Streep, 64, has spent much of the last decade making comedies ("Julie & Julia," "It's Complicated," "The Devil Wears Prada"), "Osage County" is a darker turn. Violet has a Midwest tenacity of having lived through the Depression and an abusive childhood. Streep, who grew up in New Jersey, drew partly from her own mother.
"There's a certain kind of impatience with the fact that they coddled their children and then got mad at them for being spoiled rotten," she says. "My mother would say, 'You kids are spoiled rotten!'"
To describe Violet, she uses the phrase "shrill insanity," said by Ewan McGregor's academic character in the film.
"I found the experience of making the film much less hilarious because, like all things that are funny, they're rooted in real pain. Somehow, film brings that up close," Streep says. "She's somebody without any stops, no stops on anything — particularly unattractive in a woman. It's a character I don't know if people will respond to. I have no idea."
Asked if Streep, who has four children with her husband, sculptor Don Gummer, didn't also identify as a mother with the generational divide in the Westons, she laughs and replies: "I have different resentments."
Streep has mostly remained on the East Coast, living between New York and northwest Connecticut. She chose family and nature (she has long been an advocate for organic food) over Hollywood, never setting up a production company to develop parts for herself.
"The progression of a career is COMPLETELY random of an actor," she says. "You're just completely dependent on what comes over the transom. You don't know. There's no strategizing in this business. And if there is, I wish I knew how to do it."
She exudes both city refinement (she's a particularly sharp conversationalist) and a country wildness (her erupting laugh is still one of her greatest assets). In 2010, she gave a memorable commencement address at Barnard College, telling its female students that when she was young, she "cultivated a softness" to please boys. She used that psychology for "The Deer Hunter" (one of her first big movies, an uncharacteristically simple girlfriend role), but not, it would seem, ever since.
At the suggestion that Streep — an ever-changing portrait of female strength — has filled a career countering that youthful yielding, she replies, "Wow, that's really true."
"Well, I have a job where I get to do a correction," she says. "Everything is a reaction to something, right?"

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Cancer Battler Cup V will center around Thursday's Blue Springs at Blue Springs South girls soccer game at South's Larry Stewart Memorial Stadium.
CBC V is community event hosted by the Blue Springs High School Soccer Alumni Association that will benefit the Jennifer Ireland Foundation. Ireland was a soccer player and manager at Blue Springs who died of colon cancer in 2007 at age 27.
In the next two weeks, a signature banner will tour Blue Springs, giving people an opportunity to sign the banner in honor of those currently battling cancer or those who have in the past.
Associated fundraisers include:
• Tickets for May 14 Sporting KC game at Sporting Park are available for $25, with $6 of each ticket going to CBC V. Contact Please contact Robert Rusert at firstname.lastname@example.com for tickets.
• The Blue Springs Chick-Fil-A location on Coronado Drive off of Adams Dairy Parkway will host a Community Week fundraiser to support CBC V. The two high schools will battle to raise the most money for CBC V.
Players from local soccer clubs will gain free admittance to Thursday's game by wearing a jersey. Soccer skill contests will be held, along with a silent auction. Players from FC Kansas City will sign autographs until 7:30 p.m. Subsequently, the May 18 FCKC match will be BSHS & BSSHS day at FCKC, with a portion of ticket sales going to the Jennifer Ireland Foundation.
In addition, at halftime of CBC V, a 15-minute game between local club soccer coaches and Blue Springs and BS South Alumni will take place featuring former Kansas City Wizard Nick Garcia and coaches from FC Kansas City, Futura FC, Alba FC, Summit Soccer Club and others.


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Mildred L. (Dietrich) Goetz, age 93, of Orchard Circle, Greencastle died unexpectedly Friday, Feb. 15, 2013, in her home.
Mildred L. (Dietrich) Goetz, age 93, of Orchard Circle, Greencastle died unexpectedly Friday, Feb. 15, 2013, in her home. Born May 18, 1919, in Welsh Run, Pa., she was the daughter of the late Fred W. and Cora E. (Myers) Dietrich. She married Eugene S. "Biggie" Goetz on Oct. 4, 1941, in Hagerstown. He died on Oct. 13, 2009. Mildred was a homemaker and served for many years as a school crossing guard in the Borough of Greencastle. She was a member of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Greencastle, member of the Harry D. Zeigler VFW Post 6319 and Rescue Hose Company No. 1 Ladies Auxiliaries and was a member of the Greencastle-Antrim Loyal Daughters. She was a 1937 graduate of Greencastle High School and attended Hagerstown Business School. She and her husband volunteered with Meals on Wheels and enjoyed spending time with her family and grandchildren. Surviving family are four daughters, Barbara L. (wife of Ronald L.) Nicarry, Beverly J. (wife of Roger L.) Bitner, all of Greencastle, Deborah J. (wife of Ricky L.) Lynn, Hagerstown, Md., Carole L. (wife of James A.) Sutch, Sharpsburg, Md., eight grandchildren and 13 great-grandchildren. She was preceded in death by two grandsons Kirk A. Bitner and Benjamin Franklin Bitner, a sister Margaret V. Dietrich and a brother Marvin F. Dietrich. Funeral services will be held on Wednesday, Feb. 20, at 11 a.m. from the Evangelical Lutheran Church, 130 N. Washington St., Greencastle, with Revs. Martin H. Horn and Donald M. Bohn officiating. Burial will be in the Cedar Hill Cemetery, Greencastle. The family will receive friends on Tuesday evening from 6 to 8 p.m. at the Harold M. Zimmerman And Son Funeral Home, 45 S. Carlisle St., Greencastle, and at the church one hour before the service on Wednesday. In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be given in her memory to the Memorial Fund of the Evangelical Lutheran Church 130 N. Washington St., Greencastle, Pa. 17225, or to the Rescue Hose Co. No. 1, 842 S. Washington St., Greencastle, Pa. 17225. Online condolences may be expressed at: www.zimmermanfh.com


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BOULDER -- Boulder District Chief Judge Roxanne Bailin plans to retire Aug. 31, which opens a position for a new district judge as well as a new chief judge.
Applicants for the judge post must have five years' experience practicing law in Colorado and must be a qualified elector for the 20th Judicial District, which covers Boulder County. The governor will appoint a new judge for a provisional two-year term after the 20th Judicial District Nominating Commission reviews applicants.
20th Judicial DistrictApplications
Ex-officio chair of the nominating commission: Justice Brian D. Boatright, 2 E. 14th Ave., Denver, CO 80203
Office of the district court administrator: Amy Waddle, 1777 Sixth St., Boulder, CO 80302
Online: courts.state.co/careers/judge/cfm
Deadline: June 19
Anyone who would like to nominate a candidate must send a letter to any member of the nomination commission:
Marsha Caplan, 1506 Harrison Ave., Boulder, CO 80303
Michael Beylkin, 1888 Sherman St., Suite 370, Denver, CO 80203
William Flowers Jr., 4860 Riverbend Road, Boulder, CO 80303
Polly Jessen, 1675 Broadway, Suite 2300, Denver, CO 80202
Leslie Eaton, 2180 Sunshine Canyon, Boulder, CO 80302
Briggs Gamblin, 541 Centennial Drive, Louisville, CO 80027
Rex (Joel) Champion, 1733 Preston Drive, Longmont, CO 80504
Deadline: 4 p.m. June 12
The Colorado Supreme Court chief justice will select a new chief district judge from among the district judges.
Bailin was first appointed as the 20th Judicial District's chief in 1998. She was appointed to the district bench in 1987 after serving four years in as a Boulder County judge.
Balin spearheaded the county's integrated drug treatment courts, which funnels drug offenders through treatment programs, instead of traditional sentences. She has also focused efforts on mental health issues and founded the county's mental health task force in 1999."Even though it is difficult for me to leave, I'm overwhelmingly reassured about leaving the district in extraordinarily good hands," Bailin said in a prepared statement.
The chief judge manages the other judges and appoints them to divisions to handle different dockets, like criminal, civil, and juvenile cases.
Boulder District Attorney Stan Garnett said that Bailin had done an admirable job in the post and noted that it is rare for a chief judge to take on dockets in all of the divisions. He noted that she served a full cycle handling juvenile cases.
"I have always been extremely impressed with Judge Bailin's commitment to juvenile court," he said.
The chief judge also handles the bond schedule, which serves as a guide for bonds according to crimes charged.
Garnett agrees that bonds shouldn't be punitively high, but should allow prosecutors the ability to keep high-risk suspects behind bars as needed, he said. He has been "cautiously" supportive of Bailin's bond schedule, adding that she sought the counsel of his office, law enforcement and other stakeholders in its development.
Following the initial two-year term, the new judge will be subject to a retention vote for another six-year term.
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NHL, players union continue to communicate
Although no formal meetings have been held over the weekend, representatives of the NHL and NHL players union continue to communicate, multiple media outlets reported.
NHL deputy commissioner Bill Daly has spoken with union representative Steve Fehr this weekend, according to ESPN.com's Pierre LeBrun.
Both sides are trying to get their leaders to return to the bargaining table to work out a deal, according to TSN. However, as of midday Sunday, no meetings have been scheduled.
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Temperatures may reach 1,000 degrees Fahrenheit. Choking smoke will fill rooms, blinding firefighters and stymieing progress.
Things will likely go from dangerous to dire.
For Lt. Jason Rogers, of the Louisville Fire Department, that scenario couldn't provide better training conditions for firefighters trying to master their craft.
The opportunity to simulate the kind of blaze that could chew through a house in the city will come early next year, when crews finish work on a new fire training center in Louisville's Colorado Technology Center. The complex will include a "burn building" where firefighters can refine their skills under real-life conditions.
Construction of the facility, which is located on a 3-acre plot at the northwest corner of Boxelder and South 104th streets, began earlier this month.
"With a building like this, we can create these real fire conditions," Rogers said. "It's a way to train under live fire conditions, but we do it safely."
That includes perfecting the methods behind fire attack, search and rescue, and ventilation, Rogers said. It also allows crews to study the dangerous aspects of a raging fire, like smoke "rollover" and smoke stratification.
"It's a way to get our basics to sink in," he said. "It allows us to take all the things we've learned and all the tools and take them into this building and put them to work."
The $3 million project also will have a building dedicated to truck and equipment maintenance, which could one day be retrofitted to become the city's third fire station. The 2,400-square-foot burn building, made entirely of steel with a faux brick exterior, will resemble a typical single-family home in Louisville, Chief Tim Parker said.
"It basically represents a two-story house, maybe with an attic," he said.
Wooden pallets will be the fuel for the fires, and firefighters will get to see how flames behave in enclosed spaces -- without having to worry about the hazard of imminent building collapse, Parker said.
The chief said it's important for Louisville to have it own training facility because the department is made up primarily of volunteers -- 80 versus 16 career employees -- who don't necessarily have the time to travel to other communities to train. Parker expects the department to use the burn building weekly when it first becomes operational in January.
"We want to make sure we can take advantage of the time volunteers have," he said. "They don't have as much dedicated time as the career firefighters might otherwise have."
The new facility is being funded through the city's capital reserves, without any increase in taxes or long-term financing.
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DURHAM, N.C. – A couple key mistakes proved to be the difference as the Duke baseball team was unable to capitalize on a solid effort from starter Robert Huber, dropping a 4-1 decision to Maryland in the series finale Sunday afternoon at Jack Coombs Field.
Huber (5-5) scattered six hits over eight innings, struck out six and did not walk a batter in the loss. He kept Maryland (25-21, 8-16 ACC) off the scoreboard until the sixth and allowed three runs, two earned, for the game. The Plano, Texas, native retired the first 10 batters he faced and cruised through the first five innings, giving up just one hit in that span. He retired the Terps in order in four of the first five frames and did not allow a hit until the fourth inning.
"We made a lot of mistakes on the bases and we made some mistakes defensively," said head coach Chris Pollard. "It really took away from the fact that Robert Huber gave us a great start and gave us a chance to win the ball game. [Huber] through the ball great: eight innings, six hits, no walks, six strikeouts. He did everything he needed to do to put us in a position to win the game. We made some mistakes on the bases early that took us out of potential big innings. Give [Jake] Stinnett credit because he pitched a good ball game, but ultimately it came down to some mistakes at key times and that was the difference."
Duke (25-22, 9-15 ACC) missed a couple scoring opportunities early, but led 1-0 after five. Maryland scored two runs in the sixth and added two more, one on a passed ball in the seventh and the other on a wild pitch in the ninth, to extend its lead to three runs heading to the final frame.
Sophomore Andy Perez, redshirt sophomore Chris Marconcini, sophomore Grant McCabe, freshman Kenny Koplove and sophomore Reed Anthes each had a hit for Duke in the game.
Similar to Friday evening's pitchers' duel, the two teams battled through four scoreless frames to start the contest. In the bottom of the fifth, McCabe lined the first pitch he saw to left center and hustled into second with a leadoff double. Junior Mark Lumpa's sacrifice bunt attempt bounced right in front of home plate, but Maryland third baseman Kevin Martir was unable to handle the throw from catcher Jack Cleary, placing runners at the corners. Freshman Kenny Koplove then roped an RBI single, driving in his 18th RBI of the season to give Duke the 1-0 lead.
A double play halted the Duke threat in the fifth and Maryland answered with a pair of runs in the sixth. A Jose Cuas double and Charlie White single put runners on the corners with one out before a Jordan Hagel sacrifice fly tied the game at one-all. First baseman LaMonte Wade popped the next pitch into shallow left center and the ball fell into the gap between the shortstop and centerfielder for a base hit. White was able to score from first on the play, putting Maryland on top 2-1.
"It was a momentum play," Pollard said. "Candidly, we can't allow him to score from first on that. If he's standing on second and he scores on that with two outs, then we'll live with that because it was a tough in-between ball that kind of found the right spot. We have to recover more quickly, get the baseball into the infield and make sure he holds up at third base. That was obviously a big difference in the ball game."
In the seventh, designated hitter Andrew Amaro scored Maryland's third run after getting on base with a one-out single. Amaro advanced to second on a wild pitch and took third after a dropped third strike forced Duke to throw the batter out at first. Amaro scampered home on a passed ball to put the Terps on top, 3-1.
The Terps added a fourth and final run in the top of the ninth. Kevin Martir singled off sophomore Andrew Istler, on in relief, and found his way to third following a sacrifice bunt and a fielder's choice. A wild pitch to Blake Schmit allowed Martir to cross home plate and extend the Terps' lead to three runs.
Maryland starter Jake Stinnett (5-4) was able to retire the Blue Devils in order in the ninth for his first complete game of the season. Stinnett struck out four, walked one and did not allow an earned run over nine innings. The right-hander did not give up a Duke hit after a Perez leadoff single in the sixth and faced just two over the minimum the final four innings.
Duke has a week off before hitting the road for Liberty Sunday, May 5, the first of six straight-road games on the Blue Devils' schedule.


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Donna Pointkouski 's question (about the Shoemaker's Guild) reminded Stanczyk that he has needed for a while to collect his bookmarks/favorites/URLs together on the useful websites in Poland. In particular, the Online Archives. Some of the nifty historical images in this blog have been gathered from these valuable resources.
Most genealogists know that you can use the LDS website familysearch.org and search for microfilm of Polish parishes or synagogues. But what if you wanted to search what was available in Poland itself as a way to see what else is available if you go to Poland to search its civil or ecclesiastical archives. Well, Stanczyk uses The Head Office of State Archives (the state archives of Poland) and in particular, I search the PRADZIAD database. You may also want to look at SEZAM, or ELA databases too.
But my images have been coming from Digital Libraries (in Polish = Biblioteka Cyfrowa). I have been collecting a spreadsheet of these digital libraries. They frequently use Dj Vu plug-in to display the scanned images of the books (or other materials). Some regional genealogy societies also have digitized books (Książki Bibliotek Cyfrowych) on their websites. The one Stanczyk uses for his research is: Digital Library of Malopolska (LittlePoland) .
The National Digital Archive has 15 million photos and thousands of audio files too. Recently they also implemented an interface (which seems to be implemented at a handful of Polish Archives) to search multiple Polish Archives. The image at left is "Search in Archives" in Polish.
So I have compiled a spreadsheet of Poland's Archives and their websites. I believe most have an online catalog and some have also digitized some collections and placed those online too. So I have a TAB for Digital Libraries. Finally, I have compiled the Eclesiastical/Diocessan Archives. Since collecting these from Polish websites, I have determined that Poland and its websites are very dynamic and many links are broken. I have been researching them and correcting them where possible. Since this article is already too long … tomorrow a partial sample of the spreadsheet to enlighten people on what to search for.


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You believe evolution and there is no evidence for that. Where is the fossil record of a half man half ape. I've only ever heard about it in reading.
The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one
Either way, personal testimony or NDE experience is not proof.
Atheists are normal people. We can do anything we want...with the added bonus of not having to worry about some magical sky character watching our every move!About the only thing I avoid doing is harming others, or infringing on their rights in any way. Oh, and I don't eat seafood.
If she was clinically dead for a week and came back and told this 'story', maybe then we could talk.Until such time she and others like her are either lying or mentally traumatized from being on the edge of death.Either way, personal testimony or NDE experience is not proof.
As she headed for shore, she realized that she was too far out to make it back. She began to struggle and swallow water. Finally she slipped beneath the waves. I went under for the fourth time, and my body went limp and I wasn't aware of it anymore. It was at this point that I saw a beautiful white light. It was so bright and yet it had such a calming effect that the more I looked at it, the calmer I felt. To this day I can't really say what that light was. In my religion (Muslim) there are beings called angels who are made out of pure white light. Maybe that is what I saw.Anyway, while I was underwater, I heard a voice say, "You are not to die like this." Suddenly I felt this energy shoot through me from my feet to my head, and at the same time I seemed to be propelled out of the water. It was as if someone was physically bringing me out of the water, but I can swear that there was no physical being there.
When Black Elk was a boy of nine, he collapsed with a severe, painful swelling of his legs, arms and face. He lost consciousness and lay in his tipi dying. He was called by two men coming from the clouds, saying, "Hurry up, your grandfather is calling you." He was raised up out of his tipi into the clouds, feeling sorry to leave his parents. He was shown an elaborate vision oriented around a classic Native American mandala: the circular hoop, the four directions, and the center of the world on an axis stretching from sky to Earth, numerous neighing, dancing horses, surrounded by lightning and thunder, filled the sky at each direction. He was told to behold this, then to follow a bay horse, which led him to a rainbow door. Inside, sitting on clouds, were six grandfathers, "older than men can ever be - old like hills, old like stars." The oldest grandfather welcomed the boy and said: "Your Grandfathers all over the world are having a council, and they have called you here to teach you."His voice was very kind, but the boy shook all over with fear now, for he knew that these were not old men, but the Powers of the World.Each Grandfather gave Black Elk a power. The first Grandfather gave him the power to heal. The second Grandfather then gave the boy the power of cleansing. The third Grandfather gave the boy the power of awakening and its peace. From the fourth Grandfather the boy was given the power of growth. The fifth Grandfather, the Spirit of the Sky, gave the power of transcendent vision. The sixth Grandfather, a very old man, incredibly grew backwards into youth until he became the boy, Black Elk.
Nice of you to try JeffPT. It's your time to waste I guess.
Is it possible for someone to investigate NDEs and still remain an atheist ?
I can't see how you could.
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The customers at the 2009 Book fair were, by and large, a happy, eager, intelligent bunch. Most of them knew what they were looking for and either knew where to go or were willing to hunt for it. But we did have a few questions of the unusual kind. I know that sometimes these things are the product of the excitement of the moment, and I do not BLAME the people who say them. (I just write it down and go home and snicker about them in my blog. Anyway, I'M the one who, spotting a bookcase that was starting to tilt, pushed past a customer saying, "Please excuse me, sir, I have to play with my shelf.")
I have added my answers in some places. In other places here I have added what I did not actually say, but should have said, in italics.
Where do I pay?
Down there past the green rope
Oh, at Check-In!
How do you date these books?
Dinner and a show
Can I take a picture of a book and go home and think about whether I want to buy it?
(A lot of people were taking pictures, either as a form of industrial espionage or just because they'd never seen a sign that said "Squirrelling Area" before.)
Is Latin grammar anywhere besides Foreign Language?
(I understand this question. It really means "I've just looked there and there's nothing; PLEASE tell me you put them somewhere else!"
My nominee for most entertaining customer of the weekend.
Is this book worth $50?
No, it's worth $100, but today is half-price day
Where do you get books like this?
They're donated all year long by good people in…
No, I mean where do I get them? I don't want to buy this now, but if I want to buy it later on, who else sells them?
(I had to pause for a moment, but I decided "Well, it's a fair question…I guess" and I told her about used bookstores and online bookselling. That's when she floored me with her next question.)
So what's this book about, anyway?
Ma'am, if you'll go out to the information desk and ask for Ed, he can give you directions to The Gap. I think we'll all be happier.


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Sheriff Morris Young said that Kelvin Paden, subject of a two-hour early morning standoff June 28 in downtown Quincy is the same man who shot his wife four times before fatally shooting himself in Leon County on Sunday, July 15.
Tasheka Paden was in good condition at Tallahassee Memorial Hospital Monday following surgery for her injuries Sunday evening. A hearing had been scheduled for July 17 on a domestic violence injunction that Paden had filed against her husband.
Both of the Padens are from Gadsden County and lived in Tallahassee. The couple married in 2006 and has two children.
"She was very afraid of him. The day he was arrested in Gadsden County, she told me that if he was released he would kill her," Young said. "He was in the county jail on 'no bond' but when he went back to Leon County he was released on a $35,000 bond."
He said Paden had a violent past but the judge who set his bond may not have had that information at the time that bond was set.
Paden, 30, went to a Microtel in Tallahassee in the early morning hours of June 28 and was involved in a disturbance there, which involved a firearm. To escape his wrath Mrs. Paden jumped out of a second story window.
He led officers from five jurisdictions on a slow speed chase to Gadsden County before officers from the Quincy Police Department deployed stop sticks that deflated his tires. He was eventually stopped in front of the Gadsden County Courthouse where he held a revolver to his temple for two hours threatening to kill himself.
"The day he was arrested, I got no less that 50 telephone calls from family members and friends who wanted him out. They promised he was not a threat and that they would be responsible for him. I refused to release him," Young said.
He said Capt. Robert Barkley and Deputy Bob Wilder have gone over that part of the case that involved Gadsden County thoroughly and that GCSO did everything properly.
According to the Tallahassee Police department new release, On Sunday, July 15, at 6:30 a.m. TPD responded to the area of 3705 Woodville Highway in reference to a kidnapping. Several minutes later, responding officers located the victim with several gunshot wounds in a vehicle on Westway Road. She was transported to a local hospital and is currently undergoing treatment for her injuries.
The suspect, later identified as Kelvin Paden, fled from the city limits into the county near Springhill Road and Capital Circle Southwest. Members from the Florida Highway Patrol, Leon County Sheriff's Office and Wakulla County Sheriff's office responded to the area and began to assist with the investigation. A LCSO K-9 unit began to search the wood line and heard a single gunshot. Subsequently, LCSO's SWAT team responded to assist with locating the subject and during the search, they located the suspect in the woods, deceased from an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound.
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The Capital Regional Medical Center – Gadsden Memorial Campus has marked six months of service and experienced a surprising demand for care since opening in June.
During that time, the facility has surpassed expectations and filled a health care void left in the community when Gadsden County Hospital was closed in 2005.
"Capital Regional Medical Center is committed to the care of everyone in our region and we believe that healthcare needs should be met on a local level," says Bud Wethington, President and CEO of Capital Regional Medical Center. "We were proud to step up and fill this need. Our dedication to the Gadsden County community is evident in the high-quality care provided at the Gadsden Memorial Campus."
Hospital officials used the milestone occasion to list the facility's accomplishments.
Since its opening, the Gadsden Memorial Campus has:
· Averaged more than 50 patients per day.
· Served more than 8,300 patients.
· Performed more than 4,500 radiology and lab tests.
· Reduced Gadsden County EMS 911 emergency transports to Tallahassee hospitals by 50 percent and expects to save $1 million in transport costs over a 12-month period.
· Returned more than $100,000 to the community in the form of payment for utility services, directly supporting Gadsden County, while purchasing local goods and services.
· Added more than 35 jobs in Gadsden County.
· Received a "tobacco-free workplace" designation from the American Lung Association.
"Before the Gadsden Memorial Campus opened, our EMS personnel had to take patients to Tallahassee for treatment," says Chief Don Crum, Gadsden County Emergency Medical Services. "Not only was this very dangerous for those experiencing life-threatening emergencies, it was also very expensive. Now, we have a full-service emergency facility in our community that can address patient needs without a 30-minute drive."
On Nov. 1, the Campus added a 24-hour on-site ambulance and three EMS staff to the facility, so patients requiring advanced care can be stabilized prior to transport to Tallahassee. Soon, the facility will also add a helipad to accommodate emergency helicopters.
Wethington said the facility has been working our fine and the only real surprise in the first six months was that they did not think it would be as busy as it has been. As to how the facility will develop in the future has yet to be decided, but he said they plan to be there a long time.
He said there has not been any reluctance on the part of residents to use the facility and patient surveys show a 94 to 98 percent satisfaction rate. Patients are also learning that the Campus offers more than just emergency care with its state of the art medical technology for CT scans, X-rays and ultra-sounds.
He added that the local facility has also taken on the look and feel of the Capital Regional Medical Center
For more information about the Capital Regional Medical Center – Gadsden Memorial Campus, or to find out what the current average ER waiting time is, visit www.capitalregionalmedicalcenter.com.
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Ben is kindly doing week after week my Top10 sets
After last week 6044, we came to one of the best sets ever in LEGO in general and in Castles particular. 6080 is no doubt the best Castle (as castle) and one of the greatest Castle sets ever had.
Instead of writting here again everything Jojo said, I'll just say I agree with him completely. It was my first Castle set and it the reason why I am today a LEGO fan and why I still love so much castles.
Besides everything that already been said I'll add the next figures: 12 minifigs, 4 horses with 4 different saddles colors, 4 blue plastic capes, 7 dk.gray swords, 4 black battle axes, 4 brown spears, 4 bow and arrows + quivers, 4 brown lances + 2 dk.gray lances, 8 lion shileds. I think it is the most equipped castle of all times.
* (I know that the archers had Lion symbol torsos rather then battle axes ones but since I don't have that torso in LDraw I used the other one)
Final Grade: ∞ / 10 (well maybe not ∞ but at least 20)


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MONTPELIER, Vt. - The record storm that dumped 2 1/2 feet of snow on the streets and suburbs of southern New England and New York last week has primed the ski resorts of northern New England for the President's Day holiday that could help erase memories of last year's dismal season.
In the ski industry, it's a truism that the weather events that drive skiers to the mountains, isn't heavy snow on the slopes but snow on city streets and suburban backyards that gets potential customers thinking about heading north, where they'll buy lift tickets, stay in lodges and inns, rent skis and eat in restaurants.
"When everything is bare down country, it's hard to persuade people that the skiing is good. That'll always be the case. It's a psychological thing," said Don Fowler, an avid skier and lawyer in Kingfield, Maine, not far from the Sugarloaf resort.
"Intellectually, people might know that there's snow in the mountains when their backyards are bare but they're not thinking about skiing," he said.
At Vermont's Killington ski resort, lodges and inns near the resort were mostly full for the weekend before President's Day on Monday, but rooms were available for the week following, when winter vacation is under way for many school children in parts of southern New England, said Killington spokeswoman Sarah Thorson.
The week of President's Day is the single most important holiday time for the industry, providing about 20 per cent of the revenue resorts expect to generate. Christmas week and the Martin Luther King holiday follow President's Day week as revenue generators. Combined, the three account for about half of the season's revenue, said Sarah Neith, a spokeswoman for the Vermont Ski Areas Association.
Snows during Christmas week gave way to a January thaw before cold temperatures returned, which made it possible for resorts to make snow. So far the season is on par to match or exceed the record 2010-2011 season, Neith said.
The Institute for New Hampshire Studies estimates that about 750,000 out-of-state visitors will spend about $115 million over the nine-day period beginning Saturday.
Tony Vazzano, a meteorologist at North Winds Weather who provides forecasts for 17 northern New England ski areas, said ski area operators are singing a much happier tune this year than last.
"I'm sure when the numbers come in this is going to be one good season compared even to average, let alone last year," Vazzano said. "The timing of the weather has just been terrific for them."
Vazzano said the next couple of weeks look good, with some light accumulation and enough cold weather to hold the snow. "It's a whole different feel this year," Vazzano said. "There's so much terrain open."
But the optimism isn't being universally felt across the region.
Doug Holler, general manager of New Hampshire's Dartmouth Skiway, north of Dartmouth College in Hanover, wasn't effusive about the season.
"It hasn't been fantastic, but it hasn't been terrible either," Holler said. The snow the blizzard dumped on his area last week was blown away by high winds that shut down lifts last Saturday, he said.
But Ski New Hampshire's Karl Stone said ski areas in the Granite State report increased guest visits of between 4 per cent and 37 per cent over last year.
"We're coming into a crucial two-week period and we're optimistic, given the winter storm we were just blessed with," Stone said. "The forecast looks good."
Business on Hunter Mountain in New York's Catskills has rebounded to nearly normal from the relatively snow-free 2011-2012 season, said Trista Chiarulli, the resort's marketing and communications manager.
It's helped that snow has fallen during some of the big holidays, she said, something also possible this weekend as a storm moves up the East Coast.
"We've been doing very well. It's definitely better than last year," Chiarulli said. "There was a lot of pent-up excitement."
Arin Ellis of Toronto was spending the week snowboarding at Killington with her husband. They arrived last Sunday, and once weather conditions improved earlier this week so did their fun.
"We're having an awesome time," Ellis said.
Associated Press reporters David Sharp in Portland, Maine, Lynne Tuohy in Concord, N.H., and George Walsh, in Albany, N.Y., contributed to this report.


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