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Five-star choice: Should I stay or should I go
The highest-rated uncommitted Class of 2013 prospect is from Florida. And there's a good chance he will end up at a college outside the Sunshine State.
Neither of those statements should come as much of a surprise to anyone who has followed recruiting lately.
The state of Florida produced a combined total of 13 five-star prospects in 2011 and 2012. Only five of them (Florida State safety Karlos Williams, Florida State running back James Wilder Jr., Miami cornerback Tracy Howard, Florida defensive end Dante Fowler and Miami running back Duke Johnson) signed with Florida schools.
Lake City Columbia offensive tackle Laremy Tunsil could continue that trend. Tunsil, the No. 7 overall prospect in the Class of 2013 and the top-rated uncommitted recruit, has indicated that his top three schools are Alabama, Florida and Georgia.
The tendency of elite recruits from Florida to leave the state is a recent development. In fact, since the current version of Rivals.com formed in 2002, five-star prospects from Florida high schools actually have been more likely to stay in their home states for college than five-star recruits from California or Texas high schools.
Exactly two-thirds of the 51 five-star recruits from Florida have chosen in-state schools, compared to 65 percent from California high schools and 53.7 percent from Texas high schools.
The results change if we extend the study to include all Rivals100 prospects. Just over 70 percent of the Rivals100 prospects from California high schools have signed with home-state colleges, compared to 64.2 percent for Florida and 61.1 percent for Texas.
But those numbers are skewed a bit by history.
Back when Florida State and Miami weren't far removed from winning national titles, all the Sunshine State's elite recruits chose to stay home. Florida produced a combined total of 11 five-star prospects in 2002 and 2003, and every single one of them signed with Florida, Florida State or Miami.
Now those guys are much more likely to look elsewhere.
"It falls in line with Florida State and Miami not being dominant programs," Rivals.com national recruiting analyst Mike Farrell said. "They were back then. They aren't now. Until they go to BCS games, until they win a national championship, there are other opportunities out there.''
Perhaps the trend will change this year.
Of the three Florida 2013 recruits currently rated as five-star prospects, the only one who has committed anywhere is Tampa Wharton cornerback Vernon Hargreaves III, who selected Florida.
Although Tunsil has two out-of-state schools in his top three, five-star linebacker Matthew Thomas of Miami Booker T. Washington told Warchant.com last month that Florida State was his leader.
But at least for now, elite prospects in other Southeastern states seem more inclined to stay home than top recruits from Florida.
We've put together a list below showing the percentage of five-star high school recruits in each state who signed with home-state colleges.
We only considered states that had produced at least five five-star prospects since 2002. At least three-quarters of the five-star prospects in SEC strongholds Mississippi, Alabama, Louisiana and South Carolina have opted for home-state schools. The only other states to reach that 75-percent mark were Michigan and Virginia.
Keep in mind that for the purposes of this project, we only included five-star recruits who signed with a Division I program directly out of high school.
Our Texas and California totals don't measure players who went to Texas or California junior colleges before beginning their Division I careers. Our Virginia statistics don't include players from Chatham (Va.) Hargrave Military Academy or Fork Union (Va.) Military Academy.
1. MISSISSIPPI: 87.5 percent: Stayed (7): 2002: Hernando DE Deljuan Robinson (Mississippi State), Brandon RB Jerious Norwood (Mississippi State). 2003: Jackson Provine S Quinton Culberson (Mississippi State). 2005: Waynesboro Wayne County DT Jerrell Powe (Ole Miss). 2008: Ocean Springs WR DeAndre Brown (Southern Mississippi). 2011: Philadelphia LB C.J. Johnson (Ole Miss). Left (1): 2010: Olive Branch OT Shon Coleman (Auburn).
2. MICHIGAN: 85.7 percent: Stayed (6): 2002: Southfield DT Gabe Watson (Michigan). 2003: Saginaw LB LaMarr Woodley (Michigan). 2005: East Grand Rapids RB Kevin Grady (Michigan). 2006: Detroit Crockett LB Brandon Graham (Michigan). 2009: Detroit Cass Tech DT William Campbell (Michgan). 2010: Detroit Southeastern DE William Gholston (Michigan State). Left (1): Muskegon WR Ronald Johnson (USC).
3. ALABAMA: 83.3 percent: Stayed (10): 2002: Selma WR Ben Obomanu (Auburn). 2006: Birmingham Huffman OT Andre Smith (Alabama). 2008: Foley WR Julio Jones (Alabama), Prichard Vigor ATH Burton Scott (Alabama), Mountain Brook OT Tyler Love (Alabama). 2009: Foley OT D.J. Fluker (Alabama), Gadsden City CB Dre Kirkpatrick (Alabama), Andalusia LB Nico Johnson (Alabama). 2010: Millbrook Stanhope Elmore CB Dre Milliner (Alabama). 2012: Daphne RB T.J. Yeldon (Alabama). Left (2): 2003: Hoover WR Chad Jackson (Florida). 2012: Hueytown QB Jameis Winston (Florida State).
4. (tie) LOUISIANA: 75.0 percent: Stayed (9): 2004: St. Martinville WR Early Doucet (LSU). 2005: Reserve East St. John QB Ryan Perrilloux (LSU). 2006: Elton DT Al Woods (LSU). 2007: Baton Rouge Southern Lab ATH Chad Jones (LSU). 2009: Bastrop WR Rueben Randle (LSU), Mansfield DT Chris Davenport (LSU). 2011: Baton Rouge Redemptorist OT La'El Collins (LSU), New Orleans O. Perry Walker DT Anthony Johnson (LSU), Lutcher WR Jarvis Landry (LSU). Left (3): 2007: River Ridge John Curtis RB Joe McKnight (USC). 2009: Lake Charles Barbe CB Janzen Jackson (Tennessee). 2012: Geismar Dutchtown S Landon Collins (Alabama).
4. (tie) SOUTH CAROLINA: 75.0 percent: Stayed (6): 2002: Greenwood LB Ricardo Hurley (South Carolina). 2003: Lexington RB Demetris Summers (South Carolina). 2006: Bamberg-Ehrhardt DE Ricky Sapp (Clemson). 2008: Bamberg-Ehrhardt DE Da'Quan Bowers (Clemson). 2010: Duncan Byrnes RB Marcus Lattimore (South Carolina). 2011: Rock Hill South Pointe DE Jadeveon Clowney (South Carolina). Left (2): 2007: North Charleston Fort Dorchester DE Carlo Dunlap (Florida). 2008: Summerville WR A.J. Green (Georgia).
4. (tie) VIRGINIA: 75.0 percent: Stayed (6): 2002: Newport News Warwick QB Marcus Vick (Virginia Tech), Virginia Beach Princess Anne DE Kai Parham (Virginia), Newport News Heritage RB Michael Johnson (Virginia), Woodbridge C.D. Hylton LB Ahmad Brooks (Virginia). 2005: Highland Springs ATH Victor "Macho" Harris (Virginia Tech). 2007: Hampton QB Tyrod Taylor (Virginia Tech). Left (2): 2006: Virginia Beach Landstown WR Percy Harvin (Florida). 2011: Richmond Heritage LB Curtis Grant (Ohio State).
7. FLORIDA: 66.7 percent: Stayed (34): 2002: St. Petersburg Catholic ATH Chris Davis (Florida State), Orlando Dr. Phillips WR Ryan Moore (Miami), Jacksonville Andrew Jackson RB Leon Washington (Florida State), Neptune Beach Fletcher RB Ciatrick Fason (Florida), Punta Gorda Charlotte WR DiShon Platt (Florida State), Tallahassee Lincoln S Pat Watkins (Florida State), Riviera Beach Suncoast CB Devin Hester (Miami). 2003: Tallahassee North Florida Christian LB Ernie Sims (Florida State), Tampa Jefferson WR Andre Caldwell (Florida), Jacksonville Ed White CB Dee Webb (Florida), Palm Bay DE Joe Cohen (Florida). 2004: Miami Carol City LB Willie Williams (Miami), Daytona Beach Seabreeze QB Xavier Lee (Florida State). 2005: Tallahassee Lincoln WR Fred Rouse (Florida State), Miami Carol City S Kenny Phillips (Miami), Pahokee RB Antone Smith (Florida State). 2006: Ponte Vedra Beach Nease QB Tim Tebow (Florida). 2007: Seffner Armwood DT Torrey Davis (Florida), Ponte Vedra Beach Nease OG James Wilson (Florida). 2008: Miami Northwestern DT Marcus Forston (Miami), Crawford Wakulla LB Nigel Bradham (Florida State), Seffner Armwood OT Matt Patchan (Florida). 2009: Sanford Seminole ATH Ray Ray Armstrong (Miami), Madison County DT Jacobbi McDaniel (Florida State), Sanford Seminole WR Andre Debose (Florida), Quincy West Gadsden DT Gary Brown (Florida). 2010: Fort Lauderdale St. Thomas Aquinas DB Lamarcus Joyner (Florida State), Winter Park Lake Howell LB Christian Jones (Florida State), Palm Beach Gardens William T. Dwyer S Matt Elam (Florida). 2011: Davenport Ridge S Karlos Williams (Florida State), Tampa Plant RB James Wilder Jr. (Florida State). 2012: Miramar CB Tracy Howard (Miami), St. Petersburg Lakewood DE Dante Fowler Jr. (Florida), Miami Norland RB Duke Johnson (Miami). Left (17): 2004: Lake Mary LB Keith Rivers (USC), Palm Bay WR Xavier Carter (LSU). 2005: Miami Killian CB Demetrice Morley (Tennessee). 2006: Lake Butler Union County RB C.J. Spiller (Clemson), Fort Lauderdale St. Thomas Aquinas OT Sam Young (Notre Dame). 2007: North Fort Myers RB Noel Devine (West Virginia). 2008: Pompano Beach Ely CB Patrick Johnson* (LSU), Orlando Edgewater OT Michael Brewster (Ohio State). 2009: Pensacola Escambia RB Trent Richardson (Alabama). 2011: Orlando Dr. Phillips S HaHa Clinton-Dix (Alabama), St. Augustine Pedro Menendez LB Tony Steward (Clemson), South Fort Myers WR Sammy Watkins (Clemson), Orlando Dr. Phillips RB Dee Hart (Alabama), Punta Gorda Charlotte RB Mike Bellamy (Clemson). 2012: Tampa Berkeley Prep WR Nelson Agholor (USC), Jacksonville Bolles OT John Theus (Georgia), Panama City Arnold ATH Eddie Williams (Alabama).
8. CALIFORNIA: 65.0 percent: Stayed (26): 2002: Los Gatos QB Trent Edwards (Stanford). Long Beach Poly TE Marcedes Lewis (UCLA). 2003: San Diego Helix RB Reggie Bush (USC), Ventura St. Bonaventure ATH Whitney Lewis (USC). 2004: San Jose Valley Christian DE Jeff Schweiger (USC), Los Angeles Fremont OT Thomas Herring (USC). 2006: Eureka LB Rey Maualuga (USC), Mission Viejo QB Mark Sanchez (USC), Long Beach Poly WR DeSean Jackson (California). 2006: Colton LB/RB Allen Bradford (USC), Los Angeles Dorsey RB Stafon Johnson (USC), Sylmar ATH C.J. Gable (USC). 2007: Anaheim Servite LB Chris Galippo (USC), Westlake Village Oaks Christian RB Marc Tyler (USC). 2008: Anaheim Servite OT Matt Kalil (USC), Moreno Valley Rancho Verde OT Tyron Smith (USC). 2009: Santa Ana Mater Dei QB Matt Barkley (USC), Ventura St. Bonaventure ATH Patrick Hall (USC), Fresno Edison S T.J. McDonald (USC). 2010: Gardena Junipero Serra ATH Robert Woods (USC), San Diego Mission Bay RB Dillon Baxter (USC). 2011: Gardena Junipero Serra WR George Farmer (USC). 2012: San Clemente OT Kyle Murphy (Stanford), Monrovia DT Ellis McCarthy (UCLA), Atwater Buhach DE Aziz Shittu (Stanford), Encino Crespi OG Jordan Simmons (USC). Left (14): 2002: Ventura St. Bonaventure RB Lorenzo Booker (Florida State), Thousand Oaks QB Ben Olson (BYU), Bakersfield East OT Nathan Rhodes (Washington). 2003: Danville Monte Vista QB Kyle Wright (Miami). 2004: Concord De La Salle WR Cameron Colvin (Oregon). 2005: North Hollywood RB Marlon Lucky (Nebraska). 2007: Westlake Village Oaks Christian QB Jimmy Clausen (Notre Dame), Long Beach Poly CB Donovan Warren (Michigan). 2008: Ventura St. Bonaventure RB Darrell Scott (Colorado), Sherman Oaks Notre Dame QB Dayne Crist (Notre Dame). 2009: Corona Centennial LB Vontaze Burfict (Arizona State). 2010: Moreno Valley Rancho Verde DE Ronald Powell (Florida). 2011: Los Angeles Crenshaw ATH De'Anthony Thomas (Oregon). 2012: Sacramento Grant S Shaq Thompson (Washington).
9. TEXAS: 53.7 percent: Stayed (22): 2002: Houston Madison QB Vince Young (Texas), Lufkin ATH Reggie McNeal (Texas A&M), Houston Alief Hastings DT Rodrique Wright (Texas), Plano East OG Justin Blalock (Texas). Garland North Garland CB Edorian McCullough (Texas). 2003: Houston Alief Elsik TE Tony Hills Jr. (Texas), Jasper OT Jorrie Adams (Texas A&M). 2004: Richardson Lake Highlands DT Frank Okam (Texas). 2005: Houston Alief Taylor TE Martellus Bennett (Texas A&M). 2006: Dallas Woodrow Wilson LB Sergio Kindle (Texas), Kilgore DE Eddie Jones (Texas). 2007: South Grand Prairie OG Tray Allen (Texas), Gilmer CB Curtis Brown (Texas). 2009: Pflugerville DE Alex Okafor (Texas), Austin Lake Travis QB Garrett Gilbert (Texas), Beaumont West Brook RB Christine Michael (Texas A&M), Wolfforth Frenship OT Mason Walters (Texas). 2010: Plano West DE Jackson Jeffcoat (Texas). 2011: Cibolo Steele RB Malcolm Brown (Texas). 2012: Aledo RB Johnathan Gray (Texas), Spring Dekaney RB Trey Williams (Texas A&M), Brenham DT Malcom Brown (Texas). Left (19): 2003: Euless Trinity OG Ofa Mohetau (BYU), Denton Ryan DE Jarvis Moss (Florida). 2004: Palestine RB Adrian Peterson (Oklahoma), Grand Prairie QB Rhett Bomar (Oklahoma), Arlington Grace Preparatory WR Lance Leggett (Miami). 2005: Houston Booker T. Washington OT Reggie Youngblood (Miami), Dallas Kimball DT DeMarcus Granger (Oklahoma). 2006: Dallas Highland Park QB Matthew Stafford (Georgia). 2007: Texarkana Texas QB Ryan Mallett (Michigan), Hempstead WR Terrance Toliver (LSU). 2008: Fort Worth Fossil Ridge DE R.J. Washington (Oklahoma), Van RB Jermie Calhoun (Oklahoma), Paris OT Stephen Good (Oklahoma). 2009: Houston Cypress Ridge QB Russell Shepard (LSU), Aldine Eisenhower S Craig Loston (LSU). 2010: Temple RB Lache Seastrunk (Oregon). 2011: Whitehouse WR Trey Metoyer (Oklahoma), Brookshire Royal RB Brandon Williams (Oklahoma). 2012: Denton Ryan DT/DE Mario Edwards (Florida State).
10. (tie) GEORGIA: 52.9 percent: Stayed (9): 2003: Kennesaw Harrison CB Paul Oliver (Georgia), Stone Mountain Stephenson RB Kregg Lumpkin (Georgia). 2004: Colquitt Miller County DE Brandon Miller (Georgia). 2006: Atlanta Booker T. Washington S Reshad Jones (Georgia). 2008: Cartersville Cass ATH Richard Samuel (Georgia). 2009: Atlanta Booker T. Washington CB Branden Smith (Georgia). 2011: Thomasville Thomas County Central DE Ray Drew (Georgia), Columbus Carver RB Isaiah Crowell (Georgia). 2012: Valdosta Lowndes ATH Josh Harvey-Clemons (Georgia) Left (8): 2005: LaGrange LB Tray Blackmon (Auburn). 2007: Fairburn Creekside CB Eric Berry (Tennessee), Atlanta Westlake QB Cam Newton (Florida). 2008: Buford DT Omar Hunter (Florida). 2009: Valdosta Lowndes CB Greg Reid (Florida State). 2010: Calhoun WR Da'Rick Rogers (Tennessee), McDonough Henry County WR Markeith Ambles (USC). 2011: Monroe Area DE Stephon Tuitt (Notre Dame).
10. (tie) OHIO: 52.9 percent: Stayed (9): 2002: Avon Lake LB Mike D'Andrea (Ohio State), Warren Harding RB Maurice Clarett (Ohio State). 2004: Cleveland Glenville WR Ted Ginn Jr. (Ohio State). 2005: Lakewood St. Edward OT Alex Boone (Ohio State). 2006: Akron Garfield RB Chris Wells (Ohio State), Cleveland Glenville DE Robert Rose (Ohio State). 2008: Dublin Coffman OT Mike Adams (Ohio State), Cincinnati La Salle WR DeVier Posey (Ohio State). 2012: Cincinnati Taft DE Adolphus Washington (Ohio State). Left (8): 2003: Warren Harding S Prescott Burgess (Michigan). 2004: Toledo Rogers TE/WR Fred Davis (USC). 2007: Cincinnati La Salle DE Ben Martin (Tennessee). 2008: Cincinnati Elder TE Kyle Rudolph (Notre Dame). 2010: Cleveland Glenville ATH Latwan Anderson (Miami), West Chester Lakota West LB Jordan Hicks (Texas), Cincinnati Princeton ATH Spencer Ware (LSU). 2012: Lakewood St. Edward OT Kyle Kalis (Michigan).
12. PENNSYLVANIA: 36.4 percent: Stayed (4): 2004: Pittsburgh Penn Hills QB Anthony Morelli (Penn State), Wallingford Strath Haven LB Dan Connor (Penn State). 2005: Pittsburgh Gateway CB Justin King (Penn State). 2008: Aliquippa WR Jonathan Baldwin (Pittsburgh). Left (7): 2004: West Lawn Wilson QB Chad Henne (Michigan). 2005: Bryn Mawr Harriton DT Callahan Bright (Florida State). 2008: Jeannette QB Terrelle Pryor (Ohio State). 2009: Monroeville Gateway CB Corey Brown (Ohio State), Monroeville Gateway LB Dorian Bell (Ohio State). 2010: Philadelphia George Washington DT Sharrif Floyd (Florida). 2012: Harrisburg Bishop McDevitt LB Noah Spence (Ohio State).
13. NORTH CAROLINA: 35.7 percent: Stayed (5): 2002: Huntersville North Mecklenburg OT Derek Morris (North Carolina State). 2004: Greensboro Dudley DT DeMario Pressley (North Carolina State). 2007: Burlington Cummings WR Dwight Jones (North Carolina). 2009: Jacksonville Northside DE Donte Moss** (North Carolina). 2010: Raleigh Athens Drive OT Robert Crisp (North Carolina State). Left (9): 2002: Shelby Crest OG Brandon Jeffries (Tennessee). 2006: Shelby Crest LB Brandon Spikes (Florida), Durham Southern OG Carl Johnson (Florida). 2007: Garner WR Chris Culliver (South Carolina). 2010: Grensboro Northern Guilford DB/WR Keenan Allen (California). 2011: Matthews Butler LB Kris Frost (Auburn), Wadesboro Anson LB Stephone Anthony (Clemson). 2012: Charlotte Mallard Creek OT D.J. Humphries (Florida), Shelby Crest DE Jonathan Bullard (Florida).
14. MARYLAND: 33.3 percent: Stayed (3): 2005: Randallstown DE Melvin Alaeze (Maryland). 2012: Olney Good Counsel WR Stefon Diggs (Maryland). Left (6): 2003: Baltimore Gilman DE Victor Abiamiri (Notre Dame). 2004: Greenbelt Eleanor Roosevelt DE Derrick Harvey (Florida). 2005: Greenbelt Eleanor Roosevelt ATH Derrick Williams (Penn State). 2006: Pornfret McDonough CB A.J. Wallace (Penn State). 2009: Olney Good Counsel LB Jelani Jenkins (Florida). 2011: Hyattsville DeMatha OT Cyrus Kouandjio (Alabama).
15. (tie) ILLINOIS: 28.6 percent: Stayed (2): 2003: Downers Grove South OT/OG Martin O'Donnell (Illinois). 2007: Chicago Simeon DE Martez Wilson (Illinois). Left (5): 2002: Champaign Centennial WR Marquis Johnson (Texas). 2004: Bolingbrook LB Kyle Williams (Iowa), Chicago Hubbard LB Chris Patterson (Oklahoma). 2005: Barrington OT Dan Doering (Iowa). 2010: Hillside Proviso West WR Kyle Prater (USC)
15. (tie) NEW JERSEY: 28.6 percent: Stayed (2): 2003: Irvington DT Nate Robinson (Rutgers). 2012: Ramsey Don Bosco Prep DE Darius Hamilton (Rutgers). Left (5): 2003: Wayne Hills TE Greg Olsen (Notre Dame). 2004: Ramsey Don Bosco Prep LB Brian Toal (Boston College). 2005: Plainfield OT Eugene Monroe (Virginia). 2006: Princeton Hun School ATH Myron Rolle (Florida State). 2008: Jersey City St. Peter's ATH Will Hill (Florida).
17. WASHINGTON: 20.0 percent: Stayed (1): 2004: Woodinville QB Matthew Tuiasosopo (Washington). Left (4): 2005: Lacey Timberline RB Jonathan Stewart (Oregon). 2006: Seattle O'Day ATH Taylor Mays (USC), Bellevue OG Stephen Schilling (Michigan). 2012: Lakewood Lakes OT Zach Banner (USC).
*-Patrick Johnson changed his name to Patrick Peterson before beginning his college career.
**-Donte Moss went by the name Donte Paige-Moss during his college career.
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Daily Flash Fiction no. 3
We found it near the old Chevy Zeke keeps his guns in. He was small, the orange stripes on his belly had turned rusted red. The white crawling stripes were maggots that kept coming like the cat was giving birth.
We tossed it to Bo and Luke, the two dead boys we keep in the backyard. They scare the looters away and Zeke kinda likes it when they slobber on him.
But they wouldn't touch the cat. Just kept staring at it like they was expecting it to come back to life.
Zeke and me watched the sun die with my head on his chest.
"Don't that beat all?" he said.

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President's Day is special this year because of the election in November. As voters are wondering who will be the next occupant of the White House -- with either Sen. John McCain, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton or Sen. Barack Obama the likely pick -- Hollywood is also getting into the presidential mode.
HBO is unveiling its latest miniseries, " John Adams," in March with Paul Giamatti ("Sideways") playing the second U.S. president. Liam Neeson is said to be taking on the role of "Lincoln" later this year for director Steven Spielberg, and Martin Scorsese and Leonardo DiCaprio are scheduled to reunite for "The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt."
So in this election year, it's also time to look back at the various actors who have played presidents over the decades. Here's a look at some facts, odd trivia and bizarre casting choices on the big and small screens.
Oscar-worthy campaigns: Though no actor has won an Oscar playing a president, four actors have been nominated:
Raymond Massey for 1940's "Abe Lincoln in Illinois" -- he lost the Oscar to Jimmy Stewart for "The Philadelphia Story."
Alexander Knox for his dreadfully dull turn as Woodrow Wilson in 1944's "Wilson" -- he lost out to Bing Crosby for "Going My Way."
James Whitmore as Harry S. Truman in his 1975 one-man show, "Give 'em Hell Harry!" -- he lost to Jack Nicholson for "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest."
And Anthony Hopkins scored two nods: One for best actor as Richard Nixon in 1995's "Nixon" -- he lost his bid for the Oscar to Nicolas Cage for "Leaving Las Vegas" -- and best supporting actor as John Quincy Adams in 1997's "Amistad." He lost to Robin Williams for "Good Will Hunting." (Williams also has played a Teddy Roosevelt wax figure in the 2006 comedy hit "Night at the Museum.")
Presidential turns: Ronald Reagan is our country's only actor turned president. During his 30-year film career, though, he never actually played a president. But some presidential wannabes have shown up in movies: Republican front-runner McCain appeared as himself in the ribald 2005 comedy "Wedding Crashers" and, according to the Internet Movie Database, played an uncredited "office staffer" in a 2006 episode of "24." Fred Thompson, who has already left the Republican race, did get to play a Republican president, Ulysses S. Grant, in HBO's 2007 movie "Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee." And while he was president, Bill Clinton made a cameo as himself in the 1997 CBS movie "A Child's Wish," with John Ritter, which revolved around the Family and Medical Leave Act he had signed into law the year before.
Gotta sing! "1776" won the Tony for best musical back in 1969. The big-screen version of this tuneful look at the Founding Fathers and the signing of the Declaration of Independence was released in 1972. William Daniels from "St. Elsewhere" played John Adams and Ken Howard from "Crossing Jordan" played the young Thomas Jefferson. Daniels would play Adams again in the 1979 miniseries "The Rebels," lend his voice as the president in the 1994 documentary "The American Revolution" and play his son, John Quincy Adams, in the 1976 miniseries "The Adams Chronicles."
Try, try again: Edward Herrmann was so memorable as FDR in the 1976 miniseries "Eleanor & Franklin" and 1977's "Eleanor and Franklin: The White House Years" that he also played the four-term prez in the 1982 big-screen version of the hit musical "Annie."
Making a career out of it: Massey reprised the role of Lincoln in a 1950 TV version of "Abe Lincoln in Illinois," as well as the 1956 TV drama "The Day Lincoln Was Shot" and in the 1962 film "How the West Was Won."
Jason Robards provided the voice of Honest Abe in the 1992 documentary "Lincoln" and played the 16th president in 1991's "The Perfect Tribute" and in a 1964 telecast of "Abe Lincoln in Illinois."
David Odgen Stiers took on the role of FDR twice, in 1987's "J. Edgar Hoover" and 1989's "Day One," while Robert Vaughn played the president in 1982's "FDR: That Man in the White House" and 1986's "Murrow."
Charlton Heston played Old Hickory -- Andrew Jackson -- in the 1953 romantic drama "The President's Lady" and in the 1958 adventure "The Buccaneer."
Joseph Crenhan made a career out of playing Grant in several westerns, including 1939's " Union Pacific," 1941's "They Died With Their Boots On" and 1948's "Silver River." Timothy Bottoms had a bit of a career resurgence playing George W. Bush in the 2001 comedy series "That's My Bush!," the 2002 comedy "The Crocodile Hunter: Collision Course" and the 2003 drama "DC 9/11: Time of Crisis."
And Ralph Bellamy played Roosevelt in the 1960 classic film "Sunrise at Campobello" as well as in the 1983 miniseries "The Winds of War" and the 1988 sequel, "War and Remembrance."
.Repeat business: Some actors are so believable in their presidential roles they often end up playing more than one president. Sam Waterston starred in the 1997 miniseries "Thomas Jefferson" and lent his voice as Jefferson in the 1997 documentary "Lewis and Clark: The Journey of the Corps of Discovery." He also played the title role in the 1988 miniseries "Lincoln" and was Teddy Roosevelt in the 1982 miniseries "Freedom to Speak."
Bob Gunton has played Nixon in 1997's "Elvis Meets Nixon," Woodrow Wilson in 2004's "Iron Jawed Angels" and FDR in 1995's "Kingfish: A Story of Huey P. Long." Oscar nominee Hal Holbrook played Lincoln in the 1985-86 miniseries "North and South" and "North and South Book II" and John Adams in 1984's "George Washington."
And Rip Torn played Grant in the 1982 miniseries "The Blue and the Gray," Ronald Reagan in 1982's "Airplane II: The Sequel" and Nixon in 1979's "Blind Ambition."
Strange casting choices: Rob Lowe as president James Madison? Or how about the voice of Don Imus as 17th president Andrew Johnson in "The American President"? Or Walter Matthau also playing Johnson in a 1965 episode of "Profiles in Courage"?
But perhaps the strangest casting was rough-and-tumble bad boy Nick Nolte looking so out of place in a powered wig as Thomas Jefferson in the dismal 1995 Merchant-Ivory production "Jefferson in Paris."
From here to obscurity: Even some of the more obscure presidents have been memorialized on celluloid: Martin Van Buren was played by Nigel Hawthorne in "Amistad," and William Henry Harrison was played by David Clennon in 1995's "Tecumseh: The Last Warrior."
James Knox Polk was played by Noble Willingham in 1986's "Dream West." Zachary Taylor was portrayed by James Gammon in 1999's "One Man's Hero," and George Kennedy played Warren G. Harding in 1979's "Backstairs at the White House."


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Songs that make you cry
/or have made you cry before
Dancing with tears in my eyes
by Ultravox. Mainly because of the video which tapped into my childhood fear of nuclear war somehow more than Threads ever did.
I got drunk once
And listened to "and the band played waltzing matilda" by the Pogues very loud. It brought a tear to my eye, thinking of that plucky old veteran who got forgotten about.sunstroke_house this'd this
"Fairytale of New York"
This time of year, after not hearing it for a while. The context mostly. Took ages to write and almost didn't see the light of day, the Pogues never actually having been to new york before writing it (then they went and loved it), Costello betting Macgowan he couldn't write a Christmas duet.
Then Kirsty getting killed... Macgowan well on his way to being the old man in the drunk tank in the song...
pure destruction
I could have been someone
Well so could anyone
You took my dreams from me
When I first found you
I kept them with me babe
I put them with my own
Can't make it out alone
I've built my dreams around youred_weather, JaguarPirate, monoshono, and TheBeautifulOnes_ this'd this
when i was ickle...
bright eyes from watership down
when the wind blows (from the film)- david bowie
wish you were here - pink floyd
probably at some point - bonnie prince billy - i see a darkness or death to everyone.
& most recently a year ago when my son was born - johnny cash - father & son
most of "from a basement on a hill"
but particularly 'twilight' and 'a fond farewell'pichaelmarker, amputee-porn, and red_weather this'd this
No Distance to Run
always gets me
*No Distance LEFT to Run
Blur, obvspichaelmarker and sunstroke_house this'd this
Don't get it
average song by a guy bumming every girl he saw at the time. The opposite of a lonely, sad song. Some fucking rockstar, whingeing about someone having the nerve to turn him down. Dull.ThirstyDog and Oissin_ this'd this
Burial - Stolen Dog
not a terribly sad song, but I listened to it a lot during a shitty time in my life. now it makes me want to be somewhere warm and asleep during a steady rain
In A Manner Of Speaking - Martin L. Gore
most early recordings by Leonard Cohen. Martha by Tom Waits.
is a guaranteed tearjerker. I remember sitting in the Cock in Islington one night back in the 90s with a mate of mine, I assume prior to a Saturday night at the Garage, drunkenly singing this, & then rather embarrassingly we both started blubbing.
Fish & Bird is Tom's best tearjerker though, absolutely heartbreaking.
I've only really cried at a song once
And that was In Your World by Muse, when I was 14, several hours after listening to the song.
Still gives me a bit of the old angst now.
Came close to crying
more than once in the past, while listening to "Electro-Shock Blues" by Eels and "Hope There's Someone" by Anthony And The Johnsons.
Waitin' for Superman - Flaming Lips
Lyrics remind me of my dad who died after a long illness.
Actually cried when they played it at a gig
I wouldn't be suprised if the Iron & Wine cover of this
had brought a tear to my eye in the past.
Gangnam Style
So beautiful that so many people appreciate a good Korean melody.
This one never fails
Beck - Everybody's gotta learn sometime
Everybody's gotta learn sometime is such a tune
not so keen on the Beck cover though
Women Who Love Men Who Love Drugs - Oceansize
Desperados under The Eaves - Warren Zevon. Probably the best song I've ever heard about being a man of incredible talent, drunk in a rooming house, composing songs around the air conditioner's hum. When the strings match his hum, it's just incredible. Loneliness done very well by a genius who really got it. Loads of his stuff makes me cry, but this is surely the best album closer of all time.
Couple of Dylan's: Girl From The North Country and if You See Her Say Hello. Both perfect 'I loved a girl once and still do in spite of everything' songs, and devastating and - YES - lonely.
If I listen to Heartbreaker by Ryan Adams from start to finish, I never get out without crying. Highly, highly reccomended. Just let it wash over you as an album, with all its subtle devastation.
Leonard Cohen - Chelsea Hotel #2. Everyone's had a lost weekend with someone they utterly loved in that moment, knowing it would pass and damning it even as it did. This song is so beautifully transient. About a bit of filthy time in a hotel with a girl.
Fake Plastic Trees - Radiohead. Rarely ever listen to it these days, but I've recounted on here befeore that this was the first song I heard after a nasty heartbreak. Until then I only listened to Nu Metal and Kid Rock. That heartbreak, this song and all the crying is something I'll always cherish. Yorke can write the most beautiful songs in the world when so inclined.
Loads more: I used to say I could never really love a song if it didn't make me cry.
misleading username
for someone of such tear-jerking nature.
Listening to Return To Me
After Mark Linkous shot himself
Rachmaninovs 2nd piano concerto
mishima by phillip glass
Richard Hawley
Who's Gonna Shoe Your Pretty Little Feet
Used to play this to my daughter soon after she was born...then me & her mum divorced, only see her a couple of times a year now, can't listen to this now, breaks me up every time.
- ma0sm this'd this
Most of Transatlanticism
Yeah I know. Gay.
Not a very good use of the term 'gay', is it?
You may not realise it as many people use it, but it carries the idea that 'gay' is a synonym for 'lame', which is unfair. Just think of it if you replaced it with the word 'black' or 'asian' or something along those lines.
I'm imagining replacing it with 'black', 'asian', 'disabled' and a variety of other words and the surprising thing is, I still don't give a flying fuck.
why is this cro-magnon bullshit still so abundant?
do you want to be this ignorant?
I am sure some stuff from Plans has made me cry before
Again while drunk, which I am not sure counts. Brothers on a Hotel Bed.
I'm from the non-bedwetting school
of music appreciation.
beautiful song, but incredibly depressing.
last goodbye - jeff buckley
i only have to think about it and it sets me off. and for when i'm really at my weakest/drunkest, The Cars - Drive.
Flirted With You All My Life - Vic Chesnutt
The final verse about his mother is particularly heartbreaking. His death some months after it's release makes it even more shattering.rainmaker this'd this
Never Meant - American Football (when my ex left me)...
Johnny Foreigner - Johnny Foreigner Vs You (ditto)
Aidan Moffat & Bill Wells - The Copper Top (after a friend's funeral)
But in general, loads of stuff - I am very soppy
Dont think a song alone has ever made me cry.
I think it may have added to the situation and increased the emotional pull a couple of times.
Like when I was at a party when I was 16 and saw my good friend smooching on the girl I had been schemin on for like 6 months. I drove off in a fit of rage and listened to Wyclef - Mona Lisa and shed a tear or two.still_here this'd this
Can think of two..
There was a time when both Sunday Drive by The Early November and The Sound Of Beating Wings by Jeniferever would always lead to tears for me. Now they're just a couple of songs that I like.
Scott Walker - Farmer in the City
I'm always surprised when it happens, but it's almost every time. When that melodic resolution sort of thing in the last chorus comes round it's like my stomach jumped out of my body.
Elliott Smith too. "Keep the things you forgot" from Between the Bars is an impossibly beautiful and disturbing but almost throwaway line. See also King's Crossing, Condor Ave., 2:45 and depending on my mood most of Basement.
Pulp - The Trees
Also...Elbow - Bones of You
Prince -
Sometimes it Snows in April
The first song I ever cried at was "I was young when I left home" by Bob Dylan. To this day I'm still not really sure why. I think it's cause I was leaving home for a while and was just on the train going through the countryside and staring out the window and marveling at the grand scheme of everything.
Swans' "Miracle of Love" has brought tears to my eyes before just 'cause it's so goddamn perfect.
Vic Chestnutt's "Flirted with you all my life" always gets me too. It's uplifiting, tagic and utterly intoxicating at the same time. The depressive connotations are even more realised after you find out that he tried to commit suicide after he released the album, "At the Cut."
This is how it feels - Inspiral Carpets
Caught me by surprise in the car a few years ago. Was in a bit of a rough patch and that came on the radio and I fucking burst into tears driving my car. Mental.
Letdown - Radiohead. always used to get me when I were a little un aswell. Doesn't work anymore though (still a tune, mind).


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Many cardinals have had books written about them, but few have become the fictionalized heroes of best-selling novels. Cardinal Francis Spellman, archbishop of New York from 1939 to 1967, was one — possibly the only one.
The novel was called "The Cardinal." The work of Catholic author Henry Morton Robinson, it topped the best-seller list for many months after its publication in 1950. Later it was made into a movie.
With many embellishments, the story mirrored the real-life career of Cardinal Spellman — hard-fought climb to the top of the hierarchical ladder, trusted adviser to a pope and a president, behind-the-scenes unofficial diplomat engaged in sensitive wartime missions.
When Time magazine, marking his elevation to cardinal, featured his cherubic features on the cover of its Feb. 25, 1946 issue, the artist situated the dome of St. Peter's Basilica and a spire of St. Patrick's Cathedral in the background. They might have tossed in the White House, too — for Cardinal Spellman, operating at the topmost levels of church and state, embodied the fusion of Americanism and Catholicism that had been taking shape for a century and was nearing its apex just then.
Francis Joseph Spellman was born May 4, 1889, in Whitman, Massachusetts, the oldest of five children of William and Ellen Conway Spellman. His father was a grocer, and both parents were of Irish ancestry. Young Francis attended the local high school, where he was manager of the baseball team, and Fordham University in New York, graduating in 1911. By then he'd decided to become a priest.
As a seminarian of the Boston archdiocese, he studied at the Urban College in Rome, exhibiting a notable talent for cultivating friendships with men who would rise to high positions in the Roman Curia.
Ordained a priest in 1916, he returned to Boston. There he appears to have had some kind of falling-out with Cardinal William O'Connell, the imperious and autocratic churchman who ruled the archdiocese with an iron hand. Whatever the cause, Father Spellman spent the next several years in a series of insignificant temporary assignments.
Even so, he kept up his Roman contacts. The breakthrough came in 1925, when he accompanied a pilgrimage group to Rome. There he secured a post in the Vatican Secretariat of State and wangled the job of director of several Roman playgrounds funded by the Knights of Columbus. He also made friends with American Catholics, Count Enrico Galeazzi, a layman and consummate Vatican insider, and Archbishop (soon to be Cardinal) Eugenio Pacelli, the Holy See's nuncio to Germany whom Pope Pius XI named Secretary of State in 1929.
When Pope Pius XI in 1931 issued an encyclical sharply critical of Benito Mussolini's fascist regime, the fascists wouldn't allow its publication in Italy. His superiors then assigned the young American priest to smuggle the document to Paris, where it received international media attention.
In 1932, Father Spellman was named Auxiliary Bishop of Boston and ordained in St. Peter's by Cardinal Pacelli. With the approval of Pius XI, he adopted the pope's own episcopal motto as his own: Sequere Deum — follow God.
Bishop Spellman may have been a hero in Rome, but it was a different story in Boston. Cardinal O'Connell hadn't asked for an auxiliary bishop — and certainly not this one. The cardinal sent his unsought auxiliary into a kind of exile — a parish assignment with as little public visibility as possible.
But Bishop Spellman was not so easily thwarted. With funding from his friend, Boston multi-millionaire Joseph P. Kennedy, father of a future president, he organized a 1936 U.S. visit by his great Vatican friend, Cardinal Pacelli, and accompanied him on a cross-country tour, flying on an airliner chartered by Kennedy. A high point of the trip was a meeting, arranged by Bishop Spellman, between the cardinal and President Franklin Roosevelt at Roosevelt's Hyde Park, New York, estate.
On Sept. 4, 1938, Cardinal Patrick Hayes of New York passed away. Pope Pius XI died the following Feb. 10, and on March 2 the cardinals elected Cardinal Pacelli to succeed him. He took the name Pius XII. On April 24, the Holy See announced that the auxiliary bishop of Boston had been appointed archbishop of New York. The first person besides family members whom Archbishop-elect Spellman notified was President Roosevelt.
As the world plunged into war and the United States edged toward entering the conflict, Roosevelt more and more turned to Archbishop Spellman as an adviser on Catholic affairs. At the end of 1939, Pope Pius XII named him to the post of Military Vicar — prelate of a diocese-like ecclesiastical entity responsible for the pastoral care of Catholics in the armed forces. Not only did the role heighten his national and international profile, more and more, a historian writes, he "closely identified Catholicism and American patriotism."
In January 1943, with Roosevelt's permission and American government help, Archbishop Spellman was preparing for the first of what would be a series of annual trips to visit American servicemen overseas. At a White House meeting, Roosevelt gave him an additional mission whose nature became clear when on Feb. 12 he met in Madrid with Spanish dictator Francisco Franco and explained America's wartime aims. The session was credited with helping ensure Spanish neutrality during the war.
This remarkable trip extended until July and also included stops at the Vatican and in North Africa, the Middle East and the Holy Land. In London, Archbishop Spellman lunched with Winston Churchill. In Rome, he appears to have met with high-ranking officials of the Italian government. In Istanbul in May, he made the acquaintance of the Apostolic Delegate, Archbishop Angelo Roncalli — later, Pope St. John XXIII. Returning to the United States, he urged Roosevelt in several White House meetings to treat Rome as an "open city" and refrain from bombing it — a plea that had only partial success.
In 1944 he was sounded out about becoming Vatican Secretary of State, but he was indifferent to the offer and stayed in New York. During the war, Pope Pius named no new cardinals, and it was no surprise when Archbishop Spellman was part of the first postwar batch, elevated to the College of Cardinals on Feb. 18, 1946.
In the years that followed, Cardinal Spellman was active on numerous fronts. As a champion of anti-communism, he was an early supporter of Sen. Joseph McCarthy's efforts to out communists in government posts. (Following McCarthy's largely self-inflicted fall, he privately extended a helping hand to the senator and his family.) A vocal critic of anti-Catholicism, he had a well-publicized falling-out with Eleanor Roosevelt, the president's widow, over aid to parochial schools.
At the Second Vatican Council (1962-65), Cardinal Spellman, a theological conservative, supported ecumenism on pragmatic grounds. He also took Jesuit Father John Courtney Murray, the theologian of church-state relations, to Rome with him as an adviser and, like other American bishops, strongly backed Vatican II's endorsement of religious liberty.
In December 1965, during an overseas trip to visit the troops, the cardinal declared support for U.S. involvement in Vietnam in the words of Stephen Decatur: "My country, may it always be right, but right or wrong, my country." The criticism ranged from sharp to vicious. He died in New York on Dec. 2, 1967.
Jesuit historian Father Gerald P. Fogarty writes that "American and Roman were the attributes of [Cardinal Spellman's] career as the most influential American Catholic prelate of his age." No one has captured that better than Henry Morton Robinson in "The Cardinal." At a crucial point in the novel, Stephen Fermoyle, the book's Spellman look-alike hero, finds his dual loyalty to Rome and America challenged by a skeptical churchman. Fermoyle's subsequent soul-searching has this result:
"After months of intense and disciplined study, Stephen came to the private conclusion that the democratic idea with its emphasis on tolerance and individualism was the most hopeful manifestation of Christ's spirit in human affairs. And despite [his critic's] opinion to the contrary, Stephen continued to believe that the American phenomenon of a free Church in a free state had produced a Catholicism as stanch, loyal and vigorous as any that preceded it."
Isaac Hecker, James Gibbons — and Francis Spellman — would have said, "Amen."
Russell Shaw is an OSV contributing editor.
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PETALUMA, Calif. --A memorial concert will be held in downtown Petaluma Saturday night to help raise money in the name of Petaluma college student Alyssa Byrne.
Byrne had attended a New Year's Eve concert in South Lake Tahoe and was found dead of hypothermia 1.5 miles away from the venue.
A former classmate from Casa Grande High School is raising funds to buy a memorial bench bearing her name. Jay Donnellan he has booked seven Bay Area rappers to perform Saturday at 7:30 p.m. at the Phoenix Theater.
A portion of funds raised will also be donated to the Polly Klaas Foundation to help fund a new buddy program.


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Arizona State limps into this game--RIGHT
Arizona State's coach is on his way out--IN AN ATTORCIOUS FASHION
Will Arizona State be motivated to play for their coach? Will they be motivated to play in a small bowl after such a bad finish?--HELL NO, ERICKSON JUST FOUGHT MONDAY DURING PRACTICE WITH HIS DE, AND SUSPENDED HIM FOR THAT, HE WILL NOT START STUD LB VONTEZ, LOCKER ROOM IN DISARAY
Will Boise State be motivated in this small bowl game? Will they want to send Kellen Moore out a Big Winner?--YOU CAN BET THEY WILL
Arizona State's only loss by 14 points was to Oregon--OREGON STICK THE HEAD ON HIS behind THAT GAME
Boise has had trouble covering large spreads this year--YEAH BECAUSE ITS NO SECRET THEY JUST GIVE THE HOOK TO THE STARTERS IN 2H NOT TODAY
Arizona State clearly played higher level of competition---I DOUBT IT----ASIDES THE AMBUSH OF USC, THEY FACED TEAMS AS RUBBISH AS BOISE, AND PAC 12 DOESNT HAVE GREAT DEFFENSES
I'll take my chances with a double digit dog before New Year's Day just like last night.
Arizona State +14 But only a Small Play
ASU is below average on defense and is facing a Boise St offense that can beat you with the run and the pass. Boise St's Doug Martin has been solid on the ground. Kellen Moore is solid in the passing game and is pretty mobile if needed. Boise St's offensive line is top in the nation for the fewest sacks allowed.
ASU on offense should also have there hands full facing a Boise St 10th ranked scoring defense and ranked 16th overall on defense in the nation.
With that said in my opinion it's hard to see ASU stopping Boise's offense if they will struggle to get to the QB to pressure Moore into turnovers and still try to stop the run and passing attack.
Boise St first half -7.5
Over 34 first half
Aloha, good luck, and Merry Christmas to all
Boise St at the half
Over 34 first half
Oh well!
congrats to all the first half winners
That's all I had for this one good luck on the rest everyone
Merry Christmas to you and your family my friend
ARGH! If only ASU scored a TD and not a field goal the first half over would have just cleared
Good luck and Merry Christmas to you and your family my friend
Originally Posted by Pats12: i don't think that black players should be allowed in the nil because of their weak ankles.
Haven't been on here for a long time but has this site come to this?
defensive Touchdowns... Unbelievable! Nice job Boise State and Over backers...
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Lulu Frost
Each Lulu Frost jewelry piece has many a story to tell. Designer Lisa Salzer resurrects the coolest of found objects, such as vintage keys, watch fobs, rare charms, and long-lost room numbers from the legendary Plaza Hotel, and refashions them into pendants and other one-of-a-kind baubles. The name Lulu Frost is derived from the designer's grandmother, whose work in the estate and antique jewelry business inspired the gorgeous Victorian, Deco, and Nouveau influences of the brand.


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TRENTON � A person described as a �real man� by his wife passed away this week when Robert Reynolds Mason Sr. died at the age of 77.
Mason was born in Lillington in 1936 to the late Wade Clarendon and Hassie Brown Mason. He then served in the U.S. Army before spending 25 years with the State Highway Patrol as a trooper and retiring in 1991.
Mason married the former Polly McDaniel in 1982 and the two lived on her family farm in Trenton.
In 1994, members of the community came to her husband and asked him to run for sheriff, Polly Mason said. He went on to serve two terms before deciding not to seek reelection in 2002.
�He took a lot of pride in being sheriff,� Polly Mason said.
On Nov. 7, 1998, while riding a four-wheeler together, her husband suffered a heart attack. The attack left him with paralysis on his left side, Mason said.
Mason said deputies helped her husband as he recovered and he stayed as active as he could.
He then built a house in his native Lillington and moved there in 2002. He lived in Lillington until his death earlier this week.
Mason said her husband was a �real man� � she said he was stern, but caring and compassionate.
He enjoyed hunting and was an excellent horseman, Mason said. He was a classy dresser, with blue oxford shirts and khaki pants serving as his clothing of choice.
Jones County Commissioner Sondra Ipock-Riggs interacted with Mason first when he was on the Highway Patrol, and then later on as sheriff.
�He was a fine man as a Highway Patrolman,� Riggs said.
When Mason was elected sheriff, he was easy for the commissioners to work with, Riggs said.
�He knew what the county could and could not spend,� Riggs said. �I was proud of him for that.�
Riggs said Mason was well-liked and popular in the community.
�He did the best he could,� Riggs said.
Billy Smith, who served as Lenoir County Sheriff from 1989 until earlier this year, met Mason when Mason was a member of the Highway Patrol.
�He was easy going and easy to talk to,� Smith said. �I never heard anyone say a bad word about him.�
The two worked together on several occasions when a case crossed county lines, Smith said.
Mason was instrumental in founding Boy Scout Troop 111 in Trenton in 1995. Cub Master and Jones County Commissioner Zack Koonce praised Mason for his role with the scouts.
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September 2013
A Conversation with Reza Aslan - Oct. 3
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Santa Clara, Calif., Sept. 17, 2013 - Reza Aslan, author of the New York Times and Amazon No. 1 best-seller Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth, will be at Santa Clara University for a conversation with Catherine Murphy, author of The Historical Jesus for Dummies, and David Pinault, an expert on Islam and popular culture, on Thursday, Oct. 3 at 7 p.m. in the Mayer Theatre.
Admission is free. Tickets are not required; seating is first-come, first-served. Aslan will sign his book afterward.
Reza Aslan graduated from Santa Clara University in 1995 and is a writer, scholar of religions, media entrepreneur, and a political commentator on Islamic issues. During a recent interview, Aslan found himself at the center of a media controversy when a Fox News interviewer repeatedly questioned why a Muslim was qualified to write about Jesus.
Catherine Murphy is a religious studies associate professor whose research focuses on the interplay between religion and economics during 100 B.C. and 200 A.D. Murphy graduated from Santa Clara in 1983, received her M.A. and Ph.D. in New Testament and early Christianity from the University of Notre Dame in 1999, and joined the SCU faculty in 1998.
David Pinault is a religious studies professor whose research involves the nexus of religion, popular culture, and communal identity in Muslim societies, as reflected in ritual and literary sources.
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- How accurate is the historical and literary argumentation of Zealot?
- How does Aslan respond to more critical scholarly reviews by historical Jesus scholars?
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Mayor Daniel Rizzo of Revere, a supporter of a Mohegan Sun casino planned for his city, has blasted a rival proposal by Wynn Resorts over allegations that two local felons may have hidden ownership in the Everett property where Wynn wants to build.
But though Rizzo rails against "unsuitable persons" — referring to Charles Lightbody and Gary P. DeCicco — possibly making a profit on the land deal, Rizzo has himself accepted thousands of dollars in donations from the two men for his political campaign fund.
Lightbody, a Revere businessman with a four-page criminal record and at least eight convictions, contributed to Rizzo, a former Revere city councilor, as far back as 2000, according to records on file at Revere City Hall.
Rizzo has accepted at least $2,700 in contributions from Lightbody over the past 14 years, the records show.
DeCicco, a developer with a felony record who has been investigated for arson fires, donated $500, the maximum annual amount allowed by law, to Rizzo's political fund in 2013.
In a statement, Rizzo's campaign spokesman said the mayor would no longer accept donations from anyone involved with the Everett casino proposal, including Lightbody, a wealthy Revere property owner.
"Mr. Lightbody has been a donor to the mayor's prior campaigns, and he has made numerous political donations to many candidates across the Commonwealth, but, unlike Everett, he has no interest in any gaming proposals in our city," spokesman Frank Perullo said. "Since the stunning allegations regarding the secret partnerships and nefarious cast of characters involved in the Everett/Wynn 'land deal,' we have not, and will not, accept donations from anyone involved."
The Globe has reported that Lightbody and DeCicco were part of a group of investors who bought the Everett land in 2009. Their names were removed from official documents by the time Wynn arrived in late 2012 to view the vacant industrial parcel on the Mystic River known as the former Monsanto Chemical site.
State investigators have questioned whether one or both of the men retained a secret stake in the potentially lucrative land deal with Wynn, and the allegations have become a bitter point of contention in the public relations campaign between supporters of the Mohegan Sun and Wynn Resorts casino proposals.
Rizzo, one of the strongest cheerleaders for the Mohegan Sun plan, attacked the Wynn proposal in a strident letter to state gambling regulators in May, urging the state to further investigate "the many unanswered questions" related to the Wynn real estate deal.
"There is no reason for the public to have any confidence that millions of dollars will not be going to unsuitable persons," Rizzo wrote.
Public records show that Rizzo's most recent donation from Lightbody, in the amount of $500, was in June 2013. That was several months before questions over Lightbody's possible stake in the Everett land were widely publicized, though Lightbody was already well known at the time for an extensive criminal history, including a 2006 indictment as part of a massive identity theft ring that drew significant news coverage. He was convicted.
Rizzo accepted a $300 donation from Lightbody in 2009, a $500 donation in 2010, and another $500 in 2012, according to campaign finance reports. Earlier contributions from Lightbody to Rizzo include $100 in 2000, $500 in 2003, and $300 in 2004.
Lightbody's name became publicly associated with the Everett land late last year. The state gambling commission released transcripts of conversations between Lightbody and an incarcerated friend, Darin Bufalino, in which Lightbody suggested he had agreed to take his name off official land records on the parcel in Everett.
'Since the stunning allegations . . . we have not, and will not, accept donations from anyone involved.'
"I'll take my name off. I have no problem. . . . These casinos, they see my name in there, they ain't gonna like it," Lightbody told Bufalino, according to the transcript.
Bufalino at one point advised, "You need to double blind it. You need to triple blind it, actually," an apparent suggestion that Lightbody's connection to the land should be hidden.
Rizzo paraphrased the transcript in his May letter to the gambling commission. "The only reasonable conclusion is that at least one unsuitable person maintained an interest in the Wynn land — even if double or triple blind[ed] — until at least mid-2013," Rizzo wrote.
Gambling regulators approved Wynn's plan to address potential undisclosed interests in the property by slashing the purchase price to an appraised value, so no secret investors could benefit from a casino-
enhanced price.
A Wynn Resorts spokesman declined to comment on Lightbody's donations to Rizzo.
Mohegan Sun, which negotiated a casino host agreement with Rizzo in December, also declined to comment.
Lightbody, who could not be reached for comment, has been a frequent political donor for more than a decade to politicians of both parties, including Senator Sal N. DiDomenico, an Everett Democrat, House Speaker Robert A. DeLeo, Mayor Carlo DeMaria of Everett, former Revere state Representative Kathi-Anne Reinstein, and, in 2010, Republican gubernatorial candidate Charlie Baker.
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About 70 students from pre-school to college will come together for a colorful event called "Nuts About Christmas."
About 70 students from pre-school to college will come together for a colorful event called "Nuts About Christmas" at the Center for the Performing Arts in Havelock.
The program will include part of Tchaikovsky�s Nutcracker Suite.
Performances are scheduled for 7 p.m. Friday and 2 p.m. Saturday, and again at 7 p.m. Dec. 21 and 2 p.m. Dec. 22 at the center located off East Main Street.
The cost is $3 per ticket, with seating for around 200. Tickets can be purchased in advance from 3 to 6 p.m. weekdays at the center.
Mary Beth Beasley, organizer and artistic director at the center, said the program is about an hour and 15 minutes, which includes a brief intermission.
Students from the center�s drama and dance departments are participating in the show.
"The first act is a medley of Christmas carols where the kids will demonstrate what they�ve learned in tap, pop and contemporary dance," Beasley said. "The second act is the traditional story of the Nutcracker, which follows Clara and her adventures with the Nutcracker as she fights to save the Nutcracker in the battle scene. After the battle, they travel through the Land of the Snow to arrive at the Land of the Sweets."
Specially designed scenery and special effects highlight the classic Tchaikovsky score.
"The props and special effects help bring to life the magic of Clara�s dream," Beasley said.
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That doesn't make sense- What do they think would happen if Gremlin won and Othnius gets her full power upgrade? Do they think the Christian Churches would be left alone?
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Considering Kreutune tries to eat LO's brain and now that the latter's with Accelerator again, that possibly means Touma vs. Accelerator for the third time next volume? Touma's going to get stomped; the dude is half-dead and he ain't feeling himself personality-wise to boot. Just about any of the city's intruders could stomp him on a good day for him anyway. Nothing but misfortune ahead for him. Perhaps we shall have a glimpse of how the old Touma acted from other people's perspective with how his luck seems to be getting worse and worse as a rule for New Testament. Personality relapse anyone? One can dream.
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I don't see your train of thought of LO Brain -> Kreutune -> Touma vs Accelerator.
If anything it'll just lead to Accelerator being beaten by Kreutune.
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... that's a lots of maybes... well, anyway, I do believe there is a reason for their absence...
EDIT: Hmm... another thought about the Kreutune.
If she was to eat/assimilate a good guy's brain, would she become good herself? and if she went for a psycho's one instead (like a Kihara's) would the world be doomed? ...
Wouldn't that make quite an interesting dilemma?
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There is no way that there is going to be an Accel vs Touma fight in close proximity. I mean, not only Yuriko got himself upgraded to "hero", but also fat chance is that Kakine was specially brought back for the sake of having the n°1 being involved in something nasty.
I mean, unlike the readers; Kakine is not happy with him being a fridge. Also let's remember that the way to the Windowless building might take some time to be closed completely, and probably the only thing that Kakine cares outside revenge is getting the story straight right from Aleister's mouth.
Also, I doubt that Kreutune is going to eat anyone. Between meeting the lolis and being bombarded with Kamijo's preaching, she is probably going to discover "humanity" and a bunch of rose colored stuff. She might even evolve for the sake of protecting someone; that's a recurring theme in the series
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Kreutune is not 'misguided' or anything, she simply just doesn't care about anything except for her curiosity. And from the way it sounds, if something captures her attention, she'll do everything to satisfy herself including taking it apart.
Make no mistake, I'm very certain she's not suppose to be the new 'Kazakiri'.
If her thoughts are simpler than an insect, it's questionable if she can even comprehend emotions.
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I was just thinking that if Kreutune were to attack LO at first, then Accelerator would protect her seeing as they're together atm. And since Touma is following Kreutune/trying to gain her trust/protect her, there might be a problem there. Of course, that all depends if Accelerator can actually put up a fight against Kreutune long enough for it to lead to anything. I don't actually believe LO is going to be eaten, that might be too gory for this series to begin with. Lol.
The way things are going I think it might not be so clear-cut that Touma's a good guy from now on. The mere fact that he's trying to help Kreutune is probably going to be controversial enough considering what we know about her. It might not sit well with his 'friends' when she starts acting on her newest curiosity. How it ends doesn't really matter. Whether she becomes a 'good-guy' or dies in the end, it's probably going to start off with some crazy stuff next volume, right?
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But now that I think about it, I guess she wouldn't be that much of a monster if all it took was eating one brain to become human-like...
Of course, she might end up not eating even one and we won't find out how it works out exactly in practice.
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Here are some:
- The Level Upper is just an audio compilation of Touma's "illusion breaking" speeches.
- Touma gets struck by lightning more than twice, and survives without a single scratch or burn on him.
- Touma can destroy Servants by just touching them.
- If Accelerator and Voldemort have ever fought, Kamijou Touma would win.
- Kamijou Touma doesn't dodge spells. Spells dodge Kamijou Touma.
- Touma only needs to touch a solid concrete Golem to destroy it. But he's so awesome that touching it is not enough, he just had to punch it.
- Harry Potter's got nothing on Kamijou Touma, because he can block Avada Kedavra with his bare hands!
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General reasons why Touma is awesome:
1) He does the impossible
2) He sees the invisible
3) He destroys the indestructible
4) He touches the untouchable
5) He breaks the unbreakable
6) He blocks the unblockable
7) He punches the unpunchable
8) He beats the unbeatable
9) He wins the unwinnable
10) He predicts the unpredictable
11) He forgets the unforgettable
Specific reasons why Touma is awesome:
1) His harem consists of over 9000 women
2) He breaks your illusions...And your jaw
3) He can punch you so hard it breaks your neck...without killing you
4) He can punch you so hard you switch sides
5) He can pass the aforementioned ability onto you via punching
6) His harem building powers rub off on people he punches
7) When he loses an arm, he becomes even more sure to win
8) His power (the one he uses to beat everyone) is actually a limiter for his real power
9) He has a better evil laugh than the villains
10) He can win a fight with nothing but an Intimidate Check
11) In a single volume, he challenges one of the most overpowered characters in fiction, loses an arm, reveals a power that makes said villain wish he had worn brown pants, suppresses said power, grows a new freaking arm, takes back his limiter, beats the villain while destroying his will to fight, kicks him off the flying fortress they are fighting on, converts him to the side of good, and crashes the flying fortress into a freaking archangel, saving the world.
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- Touma once went to the Virgin Islands. When he left, it became just the Islands.
- Touma doesn't care if you're a guy or a girl, if you're a bad guy, he WILL punch you.
- Touma's punch is the ultimate love charm. If he punches a girl, she becomes part of his harem. If he punches a guy, he can build his own harem.
- The only way to get all the girls is to be punched by Touma.
- In one volume, two people came to back to life simply because Touma appeared. He went on to punch a girl wielding a world-ending sword before she could even draw it.
So, yeah, man is so awesome he really is the Chuck Norris of the Tamniverse.
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GH6115, Reviewed July 2001
For some time, we have known that development results from the dynamic interplay of nature and nurture. From birth on, we grow and learn because our biology is programmed to do so and because our social and physical environment provides stimulation.
New research on early brain development provides a wonderful opportunity to examine how nature and nurture work together to shape human development. Through the use of sophisticated technology, scientists have discovered how early brain development and caregiver-child relationships interact to create a foundation for future growing and learning.
For this guide, the word caregiver includes anyone who cares for young children, such as parents, grandparents, child care providers or preschool teachers.
At birth, the human brain is still preparing for full operation. The brain's neurons exist mostly apart from one another. The brain's task for the first 3 years is to establish and reinforce connections with other neurons. These connections are formed when impulses are sent and received between neurons. Axons send messages and dendrites receive them. These connections form synapses. (Figure 1.)
Figure 1
Neurons mature when axons send mesages and dendrites receive them to form synapses.
As a child develops, the synapses become more complex, like a tree with more branches and limbs growing. During the first 3 years of life, the number of neurons stays the same and the number of synapses increases. After age 3, the creation of synapses slows until about age 10.
Between birth and age 3, the brain creates more synapses than it needs. The synapses that are used a lot become a permanent part of the brain. The synapses that are not used frequently are eliminated. This is where experience plays an important role in wiring a young child's brain. Because we want children to succeed, we need to provide many positive social and learning opportunities so that the synapses associated with these experiences become permanent.
How the social and physical environments respond to infants and toddlers plays a big part in the creation of synapses. The child's experiences are the stimulation that sparks the activity between axons and dendrites and creates synapses.
Brain development research distinguishes between sensitive periods and critical periods of development. Understanding the difference is very important for recognizing what infants and toddlers need early in life. The information presented in this guide centers mostly on sensitive periods.
Critical periods represent a narrow window of time during which a specific part of the body is most vulnerable to the absence of stimulation or to environmental influences. Vision is a good example: Unless an infant sees light during the first 6 months, the nerves leading from the eye to the visual cortex of the brain that processes those signals will degenerate and die.
Prenatal development, the period before a baby is born, also includes critical periods. Remember the drug thalidomide and its effects on prenatal development? Women who took the drug between the 38th and 46th days of pregnancy gave birth to infants with deformed arms, or no arms, Women who took the drug between the 40th and 46th days of pregnancy gave birth to infants with deformed legs or no legs. Women who took the drug after the 50th day of pregnancy gave birth to babies with no birth defects or problems.
Sensitive periods are the broad windows of opportunity for certain types of learning. Sensitive periods represent a less precise and often longer period of time when skills, such as acquiring a second language, are influenced. But, if the opportunity for learning does not arise, these potential new skills are not lost forever. Individuals learn new languages at many different times in their lives.
The skills acquired during sensitive periods are those that some people are better at than others. They include the social, emotional and mental characteristics that make us interesting people. Individuals who work with children need to be aware of the sensitive period concept so that they can provide learning opportunities that benefit children in many ways. The early brain research highlights birth through age 3 as a sensitive period for development and learning in all areas.
Infants and toddlers learn about themselves and their world during interactions with others. Brain connections that lead to later success grow out of nurturant, supportive and predictable care. This type of caregiving fosters child curiosity, creativity and self-confidence. Young children need safety, love, conversation and a stimulating environment to develop and keep important synapses in the brain.
Caring for infants and toddlers is mostly about building relationships and making the most of everyday routines and experiences. The Creative Curriculum for Infants and Toddlers (Dombro, Colker and Dodge, 1997) says that during the first 3 years of life, infants and toddlers look to caregivers for answers to these questions:
During the first 3 years of life, children experience the world in a more complete way than children of any other age. The brain takes in the external world through its system of sight, hearing, smell, touch and taste. This means that infant social, emotional, cognitive, physical and language development are stimulated during multisensory experiences. Infants and toddlers need the opportunity to participate in a world filled with stimulating sights, sounds and people.
Before children are able to talk, emotional expressions are the language of relationships. Research shows that infants' positive and negative emotions, and caregivers' sensitive responsiveness to them, can help early brain development. For example, shared positive emotion between a caregiver and an infant, such as laughter and smiling, engages brain activity in good ways and promotes feelings of security. Also, when interactions are accompanied by lots of emotion, they are more readily remembered and recalled.
Early development does not always proceed in a way that encourages child curiosity, creativity and self-confidence. For some children, early experiences are neither supportive nor predictable. The synapses that develop in the brain are created in response to chronic stress, or other types of abuse and neglect. And, when children are vulnerable to these risks, problematic early experiences can lead to poor outcomes.
For example, some children are born with the tendency to be irritable, impulsive and insensitive to emotions in others. When these child characteristics combine with adult caregiving that is withdrawn and neglectful, children's brains can wire in ways that may result in unsympathetic child behavior. When these child characteristics combine with adult caregiving that is angry and abusive, children's brains can wire in ways that result in violent and overly aggressive child behavior. If the home environment teaches children to expect danger instead of security, then poor outcomes may occur.
In these cases, how do nature and nurture contribute to early brain development? Research tells us that early exposure to violence and other forms of unpredictable stress can cause the brain to operate on a fast track. Such overactivity of the connections between axons and dendrites, combined with child vulnerability, can increase the risk of later problems with self-control. Some adults who are violent and overly aggressive experienced erratic and unresponsive care early in life.
Adult depression can also interfere with infant brain activity. When caregivers suffer from untreated depression, they may fail to respond sensitively to infant cries or smiles. Adult emotional unavailability is linked with poor infant emotional expression. Infants with depressed caregivers do not receive the type of cognitive and emotional stimulation that encourages positive early brain development.
When children have less-than-optimal experiences early in life, there is hope for the future. Understanding how brain development is affected by negative experiences gives us the opportunity to intervene and to prevent future difficulties. And, because we know about healthy early brain development and the experiences that infants and toddlers need, programs have been designed to help children develop the necessary skills that they may not have developed earlier.
In Missouri, the Parents as Teachers (PAT) program provides information about child development to parents whose children are between birth and age 5. The information is delivered by well-prepared parent educators during home visits and parenting classes, and through referrals to other agencies. An evaluation of the program showed that PAT children scored higher on measures of intellectual and language ability than children whose parents did not participate in PAT. PAT is available to all families in Missouri and is a good example of how caregiver education about child development can help children throughout their lives.
Early brain development research reinforces an important message about children: From birth on, children are ready and eager to learn and grow. Taking advantage of this situation means that all caregivers need to understand the importance of the early years and to recognize appropriate methods for stimulating children's learning and growth. Providing educational opportunities to parents, grandparents, child care providers and other caregivers is a step in the right direction to guarantee productive early years. Sharing this message with policy makers is another strategy for ensuring that infants, toddlers, and young children and their caregivers receive the necessary education and support.
Here are some tips for how to effectively establish relationships with infants and toddlers and to promote early brain development:
Early brain development research reinforces the importance of caregiver sensitivity and responsiveness to infant behaviors and needs. What do insensitive and unresponsive caregiver-infant interactions look like? What do sensitive and responsive caregiver-infant interactions look like?
Below are some real-life examples of caregivers interacting with their 4-month-old babies. Although these are only brief examples of caregiver-infant interactions, consider what is happening to the baby's development if most interactions are like these ones. As you read each example, put yourself in the baby's position and "See the world through the eyes of the child." Ask yourself:
4-month-old baby is on the living room floor; caregiver is cleaning around the house.
Caregiver goes to baby and tells baby that she has to lay on her tummy, saying, "It will probably make you scream for awhile." Caregiver explains she has to put laundry in. As caregiver turns baby over, baby is quiet and caregiver says, "Maybe you won't cry, huh? Maybe you'll figure this out." Caregiver leaves room, with baby on the floor. In front of baby are four toys: a rattle, a bath bubble, a stuffed elephant and a top. Baby grunts occasionally and holds her head high off the blanket and watches the toys. Baby looks at the toys intently, grunts and moves her legs around. Baby continues to look at the toys and move her legs, appearing to want the toys, but unable to reach them. For the next 4 minutes, baby grunts, moves her arms and legs, lifts her head up and down, sucks her hand and finally begins to loudly fuss. Caregiver is out of the room. When caregiver returns, she says, "You haven't figured out how to do it yet, huh?" as she picks up baby and holds her in her lap.
In this example, the caregiver is generally out of touch with the baby. The caregiver's words are mostly discouraging; the caregiver leaves the baby with the toys out of the baby's reach; the caregiver does not recognize the baby's frustration or try to help the baby calm herself down; and, the caregiver does little that stimulates the baby's five senses. Imagine daily life for this baby if most of her interactions are like this one. How are her senses being stimulated? What connections are being wired in her brain?
Caregiver is moving between kitchen and living room; 4-month-old baby is on a blanket on the living room floor.
Caregiver returns to the living room from the kitchen and playfully says, "Hey little boy, whatcha doin?" as she gently tickles baby's tummy. Caregiver then shakes a colorful rattle near baby's face and baby looks at and reaches for the rattle. Caregiver stands the rattle on baby's tummy and releases it. Baby is not holding the rattle and suddenly it falls forward and hits baby in the face. Baby begins to cry loudly. Caregiver softly says, "Oh, oh" as she lifts baby and holds him close to her. Caregiver comforts baby and says, "That scared you," as she gently rocks back and forth and bounces baby in her arms.
In this example, the caregiver enthusiastically greets the baby after she returns to the room; the caregiver stimulates the baby's senses with her tickling and toy rattle; and, she encourages the baby's physical development when she leaves the rattle for the baby to hold. When the rattle falls and hits the baby, the caregiver sensitively responds, gives meaning to the baby's cries and shares physical affection in an effort to soothe the baby. Consider how these experiences help an infant develop trust in the world.
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Katy Perry: Smurfette Dress at 'Smurfs' Premiere!
Katy Perry wears a bedazzled Smurfette dress to the premiere of her new film The Smurfs held at the Ziegfeld Theatre on Sunday (July 24) in New York City.
"Headed to SMURF VILLAGE for the premiere of The Smurfs!!! I'm SMURFETTE!!! I'm blue… aba de aba die aba de aba di aba de aba di! YAY," the 26-year-old singer tweeted on her way to the premiere.
Look closely at Katy's nails – they all have Smurf designs on them! Amazing!
Katy voices the character Smurfette in the film, which hits theaters this Friday.
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Katy Perry's false eyelashes and a pair of Primark jeans have made it into the V&A. The 160-year-old museum, which once had a policy of not collecting items less than 50 years old, is curating them for its latest 'rapid response' exhibition on mundane items that have come to symbolise controversies.
The dark Primark jeans were made in the Dhaka factory that collapsed last year, while Perry's Cool Kitty eyelashes are made using human eyelash hair, for example. But, bar their controversies, Primark and 'falsies' are also pretty representative of British society to any young millennial.
Along with TOWIE, Twitter and 'slebs, they do, sadly, sum up our society to the extent that they'll probably end up on our future schoolchildren's' textbooks under Millennial Life. Here are the top eight.
Historians of the future, take note, and try not to judge us too badly:
1) Kimye
Kanye West and Kim Kardashian
What sums up our society more than the couple who are famous for shameless self-promotion, over-spending and naming their daughter after a compass direction?
Kim Kardashian went from being a low level 'sleb to becoming so famous that even my elderly neighbours know who she is. Her husband Kanye thinks he is God.
2) Twitter followers
Success is now defined by the amount of Twitter followers you have. We know that Justin Bieber, One Direction and Lady Gaga are the most popular celebrities out there simply because of the amount of followers they have - most of whom seem to be love-struck teens.
Amongst us mortals, followers are just as important. I recently over heard a girl on the bus saying: "My goal is to get 10k followers by Christmas. Then I'll get any job I want."
3) The Onesie
The Telegraph's Harry Wallop in a onesie
For the past few years, every fancy dress party has inevitably included a onesie. Tigers, dinosaurs and Teletubbies have taken over our Facebook newsfeeds as everyone – as in EVERYONE - donned the trend that made us look like over-grown babies and made using the loo a very serious process.
4) Hipsters
Original hipster: Nathan Barley
The hipster has taken over Britain. Where men wearing skinny jeans were once just seen in Dalston, they're now anywhere you look. Glasses with no prescriptions, plenty of facial hair and vintage clothes are all hipster wear.
But it's not just the clothes - it's also the lifestyle. Pop-up shops are now everywhere, as is quinoa - the gluten-free grain that no one can pronounce.
5) Tinder
In 2014, the main way to get a date is by using an app. Tinder is the current top choice, and its terminology is even creeping into our dialect: 'I'd so swipe to the right for him,' now means you fancy someone, while swiping to the left means the poor person never had a chance.
6) Pubic hair
The mannequin
It's not quite as controversial as Primark's factory conditions, but pubes have become a 2014 talking point. They've been given their own film, Cameron Diaz has been preaching against Brazilian waxes, and American Apparel even gave their mannequins hairy merkins. Perhaps the V&A could add those to their collection.
7) Vouchers
In the post-recession world, boastful purchases are not OK. Instead, it's all about vouchers. The most popular restaurant on a Wednesday is Pizza Express with its 2 for 1 deal with Orange, and a 50 per cent off voucher in any high street chain is bound to go down well.
8) The Hunger Games
The mockingjay symbol
Katniss Everdeen is the female heroine every female teen (and adult) wants to be. Her 'mockingjay' signal, which the characters use as a symbol for their revolution, has even caught on to the real world as protestors in Thailand recently used the gesture during a demonstration.


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Hudson will start season opener for Braves
KISSIMMEE, Fla. — Tim Hudson has been picked to start on opening day for the Atlanta Braves.
Braves manager Fredi Gonzalez announced his choice Thursday. It will be the third time Hudson has pitched the opener for Atlanta. He also made three opening-day starts with Oakland.
Hudson will start at home on April 1 against Philadelphia. Paul Maholm and Kris Medlen will follow in the three-game series.
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Mike Minor will start against the Chicago Cubs at home on April 5 and rookie Julio Teheran will complete the Braves' rotation.
Hudson was 16-7 with a 3.62 ERA last year. He has a 105-65 career record in eight seasons with the Braves.


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Let's see if he can still do it a few weeks from now when he can't sneak up on anyone.
Quote from: Scott on October 2, 2011, 09:32 PMWith the first pick in the 2012, the Minnesota Vikings select...I wish they would get the first pick, they're one of the very few terrible teams this year who would NOT be looking to draft a QB high. Thereby increasing the odds of a trade for the right to draft Andrew Luck. I want that kid in a Redskins uniform in the worst way.
He'll be coming back down to earth soon enough. He's not going to average 400 yards per game passing.
Actually, if you exclude the game he played in heavy rain he 's averaging 409 YPG already. And that's against some pretty good defenses in the Cardinals, Packers, and Bears. The rest of the Panthers schedule is no worse than what he's already faced.
No one has ever averaged 400 yards in a season, forget in a career. Cam Newton isn't going to be the first.
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So this year I've managed to make it to every home game except three, plus the two away games here in the Sacramento area. I've spent countless hours driving; at least 3 hours to and from Oracle arena every single game. I'm not a season ticket holder, which meant scouring craigslist and ebay for the best tickets and traveling all over the bay area to get them. I've had to deal with flakes, frauds, and phonies, and I've forked over easily thousands of dollars to watch my favorite team. I even bought league pass so I could watch all the away games. Warriors' basketball began to take a firm hold on most of my free time; When I wasn't watching it, I was browsing the internet for every article remotely related to the Warriors and kept an ear on KNBR radio for every tidbit, rumor or insight.
Time and money well spent if you ask me. No doubt.
Sure, there were more than a handful of losses and disappointments, and like most of you my heart nearly dropped during the winding minutes of the Suns' game monday with the sad realization that our season was all but over. Making the playoffs for the second year in a row would have been the icing on the cake to a great season and would've honestly made me happy beyond comprehension, but not doing so hasn't taken away anything from all those great moments and memories I've been fortunate enough to witness. Not making the playoffs hasn't detracted from the utter joy I felt when Baron hit that last shot against the Celtics or that come-from-behind victory against the Lakers.
Now, unless Chris Cohan frequents this board, I doubt there is anyone who has invested the same amount of energy, time, and money I have this season on the Warriors. And it was all worth it as far as I'm concerned. It was easily the most exciting brand of basketball since quite some time. I can't count how many times my stomach has turned watching these guys play, but usually in the end I was left satisfied and glad I was there for the ride. So for all of you who keep bitching and moaning, and demanding so-and-so get traded or fired blah blah blah, keep it moving and hop on the next bandwagon (I hear the Celtics and Lakers are quite popular now), because if you've had to stomach 13 dismal seasons, you'd understand how much of a success this season was and how bright the future is for this franchise (I am aware however, that we have more than our share of upcoming free-agents, and we could possibly see a considerably different team).
Anyways, I've managed to upload all the pictures I've taken this year at the games (I didn't take pictures of all the games, however). They are located for your viewing pleasure at:
Some of my favorites
Jack doing some quality control:
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I wanted to start a 'All-Time Favorite GSW Moments' thread but while checking if a similar topic had been started I JUST SAW THIS ONE. So let's post all memorable moments here: pics, vids.. LET'S DO IT!!
Sorry for bumping the old thread, but didn't wanna start a new one. ;)
Sorry for bumping the old thread, but didn't wanna start a new one. ;)
Any thread that brings back Jessica Alba is fine with me. I remember being at that game a couple sections away, and I couldn't take my eyes off of her. Just as beautiful in person. Unfortunately, they go their ass kicked by Utah that night. She got major props for busting out the We Believe shirt in the 4th quarter in an attempt to rally.