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People whose mothers showed depressive symptoms during pregnancy had an increased risk for depression themselves at age 18, a long-running British cohort study indicated.
Prenatal depressive symptoms were an independent risk factor for depression in adult offspring with an odds ratio of 1.23 (95% CI 1.03-1.44) for each standard deviation of increase in prenatal depression scores on a self-reported instrument, after adjusting for a variety of potential confounding variables, according to Rebecca M. Pearson, PhD, of the University of Bristol in England, and colleagues.
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- People whose mothers showed depressive symptoms during pregnancy had an increased risk for depression themselves at age 18.
- Point out that maternal education appeared to be a significant factor affecting the relationship between postnatal depression (but not prenatal depression) and risk in the children.
Findings in the longitudinal study of more than 4,500 parents and their young-adult children indicated a trend toward increased depression risk in the offspring associated with postnatal maternal depression, but it did not reach statistical significance (adjusted OR 1.13, 95% CI 0.94-1.34), per standard deviation in maternal depression score.
Maternal education appeared to be a significant factor affecting the relationship between postnatal depression (but not prenatal depression) and risk in the children, the researchers reported online in JAMA Psychiatry.
Although the study did not evaluate the effects of maternal depression treatment on offspring depression risk, Pearson and colleagues argued that the results "suggest that treating depression in pregnancy ... may be most effective" for preventing the illness in their children.
Previous studies have linked depression in adolescents to postnatal depression in their mothers, but the potential contribution of depression during pregnancy has not been well studied, the researchers explained. One study found an association between prenatal depression and behavioral problems in younger teens.
Elizabeth Corwin, PhD, RN, of Emory University School of Nursing in Atlanta, told MedPage Today that the study results were "exciting" because they help to fill this gap, and did so with a study sample large enough to support detailed statistical analyses.
But she suggested that the researchers' conclusion regarding benefits of maternal treatment for offspring may have been an over-reach.
"They do not address whether or not it will alleviate [offspring depression], had no impact, had any impact," Corwin said.
"Other researchers have looked at the same problem, and it is hard to tease out women who have been treated compared to those who have not, and the effects on offspring. This is a difficult area."
In the study, Pearson and colleagues analyzed data from the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children. This project enrolled pregnant women in the Avon area of southwestern England who had predicted delivery dates from April 1991 to December 1992.
A total of 15,247 pregnancies were initially registered, but pre- and postnatal depression was assessed in only 8,937. Follow-up data on offspring at age 18 were available for 4,566. Paternal depression data were collected in 2,475 cases.
Maternal depression was assessed with the Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale (EPDS), a 10-item questionnaire administered to participants before and after delivery, yielding a score of 0-30 with 12 considered the threshold for significant depression. Depression in offspring was measured with the Clinical Interview Schedule (revised version) to produce a simple yes/no for the presence of major depression.
In univariate analysis of EPDS scores against the presence or absence of depression in offspring, prenatal depression was a significant risk factor with an odds ratio of 1.28 (95% CI 1.08-1.51) for each standard deviation in EPDS score. Postnatal depression was also significantly associated with offspring depression in the univariate model (OR 1.24, 95% CI 1.10-1.44).
However, such maternal factors as age, parity, social class, education, previous history of depression, smoking during pregnancy, breastfeeding, and others reduced the strength of these associations -- slightly in the case of prenatal depression, which remained a significant risk factor, but markedly for postnatal depression.
When Pearson and colleagues stratified the sample by maternal education, those with below-median educational attainment did show a significant association between postnatal EPDS score and offspring depression (OR 1.26, 95% CI 1.06-1.50, per standard deviation in EPDS). No association was evident in those with high education levels.
In contrast, prenatal depression was significantly linked to offspring depression irrespective of maternal education.
Paternal depression appeared to have no influence on the child's depression risk.
Because the study found different relationships with offspring depression for prenatal versus postnatal maternal depression, Pearson and colleagues suggested that these forms of maternal depression affect the child through different pathways. They argued that prenatal depression may affect the fetus biologically in utero, whereas postnatal depression may be "transmitted" primarily through differences in the home environment and social support.
On the other hand, the researchers acknowledged that the findings may reflect "shared genetic risk."
Limitations to the study included the large number of children lost to follow-up and the absence of maternal depression measures during the children's adolescent years.
Corwin also pointed out that the study lacked data on the course of pregnancies in study participants, noting that maternal depression during pregnancy has been linked to adverse outcomes such as premature birth.
The study was funded by the Wellcome Trust, the Medical Research Council, and the National Institutes of Health.
Study authors declared they had no relevant financial interests.


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CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- On Jan. 14, 2009, officials from Aracoma Coal Co. pleaded guilty to 10 mine safety crimes. Prosecutors uncovered the violations during their investigation of a January 2006 fire at Aracoma's Alma No. 1 Mine in Logan County.
Delorice Bragg and Freda Hatfield were in court that day, too. Their husbands, Don and Elvis, died in the fire. The widows came to speak out against the government's promise not to bring any future charges against Aracoma's parent company, Massey Energy.
It wasn't the first time government officials went after Massey but settled for a deal with one of the Richmond, Va.-based coal giant's subsidiaries or a low-level company staffer.
Despite years of environmental problems and dozens of mining deaths, Massey and its corporate officials -- including now-retired CEO Don Blankenship -- have mostly escaped any serious, direct punishment.
At Aracoma, prosecutors said they just didn't have a case against Massey or any of its officers, executives or agents. Bragg and Hatfield weren't so sure.
"If Massey executives have done nothing wrong and bear no criminal responsibility for the fire that killed Don and Elvis, why do they need this deal?" Bragg said at the time. "If they're innocent, they don't."
U.S. District Judge John T. Copenhaver heard the widows out. The deal sounded a little unusual, the judge said, but he didn't want to second-guess prosecutors.
Aracoma Coal Co. paid a $2.5 million criminal fine and $1.7 million in civil penalties, the largest combined payment ever in a coal-mining death case. Five of the subsidiary's mid- and low-level foreman later pleaded guilty to misdemeanor charges. No one went to jail.
Massey Energy says its corporate policy puts safety first. Blankenship repeatedly said his company never put profits or coal production ahead of people.
However, long before 29 miners died in an explosion a year ago Tuesday at Raleigh County's Upper Big Branch Mine, Massey had its share of run-ins with the law. Inspectors doled out thousands of citations, and agencies levied millions in fines. Widows and injured miners sued. Citizens filed pollution complaints. In the past decade alone, at least four Massey subsidiaries have pleaded guilty to workplace safety or environmental crimes.
Still, regulators have almost always cited one of Massey's maze of operating subsidiaries or independent contractors. Prosecutors squeezed section foremen or fire bosses into guilty pleas. Even personal injury lawyers who represented the families of miners killed at Massey operations generally ended up in court against a subsidiary several layers from Massey, or against one of the firm's insurance carriers.
"Enforcement doesn't reach into the boardroom," said Davitt McAteer, a longtime mine safety advocate who ran the U.S. Mine Safety and Health Administration during the Clinton administration and is conducting an independent investigation of the Upper Big Branch disaster.
As Massey grew over the past two decades into the region's biggest and most powerful coal producer, government officials had plenty of chances to rein in the company. Between 2000 and 2009, no other coal company was responsible for more mining deaths than Massey, according to an analysis by the Investigative Reporting Workshop at American University.
However, even the largest-ever penalties in mine safety and environmental cases involving coal operators were not enough to stop unsafe work practices and allegations of illegal pollution.
In January 2008, Massey agreed to pay a $20 million fine to resolve water pollution violations. It was the biggest deal ever between a coal company and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. EPA officials said the settlement tied Massey to new pollution-control plans and improved internal audits that would change the way the company did business.
Two years later, the Sierra Club and other environmental groups filed suit against Massey, alleging the company's water pollution violations actually had gotten worse since the EPA settlement.
When the government settled its case over the Aracoma fire, then-MSHA chief Richard Stickler said the outcome "should be a reminder to all mine operators of their legal duty to provide their workers with safe and healthful working environments."
A year later, the Upper Big Branch Mine blew up.
"Corporate executives and board members have the power to make compliance with the law a company priority," said Pat McGinley, a West Virginia University law professor who is part of McAteer's team. "If rogue corporate officials were forced to spend even a few weeks in jail for condoning serious continued violations of safety or environmental laws, compliance would become a personal priority."
Just beyond a sharp bend in the Big Coal River, in the town of Sylvester, Massey Energy in 1980 built one of the key parts of its growing Southern West Virginia empire: a huge coal processing and shipping facility run by Massey's Elk Run Coal Co. subsidiary. Residents worried from the start that the sprawling industrial site would be nothing but trouble.
"Common sense will tell you that, if you put a preparation plant as close to a town as Elk Run put theirs to Sylvester, you're going to have a problem," said Ralph Anderson, a former mayor who worked for years at coal preparation plants.
Still, the people of Sylvester lived with Massey until the late 1990s, when the company expanded the operation. Massey removed a finger ridge that had extended from south to north across the valley, between the mining complex and the town. The company used the material it excavated to create a large, flat area for coal stockpiling and loading.
That's when, according to residents, dust from Elk Run literally took over their town. State inspectors repeatedly cited Elk Run, and demanded various plans for fixing the problems, but the dust continued.
In February 2001, 150 residents sued Massey. When they got their day in court, then-Boone Circuit Judge E. Lee Schlaegel wouldn't let the jury hear about the dozens of violations and thousands in fines state inspectors had issued to the company. Jurors came back with a verdict against Massey. The company should clean up the dust, jurors said, but without the long record of violations to show Massey put off fixing the problem, jurors declined to punish the company with any punitive damages.
On Oct. 11, 2000, Coldwater Fork and Wolf Creek in Martin County, Ky., flowed black.
The floor collapsed from under the Big Branch impoundment, operated by Massey subsidiary Martin County Coal. More than 300 million gallons of slurry poured out of the impoundment, into the adjacent underground mine and then out into nearby creeks, the Tug Fork of the Big Sandy, along the West Virginia-Kentucky border, and eventually, to the Ohio River.
Near the spill site, lawns were buried in up to 7 feet of sludge. Downstream, more than 75 miles of creeks and rivers were damaged. Prior to last year's BP oil blowout in the Gulf of Mexico, it was considered the largest environmental disaster ever in the Southeast United States.
MSHA investigator Jack Spadaro found that the Massey impoundment had problems before the break, and that MSHA had not followed its own expert's advice about repairs the company needed to make.
When the Bush administration took office in 2001, Spadaro says, it moved to stop any review of those issues. Spadaro resigned from the investigation team and, eventually, left the agency.
"Massey simply ignored the hazard to the public," Spadaro recalled last month. "The company did that, and the agencies let it happen."
Later, lawsuits were settled. A criminal inquiry ended with no charges being filed. Most of the cleanup costs were covered by Massey's insurance policies. The company told stockholders the slurry disaster didn't have a "material effect" on Massey's finances.
In the wake of Martin County, the administration of West Virginia Gov. Bob Wise in August 2001 launched a crackdown on Massey, following a long series of blackwater spills along the Coal River in Boone and Raleigh counties. The state Department of Environmental Protection dug out a tool it seldom used: the ability to suspend or revoke mining permits, and block companies with repeated violations from obtaining new permits to mine coal anywhere in the country.
Leading the charge were DEP Secretary Mike Callaghan, a former federal prosecutor, and Callaghan's mining office director, a former U.S. Department of Justice lawyer named Matt Crum. Massey challenged Crum's authority to preside over enforcement hearings, though, and the cases quickly ground to a halt.
While the state cases languished, federal prosecutors went after two Massey subsidiaries for some of the same violations. Independence Coal and Omar Mining pleaded guilty to criminal violations of the federal Clean Water Act and agreed to pay the maximum fines of $200,000. Violations by both companies continued.
State officials, meanwhile, never permit blocked Massey. Instead, the DEP agreed in January 2006 to settle the cases -- along with hundreds of Massey violations dating back years -- for $1.4 million. By then, a new DEP secretary, Stephanie Timmermeyer, had forced Crum out of the agency's mining office.
Pat Parenteau, who teaches environmental law at Vermont Law School, said Massey's history is a symptom of larger problems with the way the nation's pollution laws are written.
First, big corporations create dozens of subsidiary companies to help shield the parent from liability. Also, Parenteau said, "Although environmental laws impose strict liability, significant penalties and stiff criminal sanctions, they are only as good as the agencies that are charged with enforcing them.
"As we've seen with MSHA, and to a lesser degree with [the] EPA, the problem of 'agency capture' by the regulated industry is a deeply engrained cultural phenomenon in the U.S.," Parenteau said. "And when the agency does flex its muscles -- as [the] EPA has been doing with mountaintop mining and coal-ash regulation -- the members of the Congress who owe their seats to industry move quickly to punish the agency by starving it through the budget process and bullying the administrator in oversight hearings."
Davitt McAteer's phone rang shortly after 4:30 p.m. on April 5, 2010. A reporter was on the line, asking if he'd heard reports about a terrible accident at Upper Big Branch.
"They were asking for as many ambulances as possible," McAteer recalled. Initial numbers of those who were dead or missing shocked McAteer, but he says now that the name of the company involved was no surprise.
"If you look to understand where someone has been, it sometimes tells you where they might be headed," McAteer said last month, "and with Massey, where they had been was not a good place."
McAteer had faced off with Massey before, when he was assistant secretary of labor in charge of MSHA for President Clinton in the 1990s.
After leaving that job, McAteer studied West Virginia mine safety problems for then-Gov. Wise.
In a major report issued in 2001, McAteer singled out the safety records of independent-contract companies Massey hired to do work at its operations. McAteer alleged that Massey used contractors to make its corporate safety record look better. Five years later, Gov. Joe Manchin brought McAteer in to perform an independent investigation of the Aracoma fire.
For years, McAteer watched criminal prosecutions in mine safety cases work out about like the one in 2007 at Massey's White Buck Coal Co. subsidiary.
Federal agents spent nearly five years investigating White Buck's Grassy Creek No. 1 Mine in Nicholas County. They found that mine officials were not conducting pre-shift safety examinations, but were filling out paperwork as if they had done so.
During one hearing in federal court, White Buck foreman William Edwin Wine testified that company managers told him to falsify the pre-shift examination records.
"I was told to do it this way by my supervisors, by my bosses," Wine said.
Massey disputed Wine's story, and the federal charges stopped at Wine, another low-level foreman and the White Buck subsidiary.
McAteer said the nation's mine safety laws put the responsibility for compliance -- and potential criminal liability -- mostly on mid- and low-level mine foremen. When the laws were written, he said, those foremen had a much greater say over how coal mines operate. Today, he said, decisions about spending time and money on safety comes from higher up in parent corporations.
"The structure has changed, and we haven't changed the law," McAteer said. "It's terribly important for management to be made part of the enforcement process."
Shortly after the Upper Big Branch Mine blew up, McAteer recommended a series of changes to West Virginia law to help hold corporate officials more accountable. Manchin, now the junior U.S. senator from West Virginia, declined to push the proposals before leaving the Governor's Mansion for Congress. His acting successor, state Senate President Earl Ray Tomblin, has shown no interest in McAteer's recommendations.
In Congress, Rep. George Miller, D-Calif., has pushed to amend federal mine safety law to make it easer for prosecutors to target corporate officials who knowingly allow criminal safety violations. The House, in early December, voted down Miller's efforts to advance the legislation.
Among those who spoke against the bill was Rep. Shelley Moore Capito, R-W.Va.
"It imposes vague new standards for criminal liability, potentially criminalizing most infractions and subjecting officials to sanctions over which they have no direct control," Capito said.
On Dec. 3, 2010, just after the close of business, Massey Energy announced that Blankenship was retiring as the company's CEO. Under his deal with Massey, Blankenship is expected to receive $12 million in cash by July.
The next evening, Charles R. Qualls, 32, was driving his coal truck down a steep haul road at Massey's Republic Energy Surface Mine along the Kanawha-Fayette County line. Qualls lost control of the truck, the truck overturned, and Qualls was killed. Investigators found the brakes on the truck weren't working properly.
The day of Qualls' wake, Blankenship's attorney submitted a letter to state investigators, invoking his Fifth Amendment right to not answer questions in the Upper Big Branch investigation.
Seven weeks later, Alpha Natural Resources announced that it was buying Massey Energy. The deal is expected to close by midyear.
So far, federal prosecutors have charged two people in the Upper Big Branch inquiry. They allege that one of Massey's security directors lied to investigators and tried to destroy documents regarding the warning of miners that inspectors were on the way. They charged a former Upper Big Branch miner -- who left the operation eight months before the explosion -- with lying about whether he had a foreman's license.
Asked after a court hearing in the security director's case if more charges would be coming, U.S. Attorney Booth Goodwin told reporters to "stay tuned."
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RAMALLAH, West Bank — In a surprise move that could jeopardize U.S. peace efforts, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Tuesday resumed a bid for further Palestinian recognition by the United Nations, despite a promise to suspend such efforts during nine months of negotiations with Israel.
Abbas signed "State of Palestine" applications for 15 U.N. agencies in a hastily convened ceremony televised live from his West Bank headquarters. Abbas said he was compelled to take action because Israel had failed to carry out a promised released of veteran Palestinian prisoners.
"We will apply to 15 agencies and conventions immediately," Abbas said after leading members of his Fatah movement and the Palestine Liberation Organization supported the decision unanimously by a show of hands.
Abbas insisted that he is still interested in negotiating a deal with Israel on the terms of Palestinian statehood, saying he and his aides "will continue our efforts to reach a peaceful solution through negotiations."
Such talks resumed in late July, after a push by U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, and were to last for nine months, until the end of April. During this period, Abbas promised to suspend his U.N. bid, while Israel was to release 104 veteran Palestinian prisoners in four stages.
The Palestinians say the fourth group of prisoners was due to be released by the end of March, and that Israel failed to live up to its promise.
There was no immediate reaction from Israel and from Kerry, who has been mediating between Abbas and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for the past year.
It was not immediately clear if Abbas' decision was a negotiating tactic or signaled a fundamental shift in strategy. In his brief comments Tuesday, the Palestinian leader said he is "not seeking a conflict with anyone, particularly the U.S."
It was also uncertain if a meeting between Abbas and Kerry, tentatively arranged for Wednesday, would still take place.
Abbas' decision, meanwhile, also threw into doubt claims that a deal was emerging that would have extended Israel-Palestinian talks beyond an April 29 deadline and included the release of imprisoned American Jewish spy Jonathan Pollard.
— By MOHAMMED DARAGHMEH and KARIN LAUB
Associated Press


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[Verse 1: Natti]
I'm on an island when my family speaks
As I palm trees
High as the sun of a beach
Right here, quite near to perfecting my speech
But my sleeping habits on average keep me missing my sheets
In the studio blazin the beats
Or clubbin with fly birds, rubbin squeezin their Tweets
Flaked on my intervention, I've been missin for weeks
On an international binge with the friends that I keep
Then come home and roam around in my PJ's, for three days
Eatin sour cream n cheese Lays
Relapse itch hit, I'm scratchin like DJ's
Tracks in my veins show I'm feenin for replays
You say free bass? I'll be right there
I like mine with a nice cut and light snare
Get it to me rapido and I might share
Rappin makes me happy so, why stop why care
I'm hooked
[Verse 2: Deacon The Villain]
I'm up every morning with my mind on a fix
Fire up the midi and let it slide in my mix
Takes from the craziness, I hide in it's bliss
Ride or die, protect my pride, the lioness mane
And I ain't talkin 'bout Jane, I'm playin Rick James
I'm talkin' bass head, nigga, let the shit bang
Moving keys, looka-here, watch us flip game
Ever since a minor the accord has been this strange
I'm in the dark with the black notes
I take humanity and capture it in rap quotes
From the cellars and alleys with the crack smoke
Through the middle to the top where the fat floats
The song is about their love for hip-hop. However, most of the lyrics have double meanings for drug addiction, thus their passion for hip-hop is compared to a drug addiction.


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ATLANTA, GA – The York College softball team concluded their weekend stay in Atlanta, Georgia with a pair of losses in the second day of the Emory Invitational. The Spartans fell to Ferrum 6-0 in the opener before the #23 ranked Emory Eagles downed the Spartans 9-0 in five innings in the nightcap.
The Spartans are now 0-4 for the season while Ferrum is 2-2 and Emory is 8-0.
In the opener, the Panthers jumped on Spartan starter Terra Diehl (Hanover, Pa./Hanover) for three runs on four hits in the top of the first. Suzanne Plasters, Courtney Burner, and Karly Thompson each had run scoring hits in the inning.
Ferrum added three more runs in the second keyed by a two-run double off the bat of Sadie Wallace as the lead grew to 6-0 through an inning and a half of play.
The Spartans offense never got anything going in game one as the Spartans had just four hits and only seven total base runners in the loss.
Diehl took the loss for the Spartans as she allowed three runs on four hits with a walk in just 0.2 innings of work. She falls to 0-2 with the loss. Senior Cory Urkuski (Mohnton, Pa./Twin Valley) came out of the pen and threw the ball well as she allowed three runs on four hits in 6.1 innings of work. She struck out five and also walked five but threw the ball well enough to keep York in the game.
Kaitlyn Culler earned the win for the Panthers as she threw five shutout innings, scattering two hits with four strikeouts and a walk. Aiyana Lew tossed the final two innings and allowed two hits while she struck out two and walked one.
Wallace led Ferrum as she was 2-for-4 with two RBI and a run scored. Shelbie Hall and Burner each had two knocks for the Panthers.
York had four singles in the game and only six base runners in the contest.
In game two, the Eagles blew the game wide open with a nine-run bottom of the third inning. The Eagles notched the nine runs on eight hits and a pair of Spartan errors.
Amanda Kardys earned the win in relief for Emory. She tossed the final 2.2 innings, allowing two hits with two strikeouts. Madeleine Lowery started and allowed three hits with three walks and a strikeout in her 2.1 innings of action. Kardys improves to 4-0 with the win.
Freshman Morgan Levine (Oakland, N.J./Indian Hills) absorbed the loss as she allowed nine runs, five earned, on 10 hits with three strikeouts and a walk in four innings of action. She falls to 0-2 with the loss.
Megan Light led the Eagles as she was 2-for-3 with a grand slam. Micah Scharff added a three-run double while Lauren Gorodetsky also had two hits, two runs scored and an RBI.
Freshman centerfielder Kayleen Bell (Herndon, Va./Westfield) had two hits to lead the Spartan offense. Bell had a team-high five hits in the four Spartan games this weekend. The Spartans again went without an extra base hit in the game.
For the weekend, the Spartans were outscored 33-2 as they hit a combined .209 with three extra base hits, all doubles. York struck out 24 times and drew only seven walks in the four games.
The Spartans return to action on Monday, March 4 when they begin their spring trip in Myrtle Beach, S.C. The Spartans will play eight games during the trip before making their 2013 home debut on March 11 against Shenandoah.


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How to Prove Eligibility for Veterans Benefits
To qualify for a particular veterans benefit, you must prove your eligibility. Eligibility for veterans benefits typically depends on your length of service, where and when you served, and your discharge characterization.
Each and every VA benefit has different eligibility rules. Why? Each and every veterans benefit represents a different law, passed by Congress, at a different time.
Collect documents that prove your eligibility for veterans benefits
For most claims, you must prove two things:
That you meet the qualifications of military service and discharge characterization for that benefit. You prove your status as a veteran by providing a copy of your military discharge form, such as your DD Form 214.
The form includes information about when you served in the military, where you served, medals and awards you earned, and your discharge characterization. If you don't have a copy of this form, you can get a replacement.
For almost any benefit, you'll need to provide a copy of DD Form 214, or its equivalent, to prove you meet the active-duty service and discharge requirements to be eligible for the benefit.
That you meet any other criteria required for that benefit (for example, a service-connected disability). This is where many veterans run into trouble. There's no all-inclusive list of necessary supporting documentation because it differs for each situation, but common sense plays a large part. Remember that, for the most part, the burden of proof to show eligibility for a particular benefit lies with you.
Supply proof of your eligibility for veterans benefits
There is no all-inclusive list of possible documents you can use to support your benefit claim. It depends on your particular situation and the benefit you're applying for.
Citations from military medals and decorations may help. For example, if you submit a citation for the award of the Purple Heart, which is a decoration awarded only to those who are wounded in combat, that makes a pretty clear case that you received an injury in the line of duty.
Sworn witness statements may also help your case, but be careful with those. If they're not worded correctly and are vague, they may actually hurt your case.
Quality, not quantity, counts when qualifying for veterans benefits
It's not the amount of supporting documentation that's important, but whether that documentation supports your claim. The best supporting evidence is:
Specific: Your documentation and witness statements should relate directly to the benefit you're claiming and contain as much specific information as possible. Exact dates and times are more persuasive than "sometime around March of 1976."
A doctor's report that says, "The patient is suffering from a wound that was caused by shrapnel injury, consistent with wounds often received in combat zones," is a whole lot better than, "The patient hurt his knee."
Verifiable: Anyone can write something on a piece of paper and sign it. That doesn't necessarily mean it's true. The evidence you provide should be verifiable. That means you should be able to support it from other sources.
If you claim you were injured during a combat operation in Afghanistan, you should be able to provide evidence that you were actually deployed to Afghanistan (deployment orders, unit rosters, and so forth).
Authoritative: A witness statement signed by your commanding officer or platoon leader is going to carry more weight than a witness statement signed by your best combat buddy. Statements signed by medical corpsmen or doctors about treatment received in the combat zone are similarly effective.
For example, if you submit a sworn statement from your former commanding officer that says, "On July 17, 2003, my unit was undergoing simulated combat training at Dicklehead Army Post. I personally witnessed a tank run over Private Hurtsalot's foot. I immediately summoned medical care, and he was transported to the medical facility with a crushed foot," that would be acceptable documentation.
On the other hand, if you submit 20 sworn witness statements, which all state something along the lines of, "We were practicing war games a few years ago, and tanks were running around everywhere. I didn't actually see his foot get run over, but I remember hearing him scream, and the next day I noticed a bandage on his foot," that probably wouldn't be very helpful to your case.
Asking the VA to assist in proving your eligibility
Under the law, the burden of proof for benefit eligibility falls directly on your shoulders. However, you don't have to do it all alone. In the year 2000, the thoughtful folks who roam the halls of Capitol Hill got together and passed a new law, obligating the VA to assist you in gathering supporting documentation. This is referred to as the VA's duty to assist.
First and foremost, the law requires the VA to tell you, in simple words, exactly what evidence is required to support your claim. That's a big help in itself.
The law also requires the VA to make a "reasonable effort" to obtain the evidence for you. The standard by which the VA must apply this is slightly different depending on the sources of the records.
Federal records: The VA must make a continued reasonable effort to try to obtain those records. The VA can stop pursuing the records only after it is reasonably sure the records don't exist or that a continued effort to get the records would be futile. If the VA comes to this determination, the law requires the agency to notify you and inform you of possible alternatives.
Nonfederal records: The VA must make a reasonable effort to get records such as private doctor records or sworn witness statements. The law requires the VA to send a request for such documents, and if it doesn't receive them within two months, it must make another request.
If there is still no response, the VA must continue to request the records, unless it has reason to believe that the records are unobtainable.
For nonfederal records, you should make every attempt to obtain them yourself, especially medical records. It's not uncommon for medical facilities to ignore such requests unless they come from the patient. Additionally, some of these facilities charge a fee to copy the records, and the VA isn't allowed to pay such fees.


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These screening measures pertain to any departure point where a passport is required to reenter the United States. Customers flying to the U.S. from an international airport are encouraged to arrive to the airport at least three (3) hours prior to departure to allow time to clear security.
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- Customers can expect to see expanded uses of canine screening at international airports and deployment of advanced technology screening
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The following is an excerpt of comments presented earlier this week to the Harford County Board of Education and other public officials. A copy was provided for publication.
On behalf of the students who attend Magnet programs at the Science and Math Academy at Aberdeen High School, the Global Studies Program/International Baccalaureate Program at Edgewood High School, and the Natural Resources and Agricultural Science Program at North Harford High School, we urge you to rescind, or at the very least postpone, your decision to impose a depot stop transportation system.
Our request is based on several factors, detailed below.
First and foremost, you have violated Harford County Public Schools Board of Education Policy. Policy Number 20-0008-000 (Student Transportation - Bus Routes and Stops) explicitly states, "If a request for a material modification to an existing bus route or stop is made, all affected persons shall be provided notice and opportunity for input." Families impacted by the Board's decision to implement a depot bus stop transportation system were not notified of the Board's intent to do so prior to the decision being finalized. Further:
General Counsel Patrick Spicer did not present the proposed policy change to the Board of Education before an open meeting during the 2012-2013 school year.
Families were individually notified via letters dated July 17, only after the Board finalized its decision to impose the depot stop transportation system. The letters informed families that, "In May 2013, the County Council approved the county budget, which resulted in a shortfall of $20.2 million in the Board of Education's previously approved budget. As a result, revenue-generating strategies, as well as many expenditure reductions, were considered and several were adopted in order to save teaching positions and minimally impact the students in the classroom."
In addition to this policy violation, when students applied and were accepted to each of these Magnet programs, including incoming Freshmen, they accepted with the understanding that, "Any student attending a magnet program outside of his or her attendance area will be picked up and dropped off at a consolidated bus stop that is within walking distance of his or her home," as noted on http://www.hcps.org prior to the decision to impose the depot stop transportation system.
Furthermore, the 2012-2013 Parent-Student Handbook and Calendar supports this statement. On page 22, under the Magnet Program and Alternative Education Transportation Guidelines, it states, "Stops for developments are located at the entrance of the development."
Also, the Board's decision to establish each magnet student's home high school as the designated depot stop this close to the start of the 2013-2014 school year, and even efforts to provide parents with an opportunity to identify an alternate high school as a depot stop, presents extraordinary hardships for working parents who are unable to arrange transportation to and from the depot stop. For many, the closest high school depot stop is a considerable distance from and in some cases even in the opposite direction of the Magnet program they attend. For others, even selecting a different high school as their children's depot stop presents other challenges, including safety concerns.
As you have heard, or will hear, parents have additional concerns regarding the safety of their children who must remain at the depot stop until they are picked up or may be forced to walk home from the depot stop.
The 2012-2013 Parent-Student Handbook and Calendar also states on page 22 under the Magnet Program and Alternative Education Transportation Guidelines that, "The school needs to have the student's current address and phone number. Changes cannot be given to the Transportation Department or bus driver by the parent, student or guardian."
Will each high school identified as a depot stop accept responsibility for maintaining contact information for each Magnet program student who arrives at the depot stop before and after school? In the event of an emergency before a parent arrives to pick his or her child up, will the school assume liability for addressing the emergency and contacting the parent? Will an administrator or staff member be available when the students arrive at the depot stop in the morning and/or until the last student is picked up at the depot stop?
For those students remaining at the depot stop until they can be picked up - some of which will be well after the high school day ends - parental concerns include whether or not students will be permitted into the depot stop's high school building, particularly in the event of inclement weather or other unexpected circumstances. Parents have also questioned whether students who choose to drive to the depot stop as a cost-savings measure themselves, will be able to park there, particularly if they are transporting other students who have no other means of getting to and from the depot stop. This raises the concern of increased traffic and potential impact to the depot stop high school. Did the Board request and conduct an Environmental Assessment before rendering its decision to impose the depot stop transportation system? If so, please share the findings. If not, why?
For those students who may be forced to walk home from the depot stop, we share additional safety concerns including inclement weather that can both impede the pedestrian's and driver's visibility thereby putting our students and the larger community at risk of accident. Limited access to sidewalks - and in some communities no access to sidewalks - may require students to walk on the shoulder of the road, also increasing the risk of accident. Students required to cross major roads to get home from the depot stop are at even greater risk. If the safety of our children is one of the Board's primary concerns, are these risks you are willing to take? As members of the Board and in some cases our elected officials, would you be willing to put the safety of your children in jeopardy?
Finally, we believe that imposing the depot stop transportation system at this point in time and without involving and soliciting input specifically related to this matter is in direct contrast to your Parent/Community Involvement Policy (10-0004-000). The purpose of referenced policy is to "affirm the Board's commitment to establishing a strong and effective system of parent and community involvement in the educational environment and with the Harford County Public Schools and to establish standards and criteria related thereto." The policy statement details, "HCPS and individual schools will inform and involve parents, the family of students and the community in student's learning and educational activities and all related decisions." It further states, "HCPS, in pursuing and implementing the above policy goals, will facilitate, support and encourage parents, families and community members in participating as active partners in the educational process and in decision making at both the school and system level." The Board of Education has not provided us an opportunity to be active partners in the decision making process related to this specific matter. It is for that reason that we urge you to rescind, or at the very least postpone, your decision to impose a depot stop transportation system until a public hearing can be held and input from all impacted families is formally considered.
We recognize that Magnet program students are not the only students impacted by the expenditure reductions and impact to transportation to and from school. As parents, our desire to collectively brainstorm alternative solutions on this matter is great and we respectfully request that you provide us the opportunity to do so before moving forward.
Nancy Hofmann
Andre K. Rush


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COOKEVILLE, Tenn. – The Tennessee Tech soccer team will look to even its Ohio Valley Conference record to 3-3 this weekend when it hosts the Bruins of Belmont University. The match, which will take place at the Tech Soccer Field on Sunday, is slated to begin at 2 p.m. CT.
The Golden Eagles split their matches over the weekend, earning a 1-0 victory at Morehead State and falling two days later to Eastern Kentucky, 2-0.
"I think the girls are starting to see that they can compete in the conference and can make it to the conference tournament," said head coach Daniel Brizard. "There's still a challenge ahead of us, but I think we can do it. Earlier in conference play we had a tough loss against EIU, but we rebounded well with a good win over Morehead."
Freshman goalkeeper Jordan Brown made 14 saves over the two-game roadtrip, giving her 90 for the season. She now ranks first in the OVC in saves and saves per game and also ranks 10th in all of Division I soccer in total saves. She has racked up three shutouts on the season as well.
Junior forward Ellie Iaciofano didn't score any points over the weekend, however, she still ranks first in the OVC in both goals and points with eight and 18 respectively. She has accumulated three games with multiple games this season.
"We're hoping to take a good week of training into the match against Belmont," said Brizard. "They're new to the conference, but I think they'll become our biggest thing to a rivalry now that they're in the conference. They're right there in Nashville, just an hour to an hour and fifteen minutes away. We'll compete for some of the same kids in recruiting. I think it's going to be nice. It's always nice to have a little rivalry going for competition."
"They're still strying to find their identity just like us. Our goal is to play well and get a win and move one step closer to the conference tournament."
Scouting Belmont
- Belmont sits at 5-6-1 on the year, splitting a pair of matches last week against Austin Peay and Murray State.
- The Bruins are 1-2-1 in the OVC this season, their first as a member of the conference, owning a notable tie against the OVC-leading Eastern Kentucky Colonels.
- Sunday's match will mark the 13th meeting between TTU and Belmont, with the Bruins holding a 6-4-2 advantage.
- Belmont defeated the Golden Eagles 3-1 in last season's meeting in Cookeville.
- Katie Proud leads the Bruin attack with three goals this season.
- Nicole Berner has recorded 50 saves this season in the net, along with three shutouts.
Daniel Brizard on the Bruins
"They're a hard-working team and very blue collar. They like to put the ball on the floor and pass it around, but at the same time if they see an opportunity for a quick strike, they'll go for it. They have a couple of special players we'll have to look after, but at the end of the day, we just need to go out there and worry less about the other team and concentrate on what we need to do"
"They're going to fast and physical. They have a couple of big girls that will help them win some 50-50's. Heather [Henson] is very methodical in her coaching and her girls are going to be smart. We're going to have our work cut out for us, but I believe it will be a great match."


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Javier Mascherano expects Man Utd target Cesc Fabregas to stay at Barcelona
Javier Mascherano is confident Cesc Fabregas will stay at Barcelona despite interest from Manchester United.
By Pete O'Rourke - Follow me: @skysportspeteo
Last Updated: 31/07/13 6:59am
Fabregas' future at Barcelona has been the subject of constant speculation this summer with United having seen two bids rejected for the former Arsenal captain.
Barcelona insist the midfielder is not for sale at any price and Mascherano believes Fabregas is happy to stay at Camp Nou.
"I didn't talk to him but I think he is happy," Mascherano told Sky Sports News.
"It is difficult when you have to speak about the personal situation of other players because sometimes you don't know what they think.
"I see him here training and he is happy. He grew up in Barcelona and feels the call of the shirt.
"It is difficult when you grow up here to leave because Barcelona is a big team, a big city, really nice to live in and all his family is here.
"I think he is a really key player for us and I think the coach and the people who work here want to keep him."
Speaking last week, United boss David Moyes conceded he was in the dark as to whether the Premier League champions will up their offer or train their sights elsewhere.
The Scot said: "I couldn't tell you if there will be another bid. Obviously we will take stock of it and consider what we are going to do next.
"I never at any time said I knew we would get him. I just said we had made offers.
"But what we have here is a really good squad of players already. You mustn't forget about the quality that is already here at Manchester United.
"Undoubtedly we are hoping to add to it. I am quite confident we will do, certainly before the window shuts."
Former United defender David May told Sky Sports News Radio on Monday that a move to Old Trafford would be "perfect" for Fabregas.
May said: "When good players are there it's right that United should go for them. I wouldn't say that they're desperate; Barcelona are holding on to him, and rightly so because he is a good player.
"I think it's down to Cesc at the end of the day. If he feels he's not going to get in front of Xavi and (Andrés) Iniesta then the move to United would be perfect for him."
You can hear May's full interview, in which he also talks about United's pre-season campaign, here.


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Illusion03 wrote:Guys , Everything was going right till i reached the part of drawing ARCS , Drawing lines was not a big problem. The image which i am getting is suffering from the same problem , some of the arc are overlapping each other and rest are not readable. So please help me out give me a little hint what may be going wrong. I have gone through all the other forum post and i know its about coordinates and left bottom (0,0) thing. But still after trying different combination of coordinates in IMAGEARC function of PHP i am not getting it write.

I am using IMAGEARC as follows.

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Reading from the previous post i m doubling the radius as it is told be equal to height and width.
Moreover i m explicitly converting it to INT as $beg $end the starting angle and the ending angle only accept INT values..

what else i am missing over here so that i can get a clear picture ! aarrrrrh pls help.

OK ok I got it admins , won't be posting codes anymore ! Now the thing for which i posted this regarding that help will be appreciated !

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I don't quite understand how the numbers and letters are filled after the you draw the picture.
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- Italian Grand Prix
Hamilton wins dramatic Italian GP from PerezChris Medland September 9, 2012
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'Mercedes offer him much greater freedom on the commercial side'
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'Morose and monosyllabic' Hamilton fuels speculation
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Button takes positives despite retirement
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Raikkonen pleased with damage limitation
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Lewis Hamilton won a compelling Italian Grand Prix in which both Jenson Button and Sebastian Vettel retired while Sergio Perez came from 12th on the grid to finish second.
Hamilton dominated the race throughout with the action taking place behind him, but Perez, the star performer, finished just 4.3s behind at the end of the race. Fernando Alonso finished third after starting from tenth and couldn't stop Perez passing him seven laps from the end of the race.
Felipe Massa finished fourth after playing a dutiful role for Ferrari, splitting the McLarens at the start and then making way for Alonso midway through the race. Kimi Raikkonen finished fifth, the only other championship contender to make the chequered flag as Mark Webber retired two laps from the end.
Michael Schumacher finished close behind Raikkonen in sixth place ahead of his team-mate Nico Rosberg, Paul di Resta, Kamui Kobayashi and Bruno Senna.
The start of the race saw Hamilton get away well but Massa beat Button off the line for second. Massa had a look around the outside in to turn one but thought better of it as the whole field was cautious on the opening lap.
Alonso's race was set up when he made progress early on to pass Kobayashi in to Parabolica at the end of lap one, and then took Raikkonen before the next corner to run sixth. Schumacher dropped behind Vettel and Alonso by lap seven as the DRS and tow opened up plenty of overtaking opportunities.
Jean-Eric Vergne was the first casualty of the day when he appeared to have a failure at the rear of his car under braking for turn one and flying across the kerbs in to retirement.
Strategy was key once again as the Mercedes and Raikkonen pitted early, and Perez started to inherit places as he ran long on the hard tyre having started 12th. At the front Button passed Massa on lap 19 in to the Roggia chicane and after Massa rejoined in traffic after his pit stop Button was able to come out in clear air despite a slow stop.
Perez had made progress to lead by the time the pit stops had all shaken out, but a key moment unfolded behind him as Alonso attacked Vettel. Having got a slipstream in to Curva Grande Alonso tried to go around the outside of the Red Bull, but Vettel eased him off the road on the grass in a more robust fashion than when roles were reversed 12 months previously. Alonso made it through two laps later, but Vettel was still hit with a drive-through penalty that dropped him to ninth.
As the penalty was handed out, Button's race came to an abrupt end with a loss of drive on the run to Parabolica, promoting Massa to second and Alonso to third as Vettel rejoined behind Webber in ninth. Having lost out to his team-mate, Webber was then told to be aware that Vettel had "a car problem that could cause him to stop suddenly", with Vettel eventually retiring with an apparent alternator failure with six laps to go.
With Massa having been ahead of Alonso, the inevitable switch of positions happened, but not before Perez had emerged as a threat after he started making progress on the medium tyre having extended his first stint to lap 29. Having passed Raikkonen with a strong move in to the first chicane, Perez set off after the Ferraris and reeled them in at over two seconds per lap.
Perez eased past both Massa and Alonso - even travelling quickly enough to worry McLaren sufficiently to tell Hamilton to up his pace - and closed the gap from 20s to 4.3s by the chequered flag. Despite dropping to third, Alonso's day got even better as Webber had a high-speed spin exiting Ascari and flat-spotted his tyres so badly that he had to cruise to the pits and retire with two laps remaining.
The result sees Hamilton close to within 37 points of Alonso, but the fact that he's now the second-placed man in the standings means it was a great day for the championship leader.


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Visitors immediately sense that Beaver is unusual. Nestled
beside towering sand dunes that stretch for miles along the
Beaver River, Beaver Dunes (formerly Beaver State Park)
contains acres of dunes for off-road challengers, plus fishing,
hiking, day-use areas, RV hook-ups and campsites. In addition,
the Beaver Pioneer Golf Course is a challenging and picturesque nine-hole public course next to the park. For hunters, the Beaver River Wildlife Management Area is abundant with deer, quail, pheasant and other game. Other hunting lodges are in the area as well.
A tour of Beaver reveals an impressive school system, library, hospital and nursing home as well as interesting and friendly shops. The area's history can be explored at the Jones and Plummer Trail Museum and the first church building in "No Man's Land"– the Presbyterian Church, c. 1887.
Each April during the Cimarron Territory Celebration, Beaver County hosts the World Cow Chip Throwing Championship Contest which draws international attention. The town's mascot, "Big Beaver" resides prominently in the downtown area awaiting the next tourist's snap of the camera lens! "Big Beaver" has been the subject of thousands of pictures and he is also a target in a geocache hunt for those that participate in that kind of adventure.
The economy is driven by the agriculture and oil and gas industry, as well as the new wind energy industry. We welcome any requests for information you may desire in your consideration of locating a business here. We hope you'll give our area a look and believe you'll find a charming community, rich in history and great people.
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People in the Golden State can sometimes be described as aloof or unapproachable. Certainly the famous are often described that way, probably quite unfairly. But we all can take our knocks 'round these parts.
There was, however, a well-known and beloved figure who was always approachable and always ready to chat: Mr. Huell Howser. People who met the congenial, big-spirited television host just once immediately felt as if they were a part of something special and, well, something warm and kind, too. That was part of the popular host's appeal, the way he drew people in and his natural warmth.
When Mr. Howser passed away last month at the age 67 a sunset gathering at Griffith Observatory helped fans grieve and bid goodbye. But there's now a new chapter in the host's legacy: The Huell Howser Archive and California's Gold Scholarship are set for their "official launch" at Chapman University in Orange on Friday, Feb. 8. Time is 2 to 7 p.m.
A few people featured on the host's "California Gold" series will be in attendance. Also of interest? "Artwork and memorabilia" from Mr. Howser's series and love of California will be on display, as well as a recreation of the host's office. Oh, and this is the fun and quirky side fans always loved: "found objects" from Mr. Howser's road trips will be in the mix as well.
The public is welcome to attend.
Perhaps one of the most stirring parts of the day is the fact that the first person to receive a California's Gold Scholarship will be in attendance.
Mr. Howser often ended his shows with an upbeat wish for the future, whether it was the future success of the people he was visiting or that the little-known place he was at would get some recognition. The scholarship is very much the host's look-to-tomorrow spirit in action, as is the archive as well.


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I did not think Sunday-afternoon football, one of the great pleasures of my life, could get any worse than watching the CBS team of Greg Gumbel and Dan Dierdorf calling the game back in October with the Houston Texans whipping the Ravens.
But it got worse Sunday with Gumbel and Dierdorf at the microphone while Denver dismantled the Ravens 34-17. It was worse, because the offense and Joe Flacco now look totally lost. But I'll leave it to The Sun writers who cover the team to dissect the problems on the field and in the locker room.
I have more than enough meat on my media plate with Dierdorf, Gumbel and the sorry CBS Sports broadcast team led by director Bob Fishman and producer Mark Wolff.
How's this for openers? With 7:12 left in the first quarter, Jacoby Jones ran a kickoff back to the Ravens' 31-yard line.
"Bill, Jacoby Jones should return every kickoff," Dierdorf said in his best act-like-you-know voice. "I don't care if it's 8, 9 yards deep in the end zone. When you've got that kind of talent and explosiveness, I'd let him go every time."
Every time, huh?
Forget the fact that this is just the kind of hot-air, empty-headed, gas-bag statement Dierdorf is famous for. No coach in the world would let anyone run it out every time — or even the majority of times. This is the statement of a drunk sitting in a bar watching the game on an overhead TV, not an analyst in the booth for the sports operation that used to define excellence in NFL coverage.
And it wasn't that great a run to boot — just past the 30-yard line, and it was helped by a blocking-to-the-the-back penalty.
But forget all of that. What's really astonishing about Dierdorf's commentary is that on my recording of the telecast, it sounds as if he is addressing his partner of more than six years, Greg Gumbel, as "Bill."
I played it back six times, because I couldn't believe it myself. And there is some online discussion about what else Dierdorf might have said.
But the folks at Deadspin heard it as "Bill" as well. After six playbacks, all I hear is Bill. (And six playbacks is enough for anything short of the Zapruder film in my book.)
What can I say? Really? I have said everything there is to say about these guys — and they just keep delivering broadcasts that are not anything close to worthy of the league or its TV fans. From the truck to the booth, they seem incapable of the kind of concentration and focus it takes to deliver a quality telecast.
I am not going to make this a catalog of Dierdorf's sins. But what the heck? With 12:05 left in the second quarter, Peyton Manning hit Eric Decker near the Ravens' goal line with a pass. Decker reached for the pylon with the ball before going out of bounds.
As the first slow-motion replay was shown, Dierdorf said, "He sticks it out and hits the pylon. He sticks it out and hits the pylon. And that is a touchdown."
Only it wasn't.
Dierdorf corrected himself later when the second replay clearly showed Decker's left foot was out of bounds before the ball touched the pylon. But that's Mr. Gasbag telling you it's a touchdown whether he knows or not.
OK, one more Diedorf act-like-you-know gas-bag moment. With 6:11 left in the third quarter, he assured Gumbel that, "The Ravens worked on the practice field just as hard as the Denver Broncos did this week."
I guess he was trying to suggest that the Ravens' miserable performance wasn't due to a lack of effort or preparation. But how would he know if they worked as hard as the Broncos? Could he have been at every practice all last week in Denver — and Baltimore? Of course not. He's just making it up.
Act like you know, baby. Act like you know.
As for the direction and cameras, how many years do you think these guys have been covering Manning, the master of the play-action fake? And yet, time after time, the camera followed the runner Manning faked the ball to through the line instead of the receiver to whom Manning ultimately threw the ball. It was almost laughable after a while.
I have been complaining about this crew for at least two years, and CBS Sports has been suggesting right along that I have some kind of animus to Dierdorf and this crew.
Fine, if I had a crew that pitiful, I would try to deflect the criticism with some crazy spin attacking the critic, too.
But here's a fast sample of what some others were saying about the telecast Sunday.
A tweet from actor and die-hard Ravens fan Josh Charles: "Only thing worse than your team about to get scored on is listening to Dan Dierdorf call the game ..."
And here's but one example of the kind of emails I get every Sunday when this crew calls the game.
This one focused on the play-action fakes discussed above: "I think CBS and their team hit a new low in their Bronco game coverage. They consistently missed the play with a tight zoom and then following the fake. Gumbel and Dierdorf were nearly 100 percent incorrect in their analysis of the calls. Makes one wonder if CBS hates Baltimore and that's why we keep getting this crew."
It does make one wonder, doesn't it?


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Happy Christmas everyone, I hope you are all enjoying your Christmas holiday.
I have some good news, the builders have finished the house inside, with the exception of a few little finishing jobs, they finally left on Thursday of this week and we have been cleaning the house ever since, we did not finish getting the house straight until 7pm today, Christmas Day!!!
The good news is that I now have a craft room to show you. I decided to have the walls painted cream and not pink, however, I am sure that pink will be introduced in the design of the room at some stage!
The photo makes the room look quite narrow but it is quite a good size for a craft room, it measures about 3 metres by 4 metres. We have put oak flooring down and fitted an oak door to match and although there are two decent sized windows we have also fitted spot lights in the ceiling to give me plenty of additional lighting.
I absolutely love it and I cannot wait to sort everything out and start choosing the decor, although it may be sometime before we can do that because the room is now full of boxes of stuff that needs sorting through!
Stitching news
I have not been able to do much stitching of late, however I did manage to join in a Christmas Ornament exchange from The Hooked on Exchanging group, but I had to make the same ornament as shown in the previous post because I only had access to that pattern, I will show some pictures in my next post.
Hopefully by about February I will have time to start stitching again, in the meantime I will hopefully post some pictures of my craft pressies I have received for Christmas, but until then, happy stitching everyone and happy christmas to you all!


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Golf View Estates. Prime 26 acres was approved for residential development by the City of Muskego in 2008 for 16 approximately one acre lots on city sewer & water. Across the street from Muskego Lakes Country Club & Golf Course. Includes $50,000 of engineering and design expenses. (Has potential of 20 half acre lots if subdivision layout is re-designed)
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