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This interactive module for Grades 7 and 8 is designed to increase students' ability to recognize bias, prejudice and hate propaganda on the Internet and in other media.
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Framed around key concepts of media literacy, the That's Not Me tutorial examines how entertainment and news media represent diversity and the impact these media portrayals can have on the value we place on individuals and groups in society. The tutorial explores how the media industry is changing to better reflect Canadian society and provides strategies for challenging negative representations and engaging young people in advocating for more realistic and positive media portrayals.
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President Barack Obama on Tuesday snapped a selfie at Nelson Mandela's memorial service in South Africa, proving once and for all that the portraits are not just for self-obsessed millennials.
An Agence France-Presse photographer captured the president posing for the photo alongside British Prime Minister David Cameron and Danish Prime Minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt. First Lady Michelle Obama, by contrast, looks straight ahead at the memorial service.
The moment caught the attention of news sites across the web, and the three leaders' smiles appears to reflect the jovial mood of Mandela's raucous memorial.
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The self-portrait has prompted the mastermind behind "Selfies at Funerals" to post one last picture before officially calling it quits. The last post on the viral Tumblr site was originally supposed to have been one posted on Nov. 13.
"I'd intended for the post below to be the final one here, but then this just happened at Nelson Mandela's memorial service -- not exactly a funeral, to be fair, but I'll go ahead and take credit for the whole thing," wrote Jason Feifer, the Fast Company editor who created the Tumblr in late October.
Selfies were so popular in 2013 that Oxford University Press named it the word of the year in November.
While the three world leaders' selfie moment may be going viral, they broke Kim Kardashian's cardinal rule of selfie-taking.
"You always need it to be a little bit higher," Kardashian said, referring to the position of the phone, in a YouTube video on selfie-taking in November. Obama appears to have the smartphone positioned below the eye level.
The move helps picture-takers capture their best angles, said Kardashian, who herself appeared in a viral selfie in October that showed off her post-baby body.
Other famous selfies this year include one that First Lady Michelle Obama took with first dog Bo. Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton snapped one with daughter Chelsea in June.
Obama's selfie was not the first to be taken at a serious event.
In October, a Florida teenager found Internet fame after he took a self-portrait while his teacher appeared in the background swooning from labor pains.
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text: Thursday, August 01, 2013 APTA Applauds New Legislation Seeking to Curb Physician Referral-for-Profit Mounting evidence that physician self-referral encourages unnecessarily higher use of certain services more than justifies the introduction of the Promoting Integrity in Medicare Act today in Congress. Rep Jackie Speier (D-CA) introduced the bill, announcing during a press conference that it is intended to remove physical therapy and other health care services from the in-office ancillary services (IOAS) exception, which allows for self-referral. APTA and its partners in the Alliance for Integrity in Medicare, or AIM Coalition, strongly support this move to exclude these services from the IOAS exception. The exception—originally intended for same-day services, such as x-rays or blood draws, that are integral to the physician's services and convenient for the patient—has instead encouraged misapplication for financial self-interest. The result is overuse and hundreds of millions of Medicare dollars in unneeded treatments. A series of reports from the Government Accountability Office (GAO) is but one source of evidence that supports this claim. Two published reports have concluded that when physicians provide certain services in their own facilities instead of referring the service to an outside lab, the number of procedures increases, and costs go up. GAO so far has investigated self-referral in advanced imaging services and anatomic pathology. GAO is expected to release a third report, on radiation oncology, any day now, and APTA anticipates the last—and most telling for our profession—report in the series, on physical therapist services, later this year. "APTA strongly supports all efforts to eliminate self-referral situations and relationships that compromise patient access and quality or add cost," said APTA President Paul A. Rockar Jr, PT, DPT, MS. "APTA has worked hard to reach a solution to close this loophole, and we are pleased to see this important legislation introduced." View APTA's Self-Referral webpage for more information and background. Comments This is a great effort by you guys.we in Nigeria delight to collaborate to strengthen our first line contact practice also.thanks Posted by ilesanmi oluwafemi on 8/2/2013 12:20 AM When they force hospitals to decentralize and disallow them from forming monopolies I will go along with the idea. Right now, the Health Care Exchange process is producing a system where people in Maine will not be able to utilize independent physical therapists or even go to any kind of provider or hospital near to them. If they purchase their insurance through the health care exchange in Maine they will have to drive to a MaineCare facility in southern Maine. Referral for profit? I work in a small medical practice, and do so ethically. I am as ethical as any free standing PT, because I evaluate and assess every physical therapy patient. I develop the treatment plan and determine when and how often they will be seen. I collaborate with the other providers in the office as a peer. In fact, I am often called in during office consults as the "resident expert" because of my skill and knowledge set. We've seen dozens of people, briefly and at no cost to them, in three years and made minor recommendations that resolved their condition with no formal PT evaluation and no cost or inconvenience to the patient. This resulted in a significant savings to the patient and other payers. What about the private practice PT who sees every patient 3x/wk x 4-8 weeks? We all know it's possible to justify seeing a patient "one or two more times" to progress their home program and therapeutic exercises... even when maybe they don't need it. But we're encouraging private practice PT, despite the potential for unethical behavior? Because by and large we expect that people are going to be ethical. Some of the issue is also the specialists becoming involved, orthopedists and others, investing in PT providers and staffing with ATCs and even "aides" with a PT or two to "run things". Then seeing people 3x/wk x 12 weeks ad infinitum and billing for 60 to 80 service units of care in an 8 hour day. "The impossible day"... never happens in my practice and never will. Posted by Leon Richard on 8/2/2013 4:08 PM Does this go far enough to for physicians from owning their own outpatient PT clinics? Many orthopedists have their own PT offices to which all patients are sent. Also does it have in it safeguards to force the large healthcare organizations to allow PT to go outside their entities. This too is inappropriate. Posted by Dallen on 8/2/2013 5:48 PM Once again, the ATPA strikes out against POPTS with no data, no information, only assertations. If you want real data - see the following study http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10926-012-9412-y/fulltext.html - which was published in January 2013 in the Journal of Occupational Rehabilitation, and studied over 70,000 worker's compensation patients and one of the findings was: "Patients receiving care in corporate physical therapy clinics and private physical therapy practices consistently had more visits and overall units of treatment during their episode of care than did the other practice settings addressed in this study." Further, review the MedPAC study from 2005: "The 2005 MedPAC Report found that (a) for all conditions, Medicare spending per PT patient averaged $653 in private PT practices, and only $405 in physician groups (for a 38 percent savings in physician groups), and (b) for PT patients with knee and lower leg musculoskeletal conditions, the average PT cost per Medicare patient was $874 in private PT practices and only $639 in physician groups (for a 27 percent savings in physician groups)." See full text of the article at Advance for Physicial Therapy and Rehab Medicine: http://physical-therapy.advanceweb.com/features/articles/another-popts-view.aspx?cp=3 The ATPA should stop spreading misinformation and untruths, and use current data and facts as evidenced by these studies. But then agin, that would not support the self-serving interested of the leaders of ATPA. Posted by Jake on 8/2/2013 5:52 PM Thanks for keeping us up to date and the great work you do. Posted by Dan Walsh on 8/2/2013 7:50 PM Alleluia! I hope this passes. It is long overdue. Pam Chaney,PT Posted by Pam Chaney on 8/2/2013 10:16 PM I understand statistics in relation to medicare spending in POPST as outlined in the earlier comment, but spending results without being tied to outcome results are meaningless. Many patient will not complete their therapy if not satisfied and will look for other options after 3-4 visits of substandard care. Hence the early DC notices. Many patients will come to our office looking for solutions after exhausting a good part of their medicare cap allowance in a POPST. Very frustrating situation. Posted by Rudi Ide on 8/3/2013 9:50 AM Too bad the California Chapter doesn't feel this way. Posted by Debbie on 8/3/2013 10:27 AM Good answer! I see the same in my office. I hear often "they did nothing for me." Probably an overstatement but dissatisfied nonetheless. Our challenge is to continually educate our consumers that they have choices, that their responsibility is to be good healthcare consumers and to deliver outcomes timely so you become "their physical therapist" for all future needs. Posted by Gina on 8/3/2013 9:49 PM I have a sincere question - as a new graduate, should I stay away from seeking employment in orthopedic physician-owned PT outpatient clinics if they are located in the same physical building? What about practices which are PT-owned but reside in the same building as an orthopedist practice and get 50-75% of their referrals from these physicians? If this legislation passes, how will it be implemented in the outpatient community? Could an APTA supporter of this bill please answer these questions - I am job hunting and trying to make the best choices for my future. Thanks! Posted by Elle Gannon on 8/4/2013 12:02 AM hi Jake ( 08-02-2013) Your numbers are correct.In Physician owned and oprated physical therapy care is done by techs, quality and results are poor.No wonder charges per patient PT care is less. When independent physical therapist work for one hour 874 charges are justifiable because results are good patient does not come back for same conditions. In physician office patient get physical therapy for same condition under different diagnosis. In fact medicare pays more for one condition in physician office ( under different diagnosis). Posted by Deepak on 8/5/2013 9:32 AM I work in a medical clinic that is owned by the in-house physician. He is a sports fellow and offers ATC and physical therapy services in the office. The physician also has good relationships with other physical therapy clinics in the area and always offers the patient the choice of where to pursue rehabilitation services. We are an ethical practice, and a very good one at that. If you want to find unethical practices, all you have to do is look to large, corporate, physical therapist-owned offices who bill the max number of units for every patient seen, regardless of need. The patient's from our physician's clinic have the ability to see whichever physical therapy group they want. They choose, key word-choose, ours because of the communication, cooperation, and collegiality that our office provides above the others. Our patient's receive the best care because all of the providers are working together on their case. I am a member of the APTA and appreciate the leadership and support they provide, but this is an issue where I disagree. The APTA and the majority of schools are closed-minded to POPTS. The opportunity to practice unethically is available to both POPTS and physical therapist-owned clinics. Ask good questions and research the clinics when interviewing, then make the best decision for yourself. There are good POPTS in our medical system that provide excellent rehab to their patients, it's time to stop the witch hunt. Posted by Detlef Maltas, DPT on 8/5/2013 9:59 AM About time! Thank you! Posted by Alex Ivashenko on 8/5/2013 11:21 AM Great Insite Detlef and Jake. I also work in a POPTS and we provide specialized and specific PT, working in collaboration with the physicians. Being called unethical because of the location where I practice is out of line. Our physicians always give their patients a choice depending upon where they live, but ~50% choose to come to me. I consider myself an ethical PT and have worked in non-POPTS where questionable practices were encouraged. I have a choice to leave those situations and provide ethical practice elsewhere. BCBS gives my a report every quarter comparing me to other OP PT in my state, and am continually demonstrating an A rating in cost effectiveness. In addition, I track pt satisfaction surveys and outcome scores to further demonstrate my quality of care. So, the proof is in the pervervial pudding. What flavor are you? Posted by Renee Hill on 8/6/2013 2:20 PM Whether you are a PT; MSPT or DPT this will benefit all of us. Lets face it the reality stands that the Orthopedic surgeons have added ancillary services to their clinics once the reimbursements for their scope of practice services dropped a while back. In addition, while initially they only dealt with the easy high paying Medicare billing PT cases in direct violation of the Stark Law, and left out the lower paying HMO's and Workers Compensation,now they are after everything leaving nothing for some of us who dreamed of opening and succeeding in having a private practice as we rightfully and legally earned the right to do so by attending accredited programs. Considering that Workers Compensation was the only fair source of referrals based on quality of service and compliance for us to stay in business, since all the rest was absorbed in house by POP's and OP hospital clinics where these surgeons were affiliated to, now even this is eliminated since the Physicians have found a loophole to coerce the workers compensation cases to stay in house even though they are out of network. This is costing the state 3 times more then sending it to us. So when you mention that we are over charging and over utilizing think again. Now, there are good and bad in every profession but at least the consumer should have a choice to go where they choose to do so based on on line ratings, word of mouth and actual visits at our clinics, rather then being coerced. It is true, they do refer once in a while but only the left overs. Only the cases that the in house clinics cant handle due to the fact that these cases need too much attention which will limit their profitability since they cant squeeze 3-5 patients in one hour. By eliminating the POP's we all would have a fair chance and the entrepeneurship in this country as we rightfully are entitled to do so if we choose to pursue this path as US citizens.In addition we don't have to humiliate ourselves anymore by taking lunches to their offices which are consumed like vultures without even saying a simple thank you. In the end despite the fact that we present our credentials, flyers and business cards NO referrals are ever sent. Somehow it appears to be an epidemic since they always state "we are out of cards, we keep sending you all our cases". Its sickening. To the comment posted by Posted by Jake on 8/2/2013 5:52 PM Last week Align Networks "A large workers compensation group" dispatched a patient to our clinic since we are in network with them and through hard work and dedication we achieved a preferred provider status. When we tried to contact this patient which had a meniscus repair, he stated that the surgeon told him to stay at his clinic.We contacted the referral coordinator from Align Network which stated that this particular Physician was out of network for the Physical Therapy service. The claims adjuster was given no choice but to approve the out of network charges by this Physician. This is a shame because until this point we had a steady stream of referrals from this workers company group and now that this Ortho group started in house therapy services, our census dropped by 75% with a risk to close down and affecting all of our employees and their families as well as all the small local businesses that we dealt with for operating supplies. So if you want facts here are the facts. Blerim Dibra PT, DPT Private practice owner in Homestead FL Posted by Blerim Dibra PT, DPT on 4/6/2014 4:53 PM There are some studies are for and others are against so the data is a wash. Ultimately it is the choice of the patient to choose who they see, it is as you say we all have rights. Anyone can start any kind of business they want in our country, that is part of what makes it great, but success in entrepreneurship is not a right it is something you earn. Posted by Hi my name is on 7/20/2014 8:53 PM I am a PT who owns a small outpatient clinic for 26 years and I would like to comment on the topic of POPTS and referral for profit clinics. I have read two studies, one done in 1990-91 and one in 2005 who state that POPTS actually save money in costs per patient by approximately 38% over privately owned clinics. My comment to this issue would be this. If I were a PT in a POPTS clinic I have only so much space and resources to treat patients. Now, my referral source is 5 - 20 Orthos each doing 10 surgeries a week and with each doctor seeing another 25 patients 2-3 times per day in the office. Potentially I could have 15 - 20 new referrals per day to my clinic. I cannot envision a situation where I could see all of these patients in a timely manner and my bosses would not like me telling a new referral we can schedule you in 4-6 weeks from now, so, I could see the situation whereby patients number of treatments would be limited resulting in less cost per patient. I would like to see studies where the quality of treatments were studied. Were goals met? What do patient surveys reveal? If you want to do numbers how about examining how many treatments in a day are performed in a POPTS versus a Therapist owned clinic. My bet is that POPTS volume (number of treatments) is considerably more than 38% than my volume in a day! Posted by Eric on 12/12/2014 12:59 PM I work for a POPTS, where 85% of my caseload comes from the Physician who owns the practice. The patient has a choice where they go, and I see anywhere from 8-11 patients a day (1 hour evals, and regular visits arriving each 1/2 hour. Our focus is on preventing surgery (MD's surgery schedule has cut down 50% in the last 2 years) post injury, and on optimal rehab post surgically (often with complicated and intensive surgeries). We send patients out to a therapy specialist when we cannot get the problem solved expeditiously and with excellence. We discharge as soon as the patient is appropriate to go to HEP, and without compromising ethics in any way. With reimbursements for therapy dropping every year, the MD who owns the clinic is satisfied if he just breaks even, so that he can get the best outcomes for his patients by having "in house" therapy. And I do believe that In house therapy is superior because he personally explains to me his surgery techniques/considerations, I have developed a full online library of best protocols for reference, I can pull up his diagnostic testing, his patient follow up notes, and ALL patient details needed. Besides that, the POPTS supports advanced certifications, degrees, and pays a good salary. Best job I ever had, and patients love coming here. The issue should be to cut down on clinics that over-use services, and defy ethics, not necessarily on the classification of where the services are coming from. Posted by Melanie Broome, PT, DPT, OCS, OMPT, CEEAA, Myofasc on 5/9/2015 10:12 AM


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NATIONAL HARBOR, MARYLAND — Parker 14-year-old Frank Cahill spent the afternoon clearing his head and trying to relax before tonight's finals at the National Spelling Bee.
Cahill is one of nine kids left at the National Spelling Bee, which starts in 30 minutes.
Before going backstage, Cahill told me he already felt like a winner being among the nine best spellers in the country after scoring 24th last year in the Denver Spelling Bee. He said if he would have studied this afternoon, it would not have stuck and it would have further confused, or worse panicked him.
He worked with a coach all year to brush up on Latin roots and hundreds and hundreds of words. He gave up vacations with his family and time with his friends to study, study, study.
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San Francisco's Tenderloin neighborhood is about as concrete as it gets. It's gritty character is imbrued with the poor and down-and-out who inhabit its streets and single room occupancy hotels.
It isn't a place to imagine rolling grass or lush gardens.
At just over an acre, Boeddeker Park represents the Tenderloin's largest open space. It is the playground for neighborhood kids, and a backyard for the area's estimated 50,000 residents.
Founded in the 1980s on the site of a former bowling alley, the park is a maze of heavy black fences and brick walkways, giving the sense of a fortress.
"The park is so fenced in," said Betty Traynor, head of the Friends of Boeddeker Park. "Many people have said it reminds them of a prison."
On a recent day, a group of uniformed kids from the San Francisco Christian Academy played on the park's antiquated playground. The school doesn't have its own playground so kids come to Boeddeker for recess.
We play freeze-tag and we just talk and hang out," said student Tracy Martinez. "It's like a yard when you play."
The park is now about to undergo a massive transformation thanks to an unlikely savior. The Trust for Public Land, a national organization devoted to preserving the nation's open spaces, is spearheading a makeover of Boeddeker. Through its urban space programs, the organization is helping to raise nearly $6 million dollars to renovate the park.
"This is going to be their backyard where they can run and play and sit under a tree or exercise," said Trudy Garber of the TFPL. "Get out and breathe fresh air."
The plans call for the removal of many of the park's menacing fences and the addition of a new club house, a full basketball court, soccer field and childrens'playground. A large cistern will catch rainwater for use in a new community garden.
"This park is not working right now and we need to make it better," said Garber.
Neighborhood activists say greening the park will enhance the rare commodity of space in an area famous for its drug dealing and street crime.
"To have a place where kids can run around and play," said Esan Looper of the San Francisco Boys and Girls Club, "it means everything when you don't really have that.'
Some critics have questioned whether the changes improve safety, and whether the some of the features, like a basketball court are necessary. San Francisco's Parks and Recreation Commission is set to vote on the plan Thursday. If passed, groundbreaking would take place in August.
The City says the downside is the park would be closed for about two years while the work is done. It expects other smaller parks in the Tenderloin will pick up the slack while the work is done.
Once it's done, planners ultimately hope the rolling lawns will bear little resemblance to the concrete world just beyond its gate.
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Boeddeker Park has the money to undergo a major renovation but will it?
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ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) — Jered Weaver outpitched Mike Pelfrey with eight innings of two-hit ball and Albert Pujols drove in the only run, leading the Los Angeles Angels to a 1-0 victory over the Minnesota Twins on Wednesday.
Weaver (5-5) struck out nine and walked one in his first home start against the Twins since his no-hitter on May 2, 2012. The three-time All-Star right-hander retired 19 consecutive batters during one stretch — just four days after teammate C.J. Wilson set down 18 in a row during his 2-0 win against Oakland.
Weaver improved to 8-2 lifetime against the Twins with a 3.28 ERA. Doug Bernier, a 33-year-old rookie who got his first major league hit and RBI in Minnesota's 4-3 win on Monday, singled on an 0-2 pitch with one out in the first. The Twins didn't get another baserunner until Ryan Doumit walked on four pitches with two out in the seventh, and rookie Aaron Hicks singled with two out in the eighth.
Ernesto Frieri got three outs for his 25th save in 27 chances, less than 24 hours after giving up five runs including a grand slam by Chris Herrmann in the 10th inning of the Angels' 10-3 loss. The right-handder ended it by striking out Herrmann with runners at the corners.
Angels right fielder Josh Hamilton missed his third straight game because of right ankle stiffness.
Pelfrey (4-8) pitched six innings and allowed five hits, including Pujols' run-scoring single in the first. The right-hander, who signed a one-year, $4 million contract with Minnesota in December after spending his first seven seasons with the Mets, is 1-5 with a 4.64 ERA in his last 12 starts. His only victory during that stretch was July 6, when he pitched six innings of 3-hit ball in a 6-0 win at Toronto.
NOTES: With C Joe Mauer back in Minnesota spending quality time with wife Maddie and newborn twin daughters Emily and Maren, the Twins recalled Drew Butera from Triple-A Rochester after placing Mauer on the paternity list. Butera, who spent the previous three years as Mauer's backup, had 79 at-bats with the Red Wings after recovering from a broken left hand. … Former Minnesota SS and current TV analyst Roy Smalley recalled Wednesday that when he played for the club, owner Calvin Griffith offered a $10,000 bonus to any Twins player whose wife gave birth to twins. Smalley's twin daughters Catherine and Laura-Leigh were born in 1984, just before he began his third spring training with the Yankees. And by the time Smalley returned to the Twins in 1985 — a year after Griffith sold the franchise to Carl Pohlad — the offer was no longer valid. … Weaver, who became a father for the first time on July 5, is 3-1 with a 1.33 ERA in four starts since then, lowering his overall figure to 2.98. … Pelfrey is 3-1 in four career starts against the Angels, including a 9-6 decision over Weaver on June 16, 2008 in his only other appearance at the "Big A." A couple of hours after that game, the Mets fired manager Willie Randolph. … Angels CF Mike Trout was 0 for 4, ending his career-best hitting streak at 15 games. … The Angels signed 38 of their 39 draft picks this year, the best percentage in the franchise's 53-year history. The only exception was RHP Blake Goins, a 12th-round selection who decided to attend the University of Texas.
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1) I went to the SU and moved to the last page of the questions list. I selected this old unanswered question from the last page How can I remote desktop from Windows XP into Windows Vista? and voted for it
2) Then I click on Questions tab and checked Hot and Active... It doesn't appear on either of them. And it was not in the Newest too.
So, my question is does Voting for a really old question can bring any attention of community to it?
Or it was initially supposed that only author can reanimate the question (by editing it or assigning a bounty). And also a user with 500 score can retag questions, that seems to be similar to Edit and also will move the question on top of the stack.
What I suppose that Active questions should be ordered, taking into account any kind of activity - comments, voting, putting a favorite start, edit, retag and so on...


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Gordon Matta-Clark (1943 - 1978) was one of the most influential artists of his generation, and was also the brainchild behind the infamous BONE MEAL in 1971 at the artist-run Food restaurant in New York City's SoHo neighborhood. He served numerous bone-intensive dishes to the guests and then returned their leftover bones to the as necklaces.
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How To Create a Holga Photo Effect
Framing your focal photo is an excellent way to make it stand out on your scrapbook layouts. On this page, Joey Manwarren added a frame by re-creating the look of an image taken with a Holga camera--a toy camera developed in the '80s (now with its own cult following), which adds a unique shadow around an image. You, too, can try this for your layouts.
Although the original Holga effect came from taking photos with the Holga camera, today, you don't have to own this pop culture plaything to get the look. Instead, use Photoshop Elements 8, and follow these simple steps:
1. Open photo, save under new name.
2. Click on Layer > Duplicate Layer.
3. Select Multiply from Layers pop-up menu.
4. In Toolbox, select Eraser tool, and set mode to Brush. Choose large, soft brush.
5. Position brush over photo, and erase center of image.
Tip: To darken frame, duplicate Frame Layer (hold down Ctrl + J). Repeat until desired darkness is achieved.
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And a Happy Dead "Week" to You, TooMonday, May 30th, 2011
Spring quarter seems to elicit a stifling set of canned interactions near its finish. We talk about our summer plans, remark on how shockingly fast the quarter has gone, ask seniors how it feels to be leaving, do our best to have a fling or two, and then, inevitably, lament the period that threatens to darken every drop of sunlight we enjoy: Dead Week.
Stanford students reserve a special place in their groaning repertoires for Dead Week, and this spring's version promises not to disappoint. Those hoping for a respite from the typical stress mentioned above can take comfort in the fact that this "week" makes even less sense than usual: one holiday, two packed days of class, one study day, and then exams starting on Friday. We might as well be members of the Amondawa, an Amazonian tribe that according to American and Brazilian researchers possesses no abstract concept of time.
One would think that, under the circumstances, we might get a break for those two little class days so that we could concentrate on our finals. However, Dead Week is so prevalent in our study culture that the Registrar has developed specific policies to standardize its mayhem. Although such standard operating procedures might help during most quarters, they have now crafted an environment of insanity. According to the Registrar Office's End-Quarter Policy Statement, which addresses the last week before finals, "Major papers or projects about which the student has had reasonable notice may be called due in the End-Quarter Period." This means that, as is my case, one can have a major paper due on Tuesday and then a final term paper due on Friday in the midst of preparing for exams on the following Tuesday and Wednesday.
No matter how "reasonable" the notice I receive happens to be, this situation is a classic example of an organizational process model revealing its human flaws. Other students may face much more daunting tasks than I, and there is little they can do about it other than complain to the Registrar's Office, which is famous for dragging its feet in any official academic complaint. One could argue that a sensible student would have planned ahead for the crunch time. I would respond that I planned to the extent that I could, as I would in any other quarter. Unfortunately, this quarter gave me less time to do the same amount of classwork, along with an uptick in non-academic work as I sought, among other things, to secure a job for the summer. The most I could do was plan to be stressed.
So, instead of Dead Week, we now have a Dead Week time-lapse, complete with a new energy drink called "eVolv." At least the primal scream will sound the same. Although I normally opt for the stoic approach, I may even participate this year, especially if some partially deaf aficionado of electronic music sits across from me in the library with erratic beats emanating from his or her earbuds. If we are loud enough, perhaps someone at the Registrar's Office will notice.


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Grouches are an eccentric race of pessimistic, argumentative, unhygenic furry creatures who prefer to live wherever there is garbage: trash cans, city dumps, even the occasional landfill (although, some Grouches live in crummy houses, broken cars, and some live in "yucky beautiful houses.") Grouches are a distinct species from Monsters.
A Grouch's mission in life is to be as miserable and grouchy as possible, and pass that feeling on to everyone else. Only then will a Grouch feel in touch with his or her world and be happy. Yet, even though a Grouch may show happiness at anyone's misfortune (including his or her own), a Grouch would never admit to being happy. Such is the stability of a Grouch's life: so balanced, and yet so unbalanced. Oscar is especially aware of this.
Anything a Grouch likes is best described (to you and me) as rotten, smelly, yucky, awful, dirty and trashy to name a few. A Grouch will only buy appliances that don't work, keep pets no person would keep in a house (such as elephants and worms), eat foods that are undesirable for any reason (they have a particular affinity for sardines in anything), sing out-of-tune, play the radio at high volume, and bathe in mud. More about Grouches can be learned in the book How to Be a Grouch.
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While Oscar the Grouch is the best-known Grouch to viewers of Sesame Street, many other Grouches have surfaced over the years. Grouches figured prominently in both Sesame Street films Follow That Bird and especially The Adventures of Elmo in Grouchland. The latter explained that most Grouches come from Grouchland USA, presented as Oscar's hometown, though many Grouches are also found internationally. According to the production notes for Elmo in Grouchland 25 new Grouch puppets were made for the film (and reused in variations to create a large Grouch population). Many of these are still used on the show today.


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230,000 seek help as housing affordability bites
Almost a quarter of a million Australians - or one in 98 people - requested help from welfare agencies because they were either homeless or at risk of becoming homeless, according to figures from the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare released on Tuesday.
Of the 230,000 asking for help, 44 per cent were homeless and 56 per cent were judged as at risk of homelessness.
The Specialist Homelessness Services Collection annual report for 2011-12 reveals that welfare groups are struggling to keep up with demand, with one-fifth of requests for crisis accommodation unable to be met.
The report comes a month after Australian Bureau of Statistics figures revealed that homelessness had risen by 8 per cent over the past five years, despite a federal government goal to halve homelessness by 2020.
Chief executive of the St Vincent de Paul Society NSW, Michael Perusco, said lack of affordable housing was forcing more people into homelessness.
"These results along with the increase in homelessness which were shown in the the census figures should be a cause for concern," he said.
"They demonstrate that more work needs to be done to reduce the impact of the housing affordability crisis.
"We have a housing system which is broken and needs fundamental reform if we are to see a real reduction in homelessness."
Executive leader of community services at Mission Australia, James Toomey, said the private rental market in metropolitan areas was off limits for anyone receiving government benefits.
"The vast majority of properties on the private rental market are not affordable for anyone on government benefits," he said.
"If someone loses their job, they can very easily be tipped into homelessness. The door literally closes on you. We are getting further and further away from halving homelessness by 2020."
Calls for assistance were most acute in Victoria where 76,590 people requested help, followed by New South Wales with 53,532 requiring support.
Roughly equal numbers of men and women were already homeless when they asked for help but women outnumbered men who were at risk of homelessness.
Men who were homeless when they got help were twice as likely to be sleeping without shelter as homeless women.
Children and young people were over-represented among those who received help, with children aged under 17 making up almost one-third of those who got support, despite comprising only 23 per cent of the general population.
The main reason for seeking support was financial difficulty, accounting for 39 per cent of people, followed by domestic violence which accounted for 32 per cent.
About 1500 agencies that provide specialist homelessness services across Australia provided figures for the report under a new data collection system which started in July 2011.
Australian Institute of Health and Welfare spokesman Geoff Neideck said 18 per cent of rough sleepers, 26 per cent of people in temporary accommodation and 22 per cent of those in insecure housing were assisted into stable accommodation.
"The good news is that services have been delivered for many clients," he said.
Rachel Browne is a Social Affairs Reporter for Fairfax Media


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Stanley "N" Lyman, age 96, was born in Oak City, UT on June 22, 1916, the first born son of Frederick Stanley Lyman and Ellen Jane Nielson. He passed away Monday, January 14, 2013.
Stanley spent most of his early years living on the farm three miles south of Grayson/Blanding (Shirt-tail Corner).
Stanley's parents bought 80 acres of farmland and established this farm, which came to be known as Lyman Farms.
Stanley and his siblings, Lillian, Naomi, and Clisbee, grew up working hard on the farm. At one time Stanley milked up to 25 cows before and after school for their dairy. The family also owned a home, which was located on Center street at the present day Truck Stop.
The home provided welcome accommodations as they balanced their many responsibilities between farm and school, walked the miles back and forth, and fought the challenges the changing seasons brought.
Education was always a high priority in Stanley's life. He served his 1933-34 senior year at San Juan High School as student body president and graduated as class valedictorian.
He was the fifth Eagle Scout in Blanding. He sang in operettas, performed in plays, and became a photographer working out of his home. He attended Utah State Agricultural College on a scholarship for a year, and later took a home-study course and received a Master of Diesel Mechanics degree.
Stanley and Clisbee formed a partnership purchasing, expanding, working and building Lyman Farms into one of the largest and most productive farms in San Juan County. Two of their better crops were wheat and pinto beans.
Stanley was always willing to help all who sought him for advice about or help with their farms or machinery. When certain machinery parts were unavailable, he was often known to invent and create parts and pass information along as he learned.
In 1970, Stanley was chosen as the Farmer of the Year by the San Juan Soil Conservation District, and was presented the Soil Conservation Award. Stanley loved and labored on and for Lyman Farms until his aging body forced him into retirement. He loved, appreciated and enjoyed so much working with Clisbee.
Other occupations during his life were: mining and blacksmithing with his granddad Walter C. Lyman at the Marvin Tunnel, mining uranium at cottonwood, working at the saw mill, hauling wood and cutting posts, driving tractor, tractor custom work, combining, and share-cropping.
His hobbies were flying (he belonged to a flying club), music (especially classical), photography, reading, rebuilding machinery, and earth moving.
Stanley was a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in which he served in various capacities including scoutmaster and stake missionary.
He met his sweetheart, Carol Porter, (daughter of Hyrum Porter and Lucy Carroll) in high school. Carol was the newspaper editor, putting the paper together, and Stanley was the manager, printing the paper. When they were seniors, they both ran for student body president. Stanley won. As they neared graduation, Stanley and Carol were even for valedictorian. Stanley was selected and Carol was salutatorian.
Stanley and Carol were married for time and all eternity in the Salt Lake Temple of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints on October 28, 1937. Together they were blessed with two girls, Barbara Anne (Bobbi) and Yvonne, and a boy, Norman Stanley.
Stanley loved Carol very much. They were often holding hands. She was his whole life. Carol accompanied and helped Stanley on the farm, transporting him back and forth between home and the farm and driving tractor, as well as many other jobs that needed to be done.
He loved his family dearly and dedicated his life to providing for them and making sure they had a good education. Carol passed away on March 25, 1975.
On November 25, 1978, Stanley and Ruth Ellis Palmer were married. They had a wonderful life together, and he loved her very much. She was a welcoming friend to Stanley's children, and a wonderful grandmother to Stanley's grandchildren.
For some of Stanley's grandchildren, she was the only grandmother they knew-Carol having passed away at age 59. Stanley and Ruth were married until her passing.
Stanley and Carol are the parents of Barbara Anne (Bobbi) Lyman Palmer (deceased), Yvonne Lyman (Lynn) Wright, and Norman Stanley (Maggie) Lyman. They are the grandparents of Tim (Karen) Palmer, Vaughn (Lillia) Palmer, Ray (Cathy) Palmer, Sylvia Palmer (Lloyd) Nielson, Brad (Fawn) Palmer, Carol Anne Palmer Norte, Lynn Marcel (Jackie) Wright, Danielle Wright Burgess, Cordell (Lecia) Wright, Stan (Kristie) Lyman, James (Jenny) Lyman, Steve (Lucy) Lyman, Bryan (Angie) Lyman, and Annie (Rob) Lyman Burdzy. They have 46 great grandchildren and 27 great-great grandchildren.
Friends and family gathered at the mortuary on Wednesday January 16, 2013 at noon and graveside service was held at the Blanding Cemetery at 1 p.m. that same day.
A memorial is in the planning for Saturday June 22, 2013 at Lyman Farms.
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Former Walker aide will likely avoid jail time
MILWAUKEE (AP) — A former aide to Gov. Scott Walker is due to be sentenced on charges that she did campaign work on county time.
Darlene J. Wink faces a sentencing hearing Thursday afternoon. She pleaded guilty last year to two misdemeanor charges of political solicitation by a public employee.
The charges carry a maximum combined penalty of one year in prison and a $2,000 fine. However, as part of a plea agreement prosecutors have agreed to recommend probation and restitution but no jail time.
Assistant district attorney Bruce Landgraf notes that Wink has a clean criminal record, and she also cooperated with the prosecution of other cases.
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Innovative Conveying Solutions
Every new-press launch faces this basic challenge: How to effectively and reliably convey parts and scrap out of the press at maximum possible press speed without inhibiting the ability to execute quick changeovers and without compromising safety. Within the confines of the sheetmetal division at Miller Electric Mfg. Co., Appleton, WI, engineers planning installation of a new 400-ton mechanical press faced this challenge head-on. With the help of stamping-system integrator TCR, Wisconsin Rapids, WI, the firm has specified and engineered a unique part- and scrap-out solution for a new press line slated to enter production in early July 2012.
The impetus for the mechanical-press project comes from the desire within the Miller Electric sheetmetal shop to add capacity while also allow the shop to satisfy from its internal customers—some 20 welding-machine assembly-lines. "Our customers are als looking for us to provide more frequent deliveries of smaller part batches. It's all part of a longer-term lean strategy," says Miller Electric manufacturing engineer Adam Utecht.
The goal with the new mechanical-press line is to boost press speed from a maximum of 17 strokes/min. capable when running progressive dies on the shop's existing 440-ton hydraulic press, to as much as 60 strokes/min. on smaller bracketry with the new mechanical press, a 400-ton Aida straightside. Other than a smaller 175-ton hydraulic press also capable of running progressive dies, the rest of the stampings coming from the shop run on a set of four hand-transfer hydraulic presses.
Miller Electric's new press line features innovative scrap and part-out conveying solutions. Scrap will be funneled off the rear of the press (left) through a trap door in the floor, where a steel hinged-belt cleated conveyor awaits to move scrap a from the press and then up and out of the floor to a bin. The job of moving stamped parts out of the press will fall to a belted conveyor (right) that includes imbedded magnets in the drop area to avoid part slippage and allow rapid conveyor acceleration. To allow quick changeovers, the conveyor can slide in and out to accommodate a range of die sizes, and its tail pulley can easily (and tool-free) be raised and lowered to match die height.
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While the significant boost in press speed alone is a worthy goal for any shop, Utecht and his project team also sought to minimize changeover time and maximize press uptime. Here's where clever conveying-system design came into play.
"We knew that the move from hydraulic to mechanical, and the resulting big jump in press speed, would generate a lot more scrap at a very high rate," says Utecht. "With the slower hydraulic presses, we have to shut down the presses for 15 min. or so a few times every shift to change scrap bins out."
Running at a maximum of 17 strokes/min. (and maybe half that rate with manual-transfer operations), scrap bins don't fill up all that often at Miller Electric. But once its new mechanical press gets up and running, Utecht expects the bins to fill quickly. Stopping the press to empty scrap bins is not an option.
"Also, we're installing the line where we have 10,000 lb. of crane capacity," Utecht says, "more than double the 4000-lb. capacity available where our two progressive-die hydraulic presses currently operate. The added crane capacity will allow us to run much larger coils of steel and eliminate a lot of coil changes and associated press downtime. By also eliminating downtime to change scrap bins, we'll significantly optimize press uptime and throughput."
Do Not Stop the Press
The scrap-handling solution developed by TCR for Miller Electric's new press will funnel scrap off the rear of the press (see the CAD-model screen capture) through a trap door in the floor where a steel hinged-belt cleated conveyor awaits. The conveyor, which sits in a 3-ft.-deep pit, will move scrap a from the press and then up and out of the floor to a scrap bin. The floor section of the conveyor acts as an accumulator, which will allow the press to continue to run while the conveyor pauses momentarily each time a fork-truck driver exchanges scrap bins.
To move scrap from under the die and out onto the conveyor, TCR specified a mechanical press-mounted scrap shaker (a Shuffle Drive unit from the Press Room Techniques division of Mayfran) driven by an electric motor. As explained by TCR president Todd Wenzel, "compared to air shakers that employ linear back-and-forth motion, the Shuffle Drive creates rotary motion, rocking the crossbar on large pillow-block bearings of UHMW plastic that minimizes noise levels. And, the trays attach without the use of tools, minimizing setup time."
Another benefit of the Shuffle Drive, says Wenzel, is its crossbar-shaft design that isolates off-center loading from the scrap trays a from the motor. "As a result," says Wenzel, "all of our customers using the shakers experience very few if any maintenance issues."
Flexible Part-Out Conveyor
The job of moving stamped parts out of the press falls to a 42-in.-wide by 96-in.-long belted conveyor from QC Industries, rated to 233 ft./min. The conveyor was specified wider than the press's Coe feed line "to handle larger stampings such as case wrappers and doors, and so that the conveyor would not be a bottleneck for future parts," says Wenzel. Conveyor features include a cut-resistant top, a stainless-steel frame and imbedded magnets in the drop area to avoid part slippage and allow rapid conveyor acceleration for speedy part removal.
Flexibility is key to the custom design of the conveyor setup, to ensure quick changeover while accommodating Miller Electric's wide range of die sizes and shut height. "Using the press to stamp everything from small brackets to large wrappers and door panels," says Miller Electric designer/ drafter Jim Dimpfl, "we'll run some 20 dies through the new press ranging from 22 by 34 in. all the to 36 by 86 in. And shut height will vary from 12 to 17 in."
To allow press-setup technicians to quickly change the line over, TCR engineered the conveyor's mounting system to allow it to slide out of the bolster area to accommodate longer dies while allowing it to extend into the die area to reach shorter tools. The mount also incorporates a pivoting mechanism so the setup technician—no tools needed—can raise and lower the tail pulley to match die height.
"We change dies on the hydraulic progressive-die press an average of three times/shift," says Dimpfl," with a total changeover time of around 45 min. With the gain in productivity from the new press, I'm sure we'll be changing dies more frequently. As a result of the automation and other features built into the overall press line, we expect to reduce changeover time to 30 min. or less, further advancing our lean and machine-uptime initiatives."
Safety Ensured
Last but certainly not least, Wenzel points to the built-in safety arrangement of the conveyor design.
"Often, the challenge for designing the exit end of any press opposite the feeder is guarding," he notes, within the context of providing enough room and access to allow the operator to efficiently move parts a from the press, while preventing him from reaching into the die."In this application, we are using the part-out conveyor as part of the machine-guarding setup," Wenzel says. "It will fill the entire press window so the operator can't reach into the die area, and we've added some additional guarding to prevent him from standing next to the conveyor and reaching around it." MF
See also: Aida-America Corporation, A Subsidiary of AIDA Engng LLC, , Mayfran International, Inc., Coe Press Equipment Corporation
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Some people are fans of the Miami Dolphins. But many, many more people are NOT fans of the Miami Dolphins. This 2012 Deadspin NFL team preview is for those in the latter group. Read the other Why Your Team Sucks 2012 previews here.
1. They just can't wait to ruin Ryan Tannehill. There's nothing more enjoyable than watching an NFL team draft a project quarterback, swear to keep that project QB tethered to the bench for at least a year, and then IMMEDIATELY throw out those plans before the season has even started. The Dolphins reached to draft Ryan Tannehill because they didn't have the ammo to move up and draft shovel-ready QBs like RG3 and Andrew Luck. It's like drafting in your fantasy league, realizing you need a wideout, watching all the good ones get selected in front of you, and then settling for Doug Baldwin (NOTE: I tried to use a Dolphins wideout for this analogy, unfortunately the Dolphins have no wideouts. Literally. I'm told they'll be using inflatable wideouts for the majority of this season). No one is EXCITED to draft Ryan Tannehill. Drafting Ryan Tannehill is something you do after drinking too much and intentionally doing something to hurt yourself. NFL Network Mike Mayock said Tannehill is "at least a year away from being a functional NFL quarterback." Oh goody. Sounds fantastic. NEVER DRAFT A WHITE QB JUST BECAUSE HE CAN RUN FAST.
In an ideal situation, the Dolphins would let Tannehill ride the bench for a year and THEN let him go out and suck the way we all know he will. Instead, they've decided to stick him out there this season, with no one to throw to and no possible hope for success. NFL teams never seem to heed the lessons of David Carr. Time and again, they take a young passer and happily let opponents dismantle his psyche bit by bit. By the end of this season, Tannehill will be throwing passes with his eyes closed from the fetal position.
2. Dan Snyder Jr. Dolphins owner Stephen Ross is fucking terrible. Here's a man who spent last season trying to sell minority stakes in the club to celebrities as a way of boosting the team's profile. Because the average football fan is eight times more likely to attend a game if they know that Gloria Estefan is a one-percent shareholder. Ross also declared that he'd like to see the team change uniforms after watching the Marlins rebrand themselves. Because you should always take cues from the Marlins when it comes to things of that nature. I'm very excited for the team to erect a giant Carmen Miranda statue in the end zone. If Tannehill hits the statue, everyone at the stadium receives a free can of Fanta.
And those are among the more trivial of errors committed by Ross. He fucked up the Jim Harbaugh courtship. He left Tony Sparano out to rot in front of his players for the equivalent of a full season. He was so openly desperate to sign Peyton Manning that should have stood out on the Sun Life Stadium sidewalk in fishnets, flashing his rectal warts to passing motorists. He somehow lost out on Jeff Fisher to the Rams—THE RAMS! Have you seen the Rams lately? They're dying. They have a shit roster and they play in a shit stadium in the shittiest town imaginable. Jeff Fisher turned down a chance to live in Miami for THAT. That's how awful Stephen Ross is. At least when Dan Snyder makes an asshole move, he makes a BIG asshole move. He has asshole flair. Stephen Ross is a wannabe Dan Snyder, which has to be the single most pathetic thing a human being can be. But hey, at least the stadium has a nightclub. Jeeeesus.
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3. The Ocho Experiment. Consider how desperate you have to be at wideout to sign a player like Ocho, who was so clearly washed up by last season. Every throw directed at Chad Johnson last season felt like an act of charity. Ocho may be gone now, but I promise you: If there's any team out there desperate enough to sign Donovan McNabb, it's these Dolphins. Jeff Ireleand can tell from the soup ads that his mother isn't a whore. The Dolphins' cluelessness is terrifying to behold. This is a team whose best offensive weapon—by far—is Reggie Bush. Reggie Bush was the 12th most important skill player in New Orleans. In Miami, he's fucking Superman. They're doomed.
4. Those goddamn '72 Dolphins. Does anyone like these people anymore? I don't think even Dolphins fans like the '72 Dolphins anymore. At this point, they only serve to illuminate the franchise's current atrociousness. All I think about when I think about the Dolphins now is A.) fuck the '72 Dolphins, B.) that Hootie song, and C.) EINHORN IS FINKLE, FINKLE IS EINHORN. That's the entirety of their identity right now.
And in many ways, that's the kind of team that Miami deserves. Miami doesn't deserve a hallowed football tradition. Miami deserves ANGUISH. I've been to South Beach. It's an overpriced strip mall. And I think you users of the Internet are already well aware of the dangers that Florida itself presents to modern society: zombies, serial killers, coke dealer massacres, eight-year-olds arrested for DUI, crocodile attacks... Florida is the waste product of America's digestive system. That's why it comes out of our bottom. It's not America's wang, as so popularly noted. It's America's turtle, poking out of our asshole until hopefully, one day, it breaks off into the water and gets flushed down. And hopefully, the Dolphins will sink with it.
5. Hear it from Dolphins fans!
Every two seasons or so, Miami trades away some practice squad hustler or third string overachiever to the Jets or Pats for next to nothing, only to have that fucker gleefully shred our penises in a meat grinder. If OJ Simpson and Casey Anthony had a baby, that kid would be a more popular Floridian than Jeff Ireland.
I bought season tickets last year (sadist) and ever since then have enjoyed some of the many "benefits" offered to season ticket holders. My favorite is where we get random automated telephone calls to our cell phones to remind us about a teleconference with season ticketholders and... Brian Hartline? As if having a horrible on-field product wasn't enough, now I can add the Dolphins to the long list of assholes that call my cell phone with automated messages (all I had to do was pony up $1000 for two seats for the privilege!!!!).
They also try pawning off god awful soccer tickets in the shittiest seats in the stadium to us as another "perk." I immediately claimed my free tickets because I'm a red-blooded American who wants everything that is free regardless of how much I actually don't want it. I immediately went on StubHub to sell the tickets but the four free tickets they gave me were only going to fetch me a measly $28. I hate you, Miami Dolphins.
The worst part is that I started following this team in 1984 when they went to the Super Bowl. As a kid, you're thinking this is great. We can do this every year, right? Hell no. These guys have bumblefucked their way through the past 28 years doing nothing. I'm still a reluctant fan out of some misguided loyalty. But when do you stop caring about a bunch of fucking assholes that don't resemble the organization that you originally decided to follow for one reason or another? I feel like the whole Dolphins organization is being held hostage by Ray Finkle and there's nothing I can do but feel his gun digging into my hip. You got a t-shirt like that I can buy, Mr. Ross?
Jeff Ireland is the Todd Akin of football.
Hey, this Wes Welker kid is pretty good. I know, let's trade him to our most dangerous division rivals for a second round pick that we can blow on a halfway decent center who we'll just flip to the Raiders a couple years later for a sixth rounder!
I could go on about this team's god-awful trade history in the last decade (fuckin' A.J. Feeley), but it's late and I don't want to write a goddamn essay.
If you walk into a men's room at a truck stop and decide to stick your dick through a glory hole to see what would happen, you are clearly qualified to make the same sort of inept decisions that have plagued my team for decades. Let's take a look at a few.
1. Forcing your Hall of Fame coach into retirement for Jimmy Johnson, only to have him quit and hand the team over to porn-stache Dave Wannstedt.
2. Passing on Drew Brees TWICE! Oh yeah, Culpepper is the much safer choice. You fucking idiots, he was rehabbing at a 24hr Fitness for Christ sakes.
3. Using 2nd round picks on shitty QBs instead of a first rounder: AJ Feeley, Daunte Culpepper, John Beck, Chad Henne
4. Learning about Ricky Williams' hippy drum circle bullshit every game he played AFTER he quit only to return b/c he realized he need cash to travel to 3rd world shitholes.
5. Passing on Mike Tomlin for a guy whose parents named him Cam Cameron. This douche was fired from the football powerhouse Indiana for shitting down his leg.
6. Outside of Shula, our past coaches are horrible. Wannstedt, Bates, Saban, Cameron, Sparano. Little Nicky Saban realized that in the NFL, you have to wait your turn and draft players instead of recruiting them, so he took his ball and went home.
7. Finally, one more note on Saban. Employees were not allowed to look or speak to the coach unless spoken to, and he yelled at a admin assistant for buying the wrong Little Debbie snack cakes. No one can make shit like that up.
The Orange Carpet. Why is that a thing? It's the worst, literally the worst.
In my lifetime alone, they have lost playoff games 62-7, 38-3, 29-10, 27-0. They have drafted players in the first round named Erik Kumero, Yatil Green, Billy Milner, John Avery, Jamar Fletcher, Jason Allen, and Ted Ginn. They have had Ricky Williams choose weed over them, then take him back like nothing happened. They employed Dave Wannstedt. They employed Cam Cameron as head coach and went 1-15 while fans cried in the stands when they finally won one game (I was there, guys were actually crying).
Here's our fight song. Fuck my life.
Being a Dolphins fan is like dating a scumbag. It's like, right before every season, the Dolphins are like, "Hey, c'mon now baby, don't be like that. We just picked up Cameron Wake, see? I told you we can change." And I'll be like, "Yeah, you're right. I'm sorry, baby." Then they have another losing season, and it once again turns into me packing an overnight bag and staying with my friend, who makes us both some tea and pats my back saying, "He's no good for you, Dylan. You have to leave. You have to be strong." And I know it's true, but I just keep going back. I should have listened to my parents and gotten with the Steelers when I had a chance.
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This is, without a doubt, the single most boring franchise in the NFL. Other teams may be worse (not frequently), but it's almost as though the Dolphins intentionally structure their team to prevent their fans from having any emotional attachment.
Here is a list of interesting things that have happened to the Dolphins over the last decade:
2004: Ricky Williams retires
2008: Playoff appearance
2011: Brandon Marshall stabbed by his wife
Additionally, let's not forget that the Dolphins (presumably not under duress) allowed Dave Wannstedt to coach the team for five years. Dave Wannstedt's greatest achievement in almost 20 years as a head coach is a two-point victory in the Meineke Car Care Bowl.
We are Cleveland with a beach.
To be honest, I'm puzzled as to why the Dolphins never come up in the regular discussions of teams who may move to Los Angeles. The city is made up entirely of retired Jets fans and coked-up, paranoid Exiles who are too busy blaming the thrown rods in their rusted-out Tercels on fucking Castro to bother with the game. What little remains of the fanbase lives in Broward and Palm Beach
This is the state of the Miami Dolphins in 2012. The stadium has had more names than Antonio Cromartie has had kids. Our GM is primarily known for asking a potential draft pick if his mother was a hooker. And somehow this little ginger shit—the man who took PAT FUCKING WHITE IN THE SECOND ROUND—gets the reputation from the drooling morons who make up our fanbase for being solid on draft day.
Our owner looks like a gargoyle with Down's syndrome, goes after coaches and players he wants with all the tact of a sledgehammer, and apparently thinks he's marketing to 12-year-old girls in 2003 with all of his celebrity owners.
I've noted on more than one occasion to fellow fans that Dave Wannstedt remains the most successful head coach of the Post-Johnson Era. And it isn't even really close. Someone should die for that.
And then there are the quarterbacks. I've lost count of how many we've had. I knew I had reached the low-point of fandom last year as I watched Chad Henne throw another pick and thought to myself, "I miss Jay Fiedler." Our new coach apparently thought he'd throw fans a bone by taking a quarterback in the First Round this year. This was a mistake. We have traditions here. When we want to reach on a quarterback and saddle ourselves with incompetence for another two years, we'll do it the right way — drafting him in the Second Round and making him sit behind an aging veteran whose shoulder is made of tissue paper.
Tannehill's a nice enough kid, but a kid whom anybody with an IQ above room temperature knows is just a yokel-assed Chad Henne with a hotter wife. The truth is that Philbin and whatever poor bastard follows him in 2014 can bring in anybody they want. It won't matter.
This team isn't going to have a franchise quarterback again until Marino's dead, which is why from here on out I'm anxiously awaiting the day Marino and Sharpe at long last push Esiason over the edge, and Esiason finally goes postal on live TV.
Brian Hartline has worse legs than the horses on "Luck".
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My mother has a talent of giving this deadpan delivery of hilarious one-liners (or one-paragraphers) without realizing it 98% of the time. I speak to her almost every Saturday morning on Skype and yesterday, I asked her what she was doing for Halloween.
She proceeded to explain to me that true Halloween is not about (barely) wearing an inappropriate costume and drunkenly falling face first into your plate of onion rings at an after-hours diner. She might have not used these words specifically, but it fully captures the essence of her schpeel.
I asked her about what Halloween was like growing up. She grew up in Goa, India where Halloween was actually "celebrated" on November 2nd- All Soul's Day, a day observed by Catholics to honor the dead. Here's an actual serious conversation we had about All Soul's Day and a little cultural lesson for us all (me included) about "Halloween" in Goa:
Mom: "No one dresses up on All Souls Day, unless you want to look like a jackass. All Soul's Day is really supposed to be scary."
Karen: "So what do you actually do?"
Mom: "People rob and steal your things."
Karen: *insert this face*
Karen: "People steal stuff?"
Mom: "Yes. You know, because its scary. It's like a ghost came to mess with you. Sometimes when you wake up in the morning, you may find all your vases in the garden missing. Or you may find your vase in a different location in the garden."
Karen: *still has the face*
Mom continues…
"This one time, all of Marie Lou's expensive pond rocks went missing. Her son bought them for her from Dubai you know. Turns out they were all at the local cemetery."
Karen: Her son went to Dubai and bought her rocks?
Mom: "Yes. They're decorative."
Karen: "Nevermind. How the heck did Marie Lou know where to find her pond rocks?"
Mom: "If you lose something on All Soul's Day, its most likely at the cemetery."
Karen: "Sounds like a hassle for everyone involved."
Mom: "No kidding! You have to be so careful too, especially if you are a fightercock. Then everyone hates you and steals your pond rocks."
(Quick glossary: The word "fightercock" is my mother's umbrella term for bitches, douchebags and people who shouldn't be talking.)
Karen: "So I guess if you're a fightercock, most of your stuff will probably be dumped at the cemetery."
Mom: "Oh yes. But you have to go there as soon as you can and claim your stuff. You don't want robbers to take your things from the cemetery before you get to it."
My mom's village apparently ran on the adage- Rob me once, I'm a fightercock. Rob me twice- I'm a lazycock.
She continues, clearly enjoying my rapt attention to this newly discovered Halloween tradition.
Mom: "And not all your stuff ends up in the cemetery…some of it is in other people's houses"
Karen: "Whaaaaaa?" *insert this face*
Mom: "Yes! Sometimes stuff from your garden will end up in someone else's garden and vice versa."
Karen: "Doesn't anyone call the damn cops?"
Mom: "Cops don't like getting involved with ghosts, Karen."
Karen: "Right, of course not"
Mom: "One time, Sebby woke up on All Soul's Day and found all the bananas off her banana trees in the backyard GONE! In all fairness though, everyone knew what a big fightercock she was. Now, she lost her bananas. Haha"
Karen: "Poor Sebby. Did she find her bananas at the cemetery?"
Mom: "No. But she visited her archenemy Antoinette later that day and saw that Antoinette had an unusual amount of bananas at home. When she asked her about them, Antoinette told her she bought them to make banana fritters."
Karen: "Ugh! Banana fritters my ass!"
Mom: "Indeed! Watch your language."
By the end of this conversation, I wanted to just drop my Kate Middleton costume altogether and replace my neighbour's pots of geraniums with pumpkins. Or steal the lawn gnomes off my neighbours down the street and send them ransom notes for each one. Granted none of my poor neighbors are fightercocks, but its been so long since I've been able to blame anything on a mischievous ghost.
I made a firm resolve that next year for Halloween, I'm going as a fightercock.
Because in the end what it comes down to is this: Would you rather go the traditional route and wear a Halloween costume? Or would you rather piss the hell out of the fightercocks in your life?
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