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11:23 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 5, 2004
Joseph and Mary Dlubac celebrated 66 years of marriage Sunday at Palm Terrace Elementary School, being used as special needs shelter in Daytona Beach.
Ironically for the Dlubac's, a month after their marriage on Sept. 3, 1938, in Rockville, Conn., a huge hurricane devastated their hometown.l"We'd been married for four weeks and I thought I was going to be a widow," said Mary Dlubac, whose husband calls her "the boss."
Their secret of 66 years: "We worked together. We laughed together. We cried together and we prayed together," said Joseph Dlubac.
They hope to return home Monday.
-- The Associated Press
10:32 p.m.
Staci Hollister went outside the lounge to hear her cell phone a bit better. The karaoke was starting and it was too loud to hear inside the bar.
She was in Panama City Beach, waiting on Frances to hurry up -- ha -- past Central Florida so she could drive on down. She is on vacation from her job overseeing halfway houses in New Orleans.
"I thought I'd wake up about 3 or 4 in the morning," she said. "I thought I could make it, but I don't want to get down there and be in some kind of Noah's Ark."
The advice: Don't come, the bar there sounds fun enough.
"From the looks of some of these year-round trick or treaters, I dunno," she said of the Panama City club crowd.
"Call me back later and tell me what to do," she said.
-- Kelly Griffith
9:59 p.m.
We thought we'd escaped Frances.
Our neighborhood in Maitland was hammered after Charley. So imagine our delight when we returned from a night in a hotel this afternoon to find the power on, the trees standing and the flood waters at bay.
It seemed as if our daughter's fifth birthday wouldn't be a total loss after all. This morning Carolyn had said she never invited Frances to her party so why was she here. My wife baked a cake and our neighbors joined us for a celebratory feast.
And then the power went out.
Fortunately the cake was baked. So we gathered in the darkness, ate hot dogs by candlelight and sang Happy Birthday to Carolyn and Frances.
It's bedtime and there's still no power, but we'll survive.
Carolyn's real party is next week.
-- Anthony Moor
9:49 p.m.
Even as Hurricane Frances battered Florida, many residents were already turning their attention to powerful and strengthening Hurricane Ivan.
Ivan became a Category 4 hurricane Sunday with sustained wind near 135 mph and was moving toward the Caribbean.
It had a projected path across the Antilles and Hispaniola, possibly reaching Cuba by Friday. It could reach Barbados by Tuesday.
It also could be headed for Florida.
"I'm not even taking my shutters down," said Debbie Bourne, who runs a horse farm outside Sebastian in northern Indian River County on Florida's central Atlantic coast. "It was too much work. It about killed me to get them all up. Now, we've got this other storm, and I'm not going to put them up again.
"It's really weird. People say we haven't had a storm like this in over 20 years. Now, all of a sudden, we're getting them all."
-- The Associated Press
8:48 p.m.
Thanks to Hurricane Frances, Rhiannon and Jordan Couch got to spend part of their honeymoon sleeping in a middle school office.
The Newberry, Mich., couple came to Palm Beach County right after their Aug. 28 wedding. The first few days on Singer Island went great -- they went parasailing and shopping.
But on Thursday, the couple -- who are both 21 -- were told to evacuate their hotel. They were unable to get a flight home, so they went to a shelter at an elementary school, where they spent a night sleeping on the floor. But police felt the neighborhood was too dangerous for a honeymooning couple, so they moved the Couches to Watson B. Duncan Middle School in West Palm Beach.
There, officials moved them into a private office and gave them a sleeping bag and access to a shower.
"Compared to the other shelter, this is a honeymoon," Jordan said.
His uncle had teased them about honeymooning in Florida during hurricane season, but Rhiannon said "Everybody said West Palm Beach never gets hit."
"We will come back," she said. "We'll just pick a different season."
-- The Associated Press
8:16 p.m.
At the City Marina in Fort Pierce on Sunday, eight sail and fishing boats lay on their sides, broken apart by Hurricane Frances. The wharf also was damaged, sending 100 feet of cement and plastic foam scattered into the harbor.
The boats and debris came to rest in an area locals call "The Yachtless Yacht Club," which Holly Aronson noted was no longer "yachtless."
"I guess if you have money to have something like that, you have money to lose it," said Aronson, who weathered the storm in a three-story apartment building across the street.
Aronson's son, Drew Strohmenger, stood on the wrecked boat slip and scanned the horizon looking for signs of the islands that usually dot the harbor.
"They're gone," he said. "Without the trees, the islands will be wiped away."
Carson McCurdy walked the waterfront in vain looking for his 29-foot Topaz, "The White Trash."
"Mine's at the bottom somewhere," he said.
-- The Associated Press
8:04 p.m.
The old, giant oaks in front of Kurfiss Funeral Chapel on West Street in Clermont have fallen. One has fallen across the walkway, smashing the iron railing on either side of the concrete stairs. Another lay on its side on the hillside, its trunk violently split open, exposing a history of growth, now ended.
--Christy Slewinski
7:18 p.m.
In Cape Canaveral, despite stiff gusts and stinging rain, James and Cathy Smith took a drive around their neighborhood Sunday afternoon to check out Frances' damage. They said they were glad they did not evacuate their first-floor condo, just a quarter-mile from the beach.
"You never know what kind of a mess you may get into," by leaving, said Smith, 62. "We would have evacuated if it had been a Category 4, but we kept on top of the news and we decided to stay."
Paul and Erma Bushek also were glad to have stayed behind; they heated water for coffee and tea on a gas burner Sunday and offered visitors freshly baked brownies.
"When I see the shelters, I'm glad I stayed," Mrs. Bushek said. "And we're not traveling on the road, which I think is dangerous."
The Busheks, who are in their 70s, readily evacuated for Hurricane Floyd in 1999. But Frances was no match and, besides, forecasters kept putting the hurricane's path well to the south, and they turned out to be right, Bushek said.
-- The Associated Press
6:20 p.m.
By shortly after 6 a.m. the violent winds let up just enough for damage reports and horror stories from the night before to begin to circulate in Palm Beach County.
A 911 dispatcher walked a woman in suburban West Palm Beach through child birth over the phone at 2:16 a.m.
At least one of the county's 23 shelters that are housing more than 18,000 people here lost power and water over night.
And 584,000 customers county-wide woke up without power and began the excruciating wait without air-conditioning, hot showers or hot meals for normalcy to return.
Officials at the Palm Beach County Emergency Operations Center have just begun to survey the damage as the final bands of Hurricane Frances move through during the next several hours.
Already, Florida Power & Light is reporting at least 19 major power lines down.
By 2 p.m. Gov. Jeb Bush is expected to make his way to the county to help launch the recovery effort.
-- Beth Kassab
5:51 p.m.
The old familiar sound of chainsaws could be heard in the Wekiva neighborhood of southwest Seminole County.
Even though it's still raining, folks are starting to emerge from their boarded homes to clear the new crop of debris on their streets and yards.
Or to just stand in the driveway and chat.
There are more cars on the roads. I pulled into a Kangaroo Express store hoping to score a quart of ice cream or something else to serve as dessert because our pantry is rapidly emptying.
But though the lights were on, a sign on the door read "We will re-open Monday at 7:30 a.m." Before I could back up to leave, three more cars suddenly pulled up.
They had to leave with no ice cream, either.
Anybody know a good dessert recipe that calls for tree limbs?
-- Nancy Imperiale
5:02 p.m.
In Brevard County -- Sometime Saturday night two elderly residents of Barefoot Bay were "helped" out their manufactured home and into a safer location, county commission chair Nancy Higgs said. She wasn't sure where the pair went but they did ask to be taken to a safer place.
The couple was thought to have been two of the 18 steadfast residents who refused to leave during the mandatory evacuation order a few days ago.
Gov. Bush is scheduled to arrive sometime tomorrow around noon. He will be briefed at the EOC and then may take a tour of the damaged area, depending on the conditions.
-- Alicia Caldwell
4:40 p.m.
OVIEDO - Has Frances said bye bye?
Been waiting for another hurricane band from Frances for more than two hours and nothing yet. Is it possible that the hurricane has blown over?
It's slightly windy outside, but no rain. It's the sort of weather that makes people brave -- eager and secure enough to venture outdoors. Perhaps that is why emergency management folks are cautioning television viewers from going outdoors, much less get in their cars and drive around.
They remind everyone that the area still is under curfew, and they don't want residents clogging up roads before county crews have the chance to assess damage.
But if I didn't know any better, I'd say that the worse part of Frances has bid adios to the eastern end of Central Florida.
-- Maria Padilla
4:13 p.m.
ORLANDO -- Flew in the face of stay-home logic with a quick jaunt from Colonialtown West to Dover Shores, a distance of3 miles or so. What we saw: a few sightseers, many downed branches although not major ones; a slew of uprooted medium-sized trees around Lake Underhill; hit-and-miss working traffic signals; choppy little waves on Lake Underhill; significant shingle damage to Iglesias Espada de Espiritu de Orlando on Robinson Street near Festival Park, and a few stir-crazy souls on bicycles.
-- C. Dewayne Bevil
4:06 p.m.
CLERMONT -- More than 20,000 people are without power in Lake County, including thousands in south Lake. Here, though, in the Greater Hills neighborhood, just off State Road 50 in Clermont, the electricity is still on.
The beans are done and not bad. The kids want to walk the dog in the rain. They can't.
The eye of the storm is somewhere near Lake Wales right about now. Worry about the people, twice hit so soon, sets in.
-- Kelly Griffith
3:54 p.m.
APOPKA -- After taking Hurricane Francis' steady pelting of strong winds and heavy rains, Apopka residents who ordinarily might use a cool Sunday morning to wash their cars, manicure their lawns, or shout Amen in church cocooned in their homes early Sunday.
Only the rare motorist was out and about. The main arteries were passable. Side streets were hit and miss. Strong winds had toppled a stately pine tree onto Laurel Street -- which fronts Dream Lake Park, ordinarily home on Sunday mornings to fisherman who cast lines from the shore despite the posted NO FISHING signs -- blocking traffic. But Lake Avenue, which parallels Dream Lake Elementary, and often flashfloods even during ordinary summer cloudbursts, was littered with pinecones and needles, but surprisingly passable.
Along CR 435/Park Avenue, Apopka's main drag, traffic signals were out. A sign posted at First Methodist Church of Apopka along Park Avenue alerted the faithful that Sunday services were cancelled. Along North Orange Blossom Trail, snapped branches and palm fronds blew like tumbleweeds across streets nearly deserted save for the odd motorist who ignored the mandated four-way stop at inoperable traffic lights. Walls of water blew horizontally across Orange Blossom Trail, hampering visibility.
Businesses throughout Apopka boarded and taped up, and shuttered. The McDonalds along Orange Blossom Trail, which is open 24 hours, wasn't closed mid-morning Sunday.
-- Darryl E. Owens
3:37 p.m.
KISSIMMEE -- At the Osceola County EOC, County Commissioner Atlee Mercer is getting ready to cook his eighth meal in three days. Mercer's culinary reputation is so good that Orange County Chairman Rich Crotty jokingly offered to trade three of his top aides to Osceola for Mercer's services Sunday.
But the EOC has run out of fresh foods, so tonight instead of the Salisbury steak or chicken and gravy the emergency responders have grown used to, they'll be dining on canned foods -- meat ravioli and green beans to be exact.
"We're serving about 105 people a night," Mercer said. "Though that number seems to be growing."
The EOC has enough canned food to last until Thursday, though the meals may start to look strange after today, Mercer said.
"We'll have no fresh vegetables, nothing green, Mercer said. "But these guys would be happy, they think I'm a good cook."
Mercer's home has power, but he said he'd rather be here cooking.
"I'm happy to do it," he said. "I bet I feel a lot better than a lot of these guys. They're working 18 hour days, I'm not."
-- Tania deLuzuriaga
3:05 p.m.
Despite winds that have torn down branches and limbs and toppled sections of our backyard fence, we continue to have power in our Clermont home.
Having gotten through Hurricane Charley without outages, we were convinced that, this time, we wouldn't be so lucky.
But so far, so good.
As family and friends check in, we discover we're in the minority. My brother in Belleview, Marion County, has been without power for a few hours now. My elderly in-laws in Hawthorne, far north of the storm in Putnam County, also are without, and have even had winds strong enough to blow the front door of their home open, badly bending its hinges. Friends and co-workers throughout the Orlando area are also among the have-nots; some closing in on 24-hours without power. We've even learned of other Clermont residents, across Route 50 near Lake Minnehaha, who are powerless.
Knowing the force behind the strong gusts of wind and bands of driving rains that are making the giant oaks around our home dance wildly, it seems unfathomable that electricity continues to stubbornly surge through the outlets.
--Christy Slewinski
2:43 p.m.
The worst of the wind and rain is over Volusia and is expected to last for at least another three hours. The rain makes it nearly impossible to see outside at the Deltona Emergency Operations Center. The few glimpses available show brush and branches swaying violently in the wind.
The power came back on, hopefully for good, at 2 p.m. in the Deltona EOC. The waterlogged generator here finally gave out shortly before noon, but the repairman lives down the street. Volusia County Sheriff's deputies picked him up and brought him to the scene.
Being here is kind of like camp, except I have to take notes.
-- Errin K. Haines
2:24 p.m.
Bob Tremblay and a few of his neighbors on Short Drive in Poinciana were having an afternoon "hurricane party" Sunday.
"Most of the debris stayed where it was at, and we haven't lost any trees," said Trembly, who added the rain was falling horizontally because of winds he estimated to be between 75 and 90 mph.
Many neighbors evacuated after boarding up their homes. Power went out about 11 a.m. Because of the grade flooding has never been a problem on the street and that was holding true Sunday.
But some houses damaged by Charley weren't looking so good.
"There are a few houses that won't be standing. Frances will finish them off, there's no doubt in my mind," said Tremblay.
-- Mark Pino
2:14 p.m.
APOPKA -- The floor was wet where the 4-year-old boy had sat watching a Rugrats videotape in one of the few Central Florida homes that still had power.
He has been potty-trained more than a year, but occasionally -- when he is engrossed in television or a computer game -- he would rather wet his pants than tear himself away. His big sister scolded him, so did his father.
That was when his mother noticed the puddle contained far more water than his bladder could hold.
It became apparent Frances was to blame, not Brian -- who this time really was as innocent as he looked.
The flooding had begun and the crow-eating cleanup was to follow.
-- Sherri M. Owens
2:07 p.m.
OVIEDO -- As the rain and the wind died down I seized the opportunity to encircle Oviedo and assess the damage left by Frances thus far.
One telephone wire was down, a retention pond was close to spilling over, and there was some minor flooding by Oviedo High School.
Some commercial signs had blown away, such as a McDonald's by Aloma and Red Bug roads. There was limited tree damage; only a handful of new ones had toppled over or to the ground. The piles of tree debris that hadn't been removed before the storm didn't budge much with Frances, which is good news.
Some road lights are out. One car pulled into a gas station thinking it was open. But no luck. Save for Sheriff's and police cars, there is next to no traffic.
Just before this, the rain had been coming down so thick and steady that it looked like a curtain.
A flood of water was pouring out of drainage spouts and was beginning to back up in places. It was coming down so fast that the street drains were flooding.
Out on the front lawn, my feet sank in soggy grass and the water already reached my ankles.
The intermittent rain and wind is allowing the water time to clear out. Let's see what the next band of Hurricane Frances brings.
-- Maria Padilla
1:52 p.m.
"It was a long night," said Osceola County Commission Chairman Ken Shipley. "We were very lucky, we didn't get the winds we anticipated or the rains we anticipated."
Around noon, Shipley said the county should expect about six more hours of wind gusts up to 70 mph. The curfew is still in effect and looks like it will stay in effect until dawn tomorrow.
-- Rebecca Panoff
1:42 p.m.
Orange County Sheriff's deputies nabbed a suspected looter of the "slippery" sort early this morning.
Full Sail security guards spotted a man carrying a bag of burglary tools around 4:30 a.m. near the school's University Boulevard campus.
As the guards chased him, the suspect jumped over a fence and hid in what he thought was a dumpster next to the Orlando Ale House near the intersection of University and S.R. 436.
The dumpster turned out to be a vat full of leftover grease from the restaurant.
"This is definitely the slipperiest looter we've arrested in the state of Florida," Sheriff's Office spokesman Steve Jones said.
-- Melissa Harris
1:04 p.m.
At about 7 a.m. today, the power at the Lyman High School shelter in Longwood went out. That's when Red Cross officials discovered the main shelter area in the cafeteria was not hooked up to the generator.
Because of the increasing risk from Hurricane Frances, Red Cross officials issued a 4-hour lockdown around 10:30 this morning, wrapping yellow police tape across exit doors. No one will be allowed to walk outside for any reason during the lockdown, even for a cigarette.
Red Cross officials also said they would decide no earlier than 6:30 tonight when to allow evacuees to leave the shelter and return home.
-- Linda Shrieves
12:59 p.m.
Ralph Hopkins stands with a sailor's stance near the pavilion in Clermont's Waterfront Park, watching the large, whitecapped waves pummel the shore.
Wrapped tightly in a blue windbreaker with red piping, hood drawn tightly around his face, he marvels at the effect the wind gusts were having on the generally calm water.
"I could get a boogie board and surf the waves on Lake Minneola," he says with a smile.
Hopkins had headed out of his home at the Clermont Yacht Club at around 9 a.m. specifically to experience the storm's force.
"I like violent weather," said the experienced sailor, recalling Bahaman trips. A resident of Florida since 1989, he relocated to Clermont from Altamonte Springs in October. He's had his share of hurricane experience, including being rescued from his New Jersey home by boat during Hurricane Donna in 1960.
"It's amazing what Mother Nature can do when she gets her ire up."
-- Christy Slewinski
12:32 p.m.
Notes from Orange County's Emergency Operations Center
- The roof is leaking.
- Leaders are expecting two phases of flooding -- the first as Hurricane Frances passes, the second two to three days from now as the water drains into lakes and streams.
- Progress Energy reports 87,939 customers in Orange County without power. OUC reports 42,000.
- Already 3 inches of rain has fallen at the Fire Station 66, the closest one to the EOC.
- High winds have required the county to pull electrical crews, sheriff's deputies and firefighters off of the roads.
- "We can't do anything right now except collect data," said County Administrator Ajit Lalchandani.
- There have been two reports of carbon monoxide poisoning in Orange County.
- There are 7,351 people in all Orange County shelters.
- 61 sewage lift stations are without power.
-- Melissa Harris
12:16 p.m.
George Arnold said the scene from his oceanfront home in Ormond Beach is surreal.
"It's just incredible. It's amazing how long this wind has lasted. The ocean is white. It looks like it's running from south to north. I've never seen anything like it."
Arnold, a 46-year-old art dealer, lost power around 9:30 but is surprised it lasted that long. He decided to ride out the storm because his 1920s-era home was built with hurricanes in mind.
"If I were in a newer home I would run for the hills."
-- Mike Lafferty
11:45 a.m.
I've been driving around in the storm, despite the warnings of all the TV people urging us to all stay inside and watch TV, and it wasn't so bad out there as of 11:23 a.m. A little wind, a little rain, a few branches on the road.
Delivered coffee and cell phone to a colleague covering folks in the emergency shelter at Lyman High School. It was pitch black inside the school gymnasium, since they'd lost power. You could hear babies crying in the darkness and see flashlights bobbing up and down and get glimpses of sleeping bags covering the gym floor.
How long will Central Floridians stay cooped up inside the darkness before they get stir crazy and just all run outside? If the hurricane doesn't kill us, the waiting surely will.
Any bar owner who decides to open tonight will have more customers than they can handle.
-- Nancy Imperiale
11:44 a.m.
A fierce mid-morning squall in New Smyrna Beach was the storm's worst, ripping away a piece of plywoodthat was protecting a large window that faces the Indian River at Clay Henderson's home.
"It's a great view," said Henderson, an attorney. "I feel like I've got a front row seat."
Henderson said his boat remained moored to his dock, but the storms increasing fury had him concernedhow long that would last.
"It's getting a lot worse now. The screaming, the howling, the freight train, all of those descriptionsare here."
-- Mike Lafferty
11:30 a.m.
As of 11 a.m. Sunday, Progress Energy reported that 16 percent of its customers were without power. Thosenumbers include:


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VileBeast Master Sunday 28/05/2006, 20:29
When does the system grant these levels?
Dr Ido Master Sunday 28/05/2006, 20:47
These levels are based on your collection of character. For each character you receive points equals to its current level * final level (ie. Lao, lvl 3 (final level is 5) brings you 3 * 5 = 15 points), each character counts only once (if you have spares, only the highest is taken into accounts). You start as novice and need 50 to be a senior, 150pts to be a master, 400 to be a guru, 800 to be an Imperator and 1400 to be a TItan.


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North Korea has, perhaps, given up its nuclear weapons program. It has dramatically blown up the cooling tower at its Yongbyon reactor complex, following up on its promise last year to disable its nuclear facilities, and has agreed to inspection of its remaining nuclear facilities. In reaction to these actions, President Bush has said that if adequate verification procedures are negotiated over the next 45 days, he will rescind the classification of North Korea as a state sponsor of terror.
While North Korea will bear watching for some time, it's hard to see how these developments can be other than positive. So it's interesting to see how they are covered. In an "analysis" piece, the Associated Press contrasts North Korea with Iran. First, though, the AP takes an obligatory swipe at President Bush, notwithstanding what appears to be a significant diplomatic achievement:
It was … an incremental victory for the kind of old-fashioned, talk-to-your-enemies diplomacy distrusted by Bush administration hard-liners.
This is silly, even by AP standards. The latest concessions by North Korea are part of the six-party talks that have been going on for some years. The Bush administration has steadily pursued talks with North Korea through this multilateral format.
The point of the AP's "analysis" is to emphasize the differences between North Korea and Iran:
Iran and North Korea may be two points on President Bush's old "axis of evil," but the authoritarian governments are polar opposites when it comes to defusing their nuclear programs. …
Strong, rich on $140-a-barrel oil and widely engaged in the world, Tehran has stiffed European courtiers and a late, heavily conditioned offer of U.S. diplomacy. It has greeted an offer of economic incentives by speeding up its nuclear development work. …
Iran's nuclear program is a valuable nationalistic prop for the unpopular clerical rule. The government of hard-line President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad insists it will not give up a uranium enrichment program that other nations are trusted to possess. Even Iranians who dislike their government chafe at the notion that the West, and particularly the nuclear superpower United States, should dictate who gets the keys to the nuclear clubhouse. …
So long as the program appears legitimate to Iranians and their supporters, Tehran can continue to refine its ability to make enriched uranium. The material can be used as fuel for either a power plant or a weapon.
So the AP takes it as a given that Iran is working toward nuclear weapons, and will not be as easy to dissuade as North Korea. It seems noteworthy that even in liberal press precincts, the CIA's politicized claim that Iran has given up its nuclear weapons program has been quietly shelved.
Meanwhile, in this week's New Yorker magazine, Seymour Hersh claims that the administration has initiated a new covert campaign against Iran's mullahs:
Late last year, Congressional leaders agreed to a request from President Bush to fund a major escalation of covert operations against Iran, and charges that the administration is running "cross border" operations into Iran, The New Yorker magazine reported.
In an article published online Sunday, the magazine cites current and former military, intelligence, and congressional sources and said the operations were described in a highly classified Presidential Finding signed by Bush and are designed to destabilize the country's religious leadership.
The New Yorker said that even though some legislators, including top Democrats, were troubled by the Finding, the $400 million funding for the escalation, which includes gathering intelligence about Iran's suspected nuclear weapons program, was approved.
"The Finding was focused on undermining Iran's nuclear ambitions and trying to undermine the government through regime change," the article quotes a person familiar with its contents as saying, and involved "working with opposition groups and passing money."
The covert activities involve support of the minority Ahwazi Arab and Baluchi groups as well as other dissident organizations, the article states.
Given Hersh's track record, his claims must be considered suspect. Still, many on the right have been urging this sort of campaign for a long time, and it would probably be a good thing if Hersh's report is correct. This detail certainly has the ring of truth: "top Democrats" in Congress "were troubled by the Finding," but approved it anyway. That's a classic, isn't it? If things go wrong, the Democrats can say they documented the fact that they were "troubled."
Whether in response to such reports or for other reasons, Iran is doing its own saber-rattling. Earlier today, its government announced that is is digging 320,000 graves for the bodies of foreign soldiers who may invade:
"In implementation of the Geneva Conventions… the necessary measures are being taken to provide for the burial of enemy soldiers," the Mehr news agency quoted General Mir-Faisal Bagherzadeh as saying. …
Bagherzadeh said Iran was keen to "reduce the suffering of the families of the fallen in any attack against our country… and prevent any repetition of the long and bitter experience of the Vietnam War."
Note how the Vietnam War is still held up as a historical paradigm by our enemies, as it is by Congressional Democrats.
All of these wheels are still in spin, and I don't think any particular conclusion can be drawn except that Iran is a much tougher nut to crack than North Korea. But we already knew that.
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Bridal Fashion Week Hair & Beauty: Marchesa Smoky Eye
Marchesa Proves That, Yes, Brides Can Wear a Smoky Eye
Marchesa Proves That, Yes, Brides Can Wear a Smoky Eye
For New York Bridal Week Spring 2014, Marchesa sent models down the runway with a smoky eye fit for a night-time wedding. While most women stray away from anything drastic on their wedding day, Revlon's Gucci Westman revealed the secret to pulling off the look with class. And while the hair by Kérastase seems complex, you can easily re-create it for yourself.
The look: A soft smoky eye, a twisted knot, and sheer pink nails.
Key tips: Revlon Global Artistic Director Gucci Westman recommends carrying a hydrating lipstick, concealer, and eye shadow for touch-ups during the wedding reception.
Overheard backstage: Westman also told us a little bit about her wedding makeup and mentioned she might be making an all-inclusive palette for brides in the future.


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Researchers have found that babies born to women who consume cheese and other dairy products during pregnancy are likely to have better dental health than babies born to non-dairy-consumers.
A new study published in the Nutrition Journal went beyond previous studies examining the importance of calcium in the development of a fetus. Researchers at the Fukuoka University, University of Tokyo and Osaka City University took their study one step further; they wanted to find the long-term effects of prenatal cheese and dairy consumption on an infant's tooth development.
Researchers tracked 315 Japanese mother-and-child pairs, recording prenatal diets and dental examinations of children between 41 and 50 months of age.
The study, believed to be the first of its kind, found a strong connection between both cheese and total dairy consumption during pregnancy and decreased risk of childhood dental caries, such as tooth decay and cavities. The children of women who consumed more cheese during pregnancy had fewer dental problems than women who didn't. Similar findings were uncovered for prenatal dairy consumption.
Researchers believed that the link between prenatal dairy consumption and dental health in children was related to calcium, which might influence tooth mineralization during fetal development, increasing acid-resistance in tooth enamel.
While cheese proved to be the best option for improved pediatric dental health, researchers had no immediate explanation for their finding.
"In the current study, the risk reduction associated with maternal intake of cheese during pregnancy did not appear to be confounded by calcium intake," researchers said in the report. "Thus, components of cheese other than calcium might be responsible for the protective effects of maternal cheese intake against dental caries in children."
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A fair assessment, in my view. And it should be noted that, during this period, Steyn has accurately predicted a number of the successes he now cites. I haven't kept count, but my impression is that Steyn's predictions have panned out pretty regularly. Here, Steyn reviews his major predictions of the past year.
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Cuisse de Poulet
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You would swear I had just prepared my post after seeing yours..ReplyDelete
But didn't..
One thing I do know for sure is that even if I had not just had chicken on the brain..I would surely recognize your cuisse de poulet.
Moi,j'aime beaucoup le poulet.
Et ta cuisse est parfaite.
Love the chalkboard ..and the real deals..
I have an art book w/ chickens..and I quite like trying to paint them ..the way they are in the book.
Fun post..Now j'ai l'eau à la bouche for chicken.
You painted a wonderful chicken. I was surprised how much ham was served in Paris. I swore when I got home I was never going to eat it again. But, I am certain pork is raised more humanely in France than they are stateside.ReplyDelete
I have not yet eaten pork...except for saussiconReplyDelete
But soon I must tackle jam on de Paris for research purposes!Replies
JAMBON of course I mean! GrrrrrrDelete
Alors, Carol, I do love chickens their eggs and also how flexibly they can contribute later on at the table, as part of a meal.ReplyDelete
I wish that I might eventually live in a place that will allow me to raise chickens (and find ways to keep the foxes away.)
Hens and roosters are beautiful animals with so many varieties of breeds. Do French artists draw and paint hens?
Getting back to a theme of your post...I am not a vegetarian, but definitely find that fruit and veg play a grander role in my meals than do any departed animals.
Just confessing.
Love your watercolour as always! The cuisse is très réussi!ReplyDelete
That Café Pouchkine treat is also v cute!
I bet the fleur-de-lis is not inspired by iris at all...but by those lovely chicken tails!ReplyDelete
Delightful post as always Carol. I've been wanting to try one of those rotisserie chickens but now it seems too hot. Also spotted Gilles Verot nearby and meant to forage dinner from there, but haven't got around to it yet. Maybe we should do it tonight? It looks sensational. Cafe Pouchkine on the to do list- but time is running out....ReplyDelete
Bonjour Carol, adoro o seu blog e queria que vc soubesse que aqui no Brasil existem as coxinhas de frango, que fazem o maior sucesso por aqui. A receita está no site http://cenaaberta10.blogspot.com.br/2012/04/coxinhas-de-frango-faceis.htmlReplyDelete
Abraço. RicardoReplies
Io adoro Franco Paulista...saudade por that one!!!Delete
Looks like the poulet I've seen -- I admire your restraint in not devouring the subject before you finished your painting!ReplyDelete
Love all these chickens -- some are VERY creative!Replies
But I did Jeanie.Delete
I had t o work from the photo and it was breakfast too ;(
I think you did a terrific job on the chicken leg. Love the rotisserie chicken sold throughout France - it's always delicious but you definately need to try a jambon sandwich in Paris, they don't taste like anything we have here, but I think a lot has to do with the buerre.ReplyDelete
You cant take many steps in our house or yard either without running into a fake or live chicken. :) I haven't eaten beef in ages but love Chicken.. but shhh don't let my girls know. :) My girls are for their eggs and as pets, not for eating. I would fit very well in Paris I think. :)ReplyDeleteReplies
What's their life span out of curiosity...one could get very attached to yr girls...Delete
I LOVE LOVE LOVE the French Rotisseries. IN fact I'm so jealous, you have no idea!ReplyDelete
Whenever in the South of France the first thing I do is stop off for a Rotisseries WITH some potatoes. Ladies, you all consume sugar like there's no tomorrow and you worry about some fat??
It's the Best, a MUST and I love/hate you for posting... now I badly want one:-(
OK, off to do my other love, BBQ'd mackerel:-)Replies
Give me yr address and ill send you a cuisse!Delete


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The Eagles officially introduced Chip Kelly as their new head coach on Thursday. Here are some highlights from the news conference.
Jeffrey Lurie: This is a very, very exciting day for the Philadelphia Eagles. Exciting day for our city, and an exciting day for Eagles fans across the country… It's been an excellent process … a carefully, targeted process… As I said early on, the whole key was to try to find the right leader, not make the fastest decision. We studied Chip [Kelly] for a long, long time. Everything we'd ever heard was so true…
Chip Kelly: It's a real exciting time for me. The passion of this franchise was very, very evident. It was a difficult decision for me but this is a special situation … I knew this was the place for me, just needed to find a way to do it the right way… I'm excited. I know about the fan base in Philadelphia, and that excites me. Andy [Reid] told me what this organization is all about. There's not a classier guy [than Reid]. I want to publically thank Andy.
The following quotes are all from Chip Kelly:
On transition to NFL: Football is football, and this is football at its highest level… It's about putting together a great coaching staff and having great players… It's still the game of football. It's still X's and O's.
On putting together a staff: I'm right in the middle of [making a staff]. That's been my first order of business since I arrived here.
On coaching the Eagles: I don't think anyone envisioned this but I'm excited about the opportunity.
On continuing the tradition of the Eagles: That's extremely important to me… Every day you come to work there's a standard of excellence that needs to be lived up to… I don't know what the future holds but I know that this organization is one of the top organizations in all of sports. I don't take that lightly.
On his offense and the quarterback: There's perception and reality. The perception is we run our quarterback all of the time. Reality is that's not the case... I'm a huge fan of [Nick Foles]. He's tough… He's a competitor. He's accurate and I'm excited about that… I don't have any preconceived notions. I'm looking at film and looking at what direction we're going to head here.
On Michael Vick: I'm going to look at everybody. We're going to look at everything we can do to put the best product out on the field. There's nothing that's on the board right now. There's nothing that's off the board right now. We're going to put an offense on the field that's going to score points.
On his message to players: I can't speak to anything that went on before here because I wasn't here… We have one goal and that's to get to the Super Bowl… The game of football is played by everybody. It's a team deal. The best team wins.
On his decision to come to the Eagles: The people in the organization. The hardest thing for me leaving Oregon was the people. For me to leave, there had to be people here. The time I met with Howie [Roseman], Jeffrey [Lurie] and Don [Smolenski], it was evident to me of their passion and commitment. I knew it was a great fit… I'm an NFL coach and this is where I want to be. I made the jump and I'm here, and I'm excited to be here.
My goal right now is clearly defining what we want. What is a quarterback? What do we want here? … I've heard questions about "I want control over this. I want control over that." I want to coach football. It's a collaboration. We all want to be on the same page. I'm a football coach. I'm not a GM. I'm not a salary-cap guy. I just want to coach football. I have no delusions of "I want all of these titles." I just want to coach football.
What he likes about the Eagles: The one thing that attracts me about the roster is the youth… Youth and speed are two things you can't coach. I think we can win, but I'm not a guy who makes predictions. I'm not giving you a number [on the amount of wins the Eagles will get].
On defense: In terms of what do we want to be, we're going to be an attacking-style defense… I can't tell you we'll be doing this or that.
On his coaching style: I never wanted to get pigeonholed as "this" ... I feel like I've got a pretty well rounded background in offense, defense and special teams.
On his timetable to make a decision: It was more my timetable than anyone else's… I'm not stringing anybody along… I wanted to do it the right way. For me it was "how do I handle this to people at the University of Oregon." I wanted them to find out from me… It told me a lot about [the Eagles] organization is that [they gave me time to think about the decision].
On impending NCAA sanctions at Oregon: We fully cooperated with [the NCAA]. It didn't factor into my decision [to leave].
On the Eagles' offense: We'll score anyway we can. I'm not married to taking a quarterback who can't run and making him run or taking a quarterback who can't throw and making him throw… It's not about style. It's about substance.
On succeeding in the NFL: No one has higher expectations for me than me. But I don't like using I's and me's. Football is about we's. It's a we deal and about us getting our minds focused in the right direction.
On what kind of team the Eagles will be: People want to paint a brush and label an offense with one word. For us, it's about what tools do we have in our toolbox and what tools can we use based on the players we have... We're going to put our players in the best positions to score points.
On his coaching staff: We're going to put the best staff possible that has the same vision as me.


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|November 30, 2012, 12:04 PM
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M1 Garand, to restore or not...
A friend of mine recently inherited an old beaten up M1 Garand from his dad who unfortunately is almost completely blind due to old age.
He wanted to know if he should restore the rifle, it's been taken care of and shoots fine, but the stock and the finish is worn to hell and back according to him, not much blueing left and the furniture is dinged up and chipped all over the place.
Would it be worth restoring, he's considering restoring it and presenting it as a gift to his father who's a retired Army colonel who served in the Korean war commanding tank battallions.
I don't know much about the rifle other than how poor it's visual condition is. He never gave me any information about the markings or who made the reciever and what have you. From a collectors stand point, would "restoring" the rifle ruin its value?
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|November 30, 2012, 12:34 PM
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You don't have enough info to make any real determination. It could be an original gun in bad shape the so called diamond in the rough and valuable . It could be a blue sky gun and never going to be worth much. You need to determine what parts are original to the gun and which aren't. It could be a parts gun ,possible re weld.
The price of parts today it is becoming economically unwise to restore a gun. Rule of thumb. An original will always be worth more than a resto unless you plan to pass it off as original.
If you just want a shooter there is nothing wrong with a wood set or new barrel.
|November 30, 2012, 12:48 PM
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It's more of a sentimental value for his dad, and I think it would just end up being a wall decoration for the most part.
He wanted to do something nice for him since he can't shoot anymore and though him seeing his old rifle all slicked up and pretty again would be something he'd enjoy.
on the same token, there is a charm to that old worn out look IMO. I'll ask him to take photos and look for markings/numbers to see if they match.
Thanks for the advice ya'll
|November 30, 2012, 12:52 PM
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There are very, very few 'original' M1's left. Most of them were arsenal refurbished multiple times, before most of us here were born. In fact, I'd be extremely wary of an 'all matching' M1, with out a fully documented provenance. Its too easy to gather together all Springfield, Win, or IH parts and put them with the right receiver. The right barrels are a little scarcer, but they're out there. As for stocks Military Gunstock Restoration they can be made to look exactly correct.
You'd be better off getting it redone, if its in real rough shape. Its probably been redone by US and Korean military armorers several times already anyway.
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|November 30, 2012, 03:25 PM
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Two contradicting thoughts:
1. There were 6 million +/- Garands made. They aren't rare and restoring one that is as beat up as you say might not do it any damage. Both of my Garands are mix-masters, having been through the arsenal refurbishment at least once. They got new finishes on their stocks but I left the "character" marks in the wood.
2. If this rifle is all original, has a few early features on it like gas trap etc, then refinishing it might harm the value. If the father was a Colonel in the army in Korea he most likely did not carry a Garand but an M1 Carbine. The chance of this being his original Garand is slim, but ...
|November 30, 2012, 08:51 PM
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To me the history of an M1 (or any other surplus rifle) is in the dings, dents, gouges,etc.
I set and hold the rifle thinking of what the soldier was doing when those blimishes appeared, what was he doing.
I'm setting here looking at my new 1898 Krag. It got dings on the stock, almost look like knotcehs, since they are evenly spaced. I can't imagine how they got there, my imaganation's been going wild.
(probabley for a baracks rifle rack but I still wonder).
So I guess you can figure how I feel about restoring old military rifles.
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|November 30, 2012, 10:58 PM
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the main thing he has to ask himself is does he want it to be a show piece or not? it's that simple. a collector does not want a gun that has been refinished however your friend is not a collector. he want's to be able to hang it on the mantle and when people come over he can boast that it was his daddy's gun. in that condition what is more striking? a gun that has been beat to hell or a gun that looks like it came straight from the factory? either way it makes a good conversation piece and on one hand he is obliged to explain the refurbished condition but on the other he can explain what a pain in the rear it is to have to clean it every 2 months regardless of being fired or not because all the bluing is gone and it is prone so surface rust.
that's just my .02 either choice is his business, not mine.
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|November 30, 2012, 11:07 PM
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If you want it to look great, restore it.
If you want to keep it in, old beat up edition, don't.
M1 Garand / Mil Surp collectors are "special" people.
Do what you want.
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|December 1, 2012, 12:13 AM
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I would just take it down, oil it up. and give the stock a good dose of linseed oil and wax. Before you do anything rash, check the stock for markings and get to know a little about the Garand. If it all original, it could be worth quite a bit.
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After owning and shooting a pair of surplus Garands I decided to do a full rearsenal on one. Kreiger barrel, nm op-rod and sights, heavy stock. It's shoots like a dream, but has no stories to tell.
|December 1, 2012, 03:00 PM
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Depending on the tale, proceed. One course of action might be... Keep the original stock, with an alternate to buy a new stock set. Make the rifle perfect mechanically, but keep the character of the metal as is. Insert rifle action in new stock or if old stock was carried by friend, bring it up to current but worn condition.
I'd like to know the tale that rifle could tell (as it were), if any, before I proceeded on a total refurb.
WEB Griffin stories not-with-standing, few if any Tankers carried Garands (but a Unit Commander might have his own prerogative)... and while there might be a slight chance of one or two who did and if it saved their butt... ya know? A long stretch for sure, but strange things happen in wartime, or so I'm told.
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|December 1, 2012, 05:08 PM
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If the Garand is all original to its date of production I would not do anything other than clean and oil.
If the Garand is an arsenal rebuild, a Blue Sky thingy, reparkerization, a new barrel, steam the dents out of the stock and tung oiling will make it look better and shoot better.
If you take the second option it is likely you will put more money into the rifle than it is worth, but it will be a great rifle.
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You can go here: http://forums.thecmp.org/forumdisplay.php?f=7
to find folks that have all the answers you need. Please have serial #s and any numbers you can find on the rifle. The good folks on that forum are true M1 Garand experts and can fill you in on whatever information / history / provenance that you wish to learn.
Not only that but you can also buy another Garand from these same good folks.
CMP is good people Kimio, they have the information and the guns.
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|December 1, 2012, 10:53 PM
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If you decide to restore it.....
Mine was a Blue Sky Import from Korea I paid less than $100 bucks for. What better tribute to an old war horse than restoring it to prime fighting condition yet keeping it legal to use in the Garand Matches.
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Another option considering your purpose for it would be to find some real attractive new wood for it, but save the original stock. It would be enough for what your wanting from it, and much cheaper than a full restoration to as new issued condition.
|December 4, 2012, 12:06 AM
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^This. That way a simple stock changeout won't affect value but it'll look nice. I'm looking at a new stock for my '45 actually.
|December 4, 2012, 05:48 PM
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I have an M1 serial #22XXX. Yes it is a first run. It was shipped to the Philippines and wandered back to Buddy gun shop in Camden AR.
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|December 8, 2012, 02:00 AM
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Its ALWAYS worth restoring a garand...
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|December 10, 2012, 03:35 PM
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Not necessarily.
Depends on the original condition of the rifle.
You can actually destroy the value of an original Garand by "restoring" it.
|December 12, 2012, 09:06 AM
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If my kid ever restores my 1st Gen SAA Colt 45 and presents it to me on my 85th birthday, it will immediately be hers because I'll croak right then and there!
|December 12, 2012, 10:51 AM
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My Garand is for shooting not collecting.....
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Restore can be interpreted many ways. Use a generous amount of Formby's Furniture Cleaner or Lemon Oil furniture cleaner and get the goo off the surface of the wood - make it feel "clean" to the touch.
Keep the metal original, just degrease it and make it clean to the touch - us AK folks go to great lengths to create the "battlefield pickup" look of the typical Garands I own.
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It all depends on the rifle. This group really needs a bunch more details before making a definitive recommendation.
The more original the rifle, the less chance a restore would be a good idea unless you are just talking about buying a new stock and keeping the old one with the rifle.
Post some pictures and a Garand data sheet if you have one.
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A: Hey, Dennis: Please take no offense, but wishful thinking doesn't come close to describing your theory. And forget about the 18-game schedule. As somebody in the know told me, the 18-game idea is like New Coke. Long gone.
Q: Hey, Tony: Given the current labor issues in the NFL and the legal actions employed by both sides, what would be the best and worst outcomes in your opinion? Do you think the draft, salary cap, rookie wage scale, 18-game schedule, free-agency restrictions and franchise tag would survive a court challenge? I personally believe that the union de-certification is an attempt to destroy the salary cap and turn the NFL into MLB (why would the players have agents in the final negotiations otherwise?). Please tell me I am wrong and that small-market teams will not be destroyed in this. -- Joe Gombach, Franklin, Ind.
A: Hey, Joe: Players were happy with the last system and feel de-certification and litigation are their only means to preserve what they had. The owners envision extreme revenue growth in the next round of TV contracts and want to lower the percentage shared by the players. The owners have to realize by now their system cannot survive a court challenge. Their initial strategy was to bank TV money during a lockout and force the players to accept less. The court blew up that strategy with an emphatic ruling against the owners that could result in enormous monetary damages. At this stage of the game, it looks like the players have a sounder game plan and the owners are hoping for a Hail Mary. Best scenario is the courts scare both sides into reaching a CBA. Worst scenario is a protracted lockout/dispute that wipes out the entire 2011 season.
Q: Hey, Tony: There is a lot of talk about Patrick Peterson with our first pick and having a great CB tandem. My question is this: If there is an equally talented pass rusher on the line available wouldn't it make sense to take the pass rusher? My reasoning is that a pass rusher has a chance to make average cornerbacks better by making the QB make a quick throw. A great CB does not necessarily make an average DL better. How many times in the past 10 years have we watched opposing QBs stand in the pocket all day long picking the secondary apart? With no pass rush, even great CBs can't cover forever. -- Carl Salzano, Mentor
A: Hey, Carl: You're preaching to the choir. I'm not in the "draft Peterson, best player in the draft" camp.
Q: Hey, Tony: As I read about the top prospects in this year's draft there is one name that I keep finding myself reading about: J.J. Watt of Wisconsin. He's a great leader and is absolutely relentless on the field. I keep seeing him linked to a 3-4 system but I was wondering if he'd fit in a 4-3 and if the Browns are looking at him. I think he'd be great for us because of his "blue-collar" work ethic. Also, it would be great to see someone on our line that doesn't give up no matter what the play, down, or what he did on the last down. But I also wonder if he's a bit of a reach for us at No. 6? -- Jamey Majoros, Concord
A: Hey, Jamey: Most experts peg Watt as a 3-4 defensive end. That would translate to defensive tackle in the 4-3 or as a left end. Watt isn't the kind of outside pass rusher coaches like in their 4-3 ends. Everything I've read about him is positive, too. One problem is the Browns want quicker, lighter ends than Watt. And you wouldn't take him at No. 6. Perhaps after a trade down, but not at No. 6.
Q: Hey, Tony: Considering how the league appears to be dominated by great passers, do you think the Browns will draft a receiver with the sixth pick and go forward with Colt McCoy? Didn't the Browns try that with Charlie Frye (a third-rounder like Colt) and Braylon Edwards with disastrous results? With so many holes and the difficulty entailed in trying fill them all with one draft, wouldn't it be a perfect time to make an investment in one of the big-time guys that are coming out? Considering how often this franchise changes philosophies, isn't it dangerous to hitch the team's fortunes with a QB that can only play in the west coast offense? -- Mike Waller, Alexandria, Va.
A: Hey, Mike: Well, the Browns have decided to hitch their fortunes to a quarterback who may excel in the west coast offense. I mean, they've got to believe in something, and that's what they're believing in. As for citing the Edwards-Frye pairing, I wish people would quit comparing every draft scenario to one that has failed in the past. People say Nick Fairley is another Gerard Warren and Da'Quan Bowers is another Courtney Brown. Every single team has its "disastrous" draft results. There are new people in charge. To continually compare every possible move to one that's failed in the past is a loser's mentality.
Q: Hey, Tony: Not hearing much about North Carolina DE Robert Quinn to the Browns. Isn't he the type of speed rusher off the edge that GM Tom Heckert likes, more so than Da'Quan Bowers? Also, a couple years ago (in the Phil Savage era) you wrote a great story detailing the inner workings of the draft room, including even a seating diagram. Any chance a similar article could appear this year? -- Matt Alsip, Towson, Md.
A: Hey, Matt: I believe Quinn is a serious consideration if the Browns move down, but I doubt he's the guy at No. 6. We are anticipating running a seating chart of the Browns' draft room on draft day.
Q: Hey, Tony: A question about the owners using replacement player if the current labor situation continues into the start of the season. If games were played with replacement players, wouldn't this give the players under contract the right to file suit against teams for depriving them of their right to work since this is not a strike but a lockout? It seems to me that since the players are not refusing to work, they are not allowed to work, that teams and owners should not be allowed to bring in scabs so they can make money while they deny the player the right to earn. Do you have any insight into this? -- Tom Hill, Plain City, Ohio
A: Hey, Tom: Nothing precludes the owners from using replacement players. But it certainly would play into the players' hands and add incriminating evidence to their antitrust lawsuit.
Q: Hey, Tony: A month ago I said take Georgia WR A.J. Green. Your comment was receivers can be found in any four. Yes, and so can QBs (Tom Brady, Joe Montana) and DEs (Deacon Jones, Jared Allen) Any position can be found in any round. What's your point? Then last week you tell some poor guy that Patrick Peterson would not work for us since the Bengals have the best CB tandem and finished last. You forgot to mention the year before with the same tandem they finished first and many credited their secondary. By the way, now you finally do a mock draft with the Browns taking A.J. Green and see it my way. Believe it or not, our pathetic offense has two Pro Bowl O-linemen, two potential stud RBs, a great pass-catching TE and hopefully the next in a long line of QB saviors. My point is we need that stud WR or two since our offense is closer to being elite than our defense. A Browns offensive player maybe on the cover of Madden? Is that possible? The offense is closer than you think !(In colt we pray.) -- Nathan Cornell, Minneapolis
A: Hey, Nathan: I've come 180 degrees on taking Green at No. 6 as this draft process has droned on. Upon closer inspection, the top defensive linemen all have flaws that should scare off a team absolutely needing a bull's-eye with their first pick. Green and Peterson and Von Miller have fewer flaws. All being equal, Green's touchdown-making ability puts him above the others for the Browns, in my opinion. Now, if Nick Fairley and Da'Quan Bowers weren't as risky, I would take either over Green.
Q: Hey, Tony: I was hoping you could provide some insight on a comment you made last week indicating "Holmgren is McCoy's biggest supporter". Granted, I'm sure Holmgren would like nothing less than to see McCoy flourish and solve the biggest question mark surrounding this team, however the question isn't what Holmgren wants to happen, it's what he thinks can happen. If the media, yourself included, have questioned McCoy's arm strength and skill set you can bet Holmgren questions it as well. Also, I don't read front-office types in Tampa, Atlanta, and St. Louis being intrigued by quarterback prospects in the 2011 NFL Draft. Holmgren wouldn't remember McCoy's first name if the Browns had the first pick in the 2012 NFL Draft with Andrew Luck sitting out there. -- Leslie Marchak, Sagamore Hills
A: Hey, Leslie: I've questioned Holmgren and coach Pat Shurmur at length about McCoy and I have no doubt each has total confidence in him. Can that change come the 2012 draft? Absolutely. But I think both men firmly believe McCoy will excel in the west coast offense. And they both know they'd better be right.
Q: Hey, Tony: I am not sure if it is the current lockout, or the fact that we are making another coaching change and this time to a guy no one had ever heard of . . . however, this is the quietest off-season I ever remember. I have not had a single person bring up the draft to me or even talk Browns in weeks and that never used to happen. Do you think this is a national thing now and if so do the owners "get it" that for the first time in a very long time NFL is not on everyone's mind in the sporting world. -- Michael Spitale, Galena, Ohio
A: Hey, Michael: Well, I think the labor situation and lockout, which canceled all player transactions and off-season activities, has cast a dark cloud over this year's draft. However, I will predict the TV ratings of the NFL draft on ESPN and NFL Network will climb to record numbers.
Q: Hey, Tony: With the court ruling today in mind that could end the lockout and maybe lead to a new CBA prior to the draft, what would be the better outcome for the Browns as far as their own draft? Would the exclusion/inclusion of players in potential trades and free agency overall hurt or help the Browns? For example: Could a potential trade of Carson Palmer to a QB-hungry suitor -- a team that otherwise might be in the market for the sixth overall pick like, say, Washington or Minnesota -- outweigh the benefits of player trades and free agents the Browns would be able to acquire or vice versa? --Fernando Fernandez, Parma
A: Hey, Fernando: I don't think any team is being helped by the postponement of free agents and player transactions. There's uncertainty for everybody.
Q: Hey, Tony: I have seen a lot of talk about the Browns trading down in the first round. With some of the red flags on many of the players, what about trading up to draft Marcell Dareus? He seems to be more of a sure thing, we have some extra picks, and with free-agency in limbo, we need a sure thing. How much would that cost us? -- Nancy, Baltimore
A: Hey, Nancy: The Browns probably would have to move up to No. 2 to draft Dareus. Not worth it, in my opinion.
Q: Hey, Tony: Why is it that colleges seem to be quite enamored with the spread offense but the pros do not like it. In other words, why do the colleges like it and why don't the pros like it? -- Glenn Studevant, Tucson, Ariz.
A: Hey, Glenn: Everything in football is cyclical. A type of the spread offense was popular in the NFL in the 1980s. It was the run-and-shoot. The Oilers, Falcons and Lions ran it some success for a few years. The Bills' "red-gun" offense also had similarities to the college spread. Eventually, NFL defenses caught up with offenses spreading the field with receivers by getting to the quarterback quickly. It also was not favored by coaches who like to "possess" the ball and keep opposing offenses off the field. I'm sure if the spread continues to flourish in the college ranks, it will make a return in the NFL. Many teams are close to running a variation of the spread right now, including New England and Indianapolis.
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MISSOULA, Mont. (AP) — A Kalispell, Mont., woman who pleaded guilty to pushing her husband off a cliff in Glacier National Park last summer plans to appeal her 30-year prison sentence for his death.
Attorneys for Jordan Linn Graham, 22, filed her notice of appeal to the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Thursday, the deadline for filing the notice. She was sentenced late last month for the death of Cody Johnson, 25.
Graham said she pushed Johnson after he grabbed her arm during an argument over their marriage of eight days.
The notice said Graham plans to appeal over several points, including that prosecutors raised the issue of premeditation in a sentencing memorandum. Graham pleaded guilty to second-degree murder — which does not involve premeditation — just before closing arguments were to take place at her December trial.
She also plans to appeal her sentencing increases for obstruction of justice and denial of acceptance of responsibility, U.S. District Judge Donald Molloy's denial of her motion to withdraw her guilty plea and "any and all appealable aspects of the conviction and sentence, whether listed here or not."
Johnson was reported missing July 8 when he failed to show up for work. His body was found three days later when Graham led a group of searchers to the spot where she'd pushed him off the cliff. Graham lied to investigators about what happened to Johnson until they confronted her with a picture of her and Johnson in a car entering Glacier park the night Johnson died.
Graham apologized to Johnson's family during her March 27 sentencing hearing, but Molloy appeared unmoved.
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Thanks to Marty Maloney of the White Sox I had the chance to spend a few minutes on the phone with Sox pitching prospect Anthony Carter this afternoon. It was a nice change of pace since it's snowing out right now with more expected! The Sox are making members of the organization available from time to time to invited web sites and I wanted to make sure White Sox Interactive was represented.
Carter came out of Georgia Perimeter junior college as a 26th round pick. He's worked his way up through the Sox system with stops at Bristol, Great Falls, Kannapolis and Winston-Salem. He went 11-7 as a starter there in 2009 but was converted to relief. In the Arizona Fall League, Carter opened a few eyes by striking out 16 with no walks in ten innings. Scouting reports say his fastball is his best pitch, clocked at 95-98 MPH, but his eventual success may hinge on the development of his "secondary" or "out" pitches.
He was added to the Sox 40 man roster and is scheduled to throw in one of the first intersquad games this weekend.
Here's a recap of the conversation in no particular order of questions.
Q: What were your initial feelings about being converted to relief?
AC: "I was called into the office and told that the Sox thought this would be my best chance to make the big leagues. I looked at it as something new and different."
Q: You were always seen as a starter, was it a blow to you to be told, 'you should try pitching in relief'?
AC: "No I thought it made me more energized. Instead of getting a chance to pitch every fifth day I had to be ready every day or every other day.
Q: Do you have a particular pitch you like to throw other than your fastball?
AC: "Whatever's working that day! I do prefer my slider though."
Q: Describe your experience pitching in the Arizona Fall League.
AC: "It was a lot of fun. I got to face some of the top prospects in all of baseball."
Q: J.R. Perdew has been your pitching coach, tell us what's he's like.
AC: "He knows what to say and when to say it. I pitched one day and gave up some runs, then pitched again and gave up even more runs when I was just making the change to a relief pitcher, he came up to me and said, 'you're in the bullpen now you don't have to reserve yourself, just let it go…' and that's what I needed to hear at the time."
Q: How big of an adjustment was it for you mentally making the change from starter to relief pitcher?
AC: "It really wasn't an issue. I don't have to worry anymore on off days after an outing if something happened. Now I just get ready that day and get in the frame of mind to get guys out."
Q: What stop did you have to make the biggest adjustment?
AC: "The adjustments were sublime everywhere but probably double A was the biggest, you have to be mentally right to get guys out at that level. "
Q: What pitch do you still feel you need to work on?
AC: "I think it's my slider, I want to keep refining it and get it to the point where it's a swing and a miss pitch."
Q: You've pitched in some small ballparks in the minor leagues, if you get to pitch at U.S. Cellular Field what do you think you'll need to do to be successful?
AC: "I'll have to keep the ball down in the zone and use my sinker more."
Q: This past year in the Fall League you struck out 16 guys with no walks in ten innings. Did you change anything to start having that type of control?
AC: "I was more aggressive with hitters, I decided to start going after them."
Q: When you're getting your work in, in spring training, does it bother you more to say give up a home run or walk a guy or two?
AC: "Well if I'm getting my work in I guess I'd rather give up a home run as long as there's nobody on base because that means I'm around the plate and throwing strikes."
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"We came out of this game with a win, two busted ankles, a punched-out tooth and stitches. My favorite," CCC coach Aaron Hoxie said. "Other than that, we did enough to win, especially missing three players. The guys on the field outworked and outplayed them."
Ronnie Rocha and Grant Rardon scored for the Tigers, with both assists going to Kasey Sidor.
Central has won two straight and is now 5-3-1 — four of the wins coming against KCAC schools — heading into a 4:30 p.m. home game Saturday against York.
SOUTHWESTERN WOMEN 7, CENTRAL 2 — Much-improved Southwestern led 3-1 at the half and tacked on four more goals in the second half.
Krystina Powell and Kimberly Rodrigeuz scored for CCC, with Powell coming up with an assist.
CCC is now 1-8 and hosts York at 2 p.m. Saturday.