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Central Sector Scheme of Scholarship for College and University Students-2013

Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) invites applications for Central sector scheme of scholarship for college and university students. Eligibility:The applicant should be an Indian nationalThe applicant should have passed the Senior School Certificate Examination 2013 conducted by CBSE and have secured the total aggregate marks (in first five subjects) equal or aboveMinimum Total Aggregate Marks for all categories (SC/ST/OBC/UR) to apply for Scholarship (Marks in first five subjects) Science – 418, Commerce – 401 and Others - 338The applicant should be pursuing higher studies and have taken admission in Under Graduation regular course (not correspondence or distance mode) from recognized Educational Institutions/University in India.The applicant should not be availing any other scholarship.Total Annual Income of parents of the applicant from all sources should not exceed Rs.4.5 lakhs (Revised to Rs. 6 lakhs) per annum.The applicant should not belong to creamy layer.Scholarship amount and durationGraduation: Rs.1000/- per month for three years shall be disbursed lump sum amount of Rs.10,000/- at end of academic year.Post Graduation (Other than that of the professional courses):Rs 2000/- per month for two years after Graduation shall be disbursed lump sum Amount of Rs.20,000/- at end of academic year.For 4th and 5th year of Professional Courses: Rs 2000/- per monthHow to apply: Applicants can fill the application form online at cbse.nic.in.Last Date of Receipt of Online Application for CSSS-2013 is 30th Sept, 2013.For more details : Click here
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Duck Dynasty Fact and Opinion Packet Winners

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Third album/app Artpop will be released on November 11First single, as yet untitled, will be released on August 19

By Emily Sheridan

PUBLISHED: 07:18 EST, 12 July 2013 | UPDATED: 10:00 EST, 12 July 2013

She's been keeping a low-profile in recent months after recuperating from her hip surgery and working on her new album.

And as Lady Gaga starts to build buzz around her upcoming album Artpop and new single, she has been returning to the spotlight... and her flamboyant wardrobe.

As the singer attended a listening party and dinner for her third studio album in Beverly Hills on Thursday, she opted for a structured gold dress.

Golden girl: Lady Gaga leaves a building in Beverly Hills after her Artpop dinner

Creating excitement: Gaga showed some promotional artwork from her new album on her Facebook page

With such a striking dress and matching gold platform boots, Gaga opted for a more natural make-up look than usual.

The New Yorker, whose real name is Stefani Germanotta, completed her outfit with a long gold wig.

Gaga's appearance came the night before she unveiled a new promotional picture from her new album, which will be released as a phone app.

Helping hand: Gaga was guided out of the party by a male companion

The photo sees Gaga - apparently naked - with an unusual visor covering her face.

Gaga announced on Friday that her new single would be released on August 10, with the album/app following on November 11.

Describing the album, the press release said: 'The app itself is a musical and visual engineering system that combines music, art, fashion and technology with a new interactive worldwide community 'the auras'. Altering the human experience with socal media, we bring ARTculture into POP in a reverse Warholian expedition.

'Exploring Gaga's existence as a cultural interface, the user will share in the 'adrenaline of fame' as they build and share their own projects, chat with one another and watch in real-time on a virtual globe as ARTPOP explodes into the physical and virtual universe at once on November 11, our 'Big Bang'.

Structured: Gaga's dress accentuated and exaggerated the singer's curves

'A rage of electronic passion and fury': Gaga has promised fans a very different experience with her new album

'On this day, HAUS OF GAGA venges (sic) with forte to bring the music industry into a new age, an age where art drives pop and the artist once again is in control of the icon.

'In turn, the album ARTPOP musically mirrors Gaga's creative process as she passes through the mediums of each artist she collaborates with, scoring a blueprint of her journey. The result, a 'rage' of electronic passion and fury, defining each artistic process from beginning to end, Artpop could mean anything. But for her, this is a celebration of obsession.'

Going for gold: Despite its eye-catching colour, Gaga's outfit was relatively tame in comparison to others she's worn

Gaga's Facebook posting comes after she has given herself a self-imposed Twitter ban since June 26.

The profile photo and backdrop has been removed and replaced with the standard Twitter egg icon.

However, it is believed Gaga will return to Twitter once her single comes out next month.

Puffing away: Gaga was spotted smoking a hand-rolled cigarette in her car in New York ahead of her flight to LA

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ur old news gaga... no one cares... guess why ur shows were empty??? cause ppl dont pay to see u.. ur fans can buy millions of copies to make ur album #1 but when ur tuor starts u will find the seats empties...

- jonas , New York, Algeria, 13/7/2013 12:02

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Oh what a has been another flop album.

- coupefletch , Manchester UK, 13/7/2013 11:53

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Ha ha ha just realised who she reminds me of in that dress ...Dot Matrix from Spaceballs played by Joan Rivers...

- scullybabe , Exeter, United Kingdom, 13/7/2013 11:17

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I had absolutely forgotten this woman existed, how odd. I do like her nose now, much improved.

- Jane , Herts, United Kingdom, 13/7/2013 10:31

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Looks like they're planning to release two singles before the album - doesn't bode well for their confidence in the procuct.

- KyliesSparklyTiarra , Formby, 13/7/2013 10:18

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I'm much more excited about the new arcade fire album later this year

- NMH , In the aeroplane over the sea, 13/7/2013 09:29

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Er - fashion fail on this one I think. Awful dress.

- Mike123 , Wrexham, United Kingdom, 13/7/2013 09:14

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She's not really much of a looker is she?!

- Surrey Girl , Camberley, UK, 13/7/2013 07:31

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Its funny how Gaga only dresses this way and takes her clothes off in public when she's trying to promote a new album. So fake. I would love to see what she was actually like in real life and not just the image that she tries to hard to portray. For someone that goes on and on about being yourself, I think every she does, says and wears is highly planned out.

- aussiegirl , Brisbane, Australia, 13/7/2013 07:06

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Time to admit you've had heaps of surgery, Gar Garrrrr! Hypocrite.

- Delilah , Brisbane, Australia, 13/7/2013 06:03

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Kathleen Sebelius?s Thankless, Anonymous, and Partly Failed Effort to Insure More Poor People

The Supreme Court surprised everyone last year when it upheld the bulk of the Affordable Care Act, and the law?s authors and supporters rejoiced. But in a crucial caveat, the Court ruled that one of ?Obamacare?s? cornerstones, the expansion of state Medicaid programs, could not be mandatory. Suddenly, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius got a big promotion. She wouldn?t just be the chief health regulator; now she?d also be the administration?s top negotiator with states contemplating this new choice about whether to expand. A key part of her job became convincing them that extending Medicaid to more poor people was the right choice for their residents, their budgets, and the country.

This was a surprisingly good fit. President Obama had originally wanted former Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle for the HHS job, thinking that his legislative skills would have helped shepherd the health reform bill to passage. (Dasch-le?s vetting revealed tax problems.) In his stead, the president chose Sebelius, a former elected insurance commissioner and governor of conservative Kansas. She knows the states. She knows their leaders through the National Governors Association, where she served on the executive committee. And Sebelius knows how hard it can be to foster acceptance of Washington policies among local politicians. ?It?s really helpful in the place I am now to have been on the other side of those conversations,? she tells NationalJournal.

After the Court?s decision, Sebelius went to work. She kept an ?open-door policy? for governors, she says, meeting with many regularly to advise and cajole them?and occasionally traveling to their states. Instead of laying out a raft of new, strict rules for states to take or leave, Sebelius tried to allow behind-the-scenes negotiations. And she kept the confidences of her ?former colleagues?; she declined to openly criticize recalcitrant state legislators or gloat when a GOP governor acceded. She adopted an unusually personal approach to the issue: Despite her many responsibilities running the sprawling department, she took the lead on expansion. Marilyn Tavenner, who heads the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (the lead agency on the expansion), notes that Sebelius herself has said she wants to be in the room with the governors. ?The secretary does a tremendous amount of that work.?

Yet the results have been disappointing. With most legislative sessions over, about half the states have committed to expanding their Medicaid programs, meaning that millions of low-income Americans, many in the country?s poorest states, will get no insurance next year when the law?s main provisions switch on. Designed to cover more than 30 million uninsured Americans, Obamacare will fall well short of its original goal, and that failure will undermine reform in other ways?disrupting the cash flow for hospitals that serve the poor, seeding confusion among those still eligible for benefits, and cementing deep divides in the health and wealth of states around the country.

The Sebelius strategy may not have unfurled perfectly at every turn. Critics say that HHS has been inflexible on certain rules and that the department has shaped too many others on the fly?unpredictably creating systems the law hadn?t considered and encouraging states to submit ?waiver? applications that will allow the department to work outside the confines of its on-paper regulations. But she still may have achieved the best possible outcome. The Supreme Court empowered states to say no, and an astonishing number of them did. Even the most well-equipped ambassador with the most pragmatic possible approach couldn?t overcome deep opposition to Obamacare.

SALESMANSHIP

Sebelius, Arkansas Gov. Mike Beebe, and their aides were sitting at a conference table in Washington in late February when they finalized a Medicaid expansion deal they could all live with. Beebe and Sebelius, both Democrats, served as governors together; they go back years. But their agreement depended less on personal trust than on legal flexibility.Beebe always favored expansion, but he needed an approach that could pass his state?s GOP-controlled legislature.

The Affordable Care Act said that people earning below 133 percent of the federal poverty level?about $15,000 for a single person?should get insurance through expanded Medicaid. But Arkansas Republicans didn?t want a larger government program. So a team of consultants, HHS officials, and Beebe?s staffers unearthed a vague and decades-old provision in the Medicaid statute allowing its funds to sometimes be used to buy commercial health plans. In a handshake deal after that February meeting, the secretary agreed to let Arkansas use such a mechanism to cover all of its new Medicaid enrollees. Instead of offering poor Arkansans coverage under the state Medicaid program, as the law described, Beebe would let them buy private coverage at the federal government?s expense, a choice that could cost as much as 50 percent more than the conventional program, according to the Congressional Budget Office. It was an expensive solution, but at least it brought one more state on board.

At the time, Sebelius had enjoyed a series of high-profile successes. Not only had she secured promises to expand from nearly every state with a Democratic governor but she?d also recently persuaded seven Republican governors to come along, too. They included anti-Obamacare firebrand Rick Scott of Florida and Jan Brewer of Arizona (who had tangled with the administration on immigration policy). The same day that Beebe announced the Arkansas deal, New Jersey?s Chris Christie, who had his eyes on the 2016 presidential election, also threw his support behind expansion.

The administration thought it was playing a strong hand. Even though the Supreme Court had allowed states to opt out of the expansion, the incentives to opt in were enormous. The federal government will pay 100 percent of the bill for the first three years, and even in later years the contribution will never drop below 90 percent. (Currently, states receive on average 57 percent from Washington.) In a period when many state economies are still shaky, expansion means a huge infusion of federal cash into local economies. Hospitals, which have powerful lobbies, exhorted their state officials to sign up. A series of studies suggested that expansion would both stimulate economic growth and save governors money by allowing them to reduce spending on health care for the uninsured. An analysis by the nonpartisan Urban Institute suggested that many of the states most opposed to the law?the poor ones in the South and elsewhere?had the most to gain.

Yet Sebelius?s success rate was worst in exactly those states. And when a GOP governor capitulated, it was sometimes because Sebelius offered more than just Medicaid funding. She granted a generous waiver to let Arizona restructure its existing Medicaid system. She gave Florida permission to move nearly all of its existing Medicaid population into managed-care plans, answering a request her department had been considering for two years. Gov. John Kasich of Ohio said he received assurances from the White House that he?d be able to split the program in two: People below the poverty line would get traditional Medicaid, while those above would receive federal vouchers to buy private plans on the exchanges. Matt Salo, the executive director of the National Association of Medicaid Directors, said it was important that states felt they were able to negotiate. ?Politics 101 is: When your counterpart wants something, try to see what you can get in exchange for it,? he says, ?even if you want the same thing.?

Ron Pollack, the president of Families USA, which supports health reform, says he has been impressed by the way Sebelius has balanced the strictures of the law with an openness to state realities. He rates her performance as close to ideal, despite the poor results. ?Secretary Sebelius used to be a governor, she used to be an insurance commissioner, so she?s got real sensitivity to what states need,? he says. ?She is a bridge because people trust her and people have experience with her.?

Still, critics say the department could have done more to sweeten the deal for skeptical states. ?Their political strategy was based on, ?Here is a bunch of federal dollars, and we will just let the raw politics of the infusion of that money prevail, and that?s all we have to do,? ? says Dennis Smith, a managing director at McKenna Long & Aldridge, who was Wisconsin?s HHS director until February. ?I think that was a huge mistake.? Wisconsin opted against expansion. Smith argues that the department?s approach was too proscriptive?barring states from asking new beneficiaries to pay more for their care and requiring states to cover a broad array of expensive benefits that exceed the reach of most commercial insurance products.

The Arkansas option went further than Sebelius?s previous side deals. After that February meeting, Beebe announced a plan to voucherize Medicaid for the new beneficiaries. They would get the federal subsidy if they enrolled on the state exchange, purchasing the same plans available to higher-income purchasers. The agreement, as he described it, raised several questions. Would HHS really approve a plan that could cost so much more than traditional Medicaid? Would the new beneficiaries be exposed to the high deductibles and co-payments in the private plans (in apparent conflict with the Medicaid statute)? What legal authority enabled the department to permit a program mentioned nowhere in the Affordable Care Act?

The decision displeased Medicaid advocates (who worried that the Arkansas plan might rob new beneficiaries of key legal protections) and some budget hawks (who noted that Congress had used Medicaid to expand health coverage instead of private insurance specifically because it was so much cheaper). But Sebelius?s call also cheered many close to the process, who thought the ?Arkansas option,? and the flexibility it suggested, would be enough to entice many more states into expanding. National news reports, circulated in state capitals, described the plan as a sort of third option?not rejection, not expansion. ?Any state that has until now been saying ?no? can use this as a way to get to ?yes,? ? Salo said at the time. He guessed that it might lure 10 more states to expand.

For about a month during peak state-budget season, politicians across the country began thinking that everything was on the table. The Florida Senate began exploring its own private-expansion model, which would involve neither Medicaid nor the exchanges. Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam?s office contacted HHS and made a series of eleventh-hour demands that officials told the governor they couldn?t honor. Now, neither of those states looks likely to expand.

Finally, at the end of that month, HHS laid out clear rules about what would and wouldn?t be allowed by states pursuing an ?Arkansas option.? (For the most part, they gladdened Medicaid advocates and disappointed conservative would-be reformers.) Sebelius defends the delay, saying the month of uncertainty didn?t derail states committed to expansion but gave them an opportunity to present the department with their own ideas. ?Beyond what you saw as a month delay were probably daily conversation with not only Governor Beebe but others,? she says. ?To me, that was a better way to try to navigate this process than shipping out massive rules and regulations.?

Sebelius says her objective?as a former state official who knows how little local politicians like directives from on high?has been to give governors and legislators room to take ownership of the Medicaid expansion. ?What we?re trying to do, particularly in the Medicaid space, is not issue a lot of edicts: ?You absolutely cannot do x, y, and z.? ?You absolutely must do these four things,? ? she says. ?This is, frankly, driven by a lot of my sensitivity to states wanting to feel that it?s their program, it?s tailored for them?particularly in some of these more partisan legislative processes?that they are not being told by Washington to do something.?

Some states were never going to expand. Tony Keck, the director of health and human services in South Carolina, says an expansion didn?t fit with Republican Gov. Nikki Haley?s view of the best way to improve the health of the state?s poor. His state would have been open to new Medicaid financing schemes, Keck says, but not if these required them to cover new people. ?They want to get as many people health insurance as possible,? he says. ?We think that?s the wrong way to address the question.? Asked if he could think of a concession Sebelius could have made to induce the Palmetto State to join, he couldn?t name one.

POWERLESS

The Arkansas example may have showed Sebelius at her most flexible and conciliatory, but it also showed the limits of her power. She had made major sacrifices?cost, structure?to help Beebe, an unusually cooperative partner, win over the GOP-controlled Legislature that was reluctant to expand a government program. ?For whatever reason, philosophical or whatever, many of them preferred the private-insurance approach much better than the standard Medicaid approach,? Beebe tells National Journal.

And while Sebelius could at least devise a plan to win over those lawmakers, she had no such luck in certain other states where legislators were less interested in negotiating. The Republican governors of Florida and Ohio endorsed Medicaid expansion, but state legislators, often those aligned with the tea party, refused to follow suit. This was perhaps inevitable: They know less about health policy than their governors (who have expert advisers and entire health departments at their command) and worry more about primary-election challenges from the right. Many will simply never be persuaded to vote for an Obamacare program or an expansion of Medicaid, which they see as deeply flawed. In other states, impossible vote counts may have prevented governors from taking the political risk in the first place.

There?s not much Sebelius can do about that. ?Some of it was waiting for who was going to blink first, and I think we all thought that the states would blink because of the amount of money on the line. And that just isn?t how it worked out,? says Caroline Pearson a vice president at Avalere Health, who has been closely tracking state developments. Pearson estimated in February that only five states would be holding out by year?s end. Now she counts 23 in favor and only three still in play. ?Governors win elections by making the case, ?We improved the economy; we extended health care to our residents,? ? she says. ?The arguments that get legislators unelected is, ?They took the following vote in support of Obamacare.? ?

Sebelius may get another chance after Election Day. Next year, half the states will start their expansions, the rest of the law will roll out, and the secretary will keep talking to governors. The implementation won?t look like the one Congress or the Obama administration had anticipated, but decisions about Medicaid can keep coming. ?There is no timetable,? Sebelius says. ?The door is open.? At this point, she?s just hoping more governors will walk through it.

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Memorial Day 2013: The NFL and the United States Military

Happy Memorial Day! We hope our readers and followers had a lovely holiday weekend with their families. The All-Out Blitz would like to thank the United States Military and members, past and current, for serving our country.Unfortunately we don't have any "Memorial Day Memories" from the National Football League, considering it falls on May every year. So instead we thought we'd share some NFL/U.S. Military photos with you guys as a nice way to end the long weekend.The All-Out Blitz and National Football League thanks the U.S. troops for its service!- - - - -We have been slacking with content lately but now that the summer has officially arrived, we're hoping to get back to a normal posting schedule as soon as possible. Please check back for regular posts and coverage!Note: We do not own the above images. No copyright infringement intended.
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Mickey, Willie, and Everyone Else: A Conversation with Allen Barra

Allen Barra's new book is about Willie Mays and Mickey Mantle, and their relationship with each other, and everyone else.MAY 16, 2013 - 2:09PM | BY DAVID DAVIShttp://theclassical.orgIn "Mickey and Willie: Mantle and Mays, the Parallel Lives of Baseball's Golden Age" (Crown Archetype), the veteran author-journalist Allen Barra examines the mythic stature of two of the greatest center-fielders to play the game. The book is also a personal exodus of sorts, as Barra attempts to untangle the complex emotions he has about two childhood heroes."Mickey and Willie – they were given boys' names that they never grew out of," he writes. "The private lives of both men revealed that they were ill equipped for life after baseball, a fact that those of us who loved them found almost impossible to understand. How, though, could we have understood?"I emailed questions to Barra about writing and "Mickey and Willie," and he replied from his home in New Jersey.You helped Marvin Miller write his memoirs, entitled "A Whole Different Ball Game." What was it like to work with Marvin Miller?It was an education. I thought I knew enough to write a book on the business of baseball and the ongoing strife between the owners and the baseball union. I was amazed at how much I didn’t know. In the course of doing the book, I think I came to think a little like Marvin. That’s a gift I’ll always be grateful for.Do you think that Marvin Miller will ever be elected into the Baseball Hall of Fame?No, I don’t. If the players had stood up and demanded it, which they should have done, it would have happened. It is, after all, their Hall of Fame. But they didn’t. Anyway, Marvin was adamant he didn’t want in and stated so in several public letters. One of the last things he said to me was to please make that clear to anyone still calling for him to be elected.  So now the HOF can’t induct him without embarrassing themselves.It's been said that "all biography is at last autobiography." As the author of biographies about Paul "Bear" Bryant, Yogi Berra and now Mantle and Mays, do you find that statement to be true? How do you, as a writer, approach biography?Well, if all biography is autobiography, then I coached Alabama to six national championships and won ten World Series rings with the Yankees. Nope on that.I approach biography – and in this category I'll put Wyatt Earp, Bear Bryant and Yogi Berra – as men about whom much had been written but about whom I had never read what I wanted to read about them. There were too many unanswered questions, and that’s why I wrote those books. I don’t regard "Mickey and Willie" as biography. As the subtitle says, it’s a “parallel lives.” I was fascinated by the many things about them that were both similar and different. They were the same age, both children of the Depression, both southerners, both raised by baseball fathers and nurtured by the industrial league culture that thrived until a couple of years after World War II. They came to the Major Leagues in the same city and played against each other in the World Series in their rookie year, 1951. They ended up playing the same position, center field, and both were great all-around players.They both had actual names that others thought were nicknames, boys’ names. They were both booed by fans for not being Joe DiMaggio. Both loved going to the movies, especially westerns.As for the opposites – well, of course, one was white and one was black, so they lived most of their lives on different sides of American culture.There have been quite a few books about Mantle and Mays, including most recently James Hirsch's exhaustive biography of Mays and Jane Leavy's personal reportage about Mantle. Why did you feel there was room for another book about Mantle and Mays? What did you feel had not been discussed in previous works?All previous books, whether about them or ghosted by them, left out pretty much one element: each other. The similarities I mentioned above were seldom discussed except in passing. I never read anything, for instance, about Mickey and Willie barnstorming together, or about the many commercials and endorsements they did. (Thank you, George Lois.) Or, that Mickey was envious of Willie’s salary while Willie was envious of Mickey’s endorsements. In the end, each liked and respected the other enormously.They were compared endlessly. When I was growing up, “Who's better, Mickey Mantle or Willie Mays?” was practically the only baseball question that mattered. I think that’s largely forgotten today.You've written that "Mickey and Willie" is, at heart, about the concept of hero worship. What did you discover about that in researching and writing this book? Knowing what we know now, are Mantle and Mays still deserving of hero status?What I learned was that in their private lives they were at least as flawed as I am. That makes me feel both better and worse. I suppose the thing I learned that impressed me most is that being someone’s hero imposes an enormous burden of dreams on someone.But, finally, were they worthy of being called heroes? Yes, I think they were. I’ll give them that. Being my hero was a tough job, but in the end they did okay.You write that, after all these years, Willie Mays remains a cipher. Why? What happened to him?I don’t know that anything “happened” to him except everything he went through his whole life. After reading everything that has ever been written about Willie Mays, I can’t say I know him any better than I did before I started, at least in the sense of “What is the inner man really like? What were his dreams outside baseball, his aspirations?” What made me feel that more than anything else was that the two men who knew him best from the time he hit the major leagues, [authors] Arnold Hano and the late Charlie Einstein, were also baffled by him.You're a general manager in the spring of 1950. You have the choice of taking one ballplayer for your team: Mickey Mantle or Willie Mays. Who do you take and why?Well, I take Mickey for two simple reasons. In 1950 I don’t know what his history of injury is going to be, but I do know he’s white. It’s that simple. What I’m saying is that if I were a general manager in 1950, I don’t know that I would have thought differently than GMs did back then.From the perspective of ability, I don’t know that there was anything to make me choose one over the other.What's the subject of your next book?I’m not sure yet. I would love to write a dual biography of Ed and his late son Steve Sabol – how they built NFL Films and changed the way we look at sports. I also have been researching for years a book on how an Italian, a Jew, and an Irishman – Lucky Luciano, Meyer Lansky, and Owney Madden – created the modern mob.David Davis is a contributing writer at Los Angeles Magazine. He is the author of Showdown at Shepherd's Bush: The 1908 Marathon and the Three Runners Who Launched A Sporting Craze (St. Martin's). He lives in Los Angeles and is on Twitter at @ddavisla.
Source:http://carnageandculture.blogspot.com/2013/05/mickey-willie-and-everyone-else_20.html

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The New York Jets' Mike Goodson has been arrested for possession of marijuana and for having a loaded handgun in a SUV he was a passenger in.

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