2009 NFL Week 1 Picks
Welcome back to the most missed sports column on Associated Content! That’s right, my friends. It’s time for the NFL week 1 edition of Zac’s Backs. I don’t know about all of you but I’ve certainly missed NFL football. The preseason is a nice tease but I’m ready for the real deal. It also doesn’t help that both the Cleveland Indians and New York Mets are ridiculously terrible. For me, the Major League Baseball season ended in June.
Enough talk about baseball. It’s football season and the season begins in two days. Here are my picks for week one of wholesale nhl jerseys from china the 2009 NFL season.
When the NFL on NBC returned to us, the tradition of the reigning Super Bowl champs playing on Thursday night began. This continues when the Steelers host the Titans this Thursday evening. The stupidity of the sacredness of the Terrible Towel aside, there is a fun little rivalry brewing between these two teams. For reasons that I can’t explain, I like Atlanta to win this one by double digits. Carson Palmer returns to an NFL regular season game and the Bengals are at home playing against a train wreck. I would love nothing more than to see the Cleveland defense absolutely crush Hollywood Brett Favre. I’d also like to be given $10 million, a house on Lake Las Vegas and for the Catholic Church to not be a huge pain when I’m trying to plan my wedding. Those things aren’t going to happen, either.
Anybody who has read my NFL picks in the past years knows how much I love Peyton Manning. "Man Crush" just begins to explain it. With that said, I really do think Manning is going to have an incredible season in 2009. The doubters are already beginning to claim that the window for Manning winning another Super Bowl has closed. That’s just what Peyton Manning needs. Motivation. Go with Indy.
Winner: Indy
Detroit at New Orleans
Sorry, Matt Stafford. Seriously. This poor young man. Just remember to throw the ball away before you get hurt. You’ve got a whole career ahead of you.
One thing I’m going to talk about in my upcoming New York Giants preview (look for it later this week) is that the Dallas Cowboys really do worry me. The reason? NFL experts/journalists are ignoring them. When you talk about the NFC East, you talk about Vick and the Eagles or the cheap nhl jerseys from china Burress less Giants. Meanwhile, Dallas has a young, hungry and often scrutinized quarterback with a chip on his shoulder and something to prove. The Ravens also have a great defense. It’s times like these I cry as a Cleveland Browns fan. No upset here.

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The initiative may save the state a few dollars anyway, bearing out one of Gov. Rick Scott’s arguments for implementing it. But the low test fail rate undercuts another of his arguments: that people on welfare are more likely to use drugs.
At Scott’s urging, the Legislature implemented the new requirement earlier this year that applicants for temporary cash assistance pass a drug test before collecting any benefits.
The law, which took effect July 1, requires applicants to pay for their own drug tests. Those who test drug free are reimbursed by the state, and those who fail cannot receive benefits for a year.
Having begun the drug testing in mid July, the state Department of Children and Families is still tabulating the results. But at least 1,000 welfare applicants took the drug tests through mid August, according to the department, Cheap Replica Sunglasses which expects at least 1,500 applicants to take the tests monthly.
So far, they say, about 2 percent of applicants are failing the test; another 2 percent are not completing the application process, for reasons unspecified.
Cost of the tests averages about $30. Assuming that 1,000 to 1,500 applicants take the test every month, the state will owe about $28,800 $43,200 monthly in reimbursements to those who test drug free.
That compares with roughly $32,200 $48,200 the state may save Cheap Wholesale Sunglasses on one month’s worth of rejected applicants.
The savings assume that 20 to 30 people 2 percent of 1,000 to 1,500 tested fail the drug test every month. On average, a welfare recipient costs the state $134 in monthly benefits, which the rejected applicants won’t get, saving the state $2,680 $3,350 per month.
But since one failed test disqualifies an applicant for a full year’s worth of benefits, the state could save $32,200 $48,200 annually on the applicants rejected in a single Cheap Sunglasses month.
Net savings to the state $3,400 to $8,200 annually on one month’s worth of rejected applicants. Over 12 months, the money saved on all rejected applicants would add up to $40,800 $98,400 for the cash assistance program that state analysts have predicted will cost $178 million this fiscal year.
Actual savings will vary, however, since not all of the applicants denied benefits might have actually collected them for the full year. Under certain circumstances, applicants who failed their drug test can reapply for benefits after six months.
The as yet uncalculated cost of staff hours and other resources that DCF has had to spend on implementing the program may wipe out most or all of the apparent savings, said Derek Newton, spokesman for the American Civil Liberties Union of Florida. The program will grow costlier yet, he said, if it draws a legal challenge.
The ACLU has been Wholesale Fake Sunglasses threatening for months that it may challenge the constitutionality of the program; Tuesday, Newton said his group is still weighing a lawsuit.
DCF spokesman Joe Follick said that families and accountability are the main focuses of the program.
"The taxpayers deserve to know that the money they are spending is being used for its intended purpose," he said. "In this case, with [temporary cash assistance], the purpose is to help families become http://www.replicachristianlouboutin.com/ independent and self sufficient. If a family receiving [cash assistance] includes someone who has a substance abuse problem, the odds of that money being used for purposes other than helping that family increases."
More than once, Scott has said publicly that people on welfare use drugs http://www.cheapermichaelkorsoutlet.us.com/ at a higher rate than the general population. The 2 percent test fail rate seen by DCF, however, does not bear that out.
A 2008 study by the Office of National Drug Control Policy also showed that 8.13 percent of Floridians age 12 and up use illegal drugs.
Newton said that’s proof the drug testing program is based on a stereotype, not hard facts.
"This is just punishing people for being poor, which is one of our main points," he said. "We’re not testing the population at large that receives government money; we’re not testing people on scholarships, or state contractors. So why these people? It’s obvious because they’re poor."

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i went with my parents november 1st and alot happened. i think the tours might have provoked the souls there. mary elizabeths closet door opened, i heard what sounded like 2 male voices saying something (nobody else said they heard them) in the sick room and about 10 seconds later the door slamed, there were imprints on the bed in the green room and i swear i felt like somthing was looking up at me from one of the chairs. then we hit the basement, where tools flew off the walls in wholesale mlb jerseys china the tool room, somthing was going down in the library and there was a yell and a crash sound from in there the second time i went through the house. then in the kitchen in the basement a cup flew off the manlte peice and landed at our feet and a goard started swinging back and forth on the ceiling. then when we were leaveing the basement idk why but i cheap nhl jerseys chinasaid bye and about 2 seconds later i heard what im pretty sure was mary elizabeth say bye to me. i belive its haunted and i will be staying the night there sometime soon