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I agree.....was shocked

I agree...16 year old kid is dead.  I don't understand the celebration around that, no matter the circumstances.

I agree...16 year old kid is dead.  I don't understand the celebration around that, no matter the circumstances.

Not sure why this post is necessary. I am wondering why you have made two posts on this thread basically downing both these teams but yet didn't bother to post on your teams (Nederland) scrimmage thread?
Lumberton and Silsbee has always played each other in the regular season up until last year. Village Creek rivalry. They decided to continue playing by scrimmaging each other. It's not so much a "measuring stick". Just a scrimmage.
In comparison to last year's scrimmage, Silsbee definitely has improved.
Lumberton did stay very "vanilla" in their offensive and defensive schemes. Lumberton only passed 13 times out of the 30 offensive plays in comparison to Silsbee throwing it 21 times out of 30 plays. But Lumberton stayed in man coverage on defense, no zone coverage, so the Tigers took what the defense gave them and used their speedy, big athletic receivers to their advantage. It is exactly what they would have done in a game facing that defensive set.
Lumberton is physical and it showed in the trenches in the first 15 plays for both teams. Lumberton moved the ball well in the first 15 but had two turnovers to stop drives. The offensive line opened up holes for their backs to get some good running lanes early on. On defense, the Raider D-line was stopping the run game and getting pressure on Thomas in the first few plays. I would say Lumberton won the battle in the trenches in the first 15 plays.
In the second 15 plays, it was all Silsbee. Tigers made adjustments both on offense and defense and clicked like a well oiled machine. In the 15 offensive plays, Silsbee scored 3 times, covering 210 yards with Thomas going 9-10 passing for 190 yards. Silsbee had positive yardage on every play except the lone incompletion. On defense, Silsbee started matching Lumberton's physicality and shut down the run game. In the 15 plays, Lumberton only crossed the 50 yard line one time, never getting inside Silsbee's 40 yard line. Lumberton was held to just 50 yards in those 15 plays in comparison to the 100 yards they gained in the first 15 plays. Tigers definitely stepped their intensity up on defense. That may of had something to do with a few scuffles that seemed to fire up the Tigers.
It was a good scrimmage for Silsbee. Next week against Ozen will be interesting. Will be good to go against a team that can match Silsbee's speed.

Which would make sense, seeing as they deal with criminals all day, some  of whom no doubt dislike them. 

We are 13 days away from the start of the Texas High School Football Season and today is....
 
                                              Happy Left Handers Day 
 
 
Experts Explain 7 Things You Probably Didn't Know About Handedness
 
August 13 is Left Handers day, celebrating the 11 percent of the world that uses their left hand for tasks like writing, eating and holding things.
Some things we can say for sure about handedness: 13 percent of men are left-handed, while it’s just 10 in women; handedness generally falls on a scale instead of hard and fast left or right; and six of the past 12 presidents have been lefties.
Patch spoke with two respected researchers in psychology and handedness. Here are seven things they explained to help you know your left-handedness from your right.
1. Nobody is exactly sure if handedness is totally genetic or not
Dr. Clare Porac, a professor of Psychology at Penn State who is writing a book called Laterality: Exploring the Enigma of Left-Handedness, said, “There’s consensus that there’s a genetic component,” but it’s not always predictive.
In identical twins, if one is left-handed, the other is left-handed only 75 percent of the time, according to Daniel Casasanto, an assistant professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Chicago who has done extensive research on handedness.
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Porac said that a child is more likely take after their mother’s handedness. Many theorize that this happens because children traditionally see their mother more during childhood and take after their actions.
2. No, lefties aren’t necessarily smarter or cooler than righties
There is a popular notion that since motor activity is controlled by the opposite side of the brain, left-handers are right-brained, where things like music and visual art are processed.
Sorry lefties, that isn’t the case.
“They really don’t have many cognitive differences from right-handers,” Porac said. “Having your handedness controlled by the right brain does not give you special abilities.”
So, that whole president thing, she says, “is probably just a coincidence.”
And Casanato, whose first paper was published debunking this myth, takes that theory a step further, saying that even the ideas of being “left-brained” and “right-brained” are blown out of proportion.
“The idea that lefties are right-brained and righties are left-brained doesn’t make any sense,” Casasanto said. “Because the idea of being left-brained or right-brained is blowing a few facts way out of proportion.”
3. Humans have had dominant hands for a long time
There’s actually a history of humans favoring one hand or the other.
“If you look at the anthropological record, back to the early hominids, there’s always been a percentage of left-handers,” Porac said.
According to Porac, some scientists believe that handedness evolved when humans split from chimpanzees and started using sounds for communication. Because the brain was using its speech-controlling left side more, motor skills on the right side became more developed.
But there was a survival advantage for lefties.
When early humans engaged in hand-to-hand combat, the left-handers were at an advantage since righties aren’t used to fighting their dominant hand counterparts, a phenomenon we still see today in fencing and boxing.
4. It’s not too hard to switch hands with some tasks
If you wanted to switch handedness, you could, in theory, make it work. At least with small tasks.
“I would imagine that the more skilled and stereotyped activities like writing are going to be really hard,” Casasanto said, while things like brushing your teeth or eating wouldn’t be too hard.
Handwriting For Heroes deals with this firsthand. They work with amputees who lost their dominant hand to teach them how to write, 
This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up . It’s an intensive course that promises to get you writing with your non-dominant hand within six weeks.Casasanto was conducting one experiment, and a subject who identified as a lefty was showing a lot of traits common in righties.
It turns out the subject was a basketball player who’d had his left arm in a cast for months and had adapted much of his life to his right hand in a short amount of time.
“It appears some of these things can be switched rapidly,” he said.
5. There are subconscious effects
An even handedness distribution across party lines in recent presidents made for a ripe field of some research in this area.
Casasanto studied spontaneous hand-gestures during the 2004 and 2008 presidential debates. Barack Obama and John McCain were both lefties. John Kerry and George Bush were righties.
The candidates tended to gesture with their dominant hand for positive statements and non-dominant hands for negative statements.
“If you ever see Obama gesturing with his right hand,” Casasanto said. “That’s an indication, perhaps, of how he really feels about something.” Translation: not good.
6. Handedness can influence your decision-making
Casasanto ran an experiment where he showed subjects random drawings of alien creatures and asked them which appeared smarter, happier or more friendly.
On average, subjects chose the creature on the side of their dominant hand.
“People tend to feel positively about things that they encounter on their dominant side of space,” he explained.
This phenomenon—righties like things on the right, lefties on the left—has wide-ranging implications that have been tested in similar studies.
People gravitate toward product descriptions on their dominant side of a page. Hiring managers were more likely to pick the resume on their dominant side.
Even in elections, candidates on the right side of the ballot get a small bump from righties because of this bias, and vice versa.
“The hands shape the mind,” Casasanto said.
Rolf Reber, a psychology professor at the University of Oslo, aptly described it in a paper title: “Beauty is in the Processing Experience of the Beholder.”
7. …but it can be manipulated
In another experiment, Casasanto brought subjects into a lab and had right-handers randomly handicapped with a bulky ski glove on one hand, with the empty glove clipped to it to make things even harder.
They were assigned to carefully arrange dominoes on a table according to certain patterns.
Immediately afterwards, he gave them the alien test again. The ones that were still using their free right hands showed that same right-side preference.
The others, though, showed bias as strong people who had been left-handed their entire lives.
“You can at least temporarily change this bias in the order of 12 minutes of restricted activity,” he concluded.
So, for true Democracy, we should all just wear gloves when we vote

Ok bear with this old man.  Business/Household = fiscal responsible, ie. Don't spend more than you have coming in.  I think most of us agree on that. 
I just want to make sure we understand "social issues".  To me, gay marriage is a SI, as is welfare, etc.  Gun Control is an infringement of our rights as set forth by the founding fathers.  To me, not a SI.  Now abortion is where it gets fuzzy.  To me it's a moral issue (sin), but to liberals, its a "right", or SI.  So I cud vote for a candidate who is for gay M. (Yep, sin but adult choice), but not one who is pro abortion.  Can't imagine voting for a pro gun control.  
Is "social issues" as we use it, a blanket term, or does it change from one person to another?   I'm asking y'all's opinion, because before this thread/comments, it never occurred to me how different we may look at "social issues". 

We have to have someone that can lead and be fiscally responsible and at least attempt to downsize the Fed gov.
All social issues should be left to the states...I hold strong opinions on them but they should not be mandated from Washington.

Not running the govt like a business has a lot to do with 18 trillion in debt that is growing exponentially.

We have to have someone that can lead and be fiscally responsible and at least attempt to downsize the Fed gov.
All social issues should be left to the states...I hold strong opinions on them but they should not be mandated from Washington.

We have to have someone that can lead and be fiscally responsible and at least attempt to downsize the Fed gov.
All social issues should be left to the states...I hold strong opinions on them but they should not be mandated from Washington.

What makes you think I am egging him on...I haven't supported him in any way and know he would never win.
His message about our pathetic immigration policy and lack of enforcement and that the system is broken rings true for many.
If you think Jeb Bush or Rubio would be talking about this as much if Trump wasn't, you're wrong.
He is smply the voice of many that are sick of what is going on in Washington... granted it's an obnoxious voice.
Would I want him as President...no. 
Do I have a problem with him calling out business as usual politicians...no.
And if we push Bush out in 2016, we will lose...even if he is elected.

We are 14 days away from the start of the Texas High School Football Season and today is.....
 
   
2015 International Youth Day: Youth Civic Engagement
Mexican Youth Build Sculpture for Disarmament: UN Photo/Evan SchneiderOn 17 December 1999, in its
This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up , the United Nations General Assembly endorsed the recommendation made by the World Conference of Ministers Responsible for Youth (Lisbon, 8-12 August 1998) that 12 August be declared International Youth Day.The theme of International Youth Day, 12 August 2015, is “Youth Civic Engagement.” The engagement and participation of youth is essential to achieve sustainable human development. Yet often the opportunities for youth to engage politically, economically and socially are low or non-existent.
There has been recent increasing attention and policy and programming focus on youth civic engagement by governments, UN entities, regional and multilateral organizations, CSOs, youth and researchers. As part of its celebrations for International Youth Day, the Inter-Agency Network on Youth Development, led by the co-chairs, DESA and UNDP, is running an online campaign in the lead up to International Youth Day 12 August 2015.

Too many do not need to have a clue to form an opinion...cop shot someone...cop is wrong...period.

Exactly right...low information voters would simply call him goofy and never hear the message.

Reagan...when he spoke, people listened.  

Reagan...when he spoke, people listened.  

We are 15 days away from the start of the Texas High School Football Season and today is................
                                                             Presidential Joke Day
A president walks into a bar...and gets to crack his own jokes for a change.
Presidential Joke Day is celebrated every year on August 11, and despite how it sounds, it's not a day designated for poking fun at the president (that's the 
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The holiday was created in honor of an infamous joke cracked by  This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up  on August 11, 1984. During a sound check before a Saturday radio broadcast, Reagan said, "My fellow Americans. I'm pleased to announce that I've signed legislation outlawing the Soviet Union.  We begin bombing in five minutes."

Reagan was unaware, however, that the feed was live. Word quickly made its way to the Soviets, who put their military on high alert. Those Ruskies never did have much of a sense of humor.

In celebration of Presidential Joke Day, we've compiled some of the 
This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up  throughout history. A sampling:

"When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know whether to answer 'present' or 'not guilty.'" —President Teddy Roosevelt

"Being president is like running a cemetery: you've got a lot of people under you and nobody's listening." —President Bill Clinton

"These stories about my intellectual capacity really get under my skin. You know, for a while I even thought my staff believed it. There on my schedule first thing every morning it said, 'Intelligence Briefing.'" —President George W. Bush 
 
 
 
    
 

Nah...Smitty posted a true article.

it's what I'm waiting for....

We are 16 days away from the start of the Texas High School Football Season, and today is... 
 
Lazy Day
Lazy Day is your chance to goof off, and definitely not work. And, it definitely comes at a good time. Hot, muggy weather makes it easy to kick back and be lazy for a day. If summer chores are not done by now, they can just wait one more day. It is best spent on a hammock, along with your favorite summer beverage.
Whoever said "There's no lazy days...just lazy people." Well, we respectfully disagree. Today is proof positive. It is indeed a Lazy Day. And, we consider that a good thing.
If you enjoy the intent of today, you will also look forward to 
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Nah, EPA was overseeing this.  They won't fire anybody.

The EPA releases toxic water......The irony
                                                     ^^get it^^
                                                    

We are 19, 18, 17 days away from the start of the Texas High School Football Season, and today is......
 
 
National Hand Holding Day – August 9
 
This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up Everybody has their preferred technique: some like interlocking, others prefer cupping.   Some like the pinky-link while others prefer being on top…others on the bottom.   Some swing both ways.When it comes to holding hands it is not all about romance.  When you hold the hands of another you are sending the message that the other person is valued, important and noticed.
James Coan of the University of Virginia found that when people hold hands, their brains don’t work as hard to cope with stress.  When we hold hands, (or hug and touch), our bodies release oxytocin.  Its role is to calm and destress, and it is thought that touch triggers the body into producing this hormone.
Touch stimulates the production of oxytocin which, in turn, promotes a desire to touch and be touched. In another study, researchers from the University of North Carolina told couples they would have to give speeches. Before they did so, 100 of the couples sat holding hands for a short time, then they embraced for 20 seconds. Another group of couples rested quietly and were separated from their partners. During their speeches, heart rates and blood pressure rose twice as high in the second group compared to the hand-holders. Research further suggests that oxytocin is the chemical that can give marriage its beneficial effect on health over those that are single.
To hold someone’s hand is to offer them affection, protection or comfort.
A poll of 3,000 people by Abbeyfield in the UK showed that more than half of people couldn’t remember the last time they held their grandparents hand and more than a quarter had never done so. However, almost a fifth of respondents, when asked whose hands they would most like to hold, said it would be the hand of a grandparent who has died.
Just one in twenty respondents had held the hand of their grandma in the last month and only one in twenty five made this contact with their granddad. The report revealed a similar gender trend with parents, while only six percent of those surveyed had never held hands with their mother, twice as many had never held hands with their father.
The poll also revealed that the older you get, the more you regretted that lack of contact. Almost half (48 percent) of respondents over 55, when asked whose hand they would most like to hold, said it would be that of a departed parent.
The majority of respondents (80 percent) associated holding hands with romance but this contact was most popular amongst the young. Of those surveyed aged 17 and under, 64 percent most wanted to hold hands with someone they were attracted to. This figure decreased with age until only 21 percent of those over 55 wanted to hold hands for romance. This older group were most likely to associate holding hands with dying. (15 percent compared to less than two percent of those surveyed aged 17 and under)
Loneliness and depression are rampant in today’s society.  Holding someone’s hand, especially of someone who is isolated, dealing with an illness or elderly can help them to be more resilient against the impact of stress, promote better health and combat their feelings of isolation.
 

We are 23 days away from the start of the Texas High School Football Season, and today is....
 
 
International Assistance Dog Week
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Assistance dogs transform the lives of their human partners with debilitating physical and mental disabilities by serving as their companion, helper, aide, best friend and close member of their family.
During International Assistance Dog Week, we recognize and honor the hardworking assistance dogs; raise awareness and educate the public about how these specially trained animals are aiding so many people in our communities; honor the puppy raisers and trainers of assistance dogs; and recognize heroic deeds performed by assistance dogs in our communities. The celebration takes place each year, starting on the first Sunday of August. In 2015, International Assistance Dog Week will be August 2-8.
International Assistance Dog Week was established due to the efforts of Marcie Davis, a paraplegic for over 35 years and CEO of Davis Innovations, a consulting firm based in Santa Fe, NM. Davis is the author ofWorking Like Dogs: The Service Dog Guidebook, a resource book that captures personal stories, checklists and practical tips to provide the reader with an A-Z guide about service dogs and she is the host of the Internet radio program, Working Like Dogs, at petliferadio.com. As a member of a service dog team, she founded Working Like Dogs to honor assistance dogs around the world and is sponsoring International Assistance Dog Week.
For more information about assistance dogs, please visit:

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ADI is a coalition of not for profit organizations that train and place assistance dogs.
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IAADP is a non-profit, cross-disability organization representing people partnered with guide, hearing and service dogs.
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WLD is a resource for people with working and service dogs, or who would just like to learn more about them.