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Weeks after his team took Super Bowl 43, head coach Mike Tomlin was laying the groundwork for the next great generation of Pittsburgh Steelers.

As the league's landscape continued to evolve, so was the need for Tomlin's Steelers to follow suit.

The NFL was different game in 2009 than it was when former head coach Bill Cowher's Steelers won Super Bowl 40 in early 2006. Still, today, the NFL is contrasting to the year Tomlin's squad achieved a Lombardi Trophy in Super Bowl 43 in early 2009.

Today's NFL is about creating matchup disasters with subpackages. For better or worse, it's become a weekly shootout.

A rebuild for Pittsburgh seemed imminent and necessary during that 2009 offseason. Even as the team would go to the Super Bowl the following season (2010), aging veterans on both sides of the ball like Hines Ward, Aaron Smith and Casey Hampton to name a few, the core of the Steelers for three Super Bowl appearances in six years, would eventually have to be replaced.

Mike Tomlin led his team to a Super Bowl 43 win in just his second season as head coach.

So, what did Tomlin desire for his offense? Caught in the "Tomlinisms" and coach talk often associated with a typical press conference during the 2009 season, he laid a few key quotes that were buried as the years went by.

"You study a team like New England, and they walk into a stadium offensively, and week to week they can be whatever they choose to be,"Tomlin told Ed Bouchette of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette in a Sept. 23, 2009 article. "They can beat you in three wides, four wides, three tight ends, and it makes them very difficult to prepare for and ultimately beat."

Flash to today, the team is earning high praise on the offensive side of the ball, where it seems like the long turnover of a championship-caliber team may finally be bearing fruit. That after two, long torturous seasons of...8-8 football. Oh, Pittsburgh fans, why must we bear such pain?

Offensively, the Steelers are well on their way to becoming that ideal image, that Patriots image Tomlin swooned over in 2009. The 2014 version is executing with the ball in a variety of ways, able to attack teams with a devastating power counter run game or with a record-breaking aerial assault. Or, in many cases, both at the same time.

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Colby Sue Weathers: her mother had asked a local gunshop not to sell her the weapon she used to kill her father.

Lets say your mental landscape is similar to that of Colby Sue Weathers back in 2012: suicidal, homicidal, paranoid, schizophrenic. Oh, and with a drug and alcohol problem. You are too disabled by mental illness - schizophrenia was diagnosed in 2011 - and recurring hospitalisations to work. You are not great about maintaining your psychotropic drug regimen, which you administer inconsistently and sometimes to woozy excess. And you have an occasional hankering, occasionally satisfied, to consume a bottle of spirits. In other words, your life is utterly out of control.

One trouble you probably dont have - provided you live in the United States - is gaining access to a lethal firearm. Thanks in part to the advocacy of the National Rifle Association and other gun-rights groups, and in part to the commitment of politicians, you can buy a gun and kill someone, yourself included, almost entirely free of obstacles. In many cases, you can do so completely legally. Because in practice, the US gun market generally does not discriminate against a wide array of pre-existing conditions, including madness.

There are no thorough background checks to determine whether you are mentally unhinged and a danger to yourself or others. No waiting periods to give the evil voices echoing inside your head time to decamp. No opportunities for family or friends or public safety officials to intervene in the firearm transaction. No meaningful commercial distinctions made between a skilled hunter eager for the approach of deer season and a dangerous psychotic with visions of blood.

Last week, Janet Delana filed a negligence suit against Odessa Gun & Pawn shop in Odessa, Missouri. In May 2012, Odessa sold Delanas daughter - Colby Sue Weathers - a Hi-Point .40 calibre semi-automatic pistol. According to the suit, Weathers, who was 38 at the time, had intended to shoot herself. She sat with the gun for an hour or so before abandoning her goal and informing her parents, who promptly got rid of the gun.

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A few weeks later, in late June, the voices in Weatherss head told her to buy another gun and kill herself. Having observed her daughters agitation, Delana said she called Odessa Gun & Pawn on June 25, and alerted an employee to her daughters chronic mental illness and current suicidal state. She asked that the shop refrain from selling Weathers a gun. Two days later, Weathers turned up at Odessa and bought another Hi-Point pistol. Weathers drove home, loaded two bullets and shot her father. Dad is dead, she texted her mother. He was.

The lawsuit, which was filed by lawyers for the Brady Centre to Prevent Gun Violence, is an uphill challenge'', said UCLA law professor Adam Winkler, author of the excellent book, Gun Fight, via email. Under the nations gun laws, the dealer was allowed to sell to someone without a criminal or mental illness record. Its usually hard to pin responsibility for someones bad acts on a commercial establishment that merely supplied the equipment.

Supplying the equipment is what the nations 140,000 federally licensed firearms dealers do for a living. And there is absolutely nothing in federal law requiring them to sell their wares in a manner that is socially responsible, discerning or protective of human life. Kevin Jamison, the lawyer for Odessa, told me, The store went through all the proper legal procedures.

And there you have the nub of the problem. The lawsuit doesnt even claim that Odessa violated the law. Presumably, Weathers passed an instant background check before killing her father. A 2011 report by Mayors Against Illegal Guns, which was co-founded by Michael Bloomberg, revealed that almost half the states had submitted fewer than 100 mental health records to the federal background check database. Cases of substance abuse were also hugely underreported. And merely being crazy isnt sufficient for inclusion in the database, anyway. You have to be certified crazy. As the Los Angeles Times reported in September after a mass shooting at Washingtons Naval Yard, Most mentally ill people - including Aaron Alexis, the Navy Yard shooter who apparently showed signs of psychosis - never get treatment or arent recognized as being in crisis.

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Potential home buyers aren't the only ones who enjoy the Post-Gazette's weekly Buying Here feature on the cover of the Sunday Real Estate section.

People who live near the featured properties are often interested in how they compare to their homes and how much the sellers are asking. Others are intrigued to learn about a neighborhood or municipality they have never visited or, in some cases, never heard of. And then there are the house junkies who love to see what other people do with their houses.

If you are in that group -- or even if you're just nebby -- here's an update on what sold and what didn't in 2014:

No place like home

The Cape Cod at 1 Old Farm Road in Rosslyn Farms was so nice that it sold twice, but the owners ended up keeping it when the deals fell through. The four-bedroom, 2-bath home is surrounded by gardens so spectacular that they were featured in Fine Gardening magazine. It was on the market for $559,000 when the story ran in August. Two sets of buyers made offers, but the owners couldn't close on a property they wanted to buy.

Townhouse goes fast

Joshua and Katrina Manning knew they wouldn't have much time to enjoy the mature landscaping and walking trail at 1707 Michael Drive in Baldwin Borough when the article ran Nov. 15. But they didn't expect it to sell the very next day.

Easy work for a Craftsman

Another quick sale came at 608 Berlin Road in Forest Hills.

A vision in Brookline

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Planning permission given for turbine at Mwche farm, across Tafestuary Family of the Welsh poet are embroiled in a fight to stop the development The view inspired works such as Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night Fears it could drive away tourists from house, which is now a tea room

By Luke Salkeld for the Daily Mail

Published: 18:38 EST, 26 December 2014 | Updated: 07:38 EST, 27 December 2014

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The stunning view from his waterside home inspired some of Dylan Thomas's greatest works.

But the Welsh poet's beloved landscape is under threat after officials granted permission for a 147ft wind turbine to be built right in the middle of it.

His family are embroiled in a fight to stop the development, following celebrations to mark 100 years since Thomas's birth.

The view from Dylan Thomas's home is under threat after planning officials granted permission for a 147ft turbine (red dot in picture above)

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Land clearing is serious business. The trees you are about to remove may well be a hundred to a hundred-and-fifty years old, especially if they're growing in less than ideal conditions. Once the clearing is done, your land will need consistent annual effort to keep it from growing up in brush and weeds. If you don't plan well, both for getting the clearing done and for keeping the land clear, then you risk losing your time, your sizable investment and perhaps a century-old forest. Think it over before you clear.

Stripped to the essentials, there are two ways to clear land: by hand or by machine. That's if you've never done much clearing by hand. If you have, then you may very well feel that the only way is by machine.

Some people will suggest a third method: goats, but I'd warn you that this method is much more popular among those who haven't tried it yet. Goats aren't going to eliminate anything much over four or five feet high, and despite what you may have seen in the comics, they can be rather finicky eaters if they don't happen to cotton to what you want to get rid of. Goats are a good solution for keeping cleared land cleared, but not for clearing it in the first place.

If youve only got a tiny patch of ground to clear, and it doesnt matter how long it takes, then by all means do it by hand. Youll save quite a bit of money, get a quite a lot of exercise, and youll also be treating yourself to quite an education in the process. If you actually ever get finished, you probably will choose to hire equipment if there ever is a next time.

Of course, its up to each person to decide how big a piece of ground has to be before its considered more than a tiny patch. If youre thinking that clearing land only means going out with a chain-saw and cutting down several trees (which is plenty of work in itself) then youll be getting the full helping of acquired education.

Personally, my acquired education on the subject tells me that the only amount of land where clearing by hand is worth the time and effort is in situations where machinery would not have room to work without damaging buildings or other desirable trees and plants in the process. In other words, pretty small places.

Using machinery, you can go from dense forest to pasture or garden soil, in about two years time.

GETTING RID OF THE TREES

Your biggest single expense will probably be what you spend to take the trees down. In the case of small acreages with small timber to be cleared, it may be that you would save money by hiring one of the smaller bulldozers the size of the Caterpillar D3 or the John Deere 450 but if you have over two acres of mature trees to be removed, bigger is almost always better.

There are three machines you can hire to remove grown trees:

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