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The Senate Judiciary Committee will hear testimony on Wednesday on the future of the Voting Rights Act. In June, the Supreme Court nullified a key provision of the act, ruling the law was outdated.
The decision ended the requirement for more than a dozen states to clear new election laws with the Department of Justice.
Now it's up to Congress to update the formula used to determine which states need extra oversight, based on their history of past voting rights abuses.
The Senate committee will hear from U.S. Representative John Lewis of Georgia, a civil rights leader who led the 1965 peace march at Selma.
"I do feel a major responsibility to do my part in helping to protect the right of all of our citizens to participate in the democratic process," Lewis told Here & Now.
The committee will also hear from Wisconsin Congressman James Sensenbrenner, who led the effort to reauthorize the Voting Rights Act in 2006.
- John Lewis, U.S. Congressman for Georgia's Fifth District. He tweets @repjohnlewis.
It's HERE AND NOW. Today, the Senate Judiciary Committee is hearing testimony on the future of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. There's a hearing in the House tomorrow. The Supreme Court struck down a key provision of that act last month which had required nine states with a history of discrimination to get federal approval before changing their election laws. That decision allowed some of those states to implement voter ID laws. Now it's up to Congress to update the Voting Rights Act, but it's not clear what is going to happen.
Georgia Democrat and civil rights leader John Lewis is leading the effort in the House of Representatives. And Congressman, first off, what are your plans to update this law?
REPRESENTATIVE JOHN LEWIS: My plans are very simple. The only thing that we need to do is come up with a new map that not only covers the covered states but look at other places in America, but especially in the South, in those states that are trying to take us back to another period. I think it's important for members of Congress to understand and for members of the Supreme Court to understand there's some history here, and they must not forget their history. One thing I tried to suggest in reacting to the Supreme Court decision that I wish that these men, only men voted to strike down a certain section of the Voter Rights Act of '65, that they should be able to come and walk in our shoes.
HOBSON: And we should remind listeners who don't know you, this issue is obviously very personal to you. You were one of the original Freedom Riders during the civil right movement. You walked with Martin Luther King at Selma, were beaten by Alabama state troopers. You've seen racism really in its worst form in this country. Do you feel a personal responsibility to shepherd this legislation through?
LEWIS: I do feel a major responsibility to do my part in helping to protect the rights of all of our citizens to participate in the democratic process. I've said it in the past and I will say it again, that the vote is the most powerful nonviolent instrument or tool we have in a democratic society. It is powerful and it's almost sacred, and we must not do anything to diminish the power of the vote. People should be able to understand that a few short years ago that people stood in unmovable lines.
A few short years ago, people were asked to count the number of bubbles in a bar of soap, the number of jellybeans in a jar. People that I knew bled, some people died for the right to vote, or trying to help others to get that right.
HOBSON: Well, do you think it was a mistake then to let things get to this point, to let this law get so out of date? Your Republican colleague, Steve Stockman responded to the Supreme Court decision saying we're pleased the Supreme Court realizes its not 1965 anymore.
LEWIS: It may not be 1965 anymore, but just in 2006, both Democrats and Republicans came together, not a single member of the United States Senate voted against the reauthorization of the act. And only 33 members of the House voted against the reauthorization of the act. And every Republican president since the voting rights was signed by President Lyndon Johnson have supported the reauthorization of the act. We did our homework and we continue to do our homework.
I think Chief Justice Roberts and some others have always had it in for the whole question of race, whether it's in affirmative action or whether it's dealing with voting rights. People must never forget that the scars and stains of racism are still deeply embedded in every corner, every fiber of American society, even when it comes to our politics.
HOBSON: But the hearing on this issue is going to be led by one of the Republicans, Trent Franks, who voted against reauthorizing the Voting Rights Act.
LEWIS: Well, I would say to my former colleague in the House, come and walk in my shoes, come and walk across Edmund Pettus Bridge, come and stand in a line in Selma, Alabama, come and go with me to the Delta, Mississippi, stand and see the long lines in Ohio.
HOBSON: Congressman, I want to ask you about one of the things that Chief Justice Roberts wrote in the decision. He said African-American voter turnout exceeded white voter turnout in five of the six states originally covered by Section 5. He was talking about in 2004 which was the last big election before the law was reauthorized. What about that argument that things have changed? The black registration rate in Mississippi is now four percentage points higher than the white rate.
LEWIS: Well, I think, it only proves that the more work and the effort of people - got out there and did the necessary, nitty-gritty, hard work in the heat of the day. It worked because we had the Voting Rights Act. And that's why we still need the factions of that in question in days, months and years to come.
HOBSON: Well, you say it worked. Some people may look at that and say, it worked and maybe we don't need it in the way that it was anymore because it did work.
LEWIS: We still need it in another period in the history of our country. Right after Reconstruction, people were registered. My great grandfather who had been a slave became a registered voter. There were black men elected to the Congress in a few short years. Their seats - they were driven out of office. People would deny the right to register to vote by harassment, intimidation, by their clans and other racist groups in the American South.
HOBSON: Would you say that, right now, the biggest concern for you are these voter ID laws that are being passed in states around the country? Is that why you think this law is most needed in 2013?
LEWIS: I am very concern why the voter ID laws that hold efforts to shorten the time for early voting and in voting on Sundays, all of these issues are major concern of mine. People can be very devious, finding other ways, other tricks, other tactics and techniques to make it hard, to make it difficult for people to participate in the democratic process.
HOBSON: Are you optimistic, Congressman, that your colleagues are going to vote with you and pass another version of the Voting Rights Act?
LEWIS: I am very optimistic, very hopeful that Democrats and Republicans would come together and the majority in the Senate as well as in the House.
HOBSON: Congressman John Lewis represents Georgia's 5th District. He's going to testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee about the future of the Voting Rights Act. Congressman, thank you so much for talking with us.
LEWIS: Well, thank you so much, sir.
HOBSON: And we'd love to hear your thoughts on this. Go to hereandnow.org, and click on contact us. You're listening to HERE AND NOW. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.


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10-10-2005, 08:45 AM #1JonnexGuestMac Mini, and graphics
ive got a good PC and am looking to buy a mac. i can only realistically afford the mac mini, and so im trying to find out if it will do what i would like. on my PC i use Photoshop, Flash, Director, 3D studio max, and Swift 3D. (mainly)
id like to how the mac mini will fair with each of these programs and ones similar to them? it doesnt matter massively if the performance isnt great, as ill just use my pc, but id like to be able to do some multimedia creation. i wonder if Swift 3D would perform well on a mac mini?
thanks alot for any help
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the mini will do very well if you have plenty of ram, and 3d studio max is peecee only.
but it will run all those apps easily.
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i use swift3d on my ibook g4. It runs ok.
I guess my ibook has almost the same specs of the mini.
get a gig of ram or more.
10-10-2005, 01:38 PM #4TigermanGuest
It should do fine as long as you ahve a lot of RAM memory and Core Image :headphone
10-11-2005, 05:29 AM #5JonnexGuest
Hi again,
thanks very much! im very pleased to see people saying ill be ok, and i guess i wouldnt want to use big 3D apps like max (even if it did run on mac!) on a laptop anyway. but if flash PS and best of all swift run- well thats superb!
one more thing.. i think ive decided to go for an ibook, as i have a desktop and 2 desktops.. well a laptop seems more bright. so to the guy who said he runs swift 3d on his ibook, what spec ibook do you have, and would i be ok with 512mb ram? (im a low budget student you see...) can i upgrade the ram later?
thanks alot again for all your help!
10-11-2005, 05:34 AM #6JonnexGuest
sheesh sorry for my terrible english and sentence structure in that last post...
anyway, will there be much difference between a 1.33 and 1.42 Ghz chips? i guess there will be some difference, but as far as i know for graphics creation the chip speed isnt massively important..?
thanks again!
10-11-2005, 05:36 AM #7JonnexGuest
eek.. sorry to post so many posts, one more question (hopefully the last)
are there any good 3d programs on the level of 3ds max for mac?
thanks again again
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I recommend buying your laptop with the default ram, apple charges way too much for ram. you can buy the same ram and install it yourself for half the price or less from macsales.com(OWC), or crucial.com or newegg.com.there isn't that huge of a difference between those 2 processor speeds.
BTW, you can click edit in the bottom right corner of your posts to add to them instead of making multiple posts.
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I think if Bryant replaces Glasgow Miller stays at Center. Glasgow becomes the first interior linemen off the bench to come in and Braden becomes the first Tackle off the bench.
Preview 2013: Five Questions, Five Answers, Offense
Previously: Podcast 5.0, The Story, Quarterback, Running Back, Wide Receiver, Tight End and Friends, Offensive Line, Defensive Tackle, Defensive End, Linebacker, Cornerback, Safety, Special Teams.
1. Is Michigan about to be on the wrong side of history?
When Rich Rodriguez was hired at Michigan, Gary Danielson infamously predicted Michigan would be the last major program to move to a spread offense. Five years later, Michigan is shedding the spread as the NFL adopts it en masse. I am a spread zealot, no foolies, and while I may be influenced by factors like…
- Associating pro-style offenses with Mike DeBord, "the expectation is for the position," and opponents saying they knew exactly what was coming game after game.
- Psychic scarring from things like Donovan McNabb, Carlyle Holiday, The Horror, The Post-Apocalyptic Oregon Game, Northwestern 2001, and even Braylonfest.
- Denard Robinson!
…I've also watched an awful lot of football over the past eight years and there seems to be no substitute for the defense-wrecking ability to run with a guy who can throw, and give him the ability to make that decision after the defense commits.
'bout to get yards'd
These days the thing that's all the rage is packaged plays that give the quarterback the ability to pick from a number of simple options based on the alignment of a couple players, and not just on the college level: Doug Marrone and company got scooped back up by the NFL largely because they ditched a complicated pro-style offense for quick decisions that make the defense wrong every time. Tavon Austin is a 5'8" wide receiver who went 8th overall in the NFL draft. The Great Satan in Columbus has Denard but tall at quarterback.
Meanwhile, the idea that Michigan needs to run a rough-and-tumble offense to cope with the rough-and-tumble Big Ten is total horseshit. If you haven't noticed, the Big Ten sucks at football, Michigan is recruiting a billion times better than anyone except Ohio State, and Ohio State is a spread option team. If we accept the fact that you have to run power to defend power, isn't the corollary there you have to run the spread to defend the spread? Clueless spread outing after clueless spread outing through Carr's career certainly suggests that. I mean, Michigan was fortunate to escape a home game against Northwestern last year because they gave up 248 rushing yards and 10 YPA.
Add in Michigan's stubborn adherence to the increasingly archaic huddle and it does seem like there's a little bit of dinosaur in the program even if Brady Hoke is hip to Romer. Arguments in favor of the huddle include feelingsball arguments like "it helps your quarterback be a leader"; arguments against include Nebraska lining up with 25 seconds on the play clock and checking into an RPS +3 play once they saw Michigan in a man to man alignment:
Where did they get that call?
From the sideline after they got lined up with 25 seconds on the clock and Michigan showed man coverage with one high safety. That was not aww shucks luck. It's using the extra information the defense gives you to exploit it. Michigan, meanwhile, is usually still in the huddle with 18 seconds on the playclock and often scrambles to the line with no other option than running what's called no matter what the D shows.
It kind of sucks that Michigan doesn't seem to want to do similar things. You'd think every coach would love the opportunity to get whatever information they can before making a decision.
Michigan's not using these newfangled offensive innovations. They suck so much at varying tempo that you, reader, have screamed "WHAT ARE YOU DOING?" more than once in two-minute drills the last two years.
I love everything about Brady Hoke, but this is the one thing that makes me fret at night when I forget about Jabrill Peppers.
[After THE JUMP: DeBord is not Borges, Borges is not DeBord. Gardner confirm. Interior line muttering.]
2. But the pistol?
Yes. It is Michigan's great fortune that their upward-looking coaching staff* has just seen Russell Wilson, Robert Griffin and Colin Kaepernick obliterate NFL defenses with spread elements. Borges's mindset was made clear when he talked to Sam Webb about the pistol, mentioned those three quarterbacks in the NFL, didn't reference a single college, and emphasized the fact that Griffin got hurt:
"Now this has really been kind of a recent development with the quarterbacks running the ball more and it'll be interesting to see here over the next few years how that holds. A lot of things come and go in the NFL. RG3 got hurt last year and don't think that didn't get some people's attention."
Everyone's who's tried to analyze the correlation between QB runs and injuries has come back saying there doesn't appear to be one. A Slate analysis actually found a slight negative correlation, and a guy who went into his study with "a pretty strong conviction that there would be a positive and significant relationship between number of hits and injury" ended up concluding the same thing Slate did.
This is not to argue that Michigan should have Gardner take off 15 times a game; I mention it because that seems to be a good insight into Borges's state of mind. He finds the spread distasteful at best and is willing to marshal crap arguments against it. Nothing about it was worthwhile until the NFL finally tried it out last fall. Now it is an Innovation and using it no longer makes you an untouchable.
So it'll be a part of the offense. Michigan's told everyone they will retain spread concepts…
"Devin was recruited to run the spread," coach Brady Hoke said last week at Big Ten media days in Chicago. "Philosophically, we'll be much more downhill running team. Philsophically, we'll be under center more.
"But the spread will still be in place, keeping some people honest. So that will still be part of it."
…and drips of information from the inside confirm that they continue to practice the inverted veer—a play so successful for Michigan that they just can't dump it. Pistol read option is obviously in line as well. Borges wants to throw everything at a defense, always.
SO THAT IS THE GREAT RELIEF in our worry. I fully admit that my paranoia is rooted in the belief that Lloyd Carr's Michigan teams rarely lived up to their talent because of milquetoasty what-might-go-wrong approach that saw them do things like run into the line against Alabama until they were down two touchdowns when they had Tom Brady and David Terrell facing off against a horrible secondary. Or make Michigan fans think "oh no, not again" when Michigan scored to go up 18. Or install a zone strech running game that (almost?) literally had no counters built into it.
The lack of imagination and exile to NFL position coach Siberia for Terry Malone for taking tentative steps towards changing that were second to safety play as far as late Carr frustrations went. I think everyone had a bit of dread that was coming back.
It's not. Al Borges is emphatically not Mike DeBord. While he's not a fan of spreads, he's got "CHICKS DIG THE LONG BALL" tattooed across his chest (trust me) and has led aggressive, efficient offenses when handed anything other than Tommy Tuberville's sclerotic quarterback recruiting to work with. He is an inveterate tinkerer. He just hates the spread. So, okay. I think Michigan won't be taking advantage of everything they might, but as long as they go for the jugular we'll be okay.
*[What I mean by this: Michigan prefers to look at the NFL for ideas, instead of other colleges. Carr did the same thing. in contrast, Rodriguez would go anywhere and look at anything from D-III on up for ideas. You can see this not only in the offense but in Michigan's refusal to run the spread punt formation adopted by every school more forward-thinking than Iowa. The spread punt is not legal in the NFL: only the gunners can be more than X yards downfield before the punt gets off. Therefore Michigan does not run it.]
3. Is Gardner really going to be all that?
Uh… yeah. Literally everything that has reached my ears this offseason about Gardner has been something between positive and rapturous. The public stuff has been in this space: Manning camp, spring game, Whitfield, teammates. The insider stuff has been just as positive, if not more so. At the Mott scrimmage Gardner spun the ball with authority, altered trajectories and speeds, and looked in total command of the offense. The only thing we lack is sample size.
We'll start getting that tomorrow. But I'm telling you: you guys. Gardner's arm, running ability, improvisational skills, and dedication to getting better are all there. You know how Michigan was talking up Brian Cleary's quantum leap and then like two days later Shane Morris was installed as the clear backup? To me, that's Michigan's coaching staff having a pow-wow and deciding they need to have Morris ready because Gardner is a major threat to depart for the NFL after the season.
He's going to be good. Very good.
4. The interior line—why would we not die this year after dying last year?
Can Glasgow play?
The offensive line section's comments featured a dude ranting at me for being excessively optimistic after giving the interior guys a two and saying that "mediocrity would be a win" at the center position. People are punchy about the offensive line.
While it doesn't look good coming off a year in which I should have given the interior OL a zero, there are reasons to expect improvement. Kyle Kalis should be an upgrade for Omameh for what Michigan wants to do. Omameh got picked up by the Niners as a free agent and was moved to tackle, a spot he never played at Michigan. Thus went Omameh's ability to pull. While Omameh was easily the best interior OL a year ago, he was an undrafted guy recruited to run zone stretches. If Kalis is mentally ready he opens up great possibilities, like, say, pulling to Lewan.
The other two spots are dodgier, but at least this year there is some plausible competition that gives Michigan a bullet or three. Braden was bashed out to tackle by Chris Bryant's emergence, and the walk-on is a guy you can believe in more than the 6'1" dude last year. We will know a lot more in a few games. If Glasgow can play—like, really play—things immediately become much sunnier there. I think he can and that Jack Miller is the guy with the shakiest profile, but that's admittedly an opinion based on circumstantial evidence as thick as vapor.
Meanwhile, last year it was Barnum or Mealer, Mealer or Barnum, and the starting center was a last-second switch because the other guy couldn't get the calls right. At the very least, Miller should be able to do that.
I'm not high on these folks this year, but take it from someone who had to UFR the Nebraska game: it just cannot be worse.
Also, some of the derision heaped on the OL rightly belongs to the tight ends, who were freshmen last year and are now sophomores. Kerridge also moves from a redshirt freshman to his sophomore year. A sizeable advance from the three primary blocking-type skill players is likely, and that will help the offensive line look better too.
5. Well?
Last year's implosion was ugly and not particularly relevant to this year since the offense changed dramatically when Gardner was the quarterback and the interior line has graduated.
So: I believe in Gardner, and Toussaint, and that the overall blocking will be improved not only by the new guys on the line but also the maturation of the new generation of blocky/catchy guys. I think Al Borges will be much better equipped to take advantage of Gardner's skills than Denard's, and I can't really find a spot on the offense that I think will be meaningfully worse than last year:
- Junior Gardner > Robinson/Bellomy/Gardner, throwin'
- Toussaint/Smith/Johnson/Rawls/Green > Poor Damn Toussaint/Rawls
- Kyle Kalis > Patrick Omameh
- Glasgow/Bryant/Miller > Mealer/Barnum
- Michael Schofield > junior Michael Schofield
- Williams/Funchess/Butt/Paskorz > freshman Williams/Funches plus Kwiatkowski
- Sophomore Kerridge > Freshman Kerridge
- Pro-style Al Borges >> self-loathing spread Al Borges
- Justice Hayes == Vincent Smith
- Taylor Lewan == Taylor Lewan
- Drew Dileo == Drew Dileo
- Jeremy Gallon == Jeremy Gallon
- Chesson/Jackson/Reynolds == Roundtree/Jackson/Reynolds
- not having Denard Robinson to paper over rushing issues <<< having that
- Oh, right… except for that guy who ran for 7.2 YPC last year. Michigan can overcome that if Gardner is superman.
Last Year's Stupid Predictions
Devin Funchess exceeds last year's Koger production.
Koger had 23 catches for 244 yards and 5 touchdowns; Funchess had 15 for 234 and 5 touchdowns. So no; "matches" would have been close.
Roundtree, Gallon, and Gardner are all in an undifferentiated heap around 30-40 catches and 400-700 yards.
Gardner got moved back to QB midseason after accumulating 16 catches for 266; Gallon's crazy chemistry with Gardner got him up to 49 for 829; Roudntree was right in the middle at 31 for 580. If Robinson hadn't gotten hurt this would have been about on point.
Denard has about the same production rushing, gets his INT rate down to better-than-sophomore-year levels-but-still-not-good (3.4%!), and ends up in New York for the Heisman ceremony. He does not win.
Uh, no, for a lot of reasons.
Overall rushing YPC goes up slightly thanks to Borges having more of a grasp on what works and Rawls improving the productivity of the third-tier carries. Playing Alabama without Fitz may have a distorting effect on this.
- Even worse.
Barnum isn't Molk but acquits himself well at center and gets drafted late after an honorable mention ABT-type season.
Oh god. To be fair we didn't know about the Mealer switch at this point.
Kyle Kalis waits for most of the year, unable to redshirt because of minor injuries; Mealer does hold the LG job.
- Kalis did redshirt but this was basically right… somehow.
There is no Iowa game where they try to go under center for most of it.
- Gardner changed this. Robinson games… yeah.
Yardage moves up to 20th; advanced stuff is about the same but things feel better because the offense is less prone to wild swings (58 vs Minnesota, 40 vs Ohio State, bupkis vs VT, etc.)
Yardage collapsed to 78th, as did advanced stuff.
Not a good performance.
This Year's Stupid Predictions
- Gallon and Gardner chemistry is a real thing that propels both of them way up statistical charts. Gallon challenges Braylon's single-season receiving record.
- Gardner is not quite as statistically amazing as he was last year but is clearly the best throwing quarterback in the Big Ten. His legs are a side asset.
- If healthy a month into the season, Bryant moves into the starting lineup. Glasgow displaces Miller at center. The interior line struggles early before rounding into an acceptable unit.
- Toussaint goes over a thousand yards at over 5.0 YPC. He gets the lions share of the carries. De'Veon Smith emerges into the #2 back by midseason.
- Funchess blows up thanks to Gardner and the Darboh injury. He's the #2 receiver on the team.
- I complain about Dileo being underutilized at some point.
- Michigan splits its snaps about equally between shotgun, pistol, and under center.
- The offense rebounds from the ugly numbers a year ago, in part because Alabama isn't on the schedule and Michigan doesn't spend half of the Nebraska game with the backup QB (knock on wood). Passing offense skyrockets from 94th to top 20.
- Rushing remains basically static (41st, 4.8 YPC) as an improved line and Toussaint can only do so much to keep pace with Denard's missing 7.2 YPC. YPC will actually drop a few tenths.
- Borges seems like a much better coordinator when he's not trying to work with pieces he'd never have recruited.
Agree. Told Glasgow wasn't good at snapping long and as they got deeper into the offense this became more apparent.
...intrigued by elements of the "quick-strike" spread offense. It's fun, potent and exciting. The flip-side ("ball-control" pro style) gives your defense a chance to rest a bit more.
I'm all for a happy medium! Go Blue!
wants you to say "Let's Go Blue!"
You can be a no huddle team without running the spread or running a fast tempo. The defense argument is invalid to me because the spread teams that have poor defenses are usually defenses that would suck regardless (whether due to coaching, personnel or execution). There are several up tempo teams with good defenses, especially when you use the points per possession metric. Just because you give up more points and yards overall doesn't mean your defense is worse, especially when you are defending 4-6 extra possessions a game.
I hope Fitz gets over 1000 yards but I don't see it happening. I think it'll be more running back by committee (for better or worse) once Smith proves himself a bit.
That said, who knows maybe he rips off some big runs/games against MAC schools and ups that YPC average before we get into conference games.
We know Borges wants to have one guy (Ronnie Brown and Cadillac may beg to differ, but whatever), and Fitz seems like a man on a mission. I think 1000 yards is very attainable.
If Borges is consistent with Fitz I think 1000 is attainable as well. HOWEVA...I simply think circumstances will dictate guys like Smith and Green getting more touches as the season progresses...and that's a bit hopeful, of course, but I think they're both going to excel.
Predicts Smith as the #2 RB by midseason. Interesting.
Will someone please photoshop a pic of self-loathing Al Borges?
I'm with you on Smith. In the admittedly small sample size of video he looks just like the awesome pro-style back he appeared to be in his recruiting film. Authority.Balance.Power.Will. Me like him.
And I will be completely thrilled if you are right about the balance between shotgun, pistol, and under center. Amazed. But thrilled.
All through your predictions I kept thinking, "Imagine what this is going to read like next year.... But I think we may be selling this team short . There are questions, but if they have decent answers there are alot of real strengths to this team. And Jake is coming back.
Going with the hipster/contrarian pick by fluffing De'Veon Smith, I see.
IIRC the NU game you reference was 2000. I do not believe M played NU in 2001. Also NU was not good in 2001.
Correct, It was my first Michigan road game (damn). Brian might be confused because that was the year NW went to the 2001 Rose Bowl.
Purdue actually went to the Rose Bowl that year after NU gacked up a game against a terrible Iowa team shortly after their crazy game with us.
Having a gigantic talent advantage, partly due to cheating, is a tactic-busting strategy.
the spread is for losers....power football is what wins games...vertical passing & downhill running....thank God our coaches get it
thank you...i was waiting for someone to say it. I think Bama, as well as USC of mid-2000's, Stanford now, LSU, South Carolina, Wisconsin, Iowa of mid 2000's, Georgia of mid 2000's have proved that good-great talent, good sound defense with a d-line pass rush and run support, smart QB decisions, and a proven running game/o-line play = lots of wins. No need for frills. Florida is the only spread team i can think of that won the MNC, and they had Meyer before Saban figured him out, Tebow (powerful up the middle runner) and Harvin as well.
Oregon is another example...look at 2009 against OSU, 2010 against more powerful Auburn, 2011 vs. LSU, 2012 vs. Stanford.
Manball+Defense+execution and poise = lots of wins..
Manball+Defense+execution and poise+great talent = Bama
Spread+execution+fitting players+marginal defense (the best possible scenario for the defense considering how much the offense is on the field) = Oregon or RichRod WestVa = no championships/not as good as current Stanford or most definitely Alabama or LSU.
Ooh, ooh! Anecdotal evidence.... LOVE IT!
Auburn was most certainy a spread team that also won the BCS. So that's three spread champions.
It's funny that when comparing Stanford and Oregon, you didn't mention Oregon absolutely trashing two straight top ten Stanford teams. Or that they beat Wisconsin in a rose bowl. Or that Wisconsin lost another Rose Bowl to spread team TCU. Or that the mighty Georgia teams of the mid 2000's got destroyed by WVU.
Currently 6 of the top 10 are spread offensive teams: Ohio State, Oregon, South Carolina (not sure why you claim they're not, maybe because you can only equate beastly line play with pro-style systems), Texas A&M, Clemson, and Louisville. Spread systems and ideas are here to stay. It doesn't mean you can't win doing other things. But lets not pretend that because LSU and Alabama have had far and away the most talented rosters over the last decade, that their offensive systems must be the "right" way to do things.
the teams you've mentioned were all physical while still having spread aspects accept Oregon who has not won a championship...and Oregon got beat last year by a much more physical Stanford team(not to mention Stanford was nobody for about 40 years and had to build a team from scratch, Oregon was a few years ahead may explain the other beatings they put on stanford), and they also got beat by a much more physical LSU team. I think the real truth is, the top physical specimen type players will almost always lend themselves better to a pro-style offense which is why the best recruits tend to go to LSU or Bama. Think huge olinemen, running backs, and receivers, plus your entire offense isn't built around a running QB, but instead a strong O-line. I like our chances waaaaaaay better as a power pro-style team who stretches the field vertically and establishes the run than as a totally hit or miss spread team who either goes 3 and out taking 30 seconds off the clock or has a really quick scoring drive....not to mention spread teams struggle more in red-zone situations as they don't have as much field or space to work with.
the perfect team would be good at both spread and power, but we know that is near impossible. The closest thing was probably Urban Meyer's great Florida teams, but even they were stopped eventually....BY A POWER TEAM!
Half the teams you originally mentioned have never won championships. Standford, Wisconsin, USCe, Iowa, Georgia are all on the level of Oregon when it coes to success.
As far as as the ass whoopings Oregon's offense laid on Stanford, those didn't happen in '05, '06 when Stanford was garbage. He's talking about the two games in 2010 and 2011 when Stanford was in full Harbaugh/Andrew Luck/Top Tenn Team/BCS Bowl swing. Both years they put up 50+
And as far Florida being "stopped" by a power team. While they were good they went 1-1 against Bama before Meyer bailed. So the power team didn't stop the, they had an incomplete match
You missed 2010 Auburn and 2005 Texas as spread MNC winners. Since 2005 when the spread started becoming really prominent, 4 MNC winners have been spread (Texas, Auburn, Florida x 2) and 4 have been pro (LSU, Alabama x 3).
I'm not necessarily saying one is better than the other, but spread teams have won plenty and have done fine on a national level. And it's hard to make the argument that "Alabama is doing just fine' or "USC was doing just fine" when those teams recruited at a nuclear level that we are not at, even recently.
is all those spread teams had absolute studs at QB - Vince Young, Cam Newton and Tim Tebow. The one exception might be Meyer's first UF team when Tebow was a freshmen but even then Leak was pretty good and had started for a few years.
The pro style teams didn't really have 'stud' QB's. They were all decent to pretty good.
I agree completely--actually, I think the single best argument against the spread offense is that it requires a unique athlete at QB that you can't always get, and this leads spreads to be a little bit more feast/famine than drop-back offenses. But I think a spread offense with an excellent dual-threat QB tends to be more deadly than a pro-style offense with an excellent dropback QB.
On the flip side, you can say that all the pro-style teams that won the MNC during that period had outrageously loaded, talent-laden defenses helping them as well. I'm sure if you tallied up the yardage and point totals of those spread defenses, they were less effective than the LSU and Bama defenses. And vice-versa for the offenses.
Matt Leinert, hiesman trophy winner. Matt Flynn, NFL QB. Greg McElroy, NFL QB. AJ McCarron, Future NFL QB. JaMarcus Russell, 1st overall draft pick. Yep, just your run of the mill, decent college QBs.
Kind of hard to win when all the eggs from the basket just got broken.
It's pretty funny that you put this comment in the very same article that Brian references solid research seriously questioning whether running QBs are injuried more frequently than drop-back QBs.
your argument is invalid.
...they would've dominated in the middle of the 00's.
and if wisconsin would switch they could finally go to the rose bowl for 3 straight years
maybe win one.
Considering how UM has fared overall in the Rose Bowl, we don't have much room to talk. Wisconsin wasn't even the first team to lose 3 straight Rose Bowls
Because Alabama wins with their offense and the spread is the only effective offense....
Saban's an idiot. If 'Bama was a spread team they'd have 4 NC's in 4 years.
Last check Bama uses the huddle and that seems to be working out well for them.
Stanford uses the huddle and that seems to be working out well for them.
I think too much emphasis is placed on huddle, non-huddle, pace, etc. The best teams are the ones with the best talent and their ability to execute, not the ones that solely rely on a gimmicky type offense. Defenses are quick to adjust...just look at the "wildcat."
The spread is not a 'gimmicky' offense.
Ideological crap like "have better talent and execute better" ignores the point of this entire discussion. That stuff only takes you so far. What if you don't have better talent than your opponents? Look at Northwestern. They can't recruit like some other schools in the Big Ten, so they find ways to compete. They're doing a pretty darn good job.
So you're saying Michigan doesn't have the talent comparable to a Northwestern? So they need to resort to quick snaps, no huddles, to beat them?
If you're going to intentionally misread my comment and say something that ass-backwards, there's really no point in elaborating.
Nope, I don't believe I did.
Listen, you can have spread concepts in a pro style attack (zone read on a short down to go play, spread the field in a red zone situation, etc.). Even the Patriots run that. But at the end of the day, it really does fall on execution, sound offensive line play and a QB that doesn't suck for an offensive team to be successful.
No one has ever said anything to the contrary of that last sentence in the history of this board, as far as I'm aware.
Enjoy beating up your straw men.
I don't get your comment. My point was that the pro-style will typically work moreso than the spread. That said, If you want to incorporate spread tactics in the pro style, there's a time and a place. But to think that the most successful offenses shouldn't be one big RichRod / NW jet, spread offense, is totally ignorant.
Except that statistically the spread offenses are the best offenses....
Nobody should say the spread is a "gimmicky" offense because the only gimmick offense I know is the one run by the Globetrotters. The point of football is to score points, and so whatever system lets you do that more than your opponent is not a gimmick.
That said, Brian's love of the spread is based on personal preference, but I don't think it should go as dogma that it will be on the "right side of history" when it is all said and done. As noted, many successful teams run other kinds of offenses; Wisconsin has been a Rose Bowl representative for years with a thoroughly predictable offense that still puts up obscene numbers, and Stanford, Georgia, and Alabama look to be some of the best teams in the country without much in the way of spread formations. It's like the argument between 3-4/4-3/3-3-5/Cover-2, etc. on defense - you pick an ideology that works for you and then maximize its potential. Football isn't rock-paper-scissors; you can beat anyone with anything if you do it better than they counter. Saying "X is always better than Y" is just fanboy drivel.
look at Iowa from 2002-2010, look at MSU from 2009-2011, look at Wisc. the past 20 years...all had recruiting classes not much better than Northwestern, all have had success equal to or great than Northwestern. Execution, good line play, and defense.
That statement is fairly laughable. Up until the last couple years Northwestern was pretty much always in the bottom 2-3 of Big Ten recruiting. The others were right in the middle of the pack, some years topping off just behind the heavies, and once in a while dropping toward the bottom. To deny that Northwestern hasn't had a significant talent deficit since pretty much ever is just being ignorant to try and prove a point.
Northwestern has not had some metoric rise...they were a bowl team for a few years running and are finally seeing the fruits of an older roster and good coaching...I never said the spread doesn't work...it just seems stronger teams that control the tempo of the game by running the ball and forcing 3 and outs tend to be better....I think the spread can get you to a certain level, but the tempo always seems to leave defenses gassed. You can call my arguments antecdotal if you want, but fact is, there are about 3 or 4 outlier spread champiosnhip teams (Auburn, Florida, and Texas all had Tankasuarus running QB's that they almost lived and died by) in the BCS era...the rest have been pro-style teams. I personally think the most important aspects to success is a great powerful and physical O and D-line that can dominate a game on both sides...call me old school, but I think Bo and Brady would agree with me. Hell, Urban Meyer would probably agree with me.
They've been a bowl team almost entirely because of their spread offense. But whatever, when you dismiss completely valid counterpoints (Florida, Auburn, Texas all won championships, drawign the best and biggest players into their system and not a pro-style system) because of flimsy excuses and dismiss one of the most succesful programs of the last 5-8 years because they haven't won a championship, you are close minded and it's not worth arguing with you.
Line play has always been the key to football. But there's absolutely nothing that says you can't run a spread and have great line play. Urban Meyer's teams have always proven that, and South Carolina is turning the trick this year. Just because you can't wrap your mind around that fact, and witnessed three years of awful defensive play, doesn't mean spread and up tempo offenses aren't working all around the country.
You mention execute in your quote then ignore it completely. You blow off execution in favour of just running a spread.
I say 100% WRONG.
It is ALL about execution. Doesn't matter your scheme if your execution of that scheme is terrible.
And you focus ONLY on offense. If your defense can't stop anything but others can stop you due to your execution, you lose. Running a spread offense does not guarantee wins. I cannot remember an example of such...
Hmm... spread offense, worst defense in school history, winning close games losing in blowouts. Hmm... Probably can't happen if you are running a spread offense.


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Bangladeshi children and women face acute malnutrition after the worst floods in 15 years swept the impoverished country, the United Nations has warned.
DHAKA, Bangladesh Bangladeshi children and women face acute malnutrition after the worst floods in 15 years swept the impoverished country, the United Nations has warned.
The World Food Program and the United Nations Children's Fund said in a joint statement that without intervention, the number of malnourished children in flood affected areas could rise to 1 million within six to eight weeks.
"We are taking immediate steps to access the most vulnerable children and women to ensure basic health and nutrition as a life-saving priority," the statement quoted Morten Giersing, UNICEF representative in Bangladesh, as saying.
"This is also a critical time for over half a million pregnant women and breastfeeding mothers who face risk of serious malnutrition," the U.N. said.
Around 1,000 people died in Bangladesh in weeks of severe flooding in July and August. The South Asian nation was hit by another spell of record monsoon rain in September.
The flooding has left some 10 million of the country's 130 million people homeless, and health officials say diarrhea and pneumonia have killed 350 people, mostly children, and affected 330,000 since mid-July.
The U.N. said it was coordinating to make sure nutritional supplements and extra food rations reach young children and breastfeeding or pregnant women.
The damage caused by the floods, which swamped two-thirds of the country, was estimated at $7 billion, disaster management officials said.
WFP launched a $74 million operation last month to feed some 5 million flood-hit people for a year.
UNICEF has also launched a global appeal to raise $13.4 million in emergency aid.
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Lions on Twitter watch
There will be a social media protocol in place when the British and Irish Lions squad tour Australia in June.
British and Irish Lions tour manager Andy Irvine said on Tuesday that there will be a social media protocol in place when the squad tour Australia in June.
While there will be no outright ban on players using the likes of Facebook and Twitter, Irvine is keen to avoid creating an unwanted media firestorm as a result of a casual comment.
"[With] Social media these days you can make a mistake and it can be around the world in seconds. We do have a protocol we will be following," Irvine said after formally announcing a 37-man Lions squad in London on Tuesday.
"It's not as if we are headmasters and telling kids what to do," the Scotland great added. "There will be an opportunity for the players to look at it [protocol] and accept it and understand it.
"It takes years to build up a good reputation but you can lose it in seconds. We are alert to that."
Irvine, a fullback and occasional wing who played nine Tests for the Lions spanning three tours from 1974 to 1980, stressed he was not anticipating the kind of off-field distractions that overshadowed England's wretched World Cup campaign in New Zealand two years ago.
Following a night out in the resort of Queenstown, which included dwarf-tossing, England players found themselves in the spotlight over accusations of excessive drinking and unprofessional conduct.
Irvine said he had left the selection of the squad to coach Warren Gatland.
"The only area I might have interfered in is if they had picked a controversial character that would have been a risk or a damage to the tour in a personality sense, or someone who was so high profile there would be a media circus following them," Irvine explained.
"That never arose, and it didn't even look like it would this time.
"You have got to have a good set of tourists, a good set of guys, and I am very confident there is not one on the tour who comes even close to being a concern," he stressed.
The Lions have not won a Test series since defeating the Springboks in 1997 and lost 1-2 in South Africa during their last tour four years ago.
That 2009 campaign was considered to be a far better all-round campaign then the preceding 2005 series where the Lions were hammered 0-3 by New Zealand.
Then, World Cup-winning former England coach Clive Woodward was criticised for not giving "fringe" players a fair shot at making the Test side.
"We thought long and hard in 2009 about how we were going to run the tour," said Irvine. "The only thing I would change was the Test series loss.
"The players will be training as hard as ever and it will be very disciplined and very methodical, but there has to be a time when you give them some down-time because physically and mentally it is very challenging.
"We want the players to enjoy themselves, because that is part and parcel of touring, but within reason."


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Original URL: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/01/12/emc_vnxe/
EMC to launch low-end VNXe box
Celerra NX3e showed the way
Posted in The Channel, 12th January 2011 11:30 GMT
Next week is a big week for EMC. Not only will it combine CLARiiON and Celerra mid-range arrays in the VNX family on 18 and 19 January, EMC will also launch a low end VNXe3000 range.
According to Oz writer Simon Sharwood, the VNXe is an all-in-one integrated box, unlike the larger VNX products, and resembles the stealth Celerra NX3e seen last year. A big difference is that neither Fibre Channel host access nor drives are supported.
There are two models: the VNXe3100 and the VNXe3300, with 6-96 disk drives and 7-120 disk or flash drives respectively. The SAS disks can be enterprise SAS or nearline SAS, which is slower to access and holds more data.
For file access, the X-blade controllers and system memory are integrated into the same enclosure as the drives, with NFS and CIFS supported. There can be one or two integrated storage processors (SP) for block access: the 3100 has 4GB of RAM per SP and the 3300 has three times as much – 12GB – with iSCSI as the only supported block access protocol.
The VNXe3000s are the replacements for the Celerra NX4, and, we surmise, the NX3e, together with the CLARiiON AX4. EMC sees the two VNXe products being bought by small and medium business (SMB) and the bottom half of the mid-market, with some sales into remote and branch offices and departments of large enterprises. The buyer is an application specialist or an IT generalist. They will be recommended the boxes for virtualising Microsoft applications under either VMware Essentials or Hyper-V.
The VNXe3000s will compete with Dell/EqualLogic, HP MSA P2000, and NetApp FAS 2000 products. Pricing starts at under $10,000. ®


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Hi Guys!
I've tried this before on another forum but got nowhere.
It's time for a new surfboard as I feel I have outgrown mine.
It 6'2 - 18 1/2 - 2 1/4 squashtail shortboard.
I'm 28 years old, 5'11 about 11 and a half stone but since moving from Cornwall to south wales I have rarely been in the water due to work and study but now I'm self employed I can go pretty much when I want. I used to go surfing every day and my physical and surfing fitness was excellent but now I struggle to paddle this thing. If I'm paddling out back and get caught by a set having to do a few duck dives plus paddling inbetween I'm done for! But I am building my surfing fitness back up but I still thing this surfboard fit me better was I was alot skinnier, lighter and fitter.
I love this board but I feel I shouldn't be struggling this much to catch waves.
Pros - this thing is a breeze to duckdive and it's very light on my feet.
Cons - I can't bloody paddle far on it anymore. I really have to be at the breaking point of the wave to be able to catch it. I've missed MANY a good wave in my time despite paddling like I'm being chased by a shark.
Despite surfing for most of my life, I know very little about surfboards and what makes they good and what the differences are. I don't want to fork out hundreds of pounds on a surfboard without knowing a bit about what I need to be looking for so I'm asking for your advice on this.
I want something that's light and whippy on my feet and easy to duck dive, yet something I can paddle on and not be outdone by all the longboarders doing circles on me! I know I'm going to have to sacrifice one thing or another for what I want but what should I be looking for?
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MIAMI - LeBron James had the best highlight. Chris Bosh and Dwyane Wade hit the biggest shots.
MIAMI - LeBron James had the best highlight. Chris Bosh and Dwyane Wade hit the biggest shots.
James took a big shot, too.
It was delivered to his face.
James scored 32 points and the Miami Heat pulled away again to beat the feisty Charlotte Bobcats, 101-97, in Game 2 of their first-round Eastern Conference playoff series on Wednesday.
The Heat took a 2-0 lead in the best-of-seven series heading into Saturday's Game 3 in Charlotte, but not without a little more resistance than they might have expected from the only current NBA franchise without a postseason win.
Bosh's 3-pointer put the stops on a 10-0 Bobcats run in the fourth quarter and Wade came up with a steal near the sideline in the final seconds with the Heat clinging to a three-point lead, hitting a foul shot at the other end to seal the win.
James threw down a one-handed dunk on just one dribble from halfcourt as the Heat led by double digits in the first half. Later, he took an elbow to the face from Bobcats forward Josh McRoberts in the fourth quarter that left the four-time NBA MVP visibly shaken.
Bosh added 20 points and Wade scored 15. The three stars combined to score 19 of Miami's 22 points in the fourth quarter.
Michael Kidd-Gilchrist led Charlotte with 22 points and 10 rebounds and Al Jefferson scored 18 with 13 boards despite suffering a plantar fascia strain in his left foot in Game 1.
Jefferson left the game late in the first quarter but checked back in early in the second.
After Jefferson's one-handed bucket in the paint got the Bobcats within three points with 1:42 remaining, James went hard to the basket at the other end and was knocked down by McRoberts, who drew only a personal foul.
James took time getting up off the floor and made only one of the two foul shots. Kemba Walker scored the last of his 16 points on a 3 from the top of the arc at the other end, drawing Charlotte within 98-97 with 11.9 seconds left.
But two free throws from James gave Miami some cushion before Wade, after defending Gary Neal tight near the 3-point line to deny him a shot, rotated over to steal the ball from Chris Douglas-Roberts.
The Heat also had to fight off Charlotte in Game 1 on Sunday, pulling away for a 99-88 win. They have beaten the Bobcats 18 straight times including the two wins in this series.
Miami had a 29-19 lead after outshooting the Wizards 52.4 percent to 26.1 percent in the first quarter.
James had 12 points in the first and the highlight-reel dunk in the second after he chased down an errant Bobcats pass near midcourt. It gave the Heat a 14-point lead.
Charlotte trimmed its deficit to 57-47 at halftime after shooting 50 percent in the second. Kidd-Gilchrist had 11 points in the quarter.
Jefferson had 10 points in the third quarter and the Bobcats got as close as four three times but trailed by seven heading into the fourth.
Game Notes: The Heat said Wednesday they have made a commitment to remain in Miami through the 2039-40 season … The Bobcats were swept by Orlando in the first round in 2010, their only other playoff appearance. Their last win over Miami was March 9, 2010, the season before the Heat signed James and Bosh.


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A recording of the discussion among emergency personnel related to Paris Jackson's apparent suicide attempt last week has been released to the media.
In the recordings, obtained by the Associated Press, paramedics are told Michael Jackson's teenage daughter had taken 20 Motrin pain reliever pills and used a knife to cut herself.
The night before the apparent suicide attempt, Paris tweeted: "yesterday, all my troubles seemed so far away now it looks as though they're here to stay."
Paris was rushed to the hospital from the Jackson family home and is now recovering.
The Jackson family has asked the media to respect boundaries.
"Being a sensitive 15-year-old is difficult no matter who you are. It is especially difficult when you lose the person closest to you. Paris is physically fine and is getting appropriate medical attention. Please respect her privacy and the family's privacy," attorney Perry R. Sanders Jr. said in the statement.
The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department and Fire Department would say only that they responded to a "medical emergency" on the block where the Jackson family lives in Calabasas.
Paris and her family and AEG are locked in a legal battle over Michael Jackson's death. Paris is a possible witness in the civil trial.
The suit -- filed by Katherine Jackson, Michael Joseph Jackson Jr., Prince Michael Jackson II and Paris Jackson -- alleges AEG negligently hired and supervised Dr. Conrad Murray, who, in an attempt to help the singer sleep, gave him a fatal dose of the anesthetic propofol.
Jackson died in 2009, two weeks before his "This Is It" tour was scheduled to begin in London. Murray was convicted of involuntary manslaughter in 2011.
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Who is the ideal customer?
The interesting thing is that it ranges across industries, ranging from people who want to deliver a very specific service like giving you real-time traffic information on the one hand all the way through large companies wanting to control electricity generating turbines. So it is really being able to close the loop between lots of historical information and lots of real-time information. The real-time information is what has been missing. By definition, in the paper-based world, it wasn't real time.


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The Carolina Hurricanes made their first AHL assignments of the season on Wednesday, sending a total of 11 players to Charlotte.
Victor Rask,
Justin Shugg,
Brody Sutter and Brendan Woods, defensemen
Danny Biega,
Mark Flood,
Austin Levi,
Keegan Lowe,
Rasmus Rissanen and
Beau Schmitz, and goaltender
Mike Murphy will now report to Checkers camp, which officially begins in Raleigh this Friday before moving to Indian Trail's Extreme Ice Center on Monday.
The Hurricanes also cut former Checker Brock McGinn, though the 19-year-old will return to his junior team in Guelph as he is not yet old enough to become a full-time AHL player.
Update: the Hurricanes had a change of heart and recalled Mike Murphy the following day.
Five of the players assigned to Charlotte are rookies, led by Rask, a 2011 second-round draft pick who scored 56 points in 54 total games for Calgary of the Western Hockey League last season. The 20-year-old center also won a silver medal with Sweden at the World Junior Championship after making his professional debut with Charlotte (five points in 10 games) at the beginning of last season.
With the exception of Lowe, whose success with his Edmonton Oil Kings club prevented him from joining the Checkers late last season, and Levi, who returned to Plymouth for a fifth junior season, all members of the incoming rookie class have played at least one game with the Checkers.
Of the older players heading to Charlotte, the 28-year-old Flood has the most professional experience, including 39 NHL games with Winnipeg in 2011-12 and a full campaign playing for Lokomotiv in the Russian-based KHL last season. Shugg, Rissanen and Murphy have each spent two full seasons in Charlotte, while Sutter and Schmitz will be returning for their sophomore campaigns.


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The Grow America Act reflects President Obama's vision for a four-year surface transportation reauthorization bill that would create millions of jobs and lay the foundation for long-term competitiveness, rebuilding crumbling roads and bridges while providing much-needed certainty for local and state governments and addressing the country's future needs.
"I visited eight states and 13 cities as part of my Invest in America, Commit to the Future bus tour this month and everywhere I went, I heard the same thing – people want more transportation options and better roads and bridges to get them where they need to go," said U.S. Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx. "Failing to act before the Highway Trust Fund runs out is unacceptable and unaffordable. This proposal offers the kind of job creation and certainty that the American people want and deserve. I have been pleased to see that members of both parties are already working together to solve these challenges and I look forward to continuing our discussion and to supporting and building on the good work that's already been done."
On February 26, Secretary Foxx joined President Obama to announce a plan to address the nation's infrastructure deficit with a $302 billion, four-year surface transportation reauthorization proposal. As outlined in the FY2015 budget, the plan will invest in the national infrastructure network, increase safety and efficiency and provide greater access to ladders of opportunity, all without adding to the deficit, by relying on the President's proposed pro-growth business tax reforms.
The Grow America Act is based on this plan and represents a number of proposals that have historically attracted bipartisan support including:
• Addressing the shortfall in the Highway Trust Fund and providing an additional $87 billion to address the nation's backlog of deficient bridges and aging transit systems
• Providing certainty to state and local governments that must engage in long-term planning
• Reducing project approval and permitting timelines while delivering better outcomes for communities and the environment
• Bolstering efficient and reliable freight networks to support trade and economic growth
• Creating incentives to better align planning and investment decisions to comprehensively address regional economic needs while strengthening local decision-making.
In the face of current uncertainty of federal transportation investment, many states have postponed or canceled needed transportation projects altogether. And without additional investment, deficiencies in the nation's infrastructure will cost businesses more than $1 trillion every year in lost sales. The USDOT says that despite this growing need, the Highway Trust Fund, which provides most of the federal support for state transportation projects, is on track to start bouncing checks as early as August.


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Saturday, March 16, 2013
Based on Racing Office updates, published news reports and interviews with horsemen.
Louisiana Derby nominations close Saturday. Entries to be drawn March 27 at 11:30 a.m. in the Fair Grounds paddock.
Career record, earnings; best efforts; most recent start listed last
Channel Isle (Wayne Lukas, Jon Court, 1)
8-2-1-1, $100,650; Won Jan. 26 entry-level allowance at Oaklawn; 4th, Southwest (GIII)
Code West (Bob Baffert, Martin Garcia, 20)
6-1-3-2, $146,000; 2nd, Feb. 23 Risen Star S. (GII) at FG, by a nose
Departing (Al Stall Jr., Brian Hernandez Jr., 0-not Triple Crown nominated)
3-3-0-0, $78,000; Undefeated, won MSW, Alw at FG; Won March 2 $50,000 Texas Heritage S. at Hou
Golden Soul (Dallas Stewart, Calvin Borel, 4)
4-1-2-0, $77,400; 2nd, Jan. 19 Lecomte S. (GIII) at FG; 6th, Feb. 23 Risen Star S. (GII) at FG
Ground Transport (Michael Stidham, James Graham, 0)
2-2-0-0, $55,800; Won Jan. 19 MSW and Feb. 23 Alw at FG
Hip Four Sixtynine (Bobby Barnett, Jamie Theriot, 0-not Triple Crown nominated)
7-1-2-0, $46,410; Won Feb. 23 MSW at FG
Mylute (Tom Amoss, Shaun Bridgmohan, 2)
8-2-2-2, $217,695; 2nd, Jean Lafitte S. and 3rd, Delta Jackpot (GIII) at DeD; 7th, Feb. 23 Risen Star S. (GII) at FG
Nina's Dragon (Lloyd Mason, Julien Couton, 4-unranked, not Triple Crown nominated)
4-1-1-2, $69,690; 2nd, Feb. 16 El Camino Real Derby (GIII) at GG
Palace Malice (Todd Pletcher, Edgar Prado, 10)
4-1-2-1, $111,135; 3rd, Feb. 23 Risen Star S. (GII) at FG
Proud Strike (Steve Asmussen, 0)
4-1-1-1, $40,180; Won Jan. 12 MSW at FG by 7 ½ lengths; 8th, Feb. 23 Risen Star S. (GII) at FG
Revoultionary (Todd Pletcher, Javier Castellano, 10)
5-2-1-2, $188,500; Won Dec. 28 MSW at Aqu by 8 ½ lengths; Won Feb. 2 Withers (GIII) at Aqu
Sunbean (Al Stall Jr., Colby Hernandez, 0-not Triple Crown nominated)
4-3-1-0, $131,769; Won Dec. 31 La. Futurity, Feb. 1 Alw, Feb. 23 Gentilly S. at FG, all against fellow La.-breds
Tiz a Minister (Paul Aguirre, 10)
10-2-4-2, $282,780; Won restricted Jan. 26 California Breeders Champion S. at SA; 3rd, San Felipe (GII) at SA
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In the effort to prevent and solve crimes, community policing is vital. Alert community members who serve as the eyes and ears of police departments help the cause of justice immensely.
Of course, alert police officers, using their own eyes and ears, also are vital.
A prime example of that happened last week in Mount Morris.
The result?
A possible attempted robbery of a Mount Morris bank was prevented.
A suspect in a Pennsylvania bank robbery was arrested and jailed.
A 14-year-old Pennsylvania girl in the suspect's car was reunited with her family.
Chalk it all up to excellent work by Mount Morris Police Chief Jason White.
On Wednesday, White was doing what he usually does – patrolling the village – when he saw something strange.
Wednesday, you'll recall, was a hot day. Temperatures were near 90 degrees. Yet, White noticed a man wearing a hooded sweatshirt approaching the Union Savings Bank.
"He was acting very suspiciously in front of the bank. When he saw me, he turned around and went the other way," White said.
White stopped the man, questioned him, and learned that he was wanted for robbing a bank in Hughesville, Pa., 5 days earlier.
White arrested the suspect, Donald S. Guthrie, 38, of Jersey City, Pa., who is a convicted sex offender.
White then located Guthrie's car. Inside the vehicle was a 14-year-old girl who went missing 8 days earlier and whose family was desperately searching for her. The girl accompanied Guthrie willingly, police believe.
Her family was notified. They traveled to Ogle County the next day to retrieve her.
Guthrie awaits extradition to Pennsylvania, where Chief Jason Gill of the Hughesville Police Department praised White's sharp observations and quick action.
"Chief White did excellent police work. If not for his recognizing that Guthrie was acting suspiciously and then taking action, it's believed he [Guthrie] could have and probably would have committed another crime, and the female might not have been recovered."
We fully agree with Chief Gill's assessment.
Three cheers for Police Chief Jason White! You've done Mount Morris proud. Congratulations on a job well done.


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Well, I jumped on the bandwagon and built a entry for the CCCX Miscellaneous Category.
Added Play-ability features are twin LED lights in the bottom chamber that can be turned on/off by the lever on the side.
Its the secret residence of Hayden. Lord of the Eastern Dunes. Built under the harsh sands of Loreos to protect noblemen and their troops should an superior force should attack.
Not designed as a fortress but more like the dungeons of a castle.


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If you're convinced you need to make dramatic changes in order to improve your health, we've got good news. It doesn't have to be that hard. We've found 50 simple, good-for-you moves to improve your health from head to toe - no life altering required.
- Breathe deeply and count to 10. Bottling up anger is the biggest predictor of headaches, even more than depression or anxiety, according to a new study from Saint Louis University.
- Eat the Mediterranean way. The Italian Longitudinal Study of Aging found that people who ate a diet high in mono - and polyunsaturated fatty acids did better on cognitive tests. Good sources include olive oil, butter, cheese and fish.
- Get more zzz's. Sleep deprivation can affect your ability to concentrate, remember information and perform mental tasks.
- Watch less TV. "Watching TV is to your brain what sitting on the couch is to your body: complete absence of use," says David Niven, Ph.D., author of The 100 Simple Secrets of Healthy People. Instead, read or do a crossword puzzle to keep your brain active and fend off diseases such as Alzheimer's.
- Take up a musical instrument. Musical training enhances your brain's ability to remember words, according to University of Hong Kong researchers.
- Add cranberries to your diet. University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth scientists have linked cranberry consumption to stroke protection. Early evidence suggests that the berries may reduce the oxidative damage to the brain that occurs during a stroke.
- Check your computer setup. To avoid eye strain, make sure your monitor is centered in front of you, about an arm's length away, with the top of the screen near eye level. Keep the glass clean to avoid glare, and take time to adjust the brightness, contrast and font size to comfortable levels.
- Have an omelette. Eggs, along with colorful fruits and leafy green vegetables, contain large amounts of lutein, which helps fight macular degeneration and cataracts.
- Easy does it when you brush. A recent British study found that people who brush longer or harder than necessary can actually erode their gums and tooth enamel.
- Rinse wisely. Although a mouth rinse can freshen breath and prevent cavities, it may also mask symptoms of poor oral health, according to Loyola University Health System researchers. Sometimes an unpleasant taste in your mouth can signal oral health problems such as periodontal disease.
- Drink tea. A University of Illinois study found that black tea may impede cavity-causing plaque bacteria.
Neck and Shoulders
- Hold the telephone. Cradling a phone between your ear and shoulder contracts neck muscles and locks the spinal joints, causing muscle spasms and pain. Instead, hold the receiver or use a speakerphone.
Breasts and Ovaries
- Keep your bedroom dark at night. A Harvard Nurses' Health Study of night-shift workers suggests that exposure to light at nighttime interferes with the body's production of melatonin, a hormone that can inhibit the growth of tumors.
- Get moving. According to researchers at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Re-search Center, brisk walking for just one or two hours a week can cut your breast cancer risk by almost 20 percent.
- Stock up on produce. Eating eight to 10 servings of fruits and vegetables a day can help lower your risk of developing cancer. "Foods rich in vitamin A are especially protective, as this nutrient helps maintain the ovarian tissues that are most susceptible to cancer," says Elizabeth Somer, M.A., R.D., author of Nutrition for Women.
- Say "om." Meditation helps you relax, which slows your breathing and heart rate. It also helps lower blood pressure and reduces your risk for blood clots.
- Drink pomegranate juice. This colorful fruit is high in antioxidants called polyphenols, which can help reduce atherosclerosis (arterial plaque), a major risk factor for heart disease.
- Bond with Mom. The Harvard Mastery of Stress Study found that those who reported a loving and caring relationship with their parents were less likely to have a serious illness such as high blood pressure or heart disease.
- Eat soy. To reduce cholesterol levels, add foods such as tofu or edamame (soybeans) to your diet five times a week, says Somer. Get a pet. "An animal is a huge stress reliever, and a recent study found that spending time with your pet reduces high blood pressure by fifteen percent," says Dr. Niven.
- Get a flu shot. Older people who got a flu shot were 19 percent less likely to be hospitalized for heart disease than those who didn't, according to a study in The New England Journal of Medicine. Researchers think influenza and pneumonia may trigger heart disease by damaging blood vessels and limiting blood flow.
- Skip the elevator. "The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has found that if you climb up and down just three flights a day you'll improve your cardiovascular health and lose about ten pounds over the course of a year," says Dr. Niven.
- Eat an apple a day. A London study found that eating at least five apples a week may improve lung function, thanks to a powerful antioxidant called quercetin that may protect lungs from the effects of pollution and cigarette smoke.
Digestive System
- Listen to slow music at mealtimes. "A recent study found that participants who ate while listening to fast music consumed two more mouthfuls a minute than those who listened to slow music," says Dr. Niven. "We subconsciously mimic the beat, and the faster you eat, the more likely you are to overeat."
- Get more calcium. This powerful nutrient can protect your colon as well as your bones. Swedish researchers have found an association between high dietary intake of calcium and vitamin D and a decreased risk of colorectal cancer.
- Know when to say when. Researchers from Stony Brook University linked heavy alcohol consumption (at least nine drinks a week for more than 10 years) to a higher rate of colorectal cancer or polyps. However, moderate consumption of wine was shown to have a protective effect.
- Limit antacid intake. A new study from Austria suggests that over-using antacid tablets may increase the risk of food allergies by possibly interfering with digestion.
- Take a vitamin E supplement. High blood levels of alpha-tocopherol, a form of vitamin E, may lower the risk of developing cancer of the stomach and esophagus, according to new research from China.
- Have a cup o' joe. German researchers have found an antioxidant in coffee that may protect against colon cancer. Avoiding caffeine? Decaf also contains the same compound.
- Take a deep stretch. Stretching muscles in your lower back, shoulders and chest helps keep your back in alignment and improve posture. Flexibility can also reduce your risk of lower back pain by relieving stress on the spine. Try leaning over and bending your chest down to your thighs while seated.
- Alternate shoulders. Switch sides frequently when carrying a heavy bag or briefcase. Too much weight on one side of your body can cause muscle imbalance that could turn into chronic back and neck injuries.
- Stop the side slouch. "When we stand, we often put all our weight on one leg, with a hip jutted out, slightly leaning to one side. This posture can lead to lower back pain and muscle imbalances," says Kathy Smith, creator of Lift Weights to Lose Weight 2. Instead, center your weight between your legs and lift your lower abdominals. "It improves spinal alignment and fights belly pooch."
Joints and Muscles
- Pump iron. Weight-bearing exercise has been found to reduce joint pain caused by arthritis and to improve physical function. The better shape muscles are in, the better they're able to protect joints from shock.
- Vary your workouts. "Repeating the same exercise routine day after day will cause wear and tear on your muscles," says Dr. Niven. "It also reduces the overall effect of the exercise on your body."
- Keep your balance. Balancing on one leg works the muscles in your buttocks and upper legs and can reduce your risk for falls. Smith recommends this quick exercise: While standing, start with 15 seconds and build up to one minute balancing on each leg, squeezing your buttocks together and lifting up your midsection.
- Do a downward dog. Two recent studies found that practicing yoga in addition to other therapies can help relieve the pain of carpal tunnel syndrome and arthritis of the hands.
Immune System
- Eat more yogurt. A Tufts University study indicates that live active cultures, such as those found in yogurt, may help make the immune system more resilient and prevent infection.
- Don't microwave vegetables. A recent study from Spain found that produce loses as much as 97 percent of its antioxidant properties when microwaved. The healthiest way to eat your veggies? Raw or steamed.
- Limit use of antibacterial soaps and cleaning products. Overuse can contribute to the formation of drug-resistant bacteria and kill off the helpful bacteria our bodies need.
- Eat garlic. "Taking garlic at the first sign of a cold could stave off further symptoms," says Somer. It contains compounds that may have antibiotic, antiviral and antibacterial properties.
- Try tai chi. A UCLA study found that practicing this simple combination of meditation and movement can help fight shingles by increasing immune cell levels by about 50 percent.
- Focus on the positive. Carnegie Mellon researchers recently discovered that unhappy people are three times as likely to get a cold as happy people.
- Add some zest to your lemonade. A recent University of Arizona study concluded that consuming lemon, orange or grapefruit peel can reduce your risk of skin cancer by as much as 30 percent.
- Skip the tanning beds. "You may think you're getting a healthier tan, but using a tanning bed exposes your body to fifteen times the concentration of ultraviolet rays as going out in the sun," says Dr. Niven.
- Work your back. If you're at risk for osteoporosis, strong back muscles are the best way to prevent spinal fractures. A 2002 Mayo Clinic study found that women who didn't perform back-strengthening exercises for two years were nearly three times as likely to suffer a compression fracture.
- Get more K. Several studies have shown that vitamin K can help maintain bone density and strength. Sources include leafy green vegetables, broccoli and plant oils.
- Go fish! According to Somer, recent re-search has shown that omega-3 fatty acids may help regulate the mechanisms that allow bone to absorb calcium. So be sure to eat omega-3-rich foods, such as salmon, in addition to taking a calcium supplement.
- Skip the soft drinks. The phosphates in these beverages increase the amount of calcium excreted into the urine, says Somer.
- Try a home pedicure. Professional nail salons may spread infection through shared foot baths or sharp instruments used to file away calluses.
- Skip magnetic shoe pads. A recent Mayo Clinic study found no evidence that magnetic shoe inserts ease foot and heel pain. Instead, spend your money on more comfortable, better-fitting shoes.


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Release Notes: isoinfo now allows the user to extract all files from an ISO image based on the built-in find(1) command. This works even for milti-extent files (files > 4 GB). The schily makefilesystem was enhanced to support clang as a compiler. Some enhancements for the libschily *at() function emulations have been added.
Release Notes: libschily/sleep.c and libschily/usleep.c now work with MinGW. Cdrecord now prints timediffs also in hours:minutes:seconds. Cdda2wav no longer includes "c2check" in the "proof" paranoia option to avoid a firmware bug in a TSSTcorp drive. Mkisofs has slightly-reduced CPU time requirements. A problem in isoinfo has been fixed; it did not always print timestamps in -find -ls mode.
Release Notes: mkisofs includes a new option, -legacy, that allows it to reenable the short options -H/-L/-P; these have been disabled in 2006 for compatibility with scripts that have not been updated during the past 10 years. libsiconv now only tries to open a file when the argument includes a slash in its name. libschily::printf() now includes support for %n$ argument reordering for the first 30 arguments.
Release Notes: This release adds some workarounds for compiling with MinGW. New functions xcomerr(), xcomerrno(), fxcomerr(), and fxcomerrno() in libschily. A bug in libschily/format.c that caused %.*s to be printed incorrectly has been fixed. libschily/fprformat.c gives better printf() performance on Solaris. Some bugs in the mkisofs man page have been fixed. Mkisofs now opens "NUL" on Win-DOS instead of "/dev/null".
Release Notes: Libparanoia and cdda2wav have been enhanced to give much better results with slightly bad media and new hardware.
Release Notes: This release added different fine-grained privilege handling that keeps root privileges in cases where cdrtools have been called by a privileged program. Libfind now supports "event port" type files. Clashes with an outdated cdda_paranoia.h file in /usr/local/include/ as seen on FreeBSD are now avoided. Emulations for *at() functions have been added to libschily.
Release Notes: This release fixes a copy+paste bug in the Linux support code for fine-grained privileges. Libfind no longer leaks filedescriptors with -empty. New OS version ID rules have been added for various newer WIN-DOS versions.
Release Notes: The Schily Makefilesystem no longer uses CC= for internal tasks. Automatic support has been added for ARMv5 and ARMv6. This makes compilation on the RaspberryPI also possible with the non-automake aware gmake. Allows "static" compilation (compilation that does not use the dynamic defines from the Schily Makefilesystem) on Linux ARMv6 (which is used by RaspberryPI). Many sources have been modified to handle __CYGWIN32__ as __CYGWIN__ This is needed as newer Cygwin versions that run in 64-bit mode no longer define __CYGWIN32__ but __CYGWIN__.
Release Notes: This release fixes a bug in libparanoia that caused too small array initialization. The OpenCSW build environment was updated to the last release. This release allows "static" compilation for Linux x86 for cdrtools library users. The include files from the Schily portability environment have been restructured.
Release Notes: On Linux and Solaris, this release will warn you if necessary fine-grained permissions are missing. It works around a FreeBSD 9.1 bug that prevented compilation of cdda2wav. mkisofs compiles without -DUDF and without -DDVD_VIDEO.


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- Monaco GP - Qualifying
Button: Magnussen was just quicker
Jenson Button says he has no excuses for dropping out of Q2 in Monaco and that Kevin Magnussen just did a better job by getting into the final qualifying session.
Button could only manage 12th in Q2 as he struggled to record a clean lap in the closing stages, while team-mate Magnussen showed what might have been as he made it into Q3 and put the car in eighth.
"Kevin drove the car quicker, basically, he did a better job," Button said. "In Q1 I felt reasonably happy with the car and the pace was there as well, but Q2 started with a bit of traffic on my first lap and I didn't get a lap together after that. Truthfully I just didn't get a lap, no excuses, I just didn't get a lap."
Button, who won the race at Monaco in 2009, is under no illusions his position on the grid sets up a potentially frustrating day tomorrow.
"I've been here a few times before so I know it's going to be a tough race but we'll see what we can do. I think there needs to be a bit of action. The problem is these days because tyres last so long around here, cars will be stopping as early as they dare in terms of traffic and then just sitting all in a train until the end of the rain.
"Maybe someone will be brave to make some moves but when you keep making them it can be a disaster."
Despite his lower grid position Button feels McLaren is actually better on the tyres in Monaco than it has been in previous rounds.
"I think in high-speed corners certain cars can produce a lot of tyre temperature because they have a lot of downforce. We aren't so strong in that area so we struggle to warm the tyres up but we have other means of generating tyre temperature, I think we're very good at that.
"So around here we don't suffer compared to our competitors, maybe we are slightly better in terms of getting the tyres working. For me I tried to do my lap as a first-time lap and I think I was one of the only cars, I'm not sure if that was right or not but I was on the cusp of making it work."


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Get the Look: Brown Smoky Eyes at BCBGMaxAzria
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Backstage at BCBGMaxAzria this morning, celebrity makeup artist Val Garland and her Sephora staff created a smoky eye that was soft, subtle, and super-wearable. Even for, yes, the day! The key? Garland swapped stark, club-bustin' black shadow and mascara for cool, chocolate brown tones.
"The look here at BCGB is all about a perfect, beautiful, real girl," said Garland. "She's a little bit outdoorsy. She's quite inspired by the idea of a Kate Moss kind of look. So we did a little bit of a sexy smoke on the eye and lots of beautiful bronzing and highlighting. This time around to make the smoke feel really modern, we're working like chocolately browns as opposed to blacks and a fab chocolately brown mascara. I just think it's a little softer, it doesn't feel so nighttime hard. It's more real and wearable. It's something that suits most women."
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To create the look, Garland smudged Sephora's Jumbo Liner 12-Hour Wear Waterproof in "24 Dark Brown Matte" all over the lid as a base, then blended Urban Decay's 24/7 Glide-On Eye Pencil in "Bourbon" into the crease.
Stila's Kajal Eye Liner in "Tropaz" — rimmed along the inner eye to make it appear wider and brighter — and Dior's Diorshow Mascara in "Chestnut" finished off the smoky style.
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Comms Business
September 2011
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A partnership has been launched that claims to provide a dramatic reduction in the integration cost of cloud applications.
The partnership sees First Hosted become the only UK distributor of QueCloud made by Queplix. The solution enables companies to securely integrate cloud applications such as NetSuite, Salesforce, LinkedIn and FaceBook with speed and simplicity.
The Queplix solution reduces the lifecycle total cost of ownership for data integration deployment by up to 75 per cent or more, compared to traditional ETL (extract, transform, and load) data integration tools.
The increased business efficiency and reduced set-up costs provided by QueCloud will benefit users, particularly as the most popular integrations, or applications blades, which connect businesses' NetSuite world to any enterprise or cloud application, are available complete, off-the-shelf, often with no or a minimal set up fee.
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