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Using GenealogyBank's Historical Newspaper Archives for my genealogy research just gets better and better!
Every time I dive back into GenealogyBank's newspapers I look for articles about my family. With over 1.4 billion records to select from—and more added every day—there are still a lot of family finds yet to be discovered.
Recently I was looking for more information in GenealogyBank about my ancestor Jeremy Hanson from Gilmanton, New Hampshire.
Since he lived in New Hampshire and "Jeremy" is a fairly unique name, I started by searching on just his first and last name—limiting my search to only New Hampshire and Massachusetts newspapers.
Finding My Ancestor's Farm in the Newspaper
I soon found this real estate ad about a Jeremy Hanson who was selling his farm in Gilmanton, New Hampshire, in 1829.
Since many of my ancestor Jeremy Hanson's children were born in Gilmanton, this old news article is probably about him.
The real estate ad says that his farm was "one mile south of the Academy…on the road that leads to Concord."
Gilmanton Academy?
I drove past that Academy thousands of times growing up in New Hampshire.
"One mile south of the Academy…on the road that leads to Concord." A quick Internet search can find that location.
So—now we know where his farm stood in 1829.
Look at some of the details provided in the old real estate ad:
- 135 acres of "good land"
- 80 acres are divided into mowing fields, pasture and tillage land
I recognize that type of division.
Our property when I was growing up was further south of where Jeremy's farm was located, closer to the intersection of State Routes 107 and 129. We had fields that had been planted and mowed since the days of the Revolutionary War. No doubt the Mudgett family that owned our property in days gone by knew Jeremy Hanson back in the day.
There are more details in the historical ad:
- "Good orchards that make 15 barrels of cider yearly"—so they must have loved their homemade cider
- "A well of never failing water"—sounds terrific. It's good to see the ad copy used by people selling a home in 1829. He didn't just have a well, he had "A well of never failing water."
- A home that was a 30'x40' one-story house
- A "well finished barn 22 x 49, sound and good"
We can picture exactly how big these two buildings were.
There were also three more buildings on his property:
- A "wood and corn house, 24 by 30 two stories"
- A "shed 30 feet long"
- And "one more out building 15 by 20"
This is impressive. Since I've walked these hills and farms for years, I can picture how Jeremy's farm must have looked.
Finding My Ancestor's Occupations in Newspapers
Looking at the other newspaper search result hits, I found this article about Jeremy Hanson, the town clerk in Lincoln, New Hampshire.
This fits: my records show that several of Jeremy's children died in Lincoln, Grafton County, New Hampshire.
In another old newspaper article Jeremy is named as the tax collector.
Newspapers tell us our family's story, giving us the details of our ancestors' lives.
Wow—it's a great day for genealogy!


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Winter Baja on the Michigan Tech Campus Saturday
By Marcia Goodrich | Published
The 2013 Winter Baja will be held Saturday, Feb. 16, near the Student Development Complex at Michigan Technological University.
The event, which was previously held in Lake Linden, kicks off National Engineers Week at Michigan Tech. It has attracted more than 50 off-road vehicles from 22 universities, which will race around a one-mile snow course.
In addition, concessions and displays from industry partners, including Cummins, Kohler Engines, Nexteer and others will be set up in the basketball gym of the SDC. Doors open at 9 a.m., admission is free, and food and beverages will be available.
The parade lap starts at 9:45 a.m., and the two-hour endurance races begin at 10 a.m. and 1 p.m. The final segment is the dynamic event, at 3:30 p.m.
Winter Baja has traditionally been a tune-up event for the Society of Automotive Engineers' Baja SAE competitions, a series of international events that draws student teams from around the world. Student engineers build their vehicles from scratch around a Briggs and Stratton 10-horsepower engine.
"With a record number of vehicle registrations, this event pays tribute to the roots of the Baja SAE Collegiate Design Series, which began at Michigan Tech nearly 30 years ago when Tech professor Bill Shapton decided we needed more hands-on engineering," said Zachary Peck, a member of the Blizzard Baja Enterprise. "A race that first led students through beaver dams and sand pits, from the abandoned Keweenaw town of Mandan up to Copper Harbor, has evolved into a global engineering series with annual events in South Africa, Brazil, Korea and North America.
"Please join the Blizzard Baja team us this Saturday at the Student Development Complex to check out some exciting side by side racing, or step inside the wood gym to warm up from the cold."
Sponsors are Cummins, Michigan Tech Mechanical Engineering, Kohler Engines, Nexteer, TeamTech Motorsports, Wells Fargo, Houghton Powersports, EZ-Ryde Suspension, Vollwerth's and the Michigan Tech Employees Federal Credit Union.
For more information, contact Mandi Severn at email@example.com or Peck at email@example.com.
Michigan Technological University is a public research university, home to more than 7,000 students from 60 countries. Founded in 1885, the University offers more than 120 undergraduate and graduate degree programs in science and technology, engineering, forestry, business and economics, health professions, humanities, mathematics, and social sciences. Our campus in Michigan's Upper Peninsula overlooks the Keweenaw Waterway and is just a few miles from Lake Superior.

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A Sparks woman reported missing Monday has been found in a shallow grave in the backyard of a Sparks home.
Kimberley Seaton's daughter reported her mother missing on December 7th. She told police she hadn't heard from her mother in awhile and was concerned.
The Sparks Police Department continued the investigation into 50-year-old Kimberley Seaton into Tuesday morning.
The investigation led to an address in the 1857 block of C Street in Sparks, where Seaton had been staying with Thomas Brant.
Detectives spoke with Brant and conducted a search of the residence. Seaton's body was found buried in a shallow grave in the back yard of his home.
Brant was interviewed by detectives and admitted to the murder of Seaton.
Police will not say how the woman died or her relationship with the suspect.
Brant has been booked into the Washoe County Jail on one count of murder.


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These days, defining a sport/utility vehicle is hard. Just about anything top-heavy that necessitates the slight lifting of a passenger's leg for entry usually qualifies, thanks in part to the introduction of car-based crossovers. There are still a handful of vehicles that combine sport and utility to the fullest extent imaginable, clearing up any confusion when these three letters come to mind. We've rounded up three of these — the 555-horsepower BMW X5 M, 500-horsepower Porsche Cayenne Turbo, and 465-horsepower Jeep Grand Cherokee SRT8. We'll call them Super SUVs — SuperUVs for brevity — due to their massive amounts of power, high top speed, surefooted stick, and excellent utility.
Not one SUV in this matchup takes more than 4.6 seconds to get to 60 mph from rest. Braking to a dead stop from the same speed happens in less than 115 feet for all three. They haul five passengers and cargo, and tow at least 5300 pounds. Every engine corrals more than 450 horses; the same goes for pound-feet of twist.
Five-, six-, and eight-speed automatic transmissions delegate power to all four wheels via blandly labeled all-wheel-drive systems (BMW xDrive, Jeep Selec-Track, Porsche Traction Management). A bit of soft-roading is well within their limits. If you told me these statistics a decade ago, I would have smiled politely and pressed the little red button under my desk. Security will be here shortly…
At a minimum price tag just under $61,000 for the Jeep Grand Cherokee SRT8, and with a best EPA-rated highway fuel economy rating of 22 mpg produced by the Porsche Cayenne Turbo, the players are neither cheap, nor efficient. We wanted find out if these top-tier SUVs can comfortably travel at entertaining and demanding velocities with hefty loads and all seats filled, so we packed our helmets, hooked up flatbed trailers, and drove into the blazing Mojave Desert toward Willow Springs International Raceway.
The Plan
Before fleeing Los Angeles's clogged arteries, we outlined three evaluative rounds of our SuperUV title fight. Round 1 is the liveability test. We wanted to see how well each functions as a daily driver for commuting and errand-running. During this test, towing and canyon carving were strictly verboten. Thanks to Recaro North America and its ProSeries child seats, we saw how well the SUVs copes with a (faux) kid onboard.
Round 2 was all about testing the SuperUVs' proclaimed towing skills. We scheduled a pickup of three 2210-pound vehicle transport flatbeds, and loaded each with a sporty convertible from each vehicle's respective brand. The Cayenne Turbo got to haul a 2011 Boxster Spyder; the X5 M a 2011 Z4 xDrive35is; and the SRT8 a 2012 Fiat 500C. (Chrysler/Fiat doesn't have a sporty drop top…yet.)
The third and final round was unquestionably the most fun. Since all three love running fast, and given that Jeep proclaims its new GC is "Track Rated" (a play on the brand's usual "Trail Rated" label), our in-house hot shoe and road test editor, Scott Mortara, set lap times on the 1.8-mile Streets of Willow course. Track time in an SUV? Yes, please.
DING! DING! DING! Let the brawl begin.
Round 1: The Rise of the Supermarket Sleepers
The "sleeper" label applies to the $121,000 Cayenne Turbo and $92,000 X5 M. Despite their exuberant MSRPs, both don barely modified guises that attract few second looks from passersby. They look just like their non-turbo counterparts.
The Cayenne's modern Stuttgart snout and sleek profile are too passé and common in L.A. Aside from the italicized Turbo plate, subtle hatch spoiler, and Gatling gun LED headlamps, there is hardly anything aesthetic that makes the Porsche stand out. Although the BMW sports an intake-laden front end, a beautiful Monte Carlo Blue hue, and a squatter stance with extra-wide 315/35-20 rear tires, the specialness of this SUV isn't obvious.
The $61,000 Jeep SRT8, on the other hand, is of a different mentality. One fleeting look is all it takes to understand its gravity. While the Germans were conservative in adding flair, the Americans from Auburn Hills bolted on a heap of LOOK-AT-ME stuff, including fat 295/45-20 rubber at all four corners, extra-bright LED DRLs, and a scooped hood. Nothing else in the Grand Cherokee lineup – or the entire Chrysler range, for that matter — looks as different, or as sinister, as this SRT8. It attracted plenty of gawking mouths and gas station interrogations, and since the Jeep is rated at 12/18 mpg city/highway, it stops at the gas station happen more often than you think. Some call it gaudy. I call it "bitchin'."
If Johnny Comfort were on the SuperUV bittyball team, he'd play second string. But with tauter suspensions employing traditional coil springs/non-adjustable dampers (Jeep), adaptive dampers (BMW), and self-leveling air "springs" (Porsche), each was livable over multiple commuting days. We preferred BMW and Porsche's distinctly German method of suspension calibration, which combines adequate cushiness and surprising responsiveness, to the Jeep's slightly jarring one-dimensional, non-adjustable Bilsteins. Our numerous passengers did, too.
Porsche's engineers poignantly kept the twin-turbo 4.8-liter's rumbling from permeating the leather-lined cabin at abhorrent levels during normal cruising, yet its muffled purr constantly reminds drivers why it's a good idea to keep a lawyer on retainer. Forgetting the worries of the world beyond its laminated glass is as easy as cranking up the theater-crisp $3990 Burmester audio system. As contributing editor Mark Williams noted, "This interior is most like a sports car and most unlike an SUV."
To that point, most of the Cayenne's interior attributes are geared toward an athleticism uncommon in the segment. Its tight, leather-wrapped, multi-way-adjustable seats hold your body close. The visually alluring dash and central tunnel swathed in supple Alcantara up the elegance and motorsport antes. Associate online editor Benson Kong liked the gauges best. "The cluster is one of the best I've experienced in any vehicle and makes a lot of the center screen and its accompanying switchgear redundant. I love that you can control navigation, sound system, etc. via the panel's third gauge using the steering wheel buttons."
The Porsche falls short in a few places, such as the rearward visibility, especially with the rear headrests standing upright. Kong found it "atrocious, bordering close to Ray Charles 'I Can't See Sh*t' territory." Williams faulted the side mirrors, which he thought to be "tiny and misshapen." Williams also brought to our attention that Porsche commands a $655 premium for a rearview camera. Our tester came only with the standard radar parking sensors, whereas the Jeep and BMW include a camera as standard equipment. Then there are the ever-confusing forward upshift/backward downshift steering wheel paddles that take time to get used to. Strapping in a baby seat took the longest in the Cayenne because of its hidden LATCH clips. And once the seat was securely in place, rear passenger elbowroom shrunk considerably.
BMW piped a tad more of the delicious 4.4-liter twin-turbo whine and burble into the X5's white leather abode. To Kong, the M's carbon-fiber clad interior was the best of the group. "The simplest interior offers the most comfortable and spacious surroundings, both front and back," he wrote. "Jumping in and out of the first and second rows was the easiest in the BMW and there was noticeably more shoulder and legroom compared to the other two-and my build isn't even that big. With the Recaro planted smack in the center seat, there's still space to get your own seat belt clicked in, and breathing room for the shoulders. The X5 M won't make young children or adult passengers feel like they've been put in a dungeon."
Williams put it this way: "I like the interior of the X5 M and how it shares all the BMW design cues with all the other BMW sedans. However, I'm not a fan of the heavy reliance on the center iDrive control dial for access to all sorts of info, entertainment, and performance data." Indeed, not much comes close to the feeling of BMW hides and the optimal thickness of an M-designed steering wheel. As for paddle shifters, this Bavarian brute with its aluminum examples has some of the best.
The Grand Cherokee SRT8 doesn't care if you're in the mood or not — its gigantic naturally aspirated 6.4-liter HEMI heart is going to roar and buck no matter what. This unapologetic, self-assured personality is immensely cool, especially when compared directly to the hyper-engineered, almost sterile Germans.
It's hard to tell what Chrysler's Street and Racing Technology team did, but in the SRT8, plastics don't necessarily look like plastics; leather and its white stitching yearn to be touched; and carbon-fiber trim adds tons of racing luster.
"Outward visibility was second-best for me," said Kong. "Love that you can watch over engine coolant, engine oil, and transmission temperature vitals as you're driving along. It introduces peace of mind if you obsess over details." Williams added, "I like the 120-volt inverter capability, but wish it were three-prong. And the backup camera is, by far, the best of the group at making single-operation trailer hitching a snap — great screen and guidelines."
Baby seats are a cinch to cinch in the Jeep, and in terms of rear elbow space with a little one onboard, it ranks second behind the Bimmer. As for gripes, the extra-large American-size front seats, which lacked the support and adjustability of their German competition, and the outdated user interface were the source of a lot of complaints.
Of course, selecting any of the SUVs' respective Sport, M, or Track drive mode buttons balloons each cabin's attractiveness twofold. Press them once and you'll never want to unbuckle. Not only do the switches quicken many pertinent performance actions like steering feel, throttle response, gearbox shifts, and suspension dampening, but they also turn up the raucousness of the SUVs' growls. Again, the Jeep undoubtedly wins this contest with its angry, no-holds-barred "Track" mode engaged.
Round 2: Towing 101
Towing involves many variables and requires a lot of expertise to get it done without a hitch (pun intended), which is why we called upon the services and knowledge of the aforementioned Mr. Williams. The main ingredients to the towing cocktail are a hitch, a ball mount, and a wiring harness to control the trailer's lighting and hydraulic brakes. Setting the ideal tire pressure is critical as well. The other necessary element is the calculation of various weight measurements and capabilities.
The combination of a 2210-pound trailer plus a car needed to fall within the SUV's towing capacity. For the BMW, Jeep, and Porsche, that's 6000, 5000, and 7716 pounds, respectively. Fortunately, all gross trailer weights made the cut. The Z4, with trailer attached, tallied a combined weight of 5694 pounds; the Fiat weighed in at 4726 pounds; and the Porsche at 5163 pounds.
With the cars loaded and balanced according to prescribed limitations, Williams reminded us of some towing basics. Among them: Be mindful of your trailer's girth, go slowly, and take turns extra-wide. With that primer, we began the 96-mile journey into the desert.
North of L.A.'s urban ugliness is State Route 14, which leads first to the desert cities of Palmdale and Lancaster, then Rosamond, home of Edwards Air Force Base and the Willow Springs complex. Usually the road is a boring piece of pavement strewn with a steady flow of commuter traffic, but on this day, strapped into these performance machines, the word boring was quickly banished from our vocabulary.
The blue and red BMWs led our convoy. At 11,007 pounds, they were the heaviest pair by nearly 733 pounds. Their bulk immediately became clear when we needed hasty acceleration to achieve cruising speeds. The X5 M's six-speed automatic gearbox struggled to hold gears and deal with the added load on minor grades. We frequently had to count on manual shift mode to get the ideal amount of consistent thrust.
The BMWs' rear air springs did wonders in leveling the load and compensating for the tongue weight. Although they lacked as many clamping pistons (four up front, one out back) as the Jeep and Porsche (six front, four back), the giant 15.6/15.2-inch front/rear brakes revealed no signs of stress throughout the towing experiment. "Good luck with trying to monitor how it's doing when towing a trailer in the Bimmer," Kong said. "There are no special menus or screens or dedicated tow mode."
On the other hand, the Jeep's antiquated five-speed coped well with the load, but the SRT8 nevertheless felt as if was lugging an overweight elephant. Interestingly, the Chrysler/Fiat rig was the lightest at 9949 pounds. Hooking a trailer to the Jeep couldn't have been simpler. With the optional Class IV tow package installed, it arrived with both four- and seven-pin connections. There was also a dedicated tow setting — the only one in the group.
Neither the Jeep nor the BMW felt as comfortable with an extended tail as the Porsche. Though its eight-speed gearbox had trouble getting used to the added resistance and was at times confused, with 516 lb-ft of torque available at 2250 rpm, it was quick to hunker down and pull ahead. At the same time, the silent air-filled dampers modulated weight transfer and produced a compliant ride.
The Germans further showed how well their force-fed legs could pull in our two instrumented 45-65-mph acceleration runs with a 4726-pound trailer attached. The speed range represents a common street-to-highway transition. (The Jeep's 5000-pound maximum towing capacity determined our standardized trailer weight.)
The first run began at a standstill and lasted until the 65 mph hash. The time it took to get to 65 mph from 45 mph was our recorded number. The second began as a rolling start. Again, the time it took to get up to speed was the result. Both runs served as key evaluators of a vehicle's throttle, shift, and acceleration responses while under load.
The better-geared, torque-strong Porsche Cayenne dominated the first category with a 4.4-second time. Having eight cogs allowed it to get up to speed more efficiently than the lot. Next came the BMW at 5.0 seconds, then the power-deficient Jeep at 6.4 seconds.
On the subsequent run, things got more interesting. The Porsche's time dropped to 5.3 seconds, which the BMW easily matched with its responsive turbos at full spool. The 4.8-liter's considerable turbo lag elongated the Porsche's time. The Jeep continued to bring up the rear with a 6.6-second attempt.
Round 3: Track Blast
First, I must divulge our usual instrumented findings, where the BMW shined. To 60 mph from a stop, the clock spun for only 4.1 seconds. A quarter mile got decimated in 12.7 seconds at a terminal speed of 110.1 mph. Braking from 60 mph took just 112 feet. Line this X5 next to an Audi RS5 (4.3 seconds), Shelby GT500 (4.2 seconds), or Aston Martin DBS (4.2 seconds), and it will win the sprint to 60 mph every time. The Jeep is just as impressive, recording 4.6 seconds; 13.3 seconds at 103.2 mph; and an astounding 106 feet in the braking category. Porsche's largest Turbo secured itself a mid-pack position with 4.3 seconds; 12.8 seconds at 107.9 mph; and 108 feet. Brembos and Pirellis did much for the Jeep's braking, but when it came to speed and stick, the twin-turbocharged Germans had the upper hand.
As you can imagine, hooning while hauling is spectacular fun, but since track testing with a trailer attached is highly dangerous, we set out on our full "time attack" challenge atop the 14-turn Streets of Willow sans cargo and mock family. It also takes time to get used to an SUV's mass on a relatively small and tight track such as Streets. Throw in these specimens' lust for speed, and you get a whole lot of stress on chassis, braking, and human components. With all that in mind, Mortara buckled into the X5 M.
Hunting a corner while riding a 5313-pound behemoth is a technical affair. Indeed, Mortara felt more push in the X5 M than he expected, but he noted that the ideally weighted helm, responsive chassis, and intuitive all-wheel drive programming produced an amazing sense of control and stability.
Williams observed a downshift hesitation from the six-speed when it was his turn to charge hard on track, likely an automatic "safe mode" response that preserves the engine's longevity. Upshifts, on the other hand, were as crisp, smooth, and quick as some dual-clutch units. He praised them as "preternatural" and loved the aforementioned M mode for "making him feel like Macho Man or Monster Man or Mega Man. The single button lets you know you have something special and you were pretty damn smart to make this purchase," he noted. All said and done, Mortara and the BMW posted a best time of 1 minute, 31.9 seconds.
Mortara then got into the Grand Cherokee SRT8. "This thing is a total surprise, in a good way, that is," he revealed once he got out and immediately began rattling off observations. "Its Hemi is extremely lively because it's all motor. Its gearing is just OK, and is matched decently well to the mill. But then again, the engine is so responsive that you soon forget about its weaknesses and lack of speed when compared with the others. The Bilsteins aren't tuned as well as they could be, so grip is just good, not great. I want more feedback from the steering – it's light and needs to better relate what's going on below. I would say the Jeep is as fun to drive as the BMW, but for different reasons. It's trippy to feel the tail wag in an SUV."
Williams concurred and elaborated on Mortara's last thought, saying, "(The Jeep) for me is definitely the most fun to drive because it is always letting you know there is pent-up monster power and that the chassis isn't always able to keep it under control. The rearend, with its simple coil spring setup, likes to wiggle both in and out of hard cornering. Even though the suspension is lower than a normal GC, there are still times when it feels like it's standing on its toes when lightly or heavily touching the brakes. You definitely have to be the most careful with this one when braking on the track."
The Jeep is a brash brute compared to the gentlemanly Porsche and the technically precise BMW. It requires total driver concentration and involvement and near-professional skills to master on a demanding course. However, for slightly over half the sticker price of the Cayenne, the Jeep is a no-brainer when it comes to performance and entertainment bang-for-your-buck value. Mortara's best lap time: 1 minute, 33.9 seconds.
After finishing his laps in the Cayenne, Mortara described it as "the most fun drive of them all, by far." It excelled on track with its unrivaled Dr. Jekyll/Mr. Hyde personality. To no other SUV on the planet can the age-old idiom of "race on Sunday, sell on Monday" be applied so well. Engaging Sport mode has never been as rewarding as in this Porsche.
Williams hit the nail on the head. "I'm not sure enough can be said about the engine and transmission and their ability to throw power at the wheels. It wouldn't surprise me if this AWD system is smarter than anything NASA has ever seen. The seamless transfer of power through the driveline into the wheels, especially on hard cornering, is an absolute mystery to behold.
"Where the SRT8 is impressive in its ability to accept so much power, the Cayenne's transfer case instantly distributes tremendous power with what seems like no losses in response…touch the pedal and you feel the tires gripping, pulling, grabbing, catapulting you up the next hill or deep into the next turn."
Mortara was able to push the Cayenne to a best lap of 1 minute, 30.2 seconds, nearly 2 seconds better than the BMW and almost 4 seconds ahead of the Jeep.
Winner, Winner, Chicken Dinner
Boiled down to pure numbers, these machines are impressive examples of modern performance engineering. Never mind how little fuel they conserve or how much coin they command, the trio unequivocally puts the Sport in Sport/Utility Vehicle.
The Jeep does it in the most vociferous, unashamed way. Though down 35 horses compared with its next closest competitor, and was the slowest, least sophisticated of the group, it evoked the most emotional responses from our drivers. It was also the cheapest by a hefty $30,000 margin. Tossing it around a bend meant working extremely hard to maintain a proper set; incorrectly judge a corner, shift-point, or braking zone, and the Jeep will make any driver pay for their sins. In terms of utility, the GC didn't like the relatively heavy loads we bolted onto its butt.
The blue BMW traced corners with a steering communication many sports cars would envy. Match that skillfulness with more than 550 angry turbocharged horses and a suspension that transforms the large SUV into something that feels a quarter of its size, and you get a roomy, versatile vehicle that is as much at home on a serpentine path as it is in the Whole Foods parking lot with three kids aboard. That said, the BMW lacked a certain lustrous personality. Sure, it cornered well, scorched the dragstrip, and accommodated everything we shoved inside its doors, but so did the Jeep and Porsche.
The Porsche has more of an addictive split-personality. Restrain all impetus to feed its hungry V-8 and it'll purr like a kitten. Push it ever so slightly and it quickly reveals its Nürburgring training. When you do go fast, you're not inexplicably beaten up — the leather-filled Porsche wants you to end your fantastic voyage in one piece with a smile on your face. The Cayenne Turbo does many things – towing, cargo carrying, canyon carving, circuit slaying – with an extraordinary skill set, whereas the other SUVs simply shine in certain areas.
There is no question the Jeep gives you a lot for a relatively small entry fee. Or you can throw down another $30,000 or so for a BMW that's a little better on all fronts. But for the enthusiast not concerned with cash who has a burning desire to have an incredible all-arounder, look no further than Stuttgart for the best example of the SuperUV.
FIRST PLACE: 2011 Porsche Cayenne Turbo
No other SUV takes as many people and things to extraordinary velocities as this luxurious Porsche.
This surefooted Bavarian bomber offers plenty of go, stow, and tow — but not quite at Cayenne levels.
THIRD PLACE: 2012 Jeep Grand Cherokee SRT8
Loud and proud, the mighty Jeep is one of most enjoyable Michigan-bred rides, but falls short of the 500-club Germans.
Behind the Towing Details
In a perfect world, our towed vehicles — 500C, Boxster Spyder, and Z4 — would all weigh exactly the same. In the same perfect world, each trailer would have equal and proportionate tongue weight distributions and all tires would have identical tread depths and inflation pressures to the thousandths. We'd also run tests an impractically large number of times. But we don't test in a bubble and live in that perfect world, so we do what we can to normalize.
To add an instrumented touch to the towing portion of the comparison, we ran each SUV through two types of acceleration runs intended to simulate passing. The first run starts from an easy cruise of 25 mph, letting the transmission logic decide its optimum gear. We then punch the accelerator and measure the time it takes to roll from 45-65 mph (we'll call this run No. 1). The second utilizes a trigger switch and begins at a 45-mph cruise, also allowing the transmission to sit in its gear of choice (run No. 2). Because this second attempt was designed to integrate a transmission kickdown, it produces a slower time, as expected.
The Fiat-loaded trailer, lightest of the bunch by an estimated 450 pounds, was moved from SUV to SUV to collect the times. With the Jeep pulling its weight plus more, it clocked 6.4 seconds for passing scenario No. 1, then 6.6 seconds for No. 2. The culprit for the slowest showing? The wide gearing spread means the transmission hangs a little longer upon request to go down from third to second for run No. 1, not to mention the naturally aspirated 6.4-liter V-8 is down on power and mid-range torque relative to its twin-turbocharged competitors. Helping the SRT8 in run No. 2 is the fact that it can stay in second gear for the run's duration — even at 65 mph, it's about 200 rpm off its horsepower peak. In the Jeep's defense, the wide spread feels very secure in hairier towing situations.
Next, we have the BMW X5 M, which needed 5.0 seconds flat for run No. 1 and 5.3 seconds for run No. 2. We believe it could have been even quicker during the first run, had it not needed to go from second to third gear approaching 65 mph. Otherwise, and with turbochargers spooling in heated fury, having peak torque from 1500-5650 rpm makes for an inspiring passing performance. During run No. 2, the BMW must once again swap gears well short of 65 mph, but the fast-changing six-speed automatic (blindfold us and we could have swore the X5 M had the DCT) does its best to keep the gap between the two runs close.
We knew the Cayenne Turbo, which possessed the highest maximum towing capacity and gross combined weight rating, would be a capable performer. With the tallest final drive of the group (2.92 vs. the BMW's 3.909), the Porsche is simultaneously aided and hampered by its eight-speed Tiptronic. Let's take a look at run No. 1. Needing just 4.4 seconds to blast from 25-65 mph (but only recording the 45-65 mph bit), our comparison winner is 0.6 second quicker to the draw than the X5 M. Although the eight-speed isn't as tight in the lower ratios as it is in the upper gears, there doesn't appear to be much of an acceleration penalty switching from second to third compared to the BMW. Then there's run No. 2, where 5.3 seconds matches the X5 M. We defer to the transmission again: Given its eight speeds and depending on throttle position, the Porsche is quite content to cruise at 45 mph in fourth, fifth, and even sixth gear if you force it to. But dropping to second gear when it's time to pass takes time, enough time to equal the BMW. Had there been some kind of tow mode to engage telling the Cayenne Turbo to hold gear, it presumably would do even better.
|2012 Jeep Grand Cherokee SRT8
|2011 Porsche Cayenne Turbo
|Front engine, AWD
|Front engine, AWD
|Front engine, AWD
|Twin-turbo 90-deg V-8, alum block/heads
|90-deg V-8, iron block/alum heads
|Twin-turbo 90-deg V-8, alum block/heads
|DOHC, 4 valves/cyl
|OHV, 2 valves/cyl
|DOHC, 4 valves/cyl
|266.1 cu in/4360 cc
|391.1 cu in/6410 cc
|293.3 cu in/4806 cc
|555 hp @ 6000 rpm
|470 hp @ 6000 rpm
|500 hp @ 6000 rpm
|500 lb-ft @ 1500 rpm
|465 lb-ft @ 4300 rpm
|516 lb-ft @ 2250 rpm
|7000 rpm
|6250 rpm
|6700 rpm
|9.6 lb/hp
|11.1 lb/hp
|10.2 lb/hp
|6-speed automatic
|5-speed automatic
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Thank you, Mr. Shariff.
Your Highness, The Honourable Minister Oda, President Rasul, Mr. Shariff, invited guests and members of the media.
This is a day of commemoration and celebration. More than five decades ago, a twenty-year-old Harvard student – albeit a remarkable Harvard student – became imam of the Ismailis. In the fifty years since, His Highness, the Aga Khan has been a shining example of the enlightened world leader, a man with a deep interest and investment in redefining the potential of the developing world through advancements in the fundamental pillars of human security and achievement – health care, education and cultural enrichment.
Your Highness, your Golden Jubilee marks fifty years of profound global influence; fifty years of tireless work to improve the quality of life, not just for Ismailis, but for people of all faiths in all corners of the world.
On behalf of my colleagues at McMaster University, I offer to you, our graduate, both my congratulations on your jubilee and our thanks for your selfless work. We wish you every blessing in that work and please know that McMaster shares your vision and will continue to work both in partnership and in parallel to achieve our shared goals.
It is an honour to be here today to speak as well about another important jubilee, for the partnerships between McMaster and the Aga Khan University now has a twenty-five year history of its own.
This collaboration now celebrating its silver jubilee and has shown how effective universities in general and these two universities in particular can be in working together to address the important challenges facing the developing world.
Our common goal comes from the understanding that the health of communities and nations depends on the health of their people. Together, the Aga Khan and McMaster universities are working to preserve and enhance individual health and with it, the fortunes of families, villages, cities and countries. In short, we believe we can change the world and the evidence of our twenty-five years of accomplishment is proof.
In the first phase of our partnership, McMaster was invited to Pakistan to collaborate with the new Aga Khan University School of Nursing to assist in establishing the curriculum, administration and faculty of the nascent nursing program. McMaster was keen to assist and brought its renowned problem-based, self-directed educational approach to AKU.
In the second phase of our partnership, as the Aga Khan University developed its program, McMaster helped enhance the capacity of nursing education in Pakistan with a work-study initiative and the development of a post-RN Bachelor of Science in Nursing program to train nurses for leadership roles in hospitals and in communities.
A great source of pride for us at this stage of the partnership was that many of the Pakistani nurses educated at McMaster became faculty for the new program, thus extending the legacy and influence of the collaboration to new generations of nurses.
During the third phase, beginning in 1994, CIDA funded the Development of Women Health Professionals Program for Nurses and Lady Health Visitors.
Representatives of McMaster University School of Nursing and the Aga Khan University School of Nursing worked collaboratively with representatives of the federal and provincial governments in Pakistan and nursing leaders to design one the most influential health human resource development project ever conceived.
Much larger and more complex than earlier projects, it strengthen clinical services and educational institutions.
The project lead to an increased number of health personnel and its impact was felt not -- only in the cities of Islamabad and Karachi -- but in remote tribal regions such as Gilgit in Hindu Kush.
Nurses and Lady Health Visitors drove down the treacherous Indus valley roads to receive advanced education, and returned to their villages with their new knowledge to practice more effective primary health care.
These were only some of the initiatives that were a great source of pride to Canada and Pakistan.
When the program finished in August 2002, we were proud indeed that the new dean of the AKU School of Nursing, Dr. Yasmin Amarsi, was a McMaster alumna for both her Bachelor of Science in Nursing and her PhD degrees.
Overall, the joint Aga Khan-McMaster program has been effective, coherent and accountable. It has strengthened Pakistan's ability to develop sustainable conditions and increased capacity for better health care and a better health care system. It is, simply, contributing to a better quality of life.
Of course, the benefits of this partnership are found not just in Pakistan. McMaster has relished the opportunity and the avenue for us to enhance our global profile and engage the developing world in the important work that flows from our campus here in Canada. We have been able to build on our experience working with Aga Khan University to enhance opportunities for higher education for women in places like Haiti, South Africa and the United Arab Emirates.
McMaster has also been able to enrich our faculty and students with valuable international contacts and experience, thus creating the type of learning environment we value most here – one that is global, informed, engaged and dynamic.
Now, as we prepare for the second generation of our partnership, we anticipate that it will expand the benefits and network of our collaboration to many more countries.
We have long recognized that if we want – if we need – to educate and maintain adequate workforces in health and health care, we need strong nurses and a strong nursing workforce, especially in developing nations.
The Memorandum of Understanding we sign today will provide the foundation for partnerships in Africa and Asia, in regions where the nursing profession has not been given its due attention. We will assemble experienced nursing leaders to find the solutions to the dramatic need for nursing practice, education and regulation in these areas and we will have an important and lasting influence. I know this will happen because I have seen it before; I have watched exactly this type of impact unfold for the past twenty-five years.
His Highness is the author of a book called Where Hope Takes Root. Under the force of his vision and leadership, that description – where hopes takes root – applies to an ever-expanding number of places.
Hope has put down solid roots in the partnership between Aga Khan University and McMaster University. Hope has taken root in that collaboration and for a quarter century wonderful things have grown on the strength of that foundation. I look forward to the next twenty-five years and the continued growth of hope here and around the world.
Thank you.


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Two-Time Ivy And NCAA Champion
NEW HAVEN, Conn. – Caroline Nash, who has been a part of two NCAA champion varsity eights, will serve as the captain of the 2010-11 Yale women's crew. Nash, a Darien, Conn., native, has sat in the varsity eight in each of her first three years with the Bulldogs. She was elected following a team vote earlier this spring.
"Being elected by my teammates is an incredible honor and responsibility, and I'm looking forward to taking on this role next year," Nash said. "Our team's motto has always been `with each other, for each other' and to lead by that means committing completely, without hesitation, to the team, for the team."
Nash sat in the No. 4 seat of the varsity eight that captured the NCAA title this spring and also was in the winning NCAA boat in her freshman year. In addition, she has helped the Bulldogs to back-to-back Eastern Sprints and Ivy League championships.
"Caroline is as experienced a captain as we have ever had," said Yale head coach Will Porter. "She has rowed in our varsity eight for the past three years and has won a lot of big races. She will need to draw upon her experience to lead a very young and talented team next year."
Nash hopes to use what she learned from the previous captains during her tenure at Yale, including Taylor Ritzel, who served in 2009-10.
"I was lucky enough to come into this program at an incredible point in its history," Nash said. "The successes we have found as a team these past years are the result of tireless work by an astounding group of women. The three captains I've rowed under each contributed to that legacy in a very different way, and I've learned a lot from each of their styles of leadership. Taylor was a great captain this past year, leading our team by example. She demonstrated a high level of commitment to her teammates and the sport. She, and the rest of our senior class this year, has left us with a powerful legacy on which to build next year."
In addition to the naming of the captain, the team award winners were also announced. Ritzel was the recipient of the Jenny Kiesling Award. The Nat Case Award was presented to Katherine Adams. Tess Gerrand received the Anne Warner Award and Eliza Hastings won the Chris Ernst Award.
Photo of Caroline Nash by Bob Solorio
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Atheism is a rejection in the belief of deities. In the real world, that is easy enough to understand. There are many religions practiced on Earth, and most of them (if not all) worship at least one deity. This could be a god or goddess that is associated with a certain characteristic or trait, or it could be a creator, one divine being that shaped everything that is everything from nothing. Whatever your beliefs are, atheism is simply a rejection that any of that happened or exists.
But what happens when we push reality into fiction and bring this thought into the game world that we all log in to? Can atheism really exist in Azeroth? We know that there are gods and goddesses that have roles in WoW. A few of them have even been seen in game, like Hakkar or Yogg-Saron. But there are many that have yet to make an appearance, like Elune or the other Old Gods that we've yet to uncover.
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But are they really gods? They might simply be incredibly powerful beings that the mortals of Azeroth have dubbed to be gods and worship as such. It's hard to relate this thought to our reality, because we don't live in a magical world where people can conjure food from thin air or call down a thunderstorm on command every 45 seconds. That's where the suspension of disbelief comes into play.
We might not have visible gods that can be proven in our world, but in Azeroth, there are quite clearly powerful beings that are divine or unholy or whatever. From a roleplaying standpoint, it seems nearly impossible to play a character that doesn't believe in a god. That character doesn't have to worship a god, but to deny that any one exists is ignorance.
There were Titans in Azeroth. They created many things. There is evidence of them. Likewise, there are Old Gods as well. They delight in chaos. We've killed two of them. There are demons, there are angels, and there are many things that you cannot deny exist in Azeroth.
What do you think? Can there be a legitimate form of atheism in WoW?
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Feb. 28, 2013
GREENSBORO, N.C. - Senior Harriet Tibble was named the ACC's Scholar Athlete of the Year in field hockey for the second straight year, the league announced Thursday. Tibble is joined on the ACC All-Academic Team by teammates Megan Frazer, Katie Gerzabek, Janessa Pope and Sarah Sprink.
A marketing major, Tibble is the 13th ACC student-athlete across all sports to be named Scholar-Athlete of the Year for consecutive seasons. This is the third time on the All-ACC Academic team for the native of Surrey, England.
"Harriet is simply an exceptional student and a world-class hockey player," head coach Missy Meharg said. "Her quiet and humble nature makes this type of recognition extraordinary. ACC field hockey women are unquestionably some of the nation's most gifted student-athletes."
"Here at Maryland, we really put importance on our academics and at being successful in all areas of life. These five women live that day in and day out and we are thrilled for them."
Tibble was named to the NFHCA All-American Second Team and has been on the All-ACC squad the past three years. She played in the NCAA semifinals all four years of her career, and won two national titles.
Frazer was named to the league's academic honor team for the fourth time in her career. Pope was selected for the third time.
The ACC Scholar-Athlete of the Year awards were established in September 2007 to be awarded annually to the top junior or senior student-athlete in their respective sports. Candidates for the awards must have maintained a 3.0 grade point average for their career as well as a 3.0 for each of the last two semesters.
To be eligible for consideration, a student-athlete must have earned a 3.00 grade point average for the previous semester and maintained a 3.00 cumulative average during her academic career.


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Hitting New Lows
In a good way that is... I've broken a barrier in my weight loss (by re-losing any that I had gained over the holidays and the illnesses that came with them) and now my weight is lower than it was at the end of my last weight loss run. When I talk like this, I sure sound like a gatherer, but my explorer-ness is not in question.
I saw a picture of myself in 1995. I had forgotten how quickly I had gained weight after mono in 1994, but I saw it in he picture. Mono, which effects the liver, is bad news, particularly for explorers, who are challenged to begin with as far as liver function and detoxification go. The path to weight gain in explorers is tied to sluggish detoxification abilities. I lost most of my ability to digest fats at that time, and started eating a low fat diet out of necessity. This was years before I knew anything of BTD or the dangers of wheat, so there was plenty of that in my diet. I know a few other people, most of them I suspect are explorers, who started a slide into weight gain and poor health in the years after having mono. For me, my Gilbert's syndrome also manifested itself in that time, with two bouts of jaundice. Luckily most of that is over now, although I still suspect mono for starting the autoimmune reactions in my gut (celiac) and thyroid (hashimoto's). The explorer's reactive immune system is another reason mono and similar infections can be bad news.
Explorers, take care of your livers.
I've been good on the diet, if you didn't guess by my weight loss. When I put in the work, I get the rewards, and I am incredibly grateful for that. (Sometimes I complain at the amount of work it is, at how hard it is for me compared to others, but then I kick a punching bag's into the corner of the TKD studio and feel better about my situation). I am going to get a black belt... just to know for myself that I am tough and can do anything. Even if I get thrown down on the ground a few times, I am going to do it. A year from now I may need to take a break, as I have a year to lose the weight and prove that I'm healthy enough, then I may decide to have another baby.
That is a monumental decision, and it would be easier to decide otherwise, it is such a monumental sacrifice that basically eats up three years of my life in the pregnancy/baby years, but I have a lot to offer a child. I have a stable home and family, which so many kids don't get these days, and I want to make room for one more. I admit that not all the genes I pass to them seem optimal, but with knowledge, they grow up strong.
Speaking of those bum genes, I'm having to use my knowledge a bit more on my oldest son. The milk and egg allergies that he was supposed to outgrow have actually gotten much worse, in the severe range. I've been letting him eat anything that doesn't make him sick, because he needs calories, but his immune system needs a little more individualized care. It is hard to carry an epi-pen for him, even though I'm pretty sure he'll never need it, I hate to think of the possibility. I have a constant regret for eating milk and eggs and a bit of gluten during pregnancy, which I now know are not optimal for me, and they certainly weren't optimal for him. I'm questioning if he could be a teacher, as I suspected he is, with all those allergies, I need to finally coax him into spitting into the tube for a secretor test. I made him a smoothie last night because he wanted a Costco Berry Smoothie, and for once the one I made was better than the one he wanted. That was good, because I also snuck in some bromelain and quercetin into the mix, and he loved it so much that he drank the whole thing.


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WatchGuard Technologies is bolstering its deal registration program, streamlining the process and adding a 20 percent discount to help fuel sales of its XTM 525 series Unified Threat Management appliances.
The Seattle-based firm's new channel chief, Alex Thurber, a longtime channel veteran, said he wants to help partners see through deals without being worried about being stepped on by competitors. To get more partners using the deal registration program, Thurber announced an increase in margins from 5 to 20 points.
"Our partners are investing time and we recognize that there are a lot of costs on the line," Thurber told CRN. "We're investing more into the partners that have invested most in us with this program enhancement."
[Related: 9 Unified Threat Management Security Appliances To Watch In 2013]
Thurber said he also is working on simplifying the deal registration process. Partners still need to provide proof that an official net new deal is in place. But subtle adjustments make it easier to register net new deals, he said. WatchGuard also has made adjustments in Salesforce.com to provide partners with increased visibility into registered opportunities so the inside team and the sales team can work closely together, Thurber said.
The additional margins have been approved through the end of the year. The firm also is readying additional promotions around its wireless technology. Thurber said wireless security has a huge potential for growth, and channel partners can benefit because the WatchGuard technology is managed by the same management console that leverages the XTM appliance line.
Businesses are increasingly in tune with the threat landscape as cybersecurity incidents get more attention in the news, said Richard Galganov, CIO at Dallas-based HBR Technologies, a WatchGuard partner. Galganov said he is seeing traction with WatchGuard's wireless access points, because they are easy to deploy, integrate easily and solve an important problem.
"Businesses see a proliferation of handheld devices walking around, and they recognize that they need to tighten down their environments now," Galganov said.
WatchGuard competes in a crowded UTM space with Barracuda Networks, Check Point, Cisco Systems, Cyberoam Technologies, Dell-SonicWall, Fortinet, Juniper Networks and Sophos. UTM appliances typically provide firewall, antivirus, content and email filtering, intrusion prevention and application control. According to analysis by Frost & Sullivan, Fortinet, Check Point and Dell-SonicWall hold a nearly 49 percent market share.
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Reno, NV - A good crowd is building inside the Brewer's Cabinet. Only about four months old, it is the latest bar three childhood friends have opened up in Reno. It's a dream come true for Michael Connolly, Chris Kahl, and Zachary Cage.
But it wasn't easy getting financing from banks for their first bar. Michael Connolly says he needed to rely on family for help when he bought Legends Grill, Sports and Spirits. That's what inspired the guys to start the Reno Rebuild Project. They wanted to lend a hand to someone else who wants to build a business in the area.
"There aren't a lot of people that have those resources that we had. And can't go to the bank and want to have a small business and have a cool idea and this might be a way to get them going," says Michael Connolly.
Since the project started a year ago, a nickel from every sale at their four bars has gone into the Reno Rebuild Fund. Connolly says they've raised about $20,000. He says it's been a community effort.
"That's the coolest part about it," says Connolly. "We're not actually donating the money. The community, when they buy a product, five cents goes into the fund and so everyone's a part of it."
The project is now accepting applications from anyone with a good business plan. Its founders are working on assembling a committee of business owners to help choose the winner. The proposed business doesn't have to be a bar or restaurant, just a great idea that could add something to this area these business partners call home.
"We're just doing this because we love this area," says Chris Kahl, a business partner and co-founder of the Reno Rebuild Project. "We're all from here and we want to try and help people, help stimulate the economy, and start new businesses in the Reno Sparks area.
"Twenty-thousand isn't a lot of money," says Connolly, "but it's going to get someone going."
Whoever gets chosen as the winner will get a low-interest loan. As part of that deal, that person will have to pay it forward. Basically, when they pay that loan back, the money will go into the fund for the next winner.
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The Beaufort County School District's transportation provider denied union accusations Tuesday that it walked out of contract negotiations, calling the Teamsters Local 509 "unreasonable" after it reportedly rejected another counterproposal offering a larger pay bump.
Hours after L.D. Fletcher, president of the local union, told the Charleston Post and Courier that Durham School Services left contract talks, the company released a statement accusing the union that represents about half of the 190 drivers and monitors in Beaufort County of harboring "unreasonable demands."
"In our negotiations session yesterday, we increased our offer but following further discussions this morning, remain unable to meet the unreasonable demands of the union," said spokesperson Carina Noble in a written statement. "While the union rejected our offer of mediation made earlier in negotiations, we stand ready to continue discussions, whether through continued negotiations or mediation, should they decide to adjust their demands."
She did not return phone calls for further comment, nor did the union.
A Durham counteroffer detailed last week included a $.50 raise in starting pay to $12 an hour and a $.45 increase in average pay to $15.01 an hour. John Elliott, chairman emeritus of the company, said the union wants a 10-percent increase amounting to $1.15 more an hour.
The Teamsters Local 509 represents about 620 drivers employed by Durham in Charleston, Summerville and Beaufort counties.
All three counties have authorized strikes if negotiations break down, but Fletcher reportedly told the Post and Courier that the union won't call one Tuesday.
Beaufort County district spokesman Jim Foster said Fletcher met in person with acting superintendent Jackie Rosswurm and other top officials Tuesday to downplay talks of an imminent strike.
"They're concerned that the impression left from news reports was that a strike was imminent, and they came to assure us they did not call one and they do not want to call one," he said.
Foster said Fletcher expressed a willingness to continue negotiations but offered nothing specific about how to do so when the two sides remain at an apparent impasse.
While Durham has admitted service wouldn't be up to normal levels in the immediate aftermath of a strike, Beaufort County insists school closures won't happen, citing measures such as doubling or amending routes. Durham's contingency plans call for bringing in replacement drivers.


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Oh yeah, and if Mayock denies this, as he likes to say, "just play the tape" from both days.
I have always been a huge fan of Mike Mayock. I still respect his ability and knowledge and I think he is the best out there. Having said that, all he did was praise Geno Smith the whole first day, first round and the very minute the Jets drafted him he did an about face and started to trash Geno. Because Geno did not go the first day the NFL network had footage ready to roll the second day of the draft of Geno's worst throws of the year. I'm not sure what the agenda was for Mike or the network but it was so obvious that my wife who doesn't give a s***, was asking me right at the time saying" that was the guy who was talking and saying good things about Geno yesterday" why's he and that other guy "Eisen" saying all that bad stuff about the Jets. I had to turn it to ESPN for the whole rest of the draft. Anybody else drafts Geno and Mayock would have stuck to his guns. So obvious, it's way beyond unprofessional.....
Oh yeah, and if Mayock denies this, as he likes to say, "just play the tape" from both days.
Noticed the same thing too. Very odd...not cause of the flip flopping that happens all the time from the talking heads. But I can't understand the agenda for it, other than the old bad news is better news for the media. This plays up to the "Jets Circus, QB Drama Angle" If all agree that Geno was the right pick and Sanchez and Tebow are both done, then no ones going to care about the story. But if they keep saying "OMG the JETS have 3 QBs that NO ONE wants!" It makes for a better media story.
With that said, the people that love the circus angle always seemed to not mention David Garrard at all. They just kept saying "well if geno is not ready you're stuck with sanchez and tebow still"
Whereas the people who loved the geno picked all mentioned "it makes sense because you have david garrard to mentor him."
that other guy "Eisen" is a Jets fan...But he went way overboard on all the Geno, Te'o, Mathieu talk...
Mayock had been talking about for months how Geno is inconsistent. Sometimes he looks like a can't miss franchise QB and other times he makes you pull your hair out. That has pretty much been his opinion throughout. I watched all the coverage and did not notice anything wrong. He also gave great opinions on Sanchez and how he is tired of hearing about his feelings and what he might be thinking. Mayock basically went on to compliment Idzik for treating his QB how he would treat any other position and not like a "sacred cow".
Eisen is a Jets fan. He let his emotions show a little.
I know, IMHO it was the black eye on the NFL network crew for the draft weekend. Everything was positive but this.
Well at least over at the 4 letter, Trent Dilfer was complimentary on Geno. He said he has "sudden eyes" and a "sudden arm" which allows you to react in tight spaces while being pressured, something you must have in the nfl.
Mayock is a very good talent evaluator, but He occasionally suffers from the same disease that Francesa has had for years....He thinks he is bigger than the moment. Simple as that.
someone should splice the footage and put in on youtube if it was that bad
Mel Kiper and ESPN schooled Maycock and Eisen this weekend, I'm saying this and I hate ESPN.
I was out to dinner with my girlfriend when we drafted geno. Needless to say I was glued to the TV where we were and when we drafted geno she said "wow they really hate the jets, the other picks all get highlights and the jets pick got lowlights!"
Media uses the jets as a punchline because of all the stupid moves by Tanny, they don't care that we have a new gm that's respected in NFL circles.
As I understand it Mayock had Smith at #6 in his final mock
But at 39 he was an inaccurate bum
He did the same thing with Milliner...top 3 pick on everyone's board. ..what do Eisen and the three stooges show..clips of him dropping balls at the combine.
Embarrassing performanceby NFLN
drove me back to the sports leader too
Every single person on these forums and any other jets fan that watches the team with the exception of perhaps sar knew that sanchez was done here.


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The Hood River Valley girls golf team is coming off a state tournament appearance. The current members would like someone to share the experience with.
The Eagles currently have four players - all of whom return from last year's team. They could use a fifth or a sixth.
At district and state teams use five players and score the four best. For now the Eagle's fearsome foursome is going to try and make it two straight state appearances without any margin for error.
"If we could get a couple more girls it would be really helpful," said Tori Grace, the team's lone senior. The team's other three members - Korey Cimock, Alicia Hay and Gabrielle Whitehead - are all sophomores.
"If they play like they can I think they've got a reasonable chance at getting to state," said HRV coach Dave Waller.
After getting by on raw talent last year, Waller is working on refining the game of some of the younger members this year. That means more time out on the course for practice rounds and more education about the rules of the game and course rules.
Memorizing the Indian Creek rule book should come in handy, for starters. The Eagles will host the league tournament in May, with all of their state chances riding on it. In the Columbia River Conference, no finishes matter other than the league tournament, so the Eagle figure to have a built in advantage with the tournament taking place on their own home course.
"That will help," said Grace. "By the time district rolls around we will have the ins and outs down pretty well."
The state spot came as a bit of a shock to a team which composed largely of freshmen last year. However, after the learning experience that the state tournament provided last year, Waller thinks his team has already shown improvement.
"We were surprised to get second last year," he said of the team's finish at the league tournament. "I think we'll play better this year than last; we just don't know what to expect from the other teams."
On another part of Indian Creek, the Hood River Valley boys team does not know quite what to expect from itself yet. The Eagles lost their lone state qualifier from last year, Hunter Daley, to graduation.
Returning varsity players Torey Schmidt and Justin Aleckson will lead the way for an Eagle team which faced just the reverse problem from the Eagle girls.
Budget cuts forced the elimination of the JV program, and the team has a van, which can seat five team members, for away tournaments.
That means players will essentially be competing for one of five spots in the van on the varsity team. With the competition at the lower levels, and some experience at the top, HRV coach Matt Kyriax likes the Eagles' odds to be represented at state.
"I think we can get at least one guy in," he said.
With the district tournament being the only scoring that matters, the Eagles are playing a reduced schedule, devoting more time to preparing and getting to know each other during practice rounds.
"We'll have plenty of time to practice," Kyriax said. "We've got a good group of guys this year."
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Brooklyn Bridge TrafficNovember 19, 2008 – 8:24 pm | by Benjamin Watt
Brooklyn Bridge Traffic
Back in July, I paid a visit to the USA, starting here in New York. This is one of many photos I took on this trip, whilst walking from Brooklyn back to Manhattan over the Brooklyn Bridge. It was an extremely hot day, but I was able to focus long enough to get this shot.


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Rolling with Ruby on Rails, Part 2
Pages: 1, 2, 3
Showing recipes in a category
The final task is to add the ability to display only those recipes in a particular category. I'll take the category displayed with each recipe on the main page and turn it into a link that will display only the recipes in that category.
To do this, I'll change the recipe list view template to accept a URL
parameter that specifies what category to display, or all categories if the
user has omitted the parameter. First, I need to change the
action method to retrieve this parameter for use by the view template.
Edit c:\rails\cookbook\app\controllers\recipe_controller.rb and
modify the
list method to look like this:
def list
@category = @params['category']
@recipes = Recipe.find_all
Then edit c:\rails\cookbook\app\views\recipe\list.rhtml to look like this:

Recipe

Category

Date
<% @recipes.each do |recipe| %>
<% if (@category == nil) || (@category == recipe.category.name)%>
<%= link_to recipe.title,
:action => "show",
:id => recipe.id %>

<%= link_to "(delete)",
{:action => "delete", :id => recipe.id},
:confirm => "Really delete #{recipe.title}?" %>
<%= link_to recipe.category.name,
:action => "list",
:category => "#{recipe.category.name}" %>
<%= recipe.date %>
<% end %>
<% end %>
There are two changes in here that do all the work. First, this line:
<% if (@category == nil) || (@category == recipe.category.name)%>
decides whether to display the current recipe in the loop. If the category
nil (there was no category parameter on the URL), or if the
category from the URL parameter matches the current recipe's category, it
displays that recipe.
Second, this line:
<%= link_to recipe.category.name,
:action => "list",
:category => "#{recipe.category.name}" %>
creates a link back to the list action that includes the proper category parameter.
Browse to
and click on one of the Snacks links. It should look like Figure 11.
Figure 11. Showing only snacks
What is it? How long did it take?
That's it! This is a reasonably functional online cookbook application developed in record time. It's a functional skeleton just begging for polish.
Wading through all of the words and screenshots in this article may have obscured (at least somewhat) exactly what this code can do and in what amount of developer time. Let me present some statistics to try to put it all into perspective.
Fortunately, Rails has some built-in facilities to help answer these questions. Open up a command window in the cookbook directory (c:\rails\cookbook) and run the command:
rake stats
Your results should be similar to Figure 12. Note that LOC means "lines of code."
Figure 12. Viewing development statistics
I won't give a detailed description of each number produced, but the last line has the main figure I want to point out:
Code LOC: 47
This says that the actual number of lines of code in this application (not counting comments or test code) is 47. It took me about 30 minutes to create this application! I could not have come even close to this level of productivity in any other web app development framework that I have used.
Maybe you're thinking that this is an isolated experience using an admittedly trivial example. Maybe you're thinking that this might be OK for small stuff, but it could never scale. If you harbor any such doubts, the next section should lay those to rest.
Ruby on Rails Success Stories
Rails is a relatively young framework. As of this writing, it's been barely six months since the first public release. Yet it debuted with such a stunning feature set and solid stability that a vibrant developer community quickly sprang up around it. Within this time frame, several production web applications have been deployed that were built with Ruby on Rails.
From the site itself:
Basecamp is a web-based tool that lets you manage projects (or simply ideas) and quickly create client/project extranets. It lets you and your clients (or just your own internal team) keep your conversations, ideas, schedules, to-do lists, and more in a password-protected central location.
Basecamp was the first commercial web site powered by Ruby on Rails. David Heinemeier Hansson, the author of Rails, developed it. At its deployment, it contained 4,000 lines of code with two months of development by a single developer. In fall 2004, Basecamp stated that it had passed the 10,000-user mark. It considers the actual number of registered users to be proprietary information, but the home page currently states that it has "tens of thousands" of users.
43 Things
43 Things is a goal-setting social software web application. It currently has 6,000 registered users and hundreds of thousands of unregistered visitors. 43 Things has 4,500 lines of code that were developed in three months by three full-time developers.
Ta-da Lists
Ta-da Lists is a free online service
that implements simple, sharable to-do lists. It features a highly responsive
user interface that uses
XMLHttpRequest to minimize waiting for
the server. Ta-da Lists came from one developer using one week of development
time producing 579 lines of code.
Snow Devil
Snow Devil is an e-commerce site specializing in snowboards and related equipment. It opened for business only recently, so there is no usage information available at this time. However, it comprises 6,000 lines of code created by two developers in four months.
CD Baby Rewrite
CD Baby is a very successful e-tailer of independent music. In business since 1998, it lists 82,443 artists that together have sold 1.2 million CDs, paying $12 million back into the artists' pockets.
The CD Baby web site previously involved an increasingly unmanageable 90,000 lines of PHP code. Its authors are in the process of rewriting it in Ruby on Rails. It's too early to find any development information, but the owner of CD Baby is publicly blogging about the process and progress of the conversion.
What does this all mean?
When all is said and done, good design will be more important than the framework in determining how your application performs. Think carefully about your database design and how its tables are indexed. Analyze your data access patterns and consider some strategic denormalization of data. Look for opportunities to cache preprocessed data.
Rails has a lot of powerful features to make it easy to prototype and develop applications quickly, which will leave you with more time to think about your application's features and how to tune it for performance.
A Smattering of Ruby on Rails' Features
Rails has many features that I have not used in this two-part article. I'd like to mention a few of them (with links to more information) to give you a more rounded view of the Rails toolkit.
Caching is cheap way to speed up your application by saving the results of previous processing (calculations, renderings, database calls, and so on) so as to skip the processing entirely next time. Rails provide three types of caching, in varying levels of granularity:
- page caching
- action caching
- fragment caching
Validation and callbacks
To make sure your data is correct and complete before writing it to the
database, you must validate it. Rails has a simple mechanism that allows your
web application to validate a data object's data before the object updates or
creates the appropriate fields in the database. Read the validation how-to or go straight to the validation
API documentation.
ActiveRecord callbacks are hooks into the life cycle of a data object that can trigger logic before or after an operation that alters the state of the data object.
ActiveRecord also supports transactions. Quoted straight from the documentation:
Transactions are protective blocks where SQL statements are only permanent if they can all succeed as one atomic action. The classic example is a transfer between two accounts where you can only have a deposit if the withdrawal succeeded and vice versa. Transaction enforce the integrity of the database and guards the data against program errors or database break-downs. So basically you should use transaction blocks whenever you have a number of statements that must be executed together or not at all.
For example, consider the code:
transaction do
Rails was built with testing in mind and provides support for testing your web application. An extensive online tutorial shows how to test a Rails web application.
Generators are the helper scripts that you can use to generate code for your application. You have already used generators to create new controllers and models, and at the beginning of this article I showed you how to use a new generator to create scaffolding.
Rails also supports user-created add-on generators. For example, Tobias Luetke has written a Login Generator that creates all the code for easily adding authentication, users, and logins to your Rails app.
Related Reading
Programming Ruby
By now, everyone should know the importance of good security in web applications. The Ruby on Rails web site has an online security manual that describes common security problems in web applications and how to avoid them with Rails.
Parting Thoughts
Rails is not your run-of-the-mill, proof-of-concept web framework. It is the next level in web programming, and the developers who use it will make web applications faster than those who don't; single developers can be as productive as whole teams. Best of all, it's available right now, under an MIT license.
I believe that there hasn't been an improvement in productivity like this in recent programming history.
Editor's note: Want more Ruby on Rails? See Ajax on Rails.
Web sites
- Official Ruby home page
- Official Ruby on Rails home page
- The best way to learn Ruby: read the free book Programming Ruby
- Primary home for open source Ruby projects: RubyForge
- Ruby on Rails open source projects
- Ruby on Rails how-tos
- Four Days on Rails, an excellent next-steps guide to use after "Rolling with Ruby on Rails."
Mailing lists
Curt Hibbs has been a consultant to well-known companies like Hewlett Packard, Intuit, Corel, WordStar, Charles Schwab, Vivendi Universal, and more. He now works as a Senior Software Engineer for The Boeing Company in St. Louis.
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Projects that are eligible for TIGER Discretionary Grants under the Recovery Act (Eligible Projects) include, but are not limited to:
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jck - Aug 21, 2017 4:12 amShit...
Tried Pik Lenin in July 2017, 3 weeks in the mountains, four nights in C3 at 6100 m, got only to the Knife, around 6700. Maybe next time.
saulius - Jun 10, 2016 2:47 pm Date Climbed: Aug 13, 2007Route climbed: Normal
Cold climb on a clear day. I spent 2 hours on the summit.
astrobassman - Sep 13, 2015 9:45 amNot Quite
Was not strong enough to overcome a poor acclimating plan and only made it to around 6800m. 2 of 6 of my friends topped out that day, and a third did a few days later. Kyrgyzstan and the Pamir was one of my favorite places I have been and I do hope to get back someday.
JuhoK - Aug 16, 2015 7:38 am Date Climbed: Jul 15, 2015Normal route. Solo.
One of the first summits this year.
endo.the.timber - Aug 8, 2015 4:10 am Date Climbed: Jul 27, 2015normal route
bad weather in July this year, not many summits. Used Ak-Sai for logistics. Made 3 load carries from BC-C1.
yuval - Aug 30, 2014 4:41 pm Date Climbed: Aug 26, 20137134 [m]
Long climb, had good luck with the weather near the summit.
I enjoyed the mountain , Pamir and Kyrgyzstan very much!
andre hangaard - Dec 30, 2013 9:44 amThree weeks on Lenin
Me and my partner Johan Dahlström (SWE) spent three weeks on Pik Lenin between 1-21 August 2014. During the first two weeks the weather was ok but in the end it unfortunately became worse. The winds increased and so did the snow.
After a load carry to C3 (6200m) we had to return to ABC. On August 15th the weather improved slightly just after a snow storm and we pushed to C3. We spent three nigths at C3 with a summit bid on the 18th where we were forced to abort the climb at around 6400m. We made the summit bid together with Rumen Radev (BGR).
Despite no summit we had three great weeks in the Pamir mountains. We used the transport and base camp service of Ak-Sai Travel. The people we came across were all very nice and friendly. What an exciting region! I do hope to get back one day.
kevin trieu - Aug 20, 2013 11:53 am Date Climbed: Jul 18, 2013Cold!
Made the summit from camp 2.5 at about 5,800m on a bitterly cold day after almost three weeks on the mountain. One of the less dramatic summits I've been on.
fubar7500 - Aug 12, 2013 7:02 am Date Climbed: Aug 6, 2013Normal route
At all, great weeks in Pamir.
Summiting via normal route from C4 (6400) with 2 friends
(after 5 days waiting for better weather). While descending to C2, we had to escort german mountainer with high-altitude sickness.
Bill562 - Aug 1, 2013 7:46 pm Date Climbed: Jul 26, 2013Razdelnaya
With partner Mike Y from the 6200 m camp along with Kazach, Tajik and Austrian teams. All have been waiting for the right weather window. The forecast didn't disappoint.
Thanks to Andrey from Almaty for making the climb look easy on summit day. Thankfully I didn't know at the time that he is a Snow Leopard and has a few 8K peaks on his resume :-)
jasperreed - Jul 22, 2013 10:55 am Date Climbed: Jul 13, 2013Summit!
Fairly straightforward climb, bit windy on the summit ridge. Lots of crevasses both hidden and obvious from camp 1 to camp 2, with one opening up right in the middle of camp 2. In 8 days we had two days of suitable summit/high climbing weather and were able to use this window and a shitty day before to make the summit push. A lot of snow and hard work breaking an early season trail but on the way down it was a well compacted and flagged highway with at least 50 climbers moving up from camp 1 over two days. Easy to do independently, my partner and I got permits in Osh in two days from Osh guesthouse and transport to BC and back organised off the cuff for 50 bucks each way. Lots of independent and solo climbers to hook up with for the crevasse section too. Nice climb!
Rusnborg - Jan 12, 2013 4:17 am Date Climbed: Aug 11, 2012normal route
I am with clients summited 13.30 - 11 august 2012. Start from camp 3, 6100m 4.00 a.m. Come back 8.00 p.m. All day the weather is not good - windy and cloudy, in the evening blizard.
matous - Jan 8, 2013 6:12 am Date Climbed: Aug 3, 2012normal route
used no porters or guides. deep snows and strong winds... quite challenging compared to for example Aconcagua... pushed our luck and summited 15:00
IvanBraunDK - Oct 16, 2012 2:55 pm Date Climbed: Aug 8, 2012Summited after 3 days of storm in Camp 4
We summited after riding off a storm at Camp 4 at 6400m
They say its the easiest 7000m - well there isn't much easy at 7000m :)
A long tiring route without the biggest objective dangers
LeslieH - Aug 30, 2010 4:32 pm Date Climbed: Jul 30, 2008weather/glacier
My first potential summit attempt was wasted because of a weather phenomenon wich seems to be peculiar to the mountain: In the second half of the night started ferocious wind blowing from the S above 6000m, but it stopped in the late morning hours. Next day repeated everything but this time I ignored the morning wind and summitted successful. This fenomenon was confirmed by others climbed in other years. It seems to be usual that an unfriendly cold and windy morning may followed by a suitable summit day.
Glacier: crevasse problems may escalate (signs of climate change?) There were crevasses on the slope over C2 as well and Camp2 self had to move to the scree slope because of a huge crevasse wich opened directly below the camp while we had been in C3.
bluescrummachine - Aug 20, 2008 3:34 am Date Climbed: Aug 9, 2008Route: Normal
Started very late (around 6:30 a.m. from C3) and reached about 7050 m before turning around :-(( at about 3:30 p.m., which was set as 'turn-around-time'. Started with perfect conditions - clear blue sky, not too cold and only little wind. In the afternoon weather started to deteriorate, but reached C3 without problems. Probably the best summit day for the next days.
Olaf - Sep 28, 2007 6:12 amRoute: Normal
Although we had nice weather overall, a rescue and heavy snowfall caused our summit attempt to fail. Serious avalange danger to climb further than the saddle in front of Peak Razdelnaya at 5800 mtr. Highest point we reached was Peak Razdelnaya during acclimatization.
Although no summit it was a great experience and made me hungry for the next trip!
Fabrice.Rimlinger - Aug 31, 2007 11:19 am Date Climbed: Aug 14, 2007Razdelnaya
No summit this time !
Heavy snow during the 3 previous days stopped our summit bid.
Waiting in the overheated tent for days was however the hardest thing to deal with... I´ll know for next time.
So much climbing potential in Kyrgyzstan and really cool people.
saulius - Aug 26, 2007 1:08 pm Date Climbed: Aug 13, 2007Route Climbed: Normal / Razdelnaya
Despite the symbolic date and a two-day snowfall beforehand we managed to reach the top. Some of us had cold feet and had to do occasional breaks to warm ourselves, but fortunately, there was almost no wind on the ridge that day. Overall, the season of 2007 is notorious for changing weather and strong winds.
I totally agree with Corax that double boots is a must for the peak (it's not only cold but the altitude that makes your toes freeze). I had problems with my overconfidence and Scarpa Cumbre above 6000 m.
I would also recommend taking an ice axe to the summit - you will feel a lot more comfortable with it on the Knife (although poles might also work fine IF you promise yourself not to slip).
missadventure - Feb 23, 2007 2:50 pmRoute: Normal Route
Climbed as an independent group with one partner. Used Asia Mountains for logistics. They did a great job of setting up transport and feeding us properly at camp 1 and 2. Also set up a great tour of Uzbekistan.
Didn't make the summit. Was there a bit too early in the climbing season and got turned back by weather. Spent 5 days in a storm at camp 3 - several tents were blown down! Be careful about stashing gear here and collapse your tent if you are going to leave it behind!!
Make sure you leave time in your trip to see the beautiful country of Kyrgystan :)


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LEWISBURG, Pa. — Two Bucknell University biomedical engineering professors have been honored by the Biomedical Engineering Division (BED) of the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE).
Dan Cavanagh, the chair of biomedical engineering and an associate professor of biomedical and chemical engineering, received the Theo Pilkington Outstanding Educator Award. Joe Tranquillo, an assistant professor of biomedical and electrical engineering, received the Biomedical Engineering Teaching Award.
To be considered for the awards, Cavanagh and Tranquillo were nominated by their peers with letters of support from former students and colleagues at other universities. The awards will be presented at the 2010 ASEE meeting in June in Louisville, Ky.
Dan Cavanagh
The Theo Pilkington Outstanding Educator Award recognizes significant contributions to biomedical engineering education as evidenced by the development of successful undergraduate or graduate level programs, curricula, publications as well as by membership and activities in ASEE/BED and other biomedical engineering organizations.
"Since arriving at Bucknell in 1999, Professor Cavanagh has worked diligently to both build a BME department at Bucknell and contribute to biomedical engineering education," the citation says. "At Bucknell, he has developed a new department that emphasizes a strong, hands-on education utilizing novel instructional methods.
"In the BME community, Professor Cavanagh has served in various capacities including a six-year member of BME Council of Chairs executive board and chair of the BED. His numerous contributions to BME education include effective leadership in BME education focused organizations, authorship on 17 education conference papers, and efforts in coordinating educational sessions at national meetings."
Cavanagh holds his degrees from Northwestern University. He received the Lindback Award for Distinguished Teaching from Bucknell in 2006. He was appointed to the William C. and Gertrude B. Emmitt Memorial Chair in Biomedical Engineering in 2002 and reappointed in 2007. || Faculty profile
Joe Tranquillo
The Biomedical Engineering Teaching Award recognizes contributions in the field of biomedical engineering education by new faculty members as evidenced by innovative teaching materials, curricula, textbooks and professional papers and by activity in ASEE/BED and other biomedical engineering organizations. Awardees must have a primary educational role in biomedical engineering, either through a dedicated BME/bioengineering program or through a related engineering program.
"While Dr. Tranquillo's passion for undergraduate education is quite obvious in his dedication to his students at Bucknell, this passion also comes through in his efforts to enhance the biomedical engineering community as a whole," Tranquillo's nomination materials read. "In only four and a half years, Dr. Tranquillo has made significant contributions to the BME education community including nine ASEE peer-reviewed conference papers, nine presentations at meetings including BMES, BME-IDEA and BME Education Summit, and 11 education-related invited presentations."
Since joining the Bucknell faculty in 2005, Tranquillo has created four BME courses, led the development of writing exercises to satisfy Bucknell's writing requirement, and worked with 16 students resulting in two peer-reviewed journal articles with student co-authors, 17 conference presentations and one Bucknell honors thesis. He has taught eight different classes at Bucknell, including an improvisational dance and movement performance class.
Tranquillo, who holds his degrees from Duke University and Trinity College, is the author of the textbook, Quantitative Neurophysiology. || Faculty page
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OMG..shut up Michelle with your "Guy voice".
Networks....please..just put a guy out there...I dont want to hear a tough talking broad. I get that when I'm washing the dishes.
I'm a man.
Thank God the Giants lost.
Only if Rex got the message that this is a passing league and that opens up the run.
Giants Offense was awful. If not for the Romo INT and a mistimed jump by a Safety, Giants wouldn't have sniffed the end zone until garbage time.
Giants might finish in last place in the East. Their secondary is really bad.
0-0 doesn't qualify as an actual record. It's like trying to divide by zero.
Cowboys are probably going to win NFC East however.
Giants aren't making the playoffs. Lightning only strikes every couple of years for them.
Was tough to root for the Cowgirls in this game, but it was against the Gnats... although I have the G's Defense in my FF-League.
Still don't think the C's will make it to the Playoffs.


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