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- 15a/179 Planet St, Carlisle, WA 6101
- 2-5 km from Queens Park
Cafes with Kids Play Areas - Queens Park (6107)
Best match results for cafes with kids play areas in Queens Park + 30km.
Kidz Paradise is one of Perth's longest running indoor play centres, and still one of the best. There are 2 , 4 level high play structures with giant slides, flying foxes, tunnels, rope climbs and more. Plus a bouncy castle, basketball area, glow zone and ball pit for the big kids. The toddler section has a small slide, ball pit, puppet theatre, mini bouncy castle, floor piano, plus books and puzzles. We can cater for groups from 10 to 100 and our hosted birthday parties are some of the best in Perth. ... Read more All staff trained by David the Funnyman with over 20 years entertaining experience. We also have a lovely café with a good selection of food. We are open Mon to fri 9.30 - 1.30 pm weekdays (during the school term) and 9.30 to 5.30 (weekends and school holidays). Please wear socks to play and no outside food or drinks please. Baby food, birthday cakes and lolly bags excepted.
worst playcentre ive ever been to.
30-06-2016 by pam
Ran by children take half anhour to bring out food or they just forget.. the place is never clean and its expensive compared to the decent play centres ive been to..
We refer to it as kidz hell
16-07-2014 by Katie
A bit extreme I know, but we came in summer and the air conditioners weren't working. That's understandable - things stop working from time to time. However, the man working there was constructing oscilating fans in the cafe area. He got up to serve a customer and left several tools and screws, screwdrivers etc on the floor in front of the ice cream fridge (clearly a place that will attract little children). Two kids came up and started playing with the tools so I had to take them off them. The place STUNK, was poorly maintained, staff had a bad attitude, understaffed, expensive... TERRIBLE!
27-05-2014 by Jodie
I went to this centre a few weeks ago and it was just gross. I waited at the door to pay my entry fee for around 15 minutes with a screaming toddler in the pram keen for a play. Once inside the equipment was dirty and held together with tape. I took a look around and figured the standards for the centre were lax and it probably wasn't being cleaned properly. Pair that with snotty, unsupervised kids drooling on toys and I grabbed my little guy and left. Will never go back. Gross.
Just Jump is located at unit 1/637 Wanneroo Road, Wanneroo, Perth and is an Indoor Activity Centre that focuses on physical recreation. Jumping is a low impact movement that increases your health and well being. Jumping is a great way to keep fit and healthy while having a lot of fun! Just Jump caters for ages 3+ and will have a limited number of positions per hour to assist staff in maintaining a safe and enjoyable environment. The main activities on offer at Just Jump are: Free jumping on huge ... Read more trampoline mats, Foam Pit, Fun Inflatable slide, Chill out zone including coffee, Kids Corner and Birthday parties. Bookings are essential as we will only have a limited number of positions per hour. Walk in's will only be able to be accommodated if there are free places.
Best jump centre out!
27-10-2014 by Danielle Richards
Extremely friendly and happy staff. Been there heaps of times now and it would be a crime for me not to leave such a glowing review. Kids are always supervised and the staff and management are nothing but helpful and cheerful. My kids tend to shed a tear when we leave and have even asked if they could live their instead!! Haha. Such a lovely centre, I'll definitely be back, and so will all my friends!
Too expensive!!
18-08-2014 by Sarah
What a joke - paying a full $15 for my 2.5 year old, and then $15 for the supervising adult, and then the socks on top - $34 for one hour of a trampoline, bouncy castle and foam pit? And then being told we couldn't access certain areas during our one hour session due to a party? The most expensive bouncy castle I have ever paid for, teenage unhelpful staff, we won't be back.
Other related businesses in and around Queens Park (within 50km)
WA's first Paint Your Own Pottery studio/cafe. We stock a fantastic selection of unpainted pottery items for you to choose from and all the paints, tools and inspiration you need to create your own personalised work of art or special keepsake. Enjoy discovering your creative ability while you create your own works of art and enjoy a delicious coffee in our well equipped, air conditioned studio/cafe! Create unique mementos and extra special gifts Workshops and inspiration Baby hand and footprint ... Read more keepsakes Birthday parties/hens days/group sessions Baby facilities & secure play area for under 3's School holiday fun Fresh coffee, yummy cakes and cookies Gift vouchers Air-conditioned comfort Fun for all ages Monthly, evening 'paint in peace' sessions and Workshops for grown ups Advance booking recommended!
Aloha Surfhouse offers indoor surfing, yoga and a cafe all under one roof! We love surfing and we want to encourage everyone to have a go! Surf or never-ending wave with real surfboards and with an instructor by your side. Perfect for anyone who's never surfed before but also loads of fun for experienced surfers. Book a single session, a full term program or the ultimate birthday party! The water is warm and being indoors this is the perfect year-round activity! Coffee house serving delicious food ... Read more and drinks on site for spectators - come and check us out even if you're just here to watch!
We are the newest in Soft Play Play Centre and Toy Hire operating from the Joondalup area, Western Australia. We cater for children who are 0 - 5 years of age. If you're looking for something a little different to entertain the kids, why not come on down, you'll love it!!! Little Sweet Play Centre & Party Hire caters for Birthday Parties, Family functions, Christenings, Naming Day, Mothers Groups, Play Groups, Christmas Parties, and any special event to keep those little ones busy, amused ... Read more and having fun. Here at Little Sweet Play Centre & Party Hire we have something for everyone, with a great range of Soft Play and imaginative toys. With a small cafe and menu selection come down and enjoy yourselves, we would love to see you


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And my Seattle/Portland daily recaps continue!
Day 5 T-Shirt of Choice: Make Me A Sandwich by Seibei and Bombs Away by Dale Edwin Murray (Tilteed)
This marked the start of our road trip to neighboring state, Oregon. We began the morning by having breakfast at a little cafe en route to Tacoma, were would switch off with our friends cousin whose car we were borrowing for the trip to Portland. The Shipwreck Cafe is this small stop off of Martin Way in Olympia, Washington. I got the breakfast special, which consisted of chickenfried steak, eggs, hashbrowns and toast. It was better than I expected! Tons of gravy lathered over the chicken steak. Don't pay attention to the calories because the gravy really makes this dish special.
After breakfast we headed straight for our first stop in Portland, the Full Sail Brewery, which is right next to Hood River. Full Sail Brewery is known for their award winning Session brew. The brewery tour lasted about 30 minutes and was quite interesting and informative. They walk you through the entire beer making process and even let you taste the ingrediants that go into brewing beer. At the end of the tour you score a free Full Sail glass!
The food at Full Sail Brewery was OK but the beer was exceptional. I especially loved the Full Sail Session Lager, that is definitely my type of beer and well worth the 2.5 hour drive from Tacoma. We ended up buying a case to bring back to the hotel.
After Full Sail we headed to Portland to check into our hotel, the third Marriot stop of our Seattle/Portland journey. We got lost. But that was a good thing because we ended up at a Traders Joe's and bought tons of snacks! I wish Hawaii had a Trader Joe's.
Lo and behold our hotel was only 5 minutes away from Trader Joes. We made it to our hotel, quickly unpacked and headed out to yet another beer destination – Rogue Distillery & Public House, to meet up with Travis Greenwood of Found Item Clothing and Patrick Treadway of Tilteed! We had a great time chatting about tees, Portland life, tees, and tees! It was great meeting up with those two excellent dudes. And my friends were happy because they scored some free tees from Patrick and one of you lucky readers will score a free tee(s) from Travis (I need to first figure out how to give them away)!
That's Travis Greenwood from Found Item Clothing. Amazing guy who knows a ton about shirts and has crazy ideas! Follow him on Twitter @founditemclothing.
Hey, it's Patrick from Tilteed.com! He markets, prints, and ships out all Tilteed orders by himself! Talk about dedication and being passionate about what you do! Follow Tilteed on Twitter @Tilteed. Use the code "TiltCoty†for an additional $2 off your Tilteed order!
After Rogue, Patrick was kind enough to drive us to VooDoo Doughnuts to get a taste of the weirdness that is Portland! VooDoo Doughnoughts was great experiece filled with an eclectic set of people! I've never quite experienced anything like VooDoo Doughnuts. It was a trip to say the least. And Patrick was right, VooDoo Doughnuts is best experienced at night because when we stopped by the following morning, the crowd was a bore compared to the night munchers.
Yes, that's bacon on top of maple syrup drenched doughnut. Only at VooDoo Doughnuts!
Day 6 T-Shirt of Choice: Make Wellness Not War by I Am Wellness
Portland here we come! The morning was spent exploring the Pearl District of Portland. Our first stop was the famous Powell's Books on Burnside. To say that this bookstore is huge is a big understatement. It's ginormous. It's probably larger than most public libraries you've been to. The store is split up into 8 different sections based on genre and occupies three full floors. You could spend countless hours exploring Powell's, unfortunately our time was limited so our visit was brief (I still left with two new books).
As I was walking through Portland someone walked right pass me and said "I Love Your Shirt". You can get it from I Am Wellness. Use the code "SUMMER09″ for 15% off (hopefully the code still works).
By the time we were through with Powell's we headed out to lunch at Old Town Pizza which is an iconic Portland eatery with a haunted reputation. "Don't be surprised if an unexpected guest joins you for a slice today. A constant presence at Old Town Pizza is Nina (pronounced "Nigh-naâ€), our resident ghost. If you feel a presence behind you, or smell a faint waft of perfume, you may have just received a visit. Nina is often seen in a black dress observing diners and wandering the basement below." We settled on the House Pizza topped with salami, pepperoni, Italian sausage, mushroom, black olives and bell peppers. The pizza was good but unfortunately there was no sighting of Nina, the resident ghost. I will say, though, that the restroom was freaky as hell. It is very dimly lit in there and I had a weird feeling (while I was peeing no less) that someone was watching me. Freaky!
Ground Kontrol is a neat little vintage arcade that Travis of Found Item Clothing suggested we hit up and I'm glad that we did! We spent about an hour in there playing some very old school arcade games like Centipede, Punch-Out, Simpsons and Space Invaders. This is not your typical arcade because at Ground Kontrol there is a fully functional bar. Awesome.
I'm a huge fan of Punch-Out so I was stoked to find this classic arcade game at Ground Kontrol!
After Ground Kontrol my buddies decided to grab a box of VooDoo doughnuts for the drive back home. While they stood in line (in the hot sun no less and yet another reason to go during the night time) I ventured down the street and stumbled across a neat little coffee/art shop called Stumptown Coffee Roasters. It had a a nice open space as opposed to the typical cramped coffee shop. I had the Queens Iced Tea and it was the cool refreshment that I needed! While the guys stood in that line for VooDoo doughnuts I sipped on my iced tea in air conditioning!
Good bye Portland, I knew you for just a day but I had a great time! Now en route to Tacoma (to return the car), we decided to stop by the Outlet Mall near Chehalis and in Centralia, Washington. The outlet stores of importance included Quicksilver, Billabong, and Nike. We hit those three shops up pretty hard.
From there we caught a shuttle to the 4th and final hotel of our stay – the Marriott Seattle Waterfront, which is just a few steps from Pike's Place. We didn't stay in the hotel for long as we decided grab some Clam Chowder from the original Ivar's Seafood, right on the Seattle Waterfront. When you go to Ivar's there just one thing you need to get – The Clam Chowder! We ordered one of each of the three different varieties: white, red and salmon. I urge you to do the same.
They encourage you to feed the Seagulls.
Small cup of Salmon Clam Chowder from Iver's before heading to Del Rays for even more food and drinks!
Next we hit up Del-Rey's for appetizers and drinks (or should I say beers and margaritas) and then finished the night off by closing down the bar at, appropriately, Ohana's in Belltown, a Hawaiian themed bar. This was the third night that we stayed at a bar till closing (2am in Seattle).
But the night did not end there. We ventured off into the alley ways of the Seattle Waterfront and eventually ending up at Pier 67. The streets were empty and all that was left were four guys from Hawaii, laughing, talking and enjoying the camaraderie that you get from being with your closest friends.
Strangely enough, we ended our last together at Ohana's in Belltown.

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AJ visits Tracy at ELQ, not surprised she worked with the mob. Michael arrives with the proof of her dirty dealings he got from Johnny. AJ calls the SEC and asks for the organized crime unit but will hang up if she steps down as CEO. If she does, he will give her the originals. "Et tu, Michael?," she asks. He remembers her comment at the will reading that he didn't even count and was hurt. She is impressed with his memory, then reminds him about helping him with Abby. Michael asks her to sign anyway. The only problem she ever had with Michael was that he was Sonny's son. Now that he is AJ's, it is totally worse. She signs and he hands over the originals. AJ kicks Tracy out and she warns him it isn't over. AJ makes himself at home.
A Personal Question.
Sonny intervenes on Kristina's attack, Steve gives Ellie some advice, and Sabrina is surprised by the pier.
Felix swoops in on Liz and Sabrina at the nurses' station to take them out for drinks and won't take no for an answer. In her room, Ellie gets her release instructions. Steve overhears her need for a home health care aid and is confused since she has Spin. She is surprised to hear he has been calling every hour to checkup on her. Steve tells her that he is glad Olivia forgave his mistake of kissing Maggie or they would be missing out on their current love. He made it his mission to prove he loved her now they are stronger than ever. She is not sure every relationship will have the same positive outcome. He releases her for tomorrow if she has someone to pick her up. She checks her phone – Spin has called her 23 times.
Lulu is force feeding Maxie at The Haunted Star with Dante when Spin shows up with Max and Milo to drown his sorrows about Ellie. Soon, Sabrina, Liz and Felix arrive. Felix tells the ladies to get ready and pairs Liz up with Max, Sabrina with Spin and takes Milo for himself. Sabrina and Spin get a table and talk about their lost loves while Milo and Felix discuss pumping iron. At the bar, Lulu watches Sabrina and Spin talk and walks up just as Spin confesses he slept with Maxie on New Year's Eve. Lulu freaks. Spin takes the blame and Lulu apologizes to Maxie for being so overprotective. Maxie finds Spin and realizes he and Ellie are over. She is about to tell him the baby is his when Ellie calls and he rushes off. Milo finally informs Felix he is not gay while Liz advises Max on his mole, so their nights were busts too. Later, Maxie promises Lulu that nothing will stop her from giving her and Dante a healthy baby. Meanwhile, Sabrina pines over a picture of Emma. She can't get a cab and starts walking but forgets her phone.
Spin meets Ellie at the hospital. She loves him and is ready to move forward with him.
Connie works on her book edits at Manning Enterprises when Kristina suddenly attacks her computer with a baseball bat. She is there for payback for killing Trey. Sonny arrives and orders Kristina to put the bat down. "At least Trey is not alive to see what a psycho you are!" Connie screams. Kristina tackles her to the ground, choking her. Connie calls the cops. When Dante shows up Kristina admits she tried to kill Connie. Sonny urges Connie not to have Kristina arrested. She refuses and he stomps off. Later, Tracy arrives looking for Todd with a big scoop. She hands over the proof of her laundering to Connie. If she can't have ELQ, no one can.
Patrick and Britt meet back at their table at Kelly's but Emma is gone. They run outside right into Anna who calls a unit immediately. The cops canvass the place but no one saw Emma leave. Anna asks Patrick if she has been upset about anything. He admits she was upset about his new woman. Britt recalls her rant at the little girl but tells Anna nothing happened. Patrick thinks she might be with Sabrina. He calls her but doesn't get an answer.
By the pier, Sabrina thinks about her near kiss with Patrick. She finds Emma alone by the water.
Tomorrow's Port Charles spoilers for General Hospital:
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Mac comforts Anna.
Tracy informs Connie that AJ and Michael won't be able to run a company if there is no company left to run.
Alexis meets Sonny and Kristina at PCPD.
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Intermediate Stretches for Walkers
Full Body Stretch
With legs hip-width apart and knees slightly bent, inhale as you swing arms out to your sides and straight over your head in one smooth motion. Hold arms above head and stretch upwards as much as you can. Exhale and swing arms back down. Repeat three times.
Standing Calf and Hamstring Stretches
Stand with feet together. Take a big step directly back with your left foot and plant that heel into the floor. Slightly bend your right leg, but make sure your right knee does not go over your toes. Keeping your spine straight, bend about 45 degrees at the hip and place your hands on your right thigh for support. Pull your belly button in towards your spine to stabilize your core. Feel the stretch in your calf and hold for 10 to 15 seconds. Then, bend your torso forward a little farther, so your chest is almost parallel to the ground, to stretch your hamstring. Hold for 10 to 15 seconds. Repeat both stretches with the right leg back.
Butterfly Stretch
Sit down on the floor, keeping your back straight. Bring the bottoms of your feet together in front of you so your legs form a diamond. Hold on to your ankles or feet. 1) Feel your inner thighs open up, so knees are about level with elbows, and hold the stretch for 10 to15 seconds. 2) Bring your knees off the ground so they're almost 90-degrees from the floor and hold for two seconds. Then lower knees back down so they're about level with elbows again and hold for 10 to 15 seconds. Repeat sequence three more times.
Hamstring and Lower Back Stretch
Lie down on your back. Bend legs so the bottoms of your feet are flat on the floor. Knees should be hip-width apart. Keeping your right leg bent, grasp the right thigh with both hands, just above the knee and bring it in towards your chest. Hold it there for 10 to 15 seconds. Then, extend the leg straight up in the air so it's at a 90-degree angle from your body. Hold that stretch for another 10 to 15 seconds. Repeat the stretch with the other leg.
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Miami-Dade County
Defense argues confession in Sean Taylor murder case was coerced
Eric Rivera's defense team insists that he falsely confessed to the murder of NFL star safety Sean Taylor during a botched burglary in November 2007 — but only after the teen-ager was whisked away and coerced by Miami-Dade detectives.
And so on Monday, after five days of testimony from prosecution witnesses, Rivera's lawyers began mounting their case, attacking the tactics of Miami-Dade police and the validity of a key videotaped confession.
One of the first defense witnesses: the defendant's own father, Eric Rivera Sr., 43, who told jurors that when he learned that police had picked up his son, he drove to two police stations, searching for him without success.
Only later did detectives call to take him to the Florida Department of Law Enforcement headquarters in Fort Myers, where the younger Rivera, now 23, had just confessed to shooting and killing the former University of Miami football player.
Before Rivera's booking into jail, he was allowed to meet with his father privately for about 45 minutes.
"When I walked in there, he had a different look on his face. A worried look, like a scared look," Rivera Sr. told jurors. "Very tired. Eyes really red."
Prosecutors say Rivera and four other young men from Fort Myers hatched a scheme to steal cash from Taylor's Palmetto Bay home. The burglars did not think Taylor, who played for the Washington Redskins, was at home.
But Taylor, wielding a machete in defense of his girlfriend and their infant daughter, confronted the group after Rivera kicked in their bedroom door, prosecutors say.
Last week, jurors saw the videotaped confession in which Rivera admits he shot Taylor, then shot out of the home's sliding glass door to hasten the group's escape.
In addition to the confession, cell phone and toll records tracked the burglars' trip from Fort Myers to Palmetto Bay and back, prosecutors say.
The defense has argued that police "ambushed" Rivera after a traffic stop in Fort Myers, days after Taylor's murder. Prosecutors insist that Rivera voluntarily agreed to questioning, was free to leave at any time, refused a chance to call his parents and waived his right to remain silent.
Two of Rivera's cousins who were also in the van stopped by police testified Monday, saying they believed they were never free to leave police custody.
Also on Monday, the defense asked Miami-Dade Circuit Judge Dennis Murphy to reconsider his previous decision to not allow the testimony of a supposed expert on "false confessions."
In documents filed with an appeals court earlier this month, the defense had asked to disqualify the judge after he refused to allow the expert to testify. The higher court refused. Murphy, who earlier had closed some pre-trial hearings, also barred the media from Monday's legal wrangling on the defense's latest request. His decision on whether the expert can testify is not yet known.
The defense's efforts came after prosecutors rested their case Monday with one final witness: Dr. Satish Chundru, then the associate Miami-Dade medical examiner who performed Taylor's autopsy.
He testified that the football player was shot in the femoral artery, the main artery that supplies the blood to the lower body. Taylor had no pulse when he arrived to Jackson Memorial Hospital, said Chundru, now a deputy medical examiner in Austin.
As the doctor testified about the injuries, Jackie Garcia Haley — Taylor's girlfriend and the mother of his daughter — buried her head in her palms and cried as she sat in the courtroom gallery.
The 12-person jury will likely begin deliberations later this week, with closing arguments tentatively scheduled for Wednesday. Three co-defendants are awaiting trial while one co-defendant has already pleaded guilty.


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Welcome Comrades to the 94th edition of the Dispatch
Well we certainly made a rod for our back this time. A bit late with the last issue, a change of staff and bang - we are on time again! An impressive innings for your favourite group of dedicated volunteers by anyone's standards!!
If you think that CC has started to take off then you won't be alone. The #GCCM event has been enthralling all of us. We have Twitter kicking off, Facebook being relooked at and now even some ideas on the boil with Youtube. Oops I think I let the cat out of the bag there. An announcement on that hasn't been made yet! And all that on top of your usual Mafia Games, an Interview with Dako, all the happenings in Clans (Oh yeah ... it's CLAN WEEK!!), tournaments and the foundry. When does anyone have time to sleep? Some of us in the real world even balance all this with work or exams or natural disasters or what have you. It's enough to make your head spin! Wesley Snipes put it well when he said:
I've reduced a lot of the stress in my life. I've gotten rid of a lot of things. The light was turned on and a lot of the cockroaches started spinning. I swept them out the door. And sometimes you just have to throw things out because they carry a certain energy.
Enjoy the fruit of our labouring fingers!
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The Scum Insider by safariguy5
Hello loyal Platoon Report readers! I want to kick off this edition by first thanking and applauding Leehar for his years served as Clan Executive here at the Dispatch! It's no small feat to run an ever-changing team of writers and get all the news from the clan world together twice a month, but he sure had a great way of getting it done. It's always been a pleasure to work with him, and I sincerely wish him the best in his new role as Head Clan Director. From all of us, Leehar, we thank you!!
I'm proud to say we have a great bunch of articles for your reading pleasure this week, including multiple contributions from two of our newest writers, IcePack and betiko, as well as updates to many of our regular features, and more news about how clans are getting involved in GCCM.
To kick things off, we've got the exclusive scoop on the updated F400 rankings thanks to IcePack. Check it out to find out all the latest results and movement. IcePack also brings us a report on Conquer Cup 4, including the results of the play-in draw, and great background on the clans involved, as well as a few predictions. Speaking of predictions, betiko has an update on Conquer Cup 3. His report includes the latest on all the action in the finals of the event, and also a look at the implications for the CC3 prediction contest. Completing our reviews of the major ongoing clan events, qwert has another update for us Clan League 5, featuring all the updated scores and tables, as well as the first clan to qualify for the Premier League in the second phase.
As we have for the last couple of months, we have an updated edition of our reader requested Clan Movers and Shakers column, bringing you all the roster shakeups in the clan world from the last month, and the introduction of yet another clan to the realm. To wrap up this edition of the Platoon Report, we have an update from koontz regarding GCCM and Clan Week - don't miss this chance to get in on the fun and win your clan some medals!
Clan Executive
May 1 F400 Update by IcePack
CC4 by IcePack
CC3 Finals Update by Betiko
CL5 by Qwert
Clan Movers and Shakers - April 2013 by Swifte
The Great Community Map Project. Clan Week Update.
Hello again my friends, and welcome to your favorite part of the Newsletter, "War Games", where you can find information about CC Tournaments! Here we are five days away from another anniversary of V-E Day. Will anyone put together a cool tournament on CC's WWII maps to celebrate? I sure hope so!
Here in the Dispatch, we have the 38th installment in Dave's Tournament Tips. After spending some months with more advanced formulae, he is now back into terrain that many of us will recognise, and dealing with formatting and presentation elements.
In the TPA Wrap, you will find a notice that IanG7 has won the Assassinations by Fours tournament. An interview with IanG7 will be presented in our next issue!
Anamainiacks continues his mastery of Join This? Or Not! If you haven't read JTON recently, check it out. Among other things, Anamainiacks launched the innovation of identifying Premium Only. and Freemium Friendly! tourneys.
Last but (I hope) not least, I've cobbled together a quick discussion about tournament etiquette.
Tournament Executive
Tournament Tips by DaveH
TPA3 Wrap by DaveH
Join This? Or Not! by anamainiacks
Tourney Etiquette Redux by Dukasaur
J.R.R. Tolkien wrote:Fantasy is escapist, and that is its glory. If a soldier is imprisioned by the enemy, don't we consider it his duty to escape?. . .If we value the freedom of mind and soul, if we're partisans of liberty, then it's our plain duty to escape, and to take as many people with us as we can!
Welcome to the foundry section. Where Fantasy can and often does become reality.
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Maps in Development. koontz1973
Tribal War - Ancient Israel - A Slideshow Evolution by Seamus76
Great Conquer Community Map Week 4 by Seamus76
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i really like linux but the experience on ubuntu under the w520 is plain awful!
the computer get reaaaaaally heated up! and also extreme battery lose!
also if i leave the computer plugged in to the charger it seems that the brick gets reaaallly heated up! even tho the computer is already charged to 100%....
i never experience these issues in windows...
anyone got some solutions maybe? maybe a differente distro??
04-10-2012 06:57 AM - edited 04-10-2012 07:08 AM
I just went through the whole Ubuntu 11.10, 64bit, nvidia, compiz, on W520 saga.
It's a real mess.
Here are the issues I ran into from the get go:
1. Prior to starting the Ubuntu 11.10 64bit installation from the CD, I've set display to Discrete mode in the BIOS.
2. Installation went smooth (great...or so I thought).
3. System boots up, no issue.
4. Ran the Update Manager, updated 300+ packages, 275MB or so. No problem here.
5. Reboot....first thing you'll run into is that the new nvidia driver will no start up successfully 100% of the time...X may, or may not start up successfully. If it doesn't, then you're stuck at a blank screen...Sometimes, you can get to the text terminal by Ctrl-Alt F1...if needed. To fix this, you either have to add "acpi=off" (bad choice) or "pci=noacpi" (better choice) to the boot parameter (mentioned in nVidia driver's Readme - Common Problems section). Then X will be able to start successfully.
6. Next issue, running Compiz in Unity (not Unity 2D), you'll notice that moving windows around is laggy. This is fixed in Compiz 0.9.7...but it's not listed in the update manager yet.
7. Next issue, brightness control using Fn+Home and Fn+End. You'll either not be able to see the brightness indicator (OSD) correctly. the OSD indicator doesn't show the correct brightness level on screen. You can still adjust the brightness...it just doesn't show up correctly in the indicator. To fix this, you'll use the nox2apic parameter instead of the ones from Point 5 (above). Also added the EnableBrightnessControl=1 option to the xorg.conf file.
8. Now, graphics is work, brightness control works...what else could be wrong, right? Here's what's wrong, brightness steppings. In Windows (and in BIOS, DSDT), you have 16 levels of brightness (0-15 inclusive). Now, in Linux, you only get about 7. Not a big deal...
9. Here's what else is wrong. When the laptop is running on battery, CPU speed will not throttle correctly...and only have a max of 1GHz (cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep -i mhz). If you go back to the pci=noacpi parameter, the scaling seems to be correct....
All in all, Ubuntu's GUI has a lot of work to do when it comes to performance and polish (Unity and compiz...OMG...don't use it). NVIDIA driver requires some looking into to get it to work "well" with the correct kernel parameter, so that the end result will not interfere with ACPI, nor SpeedStep.
In the end, I decided that the W520's "Windows 7" sticker does really mean what it says. For Windows 7.
For now, I would say "Stay the fxxx away from Unity". I've yet to find a way to get the nvidia driver, ACPI (and hotkey), cpu scaling (with and without battery)...too all work together.
And then there's also the issue of battery life (lack of true stable Optimus support).
If stability, battery life & (graphics) performance is what's needed...then Windows seems to be the only option for now.
I also tested out the Hackintosh way of things. Again, not a great experience. Graphics is stable. What's not stable is USB 2 and USB 3 during sleep and wakeup cycles (would kernel panic), audio (VoodooHDA 2.7.3) is not stable either.
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Have you tried to use the opensource Nouveu drivers? I know unity sucks as what it is right now...IU faced the same issue when i installed ubuntu 11.10 .... I used cinnamon to replace unity...everything runs ok now
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Power management for laptops in the land of Linux is not known to be spectacular. Having said that, I've read that Mint, or Fedora (can't remember which) has done some dedicated work on PM. I might check them out shortly.
I took a look at the Nouveu site. The "current status" section alone has already deterred me from using it:
"2D support is in very good shape" --> It should be ROCK solid...come on...2D.
"Suspend and resume is working for many chips" --> lacks driver maturity.
"Some 3D acceleration exists"...If that's the case, I might as well just use the Intel Integrated Display.
"Nvidia Optimus support is not implemented yet"...No other platform has Optimus working properly except Windows (and some can argue that the implementation of Optimus in Windows on the W520 is a bit wacked).
Some people install Linux on the W520 have lower expectations. I don't. I mean, having a Quadro chip just so one can run a 2D desktop environment?


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Environmentalists may be reveling in the defeat of Proposition 23, but their joy will be short-lived.
Proposition 23, you may recall, was an effort largely funded by the oil industry to suspend Assembly Bill 32, California's landmark legislation that rolls back greenhouse gas emissions to 1990 levels by 2020. Last Tuesday voters overwhelmingly rejected the proposal, leaving AB 32 intact and on schedule. Happy ending, right? Not so fast.
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Also on the ballot was Proposition 26, labeled the "Stop the Hidden Taxes" initiative. Sponsors touted the proposition as a way to prevent legislators from sneaking in hidden fees to generate new revenues without public knowledge. The answer, they said, was to label fees, levies, fines, charges and other revenue sources as "taxes," which require a two-thirds vote by the legislature. The proposition also requires local governments to obtain voter approval before raising any fees.
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The hallmark of AB 32 is the requirement for companies to reduce pollutant emissions through a cap-and-trade program for energy emitters. The California Air Resources Board (ARB) has responsibility for creating and enforcing the program. That's where Proposition 26 comes in. To the extent that enforcement extracts costs from producers and/or users, such costs could be construed as fees--now described as taxes. As a result, the ballot proposition-turned law may require a two-thirds approval vote from the legislature for the ARB to do its work.
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Dear Abby: When I was in grammar school 50 years ago, I was molested by two boys. I recently learned that they are now both dead.
I wrote to the sister of one of them and told her what her brother had done to me and how I felt about it. I'm glad that he is dead, and I told her so.
She responded, calling my letter sad and bitter for bringing up the matter after so much time has transpired.
In the '60s the norm was not to tell anyone for fear of being spanked or beaten or called a liar and living in kid hell. I am a female, and the standard was so different in those days. Please print my letter. - Confused in California
Dear Confused: If this was something the sister was unaware of, you shouldn't be surprised that she responded as she did to your bombshell.
I agree that we have become more open about discussing sex and sexual assaults than we were in the '60s.
And I hope that somewhere along the way you received counseling to help you deal with the molestation, because talking with a qualified mental health professional about it can be therapeutic.
However, if you haven't, please contact RAINN, the Rape, Abuse and Incest National Network. Its toll-free number is 800-656-4673. You can find assistance there, and nothing will shock them.
Dear Abby: I have been dating the most wonderful man, "Art," for almost four years.
He's strong, caring and he treats me like a princess. We have discussed marriage several times, and I suspect he will propose soon.
I'm sure that Art is "the one," and I would marry him in a heartbeat. My only worry is that we'll end up like my parents someday.
I know this sounds silly, but while I was growing up, I never saw any signs that my parents really loved each other.
Dad always seemed like he was trying too hard to make Mom happy, while she either was indifferent to his affections or dismissed his efforts.
They would argue about the smallest things, to the point where I wished they would get divorced so I wouldn't have to hear them disagreeing.
I have mentioned my fears to Art and he has told me not to worry, but I can't help but worry.
I love him too much to put him through the same emotional abuse, even accidentally, and I'd never want my kids to grow up thinking their parents didn't love each other.
How can I keep the past from repeating? - Unlike My Parents
Dear Unlike: Your mother may have been attempting to control your father by withholding affection and approval as he tried harder and harder to please her, and that's very sad.
But you don't have to follow in her footsteps.
Children don't always grow up to emulate their parents.
You are an individual, and you are well aware of the unhealthy pattern you observed while growing up.
If you and Art are able to discuss your differences and reach a consensus when problems arise, you should be fine.
Dear Abby: My husband insists that wearing a white T-shirt when out and about is the same as wearing a colored one with a design on it. I think he's wearing underwear as outerwear and is being too casual.
We do not live in a rural community. We are in a suburb of San Diego. Life is relaxed here, but not that relaxed. Do you have an opinion? - Dressing Up, Not Down
Dear Dressing Up: I do have a thought or two on the subject.
If your husband is comfortable this way, leave him alone.
Because you are the one concerned with appearances, continue dressing up to create the impression you want and let him dress down and suffer the consequences - if there are any, which I doubt.
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Directed by Barbara Ettinger, 2009, 86 min. www.aseachange.net
Sven Huseby retraces his childhood footsteps from a Norwegian fish store to Seattle's Pike Place Market to tell the deeply personal, yet scientific story that is A Sea Change.
A retired history teacher, Huseby seeks answers for—and solutions to—the damage humans have wrought on the oceans. Renewable energy, which has held a lifetime fascination for Huseby, is the hero of the film, but not before the villain—ocean acidification—is revealed.
The poor stepchild to global warming and sea-level rise, ocean acidification is at once more complex and more insidious. The ocean takes up much of the carbon dioxide released from fossil fuel burning in the form of carbonic acid. In the film, Deborah Williams, a marine conservationist, demonstrates the effect by testing the old-fashioned wisdom that drinking soda before bed will rot your teeth. She asks a group of youngsters to collect their baby teeth as they lose them and place one in a glass of tap water and the other in a glass of carbonated water. In just three weeks, the teeth in the carbonated water are cracked and broken, while those in tap water are completely intact. Imagine, then, what the same carbon dioxide (and carbonic acid) is doing to the shellfish—and all of the creatures that depend on them for survival—in the world's oceans.
one of the film's most insightful moments, Huseby meets artist Maya Lin
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A Sea Change is surprisingly uplifting. Much of the film identifies the ways that people, particularly young people, are trying to migrate away from a fossil fuel economy.
As a boy, Huseby depended on the sea to feed his hunger and his imagination. Now, as the oceans face a threat unparalleled in human history, Huseby has found that they have still more to give.
—Jeff Parsons is a coastal oceanographer based in Seattle.
The Good Soldier
Directed by Lexy Lovell and Michael Uys , 2009, 79 min. www.thegoodsoldier.com
Candid confessions of five veterans, from World War II to Iraq, challenge the notion that war is a lawful arena for social injustice and mass murder. For these men, the definitions of "responsibility," "courage," and "manhood" evolved as they enlisted, served, and lived with the consequences of combat: flashbacks, divorce, and drug abuse. Said one: "I sold my soul a long time ago, I'm just trying to recover it."
Trouble the Water
Zeitgeist Films, 2008, 96 min.
New Orleans resident and aspiring rapper Kimberly Rivers Roberts couldn't flee her 9th Ward home before Hurricane Katrina hit. So she documented the storm on her Hi-8 camcorder, narrating the experience from her attic. Roberts' candid footage and raps take this film beyond news coverage of the storm. Viewers will feel empathy with the victims—and frustration toward the government.


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On the eve of Veteran's Day weekend, former Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords's gun control advocacy group announced a new, spin-off wing of their organization: Veterans for Responsible Solutions.
Joined by major former military brass, Mark Kelly, Gifford's husband, himself a retired Navy captain and astronaut, argued that veterans have a unique perspective in the gun debate.
"I've been shot at," Kelly told reporters on a call to promote the group on Friday.
The group of veterans repeatedly stated that they are not anti-gun. Kelly hunts. He and Giffords have guns in their home. Many of the veterans said they too own a gun.
"Obviously, I'm a strong proponent of arms in the right in the correct manner," former Air Force Major Mike Almy said. "All the men in my family had served in some capacity."
Retired Navy Rear Admiral James Barnett agreed. "We're for gun rights. Nobody is trying to affect anybody's second amendment rights," he said.
Instead the group of veterans will join Giffords and Kelly in their fight for "commonsense" changes in gun-ownership regulations, including expanded background checks and limiting of high-capacity magazines. Some members will lobby members of Congress; others will write op-eds, Kelly said. And some in the group are simply lending their high-profile names.
So far this year, new gun control measures have largely stalled on Capitol Hill. In April, a bill requiring universal background checks failed to gain the necessary support to move to a vote in the Senate.
The veterans did applaud Health Secretary Kathleen Sebelius's push for more affordable mental health coverage. Sebelius announced a new rule Friday that requires insurers to offer co-pays and treatments for mental health care that are comparable with other physical health care costs. The team of veterans echoed concerns from other gun control advocates that not enough attention has been paid to the role of mental health in the issue of gun violence.
"When the military gave me a gun, I was vetted, I was trained," retired Coast Guard Captain Gail Kulisch said. "They asked, 'Do I have the judgment?'"
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WASHINGTON -- A Marine general who decided to court-martial a Marine for urinating on the bodies of dead Taliban fighters and posing for pictures with them in Afghanistan will scale back the punishment announced Thursday by a military judge.
A Marine spokesman, Col. Sean Gibson, said Lt. Gen. Richard Mills had agreed before the court-martial was held Wednesday that the maximum sentence he would approve in the case of Staff Sgt. Joseph W. Chamblin is the forfeiture of $500 in pay for one month and reduction in rank to sergeant.
The judge, who was not aware of the pre-trial agreement, announced a harsher sentence: 30 days' confinement, 60 days' restriction, forfeiture of $500 per month in pay for six months, a fine of $2,000 and a reduction in rank to lance corporal, which is two paygrades below sergeant.
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There was nothing much to rave about on the sporting front over the weekend, and don't hold your breath for anything better from Scotland next week.
The All Blacks versus Scotland is haggis dressed up as ham.
The rugby community will gather forces and pretend there is something historically beautiful about the match-up, although Scotland are so bad that even the rugby spin machine might have trouble whirring into action.
Indeed, the All Blacks departed for yet another (yawn) European crusade with the sort of fanfare reserved for the Olympic taekwondo team, which shows that even the diehards have had enough of these annual returns.
Monday's match is another insult to Pacific Island rugby delivered by that bastion of colonialism - the International Rugby Board.
The IRB makes noises about helping tier-two nations, but their treatment still smacks of tokenism.
The New Zealand Rugby Union happily plays along, denying the PI countries a chance to develop as genuine members of the international rugby community, thus ensuring most of the top young prospects hang about for All Black jerseys. Sanzar, meanwhile, has welcomed old rugby mates Argentina into the fold.
Samoa, Tonga and Fiji have way more potential than Scotland or Argentina.
Yet they are left to stew on the sidelines as the old boys network keeps the prime-time and the money to themselves, protecting their rankings and image along the way.
Scotland's record against the All Blacks is a joke, which isn't their fault, because it is a small, soccer-leaning country of often foul winter weather.
But it is still a joke. In the last 20 years, they have played the All Blacks 12 times and lost by an average score of 14-44, which is even worse when you consider seven of those games were at home and one on neutral turf.
The most recent five matches have all been in Edinburgh, the All Blacks triumphing by an average of 31-5.
Scotland have scored just one try in that run, an irrelevant last-gasp score in 2005 against a second string All Black team that included such notables as Sione Lauaki, Angus Macdonald, James Ryan and Saimone Taumoepeau in the pack. (Taumoepeau, while we are at it, is a classic example of a player who should still be enjoying a long career with Tonga, but was taken out of test circulation thanks to the All Blacks' cynical trial-and-error approach to sorting out their front row at the time.)
Perhaps the most damning statistic involving Scotland is that the All Blacks have played them a whopping 12 times in the past two decades, which tells you who runs world rugby.
It's hard to remember the last time Scotland did anything interesting on a rugby field. They play a turgid, ineffective game that belongs in a cave because their players have few skills.
If there were no alternatives, then fine. Maybe. But there are, and exciting ones that would honour and nurture the amazing contribution that the Pacific Islands make to the game. And yet the All Blacks not only keep the contests against PI countries to a bare minimum, but never play in those lands.
I have met a number of PI rugby characters over the year who are frustrated at the lack of change and their problems finding an effective voice.
Money is at the root of this evil of course, but even financial imperatives are no excuse for the extent of the continuing insult delivered to our rugby neighbours.
Back to Scotland. On the law of averages, one of these European teams may pinch a win one day, but it won't be Scotland. Efforts to drum up enthusiasm for this test involve coverage of the All Blacks' shock-horror move to blood up-and-comers. Honestly troops, save your ink because where Scotland are concerned nobody should care.
Who can blame the All Blacks for using the Scottish match as a development tool? They would be mad not to.
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Yoko Ono, Japanese multimedia artist, singer, and peace activist, welcomes guests to Strawberry Fields 's Central Park's living memorial to John Lennon, her husband and world-famous singer, songwriter, and peace activist.
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This tranquil section of Central Park was named after one of Lennon's favorite songs, "Strawberry Fields Forever." Recorded in 1966, the song's title comes from an orphanage in Liverpool, England where Lennon used to go to play with the children. His aunt, who raised him, disapproved but he insisted it was, "nothing to get hung about." Hence, the song's famous lyric.
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UConn football program, fighting recent losing trend, sets sights on higher level
STORRS -- When the sales pitch comes, it's all about academics, getting a solid education and enjoying a great college atmosphere. Those are the primary topics when Connecticut head coach Paul Pasqualoni sits down in a living room to deliver his speech to a potential recruit and his parents. Other things, like football tradition and history, aren't really discussed.
Why? Because UConn football doesn't have history or tradition.
At least not yet.
When it comes to the Football Bowl Subdivision level, Connecticut is still just a kid. The Huskies have only been playing with the big boys for just over a decade now, making the jump to what is now the FBS in 2002. They are working to create an identity, establish a measure of tradition and become a regular player for conference championships, be it in the Big East or whatever conference they might one day join.
But all those things take time.
So, while working to continue that initial upward climb -- UConn can boast of six winning seasons and five bowl appearances, including playing in the BCS Fiesta Bowl in 2010 -- that was started by Randy Edsall, when Pasqualoni hits the road, he sells the program's big picture.
Academics and atmosphere.
"What we're selling is our product, which is the education thing first. And it's an awfully good product," Pasqualoni said. "A very highly rated product, somewhere in the top 20 and very soon to be in the top 15 in the country among state universities. The education is just outstanding.
"I also like to talk about where we are here in Storrs. I think it's a tremendous atmosphere. A real college town. Kids enjoy being here, so we sell that. And we sell the football program. How they're going to be coached and what that experience is going to be. And we sell their development as players, regardless of who we play. That's important."
Under Edsall, UConn arrived on the Division I-A scene with a splash, winning its first bowl game in 2004 and later going to four consecutive bowls, following the 2007 to 2010 seasons. The program has shared two Big East regular-season titles. The Huskies, however, just finished their second consecutive losing season with Pasqualoni at the helm. Selling the football program may have become more of a challenge than it once was.
"They're up against so many obstacles at this point. Conference affiliation is only the beginning," said ESPN college football writer Ivan Maisel. "That's an issue, but the bigger issue is inventory, players. You're in an area where your home base does not produce a lot of FBS-quality players and the marketplace isn't getting any less crowded.
"Now, all of a sudden, you're going from competing against Syracuse and Rutgers on equal footing for the same kids in the same league ... now Rutgers can sell the Big Ten and going to the Rose Bowl. Syracuse can sell going to the Orange Bowl. If UConn goes in there, they can say, `You might get to go to one of those bowls, but it's going to depend on how good someone else is (because of the Big East's recently reduced BCS status).' That's a tougher sell."
Perhaps that's why UConn continues to find it difficult to land those four- and five-star high school recruits. According to scout.com, the highest UConn recruiting class since the program went to the FBS was 53rd in 2007. It was also the last time the Huskies landed a four-star recruit (Tyler Lorenzen). Since then, UConn's recruiting class standings were 70th (2008), 76th (2009), 69th (2010), 81st (2011) and 66th (2012).
And it's only going to get harder.
"Syracuse is a viable program again," Maisel said. "Maybe (UConn) can take advantage of the fact that Boston College is down, but if they hire the right guy (BC hired Steve Addazio of Cheshire away from Temple last week), then you're dealing with BC. The Big Ten is going to come into New Jersey even harder now, the ACC is going to come up and get into New England. UMass is another FBS program. Now, they're not threatening anybody, but it's another school that's now looking for 25 players.
"The same logistical problems that UConn has dealt with haven't gone away and have probably increased."
Michigan can sell playing in the Big Ten in front of 109,901 every Saturday in the Big House. Alabama can sell playing in the Southeastern Conference in front of 101,000 at Bryant-Denny Stadium. Texas can sell playing in the Big 12 in front of 100,119 at Royal Memorial Stadium, and USC can sell playing in the Pac-10 in front of 92,000 at the Los Angeles Coliseum.
UConn, meanwhile, seems to have a different selling point.
"The philosophy here is we want to have kids that really want to get an education," Pasqualoni said. "Want to go to school, want to participate in their education. I just want guys who will go to class, do the work and get good grades.
"So many kids in this day and age have visions of having a really good college career and then having a chance to be a pro player. I want to recruit those kids. I want to recruit kids that work hard, want to be the best they can be and someday, might have a chance to be an NFL player. That's really what we talk about in recruiting. We talk about getting an education, getting the degree, where they fit, where I see them fitting, where the staff sees them fitting. So that's what we talk about."
In the UConn football weekly notes package, there is a section entitled: "UConn football a leader in academics." The note reads: "In 2012, the NCAA's Academic Progress Rate (APR) for the UConn football team was an impressive 963 over a four-year cycle, with a one-year mark of 950 for the 2010-11 academic year. The 963 was above the national average (952) for FBS schools."
If only academics and atmosphere were keys to a majority of recruits' decisions. Sadly, they're not.
"I think unfortunately what Paul Pasqualoni is facing right now is the perception, not just of UConn but of the Big East," said Kirk Herbstreit, a college football analyst at ESPN. "If I'm a four-star recruit and I'm not from that region -- say I'm from Florida and I really like the coach and I really like the facilities and I want to go play there, but I've got other offers from the SEC or the ACC -- it would be hard for me to turn down those offers when the perception is what it is about in the Big East.
"The future of the Big East is a scary thing. Can (Pasqualoni) do it? Sure, but it's going to be challenging because of the current landscape of football. It's going to be really, really challenging."
According to scout.com, since 2002, the state of Connecticut has produced a total of two five-star recruits -- Aaron Hernandez of Bristol Central and Silas Redd of the King School in Stamford -- and nine four-star recruits: John Sullivan (Greenwich), Lamart Barrett (Avon Old Farms), J.J. Justice (Norwich Free Academy), Bruce Campbell (Hyde), Torrey Mack (Stratford), Mike Cox (Avon Old Farms), Khairi Fortt (Stamford), Bjoern Werner (Salisbury) and Graham Stewart (Xavier).
None went to UConn.
Can UConn attract better talent?
"I think that's a tough task," Herbstreit said. "There's always the Syracuse blueprint that you had back in the latter part of the '80s and the early '90s; Paul Pasqualoni, when he was there (1991-2004 as head coach), did some incredible things and was able to recruit up in the Northeast, and they would go down into Florida and do well there. They had what started out as a vision and it took a recruiting class or two to be able to buy into that vision and eventually get up and get the program heading in a direction where it could be maintained.
"Greg Schiano did the same thing at Rutgers. Think about Rutgers football before Schaino got there and where it is now. If I'm a UConn fan and I see that happening to Rutgers, I have to believe that it can happen for UConn, too."
"I think you have to sell ... the coach is the key" Herbstreit said. "The coach has got to be able to overcome all the history, all the lack of whatever. It has to be the coach. I've seen programs without the history, without the tradition or the facilities, and it's the coach that makes the difference.
"I think to be able to get in there and get those top-tier players, you have to really be able to sell something. Sell how you're going to be treated, the system he's going to be a part of. Sell the caring of the player as a person. Whatever it is you're selling as your vision, that's what has to get you over the hump."
With Rentschler Field, the Burton Family Football Complex and the Mark R. Shenkman Training Center, UConn has spent close to $150 million in football infrastructure. But according to Maisel, if the Huskies want to compete with the big boys, a lot more is going to have to be done.
"They've done everything they can do in the arms race," Maisel said. "But all you've done by spending the money in the arms race is kept your place at the starting line. The starting line always changes. I'm not belittling what they've done, but that's the kind of stuff you have to do just to stay in the game. That's the ante and the ante goes up all the time in college football. They've kept their chair at the table, but there are other things that are still the problem."
"The tradition and the passion at UConn is at Gampel (Pavilion)," Maisel said. "There's nothing wrong with that. It's great, but football hasn't developed that yet and it's harder to develop in football than basketball. If you don't have the history and the passion, you can develop it, but it takes an enormous amount of resources."
Think about it: When NIKE founder Phil Knight started pouring money into Oregon's athletic programs -- he's donated an estimated $300 million, including $68 million for the new football facility currently under construction -- the Ducks went from a decent 70-48 record in the '90s to a sparkling 99-39 record from 2000-09. They are a stunning 55-10 in the past five years.
And at Oklahoma State, the Cowboys were a horrific 41-68-3 in the decade of the 1990s. Until 2001, they had 11 losing seasons in 12 years. But when Texas oil magnate Boone Pickens donated $70 million to refurbish the football stadium that now bears his name in 2003, and then gave an additional $165 million to the football program in 2005, Oklahoma State has gone 81-45 and will have appeared in seven straight bowl games when it faces Purdue in the Heart of Dallas Bowl on Jan. 1.
"You look at the schools, the non-traditional powers that have succeeded over the last decade, and what do they have in common?" Maisel said. "Oregon and Oklahoma State both have sugar daddies who have spent eight, nine figures of money on the program. I don't know that (athletic director) Warde Manuel's found that guy yet. I would think that if that kind of person was in Connecticut and loved Connecticut football, we would have heard of him by now."
Plus, it takes winning.
"There's a lot to that, there really is," Pasqualoni said. "Win. It's like Al Davis said, `Just win, baby.'"
But back-to-back 5-7 seasons doesn't exactly get the blood boiling. Neither does the fact that attendance at Rentschler Field has decreased basically every year over the past five seasons, dropping from a per-game average of 39,331 in 2008 to just 34,672 in 2012. Year 3 of the Pasqualoni era had better bring about a big change in play and the number of victories. The Huskies need to get back to challenging for the Big East title, going to bowl games and becoming a top-50 program again.
"I think top 50's absolutely within reach," Maisel said. "They've already been there but they have to get back. It's a combination of the right coach, being right for that university, because UConn does not have so much of what the top 50 have in terms of tradition and passion."
But it's trying to get there. The Huskies have Michigan (Big Ten) coming to Rentschler Field next September, have a home-and-home series with Tennessee (SEC) in 2015 and 2016 and will play Virginia (ACC) in a home-and-home series in 2016 and 2017. And of course, there's that continuing rumor of Notre Dame at Fenway Park in 2014.
"Everybody's on the table," said. "There's no conference that we wouldn't look at for the right opportunity. To have Michigan coming in, that's obviously a big game for us. Now, every year you're not going to get a Michigan into your stadium, but we have Tennessee coming in and Virginia coming in and we're working on other opponents. We have to keep thinking about that, but we also have to build your team around them and have success."
Of course, winning breeds success and success means selling tickets. And the more tickets you sell, the bigger the stadium you need. When Rentschler Field was constructed, it was done with expansion in mind. Don't think Manuel isn't excited about seeing those blueprints. He is.
"The more games we win, the more tickets that we can sell, the quicker I'll expand it," Manuel said. "When we're at the point where we're having consistent sellouts in the next couple of years, then it'll increase the talk of expanding because of demand. I'm not looking to wait 10 years before we do it. It's all about ... we have to improve the team, we want to find ways to encourage people to come out and watch us play, we know we have to do better on the field.
"We want people from Bridgeport, people in New Haven and Stamford to buy season tickets and to come up, support the team and see us play great competition. If we can expand the number of fans and the demand to see us play, we'll look to expand the stadium, because it'll make economic sense for us to do so."
Until then, however, Pasqualoni has to start winning and making some football tradition.
"I think Paul has a great reputation and resume and the fact that he can dangle playing on Sunday in front of those kids is critical," Maisel said. "But he's only had one full recruiting class, he's now working on his second and you have to judge accordingly. On the other hand, no one even blinks that Derek Dooley is out the door after just three seasons (at Tennessee). Paul's finishing his second mediocre season. There's a new AD and that's not always good when you're a coach. It's a critical time for him."
And for the program.
"This is a championship-level program already, having won Big East championships and going to a BCS bowl," Manuel said. "My expectations (for the program) are that we win conference championships and we put ourselves, through scheduling and playing for conference championships, to be in consideration for the (BCS) playoffs and to be looked at as that kind of caliber of team. Now, are we there right now? No.
"We have to keep working at it. I think we have to keep recruiting high-quality student athletes and really work hard at putting those athletes in the position to win and have success. We need to schedule top non-conference competition to showcase ourselves nationally. And we're going to have to win conference championships. To do that, it takes a lot of work. It's more than just talking about it."
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Fazul Abdullah Mohammed topped the FBI's most wanted list for nearly 13 years.
Fazul Abdullah Mohammed topped the FBI's most wanted list for nearly 13 years.
Nairobi: The al-Qaida mastermind behind the 1998 bombings of US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania was killed this week at a security checkpoint in Mogadishu by Somali forces who didn't immediately realize he was the most wanted man in East Africa, officials said on Saturday.
The death of Fazul Abdullah Mohammed - a man who topped the FBI's most wanted list for nearly 13 years - is the third major strike in six weeks against the worldwide terror group that was headed by Osama bin Laden until his death last month.
Mohammed had a $5 million bounty on his head for planning the Aug. 7, 1998, embassy bombings. The blasts killed 224 people in Nairobi, Kenya and Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. Most of the dead were Kenyans. Twelve Americans also died.
US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, who was on a visit to Tanzania on Saturday as Somali officials confirmed Mohammed's death - called the killing a "significant blow to al-Qaida, its extremist allies, and its operations in East Africa.
"It is a just end for a terrorist who brought so much death and pain to so many innocents in Nairobi and Dar es Salaam and elsewhere, Tanzanians, Kenyans, Somalis, and our own embassy personnel," Clinton said.
White House counterterrorism adviser John Brennan called Mohammed's death "another huge setback to al-Qaida and its extremist allies, and provides a measure of justice to so many who lost loved ones."
Mohammed was killed Tuesday but was carrying a South African passport, so Somali officials didn't immediately realize who he was. The body was even buried. Officials later exhumed it.
"We've compared the pictures of the body to his old pictures," said a spokesman for Somalia's minister of information, Abdifatah Abdinur. "They are the same. It is confirmed. He is the man and he is dead. The man who died is Fazul Abdullah."
Mohammed, a native of the Comoros Islands, was carrying sophisticated weapons, maps, other operational materials and tens of thousands of dollars when he was killed, Information Minister Abdulkareem Jama said. Family pictures and correspondence with other militants were also found, he said. The money, equipment and personal effects made officials take a second look at the death, he said.
"We congratulate our army for killing the head of al-Qaida operations in East Africa. They have shown their effectiveness," he said.
Earlier in the week, a Somali security officer had described to The Associated Press the deaths of two men in Mogadishu, one of whom is now believed to have been Mohammed.
The security official, Osman Nur Diriye, said that two men riding in a luxury car pulled up to a government-run checkpoint Tuesday night. After security forces found a pistol on one of the men, gunfire was exchanged. Diriye said a Somali and a man believed to be South African died. The man identified as a South African is now believed to have been Mohammed, Abdinur said.
Gen. Abdikarim Yusuf Dhagabadan, Somalia's deputy army chief, said officials at first did not know who the dead man was.
"We buried him," he said. "But soon after checking his documents, (we) exhumed his body and took his pictures and DNA. Then we had learned that he was the man wanted by the US authorities."
Mohammed's death is the third major blow against al-Qaida in the last six weeks. Navy SEALs killed bin Laden on May 2 at his home in Pakistan. Just a month later, Ilyas Kashmiri, an al-Qaida leader sought in the 2008 Mumbai siege and rumored to be a longshot choice to succeed bin Laden, was reportedly killed in a U.S. drone attack in Pakistan.
The strike against Kashmiri was not the direct result of intelligence material seized from the bin Laden compound, US and Pakistan officials say. If the account of the killing at the security checkpoint killing is confirmed, it would appear Mohammed's death is also not the result of new intelligence.
Dhagabadan described the death as "similar to Osama bin Laden's."
"He was worse to us than bin Laden," he said. "It is a victory for the world. It is a victory for Somali army."
Bill Roggio, the managing editor of The Long War Journal, said Mohammed's death is a big triumph for both the US and Somalia.
"Fazul is considered by US intelligence officials to be al-Qaida's most dangerous operative in Africa," he said. "He had an extensive network in the Horn of Africa and beyond that allowed him to move in and out of Somalia with ease. This made him a difficult target for security forces in the region."
According to the South African passport he was carrying with him when he was killed, Mohammed left South Africa on March 19 and arrived in Tanzania the next day, Diriye, the security officer, said. The passport had no other stamps, indicating Mohammed smuggled his way into Somalia, he said. Tanzania is two countries south of Somalia. Kenya lies in between the two.
A senior Obama administration official, speaking on condition of anonymity to discuss intelligence matters, called Mohammed's killing "a big win for global counterterrorism efforts."
"We commend the good work by the (Somali government forces)," the official added. "This is a very big deal. Fazul's death removes one of the terrorist group's most experienced operational planners in East Africa and has almost certainly set back operations."
Thousands of people were wounded when a pickup truck rigged as a bomb exploded outside the four-story US Embassy building in downtown Nairobi. Within minutes, another bomb shattered the US mission in Tanzania's commercial capital, Dar es Salaam. The State Department has vastly increased security at US embassies around the world since those bombings, and has often been criticized for sacrificing style for safety with bland, fortress-like buildings.
Another man suspected of involvement in the embassy bombings - Saleh Ali Saleh Nabhan - was killed in Somalia in a 2009 US raid.
Edith Bartley, whose father and brother were killed in the Kenya embassy bombing, said the family was "extremely, extremely pleased" to hear the news.
"We're coming up on the 13th anniversary of the embassy bombing and this individual was part of the original indictment in the first al-Qaida trial in 2001, so it's long overdue," said Bartley, who lives in Bowie, Maryland.
Members of Somalia's most dangerous militant group, al-Shabab, have pledged allegiance to al-Qaida. Al-Shabab's members include veterans of the Iraq and Pakistan conflicts.
Hundreds of foreign fighters are swelling the ranks of al-Shabab militants who are trying in vain to topple the country's weak UN-backed government.
Somalia has been mired in violence since 1991, when the last central government collapsed.
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