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Former LSU CB Tyrann Mathieu has full slate of pre-draft visits, but that doesn't include Top 30 visits to Giants or Jets, source says
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Here's how I would rank the Top 5 Safety prospects: 1. Vaccaro (TEX) 2. Cyprien (FIU) 3. Reid (LSU) 4. Elam (FLA) 5. Swearinger (SC)
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Cyprien I know nothing about
Reid I really like....Lays some big time lumber and appears decent in coverage
Ditto for Elam.Love him and think he has Polamalu/Reed type star quality as a pro although might get a few penalties for leading with the helmet
Swearinger is LaRon lite and a penalty waiting to happen.
@MoveTheSticks: After watching his tape and talking to several different teams, I'll be surprised if Tank Carradine isn't a 1st round pick.
@seniorbowl: As for safeties, much more depth than past two drafts put together. Eric Reid/LSU had great workout last week, will be late riser.
@seniorbowl: K Vaccaro, J Cyprien, M Elam, Sh Thomas, E Wolff can all help close to the line. P Thomas/Fresno may be best FS. JJ Wilcox is interesting.
@seniorbowl: And, Duke Williams/Reno has talent, too. Plus, Georgia safeties Rambo and Sh Williams can both contribute. Again, good group overall.
@seniorbowl: @seniorbowl thinks Saints all over Mingo at #15. Perfect price for a player who fits new 3-4 scheme.
@seniorbowl: Outside of QB's, keep an eye on these 3 seniors. NFL people "sitting" on them: OT Kyle Long/Oreg, TE Travis Kelce/Cin, LB Sio Moore/UConn.
@seniorbowl: Jets at #9 will be first indication of who is guiding ship, new GM John Idzik or Rex Ryan? Need playmakers on both sides of football
@seniorbowl: Jets at #9 moving down = acquiring picks for rebuild and future. Some have Cordarrelle Patterson/Tenn WR on offense slotted there.
@seniorbowl: The "clean" defensive difference-makers will be off board by #9 (Floyd, Jordan, Ansah). @seniorbowl looking for move down, if possible
Pro Football Weekly @ProFootballWkly
RT @buffalobills: Marrone on QB Ryan Nassib: "I know him very well. All the QBs I have seen personally have the ability to win in the @NFL"
Daniel Jeremiah @MoveTheSticks
Studied all 15 of Tavon Austin's TDs from 2012. 14 of 15 would've counted in a 2 hand touch league. Defenders can't touch him!
@MoveTheSticks: 2nd round is going to be outstanding in this draft! Immediate starters at WR, CB, LB, DT and TE...


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Peppy ran around Sandra Bourgeois' North Charleston home Friday and bit his favorite plastic toy shaped like an alligator.
It squeaked.
Two nights earlier, the 5-year-old Chihuahua-Jack Russell terrier mix encountered a gator that was more than he could chew.
And this one hissed.
Bourgeois returned from work about 10:30 p.m. Wednesday and let her dog into the yard behind her mobile home on North Oakridge Circle.
Peppy barked. And barked.
A hissing emanated from behind the fence 2 feet in front of him. It was dark, so Bourgeois fetched a flashlight and lit up the ditch.
Staring up at her, its eyes glowing and scales gleaming, was an 8-foot alligator. Each time Peppy barked, it hissed. Then it started scaling the chain-link fence.
Bourgeois jumped onto an outside table. She feared that the estimated 350-pound male would bust through the fence or climb over it, and the high ground gave her an advantage.
For 15 minutes Bourgeois locked herself in a standoff with the beast as she phoned authorities. They all told her the same thing: She must learn to co-exist with critters in their natural habitat. That didn't calm her worries about the little dogs, cats and children who live in the area where she said gators don't belong.
"We're left wondering if he's coming back," she said. "We can't go into our backyards without that fear."
Wildlife officials said Bourgeois' predicament isn't unusual, especially during mating season. But unless a gator is a danger, experts won't take the ultimate measure, and the state won't give them permission to do so.
Lt. Robert McCullough of the S.C. Department of Natural Resources said an alligator would be killed only if it posed a threat. It can't simply be relocated, he said, because if it's a nuisance somewhere, it'll be a nuisance somewhere else.
Oftentimes, it's up to the landowner.
Bourgeois' landlord, the Ashley Arbor II Mobile Home Park, got permission from DNR and hired Kevin Murphy of Critter Control in Mount Pleasant to remove the gator.
State law doesn't allow Murphy to bait alligators. He must instead track it down, and he's had no luck.
In a competition for a mate, the gator probably got chased off by a bigger male, Murphy said, and the ditch behind Bourgeois' home was just an escape route.
"It could have just been passing through," Murphy said. "They get territorial this time of year."
Bourgeois' faceoff ended Wednesday night when she told police that she feared for her life. The gator had climbed about a foot from the top of the fence, she said, and a neighbor was forced to beat it back with a stick. About 10 police cars showed up.
Two animal-control officers from the North Charleston Police Department followed up on her complaint Friday. They searched nearby ponds. The gator likely wriggled through the connected ditches.
For the decades she has lived here, the only reptiles that gave Bourgeois a problem were snakes. She usually jumps into her shrimping boots and beheads them with a shovel.
Since her run-in Wednesday, Bourgeois has installed floodlights outside her place. She gets home at night and evaluates the shadowy areas of her yard with a flashlight before walking inside.
She also has acquired a pistol and a rifle. She's not afraid to act despite a police officer's warning that she could face criminal charges if she takes matters into her own hands.
She is originally from New Orleans, Bourgeois said, and the bayou blood in her veins has given her courage.
"This is my home, and I'm going to defend it," she said. "I can't let a gator roll up and take over. He'll be the one who will be someone's supper."
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Games Workshop is going wild with video game adaptations lately, licensing its beloved tabletop franchises to everyone and their grandmother. That Focus Home has licensed Warhammer 40,000 off-shot Space Hulk for an FPS is no surprise, then, but here's the weird bit: Space Hulk: Deathwing is made by Streum On Studio, the folks behind E.Y.E: Divine Cybermancy.
Yes, E.Y.E, that weird and wonky cyberpunk FPS from 2011. Yet somehow it doesn't seem a wholly awful fit: you don't want to play Just Another Licensed FPS, do you? Divine Cybermancy was wildly ambitious and while it fell short on execution, it had some grand ideas and Streum On certainly tried to be different. Working within the constraints of a derelict spaceship rather than a sprawling cyberpunk city may force the developer to focus.
As for Deathwing itself, we know it'll put you in the Terminator armour of a Space Marine Librarian from the Dark Angels' Deathwing chapter, and send you into a drifting Space Hulk on the usual Space Hulk business: fight Genestealers; find cool stuff. Like E.Y.E, it'll have RPG elements, granting XP to spend on weapons, abilities, relics, and psyker powers.
Deathwing's release date and platforms are a secret for now, though it's on Unreal Engine 4 so it could hit most systems. Other facts: the official website has no useful information.


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by: Andy Worthington, t r u t h o u t | News Analysis
plea deal giving him an eight-year sentence in exchange for agreeing that he was guilty of murder in violation of the laws of war, spying, conspiracy, providing material support to terrorism and attempted murder, with one year to be served in Guantánamo and the remaining seven in Canada.
Because the sentence negotiated as part of the plea deal is less than the one delivered by the military jury, the latter will stand only as a symbolic conviction, but it will be seized upon by those who have long wished to have Khadr convicted as a dangerous terrorist. In addition, the 40-year sentence confirms that, since last Monday, when Khadr accepted his plea deal at Guantánamo, two worlds - and two wildly divergent views of American justice - have coexisted unhappily.
In the first, Khadr's acceptance that he threw the grenade that killed Delta Force Sgt. Christopher Speer, at the end of a four-hour firefight in Afghanistan on July 27, 2002, and his acceptance that he was a member of al-Qaeda and an "alien unprivileged enemy belligerent," who did not have "any legal basis to commit any war-like acts," was a vindication of the system of trials by military commission at Guantánamo that was revived last year by President Obama.
In the other, everything about the last week's events has been a travesty of justice that heaps shame upon the United States and convicting Khadr for being an "alien unprivileged enemy combatant," who was not even allowed to legitimately be in any kind of combat situation whatsoever, is an almost incomprehensible farce.
Moreover, the analysis of the last week's events as a disturbing travesty of justice is supported by the United States' ratification, in December 2002, of the UN Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the involvement of children in armed conflict and also by analyses of the legislation authorizing the military commissions, which reveals that the war crimes that Khadr agreed to committing as part of his plea deal are not war crimes at all.
Under the terms of the UN Optional Protocol, which deals with prisoners who are under 18 when their alleged crimes take place, signatories are obliged to "[r]ecogniz[e] the special needs of those children who are particularly vulnerable to recruitment or use in hostilities," and are also called upon to ensure "the physical and psychosocial rehabilitation and social reintegration of children who are victims of armed conflict."
In Khadr's case, however, his conviction in a war crimes trial under President Obama only serves to reinforce the melancholy truth that little has changed since it was revealed in 2003 that juvenile prisoners - as many as 22 in total - were being held at Guantánamo and defense secretary Donald Rumsfeld responded to reporters' concerns with the memorable quip, "these are not children."
As for the war crimes, even putting aside for a moment any reasonable doubts that Khadr may only have agreed to the charges in order to secure his release, the crimes in question are only recognized as war crimes by the Obama administration and by Congress, as Lt. Col. David Frakt, a law professor and the former military defense attorney for two Guantánamo prisoners, has explained.
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Back in April, Lieutenant Colonel Frakt made it clear that, when it came to the central charge of "murder in violation of the law of war," even if Khadr did throw the grenade, "there is no evidence that he violated the law of war in doing so."
This confusion first arose because the Bush administration wanted to find a way to ensure that "any attempt to fight Americans or coalition forces was a war crime," and, in 2006 and, disturbingly, last year under Obama, Congress maintained this unjustifiable position by refusing to distinguish between legitimate and illegitimate actions during wartime.
Lieutenant Colonel Frakt explained that the Bush administration's original invented charge for the commissions - "Murder by an Unprivileged Belligerent" - was, essentially, replaced by the Congress-endorsed "Murder in Violation of the Law of War," even though it "conflated two different concepts - unprivileged belligerents and war criminals."
He continued:
Under Article 4 of the Geneva Prisoner of War Convention, it is clear that while a member of an organized resistance movement or militia may be an unprivileged belligerent (because of not wearing a uniform or failing to carry arms openly, for example) he may still comply with the laws and customs of war, so not all hostile acts committed by unprivileged belligerents are war crimes. Attacks by unprivileged belligerents which comply with the law of war (in that they attack lawful military targets with lawful weapons) may only be tried in domestic courts. In Iraq, for example, insurgents who try to kill Americans by implanting roadside bombs are properly arrested and tried before the Central Criminal Court of Iraq as common criminals. Attacks by unprivileged belligerents which violate the law of war, such as attacks on civilians or soldiers attempting to surrender, or using prohibited weapons like poison gas, can be tried in a war crimes tribunal.Furthermore, in a cynical attempt to overcome this glaring contradiction between legitimate and illegitimate actions in wartime, the Obama administration added the following "official comment" to the explanation of the offense of "Murder in Violation of the Law of War" in the new military commissions Manual:
[A]n accused may be convicted in a military commission ... if the commission finds that the accused engaged in conduct traditionally triable by military commission (e.g., spying; murder committed while the accused did not meet the requirements of privileged belligerency) even if such conduct does not violate the international law of war.As Lieutenant Colonel Frakt commented, "Astoundingly, according to the Pentagon, a detainee may be convicted of murder in violation of the law of war even if they did not actually violate the law of war."
In other words, then, a former child prisoner, who should have been rehabilitated rather than punished, because the responsibility for his actions lay with his militant father, was convicted on war crimes charges that were invented by Congress and were then reworked by the Obama administration so that the glaring contradiction between real war crimes and invented war crimes could be papered over with a veneer of legitimacy.
Small wonder then that, in the "Statement of Fact" that Khadr signed as part of his plea deal, he was also obliged to waive his right to appeal, in a passage that stated that he "does not have any legal defense to any of the offenses to which he is pleading guilty."
With such grotesque distortions of justice taking place over the last week, it is easy to forget that the judge, Army Col. Patrick Parrish, had also prevented Khadr's lawyers from drawing on their client's well-chronicled reports of his torture and abuse in US custody. As a result, claims that Khadr was subjected to abusive treatment in Bagram - and was later subjected to variations on the reverse-engineered torture techniques used in Guantánamo and derived from the US military's Survival Evasion Resistance Escape program (SERE) - were not even mentioned until the final day of his sentencing hearing,
In their closing comments, his lawyers managed to introduce a statement, written by Khadr, referring to the terror he felt when an interrogator, Sgt. Joshua Claus, threatened him with being sent to a US jail where he would be raped by "four big black guys."
Claus served a five-month prison sentence for the abuse of an unidentified prisoner at Bagram and for his part in the murder of Dilawar, an Afghan taxi driver who was murdered in Bagram in December 2002, but this was a relatively mild anecdote, compared to other claims made by Khadr over the years - that on one occasion in Guantánamo, for example, he was used as a human mop after urinating on himself while being held in isolation and subjected to painful short-shackling and that he was regularly threatened with rape and with being transferred to another country where he could be raped.
In conclusion, while those who exult in the depths to which America has sunk over the last nine years, since "the gloves came off" following the 9/11 attacks, will rejoice in Khadr's 40-year sentence (and will complain that his real sentence is only eight years), anyone who retains a shred of decency and respect for the rule of law will be more inclined to accept the words of Dennis Edney, one of Khadr's long-term Canadian civilian lawyers, who stated after the military jury announced its sentence:
The fact that the trial of a child soldier, Omar Khadr, has ended with a guilty plea in exchange for his eventual release to Canada does not change the fact that fundamental principles of law and due process were long since abandoned in Omar's case. Politics also played a role. To date, there have been in excess of 1,200 US troops killed in Afghanistan, yet it is only Omar who has been put on trial.Edney followed up by referring to those two polarized worlds of opinion that I mentioned at the start of this article, saying that those watching the military commission "may choose to believe that through his plea Omar finally came clean and accepted his involvement in a firefight when he was 15 years of age," or, conversely, that they may have concluded that "this was one final coerced confession from a victimized young man who was in the wrong place at the wrong time because his father placed him there.''


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Gamecock football Long Term Future and the SEC
Yes I know that we are only one game into the season and I do not want this to be mistaken as a overreaction/under-reaction thread about what happened on Thursday. I am just hoping for a genuine discussion on what South Carolina's future looks in relation to the other teams in the SEC.
UGA- Always has great athletes, haven't gotten over the hump in recent years but will continually recruit well/always have solid coaching/good facilities
TENN- I honestly believe is a sleeping giant possibly bigger than where they use to be. Fans and players have bought into what Butch Jones is selling and he is recruiting really well. They have improved facilities and could be really trouble in the next few years.
UK- I think Mark Stoops has done well in recruiting and efforts to improve their football facilities and standing in a "basketball" school. I could see them flip flopping with Vandy in the aspect of possibly reaching 8-9 wins for a couple years in a row.
Vandy - James Franklin leaving might have set this program back further than anyone could have realized.
Mizzou- An enigma to me. They are improving their stadium and seem to like Pinkel but I just cant buy into them being a contender year in and year out but will come up every 2-3 years and surprise people (i.e. last year)
UF - Muschamp is making strides to improve their offense. They will ALWAYS have athletes but he is not liked well and I do not see him lasting there much longer even if he does have a better season this years
I want do into all the West but:
Auburn with Malzahn is here to stay, Bama is Bama
Texas A&M - Since we play them every year Ill say this. They have money we could only dream of, a coach that I think is out to prove something and could turn into a giant in the game. They have a rich recruiting base that doesn't have cycles it just reloads. This is a game we are going to dread having to play year in and year out. However will Sumlin get plucked up by the NFL only time will tell? Also have you seen their new football facilities? Makes our new upgrades look 5-10 years behind.
With all that said our unprecedented success has been great, however is it sustainable, do you think we recruit well enough to provide us a foundation to whomever comes after the HBC? I mention all this for the seemingly lack of swagger and attitude of a building program that many of these other teams have. We seem to have some similar issues year in and year out (i.e. starting slow, trouble vs. lesser opponents, dropping that one game a year we shouldn't) Solutions? Am I a crazy?
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Just when you think you won't post for a while. But I'll do it anyway.
We are in a pickle honestly. Our state really isn't bad at putting out Div I players, but the problem is that our neighbors are the top 10, barring California, Ohio, Texas, and maybe Pennsylvania, though that isn't what it used to be.
We are one of the smaller population southern states. Mississippi, Kentucky, and Arkansas are the only ones with a smaller population if you want to say Arkansas is southern. That said I've seen tons of different breakdowns on this, but Louisiana and Mississippi generally wind up producing more NFL players per capita when you use that for a proxy for how much talent you are putting out.
Now our state puts out more talent than Kentucky and Arkansas, but we usually wind up losing some players to the school up the road.
The biggest advantage we have recruiting wise is how close we are to Georgia and metro Atlanta. And Auburn does that one better (Clemson too honestly).
We have no national presence in recruiting. Never have, unless a guy like Holtz or Spurrier drags in a guy like Brewer or the like by his rep. We don't have an offense that has an identity and makes guys in Texas say "Man I have to play in that. They offer me a visit and I am going."
Plus I think people need to face facts. Columbia just isn't that attractive to a lot of recruits. Be honest about it, wine and cheese cracks aside. Would you rather go to school in the Triangle area if you have no connections to Columbia, or Columbia?
You can rinse and repeat for a number of other locations nationally, and in the SEC.
Things aren't like they used to be either. Whether they can take their programs to where they want to go or not, all this new money is bringing in a new breed of coach. Stoops and Jones are both doing a bang up job recruiting all things considered.
We may be spending money on facilities, but other teams are too. And the only schools that are less well heeled than us, even in the SEC are the Mississippi schools. Tennessee budget crisis is a blip in the bigger picture, they still make considerably more revenue than we do. The other schools... as a rule of thumb the farther north you go the more money there is. Then there A&M's oil lease money, Arkansas' chicken/walmart/even oil money, and other places that are just in states that there is more money floating around in like Florida and Georgia, and it just floats in somehow. Not that their athletic department revenue is poor to begin with.
In the end we will always have lesser facilities than most of the SEC schools. If it is effective, they will just plain have more money to throw at it.
I'm going to cut this short. But the next guy we hire after Spurrier is maybe the most important one we ever make. They are going to have to guess right. I really don't think their is another name like Spurrier or Holtz that is going to be looking when that does happen.
We are going to have to get one of these young guys that lives and dies by recruiting. Whether you hate him or not, James Franklin would have been ideal for us.
Of course he has other fish to fry.
Right now I think we get recruits more from Spurrier's reputation, and the fact that he is constantly in the media's eye. If he wasn't in that any more than say Dan Mullen, we wouldn't recruit nearly as well.
That is a long winded way to say that regardless of this season, competitiveness or even winning seasons aren't a given, despite our recent run.
We could do very well in a number of conferences across the country with players we recruit. But our neighborhood is some kind of Hobessian war zone.
A lot of our problems would go away if we could get Clemson to drop football. Of course they could say the same. Their situation isn't as bad because there are only a couple of team in the ACC (FSU, Miami) that are just inherently better, and only a few that really should be better (UNC). But whether they come out and say it or even think it, they have some of the same problems we do in regards to getting the kind of players to win the national championship.
I mean look at yesterday. Maybe Danny recruited better a year or two, but this is the best recruiting run they have ever had the past few years. And even if it stayed close on the field for a half, the eyeball test and score did not lie.
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Honestly all of me doesn't want to say this but the way its looks right now I think our chances for an SEC and National Title may have passed us. It really feels as though we have plateaued at 11-3 and no championships as in all those 3 straight 11 seasons we dropped at least 1 game we had no business losing, that's not even mentioning the year we won the East. We don't have a championship mentality like Bama whose goal is National Title or bust, still too many fans are happy with winning 11 games. I remember the days of just getting to a bowl was an accomplishment but now not winning championships is unacceptable, we had too much talent the last 3 years to not have won an SEC championship. We need to be able to ignore the hype and focus on winning championships rather than what the so-called experts on the 4 Letter say.
UGA is poised to lock control of the East for the next few years at least, they are back. UT is a team that is 2-3 years to being the Fulmer UT of old. UF is getting top talent as always but I don't think as long as Muschamp is there they won't the UF under Spurrier. UK is an up and comer now that they have decided they want to be more than just a basketball school, they might not be the UK under the Bear but Butch is going to build a good program up there again. Vandy I think achieved everything they will every achieve before Franklin left, they are going back in the cellar for a long time. Mizzou the jury is still out on them they could repeat this year as East Champs, this is not a team to take lightly as they have gotten adjusted to life in the SEC, they could give us a fits every year.
Not even to try and break down the west Bama, Auburn, LSU, and aTm are going to be battling for superiority of the West but Ole Miss isn't far from being in the SEC Championship game.
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We caught a perfect storm there for a while with some of the states top recruits also being some of the top nationally (Jeffery, Clowney, Latimore, etc). The talent pool has grown significantly more shallow in recent years. This to me is the biggest hurdle. SOS has done a fantastic job of keeping the best talent in state, but our state's best is no longer elite. We will pick up the occasional solid recruit from UGA or Florida, but we can't count on getting top shelf players from those states on any kind of regular basis.
The next biggest issue is that we simply can't recruit nationally. For all of our success and Spurrier's name recognition, we just don't get recruits out of the Texas or California gold mines. When you consider going up against UF, FSU and Miami for Florida talent (Clemson also seems to do very well there for some reason or another) getting that state's talent is a tall order as well.
We really were just fortunate that we had such a good run of top talent in our state and I'm not sure what we do now that it's no longer the case.
The third factor for me is Clemson. We have 2 programs in the state that are currently nationally relevant. The aforementioned diminishing in-state recruiting talent makes having 2 nationally programs nearly impossible unless you can recruit nationally. Dabo ha many shortcomings as a coach but, say what you will, he's a doggone heckuva of a recruiter.
As for SOS's replacement? Who knows? I don't know that there's anyone in-house who excites me. I know SOS takes pride in his approach to coaching, and it works for him. But I think the next guy we get needs to be a Saban type who lives and breathes the job. I'm not knocking SOS at all, but maybe the reason Bama has those championships under Saban and maybe the reason they have all those great recruiting classes is because the job is his life. I dunno. Obviously, I think we need to go young. Do we stick with someone who has strong ties to recruiting in this area? Do we look for a west coast guy who has recruiting in-roads in that part of the country?
I wouldn't say the window has closed already for us, but I'd say it is in the process of closing. Next year's recruiting class is absolutely critical. It's looking great right now and we have to keep it together at all costs.
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It would be nice to get a head coach in the same fashion as Fla picked up Urban Myer. Some one young who has proved themselves else where. The only thing to bring a top notch coach to USC is the fact we are in the SEC. Everyone lose may disagree with me but that's how I look at it
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I keep hearing Mark Dantonio, maybe even Pat Narduzzi. Problem is no one knows how long SOS will stay, and top tier coaches don't last forever.
It's only unthinkable if you don't think it.
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No matter what, it'll be a crap shoot and we just have to hope we guess right.
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I also don't want an NFL guy. No matter what they say during the interview process, any NFL guy will head back for the pros if he has success in college.
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We have just started changing the culture here at SC (SOS was the start - not the start and end). We must make football even more of a priority in order to go to the next level. We need to do the following:
1. Expand recruiting. Dedicate more resources, expand footprint to include Texas, top five recruiting should be our goal every year.
2. Stop promoting within all the time on the coaching staff. For example, when EJ or even BL left we should have replaced these vacancies with proven equal or better talent.
3. We need to go big on facility upgrades. Stop chipping at this $10 million every other year. WB needs to be beautified, modernized, upgraded, etc. Stop diverting so much funds to non-revenue sport facilities. Those will come in time.
4. Hold the BOT and AD accountable. Demand results. These people have more support and money than ever before; therefore, they need to produce.
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I've seen Narduzzi mentioned as a candidate for a few jobs, and he certainly has the credentials. But geez, other than a West Coast guy could we get anyone who is further from our recruiting grounds?
It's early still, but the next guy has to be a lights out recruiter. I don't want to start a Chad bashing thread, but a hotshot coordinator who isn't known as a recruiter won't do it for us, so some of the names who come up in the next few years aren't going to work for us.
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Yall hit the nail on the head. And explained it perfectly. Its pretty sspookie
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One of the more realistic and accurate threads in a while. Great posts guys
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I think y'all will be OK. You may have some off years but nothing like the late 90s. Florida fell off after Tebow and more after Meyer. 2012 Florida was lucky and 2013 very unlucky. Florida will be a player again, if not with Muschamp....someone else. SC has improved in many ways, not just in the HC department. A good AD will keep things above water and find SC a good coach. There will always be some rotation at the top of the SEC East, you just want to be in the rotation.
Clemson I am less confident about. If Clemson dips more than SC (a good possibility), SC will win the recruiting battle. If CU does not man up, some other ACC teams may jump them and the West/ Bowden era is back again with a huge buyout hung around their neck.
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Play ball and recruit, it will work out when all these crystal balls drop. I guess some here now knows the future.
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I think that we will continue to be a cyclical program, a few up years and then a number of several down years. We have just been in an up cycle recently...I attribute the length of the up trend to SOS, god help us when he leaves. Holtz showed promise of spurrier, brought us up but only for a short lived cycle. I fear that we are in for a downward trend unless we can find a young mastermind that wants to build upon the foundation we have constructed under SOS and Tanner. At this point I am really running out of things to say, however, many of the original posts were very lengthy and I don't want to be an outlier. I need to be able to fit in more, my parents say I am a bit of an outcast and I should work to become more socially integrated. I want to thank cockytalk and the academy for my recent awards, there are so many people I want to thank but I left my thank you notes in the limo before getting out to walk down the red carpet. You know, it's really all of the little people behind the scenes that make the dream a reality. Just remember that working hard is just a path to working hard and all the smart people have figured out creative shortcuts or how to game the system. In closing I would like to recognize all of the public service efforts of so many people. the als ice bucket challenge has been a stroke of pure genius widely lauded by all of us on hard wet nipple alert. good night and thank you
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Regarding post Spurrier era hires, a BOT member told a group of us in the spring that they'll go either 2 directions:
1) Look at a young head coach from a school that is consistently winning, comes from a coaching tree like Saban/Malzahn type. This coach would have to already have a reasonable buyout in his existing contract. And the coach would want to leave a Big 12 or ACC school, and make the jump to the SEC. Smaller Texas & Florida university coaches were also on the radar.
2) Stay in the SEC and swipe a top named coordinator or a lower tiered SEC school HC that is having consistent success (Ole Miss, Miss St, Vandy, UK, maybe Arky or Mizzou). Again, the buyout is going to have to work both ways--getting a new staff assembled & paying old staff severance.
Was told look for Spurrier to get to 100 wins at USC before he considered retiring.
Again, this pure speculation from a BOT member at a golf outing.
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Since Jin Lee of Des Plaines immigrated with his parents to the United States in 1975 from Seoul, South Korea, he has wanted to pay tribute to the American soldiers who kept his homeland free.
After arriving in Texas as a teenager, Lee became fascinated at how Americans portrayed his country in publications such as Time, Life and the National Geographic. He later began collecting medals, newspaper articles and artifacts brought home by American soldiers that wound up in flea markets and garage sales.
Over the years, he has sponsored small exhibits on the Korean War, but the one he recently opened at the Skokie Heritage Museum commemorating the 60th anniversary of the cease-fire armistice ending that bloody conflict is his grand achievement.
"It is so important that we, as the current generation, remember the Korean War and thank each veteran individually who helped keep South Korea free," the 51-year-old Lee said. "They are the reason we are living safely and comfortably here in the United States."
The exhibit, "The Forgotten War Remembered," features photos, maps, original newspaper and magazine articles, uniforms, flags, medals and other war artifacts from Lee's collection -- some one-of-a-kind -- and donations from Korean War veterans living in the area.
The items on display include a letter written by U.S. Sen. Paul Douglas of Illinois explaining to a disgruntled American citizen why President Harry Truman dismissed Gen. Douglas MacArthur, who had challenged civilian leadership of the war.
There is also a postcard signed by Gen. William F. Dean, the highest-ranking officer captured by the North Koreans. Dean received the U.S. Medal of Honor at the Battle of Taejon, where he fought off the enemy with his sidearm until taken prisoner.
"I realized that the children of deceased veterans were throwing away these items and someday they would all be lost," Lee said.
He conceived of creating an exhibit where veterans -- many who are now in their 80s -- could lend or donate their war relics to his exhibit and afterward to his care.
"I plan to preserve and someday leave these historical items entrusted to my care to a permanent museum dedicated to the Korean War, which I will work to help establish," Lee said
He said he also wants to educate South Korean youth and future generations on what happened to their country, why it is still divided -- the only one so partitioned in the world.
"I want them to know about and remember the sacrifices, courage and perseverance it took to stop and roll back North Korean and Chinese communist aggression that left millions dead, wounded and homeless," Lee said.
"Hearing from the veterans about the war is priceless," said Jennifer Chang, 33, a Skokie resident originally from Seoul, South Korea, who attended the exhibit's June 22 opening ceremonies.
Mason Jeon, 36, from Seoul and now living in Arlington Heights, echoed Lee's concern. "My generation does not know about the war," he said. "That is why this exhibit is so important."
Though never officially declared a war, it was a brutal conflict that raged from June 25, 1950, to July 27, 1953, between North and South Korea, and pitted U.S. soldiers against massive onslaughts of Chinese communist troops.
When the United Nations, China and North Korea signed a cease-fire armistice ending the Korean War 60 years ago, U.S. casualties amounted to more than 33,000 killed, 100,000 wounded and 7,000 taken prisoner.
Thousands more were missing in action and would die of wounds. Millions of civilians had perished, many the victims of atrocities committed by the North Korean Army.
American soldiers were dubbed "the walking wounded" because they were patched up in the field and sent back into battle -- a savage existence where ever-changing front lines, hand-to-hand combat, merciless artillery barrages, amputations from frostbite and death from dysentery were commonplace.
The exhibit provides a retrospect on how ferocious and extensive the fighting was that involved America and its United Nations allies. U.S. troops by far bore the brunt of combat by land, air and sea.
Louis Krueger, 83, of Chicago, who was in the 2nd Engineer Group from October 1951 until March 1953, donated a photo of himself taken on the 38th Parallel -- the dividing line between North and South Korea. His unit provided operational support for a Mobile Army Surgical Hospital.
"Helicopters carrying wounded flew in day and night," Krueger recalled, adding he survived two brutal winters where temperatures often dipped to 30 degrees below zero.
"When I think of what the American soldiers endured and what would have happened without their help …" an emotional Lee said without finishing his sentence.
The exhibit runs until Sept. 26. For information, call the Skokie Heritage Museum at (847) 677-6672.


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Thursday is day seven of the Summer Olympics. Another big moment is on tap for American swimmers Michael Phelps and Ryan Lochte. The host country looks to add to its suddenly growing tally of medals. And badminton marches on, its image battered by scandal. Renee Montagne talks to NPR's Tom Goldman about all things Olympics.


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My Favorite Toy Memory
I grew up on Westerns. I also grew up playing cowboys and Indians. When I wasn't racing around the yard slapping my hip to get my "horse" moving I had my plastic figures spread across the kitchen floor.
I Googled to find photos of the figures I remember and was shocked to find how well I remember those steers with the twisty tail and the cowboy with the whip (and others with ropes and guns.) The plastic fences and little campfire and the saddles and the harness to snap horses into the buckboard. Oh the memories.
In the Sketchbook Group where I am leading "Tuesdays With Rita" the memories have been amazing. Some of the toys mentioned are: silly putty, yoyos, slinkys, dolls of all kinds, magic slates, troll dolls, hulahoops, Etch A Sketch, the bald guy with the iron shavings that you put his beard and hair on (Wooly Willy)and on and on.
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FRESNO, Calif. – In the final game of the Fresno State Kick-Off, UC Santa Barbara fell short against Fresno State in a 6-5, eight-inning battle on Sunday afternoon.
UCSB finished tournament play at 4-1 and are now 6-3 on the season.
Santa Barbara went ahead early in the first inning thanks to a two out RBI from Lauren Boser.
With runners on first and second, the Gaucho first baseman sent the 0-1 pitch into right field to bring Kristen Clark across home plate.
Behind excellent base running, Santa Barbara again pulled out a run facing two outs in the following inning.
The second opened with back-to-back strikeouts, but Stacy Cavazos was the first Gaucho get on base after taking a hit by a pitch. The freshman promptly moved into scoring position by stealing second while Clark was up at bat.
Clark joined her fellow freshman on the bags after connecting with an infield single to the shortstop, which moved Cavazos to third.
With two speedsters on base, the Gauchos went for a double steal and came up with their second run of the game.
Responding to UCSB's 2-0 lead, Fresno State tallied three runs in the bottom of the second.
The Bulldogs capitalized on a pair of Gaucho errors and were able to score on three consecutive at-bats.
With a runner on second, Wisdom would bring her team out jam with her second strikeout of the evening.
Overall, the senior finished with three strikeouts in 7.1 innings of work.
Moving to the top of the third, UCSB quickly eliminated Fresno State's lead after Boser tripled to right field with a shot that soared its way to the wall.
Kathryn Pilpil took care of the rest with her ensuing at bat, as she connected on a single to left field for the game-tying RBI.
The teams remained gridlocked at 3-3 through the next 2.5 innings with the Gaucho defense only allowing the Bulldogs at the most four at bats through the fifth.
Later in the sixth, Clark roped her third triple of the year to right field to put UCSB's leading run just 60 feet away from home.
Arianna Palomares didn't keep the freshman waiting long and delivered an RBI with a single to left field, putting UCSB on top 4-3.
As they did in the third, the Bulldogs had a quick answer for the Gauchos with Stesha Brazil knocking a lead-off homer over left field.
After a scoreless seventh, Wisdom delivered the clutch two-out single to left field and sent Clark home in regaining the Gauchos' lead.
With home field advantage, Fresno State had the last say on offense and were able to get their runner home from second with its first at bat. The ball was hit to left field where Clark picked it up and tried to beat the runner coming home with a scorching throw.
The throw made it to MeShalon Moore at home, but Michelle Solomon's hard slide disrupted Moore's catch on what was the game-tying play.
A groundout to third advanced Fresno State's Christina Rodriguez to third base, setting the stage for the game winning RBI single.
Kierra Willis hit a grounder to short, but once the toss was made to first, Boser looked to throw the Rodriguez out at the plate. The throw went wide, however, and the Bulldogs pulled out the extra innings win.
UCSB will continue its season next week at Florida State in the Unconquered Classic where the Gauchos are scheduled to face Northern Iowa, Wichita State, Florida A&M, along with the host Seminoles.


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Sometimes specializing within your field requires more than taking a class or two in college. Speech-language pathologists (SLPs) who want to work with children with feeding disorders need continuing education.
"Conferences and workshops are available nationwide and often in the Twin Cities area, providing clinicians who work with children with feeding and swallowing disorders the opportunity for continuing education," said Mary Huschle, an SLP who specializes in treating pediatric feeding disorders at Hennepin County Medical Center (www.hcmed.org).
Organizations that stage the conferences and workshops include Continuing Education Programs of America (www.cepauniversity.com) and Professional Development Programs (www.pdppro.com). The American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (www. asha.org) has more information about becoming a speech-language pathologist. Feeding therapy jobs may be found in hospitals, nonprofit clinics or private clinics.
Why is this happening?
The reasons for feeding disorders may be complex, according to Huschle. Newborns may have trouble swallowing due to breathing problems. Older infants may have difficulty transitioning to baby food, table food or drinking from a cup. A diagnosis of cerebral palsy, Down syndrome or autism may cause or contribute to the problem, but often there is no diagnosis, Huschle said.
"Feeding is very emotional and if an infant or child is having trouble growing, that can be terrifying for parents," she added. "Parents may have a tendency to force-feed out of fear. That almost never works well."
If the problem is sensory, as in autism, the child may not even want to touch food or get their hands messy. SLPs then have to teach not only the children but the parents how to approach feeding without fear.
Liz Oesterreich, SLP, feeding clinic coordinator at the nonprofit Fraser Child & Family Center in Minneapolis (www.fraser.org), said she's decided to feeding issues because it's such a big part of a child's well-being and quality of life. She enjoys working with other professionals such as occupational therapists and psychologists to help an entire family with mealtimes and social interactions.
Must practice patience
Most of Oesterreich's feeding patients are children with autism ages 2 to 7, although some are preteens and teenagers. "It's typically a slow process," she said. "There are some kids who will progress very quickly, depending on how many foods they have in their diet and how many we're looking to add."
The program may last 12 weeks to a year, with indefinite follow-up. "We've found that it can take multiple exposures for a child to either accept a food or reject a food and that's based on how the brain wires for different pathways," Oesterreich said. "It's very dependent on the child. You're reading their signals constantly ... It's really rewarding when you see progress."
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Canonical delivers second Natty Ubuntu beta
Easter's no time for an RC
Posted in Software, 14th April 2011 23:57 GMT
Updated Canonical has released a second beta for a new version of Ubuntu, having changed its nomenclature for betas and release candidates ahead of final code.
The Ubuntu team delivered the beta for Natty Narwhal, Ubuntu 11.04, on Thursday afternoon Pacific Time.
Canonical's Ubuntu release manager Kate Stewart told the Ubuntu mailing list: "The team has been hard at work since Beta 1, fixing bugs and getting things all nice and natty."
Ubuntu community manager Jono Bacon also Tweeted: "Ubuntu 11.04 Beta 2 is out – this is the last beta so test and file bugs so we can get this baby rock solid!"
Typically, Ubuntu goes from alpha to final release via one beta and a release candidate. Only twice before, it seems, has there been a second beta – Ubuntu 6.06 and 10.04 – and each time the beta was followed by an RC before final availability.
Ubuntu 6.06 and 10.04 were Long-Term Support (LTS) editions, making them major pieces of work that set the technology and look and feel of releases following in the next two years.
This time, however, Canonical is dropping the RC label entirely and calling it a Beta 2. Stewart told the Ubuntu mailing list in February that Canonical felt that shipping a release candidate on April 21, just before the Easter holiday, would be "a bit late."
"We're going to go ahead and add a Beta 2 for this release, and drop the Release Candidate from the Natty Schedule," she wrote. The date for Beta 2 was given as April 14.
Ubuntu director of engineering Rick Spencer followed this up, telling The Reg Thursday the Easter holiday meant there was less time for testing and bug fixing in the final week. "The release team decided to pull forward the last milestone, typically call the Release Candidate (RC) from next Thursday to today to allow for more testing and bug fixing to happen."
Spencer said: "It's not really realistic that the image built today won't get bug fixes and changes before the final release. Therefore, it's really a beta, so they renamed the milestone to beta 2."
Natty Narwhal is a big deal for Canonical. The company has dropped GNOME and adopted Unity for its default interface, which is designed for multi-touch. Also, Canonical has killed the separate netbook edition of its Linux distro, and combined the netbook edition with the main code. Beta 1 took a hammering as the worst Ubuntu beta ever for numerous bugs left to fix and for poor workflow in Unity, which lacks the functionality of GNOME 2.3.2. ®
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Final Latino Decisions Tracking Poll Shows Dems Winning Latino Vote
After 11 weeks of interviewing, our fall tracking poll comes to an end with this, the 10th Wave Report. Note, however, that the Latino Decisions Track will continue in 2011, though on a bi-monthly basis.
On this, the eve of the 2010 Midterm Elections, we find a Latino vote more energized, more enthused, and significantly more Democratic than at the start of the general election campaign. Overall, with undecided voters pushed to make a decision, we report 70% vote intention for Democrats, and 30% for Republicans, on the generic ballot midterm question. We also find a Latino electorate still ambivalent about the Obama administration and still not convinced on its commitment to the cause of comprehensive immigration reform, which was promised, but for a variety of reasons failed to come up in the administration's first two years.
The percentage of Latinos reporting a certainty of voting has climbed to 76.9%, its highest level in the entire track, more than five points higher than where we were eight weeks back and more than 10 points higher than the low point in Wave 5.
On a number of other dimensions, we have seen considerable back-sliding from earlier trends, or general stability over the life of the poll.
Obama approval has dropped back to about 65%. This number is over four percentage points higher than 8 weeks ago but is actually 6% weaker than on October 4. So some of the recovery in Obama's approval in the early waves of our track has receded, outside the margin of error, in the last four weeks.
Issue-specific approval of the administration's handling of the important issue of immigration has also backslid. In late September and early October, approval of the president on this issue hovered just beneath 50%. Today, its at 44%, a significant decline from that earlier period but stable over the last two weeks, giving us considerable confidence in that trend.
There has almost no movement in the parties' approach to immigration, and the perceptions Latino voters have of the parties on this issue. While Democratic reputations improved slightly in the first half of our tracking period, attitudes have been stable over the last five weeks, even as the Senate took a half-hearted stab at the Dream Act as part of the Defense Appropriations bill. Latinos views of the GOP, while somewhat more volatile over all than the numbers for Democrats, are essentially unchanged over the last half of the track.
Most importantly, the self-reported vote has remained oddly stable after some earlier Democratic growth, with 60% reporting a Democratic preference, compared with 22% Republican, and a disturbingly stubborn 12% undecided, even at this late date (though we should note the generic ballot question does produce more "undecideds" than when specific names are read). Several observations are worth noting:
- At 60%, the Democratic vote share is only about five percentage points improved over the last eight weeks, and the overall pattern is stability.
- GOP vote share has almost never moved outside the margin of error. The Republican share of vote intentions has hovered around a mean of about 22%.
- The undecided vote has declined as we might expect, but certainly not to the degree we might expect. At 18% in the week before the national election, these numbers need more careful examination.
First, if we push these undecided voters to choose a side, the results are curious. As with all polls, if a voter says "undecided" we routinely ask them, which party's candidate they are leaning towards. However, in our final week of interviewing, we asked each voter expressing indecision one additional follow-up question, whether they thought they might end up voting Democratic, end up voting Republican, or probably just not turn out. The results were interesting. Of the 18% who were undecided, 5% percent said they probably wouldn't vote, 28.5% thought they would end up Democrat, and a surprising 47.4% thought they'd vote Republican. The remaining 19% still refused to offer an opinion on who they would vote for. Almost half of the "undecided" lean GOP if pushed twice. This reluctance to offer an initial opinion could reflect a social desirability bias—that is, an unwillingness to say they prefer the GOP until pushed—or it may reflect a bit of cognitive conflict, where GOP preferences compete with other social forces. Either way, should these results hold across our respondents, the corresponding vote percentages would shift to 63% Democrat, 27% Republican, and 10% firmly undecided. This last group could be assumed to be highly unlikely to vote, which would yield an election day distribution of 70% Democratic, 30% Republican, numbers highly consistent with the 2008 vote and the historical distribution of Latino votes.
It is worth noting that voters with stronger histories of voter turnout behave differently than registered voters who have been recent abstainers. Since our sample data allow us to examine the turnout histories of our respondents, we can group them on this basis to examine the differences or similarity in their behaviors. The news here is good for Democrats, and reinforces our speculation that social cross pressures—rather than merely a reluctance to tell the interviewer their genuine views—may be driving behavior.
If we examine turnout in 2006, the 2008 primary, and the 2008 General Election, we can decipher whether the respondent is "in the habit" of actually turning out. Consistent with a pattern we reported last week, two-party preference for the Democrats is linearly related to the frequency of turnout, with support for Democrats among those with perfect attendance fourteen percentage points higher than among those who have missed all three recent chances to vote.
Taken together, these two trends—the persistence of undecideds and their apparent GOP tilt, as well as the association of higher turnout history with Democratic vote intention—signal an important factor in Latino voting behavior, one consistent with our view that cross-pressures demobilize Latinos with GOP tendencies. If this finding is generalizable across time, it may well suggest that even carefully crafted poll estimates will underestimate Democratic vote share. Perhaps we'll find out tomorrow.


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LSD and Creativity
In 2007, Albert Hofmann, the creator of lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD), wrote a letter to Steve Jobs on behalf of his friend Rick Doblin, who was the founder of the nonprofit organization Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS). Hofmann was with hopes, at the age of 101, that Jobs might want to make a donation to support Swiss psychiatrist Dr. Peter Gasser's proposed study of LSD-assisted psychotherapy. The main mission of MAPS is to develop psychedelics and marijuana into prescription drugs that could be made available to treat people with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), pain, drug dependence, anxiety, and depression. Hofmann, a large supporter of the organization, pushed the idea that his creation has helped others and could provide crucial benefits in future health treatments and so asked Jobs for "help in the transformation of [his] problem child into a wonder child." Many others who have had the opportunity to experiment with this psychedelic drug brought on an entirely different perspective of what LSD provides: an awakening of the Self and for many innovative thinkers an eye-opening journey in expanding their creativity.
In an interview with Jobs for John Markoff's book, "What the Dormouse Said: How the Sixties Counterculture Shaped the Personal Computer Industry", Jobs called his LSD experiences as "one of the two or three most important things I have done in my life." As a dropout from Reed College in Portland, Jobs did in fact pursue a counterculture lifestyle experimenting with drugs before and after co-founding Apple. Jobs who recently passed away early October will always be remembered as someone who changed the high-tech world and someone to have always "maintained close emotional ties to the era in which he grew up", which were the late 60's-early 70's. Could LSD have played a role in the creative thought that lead to the creation of Apple computers? Does the use of LSD even make one more creative?
As I have learned from my Drugs and Behavior course, LSD has been noted to cause hallucinations, synesthesia, altered temporal perception and certain side-effects that include paranoid psychoses, depression, "flashbacks", or intoxication-induced anxiety (otherwise known as a "bad-trip"). The action of LSD is on the 5-HT-2A receptor where it works as a partial agonist just like many other hallucinogens. It is also extremely potent requiring as little as 20 micrograms to elicit an effect. LSD is ingested orally, typically as a liquid drop, on absorbant blotter paper or a sugar cube, and the effects generally are normally reported beginning around 30 minutes later. Tolerance has been found to be profound and there have been no reported cases of LSD negatively affecting the brain after use.
In previous studies, LSD has been administered to subjects, particularly artists who were told to create a piece of artwork during the course of the experiment. Their artworks were then compared before, during, and after the intake of a tablet. Many studies have used similar methods. One art historian has observed these acid-influenced pieces to be "more abstract, symbolic, brighter, more emotional and aesthetically adventuresome, and non-representational, and they tended to use all available space on the canvas." Markoff describes in his book that people in the 1960's "tried LSD neither for kicks nor therapy, but to gain glimpses of new and rich worlds of consciousness." Perhaps it was these "new and rich worlds" which later inspired many of today's massive success stories like Steve Jobs. LSD also seemed to be an inspirational favorite of Chemists: Sir Francis Crick claimed in an interviewer that he first imagined the structure of DNA under the influence of LSD, and Kary Mullis believed LSD helped him to develop the polymerase chain reaction, which later won him the 1993 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
Steve Jobs recently passed away, but left behind a legacy.
Did Dropping Acid Make Steve Jobs More Creative? – Slate.com
Nine Drawings – Cowboy Books
"What the Dormouse Said: How the Sixties Counterculture Shaped the Personal Computer Industry" By: John Markoff
Dr. LSD to Steve Jobs: How was your trip? – CNN Money
Read the Never-Before-Published Letter From LSD-Inventor Albert Hofmann to Apple CEO Steve Jobs – Huffington Post
The Pharmacology of Lysergic Acid Diethylamide: A Review – MAPS.org
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Review: Demiforce Trism
Company: Demiforce
Website: www.Demiforce.com
Title: Trism
Players: One
Price: $5
Compatible: iPod touch, iPhone, iPhone 3G
On July 25, 2008, iLounge published iPhone Gems: Action Puzzlers, Table + Pinball Games, a feature article looking at eight assorted games developed for the iPhone OS. This review focuses on only one title from the collection; you can read the full article, with screenshots of all of the games together, through the link above.
On rare occasion, we come across a game that seems like it has the potential—with additional polish—to be the Tetris of a given platform. Writing for a different publication years ago, we said as much about a little-known game called Phear for the Atari Jaguar. Nintendo agreed, acquiring and eventually transforming the title with mixed results into Tetrisphere for the Nintendo 64. Demiforce's new game Trism ($5)—an accelerometer-enhanced triangle-matching game—has similar potential on the iPhone.
The screen is filled with colored triangles, and you have to get the flat edges of three same-colored blocks to touch to eliminate them from the screen. It's not enough to bring the sharp corners of the triangles together; one flat edge on each triangle must touch another flat edge on another triangle. This is hard to do with three triangles, and even more of a challenge with four.
Lines of triangles can be moved in three ways, sliding in two diagonal directions and one horizontal, while you can flip the iPhone in any orientation to make new blocks slide downwards in the direction you're holding the device. Certain events create multi-colored blocks, locked blocks, blocks that allow fine-positioning for matches, and bomb blocks—if you don't diffuse the bomb block within a certain number of moves, the game is over. Additional modes place the game on a timer, or give you a par number of moves to create a certain number of matches solely by turning the iPhone on its sides.
There's no doubt that Trism is fun, and especially in the iPhone rotating puzzle mode, equally smart. However, it's missing just that little je ne sais quoi factor that transforms a really good game into a truly great one—special effects, a pounding soundtrack, skinnable blocks and backgrounds, or greater success/failure pressures—and as such, the standard game's levels feel a little samey and empty despite the occasional pop-ups of the aforementioned special blocks. Should the developers keep on working on this one, or release a sequel, they're probably going to have something incredibly awesome on their hands; for now, Trism is a very strong start and most likely worth your $5 to check out.
Editors' Note: iLounge only reviews products in "final" form, but many companies now change their offerings - sometimes several times - after our reviews have been published. This iLounge article provides more information on this practice, known as revving.


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Strategic Partner Contract for the provision of Professional Services for the Built Environment - Lot 3 - Highways and Transportation Development and Management
Tender from Hampshire County Council in Basingstoke and Deane, East Hampshire, Eastleigh, Fareham, Gosport, Hart, Havant, Isle of Wight, New Forest, Outside of Hampshire, Portsmouth, Rushmoor, Southampton, Test Valley, Winchester areas.
Instructions how to download tender documents
This procurement will be undertaken using an e-tendering system (In-tend) which can be found at https://in-tendhost.co.uk/hampshire. Tenderers are required to register their company details on In-tend. No charge is made for registration or access to this system. Full details and user guides on how to register and operate the system are available via the link https://in-tendhost.co.uk/hampshire / under the HELP tab.
If you are not currently a registered supplier please register your company via the COMPANY DETAILS TAB at the top of the screen. Please note the email address used when registering as a new supplier should be for the person who will deal with the tender, as login details, subsequent messages and tender documents will be automatically sent to this email address. Please ensure the email account registered on this system is regularly monitored. You may register more than one user per organisation against your account.
Once you have registered, or if you already are a registered supplier, please LOG ON. Once in the website, click on TENDERS on the top bar, scroll down to CURRENT and then search for the title of this project for further information. If you wish to express interest please click on EXPRESS INTEREST. Tender documents will then be available for download
How to submit a tender using the In-tend web site:
Log into the In-tend website. Once you have Expressed an Interest, the tender documents can be found in your MY TENDERS folder. Once you have located the tender you require, click on the VIEW DETAILS button of this project then click on the ITT DOCUMETNS TAB. Scroll down the page to where it says TENDER DOCUMENTS RECEIVED and view all tender documents received. Click on the VIEW button. Download the documents as required.
If we have chosen to use an interactive questionnaire, this will be located under MY TENDER RETURN. This will vary depending on the tender.
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CHESTER — The power of Boeing to insist on lower prices by its supply chain is so great that the Federal Reserve mentioned it as a factor in the Northeast's regional economy.
Even for suppliers who don't directly sell to the Boeing or Airbus duopoly, what the government called "exceptional pressure" rolls downhill.
"We're spending colossal amounts of time in wringing costs out of the product," said Andrew Gibson, CEO of AeroCision, an aerospace engine parts manufacturer. In the past two years, the pressure from engine makers to lower costs has intensified, he said.
Engine manufacturers sign 3 to 10-year contracts with suppliers such as AeroCision, and...


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I heart bacon. I also heart Kelly Allday who, to introduce you, is my fabulous co-worker that regularly snaps my outfit pictures.
So it was only natural that I share a little info on The Bacon Ball presented by the Louisville Visual Art Association and co-chaired by Ms. Allday herself. This is the third year for the event which promises to be a "night of booty-shakin', art making, bacon ball extravaganza." The party includes a ton of great local restaurants like The Blind Pig, Proof on Main, Hammerheads, The Silver Dollar, Zanzabar and Feast BBQ so you know the food will be good. And with the purchase of a ticket you'll receive two complimentary cocktails or beer, bacon bites, side dishes, sweets and complimentary non-alcoholic beverages.Beyond the food and drinks, there will be music & dancing, art activities and a silent auction. Tickets are super reasonable (aka cheap – $35 for non-members), so if you don't have plans for this Friday night – you should definitely consider it!
I'll be there so if you see me stuffing my face with delicious pork products, let me finish my bite and then come say hi!
When: Friday, April 27, 2012 from 6-10 pm
Where: The Louisville Water Tower (River Road & Zorn Avenue)
Tickets: $25 for LVAA Members or $25 for non-members
Tickets can still be purchased by phone, 502.896.2146 x 100, or online here.
This is a 21+ event.
Proceeds benefit JCPS Students Art Supply Fund, Children's Fine Art Classes (CFAC) and OPEN DOORS!
p.s. – You still have time to enter the Shop Keeneland Hat Giveaway. So head over here and enter now!
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Suzanne H. Birks
Love, love, love your hats
Wait, you're Kelly's friend?? That is crazy! Do you know Raegan, too? I know Kelly through Raegan – a really good friend of mine that I met while living in Chicago!
Thanks for stopping by my blog! IT was nice to "meet" you and I'm looking forward to reading yours!


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Seaside & Ortey Beach - Aerial Photos
But for the grace of god.....
I always make it a point to go in and kiss my kids while they're sleeping - I must have done it 10 times each night over the past few days.
I really don't mean to throw politics into the mix ... I feel like this is Christ Christie's 9/11.
I love the fact that he is the same guy in front of the cameras as he is off it. He's a born and raised Jersey guy, and you can tell this is killing him - and he is going to fight his (big) ass off to do the right thing for the state of NJ.
Nice Pic above, but surely not taken during actual Storm was it?
In any event, finally got my Gran on the phone, all is well, entire clan is safe and sound with one small exception.
One uncle was T-boned post-storm and has a cracked rib and the like, but he'll be fine. Some chucklehead ran a ran and bashing his car.
All consdiered, not too bad. Gran's house seems to have survived pretty well, no trees, no flood, just some siding damage.
/sigh of relief
Waited out the storm. Lost power for three daysback on now, 80 foot oak took out my dining room, couple of holes in the roof. Totally lucked out10 feet over and it would have destroyed my house. GF and I are toughing it out (naked) with the dog, my sopne stayed at a neighbor who inexplicably had power. Been drinking and cooking (my gas stove top works as does my grill), made Weeds with Sausage (was going to give you dicks this recipe months ago, but neglected to do soeven PK and Betsy could make this and its outstanding). All in all, I cant complain. Nothing like Quantumoof dude, hope you make it through this.
Kicked my ass.
Stole this pic idea from someone in this thread
Still no power in jetland.....lot of homes like stokes situation aroundd here. Hang in long island and my jersey shore.


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Crash was second fatal wreck for Texas bus driver
(CNN) — The driver in Thursday's bus crash in Texas was investigated but not indicted in a fatal accident 15 years ago, according to court documents.
Two people were killed and dozens rushed to hospitals after a charter bus bound for Oklahoma overturned on a Dallas-area turnpike Thursday morning.
The driver is 65-year-old Loyd Rieve, the Texas Department of Public Safety said. He was investigated in a 1998 accident, but a grand jury declined to indict him on a charge of criminally negligent homicide.
In that accident, Rieve was driving a bus that ran over a good Samaritan helping at an accident scene.
The bus driver was injured in the Thursday accident, which occurred on the President George Bush Turnpike in Irving. It involved only one vehicle.
Department of Public Safety spokesman Sgt. Lonny Haschel told CNN the bus went off the right side of the road, hit a barrier, swerved left across lanes of traffic and struck a concrete median in a grassy area.
"It rode up on top of that concrete barrier, and then rolled on its right hand side, where it came to rest," Haschel said.
The bus, owned by Dallas-area charter company Cardinal Coach Line, was taking passengers to Choctaw Casino in Durant, Oklahoma, the department said.
Haschel said it's too early to determine a cause. Investigators are looking at several factors, including the vehicle and physical evidence on the road.
The National Transportation Safety Board said it has sent two investigators to the scene of the wreck.
"It's going to be a lengthy investigation," Haschel said.


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Owners wave off latest NHL players' offerThe Sports Xchange
December 06. 2012 10:23PM
Just as all signs pointed to an agreement between the NHL and its players union, talks broke down again Thursday evening.
After two days of productive meetings this week, the NHLPA said the league has rejected its latest counterproposal and no further talks are planned.
NHLPA executive director Donald Fehr said the union has "responded comprehensively" during the past two days of talks that purposely left out the key leaders of both sides. He said player pensions and transition payments are the current roadblock.
Fehr said at a press conference following one hour of talks Thursday night that he thought the sides could bridge the gap and the players' latest proposal was an "outline."
"We were advised in a voice mail message that the moves the players made were not acceptable, there was no reason to stay around for meetings tonight or tomorrow, that they would be in touch," Fehr said.
"It looks like this is not going to be resolved in the immediate future. I hope that turns out to be wrong but that's certainly what the message is that we have today."
Fehr and more than a dozen players presented the proposal to NHL Deputy Commissioner Bill Daly and a league lawyer during a meeting that lasted one hour before the NHL officials left to report the offer to the league office.
"We have moved very substantially in the owners' direction on things like contract length and variability and term of agreement and we hope and believe and expect that this should put us on the road to a quick end to this dispute," Fehr said.
The NHL has yet to comment on Thursday's events.
Fehr also said the NHL countered with an eight-year collective bargaining agreement with an opt-out clause after the sixth year. The NHL had wanted a 10-year CBA with a Year 8 opt-out.
Thursday's talks included few members of the players and owners groups that had carved out labor progress the past two days. Enough movement was made that some outlets were reporting that the sides had discussed how to salvage a 56-game season.
Earlier Thursday, the NHLPA had requested the return of federal mediators in the hopes of speeding up a deal. It was unclear if the NHL had agreed to that request.
Representatives from the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Services met with the two sides for several hours last week, but couldn't move the process forward.
"We obviously had a number of meetings (Wednesday) over many hours," NHL Deputy Commissioner Bill Daly told NHL.com after Thursday's meeting. "Had good candid dialogue on a lot of issues. There continue to be some critical open issues between the two parties and we understand the union should be getting back to us (Thursday) on some of those issues."
Three months of negotiations led to owners dropping requests for changes to free agency and arbitration, and upping their make-whole provision offer to $300 million. As a compromise, owners wanted a 10-year contract, with the ability to opt out after eight seasons.
The NHLPA agreed to a 50-50 revenue split in hockey-related revenue in their most recent offer, a concession from the previous collective bargaining agreement which gave players 57 percent. Getting to 50-50 was the owners' primary objective.
Owners have maintained their request to cap free-agent contracts at five years, but have allowed for teams to sign their own players for up to seven years. They have also kept their demand for a 5 percent maximum year-to-year swing on multiyear contract salaries. Owners wanted this change to end the business of adding low salary years at the end of contracts to decrease the average salary amount for cap purposes.
The 81-day lockout has resulted in 2� months without games as well as cancellations of the Winter Classic and the All-Star Game in Columbus, Ohio.
Material from Reuters was used in this report.


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Head coach Craig Bohl of two-time defending FCS national champion North Dakota State unveiled a signing class of 21 high school seniors on Wednesday.
In addition, three more players were admitted to NDSU as recruited walk-ons.
The breakdown for the Bison's recruiting haul was 13 defensive players and 11 offensive players from nine different states.
Headlining the class was 6-foot-3, 275-pound nose tackle Nick Jacobsen, a Rivals three-star recruit out of Prescott, Wisc. He finished the 2012 season with 86 tackles, including 20 for loss, despite often being double- and triple- teamed.
NDSU finished with a 14-1 record this past season and beat Sam Houston State in the national championship game for the second straight year.
2013 North Dakota State Football Recruiting Class
Player (Pos) HT WT Hometown (High School)
Brad Ambrosius DE 6-4 235 De Pere, WI (West DePere)
Justin Axelson TE 6-4 200 Spring Lake Park, MN (Spring Lake Park)
Chris Board DB 6-0 200 Orlando, FL (Timber Creek)
Cole Davis QB 6-3 185 Kearney, MO (Kearney)
Drew Davis WR 6-3 200 Eau Claire, WI (Eau Claire Memorial)
Nicholas DeLuca LB 6-3 240 Omaha, NE (Millard North)
Tre Dempsey DB 5-11 165 Lakeland, FL (Lakeland)
James Gates LB 6-0 200 Menomonie, WI (Menomonie)
Pierre Gee-Tucker LB 6-0 205 Belleville, IL (Belleville West)
Mike Goergen LB 6-1 195 Adams, MN (Southland)
Alex Hahn LB 6-1 215 Oak Creek, WI (Oak Creek)
Jeff Illies TE/LB 6-3 195 Lidgerwood, ND (Lidgerwood)
Nick Jacobsen DT 6-3 275 Prescott, WI (Prescott)
Jesse Kubik OT 6-6 290 Manning, ND (Dickinson Trinity)
Austin Kuhnert OG 6-4 300 Sioux Falls, SD (Washington)
Grant Morgan DT 6-4 265 Oshkosh, WI (Oshkosh North)
Chase Morlock RB 6-0 195 Moorhead, MN (Moorhead)
Matt Plank LB 6-2 215 Gardner, KS (Gardner Edgerton)
Nate Tanguay DT 6-4 255 Mukwonago, WI (Mukwonago)
Jarrod Tuszka DE 6-3 205 Warner, SD (Warner)
Connor Wentz TE 6-3 240 Dunnellon, FL (Dunnellon)
Bennie Wilson FB 5-10 235 St. Michael, MN (St. Michael-Albertville)
Tyler Wrice WR 5-7 160 Papillion, NE (Papillion)
Zack Ziemer OT 6-4 285 Lakeville, MN (Lakeville North)


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MONTREAL � When other parts of their game are sputtering, the New York Rangers have two key assets to fall back on � penalty killing and goaltending.
It's a combo that has put them within one victory of their first Stanley Cup final in 20 years. And it has frustrated the Montreal Canadiens, who must win Game 5 Tuesday at the Bell Centre to stave off elimination.
Against the Rangers, the Canadiens are 1 for 17 with the man advantage.
Montreal's lone power-play goal came Sunday night in a 3-2 overtime loss at Madison Square Garden. That P.K. Subban blast from the point, however, was tempered by a short-handed goal by Carl Hagelin that opened the scoring.
The Canadiens' power play went 1 for 8 on a night when the Rangers spent 14� minutes or almost 22 percent of the game a man short.
''Give credit to our killers and our goaltender,'' Rangers coach Alain Vigneault said. ''They did a real good job.''
That is nothing new. Before Subban's goal, the Rangers had killed off 27 straight penalties. New York is 37 for 39 (95 percent) on the penalty kill in its past 12 games
''We had the opportunity on the power play but we didn't take advantage of it,'' Montreal coach Michel Therrien. ''Yes, we scored a goal. It was a tying goal, but we gave up one, and that was the story of the game. I thought our power play had to be better.''
The Rangers' go-to forward pairing on the penalty kill is Hagelin and Brian Boyle. Hagelin uses his speed while Boyle's resume reads ''big body, blocks shots, good on faceoffs,'' according to Vigneault.
Boyle can also pass a bit, finding Hagelin on a pass deep from the New York end. Hagelin broke in alone, faked a shot and tucked a backhand between the legs of Dustin Tokarski at 7:18 for his sixth goal of the playoffs. It was the Rangers' first short-handed goal in 70 playoff games, dating to 2008.
The New York penalty kill is smart and sleek. Goalie Henrik Lundqvist has worked hard on his puck handling and his defenders are positioned well.
''I think our guys do a good job whether it be on the forecheck coming back in the right positions and trying to create those battles where you've a chance to make a couple plays and get it out,'' Vigneault said. ''When we don't, (our) goaltender stops the puck.''
In four games, Montreal has seven goals on 107 shots.
While Tokarski has won kudos for his play in stepping in for the injured Carey Price, Lundqvist's playoffs numbers are sparkling � a .931 save percentage and 1.98 goals-against average.
The Canadiens are going to need Tokarski to continue to play well if they want to extend their season.
''It's no secret: you start doing the right things, you start getting rewarded for it and momentum builds,'' captain Brian Gionta said. ''You keep carrying that.
''A couple of teams have been able to do that this year, the Kings and the Rangers. So it's not something that can't be done and with the group we have in here, we believe we can do it. And we believe we've got better as the series goes on.''
Gionta and Tomas Plekanec were part of a Canadiens team that came back from a 3-1 deficit to upset the Washington Capitals en route to their previous trip to the conference final in 2010.
And they remain without Price, the Canadian gold medalist from the Sochi Olympics in February who suffered a possible right knee injury when New York's Chris Kreider crashed the net in the second period of the series opener.
Price skated for about 20 minutes without equipment before the team's optional practice, but Therrien said he will not be back in this series.
For Gionta, hope comes from a feeling that his team is getting better and still has time to turn things around, as they did when they fell behind 3-2 to the Bruins in the conference semifinal.
The Canadiens rebounded with their best game of the playoffs in Game 6 and closed it out in Boston two days later.
''We were able to wear (Boston's) defense down with our speed and forechecking,'' he said. ''We need to get better at that and I think that's what we've gotten better at as (the New York series) went on.
''Try to take advantage of their defensemen down low, try to spend some time in the offensive zone, and start to make breakdowns and make things happen that way. Our backs are against the wall. It's win or go home. I would expect the same kind of effort as we had against Boston for sure.''
Beating Lundqvist three straight times will be tough. He has 41 career playoff wins, tying him with Mike Richter for the most in Rangers history. His counterpart, Tokarski has played all of 13 NHL games � 10 in the regular season and three in the playoffs.
Lundqvist picked up an assist on Derick Brassard's second-period goal, his first in 85 postseason games. According to the Elias Sports Bureau, he is the first Rangers goaltender to record a playoff assist since Richter on May 11, 1997.
The Rangers have allowed two goals or fewer in 13 of their 18 playoff games, including six of the past seven games.
One question for the Rangers will be whether Derek Stepan can return from his broken jaw suffered in Game 3. Over the weekend, he dropped by the arena to see his teammates before returning home to recuperate from surgery.
Martin St. Louis is on a roll for the Rangers. His overtime winner Sunday extended his point streak to six games. He leads the Rangers with 13 points in these playoffs.