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On behalf of Interfaith Assistance Ministry and The Storehouse, thanks to the city of Hendersonville and everyone who brought donations of food to the recent city shred day. We received close to 600 pounds of food that will be distributed to Henderson County families coming to us in need. These donations are greatly appreciated!
David Cook
IAM executive director
A very special thank you to all those who have encouraged me and my family throughout these trying weeks of my husband's illness and passing, by sending cards, flowers, bringing food, offering prayers, stopping by; we knew that you were there for us whatever the need might have been.
Also for the emergency responders, the Park Ridge Health staff, our special friend, Dr. Tryon, The many kindnesses showed us at Elizabeth House, the hospice volunteers with Four Seasons, and the dedicated workers at Universal Healthcare Fletcher. Every one of you have gone the "extra mile" for us to make my husband's last weeks, days and hours the very best they could be.
Last but not least, for my pastors Ron Glass and Don Chapman and my precious "extended family" at First Alliance Church. Every visitor brought cheer and strength to us all. May the Lord bless you all!
With grateful hearts,
Kay Robinson and family
Smart Start of Henderson County would like to thank Jo-Ann Fabric and Craft Stores for the generous contribution of 21 beautiful micro-fleece blankets in bright, kid-friendly designs and colors. In celebration of the grand opening of the new Jo-Ann store at Blue Ridge Mall, staff organized local Girl Scouts to create colorful blankets, and has generously contributed these to Smart Start of Henderson County.
Working closely with community agencies and partners, Smart Start of Henderson County provides opportunities for young children in our community to succeed by improving the quality and availability of child care in Henderson County, increasing access to and use of health services, and supporting, educating and advocating for children ages birth to five and their families.
Smart Start of Henderson County
On behalf of the 2013 senior class of Hendersonville High School, I'd like to thank you. As president of the class, I've seen firsthand how hard this year has been for my classmates academically, socially and emotionally. And, as a citizen of the world, I know how hard this year has been for many people. This makes me all more appreciative of your support. You've rallied behind us at sporting events, patted us on the back for honor roll, and applauded our hard work at the long-lived tradition of the senior play. So thank you.
As we end this chapter of our lives, we set out into the world as art teachers, creative writers, nurses, actors, service men and women, lawyers, firefighters, forensic scientists, and world travelers. We will reach our present goals because of the foundations laid at Hendersonville High School and in the community. Some of us will adventure far, while others choose local living. We'll aspire to different heights, work for different causes, and achieve different successes. But, no matter where we go to or how we spend our lives, we will always look back with admiration and gratitude to the high school and town that gave us so much. So to the parents, mentors, fans, donors, bosses, friends, neighbors, alumi, and supporters who make us proud to be Bearcats- thank you.
Page Nevel
senior class president
Class of 2013
Words of Thanks: June 20
On behalf of Interfaith Assistance Ministry and The Storehouse, thanks to the city of Hendersonville and everyone who brought donations of food to the recent city shred day. We received close to 600 pounds of food that will be distributed to Henderson County families coming to us in need. These donations are greatly appreciated!


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|The Cauliflower Pub
An eerie warning by a Seven Kings pub ghost was ignored by a man who just 12 days later drowned on the Titanic.The Cauliflower Hotel, High Road, hosted a leaving party for seven-year-old Eva Hart and her family a week before they were due to set sail on the ill-fated vessel.
It was on the night of April 2, 1912, that the ghost of Kathy, an eight-year-old orphan who was drowned in a sluice near the hotel in the late 1890s, made an appearance, according to a new book.
Haunted English Pubs by Donald Stuart claims her ghost appeared in the dining room wringing wet and waving frantically to builder Ben Hart, 47 Evas father. He later told his family: "It seemed like a very bad omen."
|Hart Family - Father ignored ghostly warning
The Ilford Graphic reported five days after the ship sank that: "On April 2, Mr and Mrs Ben Hart were present at The Cauliflower in their honour prior to their departure for Canada. They were the recipients of a beautiful illuminated address."
The article added: "We see from the papers that Mrs Esther Hart and Miss Eva Hart are among the saved, but there is no mention made of Mr Hart, and we fear the worst."
Mr Stuart uncovered the chilling story while he was researching his latest book, which contains more than 170 "haunted" English pubs.
He said: "I have travelled 8,000 miles gathering information on supernatural goings-on in pubs. The British Library, old magazines, local history and previous works has helped me to accumulate a lot of ghost stories that were 10 years in the making."
Employees at the Cauliflower, now a pub, which was first opened in 1900, told the Recorder they had heard rumours of the story before but had never witnessed any paranormal activity.
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Story highlights
- This was the pilot's first time landing a Boeing 777 at the San Francisco airport
- The pilot had 43 hours of experience of flying the 777, South Korea says
- NTSB: Plane was well below the target air speed for approach
- Pilots called for a "go-around" 1.5 seconds before impact, NTSB says
[Breaking news update at 11:33 p.m.]
(CNN) -- The pilot of the Asiana Airlines plane that crashed in San Francisco on Saturday was making his first landing with a Boeing 777 at San Francisco International Airport, the airline said.
But it wasn't his first time flying to San Francisco.
The pilot, Lee Kang-gook, had flown from Seoul to the city several times between 1999 and 2004, the airline said.
He has also clocked 43 hours flying a Boeing 777.
[Previous story, updated at 10:14 p.m. ET]
NTSB: Pilots attempted to abort landing 1.5 seconds before impact
(CNN) -- The cockpit voice recorder of Asiana Airlines Flight 214 appears to show the pilots tried to abort the landing less than two seconds before the plane crashed on the runway at San Francisco International Airport, the head of the National Transportation Safety Board said Sunday.
The plane's voice and flight data recorders show that the flight from South Korea was coming in too slow and too low and that the pilots appear to have increased speed seven seconds before impact, Deborah Hersman said. A stall warning sounded four seconds before the crash, and the crew then made an internal decision "to initiate a go-around 1.5 seconds to impact," she said.
The NTSB's preliminary assessment of the plane's cockpit and flight data recorders appear to indicate that the flight went from a routine landing to a disaster in a matter of seconds. But when asked if pilot error was to blame, Hersman said the crash landing was still under investigation.
"I would discourage anyone from drawing any conclusions at this point," she said, adding that investigators are still working to corroborate the information on the recorders.
But what happened inside the cockpit of the Boeing 777 may well be the key factor in Saturday's accident that killed two people, injured 182 and forced the temporary closure of one of the country's largest airports.
Amateur video obtained exclusively by CNN on Sunday shows the plane approaching the runway and striking what appears to be a seawall before spinning counterclockwise and coming to a stop. Fred Hayes said he shot the video about a mile from the crash scene.
Some of the answers to what happened may just hinge on what investigators found on the voice and flight data recorders.
"What we need to do is corroborate the information we have both on the flight data recorder and the cockpit voice recorder," Hersman said.
"...But I'll tell you some of the things we are seeing on the flight data recorder are mirroring some of the things that are going on on the cockpit voice recorder."
For example, she said, the increase of power in the engines appears to correlate with the cockpit crew's internal decision to do a "go-around," a call to abort the landing and try it again.
Asiana Flight 214, with 291 passengers and 16 crew members, was at the end of a more than 10-hour direct flight from Seoul, South Korea, when it began its descent.
According to the recorders, the flight's approach appeared normal as the 777 descended, and "there is no discussion of aircraft approach" among the crew.
The target air speed for the approach of the flight was 137 knots, and the crew can be heard on the cockpit voice recorder acknowledging the speed, Hersman said.
But the speed was significantly below 137 knots, and "we are not talking about a few knots," she said.
At about four seconds before the plane crash landed, the pilots received an "aural and physical" warning inside the cockpit that the plane was on the verge of an aerodynamic stall, meaning it was about to lose its ability to stay in the air.
The warning -- known as a "stick shaker" -- included a verbal warning the plane that was flying too low and a physical warning when the throttle shook.
South Korean and NTSB investigators will jointly question Lee Kang-gook, the pilot who was sitting in the captain's seat of Asiana Flight 214, on Monday, Choi Jeong-ho, the head of South Korean's Aviation Policy Bureau, said.
Lee had 43 hours of experience flying the B777-200, he said.
They will also question Lee Jeong-min, who was sitting in the co-pilot's seat, Choi said.
Asiana CEO and President Yoon Young-doo has said there was no engine failure, to his knowledge. South Korean investigators will work alongside U.S. investigators.
The NTSB has ruled out weather as a problem and said that conditions were right for a "visual landing."
But investigators are looking into whether construction at the airport may have played a role.
Construction to extend a runway safety area temporarily shut off the so-called glide slope system, which is one of several options pilots have to help them land planes safely, Hersman said.
Internal damage to the plane is "really striking," she said, and officials are thankful there weren't more deaths.
Survivors of the crash were being treated Sunday for injuries ranging from paralysis to "severe road rash."
In all, 182 people were hospitalized and 123 others walked away from the crash landing. The number who emerged unscathed prompted the city's fire chief to describe it as "nothing short of a miracle."
On the runway, medics found the bodies of the two teen girls lying next to burning wreckage. They were identified by Asiana Airlines as Ye Mengyuan and Wang Linjia, both Chinese nationals.
"We were expecting a lot of burns," said Dr. Margaret Knudson, San Francisco General Hospital's chief of surgery. "But we didn't see them."
At San Francisco General, 17 survivors remained hospitalized, six of them in critical condition.
Many of the injured said they were sitting toward the rear of the aircraft, said Knudson. Several suffered abdominal injuries and spine fractures, some of which include paralysis and head trauma, she said.
Many patients also were treated for "severe road rash," which suggests "that they were dragged," Knudson said.
The conditions of victims at other hospitals were not made public Sunday.
Survivors and witnesses reported the 7-year-old airliner appeared to be flying too low as it approached the end of a runway near the bay.
Airport technology called the Instrument Landing System, or ILS -- which normally would help pilots correctly approach the runway -- was not operating at the time, according to a Federal Aviation Administration bulletin.
The ILS integrates with the aircraft's cockpit to trigger an audible warning, consultant and retired 777 pilot Mark Weiss told CNN. "You hear a mechanical voice that says, 'too low, too low, too low.'"
The ILS is "nice to have," Weiss said, "but it's not critical on the 777." There are redundant systems aboard the aircraft that would provide similar warnings if the plane was coming in too low, said Weiss, who has landed 777s hundreds of times.
The pilot operating the aircraft was a veteran who had been flying for Asiana since 1996, the airline said.
Survivors reported hearing no warning from the cockpit before the landing.
Passengers scrambled to exit a crash scene that one survivor described as "surreal."
When rescuers arrived, they found some passengers coming out of the water, said city fire chief Joanne Hayes-White.
"There was a fire on the plane, so the assumption might be that they went near the water's edge, which is very shallow, to maybe douse themselves with water," she said.
Some jumped out or slid down emergency chutes with luggage in hand.
Statistically, 2012 was the safest year in terms of aviation accidents worldwide since 1945, according to the Aviation Safety Network.
Data show that there were 23 fatal airliner accidents, which caused 511 deaths, according to ASN stats. That's well below the 10-year annual average of 34 accidents and 773 fatalities.
Survival rates have improved due to better staff training and safety advances during the 1980s and 1990s, according to the group.


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So Ohio State now has upcoming home and homes scheduled with Oklahoma, Oregon, Texas, TCU, Virginia Tech, and North Carolina, and we've got a ND series that's going away for an indefinite amount of time, a home and home with Utah, and home games with Oregon State and Colorado. Let's start beefing these schedules up before all interesting teams are gone.
Unverified Voracity Beats East Plano Tech State
900. The video from the boards:
Can we start calling the team Hokemen, Daily?
Speaking of…
We have fewer lame-o wins than anyone! Except Georgia! Pat Forde scours the ten winningest programs in college football history to find the out how many of those wins have been run up against East York Veterinary School. Michigan's docket:
Michigan (19). Total wins: 900. Junk wins: 57 (at least). Percentage of all-time wins that are junk: 6.3. Persistent pigeon: Case Institute of Technology (Ohio), 26-0-1 record. Scheduled junk win that turned into a bad loss: Cleveland AA 8, Michigan 4. What, you were expecting Appalachian State? (Since the game was played in 1891, the AA is not believed to be Alcoholics Anonymous.)
That's actually fewer than anyone in the top ten save Georgia, though Georgia did lose to an empty patch of grass in 1943. The worst offender is USC, with 102 Doris Beautician School beatdowns.
Meanwhile… 8-4, huh? Sounds preview-licious. If only I had known about this Cleveland AA game before Michigan played State.
Is that an axe between your legs or are you just happy to see me? Oh, it's actually an axe.
Via Heiko and his insatiable appetite for panoramic photos. Larger version.
Get there. All weeks are championship weeks:
"Probably just as much as you guys are thinking in your heads," Mealer said. "As much as you guys have been hearing it, we hear it even more. And for you guys, it's probably overbearing and redundant and things like that -- I'm sure, because I can see all the smiles when I brought it up -- but for us, that's why you come to Michigan.
"For us players, it's not redundant, it's not, 'OK we get it.' It's, 'Remember last year? We lost a game here, we lost a game there, and we kept ourselves out of that game.' So we accept the constant reminder of it."
Mealer said there's a picture of the Big Ten championship trophy in the team's Schembechler Hall meeting room. There are roses painted on the walls, a not-so-subtle reminder of the bowl that awaits the league's champion.
This one maybe a little more than most.
I'm not sure I can do this any longer, @umichcompliance. I started following Michigan's compliance feed for some reason. Maybe I needed more dry statements of things I can't do and have never even thought of doing in my life.
It's been a passionate affair so far, but I'm not sure if I can deal with the mindboggle on the regular. To wit:
Michigan Compliance
The NCAA prohibits the sale of any item with the name, picture or autograph of a currently enrolled student-athlete.
That seems like a pretty reasonable restrict—
Let's not forget, Dude—that keeping pictures… uh… items with the name, picture, or autograph of a currently enrolled student-athlete… on, uh, your official, you know, website… that ain't legal.
Burkhead may not play. Sounds like Nebraska tailback Rex Burkhead may sit out Saturday after tweaking an ACL sprain last weekend:
Huskers coach Bo Pelini said this aggravation isn't as bad as the one in the Ohio State game, but the repeated issues have him inclined to rest Burkhead for a week. Pelini said Burkhead is day to day and has improved since Saturday.
"He felt really good going into the [Northwestern] game, didn't have any issues in practice," Pelini said. "He's frustrated and obviously disappointed he's had to deal with it. It's been too bad."
Backup/co-starter Ameer Abdullah hasn't ben much of a drop-off: he's averaging almost 6 yards a carry on 86 attempts, with impressive output in the three Big Ten games he's played in—5.5 YPC. He's faster than Burkhead, albeit slighter. Former top 100 recruit Braylon Heard should also get some carries.
Also in Nebraska, reviews of their latest game.
Pitch perfect. The MZone is actually written by Stephen Colbert.
"Nation, I've always been a big fan of Michigan State football coach and scowling man most likely to tell kids to get the hell off his lawn, Mark Dantonio. His enduring sportsmanship, like getting into public feuds with 21 year old college kids by mocking their height, along with always looking out for the health and best interests of his players, evidenced by holding them out at least two plays when they get an on-field concussion, have made him a role model Spartan fans can be proud of before, during and after the burning of their couches."
Fourth line FTW. The top takeaway from Friday's one-off hockey game against Bentley was the fantastic play of what was nominally the fourth line of Andrew Copp, Zach Hyman, and Justin Selman. They scored twice, dominated play when on the ice, and must have locked themselves into additional playing time as Michigan kicks off their final CCHA campaign against Miami:
The line of Hyman, Copp and Selman has "really given our team a life," according to Michigan coach Red Berenson.
"He told us what we needed to do to have a good week in practice," Selman said. "He was making sure every day we were going as hard as we could. We kind of worked off what he was doing and followed in his footsteps.
Copp came from the same lineage as Danny Fardig—the guy on the USA NTDP roster who bounces from the U17s to U18s to fill in on the fourth line and never score—but has shown some soft hands early. Hyman played with a high energy level, as well. I haven't seen Selman enough to really get a read on him yet, but the line's performance speaks for itself.
Clare will return to the lineup against Miami, BTW. Mike Szuma was okay as a sixth defenseman on Friday. Michigan Hockey Net has a Bentley recap.
Siberia also FTW. Preds winger Sergei Kostitsyn is spending the lockout playing in Siberia. This is what Siberia looks like. In May.
Kostitsyn, 25, who joined the Predators from the Montreal Canadiens in June 2010, also said he hated life in North America and labelled Columbus "the gloomiest" city in the States.
Unfortunately, he could not continue ripping on Columbus because Omsk was invaded by thousands of red plastic figures at that very moment.
Thinking alike. BWS picture-paged the zero-yard Denard run that featured as an exemplar of Michigan State going ape on run plays in the just-posted edition on this site. Yeesh:
I think the only deep ball in this game was out of an I-Form to a double-covered Jeremy Jackson. Gotta loosen those guys up—yeah, you might turn the ball over if you bomb it deep but if you're just punting in three plays anyway…
How Purdoed it. Doesn't work as well as "Purdon't," I guess, and is equally dumb. Anyway, Ross Fulton's latest breakdown of the Ohio State offense is even more interesting than normal since it deals with topics often found here in the aftermath of OSU's extensive struggles against the Purdue defense. Purdue loaded up to stop Miller, won a lot of battles on the line of scrimmage, and OSU could not punish Purdue cheating off the slot receivers. This sounds awfully familiar:
The Buckeye passing game was perhaps most successful when OSU could get their hurry-up offense going and catch Purdue in uncertainty. This led to the second Buckeye touchdown. But all too often Ohio State missed available opportunities. For instance, Devin Smith several times had man coverage beat. If Braxton simply leads him to the corner and lets him run under it, it was a potential touchdown.
More acutely, Ohio State was not able to punish Purdue for cheating off their slot receivers. It was not simply for a lack of trying. Miller sailed one bubble screen over Corey Brown's head. On the clip above, he held the ball a second too long, allowing the Purdue corner to make a nice play. But other times it appeared clear opportunities were available that OSU did not take advantage of. Traditionally, this has been an automatic check with Meyer and Herman. The offense will continue running the pre-called play but the QB will simply pull and throw the football. Perhaps Meyer & Co have not yet given Miller the ability to do so. But by allowing alley players to cheat into the box, a spread offense quickly loses the numbers advantage it gains from the QB run threat.
That's how you end up with 100 yards at halftime against Purdue. OSU started bashing straight ahead A-gap power from the pistol and running their veer a gap inside the crashing LBs, but Miller's exit cut their response short.
Hey hey!
OSU must find more consistent ways to punish a defense that cheats alley defenders. Whether it is with wide receiver screens or bootlegs, OSU cannot allow a defense that much free rein. OSU must not also let opposing defenses dissuade them from sticking to what they do well. Though this is somewhat counter to the previous point, I believe they work together. The Buckeyes must continue to work to establish their base run game and then use play-action to exploit an opposing defense.
This mindmeld thing is creeping me out.
Etc.: Hero police robot back on duty after 'unstable man' blasts it with shotgun. You will be surprised to know this happened in Nebraska, not Detroit, home of police robots. [HT: Corn Nation.] RAWK HELICOPTER FLYOVER. Mmmmm… Dwayne Bacon. Hundred Level video released. O'Bannon lawsuit update. [HT: Get the Picture.] Getting our mean on at MNB. Nebraska equals points. OSU adds an Oregon home and home to their far future.
The Noll Report from the O'Bannon lawsuit is some interesting reading, to say the least. I can't help but think the NCAA has some radical changes coming.
I'm pretty sure that photo of Siberia was taken in January. The time stamp on that photo should be read "5th of January, 2006".
But yes, comrade, your observation still stands: Siberia >>>>>> Columbus.
Damn beat me by a minute.
You are correct, sir. Caption here says January.
I wonder how many "ma'am" corrections you've had to post. I feel like you've had to do that a ton lately.
though there are other females on this blog, it seems like it constantly happens with me.
At least I haven't been mistaken for RDT, so there's that.
Thought that mis-direction posing as a woman would work, did you?
Oops. I humbly apologize.
Comes with the territory, I guess. I +1ed you anyway.
I keep expecting to see Rocky run into the frame and scream, "Drago!"
Siberia is in the Asian part of Russia.
quote from the helicopter video: "looking down at all the yellow pompoms was awesome"
lolbrian's seats
Don't mean to be that guy but isn't 5/1/2006 go by day/month/year over there? I had a chemistry professor from their and that was there way marking dates. If that's January 5, then that has nothing on the UP. Either way I would prefer he stays over seas but he did say Columbus was pretty much a hell hole so you got that going for him.
Yeah, I think most, if not all, of Europe does it that way (day/month/year).
but most of the world.
The US and Belize are the only countries where M/D/Y is standard.
Aww, the MnB article was removed before I could read it...was it really that bad?
Anecdotally, listening to the hockey audio feed, it seemed to me that Selman's name was coming up a lot. Sure is nice to be able to roll four lines.
Case may sound like a cupcake now, but Ohio State was only 11-10-2 against them and actually had a losing record against Western Reserve (Case's neighbor, combined as Case Western Reserve U in the 60s).
That a man experiencing a self-inflicted banishment to freakin' Siberia speaks of how miserable it is in Buckeye City, Buckeye aka Hell Incarnate aka Columbus Ohio aka We're So Gloomy People Would Rather Live in Freakin Siberia, OH.
Where can I purchase the "I'd rather live in Siberia" t-shirt?
I have never been to the state of Ohio but I am good friends with Jody Shelley who still lives in Columbus. He has lived in San Jose, NYC, Philly, Calgary, Edmonton, Halifax, and various other cities and says Columbus is by far his favorite, and thus he still resides there.
Now again, I have never been there myself but know one guy who lives there and several people who have visited and all have nice things to say about the city. I think in many cases we let our fandom taint reality, so much so that we even trash an entire city because a team we all distain plays their games there.
I am going to have to book the next conference they have therer so I can see this place for myself.
German Village: Schmidt's Sausage Haus, Katzinger's Deli. And the Book Loft.
because I haven't slept in 24 hours, but I really have no idea what your response means.....
I'm recommending places to go while you're in Columbus.
And being contrarian. Columbus is my least favorite of the major Ohio cities because it doesn't feel organic to me--with the others it's obvious why a major city would have grown there but Columbus is big because it just happens to be in the middle of the state. (I like Indianapolis even less, for the same reason.) But it's not a wasteland.
@umichcompliance posted that same tweet a month ago and I asked them why U-M can sell a photo of a current student-athlete at the MGoBlue Photo Store. Their answer:
@MichiganHockey An institution may sell a photo of a SA in practice or competition as long as it is not part of another commercial item"
Meanwhile, back at the hall of justice, Brian, with his telepathic powers, teleports the retards from the MGOboard with great relish back to Bolivianation, because they don't know shit!!
This was briefly mentioned above but I'll elaborate.
What's interesting about Case as a "regular Michigan punching bag" is that during a good chunk of the relevant period Case was the second best football program in Ohio, after Oberlin. OSU didn't really kick their program into gear until the teens--from 1907 to 1911 Case won five straight against them and after the 1911 win they held a 10-4-2 advantage all time. When the series stopped it was still only 11 wins to 10, OSU--I wonder if Case is considered a junk win when Ohio beats them, since they only did it half the time? And I wonder the same about Oberlin, which was beating Case like a drum during those very years OSU couldn't win against them (7-0-1 from 1906-1913).
In retrospect maybe it seems obvious which were the junk wins, but before WWI no one would ever have guessed that Case and Oberlin were destined for a century of D3 obscurity and Ohio State was destined to become a great football program.
What are you, a nature photographer now?
A column about the "junk wins" from CFB's early days could have been interesting, but Forde was too busy thinking his lame jokes were the wittiest japes of the season. "Something called Physicians & Surgeons of Illinois" is now known as the University of Illinois at Chicago. Case Institute of Technology (now part of Case Western Reserve) was a prestigious school - it was where the Michelson-Morley experiment was performed and, as Yeoman noted, a solid football program.
Worst of all to me, Forde abbreviates the California Institute of Technology as "Cal Tech." It is Caltech and always has been. He should get an editor and maybe do some research next time.
That all of our wins were built on turn of the century cupcakes.
While they were facing turn-of-the-century powerhouses like Lansing High School (twice) and the Michigan Freshman (4 times), we were fattening ourselves with 119-0 wins over Michigan Agricultural College.
Or is that not what they meant?
I think the picture from Siberia was taken in January, because the date is probably Day/Month/Year.
Did anyone else catch that the video is 1:33 long?
That sounds exactly like what he'd say!
I think the only deep ball in this game was out of an I-Form to a double-covered Jeremy Jackson. Gotta loosen those guys up—yeah, you might turn the ball over if you bomb it deep but if you're just punting in three plays anyway…
By any definition of 'deep ball' the pass where Gardner was wide open and dropped was a long pass. They also ran a vertical to Gardner in the first half where the DB fell down in front of him.
On a looser definition of long pass, Dileo averaged 22 yards per on 4 catches with only YAC on one of those.
There was even another verticial to Jackson, again double covered, that may have been a throw away on the second to last possession.
I'd say, this criticism is therefore not accurate at all.
Perhaps my biggest takeaway from the game is this:
The bitching about Borges' playcalling is going to continue, no matter what.
Looking at the picture pages referenced in this post, I see someone analyzing a play that either missed something, or doesn't know what they are talking about. The post on BWS titled "Running into a brick wall" is flawed, and actually acquits Borges.
Here is the true breakdown of that play--using the same frames--and why the play action passes that so many lemmings are calling for wouldn't have been as simple, safe, or effective as everyone seems to think:
- Frame 1. State is has a standard 4-3 look with two deep safeties. The claim that MSU's safeties are "cheating" is ridiculous. The safeties are about 9 yards deep (one might be 8 yards deep instead of 9) which is standard on a first-and-ten unless you're playing an air raid type of offense, which we are not. You might argue that 10 yards is more "standard" if you've been coached a lot, but the difference isn't huge, esp. considering our downfield passing ability. The "cheating" simply isn't there...the LOLB is positioned a step back and a step wide to help cover Gallon if there's a quick pass to the slot and Kwiatkowski if he should ever run a route (which he did in this game and caught a pass for a first down--more on that later). That OLB is also covered by a safety. THERE ARE NO CHEATING SAFETIES IN THIS FRAME. Just because you say something, doesn't make it true.
- Frame 2. You'll notice that as Gallon motions, the safeties essentially switch roles; the safety on the side Gallon is running to steps back (to help cover Gallon's route behind the OLB) and the safety that no longer has a slot receiver in front of him takes ONE step forward; he's still 8 yards behind the LOS, and the other safety is 9 yards back.
- Frame 3. The snap has happened. Safety Isaiah Lewis is keying on Gallon and moving outside to cover; Denicos Allen is cheating outside in case Denard gives. Fortunately, Denard reads correctly and does NOT give to Gallon. There is absolutely no doubt that the LBs are moving toward the LOS, but the TE is blocking and covered by Drummond and Fitz is five yards behind the LOS--so there's nothing for them to cover over the middle. The safeties? They are NOT committed to the run yet. Lewis is moving diagonally toward Gallon, but is definitely NOT committed to Denard. The other safety (Drummond) is reading the ball and the TE.
- Frame 4. This frame is key, because it shows that State is still ready for run or pass. Drummond is moving to attack the hole, because the only cover responsibility he could likely have now is Fitz. Kwiatkowski is engaged (and not much of a threat) and Drummond is still 8 yards deeper than him. Roundtree is blocking on the outside and has Adams on him. Dennard is on Gardner. Lewis is on Gallon. Yes, they are in one-on-one coverage, but everyone is covered. While Lewis has moved up, he's still almost 10 yards deeper than Gallon, and can definitely cover if he needs to.
- Frame 5. State's D-Line has gotten a yard of penetration. Three of our O-Line plus TE Kwiatkowski are handling State's D-Line; Schofield has made a nice combo block and is on Bullough; Mealer has moved to the second level to block Allen, who is trying to get back into the play after cheating outside on Gallon. If Fitz blocks Chris Norman, Denard is one-on-one with Drummond (who is highlighted in the red box). You will notice (if you're being objective and not just trying to bitch about Borges) that Lewis and Dennard could still cover if this play somehow turned into play action; Dennard is maintaining his outside position, Lewis hasn't come back inside yet and could cover Gardner if Dennard took Gallon's wheel. But Denard (our Denard, the one who can properly spell his name) has tucked the ball, and there won't be a pass here.
- Frame 6. Denard sees Drummond coming down and cuts back into the trash. This is where the play breaks down. The play is designed to get Denard one-on-one. The play achieves that. If Denard can't beat the safety one-on-one, he should look to bounce outside and take his chances against a well-blocked Rush and/or an unblocked Adams (Roundtree is coming down to handle the safety). If 'Tree had been able to get to Drummond, this play could have been a TD. If Denard beats Drummond at the hole, this play could have been a TD. If Denard bounces outside he could have been one-on-one with Adams. There are lots of good possibilities here. Denard's choice didn't enable any of them, and State's defense is very assignment-sound, making Denard's job difficult. But let's get back to the idea that a play pass would have worked here...Even in this frame, Dennard (MSU CB) is still cheating towards Gallon if Denard should somehow untuck the football and get into a position to throw (which is damn near impossible at this point).
- Frame 7. Even in the final frame, where Denard is under a heap of felons, Dennard is still keying on Gallon. There was no easy play pass here, folks.
The truth about this play is that it's actually well-blocked, and well read. Denard's choice to bounce into the pile was a bad one. Could he have beaten Drummond at the LOS? I don't know. Would bouncing outside toward 'Tree have worked? I don't know. But every defender is either blocked our accounted for except for one. That's how a running play is supposed to work. Denard should have either hit that hole or bounced outside.
As far as the play pass goes, there's nothing easy there. Sure, I'd love to see an occasional shot downfield to Gallon, but that was covered and would have required a great throw by a QB who would have been under pressure from a safety coming free into the hole. That is our standard recipe for disaster around here, and Borges knows it.
Sorry guys, the easy play pass just wasn't there.
On the other hand, I would like to have seen a few more passes to Kwiatkowski. State clearly labeled him a blocker and didn't expect him to run routes. And, quite frankly, it's not his strength, so I'm talking maybe one or two more targets the whole game.
The bottom line is that Borges gave his critics exactly what they asked for on this play: Denard is allowed to be Denard, and had a well-blocked play where he needed to beat one defender to score. Unfortunately, that one defender did his job extremely well and made Denard's life difficult. There is no magic formula to beat an assignment-sound defense. Your choice is either have Denard throw the ball to WRs in one-on-one coverage while he's under pressure, or have him run. The critics said he should run. He ran. It didn't work.
I'm 100% positive that if Denard bailed on the run here and tried to throw the wheel to Gallon and that pass gets picked by Dennard and returned for a TD that the same critics are bitching about "trying to make Denard something he's not" and "didn't we learn at ND" and "why don't we just run the ball, it's worked for two games!"
Let's also remember that we attempted 29 passes in this game, and that we only completed 14. We don't have a throwing QB.
Borges can't win. If he calls plays that emphasize Denard's strengths, he gets critcized for being predictable. If he calls plays that require Denard to make decisions and throw good passes, we turn the ball over. Either way, the same people blame him. BTW, I am 100% positive that it's Hoke's job to determine our team's strategy, and that when people attack Borges, they should remember that Hoke has the final say and that's where the buck stops. Strangely, the same people that worship Hoke also attack Borges...
Excellent post
I'm so glad Mealer turned out to be pretty good. Both on the field and in the press. That guy deserves some good stuff in his life.


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Diesel power is returning to the U.S. BMW 3 Series lineup — the automaker has officially announced that the 2014 328d will make its debut at the New York auto show with the 3 Series GT, which will get turbo I-4 and turbo I-6 power in the U.S.
BMW's announcement simply confirms what we already knew — that a diesel four-cylinder was coming to the U.S. in the 3 Series. The last-generation BMW 3 Series had a 335d model that produced 265 hp and 425 lb-ft of torque. With the 328d, BMW appears to be targeting higher volume by focusing more on fuel economy than power and torque. BMW has confirmed that the 328d will be available in rear- and all-wheel drive, and we've heard even in wagon form. The Euro-spec BMW 320d xDrive Touring is shown here.
As we expected, the new BMW 328d will use a turbodiesel 2.0-liter I-4 with 180 hp and 280 lb-ft of torque, and the automaker says that mileage "could well exceed 40 mpg," though it's unclear how the car will be rated by the EPA. The 335d was rated 23/36 mpg while an automatic-transmission 2013 328i is listed at 23/33 mpg.
The new BMW 320i also has 180 hp, but only 200 lb-ft from its gas-powered turbo 2.0-liter I-4. From 0-60 mph, the $33,445 320i will accelerate from 0-60 mph in 7.1 seconds, while the automaker's claimed time for the 328d is 7.2 seconds. Unlike the 335d, however, we expect the 328d to have a base price under $40,000.
The 328d will do battle with the Audi A4, which is expected to get a diesel variant in the upcoming redesign that arrives in the 2014 calendar year.
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The Bruins dropped a 5-3 decision to the Penguins Tuesday before 17,535 at TD Garden. That wasn't their primary concern.
Their worries centered around the condition of Johnny Boychuk. At 6:45 of the third period, Boychuk departed the Garden ice with his arms draped around the shoulders of Chris Kelly and Brian Rolston. Boychuk placed no weight on his left leg, which he had clanged into Pittsburgh's Arron Asham during an awkward check. Coach Claude Julien said the collision took place on the side of Boychuk's leg.
"Those kinds of injuries, you've got to kind of let the night go by,'' said Julien. "The next day, you have a better idea. We're keeping our fingers crossed right now that it's not bad news. That's all we can hope for right now.''
After the loss, Boychuk limped out of the dressing room. He will be re-evaluated Wednesday.
The Bruins can ill afford to lose their No. 3 defenseman. To open the first round, Boychuk would have been on the second pairing, most likely alongside Andrew Ference, his playoff partner from last season. Boychuk is the team's hardest hitter and owns a rocket of a slap shot.
Now, whether Boychuk will even be available for the start of the opening round is in question.
"Seeing that happen, I instantly thought there's only two games left. In about 8-9 days, the playoffs are going to start for this group,'' said Marty Turco. "He's a great player for this team. We saw what he possessed for this team last year in the playoffs. He's a big body, big shot. He played great and helped stabilize this D. It's the reason why they have plus-[64] in goal differential. That's what makes this team tick. It's never good. I'm not sure what the diagnosis is at this point. Hopefully he'll be able to play in the playoffs sooner rather than later.''
It is a coach's nightmare scenario. The Bruins are locked in to the No. 2 seed. They were playing a club that dressed Sidney Crosby, Evgeni Malkin, James Neal, and Kris Letang, their big guns. The Bruins' first objective was to survive the remainder of the regular season without losing any bodies.
"You don't have a choice,'' Julien said. "Malkin and Crosby are in tonight from their end of it. Letang's in, and he's had his fair share of injuries. You've got to play. This is our job. We've got to do our job. There's no doubt you want to minimize ice time. You'd like to keep guys out. But you can't keep them all out. It's something that happens. You're going to try and avoid it. You do the best you can.''
If Boychuk has to miss time, the Bruins have some options. Assuming good health for everybody else, Joe Corvo and Mike Mottau are projected to be healthy scratches to start the playoffs. As a right-shot defenseman, Corvo could be the first option.
Of all the players who could understand Boychuk's situation, it is Turco. The veteran goaltender might have made his final start as a Bruin. Turco is not eligible to play in the playoffs because he signed after the Feb. 27 trade deadline.
Turco, staring down the deadly Pittsburgh assault, saw five pucks hit the back of the net, two on the power play.
Crosby led the attack with two goals and one assist. Letang assisted on three goals.
The score was tied at 2-2 in the second. Benoit Pouliot and Milan Lucic scored to wipe out a 2-0 deficit.
But the Penguins broke through with two power-play strikes within 48 seconds to take a 4-2 lead after 40 minutes. Asham and Rich Peverley traded goals in the third.
"It's been tremendous,'' Turco said of his month with the Bruins. "I've been around for a bit. I can't say that disappointment's been much part of my time here. I've been fortunate to have an opportunity. I'm truly grateful for my family and I for what the Boston Bruins gave me when things seemed pretty bleak. You want to play great. You want to show them and anyone else. For the most part - days, games, practices, being a good teammate - I felt pretty proud of my time here so far.''
It has not been determined whether Turco will remain with the club during the playoffs to serve as a practice goalie.
If his time is up, Turco filled a need when Tuukka Rask went down and Providence goaltender Anton Khudobin was unavailable to come up to relieve Tim Thomas. In five appearances, Turco went 2-2-0 with a 3.68 goals-against average and an .855 save percentage. Turco has not decided on his plans for next year.
"The thing that really eats me when I lay down at night is what can I do for my teammates?'' Turco said. "I worked like a dog to give these guys ample good goaltending in practice right to the end for guys who weren't playing or wanted to stay out late. I cherished that role for many reasons. It's been an interesting year, to say the least. It would have been nice to win this one tonight. No matter what, being a Boston Bruin and part of this group, I'll be going out on a high no matter what.''Fluto Shinzawa can be reached at email@example.com. Follow him on Twitter @GlobeFluto.


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Original URL: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/06/28/notebook_hybrid_drives/
Hybrid hard drives: what's not to like?
A flash stash for little cash
Posted in The Channel, 28th June 2010 19:27 GMT
Flash-based SSD drives may be bloody fast, but they're also bloody expensive. For some road warriors, price is immaterial, but for most mortals — or for their employers — price is everything.
This is where hybrid hard drives come into their own, delivering better performance than traditional hard drives, but for only a small premium.
At today's cash-per-gigabyte prices, MLC-based NAND flash is priced at a whopping 22.3X premium compared with a 320GB 2.5-inch mobile hard disk drive, according to Aaron Rakers, an enterprise hardware analyst at Stifel Nicolaus.
There's no disputing that a flash-based notebook screams. A 2.4GHz MacBook Pro fitted with a Mercury Extreme Pro SSD from Other World Computing, for example, booted and loaded Adobe's CS5 in 28 seconds while a 2.6GHz MacBook Pro fitted with a hard drive took almost 70 seconds: its faster CPU was defeated by flash.
But OWC suggests you fit the SSD as a system and application load drive, and keep your bulk data on an externally-attached hard drive. The reason is simple: it's too expensive to replace all those hundreds of gigabytes of hard drive capacity with flash.
Money talks
An OWC 240GB Mercury Extreme Pro solid state drive is $649.99. You can buy a 250GB Seagate 2.5-inch, 7200rpm hard drive at OWC for $62.99, a tenth of the price. You really do have to be loaded to rip out the hard drive and replace it completely with flash.
But — and this is a big but — the main point of a notebook on the road is that you have everything in a single case. You are compromising your mobility if you travel with an SSD set up only for booting and loading applications. For your data, you'd need to lug an external drive and cable.
So let's turn to hybrid hard drives — Seagate's Momentus XT is a good example. This sticks a 4GB flash drive into a 2.5-inch Momentus hard drive's enclosure. It's enough, Seagate says, to get system boot time down to within a few seconds of a flash boot drive and at a cost that's only $20 or so above the ordinary hard drive cost.
Replace your flash-less hard drive with this hybrid and you'll get a much faster-loading notebook at a much more reasonable price than with a flash boot drive, and you can take it on the road without additional cables and an external drive. What's not to like? ®


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FORT MYERS, Fla. – The second member of the second generation of the Bichette family baseball players is performing quite nicely on the many big-league caliber playing fields of Lee County this weekend, intent to follow his older brother into the professional ranks and maybe even his father into Major League Baseball stardom.
Bo Bichette is a 15 year old middle-infielder from Tierra Verde, Fla., and a home-schooled high school sophomore who has developed into one of the top national prospects in the high school class of 2016. He is here playing with prospect-laden FTB Chandler 2015 at the PG WWBA Florida Qualifier, a 70-team tournament from which the champion earns a paid invitation to the upcoming PG WWBA World Championship over in Jupiter, Fla., Oct. 24-28.
Bichette is one of the youngest players on FTB Chandler 2015's roster but he is also among the most talented. He came into the event ranked No. 6 nationally (No. 3 in Florida) in the class of 2016.
"It's always a blast; I love playing baseball so any tournament is fun," he told PG this weekend. "Perfect Game tournaments are always a lot of fun and they're always a blast. I feel like last year I was a pretty good player but I feel like I've worked hard and now I'm a good player, and everything is paying off."
Right here along for the ride – FTB Chandler 2015 won its pool Sunday morning with a 4-0 record – are Bo's parents: his father, Dante Sr., and mother Mariana. Dante Sr. enjoyed 14 seasons in the major leagues between 1988 and 2001, and he and Mariana have spent much of the past six years as proud Perfect Game parents. Dante Bichette Jr. was a regular on the PG scene from 2008-10, right before Bo took the torch.
"The best thing I do these days is watch my boys play," Dante Sr. told PG on Saturday after watching Bo and his FTB teammates collect a win at the Player Development 5-Plex. "That's the most fun I have these days."
Dante and Mariana have been provided with plenty of opportunities to enjoy themselves here lately, especially now that Dante Sr. has finished the 2013 season as the Colorado Rockies' hitting coach. This is the fifth PG tournament Bo has played in with FTB this summer and fall after playing in two events with Team Warehouse – a program his father started – in 2012. Dante Bichette Jr. participated in 14 PG events between 2008 and 2010 and played in seven tournaments with FTB in 2009-10.
"My brother played with FTB when he was coming up through Perfect Game, so I just kind of grew up with FTB and Perfect Game," Bo Bichette said.
"It's just created a better level of baseball where the elite players can come together and improve their skills," Dante Sr. said of his sons' involvement with PG. "We didn't have this when I was younger … but it's organized baseball and there are more games to play. That's the bottom line for a kid this age – let's play ball. So, it's created a great place to play ball."
Bo Bichette was nothing short of terrific in FTB Chandler 2015's four pool-play wins this weekend. A 6-foot, 190-pounder, Bo went 5-for-8 (.625) at the plate, with three doubles, five RBI and five runs scored with a 1.750 slugging-plus-on-base (OPS) percentage. He has already been named to all-tournament teams at three previous PG events and could add a fourth this weekend.
"With Bo, you could tell he was going to be a hitter from an early age; it just kind of comes natural to him," Dante Sr. said. "He was always one of the smaller (players) and now he's starting to grow and it's good to see the size and the strength come in and to see him develop mentally and physically at the same time."
Dante Jr. was nationally ranked at No. 69 in the class of 2011 when the New York Yankees made him a supplemental first-round selection in the 2011 amateur draft with the 51st overall pick. He's spent the last two seasons with Charleston in the Class A South Atlantic League where he hit a combined .232 with 14 home runs and 107 RBI in 236 games.
"He's making some good adjustments to the game," Dante Sr. said of his oldest son. "I can remember being 20 years old and hitting .230 and I know where he's at. He's got to figure it all out, but he's making the right adjustments and it's coming to him."
Little brother Bo has nothing but unabashed admiration for big brother Dante.
"He's always there for me; he's the best brother ever," Bo said. "He's always teaching me stuff, things that he's learned from failure, things he's learned from succeeding. He's had a really big influence on me."
The man that has had the most influence on both Bo and Dante Jr. is their old man.
Dante Bichette Sr. played 14 big-league seasons for five organizations but is most synonymous with the Rockies, for whom he enjoyed his seven most productive campaigns. He was a four-time All-Star (1994-96, '98) and finished second in the 1995 National League Most Valuable Player balloting after hitting .340 with league-highs of 40 home runs, 128 RBI, 359 total bases and a .620 slugging percentage. He was a .286 career hitter, with 274 home runs and 1,141 RBI.
He was a member of the Rockies' famed Blake Street Bombers, a group of sluggers named for the street address of the Rockies' Coors Field. When that state-of-the-art stadium opened its doors in 1995, balls immediately began leaving the yard with remarkable frequency and sluggers rejoiced. Other Blake Street Bombers included Vinny Castillo, Andres Gallarraga, Larry Walker, Ellis Burks and Mike Kingery.
The earliest Rockies teams played their first two seasons at Mile High Stadium, the Denver Broncos' old home, and more than 4 million fans turned out in both 1993 and '94.
"That was the greatest time of my baseball career playing with maybe the greatest offense, in my opinion, that stepped on the ball field for a little while there," Dante Sr. told PG. "The fans were incredible and the fans in Colorado made (Mile High) a special place in those early years because we'd average 60,000 (fans a game) and on opening day we had 82,000.
"I went back this year as a hitting coach and they remembered me; it was a good feeling," he added with a laugh. "That was a special, special time in baseball for me."
This past year his dad spent as the Rockies' hitting coach was also special for Bo.
"I visited him all the time," Bo Bichette said. "It was a really good experience going up there to see all the big league players. When my dad (ended his playing career) I was around 3 (years old) so I don't remember much and I never got to grow up in it. When he got the job (with the Rockies) I got to learn a lot of things. Watching Michael Cuddyer (the National League batting champion) go out there every day and do the same thing every day, it's been awesome to learn from those experiences.
"He's had so much influence on me," Bo continued, speaking of his dad. "He's taught me everything from my swing, to how to field ground balls and everything mentally during games. He's been a real good influence."
Dante Sr. has also learned to take a step back, more so with Bo than with Dante Jr. He will offer advice and insight to his sons but tries to leave the coaching to their coaches and instructors.
"I've learned that the more I do it the more I'm hands-off, to be honest with you," he said. "We practice when we're away from the field and we're on our own but when they go play ball I've learned to sit back and enjoy it. It wasn't as easy with the older one but I've learned that they've got to go out on their own; they've got to make mistakes and learn from them."
Bo Bichette will play with FTB Chandler Mizuno at next week's 12th annual PG WWBA Underclass World Championship here in Fort Myers. From here on out, Dante Sr. and Mariana will not only be able to enjoy many more seasons watching Dante Jr.'s professional career blossom but they'll have two more years of watching Bo's Perfect Game career reach its pinnacle.
"It's been great," Dante Sr. said. "It brings back memories of the struggles and the good times and the battling, and it reminds me that this game is not easy, but it's a blast if you can figure it out. Nothing worthwhile is ever easy and they're learning that, so it's fun to watch. I love to see my boys grow and learn and it's been a blast.
"What's cool about Perfect Game is you guys get to see these (prospects) grow up and go on to do great things, and that's kind of what it's like to be a parent," he concluded. "You watch your kids grow and see what they're going to do in life."


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A disabled veterans group filed a federal lawsuit against the University of Michigan Tuesday, claiming wheelchair users are being denied equal access to Michigan Stadium.
The suit, filed in Federal District Court in Ann Arbor by the Michigan paralyzed Veterans of America, claims university officials are "intentionally" avoiding compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act dictating the number and location of wheelchair seating within stadiums.
A $226 million renovation is planned for the 107,000-seat Michigan Stadium, which currently has 90 wheelchair-accessible seats. The renovation would add 72 more wheelchair-accessible seats.
"It's extremely disappointing that it had to come to this," said Richard Bernstein, the attorney representing the plaintiffs.
A message seeking comment was left for a university spokeswoman.
Bernstein said the university has parceled out the ongoing renovation project and purposely dubbed it a "repair," rather than an "alteration." Doing so, he said, allows university officials to sidestep federal requirements that would require 1 percent, or about 1,000 wheelchair-accessible seats, to be dispersed throughout the stadium.


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Cosy suite with fire place and painted 18th century woodworks from Chaouen, Northern Morocco. Accommodates up to 3 persons. Price for 2 persons: 250 EUR/275 EUR/215 EUR.
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Fall foliage takes center stage Saturday with Blackbird Creek Reserve's annual Fall Festival. Start the day with the "Race For Our Rivers 5K" and then stick around for canoe and kayak rides, handmade items inspired by nature, live music and food.
Blackbird Creek Reserve is turning fall into a festival this weekend with an event that celebrates autumn's finest local display: vibrant foliage, pristine waters and lush landscape.
This is seventh year for the event, which began in 2007 with 310 people anxious to experience the outdoors. Last year, 1,200 people attended, checking out the Townsend property owned by the Delaware National Estuarine Research Reserve.
"It's one of the more pristine creek systems within the state of Delaware," said DNERR Education Coordinator Jennifer Holmes, who also explained that it is one of the few waterways that hasn't been straightened by man. Unlike other creek and river systems, all the twists and turns of Blackbird Creek exist today much the way that they always have.
Much of the festival's events pay homage to that, offering visitors the opportunity to get up close and personal with the land. The day will begin with the "6th Annual Race for Our Rivers," a 5K that takes runners off the paved road.
"The 5K trail takes you alongside Blackbird Creek," Holmes said. "You also go through meadows and forested areas. It's more like trail running."
In years past, the race was organized by the Appoquinimink River Association. This year, it is being organized by the Delaware Invasive Species Council, in partnership with DNREC, but the mission is the same as always—to encourage conservation practices along Delaware rivers and to fund projects that protect the state's water and land ecosytems. In particular, DISC aims to protect the area by preventing the introduction of invasive species or, at least, to reduce the impact of foreign plants, animals and insects.
All the runners are encouraged to stay for the festival, which will include fun for the whole family. Highlights include guides hikes, hayrides, free face painting, kids crafts and hands-on activities, a hay maze and four musical acts, who will provide a soundtrack for the day.
"We'll also have demonstrations by blacksmiths and Native Americans, informational exhibits and lots of vendors who bring handmade crafts," Holmes said. "We'll also be offering canoe and kayak rides, depending on the tide. If the timing of the tide doesn't cooperate, people will still be able to check out the feel of things."
The craft vendors will include regional artists like Rick Schuman, who carves wood with antique 18th century tools and Phillip Johnson, who makes statues using silverware. Other vendors include the Middletown Lion's Club, who will be serving up crab cake sandwiches just as they have since the event's inception and two other food vendors: Joyful Bites and B and B Concessions, who will have lots of walkable food options like hamburgers and hot dogs.
Another big part of the day includes DNERR's "Thank You Delaware Bay" campaign. Holmes explained that stations will be set up throughout the reserve with messages and craft opportunities that drive home the idea that the water and land of Delaware provides much to be thankful for, from hunting habitats and recreation opportunities to meals and jobs.
"The idea is that we should return the favor," Holmes explained. "We'll have information there for volunteering and people can sign pledges to keep conservation as an important part of their lives."
The festival takes place Saturday at 801 Blackbird Landing Road near Townsend from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.
The reserve is open from dawn until dusk seven days a week, with some places marked for active hunting during shotgun season in November.


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Most municipalities defer to state law regarding use and sale of fireworks.
With the Fourth of July holiday around the corner, local law enforcement agencies are encouraging residents to be good neighbors and have a safe holiday by following the law regarding use of fireworks.
An amendment passed in June by the state legislature to last year's Michigan Fireworks Safety Act allows local municipalities to regulate the time frame in which fireworks can be discharged if they enact an ordinance. The previous version of the act did not allow for such local control.
Under the new law, communities of less than 50,000 people or those located in a county of less than 750,000 could pass ordinances that prohibit the use of fireworks between 1 a.m. and 8 a.m. the day before, of and after 10 national holidays. These 30 days are the ones the Michigan Fireworks Act regulates.
At this time, most local units of government in Ionia County, including Lake Odessa and Portland, do not have a specific fireworks ordinance. Instead, they defer to state law regarding use and sale of fireworks. They then can apply their noise or nuisance ordinances if there are complaints, said Lt. Roger VanderMolen of the Ionia County Sheriff's Office.
Last summer, the Belding City Council passed an ordinance that prohibits the use of consumer fireworks from 11 p.m. to 11 a.m. during the unregulated 335 days of the year. Otherwise, the city observes state law for the 30 days the fireworks act pertains to.
"If fireworks become problematic and are set off at an unreasonable time of day, we will go by the noise ordinance," said Belding Chief of Police Dale Nelson. "We've had a few fireworks complaints, but not a lot of them. Most people are respectful of their neighbors and their quiet time."
The city of Ionia does have an ordinance, which also mirrors state law prohibiting: the sale of consumer fireworks to a minor, the sale to or use of consumer fireworks by anyone who is under the influence of drugs or alcohol, and use of consumer fireworks on public, school, or private property of another person unless express permission is obtained to use the fireworks on that property.
In addition, the Ionia ordinance prohibits the use of consumer fireworks within 15 feet of another person's property unless permission is granted; and specifies that fireworks may not be used on public property, public streets or public rights-of-way, school property or church property without permission; or closer than 10 feet from any building or structure on their property and on adjoining properties.
The Ionia Department of Public Safety has no problem with the legal use of consumer and low-impact fireworks in the city limits "as long as people use them in a reasonable, common-sense way for display and enjoyment," said Deputy Dir. John Odette. "It's when they infringe on the peace and quiet of their neighbors that, chances are, the police will be involved and may issue tickets or charges if they are in violation of the city ordinance."
Odette added that setting off big mortars at 2 a.m. is "not reasonable," and although it may not be in violation of the city's fireworks ordinance, it could result in a ticket or charge for disorderly conduct or disturbing the peace.
"Be careful and use common sense," VanderMolen advised. "Don't use alcohol when you are shooting off fireworks. We want you to be responsible, and nice to your neighbors."


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As David Strand was taking a group of eight students through the rigors of algebra in a computer lab at Concord Academy, there were some familiar indicators that usually can be found in any high school algebra class.
Concord Academy seventh graders Michael Triplett, center, and David Eaton perform a science experiment with a balloon to learn Newton's Third Law of Motion. Concord Academy was founded for students with special needs to provide growth in all aspects of development including specialized academic instruction, psycho-social well-being and vocational guidance.
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Some of his 10th grade students were more enthusiastic than others – so much so that one blurted out the answer to a question.
"I wanted Odell to answer," Strand said.
And the even tone was the first indication that this class is different for reasons other than its small size.
"I'll take your questions in just a moment," Strand said to another enthusiastic student. "How do you know whether that's a correct answer," Strand continued to the class in general.
"It would be obvious that the answer would be a positive," a student said.
"I'm not sure what you mean by that," Strand said evenly as he steered the conversation back to the certainty of the equations.
The eight students are striving to meet the standards that any student must meet under state education standards. But Concord is a school for students with learning disabilities and special needs in sixth through 12th grades.
The school that meets at Mullins United Methodist Church in East Memphis will mark its 30th anniversary next year. It was formed by a group of parents of special needs children with the goal of challenging and nurturing them as students.
"So many of our students are bright and they absolutely could go to work and complete a job but the part they are going to have trouble with is the social part of the job," said Nan Miller, executive director of the school. "It's not an option to withdraw and sit at the table by yourself. We have to engage you. And it's our job even during break and lunch to get you to engage in a social activity. In the real world outside Concord's walls you have to be able to engage socially."
Students were preparing to take the ACT college entrance exam during a visit to the campus last month.
Diane Grover was taking six seniors through U.S. history and the Industrial Revolution of the early 1900s in particular. It took the students through John D. Rockefeller and Andrew Carnegie.
Kate Croft, seated, with help from Cameron Jones, teaches classmates about the universe in an eighth grade science class at Concord Academy. Concord Academy was founded for students with special needs to provide growth in all aspects of development including specialized academic instruction, psycho-social well-being and vocational guidance.
"I really need to adhere heavily to the state standard curriculum, the common core curriculum," Grover said later. "And make sure I bring in the type of questions that they are familiar with."
Grover also teaches integrated math and personal finance among other subjects. A career educator, Grover said trust between students and teachers is essential.
"It's highly individualized," she said. "It is critical to their needs whether it be impulse control or ADD or perfectionism – and to understand where they are coming from, but hold them to a standard of what regular education would expect for working outside of this environment."
In 30 years, Concord Academy has served more than 800 students. More than 91 percent of the school's graduates have regular high school diplomas and gone on to earn college degrees or go to work directly from Concord.
Teachers use a team approach and multi-media presentations. The school has more computer and digital technology than it once did, said Regina Fausett, a middle school teacher who came to Concord eight years ago.
All but two classrooms have SMART boards for classroom instruction. Laptops, iPads and other devices from an agreement with Memphis City Schools are on a cart that moves from room to room.
The strategies change from student to student.
"We start where they are and move forward," Fausett said. "It might take them longer and it is our job to find a way. … We can revisit it. We can come back to it. We work at their pace."
"Sometimes they do eight preparations for the same class," said Becky Dean who has been director of programs at Concord since June. She came to the school from a career as an educator in Mississippi.
"Some of the students are fine academically but not behavior wise. Sometimes it keeps them from showing their true potential. Some of the students do not have it academically and they are struggling with it."
Dean and Miller want to see the school expand to reach more than the 66 children currently enrolled.
Miller is working on more scholarships to cover costs and the tuition of more than $10,000 a year as well as more partnerships with businesses through a growing list of fundraisers.
"We want to just really have the community realize that our students have a lot of really good abilities," Miller said. "Even though they have disabilities, they can be productive citizens and they can be good employees in the workforce."
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Hi everyone,
My first post on here. My cat has been acting strangely of late, he is probably stressed/unhappy right now but not sure how to help him. I was wondering if anyone has any tips at all? He has had a lot of change lately.
He has always been my cat really; he waits for me to get home, sleeps on my bed every night, never more than two yards away from me...
However, I have moved to a new town and the cat has stayed with my mother. Two days after I moved out my mother moved to a new house. So the cat has effectively lost an owner and its home of 6 years.
He was very much an outdoors cat before and bought home countless "presents" but now he literally will not leave the house. We lived in the countryside before but he still has space to play in his new home; there is a busy road near by and he may be scared of that (nearly died in a road accident a couple of years ago but doubt he would remember?).
He is always crying for windows to be open but wont go out. He also cries for any door to be open even if it only leads to the boiler cupboard! In fact he pretty much non-stop meows now. He has always been an affectionate cat but he is now extremely needy and always wants attention. He wakes people up in the night now by jumping on them in bed and kneading on them and meowing.
Lately he has also taken to biting things including cables and wires from laptop, TV etc. Worried he will hurt himself. I am home with him now for Xmas but will be leaving again in new year. I show him a lot of attention but don't know what else to do. Was thinking maybe toys or forcing him to go outside for a set time each day to get used to the new area (even thought of getting him a lead and taking him out :)!) He wont sit still for more than what seems like 20 seconds now.
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Submission + - Scientists Create World's Tiniest Ear (sciencemag.org)
sciencehabit writes: If you've ever wondered what a virus sounds like, or what noise a bacterium makes when it moves between hosts, you may soon get your chance to find out. Scientists have created the world's tiniest ear. The "nano-ear," a microscopic particle of gold trapped by a laser beam, can detect sound a million times fainter than the threshold for human hearing. Researchers suggest the work could open up a whole new field of "acoustic microscopy," in which organisms are studied using the sound they emit.


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SEATTLE (AP) — It was little comfort to the residents of a Seattle home along Lake Washington when the naked man who crashed through their front door early Tuesday morning began loudly reciting Scripture.
Police say a woman in the home called 911 at about 2 a.m. while her husband grabbed a baseball bat to protect his wife and two young children on the home's upper floor.
Arriving officers spotted a naked man walking down the street, talking to himself. He took off running, they chased and caught him.
Police say after they arrested the 20-year-old man for investigation of burglary, he told them he'd taken LSD. He was taken to Harborview Medical Center for treatment, then booked into jail.
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Guided by Taiwan's most famous television cook (the Emeril of the Orient), Burt tours the city's night market. We visit the traditional shops, and an extraordinary weekend jewelry market. We learn how practicing the martial arts can help keep your body young and how the ancient art of Chinese Medicine works. We are introduced to the world's most famous Chinese dance group and a television network devoted to Kung Fu puppets. We also get a riverside seat for the annual dragon boat races.
Visit the Website: http://www.BurtWolf.com
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Driver in deadly Fla. day care crash in custody
Published 4:45 pm, Thursday, April 10, 2014
WINTER PARK, Fla. — The man authorities say fled after causing a deadly crash at a Florida day care center has surrendered.
The Orange County Sheriff's Office says 26-year-old Robert Alex Corchado surrendered Thursday at the county jail.
Police agencies across the state had been searching for Corchado since the Wednesday crash that killed a 4-year-old girl and injured 14 other people, most of them children.
The Florida Highway Patrol says Corchado slammed into a convertible, which then smashed into the KinderCare building north of Orlando.
Records show he's been arrested eight times since 2000, including in December when he was charged with leaving the scene of another crash.


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By Fred J. Robledo, Staff Writer
LA PUENTE — Bishop Amat baseball coach Andy Nieto, one of the winningest baseball coaches in Southern California over the last decade, announced Thursday he is resigning less than a week after earning his fourth championship in eight years at the school.
Bishop Amat started the season with four losses and was on the verge of not making the playoffs, but ended with ten straight victories culminating with last week's stunning come-from-behind 4-3 victory over top-seed Palm Desert for the CIF-SS Division 3 title at Dodger Stadium.
Who will be the next baseball coach at Bishop Amat following Andy Nieto's resignation today?
— Fred J. Robledo (@SGVNSports) June 12, 2014
There was speculation for weeks that Nieto was considering leaving, and Thursday he told his team he was resigning both as coach and teacher at the school to pursue other opportunities.
"For me, I'm always seeking new challenges and new experiences," Nieto said. "After a lot of thinking for me personally and my family, there couldn't be a better time in terms of the timing.
"Things are at a very high level in where the program is and how I'm leaving it, and I wish everyone at Amat all the success in the future.
"In terms of what's next for me, God willing, everything will work out."
Whether Nieto is eyeing openings at St. John Bosco or Servite, which both compete in the tough Trinity league or a return to college remains to be seen.
"There are things out there, but for me nothing is concrete and nothing is on the table," Nieto said.
Nieto was asked a few times during the playoffs if he was considering leaving, but said on multiple occasions he had no intention of resigning, repeating it again soon after the championship, but also noting that he never says never.
He obviously had a change of heart, and denied rumors suggesting he may have been influenced by school officials to come to this decision.
"That's absolutely not the case," Nieto said. "This was my decision and my decision only and it wasn't an easy one."
Bishop Amat principal Richard Beck sat in on the meeting while Nieto was telling his team he was leaving and said he was surprised by the recent developments. He said Nieto always had his full support.
"The decision was his, absolutely, and it was a tough one for him, I'm sure," Beck said. "It's always sad to see a coach go. With that comes potential changes in the program and especially one that was successful as it was for eight years with coach Nieto. But what are you going to do, you have to move forward and we're looking forward to the future and what it holds."
Nieto won back-to-back titles when he first arrived at Bishop Amat in 2007 and '08, and added another banner in 2011 to go with seven consecutive Del Rey League championships.
Nieto finishes with a career record of 196-55-1 at Bishop Amat and in 2011 the Lancers finished the season ranked sixth nationally and won the prestigious National Classic.
"It was a great run, a really great run that I was fortunate to be part of," Nieto said. "We kept the Amat tradition going and hung some banners on the wall. I'm honored to be part of that history.
"There are a lot of people to thank. (Former principal) Dr. Merritt Hemenway (now at Damien) gave me the opportunity to be the coach here and (athletic director) Michael Manzo was always supportive.
"From Monsignor (Aidan) Carroll, to assistant coach (Chris) Beck, the administration, parents, players and former players, I can't thank them enough for all their support over the years."
Nieto arrived at Bishop Amat with huge expectations after previously serving as an assistant coach at USC from 1997-2006. Nieto won a national championship with the Trojans in 1998 and went to the NCAA college World Series in Omaha three times with the Trojans in 1998, 2000 and 2001.
Is returning to college a possibility?
"Do I miss (coaching in) college, of course I do," Nieto said. "But the stars gotta line up because the family and kids are actively involved."
Nieto also served as an assistant baseball coach at Glendale community college in 1996 and was a recruiting coordinator for East Los Angeles College in 1995.
Bishop Amat was Nieto's second high school head coaching job, having coached at Cantwell Sacred Heart from 1991-94 where he led the Cardinals to three league titles with a 62-35 overall record.
Nieto earned his bachelor's degree in physical education from USC in 1991 and master's degree from Azusa Pacific and is a 1982 graduate of Schurr High.
"One of the things I'm most proud of is in eight years at Bishop Amat we helped get close to 40 kids in college," Nieto said. "We helped put them on a path to graduate and extend their careers. At the end of the day, that's what it's about."
Beck said the school will begin the search immediately for its next coach and hopes to name Nieto's successor by the end of the month.
One surely to be interested is Nieto's longtime assistant, pitching coach Chris Beck.
"If that's something where he (Chris Beck) wants to put his name in the hat, as they say, he's absolutely welcome too," Principal Beck said. "He's a long-time faculty member and that's always my preference to have a faculty coach. And what's good is that we have a teaching position that we can offer with it, so we'll float it and make the best decision possible for our program."


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McAfee Labs Threats Report:
June 2016
In the McAfee Labs Threats Report: June 2016 we discuss three key topics:
- We investigate a new attack method—mobile app collusion—and discover collusion in more than 5,000 app installation packages.
- We explain how mainstream hashing functions become more susceptible to cyberattacks as processor performance increases.
- We provide an in-depth look at Pinkslipbot, a malware family that has been systematically enhanced since 2007.


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An appeal by the Ministry of Primary Industries has resulted in a prison sentence for a farmer charged with animal welfare abuses.
. . . Lourens Barend Erasmus was sentenced to two years and one month imprisonment. Justice Priestly described his offending as "wilful, intentional and repetitive", he deferred the start of the jail term until Monday and bailed Erasmus to his Pastor's Waihi home.
Waikato/ Bay of Plenty District Compliance Manager Brendon Mikkelsen said Erasmus' offending was the worst type of animal welfare cruelty dealt with in his district, and likely nationally through the courts.
The MPI investigation found that he had been breaking his cows tails (115 of the 135 cow herd) hitting them on the hind legs with a stainless steel pipe and stainless still milking cups at the milking shed. Brendon Mikkelsen said "The MPI inspection in late February 2012 revealed serious animal welfare issues, with cows on the property showing obvious signs of injuries and severe distress".
"This sentencing reflects the view of MPI, industry and the Courts that any animal welfare abuse is unacceptable. MPI believes the sentencing reflects the seriousness of the offending and sends a strong message that this sort of behaviour will not be tolerated."
Persons in charge of animals have an obligation to the welfare of those animals, and the vast majority of persons in charge of animals on farms and the industry take their obligations very seriously.
MPI's Animal Welfare team cannot be everywhere so it is vital that farmers, the industry, associated on-farm service providers and the public maintain vigilance and report animal welfare breaches on our hot line 0800 00 83 33. Calls can be treated in confidence if necessary. MPI and industry will continue to work together to help ensure this type of incident does not occur in the future.
There are no excuses for abusing animals.
The MPI was correct to appeal an earlier, lesser sentence of home detention and the court is correct to treat this as a very serious offence.


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Peter Hotez December 13th, 2010
We now know that one of the key reasons the "bottom billion," the 1.4 billion people living on less than $1.25 per day, remain trapped in perpetual poverty is because they are infected with a group of chronic, debilitating, and mostly parasitic infections known as neglected tropical diseases, or NTDs. The NTD elephantiasis disfigures the limbs and genitals of more than 100 million adults living in Africa, Haiti, and South Asia, where this incapacitating disease prevents people from working. India loses almost $1 billion annually as a result of the disease. The situation is similar for river blindness, an NTD found mostly in sub-Saharan Africa, and chronic hookworm infection, a disease that affects 600 million people worldwide, causing severe growth and development delays in children that can reduce future wage earnings by 40 percent.
For the last three years, I have used a global public health lens to discover the hidden burden of neglected infections of poverty in the United States, which closely resemble the impact of NTDs in the world's poorest countries. These neglected infections are not rare. They represent some of the most prevalent diseases among the 40 million Americans who live in poverty.
There are a number of powerful social and economic forces preventing millions of people from realizing the American dream. These neglected infections may signify another equally potent poverty trap for our nation's bottom 40 million.
Indeed, America's neglected infections of poverty may be the most important diseases you have never heard of—diseases of high prevalence that occur largely among the poorest people, especially people of color, who live in areas of the country that are largely forgotten and seldom visited.
In a 2008 article in the open access online journal Public Library of Science Neglected Tropical Diseases, I provided estimates for the number of mostly African Americans, Hispanics, and Native Americans who live in extreme poverty and suffer from parasitic infections. Cysticercosis, a brain parasitic infection, is now the leading cause of epilepsy among Hispanics in the United States, and as many as 1 million Hispanic Americans suffer from Chagas disease, a major cause of chronic heart defects.
It's important to point out that this is not a problem resulting from immigration. The root cause is poverty first and foremost, with the chronic issues associated with it, including inadequate sanitation, poor quality housing, malnutrition, and lack of access to health care, especially for pregnant women and children.
Today, up to 3 million African Americans living in poverty in this country have a parasitic worm infection known as toxocariasis, a disease associated with asthma and developmental delays, while 1 million African-American women have another parasitic infection of their genital tract known as trichomoniasis, which has been identified as an important co-factor in the HIV/AIDS epidemic in this country. The rates of these two parasitic infections are similar in the United States and Nigeria. Another neglected disease, congenital cytomegalovirus infection, is a major reason African-American children are born with intellectual and hearing deficits.
If this level of parasitic infections occurred among whites in the suburbs, it would never be tolerated. But because the neglected infections mostly affect people of color living in poverty in places such as the Mississippi Delta, post-Katrina Louisiana, the border with Mexico, and inner cities, they remain forgotten diseases among forgotten people.
Together, with several of my scientific research colleagues, we have taken an interdisciplinary approach to begin chipping away at this burden of disease and neglect in the United States. In our Washington, D.C., research laboratories, where we are developing new vaccines for NTDs, we are now working to develop an easy-to-use diagnostic kit for toxocariasis. In collaboration with the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, this kit may one day be used to determine the role of toxocariasis as a cause of asthma and developmental delays in America's inner cities. Indeed, there is an urgent need to apply modern biotechnology to all of the neglected infections of poverty.
Second, together with the CDC, we have worked with Georgia Congressman Hank Johnson Jr. to launch a new bill, H.R. 5986, the "Neglected Infections of Impoverished Americans Act of 2010." Recently passed in the House, the bill would require the U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius to report to Congress on the current state of these diseases. We urgently need active surveillance for these conditions in order to more accurately estimate the full extent of the neglected infections of poverty, as well as to fully determine how they are transmitted and how they trap our nation's minority populations in poverty.
This fall, I spoke for the first time on neglected infections of poverty to the Institute of Medicine's Forum on Microbial Threats. Although best known for its work on emerging threats such as influenza, SARS, and potential bioterrorist attacks, both the Institute of Medicine and I felt it was important that we begin turning our attention to what may represent some of the most important and glaring health disparities in our nation.
Peter Hotez, M.D., Ph.D., is distinguished research professor at The George Washington University and president of Sabin Vaccine Institute in Washington, D.C. This year he serves as president of the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene.
Sunday, 19 December 2010
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NEW YORK — Still unbeaten, still No. 1 in the AP Pro32 NFL power rankings. The Atlanta Falcons easily retained the top spot following a convincing win at Philadelphia, with the New York Giants edging the Houston Texans for second place in the latest rankings. The league's only undefeated team received nine first-place votes and 319 points Tuesday from 10 of the 12 media members on The Associated Press panel reporting their ballots.
The Giants had the other first-place vote and 303 points, two more than the third-place Texans as the top seven teams held steady from a week ago.
Indianapolis made the biggest move, advancing eight spots to No. 16 after a win over Tennessee. Miami, Detroit and Tampa Bay each moved up seven spots. The Dolphins are 11th, the Lions 14th, and the Buccaneers 19th.
San Diego and New Orleans took the biggest tumbles, each dropping six places — the Chargers to 22nd, the Saints to 23rd.
After Matt Ryan threw for 262 yards and three touchdowns in Atlanta's 30-17 over the Eagles, the voters were raving about the Falcons.
"Most impressive win of the year. Over 50 percent of 7-0's make the Super Bowl," said ESPN's Chris Berman.
"Crushing Philadelphia after the Eagles' bye convinced me: No one is better," said CBSSports.com's Clark Judge.
"Those Matt Ryan MVP chants are getting louder, and with good reason," said the Tampa Tribune's Ira Kaufman.
The Giants, who blew a 23-point lead but hung on to beat Dallas 29-24, are still tops with one voter, who took things a few steps further.
"How would an Eli Manning-Peyton Manning Super Bowl strike you?" asked the Chicago Tribune's Dan Pompei.
The Texans had a week off, but head into Week 9 at 6-1, the best record in the AFC. Buffalo visits on Sunday.
"The Texans win their division by the first of December," said Judge, who voted Houston third behind Atlanta and Chicago. "I haven't seen a race this easy to call since Secretariat ran the Belmont."
Speaking of horses, the Colts galloped past a bunch of teams following a 19-13 overtime win over the Titans. Voters are actually talking playoff possibilities.
"More Andrew Luck magic, this time with the winning touchdown pass in OT as Indy's resurgence continues. Wild card contender? Could be," said Newsday's Bob Glauber, who had the Colts 17th.
"This is a fact that shouldn't be taken lightly — the Colts (4-3) are legitimately the second-best team in the AFC South," said Foxssports.com's Alex Marvez.
Miami, too, earned praise after a 30-9 romp over the New York Jets.
"Dolphins coach Joe Philbin is doing a remarkable job," said Fox Sports' John Lynch. "On Sunday, he lost his outstanding rookie QB Ryan Tannehill, but the Dolphins still beat up the Jets for their third straight victory."
Watch out for Denver, too. Peyton Manning and the Broncos improved to eighth this week after a third straight win.
"Manning and the passing game finding their groove along with that defense. Watch out!" said CBS Sports/Sirius XM's Rich Gannon.
The Saints, meanwhile, fell to 2-5 and are losing any support they had after two straight wins.
"How bad is the Saints defense — 50 yards worse than anyone else in the league. The Saints are allowing 474 yards per game," said the Dallas Morning News' Rick Gosselin.
Kansas City is 32nd and last.
"The Chiefs are not good!" said Lynch.